Vol 2 Chapter 504: The All-Star controversy and the tangled Western playoffs ...

This year's All-Star Game has Sun Yue in the east and Yi Jianlian and Durant in the west unexpectedly entered the starting lineup.
This has led to the scarce All-Star position.
These three people are recognized to have entered the All-Star without the strength of All-Star.
The direct consequence is that three players with All-Star strength will not be able to enter the All-Star.
Players with All-Star strength cannot enter the All-Star game, which of course will cause controversy!
On February 2nd, the league announced the final results of the 2008 All-Star Game. The starting center on the east side is Howard, the starting forwards are Garnett and James, and the starting guards are Arenas and Sun Yue.
The seven players on the bench are Iverson of the Pistons, Wade of the Heat, Ray Allen and Pierce of the Boston Celtics, Bosh of the Raptors, O'Neal of the Cavaliers, Antoine of the Wizards Jamison.
Eagles Joe Johnson, who averaged 22 + 5 + 5 per game this season, was defeated. Michael Reed, who averaged 25 points per game this season, was lost. Joe Johnson and Michael Reed were defeated. Fortunately, the two were not regular NBA All-Stars. But Rashid Wallace of the Pistons also lost the same.
This season Rashid Wallace's performance in the Pistons is still very good.
If it were n’t for Sun Yue who took up a starting position, Rashid Wallace would definitely be on the All-Star bench.
Because of Sun Yue ’s reason, Rashid Wallace missed the All-Star game, which annoys the Pistons fans. However, because Rashid Wallace ’s coffee is not a sufficient reason, the impact in the league is actually not that much. Big.
What really made the 2008 All-Star Game hurricane-like impact was the West.
The starting point for the Western Conference All-Stars is center Yao Ming, forwards Yi Jianlian and Durant, and guards Yes and Roy.
The Western Conference All-Star bench is Nash of the Suns, Stoudemire, Marion, McGrady of the Rockets, Anthony of the Denver Nuggets, Kobe Bryant of the Lakers, Duncan of the Spurs.
After the All-Star lineup in the West came out, public opinion in the entire NBA seemed crazy!
It's really not crazy, ah, there are too many superstars and stars!
The 12 All-Stars in the Western Conference, the Suns and the Rockets, have two teams with the same gods this season.
The third supersonic in the west occupies two positions.
The remaining 4 positions are divided by the other 12 teams.
Yi Jianlian now occupies another position, which means that the remaining three positions are divided by 11 teams.
Kobe, Duncan and Anthony, the three of them occupied almost all of these three positions with little suspense.
Well, this season's Western Conference All-Stars' unsuccessful stars include the Mavericks' New Division regular season MVP Nowitzki, the Grizzlies' former slam dunk Carter, and this season's point guard who can average 20 + 10 per game. Wait, as for the unsuccessful star players, they are even more numerous.
In the West, there are more than 20 players who have been selected by the All-Star and can average 20+ points per season!
This season, in addition to the league's scoring king Durant selected All-Star, the league's other individual kings, rebounds, blocked shots, assists, steals, all won the All-Star Game!
And all these kings are from the west!
Of course, the reason why this all-star lineup in the West will cause such a big controversy is not just because there are a lot of lost superstars and stars.
Instead, only seven players from the entire Western Conference entered the All-Star game.
Twelve places came from seven teams, and as the host Oklahoma City Thunder, none of the players actually entered.
You know, before this list was announced, many people speculated that Chris Paul would definitely enter the All-Star game.
Chris Paul is now the league's assists and steals king, and the average number per game is 22 points, 12 assists and 2.9 steals per game.
Under his leadership, the Thunder now have a good record in the regular season, ranking eighth in the West.
Such a result, let alone squeeze Kobe Duncan and Anthony Medinash, squeeze one of Stoudemire and Marion, right?
However, it is clear that from the perspective of the league's replacement lineup, Sun's current record in the league's history during the same period has had a great impact on the voting of the All-Star bench lineup.
As the first strong team in the history of hype, it is not normal for a player in this team to not make an All-Star starter.
Since the starter can't get in, then go in for the substitute.
Sun has three players in this year's All-Stars through the bench, this is a compensation for the Sun!
When the media and public opinion in the United States are speculating in the Western All-Star lineup, I feel that Paul should replace Stoudemire, Carter should replace Marion, or Nowitzki can replace Stoudemire, etc., many participated in this voting professional People did not feel any problems on their faces.
What is to replace Stoudemire and Marion?
Even if Kobe, Duncan and Anthony were replaced, Stoudemire, Marion or McGrady were as stable as dogs.
Such a historical team with only one or two players entering the All-Star team is a crime!
What's more, Stoudemire averaged 24 points + 9 rebounds + 2 blocks, and Marion averaged 20 points + 10 rebounds + 2 steals + 2 blocks. Are the two's performance and data poor?
Which of these two guys is not as good as the players who failed?
Is it popular?
Popularity has never been the standard for selecting a backup lineup.
Popularity is the criterion for starting lineup selection.
Those who vote have the standards of voters.
But it is impossible for these voters to come out to explain these disputes.
They are the head coaches of the NBA, and they dare not guarantee that they will not be able to coach those players who are selected by them.
In the NBA, players are the master!
Even if they have thousands of reasons, they can only watch the controversy now.
Now the media and fans of the entire NBA are caught in controversy over who should enter the NBA All-Star.
The madness of confrontation and scolding is staggering.
However, this matter has nothing to do with the Seattle Supersonics.
It ’s not that it does n’t matter. Durant ’s entry into the All-Star game does n’t know how long he has been scolded.
Now Durant doesn't care anymore.
Other players, Rondo, Milicic, and others are very sorry for not being able to enter the All-Star bench.
But looking at the pile of names in the media, those names are really powerful.
These people have lost the election, and even if they are confident and arrogant, it is difficult to feel that they can replace these people.
Of course, depressed is still a bit depressed.
At the end of the away game with the Sun on February 1, Seattle Supersonics has returned to Seattle overnight.
After a series of previous Devil schedules, the Seattle SuperSonics can finally get some breathing and rest time now.
Seattle's recent Devil schedule is not just these three games with Rockets Suns.
Prior to these three games, the Seattle SuperSonics' opponents were the Lakers, Spurs, Cavaliers, Hawks and a bunch of other big Western teams.
After finishing this quite devil's schedule, Seattle's supersonic record is now 39 wins and 8 losses, ranking third in the West.
Open the gap with the Sun Rockets, while reducing the distance between the Lakers Spurs Nuggets.
The Lakers Spurs and Nuggets are now 35-11.
The three teams have now entered the stage of fierce competition for the third and sixth in the West.
Scramble between the third in the west and the sixth in the west?
Is it wrong?
This is the opposite of the two rankings, okay?
In fact, this is not wrong.
For the Spurs Lakers and Nuggets, they are now the third most wanted in the West.
As long as they get third in the west and squeeze the current third in the west into the sixth position in the west, then for these three teams, it seems that the first round is equivalent to the first round of guarantee.
It is really strange.
Neither the Spurs nor the Lakers Nuggets have a good record for the Supersonics.
But all three teams felt they could easily beat the Sonics in the playoffs.
However, it is not so easy to squeeze the Seattle Supersonics into sixth place.
The difference between the three teams and the Seattle SuperSonics is three and a half.
Now there are almost 36 games left in the regular season, and 36 games to win three and a half games, this is a chance.
If we analyze from the data, of course there is a great chance.
However, after experiencing the wonders of the last three teams competing for the fifth in the West last season, how could they be as optimistic as the data analysis.
You know, the Supersonics were also one of the weakest teams in history last season.
The four teams that competed fifth in the Western Conference last season were also the Supersonics, Lakers, Spurs and Nuggets.
Last season's Western Conference final five winner was the Spurs.
But does the Spurs have a three-and-a-half game advantage over the Sonics?
Not to mention three and a half games, not even one and a half!
The Spurs Lakers and Nuggets are indeed above the Seattle SuperSonics.
However, Yes's ability to lead the team in the regular season is really against the sky!
Now everyone generally accepts the fact that Yes' ability to lead the team is so strong. The main reason is that Yes is comprehensive and perfect. In the regular season, every game can be targeted according to the difference of each opponent And change.
In the entire NBA, no team will have such conventional targeted tactics in the regular season. Yes and supersonics that play targeted tactics in every game are indeed very dominant.
Even if the supersonic strength is very weak, under the leadership of Yes, it can achieve quite a record.
After accepting a team lead like Yes, the Spurs, Lakers and Nuggets were pretty pessimistic.
Before the Seattle Supersonic three-game losing streak, the three teams had been preparing for the sixth.
After the third is occupied by supersonics, the sixth is of course the best position.
The fourth and fifth are to fight each other, this will definitely be a very difficult contest.
The sixth can play the third supersonic speed, which is a perfect position.
If you only need to keep losing the sixth place in the Western Conference this season, then these three teams must have started to lose now.
Unfortunately, the competition in the Western Conference playoffs this season is too fierce.
The seventh Grizzlies in the West are 33 wins and 13 losses. They are not so far away from the fourth, fifth and sixth Spurs, Lakers and Nuggets in the West.
As long as the Lakers, Nuggets and Spurs really lose without any care, maybe the sixth in the West hasn't won, and it is likely that one of the three teams will be squeezed to the seventh in the West.
The seventh opponent in the West will be the Rockets or the Suns like God this season!
This is definitely the worst situation.
Even for these three teams, it is more difficult to fight for six than for three.
Contending for three requires constant victories, and others need not be considered.
Fighting for six is ​​a victory or a loss.
If there is really a hope for the third, the Lakers Spurs and Nuggets will certainly not compete for the sixth.
But before they really had no chance.
Now they have seen such an opportunity after losing three games in a row at the Supersonics.
So now all three teams are waiting for the Supersonics' next record before the All-Star.
As long as the supersonics continue to draw closer to them before the All-Star, the three teams will compete with the Supersonics in the sprint stage after the All-Star.
If the schedule before the All-Star, Seattle Supersonics and their record has not been brought closer, or even opened.
Then even if they don't want to fight for the sixth, they can only fight for the sixth.
The situation in the Western Conference this year is really much more complicated than last season.
For many teams in the West now, this season's regular season is really a desperate regular season.
Because of the Seattle Supersonics' three-game losing streak, the Supersonics have now been targeted by the Lakers Spurs and Nuggets.
The three teams waited for the Supersonics to drag the Supersonics into the third-game battle this season, just as the Spurs were dragged into the top five last season.
Of course, the Supersonics know the Lakers Spurs and Nuggets.
Yees and the Supersonic know that Seattle Supersonic really can't lose anymore.
Losing again is really the same as last season's Spurs.
On February 2, 2008, the Seattle SuperSonics ushered in the penultimate New York Knicks in the Eastern Conference.
This is a battle of hemostasis ushered in by Seattle Supersonics after losing three consecutive times.
In the boos of the supersonic fans, Nate Robinson and the New York Knicks were buried in the Key Arena by the Sonics.
85 to 126, the New York Knicks lost 41 points away in this game!
And Nate Robinson was still flown by Yesh once in this game.
In the NBA, when one player is played like this by another player, it will certainly cause dissatisfaction and sympathy for many people.
But if this person is Nate Robinson ~ EbookFREE.me ~ many people think that Yes can actually be a bit more brutal.
As long as you understand the grievances between Nate Robinson and Yes and the Garfield Five Tigers, no one will think that Nate Robinson is innocent.
Nate Robinson has been selected by ESPN, TNT, ABC and CBS as the most annoying athlete in the United States for two consecutive years.
Watching the score on the big screen of the scene.
After listening to the game, the Seattle fans on the scene still abused him like a carnival.
Nate Robinson was really scared ... he knew it was not the end.
Born to be strong, he once again produced a deep regret and despair.
Originally, he could easily be assisted by Yes to become Durant, become the scoring king, become the assist king, become the All-Star, become the superstar ...
But all of this was destroyed by his greed and want to be forced ...