Chapter 315: Crowned Three-Point King
Feb. 19, 8:30 a.m. local time, Staples Center Arena. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Yesterday was the All-Star Rookie Challenge, where the first-year rookie narrowly beat the second-year 148-140. Although Kings center Cousins slashed for 33 points and 14 rebounds, the Rookie Challenge MVP was awarded to his college teammate and Wizards point guard Wall, who deserved to be crowned MVP with a record 22 assists despite scoring only 12 points in the game. However, the Rookie Challenge has always been just an appetizer, and today is the official start of All-Star Weekend.
The three-point contest was scheduled for the second game, so Ye Feng could only obediently watch the slam dunk contest from his seat. The four players participating in this year's slam dunk contest are Griffin of the Clippers, McGee of the Wizards, DeRozan of the Raptors and Ibaka of the Thunder. In fact, it was Jennings of the Bucks who was preparing to participate in the slam dunk contest at the beginning, but later Jennings chose to withdraw from the game due to injury, and DeRozan made up for it.
This year's dunk contest had a lot of good ideas in the first round, such as McGee's two balls and two frames, and Ibaka's dunk and a toy in his mouth, all of which made the scene burst into exclamations. However, after two dunks, Ibaka and DeRozan were unfortunately eliminated, with McGee scoring 99 points and Griffin scoring 95 points to reach the finals. In the end, Griffin defeated McGee to win the dunk title by 68% to 32% in the audience vote with the idea of flying over the car dunk, which can be regarded as earning back a little face for the Clippers, otherwise they would have nothing to do with the same All-Star Game host.
After a live performance, the three-point contest kicked off, and Ye Feng ranked third, a position that did not move forward or backward, which was relatively friendly to him. If you're too far forward, you'll feel a little unfamiliar, and if you're too far back, you'll feel a lot of pressure if your competitors play well, and the third appearance is just fine. In fact, the three-point contest may be the most test of the all-star weekend single event, many famous three-point shooters do not play well when it comes to the game, but its rules are very simple, two bottom corners, left and right 45 degrees and five positions at the top of the arc have a total of 25 balls, the first four of each point are ordinary balls count as 1 point, and the last one is a flower ball counts as 2 points, and the one with the higher score within one minute wins. The total score was 30 points, the previous record was 25 points set by the Raptors' Capono in 2008.
The first to appear was last season's league scoring champion Durant, who has become an efficient scoring machine after a few seasons of grinding. But judging from his form today, it doesn't seem to be very good, and he didn't hit any of the first two points, which is also quite rare in the game. The third point is the top of the arc, Durant hit a normal ball and a flower ball, accumulating 3 points, so if you want to advance, you can only pray that others feel cold. Sure enough, when the time was all over, Durant only hit three ordinary shots again, scoring only 6 points in total, which was a rather miserable result.
The second to appear was James' younger brother Gibson when he was with the Cavaliers, and he was also one of James' most trusted outside shooters. At the 2008 All-Star Rookie Challenge, Gibson, who represented the sophomore in the game, came off the bench and scored 33 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks on 11-of-20 three-point shooting, and was crowned the MVP of the Rookie Challenge. However, his condition is not much better than Durant, although there are goals at every point, but the number is too small, except for a normal ball and a flower ball at a 45-degree angle on the left side, the other four points only hit an ordinary ball, which is exactly 1 point higher than Durant.
The third one to appear was Ye Feng, after he got up, he hugged his two good brothers before standing in the bottom corner of the left side and preparing to shoot. In fact, Ye Feng was still a little nervous, especially after seeing that Durant and Gibson only scored in single digits, he took a deep breath and calmed down, as soon as the timer rang, he picked up the basketball on the shelf next to him and started shooting.
Because he has to shoot 25 balls in 1 minute, Ye Feng didn't wait until his body rose to the highest point as usual, he jumped very low, but his shooting speed was not slow. After hitting the first two three-pointers, he finally found his groove and threw in the remaining three shots in one go to score four points. Then there was the 45-degree angle on the left side, which was Ye Feng's favorite position, and he hit 4 balls and scored 5 points. Then there is the top of the arc, which is relatively far away, but because it is facing the basket, Ye Feng threw 4 ordinary balls, and the flower ball unfortunately smashed out of the frame. He scored six points on all 45-degree shots from the right corner, and four points on two ordinary balls in the right corner. By the time he had his last shot in the frame, the time was running out and he scored 23 points, which is already a high score.
Pierce was followed by Pierce, who scored just 12 points, while Ray Allen and Jones, who were the last to play, scored 20 and 16 points, respectively. According to the rules, there were three people in the finals, so Pierce, Durant and Gibson were eliminated, and Ye Feng advanced to the finals as the first in the preliminaries.
The order of the finals depends entirely on the ranking of the preliminaries, and the one with the lowest score will play first, so before everyone can take a break, Jones stood in the bottom right corner with a solemn face. This order has a big impact on him, after all, he is the last in the preliminaries and the first in the final, and there is very little rest, but there is no way, who told you not to score more goals in the preliminaries? Jones, who had too much physical exertion, was significantly slower to shoot, and when the time ran out, he didn't have time to shoot the last point of the flowerball, so he only scored 16 points, exactly the same as in the preliminaries.
followed by Ray Allen, who may be more tired than Jones at his age, but on the contrary, Ray Allen still appeared in good spirits, maintaining a very good hand shape and shooting speed, and deserved to be the NBA's all-time three-point leader. Thanks to his good form, Ray Allen was even better than in the preliminaries, hitting a five-point shot to score a total of 24 points.
Now the pressure was all on Ye Feng, he took a few deep breaths and started his own shooting. The first point, three ordinary balls and one flower ball, 5 points; The second point, all hits, 6 points; the third point, four ordinary balls, 4 points; The fourth point, again all hits, 6 points; The fifth point, two ordinary balls and one flower ball, 4 points. When he hit the last flower ball, the whole audience cheered, 25 points! Tie the all-time record of the three-point contest! Westbrook and Loew both rushed to the court to hug Ye Feng and celebrate their friend's coronation as the 2011 All-Star Three-Point Contest champion.