Chapter 287 All-Star Vote
After defeating the Spurs, Chi Liang still maintained an excellent performance in the next game against the Knicks, with a triple-double data of 301010, leading the team to defeat the visiting Knicks.
One day later, the Nets were in a state of great momentum and continued to beat the Kings at home with a score of 115:94.
Compared with November, the schedule in December is more compact, with a game almost every other day, and occasionally back-to-back experience.
In December, the Nets played a total of 16 games. In these 16 games, Chi Liang scored triple-double data in 6 games and scored 40 in three games. Under his leadership, the Nets achieved a record of 10 wins and 6 losses, barely maintaining the third-place record in the East.
However, compared with last month, Chi Liang's data has declined slightly, but he has always maintained a triple-double average per game, shocking the entire league with his all-round performance.
Unfortunately, Chi Liang did not become the best player in December, and his votes were slightly lower than Alonzo Mooning. In 14 games, Mooning averaged 23.9 points, 10.5 rebounds and an astonishing 5.3 blocks, almost dominating both offense and defense. The performance of the "Kind Fighter" is indeed worthy of the honor of the best player in the month.
During this period, two major events also happened in the NBA. The first one was related to Suns star Gugliota, who experienced something that almost caused him to lose his life.
Because he couldn't fall asleep after the game, Gugliotta took a sleeping pill containing chemicals such as butyronone. Gugliotta was still chatting with his wife Nikki on the phone, and then he suddenly stopped breathing. Fortunately, his wife heard something strange and immediately called his teammate Rex Chapman's wife and asked her to tell Chapman on the bus to check the small bottle in Gugliotta's bag. This information also played a great role in the doctor's rescue of him and saved Gugliotta's life.
Although he saved his life, Gugliotta's body and condition were also affected, and his performance will continue to decline in the future, which is a pity.
Another thing is related to the NBA All-Star Voting. On Christmas Eve on December 24, the NBA started the first round of All-Star Voting.
As we all know, the NBA All-Star voting will last for four rounds. If you want to get more votes, it is closely related to the players' performance. Often, after the first round of voting, the star's vote-gathering trend will be basically clear.
Of course, the network is not yet developed, and it is also clearly related to the city where the players are located. Just like Kobe in the 1997 season, he averaged only 15.4 points, 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, and he mostly appeared as a substitute for Eddie Jones and Nick Van Exel. With the help of Lakers fans, he became the youngest NBA All-Star player in NBA history and also started.
At that time, a total of four Lakers participated in the All-Star Game, which shows how much bonus Los Angeles has for Lakers players.
After the All-Star vote began, Chi Liang naturally paid attention and told the fans with excellent performance that it would be right to vote for him.
There is no doubt that his performance should be able to compete for the All-Star vote king, and his biggest competitors are not superstars such as O'Neal, Duncan, Hill, etc., but Vince Carter, who entered the league in the same year as him.
Compared with last season, Carter's performance has performed better. So far, he averaged 25.7 points, 5.8 rebounds and 3.9 assists per game. In addition, he often performed difficult slam dunks and his elegant playing style, which has been widely loved by fans, which has also made Carter a popular candidate for the All-Star vote king.
In addition, Chi Liang and Carter competed particularly fiercely because their voting positions were forwards. Among the forward voting in the Eastern Conference, Chi Liang, Carter, Hill, Glenn Robinson and Dale Davis were the best performers.
However, in the first round of voting, Chi Liang and Carter were far ahead of other forward candidates, including Hill.
During this season, Hill's performance declined, and he never proved himself in the playoffs, which led to many fans being disappointed with Hill, which naturally did not have much obstacles to the two.
Judging from the results and data, Chi Liang's performance is undoubtedly better, but in terms of vision, it is much worse than Carter. Who makes Carter perform a slam dunk at any time?
From the perspective of slam dunk, no one in the NBA today, including the old hooligan Jordan, is more shocking than Carter's slam dunk. Perhaps Jordan's bounce is better, but in front of Carter's imaginative dunk, it is still slightly inferior.
Even Chi Liang was also shocked by Carter's slam dunk. In the NBA, there is now a trend of dividing slam dunks into two types. One is Carter's slam dunk, and the other is a slam dunk except Carter. It can be seen how popular Carter is.
However, Chi Liang is not bad at all. In more than a year in the NBA, he has set more than a dozen records of big and small, especially this season, so far, he has averaged triple-double per game, leading the original weak team Nets to the fifth record in the league.
It is precisely because of this that many fans have cast a valuable vote for Chi Liang, which is particularly obvious in the All-Star votes.
Although Carter is very popular, Chi Liang ranked first in the votes of the Eastern Front in the first round of voting, followed by Carter immediately after him. The votes gap between the two are not big, and there is a possibility of being surpassed at any time.
The third is Hill, but his votes from Carter are twice as different, and it is almost impossible to become an All-Star starter. Behind him are Glen Robinson, Dale Davis and others.
After the first round of voting, Chi Liang's voting slightly surpassed Carter, but the gap was not big, and Carter could surpass it at any time.
In the first round of voting, the two were in the first ranks and were far ahead of other stars.
Unlike the East, there are obviously more powerful stars in the West, so the competition can be imagined. Not to mention O'Neal, Kobe and others, just talking about the forward position, there are Malone, Duncan, Barkley, Garnett, Webber, McDyce, Finley, Rashid Wallace and other stars in the West.
In the first round of voting, the West temporarily led by Duncan and Weber, but their lead was not big and there was a possibility of being overtaken by Garnett at any time.
Chi Liang was very concerned about the All-Star Voting, because he had not participated in the All-Star Game. Last year, the NBA canceled the All-Star Game.
In this All-Star Game, Chi Liang wanted to establish his position with his excellent performance and become the All-Star vote king, which is also a great motivation for him.
Chapter completed!