"It's a draw again, how many times has this game been drawn?"

"I don't know, it stands to reason that these two teams shouldn't have made a lot of effort now, but I didn't expect these two teams to have no intention of giving each other the lead in the first place."

February 15, 2004, Los Angeles, Staples Arena, this is one of the most eye-catching games in the NBA this year, this is the basketball god Jordan's retirement battle in the All-Star game, this is also the league's current hottest coach, Celtics head coach Zhuang Fei and Lakers head coach Phil Jackson this year's big game, it can be said that three hours before the start of this game, this Staples Arena was already full of spectators.

You know, in the NBA, everyone knows that Los Angeles fans are not Timberwolves fans or Vancouver fans or Celtics fans, they don't have the habit of entering the court hours in advance, although these Los Angeles fans and Heat fans in this regard played half of the game to basically fill the court slightly better, but the good is not obvious, this is also the slow pace that these resorts should have, but today, this is no longer a slow pace, of course, Today is the NBA All-Star Game, so it is not only Lakers fans who come to the scene, for example, there are a lot of Chinese from Oakland not far away.

Of course, Los Angeles also has a large number of Chinese, in this case, although this is the home of Los Angeles, it is not necessarily that the Los Angeles fans at the scene can occupy an absolute advantage. After all, this is an All-Star game, and the All-Star ticket sales will not be all controlled by the Lakers, and it is impossible to sell tickets only to their own fans like the regular season or the playoffs, so after the start of this game, the games in the arena will not be talked about, but the stands on the sidelines will be extremely lively. For Jordan fans or Lakers fans or Zhuang Fei's fans in the stands, this game is of great significance, and in fact. When the game was played, the course of the match did not disappoint, although everyone knew that it was going to be a bayonet match.

Or, I don't know when it started, the NBA All-Star is now all going to be real, and in this case, basically in recent years, every All-Star Game is worth looking forward to, just the same. For all-stars. This also has certain limitations, it doesn't matter if you really play, but whether it is 12 players on either side of the East or the West, you need to play for more than 5 minutes, in this case, it is impossible to use only 5 of the strongest players at the beginning of this game or just rotate 5-8 players like the regular season or the playoffs, which is impossible in the NBA All-Star Game.

The 12 people sitting on these two sides, which one of them is not a prince of the famous side, although the prestige of Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson is completely able to suppress these people, but if it is really like this, it is definitely not an easy thing to let some of these players who do not meet the tactical conditions sit on the cold bench. It is also an extremely offensive thing, in this case, basically in recent years, the All-Stars who have really played, in the first half, the two teams are generally not too serious, mainly to rotate players, so that some players who do not meet the coach's ideas will go on the court in the first half After a walk, the two sides will start again in the second half, which is almost the NBA All-Star Game is now a conventional rule, in this case, the tension and excitement of the game to the first half are really rare, The bayonet was staged at the very beginning.

Of course, Zhuang Fei didn't actually think about fighting with Phil Jackson at the beginning of this game, if it weren't for wanting to give Jordan a perfect ending, Zhuang Fei didn't even want to take it too seriously in such a game, and in fact, for Zhuang Fei, there are four Wizards players in the All-Star East this year, and the league's purpose for making this play is actually very clear, that is, to let the Wizards players escort Jordan, and in fact, Zhuang Fei played a few minutes in the first quarter with All-Star starters before switching to all Wizards.

And in the entire first half, Zhuang Fei is also preparing to use the Wizards' four All-Stars, Jordan, Nash, Stoudemire and Marion as the framework, in addition to these four, let one of the other players in the East choose to insert it, because the position of the Wizards is very flexible, so whether it is Zhuang Fei in this lineup, there is no problem at all to put Xiao Ao in this lineup, as long as these interior lines are fast enough to keep up with Nash's running rhythm, in this case, the first half of the Eastern All-Stars dominated by the Wizards, And how can you not be desperate? Zhuang Fei wants to give Jordan a perfect ending, and these people are naturally like this.

In this case, almost as soon as the game began, the eastern side was almost fully engaged, and in the same way, on the western side, it seemed that they were completely thinking of Zhuang Fei or for other reasons, after replacing all the Wizards players in the first quarter of the east, the western side did even more terrifying, directly on all five All-Star players of the Lakers, which did not even need to fill the lineup with other players, of course, although the Lakers also rotated their five players.

But obviously, in the first half, Zhuang Fei also clearly saw that Phil Jackson was deliberately protecting Ao Fat, Ao Fat did not play much time in the first half, and the position reserved by Ao Fat was also being rotated by Phil Jackson with other Western All-Star players. It is precisely because of the approach of the head coach of the East and West All-Stars that the Eastern All-Stars with the Wizards and the Western All-Stars with the Lakers as the framework have directly done it, and even the ease of rotation is gone.

"Michael, it's okay"

Zhuang Fei smiled and gave Jordan who was replaced by Iverson with Iverson from the court a tight hug, for Phil Jackson, although in the first half he used his own core lineup, that is, the five people of the Lakers, but Phil Jackson has also been ensuring that Ao Fat can have enough physical strength to play the second half, because everyone knows that no matter what the first half of this game looks like, whether it is nervous or relaxed, the real decisive battle will definitely be in the second half, At that time, the strongest players or the strongest lineups of the two teams will not have the opportunity to rest. If the game is scorched.

In this case, for Zhuang Fei, Jordan may not be as important to the Eastern All-Star as Ao Fat, but Zhuang Fei did not plan to make the god a spectator in the second half, no matter how the outside world hyped the contradiction between him and Phil Jackson, but Zhuang Fei still knew very clearly that this was Jordan's last All-Star game, and this was also a game that only belonged to Jordan, which was also the same as David Stern specially made an All-Star MVP trophy this year. These all belong to this great god, but now what Zhuang Fei has to do is how to defeat the Lakers and then let the great god get everything that the alliance has prepared for him a long time ago.

"It's just a warm-up, I'm in good shape today, maybe I've returned to the top, not necessarily" Jordan said with a smile after gently pushing Zhuang Fei away, back to the top? Of course it can't be, but it's true that he was in really good shape today, and with the last five minutes left in the first half, the Wizards player scored 12 points in 14 minutes and shot 5-of-8 from the field, and the defensive intensity of this game in the first half was not low, even reaching the level of the playoffs.

To be able to play such a performance in this situation is absolutely in good shape, and this is why Zhuang Fei is confident that his team can beat the West in the second half, and the current Western All-Stars may have the most terrifying inside group in NBA history, but Zhuang Fei's East also has some interesting things, such as Jordan, Carter and James's combination, although for various reasons these three are not all at the peak, but it is still enough.

"Have a good rest, the second half will be your performance," Zhuang Fei also smiled and patted his friend on the shoulder and said.

Of course, for this All-Star Game, the first half is a foreshadowing, such foreshadowing is actually a very challenging thing for Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson, if one of the two teams in the first half has a big score behind, in the second half no one will give him a chance to catch up with the score, and it is precisely because of this that in the first half Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson both chose to use the most stable and tacit system in their own use, the Wizards system in the east and the Lakers system in the west, In such a system, sudden power outages on both sides are unlikely.

And in fact, the final direction of the game in the first half is the same, the two teams were anxious from the beginning, and after Zhuang Fei replaced Jordan with Iverson, the situation on both sides has changed slightly, Iverson is impossible to have Jordan's compatibility after all, in this case, the Eastern All-Stars on the court are only slightly at a disadvantage, of course, not much, and when the first half is over, the score on the court is also 55-58, The Eastern All-Stars trailed the Western All-Stars by three points at Staples Arena. And such a result is acceptable to both Zhuang Fei and Phil Jackson.

"Looks like the decisive battle is about to begin."

In the stands of Staples Arena, TNT commentator Kenny Smith looked at the court at the end of the first half of the game, and the two sides also looked deeply at the two All-Star coaches who were standing on the sidelines. At this time, Barkley on his side also nodded.

"This script is all ready" (to be continued.) )