Chapter 285 All-Star Game
The All-Star break has finally begun, and the Eastern Conference All-Star starting lineup is center Ben Wallace, power forward Jermaine O'Neal, small forward Osborne, scoring guard Tracy McGrady, point guard Allen Iverson, and the head coach is Pistons head coach Larry Brown.
The bench lineup is: Vince Carter, Jamal Margroyle, Kenyon Martin, Paul Pearce, Byron Davis, Jason Kidd, Michael Reed.
The Western Conference All-Star starting lineup is center Da Yao, power forward Tim Duncan, small forward Kevin Garnett, scoring guard Kobe Bryant, and point guard Steve Francis. The head coach is Phil Jackson.
Subs: Shaquill, Ray Allen, Brad Miller, Pejastojakovic, Samkassel, Dirk Nowitzki, Andrei Kirilenko.
Da Yao was unexpectedly appointed to the Western All-Star starting lineup, and Shaquwich O'Neal was unexpectedly squeezed out of the All-Star starting lineup, which is really ironic, which fully shows that the selection of All-Stars is not based on strength but on popularity.
But it doesn't affect anything, the MVP of this year's All-Star Game seems to have been won by the angry shark O'Neal.
Before the main game, there is an All-Star player entrance ceremony, which can reflect the popularity of the stars, and Kobe Bryant is also very popular after the All-Star game in the West, but it is not as popular as Shaquill's O'Neal, because O'Neal is a big treasure in the All-Star Game, and there is joy with him.
There are a lot of screams in the Eastern All-Stars, after all, the four most popular quarterbacks, North Carolina South McSico, and three of them are in the East, and at this time Iverson and Vince Carter are the most popular, and Osborne's appearance also has a lot of screams, which is a huge honor for Osborn, who landed in the All-Star Game for the first time.
After all the All-Star starters have played, the game will officially begin, by the Eastern All-Star starting center Ben Wallace and the Western All-Star starting center Da Yao for the jump ball, there is no doubt that Ben Wallace won the jump ball, Osborne directly grabbed the basketball, and then regardless of whether there was defense around him took the opportunity to lose a standard three-point shot, and then this three-point shot was easily hit, which was a good omen for the All-Star game, and also opened the first three-point for the Eastern All-Star team.
Osborne's three-point shot surprised everyone, they didn't expect Osborne to bring the habit of the All-Star Rookie Challenge to the All-Star Game, and also regarded it as a crazy three-point shooting at the three-point contest scene, and he still didn't shoot three-pointers.
But everyone didn't care about Osborne's three-point shot, they all knew that Osborne had a disease that would die if he didn't shoot a three-pointer, and this disease had to be cured by shooting a three-pointer desperately.
And the All-Stars on the Western side are also in color, Francis controls the ball and throws the ball directly, and then turns around to prepare for defense, the Western All-Star lineup is obviously invincible on the inside, so you only need to throw the basketball to the inside at the appropriate height, then Da Yao, Kevin Garnett, and Tim Duncan will complete the offense.
Sure enough, Da Yao jumped up directly and received the basketball is a dunk, this situation can't help but remind people of the rookie challenge that ended not long ago, at that time it was also Osborne's crazy three-point shooting, and Da Yao attacked the inside, but unfortunately Osborne's three-point shot broke everything. In the three-point competition, Osborne's three-point shot was easily won with a super high skill of 100 shots.
And will there be such a scenario at the All-Star Game now? The answer is yes, the collision of traditional basketball and modern basketball, I don't know what kind of basketball will win.
Osborne saw that the Western All-Stars really still had to play inside offense, because their interior was not something that the Eastern All-Stars could resist at all.
And the Eastern All-Stars don't have an advantage on the outside, but they must blow up the outside of the Western All-Stars, otherwise the Eastern All-Stars have no chance of winning.
These Eastern All-Star players also know, and Larry Brown knows how to win against the West Army, although the All-Star Game is friendship first, the game is second, but it can't always be that the West Team wins, in the last few All-Star games, the East Team has won less and lost more.
Osborne is just a rookie here, not having any prestige at all, and the short man who doesn't admit defeat, Allen Iverson, is also directly ready to perform on his own, he directly passes Steve Francis and then plays Kobe Bryant, a standard step-back jumper to throw the ball in.
Iverson played two Western All-Star players in a row by himself, which made Osborne very excited, and he also wanted to make such an easy breakthrough, and then cut points on those superstars, this time it was the capital that he praised all his life.
Kobe Bryant saw that the smart little man was showing off in front of him again, and his desire to win was even stronger, because he was also 96 in the same session, Iverson was more eye-catching than him as soon as he entered the league, and in the following years, Iverson was even more prosperous, and directly won the most enviable regular season MVP, although he himself won the championship, but the finals MVP, which symbolizes the highest honor, is always won by the equally flexible dead fat man, and the FMVP in the three consecutive championships was won by his teammates, Especially when he won the championship in the final year, his stats were not much different from O'Neal's, but those so-called garbage experts gave O'Neal that damn award again, which is really unbearable.
These glory Kobe Bryant needs it very much, he needs to prove that he is not someone else's vassal, he needs to prove that he is no worse than that little man Zhuangyuan Xiu, he needs to prove that he can win the championship even without that dead fat man.
So Kobe Bryant got the ball directly and was ready to make a shot that he was most familiar with, but because his shot was too irregular, the basketball shot to the basket and jumped a few times and came out, and was taken by the stupid people on the side, he doesn't like to attack very much. So he passed the ball to the angry Kobe Bryant, Kobe Bryant didn't waste this time, after all, there are not many opportunities to shoot in the All-Star Game, because everyone is an ace, and no one can monopolize the power.
Kobe Bryant took the ball and directly accelerated past Maddie with a lightning bolt, and went directly to the inside, and then he came directly to a whirlwind dunk when no one was guarded.
In this way, Kobe's self-esteem was finally greatly satisfied, and the offense was hot at the beginning of the All-Star Game, not like an exhibition game at all, but more like a regular game, after all, the game with Kobe Bryant will become intense, because he is the kind of real paranoia.
So at the beginning of the first quarter of the game, the score reached a frantic 49:46 The Western All-Stars led the Eastern All-Stars by a narrow three-point margin.
Among them, Da Yao only played for four minutes before going off the pitch and gave up all the performance time to O'Neal, because he also knew how his All-Star starter came about, and he also thought that he had no way to compete with O'Neal now, so the All-Star starter should be O'Neal's. (To be continued.) )