Chapter Eighty-One: Nash, the Son of the Wind

Until halfway through the second quarter, on the bench of the sophomore team, Zhang Kong was like the forgotten person, and his temporary teammates around him were replaced one after another, but he never had any chance to play.

However, Zhang Kong is neither concerned nor in a hurry, he is not the kind of player who has to perform in the All-Star Game to prove himself, and more importantly, he has no idea about this year's All-Star MVP, and he has already said from the beginning that he will give it to LeBron James, and he is not ready to grab it.

He's not O'Neal Jr., and he's going to do that kind of immoral thing in the last minute of the game.

If you can't play, you can't play, it's okay to let Howard play more, anyway, he also robbed his All-Star hair, and giving him a little more playing time should be regarded as making up for it. Anyway, even if they didn't have themselves, in the end, the East Force still won the All-Star Game.

And now the situation on the field is indeed developing in that direction.

After getting through the ordinariness of the opening stages, James quickly got into play. Kidd's well-balanced ball distribution and James' superb air cut quotient are combined, and James, who strives to perform, is even more omnipotent on the court, and he can be seen everywhere on both offensive and defensive ends.

After the first quarter, he had 8 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, and by the middle of the second quarter, he had 16 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists. His performance is so good, it is inseparable from the abundant playing time, even the substitutes sitting in the water cooler seats in the All-Star game are big players, and the head coach has to do more often to ensure that every player has decent playing time.

For a player who wants to perform on the All-Star field and compete for MVP, whether he can get enough playing time is particularly crucial, and the ability of players who can enter the All-Star will not be bad. But no matter how good you are, you can't catch the ball on the court, or you don't get playing time at all, you're out of luck. Forrest gump

Mike Brown happens to be able to guarantee James' playing time, and as James' full-time nanny, Mike Brown has always strived to be 120 percent of everything he asks of James. Since Emperor James is interested, Mike Brown certainly has the right to do it, in fact, the game has played so far James is just a symbol of xìng was replaced and rested for two minutes. As a result, Pierce, who conflicted with James's position, became a pitiful worm who was sacrificed, and sat on the bench with Zhang Kong as a spectator. Occasionally, he also made a cameo appearance as a cheerleader to cheer for Ray Allen.

However, from the middle of the second quarter, the situation on the court changed dramatically. The western troops reversed their fatigue and aimed at the eastern troops, and they were beaten indiscriminately. It's all because one person is on the court, Steve Nash.

That's not to say that Steve Nash's individual ability is strong enough to change the tide of the game, in fact, not a single player who can make it to the All-Star Game is weak. It's just because the tactics of the Eastern Conference right now are just too suitable for Steve Nash.

When it comes to Nash, everyone will think of the Suns' run-and-gun tactics, the seven-second offense like mercury, and the pass that pierces all defenses.

Like Kidd, Nash is definitely a top-three presence among point guards. And the method and tactic that allows him to exert his greatest power is to run and bomb. No one can be sure whether it was the run-and-bomb tactics that made Nash's Lianzhuang MVP glory, or Nash's arrival that led to the outbreak of run-and-bomb tactics.

Or maybe the two are simply interdependent.

But there is no doubt that the most suitable tactic for Nash to play and his most handy is to run and shoot. And now the Eastern team's on-court lineup, center: Stoudemire, power forward: Carmelo Anthony, small forward: David West, scoring guard: Brandon Roy, point guard; Steve Nash. This big with four small lineups almost exists for running and bombing, not to mention the only big one, Stoudemire is not a serious center, or even a serious big forward, he is a sporty big forward under the run-and-bomb tactical system, and he is even more handy with Nash.

Such a lineup makes Nash, who controls the ball, like a tiger entering the deep mountains, swimming in the deep sea, and completely coming to life. In an instant, the Western troops increased their speed and speeded up again, and the ultra-fast attack speed even reached the super limit of 5 seconds of an attack in the second half of the second quarter, and often the basketball passed out of Nash's hands, and a pass tore through the defense of the Eastern team.

Under the ultra-fast offensive and defensive speed, Nash seems to be the embodiment of the wind without a trace, and the offense of the Western team is as pervasive as mercury. Everyone on the court feels like they're playing very well, as long as you run out of position, Nash's pass will be in front of you instantly, and all you have to do is simply catch the ball and put the basketball in the basket without even half a second of delay.

Any defense, as long as the speed is passively raised, will become full of loopholes, and it will inevitably face the end of defensive disconnection and the collapse of the defensive system.

The Western team has given up defense to a certain extent while maximizing its own attacking power, and there is no doubt that Nash plays the role of commander in it. It is precisely because of Nash's existence and Nash's familiarity and mastery of run-and-bomber tactics that the western troops are fast and not chaotic, and the unsolvable attack makes the eastern troops a little anxious.

First, Stoudemire twice accepted Shih's pass and dunked in the air to open the situation, and then when Nash tore the defense, Black Mamba Kobe Bryant opened his mouth, revealing his vicious fangs, and injected the venom of Zijin Sè into the body of the Eastern team, holding the ball at 45 degrees on the right side and breaking through continuously, and even a breakthrough layup caused James to foul the defense, and it became a 2+1.

The gaps in the back-to-back defensive rotation were easily seized by Carmelo Anthony, and a series of three-pointers from the outside made the Eastern team's defense even more chaotic.

And when the western troops began to reverse the situation, and gradually eroded the original lead of the eastern team, and even overtook it in one fell swoop, the mood of everyone in the eastern army involuntarily became anxious. They were eager to change the situation, and as soon as they were anxious in their hearts, they involuntarily followed the western troops to speed up, and the choice of attack began to become impatient. You must know that the point guard on the court at this time is not Jason Kidd, who is also good at fast-advancing offense, but civilian MVP Billups.

If you have to sum up the characteristics of Billups, you can only say that he is a commoner. All his basketball philosophy eventually returned to only two words: 'practical', an absolute pragmatic supremacist. He's not going to do the kind of fast-break pass that goes through the entire half, he's not going to shake five shots, he's not even going to make a pass with a hole.

In terms of offense, he has all kinds of offensive abilities, all of which are good, but none of them are top-notch, and in terms of defense, he is definitely one of the best No. 1 defenders in the league, but defense can't make an All-Star. passing, he will only hand over the basketball to the position where it should be handed over to the most, to the person who should be handed over to the most, and there is no brilliance at all.

If you watch him play, you feel like he's acting like a normal player on the court, sorry for his draft pick, and even more sorry for his annual salary. You will feel like you can do better than him......

Only when you really play with him can you understand how terrible he is.

But......

No matter how terrible this situation is, he can't help it.

Chauncey Billups is really good, but you're putting him in a fast-break system? Come on, does the Pistons have a fast-break tactic?

After six years with the Pistons, Chauncey Billups has long since lost the imprint of the fast break in his head. So, when the eastern force began to increase with the western force, Billups's ability was obviously not able to ensure the team's offensive system in the rapid attack, so chaos inevitably began to happen.

Fighting on their own, chaos.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Ray Allen stepped up and hit two consecutive three-point shots to stabilize the situation. finally chased the score to 66:57, so that the East Army did not have to enter the second half of the game with a 9-point difference.

Source: Forrest Gump