Next, let's talk about the players who participated in tonight's slam dunk contest. This time, Hougist finally got the most enthusiastic worship, after all, the audience present still knows how to account for the majority, Hoggist is the most physically gifted of the four people who participated, and his dunk has both power and beauty, which is already comparable to LaVine, how can the audience not like it?

After introducing the players, the light show ended, and the staff began to set up the venue for the Skills Challenge. The player receives the ball from the bottom corner and goes to the basket, then goes around four humanoid obstacles from the right side, then completes a chest pass, then a ground-hitting pass, and then goes to the top of the arc to shoot a long two-point shot. Then complete a half-court through pass from the baseline, then receive the ball in the middle court, go around three humanoid obstacles, and complete the final layup.

When the staff set up the venue, Hogist slipped to the side of the three referees and asked politely: "Hello three uncles, three uncles have worked hard, I have a small question about the rules I want to ask the three uncles, I don't know if I should talk about it?" ”

The three referees saw that Hoggist was so polite, and they also had a good impression of him, he just wanted to ask questions related to the rules, so the referees generously agreed, especially the older black referee asked kindly: "If you don't understand anything, just ask me!" ”

"My question is very simple, because the rules have not been clear, and I have not seen an example in the NBA All-Star Skills Challenge, so I still want to confirm with you, can I pass the ball in the event of dribbling around the pile?"

"This ......" Haugist's question stumped the three judges, and the Skills Challenge has only been in existence for ten years. Every year, the NBA only competes once a year during All-Star Weekend. The McDonald's All-Star Game also doesn't have a long time to introduce the Skills Challenge. They really haven't had that kind of problem. The three of them discussed for a long time, since it was dribbling around the pile, the referee only asked to be able to maintain the consistency of the dribble, and it was okay not to drop the ball, even if you dribbled the flowers.

After receiving the referee's affirmative answer, Haugist was reassured that he was now close to 6 feet 7 inches, and although his long legs gave him more bounce, they also limited his flexibility. He believes he won't lose to the likes of Payne, Moodier and Russell if he does his best, but with all three events tonight, he certainly won't be able to put all his energy into the first race. After careful consideration, Hoggist thought that no matter how good a person was at combining the ball, the dribbling state should not be as flexible as the off-ball state, so he came up with a way to divide the ball and let the ball go as straight as possible, and he used the off-ball way to get around the obstacles.

The order of appearance in the Skills Challenge seems to be based on height. Payne made one appearance, then Emmanuel. Moodier, and then D'Angelo. Russell, and finally Haugist.

Sure enough, as Hogist expected, the short players had an absolute advantage in terms of flexibility. Payne started from getting the ball, went to the basket to four obstacles, it took less than 7 seconds, and he also succeeded once with a chest pass and a ground pass, but Payne seemed to be very bad at shooting, and he used up five chances at the top of the arc to miss the basket, and here he lost a lot of time, even if the long pass and the final obstacle and layup he succeeded very quickly, but it still consumed as much as 45 seconds.

The audience felt very sorry for Payne, if he could hit it once, it would not be a dream to finish the game in 30 seconds!

Payne glanced at his results on the big screen, shook his head and sighed, returned to the bench and high-fived the crowd, and then sat back in his chair in embarrassment.

"You need to practice your shooting a little more! Watch me perform! Moodier stood up and teased with a smile, then walked to the bottom corner to wait for kick-off.

Payne scratched his head and didn't answer, quietly watching Moodier's game, silently cursing in his heart that he couldn't shoot. Moodier was not slow to dribble through four obstacles, but the simple chest pass was wrong, and it took three consecutive passes to pass, and he didn't dare to be careless about the second ground pass, paused, adjusted his breathing and passed steadily.

Coming to the shooting point at the top of the arc, Moodier regained his confidence, jumped and made a jumper, consciously shooting very well, and the arc was also beautiful, and he didn't wait for the ball to enter the basket, he turned around to go to the next project, but he just moved two steps when he heard a crisp iron sound from behind. Moodier looked back and saw that the ball he had thrown had returned the way it came, bouncing back to the top of the arc.

"The curse succeeded?"

"It's embarrassing!"

Payne and Moodier shouted in unison.

Moodier quickly returned to the top of the arc and threw a jumper more seriously, but this time he didn't dare to make a mistake, waiting for the ball to fall into the basket before turning and running for the next event. The latter project was also completed by Moodier relatively smoothly. The final time is 35 seconds.

"Brother, your shooting isn't very accurate, and your passing doesn't seem to be very good?" Payne took the initiative to run and high-five Moodier.

"My 50% shooting percentage is better than your 5-0 shots? Anyway, I'm 10 seconds faster than you! "Moodier is trying to prove that he's better.

"You two are really interesting, and you are fighting for the second place so vigorously!" Russell stood up, "Since you can't even score for 30 seconds, I'll take this first place." ”

"Idiot!" Payne and Moodier said in unison. Finding that their thoughts coincided with each other's, the two glanced at each other, twisted their heads at the same time, and sat down next to Horgist, one left and one right.

Sure enough, Russell's strength is better, although the speed is not the fastest, but all the projects are a solid success, Russell dribbled around the last obstacle, saw that the timer showed that it took only 25 seconds, and then accelerated to the basket, and wanted to finish with a dunk, but I didn't expect this dunk to be too powerful and heavy, and it actually bounced out.

“Fxxk！” Russell secretly cursed in the air, and after landing on the ground, he turned around and picked up the rebound, got up again and made a layup, and put the ball into the basket with a simple paddle.

The time stopped at 29.88 seconds, and it was good to go in 30 seconds, otherwise he would have slapped himself in the face if he despised Payne and Moodier just now.

"Wow! That dunk is super exciting! Moodier said deliberately loudly to Payne.

"yes, it's a pity not to go to the slam dunk contest." Payne instantly understood what Moodier meant, and replied in the same loud voice.

"Look at the timer, it's less than 30 seconds! I miss a dunk once in a while, but can you get 30 seconds into it? "Russell still has some dry goods to save face.

"I think your 29.88 seconds are also lucky, right? When I get to the final, I'll run for 28 seconds and show you. ”

"It's hard to get such a smooth run, maybe he won't be able to run for 35 seconds after reaching the final?" Payne has lost his chance to advance to the finals, and said sourly.

Hogist stood up and moved his muscles for a moment, and said in a half-joking tone with a little dissatisfaction: "I said the old ones, did they all forget me?" If you want to win the championship, have you asked me if I have not? ”

"You? You've got such long arms and legs, be careful not to trip over obstacles. Russell laughed.

"Hahaha, you just want me to trip up! That's your only chance to win. Haugist dropped the sentence and walked to the corner.

Although Russell scored 30 seconds in the preliminaries, Payne and Moodier's play was too watery. Thinking of this, Hogist decided to wait until the final to use the ball to go around the pile.

Hoggist picked up the ball, the timer began, the layup was easy, he began to accelerate to the obstacle zone, and then slowed down to go around the pile, and it was already ten seconds to go around the four humanoid obstacles. Hougist passed the ball out of the air, and the ball quickly fell into the net bag, and Hougist immediately came to the ground pass area, picked up the ball and smashed it on the floor, and also bounced into the net bag.

The shooting area at the top of the arc was done even more quickly, he picked up the ball and shot directly, but his heel left the ground, and his toe didn't even leave the ground. As soon as the ball was shot, he ran to the pass area in the bottom corner of the other side, and almost at the same moment that the ball fell into the basket, Hougist ran to the long pass area, and a cannonball pass accurately passed the ball into the net pocket of the half court. The series of projects in the middle also took only 10 seconds, faster than everyone.

Hoggist hurried to the half-court and picked up the ball for the final pile-twist. By the time he got around the three obstacles, it had taken nearly 28 seconds.

"Haha, it's too late! With 2 seconds left, I'll see how you make a layup from nearly half court! Russell sat on the sidelines and clapped his hands excitedly and shouted, "The championship is still mine!" ”

Hougist accelerated on the dribble, made a three-step layup from the three-point line, jumped in the paint, and hit an easy low-handed layup. The time freezes at 31 seconds. In this way, Horgist and Russell finally reached the final.

"Haha, I'm number one!" Russell jumped up from his chair excitedly.

"And the finals! I can still run 31 seconds, but can you still run 29.88 seconds? Haugist asked.

"30.88 seconds is not the same as winning you?" Russell said stiffly.

In the final, the slower runner didn't care about the order, but he put pressure on Russell, "I said Dan, if I run 28 seconds first, will you be under a lot of pressure?" ”

"Come on, look at your clumsy appearance when you go around the pile, 30 seconds is already your limit!"

"yes, you can see I'm slow to wrap around the pile! But are you sure I've reached the limit of how fast I can go around the pile? Horgist smiled at Russell. Having said that, it was just right enough to make Russell's heart ripple. The rest should be proved by action.

The cheerleaders danced and gave the players a five-minute break, which was more than enough for Hoggist.

Horgist stood in the corner, turned around and winked at Russell, picked up the ball and rushed to the basket, hit a layup, 1 second, dribbled to the obstacle area, 2 seconds, Horgist directly dribbled the ball with his left hand from the right side of the obstacle, accelerated from the left side of the obstacle, caught the ball with his right hand and dribbled from the left side of the next obstacle, and accelerated sideways to bypass the obstacle, and so on, when the timer went to 8 seconds, Horgist had already bypassed the last humanoid obstacle and stepped on the passing area with one foot. Hoggist's refreshing way of bypassing obstacles made the whole audience look at each other, and the audience stared at the referee on the sidelines silently, Hoggist had already received the referee's approval before, so the referee did not say anything. Russell was taken aback, no wonder Howgist was so confident, he actually had such a hand! I've never seen anyone use this trick, so he must have created it himself, right? This guy has such a good brain, he can actually use the rules like this, if I run first, he runs later, then I won't lose? It's a pity that he has already revealed his secret weapon, if I run this way, won't I be able to score 25 seconds?

Hougist played the ball out of the passing area and hit the net pocket with ease; hit the area, easily hit the ball bag; shooting area, tiptoe easy hit; In the long pass area, it is still easy to hit the ball bag; At this time, it was only 18 seconds, and Hoggist ran to the midcourt to dribble and continued to use his characteristic human ball to divide the pile, and it took only 5 seconds to get around three obstacles, and Hoggist also stepped on the three-point line to make a three-step layup, and hit it easily, and the time was fixed at 26.53 seconds. This result is very close to the All-Star Game record held by DeLong.

Since the referee recognized Hougist's goal, it was a valid result, and the audience began to chant Hougist's name, not only for him as a high school student to create such a close to the NBA's extreme results, but also for his imagination and creativity beyond the NBA.

Hoggist waved to the crowd, then returned to the bench and asked Russell, who was already on his feet, "How's it going, surprised, surprised?" ”

"You would have had a good chance to win, but unfortunately I was competing behind you, I saw all your stunts, if I used it, do you think you would still have a chance?" Russell's face was full of pride.

Hougist made a gesture of please, then sat back in his chair. Russell took the ball to the basket and dribbled to the obstacle zone, but instead of using the Hoggist way, he continued to circle the pile in his own way, which was still a second faster than Horgist.

Russell didn't go all out in the preliminary game, not to mention that he wasted a lot of time when he failed to dunk in the end. So the moment he stood at the starting point, he decided to play in his own way, and if he fell behind by the time of the last pass, then the last three obstacles would go around the pile by himself!

Russell's two passes were also successful, still more than 0.5 seconds ahead of Hougist, Russell's mentality became more and more relaxed, even if the time of the shot and the last pass was caught up by Hougist, he could win back the time by going around the pile.

However, Russell was a little too relaxed, and this shot at the top of the arc didn't hit!