Chapter 338: All-Star Weekend
34 wins in a row!!
This is a new record, and it is also a big news in the world!
There is no shortage of NBA records, Li Feng has refreshed countless ones, but this record is the most golden!
A team, even if it is outstanding, wants to win 34 consecutive games, which means that it has not tasted defeat in two or three months, which is too difficult and too difficult.
No matter how strong the strength is, it depends on the performance of the whole team, maybe one day other players do not play well, one player can save the team by playing extraordinarily, but in 34 games, once many players play unsatisfactory, just meet the opponent to play extraordinary, this record will be stillborn.
Therefore, the 34-game winning streak has become a fuse, and at the same time a sign, that is, the New York Knicks have become the legitimate public enemies of the league, no matter how young they are, they will no longer be despised again, and the opponent will show 100% combat effectiveness when they meet the Knicks.
A 34-game winning streak is both a great honor and a huge burden, albeit with a supreme aura.
But do Knicks players think so much?
Of course not, what they are thinking is, that free dream!
Dreams are all used for, because they are young, and they have capital!
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When the Knicks were the target of public attention, the annual All-Star weekend helped them take some of the pressure off their shoulders.
The 2012 NBA All-Star Game will be held on February 26, 2012 at the Amway Center in Orlando, Florida, home of the Orlando Magic.
The 10 starting stars of the 2012 NBA All-Star Game have already been selected, and the Knicks have been selected because of their fantastic record, and Li Feng has once again won the top vote.
The East and West lineups for the All-Star Game, voted for by fans around the world, are as follows.
West: Guards Kobe Bryant, Chris Paul, forward Kevin. Durant, Blake Griffin. Center: Amar Stadmeire.
East: Guards Lagalondo, Dwyane Wade. Forward: LeBron James. Li Feng, center: Dwight Howard.
Of the 10 players mentioned above, the East is almost the same as last year, the only one being that Rose dropped after his transfer to the Knicks and was robbed of the starters by Rondo. The other four remained unchanged.
On the Western side, Kobe Bryant has been selected for the 13th consecutive year, thus tying the record for the highest number of consecutive selections held by O'Neal, West, and Malone.
The bench is voted on by the head coaches of the NBA's 30 teams. Some experts have already suggested that in the future, the substitutes will simply be selected by the fans.
Selecting an All-Star bench is a hassle. The American media describes this very well:
"The players are responsible for taking advantage of the last opportunities, the coaches are responsible for filling out the ballots, and the media and fans are responsible for arguing."
The seven-man bench for each team seems to be insufficient every year, and this year is even more so.
Because of this year's starters, in fact, there is a lot of controversy, some people think that Carmelo Anthony because he topped LeBron James, who played garbage this year, some people think that Derrick Ross is more qualified than Rondo, but the data is not good-looking, and some people think that Maddie should be the starter, the reason is ......
NBA All-Star Bench Player Selection Criteria: First, the selected player should be a star. Preferably, it is a person who can represent the image and level of the alliance. Just like this time last year, even if Duncan's stats weren't outstanding. still appeared on the most dazzling stage of the year for the 12th time in a row; Second, the All-Star Game should be spectacle, simply put, "everyone" wants to see Rondo pass an air relay to Li Feng; Third, the team of the star should not be too bad, because basketball is a team sport after all, and driving one's team to achieve excellent results is also the most important criterion for measuring the contribution and value of the stars.
Of course, these are unwritten standards, and coaches don't have these three in the emails they receive, they are only asked to fill in seven names, including two defenders, two forwards, one center, two random positions, no players of their own, and that's it.
But as a media, it is always inevitable to "share worries" for coaches, give their own choices for the audience's reference, and also for everyone to comment.
In the end, the West came off the bench with Pau Gasol, Tim Duncan, Mark Gasol, Lamar Aldridge, Stephen Corey, Russell Westbrook, Tony Parker.
The Eastern bench includes Roy Hibbert, Joaquin Noah, Greg Monroe, DeMarcus Cousins, Carmelo Anthony, Deron Williams, Derrick Rose.
This All-Star is too controversial.
There are too many Eastern forwards, Anthony plays on the bench, so that Garnett lost for the first time, Bosh, who has the worst data among the Heat's Big Three, also lost, the Pacers performed well, the rising star Paul George, and the Hawks' Hawk King Josh Smith are even more inqualified, Roy Hibbert is 17+8+2 this year, as a center, the offense has been developed, but there is not much controversy, and the Eastern All-Stars will see three big men from Georgetown.
On the western side, I don't know what Lu Dao is for, Andrew Bynum, who played nearly 20+10, was not selected, but teammate Pau Gasol was selected, and Gasol Jr. was also selected, squeezing out Zach Randolph, who had better data and better performance, Jazz's 20+10 forward Jefferson was not selected because of the team's record, and the Timberwolves' brush Lefu was even less qualified.
The alternation of the old and the new is one of the main themes of this year's All-Stars. Before the list of substitutes was announced, all walks of life were already mentally prepared for the defeat of Duncan and others. It was also the first time in Kevin Garnett's career that he was not selected as an All-Star since the 96-97 season.
The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and the front waves die on the beach, which is an eternal law of nature. The Knicks' Tyberdeau and the Spurs' Popovich serve as head coaches for the Eastern and Western Stars, respectively.
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On the 25th, it was the Rookie Tournament, and the Rookie Challenge changed the rules, and it was no longer the first-year and second-year teams, but this year it was Barkley and O'Neal.
The Barkley team has the NBA's top picks in the roster for nearly two years, and John Wall, like Kyle Irving, is the team's point guard, but Barkley insisted that the new champion Lang Irving be the team's starting point guard - what an extravagant decision to let Wall play Irving off the bench.
However, Irving's performance did not disappoint Barkley, and his performance throughout the game was enough to deserve the MVP honor. He played even 13 seconds less than Wall. But Irving shot 12-of-13 from the field in 27 minutes and 13 seconds — including an incredible 8-of-8 three-pointers!
The game has just begun. Champion seemed to be a little restrained, except for the opening assist for George's open dunk, he just warmed up on the court running back and forth until the first half played nearly six minutes. He scored on his first breakaway layup, and one minute later, he was even more eye-catching, after he was outflanked on the left side. After receiving Wall's high throw, he jumped high and played an empty catch - the audience was in an uproar!
However, Irving's real show time came after he came back into the first half, with less than five minutes left before halftime, and his first attempt at a mid-range jumper was missed – can you imagine it was the only shot he made in the game? After that, he and Kemba Walker flew into the scoring zone, with Walker back-to-back layups and 3-pointers, while Irving's response was even crazier, hitting three 3-pointers in 1 minute! After that, he made another layup, and he completed a miracle of 3-pointers and 4-of-4 shooting before halftime.
The 18-point lead in the first half set the stage for Irving's eventual selection, and shortly after the start of the second half. He hit two more 3-pointers in a row, and after scoring eight points in a row, he actually put the pressure on the other competitors. And his 7th 3-pointer in the 3rd minute of the second half directly gave Barkley a 19-point lead! After that, Irving still had no intention of stopping, and after playing again in the last 5 minutes, he first broke through to score, and then hit a 3-point shot in the first 2 minutes of the final game to directly seal the victory, the score became 140-120, and Irving's score also reached 34 points - the rookie MVP deserved!
On the 26th, the All-Star Game entered its second day, and the mixed shooting competition and skill competition were held first.
In today's mixed shooting contest, the New York team performed well and won the championship in just 37.3 seconds, while the Texas team took a total of 47.6 seconds.
In the Skills Challenge, Tony Parker finally defeated many opponents in 32.8 seconds to win the championship.
In the first round of the Skills Division, Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo was the first to appear, and he only needed two land-to-ground passes and shots, but it took a total of 32.8 seconds. Cavaliers pick Kerry Irving also tried twice to pass the ball on the ground, but was slightly frustrated in his shot, and it took several attempts to succeed, and it took 42.2 seconds to finish. Nets point guard Deron Williams was very fast throughout the game, and he passed all at once, taking 28.3 seconds to become the first set of tricks, and his 28.3 seconds also set a record for tricks so far.
In the second group of the first round of the skills competition, Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook tried twice when hitting the ground and shooting, and it took a total of 33.8 seconds to complete. Spurs guard Tony Parker was a one-time pass from start to finish, very fast, and finally took 29.2 seconds, just a little slower than DeLong, and temporarily placed second. Wizards guard John Wall tried twice on his first pass, but the ground-and-shot pass and shot were all one-time passes, and he ended up with 32.8 seconds as Rondo.
Because Wall and Rondo had the same time, the two had to play in the extra game, and Rondo came on first, and he came out very fast and passed all at once, taking a total of 27.5 seconds to break the new record set by Delon just before. The impact is very strong. Wall was also very fast at the beginning, but it took him 4 attempts to shoot before he succeeded, and he finally wanted to perform a big dunk, but he missed the wrong point when he threw the rebound on the first time and failed to do so, and he got the ball and performed another dunk to finally complete it, which took 42.5 seconds to complete.
After the group stage of the Skills Challenge, Nets star Deron Williams, Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo, and Spurs star Tony Parker advanced to the finals, and the three also competed for the championship.
Although Rondo won the second meeting with Wall and had a better score than DeLong, he won the play-offs after all, so he still finished third. Rondo was the first to come out, failing to get in three straight attempts on a ground-hitting pass before finally getting in on the fourth, and although the next few things went well, it took a total of 34.6 seconds.
Parker came in second, and he tried twice to get in on the ground pass. But the rest of the process went very smoothly. When he hit the layup at the end of the day. The stopwatch freezes at 32.8 seconds, which is not a very good result. Delon went very well after coming out, passing the ball in successive passes in two passing levels, but unfortunately he was quite backward in the shooting link. He missed four consecutive baskets and it took a long time after the final shot, with Delon taking 41.4 seconds to complete.
Because of this, Parker finally finished ahead of Rondo and Delon by 32.8 seconds. Successfully won the Skill Challenge in this section.
In the eye-catching three-point contest, Timberwolves center Kevin Love unexpectedly won the championship and became the dark horse of the event.
The players participating in this year's long-range shooting competition are: Durant, Love, James Jones, Money, Anthony Morrow and Magic's Ryan Anderson.
Durant and Love both hit 16 points in the finals, and the two went to overtime. In the thrilling overtime, Love had the last laugh, hitting 17 points steadily, but Durant had physical problems and messed up his shooting rhythm and only scored 14 points.
After Lefu had the most laugh, he became the three-point king of the new department.
Love made his second appearance in the preliminaries. He scored 18 points on the shot, the same as the first player to score. Although it is an interior player. But Lefu obviously prepared carefully for the game, the shooting time was reasonably allocated, and the rhythm was well controlled. Morrow, who appeared in the third game, was clearly inexperienced, and he took too long to shoot the ball in the first two shooting spots, and in the end he couldn't fully shoot the ball, scoring only 14 points.
Durant felt hot in the preliminaries, hitting 20 points in one go, and received warm applause from the fans. Anderson was a disappointment at home, lacking the precision of the regular season, especially in the first two shooting spots, and his pace was noticeably fast, which set the stage for him to miss out on the finals. Defending champion Jones was on the hot spot, and his shot was very decisive, first suppressing and then rising to score a best 22 points to reach the finals.
Unfortunately, Jones suddenly lost his sense in the final, scoring only 1 point from the first shooting point and 2 points from the second shooting point, and lost the chance to defend his title early.
In the end, Jones scored only 10 points and was eliminated.
Next up is the All-Star Weekend, the most attractive slam dunk contest in addition to the main game.
Jeremy Evans of the Utah Jazz, Derrick Williams of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Zeis Badinger of the Houston Rockets and Paul George of the Indiana Pacers participated in this year's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest.
In the first round, Badinger was the first to play, leaping over a star standing in the box and then gliding easily to receive a pass and dunk to make it possible for whites to fly. Before dunking, host Smith also asked his partner's star what his favorite basketball movie was, and the star laughed and replied "white people can't fly", and Bardinger told the star that white people can fly with a brilliant performance.
After Evans made his second appearance in the first round, he chose to throw the ball to the rebound, then rushed to the basket, and after hitting the board, he easily jumped off the ball and dunked with both hands on his back.
In the first round, George arranged two assistants under the basket, one was teammate center Hibbert and one passing assister, and the two stood in turn. George flew up and jumped in succession to catch the ball and dunk unsuccessfully, and then he held the ball himself and crossed the two of them to dunk, but unfortunately the air borrowed the action obviously, and there was an act of supporting Hibbert's shoulder.
Williams was the last player in the first round and his auxiliary prop was a motorcycle under the basket. Evans attempted to get a windmill slam after a bike leap, but he was able to do it on the third time with a one-handed windmill dunk after the bike jump.
In the second round, Badinger was still the first to play, Badinger chose to hold the ball and rush to the basket and then dunk with both hands, although it was the second time to hit, but the jump distance was very long, and the body leaned a lot in the air.
In the second round, Evans rushed to the basket, and after taking off, he received two balls from the young fans sitting under the basket, and dunked the two balls into the basket one after another, causing a burst of cheers from the fans at the scene.
In the second round of the game, George played the third game, the lights were turned out and it was dark, George turned around nearly 360 degrees and then flew like a flying fairy out of the sky, and won the dunk in the darkness.
In the second round, Williams was the last to play, receiving a rebound from teammate Rubio and then turning around and dunking a very difficult one, and he successfully completed the second attempt.
In the third round, Badinger dunked both eyes with a black cloth, and his first dunk only touched the basket, after which Badinger measured his steps, only to rush to the basket for the second time and perform a backhand dunk with both hands behind his back. Sebaros had performed this move in 1992, and Bardinger's dunk was also a tribute to Cebaros.
In the third round, Evans received a postman Karl Malone's jersey from a partner posing as a postman, and he then wore it on his body. The postman with the hat stood under the basket, and Evans leaped over the postman with his left hand behind his head, and dunked with his right hand, flying a very long distance.
In the third round, George tried to stick Bird, the president of the Pacers, to the rebound before completing a gliding dunk. After three consecutive failures, he eventually landed a rebound on the right side of the basket and then glided to the left and landed a dunk as he fell.
In the third round, Williams tried to switch hands under his crotch after throwing himself away, but chose to cooperate with Rubio after consecutive failures, but unfortunately still failed. After that, Williams smashed the ball to the rebound himself and caught the ball with a dunk, but still couldn't get it. After back-to-back defeats, Williams looked very discouraged, after which he omitted to switch hands under the crotch, simply smashed the ball to the rebound and then caught the ball with both hands.
In the end, Evans defeated the other three and successfully reached the top! (To be continued.) )