Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

The game continues...

The Western team had the ball, and Zhuang Yu was still responsible for advancing the game. After coming to the frontcourt, he gestured to Jokic. Jokic mentioned the pick-and-roll, and Zhuang Yu moved to the left, then passed the ball back to Jokic and winked at him.

Jokic understood and after getting the ball, he first made a fake shot, pretending to shoot a three-pointer, but in fact he passed the ball.

At this time, Zhuang Yu and Westbrook moved crosswise, and Westbrook took the opportunity to cut along the left side. Jokic passed the ball to Westbrook in time, assisting Westbrook with a beautiful one-handed slam dunk.

"nice shot."

"Another slam dunk."

"It's a pleasure to watch Westbrook dunk every time. He may not jump the highest or have the most flexible movements, but he is definitely explosive."

"The Western team substituted Zhuang Yu in again, obviously to catch up..."

After this dunk, the score difference became 8 points.

It was just a little different from what the fans expected. It was not Zhuang Yu who scored by himself, but Zhuang Yu and Jokic cooperated with Westbrook.

In fact, Zhuang Yu did not intend to score like he did in the first quarter when he was competing with Harden. The first quarter was because of Harden's provocation. As long as Harden did not continue to provoke him, he would not keep chasing Harden.

Turning around, the Eastern troops attacked.

After reaching the frontcourt, he gave the ball to James and let James act as the organizing forward.

This time, Harden did not call on Zhuang Yu for a single play. Even though Zhuang Yu was still facing him, Harden quickly passed the ball after getting the ball.

"Don't fight?"

"Why don't you continue to compete with Zhuang Yu? Is Harden afraid?"

"Harden must be scared. He has never been better than Zhuang Yu before..."

Seeing that Harden actually passed the ball instead of playing one-on-one with Zhuang Yu, the fans in the audience began to whisper again, and some mocked Harden for being afraid.

Harden didn't hear the comments from the fans in the audience, but he could imagine that his face looked a little ugly, and he muttered in a low voice: "I'm not afraid, but there's no need to fight like a street duel."

He did not give up the fight with Zhuang Yu.

But if everyone moved away like in the first quarter and let the two of them fight him one-on-one on the street, it would be a huge disadvantage.

Although he was somewhat unwilling, he had to admit that he had no chance of winning if he fought like that.

If he wants to gain the upper hand in the duel with Zhuang Yu, he must change his approach. No longer a 1-on-1 street duel, but like a normal game, he should use his teammates' screens and pick-and-rolls, and use tactics to find opportunities for mismatches to avoid directly confronting Zhuang Yu.

Of course, this still looks a bit cowardly, but at least he can score steadily, and as long as he can score steadily, that's enough.

But Harden didn't expect that it was not just him who wanted to compete with Zhuang Yu, there was another person who also wanted to do so - that was Antetokounmpo.

In the game between the Bucks and the Lakers, Antetokounmpo wanted to block Zhuang Yu from the very beginning, but he failed until the end of the game.

The only time I touched the basketball, it went in.

That certainly doesn't count as a block.

Moreover, Antetokounmpo felt that if he wanted to lead the Eastern team to defeat the Western team today and win the All-Star Game MVP, he could not avoid Zhuang Yu.

So when the Eastern team attacked and came to the frontcourt, Antetokounmpo took the initiative to ask for the ball. After James passed the ball to him, Antetokounmpo chose to single out Davis. He first made a fake shot, then pushed the ball forward and broke through.

Davis was not serious on the defensive end and was passed by Antetokounmpo. Jokic subconsciously went over to help defend.

As a result, Antetokounmpo jumped up towards Jokic, waving his claws and fangs in the air like a monster, grabbed the basketball and dunked it into the basket through Jokic.

With a "bang", the basketball was dunked into the basket by Antetokounmpo.

Jokic took two steps back due to the force of his impact, looking a little embarrassed.

In fact, Jokic didn't even think about blocking Antetokounmpo, he just stepped forward subconsciously after Davis passed him. He didn't expect Antetokounmpo to dunk on him, and he didn't have time to retreat, and finally became a background board.

This made Jokic feel a little unhappy, and his face turned ugly.

"He was going after me, not you."

A voice sounded in Jokic's ears. Jokic turned around and saw Zhuang Yu coming behind him.

After hearing what Zhuang Yu said, Jokic suddenly realized what was going on. He thought to himself, "I was wondering why Antetokounmpo was so arrogant. It's okay that he dunked over me, but after that he bared his teeth and claws at me, waving his arms and beating his chest. Who was he showing off to? I didn't provoke you. Oh, it turns out he wasn't coming after me, but Zhuang Yu."

Yes, Antetokounmpo was not going for Jokic, and dunking over Jokic was not intentional, it was just a coincidence.

The person he really wanted to provoke was Zhuang Yu.

After the dunk, Antetokounmpo turned around, stared at Zhuang Yu with burning eyes, waved his arms and beat his chest, like a roaring monster.

Although he did not say anything provocative, his eyes said it all; he was challenging Zhuang Yu.

"Hey......"

Zhuang Yu sighed, somewhat speechless.

One Harden is not enough, and now there's Antetokounmpo. Is there something wrong with you guys?

How the hell did I provoke you?

This is why people are afraid of becoming famous just like pigs are afraid of getting fat.

Zhuang Yu is the Western Conference voting leader, the All-Star voting leader of this year, and also has the title of the league's best player. Naturally, he has become a target that some players want to surpass. Once they meet him on the court, they will inevitably face similar provocations.

Although Zhuang Yu was used to this kind of thing, he still found it annoying.

"Damn, some rookies who just joined the league and are fearless are fine. I understand their ignorance."

"You are all-star players, superstars, after all. How can you be so impulsive as to act like an impulsive young man?"

"If you want to surpass me, you have to win the championship first."

Zhuang Yu was speechless and very unhappy.

You all are very arrogant, right? Didn’t you see what happened to Harden before?

Is that not enough?

Okay, let’s do it again.

......

Western troops attack.

Zhuang Yu got the ball in the backcourt, Jokic passed the ball, and then ran past Zhuang Yu to the frontcourt.

Zhuang Yu called Jokic and said to him, "I will give you the ball later. When you see my signal, pass the ball back to me. I want to play against Antetokounmpo."

“Understood.” Jokic agreed and couldn’t help licking his lips, feeling a little excited.

After arriving at the frontcourt, Zhuang Yu and Jokic played a pick-and-roll match, passing the ball back to Jokic, and then Zhuang Yu quickly moved to get rid of Harden's defense and rushed to Jokic for the ball. When Jokic passed the ball to him, Zhuang Yu stood outside the three-point line and made a shooting motion.

At this time, Harden was unable to keep up in time, and when he saw Zhuang Yu was about to shoot a three-pointer, Antetokounmpo left Davis without thinking and rushed over here.

This is the effect Zhuang Yu wants.

When Antetokounmpo rushed over, Zhuang Yu did not actually shoot, but seemed to wait for him to get into a defensive position, and then started to play one-on-one. He first took a tentative step with his shoulders swinging, looking like he was going to break through to the right.

"Right or left?"

Antetokounmpo frowned and it was difficult to judge.

However, in the next moment, Zhuang Yu suddenly retracted his foot and at the same time hit the ball to the left, breaking through from the left.

At this time, the two were facing each other, and Antetokounmpo had already taken it very seriously. He reacted quickly, adjusted his steps quickly, moved sideways and retreated, blocking the route.

In terms of absolute speed, Antetokounmpo is definitely not as good as Zhuang Yu, but his size is there, and his defensive coverage area is large, so Zhuang Yu's acceleration was not able to pass him directly. However, Zhuang Yu then changed direction in front of his body, quickly passed the ball to his right hand, and at the same time lowered his right shoulder and leaned forward.

Seeing this situation, Antetokounmpo adjusted his steps again, still trying to block Zhuang Yu's breakthrough route and prevent Zhuang Yu from passing him.

However, at this moment, Zhuang Yu changed direction again.

There was a slight pause between the two changes of direction, which means that there was a trend of breaking through to the right, but in fact it was about to change direction again.

And this time the change of direction was even faster than the first time. Antetokounmpo only felt a figure flash in front of him, and Zhuang Yu was already to the right side of his body.

"not good."

Antetokounmpo secretly cried out in alarm, but after adjusting his pace twice in a row, he was no longer able to adjust his pace in time to block Zhuang Yu's breakthrough route.

At this time, Zhuang Yu burst into speed and rushed past Antetokounmpo, leaving Antetokounmpo behind.

"Humph, it's not that simple."

However, Antetokounmpo did not give up on defense. He roared, turned around quickly, and with his excellent athletic ability, he took one step into the three-second zone. Then he jumped up, trying to rely on his excellent jumping ability, explosive power, height and wingspan to block the shot on Zhuang Yu.

It has to be said that Antetokounmpo's physical fitness is indeed very strong. If it were an ordinary person, it would be basically impossible for him to pose a defensive threat to Zhuang Yu after being passed by Zhuang Yu like this.

However, Antetokounmpo turned around and jumped up, catching up with Zhuang Yu's footsteps. He raised his hands high, almost reaching the basket.

"Snapped!"

There was a crisp sound, but it was not a block, just the sound of Antetokounmpo's palm hitting the backboard.

The block he imagined did not come true, because Zhuang Yu was mentally prepared. It looked like he was going to make a layup after jumping up, but in fact he pulled the ball back after sending it out, just avoiding Antetokounmpo's block.

At the same time, Zhuang Yu bent his knees and tightened his abdomen in the air, curled up his body, and used inertia to glide and made a layup from the other side of the basket.