One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighteen. The Most Serious All-Star Game in History

That is to say, the players of the Eastern team are all All-Star players, so they can have a calm mind after the Western team scored 9 points in such a crazy 1 minute.

From Curry receiving the pass from Sun Ce and hitting a three-pointer in the bottom corner to Curry receiving the pass from Sun Ce and hitting a three-pointer, it took only 58 seconds!

Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, Curry, and James... This didn't give James a chance to play, and these three brothers had already made the Eastern team explode.

But they didn't give up. They only played for 7 minutes in the first quarter. If they gave up at this time, their All-Stars would not be selected as All-Stars by fans and head coaches of each team.

Although each fan and head coach of each team has different requirements for All-Stars, there is one thing that is the most basic. If this player is a player who gives up easily and has no competitive spirit, no matter how talented he is, there is not much possibility of him entering the All-Stars. The eyes of the public are still sharp.

These All-Stars either didn't intend to compete for anything from the beginning. There are several such players in the Eastern team. They themselves are surprised that they are selected as All-Stars. They are not the kind of players who can be selected as All-Stars all year round. They just come to hang out.

But the players who are ready to compete with the Western team will never back down because of these three three-pointers, although they are really surprised by the connection between Sun Ce and Curry.

Neither team made any substitutions. It only took more than a minute to play. The Eastern team's offense was not bad. It lost one of the three goals. The Western team had no need to make any substitutions. This lineup was just arranged.

After the timeout, the Eastern team proved one thing with practical actions-they are all All-Stars too!

After adjusting their mentality by the timeout, the Eastern team played a stable offense. This style of play allowed them to slowly tighten the score and even have a tendency to catch up.

Indeed, the Eastern team's lineup is more like a regular team. Using a group of All-Stars to play a regular game, the strength can only be described as amazing.

Sun Ce, Klay Thompson, and Curry all had good touches today, but they were not hot. The Eastern team played steadily and after enduring the period when the three players were soaring, they began to take the initiative with their overall strength.

This is something the Western team can't do. They need to hold on! Hold on until Coach Hollins replaces Aldridge, Duncan and other inside players who can really play center.

After the first quarter, the Western team led the Eastern team 45-42 and entered the intermission.

In the last 5 minutes of the first quarter, the Western team made personnel adjustments. Durant replaced Curry, Harden replaced James, Nowitzki replaced Love, and Paul George replaced Klay Thompson, trying to ensure the consistency of Sun Ce's teammates' characteristics, so that the Western team could hold on in the first quarter.

In the first quarter, Sun Ce played for 12 minutes and scored 16 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists. Curry alone contributed 3 assists to Sun Ce, James had an empty-dunk, and Klay Thompson had a long two-pointer.

On the Eastern team side, Paul and Griffin played the best. Paul scored 9 points and 3 assists, and Griffin played the entire first quarter and scored 14 points.

After entering the second quarter, Sun Ce was also replaced. Westbrook and Durant played with Klay Thompson, Love, and Aldridge for a while.

The main reason is that all 12 All-Stars have to play once. In terms of playing style, Coach Hollins doesn't want to replace Westbrook for a long time.

Although Westbrook will average a triple-double again this season, his role on the court is a weakened version of James, and he is more sticky than James.

Look, Westbrook still rushed in with the ball against the Eastern team. In the first half of the second quarter, the Eastern team replaced Millsap and Gasol in the interior, and Teague, Rose, and Korver in the outside. Facing the defense of Rose + Twin Towers, Westbrook organized the offense and played very badly.

Because the Eastern team defended very seriously!

On the other hand, the Eastern team relied on team play to achieve very high offensive efficiency. The running-in period of a team's chemical reaction may be very long, but it is usually difficult for role players to integrate into the new team play, while stars are different. If there is no internal conflict in the team or the stars have irreparable defects in their personal skills, otherwise the stars can usually integrate together.

Most of the players in the Eastern team are team players. Even Rose and Griffin have team player attributes in the double-kill play. Before the game, they temporarily asked Eastern coach Budenholzer to practice the Spurs system of the Hawks. It may be quite different from the original version, but the cooperation is in good shape and powerful!

In more than 5 minutes, the Western team only scored 16 points, while the Eastern team scored 23 points!

When the official timeout was entered again, the Western team, which had a slight lead in the first quarter, was overtaken!

61 to 65, the Western team fell behind by 4 points and entered the official timeout in the second quarter.

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Westbrook was replaced. Sun Ce felt that Westbrook's appearance in the All-Star Game this time was over. He played very badly.

It's not that Westbrook is not good, but the Eastern Conference team composed of 12 All-Star players cannot be penetrated by Westbrook alone. He plays in his own style and can't deal with a team composed of serious All-Star players.

No matter how good his teammates are, it's useless, because when playing with him, when he plays hard, most of his teammates can only shoot after receiving the ball, and the function of his teammates has become extremely role-playing.

However, Westbrook had to play in the past few minutes, and Sun Ce knew this very well.

There was nothing he could do even though he was 4 points behind. Sun Ce played so hard in the first quarter, and he was mentally prepared for this. He saw the Eastern team playing so seriously in the first quarter, and he knew that Westbrook, who was overconfident in his own strength and had the highest ball possession rate in the league for several consecutive years, would have problems when he played.

After the intermission, the two teams made adjustments and the game continued.

On the Western team side, Sun Ce and Klay Thompson, James, Duncan, and Aldridge were replaced.

On the Eastern team side, Evans, Korver, Hayward, Millsap, and Gasol were replaced.

Players from both teams were very afraid of the other team's lineup.

The Eastern team knew that the Western team wanted to regain the initiative before the half-time break, and they felt that the Western team had the strength to do so.

Duncan plus Aldridge can be regarded as the enhanced version of Duncan and Split. With the two great pitchers of the Splash Brothers and James as the core organizer of the pick-and-roll offense, the offensive fit can be comparable to the Eastern team in good shape.

On the defensive end, Sun Ce, James, Duncan... King bomb! If Chandler replaced Anthony Davis to be selected as an All-Star, then King bomb can hardly describe the defensive combination of the Western team.

Coach Hollins has not used Duncan, not because of any care for the veteran, but because of Duncan's physical strength. He needs Duncan to have enough physical strength to play the best state and use the good knife on the blade.

Sure enough, after this timeout, the Western team quickly regained the initiative!

This time it was not based on Sun Ce's 3 three-pointers in a single quarter, nor on the three-point explosion of the Splash Brothers trio, but the overall strength that overwhelmed the Eastern team!

Sun Ce, James, Duncan, Aldridge, who plays center and has above-average defense, and Klay Thompson, who is one of the best in the league in defense against off-ball, caused the Eastern team to have an offensive gap.

At 8:27 in the second quarter, the Eastern team still led the Western team by 3 points, 74 to 71, but from 8:27 after the Eastern team scored to 10:59, more than two and a half minutes, the Eastern team did not score a single goal in the running game!

During this period, the Western team played a wild defensive performance!

Duncan's close-range defense and switch defense on the outside pick-and-roll; James and Klay Thompson's pressure defense on the outside, chasing off-ball and switching defense; plus Sun Ce's defensive replacement in the middle and close distances, and the fact that he is a point guard who can make up for the outside very well, the Eastern team played 0 of 5 shots in two and a half minutes! Only 3 points were scored by free throws.

During this period, the Western team scored 12 points by pick-and-roll cutting + reverse running to catch the ball and shoot!

83 to 77, when the East team called a timeout, the West team had already overtaken by 6 points!

This wave was too fierce! The West team regained the initiative!

It was useless to call a timeout, the West team's lineup had already soared, and both offense and defense were soaring!

At the end of the first half, the West team led the East team by 10 points with 97 to 87 and entered the halftime break!

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With 97 points in the first half, the West team set a new record for the highest half-time score in the history of the All-Star Game. The previous record for the highest half-time score was 94 points!

In the second quarter, the West team scored 53 points in a single quarter, and also created a new All-Star single-quarter scoring record. The previous single-quarter scoring record was 49 points.

If it weren't for the fact that West team's scoring efficiency was not very good during Westbrook's time, after both sides were completely in the state after the first quarter, the West team might have scored more than 100 points in the first half!

Sun Ce played for 19 minutes in the first half, 10 of 14 shots, including 4 of 6 three-pointers, plus 3 of 4 free throws, and scored 27 points, 4 rebounds and 7 assists in the first half. James played for 14 minutes in the first half and scored 6 points and 10 assists. The two had 17 assists in the first half, and the entire Western team had 29 assists in the first half! This also broke the previous All-Star Game record of 27 assists in the first half!

Back in the locker room, Sun Ce felt a little regretful. If he could score one more three-pointer, he could score over 100 points in the first half. He remembered that in the original time and space, the Western team had scored over 100 points in the first half in 2017.

However, although they played harder in this All-Star Game and had better offensive coordination, it may be the most team-like one in the history of the All-Star Game, and it may even be the strongest strength shown in the history of the All-Star Game, but the opponent also defended seriously, and they were more or less restricted.

The game has reached this point. Sun Ce took the clean jersey prepared by the NBA officials and walked to the bathroom. He took a shot of physical potion and changed his jersey!

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