Chapter 194: All-Star Game (I)

After a series of basketball feasts such as the Stankovic Cup Basketball Tournament and the first International Basketball Festival in Guangzhou, with the approval of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, hosted by the Chinese Basketball Association and co-organized by the Guangzhou Basketball Association, this year's CBA All-Star Weekend will be held at the Guangzhou International Sports Performing Arts Center.

For Guangdong, Gao Dazhuang is no stranger, not only because the Shanghai team has just played against two Guangdong teams in a row, but also in his college career, Gao Dazhuang once won the second place in the CUBA Southwest Division here, and entered the CUBA National Championship with this, in addition, Gao Dazhuang also met the "street ball king" for the first time here - hot sauce, in short, Guangdong left too many memories of Gao Dazhuang.

The CBA All-Star Game began in 1996 and is held annually with 24 basketball players elected by spectators and coaches to form the South Star Team and the North Star Team to compete against each other.

According to the official website of the Chinese Basketball Association, a detailed list of participants in the 2012 CBA All-Star Weekend was released.

On this list, there are three things that stand out the most:

First, he was tall and strong and was elected an All-Star as the "vote king" in the "rookie" season.

In the final voting statistics, the guard of the Shanghai team, Gao Dazhuang, became the all-star vote king with a strong advantage of four rounds of voting and three rounds.

With the amazing performance of the World Youth Championships, Gao Dazhuang has captured the hearts of most domestic fans, and it is not surprising that Gao Dazhuang with the glory of the World Youth Championships was elected as the vote king, and in the recent CBA League, Gao Dazhuang also played a good personal data.

For Gao Dazhuang, this is his era, CBA All-Star Ticket King is the best interpretation, of course, this is just the beginning, Gao Dazhuang now wants to lead the Shanghai team to the playoffs.

The second is the absence due to personal reasons. Voted by fans as the starting center of the North Side Stars, if he can participate, it will be his 15th appearance in the All-Star Game, and the league sponsors have also made a meaningful shirt for him: the Arabic numeral 15 is embroidered on the shoulder side, however, ** recently asked the Chinese Basketball Association for leave on the grounds of personal affairs, and was approved by the Basketball Association.

Third, Wang Zhizhi and Marbury will serve as coaches of the South and North Star Rui teams respectively.

After captain Liu Wei decided not to attend the CBA All-Star Weekend due to injury, Gao Dazhuang left Zhang Zhaoxu, another All-Star player of the Shanghai team, and arrived in Guangzhou alone.

Because Gao Dazhuang was going to attend a "party", the venue of this gathering was the home of Wang Huaiyu, the head coach of the national youth team and the Guangdong youth team.

Because in addition to the all-stars selected by fans and coaches, the players who participated in the CBA All-Star Weekend also participated in the Star Ray Game, and this All-Star Weekend Star Ray Game can be said to have been almost captured by the national youth team that won the miracle championship in the World Youth Championships.

In addition to Gao Dazhuang participating in the All-Star Game, Guo Allen, Luo Hanchen, Wang Zirui, Wang Zhelin, Zhai Xiaochuan, and Li Muhao of the national youth team were all selected for the North and South Star Rui team, so they all gathered in Guangdong.

So everyone gathered at Coach Wang Huaiyu's house, which was the second gathering of the "champion" team after the World Youth Championships.

Seeing each other again, Gao Dazhuang found that everyone had more or less changed, especially after the baptism of the World Youth Championships, most of them occupied an important position in their respective teams.

"This first cup is to first respect our coach, the clever Coach Wang" The outgoing Zhai Xiaochuan became the host.

"Oh"

"This second cup is to honor our vice captain, bold and brave tall and strong, tsk, all-star also" Zhai Xiaochuan turned the "spearhead" to tall and strong.

"Da Zhuang, it's still you bull, we're all still fighting for the main position, you're already an All-Star, oh my God, the gap is too big"

"That's it, but at the All-Star Game, you can't fall into the glory of our national youth team, haha"

"I have absolute confidence in Da Zhuang"

"Coach, what do you think?"

"I have faith in each and every one of you"

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On the second day, at the Guangzhou Performing Arts Center Gymnasium, the breath of youth came to the face.

As the opening drama of this year's CBA All-Star Weekend, the Star Rui Game was the first to be staged.

The players in the Star Ray Tournament are all rising star players who have been in the league for less than three years, and they are selected through voting and divided into two regions, the north and the south.

For these fledgling boys, the Star Race is the best stage to show their talents.

In last year's competition, Guo Allen made everyone else a "background" with his superb performance.

And this year, as the captain of the "Golden Generation" national youth team, Guo Allen's edge has been reined.

Especially in the first half, coach Marbury controlled his playing time, and Wang Zhelin of the southern team scored 16 points in the first half and stole his play.

Before the game, there was speculation that Marbury would "take care" of his little brother Zhai Xiaochuan of the Beijing team and let the latter get more opportunities to perform, but considering that he also had to preserve the strength of the Beijing team in the playoffs, Marbury did not "reuse" Zhai Xiaochuan.

At critical moments, he still called Guo Allen to the sidelines alone many times to teach the opportunity, and the latter did not live up to the trust of the old horse, revitalized the offense of the North District team with flexible breakthroughs, and at the same time staged wonderful "one-stop" layups many times.

In the end, Marbury's northern team defeated the southern team led by Wang Zhizhi 105-88.

And Guo Allen, who shined in the Xingrui competition last year, is still the protagonist this year, he scored a game-high 30 points and won the MVP of the Xingrui competition.

Wang Zhelin of the southern team also scored 28 points in the whole game, but he stole a lot of limelight from Guo Allen.

And the tall and strong who has been sitting on the sidelines and cheering for his national youth teammates has unexpectedly become the focus of media capture.

Allen Guo's performance is not over yet.

After the Xingrui competition, the preliminaries of the individual competition were held, and Guo Allen, who temporarily played in place of foreign aid Douglas, won the first place in the preliminaries and teamed up with Zeng Lingxu to enter the finals of the skills competition.

In the three-point preliminaries, Brooks, the super foreign aid of the Guangdong team, only scored 15 points and was eliminated. Zhu Yanxi, Sun Jie and Hudson reached the final.

The most anticipated player in the slam dunk competition is undoubtedly Zhai Xiaochuan of the national youth team, who won the unanimous perfect score of 5 judges with a perfect dunk and advanced to the finals without any suspense.

The competition for the main event of the All-Star Game on the second day was also launched at the Guangzhou International Sports Performing Arts Center.

This year marks the 18th All-Star Game in CBA history, and all 10 starters were voted for by fans.

However, because JR Smith returned to the United States after the regular season, his starting position was replaced by Rockets veteran Brooks; In addition, Han Dejun replaced ** who did not come to Guangzhou for personal reasons.

The final line-up of both sides is:

Northern Stars starters: Han Dejun, Li Xiaoxu, Yang Ming (Liaoning), Zhang Nan (Tianjin), Marbury (Beijing)

Subs: Zhong Cheng (Jilin), Ji Zhe (Beijing), Li Gen, Hudson (Qingdao), Lu Xiaoming, Charles (Shanxi), Wu Ke (Shandong).

Southern Stars starters: Wang Zhizhi (Bayi), Zhu Fangyu, Brooks (Guangdong), Ding Jinhui (Zhejiang), Gao Dazhuang (Shanghai)

Subs: Wang Shipeng (Guangdong), Zhang Zhaoxu (Shanghai), Zhang Kai (Dongguan), Yi Li (Jiangsu), Zhao Tailong, Abbas, McDonald (Fujian)

Although before coming to Guangzhou, the head coach of the Shanghai team, Panagio, euphemistically revealed the idea of being tall and strong, Gao Dazhuang, who participated in the All-Star Game for the first time, was still excited in his heart, especially in the cheers of a group of national youth teammates.

At the beginning of the first quarter, Tall and Strong's consecutive breakthroughs scored six points in a row for the Southern Stars, and after Marbury scored four points in a row, Tall and Strong scored again.

As soon as he opened the game, he was tall and strong, and he scored the first 9 points of the Southern Stars.

However, the Northern Stars immediately launched a counterattack, Yang Ming and Zhang Nan each hit three points, and then Han Dejun scored with a one-handed dunk.

At the end of the first quarter, the Northern Stars instead led the Southern Stars by one point at 32-31.

At the beginning of the second quarter, after Gao Dazhuang went off the court, the Southern team's foreign aid McDonald scored 8 points in a row, and then Lu Xiaoming counterattacked with a back pass, Charles scored with a one-handed dunk, and the Southern Stars overtook the score 44-42.

After Zhao Tailong hit a three-pointer, Charles played another dunk, Abbas scored on a fast-break dunk, and then the Northern Stars relied on the fast-break to score six points in a row......

At the end of the first half, the Southern Stars led the Northern Stars 62-54.

The All-Star Weekend singles final was played at halftime.