Healthy basketball, starting from eating the old Lakers F4

Ever since the Bulls won at the beginning of the season, everything has been moving in the right direction.

Although Curry still exposes his problems with casual passing from time to time, Harden often sticks to the ball, Evans still has problems with shooting, and Ibaka is still rough, the Bulls are on the right track.

Time flies so fast, two months have passed by in a blink of an eye, and time has entered 2010.

The Bulls have achieved a record of 16 wins and 14 losses, temporarily ranking seventh in the Eastern Conference.

If you look at it solely as a defending champion, this record is indeed a bit shabby.

Fortunately, the entire league knows that the Bulls have entered a rebuilding stage and are already focusing on cultivating new players this season.

Now that we have started thinking about the future, we naturally cannot grasp the present.

The Bulls, with a group of newcomers, can still achieve such a record, which is naturally not too bad.

However, some problems are also exposed within the Bulls.

Because the All-Star voting channel has been opened, Ben Gordon and Josh Smith also want to be selected for the All-Star team. The problem is that the Bulls are no longer the top two team in the Eastern Conference, and the team's All-Star quota is limited.

Duane's All-Star start will definitely be rock solid.

But if Ben Gordon and Josh Smith are unable to be voted as All-Star starters by fans, then there is a high probability that they will not be able to attend the next All-Star game as substitutes.

In order to gain the support of more fans and become All-Star players, Ben Gordon and Josh Smith, who have already been guessed to be traded by the Bulls next season, no longer pretend at this time.

Even if it affects the rookie's shooting rights and the team's record, he should try his best to collect data on the court.

After all, they are teammates who have played together for so many years. At this time, Du En can only turn a blind eye and cooperate with them as much as possible to brush up their data and try to get together and have a good time.

As for the few rookies whose ball rights are not guaranteed, it can only be temporarily done by Du En to make sacrifices and adjustments.

Fortunately, it is only one month until the All-Star voting ends, and there are only about 15 games. It will not have a big impact on Duan's pursuit of personal honors this season.

Judging from the team's record, Duan has no hope of competing for the regular season MVP this season.

But for other personal honors, such as scoring champion, assist champion, best team, etc., Du En still has half a season to work hard to win.

Of course, in the next 15 games in the month, Du En will not do nothing.

When encountering Ben Gordon or Josh Smith in poor condition, Duan will immediately take over the ball and try to help the team win.

It's just that the rookies have less time to level up.

Time flies by quickly, and it’s early February in a blink of an eye.

Now that the All-Star lineup has been determined, Ben Gordon got his wish and was selected as an All-Star starter along with Duane.

Josh Smith was not selected as a starter in the All-Star Game because of the fierce competition for forwards in the Eastern Conference. Also because of the Bulls' poor record, he was not selected as a substitute for the Eastern Conference All-Star Game again.

By the way, in the previous games in January, the Bulls did not completely sacrifice their record to allow Ben Gordon to become an All-Star.

In the previous 15 regular season games, the Bulls had a record of 7 wins and 8 losses.

Because there is also a five-game Western Conference schedule, overall it cannot be considered too bad, it can only be said to be quite satisfactory.

Due to the fierce competition in the Eastern Conference this year, the Bulls fell from seventh in the Eastern Conference to eighth in the Eastern Conference.

In order to help the Bulls reach the playoffs as much as possible, Dunn suppressed individual voices in the team before the All-Star Weekend, unified the opinions of the locker room, and took back some of the ball rights.

As a result, the rookies' data will also be affected.

However, in Duane's view, playoff game experience is more important than regular season game experience.

Besides, after three years of watching rookies, the talents of Curry, Harden, Evans, and Ibaka are not bad. As long as they don’t give up on themselves and don’t want to make progress, the rookies lack playing time and ball rights in their first season. The problem is not too serious.

Of course, in order to help Curry and the others play well, Duan would praising them during post-game interviews and team training from time to time.

As the saying goes, a kind word can warm the winter. Under Duan's guidance, Curry and Harden were not frustrated by not being selected for the Rookie Challenge.

As for Evans, even though he didn't have many opportunities to perform in the Bulls, he still relied on averages of 11.6 points, 3.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game to become a part of the first-year team in this year's Rookie Challenge.

In addition, Evans also signed up to participate in the skills challenge, and Curry and Harden also joined in the fun.

It is worth mentioning that Curry always loves dunking in training, so he was coaxed by other Bulls teammates to participate in the dunk contest. However, because the quota for the dunk contest was already full, he could only sign up for the three-point contest.

For competitions like the Skills Challenge, which has relaxed quota restrictions, there are particularly many rookies signing up to participate this year.

Originally there were more point guards this year, so the skills challenge was particularly intense.

It’s February 2th, and the All-Star Weekend officially begins.

On the first day of the Rookie Challenge, Evans initially did not gain the attention of his fellow rookie teammates.

However, through Duan's training, Evans' personal talent has been greatly developed, especially making up for the problem of poor shooting.

Of course, during the Rookie Challenge, Evans also had a particularly good touch and seized every opportunity to take a shot.

最终全场17投11中，三分5投2中，罚球4投4中，轰下28分6篮板5助攻2抢断，帮助一年级队击败了二年级，顺势拿下了新秀挑战赛MVP。

On the second day, Curry thought he could make some gains in the three-point contest, but he was eliminated early in the preliminaries due to poor performance.

However, the east is not bright and the west is bright. It was originally a skills challenge to accompany Harden and Evans to join in the fun. Instead, he got lucky and became the new skill king.

This made Harden a little depressed: "Obviously I am the third overall pick!"

As a result, two brothers on the team who were with him day and night won the Rookie Challenge MVP and the Skills Competition Championship respectively during this All-Star Weekend, but he didn't win anything.

However, Harden had a good mentality. Now that he was here, he couldn't come in vain, so he called a few brothers and went to a bar near the black community together.

Since there will be no police to control the situation, we can continue playing music and dancing.

While Harden is exercising his core strength and studying his ball-handling skills, the All-Star Game is slowly getting underway.

"Don't worry, everyone, I will take action!"

Before the All-Star game started, Duan made his attitude clear in the locker room.

Although Duan already has two All-Star MVPs, no one would object to having more All-Star MVPs.

What's more, it was three years ago that Duane won the All-Star MVP.

Duane can't compete for the regular season MVP and finals MVP this season, so there's nothing wrong with competing for the All-Star MVP, right?

Although James also wanted to fight, he didn't have any objection after hearing what Du En said. Everyone should rely on their own abilities!

However, this year Du En will not compete for the championship, so his popularity with the Eastern All-Star team has suddenly improved a lot.

In addition, Du En originally had many brothers, but now the rookie class of 03 has basically become the mainstay of the league. Nearly half of this year's All-Stars are from the same class as Du En. After the game officially started, Howard helped the Eastern All-Stars get the ball. After Anthony got the ball, he passed the ball to Duan.

Duan originally wanted to pass the ball to Ben Gordon, but Ben Gordon signaled Duan to play first, so Duan was no longer polite.

After getting the ball in the backcourt, he didn't hesitate or cooperate with other teammates. He rushed directly to the frontcourt and shot a long three-pointer on his own.

No one expected that Du En would make such an appearance, but there was indeed no interference in the first three quarters of the All-Star Game. Du En's three-point ability is second to none in the league.

This time it can only be said that Du En is a talented artist and bold, and his performance is also very effective.

Du En hit a super long three-pointer as soon as he came up. It was not a surprise, but many fans at the scene cheered enthusiastically after Du En made the three-pointer.

But in the blink of an eye, the Western Conference All-Stars also responded.

Because Kobe was injured and missed the All-Star Game, Roy became the starting shooting guard in the Western Conference. Roy didn't hesitate after getting the ball, and immediately broke out, using his speed to directly drive to the basket and complete a dunk.

In the All-Star game, we didn't take any serious defense in the first three quarters. If you want to score points, anyone can play like this.

Speaking of the Eastern All-Star team's offensive round, Ben Gordon also copied Roy's style of play after getting the ball.

Ben Gordon knew that participating in the All-Star Game was all he wanted, so he just had to score points consciously.

There are many All-Star players who have the same ideas as Ben Gordon.

Therefore, the two teams scored points very quickly tonight, mostly by taking the ball and rushing to the basket, and trying to do as many stunts as possible with dunks.

Originally, Howard wanted to guard seriously, but after being criticized a few times by the players of the Western Conference All-Star Team, he began to laugh and no longer put in so much effort.

The game quickly advanced to the fourth quarter, and the show officially started.

106 to 110, before the fourth quarter officially started, the Eastern All-Stars were still 4 points behind.

Fortunately, Howard helped the Eastern All-Stars win the ball at the beginning, and the first attack of the fourth quarter was still played by the Eastern All-Stars.

Duan did not disappoint everyone. He took action when he said he could. As soon as he came up, he faced Durant's defense and made a three-pointer.

109 to 110, the point difference was caught up to 1 point.

Durant entered the All-Star game for the first time, and he was only an All-Star substitute, so he naturally cherished this opportunity.

In addition, Duan is the number one player in the league, and although Durant likes to be brave and realize his shame, he does not want to lag behind when it comes to competing with other players.

Ever since, when Du En came, he took the initiative to ask for the ball from his teammates, and took the ball to beat Du En alone.

When Duen saw Durant's fighting spirit ignited, he did not ignore Durant. Instead, he took the initiative to defend.

When Durant saw Du En on guard, he immediately used the triple threat to try to get rid of Du En.

However, Duen has rich experience in defense. He just used small steps to constantly adjust his defensive focus and never lost his position.

In order to prevent Durant from shooting, he kept extending his hand and covering it in front of Durant's head, blocking Durant's shooting vision and testing Durant's shot.

Durant tried several times, but just couldn't get rid of Durant. Perhaps it was because of his pride that he refused to pass the blame to other teammates, so he had to take the shot himself.

Seeing Durant's sudden interference with him, Du En pulled up and immediately jumped up.

Duang——

Sure enough, Durant took a hasty shot and missed the three-pointer.

Howard under the basket protected the rebound, and then immediately passed it to James for him to dribble the ball forward.

However, after halftime, James did not pass the ball to Duen and let Duen continue to attack Durant alone. Instead, he chose to attack himself.

Obviously, James and Duan have the same idea, and they both want the All-Star MVP.

Soon, James relied on Lingbo Weibu to help the Eastern All-Stars score another 2 points, completely overtaking the score.

However, Roy of the Western All-Star Team quickly returned the favor and reestablished a 1-point lead.

This time, Wade controlled the ball, dribbling past half court, and Duan finally got the ball again.

Facing Durant's tight defense, Duan simply shot a three-pointer. Although Durant had a long wingspan and fast movement, he still couldn't prevent Duan's extremely high release point.

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This three-pointer was more crucial, and the score difference widened by 2 points.

Looking back, Roy took over the ball again, but Howard's defense was not exaggerated. Roy made a layup.

The rebound just bounced in front of Duen. Duen stepped forward to pick off the rebound and started a transition attack. He scored 5 points in a row, helping the Eastern All-Stars build a victory advantage.

"Brother, you are too strong."

Wade said to Du En with a smile, and took the time to give Du En a high five.

Soon, Du En returned the favor and looked for an opportunity to pass the ball to Wade.

Wade didn't waste the pass, just picked it up and shot.

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Wade scored 2 points, and Duan got an assist.

"Comfortable!"

"Would you like another one?" Du En asked Wade's opinion.

Wade shook his head, glanced at James, then at Howard, and reminded Du En: "I have enough, give it to others!"

Wade obviously has no idea about this All-Star MVP. At the same time, he also hinted to Du En, don't be too selfless, there are others watching!

Du En only scored 25 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists. Although it is already a lot, the statistics of James and Howard are not bad either.

The fourth quarter is still long, and Duan keeps giving up the ball. The All-Star MVP that he gets by then may be taken away by someone else.

Duan listened to the advice and pretended to hand the ball to James and others to play, and then immediately launched a transition attack as soon as he grabbed the defensive rebound.

In just 4 minutes, Duane's scoring data exceeded 30 points, which was far ahead of James and Howard.

If this continues, as long as the Eastern All-Star team can win, the All-Star MVP will basically be gone.

However, the Western Conference All-Stars did not give up the idea of ​​a comeback. Young stars such as Roy, Durant, and Deron Williams all wanted to defeat Duan head-on.

Duen can only continue to respond, just like Jordan faced the challenges of countless rookies back then, letting them know what it means to be the best in the league! (End of chapter)