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Chapter 90 The Star Among the Stars
Vince Carter is a shooter who was delayed by dunks, because his dunks were so impressive, especially in the 2000 dunk contest. Le Dao's classics also earned him the title of captain.

In fact, Carter can shoot three-pointers and break through the ball. If you don't look at his poor defense, he is actually a very good all-around fighter.

Sanders put him and James on the court together, just to fight for three-pointers with the Western All-Stars, and the three Pistons players are responsible for defense.

James stood up at a critical moment and hit a three-pointer on the first offense in the fourth quarter, which opened the prelude to the Eastern All-Stars chasing points.

James's three-point shooting action is very standard, almost exactly the same as Kobe's three-point shooting. His buttocks slightly tilted, he raised his hand to aim, and at the same time he jumped up and shook his wrist to throw the ball.

The movements are standard, but his strong body and explosive muscles have greatly affected his touch. Even at the end of his career, James' three-pointers can only be regarded as watchable, and cannot become a stable scoring method. The game with the highest field goal percentage of his career was only 12 of 8.

The starting five in the West, Yao Ming, Duncan, Tracy McGrady, Kobe and Nash, facing the Eastern All-Stars suddenly raised their defensive intensity to the playoff level, the Western All-Stars obviously couldn't adapt.

And they are still leading by a large score now, and they are playing a little relaxed.

McGrady received a pass from Kobe and missed the three-point line.

Rasheed Wallace grabbed the rebound and immediately launched a fast break. Vince Carter caught the ball halfway, rushed to the basket, threw the ball high, and LeBron James completed a beautiful alley-oop.

Yao Ming, who was willing to be a green leaf in this game, has completely relaxed his body and is a bit unaccustomed to this kind of intense confrontation. He didn't take much advantage in the head-to-head confrontation with Ben Wallace.

Rasheed Wallace saw the opportunity and immediately came up to double-team. Yao Ming wanted to pass the ball to Duncan, but the intention was too obvious and was intercepted by Rasheed Wallace.

The Eastern team launched a fast break again, LeBron James reciprocated, and gave the ball to Carter who was open. Carter caught the ball, aimed at the basket, and made a shot.

In a short period of time, the Eastern All-Stars played an 8:0, reducing the difference between the two sides to less than ten.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Kobe immediately took over the ball, broke through Carter's defense, and hit a mid-range jumper, barely stabilizing the situation for the West.

But Sanders showed his own tactical level. Under his arrangement, the Eastern All-Stars played running and bombing. Yao Ming's slow moving speed could not deal with these rushing beasts, and he could not only turn back on the court Run, and it's almost useless.

Duncan is also not much better. After his serious injury in 2000, the omnipotent "flying bat" Duncan has long been a floor player, and he can't keep up with the fast-paced game.

Relying on James' superb outside performance and the spared no effort of the three Pistons' defense, the Eastern All-Stars quickly narrowed the gap.

The western side couldn't adapt for a while, only Kobe barely scored points, but the efficiency was not very high.

At 7 minutes into the fourth quarter, the East finally narrowed the point difference to one point. Kobe saw that something was wrong and asked for a timeout.

Johnson's inexperience was at fault, and no one knew why he wasn't allowed to play late.

But Kobe called the timeout very timely. After a brief discussion, the Western Conference All-Stars allowed Yao Ming and Duncan, who were unable to play a role, to rest, and Garnett, who was late, came off the bench.

Kevin Garnett doesn't like to play center, but the center of the Eastern team is Ben Wallace, who happened to be restrained by Garnett's style of play, not to mention the late three-pointer, his shooting percentage alone, It is already his greatest weapon.

The effect of this substitution was immediate. Billups did not dare to relax his guard against late arrivals. He almost completely gave up organizing the offense and focused all his energy on the defensive end.

Without his offensive combing, the rhythm of the Eastern All-Stars was immediately messed up. The Western All-Stars still spared no effort to provide off-ball screens for late arrivals. , If you score the ball late, the Western All-Stars will get a better shot.

Relying on the late containment, the Western All-Stars quickly stabilized their position and slowly opened the score again.

The Eastern All-Star team did not call a timeout, the players made their own adjustments, and LeBron James was responsible for marking late arrivals!

James is only 21 years old this year and has amazing athletic ability. When facing lateness, he also has an overall advantage in physical fitness.

Moreover, the Eastern All-Star team copied Zhuge Weiqi's first tactic, and James held the ball to find him late to fight, trying to consume his physical strength.

Late is very aware of his weaknesses, and deliberately let go of James by a step and a half away, almost calling James to shoot directly.

But James is also very aware that his shooting ability is not very good, and he still forcibly breaks through to find him late.

Being late can't stop LeBron James' tank-style breakthrough at all, so he had to move aside as much as possible to let other players inside have a headache.

In order to get an excuse for being late, Kevin Garnett fought hard today. He confronted James head-on many times. With the advantage of height and wingspan, Garnett still has a slight advantage.

After all, this is an All-Star team, not the Rockets who were late to lead the team with a single core. Any teammate is trustworthy. The idea of ​​​​the Eastern All-Stars is a bit simple.

On the other hand, for the All-Stars in the Western Conference, when LeBron James was in charge of marking the late arrivals, Kobe got more chances to single out Carter.

Although both of them are one of the four major shooting guards, Carter's defensive ability is simply not worth mentioning. He was successfully singled by Kobe many times, but failed to limit him.

The All-Stars in the Eastern Conference are caught in a dilemma. Double-teaming Kobe will inevitably make other players open, but if they don't double-team him, they may be beaten to death by Kobe again.

In this dilemma, Kobe scored consecutive points and continued to fire for the Western Conference All-Stars.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Sanders made adjustments again, replacing Ben Wallace and Rasheed Wallace with a combination of O'Neal and Wade, and LeBron James cameo power forward.

Before the start of this year's All-Star Game, O'Neal said in an interview with the media: "I am old, but in this league, only Yao Ming can be my opponent, and the others are not qualified."

He fulfilled his promise. When facing Kevin Garnett, O'Neal showed terrifying dominance at the basket. Wade cooperated with him skillfully and sent many passes, allowing O'Neal to continuously beat Garnett. success.

The Western All-Star team also made adjustments in tactical focus. Garnett increased the off-ball pick-and-roll with lateness. After James changed to power forward, there was no way to follow up lateness. As long as O'Neal refused to come out to defend the pick-and-roll, lateness would immediately You can get a shooting opportunity.

Even if O'Neal follows, Garnett can also get a shot with better movement speed and beautiful mid-to-long-range shots.

Not to mention, the combination of Garnett and Late has produced unexpected results.

O'Neal was lazy and didn't keep up for the first time. Kobe immediately gave the ball to Late, and Late, under the cover of Garnett, opened his hand and shot with one shot.

After the goal was scored, Garnett seemed more excited than he scored the goal, and slapped his hands hard: "My good brother, you should play like this, and use your precise shots to hit them back."

Poor Garnett, after shaking hands with Late, has gradually become a dog licking trend.

O'Neal played 3 minutes on the court, the effect was mediocre, and Sanders replaced him again.

Allen Iverson also came up to play for a while, but he was in extremely poor form today. All other players shot more than 50% from the field. Only Iverson shot less than 40% from the field today. In addition, Rasheed Wallace was also 6 today. In 1, the efficiency is extremely low.

It can only be said that there is no one who can hit this kind of shooting rate in the All-Stars.

Seeing that Iverson was too inefficient, Sanders quickly replaced him, which caused "Answer" to be very dissatisfied and felt that he had been humiliated.

On the other hand, the Western Conference All-Star team was united. Except for Pau Gasol who did not play in the fourth quarter due to illness, the other players all came up to play for a while. Only late and Kobe remained on the court, unmoved.

Both the commentator and the audience have already seen that the Western All-Stars actually have two core points, one is Kobe and the other is late!

With the precise three-pointer, Sanders, the coach of the Pistons, did not dare to take a late shot. This gave Kobe a lot of single-handed opportunities, and he is in good condition today, and his shooting percentage is quite high.

Although the Eastern All-Stars were not reconciled, with the tacit cooperation of Kobe and Late, the Western All-Stars finally won 146:132.

迟到表现出色，总共出场19分钟，三分球18中13，砍下39分2篮板3助攻。

Bryant's performance was also brilliant, he scored 18 points, 6 rebounds and 16 assists, 13 of which were given late.

In the end, David Stern announced that the star of the 2006 NBA All-Star Game was jointly won by guard Late from the Houston Rockets and shooting guard Kobe Bryant from the Los Angeles Lakers.

This is a happy ending. This year, Kobe's scoring average per game is very violent, but he also used this All-Star Game to prove that he can also be a teammate.

Being late as today's host, it is only natural to get the AMVP with excellent data.

The only one who is unhappy is probably the Chinese media. Many media are saying that Yao Ming has become a supporting role and suffered "humiliation under the crotch" or something, and they take the All-Star Game too seriously.

As for the fact that the media doesn't mention the lateness very much - for some reasons, I can't explain it in detail.

(End of this chapter)