Chapter 110: Defeat

January 1.

The statistics for the first phase of the All-Star Voting are out.

I can't see anything in the west for the time being, except for Yao Ming's more than 400,000 votes and Kobe's more than 520,000 votes, everyone else has not had much advantage.

The East, on the other hand, is very polarized.

Occupying the top two guards are two great "No. 3" players - Dwyane Wade and Allen Iverson, the former ushered in the second stage of his career this season, averaging 30.1 points per game to occupy the first place in the scoring list, and the only player to average 30 points per game this season, and Allen Iverson, his name is a symbol of popularity in itself, if nothing else, these two have already locked in the backcourt spot in the East.

If Wade and Allen Iverson are basically locked, the other three positions in the East can be regarded as directly locking in the starting spots.

Yi Jianlian ranks first among the forwards and has received more than 600,000 votes, while LeBron is second and currently has more than 530,000 votes, nearly 70,000 fewer votes than Yi Jianlian.

However, Chris Bosh, who is in third place as a forward, is even more far away from LeBron, with only more than 300,000 votes, nearly 230,000 fewer votes than LeBron.

This is the first stage of voting, there is such a big gap, and the second round of voting is only afraid that the gap will widen......

However, Yi Jianlian, who has more than 500,000 votes, is not the king of votes in the east!

The first vote in the East is Dwight Howard, with a total of more than 700,000 votes, and is currently the only player with more than 700,000 votes, and naturally the league's vote king so far.

In fact, Howard was indeed elected the vote king this year, and the final total vote was more than 3 million votes unprecedented, which scared a lot of fans in the United States at that time.

And this year, looking at this menacing trend, American fans will probably have to be scowled again.

It's just that Chinese fans have some opinions on the results of this round:

"Why is Howard taller than the UAE?"

"Yes! Where did this guy get so many votes, the big guy hurry up and vote for the UAE! ”

"Forget about the others, no matter how many UAE ranks first, as long as he can be an All-Star, only this Howard must not let his votes be higher than that of the UAE, brothers rush me!"

Howard had several war of words with Yi Jianlian this season, and for this reason, many domestic fans began to have a bad impression of Howard, and even some of them turned black directly or passers-by turned black.

Seeing Howard's total votes ranked in front of Yi Jianlian, this made them unhappy in an instant, everyone else can, there is only this B, and he must not be ranked in front of the UAE!

Absolutely not!

An invisible war began quietly after the Coalition announced the voting results for the first phase......

***

Yi Jianlian didn't know that the fans in China were so angry.

In fact, he didn't know that the results of the first phase of the All-Star voting had been announced, and he was actively preparing for the game, and they had a game at home tonight.

They spent their last two games on the road last year, and as the first game of the new year, they need to get off to a good start at home to repay the fans who have always supported them.

Tonight, their opponents are not weak, although the ranking is not good, only in eighth place in the East.

But the Pacers are a bit weird, they can play anyone, they can win the Lakers and Cavaliers, and even the Celtics have been pulled down by them, and they can also lose to the bottom teams in the East such as the Bobcats and the Nets.

Bradley Arena was packed tonight.

I haven't seen Yi Jianlian for nearly a week, and Milwaukee die-hard fans still miss this Chinese genius who brought a lot of glory to the Bucks.

And they expressed their thoughts in their own ways:

"Yi, let's go to the All-Star starter again!"

"Yi, this city is proud of you!"

"Thank you for everything you bring to this team, it's good to have you in Milwaukee!"

All kinds of banners can be seen everywhere in the audience, and the Bucks fans tonight are very enthusiastic!

It's just that the Bucks didn't start well today, and it can even be said that they fell into a slump for a while, including Yi Jianlian, who also suffered a cold snap on the court in the first quarter, and missed several shots, but the Pacers, who played like returning to the banker's life arena in bursts of boos, with a particularly smooth cooperation.

Especially the core of the house, Granger, a complete all-star performance, shooting layups and making fouls, as long as you can imagine the offensive style, he used it all tonight.

At halftime, the Bucks trailed by 10 points, 50-60.

I thought that when we came back in the third quarter, everyone's state would improve, but I didn't expect that the improvement in state was the Indiana Pacers, who had already performed very well, 84-68, and the difference was stretched to 16 points, seeing that the game had entered garbage time.

However, the Bucks did not give up, and when they came back in the fourth quarter, they were still the full starting lineup, and it was clear that they were going to fight to the end!

Yi Jianlian finally found his form, first scored 10 points with a sudden shot to help the team narrow the score difference to 10 points, and then continued to assist to help his teammates find their form, and the 10-point difference narrowed again, leaving less than 5 points in a blink of an eye.

Seeing that it was another reversal, it was a pity that Granger also stepped up at this time, first with a 2-plus-1 foul and then with a forced 3-point score.

The margin widened again to more than 10 points.

There was not much time left in the game, and the victory was ultimately taken away by the Pacers.

Yi Jianlian's performance in the first three quarters was not very good, but with the outbreak in the final quarter, he still got 23 points, 8 assists and 6 rebounds in the whole game.

As for the rest, with the exception of Mo Williams, who scored more than 10 points.

Although Mo Williams exceeded 10 points, he only scored 13 points, and his shooting percentage was 5 of 15 shots, only 33.33%

"Upset loss to the Pacers at home, easy to need help!"

Yi Jianlian led the team from sixth to second last season, and recently broke Cleveland with a 40-plus triple double, and few fans and media reporters are still dissatisfied with him!

And the reason for the loss was naturally to blame on his teammates.

However, Yi Jianlian did not let these reports fly all over the sky, and he also found that the media praised him a little fiercely recently, in order to avoid the public opinion result of "winning is all about Yi, and losing is all teammates' pits", he took the blame on himself in an interview: "I was in a bad state tonight, this is the reason why the Bucks lost, and the only reason, I will remember tonight's bad performance and continue to improve." ”