The MVP of the All-Star Game can receive 15 freely allocated points as rewarded by the system. The number is not small, and Wang Feng certainly cannot miss it.
Therefore, as soon as the All-Star Game began, Wang Feng took up the offensive banner of Wang Feng's team.
The starting players for the All-Stars on both sides were those selected during the selection process.
Wang Feng's team is Walker, Curry, Leonard, Wang Feng and Embiid.
The Antetokounmpo team is Irving, Harden, James, Durant and Antetokounmpo Antetokounmpo.
The responsibility of defending Wang Feng is still given to Antetokounmpo, who is also the captain.
Antetokounmpo is tall, has long arms, and has strong explosive power. However, due to his excessive height, his lateral speed is slightly slower than that of a forward who is over 2 meters tall. Because when facing Wang Feng’s ball-holding breakthrough with the bonus of the first-step master badge,
Antetokounmpo is quite difficult to defend.
At the beginning of the game, Wang Feng broke through Antetokounmpo twice with the ball and scored dunks.
The familiar plot made all the starting stars understand that Wang Feng wanted to compete for the All-Star MVP again.
Although the All-Star MVP is just a dispensable award for these top superstars present, Wang Feng has won the All-Star MVP for two consecutive years, and now he wants to continue to win three consecutive MVPs. Anyone else would feel unhappy.
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"Why do you think you are so powerful? We are worse than you. Can't we beat you in this situation?"
Antetokounmpo is especially unhappy about this.
This season, Antetokounmpo has performed at the peak of his career, currently averaging 28 points, 13 rebounds and 6 assists per game, leading the Bucks to the top of the Eastern Conference.
The Greek Monster's dominant performance on both offense and defense has made it a popular candidate for regular season MVP.
However, there was one person who kept weighing on him, and that was Wang Feng.
Wang Feng averages close to 40+ points per game and about 12 rebounds per game. Although his assists are a little less, he has always maintained a high level of about 3 steals per game. In terms of personal statistics, he is firmly ahead of him.
Even compared to the team's record, the Lakers currently have the best record in the league, and even the Bucks can only rank second. Even if the Lakers' number of losses gradually increased in February, the win gap between the two teams is still quite large.
If this trend continues, it is absolutely impossible for him to beat Wang Feng in the final regular season MVP selection.
As a Greek basketball player, Antetokounmpo, like Wang Feng, does not have the sentimental vote bonus of local American players. The selection is purely based on personal strength and team leadership performance.
As a direct competitor, Antetokounmpo has been thinking about how to defeat Wang Feng to win the first regular season MVP trophy of his career. Now seeing that Wang Feng wants to steal the show even in the All-Star game, he immediately felt unhappy. On the defensive end
While defending Wang Feng extremely hard, he also worked hard on the offensive end.
There is a saying, now that Antetokounmpo has fully grown up, even Wang Feng has a hard time defending.
Wang Feng's strongest point is to use the purple defensive shock badge to defend outside shooting. Antetokounmpo is obviously a player who mainly focuses on breaking through with the ball and attacking at the basket. He rarely uses outside shooting skills, or in other words, his long-range shots.
My ability is too poor, so I basically don’t shoot much.
Wang Feng's defensive breakthrough mainly relies on his excellent speed, agility, and the golden death coil badge.
Death Coil is indeed a top-level defensive badge whose defensive effect is no less than defensive shock. It can force the ball carrier to make mistakes through close-fitting defense. Although Wang Feng's badge does not reach the top Purple Hall of Fame level, it is
The defensive effect is really top-notch.
But unfortunately, this badge also has little effect on Antetokounmpo. The reason is still the physical gap.
Antetokounmpo is too tall, with a height of 2.11 meters and a wingspan of 2.26 meters. It is too difficult for Wang Feng to complete the steal by pressing the defender. The opponent only needs to use the ball protector to fight.
, and then leaned the ball carrier outward, Wang Feng's arm couldn't reach it at all.
"Made, Gibbon..."
In this regard, Wang Feng could only curse secretly, but there was nothing he could do.
The difference in body shape exists objectively and is completely unavoidable.
The reason why Antetokounmpo has such lethality in the league is due to his height, long arms, and powerful ability to attack the frame after gaining weight.
Of course, Antetokounmpo is not without his weaknesses. Due to his weak shooting ability, he is very afraid of the heavy center guarding the basket. After all, even if he gained weight, in order to ensure sufficient mobility, Antetokounmpo did not gain weight to the level of a center.
, even slightly inferior to Wang Feng in terms of strength.
Therefore, if you are competing with a heavy center in the paint, Antetokounmpo still won't be able to take advantage.
This is particularly evident in the international arena.
As a Greek star, Antetokounmpo has represented the Greek men's basketball team in many world competitions. However, FIBA regulations allow zone defense and there is no 3-second defense rule. As a result, the defender will arrange a heavy center to guard the basket for a long time.
Giannis Antetokounmpo, who can only break through the frame and hit the inside, has difficulty performing under the crowded basket in the international arena.
In September this year, the Men's Basketball World Cup will begin. In another time and space, Giannis Antetokounmpo, who has just won the regular season MVP, is full of energy and leads the Greek men's basketball team to achieve good results.
The results were shocking. Antetokounmpo only averaged 14+8 per game and was even placed on the bench in some games. His performance could be described as abysmal.
In this year's playoffs, the Bucks will be eliminated by the Rams 4:2 in the Eastern Conference Finals. Antetokounmpo averaged only 22.7 points, 13.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists in 6 games, which was far worse than 29.8 points and 9.5 assists per game.
Leonard, who rebounds, is one of the important reasons why the Menglong team has Marc Gasol who weighs 120 kilograms in the inside.
Gasol did not perform well in this playoffs. When facing many fast-paced teams, due to his heavy and slow pace, he had very little playing time and only averaged 9+6 per game.
However, in the series against the Bucks, he averaged 31.7 minutes per game and stayed firmly rooted at the basket. Coupled with Leonard's entanglement on the outside, Antetokounmpo was miserable.
Of course, these are all things for later. On the All-Star stage, there will rarely be double-teaming situations, and there will even be very few insiders who will cover the defense at the basket. As long as the opposing players can break through the defensive players and get to the basket,
In most cases, you will watch the opponent perform violent dunks. After all, this is an exhibition game, not a life-or-death battle in the playoffs.
Therefore, the first quarter of the game became a battle between Wang Feng and Antetokounmpo.
Under this situation, Wang Feng gradually gained the upper hand.