Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Including Wade, a total of three people among the top six picks in the 03 generation were selected for this year's All-Star lineup.

The 03 draft attracted a lot of attention at the time, and the quality was comparable to that of 84 and 96, but in the second season, the gap between them has been reflected.

The more outstanding "03 generation" already has the momentum of "the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead", squeezing out the veteran All-Stars and entering this year's All-Star lineup.

What surprised the media was that one of the laggard players in the top six was Carmelo Anthony.

This is a super rookie who led Syracuse University to sweep the NCAA at the age of 18. His maturity is higher than the other two of the "three geniuses", but unexpectedly, he was the one who fell behind first.

Speaking of which, Carmelo Anthony is indeed disappointing this season.

Not only are Denver fans disappointed with him, some media people who have fairly objective evaluations are also very dissatisfied with Anthony's performance so far this season:

"His basketball skills are ready, but his character and mentality are not ready to be a big boss!"

The NCAA's "single-core" championship should have been a great bonus to his mentality.

But now it seems that Carmelo Anthony needs high pressure!
Under high pressure, he led Syracuse University to win the NCAA championship that many "five-star universities" may not win.

But once there is no such high-pressure state, he will sink.

Or perhaps his mentality has undergone a huge change after becoming a millionaire.

Maybe he doesn't like basketball and winning that much!

Because the media has photographed him getting into trouble off the court more than once, getting involved with the gangsters David Stern hates most.

These are immature performances, and they are definitely not what a team star should do.

The Nuggets' home court has begun to receive huge boos.

Woody is so dazzling.

Denver was one of four teams that passed on Woody.

Anthony's personal performance earlier made them not regret their choice.

Now that Woody has become an All-Star starter, Carmelo Anthony has not even made the All-Star bench. They dare not imagine how big the gap will be in the future.

On February 2, the Heat's winning streak came to Denver.

It can be seen from this game that Anthony really wants to play well.

But how you treat the game will be how the game treats you. Anthony's attitude this season is really irregular. This irregularity makes him often unable to do well when he wants to perform well.

In the end, the Heat won by 23 points.

The game lost suspense in the third quarter.

Woody played 24 minutes and 13 seconds and easily scored 18 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists. Compared to him, Carmelo Anthony restricted Gerald Wallace to no scoring in double figures in a single game. .

After the game, Anthony once wanted to imitate Woody's former teammates and become a "long-distance runner."

Such an ugly loss and personal performance made him embarrassed to stand in front of Woody.

They used to be the "Three Great Beauties", but now...

Not any more!
Woody stopped him, and he did have something to say to Carmelo Anthony: "Man, I believe we will meet on a bigger stage!"

After saying this, he left without looking back.

Carmelo Anthony was left standing there, looking at his back.

Woody didn't know if his words had any effect, but thinking about how they cherished each other in front of the camera last season, Woody felt that it was necessary for him to send these words.

The Heat continued their schedule, and Woody paid no attention to Anthony's follow-up.

If he can change his attitude and perform better, the media will bring his news to him even if he doesn't pay any attention to it.

Of course, if Carmelo Anthony continues to sink, the media will also send his news to Woody.

But no matter what, Woody is not Carmelo Anthony's mother-in-law, and he only advises this time.

The road is all walked by oneself.

The Heat then continued their winning streak.

In the 2 games before the All-Star Game on February 14, they won 7 consecutive games.

What is even more powerful than their 7-game winning streak is their average point differential per game.

The Nuggets lost by 23 points…

But in fact, other teams are not much better.

In these 7 games, the Heat have an average margin of victory of 18.4 points per game!
No matter which team it is, against this Heat team, basically they can't survive the fourth quarter. After the first three quarters, they are already at the end of their game.Just wait for the Heat to exert force slightly, and they can be completely torn apart.

Of course there are reasons for the return of Shaquille O'Neal and Wade.

But if you really want to say it, in fact, the Heat, with all their members healthy, did only lose one game in a month, but they were unable to exert such suppressive power.

Stan Van Gundy explained it this way: "We have completed further adjustment. Everyone knows that we made big moves last summer. These moves made us a new team, even though our previous performance was good enough. But that is indeed not our limit. Now, we have become a better version of ourselves. Of course, there is still a long way to go before what we can really achieve!”

His last sentence can be summed up in two words:
show off!
However, what he said before is indeed correct, this team has indeed become better.

After Shaquille O'Neal returned, he averaged 21 plus 14 in 20 minutes and 10 seconds of playing time per game.

After Wade's comeback, his condition is obviously better. In these seven games, he averaged 24.3 points, 3.4 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game.The shooting percentage is as high as 45%!

He has played in this state before, but he was injured. But the good news is that the injury did not affect his self-confidence. After returning, he only adjusted one game and found himself again.

Wade completed the "double jump" in the first three seasons of his career.

If he continues to transform next season, then he will undoubtedly become a "super giant"!
Of course, even Wade now is at the All-Star level!

A team with three All-Stars is definitely a "super team" in this era and can naturally sweep all the way.

As long as there are no injuries, there should be no problem for this team to unlock the achievement of "unbeaten in February".

Once one of these three people is injured, the combat effectiveness will directly drop by a notch. This is the drawback of the "giant" team.

However, if you really want to say it, there are too many people on this team who can stand up in the future, such as Gerald Wallace, who also briefly played All-Star level data.

Theoretically, as long as Shaq and Wade are not injured at the same time, the Heat will not experience the same embarrassing record as in January.

On February 2, after the game ended, the Heat's three All-Star players set off for Denver together.

This is why the Denver media can't accept Carmelo Anthony's fall.

The All-Stars on my doorstep, I missed it just like that!
Fortunately, although he did not become an All-Star player, Carmelo Anthony was still able to appear in the Rookie Challenge.

It is also for this reason that before the Rookie Challenge, Anthony specifically expressed his attitude and wanted to win the MVP of the Rookie Challenge.Woody agreed.

Because his persuasion seemed to have worked, Anthony scored 35 points in a single game in the Nuggets' last game before the All-Stars, which was his highest score in a single game since the new season. Seeing his recovery, Woody still Very happy.

Now that he wants to make a show in front of his fellow villagers, Woody will naturally agree.

originally……

He didn't plan to win the MVP of this rookie challenge either.

Woody agreed, and the other "03 generation" selected for this rookie challenge naturally had to agree as well.

After all, Woody is now the leader of the 03 generation, and his words are basically the direction of the trend.

There is no need to get into trouble with Woody over such a worthless trophy.

I can still understand this bit of human sophistication.

In the end, in this year's Rookie Challenge, Carmelo Anthony got the MVP of the Rookie Challenge as he wished.

It felt really good to stand under the spotlight and listen to the audience shouting his name.

After the Rookie Challenge, the officials very interestingly brought together Woody, LeBron and Wade, the three "03 generation" who were selected as this year's All-Stars, for an interview.

The reporter asked Woody the first question: "How does it feel, becoming an All-Star..."

Woody pushed the microphone forward and signaled: "You shouldn't ask me this question. This is my second time in the All-Stars, so you should ask these two rookies!"

This prompted laughter from reporters.

Wade also showed a simple and honest smile.

LeBron James is unhappy.

He hates being called an "All-Star rookie."

He felt like this when he was interviewed before, and now that Woody is sitting next to him, he feels like this even more.

Because of Woody's words, he felt that there was a distance between himself and Woody.

Woody didn't know that LeBron was already so sensitive, and continued to joke: "But I believe that they will be as familiar with this stage as me, and they will be much better tomorrow!"

What did LeBron want to say? The reporter’s second question has come. This question was asked to Woody and LeBron:

"The fans have been looking forward to you participating in the slam dunk contest before. It's just a pity that I still haven't seen your two names on this list. Can you tell me what you think?"

Woody said: "This is a very interesting topic. I have been hearing discussions like this, what would happen if LeBron and I participated in this event together..."

His tone paused, and LeBron gradually felt uneasy.

"I can state that if LeBron participates in the slam dunk contest, then I will join this list as soon as possible. You know, I have always been willing to do these things with LeBron!"

Woody expressed his attitude and put pressure on LeBron.

All eyes looked at LeBron.

As reporters, they really expect this to happen.

LeBron cursed in his mind: Damn it.

He cleared his throat and then said: "This is indeed an interesting thing. I have been wondering whether one day I will really make up my mind to participate in this event, but in high school, I had a similar experience , so I’m not sure I’d be interested enough to do it again, maybe, maybe not, let’s see what happens next!”

After talking for a long time, he still returned to the same place.

Woody still admires LeBron's ability to talk nonsense, especially after entering the NBA, his ability in this area has become stronger and stronger.

Oh ~
All your thoughts have gone into this, right?
After about half an hour, the interview was finally over.

LeBron left the scene in a hurry, feeling hugely unhappy at the same time.

He has always resisted sharing the screen with Woody, and just now he understood the reason:
Has this guy put so much pressure on him now?

Wade participated in the skills challenge the next day.

But he lost to "Son of the Wind" Steve Nash.

Wade didn't even make it to the finals.

However, Steve Nash played so well that he successfully completed the challenge in 26 seconds. With such a result, Wade really deserved to lose.

In the All-Star Game, it was Woody's turn to play.

What he didn't expect was that there were many of his fans in Denver.

Many fans also posted embarrassing slogans, which roughly meant that they wanted to replace Woody with Carmelo Anthony.

When Barkley saw this scene, he laughed: "In fact, we all know that Woody is not for sale to the Heat!"

When Shaquille O'Neal saw that these fans loved Woody so much, he advised Woody to perform well and try to leave a deeper impression on Denver.

"Think about it, they want you but they can't get you, Wu. This is also one of the achievements of a player!"

Woody speculated that this guy had been treated too unfairly by the Magic, so he especially liked to "torture" fans.

He still did what he thought. He just came on the court and simply performed two dunks, but he had no desire to continue playing.

The head coach of this year's Eastern Conference All-Stars is Stan Van Gundy. When he saw that Woody wanted to rest, he immediately replaced him.

He is still under 20 years old, and he will have many opportunities if he wants to win the All-Star MVP.

Now Stan Van Gundy really hopes that Woody can rest more and prepare for the second half of the season.

After all, after Shaquille O'Neal and Wade were injured, Woody didn't take a break and held on for January alone.

He averaged 40 minutes per game during that time.

Even if he is young and in good health and resistant to injury, now that he has a chance to rest, he certainly hopes to take more rest.They have big things to do.

In the end, this year's All-Star Weekend ended with the Eastern Conference winning. Allen Iverson scored 15 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 5 steals, which earned him the final All-Star MVP.

LeBron felt a bit of a pity because he scored 14 points, which was 1 point less than Allen Iverson.

if……

He suddenly discovered that winning the All-Star MVP is not that difficult!

Next season, he must work hard in this area.

As long as he wins the All-Star MVP next season, he will be the youngest person to win this award in NBA history! (End of chapter)