ask if you agree

Chapter 227 Who Was Selected and Who Was Lost?

The plane circled over Lake Michigan, then passed through the clouds and headed straight for Seattle.

The treatment of charter flights is good, and the flight attendants are relatively younger.

They were all slim and tall, holding plates filled with various delicious foods in their hands, and carefully asked every Supersonic player and staff member who needed service.

There are certain foods that NBA athletes cannot eat, and this time shows the advantages of ordinary staff.

Shaking the red wine glass, the assistant coach Bob sat beside Qin Fei.

"Don't be nervous, I won't work overtime tonight."

Seeing Qin Fei's puzzled expression, Bob smiled and pushed away the tactical manual on Qin Fei's table.

The NBA's tactics are complex and diverse, especially in positional offenses, which contain multiple sets of tactics. No team will always use only one tactic.

Like the Sonics' UCLA system + dynamic offense, a bunch of tactics are derived, and the details of many local positions are different.

"I know not to work overtime, just take a look, after all, it will be the playoffs soon."

Qin Fei is familiar with tactics, but now he has nothing to do, just take a look.

"The results of the new All-Star voting just came out. Did you know that you surpassed Stockton and ranked third in the backcourt of the Western Conference."

Bob Weixi brought good news to Qin Fei. After hearing this, Qin Fei's eyes lit up.

Surpassing Stockton is a very remarkable achievement. Stockton is a superstar in the league, a top 50 player, a future Hall of Famer, the assists leader, and the steals leader. Except for no championship, he has won all the honors that a point guard should have.

"Second is Kobe?"

Qin Fei remembered that in his previous life, in his second season, Kobe participated in the All-Star Weekend as a substitute player for the Lakers and was voted into the starting lineup.

In this life, there hasn't been much change. The Lakers' performance this season is good, and it's the Los Angeles Lakers. With this halo, it can't be overstated.

"Yes, Kobe is now more than 1 votes ahead of you. In fact, the distance between you is very close."

Bob laughed and said, "If you beat the Bulls today, you will definitely gain a lot of fans, and the gap between you will be further narrowed."

Bob's meaning is very clear, he hopes that Qin Fei can enter the All-Star Game.

Because the All-Star Game is a stage where a player’s commercial value has been raised to the best level, and a player who has entered the All-Star Game, no matter how he performs on the field in the future, the established impression is that this player is a star player with great talent and potential, and is very popular in the market.

And once they are coldly received in the All-Star Weekend selection for many times, the commercial value will be greatly reduced.

It’s okay if it’s another league, but the NBA is a commercial league. Many players make some decisions, and on the basis of the game, there will also be a large part of the reference commercial value.

But Qin Fei really doesn't have much pursuit of the All-Star. It is of course a good thing to be an All-Star, but his contract will expire next year. His primary goal this year is to win the championship. Winning the championship is more important than becoming an All-Star.

And his ability value is still improving. Although the speed is much slower, next year, he will be stronger than now. Even if he doesn't make the All-Star this year, he will definitely make it next year.

"Come on!"

Bob Withey patted Qin Fei on the shoulder as a sign of encouragement.

Qin Fei could only smile, with a Buddhist expression on his face.

From the outside world, there was not much reaction to the Sonics defeating the Bulls.

After all, the Bulls this season are no longer the best record in the league, but in the near future, the Bulls are in good condition.

However, many scouts fully affirmed the young player Qin Fei who performed well in the Supersonics.

On the offensive end, three-pointers, mid-range shots, breakthrough layups, omnipotent, on the defensive end, 4 steals, and protected rebounds over Rodman's head at critical moments.

It can be said that both offensive and defensive ends have provided a lot of help.

Just as Bob Withey predicted, after this game, Qin Fei's fans increased rapidly, and the number of All-Star votes skyrocketed instantly, and he was only less than [-] votes away from Kobe.

Fans in Los Angeles panicked. In order to keep Kobe's top two results, they frantically mobilized fans to vote for Kobe. Finally, the number of votes was increased to [-] votes. However, judging from the situation, Qin Fei may overtake Kobe at any time.

Qin Fei's performance also impressed the media in Chicago.

Sam, a sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune, pointed out in his article that the Bulls should consider introducing a young player with potential like Qin Fei.

"Our team has internal and external troubles. Even if we can win the championship this season, there will be no next tomorrow. Considering some young people in advance and introducing the talents they should have will effectively reduce the cycle on the road to reconstruction. I'm not talking about Qin Fei, I'm talking about all young people like Qin Fei."

"Many teams make an unequal sign between selecting young people and immediate combat power, but now Qin Fei is in the league's No. [-] Sonics team, and Kobe is in the No. [-] Lakers team. Strong teams and young people are not two conflicting concepts. They can coexist."

Among the league's under-25 supernovas newly selected by sports organizations, Qin Fei entered the list for the first time, ranking ninth, and No. 10 was Kobe.

Iverson is taller, ranking second, second only to Kevin Garnett, and one place higher than Tim Duncan.

In the previous list, there must be Grant Hill and Anfernee Hardaway, but now both of them are over 25 years old.

The plane sailed for a long time and landed at SeaTac Airport smoothly.

The team bus had been waiting for a long time, and some players without vehicles were picked up by the bus and returned to the vicinity of the arena.

And the big players, such as Kemp, Payton and others, will have someone to pick them up and send them home.

This is called a life steward, and it is better than a broker in that it can provide more detailed personal services.

When Qin Fei returned home, it was already early morning.

Fortunately, the community is relatively high-end, and the security measures and forces are relatively strong, otherwise he really wouldn't dare to go home so late.

Beating Jordan was an exciting thing, but I was exhausted on the plane, and after a period of drowsy sleep, I didn’t feel sleepy here. I sat on the sofa and watched late-night TV for a while.

Qin Fei called up the system and looked at it. His personal ability score was 79.

The ability value fully reflects his strength, but in the real game, this is just a basic index. He may perform better than 79, and the effect of 85 may be worse than 79, only 74 or 75.

The game is a living and realistic competition, which cannot be measured by all data.

But the stronger the strength, the higher the lower limit, and no matter how poorly he performs at that time, he will be stronger than most people.

Among the ability values ​​of 79, the improvement in physical fitness is the fastest, reaching 83 in speed, 81 in acceleration, 77 in jumping ability, 76 in lateral agility, and 75 in strength.

The overall data is relatively average, and although the power of 75 seems to be the last of several data, the real situation is one of Qin Fei's current outside killers.

Few outsiders can have this strength. Generally, insiders with more than 70 are considered qualified.

The attribute of mid-range shooting has also made great progress. At present, it has an attribute of 81. The three-point difference is only 70. The dunk attribute has reached 77. There are also improvements in layups and free throws.

The result of the overall development is that in some aspects, Qin Fei has the attributes that only inside players can have.

The NBA is a league that develops monsters. From insiders to guards, you are not afraid that you can do everything, but you are afraid that you will not be able to show superhuman skills. What other people can't achieve, if you do it, that is strength.

The Supersonics rank first in the league in terms of strength. After defeating the Bulls, they defeated the Grizzlies, Kings and other western teams at home.

Widen the win gap with the Lakers to two games, and stabilize the league's first record.

In the second half of January, the Jazz had a good record and showed a trend of recovery.

The All-Star voting has entered a stage of fierce competition, and Jazz fans are very dissatisfied when they see that Qin Fei and Kobe have overwhelmed Stockton.

"Even if the league wants to promote newcomers, there is no need to suppress old players like this. Is our Jazz so unpopular?"

This year's All-Star Game ticket sales also opened an online sales channel for the first time.

This is also a high-quality result of the development of the Internet.

The All-Star Weekend is held in New York, and the All-Star Game is held at Madison Square Garden in New York. Qin Fei has already started to book and ask for tickets. Regardless of whether he can be selected as an All-Star, he should cherish the opportunity to watch the All-Star Game up close for his family.

At the end of January, Bob brought news of the official invitation to Qin Fei.

"You are invited to participate in the dunk contest."

Er Qin Fei thought about it, pretended to hesitate, and finally declined the invitation.

"Even if you refuse, then this year's All-Star Weekend slam dunk contest is really difficult. I heard that there are not many players in the league participating in the dunk contest."

Bob Withey had inside information. He shook his head again and again, lamenting that the world is going downhill. The slam dunk contest seems to be a tasteless thing now. There is no glory in winning the championship.

At the end of January, the All-Star starting voting channel was closed.

Then the league began to count the votes, and finally determined the starters for the Eastern and Western All-Stars.

Mutombo became the All-Star starter at the center position in the East.

The reason why Mutombo surpassed Mo Ning and Ewing is because the Eagles have a better record. They have always been the No. [-] record in the Eastern Conference before, and they were only recently overtaken by the Bulls.

Grant Hill and Scottie Pippen are at the forward position, and Michael Jordan and Annie Hardaway are at the guard position.

After Anfen Hardaway was Tim Hardaway, and then Allen Iverson.

Iverson is mainly because the team's record is not good. In terms of statistics, it is better than the previous two.

Pippen's selection is more controversial. Not to mention the uproar before, he has only played ten games so far this season, and he was selected as an All-Star.

This is the inertia of fan voting.

At the center position in the West, O'Neal surpassed David Robinson by more than 2 votes and was selected as the All-Star starter.

At the forward position are Kemp and Karl Malone. This time, Kemp has more votes than Malone, but it is almost a tie.

At the guard position, Payton and Kobe.

Kobe was actually selected as a starter in the All-Star Game, a second-year player, a backup for the Lakers.

As soon as the list came out, it caused an uproar.

At 19 years and 5 months, Bryant became the youngest All-Star starter in NBA history.

Kobe's selection is too controversial. Not only are many fans discussing it, but even many celebrities think such a mechanism is very unreasonable.

The fans of the Lakers are confident, they want Kobe to be an All-Star, because at this time, Kobe's voice for starting is already very high, but Lakers coach Harris just refuses to let Kobe start because the outside line has no place.

The fans in Seattle felt it was a pity that the All-Star starting contest between Qin Fei and Kobe ended up with a difference of more than 8000 tickets.

The fans in Los Angeles went crazy and resisted the pressure.

But Qin Fei entered the All-Star starting lineup, and the Supersonics have three starting players, which is also unreasonable.

Fans in Seattle think that Qin Fei should be selected as the All-Star starter. He is the same age, has better statistics, and has a better record. Why?

As soon as the starting list was released at the end of January, there were still 1 seats left in the east and west.

Among the NBA All-Stars, the starters are voted by the fans, and the substitutes are elected by the head coaches of the [-] teams.

Each head coach has five votes, voted for two defenders, two forwards and a center in his mind.

And when a player cannot participate in the All-Star Game due to injury, the league president will designate the player to enter the All-Star Game.

Because it is selected by the coach, the gold content of the substitute All-Star is relatively high.

In the fan voting session, players with a relatively high number of votes will also get extra points in the coach's mind as appropriate.

To put it simply, in the selection of coaches, strength comes first, popularity comes second, and impression comes third.

In the previous selection of fans' All-Star starters, impression first, popularity second, and strength third.

The possibility of Qin Fei being selected is very high. Among the guards in the West, there are not many candidates. Apart from Qin Fei, there are only two guards of the Lakers, Jason Kidd, Stockton and Marbury, and the two guards of the Lakers can only be selected with a high probability.

At this stage, there is no need to do any publicity, and the coaches know it well.

Within a few days, the NBA officially announced that the 98 All-Star Weekend would cancel the dunk contest.

What do you mean?

The fans were at a loss. Could it be that Kobe became the last slam dunk champion in NBA history?There will be no dunk contest in the future?

There was no official explanation, and some media finally released an explanation based on internal information, saying that no one participated.

This is even more embarrassing. The most powerful basketball league in the world, with 450 top players, didn't even try to dunk.

In fact, it is not appropriate to say that there is no one. The main reason is that the topic that the alliance wants cannot be found, so it will not be opened this year.

Seattle enters February ahead of All-Star weekend.

The rainy season is still going on, but the rainy weather is obviously less, the cloudy days are more, and there are occasional sunny days.

On February 2, the Sonics played against the Nets at home.

Fighting against the Sonics is the penultimate stop of the Nets' Western Conference road trip. The penultimate stop is the Portland Trail Blazers near Seattle.

The Nets had lost a wave before, and they had no confidence in coming to Seattle to fight.

But the record of the Nets itself is not bad, especially the insider Keith Van Horn, who was traded from the 76ers this year, averaged 1 points, 22 rebounds and 7 steals per game in January.

So the evaluation of this year's rookies is that there is Duncan in the West and Van Horn in the East.

Van Horn also performed very well against the Sonics, scoring 20 points on 10 of 27 shots. Kemp was really not used to this limp game style.

However, although he scored more points, he also scored more points against the opponent, and Kemp also scored 25 points.

This is the biggest difference with Duncan. Speaking of Duncan, one is basic skills, and the other is defense. The two have obvious style differences.

But if 10 coaches are asked to do multiple-choice questions, all of them must be Duncan.

The Sonics finally defeated the Nets 98 to 88. After this game, the record was 37 wins and 7 losses.

Qin Fei scored 24 points, 7 rebounds and 3 steals. After this game, he averaged 2 steals per game. Together with Payton, he had 4.6 steals per game, ranking first in the league's backcourt combination.

(End of this chapter)