The rest is just noise

For some reasons, Lu Wuxia became the most popular player in the 2003 class.

Although this rookie class was highly hyped before entering the draft, not many were closely followed by the media after the start of the season.

LeBron James, who has received the most attention, has lived up to his reputation and performed well when he first entered the league. If the team's strength had not been a little inferior, he might have made greater achievements in his rookie season.

However, although James lived up to expectations, he obviously went too far. After spending the first month of his career, James bought a new car.

Buying a new car is nothing, but what made James criticized was his license plate. James's license plate was not serious, it read "KNGJMS".

As we all know, "KINGJAMES" is James' nickname. Since he became famous, he has been as rampant in the basketball world as a king. However, writing the nickname into the license plate can show to some extent that he really regards himself as a king.

This conceit made James look arrogant, and the public's favor with him declined.

Another high-profile potential star, Darko Milicic, although he averaged 11 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks per game with the Suns, soon seemed to have suffered an injury.

As a genuine European country bumpkin, he indulged in various nightclubs in Phoenix while recuperating from his injuries.

When Milicic got into a fight in a nightclub while he was injured, he made the first scandal headlines of the 2003 class, and his already low favorability dropped to freezing point.

Another famous rookie, Carmelo Anthony, lost some character in the incident that forced him to leave the Clippers. But what made his reputation take a sharp turn was smoking on the plane with several other teammates.

The move earned him a three-game suspension from the Jazz. Jerry Sloan asked him to apologize to the team.

Compared with them, Lu Wuxia vividly explained what "as long as I don't do anything off the court, I won't make any mistakes." When it comes to flaws, Lu Wuxia is not without any flaws.

Many players have complained that he likes to talk trash too much.

Moreover, Lu Wuxia's trash talk is not the kind of low-level third-level player who specializes in the maternal line of the family, but a "good-natured joke." Fans obviously will not resent players talking trash on the court in a weird way.

Because he is handsome, kind to the fans, gets along well with the media, and does not have those messy negative news, plus he has a legendary father, he is simply the chosen one among the chosen ones.

No, ish does not need to bear the title of "The Chosen Son" because he was called the "Son of God" when he was 15 years old. In this way, all he needs to do to become the most popular Lu Wuxia this year is

Maintain stable performance on the court.

When the time came to 2004, the new issue facing Larry Bird was to balance the distribution of ball rights between Lu Wuxia and Parker. This matter was not as simple as "you two can figure it out".

Because the ball carrier always wants to hold the ball, it is impossible to expect them to share the ball selflessly.

Bird knew very well that if things continued like this, Lu Wuxia would sooner or later make greater demands for the ball, and by then, conflicts would arise between Parker and him.

This reminded Bird of the story of Norm Nixon and the Magician.

Fortunately, this is a future worry, and Bird does not have to worry about it now. Moreover, Lu Wuxia does not object to playing without the ball at the moment.

In fact, it was Lu Wuxia's open attitude towards offense without the ball that made the Celtics' chemical reaction get better and better after the beginning of the new year. Lu Wuxia found that what he did without the ball was no better than what he did without the ball.

There is little state with the ball.

Moreover, without the ball, he can see the overall situation more clearly.

The two years of technical reform in high school were the most difficult two years of Lu Wuxia's basketball career so far. He gave up his dominant style of play at the time for better skills.

Because of technical reforms, Lu Wuxia's last two years of high school were considered "slow progress."

Although the final success of the technical transformation allowed him to reap rewards in college, Lu Wuxia still didn't know the purpose of his father letting him watch the game videos of Jordan and Bird.

Because the playing styles of Bird and Jordan are not very compatible with him. Although their playing styles are very simple, they are not comparable.

Their court positions are completely different. Ever since Lu Wuxia started playing without the ball, he became fascinated by what Bird and Jordan did in the game.

He wants to know how much a player can do off the ball.

So, he began to look through the game videos that had been thrown into the old warehouse.

He learned from Bird and Jordan's games, found the rhythm of running without the ball and shooting after the ball, developed the ability to organize without the ball, and tried to use a lot of touch-and-pass skills like Bird did.

Make the ball conduction smoother and faster.

In mid-January, the Celtics challenged the Cavaliers away from home. It was the first career matchup between Lu Wuxia and James. Due to the obvious gap in strength between the two sides' lineups, the outcome of the game was not important.

What everyone is paying attention to is the head-to-head dialogue between these two talented men. James performed well, scoring 32 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists. However, his data was ridiculed by Lu Wuxia.

"Bron, this data is meaningless, look at me." Lu Wuxia's data seemed to have been arranged in advance.

In the game that night, the Celtics' interior players chose to block their positions to give way to rebounds. Wu Xia had a great night's work, and finally scored 30 points, 20 rebounds and 10 assists.

Lu Wuxia scored a neat triple-double that made headlines and helped the team gain a double-digit advantage.

"I didn't expect that I would grab so many rebounds." Lu Wuxia said after the game, "I want to thank my teammates. Their selflessness made me who I am tonight."

Although he is only a first-year player, Lu Wuxia is already the leader of the Celtics. Because he likes to play without the ball, Parker can maintain his original style of play.

Because he developed off-the-ball support, Bird's key pick-and-roll tactics were brought into full play, and among them were Gerald Wallace and Carlos Boozer. The former just rushed.

The basket takes the cake, and the latter only needs to pick and roll to pull the kite.

Coupled with the rare precocity of Lu Wuxia's shooting skills, he unlocked the achievement of half-court hot zone in his rookie season and shot 39% of the three-point shooting rate, creating a good situation for Yao Yueban, Gasol and others in singles.

Space.

This is his performance off the ball.

When he starts holding the ball, the Celtics' games become a gorgeous show, especially when he is on the same court with Ginobili. Everyone will be happy, except for teammates who can't catch the pass and who are being treated like monkeys.

opponent.

In the end, Lu Wuxia ended his rookie season averaging 18 points, 8 rebounds and 9 assists per game.

With his help, Yao Yueban scored 22 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks in 30 minutes per game. The pick-and-roll tactics of Lu Wuxia and Yao Yueban were the Celtics' trump card at critical moments.

In addition, Gasol's scoring has dropped compared to before, with only 15 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists. This is mainly due to rookies such as Lu Wuxia and Wade sharing the pressure and data.

In addition, Parker, Wade, and Ginobili all averaged double-digit points per game. The Celtics were like a tiger going down the mountain. Under the leadership of Bird, they posted the second-best record in the league—65 wins and 17 losses.

“Let’s get serious about one thing — is Ish the MVP this season?” Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe wrote in the article: “Putting aside several other dazzling rookies, this Celtics

Their winning rate last season was less than 50%. Now, their winning rate is as high as 3%. I admit that Yao played the performance of the league's top center, and he finally began to realize his talent. The rise of Manu Ginobili is also surprising

Amazing, but would these things really have happened if it hadn’t been for ish?”

"If your answer is yes, then ish probably shouldn't be the MVP. If it's no, then a player who increased the team's winning percentage by nearly 30%, a player who made all his teammates better than last season

Player, shouldn’t he be the MVP this season?”