Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 204 All-Star Shame

Magloire is conscientiously completing his tasks on the court, but the fans are not very comfortable watching them. People bought tickets to watch the performances of Carter, Tracy McGrady and Iverson. "The other two, Reid is at least a shooting guard above the physical fitness level, and occasionally he can make breakthrough dunks or something. As for Kenyon Martin's brutal style of play, he has gained more than his real strength. praise.Nobody wants to watch Magloire show off his layup skills around the rim.

Seeing that the score has been surpassed by Magloire, O'Neal's expression became brighter. If this situation lasts until the end, the East wins and Magloire scores the highest score, then the All-Star MVP will be given to him.

Eastern coach Rick Carlisle saw that something was wrong, called Kidd when the ball was dead, and said a few words.

With Kidd's "treacherous" level, of course he knew the plan of Carlisle and O'Neal. He quickly called his teammate Martin, and the two cooperated with an alley-oop dunk after a pick-and-roll to reactivate the somewhat dull scene.

Here, Webber played a symbolic few minutes and then went off to rest. Arenas, who was selected as an All-Star for the first time, appeared on the stage, which aroused cheers.As a native of Los Angeles, and spent a good rookie season with the Lakers, Arenas' popularity in the local area is still good.

The strong No. 0 agent is not famous for his ability to fly and dunk, but Arenas can detonate the court in his own unique way. He just dribbled the ball in the half court, and he was about two meters away from the three-point line. Ron Davis made a super long three-pointer, and the basketball went straight into the hoop.

Arenas put on a grim expression and made a blowing gun gesture.

"If I have a chance, I have to remind this kid that guns are not a good thing, and it's better not to play with them." Seeing this action, Jim couldn't help but think of the story of Arenas, Crittenton and guns.

Eastern offense, Baron Davis naturally couldn't let Arenas dominate the limelight. Beard first made a series of exaggerated continuous crotch changes. After passing Arenas, he cut into the inside line and violently slashed with his one-handed tomahawk. buckle.

The western offense, this time it was Ray Allen, who also shot a gentleman's sword at the position where Arenas made a three-pointer just now, with a more elegant posture, the basketball did not even touch the rim, and the net splashed water.

Michael Reed, who just played in the East, was not to be outdone. This season, he finally replaced Stackhouse and became the top scorer of the Pistons. The Musketeers, together with the two All-Star players inside Ben Wallace and Brad Miller, the Pistons have an excellent record, and the decision of general manager Joe Dumars to trade the second pick is now gradually being understood. understand.

After Reed received Kidd's pass, he swung a three-pointer with his left hand, and the basketball drew a strange arc and made a hollow hit.

After the goal, Reed also made a flick of ash, pointing to Arenas.

The two have similar trajectories. They were both selected by the Lakers with low picks. They played well in their rookie seasons and were then sent to other teams.

"Michael Reid and Gilbert Arenas are the stars now, and they seem determined to show their strengths in front of the Los Angeles audience, and let Jim Buss see how much he is now. Excellent, given the performances of Carlos Boozer and Dwyane Wade, we have to admit that Jim Buss and Mitch Kupchak did have their own unique vision in the draft."

Arenas did not live up to the praise of the sideline commentary. He borrowed teammate Jermaine O'Neal's pick-and-roll, and three-pointed the defense-changing Magloire. This is their common routine in the Timberwolves.

In the East, Kidd felt that the feeding was enough, and he also tried to shoot a three-pointer, and the sound of the iron was loud.

The coaches of the two sides saw that the substitutes were gradually playing out of order, so they gradually changed back to the main players. Except for the change of Kidd replacing Carter, the remaining nine players were all in the lineup at the beginning of the game.

Yao Ming held the ball, Duncan, Garnett and Kobe opened the side to give him a chance to single O'Neal, Francis made an air cut along the baseline, Yao Ming threw it with his back to the basket, Frank understood, soared into the air, and succeeded in an alley-oop dunk .

In all fairness, Yao Ming's passing awareness is not bad, but his passing skills are still much worse than those of Divac. Especially when facing double teams, it is easy to make passing mistakes. Wang punished the opponents who came to double-team, but this all needs to be cultivated. Jeff Van Gundy completely led Yao Ming in the direction of low-post heavy weapons, and also invited Patrick Ewing, a traditional "center forward" who can no longer play traditionally. Textbook" to train Yao Ming.

Old-fashioned coaches, old-fashioned style of play, Yao Ming's flashes of inspiration are becoming less and less.

Seeing that Francis made a dunk, McGrady was not to be outdone, ignored O'Neal's request, broke through to the inside, and scored with the iconic two-handed windmill dunk.

Garnett picked up the dropped basketball and made a quarterback-style long pass to the frontcourt. McGrady was still winking and posing, and Kobe had responded with a 360-degree dunk in return.

McGrady squinted his eyes, and after Kidd passed halftime, he decisively asked for the ball, and signaled his teammates to pull away, and he wanted to single-handedly fight Kobe.

Kobe lowered his focus to defend, McGrady accelerated his breakthrough, and Kobe slid to keep up.

McGrady suddenly took a step back and pulled the ball behind his back greatly, widening the distance between himself and Kobe, and calmly hit a jumper.

Here, Francis did not steal the limelight, and passed the ball to Kobe. Fei Xia, with his jersey in his mouth, made a breakthrough along the right wing, turned around and made a fake move, and hit McGrady. Catch the rebound ball and pick the basket easily.

The performances of the two top swingmen brought the scene to a boil again. What the audience wanted to watch was this kind of star game, not the boring three-pointer throwing each other.

Of course, the Eastern All-Stars can't refute the face of O'Neal, who loves face the most. After McGrady hit two hero shots, he exchanged the dominance to O'Neal again. Facing Yao Ming's defense, O'Neal tried to turn around and hook, but Yao Ming's height The advantage is too obvious, the ball is missed after being interfered.

Duncan is still doing his job, protecting the backboards. Strictly speaking, he and Magloire are the same kind of people, but his position is too big, it doesn't matter how he wants to play, Magloire It's a bit of a steal for an unknown player like Il to score points in an all-star game. Although performance speaks for itself, qualifications and strength are a hurdle that can't be avoided on a field like an all-star player.

At the end of the first half, O'Neal only scored 12 points. It seems that if he wants to get the All-Star MVP, he has to work harder.Kobe has quietly scored 11 points, and Garnett has 9 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists.

(End of this chapter)