After an eight-game winning streak at the start of the season, the Tigers ranked first in the league, with even the Lakers, Heat, and Celtics trailing behind.
Later, in order to ensure that the veteran would not be injured and better recover his strength, Phil Jackson adopted a rest policy. After eight consecutive victories, Yao Ming did not play in the game against the Lakers. In the end, the team lost to the Lakers with a narrow margin of 99:104.
Team
After losing to the Lakers, Yao Ming returned to the court, and McGrady, Iverson, Carter, Marbury, Arenas and others took a break.
Until the All-Star Game, the Tigers' record still ranked first in the league, suddenly replacing the Heat and Lakers and becoming the public enemy of the league. Many people believed that these superstars gathered together was a violation of sports fairness, but considering that these players basically can only maintain
The peak of a season, so David Stern doesn't pursue these things anymore
The All-Star game is coming soon. The Bengals are full of superstars, and the fans are very vocal about them. However, there are only two All-Star teams, and the number of spots is really limited. After careful consideration, the league decided to form three All-Star teams this year.
For both the East and West teams and the San Francisco Tigers
The players selected for the Western Conference All-Stars in the 12---13 seasons include the four kings of the Lakers, Kobe, Howard, Gasol, Nash, Dirk Nowitzki, Love, Durant, Westbrook, and Tony Parker.
, Paul Griffin and Ty Lawson
The Eastern Conference has the Heat's Big Three of James, Wade, and Bosh, plus the Celtics' Rondo, Pierce and Garnett, Josh Smith, Andrew Bynum, Rose, Deron, Anthony, and Stoudemire.
There are three games in total, one game for each two teams
This is the first game between the Bengals and the Western Conference All-Stars. The popularity and commercial value of the All-Stars this time far exceed last year's Orlando All-Star Game.
The game started with the referee's whistle
The starting lineup of the Western Conference is Paul, Kobe, Durant, Griffin and Howard
The Bengals' starting lineup is still their normal lineup of Iverson, Yang Zhenxing, Tracy McGrady, Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming.
Jump ball was dialed by Howard to Paul
Paul passed the ball to Kobe. Kobe became excited when facing Yang Zhenxing. They had faced each other more than once. Kobe still remembered the first time he played against Yang Zhenxing. At that time, Yang Zhenxing was just a rookie. At that time, Kobe had realized
When Yang Zhenxing arrived, he could become a star player. I didn’t expect it to be so fast.
Kobe's one-on-one failed to hit. Yang Zhenxing grabbed the rebound and quickly launched a fast break. There was no fast break opportunity. Yang Zhenxing gave the ball to Iverson. Iverson stabilized and faced Chris Paul. Now Iverson has basically
He is back at his peak, and Paul is also at his peak. The matchup between the two can be described as head-to-head.
Iverson changed directions and dribbled, moving to the right. Paul immediately followed him. Iverson stepped back to reorganize, and quickly moved from the right to the left. Paul didn't even react. Iverson quickly broke through Paul.
Iverson ignored Griffin and succeeded in a layup
2:0
Griffin and Paul pick and roll, Paul throws into the sky, Griffin has a clear understanding, leaps high, and scores another alley-oop goal.
Cheers were everywhere. Now, because the Tigers' stars gathered together, it directly aroused public anger from other teams. The stars of the All-Star Game gathered to give the Tigers a head-on blow. However, the strength of these Tigers players is not ordinary.
They are so strong, and these people have basically recovered and returned to their peak, which is even more difficult to deal with.
McGrady singled out Durant and faced Durant again. McGrady was filled with emotion. Now that McGrady has returned to the top, McGrady will naturally have to seriously compete with Durant.
McGrady changed direction, and then a pull-up shot ended the tangle! Hit, facing McGrady's ecstasy pull-up, even Durant, who was tall and long-armed, could only look up.
Howard finally met Yao Ming again. When Yao Ming was at his peak, Howard basically couldn't take any advantage. It's just a pity that they didn't have many fights before and now they are rivals again. Both of them cherish it.
Howard's layup was interfered by Yao Ming, and Yi Jianlian got the rebound
Yi Jianlian scored 6:0, the Tigers scored three goals in a row, and the Western team has not yet scored.
Durant made a change of direction when facing McGrady. McGrady defended very actively and was not easily shaken by Durant. Durant fell to his left hand and McGrady pounced on him again. McGrady tried to steal Durant's ball.
Durant dribbled the ball behind his back and moved it to his right hand. He quickly broke through and went in. Facing Yao Ming, Durant ignored everything and got hard.
Beep beep! The referee's whistle sounded. Yao Ming was fouled by Durant.
Durant made both free throws
Yao Ming singled out Howard and hit a half hook 8:2
Yi Jianlian defended Griffin's layup, grabbed the rebound, and passed the ball to Yang Zhenxing. Yang Zhenxing handed it to Iverson. Iverson challenged Paul again. Paul defended desperately, but Iverson did not score this time.
Yang Zhenxing got the offensive rebound, threw the ball before landing, and scored on a rebound shot.
10:2, at the beginning of the game, the Tigers took control of the situation and scored consecutively, but the Western team could not find the feeling and had no choice but to call a timeout.
During the first timeout, the two sides made substitutions. Marbury replaced Iverson, Carter replaced Yang Zhenxing, Tracy McGrady was still on the court, O'Neal Jr. replaced Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming was still on the court.
The West also made substitutions, Westbrook replaced Paul, Nowitzki replaced Griffin, and Gasol replaced Howard.
The game continues
Gasol faced Yao Ming. The two men played against each other mainly in the international arena. Both sides had outstanding performances. Gasol opened up and challenged Yao Ming. Gasol was in the middle distance on the left, and Yao Ming did not cover it.
because he would be worried that his speed would be too slow and Gasol would knock him away.
Gasol broke forward with his right hand, quickly turned left and made a layup with his left hand to score the ball.
Yao Ming then responded with another small hook when facing Gasol, and the Tigers still led by 8 points.
Then Nowitzki singled out O'Neal's horseback archery shot and hit!
Then Marbury was a little anxious and missed the shot. Then the Western team scored two goals in a row, and the score was 4 points away. Yao Ming missed the shot, and Westbrook made an emergency jumper to further narrow the score difference.
As Marbury succeeded in breaking through, the two sides entered a tug-of-war until the end of the first quarter. The difference between the two sides was never more than 3 points. At the end of the first quarter, the Tigers led by 2 points, 32:30.
Back in the second quarter, the two sides spontaneously played an all-small lineup, Marbury, Yang Zhenxing, Tracy McGrady, Carter, Yi Jianlian, and the Western Conference All-Stars, Nash, Paul, Kobe, Durant, and Griffin were on the court.
This section will be a competition between speed and outside strength.
Yang Zhenxing took the lead with a three-pointer. Durant also responded with a three-pointer, but the score was still not open.
Yang Zhenxing organized the offense and started a pick-and-roll with Carter. Yang Zhenxing broke through and Carter cut inside. Yang Zhenxing passed the ball to Carter. Carter got the ball without stopping and immediately passed it to McGrady. McGrady got the ball near the free throw line and went to
He took a step forward, put the ball above his head with one hand, and glided over like an eagle.
Bang! McGrady succeeded in a one-handed dunk. McGrady performed a brotherly cooperation. Carter passed the ball quite well this time. This was a three-person cooperation, and it was quite successful.
Looking back, Nash and Kobe also played together. Nash passed the ball to Kobe, and Kobe made a successful jump shot. The two sides were tied at the end of the second quarter, 56:56.
During the half-time period, both sides went to the locker room to rest.
Back in the second half, the two sides changed places and fought again
The starting players return to the field once again
Yang Zhenxing faced Kobe, and this time he also wanted to play one-on-one against Kobe. Yang Zhenxing dribbled the ball from behind to the basket from the left. He immediately passed Kobe, faced Griffin in front, and passed it to Yi Jianlian under the basket.
Yi Jianlian received the ball and made another two-handed dunk at 58:56. The Tigers led by 2 points and then the two sides once again entered a tug-of-war. After Griffin succeeded in grabbing Yi Jianlian, Yi Jianlian hit a mid-range shot and Yang Zhenxing made a three-pointer. Kobe Bryant
another response
McGrady and Carter once again acted as brothers. This time, McGrady threw the ball directly into the air. Carter caught the ball with a tacit understanding and directly alley-ooped the ball through Griffin.
At the end of the third quarter, the score was 89:87, with the Tigers temporarily leading by 2 points.
Entering the final contest of the fourth quarter, in the first half of the fourth quarter, Arenas took the lead in a three-pointer, opening the point difference to 5 points. After Love's single, Paul hit two consecutive layups, and the Western Star
The team overtook the score
After Francis dunked, he once again took the lead. In the last 5 minutes, Yao Ming caused a foul by Howard, and the two sides entered the last official timeout.
At the last moment, Yang Zhenxing appeared, as well as Iverson, McGrady, Carter and Yao Ming, using a lineup of one large and four small. The Western team actually sent Nash, Kobe, Gasol, Howard, the Lakers' four kings plus Paul's lineup.
It's almost a Bengals vs. Lakers showdown again
Yao Ming first made two free throws, and the Tigers took a 3-point lead. Then Yang Zhenxing put down Kobe and launched a fast break. There was no one in front of him to defend him. Yang Zhenxing almost took three steps from the three-point line and jumped high when he reached the free throw line.
rise
Bang, Yang Zhenxing dunked with both hands, and the score difference came to 5 points. The situation was firmly in the hands of the Tigers.
Then Yang Zhenxing scored consecutively, and the score stretched to 10 points. In the last two minutes, the game basically lost its suspense. The two sides made the last substitution until the end of the game.
In the end, the Tigers defeated the Western Conference All-Stars with a 7-point lead of 115:108.
In this game, Yang Zhenxing scored 25 points and 8 assists, making him the best player in the game. In addition, Medicart scored 15 points each as brothers, Yao Ming scored 14 points and 14 rebounds, and Yi Jianlian scored 10 points and 8 rebounds.
Iverson scored 18 points and 9 assists, O'Neal Jr. scored 8 points and 9 rebounds, and Marbury scored 15 points and 4 steals.
The best performer among the Western Conference All-Stars was Durant, who scored 28 points and 8 rebounds. Kobe Bryant played quite well against Yang Zhenxing, scoring 17 points with only 40% shooting. Paul scored a double-double with 10 points and 15 assists.
In addition, Westbrook scored 17 points and Griffin scored a double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds. It is worth mentioning that Howard did not find an advantage in the matchup with Yao Ming. He only scored 10 points and 10 rebounds and was defeated by Yao Ming.
Suppressed
After playing the Western team, the next day's game was a battle between the Western All-Stars and the Eastern All-Stars. In the end, the Eastern team led by 5 points and defeated the Western team.
This is the third day of the main game. The Tigers face the Eastern All-Stars. The starting lineup of the Eastern All-Stars is Rose, Wade, James, Anthony and Bynum.
The first three quarters of the game were evenly matched. The San Francisco Tigers took the lead. Yi Jianlian and Yao Ming attacked the inside. Iverson and Yang Zhenxing made frequent gains on the outside. The Tigers led 34 to 28 in the first quarter.
In the second quarter of the game, the offense of the Eastern All-Stars improved. Wade and James brought impact as soon as they came up. Rose scored 5 points in a row, and then McGrady hit a shot. The Eastern All-Stars chased the score to 56-59 at halftime.
In the third quarter, the Tigers had a slight advantage. With Yang Zhenxing's three-pointer, they entered the final battle with a 6-point advantage, 86-80.
In the fourth quarter, both sides were evenly matched from the beginning. In the last 6 minutes and 20 seconds, Wade and Garnett made contributions respectively. Then Yang Zhenxing succeeded in dunking against this player and led 93-90. After that, the situation suddenly changed. Yao Ming made two free throws.
Anthony and Bynum successively made contributions in the paint, James hit a free throw, Yang Zhenxing hit another three-pointer, and the team took control of the situation. Next, the Tigers still led by 3 points. Then James missed a three-pointer and Carter dunked.
, the Tigers firmly grasped the situation, and then the Eastern team still failed to score. The Tigers, led by Yang Zhenxing, hit three consecutive goals, and the point difference reached 10 points, and the suspense was lost.
In the end, the Tigers defeated the All-Stars again, with a score of 114:109, and the point difference was only five points.
In this game, Yang Zhenxing still performed well and scored 24 points and 11 assists. McGrady scored 18 points, Yao Ming scored 14 points and 15 rebounds, Iverson scored 25 points, Marbury scored 10 points, and Arenas scored 10 points.
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On the other hand, for the Eastern Team, Wade scored 22 points, James scored 25 points, and Rose scored 20 points, but they failed to bring a victory.
The All-Star Game is over and the Tigers have won both games, so the MVP of the All-Star Game will naturally come from the Tigers.
The most outstanding performers were Yang Zhenxing and Iverson. In the two games, Yang Zhenxing averaged 24.5 points and 9.5 assists per game and won the All-Star MVP honor, which is worthy of the award.
After defeating the Eastern and Western All-Stars, the regular season has also entered a critical stage. All players have begun to make the final sprint for the playoffs.
