Chapter 1119: This can also be opened in five or five?!
Zhan Du was born with a tacit understanding, but the Tang Tian team also showed a tacit understanding.
Walker and Davis blocked and cooperated, and Walker burst Davis, who received the ball and squeezed Curry away for a layup.
The Tang Tian team's starter is the Pelicans' starter plus Drummond.
The strength of this lineup on paper is not as good as that of the James team, but the run-in degree is 100% directly!
Jandu once again showed a natural tacit understanding, and Durant ran an off-ball three-pointer this time, receiving a pass from James and scoring against Drummond's defensive three-pointers.
The continuous cooperation between the two is not only Jenny Bass, but also the audience in the stands is itching.
Tang Tian is a swingman who mainly plays scoring guards, and when it comes to active small forwards, Zhan Yidu II is undisputed.
In other words, the two of them are the two strongest small forwards on the active roster.
Their team-up, even if it's an All-Star Game, is a lot of imagination.
However, Tang Tian's side really has a high degree of tacit understanding, and after Tang Tian's breakthrough with the ball attracted the bag, Butler scored the ball in the air for the first time.
The hard-working brothers have a high degree of tacit understanding, and they have played together for most of the season with the Pelicans.
The tacit understanding between them has really reached the kind where they know what to do when they pat their butts.
Curry missed a three-point shot, but he rushed down to the front court to rebound and scored directly on a dunk.
The talent of the James team is also really high.
Looking back, Walker took the initiative to block and dismantle Tang Tian, and Tang Tian dislocated Curry and forced him to the inside, completely unreasonable and violently dunked.
Curry served as a big backdrop, causing a burst of heckling from the fans.
Tang Tian's dunk is to pull back their memories of yesterday's dunk contest!
But right away, Curry hit a long-range three-pointer from the outside.
The two teams went into scoring mode from the start.
The James team is a pure talent basketball, coupled with the natural tacit understanding between Jandu, and the offensive end is almost unmissable.
But Tang Tian's side relied on tacit understanding, coupled with the misplacement that they had been looking for Curry, basically not a single opportunity was wasted.
The two teams played for more than five minutes, 17-15, and the Tang Tian team took the lead.
Both sides are really defended, and they are really not defended.
The fans at the scene looked a little excited.
In the past, most fans on social media looked down on the Tang Tian team, and even many people felt that even if it was an All-Star Game, the opening situation would be directly down.
But now the Tang Tian team is still ahead!
Although there were only negligible 2 points, the performance of the Tang Tian team really surprised them greatly.
Tacit understanding is really important in the game of basketball!
Seeing that the situation was deadlocked, Lue took the lead in making adjustments, and he replaced Curry with George.
This lineup is equivalent to letting James play point guard, and the whole height is raised all at once.
Talent overflows with the publication of the five dead great.
As soon as George came on the court, he received James' pass under the basket and pressed Walker to make a layup to tie the score.
And back on the defensive end, in the face of Woday's pick-and-roll, George misplaced and successfully defended Davis' offense.
One offense and one defense, the James team has the upper hand.
Stevens saw it and replaced Walker with Thompson.
He also raised the average height of the team even higher.
But the effect of this substitution is still not very good.
On the defensive end of the James team, they all have long hands and feet, and they are very capable, and they are airtight in both individual defense and assistant defense.
As a result, the situation on the court was quickly grasped by the James team.
In a wave of 10-2 offensive, the James team in turn led the Tang Tian team by 8 points.
Stevens reached out and called a timeout.
Coming back from the timeout, there were no substitutions on either side.
This is an unusual move.
At this time, the first quarter had reached more than 8 minutes, and according to the previous All-Star Game, there had already been a large number of substitutions and even five up and five down.
But both sides have changed their benches so far.
The signal is also quite clear.
Both sides want to win.
On the James team's side, if such a talent-level lineup loses in the end.
Even in the All-Star Game, it was a shame for Lue as the head coach and every member of the team.
On the side of Tang Tian's team, although the personalities of the hard-working brothers are different, they have one thing in common.
Especially when the outside world is not optimistic about this kind of thing, it is the motivation for them to win.
The same goes for Stevens, who fought all the way to the end against the four-star Warriors and Cavaliers last year.
When the fans at the scene realized this, their faces became more and more excited.
There's nothing more exciting about being able to see a superstar in action on the court, and there's nothing more exciting than that in an All-Star Field.
Paused the attack of the Tang Tian team.
Stevens adjusted his offensive tactics.
Tang Tian held the ball at the top of the arc, Butler and Thompson stood at a 45-degree angle, and Davis also stood in the bottom corner.
This is the Pelicans' No. 1 tactic, the so-called Tang Tian singles tactic.
It's all about to become his trump card tactic.
Tang Tian shook in the face of George's continuous cross-step.
George's body shape is very similar to Tang Tian, and his arm span is even better.
Defensively alone, he's on the same level as Butler.
However, Tang Tian still seized the slightest opportunity to give him over from the right side.
After the ball control is improved, the only one in this league who can create a one-on-one threat to Tang Tian is Leonard, but the latter will basically not play this season.
Brother Alphabet saw the swift recovery basket.
Tang Tian knocked a pass to Davis without looking at people.
Davis made a long two-point shot.
"Huh!"
He showed Duncan-esque consistency in the new season, and the two-point shot landed safely.
The Pelicans haven't scored in a while, and that goal was pivotal.
Back on the defensive end, Tang Tian's defensive tactics have also been adjusted.
They defended a 2-3 combo.
This is to selectively put the outside of the James team, focusing on protecting the penalty area.
This defense is very targeted.
In the lineup of the James team, Durant is S-level on the outside, James is A-level, and the other three are completely B-level.
James didn't succeed in drowning with the ball, and Drummond added Butler and Thompson on the wings to make the defense impregnable.
The ball ended up in George's hands and there was an outside opportunity.
"Bang dang!"
However, he continued his consistent season with a three-point shot from the outside.
Drummond grabbed the defensive rebound, and the Tang team advanced to the front court to play again.
This time, Tang Tian squeezed past George and then broke through the inside line, James helped defend it, and Tang Tian passed the ball directly to Thompson, who was a three-point shooter.
Although he lost the three-point contest yesterday, his 20+ scoring touch in the final was not bad.
James himself didn't score in the three-point trial shot on the outside, and when Tang Tian broke through George, others didn't dare to help defend.
Tang Tian was not polite, seized the opportunity to rush to the inside line, and a big windmill dunk ignited the emotions of the fans at the scene.
Lou was forced to reach out and call a timeout.
At the time of the timeout, the cheers of the fans did not stop.
The Tang Tian team, with the absolute inferior strength on paper, actually had a five-five fight with the James team!