One Guard - Chapter 462
Chapter 472 : Candidate Ranking
Seven full days after Christmas are days for Westerners to celebrate. Until the new year comes, most of them can have a good rest at home without working.
But for professional players, they have no right to a seven-day holiday. Unless, these guys don’t want jobs anymore.
The day after Christmas, the Mavericks immediately plunged into the ongoing intense season. As always, Mayo was in a mess during the training after his Christmas return. God knows how many hours he spent sleeping during the two holidays.
But now everyone on the Mavericks has become accustomed to Mayo’s ups and downs. Carlisle has decided to put Carter back on the starting lineup, with Mayo coming off the bench. If Mayo happens to be playing well, Carlisle will let him play a little longer. If Mayo didn’t play well that day, Carlisle would not continue to trust him as before.
In just two months, Mayo has gone from the team’s first scorer to a dispensable X factor. This Dallas Mavericks still belongs to Yiyang.
In the first game after Christmas, the Mavericks met their old rival Oklahoma City Thunder. In the playoffs of last season, the Mavericks were swept out by the Thunder. In this year’s regular season, the Mavericks also lost more and less than the Thunder against the Thunder.
However, since Yiyang just scored 62 points in the last game, the Thunder are still a little afraid of the Mavericks tonight.
Today’s game, Nowitzki, who has just returned from injury, is still in bad shape. When Mayo came off the bench, he didn’t make much progress. As a result, Yiyang once again became the Mavericks’ first scoring point.
In the second quarter of the game, Carlisle replaced Darren Collison with Yiyang as a back line. In this way, Collison has become a pure number one position, while Yiyang is only responsible for interspersing running positions and catching the ball.
“It’s really a plug-and-play all-around guard. He can help his partner score points, and can also be used as a scoring point to convert a teammate’s pass into an assist. The term combo guard may be redefined by Yi! If he can’t reach this level, he doesn’t deserve to be called a dual guard!”
The perfect integration of Yiyang and Collison is also the reason why Cuban is eager to get Deron this summer. Yiyang can freely switch between the attacker and the organizer, and anyone with his partner can achieve good results. But now Cuban knows that pursuing big names is not the way to success. You must carefully consider the signings next summer.
After Carlisle let Collison control the ball, the fans saw incredible scenes. Durant, the scoring champion, had a backlash against Yiyang on the court!
Durant relied on his height advantage to hit a jumper on Marion’s head, and Yiyang was able to break through Sefrossa on the offensive end to score a layup. Durant broke into the penalty area and made a three-point foul, and Yiyang was able to get Perkins into foul trouble in the Thunder’s three-second zone.
In the past, people knew that Yiyang was a playmaker with a good scoring ability. Now Yiyang makes everyone understand that he is not only good at scoring. If Yiyang completely turns on the scoring mode, he will be an existence that can compete with the scoring king!
In the end, Durant scored a team-high 42 points. But the Thunder still lost. Westbrook’s shooting percentage was only 35%, making Durant the empty-cut king today.
Yiyang only had 4 assists recorded today because the organization’s tasks were all given to Collison. 44 points, 46% hit rate. Yiyang used his excellent scoring performance to help the Mavericks narrowly beat the Thunder by 4 points!
In the scoring match against Durant, Yiyang actually won. There is no doubt that the popularity of Yiyang will continue to rise. After 62 points, he scored 44 points. People’s impression of Du Yiyang has long gone beyond the category of “that kid passed the ball well.”
However, Yiyang’s performance did not end there. One day after defeating the Thunder, the Mavericks rushed back to back to the Denver Plateau to challenge the Nuggets, who had a good momentum this season.
Because Denver is on a plateau, many players cannot adapt to the thin air here quickly. Coupled with the Nuggets’ “track and field” style of play this season, it is likely that the Mavericks fighting back-to-back will find it difficult to cope. Therefore, experts believe that the Mavericks’ three-game winning streak is about to end in Denver.
Facts have proved that the predictions of experts are not unreasonable. Nowitzki’s loss of 4 shots in the first quarter is the best proof of their remarks. Mayo seems to have regained some energy today and can occasionally help on the offensive end. But his help was insignificant in the Nuggets’ tide of offensive.
After halftime, the Nuggets returned to the locker room with a 15-point lead. When Nuggets center JaVale McGee midfielder was interviewed by reporters, he even stated that they might rotate extensively in the second half to allow more people to get the opportunity to practice hands.
However, McGee seems to forget that basketball is a 48-minute duel. Now, the game is far from over.
With the ball in the second half, Yiyang, desperate, stood up again. He no longer competed fast with the athletic Nuggets, but settled down and looked for opportunities outside the three-point line.
Ty Lawson will be 1.8 meters tall after wearing shoes, making him very difficult to defend Yiyang shooting. In the third quarter of the game, Yiyang fully fired outside the three-point line, helping the team to fill in the 15-point difference in one fell swoop.
In the fourth quarter of the game, the Nuggets, who were already in their hands, felt desperate. Yiyang’s three-pointer firepower is still fierce, and the Jazz instantly changed from leading to trailing. They gritted their teeth just to eat and live the score, not to let Yiyang take away the game.
However, at the last minute, the Nuggets still collapsed. Yiyang’s scoring ability makes the Nuggets’ huge advantage in athletic ability meaningless. Iguodala desperately went to the inside and scored two points. After Yiyang received a pass from Collison by running without the ball, he would be able to return a three-pointer back.
The points difference is gradually widened by one to two. When the Nuggets reacted, they were 12 points behind the Mavericks.
Yiyang scored 39 points, 7 of 11 three-pointers, the Mavericks defeated the Nuggets 106 to 94, levelled the Denver Plateau, and won four straight!
So far, Yiyang has scored more than 30 in 3 consecutive games. Among them, one game is 60+, one game is 40+, and one game is only 40 points short of one point. Yiyang’s performance has caused a wonderful thing to happen to the NBA.
In the MVP rankings, Yiyang, who had not been in the top five, continued to rise in rankings, and is now ranked as the fourth candidate!
“The momentum has also been very strong recently. If he can maintain this performance until the end of the season, I believe the MVP will have his share!”
“The performance this season is indeed not worse than that of Ross in 11 years, or even better. The only factor that prevents the MVP from taking the MVP is that the Mavericks are not an excellent record. Strong, but it’s hard to say whether the Mavericks’ record will bottom out in the second half of the season.”
“Now that the Mavericks have won four games in a row, they have also got rid of the shadow of Mayo. I will not be surprised if the Mavericks’ performance improves by leaps and bounds in the second half of the season.”
“With Derrick Rose in front, I wouldn’t be surprised if he also won the MVP trophy. After all, his performance was good enough. Of course, the premise is to maintain such a performance.”
Outside, the topic of whether Yiyang will win the MVP trophy has been in full swing. This “sudden” superstar caught fans and experts off guard.
In the last game of 2012, the Mavericks and Spurs met again. In this game, Popovich did not let Yiyang score another 62 points, nor did he let the Mavericks win the game again.
But Yiyang continued his continuous 30+ score performance. 35 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds and 2 steals. Although the Mavericks lost the ball, even Popovich admitted after the game that Yiyang played another perfect game. Perfect distance is only one victory away.
After the time entered January, Nowitzki’s state began to pick up. Yiyang’s assists have also begun to slowly move closer to double digits.
On January 7, the Mavericks challenged the Jazz away. Nowitz scored 20 points for the first time in a basic season. Yiyang sent out 32 points and 10 assists. Together, the two helped the team defeat the Jazz and ended the team’s recent two-game losing streak.
A week later, the Mavericks played the Grizzlies again at home. In this game, Mayo has been automatically ignored. People are no longer interested in the story of his revenge against his old club.
Nowitzki maintained his form today, scoring 17 points and 6 rebounds. The Grizzlies swallowed a loss by 20 points.
Nowitzki’s 17 points will naturally not let the Grizzlies lose so badly. The reason why this game lost its suspense early was because Yiyang maintained his continuous performance of scoring 30+. The detailed number of Yiyang’s score today is 52!
“This guy is crazy. When Dirk’s state is seriously declining and the team has no one else to stand up, he also used 52 points to force the team to victory! If it weren’t for him throughout the fourth quarter I didn’t even play, and it is very likely that I will score another 60 points, or even 70 points today!”
Mike Brin couldn’t believe his eyes anymore, and Yiyang’s changes over the period of time were so great that the entire league was overwhelmed by the reaction.
One game is 60+, one game is 50+. It is not that no one in the NBA has produced such statistics in one season, but Yiyang, as a passer, can immediately carry the Mavericks’ scoring task, which really surprised the commentators.
After this game, Yiyang successfully surpassed Paul in the MVP ranking and rose to third place. Before him, it was Durant, the youngest scoring champion, and LeBron James, who led the Heat towards the next championship trophy!
Whether Yiyang can break through the rule of Durant and James to get an MVP trophy has become the biggest suspense of the Mavericks this season!
In the past four years, LeBron James has won 3 MVP trophies. The only time he failed to win a prize was when Ross was “taken by a knife.” The appearance of Rose made James fail to complete his three consecutive MVP career.
Maybe this year, another miraculous young man will make another step in James’ path to becoming a god?
The regular season is still three months away. Everything is possible…
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