Chapter 139 All-Star Weekend

After the January game, the Suns still occupied the first place in the league, which was exactly the same as last season's regular season. With the game in February, the well-lined Suns still showed an unparalleled posture, almost sweeping the whole league. 29 other teams in the league were defeated by the Suns, and the Suns' record suddenly rose to 44 wins and 6 losses, continuing to laugh at the whole league.

The combination of Zhao Yue, Anthony and Nash is almost unstoppable, averaging 83.5 points per game, becoming a super combination that surpasses other teams in the league and is known as the Sun Storm.

With the arrival of February, this season's All-Star Weekend has also come. The arrival of the All-Star Weekend has made the whole league feel relieved. For NBA players with high-density games, the arrival of the All-Star Weekend is a rare respite.

However, for players who want to participate in the All-Star weekend, their rest time is obviously not as sufficient as that of ordinary players.

Many people in the Suns need to participate in the All-Star weekend. Zhao Yue, Anthony and Nash are naturally selected as the All-Star starters. In addition to the two of them, Iverson's strong return this season also made him a Western substitute in the All-Star Game, and Erwin Gentry is the bishop of the Western Stars. Practice.

Before the All-Star weekend, there were many voices calling for Zhao Yue to participate in the slam dunk contest and Griffin again. The league did send such an invitation to Zhao Yue, but Zhao Yue, who has won the slam dunk competition championship, was not invited. He also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the All-Star weekend to have a good rest, instead of Every day is full of exhausting.

If Zhao Yue did not participate, Griffin naturally became the biggest favorite to win the slam dunk contest. However, in the outside world's evaluation, whether Griffin won the slam dunk contest or not, the gold content will be reduced. After all, he lost to Zhao Yue in the last dunk contest, but Zhao Yue did not participate in this season.

Of course, Griffin also has a way to change the perception of the outside world, which is that he made a dunk move that surprised everyone in this slam dunk contest. However, after Zhao Yue's performance in the last slam dunk contest increased people's appetite, it is not easy for Griffin to do this.

The first thing to be held in All-Star Week is still the rookie challenge. This year's rookie challenge has undergone some changes, not by age or two, but by two living treasures, Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley, choose to form their own team among the selected players.

Among them, Markiff Morris of the Suns will also participate in the rookie challenge. He entered the Barkley team, while the popular Chinese-American defender Jeremy Lin joined the O'Neill team.

In February, the originally unknown Jeremy Lin suddenly rose. Just after the Knicks lost to the Suns, the Knicks, who were troubled by injuries again had to use Jeremy Lin, but the defender, who had not attracted attention, led the Knicks to a winning streak and performed very eye-catching, among which the match The Lakers' game is regarded as a finished battle.

The name of "Lin Crazy" quickly spread, and the discussion was even close to that of superstars such as Zhao Yue. With his performance during this period, he also successfully entered the rookie challenge.

Morris and Jeremy Lin are the most concerned figures of Chinese fans in the rookie game. Jeremy Lin is because of his oriental face, while Morris is in the Suns.

However, the performance of these two people in the rookie competition is not too eye-catching. This year's champion Owen became the MVP, and his performance in the competition is indeed amazing.

The rookie challenge is just an appetizer, and the slam dunk contest the next day officially attracts people's attention. Parker won the championship again in the skills competition. In the three-point competition, Carrefour defeated Durant to win the cup, and the champion of the dunk competition unexpectedly fell into Griffin's hands.

Griffin showed several new moves in this slam dunk competition, and it is well-deed to win the championship, but his performance is still different from Zhao Yue's performance in the last slam dunk competition, so many fans are also slightly disappointed after the game. The most discussed is not Griffin winning the championship, but when I was able to see Zhao Yue in the slam dunk competition again.

The main course All-Star Game was held on the last day of the All-Star weekend, and the all-Stars from the East and West will also appear on this night.

The All-Star start-off has long been confirmed. The All-Star starters in the East are center Dwight Howard, power forward Amarley Stadmeyer, small forward LeBron James, point guard Dwyane Wade and point guard Derek Ross. In addition to five, the assistant coaches of each team voted for seven substitutes, and the substitutes in the east were Roy Hibbert, Chris Bosh, Kevin Durant, Paul Pierce, Andre Iguodala, Deron Williams and Rajan Ronda.

Joe Johnson, the head star of the Eagles, withdrew from the All-Stars due to injury, and La Jane Rondo made up for it. Although Kevin Garnett's data has declined this year, after all, his strength is there and can still be selected.

In the west, it goes without saying that the starting center is naturally our protagonists Zhao Yue, power forward Cameron Anthony, small forward Kevin Durant, shooting guard Kobe Bryant, and point guard Chris Paul.

The seven substitutes are Steve Nash, Blake Griffin, Tony Parker, Kevin Loeb, Dirk Nowitzki, Lamarcus Aldridge and Aaron Iverson.

Unlike Garnett, Duncan has not been selected this year, which makes many people feel regretful. Age is indeed the enemy that professional athletes have to face, and the competition in the west is much greater than that in the east.

As usual, there is a public training and media meeting before the All-Star Game, and such a stage has naturally become a good place for players to communicate. Zhao Yue, Anthony and Nash first met at the All-Star Game and had a good impression on each other. That's why both Zhao Yue and Nash were extremely excited when they learned that Anthony asked for a deal.

It is no secret that there is no water and fire between the Heat and the sun. There is no intersection between Zhao Yue and the three giants of the Heat, and there is no communication between the two sides during the training. Media reporters undoubtedly like to dig into these discordant news, so reporters are constantly looking for this topic at media meetings.

This year's All-Star Weekend was held in Orlando. Dwight Howard, as the host, got several offensive opportunities at the beginning of the game. Both several starters in the West and several other starters in the East expressed their respect for Howard's identity as the host. Heavy.

However, as the game progressed, the cooperation between Zhao Yue and Anthony in the west gradually became more straightforward, while James and Wade in the east were often connected. At this time, Howard did not have much offensive power.

It is difficult to say who is strong in the eastern and western star teams. According to the book, Zhao Yue and Anthony are starting in the west, and James and Wade in the east should be able to play a lot of combat effectiveness. However, it is obvious that the two combinations are significantly higher than the two major Sun Storm. Giant.

After the first quarter, the west led the east at 3730 due to the continuous strength of the two groups of solar storms.

After entering the second quarter, Gentry made adjustments. After all, this is an all-star game. It is impossible to only let you starters play on it, and other substitute All-Stars will also have fun.

Nash has just recovered from his injury. Naturally, it is impossible for Gentry to arrange too much playing time for him. Although Zhao Yue's playing time in the sun has decreased slightly during this period, Gentry still hopes that he can get a better rest, so Zhao Yue also has a lot of time to rest.

Throughout the first half, Nash only played 10 minutes, while Zhao Yue only played 12 minutes, and Anthony only played 13 minutes. After the second quarter, the gap between the two teams remained at 7 points, and the score became 70:77.

After the start of the third quarter, the two sides were full of firepower. Zhao Yue, Anthony and Nash in the west played together and scored 28 points in a single quarter. In addition to the three of them, the rest of the Western players also performed very well. The Western team scored 48 points in this quarter.

The east at the other end is fully blossoming, and several stars on the field have made great contributions, but they only got 42 points in this quarter. After three quarters, the difference between the two teams widened to 13 points.

The score difference has been narrowed to double digits, but after all, this is only an all-star game, so the head coaches of both sides did not care too much. The person who should be changed is still changed, and Zhao Yue also returned to the off-court rest again.

After a full six-minute rest, Zhao Yue returned to the field when the game was only in the last 6 minutes. At this time, the Eastern Stars recovered a few points and were only 8 points behind.

The players on the court are not willing to admit defeat. The Eastern Stars began to chase points, and the scene began to become hot.

With only three minutes left in the fourth quarter, James slammed Griffin after breaking through, causing 2+1 to detonate the whole game, and the difference between the two teams also narrowed to only 5 points.

Then Kobe broke through the inside line in the west and caused a foul to widen the score of the two teams to 7 points. In the east, Wade's mid-hand shot narrowed the difference again, and the difference between the two teams began to hover between 5 and 7 points.

42 seconds before the end of the game, Durant received a three-pointer from Paul after running, which made the difference between the two teams 8 points. The Eastern Stars launched a counterattack, but the three-pointer bounced out of the basket. Zhao Yue grabbed the backcourt rebound and assisted Kobe Bryant quickly to get two points and lock in the victory.

150: 155, 3 points difference, the Western Stars got the final victory, and Kobe Bryant got the highest 46 points of the Western Stars and was elected as the All-Star MVP.

Zhao Yue got 27 points and 12 rebounds in the game, and his playing time was only 28 minutes. Both Gentry and Zhao Yue's goals this season are more on the playoffs, so Zhao Yue did not try his best in this All-Star Game.

At the end of the All-Star weekend, half of the season, all teams are working hard for the playoffs. At the same time, more teams are also trying to avoid injuries. The same is true for the Suns. After returning to Phoenix from Orlando, Gentry also clearly pointed out in the team's training that the playing time of core players such as Zhao Yue, Anthony and Nash will be further reduced, hoping that the role players can take on more Responsibility.

In the last few games in February, the Suns played 5 games at home and 3 away games. The Suns easily defeated 8 opponents, raising the record to 52 wins and 6 losses. Next, they need to go through a difficult schedule. In March, the Bulls had a total of 17 games.