king of defenders

Chapter 1034 The Race Begins

Although the rules have changed, the captain will no longer divide the East and the West, but the starting players will still be those people, and it will not change, otherwise the All-Star voting will be meaningless.

In other words, even if James and Curry choose their own players, they must first choose from the 8 players who entered the starting lineup of the East and West as a result of the All-Star vote.

On the James team, apart from James himself, there are Meng Yun, Irving, and Davis. Cousins, who had previously entered the starting lineup, was absent due to injury and was replaced by Paul George.

On the Curry team, besides Curry, there are Durant, Harden, Antetokounmpo, and Embiid.

The starting lineup of the two sides is obviously better than the James team on the front line, while the Curry team is slightly better on the inside line.

"Snapped."

First there was a jump ball, Embiid slapped the ball to the backcourt, Curry got the player and started to attack.

Curry took possession of the ball and passed it to Durant after reaching the frontcourt. Curry has never won the All-Star Game mvp, but he doesn't seem to be particularly interested in the mvp. Rarely takes too much possession of the ball.

It's the same this time. Although he is the captain, Curry did not come by himself for the first attack, but passed it to Durant.

Durant and Curry are teammates now, and after getting the ball, he was not polite, and shot directly from outside the three-point line. With a "swish", the basketball went into the net and scored the first point for Curry.

On the James team, Meng Yun looked at Irving, and finally shook his head. Instead of going to the baseline to get the ball, he gave up playing organization and ran to the frontcourt. Irving got the ball from the baseline and advanced to the frontcourt without haste. , and glanced at Meng Yun, and then habitually passed the ball to James.

After all, they have played together for three years and have been James' younger brother for three years. Although he has left the Cavaliers now, Irving still feels a little in awe of James.

James received the ball, looked at the people on the field, and finally chose to do it himself. It was also a three-pointer, but he couldn't make it. He couldn't help grinning, a little embarrassed. throw in.

After that, the two sides came and went, and the fight was very easy.

After all, this is the tone of the All-Star Game. No matter what happens in the end, it must be relatively easy at the beginning. It can even be said that there is no defense at all, and everyone will perform.

Meng Yun found that Owen rarely passed the ball to him. He didn't care, he just smiled. Anyway, the game had just started, and he was playing, and he didn't plan to exert his strength now.

A few minutes passed quickly, and Meng Yun made a three-pointer, and also assisted George with an alley-oop dunk. There was nothing else to gain, and in fact he didn't make many shots.

At this time, coach Spoelstra taught a timeout, replaced Irving and George, and replaced Love and Oladipo.

Meng Yun glanced at Coach Spoelstra, and his heart moved: "It seems that the coach saw that Irving didn't pass the ball to me very much, so he replaced him."

Since the coach of the James team is Spoelstra, it is only natural to take care of Meng Yun, and no one can say anything.

What's more, coach Spoelstra was originally upset because only Meng Yun was selected as an All-Star for the Heat. The Heat ranked first in the Eastern Conference and played so well this season. Except for Meng Yun, Monroe and Whiteside , Xiang Long, Lu Wei and others all played well. Why was Meng Yun selected as an All-Star alone?

Look at the Warriors, four All-Stars.

So seeing that Owen didn't pass the ball to Meng Yun very much, Spoelstra was a little unhappy, and Owen was replaced within a few minutes.

"There is actually no personal grievance between you and Owen." James walked up to Meng Yun, shook his head and said, "Why bother?"

Meng Yun spread his hands together: "You saw it, you can't blame me for it, it's him who insists on not dealing with me, and I'm helpless."

Hearing this, James could only smile wryly.

He is not partial to Owen. Although Irving has been teammates with him for three years, the departure of Irving this season has caused some rifts in the relationship between the two, and his relationship with Meng Yun is also good. We've known each other since we officially entered the league. Meng Yun can be regarded as a member of their "small group", but Owen is not.

The reason for saying this is that James is now the captain. Seeing that Meng Yun and Owen are not dealing with each other, he subconsciously wants to mediate.

Seeing what Meng Yun said, he didn't say any more. After all, what Meng Yun said was right, he had nothing wrong with it, but Owen couldn't get over the hurdle in his heart.

Owen went down, and Meng Yun had more possessions of the ball.

Now Meng Yun is playing point guard. He looked at James after he arrived in the frontcourt. James stepped back and didn't mean to ask for the ball. A dry pull directly outside the three-point line.

Swish!
With a soft sound, the ball goes in.

This is the second three-pointer scored by Meng Yun in this quarter, and he only scored two three-pointers.

Tens of seconds later, Meng Yun connected to James, and after the steal, he made a fast break, but instead of going up himself, he threw the ball to the basket, and the basketball bounced back. James just followed, flew to grab the basketball, and it was a two-handed dunk.

The two clapped hands and smiled at each other.

Although Meng Yun and James both played well, the James team lagged behind the Curry team. First, they lost in the interior. Before that, there was only Davis in the interior, while the Curry team was Antetokounmpo + Emby. Germany, obviously has the upper hand, beating the James team in rebounding.

The second is because of Durant.

Maybe it's because James said he wanted to choose him before, but he didn't choose him in the end. KD has been sullen today, without a smile.

With this kind of defensive strength, as long as Durant wants to score, it is an easy task. After only a few minutes in the first quarter, he has already scored 10 points, two three-pointers, and two two-pointers.

"beep"

The James team called a timeout.

Both Meng Yun and James were replaced, and they were sitting next to each other. Meng Yun glanced at Durant who was not far away, and said with a smile, "KD doesn't look very happy, probably because he hates you."

"Just because I didn't pick him?" James shook his head and smiled, "I said at the time that I would pick KD, I didn't say I would pick him first, and I wanted to pick him later, but Curry chose him. "As he said, he spread his hands and made a gesture of "it's my fault", which made Meng Yun laugh.

In fact, it doesn’t matter whether James was the first to choose Durant. The main reason is that the media fueled the flames and wantonly publicized the hype. Durant wasn't too happy.

(End of this chapter)