Chapter 698: Unity, Boring Competition
Paul George is also not ambiguous:
"I'll play normally, as for MVP, it's up to luck!"
Paul George also wants to win the championship, after being in the league for so long, Paul George is famous enough and is also a superstar, but Paul George basically does not have a reputation, and the All-Star Game MVP is already rare for Paul George.
But Paul George's character is quite good among blacks, and he is quite polite.
On the contrary, Anthony Davis was more direct: "I'll grab more rebounds and shoot, and as for MVP, I'm not going to fight for it." ”
Brother Thick Eyebrows is famous enough, but he is not very qualified.
Now Brother Bushy is really not in the mood to compete for the MVP of the All-Star Game.
After the three of them finished speaking, Qin Yang was the final summary:
"All-Star Game MVP, just the three of you play, whoever plays well will take it, as for the tactics, it's very simple, me, Klay, Stephen shoot more threes, the others hold the ball, give us cover passes, and have the opportunity to attack the basket directly. Everybody plays like a role player, everybody doesn't hold the ball for more than three seconds, either shoots, passes, or layups, everybody boosts their speed to the extreme. ”
"We're not just going to win, we're going to win nicely!"
Qin Yang was aggressive.
The Qinyang team's lineup is too strong, and they are better at shooting, especially three-point shooting, and from this point of view, the probability of the team winning is very high.
After talking about the game, the group began to have a meal.
To be honest, there are very few things that can be talked about during the dinner, although this team of people is relatively familiar with Qin Yang, but there are some things that they can't say.
When talking about the playoffs, DeRozan, Lowry, Paul George and others in the East looked depressed.
Paul George was even more blunt:
"With James here, it's too difficult to reach the finals in the East, let alone win the championship, and in the past five years, the East has been James' world."
When James was with the Heat, Wade and Bosh assisted, and the Big Three were terrifying.
James is on the Cavaliers, with Irving and Kevin Love on their side.
The two Big Three lineups are very rare in history, this kind of lineup is definitely a championship-level lineup, as long as you play hard, there is a high probability of winning the championship.
For this kind of thing, many players in the west can't speak.
At least the east is okay, the competition is not so fierce, the teams in the west are all strong teams, Qin Yang because of injury, the team's record has declined, and he almost can't even enter the playoffs.
Chris Paul is so strong, plus Griffin and Jordan Jr., he can't even enter the Western Conference Finals, which can be described as extremely sad.
In this respect, the east is slightly better than the west.
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On February 13th, Qin Yang was invited to participate in the All-Star Celebrity Game.
In the All-Star Game that Qin Yang participated, this year's All-Star Game was the most tired for the first time, because in this year's All-Star Game, Qin Yang, as a Chinese, was welcomed by many fans in Toronto, and must appear in every open game to attract fans, which is the league's requirement for Qin Yang.
Qin Yang had no choice.
In this Celebrity Tournament, Qin Yang met many acquaintances, and Nash, Maddie and others, who had retired, appeared again in the Celebrity Tournament.
What's even more embarrassing is that a Chinese star also participated.
Qin Yang stood on the bench in the middle of the game and Nash spoke, and the player ran over to shake hands with Qin Yang.
"Bruce, I'm your fan."
This player is of average height, which is considered tall among ordinary people, but compared with basketball players, it is more average, plus it is more ...... Mother's appearance, but it looks like she wants to be a star.
"Hello, nice to meet you, you played well."
Qin Yang greeted politely, but he didn't really want to talk at all.
It was this young man who said it like a river: "My name is Wu Yifan, thank you for the compliment, in fact, I once dreamed of becoming a professional basketball player." ”
Qin Yang listened very helplessly, and was finally forced to take a photo with this star.
Everyone has made such a request, Qin Yang can't refuse in front of so many people.
The celebrity competition is very boring, Qin Yang's appearance is more like a mascot, Qin Yang praised everyone before and after the game, and there was no problem with what he said.
The Masters was followed by the Rookie Challenge.
This year it's still the U.S. team and the international team, and it's pretty boring. In the end, Zach LaVine won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge with 30 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists.
This was followed by the Skills Challenge in the All-Star Game.
This year's Skills Challenge was interesting because there was a lot of controversy about the people who participated.
In addition to Beverley, McCollum. In addition to Isaiah Thomas and Clarkson, the other four players in the competition are Cousins, Draymond Green, Anthony Davis and Carl Anthony Downs.
Generally speaking, there is no limit to the position of the Skill Challenge.
But this kind of game requires a lot of penetration, passing, layups and shooting ability.
Therefore, most of the players participating are guards, mostly point guards, and it is a joke that the inside line participates in this kind of game, and ten years ago, there was never an inside player who participated in such a game.
But......
This year, four people did so.
You can see the trend of the alliance.
Fans have seen the players participate, and there are four inside lines, and they don't feel anything, but those who really notice will find that these four inside lines have their own characteristics, and none of them are traditional inside lines.
Traditional inside superstars simply can't survive in this era.
Changes in the rules of the NBA have made interior players faster and faster, and more and more outside.
And the final winner of this year's Skills Challenge was Carl Anthony Downs, a pure interior player who also represents the future direction of the interior line.
The results of the Skills Challenge were unexpected, but they were normal.
On the one hand, Downs' strength is really strong, and he is the most like the outside line, which is representative, and on the other hand, the defenders who participate in the skills challenge are too vegetable.
There are no superstar guards, and the biggest card among them is Beverley.
The bleak situation can be seen.
The Skills Challenge was followed by a slam dunk contest, one of the most influential events in the All-Star Game. Compared with the slump in the slam dunk contest in previous seasons, the slam dunk contest has regained attention in recent seasons, because the players participating in the dunk contest are getting stronger and stronger.
In this year's slam dunk contest, the contestants are Zach LaVine, Andre Drummond, Will Barton and Aaron Gordon.
Of the four, Will Barton is the least recognizable player.
But apart from him, Andrea Drummond is the noted interior monster, and Aaron Gordon and Zach LaVine have become the representatives of the league's new generation of dunk monsters.
After the first round, Zach LaVine and Aaron Gordon reached the final.
This time, the most intense scene of the slam dunk contest took place.