Chapter Thirty-Six: Selected All-Star Starter
The Spurs lost in the end, it can be said that they lost at the hands of Huang Jun, and the Spurs were very helpless about this. As long as they win this game, the Spurs will be able to stabilize the top spot in the league, but the Cavaliers are currently fighting for this position, so it is naturally impossible for the Spurs to succeed.
It can be said that if two tigers fight, there will be an injury, so one team is destined to lose, and if the Cavaliers win, then it will narrow the distance with the Spurs, and there is only a 0.5 win difference from the top position of the Spurs, and the result of this game is a Cavaliers victory, so that the gap between the two teams is only 0.5 points.
The final score of the game was one hundred and one to ninety-two, and the Cavaliers won by nine points in the end, if it wasn't for Huang Jun's three-point shot at the last moment, then the score of both teams in this game would not have exceeded 100.
In this game, the Cavaliers did a very good job on the defensive end, not letting the opponent's score exceed 100, this is the only game in recent games that did not let the opponent's score exceed 100, and the opponent is still a very good team Spurs, with more gold, but despite this, it still can't change the opinion of outside fans about the Cavaliers, and the defense is still so bad.
And the Cavaliers naturally don't care what they are thinking or saying, because what they are most concerned about now is the Heat game, the Heat game only started after the game between the Cavaliers and the Spurs, and the highlight of this game is undoubtedly Wade, because Wade is now Huang Jun's opponent, and the two have been secretly competing for the All-Star starters recently.
And now Huang Jun's support rate is higher than Wade, as long as Wade's performance in this game is sluggish or not as good as Huang Jun, who has just finished the game, then it will be difficult for Wade to surpass Huang Jun in the number of votes.
In the game with the Spurs, Huang Jun got 27 points and 13 assists, and his performance was very stable, not because the opponent was a very good defense Spurs or anything, after the game, Huang Jun's votes were rising, faster than when the game was not over.
At present, Huang Jun's votes have surpassed Wade by nearly 15,000 in the number of All-Star first votes, and the deadline for voting on February 3 is only a few hours, less than four hours.
The Cavaliers are paying attention to Wade's performance, and Wade and the Heat players are naturally also paying attention to Huang Jun's game, so they knew it as soon as the game ended, and they also felt that the situation was very bad, but it was not good, they didn't despair about anything, in their hearts, they believed in Wade very much, because Wade was the absolute core of their team, the boss-level task.
When the Heat's game started, Wade was very efficient, and today's opponent for the Heat was very Ruo, the third-to-last Timberwolves in the league, led by Beasley and Pekovic.
Beasley is this year's flower show, originally selected by the Heat, but the Heat traded the show to the Cavaliers, so it fell to the third place, originally in the third Timberwolves wanted to choose Mayo, and then traded it in exchange for Love or something, but in the end, to their surprise, Beasley was not selected in the second pick, and the Timberwolves, who held the third pick, naturally would not let go.
And the choice of Pekovic after that, completely exceeded the team's expectations, fully showed the potential to exceed the selected pick, if people knew that Pekovic would be so good, he would not have been selected by the Timberwolves, but would have been selected by the top ten, for this no one doubts this now, because Pekovic is really worthy of this pick, it can be said that the Timberwolves have found a treasure.
After the end of the first quarter of this game, the Timberwolves unexpectedly led the Heat at the end of the first quarter, and the Heat relied on Wade's play in the first quarter to resist and bite the score, Wade scored eleven points in the first quarter, and the Heat fell behind twenty-twenty-five.
By the end of the first half, Wade's score had reached 20 points, but Wade's team, the Heat, was still behind the Timberwolves at the end of the first half, and it was still a big score behind, trailing by 11 points at halftime, and trailing by a score of 43-54. This is obviously very bad for Wade, although the individual performance is very good, but if this game is not won, it will still have a very big impact on Wade.
Wade naturally knows it, but he is very helpless, because he has tried his best, but the team's performance is very poor, which is completely beyond his imagination, you must know that before the game he has no threat to the opponent Timberwolves who will face tonight, but the game has made him very uncomfortable so far.
When the third quarter ended, Wade was completely devastated, because the Heat was already behind by fifteen points, and Wade also scored thirty points, but he couldn't change the Heat's lead.
So far in this game, the whole Heat team has one Wade normal, and the others are completely abnormal, whether it is Mo Williams or Marion, the only one who brings comfort to the Heat is Vallejo, although he does not score much, but he does a very good job in rebounding.
At the end of the first three quarters, Vallejo had 15 rebounds and eight points in points. Fifteen rebounds took only three quarters of the game, and there is no doubt that Valejo was crazy in terms of rebounds, and now that there is still a quarter of the game, the chances of getting twenty rebounds are still very big.
With a fifteen-point difference and a quarter to go, it's not that there is no chance, there are still opportunities, but if the Heat can't find their form and offensive feeling, then there will definitely be no hope for this game. All in all, the biggest problem in this game is with the Heat players themselves, and it can't be said that it was because of the Timberwolves' excellent performance, but the Heat was too light in this game to lead to such a result.
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Heat used all the starting lineups, obviously this is to fight hard in the next time, hoping to chase the score back in the next game, if you can't chase it back but are pulled away by the opponent, then the Heat will choose to give up.
And the strength of the Heat is really good, after the start of the fourth quarter, the Heat is like the Timberwolves proved what is the true strength of a playoff team, in just three minutes, the Heat played an eleven-to-two attack wave, chasing the score to only six points, and there are still nine minutes left at this time, it stands to reason that there is no pressure at all.
It's just that the fact is under pressure, because the Timberwolves suddenly played, and they were originally chasing a difference of only six points, and they were suddenly stretched to a difference of ten points, which had a great impact on the momentum of the Heat, although the strength of the Heat is far above the Timberwolves, but the current Timberwolves can be said to be completely crazy.
When the game came to the last moment, the Heat was still ten points behind, and this game was an explanation, Wade scored forty-four points in the whole game, but failed to exchange for a victory for the Heat.
And Wade also knows that although his performance is very good, the team failed to win, and Huang Jun's performance is very good, and he also helped the team win, so he knows that it is really difficult for him to surpass Huang Jun's votes.
And it is true, as soon as the early morning came, voting stopped, and Huang Jun's votes were above Wade, under Iverson, although the position in the Pistons this season was very embarrassing, but Iverson was still selected as an All-Star with his super popularity, and the box office of the Eastern All-Star was James, the West was Kobe, and Yao Ming was only after Kobe.
Many people think that Yao Ming's votes must have been manipulated, because Yao Ming's backstage is really very thick, and the 1.3 billion Chinese have not won the vote king, which is obviously worth pondering. However, the party Yao Ming did not have any words about this, let alone express dissatisfaction or anything.
Eastern Conference All-Star starting lineup: Iverson, Huang Jun, James, Garnett and Howard.
Western Conference All-Star starters: Chris Paul, Kobe, Maddy, Duncan and Yao Ming.
O'Neal unfortunately did not appear on the starting list, which made many fans very disappointed, but it was relieved to think about it, because he was old, and he had not found a feeling in the Suns this season, so he could not integrate into the Suns' tactics at all, so it can be said that the Suns' tactics were completely different from him, and O'Neal was helpless except for helplessness.
However, although he was not selected for the starting lineup, it does not mean that O'Neal cannot be selected as an All-Star, because in addition to the starters, there are substitutes, and there are still a lot of substitutes, but the substitutes are not voted or not, but selected by the coach, so if the performance is not good or the contribution to the team is not great, it is impossible to be selected.
When Huang Jun knew that he had become an All-Star starter, he was very happy, and Huang Jun, who was at home at that time, was ecstatic and directly hugged Chen Xin on the side, and kissed a few times at the same time.
provoked Chen Xin to Huang Jun straight eyes, Huang Jun didn't care about this at all, now his heart is full of all-star things, he is a human being, not a god, naturally he also has a pursuit, and to prove that he is very good, only when he is selected as an all-star can he be regarded as affirmed, how does this make Huang Jun unhappy.
If he hadn't been selected as an All-Star, he would have thought that his performance was not good enough to win the hearts of the fans, and he would naturally be sad and work harder. Now that he has been selected and recognized, he will definitely not give up his efforts or anything because of this, on the contrary, he will work hard to keep this All-Star position every year.