Reborn NBA's Strongest Talent

Chapter 85 85. The Rookie Challenge Opens (Please subscribe and recommend)
New Orleans, located in Louisiana in the southwestern part of the United States, is a port city and the largest city in Louisiana.

The first people to come to New Orleans were the French, and there was a city of Orleans in France.

The French brought their romance and enthusiasm to New Orleans, as well as their extravagant lifestyle.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the city of New Orleans was sold to the United States by the French Bourbon Dynasty, and it became the land of the United States.

But the French people who were still living in this land at that time believed that the people who came from the United States were farmers and uneducated paupers, and they were forbidden to enter the city at that time. The Americans could only build another city next to the city at that time.

So there is the French Quarter full of European cultural style and the American Quarter full of modern flavor.

But as a port city, the scenery of New Orleans is very charming. Tropical rainforest, beautiful seaside, and modern technology are perfectly integrated in one city. It is really a tourist attraction.

On February 2017, 2, more tourists flooded into New Orleans, and the warm sea breeze took away everyone's fatigue, and even more... everyone's clothes!

Beautiful girls in bikinis walk on the beach, their bronzed skin shines brightly under the sun...

It's a pity that these beautiful scenery can no longer attract the attention of more men. They are all sitting together excitedly in the New Orleans Arena, waiting for the start of the 2017 NBA All-Star Weekend!
The All-Star Weekend is divided into three days.

The first day is the Rookie Challenge. After several adjustments to the competition system, the outstanding rookies in the first and second grades (players entering the first and second years of the league) form the World United Team to compete with the US team. The head coaches of the two teams are the assistant coaches of the teams with the best records in the East and West.

The Rookie Challenge is only divided into two halves, 20 minutes each.This is a platform for rookies to show themselves, allowing more fans to know these outstanding rookies.

The second day was a skills contest, a three-point contest and a dunk contest.

As individual events, they are no less popular than the All-Star Game.

Especially the dunk contest.

As the most adrenaline-stimulating scoring action on the basketball court, the dunk has always represented the violent aesthetics of basketball.

As it is said in an anime, dunking is to hit the basketball into the basket with force that almost breaks the ball.

Slam dunking in the competition is already a show-off event, let alone a special show-off PK.

Every year in the slam dunk contest, there will always be various slam dunk moves emerging one after another, igniting the scene and deciding the brave one.

The slam dunk contest is divided into two rounds, the preliminary round and the final round.

There are two dunk opportunities in each round. Each ball can be dunked up to three times. If the dunk is successful, it will be counted once. If the dunk is unsuccessful, you can continue to try up to two times, and you can change the action midway.

The top two in the preliminary rounds will advance to the finals, and the champion will be determined after two rounds of competition.

Five celebrities or stars in the basketball world serve as judges, with a full score of 10 points and a maximum of 50 points for a single dunk.

The second one in the individual event is the three-point contest, which represents the players' shooting ability. Of course, only three-pointers are not comprehensive, so it was not very popular at first.

But with the advent of the small ball era, represented by Curry, Thompson, Harden, Irving and other superstars, the three-pointer has become an indispensable weapon for a team, and has become the killer of some stars.

As a result, the three-point contest also attracted the attention of a large number of fans.

The three-point contest is to set five balls at five points outside the three-point line—front, left and right 45 degrees, and left and right bottom corners, and shoot these balls within 5 minute to see who gets the higher score.

The score calculation method is that there are two types of balls used in the game, one is an ordinary ball, which is scored 1 point, and the other is a bouquet ball, which is scored 2 points.

Each contestant can choose any one of the five points as his special point, and the five balls of the special point are flower balls.

For the other four points, the first four balls are ordinary balls, and the last one is flower balls.

A total of 25 balls and 34 points.It takes an average of 2 seconds to shoot a ball, and the movement between five points has a good performance on the player's shooting accuracy, stability and control ability.

Luck also plays a role.

The three-point contest is also divided into two rounds, the preliminary round and the final round.

There is only one chance in each round, and the top three in the preliminary round get the chance for the final, which also determines the champion once.

The Skills Challenge, which is the last remaining but actually the first to appear, examines a player's overall quality, and assesses all aspects of movement, passing, and shooting.

Players must first dribble around four obstacles and pass through the entire court, then pass the ball outside the three-point line into the baseline net, the size of the net opening is less than two basketballs, then pick up the ball placed under the basket, return to the starting half for a layup, and return to the place where the pass was passed to shoot a long three-pointer after getting the rebound.

Among them, there are five opportunities for both passing and shooting, and failure to complete five times is considered a pass.

The skill challenge is a two-two confrontation, and whoever completes the three-point shot first wins.

Because the skills challenge is too basic and not very competitive, it does not attract many spectators, but it is still a game that players cannot ignore.

Because all three challenges have bonuses.It doesn't matter how much, the main thing is to hone your ability.

The third day, which is also a day of much attention, is the NBA All-Star Game.

The East and West each select 15 players who are the most popular, have the best skills, and have the strongest scoring ability to compete against each other.

This is the most powerful lineup in the league. In this game, all the skills you want to see will appear, and all the possibilities that you want them to form a team will also appear. There is no utilitarianism, no victory or defeat, and some are just a pure game.

In addition to AMVP, which is the MVP of the All-Star Game, this is an honor, and it can also be a favor. In order for a player to get the AMVP as he wishes, many players will deliberately make the ball and let him score.

Therefore, the All-Star Game is just an ornamental and entertaining game, which can be regarded as a gift from the league to the fans.

Now, the time has come to 8 pm, and the 2017 All-Star Rookie Challenge kicked off.

Richard's strong performance won the starting small forward position of the US team. His teammates include Towns, Booker, Russell, and Ingram.

The players on the World Team are Jokic, Murray, Hilde, Porzingis and Exum.

Embiid was unable to participate due to injury and sat on the sidelines watching the game in a suit.

The intensity of the game is not as strong as in the regular season. Every player is attacking and scoring in the way they are best at. Defense is just standing in front of the opponent and posing, and will not really interfere with the opponent. Whether you can get points depends on the offensive touch.

Under such conditions, Richard is not very good. Fixed-point shooting is more effective than footsteps and offensive skills at the basket. Although Richard is not bad at fixed-point shooting, he has been training more on offensive skills. In an environment where he can push the ball to the opponent's half court and score immediately, it seems that his efficiency is not high enough.

In the opening 6 minutes, Richard only made 2 of 2 shots and scored 4 points. They all rushed to the inside to score a layup, and the score had reached 22:27. Everyone was shooting three-pointers. It felt like they were playing for the sake of scoring. Although the shooting percentage was good, the scene was really not good.

The coach also replaced Richard at this time. After all, Richard's rhythm of scoring two points is too slow, and the scoring is not as fast as the world team.

The U.S. team basically relies on Russell and Booker to shoot from the outside, while the World Team has all five players capable of three-pointers, and there is no defensive pressure. Naturally, the World Team has the advantage.

Although it was just for entertainment, Richard was still very upset. Fortunately, he was still looking forward to this kind of game. The result was such an ugly style of play that he couldn't even entertain the audience.

But the players and the coaches seemed to be enjoying it. Except for the shooters, everyone on the court was running back and forth.

Richard was very speechless, not even interested in speaking together, just staring blankly at the running on the field and the changes in the score.

In the 17th minute of the first half, the score had reached 60:61. The US team had almost caught up with the score. After every player took turns on the field, the coach finally replaced Richard again.

Richard is capable of three-pointers, and everyone who has watched him play knows that.

Li Chade nodded, but he was very upset.

Since it's a spectator game, why don't you play it better? High scores must be good-looking, right?

Not necessarily, gorgeous skills and explosive power are definitely better than just scoring, and three-pointers are also great. They must be interspersed with each other to appear important and exciting. All three-pointers are too easy to aesthetically fatigue, and they are still easy three-pointers.

Now that you can play again, let's play a good game.

After Richard came on the field, he raised his hand to ask for the ball, no matter how he gave it just now.

After getting the ball, Richard rushed up quickly, if you don't want to defend, then hit you to defend.

Richard lowered his head and stooped towards the opponent's inside line.

hey-hey!Sabonis happened to be there, so he used you as a shield.

Richard made a breakthrough but didn't directly layup in the empty basket that was unguarded. Instead, he found Sabonis leaning on his back and took the initiative to find defense.

Sabonis had to hold back Richard, "Richard, what are you doing?"

"Play seriously!" Richard turned around and leaned back to express his thoughts.

Although the audience didn't understand what happened, Richard's fadeaway jump shot was very standard and beautiful, and he was able to score in front of the tall man, but he slapped his hands loudly.

Sabonis was stunned. It turned out that you were trying to make fun of me because you wanted the effect. An unknown anger burst out of your heart.

The players of the World Team saw that the two Thunder teammates were engaged in internal strife, so they simply let them resolve their grievances, and took the initiative to give the ball to Sabonis.

"Hey... Domantas, come here." Richard waved his hand, provoking Sabonis again.

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