A new season of sports
This year's All-Stars have reverted back to their previous pattern, with East and West divisions facing off, with a single quarter of 12 minutes and no target scores.
It can be seen that the NBA wants to make some effort for last year's boring All-Star. But no matter what the model, the stars are the core. This year's All-Star still feels awkward. At the beginning, these All-Stars wanted to defend well, but as they played, the game became the ...... of the three-point contest
Lillard and Haliburton both threw in six three-pointers in the first half, 12 more in the East than in the West. Just looking at this statistic, you can actually see some problems: this group of All-Star players in the East is very young, and they don't know how to play All-Star yet. Basically, the outside line shoots when he has the opportunity, and in the All-Star Game, most of the time he doesn't defend the outside line. But what fans want to see is not one three-point shot after another. Haliburton, as the host, naturally wants to score more points in front of Indiana fans, and in the end, it would be better if he could get an AMVP. But Lillard is different, either a strong three-point shot or a long-range three-pointer. In the past few years, he has basically played this way in the All-Star Game.
James only played the first half today with an ankle injury. So today, the time when the three of Zhan Duku played together was actually just a few rounds, James passed to Curry at a 45-degree angle, and then when Durant blocked Curry, it really didn't make fans see enough. James is actually trying to bring some highlights to the fans in the limited playing time. A tomahawk split, after 20 years, is still the same. Although a self-throwing and self-dunking failed, and a long-distance air connection also failed, isn't that what the All-Star is all about? If you are not afraid of failure, you are afraid of boredom. An All-Star needs a few people to liven up the atmosphere, and James is one of them.
Hosts Haliburton also have that potential, and his elbow pass was amazing today, but he was still shooting three-pointers most of the time. Doncic and Jokic also have it, and they did work out most of the time today, with Doncic's self-throwing and dunking failures and Jokic's tomahawk layups. Durant actually started with a lot of aggressiveness, especially on the defensive end. But as the point difference in the game grew, Durant also lost interest in the game. When James doesn't play and the point difference gets bigger and bigger, this All-Star becomes a walk, and three-point practice. At the end of the third quarter, the East scored 160 points, and the game went into garbage time.
And if nothing else, the NBA All-Star Game will look like this for years to come. One is because the NBA has entered a moment of renewal, and young people have not learned how to play All-Stars. The second reason is that the All-Star in 202 raised the level of the entire All-Star Game to a height that cannot be surpassed. The All-Stars, who are getting more and more bored now, will only make people miss that year's game extraordinarily. At that time, Harden showed unparalleled defense, Lowry made several offensive fouls, Leonard staged several terrifying steals, and Thick Eyebrows staged a free throw shootout. Even when the thick eyebrows made free throws, Lowry and Leonard on the outside were still rushing inside. Although Embiid kept standing on the free throw line, that game was still very good.
But today, even until the last moment, there was no oppressive defensive ......