Chapter 147 Locking in the All-Star starting lineup
Victory can suppress all negative news, but failure will make everyone look at the problems of the Trail Blazers with a magnifying glass.
If you beat it well, it will blow to the sky; if you beat it badly, it will be as dark as the cave!
This is the usual behavior of people in the media.
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At eight o'clock the next day, Wang Zelin got up and turned on his mobile phone to read some discussions about last night's game.
"Wang Zelin is seriously overrated!"
?The famous ESPN basketball commentator A Smith jumped out to publish the article.
He said this.
"Since joining the NBA, the data that the Chinese boy has obtained is quite luxurious, especially as a rookie player... But how much water is mixed with it, and how many people know it?"
"Comparing the rookie periods of major super insiders in history, we can easily find that the changes in the rules are very convenient for current insider players..."
Typical "open your eyes and tell lies!"
"More than once, he looked at the high scores when the team lost. He has a pathological pursuit of data. This pursuit allowed him to produce very luxurious data..."
After reading this article by A Smith, Wang Zelin read several articles also from ESPN, such as former NBA player Jay Williams, SP expert Henry Abbott, etc.
ESPN is working together, and "Wang Hei" appears one after another all over the network. In their writings, Wang Zelin has become a cancerous person who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals, a brush who ignores the tacit cooperation of the team...
Brush?
"Hahahaha!" Wang Zelin said to himself, "Throughout the history of the NBA, almost every super giant is a brush, and a super big brush, even the god of basketball Jordan is the same; let you see, my brush can
To what extent..."
After a while, Zhou Yang called, and it was about business activities.
"Zelin, we have almost finished talking about several endorsements that you were more interested in. Now we are short of a certain time so that you can meet with the other party's senior management."
"I understand, let's do it tomorrow!" Wang Zelin said.
As a Chinese player, his commercial value is self-evident. As his personal data becomes more and more dazzling, Wang Zelin's commercial value begins to be vigorously explored.
So, there is actually nothing wrong with being a brush.
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On the afternoon of January 6, US time, the results of the second round of the 62nd NBA All-Star voting were released.
Wang Zelin continues to lead the Western Conference and even the league with the number of votes.
In the West, Kobe Bryant got the votes, followed closely by Howard, Durant, Paul...
Over in the East, in order of votes: LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Rajon Rondo, Kevin Garnett.
In the All-Star voting, not long after the first round of voting, Wang Zelin became the first player to receive more than one million votes. At that time, Kobe Bryant and James, who were both in the West and James in the East, trailed Wang Zelin by nearly 100,000 votes.
After the second round of All-Star voting ended, there were three players in the league who received more than one million votes.
Howard will most likely be No. 4.
But this is no longer important.
According to the current trend, Wang Zelin's vote count is very likely to exceed 2 million before the end of the fourth round, which can be regarded as locking in the dual status of the All-Star vote king and the Western Conference All-Star in advance.
Thanks to the current NBA All-Star Weekend reforms, the center position has been eliminated and replaced with two backcourt players and three frontcourt players to serve as the lineup for the All-Star Game.
Therefore, our Mr. Incredible has avoided the embarrassment similar to that of his predecessor, Shaquille O'Neal: he is obviously at the peak of his integrity but is very likely to be squeezed out of the center position by a rookie.
Wang Zelin leading the league in All-Star votes has become another hot topic at the moment.
While chatting, everyone suddenly discovered that despite how much Wang Zelin is being hacked online, his personal performance is unexpectedly stable and very dazzling.
The Trail Blazers have played 33 games. As the team's center, Wang Zelin averaged 31 minutes per game, averaging 21.4 points, 12 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.2 blocks.
After losing to the Clippers and Spurs at the beginning of the season, many people began to clamor that Wang Zelin had encountered a rookie wall.
But not long after, Wang Zelin slapped everyone in the face with the youngest triple-double in history with 25 points, 18 rebounds and 11 assists.
The rookie wall seems to have never appeared in Wang Zelin.
Take Blake Griffin two years ago.
In his rookie season, he scored 22.5 points, 12.1 rebounds and 3.8 assists. He won the Western Conference Rookie of the Year for six consecutive months and finally won 118 first-choice votes from media reporters in the Rookie of the Year voting.
As strong as Griffin, he also experienced a sluggish state in the middle of the season after the Christmas game.
Every mid-season, most rookies will have insufficient physical reserves due to experience and other issues. Part of the reason is that the coaching staff of other teams in the league already know enough about them and have found corresponding points.
The decline in data is very normal, and it is in line with the usual behavior of rookie players.
This period of time is called the Rookie Wall.
Generally speaking, the rookie wall can be long or short, but no matter what, it will be broken after the All-Star Game.
The All-Star Weekend is a good adjustment period for rookie players, mainly to correct their mentality.
The cruelty of reality will tell them that they can no longer regard themselves as the pride and ace core of the NCAA or other regions.
There are too many talented young people in the NBA. If they are still obsessed with the glory of the past, they will always be trapped in the old and new walls and never get out.
As you can see, there are many rising stars every year.
But slowly, as the season progressed, there was no more news from them.
This is the type of person who hits the rookie wall.
As the league's 29 teams study the Trail Blazers more deeply, more and more targeted measures can be taken. Along with the rookie senior Lillard, his data has also declined slightly.
On the other hand, Wang Zelin's firepower output is frighteningly stable, excluding the four or five games where his performance was down.
Even as the season progresses, he has developed the passing ability that only a first-class support center can have.
Various signs have made many experts, professors and some senior fans in the basketball world feel extremely incredible.
How did this rookie do it?
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Compared to the All-Star Weekend a month later and the heated discussion it caused, tonight's game is of great significance to Wang Zelin.
On the night of January 6th, the Trail Blazers will go to Oakland, California to challenge the Golden State Warriors as away players.