God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 445

This time, the All-Star Weekend is held in Atlanta. The Pistons players don't need to travel long distances, but it doesn't matter if they have to fly for a long time. They can rest most of the All-Star Weekend.

The Pistons don't have players in any single event outside of the main game and the Rookie Challenge, but that doesn't mean they're completely uninterested.Especially in the three-point contest, every Pistons player watched with gusto. Now the three-point shooting has become a very important offensive method for the Pistons. Most players can shoot from the outside, so it is natural to compare them in mind.

But Chang Wei is different from them. He pays more attention to the Skills Challenge, which was set up only this year. Its purpose is to showcase the skills of the best point guards in the league.The content of the game is that four players complete several links such as dribbling, passing and shooting in a venue with various obstacles within the specified time.There are a total of four players who eat crabs, namely Kidd, Payton, Marbury and Parker, and the progress of the game is not far from the previous life, and Kidd finally won the championship.

In addition to the individual events, several main players of the Pistons also appeared on the scene of the Rookie Challenge.This is also a common practice. Except for them, every team that has players participating in the Rookie Challenge has old players come to cheer for the rookies, so when the Pistons players appeared in the stands, it did not cause any sensation, and they were happy. .

This game was more intense than the Rookie Challenge, after all, they were all young people, and everyone wanted to prove themselves.Prince was sadly put on the bench. After all, few people want to see a guy who constantly destroys the offense on such a stage.Prince didn't care either, he even dozed off on the bench, making Chang Wei dumbfounded.

It stands to reason that the first-year team should have an absolute advantage, but the 2002 rookies are not vegetarians. Although Yao Ming was selected for the All-Star Game, there are still many good players appearing in the Rookie Challenge, such as Si Tadmire, Butler, Salmons, etc., the first-year team seemed a bit blind in the face of the more experienced second-year.

Relatively speaking, the inside strength of the second grade is very strong, but it is just a piece of cake for Wade.He has a good personal relationship with James, which also allows him to break through to the basket with the ball unscrupulously, and there is really no chance to transfer the ball out.Whether it is Anthony, James or even Bosh, although they have not yet reached their peak, they can still seize the opportunities created by Wade for them, and soon the first-year team took the lead.Although they also seldom defend, they are often able to send the ball to the basket in a more efficient way in turn. The super high offensive efficiency has kept the second-year team exhausted.

I have to say that the 2003 rookies are really the golden generation. They took the initiative on the field from the second quarter, and never gave the second-year team any chance. In the end, they won a big victory 142-120. Wade, who scored 32 points, 5 rebounds, 11 assists and 3 blocks in the game, was undisputedly elected as the Rookie Challenge MVP.

This award is actually a tasteless one, but it is a big incentive for Wade. At least in this game, he is the one with the best performance of the 2003 rookie.However, the media didn't intend to put pen and ink on the Rookie Challenge. They were more concerned about the All-Star Game the next day, which was the most popular basketball feast for fans.

One of the reasons why Brown doesn't like being the All-Star head coach is that he wants to let himself choose the right players to form the starting lineup, but obviously the All-Stars will not give him this opportunity, he can only use the five players voted by the fans Players to start.Fortunately, the proud disciple Daben is also one of the starters, Brown at least does not need to worry about the safety of his own basket.

And if the situation tends to get out of control, Brown will use his trump card to put the four Pistons on the field at the same time, plus a McGrady who can attack and defend, not to mention directly reversing the situation, at least not It's a big loss.He also knows that the fans are not willing to see a strict defense in the All-Star Game, but in Brown's view, defense is still necessary. If you want to win the game, you must fight with real knives and guns in the last quarter. , can't do without defense.

In fact, when it comes to defense, the Western All-Stars may not be inferior to the Eastern Conference. There are Garnett and Duncan on the inside, two players with their own defensive systems, and Kobe and Kirilenko on the outside. They are all fighting on their own.On the contrary, there is a good chemical reaction between the Pistons players, and McGrady, who was plugged in by Brown, also knows how to make trade-offs before offense and defense, which also makes their defensive effect better than the Western All-Stars.

However, Brown did not use this trick frequently. Most of the time, he still let every player selected for the All-Star play in turn step by step.Such a strategy also led to a basic tie between the two sides in the first half, which of course Brown expected.It's not worth watching directly at the beginning of the All-Star Game. The two sides have to take turns to take the lead in order to further increase the ratings.

In the third quarter, Brown remained on hold. Instead, Zen Master, who coached the Western All-Stars, began to make some moves. He put the "OK combination" on the court at the same time, obviously hoping to get rid of the opponent at once.However, the Eastern All-Stars seem to be very resilient, and they have always remained behind by about seven or eight points, not giving the Western All-Stars a chance to further widen the gap.

In the last quarter, Brown replaced the Pistons four-man team with Tracy McGrady's lineup at the beginning, and his defensive strength suddenly increased. He tied the score in less than 2 minutes, and then even used a steal after a steal. Fast-break dunks overtook the score.Relatively speaking, Zen Master is still more inclined to attack, but the Western All-Stars are a little confused when facing the extremely oppressive defense of the Eastern Conference. When they recover, they have become the one behind.

Although they quickly regrouped and counterattacked vigorously, the Eastern All-Stars continued to increase their points under the cooperation of McGrady and Hamilton, and they never allowed the Western Conference to narrow the point difference to an acceptable range.In the end, the Eastern All-Stars defeated the Western All-Stars 132 to 120, but the All-Star Game MVP was not awarded to any player in the Pistons, but to Tracy McGrady, who scored 27 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists. With a triple-double, 4 steals and 1 block at the same time, the MVP is well-deserved. Of course, if it weren't for his relationship with Chang Wei, Brown might not have given so much time.

(End of this chapter)