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"The rules for blind shooting are simple." Dirk Nowitzki explained, "It's you and I shooting from any 10 positions inside the three-point line, outside of the paint zone, and taking five shots from each position, which is a total of 50 shots." You can observe the basket before you shoot, but you must close your eyes once you enter the shooting action, which is called blind shooting. Finally, look at the end of 50 shots, and the person with the most hits wins. ”

"If you can beat me with a blind shot, I'll play with you and teach you a few tricks."

Blind shooting? It's the first time Yang Yiming has heard of this kind of shooting method, which sounds more like a child's trick - "inverted toilet" free throws, Yang Yiming used to play this game with his teammates, and it was the first time to shoot blindly.

He wasn't sure how sure he was of winning. But isn't the most important thing in shooting to rely on your eyes to see and observe the position of the basket? If both sides give up on their eyes, wouldn't it instead weaken Nowitzki's advantage and bring both sides back to the same running line of pure luck?

"Okay, I'll shoot blindly with you, Dirk! How many chances can I have? ”

Yang Yiming's wishful thinking is that even if Nowitzki's shooting ability is better than his own, without the assistance of eye observation, the gap between their shots may be very small, as long as they are given a few more opportunities to challenge, maybe they are lucky, who knows what the final result will be.

Unexpectedly, King Nuo Tianwang listened to Yang Yiming's question and raised his head and laughed. After a few laughs, he put his arm on Hogel's shoulder and said, "Teacher, I didn't expect your apprentice to be so interesting this time." Why don't you leave him to me—I've been in Fort Worth for the past few days. Mr. Yang, you feel ready to challenge me at any time. I'm not going anywhere, I'm always with me. ”

"Anytime?"

"That's right. What's wrong, what's the problem, Mr. Yang? ”

"Of course there is no problem." Yang Yiming grabbed a basketball lying on the ground next to him with one palm, stretched it out in front of Nowitzki, and said, "Then let's have a game now and try what you said about 'blind shooting'!" ”

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But Yang Yiming was wrong after all.

He thought that without looking, the shooting gap between himself and Nowitzki would close, and it turned out that he was very wrong.

"Blind Shot" is really like a shooting game between a blind and an ordinary person. Yang Yiming is the blind man: he was still full of confidence at every shooting point, when he observed and prepared, but once he closed his eyes and entered the "blind" link, it was like suddenly turning into a dead end where he couldn't see his fingers, and there seemed to be dangers and traps on all sides. Yang Yiming still wanted to remember the position of the basket with his memory, but on the other hand, he felt that his body and hand shape were wrong, just like exploring the way in this black alley, and he didn't dare to make a mistake. In the end, there was really no way, I felt dizzy, and I couldn't distinguish the southeast and northwest at all, so I had to throw it casually, and then out of ten balls, seven or eight balls were lost.

Looking at Dirk's "Noh Heavenly King" again, his blindness seems to have no effect on him at all. He still shoots at the usual pace, receiving the ball to observe, closing his eyes, and then shooting quickly, even the force and movement of the shot are no different from usual: close to the basket, he has his feet shoulder-level; Far from the basket and close to the three-point line, he lunges with his feet, like an anti-aircraft cannon, and pushes the basketball in a high arc from his shoulder. Nowitzki's blind shooting rate can be nearly fifty percent, and no matter whether the shot is missed, it will not affect his next ball shooting: every time the shot ends, he will close his eyes to shoot and follow the action, and his wrist will point straight to the basket, until the basketball and any part of the basket contact with the basket makes a sound, Nowitzki will open his eyes, and regardless of whether the ball goes in or not, immediately adjust his body posture to prepare for receiving the ball, and then catch the ball, observe, close his eyes, shoot, without hesitation, in one go.

In this challenge, Yang Yiming started shooting, first selecting the shooting spots outside the paint area inside the three-point line, and he made five shots after selecting each position, and then Nowitzki made five shots at the mirror point. Yang Yiming's hit rate is really miserable, and the more he throws later, the less confident he is in himself, and he simply becomes a nonsense. Even if you deliberately choose a position very close to the basket and think about carefully putting the ball down, you can always put it in. But because he had completely lost the confidence to shoot, he even threw a hollow ball outside the basket, or played a ridiculous ball that did not touch the basket at all, and finally completely collapsed.

Of 50 blind shots, Yang Yiming will shoot 9 balls, and he won't even have a 20% shooting rate.

And Nuo Tianwang shot 23 goals blindly, almost one out of every two balls fell into the bag.

23 to 9, a landslide victory.

Not only did Nuo Tianwang win without any suspense, but he saw that the gap between the two sides was too big in the last few balls, so he simply let the water go. After receiving the ball, he didn't even observe it for a few seconds, just closed his eyes and threw it. But even so, the gap between Yang Yiming and him is still too big.

Yang Yiming didn't give up, and challenged 2 games in a row with the mood of hitting the luck, but all the big scores were lost. 12 to 24, 8 to 22.

"Why don't you get here today?" Nowitzki looked at Yang Yiming, who was depressed after losing three games in a row and blind shooting challenges, and said happily.

"That's right, he won't leave for a few days anyway, you can challenge him at any time." Coach Hogel also helped to comfort Yang Yiming, but this comfort didn't sound like a taste: "It's okay to try more, in case any luck bursts, you happen to really win him." ”

"Don't listen to the they talk about." Jessica Olsen is still kind-hearted, she can't seem to see the two big men around her take turns teasing Yang Yiming, and stood up to administer justice and said: "Yiming, I think your shooting is very good." It's just that you may not be comfortable with this game, so it's good to practice it again. Don't listen to these two old guys show off their might, I'm optimistic that you'll kick their stinky ass. ”

As she said this, she kicked her left and right, pretending to really kick Hogel and Nowitzki in the ass, and then said, "I'm hungry." Otherwise, take me to dinner first, and let Yiming and them practice here quietly for a while. Tomorrow you may not have anything to worry about! ”

"Okay."

"Yes, Darling."

The two big men replied to Jessica Olsen in a weird way, then exchanged glances and laughed again.

"Don't let the old lady go quickly!" Olsen grabbed Yang Yiming with his left hand, pushed the old urchin Hogel with his right hand, and walked towards the goal. As he walked, he turned back to Yang Yiming and Yu Xiaochun and said, "I'll take them away first, no one will interfere with you, you can practice hard." I'll bring them back tomorrow so you can fix Dirk properly. ”

"Hmm."

Yang Yiming responded weakly, but he was not sure that Yu Xiaochun beside him could hear it. He's really weak-minded, and this blind shooting challenge, can he really win Dirk Nowitzki?