This makes me think that Giannis is going to have an edge for his team to win.
Looking at the roster though, Team Giannis does have a clear edge on winning against Team Lebron.
Good to see that team Lebron is not stacked with such big names as for sure, his critics will point it out again and will be serious even if the purpose of All-Star is just for entertainment purposes. Around less than an hour to go and tip-off will now commence between Team Lebron and Team Giannis. I hope that this game will be exciting with a thrilling close out game at the end.
Now the roster is more balanced than what it was last year, but I can't think of a way how Team Lebron will be losing this time knowing that he has the 2-Time MVP in Jokic and Doncic as well. It's sad to see Steph and Zion not playing though because of injuries. We will miss those no look three-point shots, high flying dunks this All-star game. Anyway, lets just enjoy the game, and put our bets on it maybe. I put my bet on Team Lebron as I believe the streak continues, and has a better chance of winning (for me).
Was it 4-0 or 5-0 record and this time Team Giannis broke his winning streak. Correct me if I'm wrong though.
But yes, it is much more fun if it's the old format where it is East vs. West because that format is much more competitive compared to what we have now where the selected captains will be selecting their reserves and starting five. Anyway, Jayson Tatum won the All-Star MVP award garnering 55 points, half of that score was made beyond the arc. Quite unexpected if I would say because LeBron got Mr. Triple Double as well as Embiid and Luka, but it was a well-deserved play by Tatum, no doubt.
No defense and just pure offense, something that good shooting strokes will have the advantage.
In papers, team LeBron for me got that huge advantage, having both Embiid and Jokic and with Luka and Kyrie.
That 5 stars are all capable of both offense and defense if the competition is for real, but like what most of us observe today's all-stars
is no longer the same.
They are just allowing players to take shots, no defense, just all pure offense.
Can't expect to get a tight defense on all star game for sure they will just have fun and take all the shots or highlights as they can. Winning is just a bonus since the main goal on this event is to entertain the fans thru the highlights they could see on their favorite stars on that event.
They remain or choose that flow of the game to happen because they are also being much careful since injuries could happen and that is bad for their teams if their main stars got injured on exhibition game.
Yes, it's quite understandable to us that the players are just taking their time to have fun without risking themselves for an injury because they got a more important jobs to do in their respective team once the regular games will resume especially that after this, the games will be more intense because teams will be playing hard to chase the seeds and the ones sitting in a good spot is going to defend their spots.
As an avid fan of the NBA, we kind of expecting that the All-Star will be much different considering that the players right now are much more competitive than what we had in the few recent years but that's not what we saw as it was more like a circus than a tough competitive game.
How the ball went in the rim was also the same as how he shoots the normal jump shots. Totally, Dame Time!
