433: double the gap
This battle from the Internet to the court ended with Link winning.
Originally, this was just an ordinary regular season game, and people would not care too much about the comparison between Link and Josh. However, after being hyped before the game, the all-round gap between Josh and Link was placed naked on the table.
Josh thought that fighting with Link would be a good opportunity to canvass himself. However, this seemed to make him farther away from the All-Star.
The thing that Link hit Josh on the Internet and then put it into practice on the court was also talked about by people. From then on, NBA has to have another legendary story.
Link was not too excited to defeat Josh, because defeating Josh was much easier than Link imagined.
So the day after the game, Link still did what he should do, as if nothing happened yesterday.
Link can act like nothing happened, and the rest of the Grizzlies are not so calm. Jimmy Butler pesters Link to learn the folding back of yesterday, and Randolph even asks Link for tips on trash...
Link was speechless. One was better than his physical fitness and the other was more hooligan than himself. Now he was asking for advice from him.
However, Link himself was quite surprised. Logically speaking, Hill in the 2004-05 season has entered the stage of playing with his brain. Hill had just returned from a serious injury during this period. Although he played 67 games for the Magic and was relatively healthy, his athletic ability has indeed declined a lot.
After all, Hill's ankles were already covered with steel nails at this time.
Like yesterday's dunk, Grant Hill in the 2004-05 season may not be able to do it.
But what if Link's own athletic ability is added? Link found that the benefits brought by his training day and night have begun to appear.
In the past, Link basically tried to fill in the little white strips. But now Link found that in addition to the little white strips being filled, Link himself has also made a lot of progress in training.
After yesterday's experience, Link hurriedly started a complete training plan after going home after the competition. When he should stay and practice more this season, Link arranged everything clearly.
If the plan goes well, Link probably will be able to upgrade again at the end of January. By then, he will have the ability of Grant Hill in the 2003-04 season!
Hill has no more steps left to go before his peak.
Therefore, after today's training, Link asked Jimmy Butler to stay and practice until the training hall was forced to close.
The No. 0 striker was not complacent about a big victory. He was obsessed with the feeling of ravaging his opponent. Therefore, he would try to make himself stronger!
Besides, before the cruel playoffs come, Link must also make himself more dominant.
In the Western Conference Finals, this time, you must make it out of this round!
While Link was sweating profusely, the NBA regular season continued.
On December 7 and December 8, the Grizzlies will usher in the second round of back-to-back matches of the season. But this time, their physical fitness did not defeat the Grizzlies again.
On December 7, in New Orleans, the Grizzlies easily won Anthony Davis after Anthony Davis was absent. Link had 28 points, 8 rebounds and 7 assists. The Grizzlies 96-89, and it was not difficult to win.
On December 8, the Grizzlies players rushed back to Memphis that morning. They immediately began to adapt to the venue and prepare for the game.
Today, Suns head coach Alvin Gentry specially arranged a defensive strategy against Link. Although the Suns are now a reconstruction team, this does not mean that they will give up resistance directly.
As a result, when Link was in dire straits, Zach Randolph stood up with 38 points and 22 rebounds. When Link saw Randolph's data on the big screen on the scene, he was shocked.
Randolph can still score nearly 40 points in a single game, and at the same time, he can also score more than 20 rebounds... of which there are as many as 7 rebounds in the frontcourt.
After the big Black Bear's knees were healed this season, it was indeed amazing. Because Randolph felt hot today, he took too much advantage of shooting. Therefore, Link only scored 16 points, 4 rebounds, and 5 assists.
Despite this, the outside world's evaluation of the Grizzlies is even higher. In addition to Link, there are people in the Grizzlies who can stand up and break the deadlock. Such qualities can play a huge role in the playoffs.
108 to 90, the Grizzlies still easily beat the sun while fighting back to back!
Three days later, on December 12, the Grizzlies and the Suns met again. The result of this game was no different from a few days ago. The only difference was that they scored a double-double and changed from Randolph to Link.
With 25 points and 11 assists and 4 rebounds, Link scored a double-double for the third time this season. When the Suns were about to both Randolph and Link, Link was completely liberated.
After these two games, the Suns management has made up their minds to play the game. It’s not OK to play the game. Although the Suns now have Dragic, Scola, Markif Morris and others, they are incomparable to the real top teams.
At this point, the Grizzlies have completely recovered from their first game losing to the Spurs in December and have won four consecutive victories again.
At this time, Grizzlies fans are waiting for the arrival of December 14. The results of the first round of All-Stars votes are impatient to see Link appear on the starting list.
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Blake Griffin got up early on the 14th and felt very nervous.
As an inside player who scored 20+10 data in a rookie season, Griffin was selected into the All-Star lineup as soon as he entered the league. But so far, Griffin has not even served as an All-Star starter.
Last season, Griffin never expected that his "definite" All-Star starting striker position would be taken away by Link. He was angry for a long time because of this. After all, Griffin, the darling of Los Angeles, does not think he is worse than a undrafted pick.
But this season, Blake Griffin only hopes that his votes will not be too much...
In Griffin's third season, his progress is still not obvious. Griffin has increased his mid-range jump shots this season, but the effect is not good, with a shooting percentage of only about 35%.
He increased his passes, but while averaging only 3.7 assists per game, he also had 2.3 turnovers, and the effect was not much better than the previous two seasons...
Even with average data per game, Griffin did not advance or retreat.
Up to now this season, Griffin has only 18.5 points and 8.3 rebounds, and the average number per game is decreasing year by year... If the progress of young players with high picks is not obvious, it will be very fatal, let alone regressing.
Therefore, Griffin set his goal very low this year. He does not seek to surpass Link. As long as the number of votes is not too far from Link, he may have a chance to catch up in the future.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, Blake Griffin opened the official website nervously, and the results of the first round of voting for the 2013 Houston All-Star Weekend were officially announced!
The first thing that caught my eye was Kobe and James. As the MVP of the regular season and finals of the 2011-2012 season, LeBron James, who got the championship as he wished last season, temporarily became the "vote king" with 641,348 votes, while Kobe Bryant of the Lakers ranked second among all players with 639,419 votes, and only trailed James by a slight disadvantage.
James topped the list in the Eastern Conference, while Anthony of the Knicks ranked second with 573,112 votes. The third player in the Eastern Conference frontcourt was Kevin Garnett of the Celtics, with his votes of 218,246.
Then, Griffin turned his attention to the voting rankings of the West. When he saw that his ranking was only ranked fourth among the frontcourt players, Griffin felt a little disappointed!
When Griffin saw the complete data on the votes, he simply turned off the screen of his phone in disappointment.
In the West, Griffin ranked 4th in the Western Frontcourt Player with 307,855 votes! Dwight Howard ranked third in the Western Frontcourt Player, and the number of votes for "Warcraft" is 434,168. Since the All-Star vote canceled this season, the No. 5 position has been included in the ranks of frontcourt players. Therefore, Griffin cannot even enter the top three!
The second place in the Western Conference frontcourt is Kevin Durant. That's right, Durant, the three-game scoring champion, only ranked second in the frontcourt after the first round of voting.
Because Link became the number one player in the Western Conference's frontcourt voting with a huge advantage of 605,965 votes! At the same time, he is also a player with only fewer votes in the Western Conference than Kobe. Among all the players, he is also ranked third after Kobe and James! He surpassed Anthony and Durant!
The 307855 votes and 605965 votes are nearly twice the gap, and it is not something Griffin can catch up with in the future with hard work.
Griffin has minimized his expectations, but has not achieved his goal.
Chapter completed!