Chapter 534: Slam Dunk Contest
The last slam dunk contest was also recognized by everyone as the highest quality slam dunk contest in recent years, and this slam dunk contest, everyone was going to enjoy LaVine VS Gordon 2.0, but LaVine had been crippled by Tom Thibodeau, and finally had to withdraw from the dunk contest due to injury, which made this year's dunk contest drop a notch in an instant, but fortunately, Ye Xuan appeared in the list in time, which also made this year's dunk contest two more highlights.
Soon the on-site activities will end, the slam dunk contest is about to start in a blink of an eye, Ye Xuan also went back to the locker room to change his shoes and clothes, the shoes specially used for dunks are naturally different from the shoes in ordinary games, this is Nike's sneakers specially designed for Ye Xuan to participate in the dunk contest, there are three different styles, so Ye Xuan also needs to change shoes during the game to advertise Nike well.
After Ye Xuan came out of the locker room, he sat down and chatted with a few junior level players, and after chatting a few words, the little Jordan next to him also came over, and now in fact, everyone has not recovered from Ye Xuan's perfect score to win the championship, so there is still a sense of admiration for Ye Xuan in the chat, in fact, this is normal, after all, although Ye Xuan is only 24 years old, he is already the winner of the regular season MVP, NBA championship and finals MVP, this achievement is enough to make these children look up, And Jordan Jr. is a little different, everyone's evaluation of him is actually very average, although he is also an All-Star level player, but everyone always thinks that he just stays with Paul and Griffin to eat cakes, and has no characteristics of his own, so this also makes Little Jordan a little embarrassed in the chat.
Fortunately, this embarrassment did not last long, and soon the slam dunk contest began, and the first natural introduction was to introduce this year's judges, first of all, the only point guard best player winner in history, Gary Payton. Then there's the Spurs legend, David Robinson. Standing in the middle of the five is one of the most qualified players in the slam dunk contest - Dominic Wilkins. The next two were Alonzo Mourning and Chris Webber. These five stars are all Hall of Fame-caliber players, which also makes the group of kids who participated in this year's slam dunk contest feel a little ashamed.
The game started soon, the first to appear was the Clippers' little Jordan, his dunk had no special creativity, moved a DJ's DJ up, and then let a fat DJ stand behind the table with a basketball, and then he rushed over and jumped over the DJ to grab the ball and dunk it directly into the basket, although the action was done in one go, but the effect was not particularly good, of course, this has a certain relationship with his height, due to his height, his dunk looks not difficult at all, That's where the big guys suffer in the slam dunk contest. Sure enough, several referees didn't particularly buy it, except for Mourning who gave a nine, the other four bigwigs scored 8 points one after another, and Jordan Jr.'s first dunk could only end with 41 points.
And the second one to appear is Ye Xuan, Ye Xuan first filled all his attributes in the entertainment basketball debugging system on the side, and then quietly used the 'UFO experience card' directly, and then slowly walked on the court. After Ye Xuan came on the court, he didn't start his performance directly, but stood under the basket and felt his own bounce, after all, he still needed to adapt to the state of this attribute full, but this jump didn't matter, it directly scared the audience at the scene, because Ye Xuan's jump on the spot under the basket actually passed his head directly through the basket, and it was a lot surpassed, almost the basket was to his eyes, this is just jumping on the spot, if he let him run, then this jump must not fly?
This also made the audience and the judges interested in the audience, this kind of bounce power, the effect of the dunk should not be bad, Ye Xuan also knew that his action seemed to be insignificant, but it also attracted everyone's attention, so he didn't sell it anymore, he just took the ball and began to walk towards the other half, looking at this posture, it seemed that he was going to have a free throw line jump or something like a dunk, which made the audience a little disappointed, after all, the free throw line jump dunk has been played with in various ways, Now this action is not enough to get a high score for the players, so everyone is somewhat disappointed.
However, Ye Xuan obviously can't just jump and dunk at the free throw line, come to the bottom line on the other side of the court, Ye Xuan brewed for a while, and began to run, unlike some players who run with the ball, Ye Xuan has a natural advantage in ball control, so he rushed towards the opposite basket with a fast offensive attitude, and then just watched him get faster and faster, and felt like he was already about to fly, and then saw him step on the free throw line and then soar into the sky. Slowly, Ye Xuan flew towards the basket, closer, closer and closer, but Ye Xuan had no tendency to fall, still flying forward, and finally when he began to fall, Ye Xuan began to move, grabbed the basketball with both hands, and smashed it into the basket.
The audience at the scene was stunned for a moment, and then immediately began to cheer, this is indeed a simple free-throw line jumping dunk, but it is slightly different from other people's dunks, Ye Xuan's free-throw line jumping dunk this time was actually completed with both hands, this kind of difficulty is better than a one-handed dunk I don't know how much, so not only the audience and stars from all walks of life, but even the referees couldn't sit still, Chris Webb, who originally liked Ye Xuan more, even snatched a ten-point sign directly from the audience and danced all kinds of disorderly, and the atmosphere of the scene was instantly driven.
Ye Xuan actually felt that this dunk was not difficult, after all, in order not to fly over his head at the last moment, he took the initiative to relax and make his air not so exaggerated, but Rao was so, the effect of this dunk still made Ye Xuan directly shock the audience. The five referees directly scored 10 points, and the first full-score dunk of this year's slam dunk contest was released.
At this time, it was naturally Ye Xuan's moment of pretending, he first squatted down and calmly untied his shoelaces, then re-tied them, and then stood up and still waved to the audience with a calm face, and then signaled everyone to keep a low profile, the show has just begun.
I have to say that Ye Xuan's slam dunk this time really has nothing to say, it is completely relying on hard power, not playing any tricks or something, which has been very rare in the last few slam dunk contests, and the last person who didn't talk much was LaVine, who won the slam dunk contest championship with a crushing attitude.
Immediately behind Ye Xuan, it was Glenn Robinson III of the Pacers, I saw Glenn Robinson come up with two friends, and everyone didn't understand what he was going to do, but I only saw him let the two stand directly together, and then the person standing near the basket was responsible for lifting the ball, and he was about to dunk between the two people, but when he tried first, he rushed to the basket but suddenly braked, and gestured to his two friends, and then saw the stronger brother squatting down, and then carried the brother who took the ball, and actually wanted to dunk at the height of the two people, although both of them deliberately bent down and lowered some height, but it was still a lot taller than one person.
As a result, Glenn Robinson III is also a personal ruthless master, directly running and jumping, jumping over the human wall, grabbing the ball and dunking in one go, the audience cheered again, indeed, this time the dunk is still very difficult, and what is even more rare is that this time the personal dunk Glenn Robinson III did not use his hands to borrow strength, nor did he have much physical contact with the human wall, which made this dunk even more difficult.
Sure enough, the judges also liked the dunk very much this time, and directly gave five 10 points, Glenn Robinson III was also the second full-score dunk after Ye Xuan, it can be seen that everyone likes his dunk very much, and the stars on the sidelines also began this exaggerated performance after he dunked, although it is still a little worse than the shock Ye Xuan just gave, but as far as the dunk contest is concerned, this slam dunk is already very good.
Next is the fourth player to play, the appearance is the Suns' Derrick Jones Jr., compared with the previous Glenn Robinson III, Derrick Jones Jr.'s dunk is obviously more fancy, he actually directly invited all his four Suns teammates on the floor, and then let them line up, and they are going to leap over four people to dunk, if they can dunk perfectly, this ball must also be a fifty-point goal.
At the beginning of the trial dunk, Derrick Jones Jr. began to run from near the sideline at a forty-five degree angle, and rushed straight over, after forcibly flying over the human wall, his motivation was already a little insufficient, and finally when he grabbed the ball and sent it up, he was already a little exhausted, so this made his first trial dunk end in failure, and the audience at the scene was also a little disappointed, but he still had a second chance, the second trial dunk, only to see him run quickly, and then jumped over the wall to grab the ball and smash the ball into the basket in one go. The audience at the scene responded with warm applause.
However, the judges didn't seem to buy it very much, because although his dunk was successful, there was an obvious action of supporting his teammate's shoulders with his arm in the second attempt, which was naturally to subtract points for him, so the judges decisively scored 9 points one after another, and did not give him a full score. Derrick Jones Jr. could only shrug his shoulders, but some of his fans at the scene were a little unhappy and let out some boos.
The first four players have already tried to dunk, out of two fifty points, and the last one to play is Aaron Gordon, who lost to Zach LaVine last year, obviously everyone is looking forward to his dunk, after all, his dunk is a combination of creativity, there is a very difficult one, which makes everyone like it very much, but the only thing that is not very good is that several players before him have increased the difficulty of this game a lot, which makes the last Gordon to play a little pressure.
At this time, Gordon finally appeared, only to see that he once again invited the mascot of the Magic team to perform with him, but this time, he did not choose to jump over the mascot's dunk, but the mascot handed him a remote control, Gordon took the remote control, and then operated a drone, carrying a basketball into the court, and the live music also became the BGM of the goal battle. Many Chinese audiences actually do not particularly love Star Wars, or prefer it, but they also have no special feelings, but for the post-70s-80s generation in the United States, Star Wars is no less important in their minds than the 86th version of Journey to the West in the minds of Chinese.
So Aaron Gordon's tribute to the classic behavior has added a lot of points to him, and then it depends on the difficulty of his dunk and the degree of completion, in fact, everyone is still looking forward to him being able to catch the ball in a very high place once, and then dunk after completing some actions, but the result is somewhat different from everyone's expectations, his dunk is just a simple let the drone drop the basketball, and then the basketball bounces on the ground, he grabs the ball and dunks, which makes everyone seem a little disappointed.
What's even more disappointing is still to come, Gordon after determining the location of the drone, he first tried to rehearse an action, although he did not dunk, but the content of the action has been basically exposed, it is nothing more than a crotch change of hands after catching the ball in the air, although the creativity and difficulty are not bad, but in the case that there are already two fifty dunks in front, he actually uses this dunk to play the audience, it seems a little insincere.
And something more embarrassing happened, I don't know if he didn't warm up or for some other reason, the first trial dunk was directly dunked, and the second trial dunk was not successful, which made his score greatly discounted, and finally although he successfully completed the action when he dunked for the third time, but the judges and the audience on the scene were a little disappointed, and the final judges' scores have explained everything, three 8 points, two 7 points, and the score of the first round is only 38 points, This score can only be described as very low, although there is a second round of dunks next, but this 38 points is obviously a bit insufficient in the face of two full scores of fifty points, as long as there is nothing wrong with the dunks of Glenn Robinson III and Ye Xuan, then the finals have nothing to do with Gordon.