From sparring to superstar

Chapter 167. 165. The Perfect Los Angeles Big Three

After laughing wildly with the OK group, Li Ao got to know the other All-Stars for a while.

The West team, in addition to their Los Angeles 3, the other 9 people: Garnett, Antonio McDyess, Payton, Malone, Rasheed Wallace, Kidd, Finley, Webber, Divac.

The Eastern team, Mourning and Ratliff were reimbursed. Stern designated Anthony Mason Jr. of the Heat and Reggie Miller of the Pacers to participate. The other 10 people were Duncan, Tracy McGrady, Carter, Iverson, Marbury, Ray Allen, Glenn Robinson, Stackhouse, Mutombo, Antonio Davis.

As a social fear, he can chat a few words whether he is familiar with him or not, whether the relationship is good or not.

After entering the NBA for less than a season, he met these All-Stars on the court before, and had no interaction in private, and some of them had never even met.

He found that some people were similar on and off the court, such as Glenn Robinson, who was selected as an All-Star, and still looked like he was "forced to open business"; Reggie Miller had no expression when talking to anyone; Lun stood quietly on the side. When Li Ao went to say hello, he responded with a smile, but did not take the initiative to speak.

Carter found Kobe and launched a slam dunk challenge, saying that both of them were dunk kings and it was time for a showdown, but Kobe ignored it.

There are also very different styles of painting on and off the field, and Tianzun enthusiastically introduced to Li Ao the flow of activities during the day.

Payton wanted to point his nose at Spiderman and scold him on the court, but this time when he went to say hello, the opponent encouraged him to perform well tonight and would pass him the ball.

Malone is always vicious on the court, and Mutombo is also a finger on the court and no one loves anyone, but the two talk a lot on this occasion, and from time to time they talk dirty, revealing their true colors.

In particular, Marbury was short of saying "I will lead you to win" to his All-Star teammates.

What surprised Li Ao the most was Iverson...

"Wow, look who this is, my favorite Spider-Man! It's a pity to hear that you turned down the role of Spider-Man, God, but I think you made the right choice, basketball is your job , you are stronger than I was in my rookie season, Vaco, I will be 26 soon, you are only 19 years old, I may retire when you reach your peak, no, I will play for a few more years, Only then will I have the opportunity to enjoy the joy of confronting you at your peak..."

Iverson encouraged Li Ao with the tone of treating a child, but he didn't know how to answer for a while.

The key other All-Stars are not surprised by Iverson's words and deeds!
Li Ao thought of what Xiao Melon, who is still a high school student, said during his wandering career-the years when I partnered with Allen were the happiest period after I entered the NBA.

Anthony is the kind of player with a big face but not a mature mentality. With a senior like Iverson leading him, let's not talk about whether he can win or not, and he doesn't have to bear any responsibilities. He must have a good time.

Li Ao has some understanding of the All-Stars, and the All-Stars have a new understanding of him-the mouth is really broken!

He was not as arrogant and arrogant as they thought, and he didn't feel violent. Instead, he looked like a sunny and cheerful boy, not the fake one.

But after talking for a few more words, I found out that I really deserve a beating!

Although they felt that the Knicks deserved to be beaten, but now they feel that the reason for the brawl was somewhat due to the rookie himself...

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After chatting for a while, the staff led the All-Stars to participate in the event, and Li Ao could only regretfully end this short greeting.

After experiencing the activities of the All-Star Game Day, Li Ao felt pretty good, and the media were very friendly today.

There are too many stars, and there is no need to hype news about so-and-so.

At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Western Conference All-Stars were preparing for the game under the leadership of Kings coach Rick Adelman.

Kidd wanted to show his ability very much, and took the initiative to ask for the command of offensive training from Adelman.

Garnett also took the initiative to take command of the defensive training.

Adelman wished that the All-Stars of other teams would do more work, so he readily agreed.

The two of them were worried that the All-Stars in Los Angeles would compete with them, and the three of them obviously got together today.

The main reason is to worry about Li Ao. Some people seem to be born with the ability to lead the team. In their eyes, Li Ao is.

They are quite admirable for being able to integrate the Clippers team that has been rotten for so many years and set sail.

Although the Clippers do have a solid foundation, it's not for nothing that they have been bad for so many years, but when Li Ao was replaced by them, both of them felt scalp numb when they thought of Li Ao's situation when he first joined the Clippers.

Adelman actually wants to hand over the offensive and defensive command to the Los Angeles trio.

If the Clippers enter the playoffs, they will rank seventh and eighth at most. The Kings must be in the top three and may play against each other. The Lakers are the strongest opponents of the Kings in the playoffs.

Giving the command to these three people will not only make the three of them work harder during the All-Star Weekend, but also directly understand the two teams' play styles directly from the way the three command the team.

But for the three in Los Angeles, when it comes to command tactics, the OK team all looked at Li Ao, and they didn't care if Li Ao didn't fight for it.

Li Ao's thoughts-Kidd leads the offense, Garnett leads the defense, what kind of fairy treatment is this?
Both Kidd and Garnett are well-known superstars. The two of them took the initiative to lead the team. The most powerful OK combination has no objection, and others naturally have no objection.

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At 2001:2 pm on February 18, 7, the Verizon Center Arena in Washington was already buzzing.

When the Clippers moved from the Memorial Stadium to the Staples Center, it became the third largest arena in the NBA. Wizards games generally arrange 5 seats, but a maximum of more than [-] seats can be arranged.

Tonight, the Verizon Center Arena has a full specification of 50339 seats and 114 boxes. The advanced angle design of the auditorium ensures that the audience in every position can see the performance of the players on the court.

For this All-Star game, more than 300 pieces of the latest LED screens are also equipped, so that audiences in each area can see real-time images on the court from various angles through the screens.

Britney Spears ignited the enthusiasm of more than 5 viewers with her singing.

In the North American sports league, there are two stages where singers flock to. The most famous, of course, is the Super Bowl halftime performance.

The second is the performance stage before and during the intermission of the NBA All-Star Weekend.

After the warm-up performance, the protagonists entered the arena.

The enthusiasm of the fans is particularly high, more than half of the more than 5 fans are locals, and their enthusiasm is even higher than that of foreign fans.

Since the Wizards traded Webber away, the Wizards have been rotten to the bottom. They are very disappointed with the performance of Juwan Howard and Mitch Richmond. Only better than the Grizzlies.

The longer the emotions are suppressed, the more ferocious the explosion, and tonight, basketball fans in Washington will vent their enthusiasm.

Amid wild cheers from the fans, the host introduced one by one, and 14 all-star substitutes from the two teams entered the arena one after another.

When the host introduced the All-Star starters, the cheers of the fans reached a boiling point!
No Wizards player was selected as an All-Star, at least the nearly 3 local fans did not divide into camps, and everyone cheered when they saw it.

Li Ao felt his blood surging at this moment, and he had a feeling that he had returned to the time when he was fighting crazy.

But it's very different. During the Crazy Three, the 'team' was one.

Here, it's 'individual'.

Opponents, and teammates, are the world's top basketball players!

All star, all participating players are superstar games!

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It took half an hour to enter the field. After the entrance ceremony, Kidd and Garnett actively greeted the teammates to communicate the details of the game.

Li Ao felt that the two were taking this opportunity to show off their abilities and recruit teammates.

He also wants to join, but in terms of attractiveness, he still can't beat these two... Forget it, let's play the game well first.

After communicating with the two of them, he came to the court to shoot hot shots.

In the East, there are also people doing things similar to Kidd and Garnett, Marbury and Iverson.

The difference is that the All-Stars of the Eastern Conference are willing to listen to what Iverson said, while Marbury was ignored for no other reason, purely based on strength.

Marbury has been busy for a long time without any effect, and can only look at the champion of the same year with envy.

Soon, at 7:58, the first two teams came to the field.

Eastern Team: Iverson, McGrady, Carter, Anthony Mason Jr., Duncan.

West team: Kidd, Kobe, Li Ao, Webber, O'Neill.

These 10 people once again detonated the cheers of the fans at the scene.

At this moment, Li Ao lost the previous restlessness, calmly focused, and devoted himself to the upcoming game. All he thought about in his mind were the characteristics of the play style of these temporary teammates and how to cooperate with them.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the game began.

Amid the cheers of the fans at the scene, O'Neal overwhelmed Duncan to win the jump ball, and the West team went first!

Li Ao bypassed his cousin for the first time and went down quickly, but was blocked from the three-point line by his cousin who was actively expanding.

The Eastern Army's defense fell quickly, and Kidd advanced steadily and fell into positional warfare.

Li Ao came to the right side of the three-second zone, slid out of the bottom line, and Kobe followed to the right side of the three-second zone.

When Li Ao went around the left sideline, Kidd lobbed the ball to O'Neal in the low post, and Duncan sank his center of gravity and carried it behind O'Neal.

But O'Neal didn't play singles, he played the ball in the middle!

After Li Ao used Weber to cover without the ball on the left side of the three-second zone, he threw off Anthony Mason Jr., who was changing defense, and came to the right side of the three-second zone to receive the ball one step inside the free throw line. Carter actively defended from the three-second zone go up.

Li Ao didn't stop the ball after receiving the ball, and made a second pass...

O'Neal caught the ball at the basket, easily dunked with both hands and scored two points!
Li Ao has been looking at Kobe. Kobe went close and deep when Carter was defending Li Ao, attracting Duncan's footsteps, and O'Neal got the chance to dunk easily!

The cooperation of the Los Angeles trio made the TV commentators call it perfect.

Kobe and O'Neal didn't move, and the OK combination easily got the chance to score!

The starters of the Eastern Conference team were also surprised. The Los Angeles trio had a tacit understanding or not. The style of play alone seems to be really suitable!

In the transition between offense and defense, Iverson advanced to the frontcourt and saw Kobe pulling up his trouser legs in the top arc.

I saw Li Ao with Carter on the right side of the three-second zone.

See Kidd who is sticking to McGrady on the bottom line on the left.

There is also O'Neal who is stuck at the basket and can't even withstand a power monster like Duncan...

Iverson called Vaco!
It was too early to be surprised by the LA trio just now!
This is simply a piece of iron bucket!
Even Kidd, the first defense boss, seems redundant!
But this also aroused the competitiveness of the answer. He faced Kobe and began to dribble horizontally.

With Kidd on the left and Li Ao on the right, Iverson no longer chooses the direction of breakthrough.

After shaking Kobe's center of gravity away, Iverson showed his strongest ball control ability in history and took a step across, creating a huge gap and accelerating the breakthrough!
Iverson at the peak, no one can keep up when he pulls horizontally, and no one can keep up when he accelerates his first step, leaving Kobe behind!
However, as soon as Iverson entered the three-point line from the right, he saw Li Ao make up, but Kobe turned around and chased him. He had no chance to make a two-point emergency stop shot, so he could only continue to advance... Immediately felt the coming from The sense of envelopment of the giant spider.

The deterrent effect of Li Ao's 'heavy pressure' was useless to Iverson. Iverson calmly prepared to pass the ball, but he couldn't even see where Carter was...

Fortunately, Carter has a good sense of off the ball, and immediately moved around the three-point line to a 45-degree angle, but as soon as Iverson saw Carter, Kobe switched over, and Li Ao also made up for Iverson. Ferson's shooting space is completely covered!
In the blink of an eye, Iverson once again resorted to a sharp change of direction, pulling a step horizontally to gain room for breakthrough.

Li Ao struggled to keep up and couldn't stop him, but he used his height and wingspan to cover Iverson's shot space.

Iverson had to go deep into the basket and met O'Neal...

Already exhausted, Iverson made a layup and was slapped by O'Neal!

Li Ao snatched the ball before Duncan, and when he avoided Duncan's steal, the hand grabbing the ball was forced to reach Iverson's direction.

But at this moment, Iverson was numb. When he reacted and stretched out his hand, Li Ao had already sensed the problem and hugged the ball. He lost the chance to steal.

Not only Iverson, but other players on the field were also shocked, including Kidd and Webber who were also in the West team!
(End of this chapter)