Chapter 57: The Third Day of All-Stars
"Congratulations rookie! You've completed the counter-kill against the senior! Gordon looked at Griffin with an unhappy face, no way, this kid shot 11 times all night, and rarely had a chance to perform, which made Gordon very unhappy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Hahaha, thank you, senior, keep up the good work, keep up the good work!" Griffin casually greeted Gordon and talked to Evans, although the two were fierce rivals in the west, but Evans was still quite elegant, looking at the CCTV interview station not far away, he simply pulled Evans over to accept another interview.
This rookie challenge is still very exciting, not only the performance, I have seen enough of Griffin's dunk, but also the wonderful player cooperation, and the result has changed the tradition, from the younger freshman to the freshman, which also makes the audience addicted.
DeRozan was not selected for the Rookie Challenge because of his performance in the first half, so he hurried to participate in a slam dunk contest to brush up his presence, but Griffin has already won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge, and his presence is enough.
That night, a group of first-year players were in a local nightclub in Dallas, led by Brandon Jennings, who was playing very crazy, and Griffin didn't want to go at all, but he couldn't help screaming, so he had to lie to Julian Ting and say that he was tired and wanted to go back to bed, so he was dragged into the nightclub by everyone.
American nightclubs are actually not much fun, at least Griffin thinks so, a group of people around a small platform to drink and dance verbs, and then a few hot and scantily dressed beauties accompany the wine, black people may like this kind of occasion, drink and then go back to shake a shot, but Griffin is not interested at all, drinking is not his forte, it can only be time-consuming.
By the time everyone was almost high, it was already one or two o'clock in the middle of the night, but fortunately Griffin didn't have any events to participate in the next day, otherwise there would definitely be a problem with his mental state.
It is worth mentioning that Dallas is a city with very developed land transportation, which is different from other American cities, the United States is known as a country on wheels, and a private car is one of the indispensable tools for living in the United States, otherwise you may feel that it is difficult to move an inch, but in Dallas the situation has been improved to a certain extent, the public transportation here ranks among the top in the United States, as early as 1999, Dallas was established as a third class of world-class cities, that is, small world-class cities.
There may not be the bustle of New York and the luxury of Los Angeles, but Dallas, as the third largest city in Texas, can always present its own thousands of styles to tourists.
On the second day, in addition to a few individual games, there was also an NBDL All-Star Game, and in the afternoon, the All-Star players from the East and West would practice in the training hall, which was also open to the media, and it can be said that a lot of first-hand star information or All-Star tidbits can be obtained here.
"Rookie, don't you feel a little nervous, look at these reporters outside, it's like a wasp that smells honey, as long as you accidentally have a big mouth or something, the next day it will make you famous in the name of an all-star."
"Hey Ammar, don't scare our kids, are you an all-star regular?"
"Oh damn Steve, you can't do this in front of your juniors, it's embarrassing for me!"
CP3 and Duncan on the side watched a group of people play with a smile, and Melon practiced quietly with Nowitzki and others next to him.
"Yes, that's right, take a step back or do a feint to trick the defender or something." Anthony seems to be teaching Durant.
You can say that Cameron doesn't have enough hard accolades in his career, that he is unstable and too emotional, but the only thing that cannot be denied is his offensive skills, and many stars have expressed Anthony's one-on-one difficulty in defending in interviews.
Griffin watched quietly from the sidelines, although these are common sense tricks on the outside, but whether it is an inside player who is proficient in outside skills or an outside player who is proficient in inside skills, it is difficult to defend, not to mention Griffin's physical fitness determines that he can learn these skills.
"Hey boy, want to join the Carmelo Basketball Skills Tutorial?" Anthony looked at Griffin watching from the side, raised an eyebrow and asked Griffin.
Durant glanced at it and didn't speak, Griffin and Durant didn't have much contact, but I feel that Durant should be a rather arrogant player, which Griffin feels a little similar to Derrick Rose, like Hanmei with arrogance and arrogance.
Time flies in the middle of studying, Griffin feels like the training time is over in a short time, and then the interviewer goes to the interview, goes back to the locker room, and the court is quiet.
Griffin silently thought about today's gains, any basketball technique can be used calmly when practicing, and he has been playing for so many years, but in actual combat, the first problem faced by players is their own playing habits, muscle memory must be the first to take the technical actions that they are most familiar with and accustomed to, and it is also a science to integrate the newly learned technical movements into the game.
The second is that it is one thing to use it, but it is another thing to cause damage and score points, and competitive basketball does not require technical actions such as turning the top in situ.
Just like Griffin's shooting, he has been practicing for so long, but Griffin has not been in the habit of shooting more in the game, even if his shooting percentage and posture have begun to improve in training.
In the evening, the Cowboy Center becomes very lively, and the fan carnival continues all the time, and the audience in the arena welcomes the main events of the evening with the biggest shouts, the Skills Challenge, the three-point shot, and the dunk contest.
The annual All-Star is not only the people on the court, sometimes the people sitting are also the highlights, such as now, the players on the court are chatting in the warm-up, and there are countless big names sitting on the sidelines, not to mention the singing in the entertainment industry, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul sitting together, Garnett and Kobe Bryant are star-studded, and of course, Griffin and Gordon are also cheering for DeRozan in the audience.
The Skills Challenge was the first to be launched, and although there was strong competition from defending champion Derrick Rose and up-and-coming Jennings, Jiang was still old and spicy, and finally Steve Nash won the Skills Challenge, and his teammate Xiao Si also applauded and sent his blessings for the first time.
Then there was a three-point long-range shooting competition, and the pre-game focus was nothing more than focusing on the Heat shooter and Celtics star Pierce, the Celtics have Larry Bird's legendary three-point shooting champion in history, so this time Pierce participation is also concerned, although Dai Quinn is not famous, but last year's three-point shooting contest was a blockbuster, and whether he can defend the title this time is also attention-grabbing, not to mention that Big Brother Wade has been cheering on the sidelines.
In the preliminaries, Pierce was the first to play, played steadily in the cheers of the whole court, and hit the color ball one after another, the only regret was that he conceded two goals in a row at the last point, and finally scored 17 points.
Billups came out on second and hit all four shots from the first point, but unfortunately the ball missed. At the final point, Billups missed the first two shots, then hit back-to-back shots, but missed again in the last color, and finally scored 17 points.
Curry came out in the third game, and the first point was also the first four shots, but the color ball missed. The second point is concocted in the same way, and only the last colored ball misses. Although he only hit one color ball in the whole game, he still scored 18 points and temporarily ranked first.
The fourth was Garinelli, who didn't feel good on his first few points, but thankfully won back-to-back shots. However, from the third point, the consecutive shots missed. It was at the last point that Gallinelli found his senses, scoring consecutive shots to score 15 points.
Center Frye scored five points on the first point in his fifth appearance, but then had a number of goals invalidated because he stepped on the line, and eventually scored 15 points.
Defending champion Cook was the last to play, shooting both the first and third points very poorly, and in the end he only scored 15 points and went out early.
As a result, the first three appearances of Pierce, Billups and Curry were able to advance to the finals.
In the final, Pierce was the first to play again, and although the shooting percentage was not excellent, he hit all five points of color balls and finally scored 20 points.
Billups came out in the second game, scoring just one point in the first and two points in the second. After that, Billups had no chance to finish on the last two points, scoring just 14 points.
Curry, who scored the highest score in the preliminaries, played in the third, although the second ball was a three-pointer, but the rest were all scored, scoring 9 points in the first two points, but unfortunately the third point did not perform well, and only scored 17 points after that.
Therefore, after two rounds, Paul Pierce won the 2010 three-point shooting competition, looking at Garnett's smile on the sidelines, you can see how iron the relationship between the two is, Pierce won the championship in response to the audience's call, and the cheers were unmatched for a while.
Finally, there is the much-anticipated slam dunk contest, although the audience's expectations are high, the stars on the sidelines have also given enough face, and even the judges of the dunk contest have invited enough big names, and the commentaries on the sidelines are all celebrities.
However, this still could not save the slam dunk contest, and Shannon Brown, the spring man who was highly expected before the game, performed mediocre and went out in the first round, but Kobe Bryant on the sidelines still sent encouragement for the first time.
In addition, although Griffin and Gordon cheered for DeRozan loudly, this kid is probably a little nervous, and his performance is not as good as usual, and Elvis Wallace is more like he came to play soy sauce, and there is no sincerity at all.
In the end, Little Potato Robinson was crowned the slam dunk king for the third time, and when the award was presented, Little Potato probably also felt the aesthetic fatigue of the audience, and announced on the spot that this was his last time participating in the slam dunk contest.
This slam dunk contest is a relatively bleak one, the quality is not top-notch, there are no big names, and the superstars who said they were good did not come, and many disappointed fans pointed the finger at LeBron James after the game, of course, this is all a story later.
After the game, it was naturally another hi, in order to celebrate DeRozan's participation in the slam dunk contest, although the result was not bad, but as the old saying goes, the focus is on participation, so a few people went to the nightclub to have a round, and finally even Griffin was drunk, and a beautiful Dallas cowgirl helped Griffin into the hotel.
There is nothing to say in the spring all night.....
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