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Chapter 144 The skill of finding holes with the ball has not regressed at all? (joint chapter)
In the next few games, the Sonics defeated several underdogs one after another, all winning their opponents by double-digit points.

Francis's recent rotation frequency has become higher. Except for back-to-back games, he will not attend, and even a 4-day two-match game will have to take a rotation to avoid injuries due to physical fatigue in the middle of the season.

His absence is not an irreparable loss for the Sonics. Both Dragic and Neil can provide offensive firepower not weaker than Francis, and the lineup is deep and strong.

The Supersonics who made a three-pointer are difficult to deal with. No matter who gets the ball, they can deliver a fatal blow to the opponent as long as they have the opportunity.

After the game in January, Durant was elected as the best player in the Western Conference in January without any suspense. He averaged 25.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 1.1 steals per game, shooting 50.4% from the field, 37.8% from three-pointers, and 89.2% from free throws. high efficiency.

This is the second time Durant has been elected the best of the month this season. With the advantage of the team's record, he has no opponents in the West.

Chris Paul also performed very well in January, averaging 21.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 9.7 assists per game, shooting 46.8% from the field and 37.6% from the three-point range.It's a pity that the Hornets' record is not as good as the Supersonics, and Paul can only rank second.

On February 2, the Sonics challenged the Trail Blazers away.

斯泽比亚克打出了精彩表现，全场17投11中，三分球9中5，罚球4中4，砍下31分5篮板2助攻1抢断，命中率高达64.7%。

替补登场的泰勒托维奇10投6中，三分球9中6，得到18分2篮板1助攻。他们两人的进攻效率都很抢眼，下半场帮助球队牢牢压制住了开拓者的反扑。

Trail Blazers star Brandon Roy is still strong, with impeccable statistics of 27 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals. He was still the omnipotent "Yellow Mamba" before the injury.

三年级新人阿尔德里奇也有19分7篮板2助攻进账，奈何球队的整体实力不如超音速，开拓者108比119败下阵来。

After two days of rest, the Sonics defeated the Kings 114-89 in an away game. Durant broke out, scoring 35 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 block, shooting more than 60% from the field and feeling hot to the touch.

诺阿7投5中，罚球3中2，得到12分11篮板6助攻1抢断2封盖，贡献两双。

In the second grade, Noah has grown very fast, and his defense awareness and ability to protect rebounds have improved significantly compared to his rookie season.

He has a place in this year's Western Conference All-Star. Although it is related to the Supersonic's terrifying record, it is also inseparable from his outstanding personal ability.

The Sonics had one win and one loss in the remaining two games, ushering in the annual All-Star Weekend with a proud record of 44 wins and 7 losses.

As of the end of the All-Star voting, Durant has received a terrifying 310 million votes, narrowly beating "Warcraft" Howard to become the top voter, only 8 votes more than him.

This year's All-Star voting has ushered in a blowout. There are 6 players with more votes from the east and the west than last year's vote king Kevin Garnett, which proves the surge in NBA ratings and the number of fans.

Durant is not the only player in the Supersonics to be selected as an All-Star. Noah has 120 million votes, which is much worse than Durant, but it overwhelms "Little Shark" Bynum and Mehmet Okur, among others. The third place in the game, second only to Dayao and O'Neal, two box office harvesters.

Power forward Szczerbiak was also selected as an All-Star by virtue of the Supersonics' impressive record, with 96 votes more than Grizzlies star Paul Gasol. This is the halo brought by the team's record.

This is the second time in Szczerbiak's career that he has been selected as an All-Star. After 7 years, he has re-proved himself in the city of Seattle.

The starting five in the West: Paul, Kobe, Durant, Duncan, Yao Ming.

Substitute 7 people: Noah, Szczerbiak, O'Neal, Nowitzki, Anthony, Roy, Parker.

Grizzlies star Paul - Gasol only received 87 votes, unfortunately missed the All-Star.

The Grizzlies' record before the All-Star Weekend was only 25 wins and 23 losses, ranking 9th in the Western Conference. Gasol's personal data is not as good as Nowitzki and Anthony. It is reasonable to lose the selection.

With the best record, the Sonics had three players selected and became the biggest winner of the season.

Even if the Big Three of the Celtics are also selected for the All-Star team together, they can't stand the cheapness of the three players selected for the All-Star by the Supersonics.

Eastern starting five: Iverson, Wade, James, Garnett, Howard.

Substitute 7 people: Pierce, Ray Allen, Mo - Williams, Devin - Harris, Granger, Lewis, Joe - Johnson.

"Dragon King" Bosh was absent due to injury after being selected, and his replacement was Cavaliers No. [-] master Mo Williams, who was selected for the first time in his career.

The head coach of the Eastern Conference this year is Cavaliers coach Mike Brown.

Although the Celtics are still one game ahead of the Cavaliers and rank first in the Eastern Conference, but because Rivers has served as the All-Star coach last year, they will be screened down this year. The second-ranked Cavaliers coach Mike -Brown served.

The strength of the starting lineup in the East is good, but the bench lineup is not reasonable enough. There is only one big player, Lewis, who is a space striker, and the rest are all guards. The height of the penalty area is seriously insufficient.

Lu Yong has thought about what tactics to play in the West. Just by arranging players to play in singles, this All-Star Game can be easily won.

This year's All-Star Weekend was held in Phoenix. Fortunately, the Suns still have a "big shark" O'Neal selected, otherwise it would be embarrassing to be the host.

Francis signed up to participate in the slam dunk contest. He won the runner-up in the 2000 slam dunk contest. He copied Jordan's dunk action of kissing the basket and conquered everyone. Unfortunately, he lost to Vince Carter in the final.

This year in the Supersonics, the boss dreamed of returning to the top, which gave him the courage to sign up for the competition, trying to attack the throne of the dunk king.

Delfino will participate in the three-point contest. As a three-point shooter in the international arena, long shots are his main scoring method. This season, his shooting percentage is 42.6%, which is very important in the three-point contest without interference. Chances of winning.

On February 2, the All-Star Weekend officially kicked off.

The first day was the Rookie Challenge, with Durant and Noah, the two All-Star players, the second-year rookies were full of momentum, and they firmly controlled the game from the beginning.

Yi Jianlian unexpectedly became the protagonist with a fiery feeling. In the first half, he shot 6 out of 6 shots without missing a shot. There was also an alley-oop receiving a pass from Noah, which completed the wonderful cooperation between the big men.

Durant didn't make much effort on the court, mainly catching and jumping on the offensive end, but even so, double-digit scores were recorded in the first half.

Lu Yong told him that it is enough for him to express himself in the rookie game, not to waste too much physical energy, and save more opportunities for performance in the All-Star game.

After all, Durant is the starting small forward this year, and Lu Yong is still the coach of the Western Conference Stars.

In the second half, as Durant and Noah began to exert their strength, the first grade soon became overwhelmed, and the point difference was widened to 20 points.

All the second-year players performed well. Even Landry, who came off the bench, scored 14 points and 6 rebounds.

终场，二年级新秀队没悬念的124比102获胜，杜兰特全场15投9中，三分球10中5，罚球2中2，得到25分7篮板3助攻1抢断，当选了新秀赛MVP。

Durant also performed well in the rookie game last year, but in the end the second-year rookie team won and the MVP was taken away by Trail Blazers star Brandon Roy.Participating this year can be regarded as making up for regrets, and also won the MVP trophy as a sophomore.

On the 14th, the second day of the All-Star Weekend began with various challenges.

Lu Yong came to the sidelines early and sat with the Sonics players, cheering for Francis and Delfino who signed up for the competition.

First up was the underwhelming Skills Challenge, a four-player skill contest aimed at showcasing the skills of the best point guards in the league.

The content of the game is that four players complete several links such as dribbling, passing and shooting in a venue with various obstacles within the specified time, and the one with the least time is the champion.This year's players are Derrick Rose, Harris, Mo Williams and Spurs star Parker.

Harris took the lead, and he took 36.9 seconds, which was a good result.

Mo Williams replaced the injured Jameer Nelson, second in 37.5 seconds.

Derrick Rose made all his moves in one step, taking 33.3 seconds, becoming the fastest in the preliminaries.

Tony Parker was the last to play. In this arena that belongs to young people, he already looked a bit old. There were problems with his passing and shooting. It took 50.8 seconds and he was eliminated in the first round.

Harris and Rose made it to the finals.

Harris took the lead in the final, but did not go well in the preliminaries. It took 39.7 seconds for him to return to his seat regrettably.

After Rose played, layup, dribble and pass were all in place in one step, and he took two shots, which was smooth.In the end, he finished with a back dunk in only 35.3 seconds and became the champion of the 09 Skills Challenge.

Lu Yong sat on the sidelines and watched drowsily. He didn't understand the meaning of the skills challenge. From the audience's point of view, this is definitely a very boring program. It's better than shooting stars, inviting retired celebrities to throw three-pointers on the field , Who can throw the ball in from a farther position.

In the parallel world, the league later realized that the skills challenge was boring, and it was reformed from player participation to team competition. The three players cooperated with each other, and the team with the shortest time wins.

It's a pity that it's hard to hide the boredom of this challenge. The fans came to the scene the next day to watch the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest. After all, the skills contest can only be regarded as a lively dessert.

After 15 minutes, the three-point contest began.

The five players who signed up for this three-point contest are Lewis, Mike Bibby, Granger, Warriors rookie Cook and Delfino of the Sonics.

The strength of the five players in the first round was very different. Bibby only scored 7 points in total, almost breaking the record of 5 points in the three-point contest of Mr. Joe and was eliminated.

Granger's performance wasn't much better either, with a frustrated 12-pointer in his second outing.In the end, Lewis, Delfino and Cook were no surprise finalists.

In the finals, the performance of the three pitchers surprised the fans, not because they were accurate in their pitches, but because they were better than each other.

Lewis, who scored 23 points in the first round, only scored 11 points in his first appearance. Just when the fans thought this was the worst record in history, Warriors player Cook hit the iron with a bang, and once again broke the final scoring limit with 10 points.

In the end, Delfino easily won the championship with 17 points and won his first three-pointer trophy.

Lu Yong sat on the sidelines laughing like crazy. He won the three-pointer with 17 points in the final. This kind of performance will not be able to beat the preliminaries ten years later. This three-pointer contest is destined to become a classic, and it will be difficult to be surpassed .

The finale was the slam dunk contest, the highlight of the second day of the All-Star Game. Before that, Francis had the title of "uncrowned slam dunk king".

The four players participating in this slam dunk contest are very strong, including defending champion "Superman" Howard, 2006 slam dunk contest champion Nate Robinson, "uncrowned slam dunk king" Francis, and several times in the game. Ball's JR-Smith.

As a reborn Lu Yong, the most important thing in his head is creativity, so before the game, he provided several brand-new dunk moves for Boss Fu, and suggested that he save the difficult dunks until the end, so as to avoid being judged by the judges due to poor movements in the final Minus points.

Francis believed in Lu Yong very much, and focused on practicing these dunks, patting his chest and expressing that he would definitely bring the title of dunk king back to Seattle this year.

The game started, and Francis was the first to play.

Domestic commentator Director Zhang said with a smile: "At the peak, Francis' vertical jump height reached an incredible 103 centimeters, which is beyond the reach of Carter, Kobe and others. His legs are like springs, and there is no preparatory action for bouncing. Although Francis Now he is not at his peak, and his jumping height is not as high as before, but his dunk stretch is still very good, I don’t know what kind of action will be staged for the first dunk.”

Yu Jia said: "Boss Fu is determined to sign up for the competition, and he must be prepared for his shame. I don't think his dunk moves are ordinary, especially when there are two dunk kings in the opponent."

As the first player to play, Francis put on a black coat on the sidelines, held a firework stick in his hand, held the basketball in one hand, and raised the firework stick with the other hand.Next, Boss Fowler threw the basketball into the air, dribbled the ball, soared into the air, and completed a 360-degree dunk!

Barkley exclaimed: "Oh! Francis completed a wonderful dunk performance as soon as he came up. This ball is very creative, and the stretch of the body in the air is also extremely perfect. Most importantly, Francis only took one chance. The dunk was successful, it was wonderful!"

Kenny Smith said with a smile: "There are many dunks that can be made in this action league, but this kind of creativity is worthy of full marks. With the lighting on the scene, the visual effect is directly full."

The audience stood up and cheered loudly for Francis' dunk.

Lu Yong was also very happy sitting on the sidelines. He didn't expect that the old boss could score with one dunk, and his skill in finding holes with the ball did not regress in the slightest. He took the lead in applauding Francis.

This action was proposed by him, and it was borrowed from the dunk action of Zach LaVine in the year when he won the championship in the future. It is not difficult, and the main focus is creativity and body stretching.

The peak battle between LaVine and Gordon that year was wonderful. If you learn from two moves at will, you will get a perfect score. Lu Yonghao is not worried about the lack of creativity.

The other players were not overshadowed by the light of Francis. Nate Robinson and Howard are both very capable dunkers, and they are clearly prepared today.

JR-Smith's dunk is also very elegant, but it only shows his physical fitness and has no creativity. Three of the five judges gave 8 points, and two gave 9 points. In the end, they only got 42 points, the lowest in the first round. .

Francis' second dunk was a 360-degree flying dunk with a wave of his arms before the basketball landed.This action was amazing, and bursts of cheers erupted from the audience.

The movements are not too difficult, but the creativity is excellent, and the balance of Boss Fu in the air is impeccable, and he once again received full marks.

After stealing LaVine's two dunk moves in a row, Lu Yong is now very curious. If LaVine participates in the dunk contest again in the future, will he steal the master in the name of paying tribute to his predecessors, or can he come up with a new dunk move?
Barkley exclaimed: "This action is too smooth, it seems not difficult, but it is enough to amaze the audience, this is the strength of the uncrowned dunk king!"

Smith said with a smile: "This slam dunk contest is really exciting. Several players have presented outstanding performances, especially the veteran Francis. After many years, he has proved himself again in the slam dunk contest."

"Little Potato" Nate Robinson was in a hurry, and sent a big move on the second dunk, leaping over his teammate Jamal Crawford, who was 1 meters tall. Get full marks.

The audience had a great time watching tonight, much more exciting than last year's dunk contest.

The opponent was strong, and Francis also felt the pressure at the moment, and he directly threw Wang Bo in the third move.

After the halftime sprint, he contributed a dunk over the supersonic mascot, which directly moved the dunk action of Gordon, the strongest uncrowned king in history.

The beauty and creativity of this deduction have reached the extreme. The reason for getting 50 points is because the full score is only 50.

At this moment, the ownership of the dunk king has lost suspense.

Ranked No. [-] with three deductions, Francis is destined to attract much attention tonight.

Francis played a new trick at the last buckle, wearing a green jersey, a black hat, and a pair of sunglasses, looking very cool.Before the basketball hit the ground, the boss first slapped the backboard with both hands, then dived with his head down, stretched his hands back, and completed a backhand dunk.

This action has been done by Gordon in the future, and now it is full of creativity, which aroused the shouts of the audience.

The judges also stood up in shock, and gave 50 full marks without hesitation!

Francis lost to Carter because of his creativity. His physical fitness is beyond doubt. With Lu Yong behind him as a dog-headed strategist, this slam dunk contest has become no longer ordinary.

After landing, Francis was completely excited, put on his sunglasses, stepped onto the technical stage, and frantically tore his jersey at the fans, making Lu Yong who was sitting beside him dumbfounded.

If it weren't for the wrong skin color, Lu Yong would have thought that this guy was originally from South Korea, with stick blood flowing in his body, and would tear his jersey at every turn.

It is not surprising that Francis won the championship against Lu Yong, all of which were within his expectations.

He has personally witnessed the peak duel between Gordon and LaVine, those moves are very exciting, even if Swift can come over to dunk, he can win the championship, let alone Francis, who has played street ball and has better dunk stretch.

The shouts of the audience were louder and louder. This slam dunk contest was enjoyable to watch. Francis deserved the title of the oldest slam dunk king in history!
The next day, the Sonics dominated the news headlines.

MVP of the rookie contest, champion of the three-point contest, champion of the slam dunk contest, except for the skill challenge where no one participated, the Supersonics have completed the dominance of the participating events.

Among them, Francis' explosive dunk action was frantically reprinted by fans, and the online reputation was surprisingly good. There was no moisture in being elected as the slam dunk king.

Lu Yong also started to get busy this day. He coached a star team for the first time in his career. Not only did he have to find a way to lead the team to win, but he also had to let his disciple Durant play good numbers to increase his chances of being elected as the MVP of the regular season.

Even if you can't get the All-Star MVP, you can't let the Eastern Stars win. The AMVP trophy must stay in the West.

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