The Legend of the Hungry Wolf in Basketball

Chapter 83 [Challenge]

The Rookie Challenge will be head coached by assistant coaches from the Celtics and Lakers.The leader of the second-year team is Tom Thibodeau of the Celtics, and the first-year team is led by Ye Feng's old acquaintance Brian Shaw.

Thibodeau's characteristic is that he is good at building a defensive system. It is not a good thing for him to be an exhibition coach.That night, the second graders put up a defensive formation.

As long as it is a zone defense position, even if the defense is very lax, it is not easy to get into the inside and dunk.The first-year team can't play like a normal game, and has to perform hard.As a result, there were many coordination mistakes in the first half, and the second grade counterattacked.

Gay's performance was the most eye-catching, using various dunks to warm up the dunk contest, and Rondo also sent out many beautiful assists.In the end, the second grade team won 146 to 113.

Durant was beaten by Ye Feng in the regular season, and he lost his desire to perform in the Challenger League. He scored 16 points and only had one dunk.Yi Jianlian played a little cautiously and only scored eight points.Scola is a floor player, and his teammates don't pass the ball to him at all...On the first-year team, only the Grizzlies trio can cooperate with each other, and the performance is acceptable. It is normal to lose by a big score.

Gay won the MVP of the Rookie Challenge with 34 points and 8 rebounds.

Early the next morning, Ye Feng went to the arena to practice dunking with Guy and Lowry. In addition, Howard and Gerald Green also brought their partners.

The slam dunk tricks have to wait until the game. What you need to do in practice is to keep your body active and maintain the best condition to participate in the competition.

Guy practiced for a while, called Ye Feng to stop, and asked with a smile: "Apart from the dunk, are you still not going to tell me the other three tricks? How do you know if you can make a dunk if you don't practice?"

Ye Feng smiled and said: "It's boring to talk about it. I suggest you start with all your unique moves, otherwise you may not be able to enter the finals. Those two are very strong."

Howard tried a 360-degree turn and dunk under the basket on the other side, and changed hands under the lever.They were all dunked, but Ye Feng knew that he would not do these moves in the competition.Although it is also very beautiful, these movements are not too difficult for the four people present, and there is nothing new.

Howard is a creative person. Green showed his strength last year. In terms of vertical jump, he is No.1 in this slam dunk contest.Gay, by contrast, is the easiest to knock out.

In the evening, Ye Feng and Lowry sat in the auditorium to watch other challenges.

The activities on the second day of the All-Star Weekend are various technical challenges. The first project is the All-Star Mixed Shooting Game.

The game includes six shooting positions, which are a 10-yard shot from the right, a 15-yard shot from the left, a three-point shot from the top of the arc, an 18-yard shot from the right bottom corner, a three-point shot from the left, and a half-court shot.Three people shoot separately, and the next person can only shoot after the previous person makes a shot. The winner is determined through a round of competition. The team that can complete the shot in the shortest time will win the championship.

There are four teams participating in the All-Star Mixed Shooting Game, and each team consists of an active NBA player, a WNBA player and a retired NBA star.This year's Star Shootout teams are defending champions Detroit, Chicago, Phoenix and San Antonio.

As a result, the San Antonio team was extremely efficient, beating the other three teams with a good time of 35.8 seconds and winning the championship.

The second is a skills challenge.A total of four players participated, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Jason Kidd and Dwyane Wade.

The Skills Challenge was first introduced to All-Star Weekend in 2003 to showcase the passing, dribbling and shooting skills of the best point guards in the league.The competition is divided into two stages, the preliminaries and the finals. Four players have to complete dribbling, passing and shooting in a field with various obstacles. The one who spends the least time in the finals is the champion.

Chris Paul and Deron Williams, two new-generation point guards, entered the finals.Deron Williams completed every action in the final at one time. After he dunked successfully, it only took 25.5 seconds to win the championship easily.

Then came the three-point shooting contest.Bryant withdrew from the three-point contest due to a finger injury, and Nowitzki replaced him.The six contestants are: Richard Hamilton (Pistons), defending champion Jason Kapono (Raptors), Steve Nash (Suns), Dirk Nowitzki (Mavericks), Perry Ja Stojakovic (Hornets) and Daniel Gibson (Cavaliers).

There is no suspense in this three-point contest.Kapono scored 20 points in the preliminaries and won the championship easily with 25 points in the final.After the three challenges, many spectators have already started to yawn in the stands.

The atmosphere of this All-Star Game was not very enthusiastic and lacked bright spots.Last year's Las Vegas star game was much more interesting. In addition to the star dance, there was also a funny event in which Barkley raced with the old referee Bavita.This time, only a few singers sang interspersed, and the effect was not as good as listening to a concert.

And this star game is not enough, without O'Neal's tricks, Garnett, the ticket king, is also absent due to injury, and Kobe is also very low-key because of his finger injury.All this undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water on the All-Star weekend.

In this context, the slam dunk contest has become more concerned.Many people waited all night just to see if there could be some novel dunks this time.Ye Feng was the one who attracted the most attention among the four contestants. Three days ago, a poster of "Yellow people can fly" was posted outside the arena!

Since its establishment in 1984, the slam dunk contest has undergone considerable improvements.In order to make the slam dunk contest more fair and equitable, the league introduced new rules.First of all, contestants are required to complete a slam dunk within 2 minutes. In the final of the 2006 Slam Dunk Contest, Nate Robinson did a full 17 times before he succeeded. In the end, he actually defeated Iguodala and won the championship.Such funny scenes will not appear in the future.In addition, the slam dunk contest will introduce a video playback mechanism to create conditions for judges to score more accurately.

In the first round, four players took turns dunking, and the judges scored.Each judge gives 10 points to a certain dunk action of a certain player, and the sum of the highest points given by the five judges is at most 50 points. Such a dunk is usually called a "perfect dunk".Each player dunks twice in the preliminaries. If the dunk fails, there is a chance to make up the dunk, but the ball that has already been dunked cannot be dunked again.

This year's slam dunk contest has a new trick again. According to the new rules, fans will directly decide who will be the final champion, and the judges only have the right to decide the finalists.After entering the finals, the player with the lower score in the first round will play first. After the two players complete the two actions in turn, the fans can finally decide the champion through text messages and voting on the official NBA website.In the finals, the votes of the judges are no different than the votes of the fans.

The judges of this competition are also an all-star lineup, and the host made a sensational introduction.The five people are "Dr. J" Julius Owen, "The Postman" Karl Malone, "Magician" Irving Johnson, "Essence of Human Movies" Dominic Wilkins, and the "Postman" who has smashed the rebound. Chocolate Bomb" Daryl Dawkins.

Amidst the warm applause from the audience, Ye Feng was the first to appear on the stage.He hit the ball at a 45-degree angle to the right, and threw the ball high with his shooting posture. The moment the ball bounced off the basket, Ye Feng jumped up with all his strength to catch the ball with his right hand, pulled the bar in the air, and glided to the other side of the basket , The backhand dunks the ball!

This is a big windmill with a backhand, the dunk is not too difficult, Ye Feng's movements are very smooth and neat.The five judges all agreed, and they all scored 10 points.Ye Feng got full marks for the first dunk.

He stood on the sidelines, waved to the applauding audience, returned to the sidelines, and clapped hands with Gay, who appeared second.

After Gay came on the court, he dribbled the ball in the air and changed hands with a big windmill for a dunk.The first attempt failed, and the second attempt finally succeeded.This movement is more difficult than Ye Feng's just now, but it doesn't look aesthetically pleasing, and even gives people a feeling of physical incongruity.Gay fully demonstrated his jumping ability, but did not understand the true meaning of acting.His well-prepared dunk scored only 37 points and was on the verge of being eliminated.

Green was the third to play. He did a lot of preparations for the first dunk, and asked someone to put a small cake on the basket with a lit candle on it.After receiving a rebound from his teammate, Green leaped to catch the ball and blew out the candles, and then successfully dunked with both hands.The idea of ​​this goal is there, but it is not difficult, only 46 points.

"Warcraft" Howard was the last to play. He ran behind the basket, hit the ball to the back of the backboard, jumped up and caught the ball. He was behind the backboard and dunked with his hand over the backboard.It didn't work the first time, but it worked the second time.This ball is full of creativity and difficulty, and the judges collectively gave it full marks.

Ye Feng and Howard took the initiative.

Ye Feng was about to start the second dunk, when Lowry ran onto the field, holding a black suit in his hand...

(End of this chapter)