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Chapter 149: The number one villain, Qin Yue II (5000 words chapter, begging for monthly subscription!)
Misfortune has become a true portrayal of the Warriors this season.

Before the team set off for Los Angeles
Gerald "Agent 45" Wallace was left alone in Oakland.

This new recruit who joined the Golden State Gang with great ambitions now feels depressed and frustrated.

Although most of the teammates, including Qin Yue, visited the new first mate from the Bay Area who was about to undergo left foot surgery, Wallace still couldn't accept it.
The fact is that he will be the first to fall in the next difficult journey of the defending champion.

"Once a person starts to have bad luck, even drinking cold water will cause a toothache."

Regarding Wallace's unexpected injury in the team's non-confrontational training session, head coach Malone made such a sharp comment.

After being traded to the Warriors, Wallace, who performed well, will be forced to undergo surgery due to an accidental injury during training and will miss the team's games for at least the next four months.

no doubt.

Wallace's unexpected injury was like a bolt from the blue, hitting the defending champion who had just finally gotten back on track.

Because Wallace was injured at this point in time, including his recovery period after injury
It's almost like the season is over.

In 1998, Michael Jordan, who led the Bulls forward in desperation, was able to at least wait until the Bulls' main players returned before the start of the playoffs.

But now.
Qin Yue, the new GOAT, can only passively accept the reality that the team will have to finish the next season with this incomplete team.

Perhaps, before the league's deadline for using the injury exception arrives, the Warriors can still use their injury exception to sign a championship puzzle piece for Qin Yue.

But that no longer matters.

After all, there are limits to the capabilities of any championship puzzle.

They are destined to not be able to play the role of liberating Qin Yue on the court like a quasi-star player like Wallace.

Before the All-Star Weekend, the Warriors and the Lakers played two games in succession.

With dissatisfaction with fate, at the Staples Center, Qin Yue, who was like a god descending from heaven, led the Warriors with an incomplete lineup to conquer Los Angeles again.

这场惊天动地的“24VS30”，以秦岳为勇士砍下51分14篮板11助攻3封盖并率领球队在客场取胜而告终。

But a day later, at Oracle Arena, the Lakers, with a full lineup, pulled back a game on the road.

科比本场发挥一般，全场15投7中，算上罚球与三分总计砍下21分7篮板7助攻2抢断。

However.
Warriors star Rick Barry, who was in charge of commentating the game, said: "When the Lakers can beat the Warriors without Kobe playing very well, to be honest, I think the probability of the Warriors defending their title and winning three consecutive championships this year is close to zero."

Although on the court, Qin Yue constantly suppressed Gasol Jr., who still needed time to level up, by calling out singles.

But after being eliminated in the first round last year, Gasol's tougher playing style has transformed him into a true super inside player.

Moreover, through continuous adaptation and research, almost all opponents have now figured out a way to deal with the Warriors who actively slow down the pace of the game.

If the Warriors want to go slow, then we will take the initiative to play fast.

The inside line guarded by Qin Yue and Brown has a desperate rim protection ability, so we will start from the Warriors' weak side by clearing half the court.

In the second game held at Oracle Arena, the Lakers, with as many as six players scoring in double digits, gave the latecomers a perfect lesson on how to defeat the Warriors.

In the game, except Kobe, Gasol, Odom, Battier, Ellis and Lowry all scored more than double digits.

"Just consider this game as me giving you a break. I still have three accounts to settle with you." After the game, Kobe, who had always disliked Qin Yue, said.

Hearing this, Qin Yue retorted, "I should have let you go, because I just led the Warriors to win at Staples last game, and the accounts you want to settle with me have already accumulated to four."

After a pause, Qin Yue added: "But considering that you rarely beat me once, you said three strokes, so it's three strokes. Who makes you always like to play the loser in front of me?"

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Before the All-Star Weekend, the Warriors, who had suffered three consecutive losses, had slipped to fifth in the Western Conference standings.

After the Lakers.
The Celtics, led by Duncan, Pierce and Carter, also defeated the defending champions at Oracle Arena.

Al Horford, who was psychologically traumatized by Qin Yue in college, performed well in this game.

As Duncan's best inside partner since David Robinson, Horford has made rapid progress this season under the guidance of Duncan and Perkins.

Although there is still a long way to go before realizing his talent.

但相比大学面对秦岳时交出的那份2分3篮板1助攻1封盖的成绩单，至少在跟随哥哥们挑落卫冕冠军的这个夜晚，为凯尔特人总计拿到8分7篮板2助攻6次犯规的霍福德，已不再像当年那样惧怕秦岳。

Of course, the reason why Horford could have the words "I—am—not—afraid" written on his face was that Pierce and Carter combined to score 58 points for the Celtics in this game.

In addition, every time Horford was timidly moved forward by Qin Yue through a pick-and-roll, Duncan would stroke his head with his hand with an evil smile on his face afterwards.

So, no matter how Qin Yue teased him on the court.
The strong Horford will stand up again in the next round.

In addition, after leaving the Spurs, Duncan finally dared to look Qin Yue in the eye. He also gained faster footwork by losing weight last summer.

Since this Celtics team has Horford and Perkins at the five position, Duncan, who does not need to play the five position in the game for a long time, can naturally lose weight with confidence and thereby extend his peak career.

And after the game, when Duncan was shaking hands with Qin Yue, he unconsciously stretched his other hand to the top of the other's head.
Duncan smiled immediately when he found that Qin Yue did not dodge.

At this moment, no words are needed.

Duncan knew that his junior had declared through his actions that after more than half a year of separation, the longest river and the highest mountain in Wake Forest had reconciled.

A day later, the SuperSonics, who conquered Oracle Arena, inflicted the Warriors with their third consecutive loss before the All-Star Weekend.

The addition of "White Devil" Bibby gave Carlisle more room to implement the pistol tactics and bullhorn tactics designed for the Supersonics on the court.

Moreover, compared with last year's Western Conference Finals, the injury-ridden Warriors have become the team with no cards to play.

In the game, the Supersonics scored in many places, and even if Qin Yue scored "40+" consecutively at home, it was difficult to help the team turn the defeat around in this game.

It's not a pleasant feeling to score high points for the team but not be able to win.

But at this moment, Qin Yue felt more and more uncomfortable
The more excited the teams are, the more they are eager to break the Warriors' monopoly on the championship.

Because the decline of the defending champion will mean that everyone will have the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

……

On the 15th.

Qin Yue, who had been in a bad mood recently, arrived in New Orleans with the title of All-Star vote king.

Qin Yue's perfect performance in the dunk contest last year earned him a lot of popularity among the public.

In this year's All-Star voting, he completely monopolized the title of the top vote-getter with a lead of 180 million votes.

You know, Kobe, who received the second highest number of votes in the Western Conference, only received 200 million votes.

The New York Times commented on Qin Yue's current popularity: "He has become a global idol, with fans all over the world. Hollywood actresses are proud to play Texas Hold'em with him. Last year's Ballon d'Or winner, AC Milan's star player Kaka, even said that Messiah's experience of playing with an injury in the playoffs last year has become a role model for him to use to motivate himself to overcome injuries."

Knowing that Qin Yue was in a bad mood, Nike executives deliberately reduced Qin Yue's business activities during the All-Star Weekend.

In addition, in order to help Qin Yue's luck turn around, Nike will officially launch the latest "Overlord Series" combat boots during this year's All-Star Weekend.

Nike hopes that this fifth generation of the "Bawang Series", which is mainly red in color, can help Qin Yue's career continue to flourish.

That night.

In the New Orleans arena after the hurricane, Daniel Gibson, who seemed to be assisted by God, scored 36 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals for the sophomore team, and was named the Rookie Challenge MVP.

It is worth mentioning that.
In the game, Gibson scored 36 points for the sophomore team, all of which came through three-pointers.

Gibson, who scored 12 three-pointers for the sophomore team, also broke the single-game three-point shooting record in the Rookie Challenge.
Gibson's outstanding performance in the Rookie Challenge made him the favorite to win this year's three-point contest overnight.

Just, such a great Gibson.
He still can't help his elder brother James get out of the shadow of the Cavaliers' recent losing streak.

If we say that before the All-Star Weekend, Qin Yue, who suffered three consecutive defeats with the team, was just in a bad mood.

Before arriving in New Orleans with Iverson, James was experiencing a nine-game losing streak with the Cavaliers.
It can only be described as extremely depressing.

This is the only scoring champion season in James' long career in history.

Influenced by Iverson, James averaged only 25.4 points per game this season, and his average number of shots per game reached a new career low of 18.1 times.

Although James, who gained weight, did play extremely efficiently, with an overall hit rate of over 50% and a true hit rate of nearly 59% this season, James, who always felt that he was unable to use his strength on the court, privately questioned the Cavaliers' trade for Iverson last summer more than once.

And
As time went by, when Iverson gradually lost his idol halo, James and the other three Cavaliers around him were fed up with the group of bad friends around Iverson.

It’s true that Randy Mims and Maverick Carter both live luxurious lives because of James.

But as James' personal manager, Mims is never like Iverson's group of friends who only know how to take but not give.

Carter, who once interned at Nike in his early years, will help James coordinate commercial activities with major sponsors.

As for Rich Paul, who can get rich even without James?

In Paul's opinion, the group of bad friends around Iverson are simply a bunch of dregs of society.

In short, James not only doesn't get along with Iverson on the court,
Off the court, the two were like strangers.

James has always had extremely high aspirations for life.

He longs to be at the center of the basketball world.

They desire to gain greater exposure, and even build their own business empire, break into the upper class and achieve class transcendence.

therefore
As for Iverson, who only wanted to be a "street idol", James had disagreements with him in almost all aspects.

"Is that young man chatting with Messiah 'KD'?" Mims asked curiously.

Hearing this, James turned his gaze to Durant and nodded: "People say he is the next Messiah."

As the MVP of the losing team in this Rookie Challenge.

Although Durant's 28 points and 7 rebounds for the freshman team were unfortunately in vain.
But after the game, Qin Yue praised Durant by name in an interview: "Whenever I see 'KD', I can't help but think of my past self. I know he still needs time to grow up, but don't forget, he is only 19 years old this year."

Durant's performance in his rookie season was undoubtedly outstanding.

This season, Durant averaged 20.8 points, 4.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game for the Knicks.

Although Durant's rookie season cannot be compared with that of the legendary rookie Qin Yue, as a player who chose to enter the NBA after only playing for one year in college, Durant, who still needs time to grow, has provided the world with ample room for imagination.

Especially when he dribbled the ball from the outside with his amazing agility, he was not as cool and elegant as Qin Yue.
He gave people the feeling that he was the reincarnation of Qin Yue. (Qin Yue:?)

Moreover, the Knicks' current growth environment will also help Durant grow further.

Qin Yue knew very well that the current general manager of the Knicks, Donnie Walsh, was one of the few normal people in the Knicks management in the 21st century.

Right now, Walsh's main task is to clean up the Knicks' bad contracts while accumulating a certain amount of assets for the team by playing badly and patiently waiting for the arrival of the summer of 2010.

Therefore, in this good environment
Not only is Durant under less external pressure, but under Walsh's instruction, Durant, who was given "unlimited iron rights" in his rookie season, can also evolve quickly through a lot of actual combat.

另外
As the "Messiah II", the usually arrogant and conceited New Yorkers showed Durant rare patience.

After all, Qin Yue's account was close to the maximum level before he entered the NBA.

In the eyes of Knicks fans, they have every reason to give their "new Messiah" more time.

"Brown, have you noticed that 'KD's' game style and playing style match yours?"

On the sidelines, with the reminder from Rich Paul, James said with a smile: "'KD' is the teammate that everyone wants to have. He has the demeanor of a top scorer at a young age."

What a nice young man. How great it would be if I could be his teammate in the future?
At this moment, James said this in his heart.

The next day.

The major individual challenges of the All-Star Weekend continue at the New Orleans Arena.

Qin Yue, who signed up for the skills challenge this year, met his college teammate Paul in the finals as he wished.

In the preliminary round, two-time Skills Challenge champion Wade performed poorly and finished in just 54 seconds.

In Qin Yue's memory, Deron Williams, who would have created the best result in history in the final of this Skills Challenge, was squeezed out of the final by him with a preliminary score of 30 seconds.

On the court, when the 211-cm-tall Qin Yue completed various obstacle-avoidance performances.
His agile skills and his ability to combine with the ball, which is unique in the history of NBA big men, instantly ignited the entire stadium.

In the final, Paul, who was the first to appear, finally finished with a time of 31.1 seconds.

Qin Yue, who came on stage later and finished the race with zero mistakes, broke the record of the skills challenge with a time of 25.4 seconds.

On TNT, Smith said with emotion: "We were still praising KD yesterday, but today the Messiah showed us with his actions what is the historical level of man-ball combination ability."

Barkley echoed, "Although there are many random factors in the Skills Challenge, even D-Wade, a two-time champion of the event, can't avoid mistakes.

But I think Messiah's final time of 25.4 seconds is not deceptive. Considering his height, his ability to combine with the ball is definitely the best in history."

"It feels great to be able to show my skills at my height and prove to the world that inside players have the ability to break the guards' monopoly on this event," said Qin Yue, who held up the Skills Challenge championship trophy. "I don't want to mention myself specifically, but I believe that there will be many young inside players who will take me as an example in the future."

Qin Yue's victory brought highlights to the skills challenge, which originally received little attention.

However.
This did not prevent the failure of other individual challenges in this year's All-Star Weekend.

Jason Kapono has shot down the boring three-point contest champion for two consecutive years.

Judging from the results alone, Kapono, who scored 25 points in the final, certainly performed well.
But his lack of star quality makes it difficult to satisfy the fans' appetite.

As for the dunk contest that followed, compared with Qin Yue's stunning performance in Las Vegas last year, it can only be described as lackluster.

Even though Howard used the Superman cape as Qin Yue remembered, it only caused a brief sensation.

Because when he received the pass from his teammate Nelson and slammed the ball into the basket, all the fans saw it clearly.
At that distance where Qin Yue could have soared into the air even if he had taken one more step back, Howard could only barely slam the ball into the basket.

"The dunk contest is dead. I killed it once in Oakland, and the Messiah killed it again last year," Carter said in an interview. "If Dwight can win the championship with a move that is not strictly a dunk, it only proves that this event is dead."

"Superman? What Superman? I don't know why Dwight dares to wear that Superman cape. I don't think he is qualified at all." O'Neal, whose Superman title was snatched away by Howard, said angrily, "Wait until he leads the Magic to win a championship, then I will recognize that he is qualified to wear that cape."

Before the game, Howard, who had been eager to be in the spotlight, never expected that he would suddenly become the target of public criticism.

In fact, Howard's dunk performance that night was not entirely useless.

For example, his stunning dunk from behind the backboard.

just
After watching Qin Yue's performance last year, the audience's expectations for the dunk contest are no longer the same as before.

After the unsuccessful All-Star Weekend Individual Challenge, the league wanted to use a perfect All-Star Weekend to help New Orleans recover from the impact of the hurricane.
It also ushered in the most unsuccessful All-Star Game in recent years.

James, who was originally the AMVP of this year, had no interest in this game at all due to the Cavaliers' recent poor performance.

Iverson, who returned to the All-Star starting lineup, played particularly aggressively.

But his shooting was cold and he only made 17 of 6 shots.

In Qin Yue's opinion, since Iverson, who couldn't make any shots that night, might as well boldly attack the basket of the Western Conference All-Stars team, which only looked tall and strong.

Yes, on this night, the defense of Qin Yue and other inside players of the Western All-Stars Team was just a pretense.

In short, this is a game where even without defense, both sides do not want to invest too much, and both want to finish the game early and leave early.

The final score was 126 to 132.

Anthony, the only excited member of the Western Conference All-Stars team, held up the AMVP trophy amid David Stern's indescribable expression.

This year's All-Star Game was not very exciting, which was closely related to the overly tight schedules of the championship contending teams after the All-Star Weekend.

In addition, the Warriors' dominance has declined significantly this season, so the core players of each championship team do not want to suffer too much loss during the All-Star Weekend.

only.
Qin Yue, who knew the little tricks of this group of people very well, became furious invisibly.

The Warriors' road to defending their title is indeed extremely difficult.

But Qin Yue never thought of giving up.

Now that all the championship contenders think their chance has come
No matter what Qin Yue said, he had to let them see who was the number one villain in the NBA of the current era.

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①: According to the original historical line, Gibson would have made 11 three-pointers in the first half of this game. Please do not question the accomplishments of James's little brother in three-point shooting.

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