The final day of All-Star Weekend is, of course, a weekend, and they have a lot to do today, including two hours of public training in the afternoon, followed by public interviews with the stars, a concert in the evening, and finally the main event – the All-Star Game.

Zhang Yu had already pretended to be more than enough yesterday, and he became much more low-key during afternoon training, and when it came to the public press conference, he was even more low-key......

"Lyon, the fans want to know, what motivates you?"

"It's hard to explain, and some things are just worth fighting for, again and again."

"Leon, we want to know the secret of your success, can you share with us your path to success?"

"Success, there is no way to go, it is in your heart, if you have a heart to succeed, where there is a road, it is the road to success."

"This year's East Force has a better outside lineup, Pippen revealed in open training that they even have a trick to deal with you, would you be worried about that?"

"I don't think it's better to make a move, I'm going to win anyway."

"We heard you want to help O'Neal win the AMVP, right?"

"The previous version of the issue was to help Peyton, and the truth is, we're not going to let people know about it."

"On behalf of the fans, I ask questions that they want to know about your training methods, such as how long you train every day, what exactly you train for, and what your food is every day......

"I'm sorry, I'm going to interrupt your question, because I can answer all of your questions: that is, if you want to achieve a technique like mine, you only need to practice and work hard, but you may not be able to reach it in the end."

"Leon, can you tell us what you think about the victory, or the winner?"

"You can ask this question every year, because my answer changes with my age, and I'm still very superficial at this stage, so I think the loser will be reduced to a loser and disappear completely. And the strong will be promoted to king, and will be remembered forever. ”

“…………”

Zhang Qian felt that she was really low-key, but after the one-hour press conference, the western stars found that Zhang Zhu alone got most of the reporters' questions, and the others were completely in a state of watching the play, and their words were not the same.

O'Neal was even bored enough to play with the microphone at the table, Eddie Jones and Ratriel Sprewell, rookies who participated in the All-Star for the first time, didn't get a chance to pretend to be forced during the whole press conference, although they gave them the microphone, these guys couldn't pretend to be.

Kidd is full of little stars on the side, and Zhang Fu's eloquence is no one, no wonder the Lakers' games are often broadcast live from the "pre-game press conference", and sometimes interviewing Zhang Mao will have a bit of a talk show flavor.

Zhang Zhu said, "I don't want to pretend to be forced, but the questions asked by the reporter are too stupid, I don't answer so, how else can I answer?" ”

After the interview, there is another small detail worth mentioning, that is, after the western star finished the interview, Zhang Wei naturally walked in front of the crowd, and others subconsciously followed him.

O'Neal wants to go to the front, but he can't do that, and when you have a teammate who plays better than you and can't stop talking, you have to walk behind and be a little brother, otherwise you will stay away.

After the afternoon public press conference, the players can gather to chat and wait for dinner and concerts.

Zhang Qi is still fragrant, as long as he doesn't take the initiative to offend people, no one will offend him now, especially now that no one in the west can threaten his status, O'Neill is half at most, but this fat man wants to improve the relationship between the two.

NBA players get together and there's really nothing to talk about, you think they're going to discuss tactics? That's wrong!

These people get together, more or bragging, telling meat jokes, and then showing off how many best girls they have been on, which star or supermodel they have ever made an appointment with, where the girl is sexier, better to date, etc., in short, they are directly or indirectly boasting about their pickled girls and the combat effectiveness below...... Some people will also point out the country, such as complaining that this is not powerful, and sarcastically saying that it is incompetent...... All that's left is to discuss the scandals in the league, the troubles of other stars, etc.

That's most of the daily communication between NBA players before and after games, so there are some players who are too lazy to interact with their teammates off the court, and they feel that it is better to enjoy their lives than to have this time, anyway, most players are not short of money, and having time to spend with their families is really better than going to nightclubs with these teammates.

The so-called "brothers" in the NBA are actually "wine and meat brothers", and most of the friends are superficial friends, which can be regarded as a kind of black culture. Perhaps it is the sequelae of long-term discrimination, all black people with a little status basically like to go to nightclubs in groups, they enjoy the pleasure of being supported, money can bring them respect, especially the sense of accomplishment that comes after spending a lot of money, it makes them want to stop.

Zhang Yu usually does not participate in the forbidden area at such times, and he will secretly laugh in his heart: "Do you have more sisters than me?" Have me a lot of money? Got my 28 mighty and majestic? ”

After a group of people finished bragging, the bullshit concert was coming, Zhang Yu said that he was not interested at all, but watching Xiao Hua sweating back and forth, he could only attend with an expressionless face, and almost fell asleep watching it......

It wasn't until 7:30 p.m. that the players from the East and West left the concert site and headed to the locker room to prepare for the game an hour later.

Zhang Yu took advantage of this effort to eat something, he didn't eat much at night, and now eating some food can prevent hunger on the field for a while.

Western players are not bragging in the locker room this time, how to allocate playing time in a game for a while, who wants to play more, who wants to play less, who wants to be more limelight...... These should be discussed now, and even if the discussion is not appropriate, people must know what they think.

Zhang Zhu still didn't say anything, he knew that even if Harris wasn't the coach, other coaches would never let him play less, and the league wouldn't allow him to play less than 30 minutes in the first place, so he didn't bother to speak at all.

O'Neal and Payton talked for a long time, and soon a little argument broke out, because the two of them both wanted to get this year's AMVP, and now they looked at each other even more unpleasantly.

Several veterans have basically asked to play less, and they are past the age to compete for AMVP.

Several young players want to play a little longer, especially a few people who are entering the All-Star for the first time, but they don't dare to ask for too much, and they are not qualified to ask for too much, and even if they make a request, it is useless, and they will be ridiculed by the old guys.

This situation is not uncommon, many veteran players like to bully and ridicule young players, and Jordan was also ostracized by older players back then. But this situation has become less and less since Zhang Mao, mainly since the past few years, there have been too many physical explosions in the NBA, or the emergence of extremely mature rookies, and the old players can't hold these rookies down.

Recalling the rookies of the past few years, how did O'Neal press? How does Hill press? How do you press it? How does Iverson press?

This year's All-Star roster began to account for the majority of players who debuted after 90, especially after Joe Dumas suddenly retired due to injury and Iverson replaced him temporarily, and the average age of the two teams was lower.

With the exception of Dumas' withdrawal, the rest of the players have not changed much, and Iverson has not been able to attract much attention from the fans right now, with only the 76ers cheering on the fans.

There are a lot of highlights of the entrance ceremony of the two teams today, and the western stars discussed it when they met on the first day, and this year's entrance ceremony must be brilliant, and everyone will perform a dance when they enter.

O'Neal's proposal was approved by most of the players, including Payton, which left Zhang with an awkward dance.

And what made him most unhappy was that these guys actually unanimously passed the vote to let him be the first to appear in an awkward dance, and I don't know if they want him to make a fool of himself?

However, these people greatly underestimated Zhang Qi, although he didn't want to dance awkwardly, it didn't mean that he couldn't dance.

Zhang Yu didn't want to dance like a fool himself, so he bought a lot of action packs for the two young ladies in the virtual space overnight, and after the three-point contest, he asked the two goddesses to teach him personally.

These two girls who pick up balls don't just pick up balls, Zhang Yu can buy them fashion, specific voices, and action packs.

All kinds of dance action bags, the highest is only a thousand competition points, with his current savings to buy three or four of the most expensive dance bags for the two young ladies, it is really just a small meaning, when he rests in the future, he can also feast his eyes.

Of course, it is impossible to practice too advanced dance in one night, so he prepared a western square dance that Gwyneth taught him last year, which is a line dance that was very popular in the American West in the 80s.

This western square dance was prepared by Zhang Fu for the main competition last year, and someone proposed to dance at that time, so Zhang Fu prepared in advance, saving himself from being ugly and being complained about. However, O'Neill was not in the west at that time, and Olajuwon and others were relatively low-key, so in the end, the proposal for the awkward dance did not pass, and his preparation was not useful.

Now it seems that there was no preparation in vain last year, if it wasn't for the previous practice for a while, now even if there are two young ladies to strengthen hand in hand, a night of training is not enough for him to dance well, but now it is different.

As a result, when Zhang Yi appeared for the first time, under the jokes of all the stars on the sidelines who were going to watch him, the koala baby couldn't stop jumping up.

Again and again...... Karma again...... Jumped again...... Jumping Cha Cha ......

This dance is very magical, originally a set of movements was completed in less than 20 seconds, but it can be cycled and looped without feeling disobedient, and it is estimated that it will be no problem to dance for an hour.

Zhang Qi is actually very talented in dancing, because he has amazing body flexibility and rhythm, the same movements made by him are more chic than others, in the basketball field this is called "ball sense", I don't know if it is called "dance sense" in the dance field?

Anyway, no matter what it's called, this talent makes him not only amazingly talented when playing basketball, but also faster than the average person when playing other sports, including driving and playing shooting games, and some talents are common to all sports, which should be called "athletic talent".

Therefore, O'Neill and others, who wanted to see his jokes on the sidelines, quickly looked stupid, and the fans were also dumbfounded, including Zhang Zhu's young ladies in front of the TV, they couldn't believe it, Zhang Qi could dance so much? Even a little sassy? Only Miss Gwyneth is not so surprised, after all, this western square dance was taught by her, but she didn't expect Zhang Yu to dance so well, this look is secretly practiced, it is indeed a bit sassy.

Zhang Qi didn't know that in this period of more than a minute, the number of his fans had skyrocketed around the world, and a basketball player dancing was so emotional, especially with Zhang Zhu's strong figure, this contrast was really hilarious.

This situation is a bit like Trauvolta's dance in vulgarity, and even stole the limelight of the movie itself, Zhang Mao's "Western Square Dance" instantly stole everyone's limelight.

Four times, Zhang Fu cycled this group of not difficult dance moves four times before completing his entrance ceremony amid deafening cheers.

In fact, this has been overtime by one minute, and there was originally only half a minute for each player to enter the ceremony, but in Zhang Mao's words, this is "public opinion", how can he disappoint the fans, so it is already very low-key to only loop four times.

At this moment, the embarrassment fell on other players in the West, especially O'Neal originally wanted to dominate with his hip twisting dance, but now it seems that eighty percent of them are going to be compared to Zhang Mao.

As he expected, Zhang Zhu's "Western Square Dance" is not a purely funny dance, it has some characteristics of local dance, and some comedy elements that make the common people deeply loved, but the upper class society will not feel that this kind of dance cannot be on the stage, but feels very individual.

O'Neal's hip twisting dance is purely a treasure dance, which is originally very in line with the entertainment atmosphere of the all-stars, but after the comparison of Zhang Mao first, O'Neal's performance is inevitably a little inferior. Even if you only talk about "funny", it is only the most basic level, just like a really good comedy must have tears in laughter, and "spoofing" and "playing treasure" are by no means funny.

"You still want me to make a fool of myself?"

After the entrance ceremony, Zhang Qi thought with some disdain in his heart.

O'Neill's funny is all based on exaggerated body movements and expressions in Zhang Qi's eyes, which is equivalent to staying at the lowest level in performance, even if he comes to Hollywood, it seems that there is still no progress in a short time.

The western troops are playing away today, and the entrance ceremony of the eastern team is arranged later, but considering that O'Neill, who can play the most, there are not many fun-loving masters in the eastern star team, although they are fighting at home, but they are much more low-key at the entrance ceremony, and there is nothing worth discussing.

After the players of both sides completed the entrance ceremony, the next step was naturally to start.

Zhang Qi doesn't seem to have much motivation to play on the surface, but he has already planned it, and today is still the same routine as the rookie game, except for dribbling, passing, and shooting three-pointers, he doesn't plan to do much more.

If today's three-point hand is still against the sky, and his teammates can score his own passes, then he is qualified to compete for MVP, otherwise it is good to play as a recreational game, in short, he will not spend too much physical strength to deliberately fight for something.

In fact, under normal circumstances, controlling the ball is also a very energy-consuming job, but there is no close pressing in the All-Star Game, and even Finley can hold the ball in the rookie game, of course, he has no pressure, so the ball still has to be controlled, and this is his daily habit.

Zhang Qi ran to the technical table to sprinkle a round of magnesium powder in front of the technical table during the warm-up, even if the Eastern Army entered the field, it seemed that it was difficult to hide his existence.

However, after the start of the game, Zhang Mao's initial presence was not strong, and Stockton over there was too lazy to hold the ball and completely handed over the ball to Payton.

Payton was very motivated today, and it was clear that he wanted to improve, so he hit two of his own first before he started passing the ball to his teammates.

But this did not include O'Neal, and it was not until three minutes into the game that O'Neal received a pass from Zhang Mao and scored a violent dunk.

Zhang Qian saw that Peyton didn't pass the ball to O'Neal, and he already laughed in his heart.

The more the two are at odds, the better it will be for him, and although his attitude towards AMVP has long since changed, there is an opportunity for him to profit, and he certainly won't miss it.

In the first half of the first quarter, Zhang Qian didn't have any opportunities to hold the ball, Payton really wanted to improve, basically attacking one by himself and passing another play, Zhang Zhu only got two shots in six minutes, and the number of ball holdings was not much, 1 of 2 three-pointers, another assist, and 4 rebounds.

When the two sides made the first substitution, the score was 12:16, the Western troops were not very smooth in offense, and the eastern team also played a lot of iron, Zhang Zhu's side did not score or assist much, but the rebounds were not less, obviously his teammates did not take the rebounds seriously, Payton and O'Neal were thinking hard about how to brush up the score, and they had no effort to grab the rebound.

"Can you get AMVP for rebounding?"

Zhang Yi secretly thought during the timeout, but in the history of the All-Star Game, there is really no example of winning MVP by rebounding, even by assisting.

Last season, he got the AMVP with an all-around triple-double of 20+10+20, not by assists alone, so O'Neal and Payton are both striving to score, which is the reason.

After the first timeout, both teams were on four and four down, and Zhang found that only Grant Hill and himself were still on the court on the opposite side, and even Jordan and Pippen went down to rest, and it seemed that neither of them was interested in competing for the AMVP.

"I shouldn't be so obvious!"

Zhang Wei felt that Harris's substitution would make him a bird, so he hurriedly secretly made a gesture to his coach, which means that you are a little forced to count? Can substitutions be changed like this?

Of course, Harris didn't know what Zhang Qi was thinking, but he understood the gesture, so he replaced Zhang Qi less than two minutes later.

However, three minutes later, Zhang Qi was unhappy again.

"I'll go, you're replacing me, aren't you going to let me play again?"

Zhang Yu saw that O'Neal and Payton were on the court, but he was still sitting off the court, and quickly gave Harris a bunch of tips secretly.

He had to play with Payton and O'Neal today in order to take advantage of the Fishermen.

Harris was a little confused when he saw this, of course he couldn't understand Zhang Fu's complicated plan, but he knew that after Zhang Qi was choked by water, he accidentally dropped the towel at his feet, which should have wanted him to change him.

The fans in front of the TV talked about it one after another-

"How did Leon choke on the water?"

"Is he unwell?"

"When I danced just now, I didn't think there was anything wrong with him?"

"Idiot, he grabbed 5 rebounds and knocked Pippen to the side just now, what do you think could be the problem?"

“…………”

Zhang Qi is indeed no problem, no matter how people change, his speed of grabbing rebounds has not changed, and the plan has changed unconsciously.

So here's the question: didn't you say before the game that you wouldn't take it too seriously? Grabbing rebounds is a lot more laborious than passing the ball and shooting three-pointers, which is not quite what he said before.

After the first quarter, Zhang Mao's statistics came to 6 points, 8 rebounds and 2 assists, and his rebounding statistics turned out to be the best in the game, and his scores and assists were relatively ordinary.

The score was 29:36, and the Western troops were six or seven points behind, and the malicious competition between Payton and O'Neal put the Western troops, which had an advantage in strength, in a backward situation.

For the Western team, Payton had 8 points and 2 assists, O'Neal 6 points and 2 rebounds, Zhang Mao 6 points and 8 rebounds, Malone 2 points and 1 rebound, Mutombo 2 points and 1 rebound, Richmond 3 points, and Eddie Jones 2 points.

For the Eastern Army, Hill had 6 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, Mourning 8 points and 2 rebounds, Anfernee Hardaway 4 points and 2 assists, Jordan 4 points and 2 assists, Allen Iverson 3 points and 2 assists, Pippen 3 points, Brandon 3 points, Tim Hardaway 3 points, and Glen Rice 3 points.

In the second quarter, Zhang Qian stayed on the court with Payton and O'Neal this time, and Harris found that he didn't get any more hints after this arrangement, so he finally understood what Zhang Qi wanted, it turned out that he didn't want the help of his Lakers teammates today.

Zhang Qi said: "No, no, the time has not yet come." In the final quarter, once you get to the critical stage, you can just swap Kidd and Mutombo for me, and throw those two stupid sandpipers on the bench. ”

Well, he really had an idea for a while, and it is estimated that he has forgotten the so-called "no contention, no show" before the game, and said that "no desire and no fighting" was thrown into the trash by him in less than half the game.

"Lao Tzu is not not fighting, but not fighting with them, but fighting with himself, beyond his own limits, and breaking through himself, this is the embodiment of his current low-key work and high-profile life."

Zhang Qi and his Lao Tzu have always been high-profile things, low-key life concept is different, he now likes to do low-key things, high-profile life, although he knows that the former is the right way, but young people have not grown up to that stage, he doesn't want to force himself to mature so quickly.

In the second quarter, with the help of a few blind shots on both sides, Zhang Mao's rebounding data growth rate made him a little scared, not only did the same team's Kemp and O'Neal completely fail to grab him, but the Eastern interior line was also not his opponent.

The Western troops have been few on the inside this year, and Malone and Mutombo rarely play, and their side is mainly a partner of O'Neill and Kemp, and the result is that these two can't grab Zhang Zhu at all.

O'Neal couldn't grab Zhang Qiu here, mainly because the bounce speed and movement were too slow, and when he judged the basketball landing point, Zhang Zhu had been waiting for half a year; Kemp's movement and bounce were fine, but his calculation time was too slow, and by the time his brain finished calculating the landing point, Zhang Qian had already begun to think about how to grab the offensive rebound.

"It's all scum!"

3 minutes and 10 seconds in the second quarter, a classic shot appeared on the court, Zhang Zhu grabbed the rebound this time surrounded by his two interior teammates, as well as Mourning and Wen Baker in the East.

"That's awesome!"

Kidd was smiling happily off the court, and the Lakers hadn't been afraid of anyone in rebounding during this time, and he and Zhang could kill most teams in the league in this regard, even without Mutombo's play.

This is not bragging, if the Lakers do not put too much emphasis on the retreat of the guard, it is estimated that even the Bulls will not be able to compete with the Lakers in rebounding, if this advantage is played in the playoffs, it may really affect the attribution of the winner, and the rebounding ability in the stalemate stage is really important.

At the end of the first half, the score was still 64-72 behind the West, and if it weren't for the rebounding blessing of O'Neal and Payton, the West would have fallen behind by double digits.

Western Forces: Payton 17 points and 4 assists, O'Neal 13 points and 3 rebounds, Zhang Mao 11 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists, Sean Camp 6 points and 3 rebounds, Malone 2 points and 1 rebound, Kidd 2 points and 2 assists, Mutombo 2 points and 1 rebound, Richmond 3 points, Eddie Jones 2 points, Ratriel Sprewell 2 points, Stockton 2 points and 2 assists, Van Exel 2 points.

East Forces: Hill 10 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, Mourning 14 points and 5 rebounds, Anfernee Hardaway 9 points and 5 assists, Jordan 8 points and 3 assists, Pippen 7 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, Allen Iverson 5 points and 4 assists, Vin Baker 4 points and 3 rebounds, Chris Webber 4 points and 2 rebounds, Brandon 3 points, Tim Hardaway 3 points, Glenn Rice 3 points, Kristen Leitner 2 points.