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Chapter 1138 1137. Eagles VS Western All-Star United

The Eastern team called a timeout!
A timeout is called when three goals are scored in a row!

It's really playing for real!
The fans watched with more enthusiasm. Seeing the tactical cooperation of the Western team and the perfect use of the height difference by the Eastern team, they all played a good start. The fans are looking forward to the next game.

Even Jordan and Olajuwon on the sidelines cheered up. This year's All-Star Game is very different!

Liu Mang returned to the bench and replaced James and Iverson with Rasheed Wallace and Jason Terry without using a tactical board.

Popovich is also very serious...to help Nash, Kobe, and Yao Ming arrange tactics, and give them more playing time. In order to satisfy his mensao disciples who want to have fun, Popovich did not replace Duncan, but replaced Garnett and replaced Sean Marion.

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After a timeout, Liu Mang watched the opponent replace a power forward. He had already guessed this, but it was Garnett instead of Duncan, which surprised Liu Mang!
However, what the fans are more excited about is the collective appearance of the five All-Stars of the Eagles!

Eagles VS Western Conference All-Stars!
East team offense, frontcourt ball.

After receiving the serve from the frontcourt, Liu Mang came to the top arc, and the defender was Marion, who can defend from one to five.

Popovich looked at Marion with jealousy. Such a defensive gate actually fell to the Suns. If it was used by him, it would definitely not be worse than Kirilenko.

Liu Mang saw that Kobe was defending McGrady, so he passed the ball to Jason Terry, who was defending Nash.

After Jason Terry received the ball, Liu Mang ran to the most accurate three-point point at a 45-degree angle on the left to open the space. Jason Terry didn't play singles, so he asked McGrady for a pick and roll!

Nash's defense against the pick-and-roll is extremely poor... It should be said that he has more than enough intentions and active actions in any defense, but he just can't defend. After Jason Terry bypassed the pick-and-roll, Kobe immediately switched defenses with Nash to defend Terry.

For Kobe, preventing McGrady from scoring is not the key point. As long as the Western Conference team wins, he will score more points, and the All-Star MVP will be his.

Jason Terry immediately passed the ball to McGrady, and McGrady made a big breakthrough!

Nash couldn't stop anyone, McGrady rushed inside, Duncan came up from the right corner, McGrady gave the ball to Rasheed Wallace, and Rasheed Wallace made a three-pointer...

hit!

7 to 6!The Eastern team overtook!

too crazy!The fans at the scene saw the Eastern team use the five All-Stars of the Eagles to deal with the Western All-Stars, and felt like living in a dream!
The key is that after the game continues, it will be even crazier!
The five-man team of the Eagles is the strongest five-man team in the Eagles. Rasheed Wallace is very good at defending Yao Ming around the front. Duncan is not easy to play against Kwame Brown in the low post, mainly due to the decline in explosive power. Played so-so.

McGrady went to defend Kobe, Jason Terry defended Nash, and Liu Mang defended Marion. They played against each other, and it turned out that Nash scored in singles.

Marion, Kobe, and Duncan's defenses are very good. That's right. Yao Ming has Duncan's help, and his defensive dominance at the basket is also very strong, but the tacit understanding is much worse. Nash is good at the pick-and-roll and inside cuts.

Kobe faced McGrady's singles, and his height was a disadvantage. Kobe has always used his tall body to deal with opponents at the shooting guard position. McGrady's singles pressure is relatively high, although the one-on-one efficiency is not bad, with a 50.00% hit rate.

But for the Eastern team, Liu Mang and Rasheed Wallace's anti-roll cooperation, Nash's defense against Liu Mang or Jason Terry, the two picked and rolled with McGrady, and McGrady didn't just shoot. The pass was passed. About 4 minutes before the official timeout in the first quarter, the "Eagle Team" played a wave of 17 to 11!

At the sixth minute and 40 seconds of the first quarter, the score became 21 to 17. Seeing that the point difference was about to be opened to the small dividing line of 5 points, Popovich called a timeout!The game enters an official timeout.

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Liu Mang and his teammates returned to the bench, the East team was about to blow up!
The Hawks' five-man team... is invincible!

An all-star team with insufficient tacit understanding can't do it!
"LeBron, Darko, Chris, you guys are ready to play in the second quarter. Tracy, you go to play small forward, Dwyane, Vince, you go up to partner with the back line, Rasheed, you play for a while, Shaq, do you want to play for a while?" Liu Mang was still very cautious when he asked O'Neal at the end. This fat man... is as unpredictable as Kobe!

"Of course, Ace, you have to arrange tactics for me! I'm going to dunk your compatriots! Let me dunk two, and I'll pass the ball to Tracy." O'Neill couldn't wait.

"Fuck, buckle! Do whatever you want!" Seeing that O'Neill didn't look like a monster, Liu Mang immediately responded.

As a teammate of his national team, Liu Mang felt that Yao Ming should make a contribution.

Liu Mang immediately made arrangements for the Heat's tactical play that Wade told him. Coach Kruger and Stockton were writing and jotting down notes. They informed Liu Mang two days ago that he wanted to pry out the tactics from Wade. They didn't have time to ask Liu Mang during the day, and now they started to write down notes.

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During the official pause, David Stern looked at the chart brought by his secretary, and the real-time ratings skyrocketed. The first quarter was only halfway through. The ratings in the United States have already broken the historical record!It's even higher than the ratings of Jordan's All-Star Game before he retired twice in 1998 and 2003!David - Stern is happy to go crazy!
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On the Western side, Popovich passed a few minutes. Originally, the tactic he had planned was that Duncan played less. If Garnett was a power forward in the second team, he could perfectly cooperate with Nash, and Kobe’s off-ball style can also be liberated. Kobe and Duncan are both players who seem to have low shooting percentages. It’s not just Kobe. Among the super power forwards, his shooting percentage is on par with Nowitzki. In recent years, Garnett has a higher shooting percentage than Duncan. Both of them are players who rarely have open shots.

After all, they are the two players with the best basic skills outside and inside the league.

Now Duncan has also become addicted after a while. Popovich replaced Duncan and replaced Garnett, partnered with Yao Ming on the inside, and on the outside, Nash, Kobe, and Ray Allen played together.

It is very important to consume the Lakers and Suns, but winning is also very important. Now that this is the case, if Popovich loses, he will be ashamed!
Losing to coach Kruger in the regular season and the finals, people will say that the Eagles have many All-Stars, but if they play hard and lose this All-Star Weekend, they really are not as good as others.

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Back from the timeout, the All-Stars of the two teams reappeared.

Rasheed Wallace can be regarded as a luxurious enhanced version of Haslem, McGrady and Carter, and even an enhanced version of Jason Williams and Posey. Pat Riley looked at this lineup from the sidelines and wanted to drool!It is very suitable for the Heat's tactical system. If you want to attack, you have to attack, if you want to defend, you have to defend.
When this lineup is put together, he dares to shout out the three consecutive championships, let alone the four consecutive championships, and then squeeze a wave, and there is no need to catch Wade and O'Neal, two sheep, who are wool, and can slowly lay them one by one.

Pat Riley is the first head coach in NBA history to publicly announce that he will play again next season after winning the championship. There is nothing he dare not do. In order to win the championship in the short few years when Wade still holds a rookie contract and the Heat do not have to pay too much luxury tax.

The Western team has the ball and serves in the frontcourt.

Enemies were extremely jealous when they met each other. O'Neill looked at the two major enemies of the opponent, and after coming up, he was very serious with Yao Ming.

Yao Ming's strength is in the NBA center, and it is no problem to be ranked in the top three. There are only two centers that can make him suffer in the position.
After receiving Kobe's serve, Nash advanced to the top arc. Facing Wade's defense, Kobe and Ray Allen took McGrady and Carter away. Although Yao Ming failed to get a good position at the basket, he could contain O'Neal.

Facing Wade's defense, Nash did not continue his singles. He scored 8 points in the first half of the first quarter, but only had two assists.

Garnett came out to help Nash block Wade!

Garnett's pick-and-roll was more comfortable than Stoudemire's for Nash. The more he blocked, the more realistic it was. Wade couldn't get around it. Garnett pretended to be running and moved continuously under his feet, blocking Wade firmly without pushing or blocking the opponent.

Rasheed Wallace switched defenses and couldn't keep up with Nash at all. After Garnett blocked Wade, he ran to block Carter who was chasing Ray Allen. Ray Allen had an opening in the bottom corner. As soon as there was an opening, Ray Allen received the ball and shot a three-pointer...

Ray Allen made his first three-pointer!

In terms of catching three-pointers, Ray Allen is the only one in the league!He can't compare to Liu Wei in a strong shot, but he is better than Liu Wei in grasping the open space!
Liu Mang didn't think much of it when Ray Allen scored a goal, but it was a little strange that he actively picked and rolled Garnett and didn't take the initiative to cut in for the ball to challenge O'Neal.

This guy seems to want to show his "selflessness" in the All-Star Game!
(End of this chapter)