Chapter 303: All Stars (Part II)
After the start of the second half, the players of both teams became a little more serious, and the key was reflected in the strength of the defense, especially the defense of the ball carrier.
The head coaches of both teams changed each other's starters after the start of the second half, and on the Eastern side, Wade and James were the players who occupied the most possession, and they were also the two players who broke through the most in the Eastern side, with one scoring 12 points and one scoring 11 points in the first half.
Wade hasn't lost his lightning speed for 10 years, but after a serious injury, the speed of his movements is obviously not as amazing as when he first entered the league. Even so, his huge forward change of direction is still one of the NBA's famous killers, and Wade smiled at Nash's defense.
"Ah~~", he stepped on a violent friction sound and flashed into the inner line.
Yao Ming watched Wade come at full speed, he was already a beat slower, but this time his body flashed, and he was entangled with Howard, watching Wade successfully split with one hand.
The Eastern Conference All-Star opened the scoring in the second half, and Wade's personal scoring rose to 14 points.
According to reason, Wade is a strong eater, different from Zheng Ke's back push, relying on explosive power and unreasonable first steps, instantly changing direction and flashing through the opponent's defense, even if he knows that he is going to change direction, he is going to break through, but due to physical fitness, he still can't stop.
Zheng Ke sometimes likes to use similar tricks to rush forward.
For example, during the alignment with James, Zheng Ke's wrist trembled. The basketball flew around his body like a butterfly, and while shaking his shoulders, he quickly stepped out of his left or right foot to force a breakthrough.
"Good shot!"
I saw Zheng Ke pass James in one step. The players on the Western Conference All-Star bench applauded.
Zheng Ke cut into the inside line from the left side at 45 degrees, and the terrain was also like thunder, fast as lightning. Like a white bolt of lightning, he finished the frame with both hands. People couldn't see how he killed the inside line, they only felt that their eyes blinked, and then they heard a "boom", and Zheng Ke was already hanging on the basket
People love to watch the All-Star Game. Enjoy seeing the many unique performances of the all-stars. For example, after James slipped the bottom line, he dodged the reverse big pull-up dunk completed by Xiao Si in the air; For example, Paul dribbles under his crotch in succession and turns his head west. The ball is passed to the east, and the big pass that does not look at the person hitting the ground; For example, Pierce's signature step-back jumper near the free-throw line area; For example, Anthony shook his head for a while, and after testing N steps, he still never got tired of shooting on dry land
It all makes up the melody of the All-Star Game. The atmosphere of the scene is also in the hard work of these players. It became more and more enthusiastic.
The overall feel of the Western troops was a little poor, but Zheng Ke's hand was very good, and after the start of the second half, he had already put in two three-pointers by himself.
With two minutes left in the third quarter, the Western Army trailed the Eastern Conference All-Stars by four points, 95-99. And 10 seconds later, James assisted Howard on a dunk to break through the Eastern team's score to 101 points, taking the lead to triple digits.
Then he replaced DeLong on the field. Durant made a long-range missile, and the half-court distance and Durant completed an air relay.
Durant is obviously the first All-Star game. But his performance was quite eye-catching, and this was the first time he served as a bench since entering the NBA. He did dare to shoot, in front of a lot of big names, he shot very confidently, and he shot 1 of 2 from beyond the three-point line, and has scored 11 points so far. He and Delon work very well together, and three of Delon's five assists were given to Durant.
Some people are born into this kind of stage. In this regard, the swingman who controls the ball and does not need to pass the ball is very advantageous, grabbing the rebound without passing, and receiving the pass directly to shoot or attack the basket. A center forward like Yao Ming suffers a little, no one passes the ball to him, and his performance can only be like that.
In the final quarter of the game, the two sides finally did it with real guns, and Billups hit an ultra-long-range three-pointer at the beginning of the fourth quarter, helping the West team to overtake the East team by 1 point.
In the East Army, Ross forced an overtake, broke through DeLong and rushed into the inside, played a beautiful big pull in front of Gasol, just dodged Gasol's block, and with the strong strength of his waist and abdominal muscles, he lightly tossed the ball near the basket before falling, and fell into the net after hitting the board.
Rose's big lever immediately won the applause of the whole house, and he was a little proud after he finished, with a rare smile on his face.
Coming back, Billups hit another three-pointer. The players of the Eastern team looked stunned and felt that Billups was feeling a little hot.
Zheng Ke off the field was excited, waving a towel again and again.
"The rhythm of the blossoming of the old tree! Chaunse, cast a few more, and kill him. Break a record, and the All-Star MVP will be in hand! ”
Billups didn't hear Zheng's words, but he did shoot consecutive three-pointers from the outside. Although the eastern troops have always scored points, but in the past few minutes, the western troops have led the eastern troops by about 7 points, which made the audience cheer.
The crowd was hoping that the MVP trophy would be won by Nowitzki, and that was only if the West Army was allowed to win.
The scorching score made the atmosphere even more intense, and it didn't take long for Zheng Ke and others to be replaced on the court, and Billups chose to take a break after missing a three-pointer for the second time in a row, ending his somewhat crazy All-Star journey in the last moments. The game has officially entered the Armageddon stage.
As with all famous campaigns, you always need a hero-like character to render the global match.
Zheng Ke and Nowitzki are the most heroic figures. Whitman's side respects public opinion, and in the lineup at the last moment, Nowitzki and Anthony are on the court, plus Paul, Xiao Si and Zheng Ke, almost an all-attacking lineup. To the east are Rondo, Wade. A lineup of James, Bosh and Howard.
The players on both teams are young Mesozoic players and are very familiar with each other. Zheng Ke changed to play shooting guard. Filling the vacancy of Kobe Bryant, it is just right to slightly limit Wade, who is playing a little hot today, and the rest of the opposing players are all good talents, and it is difficult to distinguish between them.
This was the last moment of the game, which was also very exciting.
Wade's breakthrough caused a foul on the Western Army, and Zheng Ke's side immediately singled with his back and returned him with a difficult backward jumper; Bosh received a pass from James and hit a layup. Nowitzki's side immediately hit a golden rooster independent step-back jumper to complete a powerful response ball; Rondo sent Howard an aerial relay, and Paul immediately played a delicate pick-and-roll with Smalls
At the last two minutes. Rondo hit a layup, and the score was tied at 132.
Then Zheng Ke forced a breakthrough through Wade, turned around near the top of the arc and took a big stride, and Howard couldn't make up for it. Zheng Ke took three major steps. With his back to his back, he scored his 22nd point of the day. When no one cared, Zheng Ke quietly completed a triple-double, with 22 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists.
The Eastern Army also attacked successfully, and Howard hit it with an inside hook.
After that, both teams couldn't score, and with more than 30 seconds left to end the game, Zheng Ke generously gave the ball to Anthony, signaling for Anthony to take control of the attack.
Anthony is 45 degrees from the left side of the three-point line and opposite James. He took two tentative steps. Suddenly dry pull jump shot!
The basketball was weirdly missed, and it didn't even touch the basket. threw an unexpected triple no-stick
What's even more unexpected is that Nowitzki under the basket happened to be stuck there by Howard, and he reached out to catch the basketball, and everyone was stunned, his arm flexibly bypassed Howard's body, and he hit a 2-point rebound, scoring his 24th point today, and it seems that the MVP is getting closer and closer.
Such a conceded goal made the East troops a little frustrated, Anthony couldn't stop laughing, and boasted there vigorously: "Brother has expected it a long time ago, Brother is a pass"
The East didn't call a timeout, and Wade hit a mid-range jumper to tie the score.
As a result, today is indeed a festival in the west, just now Anthony is not sticky on the outside, and this time Zheng Ke made a three-point shot on the outside. Wade had already jumped up with all his strength to block it, and in slow motion, it could be seen that Wade's fingers almost touched the palm of Zheng Ke's hand. Zheng Ke's three-pointer outside the three-point line was also shot with a little bit of leaning, and the ball rolled violently when it was in the air, and in the prayers of the fans, a white and flawless net was waved.
In 14.5 seconds, the Western Army led by 3 points at 139-136!
The shot was definitely heart-wrenching, and the audience cheered, and they turned their heads to look at the big screen and watched the picturesque replay in the applause.
The eastern troops fell into passivity, and Van Gundy couldn't sit still at this time, so he took out the momentum of a famous marshal, drawing tactical lines on the tactical board, obviously arranging some tactics for these big names.
The entire audience stood up, and the whole world was watching this game at this moment.
After the timeout, both sides stood back on the field and waited for kickoff.
Wade, James, Joe Johnson, Paul Pierce, except for Howard who serves, the players on the court all have three-point shooting ability, which Van Gundy understands is to shoot three-point shots. Zheng Ke's eyes narrowed, thinking that this might be the best tactic for this group of arrogant star players, after all, it is a shame to use foul tactics here.
The whistle blew and everyone ran away.
The first to get to beyond the three-point line was Wade, and unexpectedly, Howard didn't pass the ball; The second one to go outside the three-point line is James, this time, Howard passed the ball out, after James received the 45-degree three-point line, his head twisted, his body turned, and a bully turned around and stuck Anthony, he rose from the ground, turned in the air and jumped!
"I actually voted!" Zheng Ke's mouth opened wide, he thought there was still some tactic to go. As a result, James' shot was basically undisturbed, and Anthony knew when he jumped up that James had already shot.
The basketball arc is very high, the angle is very positive, but the force is a little bigger, it bounces high and falls high.
Among the players selected by Van Gundy, there was no player with excellent rebounding, Zheng Ke shouted, rushed into the interior like a bull, rose from the ground, stretched out his long arm against the sky, and grabbed the rebound.
Wade was helpless and reached for a foul.
"Oops!"
There was a wail on the bench in the East, James missed the shot, the rebound was grabbed by the Western All-Stars, and the foul was committed on the man who shot 90 percent from the free-throw line.
Zheng Ke stood at the free throw line, he smiled, learned some Nash, touched the soles of his shoes, and threw the ball.
First Penalty Hit!
This was almost a death sentence for the Eastern team, and Zheng Ke's second free throw was extremely easy, he pouted his butt, held the basketball with one hand, and made an extremely non-standard free throw posture. In the laughter and laughter of the scene, Zheng Ke shook his wrist and threw the ball.
Or hits!
Although they lost the game, the Eastern Army was not too annoyed, seeing Zheng Ke's weird free throw posture, Rondo and a few other guys leaned forward and back with a smile.
After that, the East team tried to chase the score with a three-point shot, Wade shot off, the rebound was grabbed by James, and passed out, the "three-point king" Pierce projected, still missed, the rebound was grabbed by Howard, Howard swayed, ran to the outside, looked at the time to the point, and turned around for a three-point shot.
"Huh!"
I actually entered
Zheng Ke and the others suddenly opened their mouths wide, Huo Shen shot! James, Wade, Pierce and others looked at Howard looking up to the sky and smiling, ashamed of themselves (to be continued......