Chapter 392: Luck and Strength
The Three-Point Contest began in 1986 and has been an integral part of All-Star Weekend ever since. At the inaugural three-point contest www.biquge.info Bulls shooter Hodges shot a record 25 points in the first round, but in the final final, Larry Bird threw 22 points to win the title, while Hoggs only had 12 points in the final.
Hodges' record of 25 points was broken by Wu Huang in his rookie season three years ago, when the new record set by the Holy Sect Master was 29 points, which was also considered by the American media to be a record that could not be broken again.
The Holy Sect Master has not finished his third season yet, but he has broken a lot of NBA records, and it can be said that before you know it, his name is already everywhere on the NBA honor roll.
In this three-point contest, the media believes that Wu Huang's main opponents are the Timberwolves' Lefu and the Magic's Anderson, these two are not only three-point masters in actual combat, but also very suitable for this kind of shooting competition.
Love exploded last season and has continued its upward momentum this season, averaging 25 points and 13.7 rebounds per game. With his outstanding performance, Love has been selected to the All-Star bench lineup, "and it feels great that I feel respected by my coach," Love said before the game.
The NBA's No. 4 position has reached a period of renewal, as Duncan, Garnett, Nowitzki and others gradually age, the strong rise of Love has made who is the league's number one power forward a hot topic, Shaquille O'Neal and Charles Barkley have a fierce debate over this, O'Neal supports Blake Griffin, and Barkley believes that Love is the best.
A reporter asked Lefu about this question, and Lefou, who warmed up on the court, gave his answer: "In my opinion, in terms of my game performance, I think I'm already the best power forward in the league now." ”
"Why don't I think they're like them?" Wu Huang secretly thought on the side, he felt that these two guys had their own flaws, and neither of them had been baptized above the division finals, and no one was qualified to say that they were the strongest. Playing well in the regular season can only prove that they have some strength at best, but this kind of game with insufficient pressure can't show the true quality of a player at all.
Wu Huang feels that although Gasol and David West belong to the older generation, in terms of current strength, they can still suppress these two guys in the playoffs.
Before the start of the three-point competition, the six participating players were all warming up on the field, but what made Lefu and others more embarrassed was that several reporters who were qualified to enter the scene for interviews only symbolically asked them a few questions, and then they turned their heads impatiently and ran to Wu Huang's side.
Lefu was the most angry, he hadn't even finished speaking, he had just taken a breath, only to see that the reporter in front of him immediately said, "Thank you for your answer, don't bother you to warm up", and then turned around and ran to interview Emperor Wu.
"I only answer three questions, but the requirement is 'I have given more than 100 bamboos in my room,' otherwise I won't be interviewed." Even if Emperor Wu said these words in a joking manner, he was still very annoying. A piece of bamboo is worth a dollar on his website, and although reporters are in a high-paying industry, no one is bored enough to reward a billionaire, so among the five or six people present, only two female reporters are qualified, and several male reporters are all brushed down.
The two female reporters are obviously half-fans, and at the moment they feel that their tips are too worthwhile, but the questions they ask are still relatively popular.
Wu Huang did not resist the interview, because he was not warming up at all, and he fulfilled what he said before, and he did not prepare anything before the competition this year.
I still remember last year, in order to defend his title, he started preparing a month before the competition, and the result was that the game felt average.
This year, he didn't practice at all, and now he doesn't even bother to warm up, so he is ready to go up and do it!
"My advice is to make sure you get your hands on it." Wu Huang can't run before every three-point contest to teach fans how to practice shooting, "The so-called shooting hand style is not standard, you don't need to learn the so-called standard posture, but you must be handsome enough, which is very important!" Wu Huang was very direct in answering the last question, he explained, "The shooting posture is ugly, and the accuracy of the shot is not to say, first of all, you will not be able to attract girls to scream!" ”
The two female reporters were a little embarrassed when they heard this, and the sect leader was a little yellow today.
Wu Huang continued: "If you can't attract girls, you will lose your confidence more and more. Therefore, before practicing shooting, find a large enough mirror and shoot at it to find a shooting hand that you feel comfortable with and a handsome posture. Once you find it, find a place where no one is around to practice, and slowly fine-tune it according to your shooting percentage, with the ultimate goal of finding a balance between 'handsome' and 'comfortable', so that you can lay a good foundation for your shooting. ”
Wu Huang's answer is a bit improper, but he doesn't teach others indiscriminately, what he hates the most is those rigid coaches who only follow the script when teaching technical movements, which may not make big mistakes, but it will make it difficult for real talented players to release their potential, they may have been suppressed by those rigid and rigid training since childhood, which is disastrous for a talented player.
In his heart, if a more open and free teaching method is adopted, even if it will make 10,000 players with ordinary qualifications become more ordinary, as long as one genius stands out, it is far more cost-effective than letting a genius be covered up and 10,000 ordinary players play.
The reality is that a genius is worth much more than 10,000 ordinary players, and this is the right value in sports. Therefore, the training method of basketball coaches should be completely aimed at discovering talents, otherwise even training 10,000 CBA-level players is far less valuable than training an NBA All-Star player.
In the warm-up before the start of the game, Wu Huang was like an irrelevant idler, and he had been taking a leisurely walk there. The other contestants are concentrating on warming up, and this comparison makes Wu Huang particularly underbeaten, especially when he keeps responding to the cheers and boos of the fans at the scene, this virtue of winning is even more annoying.
Wu Huang is not a popular person in Orlando, every time the Knicks play against the Magic, he has to provoke Howard before the game, and he can still get some cheers here today, and he can already snicker. In the end, I don't know if even the staff on the scene couldn't stand his sassy appearance, and the game was soon announced.
"I'm the first to play?" Emperor Wu was stunned for a moment after receiving the notice, and felt that this order was reversed? "Made! I'm the main character, don't the main characters always appear last? Emperor Wu expressed his doubts.
"That's right, you're the first to play!" The staff who passed the call were very sure that most of the people who organized the game today were the home team of the Magic team, so most of them were very unhappy to see Wu Huang.
Wu Huang nodded, but he felt in his heart that the whole Magic team was usually scared by him, and at this time, he seized the opportunity to take revenge immediately, which was completely a kind of ** behavior.
Lefou, Joe Johnson and the others couldn't help but mumble in their hearts when they saw Wu Huang still walking towards the field with a leisurely pace and expression......
This bastard is angry, but he does have strength.
At this moment, Emperor Wu's leisureliness has naturally become a manifestation of self-confidence in their eyes. How can you not be nervous when your opponent is a presence that has been hailed as the best shooting player in history? What's more, Emperor Wu has won two consecutive championships, no matter how you look at it, they really don't have the confidence to defeat him.
Wu Huang's posture today has elements of psychological warfare, and the comparison of the shooting competition is actually the level of psychological quality. These qualified players are all god pitchers who are almost 100 shots in their usual training, so he has to use his advantages to increase his chances of winning, and his biggest advantage is his fame and psychology.
If he can put enough pressure on his opponent before the fight, it is easy to win without a fight and win again like he did last year, and he will not resist this method of victory at all.
Bird did a very good job of this year, and the shooting results of the big birdie during the three-game championship period looked like that, but his opponent was stunned to shoot worse than him, obviously these people were under too much pressure to shoot in front of the bird, and they didn't play their full strength at all, so the big bird easily won the triple championship, which is the pressure of a peerless master standing behind you.
Wu Huang, who was the first to play, opted for the normal right-to-left shooting sequence, and the average right-handed player still prefers to shoot on the right side, and although his left hand occasionally twitches, he will never use his unreliable left hand in this kind of game.
The 2012 three-point contest officially began with a whistle-like sound......
Wu Huang performed very well at the first shooting point, and he did not aim at the basket at all when he was relaxed, just like his ultra-long shooting performance before the game can always achieve excellent program results, and a truly relaxed body can give full play to his monster-like shooting talent.
From the scientific field, the so-called shooting feel is actually far beyond the muscle memory of ordinary people. Just as some people can memorize, there are very few people in the field of sports who can master technical movements faster than others, and their bodies are more likely to remember what is in training.
Wu Huang's first point took less than 7 seconds to complete, and what was even more amazing was that he threw all the baskets into the basket. All you can hear is the sound of a basketball thrown by Wu Huang hitting the net, and the friction of his shoes against the floor as he moves.
Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal were sandwiched by Reggie Miller to explain the game today, only to hear Barkley pat himself first: "Look! I'd venture to say that this kind of shooting speed is only possible for Hugo, who is the only guy who thinks the three-point contest shot too long, and everyone else thinks 60 seconds is too short. ”
O'Neill saw that Wu Huang was in the second point and hit in ten seconds, and then said: "I have been teammates with him, so I know this kind of game is too suitable for him." According to the existing rules of the three-point contest, 25 shots are made in 60 seconds, and considering the time it takes for a player to run from one position to the next position after throwing 5 balls, it is almost an average of 2 seconds to shoot, which is indeed too short, which means that hugo can remain fast and efficient. ”
Reggie Miller, the most authoritative of the three, explained: "I don't think it's a lot of time, in fact, it's a maximum of one second from receiving the ball to shooting, Roy's 0.8 seconds in previous years, Fisher's 0.4 seconds in previous years, and many other similar shots in less than a second, including Iguodala's shot this season, when he didn't shoot very fast, but he also made a shot in a second." Then Miller learned the way the two complained, adding, "Of course, this is just the normal shooting process from getting the ball to shooting, but according to my observation over the years, the time of the three-point contest is mainly wasted on the player's pose after shooting - taking the ball to shooting (less than 1 second) - posing (more than 1 second) - taking the ball and then shooting (still less than a second) - then posing (still more than a second) ......"
Just after Miller's very vivid description, Wu Huang has already finished throwing the third point, and the result is still 100 shots!
At this time, many people can no longer be calm, Wu Huang is obviously going to break the record? But the current record is set by himself, or is it a 29-point record that can hardly be broken again, is he going to put on a truly perfect performance?
Wu Huang still doesn't have much emotion at this time, and 29 points will hardly be exceeded, so he doesn't have much pressure this time, even if he loses, it's nothing, don't think he's really satisfied with the triple crown, he said that before because he was embarrassed to participate in the competition after winning the triple crown, but what if he didn't get the triple crown?
This is the point, Wu Huang has the idea of "taking two and losing once, and then taking two and losing again". If this cycle continues, won't he be able to get ten or eight "three-point kings" in the future? Although the "three-point king" alone is not too much of a trophy, it is also a big honor to add up, which is enough to be written in his honor book.
That's why today's Emperor Wu chose to throw a few blind throws like this, but he didn't mean to put some water, he was dying!
It's a pity that his mentality has made his state better, and he is out of control when he throws it.
Lefu and others have already looked stupid, Wu Huang's fourth point is still not a goal, and now this score is enough to ensure that he enters the finals, the key is that the shooting time has only passed 34 seconds, does Wu Huang want to score 35 balls at this speed?
"Sect Master, you too fast today, right?" The fans in the stadium and in front of the TV all had the same expressions, and Wu Huang's shooting style was easy to make people think evilly.
Wu Huang said that if he shoots fast on the court, he has time to shoot slowly off the court. So at the fifth point, he accelerated again, and forcibly hypnotized himself, "Throw one"!
From the fourth shooting point, the Holy Sect Master began to milk himself, because at this time he already had the idea of breaking the record, but once his psychology changed, he knew that he would probably not be able to maintain his previous state, so he intensified his use of his pit father's left hand at the last point to continue to die.
"I'm going to die, but I just can't die, I'm so angry!" This is Wu Huang's purpose, but he will not think about it, but devote himself to this state of death, and forcibly let himself stay in the state of the previous four shooting points.
At this moment, Wu Huang could feel that his mind was messed up again, as if he was split into two or three souls fighting for the initiative with each other, while his body was still in a state of shooting, which was a strange state of separation between mind and body.
When the last flower ball fell hollow into the net, Wu Huang's strange state was awakened by a sudden huge cheer!
"Damn, how did I get the last point just now?" After Wu Huang threw the last ball, he showed an expressionless face after landing, not even the slightest excitement.
Wu Huang actually didn't come back to his senses after landing, he felt that when he threw the fifth point, it was really like losing his soul, he didn't know what he was doing at all, he just felt that his head was messing around, like a nightmare.
The 20,000 fans who witnessed the miracle collectively released a thunderous cheer after Wu Huang hit the last ball! It was this loud sound that pulled Wu Huang back from his nightmare state, otherwise he would probably freeze in place like he had lost his soul after throwing the last ball.
But at this moment, in the eyes of the fans, Wu Huang pretended to shoot with his left hand at the last point, and that expressionless face, which couldn't be more exciting. Everyone thinks that he deliberately put on that expression, and I don't know how many people are waiting to see him pretend to miss and slap his face. But in the end, he pretended to succeed, which made many people angry, but it also made his fans feel twice as cool at the moment!
The live broadcast seats of various countries were crying wolves at this moment, and the good literary outlets were written in chapters, and all the words of praise were immediately used on Emperor Wu; is not literary like O'Neal and Barkley at this moment, the two of them have full of voices and acting skills to show how magical and incredible Wu Huang's performance of hitting 25 goals in 42 seconds is!
Wu Huang himself also felt that he was a little awesome this time, but he hadn't seen any scenes in the past three years, so he could stabilize his emotions at this time, and entered the pretending mode very smoothly, still keeping that expressionless face, which was ready to be dressed to the end.
"You can speed up." Wu Huang left a fluttering sentence in front of the five people, but under the magical performance he created before and the calm expression at the moment, the lethality was no less than dropping a nuclear bomb on their heads, and Lefu and Joe Johnson had no confidence in winning at all.
"I can't think of any praise for a performance like this, he deserves all the praise, and you just think I've said all the praise. And I think that this year's three-point contest, everyone can turn off the TV when they see this. All the excitement of this race is concentrated in those 42 seconds. O'Neill didn't have Buckliso yet, and he really didn't know how to praise Emperor Wu at the moment, so he just said it.
Wu Huang was like he had won the championship after pitching, and no one in the media or fans paid attention to the other players.
In their eyes, this game is actually over here, even if Wu Huang is only the first player to appear in the preliminaries, he still has the possibility of losing in the finals, but no one cares about these at all, the biggest topic of this all-star must be Wu Huang's incredible full score performance, in the eyes of fans, he wins or loses is the champion.
The rest of the competitors may have been too nervous before Wu's performance, and the rest of the heats were mediocre, with Love and Joe Johnson scoring 14 and 12 points respectively, Anthony Morrow and Mario Chanmos only 10 points, and Ryan Anderson, the best performer except for Wu Huang, scoring only 15 points.
The last to enter the final are Wu Huang, Anderson and Lefu, who are also the three most favored in advance, but the gap seems to be a bit big.
The fans on the scene and in front of the TV first watched Wu Huang's performance of throwing 25 balls in 42 seconds, and then looked at these players who couldn't grasp the time and rhythm at all, it was like just watching an NBA Finals, and then watching the CUBA game - the span and contrast between them were too great, and many fans even shouted out the voice of directly giving awards to Wu Huang, they didn't bother to watch these rookie performances.
Wu Huang's previous performance and post-mortem completely disrupted the rhythm and feel of these contestants, which is the most sassy, and it is also the highest state of surrendering without a fight.
Love and Anderson adjusted their form before the final, but they still failed to put their best foot forward in the final.
Since Wu Huang ranked first in the preliminaries, he can choose the order of appearance in the final.
This is also the only change in the rules of this three-point competition, which increases the option of the first player in the preliminaries, and Wu Huang naturally chose the last appearance.
Anderson, who started the finals, was disappointing, playing at home without the precision of the regular season, especially in the first two shooting spots, and his pace was noticeably fast, and he only hit 8 orange balls and 2 flower balls in the end, scoring only 12 points.
With Anderson as his back, Lefu finally found some form when it was his turn to start the game, and it was obvious that his hand was warmed up and his shooting rhythm improved, which allowed him to finally score 19 points, and the game finally had some competitive flavor.
If the three-point contest does not count the kind of magical performance before Wu Huang, usually a score of more than 18 points is considered a high score, and a score of more than 20 points has a high chance of winning the championship, so Lefu's result is indeed good, but in the face of a big change in the preliminaries, Lefu still no one is optimistic that he can win the championship.
After Wu Huang saw the score thrown by Lefu, he knew in his heart that he had won nine out of ten for this triple championship.
A large part of those 29 points and 30 points are due to luck factors, and it is difficult for Wu Huang himself to replicate this kind of result again, but to ensure that he throws 20+ performances, he is still very sure.
"Just take a triple crown in a row." Before Wu Huang started shooting, he first said something in his heart that made Lefu depressed to death after hearing it, and he really regarded this championship as a bag.
Wu Huang is indeed qualified to think so, this kind of game is indeed not too difficult for him, just like after he only hit 4 balls in the first two shooting points and scored 6 points, Wu Huang is still not in a hurry at the third point, because he has absolute confidence in himself - although it is luck to score 30 points, but his brother to score 20 points is based on strength.
Wu Huang no longer made a few blind throws in the finals, he chose a more secure way to throw, and shot every ball according to a relatively normal rhythm, so it may be difficult to throw 25+ results like a convulsion, but the stability is much higher.
At the third shooting point, Wu Huang threw two orange balls and a flower ball, and the total score has come to 10 points.
But while his hand is getting better, the score is already a bit dangerous.
"Bang dang!" On the first shot of the fourth shooting point, Wu Huang missed again, and now his tolerance for error rose to the red line, and the 60e disciples finally began to panic.
Wu Huang was still calm, he adjusted his rhythm slightly, and the remaining four balls, including the flower balls, all hit, and immediately pressed back the hearts of the 60e disciples who were about to jump out.
But after the disciples breathed a sigh of relief, they felt that their sect leader still seemed to be in danger, because a shooting point was only 6 points, and if Wu Huang missed a flower ball, it would only be a draw...... If you miss one more orange ball, you'll be gone! (To be continued.) )