Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 169 The First Goal of the All-Star Game

Anthony was a little flattered, knowing that Kobe O'Neal was playing at home, and he was just an All-Star rookie, a rookie, and it was really beyond his expectation that he received higher treatment than them.

But the surprise was the surprise. After waving his hand, he ran across the red carpet.

As soon as Anthony started running, the fans at the scene burst into even more enthusiastic cheers, expressing their love for Anthony to their heart's content. It seems that Anthony did not become the top voter of the All-Star just by relying on Chinese fans. Judging from the current reaction , his popularity in the United States seems to have completely surpassed others.

Fans on both sides stretched out their hands, Anthony clapped and greeted them one by one, and finally walked out of the fans section, came to the field, and all the All-Star players who played before also high-fived.

When he ran to the end of the team, the lights in the stadium suddenly went dark, and then there was a "bang", salutes sounded from both sides, white smoke scattered over the arena, and the much-anticipated All-Star Game was about to officially begin up.

The head coach of the All-Star Game is more of an honor. The role he can play is probably to allocate players' playing time. This is Anthony's understanding before participating in the game.

But when he really gathered around Sanders at this moment, the head coach of the Timberwolves, the most favorable contender for the best coach of the season, carefully explained the tactics to them with a tactical board, which made people feel uncomfortable. He was a little surprised.

However, Sanders also knows that although these players are all very capable, they have not been trained after all, so the tactical arrangement is relatively simple.

Anthony listened to Sanders' analysis, and quickly understood his intentions. He arranged two sets of simple tactics. The end point of the tactics was Kobe. It seemed that he was also intentionally catering to the home audience at the Lakers' home court. .

This is also normal. In Anthony's memory, the last most valuable player of this All-Star Game is O'Neal of the Lakers, and his goal now is to win this award in this game and print Anthony's name on the in history.

After introducing the referees of the game on the spot, all the starting players from both sides appeared on the stage. The first to fifth positions in the Eastern Conference were Jermaine O'Neal, Ben Wallace, Tracy McGrady, Carter and Iverson. The collocation of lines can be said to be very balanced.

Compared with the starting lineup in the East, the starting lineup in the West is a bit deformed. Anthony is playing the position of shooting guard at the moment, but fortunately, Carter on the opposite side is also a swingman. The strength of the fight, the most difficult matchup is Garnett and McGrady.

Although Garnett claims to be able to play players in all five positions, everything is relative. It may not be easy to play against McGrady.

But it's not all bad. Such a lineup, at least inside defense and rebounding, has an absolute advantage.

It was Yao Ming and O'Neal who jumped the ball. After the referee threw the ball up, Yao Ming used his height advantage to turn the ball back to the West Stars' half.

With the kick-off on the sidelines, this season's All-Star Game has officially started!

The commentators on the sidelines are "Famous Mouth" Barkley and Lakers legend "Magic" Johnson.

After the game started, Barkley couldn't help opening his big mouth and began to comment: "Ervin, this year's All-Star Game is held here, and it is also your home stadium. You can predict who will win the Western Conference. Team's first point?"

"Why, Charles, you want to bet with me again? Last time I remembered that you still owe me?" Johnson said with a smile.

"No, no..." Backus knew that what Johnson was talking about was a bet between two people in the last All-Star Game, betting whether Jordan would win the final MVP, the loser would cook for the winner himself, Bucks Lee bet that Jordan would. He wanted to make Johnson look bad, but in the end the Western Conference won and the MVP was given to Garnett. Naturally, he didn't know how to cook, so he just let it go.

Hearing Johnson talking about the past, Barkley quickly changed his tune and said: "I think Kobe will score the first point."

Johnson didn't expect Barkley to be so proactive this time. He said in surprise, "Hey, Charles, this isn't like you. How can you be so sure?"

Barkley replied a little strangely: "I know, how about this? If I guessed right, what happened to us last time?"

"Tsk tsk..." Although Johnson didn't know why Barkley was so sure, he was obviously prepared, and he hurriedly said, "Okay, but what if you guess wrong again?"

Barkley was confident, but Johnson suddenly asked this again, and he touched his head in embarrassment.

At this moment, the Western Conference team had advanced past half court. Kobe took control of the ball, handed the ball to Garnett, and then began to run back.

Barkley was ruthless, and then said: "If I lose, I will burn you twice!"

"..."

Johnson couldn't laugh or cry for a while, but he also knew that this kind of thing was originally used to enliven the atmosphere of the scene, so he didn't deliberately make things difficult, but just smiled and said, "Then you have to be prepared, my wife is not at home today, you can Go cook at my house."

"..."

Barkley didn't expect that he would be teased by Johnson, and was about to say more, at this moment, there was a crisp sound of "swish" on the court.

Kobe passed the pick-and-roll, received a pass from Garnett, and easily hit a mid-range hit.

Barkley's still hesitating face suddenly burst into a smile: "Haha, I won the bet!"

Johnson didn't expect Barkley to guess it. Although he didn't care about it, he said curiously, "Charles, how did you guess it? I didn't know you had the ability to predict..."

"Well..." Barkley made a fool of himself, pointed to the court and said, "You'll know after two more rounds."

Hearing what Barkley said, Johnson focused his attention on the field, and he wanted to see how Barkley guessed it.

The Eastern team attacked, Iverson dribbled the ball like lightning, quickly accelerated after a retreat, passed Kobe and made an easy hit on the board, Yao Ming on the inside fully upheld the nature of the All-Star entertainment, and saw that Iverson had already made a shooting posture After that, he just defended intentionally.

When Kobe saw Iverson score, his face suddenly changed slightly, and he looked back at Yao Ming, but he didn't say anything, after all, the ball belonged to him.

Both sides scored the first goal in the opening game, which drew cheers from the fans on the sidelines. In the All-Star Game, there were fans from various teams. What they hoped to see was their favorite stars fully displaying their performance on this field. Self, as for winning and defending, for this kind of entertainment game, go to hell.

Anthony was running back and forth on the court at the moment. After playing for the first 3 minutes, he suddenly discovered something. He seemed to have never even touched the ball. Originally, if he was playing a small forward, he could still go for rebounds, but as a shooting guard After that, he has been floating on the outside, the ball has been circling around Kobe and the three insiders, and he has no chance at all.

But this is the All-Star Game. The so-called tactics are for the stars. Scoring opportunities need the tacit understanding of both sides to create. Garnett, Duncan and Kobe are not the first time to participate in the All-Star Game. If there is no tactic and system to restrict, we will always think of passing the ball to someone we know, not to mention that Sanders' tactic is to use Kobe as the tactical end point. Although Anthony is the top voter, he can't get rid of the rookie This is understandable.

Johnson watched the game between the two teams at the moment, and he also had an expression of enlightenment. He finally understood why Barkley said that. It turned out that Sanders was playing tactics, and the core of tactics was Kobe!
It was only then that he remembered that Barkley and Sanders were relatively good friends. He must be confident in saying that, and he suddenly felt cheated, but this kind of thing was helpless, and he was still put on by Barkley. .

But compared to who gets the first point, what Johnson feels more upset at this time is that the old guys in the West ignore Anthony. Let alone Anthony's ability, they should give Anthony some chances.

You must know that Yao Ming was selected as a starter in the All-Star Game last year. At that time, Yao Ming was obviously not strong enough, and he was selected abruptly by Chinese fans. But even so, these same guys will give Yao Ming a chance. But today these people have gone too far.

As a fan of Anthony, Johnson became more and more unhappy. Even if he wanted to fulfill Kobe, he would not do it.

Just when he was about to say a few words for Anthony, Kobe's shot bounced out of the basket, and a blue figure suddenly rushed into the inside line at lightning speed, and was more than one meter away from the basket. Suddenly jumped up.

At this moment, Jr. O'Neal of the Eastern Stars was ready to take the basket above his head into his arms. He didn't notice anyone approaching at all, and he was still flying like this.

"boom!"

The blue figure jumped up, grabbed the ball in mid-air with both hands, and slammed the ball down on O'Neal's head.

Little O'Neill couldn't dodge in time, and was directly riding on the crotch of the blue figure, which became the super background of this tragic scene.

"Oh!" Bacchus suddenly reached out his hand to cover his mouth, his glasses were wide open, and he expressed his shock with extreme exaggeration.

"Haha, I knew this kid wouldn't accept his fate!" Johnson also said with a big laugh.

The fans at the scene were in an uproar. This ball was direct, simple, violent, and full of violent aesthetics. It was exactly what they wanted to see the most!
The blue back, the number 15 printed on the back of the jersey was blowing in the air with the wind.

The imposing manner is like a rainbow, like a god descending from the earth, this person is naturally Anthony.

(End of this chapter)