Healing Basketball

   Chapter 619 619. Signs of the end of the center

More than ten days have passed since the night of the 80-point Miracle VS Miracle's 18-game winning streak. During this period, Kobe Bryant's most games were between 20 and 30 points, and he did not continue to soar. However, the Lakers have a very good record in the last 6 games. Yes, 4 wins and 2 losses, higher than the previous winning percentage of the Lakers.

   Liu Xiu's winning streak has also been broken, and he has no intention of rushing to 80+. He rarely even participates in interviews, and he is focused on his career.

   But the topic of the two has not gone down, because there are many scorers who are not calm, especially those who entered the NBA at the same time as Kobe Bryant and are currently in their prime, stimulated by Kobe's crazy performance.

McGrady's side, when playing against the Mavericks two days ago, made 15 of 28 shots in the first three quarters, including 6 of 10 three-pointers, plus 15 of 19 free throws, soaring 51 points, the Nets finished 82 to 74 after the third quarter. 8 points ahead of the Mavericks.

   But watching McGrady, who already had 51 points, continue to throw wildly in the final quarter, but he couldn't make any shots, and he also threw three non-sticks.

In the final quarter, he made 2 of 9 shots, and one of his goals was a three-pointer. With 1 of 2 free throws, he only scored 6 points. The final performance became 57 points on 17 of 37 shots, from an efficient 15 of 28 shots. I got 51 points in the middle, and it turned into a 20 iron brush points.

   The most critical thing is that the Nets were finally overturned by the angry Mavericks. The Mavericks scored 33-22 in the final quarter and reversed the Nets 107-104.

Carter said 'it will teach bad little friends', but he was honest in the game. When he played against the Bulls, he shot 36 times, a career high, but his performance was not bad. He made 18 of 36 shots, including 4 of 3-pointers. 2, plus 13 of 14 free throws, scored 51 points, the Pistons also defeated the Bulls 104-95.

  Iverson is the one who throws the hardest, and may be the only one in active service who has the ability to shoot 40 times while maintaining his shooting efficiency besides Kobe and Liu Xiu.

On the 23rd, Iverson threw 41 times when he played against the Spurs for the second time this season. Unfortunately, his performance was not good this time. He made only 17 of 41 shots, including 4 of 11 three-pointers, plus 10 of them. 9 free throws, only got 47 points, the 76ers lost to the Spurs 94-101.

  Others, Marbury, Francis, Hamilton, Arenas, Anthony, James, Wade all have a few games where the number of shots has surged.

During this period, the reporters and editors in charge of basketball news were all vying for attention in the NFL playoffs around the topic of 'who can surpass Kobe's 80 points'. Liu Xiu and Kobe were fighting for victory in a low-key manner. Deliberately vying for something, the popularity is still high.

   In Liu Xiu's opinion, compared with other scorers, Ray Allen is calm, just looking forward to his teammates to do Kobe a shot.

   Instead, he was himself, not as calm as the team thought…

  …

   Liu Xiu ignored Ray Allen who was suddenly convulsed. Sure enough, when he returned to the home team's training ground, when there were more people, the three-point king returned to normal.

   He has figured out the way to get along with Ray Allen - something to talk about, something to do, no need to communicate too much if you have nothing to do.

   Liu Xiu likes to make friends very much, but Ray Allen doesn't like to make friends anymore.

   The Trail Blazers had a prep meeting at 9 am.

   Huo Tuxian, who was in charge of presiding over the meeting, displayed the league's current record rankings on the screen.

  East: Pistons 37-8 first, Heat 28-16 second, Raptors 26-17 third, Pacers 33-11 fourth...

  Western: Blazers 37-7 first, Spurs 36-9 second, Lakers 25-18 third, Mavericks 29-16 fourth...

Huo Tu let the players watch for a while and said, "We have performed very well this month, we have only lost two games so far, but the Pistons and Spurs have only lost three games, and we have not played against the Pistons and Spurs. The team opened a real gap. The league's No. 1 position is not stable. We all know the strength of the Pistons. They are ready to overtake us at any time.

   We want to end the month with the No. 1 spot in the league, and tomorrow's game against the Lakers is critical.

The Lakers have ranked in the top five in the league this month and are currently 9-4, on par with the Pacers, only worse than us, the Pistons, and the Spurs, and their record is 16-14 at the end of 2005. Improve to 25 wins and 18 losses.

In addition to the record, we also have the Warden's MVP competition. We have won all 9 games in the first 9 games this month, plus the 9-game winning streak last month, and we have won 18 consecutive victories. The Warden has 76 points, which is very likely Get the best of the month. If he can win, the warden will have the best of the month twice this season, and will take the lead in the MVP competition.

   And the Warden's biggest competitor for the best of the month is our tomorrow's opponent, Lakers star Bryant..."

   Huo Tu gushed about the importance of tomorrow's game to the players, while the coach watched the players' reactions.

   When it came to the MVP race, he didn't see any surprises or unexpected reactions from the players' expressions.

   The coach whispered to the vice president who was also looking at the players: "It seems that no one is dissatisfied with our team helping the warden to fight for the MVP."

   Vice President nodded: "Yes, you are right, our cohesion may be better than we expected."

   "But I didn't expect you to let Lionel directly say this. I didn't expect you to be the most active one who wanted the warden to win the MVP." The coach's tone was full of curiosity.

  The vice president looked around. Shuai Bu was writing and drawing on the speech, making final adjustments for the next defensive training arrangement. The vice president approached the coach and whispered a few words.

   The coach laughed out loud when he heard the words, attracting the attention of everyone present, and he quickly waved his hand to indicate that he should not ignore him at this time.

   After people's attention returned to the meeting, the coach whispered to the vice president: "Do you have a grudge with Allen? Try to spend his money instead."

   The vice president replied helplessly: "No way, our income this season is overspending again, we have to find a way to increase our expenses."

   Coach: "...Fake!"

  …

On Liu Xiu's side, when he heard the chief assistant directly say the goal of competing for MVP, he was shocked for a moment, but he didn't find it strange. Normal teams would do this, but they said it directly in the team meeting. Rarely.

   But then his attention was drawn away by the data of Kobe's last 13 games in the projection screen.

   In the last 6 games, Bryant's lowest score was 22 points and his highest score was 29 points. In 6 consecutive games, the score was less than 30 points, but!

   Kobe's numbers this month are 43.4 points per game on 49 percent shooting from the field, 39.7 percent on three-pointers, 3.5 three-pointers per game, and 13.4 free throws per game.

   Nearly half of the games scored less than 30 points and averaged 43.4 points per game!

In the 6 games where Kobe scored less than 30 points, it can be seen that he gave up data in order to win. Liu Xiu watched a Kobe game on the 21st. When playing three games, Kobe would still pass the ball. After all The purpose of having good numbers is to win.

Judging from the current situation, Kobe has not run at 40+ per game this month. He has averaged 40+ per game for two months in the first three months of the game. So far, he has 40+ in 15 single games... Liu Xiuya feels that Kobe Bryant is 05 in his impression. -The 2006 season is even harder?

  Anyway, the active players kept by his warden have a maximum of 40+ times in a single season and 21 times in a single season. It is estimated that he will not be able to last for February... But I ask the opponents of the great God to give more strength, at least to survive the All-Star weekend!

  …

   After practice in the morning, the Blazers players gathered in the lounge to watch the live broadcast.

   At noon the day before yesterday, all-star voting has ended, and today is the day to announce the results of the vote.

   Liu Xiu waited until the votes were announced and the extrajudicial fanatic called him before he entered.

   There are really no surprises. The first vote was Kobe Bryant, who won the second All-Star vote of his career with 2.66 million votes, beating James with 2.49 million votes and Carter with 2.38 million votes.

  Liu Xiu received 2.33 million votes, ranking second in the West and fourth in the league.

   At the end of the first stage of voting, Carter ranked first, Kobe overtook in the second stage, and in the third stage, James rushed up again.

Although Liu Xiu has done a good job in psychological construction, there is a high probability that he will not be able to win the ticket king this year. The fans have spelled out two ticket kings for him. It has been very hard, especially the first ticket king. At that time, he had to support the fledgling. It's really not easy for him, the fans, so this year he didn't make any remarks related to the All-Star vote king.

   But I really didn't get it, there is still a trace of sadness...

   In addition, the NBA has revised the voting rules, and there are many restrictions on fan votes outside North America... In fact, the number of votes of fans in the Chinese market is limited.

   But this trace of sadness, when Liu Xiu saw the Eastern Conference All-Star starting list and the center's vote ranking, he didn't feel sad.

   Isn't this even worse!

   His warden was selected as the starter anyway.

   Yao Ming beat O'Neal with 1.75 million votes and was selected as the All-Star starter for 4 consecutive years, defeating O'Neal for the third time in 4 years!

   Both are miserable. Yao Ming and O'Neal are in the East, and the votes are not high.

   East starter:

   Guards: McGrady with 2.31 million votes, Iverson with 2.06 million votes, Forward: Carter with 2.38 million votes, James with 2.49 million votes, Center: Yao Ming with 1.91 million votes.

   West starter:

   Guard: Liu Xiu with 2.33 million votes, Nash with 1.61 million votes, Forward: Kobe with 2.66 million votes, Garnett with 1.88 million votes, Center: Duncan with 1.94 million votes.

Liu Xiu looked at the number of votes for the back line in the West. The third place was Ray Allen with 1.49 million votes. After Kobe was placed in the forward position by the league, Ray Allen had a chance to rush up, but he couldn’t stand Nash’s performance this season. The season is even tougher, and in the end Ray Allen still couldn't compete with Nash.

   But Ray Allen still dragged Nash into the All-Star starter with the lowest number of votes.

  The Trail Blazers also have a bad luck, Kwame Brown, who won the second vote in the center position, with 1.85 million votes!

   Yao Ming has gone to the East and Stoudemire is out for the season. If the league does not put Duncan in the center position, Kwame Brown will most likely be selected as the starter, because the center position in the West is unprecedentedly weak this year!

   (end of this chapter)