Chapter 506: You're going crazy
The All-Star Challenge Night's Shooting Star Contest brings its first small climax.
To be honest, the entertainment is good, and it's still quite fun.
Li Liang got fun from it, the ease of getting the shooting star, and the gains in the system, and got a chance to draw a big wheel.
I don't know what kind of reward will be given?
Li Liang didn't know, anyway, his performance at the All-Star Game today was over, and he could get a boxed lunch after the break.
The next contest is the Skills Competition.
This competition is different from the past, and it also adopts the mode of group competition.
There are two groups of two players in each group.
Like the shooting competition, it is also an internal confrontation between the east and the west, and then the final.
The rules for winning are also very simple, which side takes less time and which side wins.
There are two teams in the East, one consisting of Antetokounmpo and DeRozan, and the other being partnered by McCarvey and Oladipo.
Two teams in the West, one is Dragic and Reggie Jackson, and the other is Trey Burke and Lillard.
Li Liang saw that a tall and thin striker like Antetokounmpo could also participate, and thought to himself that Lao Tzu would also participate in a game in the future?
Li Liang has an idea, and strives to win all the awards that the NBA can win, even if it is an All-Star trophy.
For him, the skills competition is certainly not too difficult a task.
The most difficult thing must be the slam dunk contest, to be honest, Li Liang himself doesn't believe that he can win the championship of the slam dunk contest in the future, even if he has Dr. J's explosive head.
Of course, if the opponent is Kobe Bryant, Curry or something, Li Liang is still confident that he will win a championship!
The preliminaries of the skills competition began, and DeRozan and Antetokounmpo teamed up to complete the match in 45.0 seconds.
Oladipo and McCarvey then teamed up and they completed the race in just 43.3 seconds to reach the final.
As a rookie this year, McCarvey can be said to be his most glorious year.
The quality of this year's rookie itself is not high, and the Cavaliers, who have the top pick, unexpectedly chose the unknown Bennett.
This choice was very Knightly, and the result was that after more than half a season, Bennett basically fell out of water.
No, it's not basic, it's definitely water.
The knight is the kind of person who can fail the exam if you tell him the question before the exam.
You can only make the decision to pass if you tell him the answer directly.
The champion is not good, Oladipo has the appearance of a star, but there is no superstar image.
The overall talent of the players behind is very average, there is nothing particularly outstanding, at least now, it seems that there is no such young person who can grow into a superstar in three years.
As a result, McCarvey rose to prominence, gaining the most exposure in his rookie season.
But this is already his peak.
Then came the western side.
Dragic and Reggie Jackson teamed up to finish the race in 42.3 seconds.
But the team of Trey Burke and Lillard did even better.
They finished in just 40.6 seconds, the shortest time of the four teams in the preliminaries.
In the end, Lillard and Burke joined hands to reach the finals.
In the final, McCarvey and Oladipo made a slight mistake and took a total of 45.3 seconds to complete the game, while Lillard and Burke also made small mistakes, but Burke dribbled to the basket at full speed at the end and scored a layup with a time of 45.2 seconds.
A difference of 0.1 seconds!
Lillard won the Tricks Tournament last year and defended his title with Burke this year!
The final decision for two consecutive competitions was very thrilling, which can be said to have fascinated the audience.
Li Liang and Lillard, two of the best rookies last season, gave the audience a wonderful matchup.
Originally, compared with the two traditional events of the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest, the shooting star and skill contest felt a bit of a cushion game, but the result was quite good.
This makes the audience and fans look forward to the three-point contest and slam dunk contest in the future.
Like the other two events, this year's competition also took the form of a confrontation between the east and the west.
The Cavaliers' Irving, the Magic's Afflalo, the Nets' Joe Johnson and the Wizards' Beal represent the Eastern Conference.
Belinelli of the Spurs, Lillard of the Trail Blazers, Curry of the Warriors and Love of the Timberwolves represented the Western Conference.
What makes many people regret is that Li Liang did not participate, and everyone wants to see if he can continue to break the record of the three-point competition.
As a result, he stopped playing and went to play other projects.
Then CCTV's interview with Li Liang in the morning was quickly broadcast on the news, and then began to be reprinted by major American media.
This is very rare for American sports media to reprint Chinese media news, because this interview is really explosive.
Li Liang even wants to participate in the slam dunk contest?
Are you going crazy?
Or is James going crazy?
actually invited James to participate in the slam dunk contest.
But to be honest, everyone is quite looking forward to it.
James kept saying that he was going to participate in the slam dunk contest, but he didn't participate when he arrived.
In the past, those who participated in the slam dunk contest and the three-point contest were all superstars, but now it has become a stage for ordinary players to become famous.
For the audience, it's more boring.
The number of participants in this three-point contest is relatively large.
Owen lost last year, not because he didn't give it his strength, but because Li Liang was too good.
Love was the 2012 long-range champion.
Curry has hit 171 three-pointers this season, which ranks second in the league.
Lillard has hit 149 long-range shots this season, the fourth-highest in the league.
Belinelli's three-point shooting rate of 44.8 percent this season is sixth in the league and the highest among any player in the field.
Of course, the spicy blue man in the three-point shot didn't come, so they could only "fight for the second".
Because this year is Xiao Hua's first year in power, the rules of the three-point contest must of course be changed.
Xiao Hua wants to be a demon, among the 5 shooting points, there is a point that is all the colored balls this year, that is, the 5 balls at that point are worth two points, and it is up to the contestants to decide where to place this special shooting point in the 5 shooting points.
In this case, the total score of the three-point contest is 4 points more than before, because there are 4 more flower balls.
Therefore, Li Liang's score in last year's competition was the highest record under the old competition system.
This time, there is a possibility that a new record will be set.
However, Curry, the pre-tournament favorite, was disappointed in the game.
He scored just 16 points in the first round, tied with Love for the worst in the West.
This mentality is still a bit problematic, and I can't treat the game as training like Li Liang.
He put all the flower balls at the last point, in the bottom corner, and the result was one!
Li Liang is spicy eyes, this kid, the bottom corner of the left side is like this?
Lillard scored 18 points and missed out on qualifying for the finals by one point to Belinelli.
In the East, Beal scored 21 points in the first round, the highest score of eight players in the preliminary round, and the only player to score 20 points in the first round.
It's really pitiful, there are 4 more flower balls, only one is more than 20 points.
Belinelli and Beal both hit 19 points in the final as the two went into overtime.
Belinelli was more consistent in overtime, setting the spot for all the balls at the last shooting point and hitting three of them.
He hit all five balls on the 4th point and also did well on the 2nd point, hitting 3 normal balls and flower balls.
In the end, Belinelli won the 2014 All-Star three-point title with an excellent score of 24 points.
However, his 24 points still did not reach the record score of the last All-Star Li Liang.
The three-point contest was also unexpectedly exciting, although Li Liang did not participate, but it entered overtime.
And Belinelli's performance is not bad.
After the three-point contest is over, it will be the final highlight of the slam dunk contest.
This year's NBA seems to be focusing on East-West team confrontation.
So the slam dunk contest has changed from a single game to a team competition.
The first round is a free game, with 3 players from each of the Eastern and Western teams performing a 90-second dunk performance, everyone can perform and there is no limit to the number of dunks, and the jury decides whether the first round will be won by the East or the West according to the quality of the dunk.
The winner in the first round will decide the final dunk order and will select the opponent in the final set in the second round.
In the finals, the captains of the east and west select players to go heads-up, and 3 pairs of opponents dunk duels, judged by the judges, which side of the east and west wins 3 games first in the one-on-one dunk, which side is the dunk champion.
In the first round of free-for-free, George, Wall, and Rose of the East played a free-for-all, and Rose opened with a backhand windmill dunk after a leap.
After Rose handed the ball to Wall, the Wizards star immediately switched from the left to the right, and a pull-up rod windmill scored with one hand!
After the ball landed, George immediately started, Wall got the ball and smashed the ball to the ground instantly, George got up instantly, and it was directly a backhand air relay dunk!
At the beginning, it was a performance of three big windmills, which was a good "warm-up" for the fans to dunk.
To be honest, if you make a big windmill feast, don't you think about adding a big windmill grandmaster, Tim Duncan?
When it was the turn of the Western Conference to play, they didn't start off so shockingly, making several unsuccessful attempts in the first round of free play.
If you can't buckle it, it's more embarrassing.
At this time, it was Lillard who stood up to cheer up the troops!
It's Lillard again, this guy has participated in the Skills Challenge, the Three-Point Contest one after another, and the Slam Dunk Contest this year!
Lillard showed off his incredible bounce, and after a few failed attempts, Lillard threw the ball straight forward, then got the ball in the air and switched hands to the windmill for a slam dunk!
After the first round of free play, the East won the unanimous approval of the judges with their excellent team strategy, and all three judges voted unanimously in favor of the East Army, and they won 3-0.
The winning team in the first round can pick the order in which the opponents will play in the second round.
The East drafted Lillard to play first in the second round.
This is to bring out the best players in the Western Army, and consume them at the beginning.
Lillard opted for a dunk with a lever after throwing the ball, but it didn't work out, but on the second attempt, Lillard still got the ball in the air and got a backhand windmill dunk with a big swing.
The Eastern Army took the lead in the second round by fielding defending dunk champion Rose, the one who scored 50 points on the Clippers' head.
He pulled out the slam dunk trophy he won last year and asked celebrity rappers to collaborate on him.
Rose smashed into the basket and dunked a big windmill that changed hands under the crotch in the air!
It's a big windmill again!
Duncan would definitely teach them what a big windmill is.
In this round, Ross won 2:1.
The mentality on the western side is obviously a bit broken.
Their second appearance was Barnes, who tried to dodge the two-handed dunk in the air in an up?and down air, but tried two unsuccessfully.
The third time finally succeeded, but it would undoubtedly lower the impression score a little.
George, the second player in the East, made two unsuccessful attempts.
On the third attempt, George held the ball from the left side and hit the basket, made a 360-degree turn after a high jump, and then made another crotch in the air, a difficult windmill dunk!
This difficult dunk can be said to be amazing, and the scene reached a climax.
George also received a unanimous vote, winning 3-0 against Barnes.
The last king rookie in the West was McLemore.
He played a gimmick and appeared under the name of "King", wearing the royal robe.
O'Neal sat on the throne at the bottom of the basket, and McLemore dribbled to the basket and jumped high above O'Neal to complete a skywalk dunk.
After a successful dunk, O'Neal crowned McLemore with a crown.
But this kind of gimmick has been watched too much by fans in the past two years.
Howard's Superman cape dunk should be the pinnacle of this gimmick.
Wearing a red cloak to dunk the ball, Howard didn't dunk it at all but smashed it in, and his hand didn't touch the basket at all.
So strictly speaking, it's not a dunk.
As a result, because the atmosphere was too strong at that time, the whole audience cheered, and it turned out to be a dunk and gave a full score of 50 points.
Later, the audience and judges were not very interested in many gimmicks.
Relatively speaking, Wall, who was the last to play in the East, won the favor of the referees with the difficult action of catching the mascot's ball and folding and dunking after flying over the mascot.
In the end, Wall also defeated McLemore 3-0, and the East team defeated the West team 3-0 to win the slam dunk contest team competition.
Li Liang sat on the sidelines and watched the whole game, thinking that this slam dunk contest was very interesting, and he really had to practice dunk well.
After all, the braggadocio is out, maybe James will take the challenge?
After all, you can't beat the official game, so you have to find a place to get back on the field.
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