Chapter 487 The Scoring Performance of Anything and Everything
Looking at the starting players, the West has a height advantage, while the East has a speed advantage.
In addition to O'Neal, the four starters in the Eastern Conference, Chen Jie, Iverson, Carter, and James, are all extremely athletic people who can run and jump.
Especially Chen Jie and Iverson, their speed is one of the best in today's game, even in the entire league.
When two people start running, it is estimated that only McGrady and Kobe can catch up with those in the Western Conference.
Is it the height of the west that beats the speed of the east, or the speed of the east that drags down the height of the west? This is also a big highlight today.
First of all, it was the Western team's offense. They did not slow down the pace to show their advantage.
At the beginning of the All-Star Game, performance is still the main focus. Not many people are really going to post up, and not many people are really going to defend without hesitation.
Opposing Kobe was Iverson. Iverson didn't even press Kobe and allowed Kobe to go to the baseline and get to the basket.
Then, Garnett got rid of Carter and made an air cut. Kobe passed the ball to Garnett with a dunk, ending the Western team's offense.
It was obvious that the Eastern team did not defend well at all.
Of course, when the Eastern team attacked next, the Western team just acted defensively.
Iverson's assist helped Chen Jie complete a pull-up layup under the basket.
Before the game, they said they would help Chen Jie win the MVP trophy. Even in the early stage of the performance, as long as Chen Jie had a chance, these people would still pass the ball to Chen Jie.
In the next few attacks, the defenses of both teams were still ineffective.
Kobe's three-pointer. Iverson just raised his hand in a symbolic gesture. However, Kobe had not yet found his touch at the beginning, so he did not make the three-pointer.
O'Neal grabbed the rebound and threw it directly to James. James rushed forward with the ball, and the West did not quickly defend.
When the Western Conference team got to the basket, Chen Jie, who followed James on the fast break, got a good alley-oop opportunity.
McGrady, the only one left in the backcourt, forced himself next to James and tried to steal the ball but failed, so he stopped trying. James threw the ball high, and Chen Jie slammed the ball into the basket.
A layup and a dunk brought Chen Jie's score to four points.
Immediately, the Western Team sent a baseline kick. Iverson once again stole the ball from Kobe's hand, took the ball directly to the Western Team basket, hit the ball on the backboard and bounced back. This time, it was not Chen Jie who made the alley-oop, but Chen Jie.
It's James.
His dunks are not as elegant as Chen Jie's, but in terms of power, they are obviously very entertaining.
The Western team was continuously scored points by the Eastern team, and it seemed that it was too difficult to survive in terms of face. In this attack, Kobe passed the ball to McGrady. McGrady faced Chen Jie's defense and directly made a three-pointer.
McGrady at his peak was absolutely unbeatable in this move.
Don't say that Chen Jie didn't defend seriously. Even if Chen Jie did defend, he might not be able to defend him.
McGrady's three-pointer hit the net, helping the Western team win three points.
The score on the court also became 5 to 6.
The two teams just went back and forth, and the scene was very exciting.
By the time of the official timeout in the first quarter, the Western team's score had reached 23 points, while the Eastern team's score had even reached 26 points.
Among them, Kobe Bryant of the Western team scored the most with 14 points. Chen Jie of the Eastern team scored the most with 16 points.
After the timeout, the coaches of the two teams, **Vitch and Scales, began to send in some substitutes.
First, Yao Ming, the starting center of the Western Team, was replaced. Stoudemire came on as a substitute, Kobe was replaced, Nash came on as a substitute, Duncan was replaced, and Rashard Lewis came on. McGrady and Garnett returned to the starting lineup.
Still stay on the field.
On the Eastern team's side, O'Neal was taken down and replaced by Ben Wallace, Wade came on and replaced Iverson, Arenas replaced James, and Carter was replaced by Jamison. Among the starting lineup,
Only Chen Jie remained on the field.
It can be seen that the changes in the Eastern team are much greater than those in the Western team.
After all, the starting lineup of the Eastern team is actually inferior to that of the Western team in terms of the rationality of the lineup.
On the Western Team, except for Garnett and Kobe, who may be a little different from the positions they are familiar with, everyone else actually plays the positions they usually play on the team.
Moreover, Garnett plays small forward and Kobe plays point guard. Although these two positions are not their expertise, they are at least competent.
However, it is a bit unreliable if you expect James to play the power forward position and Carter to play the small forward position.
Moreover, strictly speaking, Iverson's style of play is not suitable for playing point guard. These three positions naturally need to be adjusted. O'Neal is a pure center, but his relationship with Chen Jie is destined to not be on the court.
After giving Chen Jie too much help, Scales simply replaced him too.
It can be seen that Skiles made this adjustment in order to win. Now that he has approved the players' suggestions and helped Chen Jie win the MVP of the All-Star Game, Skiles will no longer bother with miscellaneous things.
I was thinking of something else.
Now, he has no distracting thoughts in his mind, he just thinks about how to ensure that the game is enjoyable and that the Eastern team will win.
As for the Western Team, **Vic's adjustment this time is more about keeping popular players for a while, and then giving more players a chance to play!
However, **Vicci's adjustments are a bit unintentional.
He brought in Nash Stoudemire and Rashard Lewis, and kept Tracy McGrady and Garnett with excellent athletic ability. This lineup, with Nash as the core, can just fit the starting lineup of the Suns that swept the Western Conference this year.
Configuration.
Needless to say, the engine. Nash has always been the brains of the Suns and now serves as the offensive core of the Western Conference. Stoudemire is also an original member of the Suns. Lewis can play Richardson's role as an outside shooter. His
His athletic ability may not be as good as Richardson's, but with Garnett around, he doesn't seem to need him to break through and dunk.
Compared with Marion, the only difference between Garnett and Marion may be that he cannot shoot three-pointers, but his jumping and secondary rebounding are better than Marion, and Garnett's attack range is also very wide. He can still be comprehensive.
Can keep up with Nash's footsteps.
McGrady seems to be a little outside this lineup. After all, it is difficult to expect players like Tracy McGrady to run without the ball.
But McGrady's personal ability is there. If Nash's activation has no effect, he can still give the ball to McGrady and let McGrady use his personal ability to score in isolation.
The attack power of this lineup is at least guaranteed enough.
As for the Eastern Team, Skiles' adjustment is theoretically reasonable.
Ben Wallace, a two-time Defensive Player of the Year, is on the inside, Chen Jie is the organizer on the outside, Wade can break through and shoot, Jamison can post up, and Arenas has good long-range shooting ability, and he can run with the basket.
But he seems to have forgotten something!
Today is the All-Star Game! No matter how good Ben Wallace's defense is, no matter how powerful Jamison's back is, in today's game, they can't really do what they are good at.
There were so many fans watching, and they didn't want the game to become so ugly.
If it were a normal regular season or playoffs, Skiles' lineup with a balanced offense and defense would definitely be able to defeat **Vitch's lineup with a stronger offense than defense.
But today, in the All-Star Game, in a game where both sides definitely couldn't put up a high-intensity defense, it was **Vitch's lineup that had the advantage.
After all, their attack power is excellent.
In the All-Star Game, teams with excellent offensive power are always capable of winning.
The competition between the two teams is always who scores higher!
Sure enough, the development of the game in the three minutes after the two sides adjusted also proved the above words.
The Western team relied on Nash's motivation and McGrady's personal ability to score consecutive points.
Stoudemire has repeatedly performed dunks, and Lewis is also very good at shooting three-pointers. Garnett's air-cut dunk performances are also common.
On the other hand, on the Eastern team, Jamison can occasionally contribute a mid-range shot, but Ben Wallace is completely useless. Except for grabbing rebounds and tip-ins, or dunking without anyone guarding the basket, he doesn't look like he has anything on the court.
The use of!
The Eastern team was not pushed too far away by the Western team, and they still have to count on Chen Jie, Arenas Wade and their individual singles abilities to be pretty good.
Chen Jie's breakthrough dunk and pull-up three-pointer, Wade's several pull-ups, and Arenas' three-point layup helped the Eastern team not to be defeated by the Western team.
But even so, with one minute left in the first quarter, the Western team still led the Eastern team by four points, 44-40.
Chen Jie's score was only 21 points.
21 points in a single quarter looked outstanding.
Moreover, the scores of both teams today were already very high.
Many fans and media have begun to expect that today's game will be a classic in the history of the All-Stars, and they are also fascinated by the offensive battle between the two sides so far.
But in the eyes of many insiders, today's competition actually has very little technical content.
At least in the first quarter, neither team defended and allowed the other side to take whatever they wanted.
A match like this looks great.
But really, it's not exciting or intense enough.
There are still many people who are looking forward to the fact that in the second quarter or the second half, these superstars can show a serious attitude.
Many people are still looking forward to seeing the one-on-one confrontation between the superstars on both offense and defense.
A scoring performance that gets what you want is not what all fans want to see.
But no matter what, the first quarter of the game was so enjoyable for the fans at the scene! (To be continued...)
