The second half of the All-Star Game, after a rich performance in the midfield, officially started!
Both sides still sent out their starting lineups.
On the East side, Allen Iverson, Jackie Carter, James O'Neal, and on the West side, Kobe Bryant, McGrady, Garnett, Duncan and Yao Ming!
In the first half, Chen Jie played the most in the Eastern Conference, followed by Iverson. O'Neal played a total of about six minutes in the first quarter. Obviously, in order to help Chen Jie win the MVP, Skye
Ernst consciously limited O'Neal's playing time!
As for the Western Conference, Kobe Bryant plays the most minutes, which is also in line with the current situation of the game. If anyone can compete with Chen Jie for MVP in this game, it must be Kobe.
It's similar to the situation in the Rookie Challenge. What we need to see now is which side wins.
If the Western Conference wins, the All-Star MVP will undoubtedly be Kobe Bryant. If the Eastern Conference wins, there is no doubt that the All-Star MVP will be Chen Jie!
Of course, what is different from the Rookie Challenge is that the players on the Eastern Team want to win not just for this reason, not just to help Chen Jie win this honor.
They also want to wash away the shame of losing to the Western Conference for three years!
After all, for the players participating in the Rookie Challenge, they have no sense of belonging, because what they represent is not qualitative. This year is the first grade, next year will be the second grade, and in the third year, they have nothing to do with this event.
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As for the All-Stars, players who are basically able to participate in the transfer will be a big deal. In this case, they usually have a strong sense of belonging to the team they belong to.
After all, big deals won't always happen. Many players have played for the same All-Star team in the Eastern or Western Conference for several consecutive years. Players like Kobe and Duncan have been in the Western Conference their entire lives.
Of course they will have a sense of belonging.
As for the players in the Western Conference, they still want to continue to maintain their advantage over the Western Conference.
Among them, there are two exceptions, that is O'Neal and Kobe.
O'Neal has played for the Western Conference All-Stars before. This year he came to the Eastern Conference for the first time. Of course he wants to prove his importance. If the Eastern Conference can win this year, O'Neal will definitely be very proud. Look, the Western Conference will lose without me.
I gave it to the eastern part of the country.
As for Kobe, he obviously didn't want O'Neal to have such face, so he tried his best to defeat the Eastern Conference!
In any case, the players on both sides must be thinking about winning now. The Western team is only four points behind now. The outcome of the game is unpredictable, and the second half is especially critical!
At the beginning of the third quarter, the Eastern team served first.
After Iverson dribbled the ball through half court, he gave the ball to Chen Jie. For the first ball, Iverson and the players in the Eastern Conference thought that Chen Jie would have to complete the ball.
After all, this game is for Chen Jie to compete for MVP, so they want to establish Chen Jie's status.
Those who kick off the first goal, especially the first goal in the second half, are very important players for the team.
This is also one of the unspoken rules of the alliance.
Kobe was still defending Chen Jie. At the beginning of the first half, it was Tracy McGrady who was actually facing off against Chen Jie. But now Kobe can be said to be more competitive with Chen Jie, so in the second half, he took the initiative to switch positions for McGrady.
Defend Iverson and defend Kobe yourself.
Everyone still remembers the shocking change of direction that Chen Jie made in the first half when facing Kobe Bryant's defense. It can be said that that ball will stay in the hearts of many people for a lifetime.
That was a goal worthy of being remembered in history.
Generally speaking, after a defender is beaten by an attacker with such a wonderful goal, they will no longer have the confidence to defend this person.
At this time, the defender is undoubtedly at a psychological disadvantage when facing the attacker.
This is why many times, if a player is successfully beaten by another player in consecutive singles, he will be replaced by the coach, or he will be adjusted to defend another person.
Because of being successfully beaten in a row, the defender's psychological defense will generally be defeated!
But this situation will not happen with Kobe.
He is just the opposite. For Kobe, the more the attacker succeeds in beating him alone, the more energetic Kobe becomes and the more he wants to compete. Not only does he have to avoid the attacker, but he also has to meet him!
This is Kobe’s personality!
This kind of unwillingness to admit defeat is also one of the important reasons why Kobe is able to reach this position now.
Although Chen Jie hit such a beautiful ball in a single, Kobe still stood in front of Chen Jie full of fighting spirit. He firmly believed that he could do it!
Chen Jie admires Kobe’s spirit very much!
But I admire him, but Chen Jie still won't show mercy to Kobe. He feels particularly good today. The more pressure he puts on him, the more Chen Jie feels he can explode.
When facing Kobe, he also seemed very confident. He would not give in. Although he and Kobe were good friends, he was not afraid of embarrassing Kobe. First of all, when facing a player like Kobe, if you are not careful, not only can you not let him
Embarrassed, he may be embarrassed. After all, Chen Jie doesn't dare to think that he is much better than Kobe! Secondly, Chen Jie feels that the more he goes all out, the more he respects Kobe.
At this point in the game, Chen Jie can also see that the one competing with him for MVP is Kobe.
If that's the case, let's have a good fight!
Chen Jie stared into Kobe's eyes. Their eyes met at this moment, and the sympathy in their eyes was clearly visible.
Chen Jie admired and admired Kobe, so why didn't Kobe admire and admire Chen Jie!
He is still a first-year rookie and he is playing so well.
I remember when I was in first grade, I was still sitting on the bench.
Thinking about it this way, Kobe felt that no matter who of the two wins or loses today, he has lost!
In the future, Chen Jie will definitely be better than himself, Kobe can be sure!
However, no matter what, Kobe must go all out today. This is also his respect for Chen Jie!
In addition to sympathy in the eyes, there is of course a strong desire to fight.
Come on, Chen Jie!
Come on, Kobe!
Following this silent exchange, Chen Jie took action. This time he did not try any fake moves and broke through directly from Kobe's left hand side, maxing out his speed!
Chen Jie is not a player whose specialty is speed like Iverson Nash, but his speed is definitely not slow.
In particular, Chen Jie was walking on the left side where Kobe could not accelerate easily. In the first step, Chen Jie was ahead.
Kobe looked at Chen Jie with a surprised look. He didn't expect that Chen Jie would be so fast!
When Kobe Bryant turned around completely, he found that Chen Jie was already half a body ahead of him! (To be continued...)
