At halftime, the Western players looked at Zhang Qi a little wrong.

As the "scoring champion" of the season, there are more rebounds than scores, which is a bit excessive!

Payton and O'Neal have ugly faces, don't look at them scoring more, but unless it is high enough to a certain extent, they can't compete for Zhang Zhu's statistic.

However, the two of them fell into infighting, and as a result, none of them scored 20, which was embarrassing.

The most painful thing is that they can't complain about Zhang Mao yet, can you still have an opinion on people grabbing rebounds?

Zhang Yu only made 7 shots in the first half, including 3 of 4 three-pointers and 3 of 3 two-point shots, but these three shots were all opportunities he won by grabbing the frontcourt rebound and picking up bullets.

No one dares to have an opinion on such a performance, if it weren't for Zhang Mao's several frontcourt rebounds, the Western Army would not be able to lose by 15 points now.

"You can't blame me, but I can!"

Zhang Yu took the lead at halftime, educated these two guys who didn't care about the overall situation, and finally licked Bilian and told others that the MVP was only awarded to the winning side.

"Don't I know?"

O'Neal and Payton were depressed, but they played blindly in the first half and were indeed the culprits behind the Western Army.

Harris finally understood what Zhang Qian meant, and cooperated very well in arranging some tactics that were equal to not saying, but one sentence was crucial: "Gentlemen, we must first find a way to win." I know there are people who want to take AMVP, but it needs to be convincing everyone with better efficiency. In the second half, I'll let Lyon pass the ball for you, and you'll be in charge of throwing the ball in, and whoever is the MVP will let the results speak. ”

Zhang Zhu secretly lost a thumbs up in his heart, this time he can take the ball back openly, O'Neal and Payton didn't dare to say anything, after all, they were at fault in the first half, and neither of them was convinced, so no one wanted to let themselves fall into a lonely situation. And once you refuse this instruction, you are tantamount to putting yourself on the opposite side of the whole team, which is a stupid act of self-defeat.

The East team will be complaining about their own interior line, why let a small forward get 15 rebounds in half a game?

This pot was naturally thrown on Mo Ning.

He is the player with the highest number of rebounds in the Eastern Army, but he has only just reached a fraction of Zhang's rebounding data, which is one-third of the others, shouldn't this be the first to be burdened?

Of course, Mo Ning was not convinced, and said in his heart that although I have little seniority, you can't bully people like this. Besides, although he can play the No. 5 position, most of the time he plays the No. 4 position, but today Pippen and Hill have to start, Pippen plays the No. 4 position, and Hill plays the No. 3 position.

In fact, after the release of this starting lineup, many people were worried that their height would be insufficient, and they would lose a lot of rebounds. But they never expected that they would lose so many rebounds. Many Eastern fans are already discussing that Rodman should be used to replace Thomas today, rather than Iverson, who can only score points.

Of course, even if Rodman came in, he didn't get playing time, and it was actually useless.

The problem now is that the interior of the Eastern team can't grab Zhang Zhu's outside line, including Mourning and Webb, who have grabbed a piece with Zhang Zhu several times in the game, but the ending is still a fiasco.

Zhang Zhu's ability to grab rebounds benefits from the advantage of his arm span, and his touch height data is not lost to most of the No. 4 positions, coupled with his speed and strong body, which makes No. 4 positions like Mourning and Webb unable to grab Zhang Zhu's No. 3 position.

Leitner, the only player in the East team who plays the center position, but he is an interior player who is not good at grabbing rebounds, and these people are basically completely defeated against Zhang Mao.

Pippen should indeed be on his back, before the game, his so-called targeting of Zhang Zhu, now no one really sees where he is targeting Zhang Zhu, but he can't hold the rebound at all as the No. 4 position, which is a fact that everyone can see.

In fact, Brother Pi's rebounding data is not bad, and he is at the top level in the No. 3 position, but compared with Zhang Mao, it seems that the range of "top" should be a little higher.

In the second half, Zhang Qi continued his rebounding performance, and even Jordan on the side of the Eastern Army began to actively assist his teammates to compete for rebounds, but he still couldn't get Zhang Zhu, who was in good shape, just couldn't grab an outside line.

The reason is very simple, these stars of the Eastern team do not have the necessary "card position" and "blocking people" skills before grabbing rebounds, as the leading stars of each team, they will not card and block others at all, these are all things that blue-collar teammates help them do, and then let them easily grab rebounds and brush up good data. Now that the whole team is full of stars, you ask them to help others block the slots, and no one else has that skill and awareness, except for Mutombo, Kemp and Malone of the Western team.

The current situation is that both sides will not block people and card positions, every time they grab a rebound, it all depends on their own prediction, footsteps, bounces, touch high, and then add a little luck, but these five elements Zhang Yu just have all of them, he is basically invincible in this kind of chaos to the situation that his own people often block his own people!

"The Bulls are too good, 2V1 can't beat Lyon."

"We're not going to die on rebounds, are we?"

"Will Lyon grab 30+ rebounds today?"

"By the way, what is the record for the most rebounds in an All-Star Game?"

"Hell remembers this kind of record, who cares how many rebounds someone grabs before this game?"

“…………”

Some fans began to complain that the East Army couldn't even grab a rebound, and the game slowly began to get off the All-Star track, everyone's eyes seemed to be on the rebound for a while, and the shooting rate of the two teams began to decline, and then there were a bunch of big names who usually don't go desperately to grab rebounds at all, and now they are all crowded in the restricted area like blue-collar workers to compete for rebounds.

Fans on the scene and in front of the TV saw Zhang Zhu as if he was incarnated as Rodman, he can always take the rebound ball into his palm, and the East Army is a proper background board, it turns out that they are really not good at "grabbing rebounds", many stars with good rebounding data, at this moment, they have exposed how unbearable their data is in front of Zhang Fu.

When the Eastern Army didn't pay much attention to rebounding in the first half, it didn't seem to be very obvious, but now that they do, there will often be some tragic scenes. For example, Mo Ning was always blown up by Zhang Zhu in 1V1, the Bulls duo couldn't rob Zhang Zhu alone, and Hill was knocked over by Zhang Zhu in the air for the second time......

These guys have good rebounding stats, but after today's matchup, some fans should know how they got their good rebounds.

Zhang Zhu was not just about grabbing rebounds in the second half, and fans could clearly see that his ball possession rate increased significantly, and Lakers fans could no longer see any difference between him and when he played for the Lakers.

Payton is now more like Van Exel, and O'Neal can only honestly wait to receive the ball, and the two have no chance to fight again.

This has caused Zhang Fu not only to soar in rebounding statistics, but now even the assist statistics have caught up.

In the second half of the third quarter, when Zhang Yu came off the court, his statistics had come to 16 points, 22 rebounds and 9 assists, and everyone knew that the triple-double of the koala baby was stable again, and an assist couldn't be simpler in the All-Star.

At this time, fans also learned from the big screen that what is the single-game rebounding record of the All-Star Game?

That record now holds the record by ancient superstar Bob Petit, who set a record of 27 rebounds per game in 1962.

Zhang has hopes of surpassing Bob Pettit today, as he has already grabbed 22 rebounds in the third quarter, and it doesn't seem too difficult to get five more in the final quarter.

However, Zhang has already tied a rebounding record — he has now grabbed nine frontcourt rebounds, tying the All-Star record of nine frontcourt rebounds held by Dan Landfield and Olajuwon, and Zhang is the sole holder of the record with just one more frontcourt rebound in the fourth quarter.

The score was 103:105, and the Lakers chased the difference to 2 points after the third quarter, and they could overtake with just one three-pointer.

For the West team: Payton 24 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, O'Neal 23 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists, Zhang Mao 16 points, 22 rebounds and 9 assists, Sean Camp 10 points and 4 rebounds, Malone 8 points and 2 rebounds, Kidd 4 points and 3 assists, Mutombo 4 points and 2 rebounds, Richmond 6 points, Ratriel Sprewell 2 points, Stockton 2 points and 3 assists, Eddie Jones 2 points, Van Exel 2 points.

For the Eastern Army: Hill 18 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, Mourning 18 points and 7 rebounds, Anfernee Hardaway 12 points and 8 assists, Glen Rice 12 points and 3 rebounds, Jordan 11 points and 5 assists, Pippen 10 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, Allen Iverson 7 points and 4 assists, Wen Baker 8 points and 6 rebounds, Chris Webber, 2 points and 4 rebounds, Brandon 3 points, Tim Hardaway 3 points, Kristen Leitner 2 points.

Now the situation is obvious, only Peyton, O'Neal and Zhang Zhu are eligible to compete for AMVP in the Western Army, but the most promising is Zhang Qi, although his scoring is not high, but his rebounding and assists are too conspicuous, and the difference within 10 points is not at all insignificant for him.

Only Hill and Mourning have a chance in the Eastern Army, and the others score too little, but even the two of them can't score much, a data that can't even exceed 20 points, it's really a bit far-fetched to compete with Zhang Zhu for MVP, even if he wins the game, he may not be able to get AMVP.

There have been two instances in NBA history of losing games to win the AMVP, the first being Bob Pettit in '57-58, when he had 28 points and 26 rebounds, relying on a large surpass stats. The second time was in the '89-90 season, when the Magic had 22 points and six assists, and the overall performance of the Eastern Conference stars was too balanced. However, speaking of which, the reason why Magic lost the game and won AMVP this time is still a bit far-fetched, after all, Magic's own data is not very good. Bob Pettit got 26 rebounds and handed over a super double 20 stats, which is reasonable.

In the fourth quarter, both teams sent the five players with the least playing time to play first, at this time Van Exel, Webb and others only played less than ten minutes, and the general All-Star Game will give each player at least ten minutes of playing time, and now this stage is to make up for these people's playing time.

Zhang Zhu was replaced in the 7th minute, when the score came to 118:119, the two sides have replaced all the players with insufficient qualifications, and the game has entered the time for the big names to brush up the data.

After the start of the game, Zhang Mao didn't force his face at all this time, and broke through first to score a goal as soon as he came up, and these two points immediately made his statistics look better.

"Haha, who of you can fight with me now?"

Someone's face was exposed for a while, and in just one minute, Zhang Yu took advantage of the fact that the defensive intensity of the two teams was still not high, and scored 4 points in a row to bring his scoring data to 20 points first, and now he has caught 20+20 in his hands, and even if he loses, he has a great chance to get AMVP.

"It's so shameless!"

O'Neal and Payton are even more certain that Zhang has no idea of helping them get the AMVP at all.

However, the two of them were helpless about it.

Actually, in the third quarter, they already saw that Zhang Qi was about to start changing his face, but they had no way to counteract, so they couldn't let the two of them join forces, right?

Well, although this is a solution, how can two competitors who don't like each other say that they are reconciled? It's not realistic!

Besides, even if they join forces and target Zhang Qi together, who will score on the offensive end? And who is the last AMVP?

Zhang Yu just knew that since these two people wanted to win AMVP, they were destined to not be able to join forces, so he began to do things boldly in the third quarter, and now that it has come to the fourth quarter, he is even more unscrupulous.

In the 4th minute and 45 seconds, Zhang Fu sent a second pass to help Camp score, and his assist count came to double digits, and the triple-double task was achieved first.

Next, Zhang Fu has no pressure, his 20+20+10 data can get the MVP no matter what, and he doesn't even care much about winning or losing, even if the East wins, no one can snatch the MVP from him.

This relaxed mentality allows him to better control the game, and in the last four minutes he doesn't care whether he gets points, rebounds, or assists, but now he can play as much as he wants, even if it is a record of 27 rebounds, Zhang Mao feels that it doesn't matter.

This kind of thing, of course, it is good to be able to break it tonight, it doesn't matter if it is broken or not, anyway, his small forward getting 20+ rebounds is awesome enough, and he doesn't have to break the record held by other people's insiders.

The East Army wants to prevent Zhang from getting record-breaking rebounding statistics, but the best way to stop him should be to throw the ball in, so that there are many fewer opportunities to grab rebounds.

However, the eastern troops will not be able to throw the ball in, the more they want to throw it now, the more they can't shoot, Zhang Yu not only continues to expand his rebounding data, the western troops also took advantage of the situation to overtake the score, and the eastern troops are likely to face the end of the chicken and egg fight.

At the critical moment, it is up to Joe to help save the world.

In the last 2 minutes and 06 seconds, after the Western Army overtook the score, Jordan suddenly broke out, and one person rushed to send a wave of 8-point solo show for the Eastern fans, which instantly turned the tide of the game and helped the Eastern Army turn the score into 133:137 in the last 45 seconds, and the Eastern Army regained a four-point lead.

Zhang was not idle, expanding his stats to 23 points, 26 rebounds and 11 assists during that time, and his rebounding stats have now become the second-highest in All-Star Game history, behind only Bob Pettit's 27 and surpassing Wilt Chamberlain's record of 25 rebounds.

"I think Lyon's 26 rebounds are more valuable."

"That's right, Bob Pettit's records were set in antiquity, and there was a lot of rebounding data in that era."

"It's not over yet, Lyon might be able to extend his record again, and I'm expecting him to break the record of 27 rebounds."

"You say, will Leon lose again and win MVP?"

“…………”

Zhang Wei may have forgotten that he lost last year and won the AMVP, although it is tied with Jordan, it should also be counted in the example of losing and getting the AMVP.

At this time, of course, Zhang Mao didn't think about this, but he seemed to hear the cries of the fans, and actually used a shameless self-throw in the last 31 seconds to get the 27th rebound of the game, which not only broke the All-Star Game frontcourt rebounding record, tied the All-Star Game single-game rebounding record, and casually let himself score two more points.

"It's a pity that the game was lost!"

Zhang Qi looked at the score on the scoreboard half a minute later, and while he was proud of his data, he also showed a vivid look of regret on his face.

After Jordan scored eight points in a row, Mourning and Hardaway also scored a key shot each under the basket, but the West team scored only four points in the last minute, which made the East team finally win the game 141-137, and now the suspense has become the ownership of AMVP?

Zhang Wei is relatively stable in his heart, he doesn't feel that if he loses the game, there will be no AMVP, he is too far ahead of others in terms of data, and winning or losing is no longer important at this time.

Western Army: Payton 28 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists, O'Neal 29 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists, Zhang Mao 25 points, 27 rebounds and 11 assists.

East Team: Hill 24 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, Mourning 21 points and 9 rebounds, Jordan 19 points and 6 assists, Anfernee Hardaway 16 points and 10 assists.

This is the player with the data lead on both sides, Payton and O'Neal don't have to think about it, whether the Western team wins or loses, AMVP has no share of them.

Mourning and Hardaway were also basically out of play, and the two of them scored too low.

Grant Hill's stats were the best in the East, but Jordan's decisive play in the final two minutes was enough to beat Hill, who couldn't be crushed by stats.

Then the situation is obvious, and now it has become a showdown between Zhang Zhu and Jordan, and the situation seems to be similar, last year it seems that Zhang Zhu lost but the data has the advantage.

Now the two are still in the same situation, one is against the sky, the other decides the victory of the game at a critical moment, and now it depends on whether the league wants to award the AMVP to the player who is against the sky, or whether it pays more attention to the win or loss of the game.

Zhang Wei is very calm about this, he knows that there have been two cases in history where the loser side got the AMVP, and he seems to have won the AMVP in this way last year, if the losing side has someone whose statistics are much higher than the winning side, the league will award the trophy to the losing side, but the premise is that it is "much higher than the winner's side".

Of course, he meets this one requirement, this 25 points, 27 rebounds and 11 assists are more than a step higher than everyone else, especially 27 rebounds is too unnatural in this era, adding up to an unprecedented report card in All-Star history, and Zhang Yu also broke a number of records today, of course he is sure that he can get this MVP, and the worst result should be tied again, anyway, the league likes to play this trick the most.

Now do the math, he doesn't lack this AMVP trophy, he has already won an AMVP last year, plus two rookie game MVPs, a slam dunk contest championship, a three-point contest championship, basically the honors that can be won during the All-Star Weekend, he has already won a grand slam.

After the game, the stars of the East and West were interviewed on the sidelines.

Last year, Zhang Yu didn't have as many reporters around him as Jordan, but this year he has completed the overtake, which is also a big victory.

"Leon, do you have confidence in the AMVP for a while?"

"When children mention the word 'confidence', I only give myself two choices: either win and take it all away, or lose and have nothing."

"Leon, you lost last year and fell short again this year, do you still think you're going to win? Do you think the loser deserves the MVP? ”

"I've been to the top of the mountain and I've been at the bottom, and I've learned a lot from both, especially the latter that has taught me that there's always a bunch of pigs laughing at you when you lose, and they don't know that there are options to do it all over again, and they don't know that there are multiple ways to win."

Zhang Mao's answer is not very suitable, but he can't help it, even if there are many people who talk a lot, he can't guarantee that his answer will be seamless every time. At least, that question is hard to answer. At this time, Zhang Mao began to regret that he failed to help the Western Army win, otherwise he could have justifiably won the AMVP, wouldn't it be beautiful?

David Stern is late to announce the results every year, and the envelope in his hand attracts everyone's attention.

This year's president was still smiling, and after taking the podium, David Stern opened his mouth and said the most sassy sentence: "Let me say two words briefly!" ”

"Fuck you!"

Zhang Wei knows that whenever the leaders say this, it is more than just two simple sentences, and it is already kind and polite to you for half an hour. And most of the time, they really just do one or two things, but the leaders can keep repeating and repeating, emphasizing and emphasizing, and if they are in the mood to say it, they will most likely replay it for you.

He guessed correctly, David Stern's simple two sentences ended up in ten minutes.

However, it is indeed merciful, this kind of thing is put on hold in the CBA, and it may really be able to talk about it for half an hour.

Zhang Yu didn't listen to a word at all during this period, and most of the players lost patience with Mr. President's speech, and when he finally tore open the envelope, many people were even distracted and didn't react.

"The winners of the 1996-1997 All-Star Weekend, AMVP, were voted for by 12 of our media professionals...... The final winner is Zhang ...... Unclean! ”

After Zhang Yu heard his name, he quietly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, although it was a bit of a fly in the ointment that he failed to win the game, but he had expected this result.

Jordan's final scoring streak sealed the Eastern Conference victory, but his stats were strong enough to offset that crucial performance, and he didn't even give Jordan a chance to tie.

"I want to buy a cat, the pure white kind."

After the game, a reporter asked him "What do you want to do most after getting AMVP for two consecutive years", Zhang Mao's answer made people cry and laugh, and the feeling is that this is another cat sucking patient like Pippen, is it not good to have a dog?