Chapter 445: Suppression of Strength
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This year's All-Star was held in Philadelphia, and although the city has always been known for all kinds of violence in the United States and around the world, this year's All-Star was hosted quite well, except for the Rookie Challenge on the first day of All-Star Weekend, and the fans here were also extremely enthusiastic in the following days of All-Star events.
It can be said that the 76ers have done a very good job of running this place in recent years, and it is no wonder that the attendance of the 76ers has been at the forefront of the league in recent years, and today's All-Star Game was held at the 76ers' home stadium at the American League Arena, and the arena was already full two hours before the start of the game, which was more than an hour earlier than the start of the All-Star mat show. This can also be seen in the madness of these fans. They've been looking forward to today's game for a long time, especially since the Rookie Challenge and Three-Point Contest have created too many legends in the first two days.
In the locker room of the All-Star Eastern team, in the previous games, this locker room was the home locker room of the 76ers, Zhuang Fei was also smiling at this time looking at these Eastern All-Star players who were funny to each other in the locker room, the atmosphere in the locker room at this time was very relaxed, in fact, these people were already like this when Zhuang Fei finished arranging the tactics, although some of them such as Jordan, Carter and Maddy and Iverson and others were going to the MVP, but in the locker room, these people are still very harmonious, This is also because there is no No. 1 person like Pierce in the Eastern Conference All-Star to blow up the atmosphere.
Of course, now these eastern players are very relaxed, and Zhuang Fei is also extremely relaxed. Zhuang Fei still remembers his nervous look at the All-Star Game two years ago. At that time, I was excited and overwhelmed when I saw all the characters in front of me, but this time Zhuang didn't have the mood of that time, although at the pre-game press conference not long ago, the head coach of the Western All-Stars, Van Gundy, was extremely arrogant to beat Zhuang Fei. But this didn't bother Zhuang Fei too much.
"Alright, it's almost time, it's time for us to go"
Just when Zhuang Fei's thoughts were flying all over the sky. The door of the eastern locker room was pushed open, and Zhuang Fei saw the staff who came in and knew that it was time to leave.
And when Zhuang Fei said the previous sentence, all the eastern all-stars on the scene also put away the funny just now, but like Zhuang Fei, they followed the all-star staff out of the locker room after a while.
This All-Star appearance ceremony is very interesting, as the Eastern defender of this home game, Iverson did not appear in the penultimate finale, or even in the penultimate appearance, in the All-Star appearance ceremony is generally the more senior or popular players are the finale, if there are players in the home team in the lineup, the home team players are generally the finale. But this time the finale in the East is the great god Jordan, and the little god Carter who played before the great god Jordan has robbed Iverson of the position. Iverson, on the other hand, was the first to play.
So the fans at the scene gave Iverson a huge round of applause in some surprise. Whoever came out on the field was greeted with huge boos, even Jordan. This also made Zhuang Fei, who was watching from the side, smile and shake his head, and the Eastern All-Stars on the field also looked a little embarrassed, and they didn't know that they thought it was an away game.
"I hope they won't be stingy with their applause after the start of this game," Zhuang Fei finally glanced at the surrounding stands and said with a smile, while Stephen Green on the side also smiled and nodded, after all, this is an entertaining and enjoyable game. …,
Although this time the fans of the scene because of the league' Treat their leading players and don't give the Eastern All-Stars face, but the Western All-Stars who played before are worse than the East, especially interesting is that when the host introduced the head coach of the Western All-Stars as Van Gundy, all the fans in the audience actually shouted the names of Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson, Phil Jackson's team is the first in the West this year, because the All-Star coach can't coach continuously and finally gave this position to Van Gundy, and Zhuang Fei, everyone knows what the relationship between Van Gundy and Zhuang Fei is, it can be said that the Western head coach has been bruised from the beginning。
"Jeff, congratulations on becoming the head coach of the Western All-Stars, I hope you can enjoy this game," Zhuang Fei said with a smile as Kan Ze said with a half-bald coach in front of him.
And the western coach did not look better because of Zhuang Fei's overtures, but the anger in the coach's eyes after seeing Zhuang Fei was a lot worse, it can be said that this was an all-star trip that he was looking forward to very much, but in the end it became an all-star trip that was sinned and ridiculed everywhere, this feeling is too annoying for this famous coach, and the person who gave him these hated feelings is the Chinese in front of him.
"I'm going to enjoy this game, I hope you do the same, Mr. Zhuang" Van Gundy stared at Zhuang Fei with stunned eyes and said viciously, he didn't have too many adverse reactions to Van Gundy's straightforward words, but smiled at Van Gundy, and then turned around and left.
Zhuang Fei's reaction seemed to Van Gundy to be a complete contempt for him, so after Zhuang Fei turned to leave, the young Western Conference All-Star coach's hands were pinched and exposed, and the anger in his eyes seemed to be able to erupt and devour people.
"I'm going to beat you in this game," Van Gundy said, suppressing his anger and twitching at the corners of his mouth. It's just that Zhuang Feibin didn't hear his oath clearly at this time
"Coach, Van Gundy is so shameless, he can do this, or we will rotate the squad in advance"
Stephen Green stared at the players in the East and West games on the court, then turned around and said to Zhuang Fei with some anger, less than 1 minute into the game, the head coach of the Western All-Stars replaced Wang Zhizhi and Kobe Bryant among the Western players, and then replaced the Lakers' Ao Fat and the supersonic Payton, and immediately the Western All-Star lineup became Ao Fat, Duncan, and Garnett. Pierce and Peyton. And the eastern side has always been a lineup of Yao Ming, Maddy, and Carter. Iverson and Jordan, the other side is a complete big man lineup, and it is extremely reasonable to have both inside and out. However, Zhuang Fei's side is an extremely unreasonable small lineup, and it is obvious that Yao Ming's speed cannot keep up with the rhythm of the four people outside, which also makes the east completely unable to give full play to the advantages of the small lineup, but is at a loss for being dragged down.
In fact, after the first two All-Star games were played by Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson, the league deliberately formulated a player rotation schedule, such as the first six minutes of the game, the first six minutes of the game, then the bench lineup, and then eight minutes after the second quarter, and then the third quarter is also a copy of the first quarter of the rotation. The fourth quarter is left to the coach to play at will, which is also to prevent Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson from using only a few players and other All-Star decorations in the future, but it is obvious. Even with such a rule. In the end, he was abandoned by Van Gundy, who was pursuing victory, and this guy directly violated the rules set by 'godfather' David Stern.
"There's no rush. Wait a little longer," Zhuang Fei said with a sigh after looking at the Eastern All-Star players on the court. At this time, the east of the court was indeed suppressed by the west, but it was not suitable for lineup adjustments at this time, Zhuang Fei still needed to take into account the feelings of the players on the court and the feelings of David Steh in the stands. And more importantly, if you fall behind by a large score in the first quarter because of rotation, you can also transfer the lineup at will in the later games, and no one will have anything to say at that time. …,
"It seems that this guy is really going to do anything to win," Zhuang Fei said with a smile as he looked at Van Gundy, who was standing on the side of the court. It looks like the All-Stars will still have a real fight this time.
"Vince, put the pace of the game down, don't ask for it fast"
Although Zhuang Fei is not ready to make lineup adjustments in the first few minutes, it does not mean that he will always stand without doing anything off the field, the east of the field is very chaotic, because of Yao Ming, the whole team is not in a rhythm, and in the end Carter is neither fast nor slow, but in the end he is completely overwhelmed, and the other party is taking advantage of the chaos in the east at this time to play vigorously, after Zhuang Fei's instructions are arranged, although the east is still the suppressed side, but it has also stabilized the scene.
Although Yao Ming was very tired in the last rookie challenge, there was no problem in the first few minutes of this game, and Carter also had an advantage in facing Payton in the No. 1 position, and even Zhuang Fei saw Jordan facing Garnett in the No. 3 position off the court, although the god was always bullied by small players like flying squirrels before, but it seems to be a very good set to play big players, but Maddie, who was pushed to the fourth position, and Iverson, who was put in the second position, didn't know how to attack, especially Iverson, It is difficult to shoot in the face of the tall Pierce on the outside, but in the face of the opponent's inside Ao Fat and Duncan, and even Garnett on the side, whoever kills under the basket in this situation is looking for death, at this time even the Eastern center Yao Ming has been forced above the free throw line to approach the three-point line.
"Coach, this lineup of theirs is really rebellious"
After watching the game for half a quarter, Stephen Green said to Zhuang Fei with some trepidation, when such a lineup plays seriously, it can shock all the players. Zhuang Fei on the side also nodded after listening to Green's exclamation, this lineup is not only strong, but more importantly, the configuration of each other does not conflict, it can be said that it can achieve a perfect seamless connection.
"It seems that this game is not easy," Zhuang Fei finally shook his head and said
"Hmph, you still want to block me with such a body?"
Ao Fat directly leaned against Mourning after receiving Duncan's high position at the free throw line, and then turned around and pushed Mourning away directly and then completed the dunk with a two-handed dunk, since this Ao Fat strengthened his ball-holding offense on the offensive end, this big man is completely puzzled by basically all coaches in the league, especially when it comes to one-on-one, the big man can play how he wants, and Mourning is now one of the best defensive center players in the league. But the best interior defensive player in the East basically felt like he didn't exist when he faced Fat one-on-one.
In this case, Zhuang Fei is also very helpless off the court, and there is really no way to defend against a team like Ao Fat on the All-Star and his invincible lethality. Unless all the Eastern All-Stars are cowering under the basket, it is also quite dangerous if there are players like Pierce and Szzerbiak on the other side in the East.
"In terms of the absolute strength of the players, the East is indeed far behind the West," Zhuang Fei also sighed, and when he glanced at the Eastern All-Star bench, he finally found that there was really no player who could take on the responsibility of saving the team.
Fortunately, in this game, although there is no way for the East to take the West, but the basket in the East is not bad, and the East still relies on shooting to barely maintain the score in the case of no way to enter the opponent's penalty area, and at the end of the half, it was also 48-60 behind by 12 points, which is not an irrecoverable point difference.
"Now Coach Z is under a lot of pressure, this year the east is basically completely suppressed by the west, this gap in strength is a huge gap, I'm afraid Coach Z can't fill such a gap"
At halftime, Magic Johnson, who was the special commentator for the ABC All-Stars, was also extremely worried, and the other guests on his side also agreed, in their opinion, the All-Star Z coach looked like he was going to pay for his first defeat.
"However, the seriousness of this game in the West is extremely surprising, whether it is Van Gundy or O'Neal, or even Duncan and Pierce, they did not treat this game as an All-Star game, but as a playoff game, just hope that Coach Z's team will not be beaten in the second half."
In the end, these commentators also said with some sympathy for Zhuang Fei.
At the beginning of the second half of this game, Van Gundy, who was the first to come out of the locker room, seemed to have a winner's smile, and when Zhuang Fei came out with the Eastern All-Stars, there was no look of frustration on the faces of these people.
Even when the third game began, everyone was stunned and speechless when they saw the players of the West in the second half.