The glory of the basketball gods

Chapter 269 2012 All-Star Weekend, Won the Main Match MVP ([-] Chapters, [-] Updates)

On February 2012, 2, the 25 All-Star Weekend officially began in Orlando.

On the first day, it was the warm-up event of the All-Star Weekend, the Rookie Challenge.

As early as February 2, the NBA officially announced that the 8 Rookie Challenge held in Orlando will use a completely different format from the past, which is to use a mixed team of first-year and second-year students. confrontation.

According to the schedule and the arrangement of the organizing committee, the rookie challenge will be divided into "Charles Barkley" team and "Shaquille O'Neal" team.

According to the selection list, O'Neal used his team's first two picks to select Jeremy Lin, who has been very popular recently, and Blake Griffin. Show Kyrie Irving was recruited.

Since he has already won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, Yuan Man is not very interested in leading the team to win through stats. Yuan Man just wants to enjoy the feeling of the All-Star Weekend.

So on the court, Yuan Man continued to create offensive opportunities for Owen. A few days before the start of the game, Yuan Man could already feel the urgency of this guy. It was the same as his rookie season. Irving also wanted to Prove yourself in the Rookie Challenge.

With the help of Yuan Man, Irving played very smoothly on the court, scoring 34 points and 9 assists, helping the Barkley team beat the O'Neal team 146-133.

In addition to Irving, Cousins ​​of the Barkley team scored 20 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. The best performance of the O'Neal team was Kemba Walker, with 17 points and 10 assists, but he was blown by Irving on the defensive end. , In addition, Greg Monroe played well, scoring 19 points and 10 rebounds.

Yuan Man played very relaxed and casual. Like Griffin, he saved his energy for the All-Star Game later, and neither of them exerted much effort.Yuan Man scored 8 points and 10 assists, while Griffin had 6 points and 6 rebounds.

The joining of Jeremy Lin seems to make this rookie challenge more interesting, but because of continuous fighting, he didn't have much playing time. He played nearly 9 minutes and only scored 2 points and 1 assist.

In the end, Irving, who performed well, won the MVP trophy of the Rookie Challenge. This is also the MVP of the Cavaliers' All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge for two consecutive years.

On February 2012, 2, the All-Star Weekend continued. In the just-concluded Shooting Star Contest, the New York team led by CIC Alan Houston won the championship.

The cities participating in the Shooting Star competition include Atlanta, Orlando, New York and Texas. In the first round, New York and Texas successfully entered the finals.

Texas made the first shot in the final, and Kenny Smith successfully made a super long shot. It only took 47.6 seconds, which put a lot of pressure on New York, who played next.

However, New York, which has a luxurious lineup, was even smoother. It took only 5 seconds to throw the first 18 balls.After that, they began to shoot frequently from a long distance, and finally completed the task in only 37.3 seconds, easily winning the championship.

Then there was the skill challenge competition, and the list of participants was very gorgeous.

In addition to Kyrie Irving of the Cavaliers, Tony Parker of the Spurs, Rajon Rondo of the Celtics, John Wall of the Wizards, Russell Westbrook of the Thunder, and the Nets Deron Williams and Stephen Curry of the Warriors all participated, and almost the best point guards in the league gathered here.

In order to cheer up his brother, Yuan Man, who had no game mission that day, sat on the sidelines to cheer for Irving who was about to play. Klay Thompson, who had no game mission that day, also appeared on the sidelines.

But perhaps because he participated in this kind of non-confrontational game of the All-Star Weekend for the first time, Irving, as the No. Out of fate.

After the first round, Deron Williams, Rondo and Parker made it to the finals, while Irving, Westbrook, Wall and Curry were eliminated.

In the final, Rondo, who was the first to play, did not play very well. It took him four hits and passes to succeed, and the final score was 34.6 seconds.

Parker was much smoother, only using one more touch pass, and finally it was 32.8 seconds.

Williams, who once won the 2008 championship and was the preliminaries champion, is the favorite to win the championship. His first half was smooth, but there was a problem when he was good at shooting. He missed three consecutive shots and only succeeded on the fourth time. The result was 41.4 seconds, unfortunately missed the championship.

Parker finally won the championship with an unremarkable result. No one expected that the star-studded Skills Challenge would end with such a result. Before the start of the competition, many people even expressed that someone might break the previous fastest record.

On February 2012, 2, there will be a three-point shot contest and a slam dunk contest on this day.

Yuan Man and Owen, who had no game assignments that day, were still sitting on the sidelines cheering for Thompson. It felt great to have no game assignments for two consecutive days. Because of who caused the game to end, the two seem to be very relaxed.

Although he failed in the Skills Challenge, Irving won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, which is enough to be satisfied with this All-Star Weekend.

Today is to see Klay Thompson's performance.

Players participating in the three-point contest this year are: Ryan Anderson of the Magic, James Jones of the Heat, Kevin Durant of the Thunder, Klay Thompson of the Cavaliers, Kevin Love of the Timberwolves, Anthony Morrow of the Nets has 6 players.

In the first round, Clay played normally and scored 20 points. He entered the final with Durant, who also scored 20 points, and defending champion Jones, who scored 22 points.

Durant made his first appearance in the final, but scored only 16 points.

Clay's performance was not very good. After all, he is a rookie player. In the final, seeing Durant only scored 16 points, he had some thoughts of wanting to win and fear losing, but he only scored 16 points.

Defending champion Jones has a good chance of winning the championship, but unexpectedly, he only scored 12 points and was the first to be eliminated.

In this way, Durant and Clay won an unexpected PK match. Clay was the first to play. After only scoring 6 points in the first two points, he stabilized his mentality and broke out amidst the cheers of Yuan Man and Irving. The last two points were eye-catching, scoring 17 points.

Durant, who played next, was under a lot of pressure. He only scored 6 points in the first two points, but scored 4 points in the middle point. Unfortunately, he did not perform well in the next two points. In the end, he only scored 14 points and gave up the championship.

In this way, the Cavaliers' rookie Klay Thompson unexpectedly broke through and won the title of "three-pointer king".

After the three-point game, Irving and Clay's All-Star game is over, and both of them have gained. Irving's rookie game MVP and Clay's three-point champion, Irving and Clay joked to Yuan Man, let Yuan Man will get the MVP in tomorrow's All-Star Game, otherwise, among the three Cavaliers participating in the All-Star Weekend, he will be the only one who won nothing. Yuan Man smiled and returned to my best effort.

After the three-point contest, it is a big dish before the All-Star game-the dunk contest.

This time Yuan Man was invited, but did not participate.

A total of 4 players participated in the slam dunk contest, namely Chase Budinger of the Rockets, Jeremy Evans of the Jazz, Paul George of the Pacers and Derek Williams of the Timberwolves .

The rules of this year's All-Star Slam Dunk Contest have been restructured. Compared with the previous ones, the new competition system only includes one round of competition. Each player has three chances to dunk. After each player completes the dunk, fans can start voting. Fans vote to decide.

In a "no gunpowder" dunk contest, rookie player Jeremy Evans had the last laugh with 29% of the votes and won the championship of this dunk contest. The level of the dunkers obviously cannot satisfy the appetite of the fans.

Barkley was even blunt, claiming that if Evans participated in the last slam dunk contest, he would be eliminated in the first round.

After the game, when Evans, who won the championship, was interviewed by the media, he also expressed that it was a pity that Yuan Man did not participate in the competition. If possible, he hoped that in the next slam dunk contest, he could compete with Yuan Man on the court. Down.

On February 2012, 2, when the Orlando All-Star Game started, Yuan Man finally took out his long-collected "Bob Pettit's All-Star Card". After using this card, Yuan Man found himself The various attribute values ​​​​of his body have actually obtained the effect of +28. According to the analysis of strength, this is simply a qualitative improvement.

The game kicked off with the cheers of the fans, and the holding of the All-Star Game also gave the fans who have been going or staying for Howard a rare opportunity to relax.

As soon as the game started, the West played a wave of 7-0, while the East entered the state slowly.

A violent dunk by Howard was the first time they scored in a sports game, but since they are All-Stars, performances are indispensable. Kobe just succeeded in singles against James, and James immediately changed his color with a four-step breakthrough with a left-handed dunk.

The Clippers duo Paul and Griffin cooperated tacitly. With 8 minutes and 12 seconds left in the first quarter, Paul suddenly threw the ball from the outside. Griffin quickly followed up on the left side and dunked with both hands. At 2 minutes and 56 seconds, Paul drove straight after stealing, suddenly hit the ground and passed the ball to Griffin behind him, who finished with a tomahawk dunk after receiving the ball.

The West will be more active in the first quarter, leading 39-28.

After being beaten hard by the West in the first quarter, Yuan Man began to show his power in the second quarter. With 3 minutes and 48 seconds left in this quarter, Wade and Yuan Man had a cooperation. Wade smashed the ball on the backboard. De took off from behind, caught a rebound ball and dunked successfully, then stole Love, dribbled the ball one-stop, and ended the offense with a two-handed dunk. At that time, it ended in a tie of 82-82.

In the third quarter, the players in the East seemed a little relaxed and careless. Although James hit consecutive three-pointers, the players did not work hard on defense, allowing the West to play fast breaks one after another. At the end of the third quarter, the West scored 102-95 Leading the Eastern Conference by 7 points.

In the fourth quarter, the trailing Eastern Conference began to adjust its defensive state, desperately fighting for the victory.

There was no smile on James' face, Wade was serious, and Yuan Man completely took over the game late in the fourth quarter.

Although Kobe scored consecutively under Wade's defense, and dunked with both hands at 4 minutes and 56 seconds of this quarter, he scored the 20th point of the game, thus breaking Jordan's record with a total score of 264 points in the All-Star Game , became the player with the most points in the All-Star Game, but Yuan Man's score was even sharper.

Three consecutive three-pointers were hit, and when the team was 14 points behind, Yuan Man blew the call for a counterattack.

Pulling up and leaning back, Yuan Man is almost possessed by McGrady and Kobe at their peak, relying on the additional ability brought by the All-Star card to score consecutively on the field.

With 37 seconds left in the game, the West led the East by 150 points 147-3. James wanted to return a three-pointer, but he went out of the basket. Wade grabbed the rebound and caused a foul. After two free throws In the middle, the difference between the two sides is only 1 point.

After the West sent the ball, the East fouled immediately.

Bryant went to the free throw line, but only made one of two free throws, leaving the Eastern team with a chance.

The coach of the Eastern Stars, Scott, called a timeout and arranged the final shot.

Eastern serve, Wade first held the ball to attract Kobe's defense, and then passed the ball to James, James broke into the inside at the last moment of the game, and then passed the ball!
Yuan Man, who was standing outside, received a second pass from James, raised his knife and dropped it, facing Durant's defense, and threw the ball high. The ball drew a beautiful arc in the air and passed through the net hollowly. !

152-151!The East Star Team won, Yuan Man was the lore!

After scoring the goal, Yuan Man was immediately surrounded by the stars of the Eastern Star Team. Paul Pierce excitedly came up and hit Yuan Man's chest with his fist. Carmelo Anthony also bumped into Yuan Man's chest in celebration. Wade and James also took the initiative to give Yuan Man a high five.

Even though Kobe scored 27 points, broke Jordan's record and set an all-star game scoring record, Yuan Man's 36 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists turned Kobe's "milestone" into a "sad mileage" .

Just like Owen and Clay joked, Yuan Man really won the MVP of this year's Orlando All-Star Game!

Being able to win the MVP among the stars is definitely a supreme honor. Yuan Man did it, and he also set a record.

2006年的休斯顿全明星赛上，詹姆斯以29分6个篮板2次助攻2次抢断的数据，从麦迪的手里将MVP活生生的夺走，当时詹姆斯还创造了夺得全明星正赛MVP的最小年龄--21岁。

But Yuan Man broke this record. He was also 21 years old, but Yuan Man won it 2 months and 2 days earlier than James, thus breaking James' record while winning the MVP of the Orlando All-Star Game. Record.

Sure enough, it was God's will in the dark, and Yuan Man, who used McGrady as the basic template, finally found the venue for McGrady's hatred of being snatched from the MVP.

(End of this chapter)