Chapter 568: All-Star First Round Voting
Twenty-eight wins in a row!
The Spurs have completed the overtaking of the Heat and made the impossible possible!
Since then, the Heat has become the owner of the third consecutive winning streak in history, and only the legendary Lakers are left in front of the Spurs.
So, if you look at it from the perspective of the modern NBA (schedule, number of teams, etc.), it's okay to say that the Spurs are the first in a row.
Popovich, after coming up with the "Death Five" tactics this year, has managed to win 28 consecutive victories, if nothing else, this year's best coach has no run.
And Popovich did follow his style, and as soon as he won 28 in a row, he announced that several players on the team were unwell and would likely miss or reduce their playing time for the upcoming games.
The most typical is Uncle Duncan, Uncle Deng has rested for two games before this game, but in order to ensure a twenty-eight consecutive victory, he still went up to play for a while in this game, and because the knight deliberately gave away the head, Duncan was originally estimated to play for thirty minutes, and finally only played for twenty minutes and came down, and the data is also a very economical 12+10 small double.
But this rotation system has ensured Duncan's fitness and fitness to some extent, and now he has no problem scoring 20+ points per game, but there is no need for that at all. The team doesn't need to rely on him to score as many points before they can win.
Now Duncan's task is very simple, which is to defend well, and then help the little brothers wipe their butts, and finally if Duncan stands up and stabilizes the morale of the army at the critical moment of the game.
After all, Duncan is also a team soul-level existence! (Banner is also the soul of the team haha)
As for the remaining two people in GDP, although Parker is still doing the main work, but at the beginning of this season, Parker paid more attention to organizing the offense, and his scoring came more from counterattacks, especially fast-break steals and counterattacks, and the Spurs' fast-break arrows definitely had a position for Parker.
As for Ginobili, although he still plays the sixth man, but because Maddie is in good shape now, they actually share the position of the sixth man, and the pressure on Ginobili has been reduced a lot at once, he and Maddie and Green, Dior, Mills and others are regular substitute rotation lineups, this rotation lineup is quite fierce except for being a little shorter! Especially under Popovich's improved version of the "Death Five" tactic, the Spurs' substitutes are often crushing the existence of the opposite substitutes, and the holes dug by the main force can be basically filled by the substitutes.
Of course, the Spurs also have Split, Banner, Belinelli and the like, as well as one or two people who play in the Development League, and they also play sometimes.
After this 28-game winning streak, the Spurs took several rotations off the main team at once! It's a great thing for the substitutes, but you don't have to take the opportunity to put in a good performance.
So, in the twenty-ninth game, the first stop of the long away game, the starting lineup of the Spurs is Split, Dior, Maddy, Ginobili and Mills!
That's right, you read that right, the original five starters are not all there, it's so capricious!
This made the Magic team who played against the Spurs quite happy, and the Magic even felt that they could play the Spurs Terminator!
But unexpectedly, Maddie, the former Magic No. 1, suddenly broke out when she was playing against her old club!
46 points! Maddie actually scored an unprecedented 46 points! And the hit rate is high! 16 out of 23! This is the second time he scored 40+ points after his last playoff game with the Jazz!
When Maddie scored everything on the court, Magic fans had the illusion that they wanted to go back to the days when Maddie was in the Magic, and no one could stop him!
Popovich said he was surprised after the game, this victory was really not in his plan, according to his plan, this game could be lost, and the Spurs were really ready to lose this game, the five main players were not there at the beginning, they just relied on a bunch of substitute rotation lineups to play, but I didn't expect Maddie to be able to kill it sideways and cut down a high score that I haven't seen for many years!
Watching the feeling of Maddie scoring, Popovich wondered if he had crossed over, wasn't this Maddie really the handsome teenager he was more than ten years ago?
Twenty-ninth consecutive win!
Relying on Maddie's rampage, the Spurs actually won another victory! stunned to narrow the gap with the Lakers' 33-game winning streak again!
For Qin Yan and the others, who didn't play, it was purely a lie down to win once, so when Maddie got off the field, a bunch of people surrounded him and worshiped the big guy one after another.
At this age, you can still score 46 points, and Maddie was really damaged by a group of old goblins.
And just when everyone was lamenting how the team had won again, a better news came, the results of the first voting for this year's All-Stars came out! Qin Yan is at the top of the list this year! Moreover, it's not just the top of the western list, he is currently the king of votes!
That's right, it's the king of tickets! Last year, Qin Yan was selected to join the Western All-Star, but although he was a starter, he was also a pseudo-starter, and he basically didn't do anything in the All-Star Game.
It's normal to have that treatment last year, after all, it's still a rookie, since Yao Ming topped O'Neal to become the starting center during his rookie period, the NBA's requirements for Chinese rookies are also a lot higher, although Qin Yan's data last year was also star-level, but he topped Paul's position in history.
Paul's data is also very luxurious, and his status is much higher than Qin Yan, so Qin Yan can only make way for Paul in the main game, although this is not Paul's original intention, but the NBA still has to talk about the rules, Qin Yan can also understand, anyway, last year he was already a double champion of three points and dunks, the limelight has been enough, it doesn't matter if you play in the main game.
But this year is different, Qin Yan will not participate in the three-point and slam dunk contest this year (he won't play it if he has played), and although he can participate in the rookie game, with his current strength, it is better not to go to the life of a professional rookie.
So this year, fans can actually expect him to perform in the main game, plus Qin Yan's ability is much stronger than last year, a series of high scores have made his reputation rise, close to the top few in the league, and with the addition of the Chinese market, it is difficult not to become the ticket king!
Moreover, there are many people who have an advantage in voting for the Spurs this year, and Duncan has returned to the top three in the frontcourt, although it is only temporary, but I believe that it is not difficult for Duncan to return to the All-Star Game stage this year, and Parker has also squeezed into the top five in the fierce backcourt competition in the West.
One can imagine how big a vote bonus the 29-game winning streak has given Spurs players.
Now, Qin Yan's fans hope that he can continue to give strength and then really win this year's ticket king!