Chapter 295 The Decisive Battle of the New Center King

Fight again in the second quarter.

The All-Star game truly returned to its original flavor, with both sides doing their best and performing frantic attacks on each other. The score climbed rapidly, and it was far from as anxious as the first quarter. But even so, compared with the dark and bloody first quarter of the game, the atmosphere of the fans, including the live audience, had a mediocre response, just like the inevitable after the climax...sage mode?

In the East, Ewing, Coleman, Wilkins, Mark Price and Jordan are always present.

In the West, Olajuwon, Rodman, Mitch Richmond, Danny Manning, and Drexler, the glider who is also always present.

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Inside the two sides, Ewing + Coleman teamed up to fight against Dameng + Rodman.

Because of the two conflicts, Ewing's mentality was a bit broken. He was suppressed by the big dream and was repeatedly exploded. Even Coleman was extremely anxious and felt cold.

On the other hand, Dameng, because Li Shengli and O'Neal played eye-catchingly, as seniors, they naturally could not fall behind, and regardless of whether they needed to save face for their opponents, they burst into full form against Ewing.

As for Rodman... No one on Li Shengli's side was present, so he naturally let go of rebounding, freeing up Dameng's damage and making Ewing even more miserable.

In the internal confrontation, the East was slightly behind, while the West was also suppressed in the peripheral battle.

It was obvious in the first quarter that Jordan was in poor condition. Although his touch improved slightly in this quarter, he did not take a large number of shots to improve his touch. In addition, his current prominent status made the opponent Richmond highly excited and excited. The defense was amazing, so it was impossible to control the field for a while.

On the contrary, Dominic Wilkins, the dunker from the East known as the "Essence of Human Movies", and Drexler, the glider from the West, were more eye-catching. They attacked the penalty area and dunked in various ways, winning a burst of... sparse applause from the scene. .

Seriously speaking, the two people taking turns to perform fancy dunks is quite amazing, especially the several pull-up dunks in this game. In normal games, they would receive boiling applause, but compared with the explosive first quarter of the dark... …

Whether it was Li Shengli's shocking block smash, randomly killing a lucky spectator, or Malone's wild headshot and iron elbow, which hit Larry Johnson unable to care for himself. In comparison, Wilkins and Drexler's dunk performances lacked a touch of explosiveness, which was far from what fans wanted to see, and this emotion was slowly building up, waiting to explode.

After the second quarter, the pace of the game was astonishingly fast. The score between the East and West reached 60:57, with the West lagging behind. Although in terms of the second quarter alone, the quality of this exhibition match was higher than that of previous All-Star games, the ten people on the field tried their best and failed to satisfy the fans and audiences. Instead, there was a wave of voices on the scene, taking the initiative to support Li Shengli and Li Shengli. O'Neal asked for a fight.

Li Shengli comes on stage?

it's out of the question!

George Karl, as the head coach of the Western Conference team, has no way and is unwilling to give Li Shengli more time, because for the Western Conference center position, the General and Mourning are still waiting in line. If Coleman and Oakley start fighting again, who will take the blame?

Western Bishop George Karl: I don’t carry Guo, and anyone who carries Ai will not be able to bear me down.

Eastern Bishop Lanny Wilkens: Qi makes this sense, but Nan Dao and I carry it on my back?

So the two pushed each other around, and Li Shengli and O'Neal failed to appear again. Even at halftime, the fans shouted loudly, and the two head coaches turned a deaf ear. In the third quarter, Grant replaced Ewing at center in the East, and Ewing came on in the West. The general replaced Dameng, and other positions were also rotated, taking care of everyone's playing time.

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The third quarter begins.

The general who finally appeared on the field happily used Grant, one of the Bulls' triangle, to brush up the statistics, and teamed up with Rodman who was still on the court to form an absolute crushing, allowing the Western team to quickly chase points, but the fans still didn't buy it.

Why fight if you've already crushed them? !

Substitution, substitution must be made, Li Shengli and O'Neill come up to fight for the bayonet!

In the first quarter, Li Shengli and O'Neal clearly showed the ferocity of the super center. Unlike Dameng and General, the collision of these two heavy bulldozers is the most eye-catching. It is human nature to watch the excitement, and some people are cheering and setting the pace. Under such circumstances, the fans in the target center were so weird that they were divided into two camps with the center line of the stadium as the boundary.

"O'Neal! O'Neal! O'Neal!" The fans in the left camp stood up and angrily yelled at Eastern Conference head coach Lenny Wilkens for not letting O'Neal play, shouting O'Neal's name.

"Li Shengli! Li Shengli! Li Shengli!" The camp on the right took a look, is this okay? After the fans on the opposite side sat down, they stood up and started to demonstrate by shouting Li Shengli's name crazily.

After shouting from the left and shouting from the right, no one paid attention to the movement on the field. Everyone joined in this big party, which made the admiral who felt brave and brave very embarrassed, and the other nine people also had different expressions.

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"Holy shit, these two guys are in the spotlight today." On the Eastern Conference bench, Pippen said angrily to Jordan beside him.

"If you join them, maybe you can also shine." Jordan curled his lips.

"How is it possible, I don't want to get involved in this kind of thing!" Pippen was very dissatisfied with Jordan's statement, and said to the side: "Look, look at these people, damn, even if they are sitting on the bench, honest."

As Pippen saw, O'Neal and Bogues were sitting together at this time. Two people, one large and one small, looked at Ewing, Oakley and Thomas next to them with their eyes wide open, while everyone else was tense... ...I'm afraid that a few people can do it even on the bench.

"Let's wait and see. If the voices of these fans are still so high, the head coaches on both sides may be forced to put these two boys back on the court." Jordan whispered.

"Under pressure? Since when has the ability of NBA head coaches to withstand pressure become so weak? I guess Wilkens and George Karl will not let go..."

Pippen did not believe in evil, but the shouts from the scene became louder and louder, almost overturning the dome of the arena. Under this situation, six minutes into the third quarter, several officials with work badges The personnel penetrated the benches on both sides and had a few words with the head coaches on both sides.

So soon, George Karl called a timeout with a dark face, Wilkens also glanced at O'Neal with a dark face, and the substitution after the timeout... made the fans at the scene, including those watching the live broadcast, excited. Got excited.

On the field!

Did Li Shengli and O'Neal really play?

Although two people played, the lineups produced by the East and West were really unexpected and even a bit strange.

In the East, O'Neal is on the inside, and on the outside is three-point shooters Mark Price, Mookie Blaylock, and John Starks. The three of them are all three-point enthusiasts in the NBA at this stage, averaging 5 shots per game. The above may not sound like much, but it is still quite amazing in this era, and the last player in the Eastern Conference is also Bogues, who has more offensive shots than sudden attacks.

Really one star?

The same formation is also deployed in the west...

There is Li Shengli on the inside, and Richmond, Sprewell, Gary Payton and Kevin Johnson on the outside. The first two are also three-point shooters, and the latter two are mid-range shooters. The layout is the same as in the east.

There is no such thing as a star in this era. The reason for such an arrangement is actually the helpless move of the coaches on both sides.

To suppress conflict?

Are Li Shengli and O'Neal going to appear again?

Obviously, in order to meet these two conditions, no one on Ewing's side can be used, so players who play power forward cannot be used. Oakley, Coleman, and Rodman all sit on the bench and are all replaced by smaller perimeter players.

After all, they are All-Stars. Winning or losing is a matter of face, especially George Karl, who hugged Mourning's thigh and was hugged by Princess Mourning while sprinting. How can he talk about face if his face is gone?

As for superstar players such as Jordan, Pippen, and Barkley, no one wants to play supporting roles, so the players on the field are all substitutes. This is equivalent to handing over the All-Star stage to Li Shengli and O'Neal.

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"This game doesn't seem to be as bad as I thought?!" Jordan smiled slightly, and he immediately got inspired and pulled everyone who didn't play together, and even brought the Western Conference players together under the weird eyes of the audience. Also pulled out.

"I'm the banker, betting on who can beat Lee or O'Neal!" The All-Stars are here to have fun, whether it's off or on the court, and Jordan pulled a group of people to actually... openly gather for gambling? !

To be honest, this kind of thing can be big or small. Fortunately, there are not many people involved. Everyone is a player. The fans at the scene just see everyone gathered together and don't know what is going on.

"Blow it up? Is there a standard?" Buckley asked with interest.

"Keep it simple, compare the scores, and pay one for every one you buy." Jordan whispered, "You can place your bets verbally now. Remember... no one can default on your money. I am the banker. You should understand that this is What's the meaning."

Score?

Pay one for one?

This is a probability of one in two.

"I'll beat Lee and beat Shaq, bet... bet 20,000 dollars." Bogues was the first to respond to Jordan. He has an annual salary of 900,000, which is not much after tax, and 20,000 is not much for him. A big gamble was made, and Jordan nodded to Boggs, indicating that he had said it just right.

"I beat Shaq, 20,000!" Kenny Anderson was the second to want to make money.

"I beat Shaq too, 20,000!" Grant was third.

After that, a few more people placed bets, but the amount of bets was not large. After all, they didn't make much, and then... this big gamble became more and more out of control.

"One hundred thousand!" Buckley smiled cheerfully.

"One hundred thousand!" Dameng rarely intervened.

"Beat Shaq, 100,000!" The general had just been chopped off by 72 on the head by Li Shengli with a cold face. Even if he lost money, he didn't want to beat Li Shengli, and Pippen also beat O'Neal by 100,000.

One hundred thousand dollars is not a small amount. Even in the United States at this time, the per capita annual income is only over thirty thousand.

Counting two people in a family with two incomes, the net income of a few super-rich families in the past two years is the net income of an ordinary middle-class family. And per capita is a very magical concept. Many people are inexplicably averaged into the middle class, but in fact they are in poverty. To them, one hundred thousand dollars is a huge sum of money.

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After a moment, everyone, without exception, placed their bets. Excluding Malone, Kemp, Johnson, who were leaving, the ten people on the court, and Jordan himself, who was sitting on the court, there were ten people left, nine of whom spoke, and only The black-faced Ewing was left speechless.

"Why, don't you want to come and have some fun?" Jordan smiled.

"I hate these two bastards. It's best to kill them." Ewing said coldly.

"This is easy to handle, then you just pick the most annoying one and put him across from him." Jordan didn't want to give up yet, because Ewing was a big guy in his opinion, "Ten thousand or twenty thousand is not too small for me, one hundred and eighty thousand is not too little." It’s not much, and…are you very poor recently?”

"I'm poor? Okay, if you want to play, I'll play with you, but I'm putting too much pressure on you, so I'm afraid you won't dare to take it!" Ewing's face turned even darker, "I'm putting pressure on...Shaq, half a million, can't you take it? catch?"

Half a million?

Several people looked at each other, although half a million was not too much for a super giant, but deciding the direction of half a million in one sentence was really exciting and heart-pounding.

"Take it, why don't you take it?" Jordan said with a serious face: "Everyone has remembered his bets. If you lose... please call me the money. If you win... come to me to collect the money."

"Let's break up and wait for the lottery draw."

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The All-Star bet has been placed, and except for the ten people who participated, no one else knew about it. Amid the cheers of the two distinct fan camps in the audience, Li Shengli and O'Neal led the team on the stage and took over the rest of the game.

Double and one star?

O'Neill was extremely excited about this situation.

The comparison between him and Li Shengli has always been at a disadvantage, because the Orlando Magic does not have teammates like the Utah duo to help him, but this All-Star game is very special...

Looking at the performance in the first quarter, the two of them are already in full condition. They have a fair environment, equal teammates, and the same tactical arrangement. Even the fans shouting their names are equally divided, and each accounts for half of the center of the target. This time The battle is undoubtedly the decisive battle at Tianwang Mountain.

At this time, past data has no reference value. If they can collide in such a rare, fair and ideal state, the winner will be... the new king of centers.