Chapter 396: Will You Play?
Yao Ming, who was particularly ferocious today, was taken down, and Eastern fans thought this was a good opportunity for them to chase points, but they ignored that many stars in the Western Army were also waiting for this moment, and now that Yao Ming is down, Durant, Paul, Kobe and others have an excuse to brush data, especially the boss and the little schoolbag have been waiting for a long time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Wu Huang said that it has nothing to do with him, he doesn't plan to be a hero today, whoever likes to be a hero, anyway, he just needs to continue to feed Howard.
James is too lazy to take over the mess, he is not stupid, although it is not impossible to chase back after falling behind by more than ten points, it is too difficult, and it may not take all the credit if he succeeds, but once he fails, he must bear all the credit, so after simply weighing the pros and cons, the Heat trio, including the Bulls and the SI Gang, have chosen to hang high and unconcerned. But there's one person here who can't hang himself up, and that's Dwight Howard, who has been 5-of-20 shooting.
It's been a long time since there has been such a cheating shooting rate on the NBA All-Stars, and the last one who was so inaccurate here was Michael Jordan, but the old man went to play the last All-Star at the age of 40, and the symbolism was far greater than the victory or defeat of that game, and the fans didn't come to see Jordan make a big splash in the game, it didn't matter if he didn't shoot accurately.
But Howard is different, he's the host today, and it's the same time, there's no reason to behave so badly. Coupled with the fact that he and the Lakers have been eyebrowning for a while, a considerable number of Magic fans no longer regard him as their own, and they are sure that this big guy will follow the example of another big guy at the beginning, leaving Orlando, a small city that is very inconspicuous compared to Los Angeles at the peak of his career.
Howard himself can feel this, and with his poor performance in this game, the cheers that cheered him at the beginning have become less and less, and this was never the case last season, but now that various media are rumored that he will be traded after the All-Star break, many Magic fans will not give him a good look even if they don't hate James as much as Cavaliers fans do with James.
The NBA still retains the All-Star Game in this shrunken season, but the trade deadline has been extended to March 1, which means that there will be a big trade after the All-Star Game.
Wu Huang still passed the ball and shot in the third quarter, occasionally slammed into the interior twice, and played very casually, which seems to be the normal melody of the All-Star.
The Western Army is more serious, especially Durant is very positive, he has an MVP reward in his contract, and he desperately needs this MVP to improve his status. Even if Yao Ming performed well today, Durant did not give up in his heart, and he would still shoot the ball himself if he could pass and shoot.
This distinction made the western troops still have an advantage after Yao Ming went off the field, and the eastern troops seemed to be able to only resist stubbornly, and even the fans could see that the eastern players were struggling and had no strength to launch a counterattack.
The main reason for the East's lag is the lack of motivation on the court, and if they have a few young players like Durant who are more hungry for honor, they may be able to reverse the decline. But Thibodeau used Rose too hard in the regular season, and Durant, who is about the same age, is obviously more aggressive than Rose today. This year, no matter how old or young the East Army, the 12 members of the team are full of guys who are unwilling to work hard for victory, and there is a professional actor like Wu Huang who is messing around on the field, and it is simply delusional to win the game in this situation.
However, the majority of fans can't see that Wu Huang is acting, because the eastern troops are not working hard, and Wu Huang's super high hit rate is not like acting. This style of play also caused the two teams to change the rhythm of offense and defense faster and faster in the third quarter, and the defensive intensity continued to decline, and the game soon began to develop in the direction of performance.
Wu Huang is easy to score in this kind of game where the defense is getting less and less, his shooting ability makes him hit almost every ball, and he is still the highest in the game in terms of efficiency, where did anyone think that he would be an actor.
At 4 minutes and 50 seconds in the third quarter, Wu Huang hit another three-pointer before leaving the court, and unconsciously mixed up to 30 points, and his shooting data was 10 of 14 shots, including 8 of 10 three-point shots.
Wu Huang has already played 12 three-pointers in a single game twice in the regular season, and for him, when he will completely break this record is only a matter of time and whether he wants to. In the All-Star game, he had already hit 13 three-pointers in a single game in last year's rookie game, and he had already broken the single-game three-point shooting record in the All-Star Game.
ABC Radio gave Wu Huang's single-game three-point shooting record after he left the court: his highest three-point shooting in a single game in the regular season was 12, 10 in the playoffs, 13 in a single game in the rookie game, and 10 in a single game in the All-Star Game, and it should not be a problem for him to break his record in the All-Star Game today.
The Western Army continued to maintain its double-digit lead after the third quarter, with a score of 125:112, and although Wu Huang's three-point shot was accurate, he could not help the Eastern Army narrow the score.
"I almost didn't feel like I was acting." After Wu Huang got off the court, he found that he accidentally mixed into the first scoring position in the East, so it seems that the Heat trio and the Bulls SI people are the real big bastards, especially the Howard of the Magic team is like an undercover agent sent by the boss, his pit dad hit rate to say that he is innocent, it is estimated that no one believes it, do you want to bite him back after the game?
Yao Ming didn't know where to take out a protective mask and put it on his face after the third quarter, and he magically returned to the court. Judging from his outfit, it is estimated that there is something wrong with the bridge of his nose, but the little giant seems to want to continue to play and score points.
This is not good news for Xiao Xuebao, Yao Ming is in such good form today, once he returns to the court, he will once again become his big enemy in the battle for MVP.
Howard also felt the pressure again, he really couldn't get Yao Ming today, he was reluctant to go around the front to defend in the past, but today was the first time in his heart that he had the urge to go around the front to defend Yao Ming, but unfortunately he couldn't do it, he was so depressed!
As soon as the fourth quarter came up, the Western troops replaced Yao Ming, which made Howard quietly relieved, he didn't want to go up and be beaten again. In Warcraft's heart, it is impossible for him to get the MVP today anyway, and at this moment he only hopes that he will not lose face again, otherwise it will be an embarrassing thing to really get to the Lakers.
Yao Ming's nose injury did not affect him to continue to score in the fourth quarter, today's little giant took out his own inside skills honed in the NBA for ten years, he showed Howard and a group of young centers what is a solid low post foot and accurate hook hand, many times a center only needs to practice these two moves well is enough to eat all over the world, especially when you have the advantage of height and strength, one-on-one will be an insoluble existence, if Yao Ming is taken to the NBA rules in the nineties, His status is not much worse than that of the four centers at that time.
O'Neal saw Yao Ming's excellent performance today, so he proposed to the Lakers: "Instead of trading Howard, it is better to trade Yao Ming and Gasol to form an international lineup early on, as long as the little giant can stay healthy, the combination of him and Gasol is better than trading Howard." ”
Barkley disagrees: "Yao Ming's problem is that it's hard to determine his physical condition, I can understand the Lakers' choice, although it's easier for them to trade Yao Ming, the Rockets won't resist trading young Bynum for 30-year-old Yao." But this deal is obviously much better than trading Howard, and the latter trade will be less risky. So I don't think the Lakers made a wrong choice, think about it, the future Howard has at least five years of golden age, which is very close to the time when you went to the Lakers, and even if Yao Ming can stay healthy, he has only two or three years left in his prime, and the Little Giants can't provide the interior defensive dominance that the Lakers desperately need most. ”
O'Neal was tempted to retort, "Wouldn't Howard get hurt?" But if you think about it carefully, it seems that this monster is really one of the few stars in the league whose anti-collision ability can be compared to James, and I have the impression that this guy has not been injured much since he entered the NBA, and he has missed only a handful of games due to injury, which is much better than when he was back then. Although he was much more dominant than Howard, he was also more prone to injury, especially after gaining weight in the third season, and missing about half of the regular season due to injury in the next four seasons, which seems to be slightly better than Yao Ming's attendance.
Yao Ming continued to use his low-post back-to-back attack in the first five minutes of the final quarter, and no one in the Eastern Army could resist him one-on-one, although this offensive method did not belong to the All-Star Stage performance list, but the effect was not inferior to Wu Huang's three-point shot, because they were accurate enough!
4 of 4 shots, this is Yao Ming's answer in these five minutes, he easily let his score to 36 points, which is also the highest score in the game, and according to the league's traditional tradition, the player with the highest score on the winning side will be MVP.
At 7 minutes and 25 seconds in the fourth quarter, the two teams began to use the last time to give the substitutes some show time, Yao Ming was replaced first, and the main players of each team were also sitting off the court, and the score of the two teams was stretched to 138:123 due to Yao Ming's excellent play, and the lead of the Western troops reached 15 points.
In the Western Army, Yao Ming scored a game-high 36 points and 9 rebounds, Durant 25 points and 7 rebounds, Kobe Bryant 20 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists, Paul 10 points and 13 assists, Griffin 10 points and 5 rebounds, and Westbrook 8 points and 4 assists.
For the Eastern Army: Wu Huang scored a team-high 30 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists, James 18 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, Anthony 15 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, Wade 13 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists, Howard 13 points and 10 rebounds, Rose 10 points and 5 assists, Bosh 8 points and 5 rebounds.
Wu waited until the last five minutes of the game to go up to replace DeLong and once again partner Rose in the back line. At this time, the score on the court came to 143:129, Rose scored 6 points in a row to narrow the difference, judging from the data of him and Westbrook this season, both of them have improved to varying degrees from last season, and they have just entered the ranks of superstars.
Although Wei Shao is slightly inferior to Rose in statistics this season, only averaging 22 points + 7 assists per game, this is the result of having Durant and Harden share a lot of his balls. Rose's average of 24 points + 7 assists per game is not much better than Wei Shao, and if the two are in a normal dual-core team, they should both have about 26 points + 8 assists. In addition, the teams these two are playoff powerhouses, so they are barely entering the superstar threshold.
After Wu Huang came on the court, he faced Wei Shao, but his non-defensive attitude was very easy to let himself be cleaned, but Wei Shao, who had already been a little killed, still made the old mistake, and after breaking through, he only thought about scoring, and was directly exposed by Howard's defense.
After the Eastern team got the ball, they immediately attacked quickly, and Wu Huang assisted Iguodala to stage a two-handed dunk.
During this time, Wu Huang was present at the same time as Iguodala and Gasol, which was a short performance time specially prepared for the Knicks trio.
Iguodala and Gasol had been on the court for more than three minutes, and Wu Huang knew that the two would soon be replaced, so he seized the opportunity to feed the two of them, which also indirectly helped the Eastern Army play a small advantage of 12:6 in the next two minutes, moving the difference to 141:149 in one fell swoop, and the difference returned to individual numbers.
In the last three minutes of the game, the western troops hurriedly replaced Yao Ming and others, and Anthony and others of the eastern team also returned to the court.
Wu Huang finally stopped pit Howard, at this time he also felt that he could try it, the rest of the eastern team had the same idea as him, and the game finally became fierce from the last three minutes.
Howard no longer wants the ball to attack, and the data of 7 of 24 shots made him understand for the time being, and it is better for him to return to his old job of "defense" today.
Kobe Bryant also ignored Yao Ming at this time, and the result of the two sides getting serious was that both offensive and defensive ends began to speed up, Yao Ming soon became the most embarrassing one among the ten people on the court, this kind of fast pace is his most hated style of play, but the other nine players on the court liked it very much. When there is no cooperation, it is everyone's subconscious practice to raise the speed, even Paul is no exception, he would rather dribble the ball to the front court first and wait for his teammates, rather than slowly dribble behind Yao Ming's ass.
"Huh!" Kobe Bryant turned on the individual singles mode, this ball first broke through Wade, and then a pass feint played Anthony who came to help the defense, the basketball was shot by the boss using a time difference, and a wonderful board score widened the gap to 10 points.
Wu Huang advanced faster after receiving the ball, and was more direct after hitting the frontcourt, starting with a three-point shot that chased him and forced a three-point shot on Paul, who was nearly a head shorter than him.
"The 11th three-pointer." Reggie Miller shook his head, Wu Huang is now easy to collapse opponents by shooting three-point shots, his shooting speed is faster than last season, but his shooting percentage has not decreased, now he can be one step away from the three-point line when there is a defender in front of him, and still has an amazing shooting percentage, the joke they made before also reflects his incomprehension outside the three-point line.
Kobe Bryant expressed dissatisfaction, but the boss's three-point shot was indeed not so magical, he ignored Durant, who reached out for the ball in the frontcourt, and directly made a long-range three-point shot, which was decisive.
"Kobe's shooting will always make you wonder if it's going to go in." O'Neill grinned, "But I'm not mocking him, because no matter how many people defend or how difficult the ball is, you will always think the same thing, he always gives you a 50 per cent chance of scoring." ”
Barkley secretly complained: "Are you sure this is not a mockery? ”
Kobe Bryant's shot bounced far, Yao Ming flicked the ball under the basket with his height, and Durant also relied on his height to grab the second drop point, and then retreated with the ball outside the three-point line to shoot again, this time finally returning the color for the Western Army.
"Kevin's three-pointer is not bad either." Reggie Miller nodded, and finished commenting in two sentences, but this evaluation is obviously a lot more perfunctory than when he commented on Wu Huang just now, this is not that Durant has a better attitude than he did back then, so Old Miller naturally feels that there is no need to pay too much attention.
Durant has always wanted to prove that his three-point shooting is not lost to Wu Huang, but even if he has improved his three-point shooting rate to 42% this year, in the eyes of the media and fans, his three-point level is still inferior to Wu Huang.
Wu Huang then assisted James to score a goal, and Yao Ming watched Paul and Griffin score in an aerial relay from outside the three-point line.
At this time, everyone completely forgot about Yao Ming, the highest point on the court, until the last 59 seconds of the game, when Yao Ming grabbed the rebound and hit the basket, he finally scored two more points. At this time, Durant's data is only 4 points less than him, and he only needs to shoot a three-pointer to make the MVP belong in suspense, and a one-point lead can no longer determine the ownership of the MVP.
"It's okay, there's still me!" Wu Huang completed a key steal in the last 46 seconds, and the basketball that Paul passed to Durant was cut off by him one step earlier, and then a dragon layup was made, and the difference between the two teams had unconsciously become 155:160, and the East team was only 5 points behind.
Orlando fans have begun to shout "MVP" for Wu Huang, which is a treatment that only Kobe Bryant can get in recent years, Wu Huang conquered the away fans for the first time, although this is in the All-Star game, but it is also a major breakthrough, as long as this start, he will get more away games in the future to get the cheers of the visiting fans!
Ten seconds later, Wu Huang finally began to regret his previous lack of seriousness, Paul's breakthrough point once again assisted Griffin to dunk successfully, Anthony made a cameo appearance at the No. 4 position today Although he performed well on the offensive end, he had no way to deal with Griffin on the defensive end, especially in the fourth quarter, the White Monster and Paul were successfully connected many times, and the two teamed up again to score at a critical moment to help the West stabilize the situation.
Wu Huang hit another three-pointer in the final 24 seconds, which also improved the single-game three-point shooting record in the All-Star Game to 12, which is already five goals higher than Wu Huang's previous record of seven goals before entering the league.
But even if he made so many threes today, it was still difficult to help the East win, Chris Paul ran out of game time in the next offense, and Kobe Bryant finally used a picturesque mid-range jumper to stabilize the gap at 6 points, and the remaining 8 seconds were no longer enough for the East team to complete the comeback.
With a final score of 158-164, the two teams broke the single-game scoring record in the All-Star Game again this year, but this time it was the Western Force, who had lost three years in a row, to win.
Yao Ming finally breathed a sigh of relief after the game, he was completely following both sides of the air running training in the last three minutes, during which he couldn't even touch the basketball, and his personal score stayed at 36 points, only relying on a rebound to get two points, and finally cut 38 points, 12 rebounds and 2 assists, but this data is enough for him to lock up the MVP.
Durant looked at Wu Huang, and secretly gritted his teeth in his heart, if it weren't for this bastard's steal, he wouldn't have only scored 34 points, if he and Yao Ming were only 1 point apart, then the MVP would eventually give a lot of suspense, and it was really hard to say how much advantage there was in one point, but at this moment, MVP would be awarded to the little giant.
In the West, Yao Ming scored a team-high 38 points and 12 rebounds, Durant 34 points and 10 rebounds, Kobe Bryant 27 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, Paul 12 points and 17 assists, Griffin 18 points and 7 rebounds, and Westbrook 14 points and 5 assists.
In the Eastern Army, Wu Huang scored a game-high 48 points, 6 rebounds and 10 assists, James 22 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists, Anthony 17 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists, Rose 17 points and 6 assists, Howard 15 points and 14 rebounds, Wade 14 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists.
Wu Huang immediately stepped forward to congratulate Yao Ming after the game, if nothing else, his data is enough to ensure the ownership of the MVP, 4 points is not so easy to fool the past point difference, even if the league wants Durant to get this MVP, but Yao Ming's performance today is very amazing.
But the Holy Master himself didn't know that his stats were also competitive, and he had unknowingly broken multiple records at the All-Star Game today.
Wu Huang played a total of 31 minutes today, hitting 18 of 23 shots, including 12 of 17 three-pointers, setting a record for the number of shots made in a single game in the NBA All-Star Game. Chamberlain, Michael Jordan and Kevin Garnett were tied for second place with 17 shots per game, and he didn't know he was quietly ahead of the three.
In addition to the single-game shooting record in the All-Star Game, Wu Huang also broke the single-game three-point shooting record in the All-Star Game. In fact, he has already broken this record, because the three-point shot is valued after entering the 21st century, so the previous record is relatively shabby, Wu Huang has broken the record as early as the first year, and now he has improved this record to 12, which is more than 5 records before he entered the league.
Finally, the single-game scoring record on the All-Star Game, the NBA all-time single-game scoring record is 100 points in a single game created by "Zhang Dashuai", as a man born for the record, Chamberlain also holds the NBA all-time All-Star single-game scoring record. In the 1962 All-Star Game, Chamberlain played 37 minutes and hit 17 of 23 shots and 8 of 16 free throws, scoring a total of 42 points, in addition to 24 rebounds!
Wu Huang easily broke this 50-year-old record with his amazing three-point shot today, and his shooting number was the same as that of Chamberlain back then, but the scoring efficiency was higher than Chamberlain, which is a bit scary! His record is not an ordinary weight, and he definitely qualifies as the second example of an MVP in an All-Star Game loss, and the three records he set today make him qualify.
"Damn, I've been messing around for most of the game!?" When Wu Huang knew that he also had a great chance to win the MVP, he was even shocked, because he felt that he was just playing all over the court today and using passes to pit Howard, could he get the MVP by playing like this?
But in this situation where he didn't even believe it, Emperor Wu actually heard David Sturt pronounce his name at the end, and at that time he felt a complicated gaze from Yao Ming, which meant "Fuck your uncle, didn't you say that you would help me get the MVP?" ”
Emperor Wu couldn't help but spread his hands in his heart, and secretly thought: "You guys are really waste, I can get the MVP in this crazy gangster, can you play it?" (To be continued.) )