Chapter 629
The first few events of the All-Star were hors d'oeuvres.
On the 14th, this year's Shooting Star first game began.
In these competitions, Chen Jiyuan is a complete spectator, with no sense of existence at all, just to brush his face.
The Mixed Shot Contest requires teams to field a current NBA player, an active WNBA player and a retired veteran to form a mixed team, and the team is required to shoot at six different points in two minutes, and the team that completes all the goals in the least amount of time is the champion.
Before the game began, Chen Jiyuan and Novis chatted with each other.
"Chen, I'm looking forward to seeing you in this year's playoffs. I'd love to play against the New York Knicks. Nowitzki smiled happily and said to Chen Jiyuan,
Chen Jiyuan also smiled and said, "I also want to play against you in the playoffs." Haha, but, the result of the fight is definitely my win,"
Nowitzki and Chen Jiyuan exchanged fists, ending the greeting.
The Texas United, Hawks, Kings and Lakers will compete in the mixed shooting competition, with Nowitzki, Kenny Smith and Beth Harmon on the Texas United, Gasol, Brent Barry and Mary Ferdinand on the Lakers, Evans, Webb and Nicole Powell for the Kings and Joe Johnson, Steve Smith and Angel McCartrier for the Hawks.
In the end, it was Nowitzki who won the game, and Texas United finished the game in 34.3 seconds to win the championship.
In the process of watching the game, Chen Jiyuan felt that it was still quite boring, in the past, the all-stars who watched TV were ready to prepare beer peanuts or something, it was very enjoyable to watch, but this really didn't mean anything to look at the reality here.
However, for the next game, Chen Jiyuan still has some expectations, and the biggest expectation is the slam dunk contest. Although he knows that this season's slam dunk king is Robinson again, Chen Jiyuan is still looking forward to it. After all, as Xiao Tudou's teammates, there are some actions, and Xiao Tudou keeps them secret from his teammates. However, that obviously had no effect on Chen Jiyuan.
But watching the slam dunk contest is the all-star contest of every year, which makes Chen Jiyuan the most excited.
With Jennings out injured, the Thunder's Westbrook replaced him in the skills tournament alongside Steve Nash, Derrick Ross and Deron Williams.
Nash and Williams have both won the Tricks Championship, and Delon has also set the record for the fewest time of 25.5 seconds. Both Rose and Westbrook were playing the entire tournament for the first time.
Westbrooks was the first to play, winning the game for the second time on both passes, hitting the three-point arc for the third and then missing again at the pass point to finish the game at 44.1 seconds. Rose came in second, hitting both a passing pass and a three-pointer, but he made back-to-back errors on the final long pass and only got it through on the fourth to finish the game with 35.7 seconds. Nash came out on the third side, and the whole process went relatively smoothly, and the game ended in 35 seconds. Williams was the last to come out and finish comfortably in 34.1 seconds, a little slower than the previous record he had set, but still in first place and joining Nash in the final.
In the finals, Nash scored all the first few points in one go, except for the three-point shot that was the second time, ending the game with only 29.9 seconds. Williams made three consecutive errors on a long pass that led to his own withdrawal from title contention. On the final layup, Nash jumped out to feign a block, which drew cheers from the fans, and Delon missed out on the championship with 37.9 seconds.
Rose is a young man who has gradually attracted people's attention, and this guy has successfully won the hearts of fans in the City of Roses with his heroic play.
Let them see the next leader of the post-Jordan era.
And Ross in the past two years has also been really good and has not disappointed. Ross is also worthy of Chicago's trust in the future.
Without Thibodeau's presence, it was doubtful that Rose would have been able to suffer such serious injuries in a row.
Rose has improved tremendously this season from the first one.
Offensively, the jump shot is still not something Rose is good at, shooting 48.9 percent from the field this season, and while Rose is shooting 26.7 percent from 22.2 percent last season, it's definitely not a figure to be proud of. Basically, Rose's three-point shot is very lethal to the opponent.
In the top 10 shots, we often see Rose scoring on a brilliant driving layup. And judging from the distribution of his shots, his shots on the inside account for almost 40% of his total shots. What's even more surprising is that this season Rose has a lot of empty hand runs after receiving a pass from a teammate, and in Rose's personal top 10 balls, there are such shots, for a young defender, having a good sense of empty hand running is a very good new signal. This will allow you to greatly increase the way you score and make it more difficult for your opponents to defend.
One of the welcome improvements for Rose this season is that he will step up and take on a leadership role, which was one of the confusing aspects of last season. Of course, this is not to expect Rose to play more solo and play all the balls by himself, but as a leader, you need to know when you can let your teammates play, and take the initiative to create opportunities for your teammates, and when you should play alone. This season, it feels like Rose has begun to understand that this is the NBA, not college basketball, and you don't need to be humble or egalitarian like a guest, you can shoot when you should.
These are all improvements for Rose, but there is an opposition to everything, and despite all this progress, Rose still has shortcomings.
Rose's defense is a bit of a pity. Rose's physicality is among the best among point guards, and although he is only 1.91 meters tall, he can reach 2.03 meters of arm span, which can greatly increase his defensive area. And Rose's basic qualities such as strength, speed, and bounce are absolutely superior, but the defensive statistics he plays are very inconspicuous. Although many times, defense is something that cannot be reflected in statistics, but the number of 3.8 rebounds, 0.7 steals and 0.3 blocks per game is obviously not played by a defensive fierce guard.
Rose will get better and better, Chen Jiyuan knows that next season's Rose will get the regular season MVP, breaking James' monopoly on the regular season MVP. Of course, this break is somewhat of a fluke. James himself died, announcing in front of the whole world that he was leaving the Cavaliers and bringing his talent to the South Coast, which of course would be despised. Therefore, this greatly lowered James's evaluation, which is why there is Rose's regular season MVP.
Otherwise, it's really hard to say whether James's monopoly will be broken.
In any case, the current Bulls are not strong, nor weak, and it will obviously take time to grow into the Bulls who give the Heat Big Three a headache.
The Bulls without Ty Gibson. I don't know if anything will change.
The contest of tricks was followed by the three-point contest.
This three-point contest is a bit of a highlight, because Curry participated.
Curry is still confident in his three-point shot, and still hopes to try the depth of the league in this place.
However, the three-point contest is not completely based on the accuracy of the individual's three-point shot, in this game, how many points can be scored is controlled by a lot of other factors, first of all, here, the physical strength of the small player is a big test, because it has been uninterrupted, in a period of time to shoot so many three-pointers, the small player may be due to the problem of strength, the more likely the three-point shot is to shoot weakly, so it affects the shooting rate.
And during the three-point game of the three-point competition, the players will always shoot in one position, so that you can find the feeling at the beginning, and the same point should be the further back the more you feel, the more likely you are to score.
The three-point contest should only be regarded as a game to entertain the public, and it cannot be said that the champion of the three-point contest will be the person with the highest three-point shooting percentage in the regular season.
In addition to Curry, the three-point contest featured Pierce, Frye, Cook, Billups and Gallinari.
Cook, who came from the Heat, was the champion of the last three-point contest, and interestingly, Frye played as center with the Suns.
When Curry was on the court, Chen Jiyuan was watching his little brother shoot from the sidelines. Curry's performance was still good, hitting all four shots in the first spot in the preliminaries, 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.
Curry easily made it to the finals.
In this regard, Curry is still quite excited, after all, he is a novice who has just entered the league, and in addition to being excited, Chen Jiyuan also nagged Curry to keep a normal mentality. Don't take it too seriously.
Pierce was the first to play again in the finals, and although he didn't shoot well, he hit all five points of color and finished with 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. Pierce was able to win the three-point contest.
Pierce won the three-point contest, continuing the legend of Big Bird Larry Bird and inheriting the mantle of Bird's long-range shooting.
The next game is the slam dunk contest that Chen Jiyuan is looking forward to.