Chapter 162: A Better Choice

Generally speaking, the All-Star Game is a feast of revelry, not just for the fans, but also for the players.

The outcome of the All-Star Game is not very important, and many stars will try to avoid too much playing time in order to save energy to cope with the second half of the regular season, such as Duncan, who has been selected as an All-Star for nine consecutive years, and the total playing time in these nine years may not be as much as his playing time in the two games in the regular season.

It doesn't matter if you win or lose, what matters is performance, so there is an unspoken rule of the All-Star Game, that is, everyone plays in the first three quarters, and then moves in the fourth quarter, which is not done for the sake of winning or losing, but to grab the MVP, after all, the All-Star MVP will only give the winning side.

The Big Three of the Green Shirts only came together in the first quarter of the opening game for a while, and then Rivers replaced the three, giving Wade, LeBron, and Bosh the youngsters plenty of opportunities to perform, and they played the most minutes.

I don't know why I praised Rivers for being a good man, and I saw what a selfless head coach he was. But people who are familiar with the unspoken rules of the NBA will grit their teeth and scold Rivers for being shameless, this guy is training LeBron and Wade to the death, in order to weaken the threat of the opponent, this is doing everything!

Originally, Rivers planned to send the Big Three on the court in the fourth quarter to play seriously, grab points, strengthen defense, and then win the victory. Now the outside world is popular with the saying that 'the west is strong and the east is weak', Rivers doesn't like to listen to this kind of talk, why is our east weak? Didn't you say that we are weak in the east, okay, then Lao Tzu will lead the team to kill you, and let you see who is strong and who is weak.

As a result, it didn't take the fourth quarter, and the Big Three had to appear in the second half of the third quarter, and the western offensive was too fierce to beat the east. If you continue to wait until the fourth quarter to move the real thing, then the real person who still moves a fart will enter garbage time in advance.

Rivers changed the lineup quickly, but it still couldn't stop the decline in the East, and finally the two sides showed real skills to start a real battle, and by the end of the game, the Western Army still won the game 140-132.

In the last minute of the fourth quarter, the Eastern Army even resorted to foul tactics, and Barkley and Smith on the commentator's bench were fascinated by the eyebrows, the former saying that this was the best All-Star Game in five years, and that it used to be called a street fancy basketball game, which is not the same thing as today's real showdown.

At the end of the game, Chamberlain grinned, he played 22 minutes and got 10 points, 18 rebounds, and 6 blocks, which is not bad, but Billups has 32 points, 12 assists and 7 rebounds, his score is the highest in the West, and the most assists in the West.

Sure enough, in the unwilling eyes of New Orleans fans, Stern announced the end of the All-Star Game, and the All-Star MVP trophy belonged to Billups.

Paul also had 20 points and nine assists, which was good, but it was still a lot worse than Billups' stats.

If you consider that Chamberlain passed almost every rebound to Billups instead of Paul, then if the two guards were reversed, the MVP would actually belong to Paul.

It is with this in mind that Hornets fans hate Chamberlain and Billups, and in their opinion, these two guys have stolen their MVP, otherwise it would be a good story to let Paul get the MVP.

What Hornets fans don't see is that if Chamberlain and Billups hadn't worked so hard to attack and defend and didn't pay so much, then I'm afraid it would have been the East Army who won today, so Paul wouldn't have been able to win even the MVP.

Little Emperor James scored a game-high 38 points, 9 rebounds, and 8 assists today, and it is a pity that he failed to win the MVP. Today, the little emperor is also coming for MVP, although he has already won this honor the year before last.

Stern took the AMVP trophy handed over by his assistant, reluctantly spat out the sentence 'The MVP of this year's All-Star Game is Chauncey Billups from the Golden State Warriors', reluctantly handed the trophy to Billups, and reluctantly gave up his position to speak.

For the sake of the commercialization of the NBA, Stern urgently needs to create a new national idol after Jordan leaves, and the best candidate is Kobe, but the latter is too arrogant and narrow-minded, and he forced away his good big brother O'Neal, and then there was the Eagle County incident, and now the image is too bad, so he can only choose another candidate.

Another candidate is naturally LeBron James, Stern treats this kid as a godson, and has been building all kinds of momentum since before the draft, and after entering the NBA, Stern gave the green light to the little emperor in all aspects, such as six-step layups, and then various star whistles, bent on praising the little emperor as the successor of the Flyer.

In this All-Star Game, how much Stern wants to see the East win and then the little emperor lifts the MVP trophy, but unfortunately the sky is not as good as the personnel, Chamberlain and Billups actually snatched the trophy, can it not make him angry?

However, when it comes to Chamberlain, Stern has other plans in mind. If Chamberlain snatches this award, Stern will not be angry, he now wants to hold a super potential to be the first brother in the league, and Chamberlain also has this qualification.

The reason why Stern chose Little Emperor as the first person in the league was because he took a fancy to his physical fitness, ball quotient, talent and self-motivation, and now there is a person who is not inferior to Little Emperor in these aspects, can he not be impressed?

Fans think that the little emperor's physical talent is outstanding, in fact, senior experts know that the little emperor is indeed strong, explosive, and enduring, but when it comes to physical fitness, he can't be considered terrifying, and it is Chamberlain who can really say that his physical fitness is terrifying!

Running and jumping with strength is certainly helpful for playing, but it is not enough to have these, especially for certain techniques.

For example, with the strength of the little emperor, why doesn't he go to the inside line to fight back? I believe that if he hits him with his back, no outside line in the league has the ability to defend him. Don't say that the little emperor can't learn, his talent is so good, and he is so self-motivated, can he learn a back-to-back single?

Besides, the back-to-back singles are much easier to score and more efficient than the current walk-to-go layups. Why doesn't he fight on his back? No? Can you learn, you haven't learned to play back after playing ball for so many years? Impossible. In fact, the real reason is that his body does not allow it.

The little emperor's upper and lower limbs are muscular and well-developed, which ensures his excellent bounce and stable shot, but in comparison, his lower back muscles are relatively weaker, and in this aspect, Jordan and Kobe Bryant are better than him countless times.

The most important technique of the back fight is to shake the person and turn, and it is difficult to make a high-quality turning action without strong muscles in the lower back. And the step-back jumper after turning around or leaning on the opposing player to turn around to the basket to shoot, the requirements for waist and abdominal strength are higher, which is where the little emperor is not as good as Jordan and Kobe.

With the perfect upper and lower limb strength, but without the matching waist and abdomen strength, it is also known as insufficient body coordination. In fact, for a basketball player, coordination is the most critical physical fitness, and the lack of coordination leads to a relatively single attack method for the little emperor, which is basically a breakthrough layup, and due to the lack of physical coordination, he often walks. In addition, he has developed a pull-up jump shot, but it is also because of coordination, if he can't squeeze the opponent out, he will have a terrible shooting percentage in the face of the opponent's squeeze defense.

In terms of ability, the little emperor is most criticized for having too much time to hold the ball, which seriously occupies the team's ball control time. Why can't this problem be solved? Is it a teammate who can't do it, and he has to control the ball? The Cavaliers' configuration can't be said to be top-notch, but it's definitely the league's top level.

Because he is very well organized? In fact, so far, I have not seen any outstanding organizational skills of the emperor, at most I can only say that I can pass the ball. If you give an NBA player above the caliber enough time to keep the ball, he can still get 10 assists per game, but that's detrimental to the team.

So what kind of knight can let the little emperor control the ball for such a long time? It's very simple, if you don't give him time to hold the ball, the little emperor can't exert his power.

His physical coordination determines that he is not capable of being an open shooter, and he is not capable of making high-quality basket movements. His physicality dictates that he can only be an excellent player with the ball.

However, his ball control ability is average, he can't control the ball, and his speed alone is of course greatly affected by his breakthrough ability. As a result, he can't make an attacking move in a short period of time after receiving the ball, he has to hold the ball and wait for his teammates to open up space or look for opportunities on his own. Naturally, this takes a lot of time. Directly led to the stagnation of the team's offense, a situation where one person played, four people watched.

In addition, fans think that the little emperor has good jumping, strong gliding ability, and is terrifying in the air. In fact, for the little emperor's excellent bounce height, his stagnation can only be said to be poor.

According to the principles of physics, the higher the jump, the longer the time in the air, so the emperor with an excellent bounce height has no doubt about the time in the air.

But the key to the ability to stay in the air is what kind of actions can be accomplished in this short time in the air, and from this point of view, it is difficult to see what dodge the emperor makes in the air. What is Jordan capable of performing all kinds of terrifying mid-air dodge moves? Because he has strong body coordination, he can control every muscle of his body with his feet in the air, and can change the body's center of gravity to achieve a longer stay in the air. And the emperor can't, the reason is still poor coordination.

Chamberlain's coordination and flexibility are much stronger, which is one of the reasons why he was able to grab so many rebounds for what he wanted.

The little emperor can rely on the strength, speed and bounce to make a terrifying chase and block action, but when defending closely, it really depends on the coordination of the body, and the body muscles can form a very high-speed reflex ability.

In the face of the shaking of offensive players, no one can escape the natural law of conditioned reflexes, and the body will respond naturally, but players with good coordination, relying on the rapid reflex ability of the muscles, can change their movements in a very short time, which plays a major role in the back muscles and waist and abdominal muscles.

And the emperor who only has strong upper and lower limb muscles, this muscle reflex time is longer, and often the footsteps keep up, but the body has not yet turned. Although he can use the advantage of speed to recover this time difference, if he encounters a player with speed, this advantage is also negated, then it can only be passed.

If you look at Wade's footage of the little emperor, you will understand that the little emperor's defense is much behind in terms of physical fitness compared with a defensive master with extremely excellent physical fitness like Pippen Jordan, not to mention that there is still at least one level gap in defensive awareness, so Stern chose him as Jordan's successor, which is also a helpless move.

Stern understands all this, he knows that the little emperor is very dominant, but it is definitely not strong enough to be Jordan, and it is definitely not strong enough to equip him with a similar second-in-command to lead the team to win three consecutive championships. But there was no way, the little emperor was already the best choice in the past, but after this All-Star Game, Stern saw a better choice.

Chamberlain!