The intermission ends and the second quarter begins.

Liu Mang made his second appearance on the All-Star stage.

Playing with Liu Mang is still Jordan, as well as Maddy, Raheem, and Ben Wallace.

Because the Eastern lineup is really small enough, the serious interior line is O'Neal Jr., Ratliffe, Ben Wallace, the first half of the first quarter Ratliff played center, the second half of the second half of O'Neal Jr. played center, at that time the East troops were barely able to maintain a height disadvantage is not so big.

Now the lineup of the Eastern Army does not have a player above two meters and six.

The lineup of the Western Troops in the second quarter was terrifying, with Nash, Ray Allen, Kobe, Rashid Wallace, O'Neal.

Liu Mang was ready, and when he came up, he was ready to play without the ball.

But...... From the very beginning, the development of things was beyond Liu Mang's expectation that he was coming to replace the role of Ray Allen.

That's right, the coach arranged for him to play without the ball, but after Maddie sent the ball to him, he ran to the frontcourt, leaving Liu Mang alone for two seconds.

Depend on! Isn't the role of the master system Ray Allen?

Liu Mang advanced to the front court, and saw Maddie go to the bottom left corner as a three-point catcher pitcher waiting for the pass, Liu Mang was a little confused, and looked at Jordan in the middle distance of the 45-degree angle on the right side, Jordan pointed to the basket, tilted his head, and snorted towards Liu Mang, the goal is the basket, which means that the uncle is a little tired in the first quarter, you will top it for a while.

your lungs! Liu Mang didn't expect to come up to hold the ball at all, just now he worked hard to think about his running route for a long time, and he was ready to play without the ball, but he still came up with the ball?

In fact, this is mainly because Liu Mang basically has the ball in his hands in the Eagles, so Maddie doesn't know Liu Mang's off-ball ability, Maddie came up and gave the ball to Liu Mang in order not to make Liu Mang's performance so ugly.

Liu Mang was very surprised, and the western troops were also surprised, and Nash, who was placed in front of Liu Mang, felt a little cold in his heart.

What did Adelman just say? Doesn't that mean this kid will definitely be a pitcher in Carlisle's system, just like Hamilton this year? What's the difference with what you say?

However, Liu Mang's adaptability is very strong, and the way of playing with the ball is what he is good at and familiar with, and he immediately put it in, and the cat bends his waist and prepares to attack!

Watching Nash step small broken steps, it was called a helpless step, Liu Mang stepped to the left, slapped the ball to the ground with his right hand, and Nash immediately moved to the right...... Efforts were in vain.

Liu Mang received the ball with his left hand and slapped the ball, and easily broke through from the right side!

As soon as he burst to the free throw line, Kobe Bryant blocked up to make up for the defense, Liu Mang threw the ball to the right side, and Jordan was close to the 45-degree angle three-point line on the right side, and he took the ball two points long...... Hit!

Jordan was in good shape today, and he had scored 17 points on this mid-range shot.

Although Liu Mang didn't expect that he would still attack with the ball after coming up today, this style of play is obviously what he is best at.

On the whole, although the West is also serious, it is more focused on offense, and no matter what, this is also an All-Star, and only Kobe Bryant is actively covering and supplementing defense.

Liu Mang discovered this in the first round of Shangshang, and then he had an idea in his heart.

The offensive and defensive transitions, and the western troops attack.

Nash advanced to the frontcourt, Kobe asked for the ball, Nash was not greedy, he didn't have any status now, and immediately passed the ball to Kobe.

Kobe Bryant VS Maddy!

Defend Kobe! Maddie's sleepy eyes seemed to be a little wider, and she defended with all her might!

But Kobe Bryant deserves to be Kobe, after a feint, Maddie, who was defending with all his might, couldn't prevent it, and Kobe Bryant found a gap to hit the three-point line, squeezing that gap in Maddy's sticker defense to the inside, there was a big gap in Kobe's opinion to hit the basket, Ben Wallace hurried over to make up for the defense.

This is the difference between the East and the West, the East plays seriously, and the certification is defense, and Kobe Bryant Ma passes to O'Neal on the inside......

However, O'Neal thought that Kobe Bryant was about to shoot on defense as usual, and he had already turned around to grab the rebound.

He is ready to make up the dunk, because the inside line has been emptied, and Kobe Bryant can easily make up the dunk......

Bryant's pass went straight to Raheem, who was defending Rashid Wallace on the other side of the three-second zone.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, especially the OK combination.

Kobe Bryant thought to himself, I finally passed the ball, you actually went to grab the rebound!

O'Neal is also depressed, don't you usually say that you bastard don't pass the ball when you encounter an inside defense, you go in, and if you don't score, the shark can still grab a rebound and have an easy dunk at the same time? Why is it different from usual today?

The eastern troops took the lead in reacting, Liu Mang turned around and rushed towards the front court, Rahim reacted quickly, and immediately threw the ball towards Liu Mang, Liu Mang crossed the middle line when no one chased after him, and rushed to the front court to win two points with both hands after receiving the ball.

43-37, the Eastern Army leads by 6 points!

It was still the West Army attacking, Nash went back to the half court to push over, and wanted to pass to the big guy, but the big guy was arguing with O'Neal on the edge of the three-second zone from the middle distance of the baseline.

"How did you turn around? , don't you know about catching the ball? Bryant yelled at O'Neal.

"Aren't we usually all about you shooting and me grabbing rebounds? Who knew you could pass the ball? O'Neill roared back.

"Humph!" Kobe Bryant said that if I don't listen, I won't listen, it's your problem.

O'Neill also turned his head to the side, saying that he didn't want to see this little brother with stiff wings and disobedient little brother.

Nash is so confused, who is it passed on?

Ray Allen? This guy is in the bottom corner, Rasheed Wallace, is surrounded by Raheem, and since it is an All-Star weekend, Rasheed Wallace didn't bother to get the position, Nash is so weird, didn't he say that he wanted to play well?

Although Liu Mang was surprised that the contradiction of the OK combination had been exaggerated to such an extent, a ball could quarrel, but this was their chance, and they immediately went up to Nash, pressing Nash's ball control with his body, Nash didn't pay attention, he didn't expect the opponent to defend so the All-Star weekend, and Liu Mang slapped the ball off!

Liu Mang took the lead in pounce and hugged the ball!

Maddie came over to answer, Liu Mang passed the ball to Maddie, Maddie protected the ball and was not stealed by Ray Allen, who followed him, and the Western troops returned to defense in time this time, O'Neal and Kobe Bryant ran back angrily.

Liu Mang got up, Maddie gave him the ball again, Liu Mang didn't want to think so much this time, and dribbled and ran to the front court.

Jordan was going to give Liu Mang the space to open up and prepare to go to the bottom corner of the right side, because he was used to the middle distance, Kobe Bryant could easily wrap Liu Mang, but Liu Mang now had an idea, and pointed out to Jordan the position where Jordan stood at the beginning of the second quarter, Jordan did not hesitate, and immediately returned to the 45-degree angle mid-distance.

Jordan and Kobe, players who obviously have excellent organizational skills but use themselves as pure scorers, the biggest advantage is that even if they are the strength of the team or even the first person in the league, they are willing to play without the ball and are willing to obey the instructions of the team's tactical core, which is different from the role of all-round players who can't play without the ball.

Liu Mang continued to break through, and sure enough, Kobe Bryant immediately came over to make up for the defense after Liu Mang passed Nash, Liu Mang passed to Jordan again, Jordan has been preparing for a long time for today's last game, and he feels very good today, and he hits the ball again!

That's it!

The biggest problem in the West that Liu Mang found is the rotation defense, according to the conventional style of play, when Kobe Bryant goes to make up for Liu Mang, Nash should immediately switch to Jordan, the Lakers are like that, Kobe Bryant's defense is the strongest, and the outside line often changes defense to make up for it, and Fisher and Fox will immediately go to the person who leaked out when Kobe Bryant changed defense.

However, Nash doesn't have that defensive awareness, and the Mavericks' old Nelson doesn't emphasize that!

It's time for the Western Army to attack again, and after this quarrel, Kobe and O'Neal were ruthless, first O'Neal hit Ben Wallace directly into the basket on the offensive end and dunked one, and then in the second round, Kobe Bryant singled Maddie to make a mid-range strong shot.

However, Liu Mang's side played this kind of small-scale cooperation, Jordan also hit continuously, Nash and Ray Allen switched defenses and it was useless, but Ray Allen, who could have just had a wave of body with Maddie, left, Maddie got the opportunity to easily cut in the air, when Ray Allen, who was still defensive, went to make up for Jordan, Jordan passed a good ball to Maddy, who was cut to the basket, and Maddy cut to the basket to avoid O'Neal's outstretched giant arm to pick up the basket and score two points.

The East and West have entered a mutual explosion!

Not to mention, the strength of the west is really strong, only serious on the offensive end, and it can seriously compete with both offensive and defensive ends in the east.

Liu Mang didn't think so much about it now, from the expected no-ball play to holding the ball to break through the ball, and he couldn't change his position in this game, that is, he tried to open up the point difference a little bit in his playing time and create a better chance for the Eastern Army to win.

The game time passed minute by minute, played for a few minutes, and the east and west were changing players, Kobe Bryant was not replaced in the west, and Jordan was not replaced in the east.

Halfway through the second quarter, the Western Army called a timeout, and when Liu Mang left the game, the score was 63-54, and the difference was 9 points.

In the last attack before going off the court, Liu Mang hit a three-pointer on the outside and got 5 points and 4 assists.

Liu Mang has done his best, but today's head coach is not Coach Kruger of his own team, Liu Mang can only do his best, not all coaches are as tolerant as Coach Kruger and Assistant Coach Mike Woodson, he knows that Coach Carlisle is unhappy with him, and it is boring to propose future tactics that are suitable for this lineup's style of play, and he will end up with a reputation as a ball bully.

Moreover, the eastern troops were originally able to compete with the western troops until the last few seconds, and Liu Mang didn't do too many useless things, so he did his best to stretch the score to 9 points, and then, he could only trust his current teammates!

……

Except for a few minutes of regular performance of each All-Star in the second quarter, Liu Mang didn't get much playing time for the rest of the game, and after Liu Mang's ability to play with small details was gone, the Eastern Troops began to fight with the Western Troops again.

When Garnett returned to the court, Garnett and Kobe Bryant, two paranoid people, were present, and the Western team had two active defenders, who played better, and there was a certain threat on the defensive end, and the Eastern team played a little harder.

At halftime, the score was reduced to 72-76 by the Western Army, back to within five points.

But fortunately, the East Army also has Iverson, a scorer who can explode at any time, after the start of the second half, Iverson came up and scored 11 points in a row, Jordan is Jordan after all, even if it is Jordan who is 40 years old in two days, it is still Jordan, Iverson scored 11 points in a row and then hit 3 irons in a row, Jordan immediately went up to continue the score, scored 10 points in a row in the third quarter, and led the East Army to score 44 points in the third quarter together, and carried the trio of Kobe Bryant, Garnett, and Duncan in the third quarter, plus Nash, The crazy onslaught of the perfect combination of Peja's two pitchers.

At the end of the third quarter, the Eastern Army still led the West by 5 points at 120-115.

Liu Mang watched from the wall in the third quarter.

Bryant finished the third quarter with 19 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists, Garnett scored 30 points and 5 boards, O'Neal had 11 points and 15 boards, Jordan had 33 points and 4 boards, and Iverson had 29 points.

The rest of the data is scattered, which means that no matter what the final result is, basically the final MVP candidate falls into the hands of these five people.

There is no suspense in the East, as long as he wins, even if Jordan's data is a little worse, Jordan will win the MVP.

On the West side, it now looks like Kobe Bryant and Garnett are both likely, Garnett has a high score, and Garnett is most likely.

Things are still developing on the same trajectory as in history, after all, there are still a few main All-Stars in the East and West, and the three All-Stars of the Hawks this year have played 17 minutes, 9 minutes, and 7 minutes respectively, which does not have such a big impact on the situation.

In the fourth quarter, the two teams' offense continued, Liu Mang and Rahim were sitting on the sidelines, but Ratliff rotated with Ben Wallace at any time to go up to serve as the interior defensive gate.

At this time, the West Force began the final counteroffensive, and the West Force also began to attack and defend seriously, Duncan and Garnett's interior defensive combination was too strong, and the two No. 21s had the ability to be the best defensive player, and the inside line simply became a no-fly zone!

With 2 minutes and 30 seconds left in the game, relying on a mid-range shot from Garnett, the Western troops successfully tied the score!

155 flat!

Coach Carlisle calls a timeout!

It's too hard to fight!

The overall strength of the western troops is indeed too strong, if a player is taken out and compared with a player in the west, the eastern army may not be too bad, but the eastern army is top-heavy, there are only three people on the inside line, and there are a lot of outside lines.

And the inner and outer lines of the west are very balanced, with the overall strength of a team that is enough to overturn the dream, the two teams are not on the same level from the beginning, and it is a miracle to be able to play to this point!

When Liu Mang saw this scene coming out, he knew that the last possible brain-dead move of Little O'Neill was coming.

But at this time, Coach Carlisle suddenly made a bold decision: "Ace, Michael, Vince, Tracy, Sharif, you guys are on the field!" ”

Liu Mang didn't expect that he would have a chance to play at this time, especially in this lineup, what is Carlisle going to do? Liu Mang's whole person is not good!

Wait a minute! Coach, what about the inside? What about your steady coaching style?