Rebirth of Yidi Legend

Chapter 330 Small Forward Era

The first is Yi Jianlian, the second is LeBron James, and the third is Kevin Durant!

"Why is Huaxia Yi ranked first? I admit that his strength is very good so far this season. His performance at critical moments even beats LeBron James, but he has not yet led the team to the finals. , and has not won the regular season MVP, lack of hard conditions, when he gets more honors, it will not be too late to rank first!"

"Carmelo Anthony doesn't make the list? A starting All-Star small forward who made the All-NBA team 7 times in the past 3 years is not ranked in the top [-] small forwards in the league? ESPN shit experts, you are crazy ?"

Controversies among fans mainly focus on the above two aspects.

The first is whether the current Yi Jianlian should place him as the number one small forward in the league. It is true that he has played very well this season, almost at the historical level, but one thing to say, the honor he has won is indeed a bit Less, apart from the best rookie and the most improved player awards, the other hard indicators may only be the second team of the league's best team in the 08~09 season. Other than that, no matter how you count on your fingers, it can still be regarded as an honor Maybe only the All-Stars will start!

Such a little honor can be ranked in front of LeBron James?

LeBron James has achieved much more honors than Yi Jianlian so far: Best Rookie Award, two-time All-Star MVP, one-time regular season MVP, NBA Eastern Conference champion in 07, three-time All-NBA First Team selection, two-time selection The second team of the NBA All-NBA team, was also selected to the league's best defensive team once, and also won the scoring champion in 08.

In short, LeBron has won all the awards except the championship and finals MVP.

From this point of view, it is somewhat unreasonable to rank ahead of LeBron based on Yi Jianlian's superb performance in the past half of the season.

"Before Yi Jianlian has won more hard honors, no matter how good he is, he has to be ranked behind LeBron for the time being. Everyone knows that LeBron James' current goal is only the championship. Therefore, in order to win in the playoffs Play hard, there is a possibility that he can preserve his strength in the regular season! I believe that Huaxia Yi's current strength can already be on par with LeBron, but he can't just sit on the bench with the best rookie award and the most improved player award. Is he the number one small forward in the league?"

"This seat is not such a good place to sit!"

Most of the fans liked this point of view, and they no longer doubted Yi Jianlian's strength, but before Yi Jianlian made a greater breakthrough, he would definitely not be ranked first.

Another controversial point is that Kevin Durant squeezed Carmelo Anthony down, which caused many fans and some experts to have a lot of objections.

"Carmelo Anthony is a superstar who has entered the league's best team and entered the All-Star starter. He shouldn't be on this list!"

"A guy who has never won any honors can be ranked No.3 at the small forward position? Is this era crazy?"

The reasons of fans and experts who object to Kevin Durant ranking ahead of Carmelo Anthony are actually similar to the reasons against Yi Jianlian ranking ahead of LeBron.

This kind of situation has happened in the past. For example, after the 05-06 season, Dwyane Wade once occupied the throne of the league's first shooting guard. At that time, he caused no less criticism than Yi Jianlian.

But after Kobe got a championship ring and a finals MVP trophy, Wade suffered an injury, and the Heat gradually sank to this day, no one discussed this topic anymore!

After all, if you want to be number one in this league, even if it's just in a single position, you must have statistics and honors!
Statistics represent how well you played, and accumulated honors represent how well you played throughout your career.

Yi Jianlian has now proved himself with data, what he has to do now is to prove himself with honor!
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The turmoil caused by "ESPN" showed no sign of stopping in a short period of time. Instead, it became more and more troublesome, especially the controversy over the small forward position, which gradually spread to various message boards about NBA reports.

The well-known columnist Chris Haynes of "ESPN" published an article titled "The era of small forwards in the NBA has arrived" in response to these phenomena.

"In the 07 draft, the Thunder in Seattle, sorry, they were called the Sonics at the time, and Ray Allen's imprint on this team is still there, but they have ushered in a new future - Kevin Durant, the super rookie who was acquired by the Sonics with the second pick in the first round, officially entered the league. Shortly after he shook hands with David Stern, the Bucks traded with the Grizzlies The fourth overall pick took Yi from China, and the general manager of the Grizzlies, Chris Wallace, probably regretted not directly detaining Yi Jianlian, right? And the Bucks at that time, Michael Reid was still the leader of the team!"

"That was the era when shooting guards were in charge. At least half of the teams in the league had shooting guards at their core!"

"Maybe no one thought that these two guys who are both 2 meters tall will change the league. They have grown up at an amazing speed!"

"This is their third season. Kevin Durant averaged 31.8 points per game and ranked first in the league scoring list; Yi Jianlian averaged 31.5 points, 10.1 assists and 7.9 rebounds per game, even surpassing LeBron in comprehensiveness. James!"

"Their rapid growth has added two top small forwards to the league. Following tradition, maybe we can call them, LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony four small forwards. History is always similar. These four small forwards Forwards, there are also two in the east and two in the west!"

"If this doesn't explain everything, Granger averaged 24.1 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, Paul Pierce averaged 18.3 points and 4.4 rebounds per game, Iguodala averaged 17.1 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game, and Stephen Jackson with 21.1 points, Josh Smith, the head of the Eagles, this series of names is enough to prove that there are too many excellent small forwards in this league, and even some of them were completely among the top small forwards in the league in the first two years. Now, they can only be regarded as the first-class small forwards in the league, because above them, there are four unattainable mountains!"

"But even if they are not top players, they are the core players in their respective teams!"

"How similar are Arenas, Ray Allen and Michael Reid, who are no match for the four major shooting guards?"

"I have to mention one more point. Currently, the league's top five points per game, except for Dwyane Wade's fifth place, the other four positions are divided by these four top small forwards!"

"If you want me to go on, there is more evidence to say, but what I have said above is enough to support my point!"

"The NBA, after going through the era of center forwards and shooting guards, has now officially entered the era of small forwards!"

　Chapter 2.

　　
　
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