Chapter 486 484. Tie!

The intermission is over, and the second quarter begins.

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

Playing with Liu Mang is still Jordan, McGrady, Raheem, and Ben Wallace.

Because the Eastern Conference lineup is really small enough, only Jermaine O'Neal, Ratliff, and Ben Wallace are serious insiders. Ratliff played center in the first half of the first quarter, and Jermaine O'Neal played center in the second half. Keep the height disadvantage not that big.

In the current Eastern Conference lineup, there is not a single player taller than 2.06 meters.

The lineup of the West team in the second quarter was terrifying, Nash, Ray Allen, Kobe, Rasheed Wallace, O'Neal.

Liu Mang is ready, ready to play off the ball after coming up.

But... the development of the matter was beyond Liu Mang's expectation from the very beginning that he thought he was replacing Ray Allen.

That's right, the coach arranged for him to play without the ball, but after McGrady sent him the ball, he ran to the front court by himself, leaving Liu Mang alone for two seconds.

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

Liu Mang advances to the frontcourt and sees McGrady going to the left corner to serve as a three-point catcher and shooter waiting for the pass. Liu Mang is a little confused. He looks at Jordan who is in the middle distance at a 45-degree angle on the right. Jordan points to the basket. He tilted his head and pouted his mouth towards Liu Mang, aiming at the basket, which means that the uncle is a little tired in the first quarter, so you should push it for a while.

Top your lungs! Liu Mang never thought that he would hold the ball when he came up. He had been thinking hard about his running route for a long time, and he was ready to play without the ball, but he still played with the ball when he came up?

In fact, this is mainly because Liu Mang basically has the ball in the hands of the Eagles, so McGrady doesn't know how Liu Mang's off-ball ability is. In order to prevent Liu Mang's performance from being so ugly, McGrady gave the ball to Liu Mang when he came up. .

Liu Reck was very surprised, and so was the Western Army. Nash, who was placed in front of Liu Reck, felt a little cold in his heart.

What did Adelman just say? Doesn't it mean that this kid will definitely be a pitcher in Carlisle's system, just like Hamilton this year? Why is it different from what you said?

However, Liu Mang's ability to adapt is very strong. The way of playing with the ball is what he is good at and familiar with.

Seeing Nash struggling to step on small steps, he was at a loss. Liu Mang took one step to the left, and slapped the ball with his right hand on the ground, and Nash immediately moved to the right... Efforts were in vain.

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

As soon as he got to the free throw line, Kobe blocked him to defend. Liu Mang flicked the ball to the right. Jordan was close to the 45-degree three-point line on the right. After catching the ball, he made a two-pointer...hit!

Jordan is in very good form today. He made a mid-range shot and has already scored 17 points.

Although Liu Mang didn't expect that he would still attack with the ball after coming up today, but 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. After all, this is an All-Star, and only Kobe is actively double-teaming and supplementing defense.

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

Offensive and defensive transition, Western troops attack.

Nash advances to the frontcourt, Kobe wants the ball, and Nash is not greedy for credit. He has no status now, so he immediately passes the ball to Kobe.

Kobe VS McGrady!

Defend Kobe! McGrady's sleepy eyes seemed to widen a little, and he defended with all his might!

But Kobe deserves to be Kobe. After a fake move, McGrady, who was defending with all his strength, couldn't defend against him. Kobe found a gap and rushed to the three-point line. It seems that there is a large gap to hit the basket, and Ben Wallace hurried over to defend.

This is the difference between the east and the west. The east is serious about playing, and what is certified is defense. Kobe immediately passed to O'Neal on the inside...

However, O'Neal thought that Kobe was about to shoot against the defense as usual, and he turned around to grab a rebound.

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

Bryant's pass went straight to Raheem, who was guarding Rasheed Wallace on the other side of the paint.

Everyone was taken aback for a moment, especially the OK group.

Kobe thought to myself that I, Kobe, managed to pass the ball, and you actually went to grab a rebound!

O'Neill is also depressed. Usually, you bastard, you say that you will never pass the ball when you encounter an inside defense, and you will score if you score. If you don't score, the Sharks can grab a rebound and dunk easily at the same time? Why are you playing differently today than usual?

The East team reacted first, Liu Wei turned around and rushed towards the frontcourt. Raheem also reacted quickly, and immediately threw the ball towards Liu Wei. Go to the frontcourt and score two points with a light dunk with both hands.

43 to 37, the Eastern team leads by 6 points!

It was still the western team attacking. Nash went back to the half court and wanted to pass to the boss of Ke, but the boss of Ke was arguing with O'Neal on the edge of the three-second zone in the middle distance of the baseline.

"How did you turn around just now? Don't you know when you catch the ball?" Kobe yelled at O'Neal.

"Aren't we usually you shooting and I rebounding? Who knew you could pass?" O'Neal yelled back.

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

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

Nash is so confused, to whom?

Ray Allen? This guy is in the bottom corner, Rasheed Wallace, and was surrounded by Raheem. Since it was the All-Star Weekend, Rasheed Wallace didn't bother to ask for it. Nash is strange, not saying that Are you playing well?

Although Liu Mang was amazed that the contradictions of the OK team had been exaggerated to such an extent that they could quarrel with each other, this was their opportunity. They immediately stepped up to defend Nash, using their bodies to oppress Nash's possession of the ball. Pay attention, I didn't expect the opponent to defend so hard during the All-Star Weekend, and the ball was dropped by Liu Mang!

Liu Mang was the first to jump forward and hug the ball!

McGrady came over to respond, Liu Mang passed the ball to McGrady, McGrady protected the ball and was not intercepted by Ray Allen who followed.

Liu Mang got up, and McGrady gave him the ball again. Liu Mang didn't think so much this time, and ran forward with the dribble.

Jordan originally wanted to open space for Liu Mang and was going to the right corner, because Kobe could easily double-team Liu Mang if he was in the middle distance he is used to, but now Liu Mang has an idea and pointed out to Jordan. Look at the position Jordan stood at the beginning of the second quarter. Without hesitation, Jordan immediately returned to the middle distance at a 45-degree angle.

Players like Jordan and Kobe who clearly have excellent organizational skills but use themselves as pure scorers, the biggest advantage is that they are willing to play off the ball and obey the team even if they are the best in the team or even in the league. The command of the tactical core is different from the role of an all-around player who cannot play himself without the ball.

Liu Reck continued to break through. Sure enough, after Liu Reck passed Nash, Kobe immediately came to defend him. Liu Reck passed to Jordan again. Jordan had been preparing for today's last game for a long time. The ball hits again!

This is it!

Liu Wei discovered that the biggest problem in the West is rotation defense. According to the conventional style of play, when Kobe goes to defend Liu Wei, Nash should immediately switch to Jordan. The Lakers are like that. Kobe is the strongest defensively. Switch defenses frequently, and both Fisher and Fox will immediately go to the person Kobe leaked when he switched defenses.

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

It’s the West’s offense again. After the quarrel, Kobe and O’Neal got angry. First, O’Neal slammed Ben Wallace directly into the basket and forced a dunk. Then in the second round, Kobe singled McGrady in the middle distance. Forced one.

However, Liu Mang played this kind of small-scale cooperation here, and Jordan also hit consecutively. It was useless for Nash and Ray Allen to switch defenses. When Ray Allen, who is still defensively conscious, went to defend Jordan, Jordan passed a good pass to McGrady, who cut to the basket to avoid O'Neal's outstretched arms. Picked the basket and scored two points.

East and West have entered a mutual explosion!

Needless to say, the strength of the West is really too strong. It is only serious on the offensive end, and it can seriously compete with the East on both offense and defense.

Liu Mang didn't think too much about it now. He changed from playing without the ball as he expected to breaking through and scoring with the ball, and it didn't change his positioning in this game. The point difference is widened a little, creating a better chance for the Eastern team to win.

The game time passed by minute by minute, and after a few minutes of playing, both the east and west were changing players. In the west, Kobe was not replaced, and in the east, Jordan was not replaced.

Halfway through the second quarter, the western team called a timeout. When Liu Mang left the court, the score was 63 to 54, with a 9-point difference.

In the last attack before leaving the field, Liu Mang scored a three-pointer from the outside line, scored 5 points and 4 assists, and ended the game.

Liu Mang has tried his best, but today's head coach is not coach Kruger of his own team. All Liu Mang can do is to do his best. Not all coaches are as good as Coach Kruger and Mike Wood. Assistant Coach Sen is also so tolerant of himself. He knows that Coach Carlisle has always been unhappy with him. To propose any future tactics suitable for this lineup is to ask for no fun, and it will also give him a reputation as a ball bully.

Moreover, the eastern team was able to compete with the western team until the last few seconds. Liu Wei didn't do too many useless things, so he tried his best to pull the score to 9 points. I can trust my current teammates!

...

Except for a few minutes of every All-Star's regular performance in the second quarter, Liu Wei didn't get much playing time in the rest of the game. After Liu Wei's style of play that was good at using small details was gone, the Eastern team began to fight the Western team again. strength.

When Garnett from the Western team came back on the court, Garnett and Kobe were paranoid. The Western team had two active defenders and played better. The defensive end also had a certain threat. The Eastern team played well. It's a little tougher.

After halftime, the score was narrowed to 72 to 76 by the Western team, returning to within 5 points.

But fortunately, the Eastern team also has Iverson, a scorer who can explode at any time. After the second half started, Iverson scored 11 points in a row. It was Jordan. After Iverson scored 11 points in a row, he hit 3 irons. Jordan immediately stepped up to continue scoring. He scored 10 points in a row in the third quarter. Together with Iverson, he led the Eastern team to a single quarter The high score of 44 points, withstood the crazy impact of the perfect combination of Kobe, Garnett and Duncan in the third quarter plus the perfect combination of two pitchers, Nash and Peja.

After three quarters, the Eastern team still leads the Western Conference by 5 points 120 to 115.

Liu Mang watched from the wall in the third quarter.

Kobe scored 19 points, 7 rebounds and 9 assists after three quarters, Garnett scored 30 points and 5 rebounds, O'Neal scored 11 points and 15 rebounds, Jordan scored 33 points and 4 rebounds, and Iverson scored 29 points.

Other people's data are scattered, that is to say, no matter what the final result is, basically the final MVP candidates fall into the hands of these five people.

There is no suspense here in the East. As long as they win, even if Jordan's statistics are worse, Jordan will get the MVP.

In the west, it seems that both Kobe and Garnett are possible. Garnett has a high score, and Garnett is the most likely.

Things are still developing on the same trajectory as in history. After all, the main All-Stars in the East and West are still those few. This year, the three All-Stars of the Eagles played 17 minutes, 9 minutes, and 7 minutes respectively. It has no impact on the situation. so big.

In the fourth quarter, the confrontation between the two teams continued. Liu Mang and Raheem were sitting on the sidelines, but Ratliff would rotate with Ben Wallace at any time to act as the gate of the inside defense.

At this time, the West team started the final counterattack, and the West team also began to seriously attack and defend. The inside defensive combination of Duncan and Garnett is too strong. Both No. 21s have the ability to be the best defensive player. No-fly zone!

When there were 2 minutes and 30 seconds left in the game, relying on Garnett's mid-range shot, the West team successfully tied the score!

155 flat!

Coach Carlisle calls a timeout!

It's too hard to fight!

The overall strength of the Western team is indeed too strong. If one player by one player is compared with each player in the Western Conference, the Eastern team may not be much worse, but the Eastern team is top-heavy. There are only three players on the inside and one player on the outside. a lot.

The Western Conference is very balanced inside and outside, and has the overall strength enough to overthrow the Dream Team. The two teams have not been on the same level since the beginning. It is already a miracle that they can play to this point!

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

But at this time, coach Carlisle suddenly made a bold decision: "Ace, Michael, Allen, Tracy, Sheriff, you all go on the field!"

Liu Mang never thought that he would still have a chance to play at this time, especially with this lineup, what on earth is Carlisle going to do? Liu Mang's whole body is not well!

etc! Coach, where's the insider? What about your steady coaching style?

It's Xiaofeng's fault that there is an emergency, and I'm still busy this afternoon.