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Chapter 200 Winning Streak After All-Star
All-Star MVP, the bottom of the three major MVP awards, strictly speaking, it is not even a big honor, but for the Sacramento Kings who lack honors, the All-Star MVP is already a remarkable achievement, because in In the long team history of the Kings, only Oscar Robertson has won the All-Star MVP, and Yan Hua is the second player in the history of the Kings to win the All-Star MVP. If the Kings moved to Sacramento, Yan Hua is the first. A player who won the All-Star MVP.

So after Yan Hua returned to the Kings Club, the Kings general manager Geoff Petrie and the Kings' two bosses, the Maruf Brothers, were very determined to hold a celebration ceremony for Yan Hua, so that all Kings fans , all enjoying the glory and joy of the All-Star MVP with Yan Hua.

Compared with Yan Hua's small fights when he won the best player of the month and the best rookie, the King's Club held this All-Star MVP celebration for Yan Hua, which can be described as a huge momentum. The entire Arco arena was full, and even Oscar Robertson, Mitch Richmond, Sam Lacey, Jack Twyman, all these famous players in the history of the Kings were also invited to attend. The crowd was so big that some people who didn’t know it thought the Kings had won the championship. Woolen cloth.

Although the Kings held this celebration, in the eyes of some teams with outstanding honors, it is a bit unreasonable, but the Kings fans who participated in the celebration showed great enthusiasm, no more than when the Kings created 18 consecutive victories. Bad celebration.

On the night of Yan Hua's All-Star MVP celebration, the Kings ushered in their first opponent after the All-Star Weekend, the Golden State Warriors, at home.

I have to say that a black eight in the playoffs is a very degrading thing. Far from the Nuggets Knicks, the current Golden State Warriors are all typical of a black eight exhausting their character. After completing the black eight on the Mavericks, it began to be unfavorable every year. It missed the playoffs every year. There was even a season when they had a record of 48 wins and 34 losses, and they missed the playoffs. Not only that, the Warriors The main players in the team also began to get injured one after another. Last season, they were even reimbursed for three of them in one go.

But Don Nelson, who is at the helm of the Warriors, is determined not to be bad. However, without high-ranking rookies and no salary space to recruit free agents from the free market, it is difficult to improve the strength of his team in a short period of time, okay? Raja Bell, who was easily traded at the beginning of the season, was reimbursed after only one game. Therefore, the situation of the Warriors this season is still not much better than last season. Currently, they only have a record of 14 wins and 38 losses. Ranked No.12 in the West, it has missed the playoffs.

The Warriors, who mainly focus on running and bombing, are a team that focuses on offense and ignores defense. The Warriors led the league in scoring average of 108 points per game this season. However, the Warriors also lost the most points in the league. The result of ignoring defense is After the offense can't kill the opponent, the Warriors can only meet the ending of failure. This is also the main reason why the old Nelson traded for the outside defensive champion Raja Bell this season. He was directly reimbursed in the first game after joining the Warriors. The current character of Nelson and the Warriors is simply extremely poor.

The Warriors' offense can be said to be the first in the league, and the Kings this season also have the top three defenses in the league, so the game between the Kings and the Warriors at home can also be called a contest between spears and shields, but In this spear-and-shield contest, the Warriors, who had the strongest offensive firepower in the league, lost outright. The Warriors, who averaged 108 points per game this season, were actually limited to 87 points by the Kings in this game. Points, the overall shooting is only 32%.

109 to 87, the Kings at home beat the Warriors by as much as 23. Although the Warriors lost a bit badly, the score and ending are in line with the strength comparison between the Kings and the Warriors. After all, the Kings are now the second in the Western Conference. The league is fourth, and the Warriors are just a team that ranks eleventh in the West.

As the core of the king, Yan Hua, the new All-Star MVP, scored 24 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 blocked shots in this game. Such data can only be regarded as quite satisfactory for Yan Hua, but In this game, Yan Hua, who was crazily double-teamed by the Warriors, sent out a career-high 9 assists, only one assist away from winning the first triple-double of his career.

On the second day after defeating the Warriors at home, the Kings ushered in the Phoenix Suns, currently ranked third in the Western Conference, at home back to back. In this strong dialogue, the Kings defeated the Suns at home very simply.

Like the Warriors, the Suns are also a team that focuses on running and shooting. After taking a detour last season, the Suns have returned to their familiar tactics and game rhythm this season, but in this strong dialogue, The Suns ushered in the same fate as the Warriors. The Suns, who averaged about the same points per game as the Warriors, only scored 93 points in the game against the Kings, and their shooting percentage was limited to less than 40%.

After scoring a quasi-triple-double in the last game, Yan Hua sent out 7 assists again in the game against the Suns. He scored 31 points, 14 rebounds, and 8 assists in the game. Under the frantic double-teaming of the Suns, Yan Hua's passing and coping skills have also become better and better, and the performance of the King's team in these two games also gives people a feeling of more and more tacit understanding .

After defeating the Suns at home, the Kings will set off for Texas to meet their Texas hell road trip again. On February 2th, the Kings lost Yao Ming in an away game and sent McGrady’s Rockets away. Finally, in Kevin- With Martin resting, the Kings beat the Rockets 20-103 in the away game. Yan Hua scored a team-high 91 points, grabbed a team-high 36 rebounds, and sent a team-high 16 assists.

After defeating the Rockets in the away game, on February 2, the Kings played back-to-back away games against the Dallas Mavericks. Two people, but caught in the inexplicable All-Star comprehensive card, the three away games after the All-Star, the Mavericks won one and lost two, and Dirk Nowitzki and Jason Kidd's performances were not satisfactory .

In this home game against the Kings, Dirk Nowitzki once again played abnormally. Facing the "cash machine" Serge Ibaka's defense, Dirk Nowitzki made 16 of 5 shots Among them, only 12 points were scored. In addition to Dirk Nowitzki, only Jason Terry scored in double figures on the Mavericks team.

For the Kings, Yan Hua had 22 points and 11 rebounds, Kevin Martin had 31 points, and John Salmons had 20 points. With the three scoring 20 points, the Kings finally won the away game 96-80 The Mavericks won all four games after the All-Star weekend.

After defeating the Rockets and the Mavericks in succession, the Kings ushered in the last opponent of the trip to hell in Texas, the San Antonio Spurs.

(End of this chapter)