The Strongest Bishop in the NBA

Chapter 24 Durant's Performance

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Jeremy Lin's father Lin Jiming was born in Taiwan, and his mother Wu Xinxin's ancestral home is Zhejiang Province. Both are engineers, so Jeremy Lin's family conditions are not very poor, at least compared to the childhood of many black basketball players. Much happier.

Jeremy Lin is the second child in his family, and he has two brothers.

The family was very enthusiastic about Wang Xiao's arrival.

They all heard from Jeremy Lin that Wang Xiao took good care of him in the school team.

Jeremy Lin has performed well in the league recently, and even many news media have reported on Jeremy Lin's outstanding performance.

This made the whole family feel very incredible.

Jeremy Lin loves basketball and dreams of joining the NBA. This is something the whole family knows.

But both his parents, his brother, and Jeremy Lin knew in his heart that this possibility was too low.

Over the years, Yao Ming is the only Asian who can succeed in the NBA.

Yi Jianlian, who was selected by the Bucks with a high overall pick this year, is also highly expected. However, since the start of the new season three months ago, Yi Jianlian's performance has been somewhat unsatisfactory.

In the same period, Huaxia defender Sun Yue was a point guard like Jeremy Lin, but after three months, Sun Yue, who joined the Lakers, failed to even play a game.

This also made them more skeptical about Jeremy Lin's ability to join the NBA smoothly.

Inviting Wang Xiao to be a guest, on the one hand, is to thank Wang Xiao for taking care of Jeremy Lin, and on the other hand, he also has the idea of ​​asking Wang Xiao to solve his doubts.

They didn't know who Wang Xiao was at first, but in the Internet age, it's too easy to find someone's information.

So they knew that Wang Xiao had been an assistant coach in the NBA for five years, and he was successfully hired as the head coach of the Trail Blazers, becoming the first Chinese NBA head coach in history.

They also knew that by following Wang Xiao, they went against the boss's wishes and insisted on choosing Kevin Durant. They gave up the talented center Oden who was favored by everyone, and were immediately fired by the angry team owner.

At that time, everyone was laughing at Wang Xiao, thinking that he was a person with abnormal brain and mental problems, but what happened?

Oden was reimbursed for the season without even playing a game, and Durant, who was not favored by everyone, showed good abilities in the Trail Blazers.

He averaged 17.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 2.4 assists per game, and his shooting percentage was as high as 45%.

As a rookie, this level can almost book the best rookie of the season.

What's even more surprising is that Durant's data was obtained by Brandon Roy's side!

Everyone thought Durant would be suppressed because he didn't have the ball around Roy, but it turned out they were wrong.

Durant was just a little uncomfortable in the first few games, but quickly found a way to fit Roy, and quickly integrated into the system with a catch-and-shoot style.

His addition not only did not make the Blazers fall into the chaos of uneven possession of the ball, but also made it more perfect because of the threat of long-range shooting.

This caused the Blazers to lead the record list at the beginning of this season. Even if it is Christmas in December, the Blazers can still rank fourth in the highly competitive West.

This is a result that Blazers fans who have not made it to the next game for many years can't imagine!

In contrast, because of Oden's injury, the Supersonic, which was at the bottom of the Fighter League, looked so miserable, so miserable that many people started to think about what Wang Xiao said at the beginning.

"Oden is trash? Durant NB?"

Of course, the results of a season cannot be used as a reference standard, but Durant has used his performance to tell everyone that he is indeed in the NBA.

To be reasonable, Wang Xiao was a little surprised when he saw that Durant averaged 17.6 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists while shooting 45% from the field.

When he chose Durant, Wang Xiao didn't think much about it, he just thought it was a dream, and Durant was indeed the strongest player in this year, so he chose it.

Afterwards, from a coach's point of view, Durant is actually not suitable for the Trail Blazers.

There are enough young people with potential in the Trail Blazers. Roy and Aldridge are all outside players. For the team, what they need is a qualified insider, not an outside shooter.

Even if he joins the Trail Blazers as the No. 1 pick, the ball will still be in the hands of the team's core Brandon Roy, not Durant.

In the first year Durant joined the Supersonics, although he averaged 20 points, 4.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game, he averaged 17 shots per game, the most among all rookies. With his unlimited fire rights.

But in the Trail Blazers, he does not have this privilege.

In fact, in the Trail Blazers, Durant only ranked third in the number of shots per game. Roy averaged 15.8 shots per game and scored 18 points. Aldridge averaged 15.3 shots per game and scored 17.8 points. Durant Averaged only 14 times per game, but did not lose to the other two in scoring.

Wang Xiao estimated that after he was selected as the No. 1 pick, Durant has always been subject to controversy. All kinds of people jumped out to criticize him for being inferior to Oden, which also caused Durant to accumulate a lot of dissatisfaction. He transformed into a small universe and exploded, so he showed a better self than another time and space.

(Durant's shooting percentage in the first season was not high, and his long-range shooting ability was not very strong. The main scoring method was to score by breaking through and cheating fouls. But in the second season, his three-point shooting percentage soared from 28% to 42%, and the shooting percentage has also risen to 47%. I personally think that this is not the result of a messy shooting in the first season, but the result of summing up the failure of the first season and training hard during the holidays. The result. In this book, Durant’s talent is advanced a bit. I think it is not an exaggeration. After all, when Durant was in the Thunder, except for the first season, he was basically not the one who occupied the ball the most. It's not a joke to be able to win three consecutive scoring titles next to Westbrook and Harden. Book fans don't need to ask whether Durant is so awesome. , There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. In my eyes, Durant is indeed a player who can adapt to many systems. He can coexist with Westbrook and Harden when he is in the Thunder, and he can perfectly integrate into the Warriors when he is in the Warriors In an already well-established system, it was his "toughest decision" that was a little hard to swallow.)

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