Chapter 187: All-Star List
On January 28, 2010, Yenching time, on January 29, 2010, Yahoo got the source, they got the complete list of substitutes in the East and West all yesterday, Deron Williams of the Jazz, Derrick Rose of the Bulls and Rajon Rondo of the Celtics, representing the new generation of players in the league have been selected for the All-Star team, in addition to these three players, Kevin Durant of the Thunder, Gerald Wallace of the Bobcats, Al Horford of the Hawks, The Grizzlies' Zach Randolph and others were all selected to the All-Star team for the first time, and after the All-Star starters were confirmed, the entire All-Star roster was also filled.
The player who got the start in the East was center Dwight Howard, who got 2360096 votes, and behind him was O'Neal, but because O'Neal has been injured recently, David Stern's handpicked Al Hoford stepped up.
Celtics' backup center Rasheed Wallace is in eighth place and will miss out on the All-Star Game.
In terms of forwards, the dominant is LeBron James, who got this year's vote king, with a score of 2549693 votes, beat Kobe Bryant at the last moment, becoming this year's vote king, serving as the starting small forward of the Eastern All-Stars, and the second place is the Celtics' power forward, Kevin Garnett, who 1978116 the votes, also made him the starting power forward in the East.
Bosh was third with 1164007 votes and Pierce was fourth with 525677 votes, both of whom were selected for this year's All-Star Game.
In terms of guards, Wade came in first place with 2327550 votes and deservedly occupied the position of shooting guard.
And the starting point guard who was originally ranked second, AI, Allen Iverson's recent situation is not good, although he got 1269568 votes and ranked second, but his recent record is really not very good, coupled with the illness of the youngest daughter in the family, he has no mind to participate in the All-Star Game, and he doesn't know if he participates in this year's All-Star Game.
In third place was Carter with 1048977 votes, and in fourth place was Ray Allen 710045 votes, but neither of them was selected, and Rose, who was in fifth place, was drafted into the NBA by David Stern, and Rondo was ranked eighth with 425,590 votes, but was also selected as an All-Star! This makes the Eastern Conference lineup completely decided, starting center Howard, power forward Garnett, small forward James, scoring guard Wade, point guard Iverson, bench Chris Bosh, Derrick Rose, Gerald Wallace, Joe Johnson, Al Hoford, Paul Pierce and Rajon Rondo.
In the west, the center is Xiao Si dominant, and now is indeed not the era of the center, Xiao Si is already the hegemon of the western inner line, with 1824093 votes to get the first position, more than the second Bynum will double the number of votes.
In terms of forwards, the first place is naturally the representative of the 03 generation, Anthony, who is the starting small forward in the West with 2137560 votes, and the big forward is Duncan, who is ranked second, Duncan does not die, and it is estimated that others have no chance to get on the position.
As for the guards, it was Kobe Bryant, who lost a horse nose at the end, and he ranked second with 2456224 votes.
Successfully played as the Western team's point guard, and the point guard is Nash, who has performed extremely well this year.
Nash beat Paul, Maddie and others in the All-Star vote, ranking second with 1222235 votes.
In addition to their five starters, the rest of the substitutes are as follows! Chris Paul, Deron Williams, the twin stars.
The Lakers' big inside line who won the championship last year, 'sister-in-law' Pau Gasol, the star of the Thunder, Kevin Durant, the boss of the Mavericks, Dirk Nowitzki, ranked third in the number of votes and missed the start.
There's also the Grizzlies' interior core, Zach Randolph and the Trail Blazers' current boss, Brandon Roy.
The All-Star lineup will be played in the 2010 All-Star Game in Dallas on February 15, Yenching time, and the Celtics will be the biggest winners of this year's All-Star Game.
All three of them were named All-Stars, although Ray Allen's surprise loss came as a bit of a surprise.
But it's a good idea to have three people selected! In this All-Star Game, there are many firsts.
It's like Derrick Rose, who was the first All-Star selected by the Bulls since Jordan retired.
Gerald Wallace is the first All-Star in Bobcats history, Zach Randolph played ten years and was selected as an All-Star for the first time, and he is currently the only player in the West who averages points per game and rebounds of 20+10.
Of course, there are still some hidden dangers in this All-Star, like Allen Iverson, he doesn't know if he can participate.
Then there's Brandon Roy, who needs someone else to play for him if he can't get better before the All-Star break.
And Jiang Yang in the Celtics team was also invited, but it was not an invitation to the main game, but as an appetizer for the All-Star opening, an invitation to the All-Star Rookie Challenge, Jiang Yangjie will represent the first-year team in the game.
After Jiang Yang hesitated for a while, he also agreed, and although it was not a main event, it was also an opportunity to show his face after all.
Jiang Yang's time to join the Celtics is too short, if he is like Yao Ming, he began to build momentum in China, and then participated from the beginning of the season, maybe Jiang Yang squeezed out Allen Iverson, the power of the Chinese is quite terrifying, think about the number of votes when Yao Ming first entered the league and became the starting center in the West! That's the appeal.
But now Jiang Yang may not have no chance, who knows if anyone will be injured...... But regardless of these things, Jiang Yang and they just need to take a look at it now, what they need to prepare now is to prepare for the game with the Eagles.
After yesterday's game, Jiang Yang checked his small glass piece, there are good things every year, and today is a special one.
When playing against the Magic team, the small glass piece in Jiang Yang's pocket shook twice, and sure enough, according to Jiang Yang's thoughts, it was two upgraded vibrations, and after looking at the upgraded record, the upgraded ones were really the league and passing, that block and a steal, and successfully upgraded his defense to A-level, and the passing at the most critical moment also made his pass reach A-level.
All the remaining castes have reached A level or above, and Jiang Yang feels that his dribbling is about to break through.
Such a rapid growth rate did not surprise Doug Rivers, Jiang Yang himself was also very surprised.
In a few months, he went from an ordinary person who would dribble to the surface of his feet to a basketball master.
Although he can't compete with the superstars in the league now, he can more or less dance with those first-class players, at least he can't bully him as he did at the beginning!
Now the substitutes in the Celtics team are completely dominated by Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang's offense, passing, and defense are very sharp, and today when Rasheed Wallace doesn't fight for anything and only wants a championship ring, Jiang Yang's existence has officially become the super sixth man on the Celtics team, at least he has said it in the time he was on the bench.
Yesterday it was not until the last minute that the winner was decided, which also made the old guys of the Celtics team a little overwhelmed.
The game started well, after the opening of the two halls of the offensive battle, Garnett and Pierce led the way, the Green Army played a 10-2 attack wave, Johnson and Smith stepped up in time, Evans hit a three-point success, the Hawks gradually stabilized, with 1 point and 28 points left in the game, Crawford hit a three-point shot, and the two sides fought to an 18-18 tie.
Jiang Yang, who is opposite Crawford here, is in trouble with him this year! Jiang Yang is also a three-point shot, Crawford's offense is very strong, but his defense is really bad enough, worse than Carter, and now Jiang Yang, who has broken through the rookie wall and regained his feelings, has begun to recover, and then Crawford scored four points in a row, and Jiang Yang also scored four points in a row! At the end of the first quarter, the Hawks trailed the Celtics by two points 23-25 into the second quarter, and Jiang Yang, like Kerford, scored seven points.
In the second quarter of the game, the Hawks began to go berserk, speaking of the inside, the Celtics had no choice, Al Hoofd and Pachulia scored successively, Crawford was the icing on the cake, the Green Army's offense had problems at this time, Jiang Yang's offense was only A after all, and it had not yet reached S, and he could carry the banner of offense, and his passes could not be turned into assists.
The home team gradually pulled the split to the left, Crawford on the outside hit a three-point shot again, Al Hoford scored four points in a row inside, and the Hawks' advantage expanded to double digits, at a critical moment, Ray Allen finally stood up, hit a three-point shot, and began to organize an offense with Jiang Yang, but Jiang Yang's physical strength was limited after all, after the game, Ray Allen and Rondo had no way to limit Crawford's play, allowing him to score seven points in a row in the last little time, and the Hawks led the Celtics by 8 points at 53-45 in the first half, In the first quarter of the game, the opponent chased back 10 points, and the Celtics defended well, but the offense was problematic.
The rematch, the slow-burning Celtics finally slowly regained their form, began to fight back, the score of 32-21 in a single quarter won back as many as eleven points, the score successfully overtook three points, Pierce scored 11 points with free throws, Garnett's strong dunk greatly boosted the morale of the Green Army, but after all, he had just returned from injury, and his physical strength was still problematic. The Hawks' offense was slightly inferior, and Crawford and Johnson led the home team to stubbornly resist, but in the end, the Hawks still trailed by three points 74-77 into the final quarter of the battle, and at the end of the third quarter, Jiang Yang's score had reached 15 points, the second highest on the team.
With Rondo, Ray Allen and Perkins all on fire, Jiang Yang became the second main point of attack on the field.
And now that Jiang Yang has regained his senses, Doug Rivers is also very heart-wrenching, looking at Jiang Yang almost playing the second quarter, he knows that now Doug Rivers is beginning to trust Jiang Yang again, and his sharp outside three-point shooting has also made the Celtics' offense more and more changeable, if it weren't for Jiang Yang's defense and serial connections, it would be a little far from Rondo.
Doug Rivers really wants Jiang Yang to stay on the team and play as a starter, so that the Celtics have three guns on the outside.
In the opening quarter of the game, the Hawks once again exerted their power, Johnson scored eleven points in a row like divine help, completely beat Ray Allen in front of him, and expanded the score to double digits again.
At the beginning of the five consecutive scores, the score was tied! But at the last moment, Josh Smith and Crawford's timely shots made the visitors' hopes of reversal gradually smaller, after Johnson hit a three-point shot, the main force has turned the score into 100-96, a four-point difference, it is not so easy to turn it back, and finally Pierce and Jiang Yang both tried a three-point shot on the outside, but they didn't hit, and finally they could only hate Atlanta, so far this season, the regular season games of the Celtics and the Hawks have been played.
Back-to-back really put a lot of pressure on the Celtics, and among the five starters, the one who played the longest was Pierce.
Pierce's physical recovery is amazing, he played a full 38 minutes today, in addition to him, Garnett only played 33 minutes, Ray Allen played 31 minutes, he played 41 minutes in the last game, it really consumed too much energy, and he hasn't recovered yet, and Perkins, who only played 23 minutes today, Al Hoford on the inside restrained him quite unpleasantly.
But there was no way, Al Hoford could pull it out, but he couldn't, and was finally replaced by Rasheed Wallace, but Wallace didn't have a very good hand, and only scored six points on 2-of-8 shooting in the game, which was really a bit embarrassing.
In this game, the Celtics played quite ugly, and the highest score in the game was Pierce, with 35 points in the game.
Only he still maintains the true level of the Big Three, and the second highest score left is Jiang Yang, Jiang Yang got 20 points plus 6 assists, which is already Jiang Yang's strongest ability! Garnett scored 15 points from the game, the last Celtics player to score in double figures, while Rondo scored just six points on 3-of-13 shooting, plus eight rebounds.
He's really out of shape today! And Ray Allen didn't have a good day today, shooting 4-of-13 from the field and scoring just 9 points.
The best of the game went to Jamal Crawford of the Eagles, this guy was on a collision date with Jiang Yang today, but it turned out that Jiang Yang did not soar past him...... This guy scored 28 points and 6 assists on 9-of-16 shooting in the game, the assist was the same as Jiang Yang, but the score was eight more points than Jiang Yang, and these eight points were also the most critical point for the Eagles to win! The second highest was Joe Johnson with 27 points! Just because of one point, he gave Crawford the best title of the game.
Josh Smith had a maximum of 12 points and 9 rebounds, and Al Horford had 11 points and 8 rebounds, and although they only had four double-doubles, they eventually won against the exhausted Celtics! Celtic lost the game though.
But not many people blame them, after all, such back-to-back games are too lethal for the Big Three.
In addition to Pierce, who has the body of an immortal bird and has N times the resilience of ordinary people, the remaining Garnett and Ray Allen are ordinary people's bodies, especially after they get old, and their body functions are even more unable to keep up with the needs of the game.
The three-game winning streak came to an abrupt end in Atlanta, but the Celtics don't have time to be sad now, they need to return to Boston immediately, and they still have to face the challenge of the Lakers on the 31st!
Because of the relatively small number of games played, the Celtics are now in second place in the East.
At the top of the list is the Cavaliers, who are currently 37-11, and the Celtics, who are currently in second place with 33 wins and 11 losses.
The Magic team is 31-16 in third, the Hawks are 30-16 in fourth, the fifth is the Raptors 25-22, which directly opens up the five-game difference, the sixth is the Bobcats 24 points and 22 losses, this year they are likely to enter the playoffs for the first time since the establishment of the team, the seventh is the Heat 24-23, and the winning rate continues to be more than 50%, the eighth is the Bulls, 23-22, the ninth is the Bucks 20-25, the tenth is the Knicks 18-28, and the eleventh is the Wizards 16-30, The twelfth is the Pacers 16-31, the thirteenth is the 76ers 15-31, the fourteenth is the Pistons 15-30, and the fifteenth is also the bottom of the league, which is Yi Jianlian's Nets, 4-41.
In the West, the Lakers are still the leader, with a record of 36 wins and 11 losses, ranking behind the Cavaliers and second in the league.
In second place is the Nuggets with a 31-15 record and a pretty poor record, and in third place is the Mavericks with a 30-17 record.
The fourth is the Jazz 28-18, the fifth is the Trail Blazers 28-21, the sixth is the Spurs 27-18, the seventh is the Suns 27-21, the eighth is the Hornets 26-21, and the ninth to eleventh are the Thunder, Rockets and Grizzlies, all of whom have a 25-21 record, and the rankings are completely based on the relationship between winners and losers! The twelfth is the Clippers, 20-26, the thirteenth is the Kings 16-30, and the fourteenth is 13-32, the Warriors' record this year is not good, the main thing is that their team can't be blamed, the injury is too serious, and their team can't do anything.
At the worst time, there were only seven people on the whole team who could play, and in comparison, the Celtics were relatively lucky!
Fifteenth is the Timberwolves, 10 and 38 losses, and now the slogan of the Nets is to catch up with the Timberwolves...... I don't have any ambitions anymore.
This game between the Celtics and the Lakers can be regarded as a focus battle, after all, the Celtics snatched the championship from the Lakers the year before last, and the battle between green and purple is also a mainstream confrontation in the United States! This game has also attracted a lot of attention!
(To be continued)