You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 708 Kobe's Horrible Face (555)

The 76ers took advantage of a wave of ten consecutive victories before the All-Star weekend.

Now 46 wins and 7 losses.

Their record seems to be shining, reminding other teams that the number one in the league has been reserved, and you all fight for the second!
During the All-Star Weekend in 2014, the Philadelphia 76ers had three players selected for the main game.

They are Wesha, Hayward and Cousins.

This is also normal. Wei Xia is currently averaging 25.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 7.7 assists per game. He has played data similar to James.

Cousins ​​​​decided to snatch Howard's title as the number one center in the league. He is currently averaging 23 points, 12 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game.

Hayward's data is slightly inferior to the two of them, but he also averaged 17.7 points, 5.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game.

Whether fans admit it or not, 2012-2017 was the lowest point in the league.

The previous generation is getting old, the Mesozoic generation is not enough stars, and the new generation is not up to the top yet.

2014 was an extremely low-competition year, as you can tell by the quality of the All-Stars.

Just taking the Eastern Conference as an example, Joe Johnson averaged 15.8 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists per game. His presence made Hayward's All-Star selection a matter of course.

Paul Millsap averaged 17.9 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game, not bad, but not bad.

Chris Bosh, averaging 16 points and 6 rebounds
Gao Neng is here!

Roy Hibbert averaged 10.8 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.

10+6, all star?

Can anyone really tie this stat to the All-Stars?Hibbert can.

He's the perfect embodiment of how weak the league's stars were in 2014.

However, no one can refuse to participate in the All-Star just because of poor star taste this year.

The 76ers and a group of four hit the road.

When Jay Wright first entered the league, he was elected as the coach of the Eastern Star Team because of his excellent team leadership record.

Cousins ​​​​asked for more time for him to perform, and he wanted to play well.

Wright refused, because everyone knows that the biggest convenience of his head coach being the head coach of a star team is that he can deliberately reduce the playing time of the team's star players to ensure that they will not be fatigued.

Cousins ​​still wants more playing time?Isn't this a mess!
The playing time of Wei Xia and Cousins ​​was reduced to 28 minutes in the main game, and Hayward only played 8 minutes, almost just going up to feel the atmosphere.

That's how the main race was. Although it was the last big show, it was also the most boring part.

Individual competitions are more interesting than previous years, especially the three-point competition.There is a new rule for this year's three-point competition. You can designate a colored ball point for yourself to score points.This is simply announcing publicly which location is your hot spot, please take strict precautions in the future.

Hayward turned down the three-point contest.

Wei Xia turned down the dunk contest.

Someone actually invited Cousins ​​to participate in the skill competition, and he hung up the invitation call at that time: "Is the skill competition a competition for players with my physique to participate? The three-point competition is almost the same!"

Sometimes his teammates really don't know if he's being funny on purpose or if he's a comedic genius.

He obviously said this very angrily, but his teammates laughed out loud.

Kobe came to the scene as both spectator and mascot.

When the three-point match started, Wei Xia sat in a private room with him.

They watched the biggest disaster of the All-Star Game, Joe Johnson, begin his show.

In the three-point contest, it took him 56 seconds to shoot the first four points.Those who have studied shooting movements must know that his three-point shooting method is not suitable for shooting games, and since he was on the same team with Pierce, his shooting has become more and more grounded.He acted nonchalantly, as if on a business trip.

Didn't anyone tell him he can say no if he doesn't like it?
"This guy is a disaster."

Kobe shook his head.

Wei Xia has nothing to say. He even thinks that Johnson should not be selected as an All-Star. The Pacers' Lance Stevens and his former teammate Kyrie Lore are both eligible to be selected for the All-Star.

"Okay, you don't even have to fight." The truth is hurtful.

Kobe hesitated for a moment, then glared and said, "If you fucking bring up the game again, I'll throw you out of here!"

Regardless of Kobe's ability to do it or not, Wei Xia looked at how high the box was, and at a glance, he could tell that it was a height that could kill someone.

The Lakers were unlucky this year, Kobe came back for one game and then lay down again, Gasol was also reimbursed, Gasol was struggling alone, more and more people were injured during the season, and at one time only six people could play the game.

This is a disaster, but also an opportunity.

The Lakers are destined to compete for this year's No. [-] pick. Kobe took this opportunity to take a good rest and strive for a full comeback next season.

He was in the stage of missing the game, Wei Xia suddenly mentioned this, it's no wonder he wasn't angry.

Although Kobe was very annoyed by Wei Xia's heart piercing from time to time, they still watched the skills game and the three-point game together, and they just waited for the highlight of this year, the dunk contest.

This year, all the media are repeating this sentence: three All-Stars!Three All-Stars in the Slam Dunk Contest! ! The most gorgeous dunk contest lineup since 1988! ! !
Indeed, it has been a long time since the All-Stars participated in the dunk contest.

Since some self-esteemed guys don't want to be labeled as dunks, many younger generations have learned and learned, and no longer participate in the dunk contest.Then this kind of adrenaline-filled competition became the springboard for Jumpman to become famous.

But the jumpers' best dunks are often kept in their highlights, and the dunks brought to the game are always disappointing.

This year the league also ingeniously changed the format of the slam dunk contest.

It turns out that the new competition system is very special and extremely brain-dead.

Under the new rules, the alliance requires east and west divisions, with three players on each side; first everyone dunks freely, and then heads-up one by one, the loser is eliminated; whichever side wins three sets first wins.

The advantage of this comparison is obvious, because it is a one-on-one duel, so every round is a decisive battle, which will be very exciting.If George, Wall, Lillard, Barnes, Rose, and McClemo who participated in the game are talented, they should know how to create a gladiator-like feeling in each round.

However, it was absolutely wrong for the East to let George take the first kick.

He was caught in the scandal of an illegitimate child and couldn't extricate himself, and he was not in the mood to perform for the audience at all.He screwed up, and almost everyone else screwed up, and the whole thing was a disaster.

Those who have watched the video of the 1988 slam dunk contest can easily understand: Jordan's last dunk is so classic because the arrow is on the string, and he can't win without 49 points.It was this tension that made the classic.

And this is precisely the downside of the restructuring of the slam dunk contest.

In the end, the winner is East or West, not one person.

Moreover, after the East's three consecutive victories in this competition, the suspense disappeared immediately; there was no climax throughout the game, and everyone seemed to have rushed out of a perfect descendant worship service, and just wanted to fast forward to the end.

Looking back at history, we can actually find that a successful slam dunk contest is like a wonderful third-level movie.

The director must have his own artistic pursuit, the screenwriter must have a good script, and the actors must choose those "good" actors who can make the audience wait patiently for them to take off their clothes.

It is best to be a star with appeal, because a star represents a topic; Jordan's free throw line dunk can be remembered forever, who remembers Stackhouse's free throw line dunk?More importantly, you have to have someone who sets the court on fire, just like a porn movie has to have a hot enough heroine.

The reason why the slam dunk contest in 2000 was so shocking is still talked about. On the one hand, Carter, Tracy McGrady and Francis didn’t have any messy gimmicks or tricks in that dunk contest. They all dunked with live ammunition, which was more powerful and elegant than the dunking.

"that's all?"

After watching the individual events, Kobe was very disappointed.

"What else do you want?" Wei Xia thought he expected too much.

Bryant said: "If even these most enjoyable individual events can't make people happy, then there is nothing to look forward to in the All-Star Game."

Wei Xia admitted that the viewing of the All-Star Game is decreasing, but he knows that Kobe said this only because he cannot participate.

The next day, before the start of the All-Star Game, Wei Xia and Kobe were interviewed by ESPN at the same time.

The interviewer is a novice, he must be a novice.

"Wish, please briefly describe your relationship with Kobe."

Wei Xia looked at him silently, just like Duncan would look at the referee with wide eyes and innocently every time he was called a foul by the referee: look at my eyes and tell me where the foul is?

"Wish?"

"I have already answered you."

"But."

"Silence is my answer." Wei Xia smiled, "My relationship with Kobe cannot be described in words."

The reporter was easily given a set of Tai Chi by Wei Xia, and then he looked at Kobe.

"Kobe, you can't play today, what are you going to do when the game starts?"

Wei Xia laughed.

Kobe followed suit, Wei Xia laughed from the bottom of his heart, and Kobe gave a chilling sneer.His teammates knew how scary that smile was.

Wei Xia saw it countless times back then.

Kobe didn't notice the other party after he sneered. Since there were spectators at the scene and the camera was facing him, he could only say some scene words.

Wei Xia was sure that if there were no spectators nearby, this idiot would have been strangled to death by Kobe.

Kobe has never missed the game more than now, even if it is the All-Star Game without confrontation, asking what to do if Kobe can't play the game now is as sensitive as asking Paul George how he plans to deal with the illegitimate child incident.

Also, before Kobe spoke, Wei Xia's familiar sneer + fake smile came out.It was when he was still on the Lakers, Kobe always made that kind of voice that was very thick, unsatisfactory, hehehaha, every time he/Parker/Bynum/or other sluts like Wesha blasted Kobe, he would laugh angrily, and then he would have a terrible look of "I don't want to laugh, but sometimes I have to look very gregarious. I have long wanted to seal your broken mouth and put it in the refrigerator".

(End of this chapter)