Pick Westbrook

Chapter 84 Curious About This Scene
This season, Yi Jianlian averaged 18 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists per game, and is also the core of the Bucks' pick-and-roll tactics and the offensive initiator of the card-handling tactics.

Coupled with the Bucks' current excellent record in the third place in the East, it is not surprising that Yi Jianlian can be selected as the All-Star Li Lai.

Of course, Yi Jianlian's style of play does not attract fans. In fact, the insiders who like to float outside and shoot are not attractive to fans these days.

Except for the old driver in Texas.

Therefore, Yi Jianlian can be ranked in the All-Star voting position, thanks to the support of Chinese fans on the other side of the ocean.

If Li Lai remembered correctly, Yi Jianlian had already been selected as an All-Star during his rookie season last season.

Just thinking about Yi Jianlian, who was playing power forward at that time, actually asked Garnett to play him as an All-Star substitute, that scene was really indecent.

So last year, the alliance promulgated a special rule for easy connection.

That is, no player can participate in the All-Star game in the first year of his rookie season. At the same time, the fan votes in the All-Star ballot were dropped from 100% to 50%, and the other 50% were divided between players and media votes. 25%.

"Yi Jianlian was moved to the center position this season, and the center of the Eastern team is scarce. Currently, Howard ranks first with 22 votes, Yi Jianlian ranks second with 15 votes, and the third place is only 4. Kendrick Perkins with [-] votes."

Hammond mentioned another reason why Yi Jianlian can be selected as an All-Star this season.

Eastern teams are already extremely scarce centers. Even Perkins, who averaged 8 points, 8 rebounds and 2 blocks per game, can rank third. pass?
It is conceivable how Yi Jianlian stands out from the crowd in the east.

"That is to say, in the environment where most teams in the East are weak, it is almost certain that Yi Jianlian will become an All-Star player."

Li Lai said suddenly.

Hammond nodded affirmatively, and then talked about another player of the Bucks.

"The center position in the East is naturally worse than that in the West, but the forward position in the East is not worse than in the West."

"Currently, James is the league's top voter. He, Kobe and Howard are the only players with more than 20 votes."

"In addition to James, the forward positions in the East include Wolf King Garnett, Paul Pierce, Chris Bosh, Danny Granger and Josh Smith."

"So under such a general environment, it is very difficult for Artest to become an All-Star in the Eastern Conference."

全明星正赛一共12个名额，票数最高的2名后卫、2名前锋、1名中锋组成首发5人，剩下的名额则是按票数多少和全明星正赛教练去决定。

Of course, the coach of the All-Star Game has always been the coach of the team with the best record in the East and West, so the head coach of the Eastern Stars this season is Mike Brown of the Cavaliers.

"Although the head coach of the star team has the right to decide this quota, in order not to offend the star, most head coaches decide based on the results of the vote."

Hammond talked about the unspoken rules here.

In other words, it is still votes that determine whether a player can enter the All-Star Game in the end.

"Artest is a defensive player and doesn't play well, but this season he also averaged 17 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block per game, and he also ranked fifth in the DPOY list.

So it's not impossible for him to make it to the All-Star. "

Although it is the fifth place in DPOY, Li Lai is very clear that it is very difficult for Artest to win this award again.

Because that guy Howard is too exaggerated. If there is no accident, he will start from this year and start a terrifying record of winning three DPOYs in a row.

Li Lai continued: "From now on, the team will fully support Artest and Yi Jianlian to be selected for the All-Star Game."

"All banners, posters and leaflets outside the arena should promote and encourage our fans to vote for them."

"Of course, there is also Yao Ming!"

Hammond was quite surprised by the latter name.

Although every fan can vote for 10 NBA players, why must Yao Ming be picked?
Most importantly, why did the Bucks make a wedding dress for Yao Ming?
Although Hammond had doubts, he quickly explained what Li Lai meant, and then he talked about the team's rookies.

Westbrook, Dragic and George Hill, all three will participate in the All-Star Rookie Game!
This is undoubtedly a very happy thing for the Bucks, because there are only 10 places in the Rookie Challenge, which are 60 selected out of 10 rookies.

The Bucks actually monopolized three of them.

Rose, Westbrook, OJ Mayo, Brook Lopez, Michael Beasley, Marc Gasol, Kevin Love, Greg Oden, Dragic and George Hill.

"The players in the rookie challenge are voted by the league's coaching teams, which is enough to show that Dragic and George Hill are two good rookies in the minds of most coaches."

Hammond grew more and more satisfied with Li's decision to select players at that time.

Especially for Dragic and George Hill, it is not easy to use such a late draft pick to win these two good immediate combat powers, and it is also a test of the vision of management and decision makers.

Li Lai asked curiously: "Who decides the head coach of the Rookie Challenge?"

Hammond said: "It will be the assistant coach of the All-Star game head coach."

"However, this season is slightly different from the past. I heard that in order to enliven the atmosphere of the All-Star Weekend, the league specially invited Wade and Howard to join the first-year and second-year rookie coaching staff respectively."

"According to the entertainment nature of the All-Star Weekend, the two assistant coaches naturally know that the fans are here to watch the stars, so there is a high probability that they will be directly coached."

In other words, Wade will directly coach the first-year rookie team on the night of the All-Star weekend.

Recalling the previous game between the Bucks and the Heat, Li Lai suddenly smiled.

"With Wade's style of play and tactical habits, Rose and Westbrook will naturally become the core of the team's offense.

And that night, Westbrook should have impressed Wade. "

Therefore, Westbrook has great hopes of winning the Rookie Challenge MVP, but the premise is to beat the sophomore team.

Of course, Li Lai still remembered Westbrook's four missions of conferring gods.

——All-Star MVP, regular season scoring champion, best defensive player DPOY, regular season MVP, best rookie, single-season triple-double, championship, FMVP, complete 4 items to be a god.

Li Lai was very curious about what kind of screens or rewards would appear after completing the task, but it was a pity that the MVP of the Rookie Challenge was not in this category.

Hammond hesitated for a while, and finally said: "It is very likely that Yi Jianlian will participate in the Rookie Challenge and the All-Star Game at the same time."

Li Lai was startled, and then remembered that Yi Jianlian was only a sophomore.

Therefore, Westbrook is likely to fight Yi Jianlian as an opponent for the first time.

Li Lai smiled slightly, very curious about this scene.

(End of this chapter)