Chapter 726: Los Angeles All-Stars

There is a lot of controversy in this year's All-Star Game, just like this year's Lakers selected five players at once, although in this year's West, because of King Webb's injury and Divac's retirement, this team can be said to have been struggling in the lottery area, in this case, as an All-Star selected King, it is naturally a tragedy this year, whether it is Peja or Bibby, it is difficult for a team like Iverson to have a poor record, and it is also a player who can be selected with his own strength and popularity, not to mention this year's West, It's not without players who are better than Peja and Bibi.

And the loss of these players is the reason why the entire West is really plunged into a huge controversy, such as Arenas, who has been the star of the Nuggets this year, has always been the second in the scoring list, such as the Mavericks' second-in-command white chocolate, such as Randolph, one of the Portland Trail Blazers, this insider's data this season has reached 16+9, not worse than Gasol's, not worse than Wang Zhizhi's, and of course not worse than Ma Long's, of course, In the case of similar data, if Randolph's defeat can be pushed to seniority and record, then the defeat of Kwame Brown, one of the three leaders of the Raptors who are one of the founders of the Western Raptors whirlwind this year, is a bit incredible, after all, the interior liner's data this season is an average of 12+13+2.5 per game. By far the league's top contenders for the best defensive player in the league are by far recognized as the top three centers in the West.

If he is the second center in the west, it is estimated that there is not much opposition, although he is not as good as Wang Zhizhi and Gasol on the offensive end. But on the defensive end, it is definitely able to bring him back, and more importantly, the importance of this interior to the Raptors will definitely not be much worse than that of Mobley, who was selected as an All-Star, in this case, since Mobley was selected, he should also be selected, of course, in the West, in addition to these people, such as Clippers leader Brand as the host, as a typical Rockets leader Francis and others with excellent statistics and poor results, the loss of others is also controversial. At the very least, the defeat of these players is in the eyes of their respective media, which is considered shady in the absolute sense.

Compared with the all-star public opinion in the West, which is surging now, the East is still a lot more sunny now, although there are also some media criticisms for the selection of 8 players from the two teams in the East as All-Stars. It's just that after the criticism, these media can't find too many replacements, compared with the stars in the west, the star players in the east are a notch off, and in this case, there is a lot less controversy, of course, it is precisely because of this that when most of the media predicted this year's All-Star, most of the media were not optimistic about the Eastern All-Star led by Zhuang Fei.

In terms of the degree of star-sparkling and the mutual restraint of the lineup, the west, which has the advantage of the inside line and the outside line, obviously has a better chance of winning. Even for many media and experts who believe that the east can win, it is extremely helpless when it comes to explaining their reasons for support. In the end, these people actually said that the final hope of winning in the East lies entirely on Jordan and Zhuang Fei, and the world can see that Jordan and Zhuang Fei, the three protagonists of this year's All-Star drama, are two of them, and Phil Jackson is just one of them.

If in the end, it is understandable that the league really intends to support the East Army with two protagonists, and this kind of thing David Stern has not done, and this is Jordan's last All-Star, according to most of the current public opinion, this is also the last gift to Jordan, the league's first contribution to the NBA is also worth the league to do, in this way, this kind of alliance to give favors is not rootless.

Of course. No matter how huge the controversy is about this year's NBA All-Star, this is still a casual show for Zhuang Fei, and the biggest role of this show in his opinion is to give him and Scarlett time to get together, Zhuang Fei, as the three protagonists of this year, does not have the consciousness of being the protagonist, and for the four selected All-Star players of the Celtics, there is also no strong awareness of supporting roles, Kobe Bryant, Xiao Ao and Yao Ming are not the first time to come to the All-Star, These three people can be regarded as old men on the all-stars, and they are not so eager for this stage.

And for these three people, they also know very well that if the Eastern All-Stars can win this year, the final MVP will definitely be Jordan's, which has nothing to do with them, in this case, for them personally, the Eastern All-Stars win or not have nothing to do with their own honor, of course, although these Celtics players think so, but of course they will not deliberately release water, although these people are not very nervous to say that they want to perform well, but they will not drag the Eastern All-Stars back, It's just not going to be that positive and enthusiastic.

Of course, this is just the Celtics' three All-Star 'old men' have this idea, and the other selected Wade is not like this, the Celtics' rookie is unbelievable that he can be selected as an All-Star in the first year, in this case, if it is not for the head coach of the Eastern All-Star is Zhuang Fei, the Celtics player is estimated to wilt directly after the All-Star, this guy will definitely work the All-Star, but now there is no such possibility.

For this year's All-Star, although the current Celtics have a large number of selections, they don't have too many other ideas, which is completely different from the other two teams Lakers and Wizards, these All-Stars of the Lakers must leave the victory in Los Angeles, and the All-Stars of the Wizards also need to escort Jordan to win the last All-Star victory, so when all three major All-Star groups gathered in Los Angeles this year, Zhuang Fei and his Celtics were shopping everywhere or participating in activities, as if they didn't care about the game at all, and the players of the Wizards and Lakers were all in the training gym, and they usually didn't even see the players of these two teams in interviews. The reason for this contrast is almost universally understood.

Of course, Zhuang Fei and the Celtics are very relaxed after coming to Los Angeles, but for this All-Star contributor, even if they want to be relaxed, it is difficult for the league to make them easy, for example, on the first day of this year's All-Star game, at the All-Star Rookie Challenge, the head coach of the first year is Zhuang Fei's new assistant coach Thibodu, and Wade, who is a rookie this year, was also selected for the first-year team, and Thibodu's opponent is the Lakers' celebrity, Magic Johnson, The head coach of the All-Star Rookie Challenge is generally invited, and most of the people invited are the assistant coaches of their respective All-Star head coaches, or the historical celebrities of the All-Star host location, or some retired basketball celebrities, such as some TV commentators, etc., it can be said that the head coach of the All-Star Rookie Challenge is not very rigorous and does not need to be selected, and in fact, this game is not a very important or grand game.

Although this game is not a game that is too much attention, but for the new assistant coach of the Boston Celtics, Thibodo, this is definitely his first all-star coach, although this is not the first time he has come to the All-Star stage, he has also been here when he was mixed with Van Gundy, but it is the first time like this, in this case, the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics is also quite concerned and attached importance to this game, of course, As a colleague of the All-Star rookie first-year head coach, Zhuang Fei will naturally bring the Celtics players to Staples Arena to cheer for his assistant.

Of course, Thibodo attaches great importance to this All-Star trip, and his opponent Magic has no such thoughts, he is not a professional head coach, and the reason why he accepted the invitation of the NBA is just to play a ticket, after all, Zhuang Fei and Larry Bird, as his good friends, have been in the NBA for a long time, and many times the first point guard in the history of the league is also very yearning for the job of coaching.

"This year's first grade is really likely to beat the second grade" Zhuang Fei watched this year's All-Star Rookie Game in the audience for a while and said with some sighs, although last year's rookies also had Jay Williams and Smalls and Boozer Butler, Nene and Scola and other strongmen, but in terms of the quality of the players, it is still not as good as this year's first-year team led by Anthony and James and Wade, of course, this year's first-year team does not have too many outstanding players in addition to these three, but if only these three play to their full strength, the second-grade team is also very uncomfortable, and in fact, when Zhuang Fei watched it for a while, he soon knew that this was possible, because at this time, Zhuang Fei saw his assistant start to play defense with all his strength in this game.

All-Star is a stage for performance, even if it is a rookie game, but what makes Zhuang Fei and all the Celtics players and fans in the stands a little speechless is that this game has turned into a complete defensive battle because of Thibodo, and the assistant coach of the Boston Celtics is really crazy about using three first-year players who are going to participate in the All-Star Game, and this use of players is indeed his style, It's just that this style is obviously contrary to the all-star stage.

"It seems that this guy will never be able to get an All-Star invitation from the league again," Zhuang Fei said in the stands with a wry smile at the end.

Although Zhuang Fei is a little worried about the future of his assistant, but now, his performance is much better than Green, and he was stunned in this game with the overall weaker first year defeated the second year, the final score was an outrageous 85-79, and the all-star of this game was taken away by Anthony, who had the highest score in the game. (To be continued.) )