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"The entire league is silent! No one dares to say anything harsh to Lin Tian tonight!"

"Kidd was furious! Insiders revealed that Kidd went to a nightclub to get drunk after learning that Lin scored 40+31!"

"Nash: I have always said that Lin is the best guard in the NBA. I can't do what he can do and I dare not even think about it!"

"Chris Paul, the favorite for the No. 05 pick in : I grew up watching Lin play basketball. He is my idol and mentor!"

"Deron Williams, the top backcourt player of the 05 class: I watch Lin's game videos every night to improve myself. I will keep moving forward with him as my goal!"

"Raymond Felton, one of the top three point guards in 05: I'm eager to play against Lin, I'm eager to challenge Lin, but I also know the gap between him and me, I look forward to being beaten by him!"

《First time in his career to ‘brush up the data’! Lin Tian left the court 6 minutes early but still left epic data! 》

"The old question arises again: If Lin plays the entire game, can he score 45 points and 35 assists?"

"Will it become a normal thing? Lin showed his desire for data for the first time. Can he maintain his 'desire' in the days that follow?"

"What a shame! He left the stage 6 minutes early! If Lin Tian could continue to perform, he would definitely create a more terrifying record!"

"It's not that I can't do it, but it's not necessary. Lin will let everyone see how he brushes tonight!"

"Who else? After the First World War, Lin has already climbed out of the pyramid and stood on the top of the pyramid!"

"Magic personally ranked NBA point guards in history: Lin first, me third, Isaiah fourth, and the second place is vacant!"

That night, Lin Tian once again silenced the alliance.

He once again did something that many people would never dare to think of.

And this time, just like before, it seemed easy and everything was done in a snap.

Now, only one word is enough to describe Lin Tian.

powerful!
But what does that say?

Joy begets sorrow.

After the Knicks won such an epic crushing battle, they returned to New York overnight and came to Brooklyn to experience what Lin Tian called MINI ALL Yellow.

After that, they seemed to be drained of energy and couldn't find their rhythm for several games in a row.

Not only did they suffer a losing streak right after returning to New York, but they also had another wave of games where the odds were evenly split.

In short, the Knicks' state has experienced continuous ups and downs. The whole team, including Lin Tian, ​​is not in good shape. After this wave of continuous decline and ups and downs in the record, at the end of January, the Knicks' record was temporarily fixed at 1 wins and 30 losses.

Throughout January, they only had 1 wins and 8 losses, and their performance throughout the month could not be described as excellent.

But even though the whole team was in poor condition and had its share of wins and losses, Lin Tian relied on that crazy 31 assists in a single game to completely secure the title of assist king!

By the end of January, his average assists per game had reached 1!
If we end this season so far, Lin Tian's average of 13.9 assists per game ranks third in NBA history!

在他前面的，只有89-90赛季斯托克顿的14.5次以及89-91赛季斯托克顿的14.2次！
Stockton is also the only player in NBA history to average more than 14 assists per game in a single season. Apart from him, no one else, whether it is Johnson, Thomas or anyone else, has ever averaged more than 14 assists per game in a single season.

And this season, Lin Tian once again has the opportunity to do this!
He even has a chance to break this record!

After all, Lin Tian has played 46 games so far this season, averaging 13.9 assists per game and a total of 640 assists. If he plays all of his next 36 games, as long as he can make another 558 assists, bringing his total assists to 1198, his average assists per game will reach 14.6!
He will surpass Stockton and become the person with the most assists per game in a single season in NBA history!

This is quite difficult, because it means that Lin Tian has to average 15.5 assists per game in the next games!
This number sounds somewhat scary.

How scary is that?
It's harder than averaging 40 points per game anyway.

After all, in the history of the league, there have been monsters who averaged 40 or even 50 points per game, but looking at the entire history, except for Stockton, no one has ever averaged more than 15.5 assists per game in a single month!

No one has ever done it!
So can Lin Tian do it?

"If I average 15.5 assists per game, I'll become the player with the highest assists per game in a single season in NBA history? No way, no way, it's too difficult."

When facing the interview from the reporter, Lin Tian smiled and waved his hands, indicating that he could not do this.

"And if I set this as my goal, my teammates will be under too much pressure. They will worry that they will miss the shot I pass to them, and they will have a psychological burden."

"I don't care how many assists I average per game in the end. I just hope we can make it to the playoffs and then have a healthy impact on the championship."

"As for the data and stuff, I don't care."

In this league, 99% of the stars will say in interviews that they don’t care about statistics but only care about winning.

But what? 100% of the reporters don't believe what these stars say and don't care about the data? Bullshit!

But there are a few exceptions.

For example, Lin Tian said he didn’t care about the data, and everyone believed him.

Because he has too many criminal records.

This guy really gave up too many opportunities to brush up his stats, and too many times chose to leave the game early when he had the chance to make history.

Brushing the brush once in a while is not only not annoying, but also very satisfying. Even fans and reporters wish he would brush the brush more!
With so many records, so many opportunities, and such great abilities, it would be simply unjust if you didn't break a few more records!

But also few people believed Lin Tian’s statement that averaging 15.5 assists per game was too difficult and that he couldn’t do it in the second half of the season.

This season marks the tenth season that Lin Tian has been in the industry. Everyone is very familiar with who he is, what his personality is like, and what he likes to do.

Especially the fans that Lin Tian has accumulated over the past ten years have long formed an emotion of near worship and absolute trust in Lin Tian.

They believe that Lin Tian can do everything!
What if you don’t do it?
If you don’t do it, it means you don’t want to.

This saying is still circulating among Lin Tian’s fans today.

As long as you repeat what Lin Tian did in a mechanical tone without any emotion or bias, then congratulations, you have become a "Lin fan"!
There is no way. What he did was really too unbelievable and too crazy.

Ordinary people really cannot understand how someone can do so many crazy and powerful things!
Of course, all of the above are either speculations from the media, absolute trust from the fans, or recognition of Lin Tian by his peers. None of them can be considered as evidence or anything like that. They cannot prove that Lin Tian can average at least 36 assists per game in the remaining 15.5 games.

But Lin Tian himself quickly demonstrated that he had this ability.

In the first game of February, Lin Tian led the Knicks to their home court and once again faced their old rivals in the Eastern Conference in the past few years.

New Jersey Nets.

The two teams have now become two extremes in the league. The Nets play slow and heavy, focusing on positional warfare and low-speed offense and defense. Inside offense and double tower lineup are their core tactics.

The Knicks have long been the fastest, most aggressive and most capable fast break team in the league.

The two teams, one fast and one slow, one inside and one outside, faced off again! And this time, the duel between the two sides completely became Lin Tian's performance show!

During the game, Lin Tian took advantage of the Nets' weaknesses of slow movement, slow reaction and being too tall, and he kept attacking by breaking through and shooting from inside and outside the Nets' defense.

After he turned the Nets' defense upside down, Lin Tian would continue to find opportunities to pass the ball to his teammates, allowing them to finish.

That night, although Lin Tian only scored 26 points, he gave out 22 assists!
This is the 7th time this season that Lin Tian has had more than 20 assists in a single game!

Single season!
99% of the players in the league will never have 20+ assists in a single game in their entire lives!
Even those top players only have a few performances of 20+ assists in a single game in their lifetime.

Looking at the entire history, former single-game assists king Skiles had 4+ assists 20 times, "Lightning" Kevin Johnson 7 times, and "Smiling Assassin" Isaiah Thomas 9 times.

Total number of career times!
It was just a back-and-forth fight with Lin Tian in the past half season.

And these three people are already ranked 20rd to 3th in the NBA today in terms of the number of 5+ assists in a single game.

Relying on the madness of this half season, Lin Tian has of course surpassed these three guys long ago. His number of 20+ assists in a single game has reached 15 times, temporarily ranking third in NBA history!

As for what’s ahead of him?

Magic Johnson ranked second with 22 times, and Stockton, who is currently ranked first, had 30 performances with more than 20 assists in a single game!
However, the rankings of these two are obviously not very stable.

Especially Magic Johnson, the gap between him and Lin Tian is only 7 times. If Lin Tian maintains the madness of the first half of the season, it won’t take much. At the end of this season, Lin Tian might even surpass him and become the second in history.

As for Stockton, who ranked first, although it seems that his number is twice that of Lin Tian now, the same thing still applies: Lin Tian has been in great shape in the past two years! Unless there is any serious injury or a cliff-like drop in competitive form, Stockton's 30 times can only be maintained for two more years at most!

More importantly, Lin Tian’s playing style this season is significantly different from his previous time with the Pacers!
When he was in the Pacers, he was not only the team's top organizer and passer, but also the team's offensive spearhead and top attacker!
So even though he was able to monopolize the assists list for the past few years, he did not have too many exaggerated assists.

His outstanding performance was more focused on his scoring.

But this season, when Lin Tian came to the Knicks, when the team had Anthony, Stoudemire and other offensive and scoring players, Lin Tian immediately changed his playing style.

His average points per game so far this season is only 24.9 points, the second lowest since he left the Bulls, only higher than the 97 points in the 98-23.7 season. At the same time, his number of shots is also the second lowest since his Bulls career.

But at the same time, his shooting percentage and assists have reached career highs!
Simply put, Lin Tian slightly restrained his offensive edge, focused more on organizing the team, and allowed other players on the team to participate more in the offense and run-and-gun tactics.

This season, Lin Tian has truly released his organizational abilities completely without any concealment or repression!

It is precisely because of this that Lin Tian will definitely not be able to win the scoring title this season, and he is not prepared to win it, but he will definitely be able to win the assist title this season, far ahead of Nash, Kidd and others behind him!

It is even possible that Lin Tian could break the historical record this season and become the player with the most assists per game in a single season in NBA history!

Of course, those are all later stories. How many assists Lin Tian will get in the end this season will depend on the situation at the end of the season.

But no matter how many assists Lin Tian has in the end, the entire league is now about to usher in a grand event, a rather relaxing event!

2005 NBA All-Star Game!

This year's All-Star Game is quite different for Lin Tian than in previous years.

This year he is the host!
Although Lin Tian remembered that this year's All-Star Game should be held in Denver, God knows why it became New York.

But Lin Tian obviously didn't care about it at all.

New York is New York!

I have been in the league for 10 years, but I have never played an All-Star game at home! This year, I have to feel the joy of being the host!
As for this year's All-Star voting, Lin Tian of course took the lead again without any suspense, and won the All-Star vote for the seventh consecutive year.

Or to put it another way: Since Lin Tian left the Bulls, except for the 98-99 season when there was no All-Star Game, he has been the All-Star voting leader in the remaining 7 years!
Of course, he, the All-Star voting leader, is not very dedicated, although he has had wonderful performances in the All-Star Game and has won the championship four times in a single year, and won the Slam Dunk King, Three-Point King, Skill King and All-Star MVP in the same year.

But there are also many times when this guy just slacks off, or even refuses to go because he is injured.

But this year, as the host, Lin Tian will definitely not be absent again.

We have to make the folks in my hometown happy!

As for the other All-Star players from the East and West except Lin Tian.

In the Eastern Conference, in addition to Lin Tian, ​​the starting center is still Yao Ming, the two forwards are Stoudemire and Hill, and the other guard is Lin Tian’s old buddy Carter.

The starting five in the Eastern Conference basically meets the public's expectations for the starting lineup. The only one who can be barely called a surprise is perhaps Hill, a guy who did not play a single game last season and played less than 00 games from 04-50. His condition this season is actually just so-so.

Hill, who had just recovered from his injury, played 38 games in the first half of the season, averaging only 20 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists per game, and the Magic's record was only ranked 6th in the Eastern Conference.

At least judging from the performance, Hill is definitely not as good as his teammate McGrady, who averaged 29 points per game.

But even so, even in this situation, Hill still beat out his teammate McGrady and became the All-Star starter in the Eastern Conference!
This also shows how popular Hill is, and how likable his gentlemanly and gentle image is.

But he is liked by the fans but not by his teammates!
Of course, this teammate is mainly McGrady!
It is said that after the All-Star starting lineup was announced, McGrady was so angry that he quit the training hall, turned around and privately ended the training and left the gym.

He was quite unhappy!
He was so unhappy that that very evening, he once again expressed to the management his desire to be traded.

I'm not staying here anymore!

Don't be offended by this!
McGrady thus became the biggest fish in the trading market before the trade deadline this season.

As for whether he can leave this time and whether the team will force him to stay until the end of the season, we can only wait and see.

In the East, there were some disturbances because of the two forwards of the Magic, but the starting lineup in the West was very simple.

Kobe and Iverson partner up in the backcourt, Nowitzki and Garnett sit together on the front line, and with the inside overlord O'Neal, there is no need to guess the starting five in the Western Conference. It can be said that there is no suspense, and no one can pose a threat to these five people.

These five people can be said to have no problems in terms of ability, popularity or status! They are well-deserved to be selected as the All-Star starters!
In addition to their respective starting lineups, the All-Star reserve lineup was also announced in early February.

The Eastern Conference's bench lineup consists of seven people: Duncan, Anthony, McGrady, Billups, Big Ben, and Wade.

It is worth mentioning that the Pacers, who have been a major All-Star team in the past seven years and have contributed 7-3 All-Stars every year, have not had anyone selected this season.

There is no way around it. Although Webber returned this season, he was troubled by a knee injury and was in poor condition, averaging only 18 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists per game. The high-spirited 'King' is now away from the court.

In addition, the Pacers have only 22 wins and 24 losses so far this season, ranking only tenth in the Eastern Conference. They are still in the state of making an all-out effort to impact the playoffs. It is reasonable that they cannot get a playoff spot in the star-studded Eastern Conference.

The more important reason is that the internal strife within the Pacers continues!
After the conflict between Artest and the Pistons at the Palace of Auburn Hills in early December, he disappeared for almost a month. It was not until early January that he returned to the team and reunited with his teammates to continue playing.

But everyone could see that this team was different. The players were not as united as before, especially Artest. He always seemed to be outside the system. Not only was he incompatible with his teammates, but his own statistics also dropped significantly.

If his defense had not been still at the top level in the league, he would have lost his position in the team long ago.

But even so, everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before he leaves the team.

The only suspense is where he will go and what he will bring to the Pacers! (End of this chapter)