Chapter Three Hundred and Ninety-Five He has to say thank you for pitting him!
These voices shouting "Swap Wu Emperor" finally angered James. The latter first made Nowitzki's foul on the offensive end and made two free throws, and then made two consecutive breakthrough layups. The Eastern Army returned a wave under the leadership of James, chasing the score to 48:56.
Howard is the most anxious person on the court now. James's outbreak is good news for the Eastern Conference, but not for him. However, no one comes forward to lose the game seems even worse. In short, everything happens now is not good for him, which is the most painful thing.
James found his form, and the Heat trio played the right advantage, and the Eastern Conference began to gain some advantages on the court.
But the good times did not last long. The Eastern Team's lineup's firepower on the outside was too low. The Western Team's three-inside lineup was actually very restrained by the Eastern Conference, because except for the Heat trio, Ross also had no ability to shoot in the middle and long range. He may not be as reliable as Gasol's mid and long range. This flaw in the Eastern Conference became more obvious after the Western Team began to shrink its defense, and James' breakthrough was not easy to score.
"Our mid-range shot must not be so bad!" Wade felt despised when he saw the Western Conference's shrinking defense. He never admitted that his long shot was so bad, so he used two consecutive three-pointers to prove that the Western Conference's choice was correct.
James and Wade both strengthened long-range shooting training in the summer, but the final effect was still not satisfactory. At most, fewer games with extremely poor feel and the overall shooting rate also increased. However, when targeted defense is encountered, it is still easy to cause continuous blacksmiths.
This is what Emperor Wu often calls "talent". In terms of shooting skills, the two Heat's outside giants may be really not as reliable as the pseudo-giant Bosh.
Wade's effective range is within 18 feet. In this range, he can shoot very high shooting percentages. He is also proficient in pitching and back-turning shooting. His coherent movements after fake moves are first-class. But at a longer distance and three-pointers, Wade is very deceptive, especially his catch-and-shooting shooting at this position is very sorry for his superstar status. Many people think that he may not be as good as James in shooting.
James' shooting is also very unstable. His shooting percentage is because of his outstanding physical advantage. In fact, he and Wade's effective range are similar, and he may be slightly better in three-pointers, but his movements such as pitching, turning shots and false stops in breakthroughs are much worse than Wade, so James's plays really ugly when he is in a bad state.
The two of them are in a bad state today, especially Wade's condition is very poor. His consecutive misses have given Thibodeau an excuse to replace him in advance.
At 7 minutes and 10 seconds in the second quarter, Thibodeau replaced Wu Huang on the field, with the purpose of naturally increasing the output ability of the outside line. At the same time, he left Ross on the field to replace Wade's position. The Eastern Team's on-field lineup became: Wu Huang, Ross, James, Gasol, and Howard.
The Western Conference did not make tit-for-tat substitutions, and they still had three substitutes on the court: Parker, Westbrook, Durant, Griffin, and Gasol Jr.
"Awesome, I think who else is there this time?" Howard's eyes lit up when he saw Yao Ming not present, and his self-confidence instantly burst out. He felt that he could beat two Gasols.
At this time, Wu Huang showed his passing skills that were improving very quickly. He knew very well that Gasol now could not defend Howard's explosive power. Once Howard turned around with the ball, or accelerated the frame to rush towards the basket, Gasol's defense would be a little unbearable, so external force must be used to drag Howard's hind legs.
"I'm the external force!" After Wu Huang passed the ball, he couldn't help but shout in his heart!
Wu Huang's passing angle was extremely tricky. If Howard wanted to get the ball, he had to put himself in a situation where he could only turn around and break through or shoot in one direction. This made Gasol no longer need to worry about where Howard would break through and where he would shoot. His defense suddenly became much easier.
Howard didn't think so much about it, because the balls passed by Emperor Wu were similar to Nelson. He had been adapting to this kind of pass in Magic for a long time. It was pretty good to watch, but in fact it was a bit of a scam.
Only a "bang" sound was heard! Magic fans were stunned when they looked at the basketball being shot away.
Howard was obviously too anxious to score this goal. If he aimed to commit a foul, with his current explosive power, Gasol still finds it difficult for him to defend himself. This is not the trapped beast behind the back injury. But the problem is that Howard wants to score directly with this goal, and maybe he has two plus one in his mind. This is too underestimated Mark Gasol. After all, he is a real bare foot, with an arm span of no worse than his brother, and his tonnage is enough. Therefore, Gasol just jumped 5 cm from the ground and slapped Howard's forced shot.
In fact, let alone Gasol, including Bynum, Love and others off the court, they can defend against this goal. Facing a not calm enough Howard, he can basically defend such a monster with a height of more than 260 pounds.
This is also the reason why Howard is not so popular with O'Neal and others. It can be foreseen that when Howard's athletic ability declines after the age of 30, he cannot practice footsteps and hooking skills in just n years. At that time, it is likely that he will be embarrassed by a big soft-hearted person.
Emperor Wu continued to do something, so he didn't care about winning or losing. Today he wanted to act well, and he thought it was all about fulfilling Yao Ming.
After Howard came on the second quarter, he received a low-post pass from Wu Huang three times in a row. He really couldn't feel that Wu Huang cheated him. After all, the latter's pass was not particularly difficult to catch. If Yao Ming received such a ball every time, Chinese fans would not have been scolded by the Rockets' point guard.
However, the ball passed by Wu Huang is too testing the footsteps of the receiver. If you can't shake left and right like Scola and shake your opponent out, you can't flash enough empty shots. At this time, you can only have an absolute advantage in height and a stable hook shot rate like Yao Ming. Only a guy with a stable hook shot can be sure of scoring. But poor Howard has neither ability, and his only explosive advantage has been greatly reduced by Wu Huang's deliberate pass. He also began to worry in his mind. It's nothing surprising that he can't get a point?
Besides, the most important thing is that the players Howard faces today are not ordinary blue-collar workers, and they are all serious All-Star players. Even guys like Gasol and Love who entered the All-Star Game for the first time are also the core insiders of their respective teams. Howard is of course difficult to play in this situation.
Howard missed the shots in a row, and the Western Conference widened the gap to 76:62 in the 5th minute and 55th second. The Eastern Conference was almost 15 points behind the opponent.
The two teams continued to make substitutions. James and Ross from the East went down to rest first, and Iguodala and Pierce came up to show off. The Western Team also had similar substitution strategies. During this period, the two teams were still half-main and half-substitute. Only when the game entered the last 3 minutes of the first half would it be a competition between their respective main players.
After Yao Ming came on the court, he began to continue playing against Warcraft. A hook shot and a mid-range shot made Howard look even more ugly. At the same time, he also felt that Yao Ming's attack was much stronger than the first quarter, and this guy began to take the initiative to attack.
At this moment, Chinese fans could see that something was wrong with Yao Ming. They didn't know that the little giant, who has always been low-key in the All-Star, was seduced by the troublemakers on the other side today. In addition, they were in good condition, so now he really had the plan to compete for MVP.
In the All-Star Game, no matter how fierce the two sides play, there are few situations of assisting defense and double-teaming, so Yao Ming does have the opportunity to compete for MVP today, as long as his playing time is guaranteed.
After Emperor Wu first assisted his two teammates to score points after he got points, he continued to feed Howard until the latter failed to make the 16th shot and his shooting percentage had dropped to 4 of 16 shots. After the timeout, this monster that wanted to save face finally asked him to "don't pass it to him again, at least not pass it in the first half." He really had no touch.
Of course, Howard also expressed his gratitude to Emperor Wu for feeling so bad, because he felt that Emperor Wu still kept keeping his promise before the game and feeding him the ball. This moved Howard, and thought to himself: "Did I really misread this guy before?"
"Silly x, you still don't feel the same in the second half." Emperor Wu smiled and peed. He actually thanked him. Isn't this guy really so naive? Or is it because this guy was deliberately beaten by Brother Yao?
Wu Huang, who was complaining about Howard in his heart, then thought of another question: "Now Howard doesn't want the ball anymore, should I save the world?"
Emperor Wu's idea just rose, but looking at the Heat trio and the Bulls Four Gang, who were not strong in the game, the idea of becoming a savior was soon extinguished.
He has no choice. This is the All-Star Game. He doesn't think he can win by himself. The West is not a vegetarian. Even the Eastern Conference players want to win now, but now they are so many points behind, and they still feed Yao Ming's feel. The difficulty of their desire to win is already very different.
Yao Ming is indeed a bit distorted today, or his performance this season is very distorted!
Everyone originally thought that the little giant's physical strength would be worse after the age of 30, but after losing weight + rejecting all national team competitions outside the Olympics, he was actually better than in previous years. Until now this season, Yao Ming has only missed one game, which makes the Rockets themselves unable to believe it?
Now Mike Haier has gradually increased Yao Ming's playing time to 31 minutes per game. He also played the most efficient season in his career this season, with an average shooting percentage of 56.8% a career high, and an average of 19.8 points, 9.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists. It can be said that Yao Ming is the real number one center this season.
In the last three minutes of the first half, this All-Star game became a battle between Wu Huang and Yao Ming, and the two of them also took on the offensive tasks of their respective teams: one kept ravaging the monsters inside, and the other kept performing their own sharp shooting skills on the outside.
Chinese fans are the most excited. Nothing can make them feel more proud than being the protagonist on the All-Star stage. At this stage, China's military and sports improvement can best stimulate national self-confidence. However, due to a series of institutional problems, China has encountered huge gaps in sports events, that is, those powerful projects are very powerful, and poor projects are very bad, which makes many outstanding people who lack self-confidence have always suspected that it is the advantages and disadvantages of race.
Wu Huang, a super point guard who is less than two meters, played a good idol role at this time. His success has driven some wind directions, which has made many outstanding young men in China finally make up their minds to choose the basketball path when facing a choice.
At the same time, Wu Huang's success has made some parents no longer resist their children's choice of basketball, which has indirectly promoted the growth of talents in this area. China is likely to have a group of outstanding point guards in five or six years.
Yao Ming made two more goals in the last three minutes of the first half. In the first half, he made a magical performance of 10 of 12 shots, plus free throws, scored a total of 24 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists. No one expected that this Chinese giant, who has always been low-key on the All-Star, became the player with the highest score in the Western Conference in the first half.
Once Wu Huang brushed the data, he was not vague. He made three three-pointers in just three minutes. In the first half, his three-pointer also had an amazing shooting percentage of 5 of 6 shots, and he scored very efficiently 19 points, 3 rebounds and 5 assists.
"Are these Chinese people all sharpshooters?" Fans around the world couldn't help asking the same question at this moment. The two of them were extremely accurate in shooting. It can be said that both of them were the players with the most accurate shooting in their respective positions. It is difficult for active players to find a center and point guard who are more accurate than them.
Yao Ming's shooting percentage today is amazing, but Rockets fans say they are no longer surprised. Their big guys often play such performances, especially under the loose All-Star defense, it is not surprising that he is punctual.
Not to mention Emperor Wu, he only performed his three-point miracle yesterday. Today's performance is just a continuation of yesterday's state.
"The Chinese have very strong shooting talent. I think this is their racial talent. It can be foreseen that China will have more sharpshooters like Hugo and Yao Ming to come to the NBA in the future." Reggie Miller felt that the Chinese have outstanding shooting talent. Even Space Yi, who has not played, is also a big outside shooting man. Jeremy Lin is also a rookie with good shooting in his rookie season.
"I heard Hugo say that there are less than 3,000 professional players in China. Even if we don't include the hugo trained by our United States, it is already incredible that they can find outstanding players like Yao in such a rare resource." O'Neal took the opportunity to flatter China. He now has endorsement contracts from many Chinese manufacturers, and these incomes after retirement are very important to him.
After the first half, the Western Team led the Eastern Team by 12 points with 88:76, especially the number of 88 points is a bit terrifying. Even in the All-Star game that lacks defense, this is a very amazing score data. Today, these two teams are likely to set new scoring records in the All-Star Game again.
During the halftime break, Yao Ming finally couldn't help but make a formal request to his teammates. He hoped to use today's excellent feel to compete with this year's mvp.
Kobe immediately said that there was no problem. Although he also wanted to get MVP, Yao Ming, who has always had a good reputation, took the initiative to propose that he would not really compete with the other party. Moreover, Pan would not be like Emperor Wu, but behind his back. Since he agreed to Yao Ming, he really planned to cooperate with the little giant.
Paul and Durant actually wanted to compete for this year's MVP, but when Yao Ming spoke, they were embarrassed to compete again, and others would not have any objections.
Emperor Wu once again showed off his acting skills in the locker room of the Eastern Army. He looked at Howard with sincerity and firm eyes. Not only cheered him up, but also said righteously: He would continue to feed Howard the ball in the second half, so that the latter would not be affected by the bad state in the first half.
Howard was so moved that he played like a piece of shit in the first half. He was still in deep depression and guilt at this moment. Therefore, the comfort and encouragement of Emperor Wu at this moment made Howard's impression of him change again. At this moment, the Warcraft's heart almost equalized Emperor Wu and the good man.
"Thank you, I know what to do." Howard's words gathered into one sentence, and this thank you also meant that he had made peace with Emperor Wu unilaterally.
"You're welcome, this is what I should do." Wu Huang smiled happily, his eyes almost narrowed into a slit.
Thibodeau is a little confused. He is no longer sure if Emperor Wu is causing trouble? Or is it really helping Howard compete for MVP?
At this moment, no one in the fans and players in the Eastern Star Team saw Wu Huang’s trick. He hid himself so well today. Sometimes even he himself thought, was he really reconciled with Howard? In the first half, he did pass a lot of balls to Howard, and no one could find any fault.
After the start of the second half, Wu Huang continued to feed his teammates the ball, and nearly half of the passes were still in the hands of Howard, which made home fans give cheers to Wu Huang, because Howard still had difficulty hitting the ball, so they could only give cheers to Wu Huang.
"Why! Why can't I just score? Why can't I just score?" Howard couldn't figure out what the problem was in this game. When Yao Ming on the opposite side continued to score on him without any mercy, the mentality of this monster finally began to have problems.
At 8 minutes and 20 seconds in the third quarter, Yao Ming successfully restricted Howard's turn and shot the board again in this round, but he was not wary of the annoyed Howard's angry Howard had lost his mind. The fans in front of the TV only saw Howard rushing towards the basketball with a pair of iron elbows across. Yao Ming, who was blocking the middle, was naturally in trouble. After a scream, the referee blew a sharp whistle, and Yao Ming's face was already covered in blood!
"Sorry, I didn't mean it." Howard's uncool move made him suffer a technical foul this time. The monster that reacted hurriedly apologized to the little giant, and his elbow hit Yao Ming's nose hard.
"It's okay, but my nose seems to be gone." Yao Ming, who was covered in blood, was still intent on joking. If it were Emperor Wu, he would have no idea what kind of revenge he wanted.
"Mr. Team Doctor, can I continue to play?" Yao Ming temporarily stopped the bleeding. He could feel that a certain bone on his nose might have broken, but he didn't want to end like this, so he asked the temporary team doctor in a hurry.
Chapter completed!