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Chapter 320 The All-Star Weekend is about to begin!
So from the moment the referee blew the whistle to serve, all ten people on the field became playing around Xu Lang.

It's just that the five people on the Celtics team are trying their best to block Xu Lang from catching the ball, dragging their bodies to fight. The players of the Eagles even feel that they are not playing basketball now, but are engaging in high-intensity competition. Same as multiplayer fighting.

Of course, apart from Marc Gasol, the Eagles are not young in the NBA anymore. Even Darko Milicic stayed in a strong team like the Pistons who "defend (hei) defend (shou)" Three years of the Lord's.

Therefore, the five people on the Hawks team, including Xu Lang, unceremoniously began to use various methods in order to allow Xu Lang to receive the basketball and launch an attack.

Facts have proved that the Eagles, which have a complete tactical system, are not the team that the current Celtics can easily block all serve opportunities.

Therefore, in the end Xu Lang still got the basketball after Darko Milicic's transfer.

However, it was precisely because of Darko Milicic's transfer that the Hawks' own not-so-high six-second attack time was consumed by more than one second.

Therefore, after Xu Lang got the ball, the Eagles had only the last 4 seconds left to attack. This also gave Xu Lang no time to hesitate after getting the basketball, so he could only land and start attacking.

Then, the audience saw a scene that made them cheer!

In the face of Paul Pierce's entanglement, Xu Lang first raised his left arm to block Paul Pierce's certain defensive position.

Then he dribbled the ball behind his back, passed the ball from his right hand to his left hand, and took advantage of the situation to complete a back turn and a lateral move, successfully throwing away Paul Pierce's defensive position.

Xu Lang, who had the space to attack and shoot, did not hesitate, and he just collected the ball and planned to complete a long-range mid-range shot on the three-point line!

If everything in this game is over, Xu Lang is 70% sure that he can kill the opponent.

But just when Xu Lang felt that his shot was going to be steady this time.

He suddenly felt that his hand was empty. It turned out that Allen Eisen, who should have been attracted by Szczerbiak, appeared beside Xu Lang, and directly and decisively made a steal, knocking off the basketball in Xu Lang's hand. .

Although, the moment Xu Lang was intercepted by Iverson, he immediately reacted with his muscles and turned around to block Allen Iverson.

Taking advantage of the trend, he brought the lost basketball back into his control, but time is running out!

When Xu Lang got the ball again and was about to make a shot, the whistle for the end of the game officially sounded!
There is no doubt that Xu Lang, who has been the NBA lore king in the past two seasons, missed the final lore chance in this game.

Looking at Xu Lang with a dazed and annoyed face, Iverson, who had just completed the steal, came to his side with a light breath and said!
"Young people, the future may be yours, but the current NBA still belongs to the era of us old guys."

Iverson's belated response made Xu Lang suddenly have a sense of regret that he shouldn't have provoked Iverson just now.

"I think the real Big Four Celtics team that all the fans and viewers wanted to see finally appeared."

"At the same time, we also want to congratulate the Eagles management, they made the right bet the year before last.

The Eagles traded an All-Star player for a player who could take the Eagles to the top and dress to dominate an era. "

"After all, a team that has just been rebuilt for the second year can face the Celtics with two super giants and four All-Star players and play the strength that these players should have. It has been stalemate until the last second. , and almost turned back, the Eagles are already one of the fastest rebuilding teams in NBA history!"

"What's more, although the Eagles lost this game, the overall record of the Eagles is undoubtedly the first in the Eastern Conference and the league!"

"Yes, at this moment, what I want to say is that the future will belong to the Eagles and Xu Lang, but now the 2008 championship belongs to the Celtics."

The whole game kept trying to pick things up, but Eric, who was unsuccessful, looked at Iverson who was celebrating with the Celtics players at the end of the game, and said with emotion!
However, although Xu Lang didn't know if the future would be his.

But Xu Lang knew that if the Celtics could only maintain such a team strength, the 2008 championship would not belong to them.

After all, the Rockets brought by the Eastern giants in the west have completed a new assembly, the fuel is ready, and they are ready to soar into the sky and dominate the entire NBA.

What's more, Xu Lang doesn't think the Eagles will stand still this season.

As for this game, as I said before, at the moment when Xu Lang scored sixty points in a single game relying on his hard power.

Xu Lang was very satisfied with his performance in this game.

Although for this game, Xu Lang still felt a little regretful that he failed to lead the Eagles to victory in the game.

But for Xu Lang, losing is losing, and lack of strength is lack of strength.

Instead of worrying about winning or losing this game, Xu Lang felt that the next step is to see how he can complete more temporary tasks in the system and get some rewards that can improve his own strength and the strength of the team.

Besides, as Eric said, even if they lost the game against the Celtics, the Eagles are still ranked first in the league in terms of record.

Even with the current record ranked second in the league and the Rockets in the West, the Eagles still lead with a record of three wins even after counting this defeat.

As for the Celtics, who rushed to the second place in the Eastern Conference in February, the win gap has been pulled to more than double digits.

After all, the Celtics' record in the first half is really a bit hip, at least this season the Celtics have little chance to pull the Eagles from the No. [-] position in the Eastern Conference!

At the same time, the Eagles have maintained the No. [-] record in the Eastern Conference before the All-Star Game and the No. [-] record in the league.

Mike Desen got his first chance to coach the All-Star game since he became the head coach of the NBA.

This kind of opportunity to coach the All-Star game may be commonplace for those head coaches who have already become famous in the NBA, such as Phil Jackson, Popovich, and Pat Riley. It is not surprising!

But for Mike Wu Desen, this is definitely a very important stroke in his career so far!

Besides, Mike Woodson, Xu Lang and Darko Milicic will participate in the 2007-2008 NBA All-Star Game.

The Eagles have three other players who will also go to Louisiana with Xu Lang and others to participate in the All-Star Weekend of the 2007-2008 season.

The three are Paul Millsap, Marc Gasol, and Szczerbiak.

Needless to say, Marc Gasol is a strong contender for the best rookie player of the season.

Marc Gasol has undoubtedly been selected into the 12-man roster for the first-year team of this year's Rookie Challenge.

Except for Marc Gasol, the only second-round pick in 07, most of the other 11 players in the first-year lineup of the Rookie Challenge are the first-round picks of the 07 draft, and most of them are lottery beautiful.

For example, the No. 07 pick Curry in 4, the No. [-] pick Russell Westbrook, the No. [-] pick Oden, the No. [-] pick Horford, the No. [-] pick Mike Conley, the No. [-] pick Sun Yue, and No. [-] Durant. They were all undoubtedly selected into the first-year lineup of this year's Rookie Challenge.

In addition to the seven rookies with the top seven picks in 07, Joakim Noah was selected by the Celtics with the tenth pick and sent to the Clippers.

And he and Horford's former teammate Corey Brewer, who was selected by the Kings with the ninth overall pick before Noah.

Nine of the top ten picks were invited to the 12-man roster of the first-year team in the Rookie Challenge. This aspect shows that the vision of the team management with these picks is indeed good enough this year.

However, in this way, among all the rookies selected in the top ten picks in 07, only Brandon Wright, who was picked by Mr. Joe, was excluded from the 12-man roster for the first-year team of this year's Rookie Challenge. out!
It can only be said that this time, the league has labeled Mr. Joe's draft vision as an official certified team!

And these nine players plus Marc Gasol have already occupied ten spots!

The remaining two places are Al Thornton, the 07th pick in 14 and the last lottery player in 07, and Luis Scola, an older rookie who has already been selected by the Rockets but only landed in the NBA this year. occupied.

Speaking of which, it would be too bullying to treat Luis Scola purely as a rookie.

After all, Luis Scola, who was born in 1980, is almost 27 years old this year.

For most basketball players, 27 years old is at the peak of their physical condition.

Let this group of recruits who participated in the 07 election come to compare with Luis Scola, a player who has played professional games for many years and is in his peak physical condition, in terms of statistics and game performance. It is indeed a bit too disadvantageous.

Of course, the disadvantages are only those players who were not selected in the top ten in 07. They suffered a little when facing Luis Scola.

But for the top ten picks in 07, everyone's average data performance and game performance so far this season will not be worse than Luis Scola.

Even if Luis Scola's average per game is compared with the top ten rookies, it is only in a lower-middle state.

After all, even Brandon Wright, who was not selected to the first-year 12-man roster of the Rookie Challenge this year, has averaged close to 8+6 so far this season for the Bobcats.

It can only be said that 07 is indeed a well-recognized draft year. At least in the rookie season, the performance of this group of rookies in 07 so far has not fallen. reputation.

And if Marc Gasol can be selected to this year's Rookie Challenge first-year 12-man roster, and then be able to participate in this year's All-Star Weekend, it should be taken for granted.

Then Paul Millsap and Szczerbiak seem to be making up the numbers, and they want to go to the All-Star Weekend for two days.

After all, the reason why Paul Millsap and Szczerbiak were able to go to Louisiana to participate in this year's All-Star Weekend with Xu Lang and others was because Paul Millsap signed up for this year's dunk contest, and Szczerbiak Zebiak signed up for this year's three-point contest.

Xu Lang and others still understand Szczerbiak's registration for this year's three-point contest. After all, although Szczerbiak's three-point shooting rate this season is less than 40%, only 39%, he is not satisfied with three-pointers The unspoken rules of the competition!
But Szczerbiak has shot a lot of three-pointers this year. So far, Szczerbiak has averaged 5.6 three-pointers per game and can hit 2.2 of them.

Such an average number of three-point shots per game and such an average number of three-point hits per game have allowed Szczerbiak to rank among the top five this season in terms of three-point shooting ability!

Of course, it is undeniable that after the Eagles integrated the various three-point tactics that Xu Lang stole from the Classic Challenge into the team's tactical system, Szczerbiak's shooting outside the three-point line was affected. Great bonus.

It’s not just that Szczerbiak’s shooting from outside the three-point line has been greatly enhanced. Tony Allen, a player who is basically a small transparent player in the Eagles’ offensive system, also relies on these three-point tactics. Able to hit 1.5 three-pointers per game this season.

So when the league received Szczerbiak's application to participate in this year's three-point contest, they didn't hesitate at all, and directly chose to pass Szczerbiak's application and included it in this year's three-point contest. in the list of contestants.

However, judging from Szczerbiak's only 89 three-point shooting ability, he is just one of the cannon fodder in the three-point contest this year!

And if it is said that Szczerbiak can participate in the three-point contest, it is still within Xu Lang's understanding.

That Paul Millsap chose to participate in this year's slam dunk contest, and the league chose to agree without hesitation at all, made Xu Lang very puzzled!

After all, Paul Millsap has always been a typical representative of floor-flow play, whether he was in college or in the NBA for more than a year.

Apart from being cannon fodder for such a player participating in the slam dunk contest, Xu Lang couldn't imagine what else he could bring to the slam dunk contest.

Even after watching Paul Millsap's slam dunk moves, Xu Lang began to feel that this guy was no longer qualified to be a cannon fodder in the slam dunk contest!
Anyway, Xu Lang felt that the most he could do now was to say good luck to Paul Millsap.

As for Xu Lang, he plans to play lightly at this year's All-Star Weekend!
During the three days of the All-Star Weekend, apart from participating in this year's All-Star Game, Xu Lang only needs to participate in this year's Rookie Challenge!

After all, as the leader of the rookie players in the 06 class, the best rookie of the year, and the current No. It's better not to do it.

At the same time, it was precisely because of Xu Lang's participation that the moment this year's rookie challenge came out of the list, the winner was decided!
After all, the second-year team is not only Xu Lang, the super-standard No. 1 in the league.

There are also Yi Jianlian and Brandon Roy who were also selected to the Western All-Star Game this year.

And although the performance of this season is not impressive, even compared with the data performance of the rookie season, the team's data performance this season has declined.

However, in order to forcefully gather the top five players in Washington, the league forced Joan Bruce and Bobby Jones into the 12-man roster of the sophomore team in this year's Rookie Challenge.

In fact, just the five players of Washington's Five Tigers can knock out all the players in the opposing first-year team.

What's more, in addition to these five people, the second-year team also has Bargnani, who has improved his personal data and performance this season, and Adam Morrison, who has already secured the Bobcats' absolute starting point guard.

There is also LaMarcus Aldridge, who has become the absolute potential core of the Warriors and the league's new generation of potential power forwards.

And this season, relying on the addition of the Eagles' system, Paul Millsap, who is close to a double-double, and Rajon Rondo, who has averaged ten plus six plus four per game since he was handed over to the Rockets up!
In fact, many people feel that the five second-year team's 12-man roster substitute lineup also has the strength to blow up the opposing first-year team.

It can only be said that this year's rookie challenge is likely to be the least suspenseful rookie challenge in the past ten years in the NBA!

Of course, that's what I said, but it's hard to say anything before the game starts.

After all, the first-year team also has some oversized players.

For example, the three small players of the Sonics, or Durant who re-proved himself in the Celtics.

And Oden, who started to rise slowly after entering 08, is not weaker than most of the players on the second-year team in terms of personal performance and strength.

After all, although three players from the second-year team were selected to the All-Star lineup, in fact, Xu Lang is the only player who has reached the All-Star level in terms of personal strength.

Therefore, if Xu Lang is removed, the paper strength of the second-year team does not seem to be so different from that of the first-year team.

Of course, the game is won only after it has been played.

This comparison of strength on paper and the performance of personal data cannot represent that it can still be applied 100% in the environment of the Rookie Challenge.