Chapter 207: Slam Dunk Contest
The NBA is home to some of the best basketball players in the world, and there are many people who can fly and dunk on the rim. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
But since Carter's slam dunk contest in 00, the quality of the NBA slam dunk contest has not been as good as one session, and even a guy like Nate Robinson has won three slam dunk contest championships, if it weren't for Howard's superman and funny appearance, he might still have won four championships.
Audiences are aesthetically fatigued, and in 11 years the NBA made up its mind to refuse to let Nate Robinson play again.
And it wasn't until last year that LaVine came out of nowhere, which was hailed by the media as saving the slam dunk contest.
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But what really bothers many of the NBA's dunks is that idea. It should be creative, difficult, and ornamental. NBA officials voted on the website to let fans vote for their favorite way to see dunks, and the result was that the big windmill took the top spot, followed by turning 360 degrees and changing hands under the crotch, and the tomahawk dunk was ranked behind.
Li Dong has his own views on dunking, he feels that in addition to dunking, the key is to dunk out the form of dunk, that kind of domineering, that kind of elegant......
The five judges invited this year are all some of the most famous superstars in history.
From left to right, seated are Elvin Johnson the Magician, Shaquille O'Neal the Shark, Tracy McGrady, Deacembe Mutombo, and George Gervin the Iceman.
Li Dong and the other four players returned to the side, and then the staff began to get busy, setting up the field and setting up cameras...... The audience at the scene was not idle, and with the host's transfer, there were bursts of cheers.
Drummond was the first to play, smashing the ball to the ground from behind the rebound and then rounding the basket for a one-handed dunk from the back of the moon.
But maybe it was nervousness, DeRozan tried twice, and they both flew away, a fraction of a second.
It can be seen that he has made serious preparations, but by the time of the third cooperation, he still failed to succeed, and he didn't even deduct it. Thirty seconds had passed. The audience cheered kindly.
Sprint again, buckle again!
Succeed!
However, due to two consecutive failures, the difficulty was reduced for the third time. Except for Uncle Mu, who scored 8 points, the other four judges, all of whom scored 7 points, only scored 36 points.
Li Dong was the second to appear, and Howard became the live broadcast commentator, hilariously wearing headphones and gags with the two presenters of TNT.
"I'm very optimistic about him, he had an unbelievable regular season. He doesn't look like a rookie at all and scoring is very easy for him. Long before Li Dong participated in the slam dunk contest, George Gervin expressed his appreciation for Li Dong, of course, he also said that he would use the highest standards to watch Li Dong's performance in the slam dunk contest, because he is a manufacturable material.
Chinese fans are already crazy with joy, and when Li Dong appears on this field wearing red arm guards, they feel like it's their dream.
"What would you do?" Xing Jinwen crossed his hands and clenched them, put them on his chest and prayed for Li Dong's success.
Li Dong's expression was relaxed, he grabbed the ball in his hand with one hand, and stood at the top of the arc at forty-five degrees.
The aviation center immediately resounded with deafening cheers, Li Dong heard it clearly, and there was a lot of screams in it, which was a special courtesy that DeRozan had not received when he appeared before.
Concentration is concentrated on the basketball court, and in Li Dong's world, there is only this iron basket and the orange basketball in his hand.
Under the reminder of the host, the countdown of one minute and thirty seconds began.
Li Dong made a shooting posture and threw the ball high, just like he usually does in games, it is still such a wonderful arc, but the basketball is no longer spinning.
When the basketball flew to the highest point and began to fall, Li Dong jumped out and stepped on the floor with a great sense of rhythm.
The basketball smashed into the expected paint area, and then bounced back high......
At this time, Li Dong just happened to arrive at the horse, he braked suddenly, stepped on the position of one step inside the free throw line with his left foot, and his right heel was less than ten centimeters away from the free throw line.
His calves tensed, held his breath in his chest, and then suddenly burst out of an explosive force that broke away from gravity, leading from his legs to his whole body, twisting his waist, and the whole person was like a giant dragon circling and rising, and the hand wearing the red arm guard accurately found the basketball that was still falling in the air, and then put his five fingers together and grabbed it firmly.
The body is stretching, the dance is spinning.
360 degrees, one hand becomes two hands, and suddenly it is extended again!
Li Dong is like a weak leaf, his movements are elegant and chic, his hands can reach the basket, and with a "bang", he completes a violent buckle.
First time!
What a brilliant and aesthetically pleasing dunk at once!
The audience at the scene went crazy, and in an instant, it erupted in decibels ten times louder than before, and the cheers, applause and screams could almost tear down the roof of the entire aviation center gymnasium!
Xing Jinwen jumped up happily, next to the fans who stood up with her, followed by a group of rookies such as Kelly Oubre and Jahir Okafor, who made exaggerated expressions of leaning forward and backwards, and their mouths opened wide and closed.
"We can go home, we can go home!" Howard's hosting language is very standard, speaking the classic language of the host when Carter completed the amazing dunk.
Li Dong opened his arms to greet the worship of the audience, he is like a king at the moment, and who remembers that this is Toronto's home stadium?
Walking off the court, the scene immediately began to play a replay of Li Dong's dunk just now.
He turned around and dunked 36 degrees in one step inside the free throw line, turning one hand into two hands in the air, from the perspective of the camera below, his jump height was so amazing, the dunk looked like it was equipped with invisible wings, really like a soaring dragon.
The signal was transmitted to China, and the Chinese fans went crazy.
This is simply amazing, Li Dong's bangs blown in the air are like the most precious youth memory of their memory, what a touching and nostalgic scene. Countless fans shed tears of excitement, and countless computers took screenshots at this moment and quietly recorded the picture at this moment.
Laven's face was a little unsightly, this opponent he didn't pay attention to seemed to be not so simple, and it seemed to have his own unique skills.
50 points, Li Dong got a full score in the first deduction. His performance, even the picky and big-name celebrity judges, have nothing to say.
"You are so Dior, how do you let the people below deduct it?"
Kelly Oubre shoved Li Dong in the chest and shouted loudly.
Ravan also wanted to come up to say hello just now, but when he heard Oubre's mocking words, his face suddenly darkened, and he stood awkwardly and applauded without a while.
"Don't do this, maybe everyone has a unique skill that is useless!" Li Dongzhi is very open-minded, and he has always maintained modesty.
Aaron Gordon appeared in third place, the magic guy in a suit, completed a one-handed violent dunk under the crotch change hands, the starting height is not low, but also has a certain degree of difficulty, the five judges all gave 9 points, a total score of 45 points.
Gordon was also cheered by the audience, and the audience was very satisfied with the dunk that had been presented in this year's slam dunk contest, and they were even more looking forward to the upcoming LaVine dunk.
LaVine secretly wiped his sweat, he didn't expect the opponent to be so strong, he had confidently prepared a few dunks, and he didn't know if he could succeed.
But the arrow is on the bow and has to be sent.
“3、2、1、GO!” The host counts down and the timer begins.
Defending champion LaVine made his debut in the finale, and the result was a surprise on the first dunk, he threw it at the baseline, took off to catch the ball and changed hands behind him, and after the whole body slid over the basket, he successfully split the dunk with one hand, which was an absolutely perfect action, and there was a commotion on the scene, and Wiggins and Downs were even more excited.
"Wow, what a great change of hands behind your back!" Li Dong was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, his own dunk and watching others dunk are different experiences, and when he raised his head under the seat and saw someone else complete an incredible dunk, his heart was even more shocked.
The audience burst into thunderous applause, and Ravan himself laughed excitedly.
"Yes, yes, that's amazing." Li Dong clapped his hands lightly, this dunk is still difficult, and the viewing is also very good.
50 points, the judges all gave a perfect score of 10 points, adding up to 50 points.
In the first round, Li Dong and Griffin both topped with 50 points, McGee finished third with 49 points, and DeRozan was fourth with 45 points.
In terms of scores, this is an excellent slam dunk contest, and the four average scores are ridiculously high.
Immediately afterwards, the second round of the slam dunk contest was held.
Drummond, who had the lowest score in the first round, was the first to play in this round.
Drummond's expression was slightly stiff, he has always been crowned as a rare center of the new generation, but he got a penultimate result in the first round, seeing that he couldn't enter the finals, he made up his mind at this moment to fight.
Drummond, like Stoudemire in previous years, also brought in Nash to pass the ball for himself in the form of football.
But the first few times he didn't succeed, even the last time he successfully deducted it, but unfortunately his big windmill jump height is average, and he only scored 39 points in the end, 75 points in two rounds, which means that he will definitely be eliminated.
Li Dong walked to the sidelines during the host's introduction, and the camera gave him a big close-up of his new red basketball shoes...... He just stood in the light, holding a basketball in his hand, tall and handsome, like the prince charming in the heart of a Toronto lady.
Xing Jinwen heard the screaming of the girl behind her again, she pouted, and this time she didn't turn her head......
Li Dong grabbed the basketball and raised his hands to encourage the atmosphere of the fans.
Then the one-and-a-half-minute countdown began, and he began to prepare for a dunk.
"It's 45 degrees on the right side again, what kind of dunk did he prepare for us? Let's wait and see! Kenny Smith said the last word, and then said no more.
The fans at the scene fell silent in an instant, and the pins could be heard.
Li Dong took a deep breath, the basketball spun in his hand, and then snapped, and suddenly grabbed the basketball with both hands and threw it high.
"It's a high throw again!" This was the first reaction of the crowd.
Then I saw the basketball fly into the air, crossed another distance, found a landing spot, and landed. And Li Dong was slow to fast, took a rhythmic and frequent step, and his eyes were fixed on the basket and basketball!
"Drink!"
Flat ground, he broke off with a drink, stepped on the floor and took off!
He leaned sideways, grabbed the basketball with his long arms in the air, and his body rotated slightly, like a willow leaf blown down by the wind, without strength, with a unique elegance.
The basketball was passed under his crotch, his right hand was exchanged to his left, and his body was twisted just right.
Under the basket, Li Dong glided and flew over, and then his waist stiffened, and there was another force in the flat, and he rounded his left hand, and dunked the ball into the basket with a backhand "boom"!
“OMG! We can go home! ”
The audience roared, like an explosion!
Kenny Smith grabbed the microphone and screamed the most shocking portrayal of his heart, what did he see? Change hands under the crotch, turn 180 degrees, and look back at the moon through the frame! These three can be combined together in such a coordinated way, and this is still a reflexive 180 degrees!
This is definitely a slam dunk that detonates the whole audience, and in the seats of the aviation center, superstars like Kobe and James showed an irrepressible shock expression on their faces at that moment, and O'Neal, who was holding the camera, bent his mouth like a quarter moon, just like the time he saw Carter reflexively dunk 360 degrees!
The judges couldn't wait to raise the signs in their hands, all 10 points!
Li Dong actually entered the final with a full score of 100 points! Before the game, people knew that there was a teenager in Asia who could dunk, and tonight, everyone knew that he was Li Dong! "Flying Man Lee" from China!
Li Dong walked off the field with a smile, and there was a lot of worship on the sidelines, and even Gordon was speechless in admiration.
"You can do this kind of dunk, and when you dunk it for the last time, I really thought your waist would break, and I looked like my waist hurt." Kelly Oubre said with palpitations that his expression just now was enough to be voted the best audience actor of the day.
Some people have said before that if Li Dong can enter the finals of the slam dunk contest, then the final champion will definitely be him, you know, he is the starter of the Eastern All-Stars!
But LaVine is true, he seems to have been born without knowing what it means to be afraid.
"I've prepared a big killer, so be prepared to fail, and the final champion must be mine." Laven said proudly to Li Dong.
Three threads appeared on Li Dong's head, and he was speechless about this guy.
Everyone was still talking about Li Dong's shocking dunk just now, and Gordon was already preparing for his second dunk.
Aaron Gordon appeared later, he performed a leap mascot to complete the crotch change hands violent dunk, the first dunk failed, the second dunk was completed! Except for O'Neal who gave 9 points, the other four judges all scored 10 points and 49 points, which caused an uproar and boos on the scene.
And LaVine finally appeared, he completed a half-step jump in the free throw line, caught the ball in the air and dunked with one hand, and the action was very stretched, but Ao Fat was still very faceless, only scored 9 points, and the scene was a burst of boos. LaVine scored 99 points and Li Dong scored 100 points, and they advanced at the same time. LaVine's dunk won a round of applause, and the young fans gave a 10-point card.
Due to the low score in the preliminaries, LaVine was the first to appear. Throw the ball yourself, step forward to catch the ball, rotate 180° in the air, and split the ball into the basket with your right hand, full score, 50 points!
Li Dong took over from LaVine and began preparing for his first dunk of the finals.
Everyone held their breath and waited for Li Dong to start dunking.
Li Dong occupied the front basket outside the three-point line this time, and he grabbed the basketball with one hand and did two back dribbles to find a feeling.
Suddenly, Li Dong grabbed the basketball and rushed to dunk!
He slapped the ball on the outside of the penalty area to the rebound, the angle was below the rebound, but the force was not very great.
"Bang," the basketball bounced back on the rebound, and Li Dong had arrived at this time and jumped up to catch the ball.
"Tracy McGretery's self-throwing!"
Li Dongkong took the basketball with his left hand, easily made a crotch, and after exchanging to his right hand, he even made most of the windmill, and then turned his head away, and dunked the ball into the basket with his right hand!
"Boom!" The aviation center exploded like a thunderbolt, and everyone raised their arms and cheered.
Li Dong tilted his neck, his arms on his chest, his face was as cold as indifferent.
Raven's eyes widened, and his mouth was open as if he couldn't close it......
"How can this guy's waist be so flexible and so powerful?"
In the second dunk, LaVine also showed his ultimate, he accelerated near the middle line, jumped from the free throw line to complete the folding dunk, and the scene was stunned! Out! Whether it is Li Dong or LaVine, they scored full points for both dunks.
Play-offs......
Li Dong stood up from the bench, not knowing which camera it was, and at the same time cut the camera to Xing Jinwen's body.
The host immediately introduced that this is Li Dong's girlfriend, Xing Jinwen, who is also from China.
The scene was immediately divided into two sounds, one was a sigh, the other was a coaxing, Li Dongmei smiled, and walked straight to Xing Jinwen.
"What are you doing?" Xing Jinwen's face was red, but it was not obvious under the illumination of the light.
"Partner with me and dunk together." Li Dong smiled, his left arm was placed behind him, and his right arm stretched out, making an inviting gesture.
"I won't......" Xing Jinwen blushed and put his hand in Li Dong's big palm.
The uproar was even louder, and the superstars on the sidelines were laughing from ear to ear.
"It's okay, it's very simple, you just throw the ball into the air."
Xing Jinwen glanced at her, and was pulled up by Li Dong, and there were female screams beside and behind her, and she could feel that there were countless eyes full of various emotions fixed behind her.
The two men walked under the basket.
Xing Jinwen: "Are you going to fly over my head?" ”
Li Dong: "No, I just want to use your pass to complete the dunk, you can throw whatever you want." After he finished speaking, he pulled Xing Jinwen and put his hands on her shoulders, so that she stood one step outside the three-second zone, facing Li Dong head-on.
Li Dong began to retreat and retreated to outside the three-point line.
Xing Jinwen felt the light in the spotlight, countless eyes swept past her body, her face was crimson all the time, and her palms were slightly sweaty.
Outside the three-point line, Li Dong made an OK gesture to signal that Xing Jinwen could throw the ball......