Chapter 528: O'Neal and I Are Not Happy at the Peak of Life Howard

February 17, 2008, Oklahoma Ford Center.

Thunder fans at the scene were huge ‘! ' Amidst the cheers, the much-anticipated All-Star Game officially started. Arenas's wonderful long-distance singles pull-up and Yao Ming's solid hard play under the basket kicked off the game!

As the head coach of the Eastern Conference All-Stars, Eddie Jordan is under a lot of pressure in this game.

Originally, the All-Star Weekend was used for vacation and relaxation.

Now it's been done by the Eastern Conference All-Stars, and it's become a must-win game.

In this world, no head coach can guarantee that his team can win!

Not to mention him, not even his teacher Pat Riley could do it.

Before the start of this game, everyone said that the Eastern Conference could easily defeat the Western Conference. But now, looking at the current situation on the court, does it look like the Western Conference All-Stars will be easily defeated?

I saw Howard sitting on Yao Ming's back on the court, and Yao Ming didn't move at all.

Eddie Jordan couldn't bear to look at it.

Howard wanted to beat Yao Ming, but Yao Ming didn't do anything. He just raised his hands high and stood there quietly.

Howard, the No. 1 center in the Eastern Conference, was completely helpless!

The defensive end was blown away, the offensive end was stepped on, the gap was really too big!

The gap between the No. 1 center in the Eastern Conference and the No. 1 center in the league is so big that it’s unbearable to look at!

"It shouldn't be like this?!"

As an experienced person who has played in the NBA for 9 years and coached for 7 years.

He really didn't want to believe that what was happening on the court now was true.

Howard's progress this season is really great.

Averaged 21 points, 14 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game. This is a center with dominant strength in the current NBA.

He really didn't believe that such a player was like a primary school student in front of Yao Ming.

Howard's performance this season can be said to be dominating other centers in the league.

Such a dominant center was easily dominated by Yao Ming?

Is this a joke? !

Looking at the clumsy Howard on the court, Eddie Jordan frowned.

Could it be?

real?

Regarding what O'Neal has been emphasizing, he also doesn't want to believe it, but...

"hateful!"

Howard is really miserable now!

He is really ready to show off in this year's All-Star game.

For the first time, O'Neal was put on the bench. If he didn't show off well, he would be really sorry for the All-Star jersey he was wearing.

During this year's All-Star Weekend, his performance was indeed very successful.

The biggest news of the All-Star Weekend right now is the news about Yes’ 58 points in the Rookie Challenge.

It was what he shouted in front of Jordan in the dunk contest: yes is Superman, Superman is yes!

Even if Durant's miraculous victory in the Three-Point Shootout Contest was won, he would still be ranked behind him.

In his opinion, as long as he defeats yes in this game, he will become the biggest winner in this year's All-Star Game!

What LeBron James, what Arenas, what yes, the great beast king Dwight Howard is the one who can truly represent loyalty!

Damn, this is different from what I imagined!

Howard reluctantly held Yao Ming behind him, and that was all he could do.

You really can't beat him hard!

And my teammates really didn’t help at all.

In the Magic, there are still people running for him to help him shoot three-pointers.

Now, looking at the men standing in the circle outside, Howard felt that his dribbling hand was a little unstable.

James was there with his arms akimbo.

Sun Yue pretended not to see him there, acting like don't pass the ball to me.

Arenas made another move to get the ball, but his defender was yes!

Does he dare to pass it on?

In the end, the only point where he could pass the ball was Garnett, who he hated so much!

During the playoffs between the Magic and the Celtics last year, he and Garnett had an unhappy relationship.

Before entering the league, Garnett had always been his idol.

Damn it, he has always known that his idol has a bad mouth.

He has always felt that idols' bad mouth is not a big problem.

But if you really have to put it on yourself, you really can't accept it.

His happy basketball was suddenly turned into a sad basketball by Garnett. In the end, he was sent off for choking Garnett.

Hua Q, what should I do now?

Howard really doesn't know what to do now.

He really wasn't this miserable when facing Yao Ming before!

In the past, he could at least use his flexibility to force an attack. The efficiency was not high, but he could still take action.

Now that Yao Ming has lost weight, he has found that his flexibility advantage is not that great anymore.

Beep beep beep!

Just when Howard didn't know what to do, Bald Crawford's whistle sounded.

"Five-second violation!"

Seeing bald Crawford's gesture, the Thunder fans who were still shouting "!" were choked up.

Damn it, we can actually see a five-second offensive violation during the All-Star Game? !

Not to mention the audience, Howard himself was stunned when he was called a five-second violation.

Can such a whistle sound in such a game?

Howard looked at bald Crawford in disbelief.

Crawford didn't pay attention to Howard's innocent eyes at all, but he really enjoyed the feeling of being the focus of the game!

This time he called Howard a five-second violation, but he was not targeting Howard.

This time Howard played Yao Ming in a post-up, but he only played for five seconds, instead of eight seconds!

No other referee would blow such a whistle during the All-Star game.

Is he Crawford an ordinary referee? !

"It's too low-level, Howard's mistake is too low-level!"

"He had many opportunities to pass the ball to Garnett, but he chose to hold the ball until the end. I can't think of any reason except that he wanted to use this offense to pay tribute to me!"

Kenny Smith: ...Where's the face?

"The Eastern Conference All-Stars, who are more optimistic about everyone, did not show enough advantages after the game started two minutes ago, but this is normal. The game has just started, and the players of both teams are relatively serious. Both teams The strength of the starting lineups is also close, and the current score of 8 to 4 on the court reflects more of the gap between Yao Ming and Howard."

Kenny Smith is not as shameless as Barkley.

The start of this game was truly incredible.

Although he didn't say it, he did think about the media reports in recent days that Howard was an undercover agent of yes.

He can understand being beaten by Yao Ming. He is Olajuwon's teammate. He knows very well how embarrassed a small-ass center like Howard is when facing a big-ass center. The general was beaten to tears by Olajuwon.

He can also understand that Howard can't beat Yao Ming alone. Howard's offensive skills are two-dimensional from those of generals. Generals can't beat Olajuwon very well in this way, let alone Howard?

But he really couldn't understand that an NBA All-Star starter could make such a mistake.

The professional ethics of professional players is not to bring personal emotions into the game like children.

Even if you don't like Garnett, you can never be so childish.

Is Howard a childish player?

Kenny Smith thinks so.

But no matter how childish he is, he is first and foremost an All-Star professional player.

Such players have a bottom line, and he doesn't believe that Howard has no bottom line.

Just like he believes that Howard's loyalty to the Magic has a bottom line, and he wants to profit from his loyalty to the Magic, which is understandable, as long as he does not betray the Magic.

He also believes that the happy basketball that Howard has always advertised has a bottom line. The bottom line for him to get happiness through basketball is not to hurt the teammates around him.

The bottom line of Howard's childishness is to maintain the basic qualities of a professional player.

Kenny Smith doesn't believe that an All-Star professional player has no bottom line or lower limit.

unless……

Kenny Smith doesn't want to speculate.

In fact, everyone knows what the answer is.

Howard's acting is so poor!

"Just two minutes into the game, the Eastern Conference requested a timeout. This is a timeout for substitutions!"

"Eastern All-Star replaced Sun Yue!"

"In addition to Sun Yue, the Eastern All-Stars also replaced... Howard!"

Barkley was stunned to see the All-Star players from both teams appearing on the court again.

Of course he knows that the media has been hyping up the fact that Howard is an undercover agent in recent days.

He has always been scornful, even if the media said they had noses and eyes, he didn't believe it.

He, Charles Barkley, doesn't have any other abilities, he's just a bastard!

There is no one in the history of the NBA who is more of a jerk than him.

Even a bastard like him couldn't do such a thing!

But……

Looking at the Eastern Conference All-Stars on the court, including Arenas, Wade, James, Garnett, and O'Neal, it doesn't matter whether he believes it or not. What's important is that the Eastern Conference All-Stars believe it!

"The Eastern Conference really replaced Howard!"

Kenny Smith nodded. This was an easy decision to make.

He does the same thing. Howard is indeed one of the best defensive players in the East.

But O'Neal proved that he can also defend Yes very well. In the second game between the Cavaliers and SuperSonics this season, O'Neal and Ben Wallace defended Yes to the extreme.

It was only in the end that James made a superfluous move and went undercover, allowing yes to finally complete the kill.

O'Neal's current energy is not enough to support him in every game like the Cavaliers and SuperSonics in Game 2.

But there is no problem in playing one or two games in that way.

If this game is just for the pursuit of happiness, if it is just for being stubborn, it will make everyone laugh.

Of course there is no problem in leaving Howard on the court to play an undercover game with Yes.

But is the atmosphere of this game comparable to previous All-Star games?

Even O'Neal, who likes to be funny so much, stopped being funny at the beginning of this game!

In this game, the Eastern Conference is here to win!

Since the goal is to win, Howard really can't keep him.

His abilities are very strong, especially his defensive ability, but if these abilities cannot be used by the Eastern Conference, there is no point keeping him.

Kenneth Smith looked towards the Eastern Conference bench. At this time, Howard was looking at the team's head coach Eddie Jordan with wide eyes.

"You, you make me unhappy!"

Howard's voice was almost squeezed out from between his teeth.

It sounded ridiculous to Eddie Jordan.

God damn makes you happy!

We are playing this game to win, not to make you happy!

Eddie Jordan originally felt a little embarrassed to replace Howard like this.

Now he's like telling Howard, get as far away as you can!

I didn’t see the opening of the Eastern Conference and fell behind!

I just know how to be happy and show off. Do you understand my pressure?

Seeing the annoyance on Eddie Jordan's face, Howard finally gritted his teeth and sat down in the corner next to Sun Yue.

Sun Yue's face now does not have the frustration of Howard, but only joy.

Ah, I finally don’t have to stand on the field anymore, the pressure is really too much!

He was on the court for two minutes and felt uncomfortable all over!

0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, 0 steals, 0 shots, 0 turnovers, 0 fouls, even the number of touches was 0, it’s the same as not playing, but it’s pretty good!

"It's no surprise that Sun Yue was replaced in the East, but it was surprising to replace Howard. But in the West, it wasn't Durant and Yi Jianlian who were replaced, but Roy!"

"Kobe Bryant replaced Brandon Roy!"

Kenny Smith didn't find it surprising that the Eastern Conference replaced Howard and Sun Yue, but he was really surprised when he saw that Kobe replaced Roy.

According to his guess, the Western Conference should replace Durant with Tracy McGrady and Duncan with Yi Jianlian.

Although McGrady and Duncan will not be serious during the entire game, they will definitely be serious during the period just after the game.

Therefore, before the game started, Kenny Smith always felt that how humiliating Yes would be in this game depends on how much the Western Conference leads at the beginning of the game.

With Durant and Yi Jianlian on the court, the Western Conference won't be much ahead even if it starts with an advantage!

as expected!

When the Eastern Conference replaced O'Neal and Wade, the entire situation on the court changed dramatically.

Yao Ming no longer has the ability to block and kill on the offensive end.

Kobe Bryant took over the West's offense.

After the Western Conference's timeout ended, the first offense ended with Kobe's strike against Wade.

Conversely, when the Eastern Conference was attacking, O'Neal crushed Yao Ming and completed a powerful dunk!

Yao Ming, who had previously teased Howard like a child, was like paper in front of O'Neal.

Seeing O'Neal and Garnett beating their chests on the court, even Howard, who was already sitting below, was stunned.

Damn it, am I too stupid? Is this Yao Ming's defense?

Why can't I understand something?

And... soon, the expression on Howard's face darkened.

After Kobe struck again and O'Neal once again pressed Yao Ming for a dunk, the score on the court became 8-8!

After O'Neal and Garnett finished beating their chests against Kobe, they actually started beating their chests at him!

"This damn fat guy is so arrogant!"

Almost at the same time, Howard and Kobe roared angrily in their hearts.

And what about Yes?

Listening to the thunder fans in the audience chanting "Shark!" 'cheer.

Ye Si's eyes kept switching between Kobe and O'Neal.