Chapter 499: Gathering Together (Fourth Shift)
The ex-girlfriend forgave himself, his daughter accompanied him, and his sweetheart also showed his intention to accept him, West was in high spirits for a while, quite a kind of pleasure of being a winner in life, and the game was still going on, he stood up and made a look of scolding Fang Xuan, and he couldn't wait to write a masterpiece like 'just drink the water of the Yangtze River and then eat Wuchang fish'.
The Skills Challenge was followed by the H-O-R-S-E Shooting Contest, a competition that was just introduced during this year's All-Star Weekend and featured on the All-Star field for the first time. The H-O-R-S-E shooting contest is very popular on the streets of the United States, and many women and children who cannot participate in the fierce competition due to physical reasons especially enjoy this kind of competition.
The rules of the game are that the first player chooses a point to shoot, and if successful, the next player must shoot in the same position in the same spot, and must do so within 24 seconds. If the imitator can't hit, he gets an "H", and so on. When a player gets the five letters "H-O-R-S-E", he is out. If the first player misses, the second player chooses the point and method of shooting.
This kind of competition is much more interesting than the Skills Challenge or the Three-Point Contest, because you can show off your creativity and do whatever you want, and there will be a lot of fun on the court.
Johnson took the lead and he threw his shot with his back to the hoop at the free-throw line. Obviously, Joe Johnson deserves to be a super shooter, and he has worked this shooting style before, hitting the first shot.
Durant then came out to imitate, he didn't expect Johnson to come to such a difficult way to shoot, in fact, this posture is not creative, there are people everywhere on the street playing this position, but Durant is a decent good boy, he has never been exposed to these crooked ways.
So, the consequences were very strict, Durant threw the ball to the back of the rebound, causing the audience to laugh, and he himself was embarrassed to get a letter "H" first. These letters are all plastic, Beasley helped Durant get the words, and after someone sent them, he yelled at Durant: "Don't be the first to go out, Uncle Beasley doesn't want to be ashamed!" ”
Durant was embarrassed, he turned back to Beasley and yelled, "You can do it!" ”
Mayo had played the game with friends before, and Johnson was more proficient in his posture, standing on his back to the free-throw line and throwing the ball into the hoop. When it was his turn to shoot, he stood on the high platform facing the hoop and made a jumper, hitting a big three-pointer, and the fans cheered. Johnson came to imitate, but cast a "three no-sticks".
Ring after ring, Durant is good at long-range shooting, and after Johnson got off the court, he immediately rushed up and hit a long-range shot with a crisp shot. Then he made another long-range shot, which was a three-point shot from a 45-degree angle near half court, which Mayo imitated, and the result, like Johnson, also made a "three-no-stick".
Mayo then shot and hit the ball with a "urinal" method, Johnson's imitation was another "three no-sticks", and the atmosphere of the scene was immediately mobilized, and the courtside commentator of this game was Chris Webber, who stood in the stands with the microphone in his hand and led the audience to wave. Johnson's shooting style was relatively simple, and the other two players were able to imitate it well, so he lost the initiative early.
After that, all kinds of strange postures came out, and Mayo also came to a long shot lying on the ground, he thought it was very difficult, but Beasley looked at him with pity and said, "KD played like this when I was in elementary school." ”
Sure enough, Durant also hit the ball when he lay on the ground, and since then he has become more and more courageous, the last two bottom corner hook hits, as if the sky hook was reborn, and Mayo failed to hit, the big hook is notoriously difficult to practice, especially the three-point big hook, not only to practice hard but also to have luck, Mayo was very unlucky, he didn't take it at all, he had to be full of "HORSE" five letters, was eliminated, Durant won the first championship of this game.
In the next three-point contest, a total of six people participated, and whoever scored the most points in one minute won. There are a total of 5 shooting points in the game: two symmetrical feet, two symmetrical at a 45-degree angle, and one at the top of the arc. There are 5 balls at each shooting point, of which 4 balls are worth 1 point, and the final ball is 2 points, and the full score is 30 points.
The match is normally divided into two rounds, with each player having one chance in each round. The top three players in the first round advance to the finals, and the second round will be played in the same way as the first round. In the event of a tie in the finals, an additional match will be played until a ranking is reached.
The six players competing in this year's tournament are: Mike Bibby, DaQuan Cook, Danny Granger, Jason Capo, Rashad Lewis and Stephen Curry. Among them, Capono is the defending champion, and if he can win this time, he will become the third player in NBA history to become the "three-point king" three times, after Larry Bird and Craig Hodges.
The race is an all-star tradition that began in 1986 and has since become an integral part of All-Star Weekend. Eight people participated in the inaugural three-point contest, and Bulls shooter Hodges shot a record 25 points in the first round, but in the final, Bird shot 22 points to win the championship.
In the next five years, the three-point contest was jointly dominated by Bird and Hodges, and the two of them won a three-game championship together, of which during Bird's three-game winning streak, he uttered the trash talk that still makes fans talk: Facing five other opponents on the court, Bird lazily asked, "Are you here to fight for second place?" ”
When the game officially started, Lewis came on first, he was a bit slower, scoring only two goals in the first two points, and then he was in good form, and finally scored 17 points. Bibby was the second to play and scored 14 points. Cook missed all four points, but still scored 18 points. Granger scored just 13 points and was eliminated early.
Then Curry played, as the only rookie in this three-point contest, he was under the most pressure, West looked left and right and then shouted and asked, "Brother, is your wife here?" Curry asked, "Is it possible for a girlfriend to be a lucky star?" If she comes, will I be the king of threes? ”
West shook his head and smiled, "No, I just wanted to tell you that my girlfriend is here." yes, you guessed it, I'm just showing off, kind of you're going to hit me! ”
Curry spat at him, and West jumped up and down but eventually blessed him, and gave Curry his own trophy to warm his hands to find a feeling. Curry's long-range shooting ability is very powerful, but he is a little nervous, and he didn't play well at the first point, and missed all five shots, but after that, he slowly regained his touch and scored 17 points, tying Lewis's score.
The defending champion Capono was the last to appear, he came for the championship this time, full of confidence, and scored all 5 goals in the top arc, but the two wings shot was very problematic, and finally only scored 16 points, and the defending champion almost cried when he saw this score, he didn't even enter the final!
In this way, Curry, Cook and Lewis reached the finals together.
In the final, Lewis was still the first to make a shot, and then he listened to the sound of 'banging iron' continuously, and in the end he only scored 7 points. Lewis was also dumbfounded, he was unable to raise his hand to signal to the fans in the end, and he could only smile bitterly in the face of reporters, saying: "I'm paying tribute to Jordan the Great." ”
In 1990, the NBA was snubbed because of the global economic crisis, and in order to save the All-Star, Stern invited Jordan the Great to participate in the three-point contest. Unable to stand Stern's pleas, Jordan participated in that three-point contest and threw a historic five-pointer, the lowest scoring record that still stands, and no one has broken it.
As an aside, the emperor is the emperor, shameful and courageous, Jordan immediately turned back and practiced hard for three points, so there was a good story of the 1992 Finals Bulls VS SuperSonics: When the supersonic led the Bulls in the G1 battle, Jordan the Great directly came to six three-pointers and led the Bulls to overturn the SuperSonics team in one fell swoop.
The three-point shot has been his weakest link in Jordan's career, and the Great has played 15 seasons in the NBA and has shot only 32 from three-point range. 7 percent, but in the first four seasons of his career, it was even below 20 percent, including a career-low 13 in 1987-88. 2%, it can be seen how much Jordan's three-point shooting rate has increased after 90!
According to the rules, Curry then appeared on the court, with Lewis at the bottom in front, he felt a lot more relaxed, the pressure was not on his side, so that his true strength was perfectly displayed, in addition, his dad gave him an idea, don't care about the speed of the shot, even if you can't finish the shot, it doesn't matter, the important thing is to play steadily and shoot the ball in front of you as much as possible.
It's a pity that Lao Curry didn't come to China High School as a teacher, otherwise he would have won the title of Provincial Outstanding Teacher, and his trick is similar to the teaching of students in the third year of high school: when you take the college entrance examination, you must be steady and steady, children, don't be ambitious, do a few questions and let him do a few questions!
Curry hit all two positions in the first two positions, hitting 10 shots in a row to score 12 points, and he ended up shooting 20 points in the game.
Cook was the last to appear, he was an elective in 2007, he was an assistant to Auden the Great in college, and he had a good physique, although he was slightly shorter and only 1.95 meters to play a point guard may be a little disadvantaged, but he has strong confrontation ability, and has a big heart, in the face of Curry's 20 points, Cook did not lose a ball in the first two rounds of shooting, but he was unlucky, and in the third round in the easiest top arc, he didn't even hit a ball.
At this moment, the big heart couldn't bear it, and although Cook tried to catch up with him, the rhythm was out of order, and he only scored 15 points in the end.
Curry smiled, he won the award for the first time in the All-Star, which is a good sign after all, West went to ask for credit, but Curry kicked him away without hesitation, and the two chased and fought in the arena, Reggie Miller, as the host, was envious, he said: "The Warriors are already the favorites to win the championship, not because they have the best big man in the league, Chamberlain, nor because they have an excellent backcourt combination of Iverson and Billups, but because this team has a very good atmosphere, The players trust each other and have a good relationship with each other, like a group of brothers, and that's the most important thing! ”
In this way, the game of the day came to the last event, and it was also the slam dunk contest that everyone was looking forward to the most.