Chapter 105 [Off-field triangle offense, favorable butterfly effect]
In January, the Suns lost four more games, with 36 wins and 10 losses, and the Thunder, with a slight victory of 35 wins and 11 losses, ranked first in the league.
In the last game of this month on the 30th, the Suns beat the Nets at home 41 points.
Guo Xu beat out the character player Delon Williams, who was completely energetic, only played in 30 minutes to make 11 of 15 shots, 8 of 11 of 3-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, and the Nets only had three three-pointers in the game. Two of them were still after the garbage time entered the final quarter. The marginal small forward Telitovic scored 10 points in the last quarter, which prevented the Nets from losing more than 50 points.
The Nets' record is an astonishing 20 wins and 26 losses, and they are currently ranked eighth in the Eastern Conference and barely enter the playoffs.
If it were in the West, teams that achieved such a record in half could basically start to play badly, unless they were teams like the F4 Lakers in the Parallel World to create miracles.
The Lakers' free throws in the second half of the year were terrifying, and the stars made various body fouls, and the number of free throws of their rival Jazz suddenly dropped to the last in the league. In this way, they created miracles under the leadership of the referee and entered the playoffs. They were swept out in the first round, touching countless people.
Unfortunately, the Nets obviously won't receive this kind of treatment.
At the end of November last year, Gentry, who wanted Deron to be the core pick-and-roll tactics, was fired, and the Nets signed Mike Brown, the "bread" cut by the Cavaliers.
Coach Brown, who has led the Cavaliers to the finals many times, has passed his peak period. He cannot make the Nets cooperate or strengthen the team's defense. He is more like a puppet coach.
The three stars of the Nets have gone astray and have entered a selfless state of "I love to hit the back, hit the back makes me happy". They also played an alternative "triangle attack" off the court. At the press conference Howard, Deron and Kobe are used to bickering.
Delong and Howard also had conflicts. He wanted to play pick-and-roll with Howard, but he couldn't understand each other. He felt the pain of Mitsui Shou when he encountered the ball blind inside player Akagi Takaki.
Howard, who was in a strong body, felt the pain of Sakuragi Hanamichi being snatched away by Rukawa Kaede and watched Rukawa Kaede take action wildly.
Kobe experienced the pain of only 15 shots per game, and he has not been so miserable since 1998.
Brown is very relaxed. Anyway, the contract is signed and there will be a penalty for dismissal. The players will be disobedient.
If Howard and Gasol are in the interior, the team's tactics can be more abundant, and they can occasionally play inside passes and cooperate. With Brachi, Jamison, and Evans, Howard, who can only fight alone, the three of them are still poor in defense.
What Howard is most annoying is Evans. He is not good at defending as a blue-collar worker, and he is not active in changing the controls, and always huddles near the penalty area and waits for rebounds. Does Howard need someone else's help? His 203m height defense area is also very bad at interfering with the shooting.
Spark Happy Beast played for 35 minutes, and the data dropped to 16.3 points, 12.5 rebounds, 1.4 assists, 1.1 steals and 2.4 blocks, and only 10.4 shots per game.
He was almost crazy, with a shooting percentage of 58%, and with a shooting percentage of 43% and 44%, Pierce made crazy moves.
Before the Stars Weekend in February, the Suns did not lose again, and there was a relatively relaxed schedule. The only challenge I encountered was the two battles of the Thunder, and they all won.
Guo Xu worked hard at home, scoring 30 points and 11 assists, and the team easily won 14 points.
When he played against the Thunder again away on February 14, Guo Xu became more depraved, scoring only 11 points and 10 assists, with a shooting percentage of only 40% and not many shots.
However, the Suns won easier than playing. They played for 4 minutes in the last quarter and entered garbage time. The Thunder players were collectively in a downturn, with only two scoring in double digits.
Durant scored 40 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 blocks with a 50% shooting percentage. Westbrook made 7 of 19 shots, 0 of 2 three-pointers and 7 of 8 free throws, and scored 21 points, 5 rebounds and 10 assists with a 36.8% shooting percentage.
Guo Xu lazily gave Wei Shao a jump shot, but he still had no hit rate.
After this game, it was the All-Star Weekend. Even though Guo Xu averaged only 18.3 points, 2.4 rebounds, 14.1 assists and 1.5 steals per game, which was obviously a lazy way of playing, he was still elected as the voter.
The other four in the West are Chris Paul, Durant, Griffin, and Serge Ibaka.
The butterfly effect that is favorable to Ibaka happened like this, and he actually became the West. He averaged 32.9 minutes per game in the mid-game, scored 15 points, 8.6 rebounds, 1 assist, 0.5 steals, 3.2 blocks, shot 53.3%, three-point shooting percentage 36.3%, and averaged 0.6 goals per game.
After Gasol left, Ibaka, who was in good health, took on more offensive tasks, and he often gave out domineering dunks and big hats, which attracted a large group of fans.
There are few star inside players in the Western Conference this year. After Gasol Jr. joined the Grizzlies, he was injured quickly this season and missed the All-Star vote. The Lakers' Bogut was injured again and was reimbursed, with a shooting percentage of only 45%, becoming a glass man blue-collar man.
The Thunder's Horford is the third leader in the team, averaging 14.2 points, 9.6 rebounds and 3 assists per game. His data and popularity are not as good as Ibaka.
This season, NBA has revised the voting rules for the All-Star Game, cancelled the voting for the center position, and set up three forward players. This decision means that NBA's All-Star voting in the new season will be a combination of "3 forward players + 2 defenders".
"This change makes a lot of sense." Vice President Jackson explained why the NBA changed the rules of All-Star voting. "We found that the center was the only position in the All-Star voting where only one person could be the starter, and the concept of center sounded a bit outdated."
According to Jackson, after the rules change, if there are two very outstanding centers in a certain year, the fans can choose them all, and they may be selected as the last All-Star starter, which is impossible under the original rules.
If the center selection had not been cancelled, Ibaka's main power forward would have not competed with Griffin and Durant. The rules would have made him win 570,000 votes, slightly better than Bosh's 520,000 votes.
Seven substitutes in the Western Conference: Westbrook, Harden, Curry, Brooke Lopez, Bosh, Duncan, and Aldridge.
After Gasol Jr. was injured, the Grizzlies had average record, and Gasol Grizzlies was not selected as the All-Star. There were not many good players in the Western Conference's data, and only Gasol Grizzol and Ellis were called "leftovers".
Curry was selected for the first time in his career, averaging 23 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in the mid-game, shooting percentage of 46.2%, three-point shooting percentage of 45.3%, and free throws of 90%. His real shooting percentage is as high as 61%, and his data and scoring efficiency overwhelmed Kobe. However, his popularity can only rank third among the Western Conference guards and failed to score.
Lopez averaged 19.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game in 30 minutes, which also proved his strength and high efficiency.
Roy and Thompson shared the number of shots, and Thomas, the sixth-man in the substitute, would also split some ball rights, resulting in the average data of the two swingers, averaging 15.2 points and 15.7 points per game, and failed to be selected into the Star Game.
Five Eastern players: Rajon Rondo, Wade, James, Stadameer, Howard.
Seven substitutes: Ju Holiday, David Lee, Paul George, Millsap, Cameron Anthony, Jokin Noah, JR Smith.
The Knicks' JR Smith's All-Star was also a butterfly effect. Because Garlinari was injured, he obtained a lot of shots, averaging 19 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3 assists per game in the mid-game.
Chapter completed!