NBA: James wants to team up with me

The two wins over the Heat did not make the Cavaliers players become complacent, because at this stage their biggest rival in the East is no longer the Big Three of the Miami Heat, but Wang Chong's old team, the Chicago Bulls.

The Bulls' record in the new season really surprised many people. Who could have thought that after Wang Chong left, Curry of the Bulls would stand out and become the core of the team, and even Butler, a blue-collar player who could only be responsible for defense on the court when Wang Chong was there, could play with All-Star level data of 20+5 per game?

This has led to the Bulls' continued success in the new season, closely following the Cavaliers, with the difference in wins between the two teams being less than 3 games.

If things continue at this pace, there will likely be two teams in the Eastern Conference with 65+ regular season wins this season, further confirming the saying that the East is strong and the West is weak.

On February 2, the All-Star Weekend was held at Madison Square Garden, the home of the New York Knicks.

Let’s skip the previous Rookie Challenge, Three-Point Contest, Slam Dunk Contest and other competitions for now. The highlight of this All-Star Game is the captain’s battle after the reform.

Team Wang Chong vs. Team Davis, a matchup that is different from previous East-West battles, has attracted great anticipation from many fans.

After a bunch of fancy performances and introductions, the All-Star Game officially began.

Wang Chong's team starting lineup: Curry, Irving, Wang Chong, Griffin and Duncan.

The starting lineup of Team Davis: Westbrook, Harden, James, Durant and Davis.

Judging from the quality of the starting lineup, Davis' team is definitely better. It is still difficult to say which position is stronger or weaker, but the inside combination of Griffin and Duncan is definitely the weakest two players on the court.

At the start of the game, Davis and Duncan easily won the jump ball. The elderly Duncan just jumped symbolically and had no intention of arguing with Davis seriously.

There is no way, time is a butcher's knife. As the No. 1 pick, Duncan was definitely able to crush Davis when he was young, but now he can only sigh, "Young people are in great shape."

Davis' team has the ball. Westbrook dribbles across half court. James on the side habitually raises his hand and wants to take the ball to control the game.

But as soon as he raised his hand, he saw Westbrook rushing into the restricted area carrying the basketball as if he was carrying a pack of dynamite.

The All-Star Game itself is a performance game. Seeing Westbrook rushing into the restricted area so fiercely, no one really ran up to defend him. The latter rushed to the basket and jumped up, scoring with a tomahawk slam dunk, which successfully drew cheers from the audience.

James didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at this time. He just thought that Westbrook had a strong desire to perform, so he went on the field without looking at the positions of his teammates.

But when Wang Chong's team attacked, Wang Chong received a pass from Curry in the low post and made his signature back-to-back shot to tie the score, but Westbrook actually charged forward with the ball again.

This time James couldn't help but be shocked.

"This kid... is a bit lonely!"

This is not James' fault. This is his first time playing with Westbrook, and he is a little uncomfortable with the opponent's playing style that is almost identical to his own.

Durant also thinks Westbrook is a bit unique, because in the previous offensive round, Durant rushed into the penalty area with a beautiful counter-run. As long as Westbrook throws the basketball into the sky, he can complete an alley-oop dunk.

But Westbrook didn't even look at Durant and just played his own game.

This made Durant feel a little unhappy.

But if Wang Chong knew what Durant was thinking at this moment, he would probably not be able to help but say, "You kid, just be content. Do you know that there is a saying circulating in another time and space that the only one who can defend you is Westbrook?"

Not to mention that the All-Stars didn’t pass the ball to you, even if you two are on the same team and you are the big brother of the team, they can still ignore you glaringly. Do you have a temper?

Wang Chong thinks that Durant was spoiled by Rondo. After all, the Durant in this time and space has been playing with a point guard like Rondo who is better at assists than points since entering the league. Basically, he will receive the pass from the opponent as soon as possible when there is an open position.

After only a few rounds of the game, everyone could clearly see Westbrook's unusual enthusiasm. It was obvious that he had some plans for this All-Star Game, and it seemed that he wanted to get an All-Star AMVP as a consolation.

This is not surprising. As the leader of the Thunder, Westbrook has not won any substantial honors so far.

In fact, the winner of the 2015 All-Star AMVP was Westbrook. He came on as a substitute, but almost monopolized all the ball when he was on the court. He played for 25 minutes and took 28 shots, averaging at least one shot per minute.

In the All-Star game with almost no defense, Westbrook made 28 of 16 shots, scored 41 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist, and successfully won the All-Star AMVP trophy.

As a point guard, only one assist in a game is a bit ugly, but how can I care about the secular view? If he really cared, he would not have changed the triple-double from a positive word to a negative word in the future, realizing the real triple-double data inflation.

However, it will be a bit difficult for Westbrook to win the All-Star AMVP this time, because unfortunately Wang Chong suddenly had the urge to win the All-Star AMVP for once in a long time.

The biggest difference between his team and that of Davis is that Wang Chong's team is full of human relationships.

Irving and Curry, one the current and one the ex-boyfriend, were fooled by Wang Chong and they wanted to share the same husband. Whenever Wang Chong wanted to attack, they would pass the ball to him as soon as possible.

Duncan was just a supporting role and was substituted out after just a few minutes on the court. He was replaced by Gasol Jr.

As for Griffin... he is the lowest-ranking player among the All-Star starters, has no presence at all, and is not expected to have any highlight performance in the All-Stars, nor will he compete with Wang Chong.

To sum it up in one sentence: "The referees, the assistant referees, the organizers, and the co-organizers are all my people. How can they fight me?"

The entire first quarter of the All-Star game became a solo match between Wang Chong and Westbrook. James, Durant, and captain Davis himself all became supporting roles, looking at Westbrook and Wang Chong in silence as they played.

But how can Westbrook's offensive firepower be compared with Wang Chong?

王崇首节9投7中，三分球3中2，单节轰下16分。

而威斯布鲁克则11投5中，罚球2中1，得到11分。

As a result, Wang Chong's team led by 42 points in the first quarter with 34:8.

In the second quarter, Wang Chong continued to play, while Westbrook was kept on the bench.

In the All-Star game, Wang Chong can play however he wants. As the current No. 1 player in the league, whose historical status can compete with Jordan, he is fully qualified.

But Westbrook is different. He is surrounded by a group of big guys including James, Durant and captain Davis, but he just monopolizes the ball and is happy alone. Who can do that?

The Davis team replaced Paul, hoping to take this opportunity to catch up with the score difference.

But Wang Chong's team has Wang Chong on the court to control the temperature, so how can they get what they want? In the All-Star game, which is almost defenseless, Wang Chong's offensive firepower is probably only comparable to one person in the entire league, and that is Curry who has turned on the day-to-day mode.

I almost forgot, there is another possibility that can be done - after Klay Thompson turned on the Buddha's light, his hot touch was also exaggerated. After all, the league's future single-quarter scoring record will be held by him with 37 points in a single quarter.

However, Klay's Buddha's Light is activated less frequently than Curry's Curry Day mode, and is almost negligible.

What's more, Curry and Thompson are now on Wang Chong's side, so in terms of offense, the Davis team is no match at all. Even if James and Durant join forces, they can't catch up with the score.

Gradually, as the game progressed, the desire to win made the two teams gradually get angry. The Davis team took the lead in increasing the intensity of defense. James' movements became bigger when defending Wang Chong. He was no longer the All-Star who just moved his waist but not his legs.

Yo? Why are you so angry? If we get serious with you, will we be unable to defeat you?

Seeing this, Wang Chong's team also increased the intensity of their defense. At the beginning of the third quarter of the second half, the intensity of the confrontation between the two teams increased significantly, and the game became much more exciting and fierce, which made the fans watching the game very excited.

Of course, players who saw that the situation was not right, did not want to play hard on the court, and were accustomed to slacking off had been substituted.

The lineup of Wang Chong's team became Curry, Irving, Butler, Wang Chong and Gasol.

The lineup of Team Davis is Paul, Harden, James, Durant and Davis.

Westbrook, who was sitting on the bench, had a thousand horses running through his mind.

"Okay, you're all targeting me, right? Do you think I won't get the All-Star MVP award?"

Even though the team was obviously getting serious, Davis' team still couldn't take the initiative on the court. They are all top stars in the league and their strength is there. How could they be beaten unilaterally when they were all playing seriously?

Even Gasol did not lose out when facing Davis.

With Curry and Irving firing from beyond the three-point line and Wang Chong's consistently stable scoring efficiency, the gap between the two teams was further widened to more than double digits.

Throughout the third quarter, both teams scored surprisingly few points. Wang Chong's team scored 31 points, while Davis' team only scored 27 points. This is extremely rare in the All-Star Game where the offensive tempo is so fast and it is common to score 40+ or ​​even 50+ in a single quarter.

This is naturally related to the fact that both teams have become serious and the intensity of their defense has increased.

After three quarters, although the Davis team was 10 points behind, they were not without chances. After all, this was the All-Star Game and there were so many stars on the team. If any one or two of them exploded, the 10-point difference could be wiped out or even reversed in an instant.

But the Davis team should never have allowed Westbrook to return to the court in the fourth quarter. This was definitely a fatal decision.

As soon as Westbrook, who had been holding back for nearly two quarters, came on the court, the originally intense game suddenly changed its tone.

In just 6 minutes, Westbrook took 10 crazy shots, but only hit 3 goals under the high-intensity defense. His large number of inefficient attacks also allowed Wang Chong's team to seize the opportunity and launched a 10:2 offensive wave, causing the score difference to go straight to 20 points.

Six minutes later, Westbrook was substituted out, but the game had already lost its suspense and there was no need to struggle anymore.

At the end of the game, Wang Chong's team defeated Davis' team 157:139, winning the first All-Star Game with captain system in NBA history with a huge advantage of 18 points.

Throughout the game, Wang Chong made 22 of 15 shots, 9 of 5 three-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws, scoring 39 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists. He was unsurprisingly elected All-Star AMVP.

It has been a long time since we last saw this, because ever since Wang Chong started his championship journey, he has lost interest in the All-Star Game, a worthless show game. For several years in a row, he just played a supporting role in the All-Star Game, watching Kobe, James and others fight to the death for the AMVP trophy, and then happily pocketed the regular season MVP and Finals FMVP, hiding his achievements and fame.

But this time the All-Star Game was reformed at the suggestion of Wang Chong, and it has special symbolic significance, so Wang Chong doesn't mind taking it seriously occasionally.

It is worth mentioning that although Wang Chong won the AMVP, he was not the player with the most shots throughout the game. If we talk about recklessness, it would be Westbrook.

In just 22 minutes of playing time, Westbrook managed to take 25 shots, achieving the same feat as before where his shots were higher than his playing minutes.

However, due to the sudden change in the style of the All-Star Game in the second half and the increased defensive intensity, Westbrook failed to score 41 points as he originally intended. He made 25 of 11 shots, with a hit rate of only 44%. Even including free throws, Westbrook only got 27 points, 4 rebounds and 0 assists. Even if the Davis team wins in the end, he will not get the AMVP.

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The 2015 NBA All-Star Weekend ended with Wang Chong's team winning a great victory and Wang Chong gaining a lot.

This also means that the 14-15 regular season has entered its final sprint stage, with less than thirty games left to decide the sixteen teams that will make the playoffs this season.

Of course, teams like the Cavaliers and the Bulls, whose winning percentage has remained above 80% for many years, have already secured a place in the playoffs at this stage, but the two teams' records are too close, which has led to a competition between the two sides for the regular season record ranking.

As the biggest imaginary rivals in the playoffs and even on the road to the championship, both teams hope to have home-court advantage when they face off in the playoffs.

On this basis, Wang Chong and Curry are currently the top two players in the regular season MVP list. Wang Chong is better in terms of personal data, but Curry's progress is more obvious. In addition, Wang Chong is not well-received by the American media, so it is still questionable who will win the MVP of the 14-15 season.

But if the Cavaliers can get the best record in the league, Curry will most likely not be able to compete with Wang Chong. After all, the facts are there. The Cavaliers led by Wang Chong were the bottom team in the Eastern Conference last season. In Wang Chong's first year, he was able to lead them to the best record in the Eastern Conference. It really doesn't make sense if he doesn't get the MVP for this contribution.

You know, it seems that the Cavaliers' lineup is a bit exaggerated now, but no one thought so before the start of the new season.

At that time, the league was laughing at Wang Chong for going to the Cavaliers to help with poverty alleviation. A bunch of teammates were old and young, so how could they have any fighting power?

Who would have thought that now that the season is halfway through, the Cavaliers are still at the top of the league's standings?