Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

In fact, by the second half the game no longer felt like an exhibition match.

After entering the second half, players from both sides were obviously more serious on both offense and defense than in the first half, and the confrontations and explosions between individual players also decreased.

This is actually not a bad thing.

In a normal game, confrontations between stars cannot be the norm, it will only happen in a specific period of time.

More often than not, the team is still pursuing more reasonable offensive and defensive performances, more efficient scoring, and an advantage in the score in order to win the game.

It’s just that many times in All-Star Games like this, everyone is a star player, everyone has strong individual abilities, and everyone wants to show themselves, so it often gives people the feeling that the overall teamwork is not strong enough, and it’s more about individual singles rather than collaborative efforts.

This doesn't mean they will only fight alone.

When they want to win, when the strength of both sides is close...

For example, at this moment, after a few minutes, the score between the two sides was still tense, which aroused the desire to win among the players. The game was obviously more like a regular season, and the two teams composed of star players from the East and West were more like real teams.

"beep!"

The referee blew the whistle and gave George a foul.

This time it was James who broke through with the ball and caused George to foul when he was making a layup, and he had to stand on the free throw line to take two free throws.

With James making both free throws, the Eastern team led by 5 points.

"Requesting a timeout."

The Western team called a timeout, and after several players came to the sidelines, Coach Scott made a substitution, replacing George with Jokic.

In the past few minutes, he sent out this lineup of one big and four small players in order to speed up the offense and defense, hoping to launch a more fierce offense.

After a few minutes, they played pretty well, but not as well as expected, so they were never able to gain much advantage.

So Coach Scott decided to make some adjustments and replaced George with Jokic. He then spread out the tactical board and emphasized two points: "First, we need to strengthen our defense, especially the defense in the interior, and not let the opponent attack the basket at will."

"Second, our counterattack needs to be faster. We don't need a specific person to hold the ball and advance. Whoever gets the rebound will immediately launch a counterattack."

After some arrangements, Coach Scott clapped his hands and said, "Play well. The opponent is serious. We have to be serious too. I don't want to lose this game."

"I don't want to either."

"We don't want that."

Several people responded.

......

The timeout ends and the game continues.

When players from both teams returned to the court, the Eastern team also made a personnel rotation, replacing Paul with Lillard.

The Western team attacked, and Westbrook was responsible for advancing the ball.

After arriving at the frontcourt, he looked at Zhuang Yu, who made a gesture to him. Westbrook understood what he meant and called a pick-and-roll for Jokic, and then broke through with the help of the pick-and-roll.

If it had been the first half, Westbrook would have been able to attack the basket in this situation.

But this time it was different, both sides started to get serious.

Seeing Westbrook break through with the help of a pick-and-roll, the Eastern team quickly contracted their defense. Antetokounmpo took a step forward and stood in front of Westbrook. He bent down, ready to move, waiting for an opportunity to block Westbrook.

The next moment, Westbrook jumped up, but not to shoot himself. Instead, he threw the ball in the air and passed it to Zhuang Yu outside the three-point line.

"not good."

"He's going to shoot a three-pointer..."

Someone exclaimed, alerting the Eastern team players.

Several players from the Eastern team reacted quickly.

Harden rushed towards Zhuang Yu, but Zhuang Yu ignored his pounce and jumped outside the three-point line with a flick of his wrist.

With a swish sound, the three-pointer went in.

When this three-pointer was made, Zhuang Yu's personal score had reached 30 points.

In the first few minutes, Zhuang Yu didn't actually take many shots and only scored 4 points. Including this ball, Zhuang Yu's personal score reached over 30 points.

However, the player with the most points among both teams is still not Zhuang Yu, but Antetokounmpo, who has scored 32 points.

The point difference became 2 points.

"There's only one goal left. Come on, West team."

"We must attack well this time and score..."

In the audience stands, there were fans cheering for the Western team, and there were also fans cheering for the Eastern team, urging the Eastern team to succeed in this attack. As long as they succeeded in this attack, the score gap would widen again, and at least it would be difficult for the Western team to catch up with the score within one goal.

For the Eastern team, Harden is responsible for holding the ball and advancing.

After coming to the frontcourt, Harden was still facing Zhuang Yu. He did not choose to play by himself, but passed the ball to James. Antetokounmpo stepped forward and made a screen for James.

With the help of this pick-and-roll, James got rid of Leonard's defense, and then decisively broke through to the basket. Davis and Jokic took a step forward and formed a human wall.

At this time, James chose to pass the ball to Middleton.

Middleton subconsciously wanted to pass the ball to Antetokounmpo, but heard a voice from the other side: "Brother, this way."

It was Lillard's voice.

Middleton also saw Lillard, and after a slight hesitation, he passed the ball.

It was just a slight hesitation as Westbrook had already pounced on him. However, after Lillard received the ball, he ignored Westbrook who was flying towards him, and jumped directly towards Westbrook, choosing a three-pointer...

"Shh!"

The ball was scored and the score difference was 5 points.

The Eastern team returned an answerball and widened the gap to 5 points again.

However, Zhuang Yu responded as he turned around. After getting the ball, he used a pick-and-roll to get rid of Harden, moved to the side, and took a step sideways, taking a three-pointer before Antetokounmpo could get to him in time, and hit it again.

"Oh..."

There were exclamations from the audience.

I thought Lillard responded strongly and scored an answerball, but I didn't expect Zhuang Yu to score another one.

"This is Zhuang Yu, one of the best three-point players in the league today."

"As for shooting three-pointers, as long as Curry doesn't come, no one else can match Zhuang Yu, not even Lillard..."

People cheered excitedly.

Here, Lillard came to the frontcourt and asked his teammates for the ball again, wanting to return another answerball, but this time his shot missed.

With a bang, the basketball bounced out of the hoop and flew towards Zhuang Yu.

Zhuang Yu immediately grabbed the basketball and turned around to see a familiar figure running quickly towards the front court. He did not delay and pushed with both hands, making a long pass to the ball to the front court.

"Beautifully passed on."

Westbrook turned his head to look at the flying basketball, secretly praised in his heart, reached out to grab the basketball, then took a step forward, took two steps forward and jumped up, making another explosive slam dunk.

With a bang, Westbrook slammed the basketball into the basket.

After this goal was scored, the score between the two sides was tied.

This made Coach Budenholzer frown and he quickly called a timeout.

After several players came off the court, he made some new arrangements but did not make any substitutions. The score was a bit tricky at this time and it was obviously not the time to make substitutions.

......

After the timeout, both sides returned to the court.

When Harden reached the frontcourt, he saw James asking him for the ball. He passed the ball and then signaled others to move away.

James decisively played a singles game, and it was his signature tank breakthrough.

Even Leonard couldn't stop the push, and James hit the rebound to help the Eastern team regain the lead.

However, after turning around and breaking through, Zhuang Yu passed the ball to Davis. Davis was standing in the low post on the left side. After receiving the ball, he made a jump shot facing James' defense.

This was a duel between two Clippers stars. Davis did not let up and directly used his height and wingspan to make a shot.

The score was tied again.

Such a tense score and such a wonderful game made the fans in the audience cheer with excitement.

This intense, competitive and tense game was obviously much more exciting than the first half.

......

A few more rounds passed in the blink of an eye.

The game between the two sides was still evenly matched and the score remained close, but now the Western team was leading, but only by two points.

At this time, the third quarter was already halfway through, and both sides began to gradually replace the players on the field with substitutes and entered the rotation time.

"Zhuang Yu was replaced."

"How many points? About thirty, right?"

"Well, Zhuang Yu has scored 34 points, in addition to 9 rebounds, 7 assists..."

In three quarters, Zhuang Yu had scored 34+9+7. In terms of scoring alone, it was still not the highest in the game. Antetokounmpo scored 36 points, but in terms of overall data, he was definitely the first in the game, and the most important thing was that he was extremely efficient.

Sitting on the sidelines and watching the game on the court, Zhuang Yu frowned slightly. After he, Davis and Westbrook were substituted, the Western team fell into a disadvantage again and was soon overtaken by the opponent.

Fortunately, even though the Eastern team had the upper hand, they did not have an overwhelming advantage, and the score between the two sides was still very tense.

"It seems that the winner can only be decided in the fourth quarter." Zhuang Yu said to himself, and turned his head to look at Davis, Westbrook, George and others.

Sensing his gaze, Westbrook turned around and said to Zhuang Yu, "I know you're not very interested in the MVP, but the game has come to this point. We can't give the victory to the Eastern Conference team. You still have to score more points in the fourth quarter."

Zhuang Yu was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that Westbrook could see what he was thinking. He smiled at Westbrook and nodded, "Okay."

Zhuang Yu was actually a little hesitant just now.

In the fourth quarter, should I try my best to score, or do a good job of defense and organization, and leave the scoring task to my teammates? I am not really interested in the MVP, but if I continue to score like this, it seems difficult not to win the MVP.

What will your teammates think at that time?

As for Zhuang Yu himself, he didn't care that much about what others thought of him, but he didn't want this to cause disharmony within the Western team and affect the game.

It would not be good if his teammates were not satisfied with his excessive shots and also wanted to win the MVP, and ended up in vicious competition, leading to the loss of the game.

Zhuang Yu doesn't want MVP, but he wants to win the game.

Zhuang Yu felt more at ease after hearing Westbrook say this.

At this time, George and Jokic also expressed their hope that Zhuang Yu could score more points in the fourth quarter and help them win the game.

Westbrook, George, and Jokic have all expressed their opinions, so Zhuang Yu naturally has no worries. Perhaps the rest of the people don't think so, but it doesn't matter.

With three people supporting me, the team will not be in chaos.