The NBA2021 All-Star Weekend was held on February 21, 2021, at the home of the Atlanta Hawks.

Wang Feng, as always, still signed up for all the singles events, but even he didn't expect that this time he would return home with a rare feather.

Wang Feng played steadily in the preliminaries of the Skills Challenge, but there was a small mistake in the finals, which directly led to his defeat of the Pacers' Domantas. Sabonis was a few tenths of a second slower, and in the end, he was only runner-up.

If Wang Feng still has a runner-up in the skills challenge, then the slam dunk contest is even worse, and he was eliminated from the first round of preliminaries with the lowest score from the bottom among the four players.

The only way to save some face is the three-point contest.

With 98 three-point ability values and multiple shooting badges, Wang Feng is still as stable as an old dog in this project, crushing all other players to easily defend the title, and achieving the great feat of 6 consecutive championships in the three-point competition.

With Wang Feng's sixth three-singles championship trophy, his three-point shooting ability value has officially reached 99, becoming the first attribute among all shooting ability values to reach a full value of 99.

Unfortunately, the joy of reaching 99 three-pointers did not last long, and then in the All-Star Game the next day, Wang Feng's team led by Wang Feng lost to Durant 156-167.

Antetokounmpo scored 38 points, 18 rebounds and 8 assists and was elected the regular season MVP of this year's All-Star Game.

Wang Feng's team lost the game, not that his teammates were unwilling to let Wang Feng continue to snatch the regular season MVP and deliberately release water, but that the state of the eastern side this time is indeed better than that of the western side, especially Wang Feng, the state of the all-stars this time is also average, under the defense of Brother Alphabet and others, the performance can only be described as decent, 32 points, 14 rebounds, 11 assists, and a triple-double, but compared with the explosive supergod performance in the regular season, it is a little dark.

Wang Feng's all-star performance was not good, and the sunspots immediately came to their senses.

"Hehe, why can't you be scared? Doesn't the previous All-Stars seem like you're amazing? , occupy the ball and the right to shoot, this retribution is coming, right? This time the All-Star only won a three-point title, a big shame, right? ”

But in fact, more fans showed understanding of Wang Feng's situation.

Since the beginning of the regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers have played nearly 60 games, and in these 60 games, Wang Feng has played an astonishing 44 minutes per game, and his average points per game have remained stable at 42 points, 13 rebounds and 11 assists, as well as 2.2 steals and 1.3 blocks.

Whether it is on the offensive end or the defensive end, Wang Feng has taken on a heavy responsibility, and it is unceremonious to say that without Wang Feng, the Lakers would not be able to maintain the current third record in the West.

With such a high-intensity and long game, anyone can get tired.

Wang Feng is not a robot, he still belongs to the category of humans, even if the body is digitized because of the system, and there are various badges to provide bonuses, but it will also accumulate fatigue points.

Both the Skill Challenge and the Slam Dunk Contest lost because he was so focused on the game that he didn't have time to prepare for All-Star Weekend, didn't think about and prepare the dunk moves in advance, and didn't specifically contact the Skill Challenge program.

Including the All-Star Game, when the team was in the backward stage, Wang Feng thought about trying his best to catch up with the point difference, but under the defense of the Durant team, which was not low in intensity, there was no good chance.

Wang Feng also knows this, so he is not disappointed by this, compared to the regular season results associated with the season evaluation reward, the All-Star Weekend reward is just trivial, and it can be optionally given up.

It is worth mentioning that after winning the sixth three-point contest trophy in his career, Wang Feng said in an interview that he will not participate in the three-point contest in the future, on the grounds that the three-point contest is no longer challenging for him, and the audience has long been aesthetically fatigued.

As long as Wang Feng participates, then there is no suspense about the championship, and how many people will be willing to follow and watch the game in such a competition?

Of course, this set of invincible loneliness theory is just a rhetoric used externally, and the real reason is that Wang Feng's three-point ability value has reached 99 and cannot continue to improve.

At the moment when his three-point ability value reached 99, even the system gave a hint, saying that there would be no more task rewards for winning the three-point contest in the future.

Since there is no reward, thankless things Wang Feng has never done, and there is naturally no need to continue to participate in the three-point competition.

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At the end of the All-Star, he only gained 1 three-point ability value in the end, which also made Wang Feng realize that he couldn't continue to play like this.

Averaging close to 45 minutes per game is really not a human thing, and too much consumption in the regular season may even affect the state of the playoffs.

Wang Feng can not pay attention to the All-Star, but he must pay attention to the playoffs.

More than three months have passed, and Butler, who has successfully undergone surgery, is in good condition and is expected to return early, but even so, Butler will not be able to play until the second round of the West at the earliest, and if the second round is a 4-0 sweep, he may not be able to play.

Therefore, Wang Feng must at least drag the Lakers into the second round, and the second round of the series must be played for about six games.

The intensity of the playoffs is a very different concept from the regular season, so Wang Feng must also start preparing for the playoffs.

After the All-Star ended, Wang Feng's playing time began to decrease significantly, from an average of 44 minutes per game to about 38 minutes, and the ball possession and number of shots were also reduced, and the data was significantly lower than before the All-Star period.

Correspondingly, the Lakers' record has declined, losing to the Trail Blazers, Hawks and other games that should not be lost.

With the end of the schedule in February, the Lakers' record was tied by the fourth-ranked Denver Nuggets, and in March, the Nuggets held their breath and played a wave of five consecutive wins, officially completing the overtake of the Lakers and throwing the Lakers to the fourth place in the West.

Wang's average per game dropped to 40.3 points, 12.8 rebounds and 10.9 assists, which was significantly worse than before the All-Star weekend.

During the period when the Nuggets caught up with the record and overtaken, Wang Feng only averaged about 35 points per game, although it is not appropriate to describe 35 points as only, but for Wang Feng, this is indeed the case.

However, due to the decrease in the number of Wang Feng's shots, the number of shots has increased correspondingly, and the data of Ingram, Kuzma and others have increased slightly, especially Jordan. Poole, who has now become more and more accustomed to the Lakers' tactical system, and with the help of Wang Feng's ten-cent badge, his average points per game have gradually increased to 13.8 points, which is quite potential.

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The decline of the Lakers' record and the decline of Wang Feng's personal data have become the focus of media discussion for a while.

However, the Lakers did not hide anything from the outside world, and explained the reason very bluntly, Wang Feng's data declined in order to prepare for the playoffs to reserve physical fitness, and the Lakers' current record has ensured that they can enter the playoffs, and even if they play the next dozen or so games according to the current winning rate, they can still maintain the advantage of the top half of the region.

In this case, continuing to let Wang Feng play an average of 45 minutes per game, crazy to cut down such high data, accumulate fatigue value, and breed injury triggers, that is what a fool head coach can do.

Butler's regular season reimbursement is already the most typical example of the past, and if the Lakers even lose Wang Feng, they won't need to play this season.

In the follow-up games, Wang Feng not only reduced his playing time, but even selectively took turns to avoid games in some games, including the away game against the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors are currently in second place in the West, behind only the Utah Jazz.

But they're not the Lakers' No. 1 rivals.

Not surprisingly, the Lakers will enter the playoffs with a fourth-place record in the West at the end of the regular season, and will face the New Orleans Pelicans in fifth place in the West in the first round.

As soon as Paul made a move, he knew if there was one.

Obviously, in another time and space, the unexpected record of the Sun and Thunder, Paul definitely takes the most credit.

This can be seen in the Pelicans' record.

Although it is only ranked fifth in the West, the Western Conference standings are inherently battle-for-all, so let's see what teams are under the Pelicans.

The top three configuration has recently begun to gradually pick up, and it is very difficult to climb to the Los Angeles Clippers in sixth place in the West.

Luca. The Mavericks led by Doncic and Porzingis.

There's also the Portland Trail Blazers, who have two guns in the backcourt of 200 million.

Being able to stabilize his record in fifth place in the West with a strong crowd of strong opponents shows that Paul is not in vain.

Of course, Paul's presence is only to ensure that a team is off the line, as Chris, who is often touted as the No. 1 point guard in history. Paul also had a lot of criticism, and even formed a few famous memes.

58 Rowe, the floor man, these nicknames are the black spots of Paul's career.

If it weren't for joining the Rockets and hugging Harden's thigh, Paul might not have been able to touch the floor of the Western Conference so far.

If the Pelicans want to perform better in the playoffs, they still have to look at the other two cores, Anthony Brown. Davis and Zion. Williams' two-top play.

Brother Thick Mei's statistics this season are very stable and efficient, averaging 26.8 points, 9.8 rebounds and 3.4 assists per game so far, and he is the backbone of the team on both offensive and defensive ends.

And Zion, who had high hopes. Williams didn't disappoint.

This season, the fat tiger in a healthy state showed extremely terrifying lethality under the basket.

Although limited by the disadvantage of height, Zion will always be blocked under the basket, and has received the nickname of human quilt essence, but the impact of 130 kilograms under the basket is really large, combined with its super strength and bounce, Zion's destructive power under the basket is comparable to O'Neal.

So far, Zion has averaged 27.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, shooting 61% from the field, and almost all of his shots are distributed under the basket.

Of course, only Wang Feng knows that Zion is too heavy, but the heavy body is too heavy to burden the ankles, and Zion itself has a glass physique, so it is difficult to say whether he can take on the heavy responsibility in the playoffs.

If at the end of the regular season, it is really the Lakers and Pelicans who face each other in the first round, then with the strength of the Pelicans, Wang Feng is not afraid in his opinion.