Chapter 260: Western All-Star Coaching Team (Cronus League Title One)

.., Bishop of the Devil
Next, in the two games where Richard was suspended, the Blazers scored one win and one loss.
From the lineup of the Blazers' two games, the absence of Big Ben and Kobe is indeed influential, but the impact is not fatal.
Under Richard's arrangement, Lambier used Wu Sheng Jackson to play the point guard and Bowen played the point guard in these two games.
As for Big Ben's power forward position, it was Rashid who pushed it up for the time being, and Robinson reached the position of small forward.
Such a lineup, the defense is still extremely strong. Although it is not as good as the big one, it is enough to deal with most teams in the league...
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When Richard returned, the first game against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The Blazers won this game quite neatly. In front of Rashid, the young wolf king did not ask for any bargains, and was even slightly disadvantaged.
At the end of the game, Rashid scored 25 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steals and 2 blocks, while Garnett had only 18 points. The performance of the young wolf king on the field is really not outstanding.
Now that the Blazers' record is only one win away from the supersonics, it's not really difficult to chase them down.
The Jazz is definitely over. In the next month's schedule, they may not even have a 50% win rate!
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In the blink of an eye, the time entered the end of January!
The nba schedule is already more than half of the schedule. After Kobe and Big Ben came back, the Blazers were even more powerful. After winning the Atlanta Hawks on the night of January 27th, they completely took the top position in the Western Record!
Richard couldn't believe it himself. He even led his team to the best record in the West in his second year in the NBA!
In 52 games, the Blazers won a total of 39 games, with a 75% win rate overtaking the supersonics, successfully sitting on the throne of the West!
In just one month's schedule, the Trail Blazers showed quite a terrifying combat power, or the hard work on the court.
The storms have come over, and this team that has experienced hardships, is now targeting the playoffs and the championship!
As for the Jazz, the original good game, because in this month, Utah was completely absent, causing them to play only 5 wins and 9 losses in the entire January schedule...
Originally ranked first in the West, it was also ranked by the latecomers.
It is quite appropriate to use a roller coaster to describe the decline in the Jazz ranking...
Originally this season, the competition in the West was quite fierce. Although there was one less rocket, there were two more powerful players, the Sun and the Spurs.
By the end of the schedule in January, the Jazz had fallen to sixth place in the West, after the Spurs!
What makes Sloan even more desperate is that although Malone will come back in the near future, Stockton’s comeback is far away, and at least he will get a return in March. In this case, in the next two months, they will still Quite uncomfortable...
If you want to rush back to the first place in the west, that is already a kind of extravagant hope.
Even rushing back to the first half of the Western Conference playoffs will be difficult for the Jazz!
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Richard led the team to the summit as expected, yes, it was indeed the summit!
Their Blazers are now not only at the top of the western record, but also the top of the league record!
Because the Chicago Bulls have been sidelined because of Pippen's injury, their wins are now two games away from the Blazers...
With the powerful strength revealed by the Trail Blazers, unless the Bulls sprint with all their strength at all costs, it is difficult to catch up!
For a team like the Bulls, the regular season record is not much meaning!
They have won 72 wins, and what can prove their strength more than this!
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After the previous Jazz event passed through safely, fans all over the world discovered that this Trail Blazers can no longer be described by the new army.
Although the average age of the players on their team is still the youngest in the league, although most of their main starters are second- and third-year rookies, their mature performance on the field can be compared to an old team!
If some people say that the Blazers can sit at the top of the league record list before this season, I am afraid no one will believe it!
Even Richard is not convinced...
But now they have really done it. After so many hardships, this devil-like team seems to have not been affected at all. The record has not only not declined, but it has skyrocketed!
Others don't know why, but Richard is very clear in his heart.
Now these players on the team have really been matured by Richard. Having seen so many big scenes, almost everyone has been trained to have a big heart...
Developed the character of perseverance!
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At the end of January, the results of the NBA All-Star vote were already hot!
To everyone's shock, the 19-year-old insider Jermaine O'Neal of the Trail Blazers even squeezed out the Timberwolves young head Kevin Garnett and was successfully elected as the starting power forward of this All-Star!
The starting center is O'Neal, the starting power forward is O'Neal!
Such a result of the vote directly shocked the entire league. If O'Neal is a Lakers player, then this matter is still acceptable. It’s not difficult to get an All-Star starter with such data and performance as Austria...
After all, Kobe only played a starter for the entire season at that time, and he was elected as the All-Star starter when the average data was not comparable to that of Xiao Ou.
The key issue now is that O'Neal is not a player like the Lakers, he is just a Blazers player!
Trail Blazers player, and not yet the star player, without data advantage, even became an All-Star starter? !
If you think about the Trail Blazers' current record and the consistently popular behavior, Xiaoao was selected as the starter, it is not difficult to explain.
In terms of personal data, even though O'Neal cannot match Garnett, the player with the third most votes in the forward position, there is basically no gap.
The trailblazer record where the key minor Olympics hangs against the Timberwolves...
Not to mention that Xiao Ao is younger than Wolf King!
For various reasons, Xiaoao was successfully elected as the starting forward of the Western Conference All-Star this season!
Although Kobe is banned, it does not affect his popularity. The league's fan base does not like Stockton, it should not be too much...
Kobe is angry for them, they naturally will not be stingy with the votes in their hands!
As a result, Kobe was also selected as an All-Star, although it was only a substitute...
Last season, the Blazers had no results in the All-Star game. No player was qualified to participate in the All-Star game. This season, the situation is very good. At least two people have been selected!
As for Big Ben and Rashid, these two men were sadly defeated...
The big reason is that the style of the game and the competition is too fierce~EbookFREE.me~ You know Duncan is only a substitute for the All-Star.
And Rashid, in fact, certainly has some strength. After all, in a positive dialogue with Garnett, he can get a good advantage...
As for why not too many fans voted for him, then only God knows.
It may be because of his appearance, or his style, or even his temper...
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The defeat of Big Ben and Rashid undoubtedly made Richard very regrettable, but the young O'Brien and Kobe were selected as All-Stars, which made up for Richard's regret.
Richard naturally wants his players, the more the number of All-Stars, the better...
Because of this year's All-Star, Richard will appear as the coach of the Western Conference!
The Trail Blazers are currently the first in the Western Conference record, Richard naturally became the right to become the Western All-Star coach!
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