The Skills Challenge is still ongoing, and every time a competitor takes the stage, the surrounding audience erupts in deafening cheers.

Lucas is about to take to the field as part of the Skills Challenge.

When the commentator shouted Lucas's name, he strode onto the field and waved around, and the audience responded with applause and shouts.

At this moment, Lucas felt endless satisfaction, because he knew that the eyes of the audience were on him, and he was the focus of everyone in the audience!

Lucas likes this feeling of being watched by thousands of people, in the usual game, two teams of ten people are on the field at the same time, unless Lucas has a very high-profile performance, he will get this kind of high-profile treatment, but today, in his skills challenge, he is the only one who performs, he is the only protagonist!

"A lot of applause, a lot of shouts, a lot of cheers, a lot of cheers, these are all for me!" Lucas's eyes narrowed slightly, he was enjoying his moment.

In the stands in the front row of the back, several players looked at Lucas with envy.

"Lucas looks very popular! There were so many people cheering for him. ”

"Others are also very popular, and there are a lot of people cheering for them."

"If I knew I could be so showy, I would have gone to the Skills Challenge."

"No, wait until next year, there will be an All-Star Game next year, and we'll sign up together then."

The players were discussing and the countdown began.

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In front of the TV, Williams picked up the beer bottle, only to find that it was empty, and he had drunk all the beer inside.

"By the way, I just drank all the wine." Williams hesitated for a few seconds, but decided to go get another beer. After all, today's TV show seems to be very interesting, now it's just a skill challenge, and then there will be a shooting contest and a slam dunk contest, how can such a good-looking TV show be without beer!

Williams was just about to get up to get a beer when Lucas came in.

"The next contestant is already on the stage, so I'd better watch his game and get a beer." Williams sat down again.

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"Lucas! In 1 minute and 07 seconds, he completed all the moves in the Skills Challenge in just 1 minute and 07 seconds! Oh my God, it's amazing, it's so fast! Commentator Wilson yelled into the microphone.

With Wilson's roar, the audience in front of the TV was also excited, they felt Wilson's passion, and their emotions were also mobilized by Wilson's passion.

At Madison Square Garden, the atmosphere was completely ignited at this moment, and the audience shouted endlessly.

Lucas raised his hands in celebration on the TV, and Williams in front of the TV couldn't help but cheer along. At this time, Williams was once again immersed in the skills challenge, and he had forgotten about getting another bottle of beer.

The Skills Challenge is just an appetizer, and in terms of the excitement of the round, it is definitely not as good as the shooting contest later, and in terms of excitement, it is not as good as the slam dunk contest. During the future NBA All-Star Weekend, many viewers will even think that the Skills Challenge is just a time to go to the toilet or grab a bag of snacks.

However, for the audience of this era, they have never seen the Skills Challenge, nor have they seen a more intense shooting contest and a more exciting slam dunk contest, so in their eyes, the Skills Challenge is an unparalleled and wonderful competition. No one will go to the toilet at this time, and even if someone wants to boo, they will forcibly hold back and wait until the game is over.

This was followed by the award ceremony of the Skills Challenge, and at the same time, preparations for the Shooting Contest began.

Fans can take a 10-minute break, but of course the telecast isn't over, with the camera focused on the player who won the Skills Challenge, and reporters were interviewing him live.

The reporter had already been instructed that his interview should be delayed until all the preparations for the shooting contest were completed, and then the television broadcast would enter the process of the shooting contest without any connection.

Williams was lying on the couch, listening to the championship interview with relish, still reminiscing about the match that had just been played.

"If the last player on the court doesn't miss a shot, maybe he's the champion."

"There's a second player who came on and he only got the ball into that box for the third time, and if he could have done a better pass, maybe he could have a chance to win the championship too!"

Williams silently commented on the gains and losses of the participating players.

The champion's interview ended, and the TV camera turned to the basket, while a shelf was placed in each of the five fixed positions, and five basketballs were placed on each shelf.

"What is this?" Williams thought with some curiosity.

On the television, the voice of the narrator Wilson answers Williams's doubts.

"Next up is the shooting competition, let's first briefly introduce the rules of the shooting competition......

"It turned out to be a shooting contest, is it more accurate than who shoots? Looks like it's all fixed-point shots, right? What's so good about fixed-point shooting, there should be nothing to see! Williams said to himself.

Compared to the shooting competition, the previous skill challenge was indeed enough "bells and whistles". The Skills Challenge has dribbling, passing, and shooting and layups, compared to the shooting contest is just shooting, and it is also a fixed-point shooting, which in the eyes of many people, there is not much to see, and it is not new.

The rules of the shooting contest are also very simple, five pitching points, each pitching point throws five balls, a total of twenty-five balls, whoever scores more wins. Compared to the tedious process of the Skills Challenge, it is indeed too easy to understand.

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"Ready, 3, 2, 1, GO!"

With an order from the scene, the first contestant picked up the basketball from the rack, took aim, and then threw the ball.

"Bang dang!" The ball landed on the basket and bounced off.

"Oh......" there was a sigh from the audience.

The contestant picked up the second ball, this time aiming more carefully for a moment, and then took a shot.

"Whoosh!" This time, the ball went in.

The crowd applauded, but the applause had not yet been struck a second time, and the contestant was ready to throw a third shot.

Perhaps it was too much accuracy, and the contestant spent too many moments aiming at the basket, and when the final ten seconds of the commentary began, the contestant reached the third shooting point, which meant that he still had fifteen balls missing.

"With 10 seconds left, will he be able to finish it?"

"Fifteen shots in 10 seconds, impossible!"

The sound of the countdown to "10, 9, 8, 7......" reached the ears of this contestant, and it also made him realize that there was not enough time, which made him inevitably feel a little panicked.

The key is that the audience at the scene also began to coax and shouted the countdown together, and more than 20,000 people shouted the countdown at the same time, which instantly gave the contestant greater psychological pressure.

The contestant noticeably quickened his movements and began to race against the clock, but in the panic and pressure, even his shooting technique was deformed.

Since the countdown began, the contestant has not scored a single goal.

At the end of the countdown, the contestant walked off the field with a depressed face, and he only scored six goals in the end, such a poor performance was definitely not his real shooting level.

Before coming to the shooting competition, this contestant also practiced shooting, but the shooting rate of the practice is definitely different from the shooting rate of the game. For example, in the future, those interior players in the NBA who are terrible at free throws can have a free throw shooting rate of more than 90% when they practice, but they often fail to make two free throws in the game.

The tense atmosphere and environment of the game site are not available in daily practice, and the mentality of athletes will also change with the change of environment.

Therefore, even if this contestant practiced before the competition, when he actually arrived at the competition site, he could not perform at the level of practice.

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In front of the TV, Williams had already seen the clues.

"This guy was too slow to start with, he spent too much time aiming, and when he got to the back three shooting spots, he didn't have enough time, and the more he got back, the less time he had, the more nervous he became, the more he couldn't shoot. It seems that if you want to complete this shooting contest, you not only have to shoot accurately, but also need to shoot fast. ”

At this time, Williams did not realize that he had been attracted to this "uninteresting fixed-point shot".

Not only Williams in front of the TV, but the audience at the scene has also entered the shooting contest wholeheartedly.

If you don't limit the time of play, the shooting contest can be really boring; If you have enough time, the shooting contest won't be exciting. However, a "limited time" instantly makes the shooting contest exciting, because this time limit greatly increases the uncertainty of the shooting contest, and the most exciting part of the sports competition is uncertainty.

The second contestant came out, and he obviously learned the lesson of the first contestant and shot much faster.

“7、6、5、4……”

Perhaps too much time, the competitor had already made 25 shots with four seconds left in the countdown. It is precisely because he is too time-conscious that his shots are relatively hasty, with only 10 of his 25 shots, and an average of two shots per shooting point.

By the standards of later generations, if you hit two balls at each shooting point, if you can hit a few more colored balls, the score may be passable. But the comparison of later generations is to shoot three-point shots, and in the forties there was no three-point line, and the shooting point of the shooting contest was also at the distance of the free throw line, this kind of mid-range shooting, and it was also a fixed point vacancy, and the 40% shooting rate was a bit too bad.

"This guy is too fast, he has four seconds left, even if each ball is aimed for one more second, then he still has plenty of time to aim for four more balls, if he can score four more goals, then he can get 14 points, isn't it much better than now." Williams in front of the TV continued.

The audience at the scene has also realized that if you want to win this shooting competition, you can't do it too slowly, and you can't do it if you are too fast. The best-case scenario is to have enough time to aim at each ball and throw the last shot when the time is up.

"This shooting contest is harder than I imagined!"

"Yes, I thought it was just a simple fixed-point shooting, but I didn't expect the time to be so short, which put forward higher requirements for the contestants."

"It's not okay to shoot too slowly, it's not okay to shoot too fast, it's a test of the player's shooting rhythm!"

"I thought it was going to be boring, but now I suddenly think it's going to be fun."

Before you know it, the audience has begun to discuss the shooting contest enthusiastically

Shooting seems simple, but it is actually a very exciting thing, especially the moment when the basketball shot flies in the air, which is the most exciting moment and the time when the fans' sense of anticipation is the highest.

In a day-to-day game, fans may have to wait more than 20 seconds to experience this sense of anticipation. The ball is sent out, dribbled to the front court, constantly passing, slowly organizing the attack, sometimes the first attack is not smooth, it needs to be reorganized, only wait until the moment of the last shot, there will be a moment when the basketball shoots in the air, in order to have this exciting moment.

However, in the shooting competition, the players will shoot continuously, and the moment when the basketball shot flies in the air, and the exciting moment, will happen every second, and this continuous sensory stimulation is not felt by the audience in the usual game.

When the ball is thrown, the audience will look forward to whether the ball can be thrown, and the next moment the answer will be revealed immediately, and before the audience can come to their senses, the next ball will be shot again, and the audience will fall into anticipation again. This overwhelming sense of anticipation may be the charm of the shooting contest.

The All-Star Game of the future is more exciting than a three-point shot, which is more exciting than a shot from the free throw line. The three-point ball flies farther and stays in the air for a longer time, which can bring more intense sensory stimulation to fans, so the three-point contest on the All-Star Weekend in the future will always be very popular with fans, and the participants will also pay more attention to the three-point contest.

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Before you know it, the shooting contest is already halfway through. Williams in front of the TV licked his lips, he felt a little thirsty, and he subconsciously picked up the beer bottle on the table.

This is the same empty beer bottle just now.

Williams then remembered that he had planned to get another bottle of beer, but was delayed because of the show being broadcast on TV.

"This shooting contest is almost over, right? Let's wait a little longer, and I'll go get a beer when the shooting contest is over! Williams thought to himself.

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