Legend of Tomorrow

In January, the Suns lost another four games, finishing with 36 wins and 10 losses, slightly better than the Thunder's 35 wins and 11 losses, ranking first in the league.

In the last game on the 30th of this month, the Suns defeated the Nets at home by 41 points.

Guo Xu defeated Deron Williams, a role player who was completely exhausted. He only played 30 minutes and made 11 of 15 shots, 8 of 11 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 32 points and 7 assists.

Thompson also had the upper hand against Kobe, making 8 of 13 shots, 5 of 9 three-pointers, 2 of 2 free throws, and scored 23 points.

The Suns made 20 three-pointers in the game, while the Nets only had three in the game. Two of them were made by fringe small forward Telitovich after entering garbage time in the final quarter. He scored 10 points in the final quarter. The Nets didn't lose by more than 50 points.

The Nets' record is an astonishing 20 wins and 26 losses, temporarily ranking eighth in the Eastern Conference and barely making the playoffs.

If we were in the Western Conference, a team with such a record in the middle of the season would basically start to fail, unless it was a team like the F4 Lakers in the parallel world that could create miracles.

The Lakers had a horrific number of free throws in the second half, and the stars committed various body hair fouls. In addition, the number of free throws of the rival Jazz suddenly dropped to the bottom of the league. Only in this way did they create a miracle under the leadership of the referee and enter the playoffs. They were defeated in the first round. Sweeping out of the competition touched countless people.

Unfortunately, the Nets obviously won't get this treatment.

At the end of November last year, Gentry, who wanted Deron to be the core and focus on pick-and-roll tactics, was fired. The Nets signed Bread Mike Brown, who was waived by the Cavaliers.

Coach Brown, who has led the Cavaliers to the Finals many times, is past his prime. He cannot make the Nets more cooperative or strengthen the team's defense. He is more like a puppet coach.

The three stars of the Nets have gone crazy and entered a selfless state of I love post-up play, post-up play makes me happy. They also played an alternative triangle offense off the court. Howard, Deron, and Kobe often bickered during press conferences.

Deron also had conflicts with Howard. He wanted to play pick-and-roll with Howard, but he couldn't understand each other. He felt the pain of Hisashi Mitsui, the best player in the country, when he encountered the ball-blind inside player Takenori Akagi.

Howard, who has a strong body, felt the pain of Sakuragi Hanamichi being stolen from the limelight by Rukawa Kaede and watching Rukawa Kaede's crazy attacks.

Kobe experienced the pain of averaging only 15 shots per game. He has not been so miserable since 1998.

Brown is quite relaxed. The contract is signed anyway, and he will get liquidated damages if he is fired. If the player disobeys, it will just be spent like this.

If Howard and Gasol partner inside, the team's tactics can be richer, and they can occasionally play inside and outside to cooperate. Howard can only play one-on-one with Blatche, Jamison, and Evans, and the defense of those three is still poor.

The most annoying thing for Howard is Evans. As a blue-collar defender, he can't do well in defense. He is not active in switching pick-and-rolls and always hangs near the penalty area waiting to grab rebounds. Does Howard need help? His height of 203cm is also very poor in preventing shot interference in the penalty area.

Spark Happy Beast played 35 minutes, and his data dropped to 16.3 points, 12.5 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.1 steals, and 2.4 blocks, averaging only 10.4 shots per game.

He was going crazy, shooting 58% from the field, and looking at the crazy shots of Kobe and Pierce who shot 43% and 44%.

Before the All-Star Weekend in February, the Suns did not lose any more games and had a relatively easy schedule. The only challenge they encountered was the two games against the Thunder, both of which they won.

Guo Xu worked harder at home, scoring 30 points and 11 assists, and the team easily won by 14 points.

In another away game against the Thunder on February 14, Guo Xu deteriorated, scoring only 11 points and 10 assists, shooting only 40% and not taking many shots.

However, it was easier for the Suns to win than to play, and they entered garbage time after 4 minutes in the final quarter. The Thunder players were in a collective downturn, with only two scoring in double figures.

Durant scored 40 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks with a 50% shooting rate. Westbrook made 7 of 19 shots, 0 of 2 three-pointers, and 7 of 8 free throws.

He scored 21 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists with a 36.8% shooting rate.

Guo Xu lazily let Wei Shao take a jump shot, but he still had no shooting percentage.

After this game came the All-Star Weekend. Even though Guo Xu only averaged 18.3 points, 2.4 rebounds, 14.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game, which was obviously a lazy way of maintaining health, he was still elected as the top vote-getter.

The other four starters in the West are Chris Paul, Durant, Griffin, and Serge Ibaka.

The butterfly effect that was beneficial to Ibaka just happened, and he actually became the starter in the Western Conference. He averaged 32.9 minutes per game in the mid-term, scoring 15 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.5 steals and 3.2 blocks, shooting 53.3% from the field, 36.3% from three-point range, and averaging 0.6 goals per game.

After Gasol left, the physically superior Ibaka took on more offensive tasks. In addition, he often delivered domineering dunks and big blocks, and he gained a large number of fans.

There are not many star big men in the Western Conference this year. After Gasol joined the Grizzlies, he was injured quickly this season and missed the All-Star vote. The Lakers' Bogut was injured again and shot only 45% from the field, becoming a blue-collar man of glass.

The Thunder's Horford is the team's third leader, averaging 14.2 points, 9.6 rebounds and 3 assists per game. His statistics and popularity are not as good as Ibaka's.

This season, the NBA has modified the voting rules for the All-Star Game, eliminating voting for the center position and instead establishing three forward players. This decision means that the NBA All-Star voting for the new season will be a combination of 3 strikers + 2 guards.

This change makes perfect sense. Vice President Jackson explained why the NBA would change the rules for All-Star voting. We found that center is the only position where only one person can become a starter in All-Star voting, and the concept of center It sounds a little outdated.

According to Jackson, after the rules are changed, if there are two very outstanding centers in a certain year, then fans can select them both, and they may also be selected as the final All-Star starter. Under the original rules This is impossible to do.

If the selection of centers had not been cancelled, Ibaka would have been unable to compete with Griffin and Durant as the main power forward. The rules allowed him to become the starter with 570,000 votes, slightly better than Bosh's 520,000 votes.

Seven substitutes in the Western Conference: Westbrook, Harden, Curry, Brook Lopez, Bosh, Duncan, Aldridge.

After Gasol was injured, the Grizzlies' record was mediocre, and Gasol was not selected for the All-Stars. There are not many good players in Western Data, and the only ones who can be called legacy pearls are Gasol and Ellis.

Curry was selected for the first time in his career. In the mid-term, he averaged 23 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists per game, shooting 46.2% from the field, 45.3% from the three-point range, and 90% from the free throw line. His true shooting percentage is as high as 61%, and his statistics and scoring efficiency completely overwhelm Kobe. However, his popularity can only rank third among Western Conference guards and he has not been included in the starting lineup.

Lopez averaged 19.3 points and 6.8 rebounds in 30 minutes per game, which also proved his strength and high efficiency.

Roy and Thompson shared the number of shots, and the substitute sixth man Thomas also took away some of the ball. As a result, the two swingmen's data were average, averaging 15.2 points and 15.7 points per game, and they were not selected for the All-Star Game.

The starting five in the Eastern Conference: Rajon Rondo, Wade, James, Stoudemire, Howard.

Seven substitutes: Jrue Holiday, David Lee, Paul George, Millsap, Carmelo Anthony, Joakim Noah, JR Smith.

The Knicks' J.R. Smith's selection to the All-Stars was also a butterfly effect. Because Gallinari was injured, he got a lot of shots and averaged 19 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3 assists in the mid-term.

But Smith is in a contract year. If the Knicks want to keep him in the summer, they will definitely have to offer a high salary...