Chapter 175: Skill Challenge, Three-Point Shot Contest (20/20, Subscription Requested)
After the first day of the All-Star Weekend, the All-Star Weekend kicked off its second day. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The day's schedule will include the Shooting Star Contest, the Skills Challenge, the Three-Point Contest, and the Slam Dunk Contest.
The warm-up tournament began with a warm-up Shooting Star tournament featuring teams from Atlanta, Texas, Los Angeles and Chicago.
When it comes to the shooting star game, many people are still relatively unfamiliar.
The NBA All-Star Shooting Stars Contest was only added to the All-Star Weekend schedule in 2004 and consists of four teams of three players each, including an active NBA player, a female WNBA player and a retired superstar.
There are a total of 6 shooting points on the court, three people shoot separately, the first person can shoot after the next person can shoot, and the winner is determined by one round.
The six shooting points are: 45 degrees 3 meters on the right side, 45 degrees 3 meters on the left side, three-point shot at the top of the circle, 3-point shot at the right baseline, three-point shot at 45 degrees on the left side and 3 points from a long distance in the midfield.
The competition is divided into two rounds, with two teams eliminated in the first round and the winner determined in the second round.
The players representing the Atlanta preliminary round were Al Horford from the Hawks, Kirk Miller from the Dream Team, and Steve Smith from the Hawks, who were the first to play normally, finishing the first round with 47.6 seconds.
The second to play was Texas, which consisted of Dirk Nowitzki from the Mavericks, Ronica Hodges from the Silver Stars, and Kenny Smith from the Rockets, who had a great first round with 31.8 seconds.
The third appearance was Chicago, where Ty-Gibson from the Bulls, Kathleen Kraft from the Sky and Steve Kerr, who retired from the Bulls, took 1:06 to finish the game and become the first team to be eliminated in the first round.
Amid the cheers and support of the home fans, the Los Angeles team composed of the Lakers' Paul Gasol, the Sparks' Tina Thompson and the Lakers' retired Rick Fox seemed to be under a lot of pressure, and finally finished the game in only 55.8 seconds.
In this way, Atalanta and Texas entered the final round, and in the final round, the second place Atlanta team entered the final played more smoothly, and finally won the championship of the shooting star!
After the Shooting Star game, the schedule immediately entered the first official competition of the day - the Skills Challenge.
There are five players participating in the Skills Challenge: Stephen Curry from the Golden State Warriors, Russell Westbrook from the Oklahoma City Thunder, Derrick Rose from the Chicago Bulls, John Wall from the Washington Wizards, and Chris Paul from the New Orleans Hornets.
With the exception of Rose, who won the 2009 Skills Challenge, no other player has ever won the tournament, and last year's champion Steve Nash did not choose to compete this year.
In the first round, Curry was the first to play, and all the movements were done in one go, because Curry was the first to play, so he did not particularly pursue speed, but pursued stability, and obtained a decent score of 34.1 seconds.
Rose, who came in second appearance, was the previous year's champion, but made a mistake in the passing link, and the rest of the performance was normal, scoring a time of 35.7 seconds, which is not far from the 35.3 seconds he won that year.
Champion John Wall came out on the third and probably turned out to be a little nervous, with a couple of turnovers in between, and just 39.3 seconds.
Westbrook made his fourth appearance and became the perfect player to combine speed and efficiency in the first round of the day, finishing in just 30.0 seconds to reach the final.
Paul came out in the finale, perhaps influenced by Westbrook, who wanted perfection too much, but after a mistake in the shooting session, he missed consecutive shots and finally only scored the worst 42.7 seconds in the first round.
In this way, Westbrook and Curry entered the final round of the game, and Curry, who was the first to play, performed well, withstood the pressure, and completed a series of processes very perfectly, in only 28.2 seconds!
This pressure is on Westbrook, Curry's results mean that there must be no mistakes for Westbrook, and under this huge pressure, Westbrook also felt the pressure on Paul just now, and it took 44.2 seconds to complete the game, without the style of the first round.
After the match, Westbrook kindly took the initiative to hug Curry and congratulate him on winning the Skills Challenge. Curry also became the seventh player to win the Skill Challenge since its inception.
After a short break, it was time for the three-point contest.
The players participating in the three-point contest this time are Kevin Durant of the Thunder, Daniel Gibson of the Cavaliers, Dorell White of the Warriors, Ray Allen and Pierce of the Celtics, and James Jones of the Heat. Among them, Paul Pierce was the champion of the last three-point shootout.
Durant was the first to appear, and the result was a big surprise, Adu, who shot accurately and majesticly in the game, actually scored only 6 points in the first round! Durant even smiled self-deprecatingly after finishing the game, and some commentators claimed that perhaps placing a defender in front of Durant would improve Adu's shooting percentage a lot.
The second appearance is the "marksman" Ray Allen, as soon as Ray Allen shot, it makes people feel different, almost every action seems to be fixed, very standard and mechanical, 20 points! Ray Allen threw a score that almost guaranteed to make it to the finals.
Daniel Gibson was the third to play, and Yuan Shu immediately jumped up from the players' seats on the sidelines to cheer on his teammates. But Gibson played exceptionally badly, hitting just one more shot than Durant and scoring seven points.
James Jones came in fourth and threw a mediego of 16 points to sit in second place.
Dorrell White followed Jones and looked a little reserved, scoring 11 points and sitting in third place, with hopes of qualifying, while Ray Allen and Jones, who were ahead of him, were already ironclad in the final.
Last to come was defending champion Paul Pearce, who scored just 10 points before throwing the last flower, one point behind White, and if he could hit the flower, he would have advanced to the final, but if he missed, he was eliminated. In this case, Pierce once again showed his big heart, hitting the flower ball steadily, scoring 12 points while squeezing White out of the final round.
In the final round, Ray Allen, who played well in the first round, scored only the worst 15 points of the three, Pierce scored 18 points, and Jones won the three-point contest with 20 points!