I'm a ball devil

Chapter 131 Vote for Ye Hao

As the Sonics' winning percentage gradually improved, Ye Hao's performance continued to remain stable and hot.

The results of the second round of All-Star voting came out, and he overtook Iverson and took the second place among the Western Conference defenders.

Well, this position is also currently ranked second in the Western Conference and third in the league.

The temporary All-Star vote leader is Garnett, who is fighting and retiring in the East.

Because he jumped from the Timberwolves to the Celtics, he really harvested a large number of Celtics fans.

Coupled with the fact that the current record of the Celtics ranks first in the league, it has become the league's most promising favorite to win the championship from a team similar to the Sonics.

Relying on the Big Three, the Celtics teamed up with some veterans who wanted to hug their thighs at the end of their careers to realize their wish to wear a championship ring. After reorganizing the team, they really soared into the sky.

Ye Hao doesn't care about the number of votes and ranking.

But those who support him care.

"Calling! Calling! Vote for Ye Hao and get him into the All-Stars! [Sun Doudou's call for vomiting blood, don't miss it, come quickly]"

"Call online! Call online! Vote for Ye Hao and let him become the All-Star starter! [Sun Doudou issued a deafening call! Hurry up, brothers and sisters]"

On the BBS forum of Yanda University, there are quite a few posts like this voting for Ye Hao, and many of them are hung on the top of the forum, marked with big red letters.

This is the case of Yanda, Huaqing, Qiaohua, Taiyuan Engineering, Haiqing Normal University, Shonan University, etc. Schools that have been conquered by Ye Hao's basketball skills, cool handsome on the court, or talent in the singing world all have similar posts Initiating.

Ye Hao's fans or fans are also initiating such calls on well-known domestic basketball forums.

Well, in fact, there are quite a few overseas, but it’s not as enthusiastic as domestic ones.

There are also some posts that teach people how to register more accounts and vote more, and ask people to gather friends and relatives around them to vote together...

So Ye Hao's number of votes naturally increased rapidly.

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Not long after Christmas, the league's winter trading period begins,

Each team began to measure whether to make reinforcements in the trade based on the team's performance at the beginning of the season, in order to achieve better results.

Those who hope to make it to the playoffs will consider which position needs to be added, which position has a surplus of players, and what kind of players need to be traded to strengthen the team so that the team can go further in the playoffs.

Those who play too badly and have no hope of entering the playoffs, or those who have focused on the future from the beginning of the season, prepared well, and set up a posture to be bad, will consider adding some players that are not in their team's future construction plan. Players are cleared from the team and traded back for some future assets, such as draft picks or young potential players.

In short, each has its own plan and each other's abacus.

Once a transaction occurs, it is rarely a win-win situation. Most of the time, one side wins and the other loses.

For example, the Celtics traded Ray Allen from the Supersonics in the summer, and formed the Big Three with Uncle Pi and Hardett. They are the biggest winners.

The Sonics didn't get much out of it, expecting two young players, Jeff Green and Delonte West, to grow up.

However, Jeff Green's current growth rate is obviously not in line with the team's expectations. If he is compared with Durant and Ye Hao, it will be too far behind.

And what about Delonte West?After arriving at the team, it has now become an unstable thorn in the team's locker room.

In Ye Hao’s previous life, the Celtics’ trading operations brought them a championship trophy. Later, they also found a receiver for the aging Big Three and took a bunch of them away from the Nets. Future Capital is really a master of trading.

As soon as the trade door opened, Presti, the general manager of the Sonics, began to make calls and received a lot of calls to test trades.

In these calls, there were actually people who tried to offer to trade Ye Hao with the Sonics.
Although this formulation is stupid, anyone with a discerning eye in the league can see that the current Ye Hao has become a non-sale product of the Sonics.
But there are still other team general managers who put forward such an idea.

After all, if you don't mention it, you will never have a chance. If you mention it, maybe you will have a chance?
There is a contingency in everything, what if there is a weight in the team that the Sonics are super interested in?
The person who put forward such an idea was Kupchak, the general manager of the Lakers who once made a trade arrangement in order to select Ye Hao in the draft.

Of course, Presti flatly refused, and he also dropped a powerful sentence. Once he was in the Sonics, other teams would not even think about playing Ye Hao, and they would not trade anyone.

Presti's phone call was to try to trade Delonte West. Isn't this guy clamoring for Ye Hao's starting position?

Then let him be fulfilled, trade him out, and let him go to another team to snatch him.

Presti's priority now is what useful assets can be exchanged for the team with Delonte West.

Then, except for Ye Hao and Durant, everyone else in the team can be used as trading chips and added to the transaction.

He has already held a meeting with the team's head coach and the coaching staff to discuss that the SuperSonic team lacks a lot of manpower, if they want to strengthen the lineup this season.

Their point guard is obviously not enough to watch, and Watson has no way to knead the team into one body and show the true strength of the team.

Then there is the inside. The partner of Wilcox and Collison is really just barely, slightly better than the point guard position. When encountering a team with a strong inside, it is easy to be penetrated.

Therefore, the direction of reinforcement is very clear. The question is whether the chips in their hands are attractive enough.

In fact, it’s okay for them not to reinforce, and continue to finish the season with such a lineup. After all, at the beginning of the season, the team also made season performance expectations, that is, they have no hope of entering the playoffs. It is to train the three rookies who were drafted.

But so far in the season, the team's record is slowly approaching the direction of 50% winning rate under the leadership of Ye Hao and Durant.
This makes people have to have some ideas about, maybe, maybe making the playoffs.

Besides, the team's new leader, Ye Hao, has worked so hard on the court. As the team's management, he can't ignore his feelings, and really just stand still during the transaction period and do nothing.

The management of a team has not done any transactions for a long time, leaving the team's record in the mud, it is easy for players to have the idea of ​​​​leaving.

If you don't believe me, just look at the Lakers, didn't Kobe just make a fuss about leaving the team in the summer?
Now Lakers general manager Kupchak is the most active person in the league calling other teams.

Especially the Celtics, the mortal enemy of the Lakers, assembled the Big Three in the summer, and the Big Three fit so well together, a combination produced a chemical reaction, and played the best record in the league so far.

The intention of the Lakers to make a big deal is obvious.

But which team would be willing to trade with them?Presti didn't know, and he didn't care too much, after all, he still had a lot of Sonics trade ideas in front of him that he needed to sort out.

It's just that the transaction doesn't happen right away, it needs back-and-forth contacts and back-and-forth negotiations. These are things that take time to grind slowly, and there is no rush.

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The Sonics have their last game left in January, at home against the Spurs.

Prior to this, they had played 44 games and achieved a record of 21 wins and 23 losses.

It's not far from a 50% winning rate.

There is still a little distance from the top eight in the West, ranking 12th.

At this time, the Sonics should be envious of the teams in the East. If they were in the East, their record would have been able to squeeze into the top eight in the East and rank seventh in the East.

The Raptors, ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference, just happened to have a 50% winning percentage.

And in the West?The top ten teams in the Western Conference all have winning percentages above 50%.

No. 11 is the Kings, which is 0.5 wins away from the Sonics.

The competition for the playoffs in the West is really fierce.

This year's Western Conference can really be regarded as a big dogfight.

The positions of the top six are often shifted, and the difference between each other is only 0.5 to 1 game.

Even with the same record, it is only because of different divisions and different opponents that the rankings are different.
There is only a difference of 1 wins between the No.6 and No.3 teams.

What about the Spurs that the Sonics will face soon?

He was the champion of last season and is currently ranked second in the Western Conference, behind the Hornets and ahead of the Lakers.

For the Spurs, Ye Hao originally had a good impression of the Spurs, but since the damn old man publicly stood up and supported the Mosaic team and the Mosaic's remarks, that little bit of good impression was completely exhausted.

As Yang Yi, a well-known sports commentator, said, you can’t eat Huaxia’s products and still call Huaxia bad. This is ungrateful, and you have raised a white-eyed wolf, a farmer and a snake.

So Ye Hao put down harsh words to his teammates in the locker room before the game,

It's okay to be lazy in other games, but absolutely not in this one.

In this game, no matter what everyone thinks, you must play hard after playing,
It has to match the intensity of the game, the kind of desperate play that made it to the playoffs and the finals.

You must do everything possible to defeat your opponent to win the game.

If whoever doesn't try his best on the field, he will be in trouble with Ye Hao, so please get out of the team.

He, Ye Hao, doesn't want to be teammates with such a person.

This was the first time Ye Hao spoke so harshly in front of his teammates. Even if he was provoked or challenged, he had never been so serious before, and he basically smiled calmly.

So what Ye Hao said shocked his teammates, and at the same time let them know how determined he is.

So the whole team worked hard to prepare for this game.

Although they didn't know why Ye Hao had played so many games against the Spurs alone, they had never seen Ye Hao react so violently before.

But Ye Hao is the boss of the team, so he can do whatever he says, just listen.

Before the game in the evening, players from both sides played.

For the Sonics, Durant played first, and Ye Hao played last.

Originally, the order of appearance of the two of them was Ye Hao in front and Durant in the finale.

However, after the season entered 2008, Durant took the initiative to find Ye Hao and proposed to let Ye Hao play the finale. He could no longer continue to play last.

When he said it, Durant was a little shy, but the meaning was very clear, that is, he insisted on letting Ye Hao be the finale. He said that the final appearance is the absolute embodiment of the leadership of a team.

He himself is now at the end of the stage, always walking tremblingly, walking on thin ice,

Feeling unable to take on the responsibility of team leader,

Therefore, Ye Hao must occupy this position,
When Ye Hao refused, Durant also found Carlesimo and general manager Presti, insisting on giving up the finale position to Ye Hao.

In this way, Ye Hao had no choice but to accept the last appearance.

In fact, Ye Hao doesn't care about the order of appearance. Compared with these virtual forms, he cares more about the absolute control on the court.

That's what a true ball monster cares about.

However, since Durant switched to the first appearance, Durant always played with a smile and ran quite comfortably. Obviously he likes his position very much.
Well, it's good to support Ye Hao.

When Ye Hao appeared on the stage, the sound wave of the audience was pushed up like an explosion.

"Ye Hao! Ye Hao! Ye Hao!..."

"Our hero Ye Hao! Ye Hao, son of Supersonic!"

"Ye Hao, we love you!"

"Wow, Ye Hao is so handsome! I can't help but love him!"

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After the players from both sides appeared on the field, the game will start soon.

The starters from both sides stepped onto the pitch.

The Spurs' starting lineup is: point guard Tony Parker, shooting guard Manu Ginobili, small forward Bruce Bowen, power forward Tim Duncan, center Fabricio Oberto.

The Sonics are: point guard Watson, shooting guard Ye Hao, small forward Durant, power forward Wilcox, center Collison.

"Charles, which side do you think will win this game?" On-site commentator Kenny Smith asked his partner Barkley.

Barkley, who was wearing a pink suit today, replied with a smile: "Whether it is judging from the current regular season record ranking, the team lineup, or the team's head coach, it is the Spurs' team." Side has a big advantage.

The Spurs are No. 12 in the West, and they can become No. [-] in the West by winning this game. The Sonics are just No. [-] in the West.

The Spurs' GDP partners have played for many years, and they are very familiar with each other. The Supersonic team is still a rookie rookie leader.

As for the head coach, the Spurs are well-known coaches, and the coach of the Sonics was trained from the Spurs. This is a game where the apprentice leads the team to play against the master.

So to sum up the above points, no matter how you look at it, the Spurs will win this game.

However, this is a conventional view, because once I met Ye Hao, the match was so foggy that I couldn't see through it, so I really couldn't predict it.

I even think that under the leadership of Ye Hao, the Sonics may win this game. "

"Hahaha...Charles, your conclusions are really interesting.

I'm still optimistic that the Spurs can win this game.

This is also the view of most people at present. ’ said Kenny Smith.

"Then take a look..."

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