This time, the All-Star Weekend was held in Atlanta, and the Pistons players didn't have to travel long distances, but it didn't matter if they had to fly for a long time, they could rest most of the All-Star Weekend.

With the exception of the main season and the Rookie Challenge, the Pistons don't have any players competing in any of the individual events, but that doesn't mean they're completely uninterested. Especially in the three-point contest, every Pistons player has watched it with relish, and now three-point shooting has become a very important offensive method for the Pistons, and most players can shoot on the outside, so it is natural to compare it in their hearts.

However, Chang Wei is more focused on the Skills Challenge, which was only launched this year, and is designed to showcase the skills of the best playmakers in the league. The game consists of four players dribbling, passing, and shooting in a field with a variety of different obstacles within a set time. There were four players who ate the crabs, namely Kidd, Payton, Marbury and Parker, and the progress of the game was not far from the previous life, and in the end, Kidd won the championship.

In addition to the individual competition, several of the Pistons' main players also appeared at the rookie challenge. It's also a common practice, and every team that has players in the Rookie Challenge has veteran players come over to cheer the rookies on, so when the Pistons players appear in the stands, it doesn't cause much of a stir, and they are happy to do so.

This match is a little more intense than the Rookie Challenge, after all, they are all young people, and everyone wants to prove themselves. Prince was very sadly pinned to the bench, after all, no one wants to see a guy who constantly destroys offense on a stage like this. Prince didn't care, he even took a nap on the bench, which made Chang Wei laugh.

It stands to reason that the first-year team should have an absolute advantage, but the 2002 rookie is not a vegetarian, although Yao Ming was selected for the All-Star Game, but there are also many good players who appear on the rookie challenge court, such as Stoudemire, Butler and Salmons, etc., the first-year team is a little blind in the face of the more experienced second-year.

Relatively speaking, the interior strength of the sophomore is very strong, but it is just a piece of cake for Wade. He has a good personal relationship with James, which also allows him to carry the ball to the basket with impunity, and there is really no chance to move the ball out again. Whether it's Anthony, James or even Bosh, although they haven't reached their prime, they can still take advantage of the opportunities Wade created for them, and soon the first-year team took the lead. Although they also rarely defend, they tend to be able to get the ball to the basket in a more efficient way in the end, and their offensive efficiency has kept the sophomore team struggling.

It has to be said that the rookies of the class of 2003 are really the golden generation, they have taken the initiative on the court from the second quarter, and never gave the sophomore team any chances, and finally they won a big 142-120 victory, Wade, who scored 32 points, 5 rebounds, 11 assists and 3 blocks in the game, was indisputably elected MVP of the Rookie Challenge.

The award was a bit of a chicken rib, but it was a big incentive for Wade, at least in this game, he was the best rookie in the class of 2003. However, the media did not plan to focus on the rookie challenge, they were more concerned about the All-Star Game on the second day, which was the basketball feast that fans loved to see.

One of the reasons Brown doesn't like being an All-Star head coach is that he wants to let himself pick the right players to make up the starting lineup, but it's clear that the All-Star won't give him that opportunity, and he can only start with five players voted for by the fans. Fortunately, the proud disciple Big Ben is also one of the starters, and Brown at least does not need to worry about the safety of his side of the basket.

And if the situation has a tendency to get out of control, Brown will come up with his killer feature, and at the same time put four players from the Pistons on the court at the same time, plus a Maddie who can attack and defend, not to mention directly reversing the situation, at least not to suffer a big loss. He also knows that fans don't want to see a one-sided defense in the All-Star Game, but in Brown's opinion, defense is still necessary, and if you want to win the game, you can't fight it in the final quarter.

In fact, when it comes to defense, the Western All-Stars are not necessarily inferior to the East, with Garnett and Duncan, two players with their own defensive systems, on the inside, and Kobe Bryant and Kirilenko on the outside who can act as defensive gates, but in the final analysis, they are all fighting on their own. On the contrary, the Pistons have good chemistry with each other, and Maddy, who was plugged in by Brown, also knows how to make trade-offs before offense and defense, which makes them more than effective defensively than the Western Conference All-Stars.

However, Brown didn't use this trick very often, and most of the time he still made every player who was selected as an All-Star in turns, and it was good to put it aside for the time being, and it was good to come up and brush his face. This strategy also led to a basic draw in the first half, which was of course expected by Brown. It's not interesting to play directly at the beginning of the All-Star Game, and both sides must take turns leading back and forth to further increase the ratings.

In the third quarter, Brown still didn't move, but the Zen master who coached the Western All-Stars began to make a move, and he put the "OK combination" on the court at the same time, obviously hoping to get the opponent in one go. However, the Eastern All-Stars appear to be resilient and have always maintained a trail of about seven or eight points, not giving the Western All-Stars a chance to further widen the difference.

In the final quarter, Brown changed to the Pistons foursome and Maddy's lineup at the beginning, and the defensive intensity increased sharply, and the score was tied in less than 2 minutes, and then he overtook the score with a fast-break dunk after a steal. Zen masters are still more inclined to attack, but the Western All-Stars are a little scrambling against the oppressive defense in the East, and by the time they have come to their senses, they have become the side behind them.

Although they soon regrouped and counterattacked, the Eastern All-Stars continued to increase their points under the combination of Maddie and Hamilton, and never allowed the West to narrow the margin to a bearable range. In the end, the Eastern All-Stars defeated the Western All-Stars 132-120, but the All-Star Game MVP was not given to any player of the Pistons, but to Maddy, who blasted a triple-double of 27 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists, as well as 4 steals and 1 block.