Chapter 345: Grown Up

Zhang Yu simply didn't talk to O'Neal anymore, because he had forgotten about it, and now he is competing with Grant Hill, who scored 20 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists in the first half, and he has not yet opened up the gap with the opponent in terms of statistics.

"It doesn't matter if the data can't be pulled, I'll let you see in a while why everyone is saying that you are not as good as me."

Zhang Zhu knows that it is difficult to pull the data in the All-Star Game, as long as the players of this team are willing to support, then in this kind of game without defense, even the likes of Kobe and Iverson can score 30 points.

This description is a bit too crazy, but in Zhang Fu's eyes, those newcomers who entered the alliance later than him really have no sense of existence.

"Kevin, Tim, pay attention to the ball in a moment."

Thinking of this, Zhang Wei patted the shoulders of the two big men in his team, as if these two fools hadn't scored yet.

Kobe Bryant hid in the corner and smiled, those two stupid big men wouldn't grab their hands at all, and they deserved not to get points.

This year, there are many players in the Western Army who have entered the main game for the first time, and Duncan and Garnett are both participating in the main game for the first time, and the two have been full of shyness and anxiety from the beginning of the entry.

Kobe Bryant is much better in this regard, he even dared not to pass the ball to Zhang Mao, who was in a better position, and forced his shot at Jordan outside.

Therefore, Harris is not ready to let him play again in the second half, and the 8 minutes of playing time is very much in line with his current status, and this is the treatment that disobedient rookie should be.

In the locker room of the Eastern Stars, Jordan is encouraging Hill, which is also a signal for others to receive that he still supports Hill and will continue to feed Hill and the East team in the second half to help Hill and the East team defeat Zhang and the West team.

To be honest, Jordan is not very satisfied with this guy who will take over his class in the future, since Hill came to the Bulls, he has demanded that the opponent must maintain the same amount of training as himself, especially the three-point shot must be practiced.

It's not a difficult task, but is it difficult for 26- and 35-year-olds to maintain a training volume?

But three-point shooting is not so easy to practice, especially in the middle of the season, players have a hard time to practice, and Hill's three-point shooting can only be practiced in the summer offseason. The problem is that Jordan is a year older next season, and even he feels that there is little hope of beating Zhang and the Lakers, and this deal of the Bulls is obviously to give up the present and win the future, and he is "now".

In the second half, Zhang Mao took out his back play kung fu in the first attack, and in the face of Hill's defense that began to get serious, Koala Baby did not bully people with his body, but turned around to complete the breakthrough and directly scored the ball with a hook hand.

The fans at the scene began to applaud "popping", and the fans in front of the TV felt a little familiar, especially the Rockets fans who were more familiar with this action, Zhang Mao's turn and footsteps were seven or eight points similar to Olajuwon's, is this a "dream footstep"?

Zhang Zhu's use of footsteps is divided into three stages, and it is a stage every year, starting from the first pretending, to the second year's decent, until the current appearance.

Now, his back has long formed his own style, unlike Olajuwon's footsteps that focus on coordination, elegance, and rhythm, and everyone's talent and technical characteristics are different, Zhang Mao's footsteps are a little more irritable, and he pays more attention to speed, explosion, and confrontation.

Zhang Zhu knew from the beginning that no matter what technique, the fundamental purpose was to pull the center of gravity of the defender and create space, so as to choose to break through or shoot or pass, so when he played with his back, he was always reading the defense, and those so-called combos were random.

The essence of Big Dream's turn is to be able to quickly create scoring space and time, his turn is very coherent, and the sense of rhythm is very good, a bit like dancing, which other people's turns do not have.

Zhang Wei did not learn this way, his characteristics lie in reaction and explosiveness, and at the same time can be keenly aware of the best time to do the action, at this time he only needs to use his ball sense and solid basic skills to complete the turn, the opponent is definitely not as fast as his reaction, most of the time he can't react and is broken through by him. Even the worst result can make the opponent embarrassed, and as long as he plays to his confrontation advantage, the opponent will definitely lose position or foul, and he can still shoot calmly.

This time, Hill was broken through without reacting, Zhang Qian could have hit the basket and staged a violent dunk, and finally used the hook hand to pretend to be forced, because he felt that it was far more awesome for an outside line to score a goal with an inside technique than to dunk it directly.

Hill's back play is also good, but the footsteps are much worse, and he won't turn around like this, so he will be cut off from the ball, and the turn of the outside player and the inside player are not the same meaning at all.

Hill couldn't fight back in the same way on the offensive end, and he had to return the favor with a faceframe attack.

Zhang Qi already knows Hill very well, the rhythm of this breakthrough is perfect, and he is best at using the connection of various techniques to shake up space, so Zhang Zhu's defense method is to only defend the last shot, and if he is not sure if it is a feint, he will fight and retreat, even if you break into the basket, it doesn't matter, I just need to prevent the last shot.

Hill couldn't shake Zhang Qi, there was still no space under the basket, and the result of forcing the shot was that the shooting posture was squeezed and deformed by Zhang Qi's defense, and he could only rely on his feelings to find the basket.

Zhang Zhu's height and arm span are stronger than Hill's, and his thick body forces Hill to not shoot in his comfortable position, even if he shoots from close range, he will not have a high shooting percentage, and this time the layup is deflected.

Moreover, this kind of shooting can't grab rebounds at all, because Zhang Mao, who is already standing under the basket, can get stuck in the main large favorable area as soon as he turns around, and with the assistance of his interior teammates, it is impossible for Rodman to snatch the rebounds at the peak.

If it is against the Lakers, Hill's breakthrough will be covered by Mutombo, and then he will have no chance to score, and the risk of being covered will increase exponentially.

Bulls fans can only shake their heads and sigh, Hill's series of acceleration, emergency stops, turns, and false shakes are perfect, they look dazzled from the TV, but Zhang Mao is completely unmoved, fighting and retreating all the way, always stuck in the best defensive position, no matter how you show your skills, you are indifferent, but as long as you shoot, I will come up and interfere with you, which is as incomprehensible as Jordan at the peak.

Zhang Mao's defense is indeed like Jordan, he doesn't eat feints and shaky movements at all, super explosiveness and footwork can ensure that he always covers offensive players, and if you want to score, you have to have the ability to find the basket with your eyes closed.

It's not that Hill doesn't have this ability, it's just that this kind of offensive efficiency is never too high.

The most embarrassing thing is that when he turns to the defensive end, he is at a loss for Zhang Mao's back hit, which is very uncomfortable.

This time Hill was well prepared, but no teammates came to help, Zhang Yu easily used brute force to squeeze near the penalty line, and then the two virtual dangles failed to mobilize Hill's center, and he directly turned around and jumped.

At this distance, Zhang Zhu's turnaround jumper is very efficient even if there is defense, this time Hill did not react at all, Zhang Zhu's shot was as easy as in training, and the basketball went into the net!

After Zhang Zhu landed on the ground, he showed a smile to Hill that he had been trained countless times by the young lady, and as soon as the sideline camera gave a close-up shot, some fans found that Zhang Zhu's smile still had a micro-expression, and they didn't know which young lady he learned from, but there were indeed a lot of young ladies who could teach him.

Of course, the female fans in front of the TV screamed like fools, Zhang Fu not only has a good look, but his expression when expressing his emotions is also different, and there is a unique infectious force between laughter and scolding.

Of course, this is a by-product of in-depth communication with the young ladies, after all, there are many young ladies who are at the level of actresses, which is enough to teach him how to show his acting skills.

After Zhang Wei was carefully trained by young ladies of different styles, he was able to integrate various micro-expressions into it when expressing emotions under the camera, not only the facial features will change with different emotions, but even the small movements of details such as eyes will be displayed, which makes him able to express happiness, anger, helplessness, pride, and even arrogance more smoothly and naturally than ordinary people.

Now many fans even like to see him show an arrogant and proud little expression, just like people like to see Xing Ye show that little expression, people with acting skills and people without acting skills get completely different effects when they do the same action and expression. The brother of the family pretended to be domineering with a toothpick in his mouth, and Xiao Xianrou pretended to be embarrassed with a toothpick in his mouth, or the kind with a capital letter.

Hill's feeling is different from that of the fans, he thinks Zhang Qiu's smile is particularly annoying, who made him the one who was humiliated.

But this ball also announced that he has nothing to do about Zhang Zhu's back, in fact, Zhang Zhu doesn't need so many tricks, there is no way to just force Hill to eat him, unless there are teammates to help him, but even Jordan is unwilling to help in the All-Star, and he himself also doesn't want anyone to help him, because they can't afford to lose this person.

In the first five minutes of the third quarter, Hill was ravaged by a variety of postures and expressions under Zhang Mao's inexplicable back, and it was basically a violent beating with little power to fight back.

This should be the first time that Zhang Yu showed his back to the fullest, especially after a turn and breakthrough after Hill kept up with the footsteps, his emergency stop dribble + second reverse turn directly shook down Hill, who could no longer keep up with the beat.

David Robinson, who has just come on the court, should be very familiar with this scene, it was his several falls that made Olajuwon's "dream footsteps" resound around the world, and now this unlucky guy is Grant Hill again.

Zhang Yu is smiling very happily now, in the past five minutes, he hit Hill with his back 6 times, except for one turn and shot missed, the remaining 5 times all scored the ball, and once caused 2+1, this success rate is a bit scary. And the time he didn't score also managed to get rid of Hill, so his success rate of back hitting Hill can be said to be 100%, and even his fans didn't expect his back hit to be so terrifying!

Olajuwon in front of the TV pouted, Zhang Mao's footsteps are certainly meritorious, but if he is allowed to go one-on-one with David Robinson, he is also confident that the other party will not be able to find the north. Although there is no guarantee that he will score, 6 consecutive back-to-back hits create a 100% chance of getting rid of it, which can be done even when he is in good shape, what is there!

Well, Olajuwon is a bit of a brag, Zhang Zhu's back to hit Hill is a trick, because Hill is an outside player, and it is rare to meet opponents who can play back, so it is naturally difficult to defend this kind of foot. And Zhang Yu rarely shows this kung fu in ordinary times, so it is normal to be stunned suddenly at this time. As long as he changes an inside line to defend, even against the thin Garnett, it is difficult for Zhang Yu to achieve such a high success rate of back play.

Hill's current mentality has exploded, in the past five minutes, in addition to scoring a goal against Zhang Zhu at the beginning, the more he wanted to score, the more he couldn't shoot, Don Nelson could only replace him first to calm down, and by the way, let Hill and Zhang Zhu's playing time stagger a little.

Zhang Wei then didn't patronize his performance, there are still three players in the Western Army who have not scored, and he has to help these guys solve the tragedy first.

Garnett, who had just come on the court, quickly got his chance, and in the face of Barkley's massage-like defense, he received the ball outside the three-point line and drove inside like a guard, and Mourning only symbolically reached out under the basket to touch, allowing Garnett to complete a layup to score.

The Western troops also reciprocated, and during this time, the two teams successively replaced the benches who had not yet scored, and Zhang Zhu also showed a look defense in the face of Steve Smith's layup, and successfully allowed the opponent to score two points.

Iverson's side also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to score another few points, but Garnett didn't give him face and interfered with his layups in a row.

Zhang Wei began to feel sorry for this little man, Garnett had already restrained his breakthrough, and the West soon replaced him with a Duncan who made him uncomfortable, the inside line composed of these two simply made Iverson feel that his head was covered with three heads and six arms, not only failed to make three breakthroughs in a row, but also contributed a mistake, and was directly replaced by Don Nelson.

Garnett and Duncan didn't play long on the court, and when Duncan received a pass from Zhang and shot a ball, Harris directly replaced the two newcomers inside with Zhang Zhu, and O'Neal and two Lakers guards came on the court again.

The fat man no longer had any expression here, and when he saw Zhang Yu expand his statistics to 33 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists, he didn't even have the desire to perform.

This time, Kidd and Jones no longer embarrassed him, but the fat man didn't bother to dunk when no one was guarded, and he had no desire to perform at all.

"The fat man looks a little pitiful!"

After Zhang Yu returned to the game, he silently sympathized with O'Neal, who looked bad to be played by others, and wondered if he would help him realize his wish next season, anyway, he really wouldn't fight again next time.

Kidd's side seemed to sense something, and a passing error ended the third quarter at 109-95, and the West went into the final quarter with a 14-point advantage.

This score lets everyone know that this year's MVP is none other than Zhang Qi, after the first three quarters, the koala baby has turned his personal data into 38 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, his shooting percentage is 15 of 23, 5 of 9 three-pointers, and the data and efficiency are unmatched.

Hill couldn't keep up with Zhang Qiu's rhythm this quarter, his stats didn't grow much, and with the Eastern Army trailing by a large score, the MVP was long gone.

This also made the fourth quarter of the game entertaining again, everyone knows that this year's MVP was snatched away by the koala baby, where can anyone be serious in such a game.

In the fourth quarter, O'Neal didn't want to go up at all, except for the cancer guards on both sides, it is estimated that no one wanted to go up again to waste physical strength.

Harris and Don Nelson also knew what the players were thinking, and simply sent a full bench lineup to play the first half of the game in the final quarter, which also allowed Kobe Bryant and Iverson to finally get a chance to perform.

The majority of fans also found that these two little guys are actually good, one has a picturesque style of ball, and the other is as fast as lightning, if it weren't for Zhang Zhu's too dazzling, they should be the most potential outside line in the past two years.

The young stars of both teams put on a couple of great performances, and the West, with Duncan and Garnett, were clearly the stronger side and extended their advantage again with a 16-8 lead in the first half of the final quarter.

Eastern Conference fans were unhappy with Iverson's performance, and although his breakthrough was sharp, he was not very effective in front of the two tall and agile interior linemen of the Western Army, and it was difficult to see him playing well with his teammates.

In this regard, Iverson is not as good as Kobe, at least Kobe has wonderful assist shots after completing the block with Garnett and Duncan, but Iverson always "whoosks" to throw off opponents and teammates, many times he doesn't need any blocking at all, and who knows how to cooperate with him?

In the fourth quarter, the game came to the last 4 minutes and 15 seconds, and the difference had reached 23 points, at this time, everyone just had to play casually, so we saw Harris replace O'Neal, Malone and Payton, and then replaced the Lakers outside combination of Kidd, Jones and Zhang Yi in one go, and the inside line was Mutombo partnering Duncan, and there were four Lakers players on the court in an instant.

Duncan showed a slightly embarrassed smile on the court, standing between the four Lakers players, which actually gave him a feeling of a traitor, in short, it was weird.

O'Neal and Payton had no problem with the substitution, and Harris made the early substitution to allow the Lakers' four players to appear en masse in the final minutes. At this moment, seeing the loud cheers of the fans in the audience, he knew that this was the picture everyone wanted to see, and it was estimated that there were many new fans in front of the TV who only knew the Lakers players.

The Lakers began to bully as soon as they came up, and Zhang Zhu's aerial relay allowed Mutombo to score his fourth point of the game, and then he assisted Jones to complete a three-pointer, and the difference between the two teams quickly exceeded 25 points.

The Eastern players were resentful of this bullying style of play, and as a result, Mourning, who wanted to resist, was instantly defeated under Mutombo's middle finger and went down in disgrace after a big hat.

Don Nelson was instantly humiliated when he saw the Heat tough guy, and quickly replaced Jordan so that the gang leader would not also be humiliated by the Lakers' SI people, and the Eastern team's on-court lineup quickly became an all-bench lineup.

Lakers players are doing more freely this time, but Zhang Qi has long lost the desire to score, and after turning his score into 40 points with a three-pointer, he began to help his teammates score with all his strength - Kidd, Jones, and Mutombo received consecutive passes and hits, and even Duncan accidentally received a pass and grabbed his head.

O'Neal finally saw it clearly off the court at this time, in fact, he had been dreaming from the beginning, this is obviously an All-Star Game for the Lakers, and he not only has no chance this year, but also has no chance next year.

Of course not, the so-called asking for others is better than asking for himself, and he actually expects his opponent to help, which is too naïve.

O'Neal has now finally figured out that there is only one way for him to get the MVP, which is to overthrow the rule of the Lakers, and then lead Kobe, Finley, and Cassel to the All-Star like Zhang Zhu now, so that he can get the first MVP trophy of his career.