Apart from Kobe Bryant, only Pau Gasol among the main players scored in double figures. Ci Shiping suffered the worst, being blocked by Lian Dao 0 times in the game and only had 2 rebounds and 3 turnovers in the end.
Although Kobe is still a little unwilling, he can only accept failure.
After the game, handshake ceremony.
"Hey, don't look depressed. You defeated me in the same way last time. I just completed my revenge!"
Lian Dao smiled and high-fived Kobe.
"Boy, congratulations on your successful revenge!"
Kobe could only shake his head helplessly at Lian Dao's small-mindedness.
After beating the Los Angeles Lakers, the Knicks also ushered in a back-to-back game.
However, before the back-to-back, on the morning of February 11, the league announced this year's "All-Star vote leader" and the final lineups of the Eastern and Western Conferences.
Lian Dao won the All-Star vote again without any suspense, Howard ranked second and Kobe ranked third.
The fourth place is Yao Ming, who surpassed James and Durant in the second round of voting and came from behind.
This means that Stern weakened the votes in Asia. Otherwise, although Yao Ming would not be able to surpass Lian Dao, he would still be ranked second in the league.
According to the final statistics of the All-Star voting, the Knicks, Heat, Thunder, Clippers, Mavericks and Lakers became the biggest winners of this year's All-Star Game. Each of the six teams had at least two players selected to the All-Star lineup.
Eastern Conference All-Star lineup:
Point guard: Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); shooting guard: Dwyane Wade (Miami Heat); small forward: Lian Dao (New York Knicks); power forward: LeBron James (Miami Heat);
Center: Dwight Howard (Orlando Magic).
Eastern Conference All-Star reserves:
Point guard: Jrue Holiday (New York Knicks), Deron Williams (New Jersey Nets).
Shooting Guard: Andre Yingodala (Philadelphia 76ers).
Small Forward: Paul Pierce (Boston Celtics)
Power forward: Amar'e Stoudemire (New York Knicks), Joe Johnson (Atlanta Hawks).
Center: Chris Bosh (Miami Heat).
Western Conference All-Star Lineup:
Point guard: Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers); Shooting guard: Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers); Small forward: Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder); Power forward: Carmel
Ron Anthony (Los Angeles Clippers); Center: Yao Ming (Dallas Mavericks).
Western Conference All-Star reserves:
Point guard: Stephen Nash (Phoenix Suns), Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder)
Shooting Guard: Tony Parker (San Antonio Spurs).
Small Forward: Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves),
Power forward: Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers), Dirk Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks),
Center: Andrew Bynum (Los Angeles Lakers).
Overall, this year's Eastern and Western lineups are very impressive, but if we have to rank them, I'm afraid the Western lineup is more balanced.
Their strength in the interior is higher than that of the Eastern Conference, especially at the center position, they are stronger than the Eastern Conference.
Although Howard is the league's number one center, he has no advantage against Yao Ming.
This season, Andrew Bynum has also produced peak statistics, averaging 18.7 decimeters and 11.8 rebounds per game. No matter how you look at it, he is better than Chris Bosh in terms of his ability to protect the rim in the paint.
In fact, among the substitutes, DeMarcus Cousins received higher votes than Chris Bosh, thanks to Lian Dao's canvassing.
It’s just that this year’s Eastern Conference All-Star head coach is not D’Antoni, and Cousins’ per-game statistics are indeed not as good as Chris Bosh’s, so he has no choice but to lose out.
The head coach of the Eastern Stars this year is Spoelstra of the Heat. This guy will not be particularly fond of Knicks players. Of course, he will try to choose his own players as All-Star substitutes, so Cousins lost to Bosh.
You can imagine.
D'Antoni already served as the head coach of the Eastern Conference Stars once last season, so even this year the Knicks are still the team with the best record in the league.
According to the league's rule that the same coach cannot serve as the head coach of the All-Star team consecutively, this year he will be replaced by the head coach of the second-ranked team, so Spoelstra became the head coach of this year's Eastern Conference All-Star team.
The head coach of the Western Conference is Toke Brooks from the Thunder. Compared with Spoelstra, he is more cheeky. At least he did not replace Tony Parker with James Harden.
Of course, he may have other considerations, such as the Thunder's management not wanting James Harden to gain value so quickly?!
You know, even if an NBA player enters the All-Stars as a substitute, it means that he has entered the All-Star lineup, and naturally has an All-Star halo around him, and his worth will naturally increase.
Except for some successful old guys in the league, most players of course hope to be able to come to the All-Star Game to get a layer of gold, and the head coaches of some teams will naturally try their best to put their stars on the substitute list.
As long as it doesn't go too far, everyone tacitly understands who will let the other team's record be excellent.
Although it is tacitly understood, it does not mean that some players are convinced in their hearts, and Cousins is one of them.
That night, the Knicks became the Timberwolves' biggest sufferer this season.
Especially Cousins, he vented all his dissatisfaction on the Timberwolves. He didn't dare to provoke Nikola Pekovic, who had mysterious power, so he chose Kay, a guy who seemed easier to bully.
Text Love.
And it just so happened that Stoudemire took a rest in this game, Cousins took the fourth position, and Hassan took the fifth position.
Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love was stunned when faced with Cousins' offense.
In this game, Cousins showed his rich offensive methods.
Although Cousins played the fifth position in the Knicks, Cousins' offensive style has always been the fourth position.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Whether it is a face-to-face attack or a post-up single, he can create opportunities for himself, and he is physically strong, facing the 2.08 meter tall Love.
Cousins, who is actually 2.08 meters tall, can immediately tell the difference in height.
Moreover, Cousins also knows how to use his physical advantage to crush his opponents. Even Love's shooting advantage, which he is proud of, does not have much advantage against Cousins.
In particular, Cousins has a wingspan of 2.27 meters. During the two basket attacks, Kevin Love's shot was severely swatted away by Cousins.
In this game, Cousins made Kevin Love suffer on both offense and defense.
By the end of the game, Kevin Love was guarded by Cousins and only scored 10 points and 7 rebounds, which was far below his normal strength level.
Cousins recorded a double-double in rebounds in this game.
Although Lian Dao didn't score much in this game, his assists reached a season high.
Kevin Love looked at Cousins with a confused face until the end of the game. He didn't know when he had offended this stupid, black guy, and why did Cousins target him throughout the game?
If Kevin Love knew that he was taking the blame for Coach Spoelstra and was the innocent one, he would definitely fight Cousins after the game.
Although it was back-to-back, the Knicks won this game very easily. The Knicks won easily.
After defeating the Timberwolves, the Knicks also achieved 8 consecutive victories, 25 wins and 3 losses!
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After defeating the Timberwolves, the Knicks' winning streak did not stop, and then defeated the Toronto Rams, Sacramento Kings and New Orleans Hornets.
In these three games, the opponents were not strong, and the Knicks did not face back-to-back games, so basically every game was played in three quarters.
After winning these three games, the Knicks' second wave of winning streak also reached 11 consecutive wins, 28 wins and 3 losses!
During the away game against the Menglong, Lian Dao met DeRozan again. DeRozan's mental state was not bad. At least he did not fall into a slump after being traded by the Timberwolves.
Although the Menglong lost this game, DeRozan scored 25 points and 5 rebounds.
After the game, during the conversation between the two, Lian Dao truly learned that Brian Colangelo, the general manager of the Men’s Dragons, had always hoped to get DeRozan in the draft, but he did not expect that he would be drafted by the Timberwolves.
Cut off the beard.
In subsequent trade applications, the Timberwolves have always demanded too high a price. It was not until Ricky Rubio, the talented European point guard they selected this season, returned from the Spanish Basketball League that the Timberwolves really relented.