Chapter 558: O'Neal's Free Throws and Curry's Three Points
During All-Star Weekend, the average player is on vacation.
A signature player like Lin Han may not be considered a vacation.
A lot of sponsorship activities, a lot of social care activities, busy from morning to afternoon, and after the busy, there is also a joint practice for the All-Star Game.
When Lin Han and the others were really free to arrange their time, it was already evening.
In the evening, it was time for the All-Star Weekend competitions to begin.
"Uncle Lin, I can shoot in the middle circle too!"
"Stephen was great."
Curry Jr., who was praised by Lin Han, happily ran back to the center circle again, and kept throwing the ball to the basket with that push-style shot.
Most of Curry's basketballs he threw out couldn't reach the basket, either short or low.
But he was not angry at all, and still threw them seriously one by one.
Stephen Curry, the little Zhengtai, has also become an outlier on the All-Star court.
Everyone knows that this kid is the son of Dell Curry.
Curry Jr. is also a household name in the current NBA circle.
And the identity of this little kid is not just the son of Dell Curry.
He was still hugged by Lin Han and Hardaway.
It can be said that Curry Jr. is an All-Star, and the background is strong enough to walk sideways.
This made Maddie and Kobe Bryant, who were sitting in the audience, envious.
Kobe Bryant and Maddie also want to stand on the court and train with Lin Han, Jordan, and Hardaway during All-Star Weekend!
"Lin, it's not good for you to let this kid shoot in a place like the middle circle, you think everyone is you, and you can go in if you throw it around"
"You know what, Stephen has a lot of hands, he has a soft touch, he is a natural shooter, and shooting in the middle circle can help him feel where the basket is"
"But he's only eight years old!"
"What's wrong with being eight years old, the sooner you feel like you're looking for the basket position, the better, Shaq, I'm not talking about you, your free throws are so bad, it's just that you can't feel where the basket is, you usually make free throws, do you feel like the basket is moving all the time? It was like being dazzled."
"That's it, when I make free throws, the basket just keeps moving! Reimu said that I was like this because of kidney deficiency, and I bought a lot of her secret recipes, so I really have the feeling of a basket position? Not my posture? ”
Kidney deficiency? Reimu is really good at making money.
And this dead fat man faces a Lori-type girl, why does his IQ drop so much?
"Posture isn't the most important thing for shooting, I used to shoot more than 90% of the free throws with the urinal, and Shaq thinks the posture of the urinal is right?"
Saturday, February 11, 1996 evening at Alamo Arena in San Antonio.
Tonight's All-Star Weekend is a three-point contest and a dunk contest.
That's a lot more attention than yesterday's Rookie Challenge!
Especially the first three-point contest!
Pulling out the list of players who will participate in the three-point contest at this year's All-Star Weekend can scare everyone to death.
The first person in the alliance, Lin Han
The second man in the league, Jordan
The Future of the Alliance: Hardaway
Former top scorer in the league: Miller
All-Star, Golden Left Hand: Chris Mullin
All-Star, Assist King: Stockton
Marksman: Dell Curry
Flying Squirrel: Trevoruffin
Because of Lin Han's three-point shooting storm in the NBA this year, he has hit more than 400 three-pointers before he has played 50 games in the season.
This makes the three-point contest, which has always been below the slam dunk contest, full of topics this year!
According to the league, the number of entries for this year's three-point contest far exceeded expectations.
In the end, the league selected these eight contestants based on various considerations such as hit percentage, number of hits, etc.
This year's three-point contest is very competitive, which can be described as a star-studded gathering.
However, even if this year's three-point contest is full of industry bigwigs, in terms of pre-game odds, Lin Han's odds are still as low as 1 to 1.01.
Miller, who is second in odds, is 1-10.
It is equivalent to betting $100 and losing that $100 at the end of the game.
Originally, the bookmaker was not ready to open this three-point contest.
But it was too hot to stand up to this three-point contest.
If you don't open the market, you can't say it.
In the end, he could only open a low-pointing handicap in which Lin Han won.
If it weren't for the high popularity of this three-point contest, there were many bettors, and there were many people who wanted to fight, Lin Han's odds would have been even lower.
Judging from the bookmaker's odds, Lin Han has almost no possibility of losing in the three-point contest.
But for these players in this tournament, they don't think so.
Even if there is little hope, you have to give it a try.
Of the eight players who participated, except for Lin Han, who chatted with O'Neal on the sidelines and instructed Curry Jr. to train by the way, the others were quite serious.
Seriously, if it had been last year's three-point contest, they would have won it.
But this year, after getting the pseudo-absolute hit skill, he has zero chance of missing in the three-point contest!
Pseudo-Absolute Hit is not a skill that can only be used in official matches!
As long as he can complete a system-certified three-point shot, his three-point shooting percentage is 100 percent effective!
"Lin, you mean, as long as there is a feeling of the position of the basket, any posture can hit, without this feeling, no matter how standard posture is, it is useless?"
"Almost, like me, I have a sense in my head where the basket is, so I can throw it in even if it's in the center circle, on the sidelines, or even in the stands."
Lin Han said this, and O'Neill didn't think Lin Han was bragging.
The whole world knows that Lin Han's favorite thing to do before the game is to throw the ball from the stands to the basket, and throw the ball to the basket from all angles of the court, and the hit rate is extremely high!
Lin Han also suggested to the league some time ago that players are allowed to shoot directly when they take the throw-in.
However, Lin Han's joking suggestion was soon met with protests from all the head coaches in the league except for Magic.
"Lin, can I practice this feeling now?"
Can you just throw it in? O'Neill's eyes are quite hot.
If he could shoot free throws, he would be able to average more than 3-4 points per game!
It didn't matter before, but now if you want to compete with Lin Han Jordan, it would be good to get a few more points on the free throw line!
"You? Still want to throw it all in? ”
Lin Han's eyes were full of contempt and contempt when he looked at O'Neill.
O'Neill, who has long been as thick-skinned as the door panel, doesn't care.
I have long been despised by Lin Han!
"You can't just throw it off the court, you can stand on the free throw line and throw it in."
"You think you're only 8 years old now? It's not even possible at the free-throw line."
"Really?"
"Not really, you can't do that level no matter how much you practice now, but you can try to find a free throw position that works best for you, some people are not naturally suitable for shooting with a standard position, Shaq may be one of them, I think you can try the urinal"
"End urinal? No matter how bad the free throws are, I won't learn! ”
Yo, it's a little sample, it's quite witty, but I didn't get it.
"Lin, you didn't deliberately lure me into learning to serve a urinal, did you?"
"Why, I'm not that kind of person"
He did it on purpose.
When he first entered the league, the urinal was simply a 'stain' on his life!
I didn't know anything at the beginning, and I had a lot of black history in the NBA.
Now that he has become famous, he also wants to be a perfect idol like Hardaway.
However, every time he saw his documentary on TV, he would show the picture of holding the urinal and taking off Buckley's pants, and he was also very tired.
Of course, Barkley must have been more tired than he was.
I can always see my mosaic little Tintin on TV.
If all the superstars in the league use urinals to shoot free throws in the future, and all the superstars use taking off other people's pants as a small action, his black history will not be black history, right?
With the attitude of being able to pit one by one, he must pull O'Neill into the pit!
"Shaq, to be honest, you really don't feel the pleasure of throwing it casually, as long as you find the right position for you, the feeling that you can hit the free throw with your eyes closed, tsk, it's very cool."
"How does it feel like you can score with your eyes closed?"
The dead fat man who was originally wary of Lin Han had already appeared in the seventh game of the finals in his mind, and in the last 1 second, he was 2+1, the two teams were tied, and he had a chance to shoot free throws.
Then, standing at the free throw line, he closed his eyes handsomely under the attention of fans all over the world, and made the free throw that he was most suitable for, the urinal......
"No, other postures are acceptable, but the urinals can't be used, I'm Shaq O'Neal who can't score a ball, and I will definitely not use the urinals to make a free throw!"
He really wants to feel the handsome feeling that can be thrown in with his eyes, but this posture affects his handsome image too much!
"Shaq, you've decided? You really don't want me to teach you the essence of urinal free throws? ”
"I've already decided, absolutely not to learn!"
"Now that Shaq has decided, I respect it, but as a friend, I can give Shaq another chance to regret it, this three-point contest, I'll let Shaq see what it feels like to throw it in."
"Lin, you don't really think you've won this three-point contest, do you? I've heard that Jordan and Miller both shot one ball away from scoring in midday practice."
"Who makes Shaq is my good friend, in order to make Shaq feel what he needs most, the hit is far more praise than the posture, what if you lose a three-point contest"
O'Neill is a little skeptical, is it really not a trick on him?
"Lin, Shaq, what are you talking about, so happy"
In this all-star weekend's high-profile three-point contest, others are practicing hard and getting used to the atmosphere of the court.
However, Lin Han was chatting with O'Neal hotly, and was naturally discovered by Larry Bird and Kevin Longgoley, the on-site ABC commentators.
In fact, commentators from various countries around the world found out on the sidelines.
It's just that they don't have the right to interview Lin Han in the arena and walk around at will.
"I told Shaq that in this three-point contest, I was going to shoot with my back to the basket in the preliminaries, and I was going to shoot with my eyes closed in the finals."
"What?!"
Shooting with your back to the basket? Forced to shoot with your eyes?!
"Lin, are you sure you're not kidding?"
You shot with your back to the basket in the preliminaries and you still want to make it to the finals?!
"Larry, you know, I've never been a joker"
In the face of Larry Bird's interview, after Lin Han finished speaking with a smile, his words were disseminated to the world in the languages of various countries through the world's commentary.
And almost at the same time, the odds of the three points contest of the outside bookmakers changed dramatically!
Because of the influx of funds to bet on other players, Lin Han's odds have risen all the way from 1 to 1.01 to 1 to 3!
Even this instant odds are rising!
"Reimu, where are you going?"
"I'll bet, I'll go and I'll go"
Betting?
Hearing Lingmeng say this, Lin Han's second sister Lin Wei's beautiful face was full of frost.
She was already very unhappy that Lin Han and Lingmeng were dating.
I've always felt that although Reimu is beautiful, she is not a serious person at all!
Cheating and gambling, and lazy.
Except for being pretty, it's nothing good.
How can you find this kind of moth when looking for a wife!
If only she was pretty, she was also beautiful, and she was more capable than Reimu!
"Lin, are you really going to shoot with your back to the basket in the preliminaries? Didn't Shaq provoke you? ”
After the three-point contest practice, the players were ready to start the game, and the content of Lin Han's interview with Larry Bird had already spread.
"Perry, I don't have a Killin, it's his own decision"
Hardaway frowned and looked at Lin Han, a little unsure of what Lin Han was thinking for a while.
"You don't care about winning the three-point contest, but your decision will be humiliating, and if you lose or don't make it to the final, you will be the laughing stock of the whole world."
"Perry, don't worry, I know this"
Lin Han is ready to shoot with a basket on his back in the preliminaries of the three-point contest, which makes the players who participated in the three-point contest very unhappy, which is obviously despising them!
However, it also made them want to teach the arrogant Lin Han a lesson!
Their three points are not as good as Lin Han's, that's for sure.
However, can it be as good as Lin Han with his back to the basket?
If they can't keep Lin Han, who has his back to the basket, out of the finals.
Those who were eliminated by Lin Han will also be laughed to death!
This time, Lin Han must not be allowed to enter the finals!
For a while, the three-point competition, which was already very concerned, can be described as an explosion in terms of popularity!
And Curry, who has sat back on the sidelines, looked at the Lakers No. 24 in the center of the court, his eyes were starry.
He is only starting to shoot in the middle circle now, and he will learn Uncle Lin's courtside shooting and stand shooting in the future.
Now, he can add back-to-back shots and closed-eye shots to his practice plan!
Compared to those traditional shooting methods that his father taught him.
He always felt that what Uncle Lin taught him was the most suitable for him.
"Uncle Lin is right, the best shooter should be the player who can let go of himself the most on the court!"
Xiao Curry, who was already sensible, thought secretly.
The best shooter should believe that no matter how you shoot, you can score the feeling!
So, even with his back to the basket, even with his eyes closed, Uncle Lin can win the championship!