Chapter 311: All-Star, Wang Feng VS Brother Alphabet
The MVP of the All-Star Game can get 15 free distribution points rewarded by the system, which is not a small number, and Wang Feng is certainly impossible to miss.
Therefore, at the beginning of the All-Star Game, Wang Feng carried the offensive banner of Wang Feng's team.
The players who started the All-Stars on both sides were the people who were determined in the original selection process.
On Wang's side, Walker, Curry, Leonard, Wang Feng and Embiid are on the team's side.
The Antetokounmpo team is Irving, Harden, James, Durant and Antetokounmpo.
And the responsibility of defending Wang Feng was handed over to Antetokounmpo, who was also the captain.
Brother Alphabet is tall and has long arms and strong explosiveness, but due to his high height, the lateral speed is slightly slower than that of a striker in his early 2 meters, because Antetokounmpo is quite difficult to defend against the ball breakthrough under the addition of Wang Feng's first step master badge.
At the beginning of the game, Wang Feng broke through Antetokounmpo twice in a row with the ball and scored a violent dunk.
The familiar plot made all the stars who started understand that Wang Feng wanted to compete for All-Star MVP again.
Although the All-Star MVP is just a dispensable award for these top superstars present, Wang Feng has won the All-Star MVP for two consecutive years, and now he wants to continue to be the MVP three times in a row.
"What's the matter, it seems that you are amazing? We're worse than you, can't we beat you on such an occasion? ”
This is especially unpleasant with the letter brother Antetokounmpo.
This season, Brother Alphabet played the peak performance of his career, and currently averages 28 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists per game, leading the Bucks to the top of the Eastern Conference.
The Greek Monsters' dominant performance on both ends of the floor made them the favourites for the regular season MVP.
However, there is one person who has been pressing on his head, and that is Wang Feng.
Wang Feng averaged nearly 40+ points per game, and about 12 rebounds per game, although there were fewer assists, but he always maintained a high level of about 3 per game in steals, and he steadily overwhelmed him in terms of personal data.
Even compared to the team's record, the Lakers' current record is the best in the league, even the Bucks can only be relegated to second, even if the Lakers' losses gradually increased in February, and the difference between the two teams is quite large.
According to this trend, it is absolutely impossible for him to beat Wang Feng in the final regular season MVP selection.
As a Greek basketball player, Brother Alphabet, like Wang Feng, does not have the sentimental vote bonus of local players in the United States, and the selection is purely based on personal strength and team performance.
Originally, as a direct competitor, Antetokounmpo has been thinking about how to beat Wang Feng to win the first regular season MVP trophy of his career, and now seeing Wang Feng even in the All-Star Game has to be in the limelight, he immediately feels uncomfortable, and while the defensive end is working extremely hard to defend Wang Feng, the offensive end is also making efforts.
One thing to say, Brother Alphabet, who has now fully grown up, even Wang Feng has a hard time defending.
Wang Feng's strongest is to use the purple defensive shock badge to defend outside projection, Brother Alphabet is obviously a player who mainly breaks through with the ball and attacks under the basket, and uses very little skills in outside projection, or his long-range shooting ability is too poor, so he basically doesn't shoot much.
Defending Wang Feng relies on his speed, agility, and golden Deathcoil badge.
Death Coil is indeed a top-level defensive badge whose defensive effect is no less than that of defensive deterrence, and it can force the ball carrier to make mistakes through close-quartered pressing defense, although Wang Feng's badge does not reach the top purple Hall of Fame level, but the defensive effect is really first-class.
But unfortunately, this badge also has little effect on the alphabet brother, and the reason for this is the physical gap.
Brother Alphabet is too tall, 2.11 meters tall, up to 2.26 meters of arm span, it is too difficult for Wang Feng to complete the steal with his tight defense alone, the opponent only needs to set up a random ball protector, and then lean the dribbler out, Wang Feng's arm is simply out of reach.
"Made, gibbon......"
In this regard, Wang Feng could only scold secretly, there was nothing he could do.
The difference in body size is objective and completely unavoidable.
The reason why Brother Alphabet has such lethality in the league is because of his height, long arms, and the ability to attack the frame with full strength after gaining weight.
Of course, Brother Alphabet is not without weaknesses, due to his weak projection ability, so he is very afraid of guarding the heavy center under the basket, after all, even if he gains weight, in order to ensure sufficient mobility, Brother Alphabet has not gained weight to the weight of the center, and even slightly inferior to Wang Feng in terms of strength.
Therefore, if you wrestle with a heavy center on the inside, Brother Alphabet still can't take advantage of it.
Nowhere is this more evident than on the international stage.
As a Greek star, he has represented the Greek men's basketball team in many world competitions, but FIBA regulations allow joint defense, and there is no 3-second defense rule, resulting in the defender arranging a heavy center to squat under the basket for a long time.
Brother Alphabet, who can only break through the offensive frame and impact the inside, is difficult to play under the crowded basket in the international arena.
In September this year, the men's basketball World Cup will begin, and in another time and space, Brother Alphabet, who has just won the MVP of the regular season, is in high spirits and leads the Greek men's basketball team to get a good result.
The result was a big surprise, Brother Alphabet only averaged 14+8 data per game, and even some games were directly pressed on the bench, and the performance can be described as a mess.
In this year's playoffs, the Bucks will be eliminated by the Menglongs 4:2 in the Eastern Conference finals, and the average of only 22.7 points, 13.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game in 6 games is far inferior to Leonard, who has 29.8 points and 9.5 rebounds.
Gasol's performance in this playoff game was not good, and when facing many fast-paced teams, due to his heavy and slow pace, he played very little time, and only averaged 9+6 data per game.
However, in the series against the Bucks, he played an average of 31.7 minutes per game, and he was rooted under the basket, coupled with Leonard's entanglement on the outside, which made Brother Alphabet miserable.
Of course, these are all afterwords, on the All-Star stage, there will rarely be a situation of helping to defend the bag, and even few inside lines will make up the defense under the basket, as long as the opposing player can break through the defensive player and enter the basket, in most cases will watch the opponent stage a violent dunk, this is an exhibition game after all, not a life-and-death fight in the playoffs.
Therefore, in the first quarter of the game, it became a battle between Wang Feng and Antetokounmpo.
In this case, Wang Feng gradually gained the upper hand.