After playing against the Lakers, the shrinking season of 1998-1999 seems to be no suspense.

"The Bulls lost the trust of the league, and Sean Kemp also gained a lot due to this long shutdown period. The Big Three became inconsistent with their name. They could no longer threaten the Warriors' dominance."

"The Lakers were originally the team that had the most hope to break the Warriors' rule, but the Warriors have always been the team that can deal with the Sharks. Of course, more importantly, Stah's progress is too scary."

"Now Stadium is not only unsolvable outside the three-point line, but also unsolvable from the middle distance. Even within the near-frame range, few opponents can block him."

Lin Xing's explosion made other teams and other players of this era dark.

But after this game, Lin Xing quietly retreated back.

Mainly in the shrinking season, the Warriors mainly play a rotation.

Not to mention Mo Ning and Kobe, even Lin Xing, who had been asking for full attendance in the past few seasons and refused to rotate, took some back-to-back games as required by Old Nelson.

Only focus battles will Lin Xing use all his strength.

For example, the Warriors' battle against the Spurs one month after the start of the new season.

This season, the Spurs played very strongly.

Popovich, who is still in his prime, has not yet understood the importance of rotation, so he has been fighting the double towers throughout the regular season.

Duncan has no shortage of every game, and his average playing time is even close to 40 minutes.

Just relying on the death to kill the double towers, the Spurs competed with the Warriors to be the first in the regular season.

But it was this game that the Spurs lost.

The competition itself has encountered some twists and turns.

Mainly, Popovich this season understood how to use the two towers. In this game against the Warriors, the Spurs relied on old point guard Avery Johnson to control the rhythm tightly.

Then he defended against a millstone-like position, making it very difficult for the Warriors to get a hard time.

Lin Xing had no choice but to stand up and take over the competition.

He scored 46 points, led the team to take a away victory from San Antonio, and consolidated the Warriors' position as the top spot in the league.

And this game is a game that Lin Xing occasionally broke out this season.

Overall, he played very hard this shrinking season.

There were many rotations, and in a 66 games shrinking season, Lin Xing only played 53 games and rested for a full 13 games.

In 53 games, Lin Xing averaged 24.4 points, 8.2 rebounds, 8.8 assists, 3.0 steals, 1.8 blocks per game.

The average score of 24.4 points set a new low for Lin Xing's career average score.

On the one hand, Lin Xing doesn’t work hard without exerting his own strength in most games. Many games are like clocking in after get off work, and it has the smell of wolfberry and mamba.

On the other hand, the Warriors have a little bit of insufficient ball rights this season.

It's mainly Kobe, and the data of various this season has skyrocketed.

The score soared from 20.6 points per game last season to 27.6 points this season.

The rebounds soared from 3.1 in the last season to 5.2 in the current season.

The assists have also increased from 2.5 in the last season to 3.8 in the current season.

The steals are almost the same, last season was 0.9 and this season was 1.1.

After the regular season, Kobe directly became a strong contender for the fastest-progressive player.

In addition, Old Nelson attaches great importance to Dirk and even designed several sets of tactics specifically for Dirk.

As a result, Dirk occupies more ball rights than his predecessor Donyel Marshall, and averages 11.2 points and 3.6 rebounds per game in the regular season.

Although the data is better than the rookie season in the original history, Dirk still received a low evaluation.

Some media even believe that-

"The Warriors finally fell into a draw. This time, they held the No. 5 pick and actually chose a big white soft man who can only float outside and shoot, with only 3.6 rebounds per game."

Not to mention the media, even some Warriors fans think that Dirk is too soft, only seven feet tall, and he is not as good as Marshall, who is 2.06 meters tall.

However, Dirk's bad reputation did not affect the Warriors' still dominance of this season.

"The Warriors' dominance is too fierce. Stade has rested 13 games, Alanzo Mooning has rested 17 games, and even the young Kobe Bryant has rested 8 games. The three core players have rested 38 games in total. The Warriors still rank first in the league with a record of 50 wins and 16 losses!"

Although the Warriors are still the best in the league, MVP and Lin Xing were not successful.

It’s not that Lin Xing plays too hard, and the data is much worse than that of his opponents.

In fact, with Lin Xing's average of 24+8+8 per game, it is still possible to compete for MVP.

After all, this season's MVP hit Carl Malone has a record that is not as good as Lin Xing, and his data is only 23 points, 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal.

If you really want to count it, Ma Long is surrounded by Lin Xing.

But helplessly, Lin Xing knew very well that it was not Ma Long who needed to compete for, but himself.

This season, Lin Xing hit a career low and averaged points per game destined to be unable to participate in the MVP competition this season.

Not to mention participating, there are even media leading the Warriors’ rhythm. Simply put,

"This season's regular season, it was not Stalin who led the Warriors forward, but Kobe Bryant."

The above is a column article by an expert from ESPN. The argument he gave is that Kobe averaged 27.6 points per game, which is much higher than Lin Xing's 24.4 points.

With this article, the rhythm has been lifted.

But in fact, he still restrained himself.

If he did not restrain himself, he would put the name of the new Warriors leader on Kobe's head and claim—

"Unconsciously, the Warriors completed the transfer of power. If the Warriors' first three championships belong to Stalin, then the championship from now on will belong to Kobe Bryant!"

Lin Xing felt that these people's heads were not very smart, and even the fool could see that they were so rhythmic.

But gradually, Lin Xing discovered that Kobe seemed to take it a little seriously.

...

As the playoffs begin, Lin Xing is not ready to paddle again.

After all, the regular season paddling is all for the playoffs.

In the first round, the Warriors' opponent was the eighth Suns in the West.

That's right, I was competing with the Lakers, Jazz for fourth place in the Western Conference and fifth place in the Suns this season, and this season fell directly to the edge of the playoffs.

If you have to find some reason for them, you can only say that this is the way of fighting for all the people, which is unstable.

If you get to the boss Kidd is so difficult to stand out at a critical moment, the Suns' results this season are understandable.

In the first round, Lin Xing was still half-skiing. He didn't exert much force, and the Warriors swept the Suns 3-0.

The main reason is that Kobe is too excited and scored high scores as soon as he started the playoffs.

In these three games, he averaged 29.7 points per game, completely breaking through the Suns' perimeter defense.

In this round of playoffs, Lin Xing had not noticed something wrong with Kobe.

Until the second round...

In the second round of the playoffs, the Warriors' opponent was the fifth Supersonics in the West.

That's right, the Supersonics are fifth in the West this season, and the regular season looks gorgeous and has been praised before the start of the game.

But when they really fought, people realized that Ewing and Pi Er had fallen too much.

The former averaged 17 points, nearly 10 rebounds, 2.6 blocks per game, while the latter had only 14.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 5.9 assists, 2.0 steals.

If McDyce hadn't made huge progress and averaged 20+10 per game, the Supersonics this season would have been ranked fifth, not to mention the fifth place, it would have been nice to be able to squeeze into the last bus of the Western Conference playoffs.

In this round of the series, the Warriors finally encountered some resistance.

The main reason is that this supersonic is playing well, especially because of the nuclear defense.

Moreover, they strategically focused on Kobe.

That's right, Supersonics surprisingly began to focus on Kobe, and even gave Eddie Jones the highest treatment of single defense supplemented by skin-and-skin-and-second-skin-assisted defense.

A media reporter who is not very smart shouted: "Look, even the Supersonics think that the boss of the Warriors this season is Kobe Bryant!"

In the first game, Lin Xing stood up and scored 38 points after Kobe was under key control, taking away the game's victory.

In the second game, the supersonic strategy still did not change, but Kobe changed.

The commentary of NBC in the United States can’t hear anything. The commentary of Yangwu, the sentence that Director Zhang repeated the most is—

"Transfer, Kobe, you're passing!"

The second sentence that repeats the most is—

"Oh, Kobe played this ball very unreasonably."

The most repeated third sentence is—

"Come on, you'll have this ball passed to Dalin. Oh, why not pass it?"

In this game, Lin Xing did the most move, spread his hands.
To be continued...