Chapter Seventy-Two: New Skills

"Kobe Bryant, he chose a crotch-down hand-to-back backhand dunk, which was relatively difficult, and the judges finally scored a perfect score of 50."

"Bryant's dunk has a unique aesthetic that helps him add points."

Kobe Bryant chose the crotch-down hand-to-back backhand dunk, the difficulty of this dunk is that the ball has to go around the body for a full circle, and the dunk player must have high requirements for the stagnation, and the time Kobe Bryant's dunk that won the championship last year is somewhat similar to the dunk he just used, last year's dunk was a crotch-down dunk after the change of hands around the back again, compared to the current dunk, there is one less backhand dunk action, and the difficulty is slightly reduced.

Kobe Bryant also scored 50 points, so after the dunk in the first round, there were three people who scored a perfect 50 points, namely Maddy, Jonny and Kobe.

In the second round, Brent Barry chose to turn around and dunk 360 backhand while changing hands under the crotch, which was slightly less difficult, Brent Barry tried twice, and finally succeeded, scoring 48 points, with a total score of 83 points in the two rounds, if there is no accident, he has been out of the game early.

Tracy McGrady, who came out in the second game in the semifinals, exploded in the second dunk of the semifinals, hitting the board with his back to catch the ball and turn 180 degrees to the windmill. And the second dunk, Maddie still did not give up his stunt to play the board, after leading the rest of the people in the first round, Maddie's second dunk relaxed a little, he chose to play the board two-handed windmill back dunk, the difficulty is low, but full of beauty, this dunk got a high score of 49 points, only Dick Bavita gave 9 points, and finally accumulated 99 points in the two rounds.

The third player was Isaiah Ryder, who came to a crotch and dunked with both hands, and finally scored 48 points, for a total of 97 points in two rounds.

The fourth to appear was Michael Jordan. Michael Jordan failed in the first dunk and only scored 46 points, and in the second dunk, Michael Jordan still had no intention of giving up, he still chose a difficult crotch - under the hand to turn around 360 degrees windmill slam dunk, but the continuous attempts all failed.

When the timer turns red and beeps. Everyone was silent.

"Failed, Michael Jordan failed, he is 35 years old after all, this kind of difficult dunk, even Michael in his peak may not be able to make it, and now it is naturally difficult."

"Maybe Michael shouldn't have come to this slam dunk contest at all, of course, it may be that he miscalculated the strength of this slam dunk contest, after all, last year's slam dunk contest was the worst slam dunk contest in history without even a perfect score! Michael Jordan may have taken this slam dunk contest lightly. ”

Michael Jordan failed on a second dunk. Five 6-point play, 30 points, counting the 46 points in the first round, the total score is 76 points, and the three people who appeared in front of him are all taller than Michael Jordan, so it can be said that the slam dunk contest journey of the basketball god ends here.

The fifth one to appear is Jonny, and this button, Jonny took out a new thing. A flower job that no one has ever played.

This dunk was a dunk that Jonny had prepared earlier, and it was supposed to be used in the first round. As a result, in the first round, Jonny thought of several other ideas, so he gave up this idea, and now Jonny has no other ideas, except for this dunk, there is only another super difficult dunk left, and that dunk Jonny has to be left for the finals to dunk.

Jonny takes the ball on. This time he was in a position that confused a lot of people, because he was behind the rebound.

However, because it was a dunk that had been prepared for a long time, Jonny had practiced many times before, so Jonny didn't talk nonsense and started running directly. As soon as he took a step, he threw the basketball directly to the basket and jumped.

"Jonny hit the back of the rebound with a basketball, and then he jumped up and caught the ball and went straight over the rebound! It's actually an empty connection after hitting the back board! The commentators exclaimed, and at the same time, there was a question in their hearts: "It's too difficult, how should he deal with the downward trend behind?" "After all, after crossing the rebound, it must be a slow decline.

However, Jonny's subsequent handling surprised everyone even more, and he actually added a crotch-down hand change action while crossing the rebound!

Then, in the eyes of everyone who couldn't believe it, Jonny directly slammed his back with one hand!

Rumble! First time! A back plate that no one has ever used to add a crotch-down back buckle! How difficult is this dunk? Maybe Maddie can testify off the court, most of his dunks are empty dunks, although he has played a lot of tricks, but Maddie's boards are still used a lot, almost every ball is a must!

And Maddie naturally tried to play the back board, but he felt that it was too difficult, especially to dunk beyond the rebound, which was almost impossible, after all, the rebound was much lower than the basket, and at this time, it was difficult for the descending body to maintain enough height to complete the dunk, but Jonny used a method to reduce the distance from the rebound and shrink the whole body at the same time to solve the height problem.

Just after Jonny's dunk, you can see from the replay that Jonny actually rose for a while after crossing the rebound!

And with the action of changing hands under the crotch, it naturally raised the difficulty and beauty of this dunk to a higher level, and in the end, the judges scored all of them 10 points! Another perfect score!

But at this time, those media reporters began to sigh: "The quality of this dunk has dropped very much!" ”

"That's right, compared to Jonny's first few dunks, this dunk is really a lot worse."

"It's up to him to see if he has any other ideas."

"I don't think so."

"Alas, if you lose the finals, it will really be the runner-up or third-place in the most unjust slam dunk contest in history."

"Then he has to blame himself, who let him take out the trump card so early?"

Many reporters on the sidelines started such a discussion, the quality of Jonny's dunks is declining, which can be seen by many people, so this kind of speculation has become very much, but Jonny is not worried at all, because his dunk in the final will definitely surprise everyone, it will be a dunk that he does his best.

The last one to appear was Kobe Bryant, his second dunk, showing a crotch-down handmill, this dunk is limited in difficulty, but because of the unique beauty of Kobe Bryant's dunk, he also got a perfect score of 50 points in the end.

In the end, after the two rounds combined, the three top scorers advanced to the next round, namely Kobe Bryant with 100 points, Jonny Lee with 100 points, and Tracy McGrady with 99 points.

The remaining three left the court with some disappointment, especially Michael Jordan, whose departure caused a lot of cheers from the fans, although the Bulls were the Knicks' biggest rival in the 90s, but the Knicks fans still have a lot of respect for Michael Jordan, of course, because these fans want to see the slam dunk contest with Michael Jordan.

At the end of the first two rounds, the final three players were all first- and second-year players, and they were given a 20-minute break before the finals began. (To be continued......)

ps: Explain Michael Jordan's participation in the slam dunk contest, some people think it is impossible, but I think there is nothing impossible, because Michael Jordan is as competitive as Kobe, and I wrote Michael Jordan to participate in the slam dunk contest in order to pave the way for a certain plot in the back, otherwise the later plot would be too blunt to write