Chapter 914: A Grand Slam on the All-Star
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This year's slam dunk contest is a typical spring man battle, since Carter and Maddie and Kobe Bryant and others withdrew from the slam dunk contest, now the league's slam dunk contest is no longer about showing off skills, but about showing creativity.
It doesn't matter whether these players have poor dunk skills, or the slam dunk contest has really slowly made people aesthetically fatigued, no matter what, the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest are completely different games, on the stage of the dunk contest, players only need to show their talents wantonly, and then let everyone on the scene worship his talents.
In other words, the most important thing for these slam dunk contest participants is to get everyone high, and it doesn't matter what method is used.
And in this slam dunk contest, the two finalists, whether it is Josh Smith or Stoudemire of the Wizards, have done this, but compared to Stoudemire, Josh Smith is more skillful while making everyone high.
Or although he is also a spring man, but he does more than just act like a spring man, whether it is the first dunk in the finals, he wore Kobe's No. 8 team tribute to Kobe's crotch change dunk in 1997 or the second dunk in the finals The 360-degree windmill dunk in the air is full of strong skills in addition to taking off.
So the Lakers' rookie also became the third player in NBA history to win the dunk title in his rookie season, and also the third player in high school rookie to win the dunk contest, before Josh Smith. The other two high school rookie slam dunk contest winners were Kobe Bryant, who was paid tribute to by Josh Smith in 1997. and last year's LeBron James.
After Josh Smith won the slam dunk contest. The Lakers also won all the trick games, Paul's trick challenge, Szzczebiak's three-point contest, and Josh Smith's dunk contest.
If you count the Lakers' two-time consecutive shooting star game and the MVP of the previous All-Star Rookie Challenge, the Lakers' All-Star this year actually won all the awards once, and the only remaining award in the end is probably the MVP of the All-Star Game that has not yet started.
It's just that for Lakers players, even if they win this award in the main game, it is not amazing, after all, before the start of the All-Star, this year's Western head coach George Carr said that he is looking forward to what kind of sparks the Lakers players will have in the All-Star.
The meaning of this is clear. On the Western side this year, whether he suppresses his opponent or really wants to watch the Lakers' performance, the protagonist of this year's All-Star Game will be the hottest team in the league at the moment.
On February 20, 2005, the NBA All-Star Game began, and when the All-Star Game began, the Pepsi Center in Denver was already full.
And at this time, for Denver fans, they are probably one of the few people in the world who do not want the Lakers to play the leading role on their own turf, after all, as the host this year, they want their star Arenas to perform better in this game.
And Arenas also has the ability to be the protagonist today, so when Arenas appears, even if he only comes off the bench. But the Western Conference backup guard also received the biggest applause in the audience.
On the other hand, when the Lakers' four starters came out, there was a huge boo in the stands at the Pepsi Center in Denver. If people who don't know the truth will think that this is an All-Star game in the East.
For Nuggets fans, they booed the Lakers on their home court, and they also made it clear that they wanted to support their star Arenas, just like George Karl said that this year's All-Star Lakers are the protagonists, at the same time that George Carl said this, Arenas, who was also interviewed by the media, said that his only goal in this game was MVP, and Kobe Bryant, who was on the other side, said that this year's All-Star MVP would appear among the Lakers players.
It can be said that before the start of the game, there was a smoke of gunpowder inside the Western All-Stars, and this internal smoke also made many people worry about whether the Western Conference will continue to lose this year, after all, it is difficult for such a team to beat each other in a real All-Star.
Especially after O'Neill's journey to the east and the rise of Yao Ming, the west has no internal advantage over the east, and the west has always been inferior to the east in the outside competition, so before the start of the game, many people are not optimistic that the team led by George Carl can beat the team led by Carlisle.
"Coach, Arenas was so unique in this game, he didn't work well with the team, but the fans were crazy"
This All-Star game has nothing to do with Zhuang Fei, the head coach standing on the side of the court is not him, so Zhuang Fei is just a spectator in this game, and at this time, the other players of the Lakers who participated in the All-Star have been sitting beside him, and at this time Paul also looked at the game on the court with some envy and said.
For him, it is indeed a great regret that he was not selected for the All-Star Game in January this year, but although his performance this season is very good, it is true that he did not meet the criteria for being selected as an All-Star.
"I think you'll have a chance next year" After glancing at Paul on the side, Zhuang Fei also said with a slight smile, and at this time, Paul, who heard Zhuang Fei's encouragement, also nodded confidently, he never doubted his ability.
For Zhuang Fei personally, he is more optimistic about the Western All-Stars, although in the eyes of many expert media, the Eastern All-Stars seem to have an advantage both inside and outside.
But there is no doubt that if the West is more reasonable than the rationality of the lineup, after all, the West has almost all aspects of expertise, especially Garnett and Duncan and Webb's three interior lines are more reasonable than the so-called O'Neal and Yao Ming, I don't know how many times.
All four of the league's big forwards are capable of playing at extremely high speeds, although Nowitzki, another of the league's top four, has not arrived.
But with Garnett, Duncan and Webber is enough, the West really wants to run, and the so-called interior advantages in the East are all floating clouds, and more importantly, George Carr is a head coach who is extremely good at playing athletic talent, ah for him personally, the Western All-Star These players can simply play all his basketball ideas, so for this team, Yao Ming and O'Neal are floating clouds.
It's just that for George Carr, his only concern is probably how to figure out the relationship between Arenas and Kobe Bryant on the court, these two people are obviously competing on the court, so although West seems to be playing well in this game, he is also taking the initiative in the situation.
But what is surprising is that the West is not much ahead, this team has not shown the team's full ability because of Kobe Bryant and Arenas's lack of cooperation, but even so, Zhuang Fei in the stands was also surprised to see the Western All-Star style of play on the court.
"These veteran coaches in the league really all have a brush" Zhuang Fei looked at the defense on the court that almost scattered the Eastern All-Star team, and then looked at the old coach standing on the side of the team, and sighed with some emotion.
Many people in the league now say that Zhuang Fei's mobile basketball attainments are the highest, and Zhuang Fei himself does not deny this point, but Zhuang Fei knows that his mobile basketball attainments are more in skills, and if the real pure comparison is the pure talent of the player's talent in the mobile basketball, the current George Carl is definitely stronger.
Although the veteran coach didn't have too much run-in with the team in this game, the team didn't seem to play his maximum tactical energy, but Zhuang Fei can also see a lot of things from the team's stormy attack.
George Karl did not break his promise in this All-Star game, although Garnett and Duncan took on a lot of tasks in the early stages of the game because of the team's momentum, and after the second half, the Western All-Stars, who had mastered the general trend on the court, quickly handed the team into the hands of the Lakers.
Of course, there was also a Arenas who fought with Kobe Bryant in the first half, and when Arenas and Kobe Bryant appeared on the court at the same time in the second half, the two did not have the same crazy competition as in the first half about who shot the most and who scored the most.
Because now George Carr seems to have borrowed from Zhuang Fei's approach, giving the ball on the court to Hill and Hardaway, and Kobe Bryant and Arenas are pure attackers, and this adjustment seems to have worked wonders, the Western All-Stars, who were scoreless in the first half, suddenly increased their offensive efficiency in the second half, and the scores between the two sides were slowly pulled away.
And when the game ended, the final score between the two sides reached an astonishing 136-122, and the Western All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars at home in Denver.
"If no one watching the game sees this score, they must be wondering if the All-Star Game is back in the era of performance, this score is too high, but this game is really exciting" Zhuang Fei in the stands said with some unfinished thoughts after watching this game, and at this time Zhuang Fei could obviously feel that Carlisle was a little frustrated, in the competition with the old-timers, he was completely defeated, and the whole game was mastered by George Carr.
And at the award ceremony after this game, David Stern sent the All-Star MVP trophy to Kobe, who scored the most 38 points in this game, and when Kobe Bryant won the MVP, it also represented the Los Angeles Lakers' 2005 NBA All-Star package.
It's just surprising that although the Lakers won all the individual honors of the All-Star, by the next day, the media in the United States was not full of news about the Lakers players in the All-Star, but another news occupied the same page as the All-Star.
The Boston Celtics launched a big multi-party trade. (To be continued.) )