Jordan: I thought he was there to help me!

Chapter 585 The Regular Season Ends! Another Unprecedented Super

After the relaxing All-Star weekend, all the teams have raised their intensity!

Those who were resting, recovering from injuries, or coasting in the first half of the season will have to give it their all after the All-Star Game.

Those teams that were still adjusting their rosters in the first half of the season will have to start working hard to achieve good results in the second half.

Those who failed to make it in the first half of the season also need to think of ways to prepare for the draft in June.

In short, the point remains the same: after the All-Star break, whatever the team does, they need to define their goals and then go all out!

The only downside was that there weren't any noteworthy big trades before the trade deadline after the All-Star Game this year. All parties basically remained inactive, and with both sellers and buyers choosing to stay quiet, this year's deadline was definitely the quietest one in recent years!

As for the Knicks, they keep winning.

They haven't created any particularly impressive winning streaks this season, but they keep winning and widening the gap between themselves and their pursuers.

By the end of February, they had a record of 46 wins and 11 losses, leading the second-place Suns by 5 games.

By the end of March, they had a record of 59 wins and 14 losses, leading the second-place Pistons by 6 games!

In April, the Knicks started with a five-game winning streak, bringing their record to 64 wins and 14 losses. With only four games left in the regular season, they were seven games ahead of the second-place Spurs in the league!

In other words, even if they lose four straight, while all their pursuers win four straight, the Knicks will still be able to take the top spot in the league!

They secured the top spot in the league 10 days in advance!

This lead is absolutely enormous.

And Don Nelson was quite a bachelor; after the team secured the top seed in the league, he immediately started taking rest days!

All of his key players will take turns resting in the upcoming games. Important substitutes such as Smith, Barnes, and Wallace will rest for two games, while key players such as Lin Tian, ​​Anthony, and Stoudemire will rest for three games.

Houston and Ward, the two veterans from New York, didn't play any of the four games, allowing them to recover their form and wait for the playoffs.

The Knicks' record in those four games was negligible, ending with only one win and three losses.

Their final record for the season was 65 wins and 17 losses.

They firmly hold the top spot in the league!

What's even more remarkable is that this year's league is no weakling!

Besides the Knicks, there are three other teams in the league with 60 wins!

This year's competition is definitely not weak!

Despite such fierce competition, the Knicks still managed to secure the top spot in the league! And they clinched it 10 days in advance!

Their strength and energy are absolutely enough to make them the league's top favorite to win the championship this year!

This season, the entire Knicks team has made significant progress and growth thanks to their hard work in the summer, and everyone is playing better than last season!

The team's leading scorer is Amar'e Stoudemire, who is averaging 25.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, and 1.7 blocks per game this season!

This season, his accuracy in the mid-range and his ability to drive to the basket have both improved significantly compared to previous seasons! His efficiency has improved markedly, and everyone believes that even if he faces last year's old rivals, the Celtics and the Pistons, again this year, Stoudemire will not be so humiliated!

In addition, there's the team's second-leading scorer, Carmelo Anthony, who averages 22.1 points and 5.5 rebounds per game this season. Although his stats haven't improved much, it's because the team is too strong, and too many games have gone into garbage time, so his playing time has been significantly reduced.

At the same time, his playing style is exceptionally sharp and aggressive, and his shooting percentage and efficiency have also improved significantly. This year, he is a more mature and reliable star scorer!

In addition, Okur is another player on the team who scores in double figures. He averages 10.2 points and 6.5 rebounds per game this season. Although he is not a traditional center and his defense is not worth mentioning, his 44% three-point shooting percentage is the highest on the team. His three-point shooting combined with his height makes him a headache for all teams in the league.

Even though all the opponents knew he was going to extend his reach to shoot three-pointers, they just couldn't stop him and Lin Tian from running pick-and-rolls!

Although Houston, who successfully returned this season, was still plagued by some injuries and only played 56 games throughout the season, averaging only 8 points per game, his experience, shooting and running awareness are definitely an important addition to the team.

Besides the starting four, Ward on the bench continued to play his role as the team's anchor. Although he only averaged 4 points and 2 assists per game, his less than 1 turnover per game allowed Don Nelson to rest Lin Tian with peace of mind. With him on the bench, the Knicks were rarely overwhelmed by opponents.

Wallace has made significant progress this season, averaging a career-high 11.2 points per game, along with 1.4 steals and 1.5 blocks per game. In a Knicks team where there is little defense, he is one of the few guys who actively dedicates a lot of energy to defense!

In addition, players such as Smith, Barnes, and Nate have also made significant contributions to the team and are deeply loved by fans and trusted by Don Nelson.

And finally, there's Lin Tian, ​​the team's absolute core, who had an epic season this year and achieved unprecedented statistics!

This season, Lin Tian played 79 games, with his average playing time dropping to the lowest since his Bulls career, at only 33.6 minutes. However, in this almost lowest playing time of his career, Lin Tian achieved the most incredible statistics of his career.

Yes, one of the craziest statistics ever!

After all, this guy has won both the scoring title and the assist title, achieved the highest average assists per game in NBA history, and has also achieved countless other crazy statistics.

Even among the countless statistics that Lin Tian has achieved that have been described as "unprecedented" and "unparalleled," what Lin Tian has accomplished this season is still unbelievable.

He only averaged 21.5 points per game this season, but in addition, Lin Tian also averaged 11.3 rebounds and 13.8 assists per game!

A triple-double per game!

After Oscar Robertson, Lin Tian became another player to achieve an average triple-double!

Robertson's triple-double average has always been considered one of the most difficult records in history to break, along with Chamberlain's 50 points per game and Stockton's 14.5 assists per game.

Many people even believe that even if someone can break Chamberlain's record of 50 points per game, it is impossible for anyone to achieve a triple-double average again!

Because that's just too difficult!

After all, in this era, a triple-double is a very high-level, top-tier statistic!

Oscar Robertson, who ranks first, only had 181 triple-doubles in his career, while Magic Johnson, who ranks second, only had 139.

Apart from these two and Lin Tian, ​​no other player in the league's history has ever recorded more than 100 triple-doubles!

Wilt Chamberlain, who ranked fourth, plummeted to only 78 times.

But Lin Tian achieved this miracle this season!

He achieved the feat of averaging a triple-double!

Meanwhile, Lin Tianguang has already achieved 41 triple-doubles this season! That means he gets a triple-double every two games! His versatility is astonishing and unbelievable!

Meanwhile, Lin Tian's total number of triple-doubles has reached 131 by the end of this season!

Everyone believes that he will surpass Magic Johnson next season and become the second-highest triple-double player!

As for surpassing Robertson? Everyone believes that, given his current form and ability, Lin Tian will most likely become the NBA's all-time triple-double king before his contract with the Knicks expires!

This is considered the most unbreakable record! This is one of the highest statistics in NBA history!

It's worth noting that in that era, Robertson's triple-double average over those two years was enough to surpass legends like Hakeem Olajuwon, Kyrie Irving, and Moses Malone, securing his place among the top ten in NBA history!

In many cases, people even put him in the top five of all time!

The sheer impact of this triple-double is evident!

Lin Tian successfully replicated this achievement this season.

He became only the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double in a single season!

His ability to achieve this was actually foreshadowed years ago. Many years ago, Lin Tian surpassed Chamberlain to become the person with the most consecutive triple-doubles in history, and he also achieved near triple-double statistics in several seasons.

This year, however, Stoudemire and Okur's passing skills are not particularly good, and their rebounding abilities are also quite mediocre.

So Don Nelson decided to unleash Lin Tian's full potential, speed up the pace of the game, and have Lin Tian focus more on collapsing the paint to grab rebounds and launch fast breaks!

This way, the backboard can be protected, and the precious time for the first pass can be made not to waste, allowing Lin Tian to unleash his energy and run wildly!

Don Nelson's tactical changes are also a key reason why Lin Tian is averaging a triple-double this season!

When Lin Tian's fans discovered that he might achieve a triple-double average for the season, they went absolutely crazy. They started celebrating early on and calculated how many more points, rebounds, and assists Lin Tian needed to score in each game to complete the feat of averaging a triple-double.

They were expectant, they were waiting, they were incredibly excited!

In a seemingly unremarkable game at the end of March, when Lin Tian once again recorded a massive triple-double of 23 points, 15 rebounds, and 13 assists, the entire Madison Square Garden was instantly ignited!

Because his assists and points had already determined that no matter how much he played badly, even if he had 0 points and 0 assists in the next few games, his rebounds would not fall below 10, his number of rebounds became something that everyone was watching and calculating.

After grabbing 15 rebounds in this game, Lin Tian finally reached the target for rebounds!

His total rebounds exceeded 820!

This means that even if Lin Tian plays in all the remaining games, and even if he doesn't grab a single rebound in any of them, his average rebounds per game will still be no less than 10!

He achieved his goal and challenge of averaging a triple-double for the season ahead of schedule!

That night, Madison was in an uproar, with fans shouting and yelling as if they had won the championship.

Old Nelson even called a timeout, and Dolan took the game ball, walked over to Lin Tian, ​​and passed the ball to him.

His opponents also lined up one by one to hug Lin Tian, ​​expressing their blessings and respect.

For three whole days after that, the entire league was discussing Lin Tian's eventual triple-double average, and the whole league was shocked by Lin Tian's incredible performance.

The craziest ones were Barkley and Kenny.

After Lin Tian grabbed his 820th rebound, Barkley went wild as if he had won the championship again, even jumping onto the TNT studio table and yelling.

I finally won a big one!

excited!

Super excited!

Barkley was overjoyed to see Kenny's expression, which looked like he'd eaten shit.

Because this guy is about to actually eat shit.

That's why Barkley is much more uninhibited than Kenny!

In Lin Tian's memory, Kenny was unwilling to offer his buttocks and wouldn't let Barkley kiss him, so he specially found a donkey named Kenny to let Barkley take a bite.

But Barkley didn't have that concern; he didn't want to give such a good opportunity to the donkey.

While the game was still in progress, Barkley stuck out his butt, signaling to Kenny to hurry up and have a bite.

"Either you honor your bet tonight and come on over, or I won't shower or change clothes for the next week, and I'll strip down to my underwear before you come on over!" Barkley threatened Kenny on the spot, indicating that he had to pay up for the bet tonight!

TNT's ratings soared at that moment!

Countless fans turned on their TVs and tuned to this channel, waiting to witness Kenny's historic kiss with Barkley.

Such a scene is quite rare!

At that moment, TNT's viewership surged to 3000 million!

What does this number mean?

This means that when Barkley represented the Suns in the 1993 NBA Finals against Jordan and the Bulls, only this many people in the United States watched.

Compared to watching the "Flying Pig" versus the "Flying Man," fans clearly prefer to see Kenny kiss Barkley's butt!

"youngest!"

With deep disgust, Kenny gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, finally fulfilling his promise and bet, and gave Barkley a good shove in the butt.

With this historic moment, TNT's viewership is approaching 3500 million!

Unfortunately, that was the peak; viewership then began to decline significantly as people started changing channels.

Even so, this scene is absolutely worthy of being recorded in history!

This is definitely the most-watched kissing moment in history!

TNT's middle and senior management are now feeling somewhat regretful and anxious.

They were thinking, why don't we come here every year from now on?

There's nothing we can do; the fans just love watching it.

Well... that's what they thought, and that's exactly what they did.

Kenny then firmly refused, stating that he would never participate in any betting or gambling again in his life!

I've quit gambling!

We've gone off on a tangent again.

Let's turn our attention back to Lin Tian himself.

This season, in addition to averaging a triple-double, he continued to hold the title of assist leader, and his rebounding also ranked among the top five in the league!

He is the Knicks' rebounding leader and the first guard in league history to rank in the top five on the rebounding list!

He is the player with the highest average number of rebounds per game among all players under 195 cm in NBA history!

Or to put it another way: apart from Oscar Robertson, who is 195 cm tall, and Ben Wallace and Dennis Rodman, whose heights are unknown, there is no other player under 2 meters tall who can average more than 10 rebounds per game in a season!

Lin Tian's rebounding ability has been greatly demonstrated this season!

However, it must be said that because he went back to grab the rebound, he also left some players open, allowing some opponents to score.

But this is the Knicks, and the head coach here is Don Nelson!

What does it matter if the opponent scores a few goals?

As long as you can score more goals, Old Nelson can completely ignore this level of lapses in personnel and turnovers!

But while Don Nelson might be able to ignore it, the reporters who vote for the All-NBA team are unlikely to be able to.

Many people say that Lin Tian's record of being selected for the league's All-NBA First Team for eight consecutive years will most likely be broken starting this year.

Many people also said that he should have ended his consecutive two-team first-team journey last year. The Knicks' defense was already terrible last season. Lin Tian was selected because he had some highlight defensive moments and a huge reputation.

If it were someone else who put up the same defensive performance as Lin Tian, ​​he definitely wouldn't even get a vote for the All-Defensive Team!

Analyzing Lin Tian's declining defense, some people said that Lin Tian's peak has passed and he is now just having a brief resurgence. He is at risk of a precipitous decline and regression at any time, and this year is his last hurrah!

At the same time, because of his poor defense, and because the Knicks are the team that allows the most points per game in the entire league, Lin Tian does not deserve to be the MVP. He should not have won the MVP because he does not play defense.

Lin Tian dismissed these claims with disdain and didn't bother to respond.

Even Lin Tian felt that the person who was most heartbroken right now was probably Nash, who won the MVP last year.

That's truly unguardable!

As for why Lin Tian didn't respond, firstly, it's just a defensive lineup. Top stars never care about such defensive honors. I've never seen anyone put up several defensive lineups first when comparing historical status!

That's not chilling enough.

Secondly, Lin Tian faces countless doubts and ridicule every day. If he were to respond to everything, he would be exhausted long ago.

Lin Tian would never respond to, nor bother to, those who criticize others without any logic.

It's like a rocket engineer talking to an amateur scientist about rocket launches. The amateur scientist says, "I think rockets that burn coal fly higher and faster." What the rocket engineer should do is definitely not argue with the scientist about why coal can't be used and why it can't be used.

What he needs to do is nod to indicate: You make a good point!

argue?

If Lin Tian says another word, he'll be considered to have lost.

In particular, those dissenting voices are a very small minority, after all, there are still more normal people in this world.

Apart from those illogical and indiscriminately criticizing him, the majority of fans have shown almost fanatical devotion to Lin Tian's performance this season.

After all, that's an average of a triple-double!

Even before this season, there was still a market for the topic of who was better, Lin Tian or Jordan, and people were still discussing and debating it.

But after averaging a triple-double this season, after Lin Tian had such a perfect season, the topic almost faded away.

There's not much discussion about it anymore.

It's decided, Lin Tian!

Although a complete agreement hasn't been reached, at least the previous back-and-forth has turned into a complete rout! (End of Chapter)