Chapter 88: Slam Dunk Contest
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"Chris, here comes your lucky star." A middle-aged man with glasses next to Coach Bo Li looked at the Chinese guy who came from not far away and said with a smile.
"Sir, when did you arrive?" This respected old man has a very important position in Sun Yi's heart. The upcoming All-Star Game may also be the last time the two will work together.
"Come here, boy, this is Harvey. Coach Kittani. The old man didn't answer, but introduced the head coach of the Western All-Star team next to him to his beloved apprentice.
After the three of them exchanged pleasantries, Sun Yi was taken to the court by Coach Bo Li to move. looked at the Chinese guy who didn't take a ball and shoot like other kids, but warmed up meticulously on the sidelines. Coach Kittani said thoughtfully: "What a natural athlete, and his future achievements are not below Greg." Obviously, Oden in high school was definitely the most admired basketball genius of all coaches.
The evening stampede soon ended, and a large number of armed media reporters rushed in, looking for their targets. Due to emotional frustration, Sun Yi now has an instinctive rejection of interviews in public. Quietly hiding in the crowd, he saw an opportunity and ran back to the locker room.
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Boss Wang, who is worth billions, took his son Wang Bin, like ordinary fans, in the line of fans waiting for ticket check-in. Similar to the NBA's All-Star Weekend, the two days leading up to the game will feature a skills challenge, three-pointers, and a dunk contest. Tonight's slam dunk contest is the only one Sun Yi has participated in.
Yesterday's tricks tournament was won by James. Keef, and Wayne. Ellington took first place in the three-point contest. As the most popular slam dunk contest among fans, it was put in the last event before the main game.
In addition to Sun Yi, there are four players participating in this slam dunk contest. Henderson, Thaddeus. Yang, Lance. Thomas and Zeiss. Badinger.
There are five judges, all of whom are specially selected by the organizing committee from among high school basketball coaches across the United States. For example, Coach Smith at Oak Hill High School, Coach Doyle at North Lawrence High School, and so on. Because Sun Yi is the most famous, he was put to the last appearance. In fact, except for the All-Star Game, he was not ready to participate in any challenge, only blamed last year's shocking dunk at the United Center Arena, which was too impressive, and he reluctantly agreed to participate in the slam dunk contest under the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the organizing committee of the event.
The first to appear was Thaddeus. Young, the big man in New Orleans who can take all the big and small forward positions, is fourth among all All-Stars. His first move was a sideways windmill slam dunk, and he did a decent job to score 45 points.
The second to appear is Zeiss. Badinger used a crotch change hand dunk, but unfortunately the distance of the jump was not mastered well and ended in failure.
Next up is Gerrard. Henderson, who has been lucky lately, used a 180-degree back buckle in the air, and the judges gave him a high score of 48 points due to the good altitude in the air.
The fourth tall and long-arm Lance. Thomas, trying to try a blindfolded tomahawk dunk, was unsuccessful, and the ball hit the basket neck and bounced high.
The audience saw Sun Yi holding the ball and standing in the middle circle, and they all stood up and cheered. Because they already know what moves this Chinese guy is going to use. Free throw line jump, slide and dunk! Why is this again, because he was not ready to participate in the slam dunk contest before, so Sun Yi has never practiced some more creative moves at all. Don't think that as long as you have good physical fitness, you can deduct it casually. In fact, a slam dunk full of aesthetics also requires a lot of practice. Therefore, he wanted to make a quick decision, and he directly prepared to copy the three actions he had used in Inglewood Murray Park.
Bang! Wow! The audience applauded this extremely elegant dunk, and the stingy judges finally showed a perfect score of 50 points that had never appeared.
Durant and Lawson, who were watching the game from the sidelines, played a strange role in front of the camera lens with exaggerated expressions. They were once victims of Sun Yi's dunk, and their personal experience made the two children even more impressed by this dunk.
There was a perfect score so early that the players in the second round had to come up with a long-prepared box pressing stunt. Thaddeus. Yang used a self-throwing and self-dunking turn 360° slam dunk, but unfortunately it didn't work. Perhaps influenced by Young, Badinger dunked his dunk again.
Henderson was nervous when he saw the misfortune of the two players in front of him. After taking two deep breaths, he started from the top of the arc. Take two steps from the free-throw line, make a 360-degree turn in the air, and then tuck the ball into the hoop. This wonderful score is second only to Sun Yi's slam dunk just now, and was given a perfect score of 50 points by the judges.
There is no hope of winning the championship in Reims. Thomas, with a slightly simple back-to-back hand-changing dunk, ended his game.
Sun Yi, who originally wanted Lawson to cooperate, was stimulated by Henderson's last wonderful dunk and temporarily changed his decision. Put the 2.06-meter-tall Duranta to the basket and let him hold the ball in both hands above his head.
Airplanes! The audience at the scene was completely shocked by the crazy actions of this Chinese guy. I saw Sun Yi retreat to the other half-court near the three-point line to prepare to run, the first two steps of the start were not too fast, but under his constant urging, the speed quickly climbed to the peak.
I saw the figure on the field, like lightning soaring towards the penalty area. Durant, who was holding the ball, has not come back to his senses yet. It's unbelievable that that crazy roommate wants to dunk past his height of more than 2 meters.
Suddenly, his shoulders sank, and a tremendous force came at him. Immediately after, there was a light on the hand.
The ball has been grabbed by Sun Yi, who jumped high, and with the tap on the opponent's shoulder just now, the whole person was raised again, completely past the bamboo-like Durant.
Bang! The ball was slammed into the basket by a pair of big hands. Due to too much inertia, Sun Yi clutched the hoop tightly and dangled it in the air a few times before daring to go to the ground.
Screams, shouts, and exclamations rang out from every corner of the pitch. Wang Weimin and Wang Bin, father and son, their nervous palms were full of sweat. It's incredible, is this a yellow man complete a dunk? It's unbelievable.
There are not a few people in the court who think like this, and Durant is one of them, and he has not yet recovered from Sun Yi's terrifying dunk. Although, the other party has just borrowed a force on his shoulder, such a perverted bounce is still unheard of.
The five judges did not hesitate to once again give the Chinese player a perfect score of 50 points. After two rounds, Henderson still has a chance to compete with Sun Yi for the first place. They each have one chance left, and if one of them doesn't play well, they could all hand out the title.
Perhaps impressed by his friend's dunk, Henderson's last move was unconfident, and like several other players who were eliminated early, he was unable to complete the dunk.
Sun Yi, who had already won the championship in advance, still completed the finale of the last crotch change and self-throwing and self-buckle in the cheers of the audience.
In the end, Sun Yi, who completed three perfect slam dunks, lifted the championship trophy of the 2006 McDonald's All-Star Game Slam Dunk Contest.