Chapter 805: You Don't Know Anything About Strength!
On Saturday, February 14, 2009, at 9 p.m. US time, the US Airways Arena in Phoenix was packed.
Tonight here is the second day of All-Star Weekend in the skills competition.
In the history of the All-Star Stars, the second day of tricks has always been quite popular.
Even without Yes's bonus and David Stern's reforms, the popularity will not be less.
In this year's skills competition, Ye Si did not participate in any of them.
However, he is the leader of Team Yes in this year's Skills Fight.
In this year's skills competition, the players participating in the skills competition will be divided into the yes team and the yao team, and they will first compete in groups, and then they will win the individual event.
Players in the Skills Tournament can be players from both the Rookie Game and the All-Star Game, and they will be automatically assigned to Team Yes or Team Yao based on which team they come from, as long as the league agrees.
Those who didn't qualify for the Rookie Game and All-Star Game will be drawn to join one of the two teams.
There are four players participating in this year's Skills Challenge: Derek Rose and Westbrook of Team Yes and Rajon Rondo and Wade of Team Yao.
There are six players participating in this year's three-point contest: Afflalo, Quentin Richardson and Deke Nowitzki of the Yes team, and Wang Shipeng, Arenas and Nick Young of the Yao team.
There are also four players participating in this year's slam dunk contest, namely Derrick Rose and Ibaka of Team YES, and Howard and J.R. Smith, who belong to Team YAO.
As the six players in tonight's tricks match, Rose, Westbrook, Afralo, Quentin Richardson, Nowitzki and Ibaka sat next to Yese, while the other All-Stars who came to cheer them on sat further back.
Except, of course, O'Neill.
O'Neill will always be ahead of everyone.
Shots like that this afternoon can only hit this dead fat man for a while, and Ye Si has already ignored this shameless dead fat man now.
When you care about the shame of a 'faceless and skinless' person, you have actually lost.
Because the league and the world are now hyping up the feud between Team YES and Team Yao, it can be said that many people are curious about how fierce today's skills match as an all-star warm-up will be.
However, the game on the court is not a contest between two teams, and the game on the court is now a game of shooting stars.
The game is over and David Stern is presenting the winner, Detroit.
After the Shooting Star Contest is awarded, the YES Team and YAO Team Skills Challenge will begin.
Ross and Westbrook, who were sitting next to Yes, were already a little eager to take the plunge.
Of course, Wade and Rondo on the other side are also eager to try.
Wade's eyes kept drifting to James.
And Rondo's eyes kept drifting to Yes's body.
Hum!
didn't choose the second master to the yes team, Ye Xiaojiu, tonight, the second master will let you regret it first!
It was Rondo's first All-Star game.
But this All-Star Weekend didn't make Rondo feel any glory as an All-Star starter.
Nima's, the second master not only has no glory, but he has also been excluded after coming to the yao team!
Although there are still a few good people in the Yao team who don't exclude him, but to be reasonable, when most people are squeezing out you, what's the use of having one or two good people?
Why did the second master encounter such treatment when he participated in the All-Star Game for the first time?
It's all Ye Xiaojiu's harm!
The more I think about it, the more angry Rondo becomes, Nima's, the second master wants revenge!
After the Shooting Star game, the Skills Challenge began, and after the live draw, Wade was the first to play, followed by Westbrook, then Rondo, and finally Rose.
"The game is about to start, what will happen tonight?"
"Will O'Neill and Garnett clash again?!"
None of the four players competing in the Skills Challenge have yet to start competing, with O'Neal and Garnett already pointing at their opponents' noses on the sidelines and 'squirting' at each other.
The two have now become tough representatives of their respective teams!
Ye Si withdrew his gaze from the two of them, and set his eyes on Wade.
Wade is the former champion of the tournament and is quite strong, arguably the strongest of the four.
However, when many experts evaluated the skills challenge before the game, they still felt that the strength of both sides was open.
Wade is strong, but Rondo is unknown.
The rules of the game this time are that the two teams go against each other, and the players of the winning team enter the finals, and the teammates may be held back, and the strongest players may not even make it to the finals.
It's a brutal way to compete, but it also makes the contestants give their all at the beginning without the slightest reservation.
I can't control my teammates' grades, but I can try my best to get better about my teammates, even if my teammates want to hold back, they can't hold back!
Therefore, as the first Wade to appear, quite ferocious, Wade's rhythm this time is very fast, and the luck and pass are a success, and even the shooting in the middle is completed at one time, the whole process is smooth without a trace of drag, when Wade completes the whole process, the final result shows that it is 23 seconds 35, accompanied by Garnett's chest beating, O'Neal's annoyed yelling and the audience's exclamation, Ye Si is also quite surprised.
"A result that borders on perfection!"
"Congratulations, Dwyan, you've set a super score that is less than four seconds away from yes!"
Wade, who finished the game, was very excited, but after being grabbed by Barkley to congratulate him when he came down, Wade's excited face turned black directly.
Nima's, is this congratulations?!
However, yes's 20-second result is really magically unrealistic!
"Dwyan, congratulations!"
"Well done, Dwyan!"
"This time we won!"
Dealing with Barkley, Wade returned to the bench on his side and felt what it was really popular.
Except for the disdain on the face of Rondo, everyone was congratulating him, if only there was LeBron here at this time.
Unfortunately, LeBron was taken hostage by yes.
Wade was the first to play,.
"Don't be stressed."
"I won't be stressed."
Ye Si looked at the cool turtle boy and nodded.
The stubbornness on his face told Ye that he really wasn't stressed.
Westbrook is certainly not under pressure, but his results are worse than when many players are under pressure.
In addition to the dribble and no mistakes, there were two passing errors and two shooting errors,......
It's too rough!
So much so that after the Westbrook game, there was laughter on the scene, but Westbrook's face was still stubborn when he left the game in laughter.
And on the sidelines, we just won a look, and Garnett, who was beating his chest there, was beating his chest more energetically, and O'Neal, who was next to Garnett, was already on his knees with his hands and head in his hands that was almost stimulated by Westbrook's results.
"Hahahaha, Shaq, no one can stop us from winning this game!"
"The victory is ours, the championship is Dwyan!"
The championship belongs to Dwyane of Nima!
Rondo passed by Garnett and O'Neal and cursed inwardly.
Even if you break your sternum, Wade won't win the championship!
Old guy, you don't know anything about the strength of the second master!
The results stinked so much that a lot of people sitting around wanted to comfort Westbrook.
But looking at the stubborn look on Westbrook's face, all the people who wanted to comfort him didn't know what to say.
This kid's psychological quality is okay!
Even Kobe Bryant was a little secretly surprised.
Ordinary young people have tired the team, and it is rare to do such a look, no frustration, no chagrin, and the face is still high-spirited and unwilling to admit defeat, which is equivalent to the look of the thirty-first shot even if I strike iron 30 times!
It's a lot like someone in the department!
The crowd's jeering at Westbrook didn't stop until Rondo came on the pitch.
And when Rondo came on the stage, the audience at the scene could no longer laugh.
When Rondo's match was over, there was no laughter, no crying, not even a sound!
Garnett, who was pounding his chest on the sidelines just now, looked at Rondo on the court blankly, and the chest-beating action seemed to be still, but the constant coughing sound from his mouth told the world that the world was not still.
"58 seconds...... No, Rajon Rondo missed five shots!"
Barkley shouted excitedly.
And Kenny Smith, who was next to him, even wondered if Rondo was going undercover for the first time.
And when he flipped to the results of the last time Rondo participated in the Skills Challenge, he found that !
In the silence of the audience, Rondo sat back on his bench like a walking corpse, with a towel on his head, ignoring Yao Ming's comfort and the concern of those who cared about him.
"How did this guy get into the All-Star?"
"How did you get into the All-Stars? Because he's a yes teammate!"
"I'm a yes teammate, let alone an all-star, I can win the MVP!"
Now it is the voice of the guy Delong Williams who is making up the knife, this guy has always been envious and jealous of the strength of the second master!
He is the most fierce one who excludes the second master this time!
Only this time......
The second master actually missed!
Damn it!
Deron Williams led people to man's crazy mending knife in Rondo's ear.
Wade has no interest in mending the knife right now.
Couldn't Nima's 23.5 seconds beat Team Yes?
23 seconds 5 + 50 seconds 8 = 74 seconds 3.
As long as Rose doesn't make a mistake and is within 36.8 seconds, he's going to be eliminated!
Will Ross make a mistake?
Wade was now on the sidelines, and with the crowd watching, Rose finished in 33.3 seconds.
The results are very ordinary, but they are very stable.
Transport, pass, and throw, all of which are done at one time, very, very stable!
Steady made Wade next to him even a little desperate.
Even Ye Si was quite surprised.
He always thought that Rose and Westbrook were players of the same type.
Now he finds that Ross and Westbrook are really, really different in other ways, except for some similarities in style.
Rose's personality is more humble than Westbrook's.
Rose's mentality is also more stable than Westbrook's.
Ross's technique is more comprehensive.
At the same time, Ross is faster than Westbrook, and now knows the importance of slowness!
Slow is important!
Accuracy and accuracy are also important!
This is what yes gave him the first time he fought with yes, and he didn't dare to forget!
"Well done, Derek."
"Thank you, yes!"
Rose was excited after being greeted and high-fived by Yes.
"No thanks, it's your understanding."
There are some people, even if you teach them, they can't understand it, or they don't want to understand it.
Ye Si looked at Westbrook next to him, and the expression on his face was still stubborn.
In addition to being stubborn, his eyes also lit up, but he didn't expect to be able to enter the finals!
Westbrook really didn't expect that he could make it to the finals, but as the first player to play in the finals, Westbrook was a little too excited, faster and more urgent than the preliminaries, and the results were not as good as the preliminaries, and the 40-second score made Westbrook's mouth grunt again.
And Rose, who came out later, was still very stable, faster when dribbling, slower when passing, it could be seen that he was controlling, and it could be seen that Rose knew that his strong point and slightly weaker point were there, but even if Rose was controlling the speed, he still shot twice, and only scored the second time.
It wasn't a great result, but Rose won the championship in the end.
Rose was happy after the victory, but the expression on his face was always modest, and after receiving the championship trophy from David Stern, he sat back in his seat without any extra celebratory movements.
There was a lot of luck in the yes team winning the skills challenge, but when it came to the three-point contest, yes's luck was quite bad.
Afflaro and Quentin Richardson were normal, with 14 and 20 points respectively, and the key was Nowitzki, who scored nine points.
After Nowitzki scored 10 points, the No. 1 fan in the NBA was not fifteen or second, and directly typed a word starting with F on Twitter, and then directly added a sentence.
"Aside from Michael Jordan, I really never thought there was a second superstar who could score under 10 points!"
The picture accompanying this sentence is a 'cupcake'......
The yes team, which was originally a little stronger in the three-point shooting competition, was eliminated by the yao team, the yao team of Arenas, Nick Yang and Zhu Fangyu.
In the finals, Zhu Fangyu, who scored 15 points in the preliminaries, took the lead, and in the finals, Zhu Fangyu once again did not finish throwing all the balls, but the score increased by two points to 17 points.
And Arenas, who came out next, shot quite chic, but because it was too chic, it consumed a lot of time, and when he finally shot, it was obviously chic and hasty, and it was 1 point less than in the preliminaries, 15 points.
Finally, Nick Young, who scored 17 points in the preliminaries, played in the finale, and Nick Young, who performed well in the preliminaries, did not hit any of the first two points, and although he was adjusted in the end, he scored only 10 points.
Therefore, when David Stern finally announced that the champion of this year's three-point contest was Zhu Fangyu, Zhu Fangyu, who was sitting next to Yao Ming, was a little blind.
In addition to Zhu Fangyu being a little blind, Rose, who was sitting next to Ye Si, was also a little blind.
He did say in an interview that he felt that Zhu could win the championship of the three-point shooting competition.
However, he really didn't expect that his polite answer would turn into reality one day!
"Congratulations to Zhu, he is not the strongest one in tonight's game, but he is the luckiest one!"
The strongest is of course Quentin Richardson, but he was cheated by his teammates in the preliminaries.
"He deserves this title, though, and he's the most revered of the three finalists, and Arenas and Nick Young don't have enough respect for it."
Kenny Smith added after Barkley had finished.
Is Zhu lucky?
Lucky, of course.
But if he had to choose a champion from Arenas, Nick Young and Zhu, he would rather pick Zhu.
Because Zhu is the most revered of the three about this game, and the most awe-inspiring person to shoot, he is a real shooter.
Arenas and Nick Young, it can be seen that when they shoot, they just use shooting as a tool to show their ability.
They have no reverence for shooting and three-point shooting.
He's a shooter and he wants that kind of shooter.
"3 to 1!"
"Team Yao finally got the first big score of this All-Star Weekend!"
With Zhu Fangyu's three-point shot winning the championship, the big score of the Yao team and the yes team also became 1-3.
The big score of 1 to 3 is quite important, at least, which will make the All-Stars of the Yao team still maintain their expectations for the All-Star Game and the expectation of beating the Yes team.
The final All-Star Game is 3 points, and if the three-point contest loses 0-4, even if the dunk contest is won, the All-Star Game is won, and at most it is a draw.
This is really difficult for the all-stars of the Yao team who want to make big news in this All-Star Game.
The Yao team was not favored in the three-point contest, and in the end the Yao team won.
And the slam dunk contest, this is the Yao team ahead, and the lead is very much.
Howard and J.R. Smith, who represent Team Yao, are both very good dunks.
On the contrary, Rose and Ibaka, although they have excellent physical fitness, but they have dunk skills......
What's more, J.R. Smith and Howard are not in bad physical condition.
Howard, in particular, has the strongest ability to create gimmicks among the four!
Before the game, many people thought that this slam dunk contest was a hanging.
In fact, this slam dunk contest is indeed a hanging.
Howard beat everyone.
In fact, when he saw Howard appear in his ancestral Superman suit, Ye Si knew that Rose, Ibaka and J.R. Smith didn't have any chances.
50!
50!
It was Howard's preliminaries for two dunks.
80% to 20%!
This is the result of the final live audience vote.
Howard's four dunks weren't that difficult, but they were full of gimmicks.
"2 to 3!"
After winning the slam dunk contest, the all-stars of Team Yao can't wait to gear up!
"The stage is ready for us!"
Feeling the excitement of his teammates around him, Yao Ming looked at Yes who was comforting Ross and Ibaka with some concern.
They don't really want to avenge me, do they?
But I really don't want revenge!
Embarrassment......