Chapter 408: New Piston Five Tigers

The West has been pressing the East, and in the second quarter, after Nash and Nowitzki played together, they cried a generation of Dallas cowboy fans. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The world is so wonderful, when looking back, many of the parting ways at that time have become a kind of difficult feelings.

Then Carter and Bosh teamed up again, Kobe Bryant completed a pull-up layup in front of O'Neal's defense, and the camera turned, all of which are classic images.

Parker hit two consecutive layups to give the Western All-Stars a 70-53 lead over the Eastern All-Stars, Maddy scored a game-high 17 points in the first half, and James' 12 points were the highest in the East.

Young, who scored eight points in the first half but grabbed nine rebounds, was the most statistic among Western stars other than Maddy.

The Western stars are all players with high emotional intelligence, and when they saw that Maddie was in good shape and was at Houston's home court, they took the initiative to play Maddie.

Of course, the main reason is because everyone knows that Maddie has recently encountered a sad incident, his 68-year-old mother-in-law Arroyo Harris has become sicker, and over the years, Maddie has been separated from his relatives, which has hit him hard, and even mentally far beyond ordinary pressure, before the All-Star break, Maddie also missed some games. Maddie and his girlfriend Cleenda Harris have always had a good relationship, and he doesn't want to see the death of a loved one.

Yang Di also learned about Maddie from Yao Ming not long ago, and felt very sympathetic for him, so he also helped him to perform, and winning the victory and MVP was the greatest encouragement for him.

After the start of the second half, Maddie continued his hot form, hitting two goals in a row, the second of which was forced under Carter's defense.

The West led by 21 points at 74-53.

The eastern star obviously felt that his face was dull, and he couldn't be beaten by the all-stars in the west like this, right? So after that, I stepped up my offense and hit consecutive shots. Wade made a high lob in an attack, James caught the ball in the air and glided for some distance, and the one-handed tomahawk slashed, and the two worked together exquisitely to win a full round of applause.

In the confrontation between Yao Ming and O'Neal, he turned around and dunked and caused O'Neal to foul.

Yang Di hit a low-post turnover jumper and scored his 10th point.

After that, the West continued to make mistakes, and the East seized the opportunity to fight back, James hit a three-pointer to close the gap to just six points, and then the East lined up Billups, Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace, Ben Wallace and James to form a new Pistons Five.

In this lineup, there are four players who have been playing together all year round, and they have a tacit understanding and eye contact to know the position of their teammates.

And under this lineup, James only needs to be responsible for full offense, defense, rebounding and organization, and others can do it completely, plus Billups and Hamilton's accurate outside projection, Rasheed Wallace opens up space in the middle distance, James is a perfect fit for this lineup.

"What's that feeling?"

James himself is also dumb in his heart, the head coach of the Eastern Stars, Pistons' coach Philip Sanders' eyes lit up, if the Pistons really got James, with this lineup, how could they lose to the Spurs last year? No, there's no way they're going to lose, at least three or five championships, until Ben Wallace and the rest of Ben Wallace get old and they're out of shape.

The more the defense is effective, the more momentum the Eastern troops are even more imposing, Ben Wallace even covered Nowitzki with two hats, covering the most difficult player to defend with an embarrassed face, and he didn't expect the East to come for real.

At the end of the third quarter, the West led by only two points at 97-94 in the East.

Yang Di and the players in the west were a little angry, why did they suddenly want to fight for this victory? Obviously ready to give the MVP to Maddie.

James' eyes released a look of expectation, and he coveted the MVP trophy. He also didn't touch the MVP level, and unlike Yang Di, he didn't have the opportunity to chase the most valuable player in the regular season this year, and the championship was even more hopeless, and among the three major MVP trophies, it was obvious that the All-Star Game MVP was easier to obtain.

He wants to be the first player in '03 to win the MVP, and he wants to have that honor.

So at this time, he was the first player to go all out, and he was heading for the MVP goal.

"Coach, change us."

Bryant was also a little irritated and stared at De Anthony and said.

De Anthony thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, and at the same time, replaced Youngdy, Maddy and others on the court at the same time, plus Garnett and Byron Davis.

Byron and Yang Di appeared together, and now that everyone is serious about the game, the west has also begun to do some simple tactical runs.

It's just that because Maddie and Kobe are used to holding the ball, the two fell to the flanks and waited for Byron Davis to share the ball, Byron Davis looked for Yang Di to block and dismantle, and the two worked together tacitly to complete a high-quality block, and Davis passed Arenas, the eastern point guard at this time.

Byron Davis then broke through to the box and crossed with Jandy in front of the defending O'Neal.

Yang Di flew up and was about to dunk, but was pressed down by O'Neal, who stepped forward in advance, and O'Neal fouled Yang Di and sent Yang Di to the free throw line.

Once the two sides are in full swing, the pace of the game is relatively slow, with fewer turnovers, more physical confrontations, and more fouls.

They are all superstars in the league, and it is difficult for each other to guard against each other.

Kobe Bryant and O'Neal exchanged hands, and O'Neal's turning dunk was covered by Kobe Bryant, who helped defend him, but the referee also blew Kobe's foul.

"Beautifully defended!"

Yang Di reached over and high-fived Kobe.

Both are highly motivated defensive players, and Bryant is like a poisonous snake on the court, not only on the offensive end, but also on the defensive end, he and his teammates are required to do their best.

Yang Di's attitude is exactly in line with his temper, and the more he looks at Yang Di, the more pleasing it is.

O'Neal hit both free throws, and at this point it became Yang Di to defend him at the No. 5 position.

The East overtook the score at this time, and Yang Di and Maddy made a gesture to do an outside block with him.

After Maddie held the ball in one hand, Yang Di came out.

James defends Maddie alone, retreats to defend, defends without shooting, and defends a superstar like this, he knows very well in his heart that he can only pinch one thing, and what he bets on is that Maddie's hand will decline at this time.

Maddie saw James retreat and pulled a jumper.

The arc of the basketball is very flat, and it bounces high after smashing in the back.

After James heard the sound of "bell", he was overjoyed that the East was widening the score gap.

At this moment, Yang Di appeared on the route of the rebounding ball, as if he had known that the basketball was going to bounce in that direction, jumped high in the run, took the lead in the rebounding scramble with Bosh, and grabbed the rebound with one hand.

Bryant cut in, and Yang Di hit the ball to the ground.

Kobe Bryant dribbled and jumped out of the three-second zone for a near-flat dunk.

"It's good." Kobe Bryant pointed to Yang Di, who had retreated, and signaled that he was very comfortable with the ball.

Yang Di became the most active person in the Western Army at this time, grabbing the frontcourt rebound is to create opportunities for All-Star players, and every opportunity can be grasped to recover the score and even regain the advantage.

Maddie hit a three-pointer to give the West a three-point lead at 110-107 in the East.

By this time, Maddie had scored more than 30 points, the highest scorer in the game, and as long as the Western All-Star wins, he is a well-deserved MVP.