Chen Qiang began to explain the plan for the All-Star Game in detail.

"The Skills Challenge, as the name suggests, is a competition of skills, and I plan to select a few athletes who are better at all aspects of skills, and they need to complete several fixed links such as dribbling, passing, layups and shooting, and whoever takes the least time will win the Skills Challenge." Chen Qiang opened his mouth to introduce.

"It doesn't sound difficult, dribbling, passing, layups and shooting, but it's all the basic skills of the players, so will it be fun to compete in a game like this?" Someone spoke.

"So I'll set up obstacles in the arena and set routes to make the race more difficult." Chen Qiang said with an analogy: "For example, I can set up several fixed dolls, and players need to dribble around these dolls; Another example is that I can place a bamboo basket where the player has to pass the ball into the basket from a certain distance. ”

"Isn't it like a level? That seems to be a little interesting. The man spoke.

The first All-Star Skills Challenge in NBA history was held in 2003, when the Skills Challenge was held because the Dream Five lost a somewhat ugly loss in 2002. That year's World Basketball Championships were held in Indiana, USA, and the Dream Five team fighting on home soil was taught a lesson by Argentina and the former Yugoslavia, ending the 58-game winning streak of the American men's basketball team in international competitions, and missing the World Championship semifinals for the first time, which made the entire American basketball lose face.

In order to motivate the players to pay attention to the three basic skills of "dribbling, passing, and shooting", and to allow American basketball to regain its lost aura, the 2003 All-Star Weekend added a skills challenge to the game.

In the first few years, the Skill Challenge was indeed the arena of top point guards, just look at the championship winners, such as Kidd in his prime, Nash in his prime, Deron in his prime, Rose in his prime, Parker in his prime, and so on. Later, the Skills Challenge became a show for the big men to show themselves, with Downs, Porzingis, Jokic, Embiid, Vucevic, and a group of seven-footers running in the Skills Challenge.

Of course, this is not to say that the skills of big men are necessarily poor, but compared to those top point guards in their prime, the skills of big men are really much inferior, and Porzingis can compare to Kidd and Nash at their peak, even if he is flexible? Having them participate in the Skill Challenge is more about entertainment and ratings than actually deciding out the champion of that trick.

With the change of the rules of the Skills Challenge, the game has also changed from the original basic skills of basketball to who can shoot an ultra-long-distance three-point shot. Since the rules allow you to skip this link after three failed passes, for the big man who is not good at passing, the big deal is to throw three times blindly, and then hurry into the next link, and will not lose too much time, as long as the last ball can be thrown in as soon as possible, the gap will be recovered. So there was a scene in the Skills Challenge that started to fall behind a lot, but relied on a three-pointer from a midcourt position to win.

Perhaps this also represents a trend in the development of basketball, you can not dribble the ball, you can pass the ball badly, but the three-point shot must be accurate enough, and the range of the three-point shot must be as far as possible, so as to win the game.

For future fans or players, the Skills Challenge, which has lasted for more than a decade, is already a bit aesthetically tired, and many people even see it as a boring show, and even the participating players themselves don't care so much about the winner of the Skills Challenge.

However, for people in the 40s, Chen Qiang's skills challenge was really too new, and they had never seen this way of competing skills.

Originally, everyone thought that the All-Star Game that Chen Qiang made was the same as the All-Star Game of baseball MLB, just selecting two teams to play a game, but now after listening to the introduction of the Skills Challenge, everyone has realized that the All-Star Game designed by Chen Qiang is definitely not as simple as it seems.

At this time, Chen Qiang began to introduce the shooting contest again.

"The shooting competition, of course, is to compete with who shoots more accurately, I take the method of fixed-point shooting here, there are a total of five shooting points, two symmetrical feet, two symmetrical at a 45-degree angle, and the last one is at the free throw line, and the distance between the five shooting points is about the same." Chen Qiang opened his mouth to introduce.

In other words, if you shoot a ball at each shooting point, is it more accurate than who ends up shooting? So what if all five points are in? Another curious baby asked.

"Instead of shooting one, you shoot five shots at each spot. In this way, everyone has to make 25 shots, and it is not easy to make 25 shots. Chen Qiang replied.

"It's true, even for an accurate shooter, it's very difficult to shoot 25 shots in a row from five points at this distance, and it requires very precise and careful aiming." Someone nodded yes.

Chen Qiang continued: "In addition, I also limited the total shooting time, so that it is impossible for the participating players to aim at the basket without limit, and he must shoot as soon as possible, so as to ensure that all shots can be completed within the specified time." ”

'It's a good idea to avoid aiming for a long time and then making a shot, which will lead to more mistakes and a drop in the percentage of shots, so it's easier to tell the difference. Someone should make peace.

"I've also considered a tie, so if there is a tie, then there will be an extra round, and I think with the format that I have set, it is not very likely that the score will be the same in two consecutive rounds." Chen Qiang said.

Chen Qiang's shooting contest was naturally born out of the three-point contest of the future All-Star Game, but in basketball in the 40s, there was no three-point line, so Chen Qiang set the shooting point at the distance of the free throw line. In terms of the shooting skills of the players at that time, this was already a long shot.

And Chen Qiang did not introduce the color ball mechanism of the three-point ball competition in later generations.

In the three-point contest of later generations, shooting an orange ball is counted as one point, and shooting a color ball is counted as two points, the appearance of the color ball makes the three-point ball contest more exciting, it doesn't matter how many ordinary balls are lost in front, as long as the color ball is shot, then the score can catch up.

The reason why Chen Qiang did not introduce the color ball mechanism is that he doesn't want to take out all the creativity, and secondly, he thinks that this is the first basketball all-star game, and it is enough to make the skill challenge, shooting contest and slam dunk contest fancy, if the rules are complicated again, ordinary fans may not be able to accept it for a while.

It is true that for the management of these teams participating in the meeting, the rules of the shooting contest have to be pondered before they can be understood, and ordinary fans may really have to think for a long time to fully understand.

And the future three-point contest will be compared to two rounds, the first round is the preliminary round, and the second round is the final. And Chen Qiang didn't plan to be so complicated, the shooting competition only used one round to decide the winner, and the purpose was to avoid the rules being too complicated and the fans couldn't accept it.

For future generations of fans, the All-Star three-point contest has been watched for many years and knows the rules well, but for people in the forties, it is a new thing after all, and it takes some effort to understand. If the rules are too complicated, fans will lose interest.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Qiang introduced the slam dunk contest.

For the future All-Star Game, the Slam Dunk Contest can be said to be a core game content, and its popularity is even no less than the All-Star Game on the last day.

Before 1984, there was only one part of the All-Star Game, and that was the East-West All-Star Match. After 1984, the slam dunk contest entered the All-Star Game for the first time, and since then the All-Star Game has also taken a qualitative leap. The Slam Dunk Contest brought unparalleled heat to All-Star Weekend, and it can be said that without the Dunk Contest, there would be no All-Star Weekend today.

At the same time, the slam dunk contest has also made many legendary athletes, bringing many unforgettable classic moments to the All-Star Game. Jordan's free-throw line dunk was hailed as the most classic moment in the slam dunk contest, and was also paid tribute and imitated by countless contestants in the later slam dunk contest. Carter's 360-degree windmill turned the basketball technique of dunking into an art. I believe that in the minds of every fan, they can recall one or several wonderful dunk contests.

It's no exaggeration to say that the dunk contest was the soul of the entire All-Star weekend. For many fans, they can skip the Rookie Challenge, the Skills Challenge and the Three-Point Contest, or the All-Star Game, but they will definitely go to the Slam Dunk Contest, and even if they miss the All-Star Weekend for various reasons, they will go to the video to watch the highlights of the Slam Dunk Contest.

Now Chen Qiang wants to hold an all-star game, of course, he must introduce the dunk contest into the all-star game, and he will also promote it as a core project.

It's just that except for Chen Qiang, the others present still can't understand the significance of the slam dunk contest.

Slamming is very much based on physical fitness, and in the forties, there were no black players to participate in professional basketball games, so there was no kind of physical muscle stick on the court, white athletes were born worse than blacks in terms of jumping, at that time many professional basketball players were unable to complete the dunk, and the dunk in the forties was often the kind of player who was more than two meters to complete the technique, and even many players who were two meters tall were not enough to dunk the dunk.

So the slam dunk contest in the forties was definitely a competition for the big guys. And due to the limitations of physical fitness, it may be difficult for these big men to make fancy technical moves, and they may only be able to do some basic and simple dunks.

But this is enough, after all, in the forties of basketball, the dunk itself is a novelty, extremely rare in the game, the fans in the forties did not have much knowledge, they have not seen a very fancy dunk, it is estimated that a simple air relay dunk is enough to shock the fans from ear to ear.

I only heard Chen Qiang introduce: "The scoring mechanism of the slam dunk contest is different from the skill challenge and the shooting contest. In the Skills Challenge, the criterion for scoring is time, and whoever takes less time to complete the prescribed technical moves is the champion; The scoring criterion of the shooting contest is the shooting percentage, and whoever scores more balls is the champion. However, in the case of a dunk competition, we cannot find a unified and standardized scoring standard to determine the final championship. ”

"And how are you going to determine the winner?" Someone asked.

"Since there is no unified and standardized scoring standard, we can only adopt a scoring system, and determine who is the winner through subjective judgment." Chen Qiang replied.

"Who will score the scores? Is it us? Someone asked again.

"Of course it can't be our people, so the fans will question our impartiality. So I'm going to invite four or five basketball celebrities to score and that will also guarantee the professionalism of the scoring. In this way, even if the fans question the fairness of the scoring, they will not blame us, and I believe that those basketball celebrities will respect the facts for the sake of their own face, and it is impossible to give points indiscriminately. Chen Qiang paused, and then said:

"Next, let's talk about the rules of the slam dunk contest, each contestant completes two actions of dunk, the number of copies of the two dunks is added, and the one with the highest score is the final champion, I think you have no opinion on this rule, right?"

"You're very thoughtful and reasonable." Everyone responded.

The future slam dunk contest is also going to be compared to two rounds, Chen Qiang also doesn't plan to be so complicated, it is also a round to determine the winner or loser, after all, this is the first time that this kind of thing has appeared, the simpler and more direct the rules, the easier it is for fans to understand. Once the fans are familiar with the rules, it's not too late to make improvements.

With the Skills Challenge, Shooting Contest and Slam Dunk Contest finalised, the next step is the All-Star Matchup.

"How are you going to pick players for this All-Star Game? Is it like in baseball MLB, where the two All-Star head coaches directly select the players? Someone asked.

"Of course not, even though the idea for our All-Star Game came from the MLB league of baseball, I don't plan to copy how they work." Chen Qiang replied.

MLB's All-Star Game started in 1 year, and MLB's All-Star Game is where fans pick players to form a team, and the head coach of each team selects players to form another team, and the two sides play a game. In 1935, the rules changed, and the two All-Star head coaches were selected, and the two sides played one more game, and the fans did not participate in the selection.

This continued until 1947, when the rules were changed to allow fans to choose eight players, which was abolished in 1957 and reinstated again in 1970, and so on many times. It wasn't until 2002 that there was a public all-star vote. In 2003, player voting was added, as well as a head coach selecting pitchers, and the following year, the All-Star selection rules were changed.

The league adopts the rules for the selection of two All-Star head coaches, and the All-Star head coach chooses the players of a whole team very utilitarianly, because the cooperation between the players of a whole team will be better, and the probability of winning is greater. After all, the head coach who can be selected as an All-Star is also a face, and he definitely doesn't want to lose, so how can he win. As a result, the MLB All-Star Game has become a confrontation between the two strongest teams in the league, and the star-level players of the other teams can only watch.

This has been the case in all MLB All-Star games since the years, with two All-Star coaches each picking an entire team. It wasn't until 1947 that the rules changed, which put an end to this.

With Chen Qiang's sports knowledge, of course, he can't copy the old unscientific rules of MLB.

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