Rebirth of Yidi Legend

Chapter 507 Average Triple-Double Season
After playing the Grizzlies, the Knicks returned home to face the challenge of the Phoenix Suns.

This is Stoudemire's old club. The scene of Stoudemire being booed when he returned for the first time this season is still vivid in his mind, so he played extraordinarily fierce and aggressive in this game.

However, this game belongs to Yi Jianlian after all. In order to win the game last time, he postponed the date for him to complete the season's triple-double ahead of schedule until tonight's game...but today, with that tiny gap, all Everyone believes that the moment they are looking forward to is coming!

About 1 minute into the second quarter, Yi Jianlian rushed into the Suns inside and grabbed a rebound. After the second dunk, his total rebounds for the season came to 820!

8 regular season games ahead!

Yi Jianlian completed the task of averaging a triple-double!
At this time, there was also a burst of huge cheers, which lasted for more than ten seconds before stopping.

In the last game, Yi Jianlian failed to grab 13 rebounds at the home court of the Grizzlies. The Knicks fans are the happiest, because this means that they will see a historic moment at home—— The moment when Yi Jianlian officially became the second player in NBA history and the first player in Knicks history to average a triple-double in a season!
Now, when that moment comes, these Knicks fans have been waiting for a long time to send cheers, and now they will naturally let the cheers fly for a while!
Suns coach Gentry listened to the cheers from the sidelines and looked at the Suns players who were already being beaten on the field, so he had no choice but to call a timeout.

When the referee's whistle blew, the cheers on the scene were completely uncontrollable and became louder. Yi Jianlian walked off the court, waving his hands in response to the crazy Knicks fans.

The average triple-double in the season is actually not a great achievement. At least in the history of the NBA, there are at least 20 players who can do this. But the problem is that there are only two people who are really successful, including Yi Jianlian.

And, more importantly, the Knicks currently rank second in the Eastern Conference. While their record has not been affected, Yi Jianlian has averaged a triple-double for the season.

It must be admitted that Yi Jianlian has a triple-double behavior, which he himself admits, but the fact that the team's record has not been affected by this is enough to prove that even if Yi Jianlian records data, it is beneficial to the team!

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The game was eventually won by the Knicks.

Yi Jianlian scored 34 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists in this game. This is one of the few games he has not won a triple-double recently, but this data was obtained by Yi Jianlian after playing three and a half quarters.

Yi Jianlian, who completed the task of averaging a triple-double in the season ahead of schedule, can finally enjoy the treatment of "leaving get off work early" that he hasn't had for a long time.

When he left the field, the fans at the scene spontaneously burst into cheers.

Stoudemire also scored a large double-double with 32 points and 14 rebounds in this game, and staged five or six dunks in the game. Every time he smashed the ball into the basket, Stoudemire's expression made people feel that he What a big revenge!
It is also worth mentioning that Dragic, who was traded by Downey, was officially placed in the starting position by D'Antoni in this game.

As Yi Jianlian expected, Dragic played like a fish in water under the "running and bombing" system. In the past dozen games, he averaged 21.7 points and 11.4 assists in 6.4 minutes off the bench per game. If converted into 36 minutes played In terms of time, this guy's statistics can be compared with Steve Nash at his peak.

However, this is a theoretical stat. If Dragic is given 36 minutes of playing time, he will definitely not be able to get the same stats as Steve Nash. What he gave, Dragic's off-the-ball running ability is not that good, he is more suitable for ball-holding pick-and-roll cooperation.

Felton did not sit on the bench because Dragic was transferred to the starting lineup. He was placed in the second position by D'Antoni. Felton's arrival in the second position can be regarded as a relatively successful transformation. He is today He scored 18 points and 4 rebounds in one game. As a veteran, Felton's open shooting ability is really reassuring. As long as he is open, he can basically hit it.

The Knicks beat the Suns by 25 points in this game. This has something to do with the Suns being too weak, and it is also related to the Knicks' starting firepower that is now more ferocious.

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The final eight games of the regular season remain.

The situation in the west is particularly clear.

The San Antonio Spurs are currently ranked first. They opened up the second-ranked Lakers and the third-ranked Mavericks by 4 wins, and opened the fourth-ranked Thunder by 6 wins.

With only a few games left in the schedule, the No. 4 in the West this year must be the Spurs. The Lakers have the same record as the Mavericks. However, the Lakers met the Mavericks 3-1 in the [-] games they met in the regular season. Leading, so they ranked second, so the Mavericks ranked third.

The Thunder followed suit.

The gap between the fifth place Denver Nuggets and the fourth Thunder team is a bit big. They are 5 games behind the Thunder team, but there are several teams below the sixth. The difference in wins between them is very small. The Hornets have the same record as the eighth Grizzlies, and the sixth Trail Blazers are only two games behind these two teams.

However, the ninth Rockets are 4 wins away from the eighth Grizzlies. This gap has to be said to be quite large under the current circumstances.

If nothing else, this year's Rockets will become lottery champions again.

In short, the gap between the upper circle and the lower circle of the Western Conference playoffs is obvious, and there is no threat to each other at all, and the win gap between the lower circle of the playoffs and the teams in the lottery zone is also obvious. Basically, no team If there is a sudden 5-game losing streak and 6-game losing streak, I'm afraid this result will also be the final result of the top eight in the Western Conference!
In contrast, the situation in the Eastern Conference is very unclear, and as the schedule draws closer to the end, the ranking between the third and fourth No.5 in the Eastern Conference has become more and more anxious.

Currently ranked No. 5 in the Eastern Conference is the Bulls. They are 3 games ahead of the second-ranked Knicks in the Eastern Conference, and the Knicks are [-] games ahead of the third-ranked Heat in the Eastern Conference. Only the team's ranking by the end of the season should not change in any way.

The Heat, currently ranked third, are only 1.5 games ahead of the fourth-ranked Magic, while the Magic are one game ahead of the fifth-ranked Celtics.

The gap between these three teams, coupled with the mutual restraint between the top four in the Eastern Conference, makes the final ranking of the Eastern Conference more and more exciting.

(End of this chapter)