Chapter 230: I Can Deduct It, too
After all the bench players were introduced, it was up to the final 10 All-Star starters. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first All-Star starter to enter the stadium was Kyle Lowry. As a Toronto city hero, he received the warmest welcome from the fans at the Air Canada Centre Arena.
Lowry is followed by Leonard, and although his style and personality are extremely low-key, his popularity is higher than that of the previous substitutes, which can be seen from the cheers of the fans at the scene.
After that, Paul George, Cameron Anthony, Dwyane Wade and others entered one after another, and the fans cheered again and again, almost knocking the roof of the arena over.
After Wade, it's easy to wind. As the youngest of the 10 starters and a super pink rookie, Canadian fans have also welcomed him in.
Canada is similar to many parts of the United States, and the entire cultural circle is even common. Yifeng's popularity in the United States is still good when it comes to Canada. And the Canadians don't look at him as harshly as the Americans. Therefore, when Yi Feng played, the cheers of the fans were almost the same as that of the host Lowry!
After Yi Feng is Kevin Durant, who is also quite popular here. Then came Kobe, not to mention Kobe, who has 60e fans all over the world.
Finally, there are the two biggest names of this year's All-Stars, LeBron James and Stephen Curry.
One of them is the king of the eastern vote, and the other is the king of the total vote, of course, they will play in the finale.
James had been firmly in the league's No. 1 position until last season, and although he is now strongly challenged by Curry, how can James easily give up his position.
When the on-site host introduced these two people, they both used a particularly long prefix, and no one of the championships, MVPs and other hard honors was moved out.
Although Curry has been the ticket king in the past two seasons and is more popular, compared with these hard honors, Curry is obviously still at a disadvantage. However, Curry has the advantage of being younger than James, and he still has a chance to catch up.
After being introduced, players pass through a narrow passage surrounded by spectators before entering the field. This is a long-standing practice in the NBA, in order to give fans a chance to get up close and personal with the All-Stars.
When Yi Feng went down, he also followed the example of Wade in front of him to open his hands and clap his hands with the audience on both sides of the audience. But unlike Wade, he received another special treatment-
There were many female fans in the stadium, and they struggled to squeeze to the side of the passage, just waiting for this opportunity to "kiss Fangze". When Yi Feng came over with open hands, many female fans directly hugged his palms, some took his hand and buried it in their arms, and some took his hand and kissed him violently......
Therefore, this part of Yi Feng's road is particularly "bumpy", and he is often pulled staggered by female fans. After finally walking, he found that there were lip prints on both hands. Of course, what impressed him even more was the moment when his hand was pulled into the arms of the female fans......
After all the All-Star players were introduced, it was time for the Raptors' cheerleaders to perform a sexy and hot dance for the audience.
At this time, the players on both sides of the east and west began to prepare for the game.
On the Western side, Popovich gathered all the players of the Western Stars team and began to make a tactical setup before the game.
Although it was an all-star game that didn't matter to the team's record, Mr. Popovich was still serious.
Yi Feng listened to the old man's tactical arrangement, and it was obvious that his own head coach Byron Scott was not at the same level as other people's head coaches.
Although Yi Feng is listening very carefully, it doesn't mean that everyone is as serious as him. Although everyone respects Popovich, who would take the tactical setup seriously at a fun party like the All-Star Games?
Those who can be selected as All-Stars, in their respective teams, are all core and boss-level figures, and they are all used to the thinking of "I will play with the ball, and you will all walk away for me" on the court.
Among them, Westbrook is the least serious, looking at his eyes with a rather thief's eyebrows, and like a bad student who doesn't listen to the teacher in class and talks to others.
Westbrook quickly set his eyes on Yi Feng, and then he quietly came to Yi Feng's side, hooked his shoulder, and pulled him out of the state of cognition and listening.
Although Westbrook's starting spot was snatched by Yi Feng at the last minute, it did not affect the friendship between the two. Looking at Westbrook's smile now, he didn't take it to heart at all.
"Yi, if we're all there later, I'll pass you the ball, how about it? You fight for breath, take him as an MVP and let those guys see! ”
Although Westbrook was still smiling when he spoke, Yi Feng could hear that he was serious. Westbrook has always been one and one, not the kind of hypocrite who is inconsistent.
All-Star Game MVP?
To be honest, Yi Feng was a little moved. This not only means that the Lakers and Anta need to pay him a reward of $450,000, but the honor of MVP, a star among stars, is also very attractive.
Although he won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge on the 12th, and also received a reward of $350,000 paid by the Lakers and Anta, there is a saying that the desire is difficult to fill, and if you have a good one, you want better. And Yi Feng doesn't think it's a bad thing to be ambitious, if you don't have ambition, you don't have the desire to become stronger, how can you become strong in the end?
Westbrook actually said that he wanted to help himself, so Durant, who was on his side, would not hinder himself. In the Western All-Star team, the two stars who are almost the biggest names are on their side, and Yi Feng's grasp has increased a lot all of a sudden.
And Kobe Bryant will also support himself unconditionally......
In this way, his biggest competitor is Curry!
Of course, it's all based on the fact that the Western Stars can win, otherwise everything is a pipe dream.
Yi Feng told Westbrook what he thought, so the two of them summed it up and went their separate ways. Westbrook went to Durant, while Yifeng went to Kobe. In the end, the four of them got together to exchange opinions and reached a consensus.
Of course, it is impossible to give the ball to Yi Feng every time, otherwise the rest of the Western Star team will be too embarrassed. If he angered Old Man Popovich, he was furious and directly pressed Yi Feng on the bench, then the gain outweighed the loss. The result of the discussion between the four was that under equal chance, the ball was passed to Yi Feng first.
The defensive intensity of the All-Star Game will not be very large, especially in the first three quarters, which is almost equivalent to nothing. With the efficiency of Yi Feng, you should be able to seize the opportunity to brush up on a high score. And high scores are the most powerful weapon in the final competition for MVP.
After the cheerleaders' performances, the starters from both sides followed.
Before the game starts, the first thing to do is to jump the ball. This year's All-Star Game is very interesting, there is not a single orthodox interior player in the starting lineup of the East and West teams, and all ten starters are outside!
So the candidate for the jump ball can only be "taller" from these outside lines.
The last people to jump the ball were Durant and James. When the two of them were jumping the ball, they couldn't stop smiling on their faces. It is estimated that this is the first time since they entered the NBA that they have jumped the ball in the center circle before the start of the game.
The referee threw the ball into the air, and the two jumped, accompanied by a tsunami-like shout on the scene, and the All-Star Game officially began!
Durant relied on his height and long arms to win the jump ball, and the Western Stars also got their first offensive opportunity.
Curry controlled the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, although he looked like a schoolboy who hadn't grown up, but in fact he was twenty-eight years old, and he had been in the league for so long, so he knew that this was a place for seniority.
Although he is the vote king for two consecutive terms, there is a super veteran Kobe Bryant by his side, and he does not dare to ignore it. So he gave up the first opportunity to attack to Kobe.
As soon as Kobe Bryant received the ball, the fans at the scene let out a burst of enthusiastic cheers, which shows his high popularity.
Paul George, who defended Kobe, faced his childhood idol, George took care of Kobe, the "old man", in the All-Star Game, and he just meant it when he defended.
After Kobe Bryant tentatively stepped forward, he broke through to the basket and dunked with one hand, which won full applause in an instant.
Although the boredom is not comparable to the jump height or gliding distance, it is not comparable to his peak, but the fans are still very excited to watch. Kobe Bryant's dunks are rare this season, and it is not easy to watch them once.
And Kobe Bryant was so interested in dunking one at the beginning of the game, and the Eastern Stars also gave way.
After the buckle, Kobe Bryant himself was happy, and he waved to the attention while trotting backwards.
The audience watched Kobe Bryant dunk strongly at the beginning, and thought that he would continue to be strong and use his young state to educate young people. But I didn't expect him to be polite next, it wasn't too good an opportunity, so he didn't shoot at all!
A group of young people on the field were also not polite, seeing Kobe Bryant's "inaction", they also started their own performances.
As the host, Kyle Lowry tried to shoot an ultra-long-distance three-pointer first, and although he missed, it also drew cheers from the arena. He then played James with an assist, and James got up to grab the ball and dunk – a brilliant aerial relay.
At the beginning of the game, everyone's hands didn't open, so the most common thing during this time was a dunk.
After Lowry and James' open catch, on the Eastern Stars' side, Wade broke through Yi Feng's useless defense and made a one-handed glide split dunk under the basket;
After Carmelo Anthony missed his teammate's shot, he grabbed the rebound twice in a row, and after controlling the ball, he directly got up under the basket and dunked with both hands;
Paul George also steals a pass from the Western Stars, turns 360° and dunks.
As a result, in the Eastern Stars, except for Lowry, the host, the other four starters have all dunked successfully.
Lowry is 1.83 meters tall, although he has enough strength and body rotation, he is limited by his height and rarely slams in games. For many seasons, he didn't contribute to a dunk. If it weren't for his dunk last season, he'd hold the record for zero dunks from 2008 to the present.
But at tonight's All-Star Game, everyone was happy to see it, and Lowry was also a little itchy.
During an Eastern Stars offense, he finally couldn't help it, and he changed direction to get rid of Curry, who was not serious about defense, and accelerated to the limit in stride, and jumped with all his feet after rushing to the basket -
But unfortunately, in the end, his dunk was covered by the basket.
Maybe it's because he hasn't dunked for too long, and he has forgotten the essentials of dunking. Although the bounce height was barely enough, the basketball was dunked by him in the front of the basket......
After landing on the ground, Lowry stumbled for a while, and what made it even worse was that he also drew a burst of laughter from his teammates. It embarrassed him. What's even more embarrassing is that the fans didn't give the host face again this time, and they burst into laughter.
Lowry's bitterness, Curry should be the best understood among the players on the court. Because of the height problem, dunking has become a "big problem", although Curry can occasionally dunk in the game, but he can only make the simplest one-handed dunk, and it is not beautiful. He was ridiculed by many people because of this.
At this moment, Lowry's embarrassment, Curry quite empathizes.
But when he saw the rebound bounce towards him, Curry took the rebound and turned to play a fast break - a knee-jerk reaction.
Because everyone is still happy, they haven't reacted to Curry's fast break. Curry ran through half court without a single defender around.
At this time, a strange thought popped into Curry's head: I want to dunk too!
Maybe everyone is buckling, which also stimulates Curry's desire to perform; Perhaps it was the embarrassment of Lowry's dunk being rejected by the basket that aroused Curry's desire to conquer the basket, in short, he decided to dunk one!
And it has to be buckled beautifully!
After rushing into the three-point line, Curry began to adjust his pace, and finally strode into the basket, his feet were full of energy, and his body soared into the air!
I want to prove that I can deduct it!
Seeing Curry's posture of wanting to dunk, the audience in the arena stared with bated breath, expecting him not to be covered by the basket like Lowry just now.
After Curry soared into the air, he began to control the rotation of his body, and after turning 360 degrees, his body came right in front of the basket. So he held the ball in his right hand and pressed it into the basket.
"Bang!"
This is the sound of a real basketball colliding with the basket when it comes into close contact.
Curry's dunk didn't hit the front of the basket because he had enough charge and enough bounce height. He was better at that than Lowry before him.
Unfortunately, after he turned 360 degrees, the ball was out of his right hand. He tried to press the ball into the basket, but unfortunately the basketball was disobedient at this time, hit the back edge of the basket, and bounced far away. (To be continued.) )