NBA: The Talent Burst from the Start

Chris Paul's words undoubtedly reminded several Western players.

Everyone looked at each other half-court in unison, and sure enough, they found Howard and Ross, the monsters, with extremely serious expressions.

And James and others naturally improved their attitude towards the game because of their teammates.

Seeing this picture, Kobe gradually put away the smile on his face and said softly.

"Since the other party wants to be serious, let's have a good time with them!

What I am not afraid of the most is to fight hard battles, not to mention that they are all my defeated generals!"

Kobe Bryant's words are also very domineering, and invisibly improved the momentum of the Western All-Star team.

His remarks are by no means groundless. Looking at the Western All-Star players, the Celtics and Howard of Warcraft have all met the Lakers in the finals.

The results are also exceptionally obvious, Kobe Bryant won both in the face of them.

And LeBron "147" James was once defeated by the Spurs led by Tim Duncan.

What's more, the Lakers have hardly lost against these teams this season.

It looks like this, it is true that the Western All-Star team has a certain advantage in terms of psychology and momentum.

But Derrick Rose doesn't think so. He always thinks that he is the leader of the league and the future of the league. All tactics should be carried out by him, and he should also lead a wave of Eastern All-Stars. Beautiful attacking high court!

So in the next round, Derrick Rose quickly advanced to the Western All-Star half court with the ball.

Lin Lei, Kobe, and the others were already on guard at this moment, and they played zone defense.

The full name of the zone defense is the zone defense, which means that when the offense turns to defense, the defensive players quickly return to the half court, and each player is responsible for defending a certain area.

It is a defensive tactic that closely guards the offensive players who enter the area, and cooperates with their partners to defend, and uses a certain formation to connect each defensive area.

The characteristic of this tactic is that on the basis of defending a certain area, everyone can continuously adjust the defensive position and formation with the transfer of the ball and the movement of the offensive players.

In layman's terms, it means that the ball is moving, people move with the ball, and the focus is on defending the area with the ball and the basket.

The Western All-Star team is now playing 2, 1, 2 zone defense, focusing on blocking and flanking positions, and relatively speaking, there is not much defense beyond the three-point line.

As long as the opponent's player reaches the inside line, the other players will immediately shrink to the inside line to form a double-team, and the opponent will never be allowed to score easily under the basket.

The purpose of this is also to deal with the blue monster Howard.

In the center position, Tim Duncan has a certain technical advantage when facing Howard.

But this season, Howard is at the peak of his career, and his physical strength seems to be slightly higher than that of Tim Duncan.

Although zone defense sounds very simple, it is actually a bit difficult to do. It is a test of the tacit understanding and cooperation between several players. It is necessary to practice in advance in order to achieve the best results.

However, these starters in the West are all top-notch in the world. Although they did not cooperate a lot before, they achieved very good results when they were doing zone defense.

So much so that in the next two offenses, when Rose passed the ball to the inside, Howard had no chance at all, and it became very difficult to pass the ball out, and it was extremely difficult to play.

There was even a 24-second violation. Taking advantage of these two opportunities for the ball, the Western All-Star team resolutely seized it.

Lin Lei stood on the outside of the three-point line and made a knife and fell, and then uploaded to the inside Duncan's tomahawk-style dunk.

In the blink of an eye, the score between the two sides has reached 75:78, and the Western All-Star team is only three points behind.

Seeing this result, several commentators were also very excited, and Zhang Weiping said bluntly.

"I don't know if you have noticed, the core of the Western All-Star team's zone defense is Lin Lei!

Su Qun: "Yes, Lin Lei is more than 2.11 meters tall, and even his wingspan exceeds Durant's. Whenever the opponent is preparing to shoot from the outside, he can always go to the defense in time to let James and Wade fight. Feeling very uncomfortable.

But once the ball is passed to the inside line, Lin Lei's speed is the fastest. It is precisely because Lin Lei, with his height, wingspan, and the fastest speed, can be both inside and out, that the Eastern All-Star offense is frustrated.

If things go on like this, even if Lin Lei won't score a lot of points, he will probably win the MVP of this All-Star Game just by virtue of his defense!

It can be seen that several China commentators are very satisfied with Lin Lei's performance just now, and they are also full of expectations for whether he can win the highest honor of this All-Star Game again.

Seeing that his team could not open the situation at all and would be the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Stars, Thibodeau knew what he had to do, so he called a timeout immediately.

At this moment, the third quarter only lasted for two minutes. From this, it can be seen that once the Western All-Stars are serious, the Eastern Conference is really under pressure.

This is also in line with the trend of confrontation between the East and the West in the past. The West is often much more intense than the East, and the quality of the stars should be improved to a higher level.

Once it really starts, the West's winning rate is higher than that of the East.

"Anthony, you take a break first, Ray Allen, you come on, then James will play the power forward to compete with the Western All-Stars on the inside, and Ray Allen is responsible for the outside.

As soon as James and others get the West's attention, catch the ball and shoot immediately, without any hesitation!""

Thibodeau's next coaching method is also very bold, and he actually replaced Carmelo Anthony directly, which is also something that many players never expected.

In fact, Anthony's three-pointers in the international arena are very accurate, but Anthony's state is not good this season. In this game, Anthony made 0 of 5 three-pointers in the first half.

Looking at several other players, Ray Allen made 3 of 4 shots, Derrick Rose made 2 of 3 shots, and even James, who has never used three-pointers as his main offensive means, also made two three-pointers.

In this case, Thibodeau changed his team decisively, and replaced Anthony, who had a bad hand, with a player who had a good three-point shot, and all of them were replaced on the court.

And only Howard is left in the interior, and the purpose of this is also obvious. Thibodeau intends to use a three-pointer to break the zone defense of the Western team!

As we all know, the zone defense is helpless for three-pointers. If there is an accurate three-point shooter in the team, then we can continue to pick and roll for him, allowing him to run at 5.9 to complete three-point shooting.

Ray Allen, as a historical-level three-point shooter, can always perform well in the face of zone defense, and Thibodeau can also make the best use of it.

Of course, as the coach with the best record in the East, he can not only put Baoquan on Ray Allen alone.

After arranging the tactics to crack the zone defense, Thibodeau turned to look at his disciple, Derrick Rose said.

"Next, I ask all of you on the field to cooperate with Ross, let him hold the ball and play the main attack, judge the situation on the field, attract the opponent's double team, and then make a choice!

If the opponent dares to pull out to defend, Ross will directly go inside to end the attack!"

On the side, these substitute players and assistant coaches were also very shocked when they heard Thibodeau's words.

They never thought that Thibodeau would put top scoring tools like James and Wade without choosing to hand over all the ball to Rose, which is undoubtedly very risky!