Chapter 571: The arrival of the All-Star Game
The end of the January game means that the All-Stars will also be coming. This year's All-Stars will be played at the Staples Center, and Li Lei is currently ahead of others with a total of three million votes. Yao Ming is ranked second, with his votes of more than 2 million, and Kobe is third, with nearly 2 million results, and the number of other people's votes is not much different.
Li Lei’s ability to get so many votes is a manifestation of his strength, and Yao Ming is the same. Under his leadership this season, the Warriors are likely to enter the playoff sequence, and it depends on how far they can go.
Because of Duncan's departure, the competition for the inside was not dull, but became more and more intense. After Duncan arrived in Boston, he firmly occupied a seat in the All-Star starting position, while O'O and Rashid could only compete for a substitute seat. The only comfort is that the head coach of this All-Star East is Phil Jackson. Although the Bulls have won the first place in the All-Star period for three consecutive years, the Bulls' head coach last year and the Bulls' head coach this year are not the same.
The Bulls have changed three head coaches in three years. If you don’t look at the record, you really think this will be a bad team.
The starting points in the East should be Li Lei, Iverson, Carter, Duncan, Big Ben, McGrady, Kidd, O'O and others can only go to the bench. Big Ben was able to get this starting position not because of how strong he is, but because there are no other centers in the East who can make a comeback.
New York fans are very dissatisfied. In their opinion, Milicic's performance this season can be regarded as an All-Star level. He has 15 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 block. Except for rebounds, which other data is not as good as Da Ben, is not as good as Da Ben? The Knicks fans are unhappy, but Stern took the words James and Anthony did not make it to the All-Star to perfunctory them.
But this did not make Knicks fans buy it. The Knicks' record this season can be ranked in the Eastern Conference playoff sequence. Milicic, the Teshua, made an indelible contribution. Although Parker squeezed into the All-Star substitute, since Parker has made it, why can't Milicic enter? Isn't it okay to take down other substitutes? For example, Margoroyle, the opponent's data this season is not better than Milicic.
The Knicks fans annoyed S's godfather, but Anthony and James didn't talk much. There was no one selected on the Cavaliers. As for the Bulls, the opposite was the opposite. There were too many selected people, which made Anthony the only one to be the leftover pearl. Of course, Melon was not discouraged. His goal this season is the best rookie. As for the All-Stars, it will be a matter of time before they can enter the All-Stars with their own performance.
There are five games to play before the All-Star Game. In the first game in February, the Bulls went away to challenge the Supersonics.
The core of Supersonics in this game, Ray Allen made a comeback. Ray Allen was selected as the All-Star this year, but Gentleman Lei was very unhappy. When he was in the Eastern Bucks, he was almost the substitute every year, but he was still like this bird in the West. Is he really worse than that guy Kobe? Seeing that the votes between him and Kobe were so big, Ray Allen was in a state of collapse.
So in this game, Ray Allen turned into strength and had a fierce one-on-one solo with Hamilton, the junior brother. As a result, at halftime, the two sides actually tied. Although Ray Allen's physical fitness was a little more powerful than Hamilton, the masked man who could kill Alaska was not an ordinary person.
But the draw between them does not mean that the Supersonics are also draws. They were 8 points behind in the half and were highly anticipated by the cannon stand Rashad Lewis got a 7-2 start in the first half. If Kobe and Jordan didn't care about this kind of start, they would definitely continue to throw, but Rashad Lewis was not good. His psychological quality cannot be said to be fragile, but it is not good either. Although the story and inspirationality of climbing from a second round pick to Mr. Billion Yuan, this does not mean that the other party has no shortcomings.
As for the ski man who scored 5 points because of Gua Ge's defense, he performed quite well.
Earl Watson, the first stepping stone on Li Lei's basketball journey, was completely suppressed by Li Lei. Even if McMillan lifted Lucredno up, it would be useless.
In the second half of the game, Ray Allen was still the hottest point on the Supersonics, but except him, the performance of others was described as eye-catching.
In the end, the Bulls played away and achieved a double kill against the Supersonics this season. After the Supersonics, the Bulls did not leave the West, but came to Salt Lake City, which is also located in the northwest, to adjust the Jazz one day later.
This is also the second confrontation between the two sides. The Jazz's current record is 24-24, with a 50% winning rate. Sloan's coaching level is fully revealed. The Jazz currently has no All-Star, and Andrei Kirirenko was only nominated. In this game, Jordan template Deshen Stevenson scored 23 points in the whole game, which is a tribute to his template. However, the rest of the Jazz's performance is quite average, especially the Puerto Rican in the No. 1 position. He had many highlights at the World Championships last year, but he is still a younger brother in the NBA.
The Bulls scored another victory in the Northwest Zone, but the Bulls' Western trip continued. Their opponent was the mosaic team without Yao Ming. At last year's draft, the mosaic team chose Kendrick Perkins, who was famous for playing Gaoghei. The latter was very consistent with Van Gundy's tactical system. However, the current mosaics are all a bunch of stinky fish and rotten shrimps. There was no suspense in the three quarters of this game. Alexander left the box in half.
After playing the mosaic, the Bulls can finally return to their home court, and they have two games left to have a holiday.
The first thing to play is the Pacers. This season's Pacers have no spiritual leader, Reggie Miller, with a record of 38-14. It can be said that they are very brilliant, but unfortunately, the Bulls are even more evil. Because of Li Lei's appearance, Rick Carlisle lacks the chance to coach the All-Star.
In addition to O's All-Star selection, Atai was also selected. However, the two strong players performed very poorly in this game. Their shooting percentage was 22-5, which also led to the Pacers losing to the Bulls away.
Chapter completed!