Chapter 397 All-star, three-point ability is worth 99!
NBA All-Star Weekend 2021 will be held on February 21, 2021, at the home court of the Atlanta Hawks.
Wang Feng, as before, still signed up to participate in all solo events, but even he did not expect that this time he would come back with a rare failure.
Wang Feng performed steadily in the preliminaries of the Skills Challenge, but he made a small mistake in the finals, which directly caused him to be a few tenths of a second slower than Domantas Sabonis of the Pacers. In the end, he unfortunately only finished second.
If we talk about the skill challenge, Wang Feng was the runner-up, but the slam dunk contest was even worse. In the first round of preliminaries, he was eliminated with the lowest score among the four players from the bottom.
The only thing that saves some face is the three-point contest.
Wang Feng, who has a 98 three-point ability value and multiple shooting badges, is still as stable as an old dog in this event. He defeated all other players and easily defended the title, winning the three-point contest for six consecutive years.
Along with Wang Feng's sixth triple singles competition championship trophy, his three-point shooting ability value has also officially reached 99, becoming the first attribute among all shooting ability values to reach the full value of 99.
Unfortunately, the joy of reaching 99 three-pointers did not last long. Then in the All-Star Game the next day, the Wang Feng team led by Wang Feng lost to Durant's team 156:167.
Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo scored 38 points, 18 rebounds and 8 assists, and was elected the regular season MVP of this All-Star Game.
Wang Feng's team lost the game, not because his teammates were unwilling to let Wang Feng continue to compete for the regular season MVP and deliberately let it go, but because the state of the Eastern team was indeed better than that of the Western team this time, especially Wang Feng, who was in All-Star form this time.
Ordinarily, with Antetokounmpo and others taking turns to defend, his performance can only be described as mediocre. He scored 32 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists, a triple-double, but compared to his explosive performance in the regular season, it was a bit lackluster.
Wang Feng's All-Star performance was not good, and the sunspots immediately became energetic.
"Haha, why are you so embarrassed? Didn't you show your strength in the previous All-Star games? You occupied the ball and the right to take shots. Is this retribution coming? This time the All-Stars only won one three-pointer. It's embarrassing.
Is it big?"
But in fact, more fans show understanding towards Wang Feng's situation.
Since the beginning of the regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers have played nearly 60 games. In these 60 games, Wang Feng has averaged an astonishing 44 minutes per game, and his scoring average has remained stable at 42 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists.
There are also 2.2 steals and 1.3 blocks.
Whether on the offensive or defensive end, Wang Feng shoulders important responsibilities. To put it bluntly, without Wang Feng, the Lakers would not be able to maintain their current third-place record in the Western Conference.
Playing at such high intensity and for long periods of time can cause fatigue to anyone.
Wang Feng is not a robot, he is still a human being. Even if his body is digitized due to the system and there are various badges that provide bonuses, he will still accumulate fatigue points.
He failed in both the Skills Challenge and the Slam Dunk Contest because he focused too much on the competition and had no time to prepare for the All-Star Weekend. He did not conceive and prepare the dunk action in advance, nor did he specifically contact the Skills Challenge.
Competition items.
Including the All-Star game, when the team was lagging behind, Wang Feng thought about trying to catch up with the score difference, but under the strong defense of Durant's team, there was no good chance.
Wang Feng also knows this, so he is not disappointed. Compared with the season evaluation rewards related to the regular season record, the rewards of the All-Star Weekend are just trivial and can be given up optionally.
It is worth mentioning that after winning the sixth three-point contest trophy in his career, Wang Feng stated in an interview that he would no longer participate in the three-point contest. The reason is that the three-point contest is no longer challenging for him.
And the audience has long been tired of aesthetics.
As long as Wang Feng participates, there will be no doubt about the championship. How many people will be willing to pay attention to and watch such a competition?
Of course, this theory of invincibility and loneliness is just a rhetoric used by the outside world to show off. The real reason is that Wang Feng's three-point ability value has reached 99 and cannot be improved further.
The moment his three-point ability value reached 99, the system even gave a prompt indicating that there would be no more mission rewards for winning the three-point contest in the future.
Since there is no reward and Wang Feng has never done anything thankless, there is no need to continue participating in the three-point contest.
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At the end of the All-Star Game, he only gained 1 point and three ability points, which made Wang Feng realize that he could not continue to play like this.
Averaging close to 45 minutes of playing time per game is really not something that humans do. Excessive consumption in the regular season may even affect the status of the playoffs.
Wang Feng may not pay attention to the All-Stars, but he must pay attention to the playoffs.
More than three months have passed. Butler, who had a successful surgery, is in satisfactory recovery and is expected to return early. However, even so, Butler will not be able to play until the second round of the Western Conference at the earliest, and if the second round is swept 4:0
In some cases, you may not be able to play.
Therefore, Wang Feng must at least drag the Lakers into the second round, and the second round series must last about six games.
The intensity of the playoffs is a completely different concept from the regular season, so Wang Feng must also start preparing for the playoffs.
After the All-Star Game, Wang Feng's playing time began to decrease significantly, from an average of 44 minutes per game to about 38 minutes. His ball possession rate and number of shots also decreased, and the data dropped significantly compared with before the All-Star Game.
Correspondingly, the Lakers' record has declined, losing to the Trail Blazers, Hawks and other games that they should not lose.
With the end of the February schedule, the Lakers' record was tied by the fourth-ranked Denver Nuggets. Entering March, the Nuggets took a deep breath and won five consecutive games, officially completing their victory over the Lakers.
Go ahead and push the Lakers to fourth place in the Western Conference.
Wang Feng's average data per game dropped to 40.3 points, 12.8 rebounds and 10.9 assists, and his performance was significantly worse than before the All-Star Weekend.
During the period when the Nuggets caught up and took the lead, Wang Feng averaged only about 35 points per game. Although using only to describe 35 points is somewhat inappropriate, for Wang Feng, this is indeed the case.
However, due to the decrease in the number of Wang Feng's shots, the numbers of Ingram, Kuzma and others have increased slightly. Especially Jordan Poole has become more and more adaptable to the Lakers' tactical system, and
With the help of Wang Feng's ten-cent badge, the average points per game has gradually increased to 13.8 points, which has great potential.
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The decline of the Lakers' record and the decline of Wang Feng's personal data have become the focus of media discussion for a certain period of time.
However, the Lakers did not hide anything from the outside. They explained the reason very straightforwardly. Wang Feng's data dropped in order to reserve physical fitness for the playoffs. The Lakers' current record has ensured that they will surely enter the playoffs, even according to the current winning rate.
After playing the next dozen or so games, we can still maintain our advantage in the top half of the division.
Under such circumstances, continuing to let Wang Feng play 45 minutes per game, racking up such high numbers, accumulating fatigue points, and causing injuries is something only a fool head coach would do.
Butler's regular season reimbursement is already the most typical lesson learned. If the Lakers lose even Wang Feng, there will be no need to play this season.
In subsequent games, Wang Feng not only played less time, but also selectively rested in some games, including the away game against the Golden State Warriors.
The Warriors currently rank second in the Western Conference, second only to the Utah Jazz in record.
But they are not the Lakers' first imaginary enemy.
Not surprisingly, the Lakers will enter the playoffs with the fourth-place record in the Western Conference at the end of the regular season, and their first-round opponent will be the New Orleans Pelicans, who are ranked fifth in the Western Conference.
As soon as Paul takes action, he will know if there is any.
Obviously, Paul definitely takes the greatest credit for the unexpected results of the Suns and Thunder in another time and space.
This can be seen from the Pelicans' record.
Although they are only ranked fifth in the Western Conference, the ranking in the Western Conference is already a battle between dragons and tigers. Let's take a look at the teams below the Pelicans.
With the configuration of the top three Big Three, their performance has gradually begun to pick up recently, and they have struggled to climb to the sixth place in the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Mavericks are led by the dual core of Luka Doncic and Porzingis.
There is also the Portland Trail Blazers, who have a two-gun backcourt worth 200 million.
Being able to stabilize his record at fifth place in the Western Conference despite the gathering of strong opponents shows that Paul is not in vain.
Of course, Paul's existence only ensures a team's bottom line. Chris Paul, who is often touted as the number one point guard in history, has also been criticized in many situations, and has even caused several famous memes.
58 Luo, floor man, these nicknames are the black spots of Paul's career leading the team.
If it hadn't been for Harden's embrace of joining the Rockets, Paul might still not be able to touch the floor of the Western Conference Finals.
If the Pelicans want to perform better in the playoffs, they still need to look at the performance of the other two core players, Anthony Davis and Zion Williams.
Big Eyebrow's statistics this season are very stable and efficient. He has averaged 26.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game so far. He is the backbone of the team on both offense and defense.
And Zion Williams, who had high hopes, did not disappoint.
This season, when healthy, Fat Tiger has shown extremely terrifying lethality at the basket.
Although limited by his height disadvantage, Zion will always be blocked at the basket and has been nicknamed the "Essence of Blocks" in the human race. However, with a weight of 130 kilograms, his impact at the basket is really great. With his super strong
With strength and jumping, Zion's destructive power at the basket is comparable to O'Neal.
So far, Zion has averaged 27.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, and his shooting percentage is as high as 61%, and almost all of his shots are distributed under the basket. Although he is only 1.98 meters tall, his playing style is better than mid-to-long-range shooting.
The thick eyebrow brother is more like an insider.
Of course, only Wang Feng knows that Zion will be strong if he is strong, but his heavy body puts too much burden on his ankles, and Zion himself has a glass body. It is hard to say whether he can shoulder the heavy responsibility in the playoffs.
If the Lakers and Pelicans really face off in the first round at the end of the regular season, then with the strength of the Pelicans, Wang Feng will not be afraid.