On February 19, the NBA All-Star Game, the East defeated the West 211-186, the Bucks star Lillard scored 39 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, was named the All-Star MVP.
Although the full-court, single-team scoring record and a number of three-point records were broken, the wonderful degree of this All-Star game is far from the outside world's expectations.
Keeping a laundry list is aesthetically exhausting
This year's NBA All-Star, the Eastern Conference scored 211 points, and the two teams totaled 397 points, breaking the NBA All-Star single-team and full-game scoring records, which previously belonged to the Western Team in 2016 (196 points) and the two teams in 2017 (374 points).
In addition, the game also set a new single-team half-time scoring record (107 points for the Eastern team) and a two-team half-time scoring record (204 points).
For comparison, the lowest game score in NBA All-Star history is 154 points, set in 1953, when the West narrowly defeated the East 79-75, the East's 75 points is also the lowest in All-Star history by a single team.
In addition to a number of scoring records were broken, this year's All-Star "three-point rain" momentum is more fierce. In the overall tone of both players are not defensively, the two teams attempted 168 three-point shots in total, hitting 67 shots, represented by Lillard, Halliburton, Jaylen Brown, the East team shot 42 of 97 three-point shots, breaking the All-Star total number of three-point shots, total number of shots and the record of single team shots and hits.
If you compare the final point difference between the two teams, 25 points is not a big difference, the largest point difference in NBA All-Star history is 40 points, the 1992 All-Star game, Jordan led the East team to 113 to 153 defeat to the West team, "Magic" Johnson won the MVP. However, from the content of this year's competition, the stars' desire to win and the way they play are more difficult to accept.
All-star classic matchups are even more memorable
NBA All-Star history is full of competitive matchups, with five games (1980, 1984, 1987, 1993, 2003) going to overtime, even double-overtime in 2003, and four games decided by just one point. They appeared in 1965, 1971, 1977 and 2001.
The most talked about games, 2001, 2003 All-Star definitely list.
In 2001, the Western team was led by Kobe, O 'Neal, Duncan, etc., and the Eastern team was led by Iverson, McGrady, Carter, etc.
With about 9 minutes left in the game, the East team trailed by as many as 21 points, Iverson scored 15 of the last 25 points of the East team, leading the East team to complete a 111-110 turnaround, and won the MVP trophy.
The 2003 All-Star Game was Michael Jordan's final game, Jordan accepted Carter's invitation to start the game, he made a basket in the final 4.8 seconds of overtime to give the East the lead, but Kobe Bryant's three-point shot drew a foul, sending the game into double overtime.
In the end, the Western team won the only double-overtime game in All-Star history 155-145, and Garnett was named MVP after scoring 37 points.
This year's NBA All-Star Game canceled the captain selection mode, returned to the traditional east-West confrontation, and canceled the goal scoring rule of the last quarter, from the result, obviously has advantages and disadvantages.
The scoring records were broken sharply, but the furious "three-point rain" scoring method inevitably makes fans aesthetic fatigue, the intensity of the game does not rise but falls, this is really the All-Star we want?
