Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

On December 12, the NBA officially announced the launch of the 26 NBA All-Star voting campaign.

On the day the voting campaign was launched, many players campaigned for themselves on their social media, or for their teammates and friends.

Zhuang Yu also logged into his personal social media to canvass votes for Holiday, Westbrook, and Zhou An.

As for himself, there was absolutely no need for this.

The voting campaign started at midnight on December 12th, and when Zhuang Yu got up in the morning and entered the voting page, he saw that his personal vote count had reached 26 votes.

This is very exaggerated.

You have to know that the voting campaign has only been open for a few hours, and many players have only tens of thousands of votes, and some even have only a few thousand votes.

Zhuang Yu's votes reached 26, surpassing everyone else and leading by a huge margin.

Giannis Antetokounmpo, who ranked second, only received 2 votes at this time, which was 14 votes less than Zhuang Yu, almost half.

In fact, for Zhuang Yu, the All-Star voting event has no meaning anymore.

Given his performance this season and his crazy performances during this period, it would be unfair to other players when his name appears in the All-Star voting.

Who can compare with Zhuang Yu?

Not to mention that Zhuang Yu has the huge Chinese market behind him, even without the votes of the Chinese market, he will still be the first without any suspense.

After all, his personal performance and team record are there.

Some players also got up early and went to the voting website first to see how many votes they had.

"No way, it's only been a few hours and there are already 26 votes?"

"Damn it, don't these people sleep? They are waiting there in the early morning just to vote for Zhuang Yu, right?"

"Sure enough, I should have thought of this a long time ago. There is no suspense at all. He has been the All-Star vote leader for the past two seasons. How can he be an exception this time?"

"Poor Harden, he only got 5 votes, less than 1/5 of Zhuang Yu, and even less than Luka Doncic, haha..."

"Fuck, I only got 7000 votes? My fans must be asleep. Yes, that must be the case. I should wait and see..."

When the players saw the number of votes, they were dazzled by Zhuang Yu's exaggerated numbers. Many players only had a few thousand votes at this time, not even a fraction of Zhuang Yu's.

Although it was surprising that Zhuang Yu received so many votes, not many players were surprised that Zhuang Yu ranked first.

In the past two seasons, Zhuang Yu has been the All-Star voting leader. He has outstanding personal performance and team record, and he has a huge Chinese market behind him. No one can compete with him, not even LeBron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Stephen Curry, or Kevin Durant.

At least he cannot compete with Zhuang Yu at the fan voting stage.

Of course, apart from Zhuang Yu, Harden will inevitably be ridiculed by fans and players every time this happens.

As in the past, although Harden has put up excellent personal statistics, he is never ranked high in the All-Star voting.

One reason is that the Rockets’ record is not good enough, and the other reason is that the competition in the Western Conference is too fierce.

Although Harden also has many fans, there is still a big gap compared with Zhuang Yu and Curry.

Of course, the All-Star voting has just begun...

......

the next day.

Over the course of a day, the players' vote counts increased to varying degrees.

Some fans have to refresh the list from time to time, hoping that their vote count will increase.

For example, Giannis Antetokounmpo.

He has played very well this season and the team's record is also excellent, which has earned him huge popularity. With his performance this season, it is basically a foregone conclusion that he will be included in the All-Star starting lineup, but he hopes he can become the top vote-getter.

Unfortunately, although his votes have reached 25 so far, he is still behind Zhuang Yu, because Zhuang Yu's votes have skyrocketed to 43.

This made Antetokounmpo depressed. He didn't expect that after a day, the vote gap between him and Zhuang Yu not only did not narrow, but became even bigger.

Fortunately, although he is not the league's top vote-getter, he is at least the top vote-getter in the Eastern Conference, and his current number of votes ranks first among Eastern Conference players.

Behind them are Joel Embiid, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Jayson Tatum and others...

It is somewhat surprising that the Eastern Conference backcourt player currently ranked first is not Kyrie Irving or Kemba Walker, but the Hawks' second-year player Trae Young.

However, Trae Young's performance this season is indeed outstanding. In terms of personal data, he is indeed better than Irving and Walker.

At the same time, another second-year player in the Western Conference, Luka Doncic, also received a lot of votes, even surpassing James Harden and Stephen Curry, and ranked second among Western Conference backcourt players, only behind Zhuang Yu.

The third is James Harden, the fourth is Stephen Curry, the fifth is Damian Lillard, and the sixth is Russell Westbrook.

As for the Western Conference frontcourt players, LeBron James is currently ranked first, Anthony Davis is second, Karl-Anthony Towns is third, and Nikola Jokic is fourth...

In addition to Zhuang Yu, the Lakers' Holiday has entered the top ten backcourt players in the Western Conference and is currently ranked seventh, which is still quite good. However, let alone the top three, there is basically no hope for the top five because the competition is too fierce.

Although Lopez is sidelined due to injury, he still made it into the top 10 Western Conference frontcourt players in the voting and is currently ranked tenth.

But like Holiday, there is basically no hope of rising much.

In fact, given the current situation, it is unlikely that the Lakers will have three players selected for the All-Star Game.

If Lopez had not been injured, he would still have had a chance to be selected as an All-Star as a substitute, but he was injured.

I don’t know if I can return before the All-Star Game.

Although Holiday played well, he was a guard and there were too many excellent guards in the Western Conference, so he didn't have much chance.

In addition, although Rose has had many ups and downs in recent years and his personal competitive level is no longer what it used to be, his fan base is still there, and he is also among the top ten backcourt players in the Western Conference.

Due to Zhuang Yu's status as the top vote-getter, there was basically no suspense, and the probability of other Lakers players making the All-Star Game was not high, so the Lakers team had little interest in this All-Star voting event. They only discussed it a little on the day the voting event started, and didn't mention it much afterwards.

Zhuang Yu just paid attention to it for a while, and basically stopped looking at the data afterwards.

Because to him, it makes no difference whether he sees it or not.

However, he feels it would be very prestigious if he could become the top vote-getter for three consecutive years.

......

12 month 28 day.

The Lakers played at home and faced the challenge of the Philadelphia 76ers.

This season, the 76ers' two core players, Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons, have been plagued by injuries and have been playing on and off, but their overall strength is still very strong. Even with these two players playing on and off, they are still ranked sixth in the Eastern Conference.

Many people believe that if Embiid and Simmons can continue to stay healthy, the 76ers can even compete with the Bucks.

Embiid and Simmons were both in this game.

Joel Embiid, Ben Simmons, Josh Richardson, Al Horford, Furkan Korkmaz...

A group of people are warming up.

Today was a rare day for the 76ers to have few absentees due to injuries. It was a rare day for all the players to be present, and they were facing the Lakers, so everyone was quite excited.

Especially Joel Embiid.

The Lakers don't have Lopez, who has an absolute advantage in the interior.

After a warm-up, the players returned to the sidelines.

The head coaches of both teams made some arrangements and the game began soon.

The Lakers still have their regular starters.

The 76ers are Ben Simmons, Shake Milton, Josh Richardson, Al Horford, and Joel Embiid.

First there was a jump ball, and the Digital Man team got the ball.

Ben Simmons dribbled the ball forward, and after reaching the frontcourt, he glanced at the Lakers' defense, and then played a pick-and-roll with Embiid.

However, Simmons' outside shooting is very unstable. Although he is a guard, his main means of scoring is to attack the basket. Therefore, after the pick-and-roll, the Lakers did not need to rush too far forward to delay. Zubac and Simmons maintained a distance of two meters.

In this situation, it is difficult for Embiid to cut into the inside to receive the ball and score. He is also aware of this and knows that Simmons is not good at outside shooting, so after the pick-and-roll, he did not cut into the inside, but stayed outside the three-point line at the top of the arc.

Simmons passed the ball back to Embiid, who stood at the top of the arc, raised the ball, and made a fake shot...

This scene is also very interesting.

A guard got rid of the pick-and-roll and found that there was no one within two meters in front of him, but he didn't dare to shoot; while another center did not cut into the inside after the pick-and-roll, but stayed outside the three-point line to receive the ball and wanted to shoot a three-pointer.

Who is the guard and who is the center?

The key is that Embiid's three-point shooting is indeed better than Simmons.

Simmons averaged only 0.1 three-point shots per game this season.

Well, basically I never shot and never made a goal.

On the other hand, Embiid averaged 3.7 three-point shots per game, hitting 1.3, with a hit rate of %, which is certainly not comparable to some guards who are good at three-point shooting. But don't forget that he is a center, and compared with other centers, he is actually pretty good.

So when he saw Embiid aiming for the basket outside the three-point line, Holiday still stuck to him. It was impossible for him to let Embiid go like he did with Simmons.

If you really let this guy go, he might actually be able to make the shot.

Seeing Holiday approaching, Embiid stopped shooting and instead pushed the ball forward and made an accelerated breakthrough.

Wow, is this really a center?