All-Around Offense and Defense is Also a Trouble

The Thunder officially released the press statement they'd prepared well in advance as soon as the All-NBA Teams were announced. In a little write-up, they congratulated Chen Xi on another achievement, tagged Chen on his social media, and added an MVP poster to hype him up.

By comparison, Chen himself seemed rather low-key. He simply reposted the Thunder's post and added, "Try to be better!"

As it happened, the Nuggets' official account did something similar.

Even though they knew Jokic didn't have much chance of winning MVP this season, that didn't stop his team from showing their support~~

The teams of the players who made the All-NBA Teams also began celebrating their Star Players.

For example... the Nets.

At eight o'clock on the evening of June 27, before the two teams' Eastern Conference Finals Game 5 tipped off,

posters celebrating KD and PG's All-NBA selections had already been put up all around Brooklyn's home arena.

That's execution~~

Unfortunately, the Nets couldn't make everything go perfectly tonight.

Like the Nets, the Milwaukee team also had two players named to the All-NBA Teams, one First Team selection and one Third Team selection. In tonight's game, they showed tremendous fighting spirit.

The main reason the Bucks gained an advantage that night wasn't any particularly outstanding performance from Giannis or Lillard. It was their third-best player, Chris Middleton.

Middleton played an extremely important role in this game. When Giannis was being contained and Lillard's shot was off, he briefly played at the level of an elite forward in the League.

He went 4-for-4 from beyond the arc, and his mix of drives and jump shots also caused plenty of trouble for the Nets' interior defense. Repeated attacks at the rim steadily pushed Allen's foul count to a number the Nets couldn't afford, while indirectly