Anthony the Reborn

Chapter 180 The Last Minute

Seeing that the Eastern team began to press time, Sanders looked nervously at the field. Although he said that the outcome of the game would not have much impact on him, Carlisle had already shown his coaching ability first. If he finally If he loses the game, those media will definitely question his performance, and it will even affect his coaching career in the Timberwolves.

You must know that the Timberwolves' record this season is the best in the league. The "three monsters" have performed well. As long as the team's chemical balance is not destroyed, this lineup is enough to maintain competitiveness in the next few years. As a coach, who doesn't want to coach in a strong team?
However, he has already done what he can do at the moment. Apart from reminding the players to stay focused, all he can do is just a spectator.

Iverson pressed the time until the last 7 or 8 seconds left in the game before he started to attack.

Pressing time is what the leading teams often do at the end of the game, but this is actually a gamble. After all, pressing time is pressing and pressing. There is not enough time. In the end, the stars will do it alone. Whether they can make it depends on the individual ability of the stars.

Iverson obviously belongs to the ranks of top stars. Facing Cassell at this moment, he crossed the ball from left to right, followed by a sudden right hand to pull the ball back, a backward crotch, and then directly from the left He rushed out sideways, and with a beautiful butterfly step, he passed Kassel completely.

Iverson used his trump card, and the fans at the scene immediately cheered. For a small man like Iverson, his extraordinary performance is what the audience most wanted to see.

After Iverson passed Cassell, he saw that O'Neal was guarding the basket, and Garnett and Duncan joined hands. Instead of breaking through, he directly chose a mid-range shot.

There is no defender in front of him at the moment, it can be said that it is completely open, and he is 100% sure that he can easily hit the ball.

Jumping, aiming, preparing to shoot, everything seems to be coherent.

But just as the ball was about to leave Iverson's hand, a hand suddenly came from the right side, and the speed was very fast, which was beyond everyone's expectations.

The person who defended in mid-air was Anthony. He had expected that Cassel would be passed by Iverson, so he rushed over one step ahead of time, just in time for Iverson's shot. He jumped up and slapped the ball like a volleyball.

To say that Iverson is indeed perverted, he has already made a shooting action at the moment, and the ball is about to fly out of his hands. After sensing Anthony's approach, he uses his super perfect body flexibility , pulled the ball back abruptly, waited until Anthony's hand passed his eyes, and then threw the ball while it was falling.

Anthony was ready to block the ball. After all, his appearance was timely and in place, but after seeing Iverson's action, he was also taken aback. Iverson's abnormality was not blocked.

The ball flew out of Iverson's hands and headed for the basket.

At this moment, the red light on the sidelines came on, and it was time for the Eastern team to attack.

"Dangdang!"

With a crisp sound, Iverson's shot failed to hit. The moment the ball bounced, O'Neal squeezed Wallace away from the basket and pocketed this golden rebound.

After O'Neal grabbed the ball, he threw the ball to Cassel. With less than 2 minutes left in the game, the Western Conference team was still behind by 6 points.

The Western team advanced to the frontcourt, and Cassel observed the positioning of the Eastern team. Perhaps for stability, he did not continue to hand the ball to Anthony, but gave the ball to O'Neal, who had already fallen into position.

After O'Neal received the ball, he immediately began to crush the bulldozer inside, but he pushed twice, but he couldn't push it in. Looking back, he realized that Wallace had exhausted his strength, and he didn't know where to go. With the strength that came, he actually had a fight with him.

O'Neill saw that Wallace was full of energy, and he also had a fighting spirit for a while, and continued to increase his horsepower to push in, but he never expected that at the moment he exerted force, Wallace's whole body fell backwards. Going straight down, he felt a light on his back, followed by the referee's whistle on the sidelines.

The referee extended his hand to O'Neill, an offensive foul!
"What?!" O'Neill stared at the referee angrily. Wallace obviously flopped the ball just now.

The referee glanced at O'Neal and didn't say anything. After all, this is the All-Star Game. If it was an ordinary game, even if you were O'Neal, he would give you a T.

Seeing that the referee ignored him, O'Neill had no choice but to retreat resentfully.

This time, more than ten seconds of attack time were consumed, but the score was still 6 points, and the ball was returned to the Eastern team. This time, the game became more difficult to play.

In the Eastern team's offense, Iverson still controlled the ball. With the lesson from last time, he paid great attention to Anthony's positioning, and deliberately dribbled the ball to the other side of Anthony. The attack was launched immediately, and it was also a perfect butterfly step. Cassel's defense was already in place, but he still couldn't stop Iverson from advancing, and he passed it cleanly.

At this moment, it was too late for Anthony to come over to defend, but Garnett is also a very fast player. The moment Iverson broke through Cassel, he immediately moved over to defend.

Iverson and Garnett fought for speed and made a shooting posture before Garnett made a shot.

Garnett held his breath, accelerated again suddenly, jumped up, and was about to block Iverson.

But at this moment, Iverson didn't look at people directly, and with a flick of his hand, the ball spun past Garnett's side, and then it went into McGrady's hands.

Garnett has already gone to defend Iverson, and Cassell has not come to defend. McGrady is now in the middle distance on the right, empty and unguarded. He jumps up and shoots.

With a sound of "swish", 2 points were easily scored. McGrady's score brought the Eastern team's score to 8 points, and the game time was only one minute and a dozen seconds.

The most annoyed person at this moment is O'Neal. He was already annoyed by the offensive foul just now, and now the Eastern team scored, so he couldn't get angry.

Now after halftime, he wanted to take a position in the paint, so he stretched out his big hand and asked for it.

Cassell saw that O'Neal didn't score the last goal, and he was going to play for Anthony at this moment, but seeing that O'Neal wanted the ball, the result of the All-Star game compared with the player's reputation seems to be the same. Not so important anymore, Cassell gave the ball to O'Neal without much hesitation.

Facing Wallace's defense, O'Neill changed his strategy after learning from the previous lessons. After relying on a hit, he directly made a light hook.

The ball crossed a soft parabola, and fell steadily into the net bag with a "swish".

The entire attack took only 6 seconds. At this time, Wallace was too late to try hard, so he could only watch O'Neal score.

This time scoring, O'Neal can be regarded as recovering the previous disadvantage. The score of the two sides has returned to 6 points, but the game time is only about 1 minute left, and the Eastern team can basically be said to be sure of victory.

Sanderson also made a decision at this time. He replaced Garnett and Duncan with Kobe and Ray Allen.

When Kobe played, the fans at the scene burst into cheers. After all, this is Staples' home court, and Kobe's thirst-quenching three-pointer is really needed at this time.

The Eastern team's offense was still controlled by Iverson. He looked at the time above his head. Every time the time went by, the greater the hope of the Eastern team's victory.

He kept pressing the time until there were 6 or 7 seconds before the attack time before launching the attack. After Ray Allen and Kobe replaced, the defensive rotation of the West team was significantly accelerated. Iverson's breakthrough this time was blocked by Kobe and Ray Lun's double-team was blocked, and the game time was up. He made a hasty shot, but now there are only 30 seconds left in the game, and the East team with a 6-point lead is already sure to win.

Sanders watched from the sidelines, and he didn't call a timeout. Relatively speaking, he is a coach who prefers to give players the freedom on the court.

The audience on the sidelines watched the game on the field, and they were a little nervous and speechless. The two commentators Johnson and Barkley also temporarily notified the jokes, but turned their attention to the field.

West troops attack, this time, Cassel directly handed the ball to Bryant.

Kobe faced McGrady, he swayed quickly, and McGrady kept up with his rhythm without showing any weakness. The two top superstars have turned on the full-body immersion mode at this moment, and they are all doing their best. .

In the end, Kobe knew that the longer the offensive time took, the more unfavorable it would be for the Western team. After finally finding a small opportunity, he directly pulled out the shot.

But this opportunity was really not very good. The moment Kobe jumped up, McGrady also jumped up to delay him. McGrady's abnormal wingspan played a role at this moment. Although Kobe jumped a little later, it was still a successful interference in the end. To Kobe.

Kobe's shot, the fans at the scene were silent.

"Dangdang!"

There was a crisp sound, after all, Kobe had been off the court for a while, and this time the shot still ended in a strike.

The fans at the scene were in an uproar.

But at this moment, O'Neal jumped up from the basket, squeezed away the double attack of Wallace and Artest, and then grabbed this key offensive rebound.

The moment he got the rebound, O'Neal looked around, and soon found Anthony ambushing in the bottom corner.

Now in the lineup of the West, Anthony is playing at the 4th position. Artest came to help defend, and Anthony was naturally free. O'Neal didn't even think about it, and just threw the ball at him.

Anthony catches the ball with 25 seconds left in the game.

(End of this chapter)