Chapter 946 [In Utah?] Biggest Protagonist】
The Suns only participated in the All-Star Weekend, with O'Neal taking his girlfriend to Los Angeles to play, and the others staying home on vacation. Among them, Roy only played 12 minutes, got 5 points and 2 assists, and played soy sauce without much effort.
After the All-Star break, the Suns players were back in top shape and won the rest of the game in February.
They only encountered challenges against the Warriors, relying on Guo Xu's excellent play in the final quarter to win by 6 points.
Guo Xu scored 16 points and 2 assists in a single quarter, and scored 48 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists in the whole game, almost cutting 50+ again. He broke through Curry again and again, making the hapless kid more questioned.
Curry won't be a star until he improves his defense, and he'll need time to gain experience.
Kobe Bryant scored 37 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, a breath of difference from Guo Xubiao. The gap between the two is the accuracy of shooting, Guo Xu is accurate most of the time, Kobe Bryant occasionally goes crazy and has a shooting rate of more than 60%, and most of the time the shooting rate is more than 40%.
Ahead of the trade deadline, there were several big deals in the league.
The Nets traded for star point guard Deron Williams and sent Devin Harris, 2010 scout star power forward Derrick Favors, and two second-round picks to the Jazz.
Delon was quickly traded, which made it doubtful that the conflict between him and the old coach Sloan was more serious than the media revealed, and the Jazz management had no patience with him at all.
In Guo Xu's previous life, Delon got back more things, because the Nets also sent Troy Murphy to package as chips and called the Warriors for a three-way trade. Now that Murphy has no one in the Hawks, the Jazz are in a hurry to send Deron away without a garbage contract on the team.
In previous reports, it was rumored that Deron wanted to go to the Knicks to join forces with Stadameyer because he was disappointed in the Jazz, and the Jazz management also promised to work hard to fulfill DeLong's wish to let him go to the Knicks.
But soon the Jazz broke their promise and sent him to the Nets in a lightning trade. And Delon said in an interview that he was frustrated to leave the Jazz, who had fought for several years.
"yes, I'm really frustrated, I wanted to stay with the Jazz, and I used to invite people who became free agents every summer for the future of the Jazz and wanted them to come to Utah and work with me. But when I talk about starting a career in Utah, they ask, 'In Utah?' ”
What is this what a really depressed person would say? DeLong has a disdainful attitude towards Utah, both in his description and in his tone. He is quite hypocritical, the Nets are not as good as the Knicks in his mind, but they are also much better than the Jazz's geographical location.
With the trident of DeLong, David Lee, Pierce, and a couple of great role players, the Nets won't have any difficulty making the playoffs in the East.
The Timberwolves traded a first-round pick and a second-round pick for the Clippers' 2008 rookie Beasley.
Griffin's return this season, coupled with Jamison's arrival last season, has significantly reduced Beasley's playing time. Beasley's appearance was a mess, and as a tactical finisher, he was dissatisfied with the lack of ball possession he received, which led to a poor atmosphere in the team's locker room, and the Clippers had to send him away.
Beasley thought that Griffin was here to help him, but the management chose to raise Griffin in their right minds.
The Bobcats and the Trail Blazers completed the trade, trading Gerard Wallace for center Portsbilla, forward Cunningham and two second-round picks.
"Elvis" Steven Gerrard is probably the least valuable core player in the league, and the Bobcats made this trade just to save money.
Gerrard signed a six-year, $57 million contract in 2007 that expired in 2013 and had a player option in 2012, with an average annual salary of less than $10 million, which is not expensive at all.
Previously, the Bobcats had prepared a trade with the Clippers to trade Gerrard for Artest, but Artay refused to play for the Bobcats, which made the deal fall through. Many teams, including the Mavericks, wanted Gerrard to bolster their wing defense, but the rebuilding Bobcats only wanted to trade expiring contracts and draft picks, and the Trail Blazers could meet their demands, so the two hit it off.
It's worth mentioning that the trade that has been hyped by major media outlets since January didn't happen, and the Knicks didn't poach Carmelo Anthony in the middle of the game.
Because the Nuggets want so many things, including this year's All-Star point guard Raymond Felton and Italian forward Gallinari, the chips they are willing to give away seem insincere, and only Anthony is useful.
In Guo Xu's previous life, the Nuggets traded Anthony and Billups for several potential newcomers to the Knicks, and now Billups is on the Rockets, and the two sides can't reach a consensus.
If the Knicks send Felton away, there will be no reliable point guards on the team, how will they play in the playoffs? Does it depend on Anthony and Xiaosi to take turns in singles?
Anthony only wanted to play for the Knicks and stayed with the Nuggets after the trade fell through.
The Knicks escaped as a result. In the previous life, for this deal, the Knicks sent too many people to suffer serious injuries, and although they got Anthony and Billups, the lineup had big holes, and the record declined.
Anthony is a man who likes to play alone with the ball, and his role is to score. Billups is also not a good partner with Smalls, and he is not a pick-and-roll point guard.
The biggest protagonist of the NBA's mid-term trade is the Magic.
The Magic sent Vince Carter, Michael Petrus, a 2011 first-round pick and $3 million in cash to the Pacers, acquiring Hido Turkoglou, Azubuuk and second-year forward Earl Clark.
Carter's stats have been declining year by year, taking the annual salary of a star, playing the role of a role player, averaging 14.8 points, 4 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. The Magic had long wanted to send him away, but no team wanted to, and it didn't take until the trade deadline to convince the Pacers.
The Pacers were extremely reluctant to get Carter, and the only thing that struck them was the special option in Carter's contract, which was only partially guaranteed in his final year. Carter's annual salary next season is 18 million, and the Pacers only need to pay 4 million if they cut him, which can save 14 million in space.
Then the Magic sent forward Sean Marion to the Wizards and got "The General" Gilbert Arenas. The goal of the Magic is to win the championship, Marion lacks range, and the offensive effect of partnering with Howard "Warcraft" is not good.
If you don't trade and continue like this, Howard will threaten to leave.
Howard has the option to jump out of his contract at the end of next season and test the free agent market in the summer of 2012, and the Magic will have to do something if they want to keep the core.
Azubuke has been doing well for the Pacers, averaging 14.2 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game while shooting 45.5% from the field and 40.7% from three-point range. His fate changed after he was traded by the Warriors early, and he has not been seriously injured, but has only started a wandering career.
This big trade completely changed the structure of the Magic's roster, and Turkoglou, who fits into the Magic's tactical system, is once again on Howard's side. However, since Tekoglu left the Magic, his form has dropped dramatically.
Arenas' form has been even more sluggish since his return, shooting less than 40% from the field, poaching him is a big risk, and 100% is a bad contract. The Magic are in a hurry to make a deal for results, and they are destined to be pitted by the Wizards.
After the Wizards got the top pick John Wall, the coaching staff intended to help Arenas brush up the data, and he only exchanged 17.3 points and 5.6 assists in 15.6 shots, which was pitifully inefficient.
If it's a manager like Rocket Morey, he doesn't want to give Arenas for nothing when he analyzes the cost performance......