Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 315 Crowning Three-Point King

At 2:19 a.m. local time on February 8th, the Staples Center Arena.

The All-Star Rookie Challenge just took place yesterday, the first-year rookie narrowly beat the second-year by 148 to 140.Although Kings center Cousins ​​scored 33 points and 14 rebounds, the MVP of the Rookie Challenge was awarded to his college teammate and Wizards point guard Wall. With a record 12 assists, the crown MVP is well deserved.However, the Rookie Challenge has always been just an appetizer, and today is the official start of the All-Star Weekend.

The three-point contest was scheduled for the second round, so Ye Feng could only obediently watch the slam dunk contest in his seat.The four players participating in the slam dunk contest this year are Griffin of the Clippers, McGee of the Wizards, DeRozan of the Raptors and Ibaka of the Thunder.In fact, it was Jennings of the Bucks who was preparing to participate in the slam dunk contest at the beginning, but later Jennings chose to withdraw from the game due to injury, and DeRozan made up for it.

In the first round of this year's slam dunk contest, there were many good ideas, such as McGee's dunk with two balls and two baskets, and Ibaka's dunk with a toy in his mouth, which made the scene burst into exclamation.However, after two dunks, Ibaka and DeRozan were unfortunately eliminated. McGee scored 99 points and Griffin scored 95 points to enter the finals.In the end, Griffin defeated McGee with 68% to 32% in the audience vote with the idea of ​​flying car dunks, which can be regarded as earning a little face for the Clippers. I can get it.

After a live performance, the three-point contest kicked off. Ye Feng was ranked third, a position that was neither forward nor backward, which was relatively friendly to him.If it is too far ahead, it will be a little unfamiliar. If it is too far behind, if the competitor performs well, it will feel a lot of pressure. It is just fine to be the third one.In fact, the three-point contest may be the most test of the on-the-spot state in the All-Star Weekend single event. Many famous three-point shooters did not perform well in the game, but its rules are very simple, two bottom corners, left and right 45 degrees and arc There are a total of 25 balls in the top five positions. The first four balls in each point are 1 point, and the last ball is 2 points. The player with the highest score within 1 minute wins.A total of 30 points, the previous record was 2008 points created by Kapono of the Raptors in 25.

The first player to play was Durant, the league's scoring leader last season. After several seasons of honing, he has become an efficient scoring machine.But judging from his state today, it doesn't seem very good. He didn't hit any of the first two points, which is quite rare in the game.The third point is the top of the arc. Durant hit an ordinary ball and a flower ball, accumulating 3 points. If this continues, he can only hope that others will feel cold if he wants to advance.Sure enough, when the time was all over, Durant only made three ordinary shots again, scoring only 6 points in total, which is a pretty miserable result.

The second player to play was James' younger brother Gibson when he was in the Cavaliers, and he was also one of James' most trusted outside shooters. In the 2008 All-Star Rookie Challenge, Gibson, who played on behalf of the second grade, came off the bench, made 20 of 11 three-pointers, scored 33 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 blocks, and was crowned the MVP of the Rookie Challenge.However, his state is not much better than Durant. Although there are goals in every point, the number is too small, except for a normal ball and a flower ball at a 45-degree angle on the left. In addition, the other four points only hit an ordinary ball, which happened to be 1 point higher than Durant.

The third one to appear was Ye Feng. After he got up, he hugged his two good brothers before standing in the left corner and preparing to shoot.In fact, Ye Feng was still a little nervous, especially after seeing that both Durant and Gibson scored single-digit points, he took a deep breath and calmed down. basketball, start shooting.

Since he had to shoot 1 shots in one minute, Ye Feng didn't wait until his body was at the highest point before shooting as usual. He took off from a very low height, but his shooting speed was not slow.After the first two three-pointers hit the iron, he finally found the feeling and made the remaining three goals in one go, scoring 25 points.Then there is the 4-degree angle on the left, which is Ye Feng's favorite position. He hit 45 goals and scored 4 points.Then there is the top of the arc, this position is relatively far away, but because it is facing the basket, Ye Feng made 5 ordinary shots, and the flower ball unfortunately fell out of the frame.He simply hit all of the 4-degree angles on the right side and scored 45 points, and missed two ordinary balls from the bottom corner on the right side to get 6 points.When his last ball went into the basket, the clock just ran out and he scored 4 points, which is already a high score.

Pierce, who played after Ye Feng, scored only 12 points, while Ray Allen and Jones, who played last, scored 20 and 16 points respectively.According to the rules, there are three finalists, so Pierce, Durant and Gibson were eliminated, and Ye Feng advanced to the final as the number one in the preliminaries.

The order of the finals depends entirely on the ranking in the preliminaries. The player with the lowest score will play first, so before everyone can take a break, Jones stands solemnly in the right corner.This order has a great impact on him. After all, he is the last one in the preliminaries and the first one in the finals. There is very little rest time, but there is no way. Who told you not to score more goals in the preliminaries?Jones, who was physically exhausted, slowed down significantly. When the time ran out, he hadn't had time to shoot the last bouquet, so he only scored 16 points, which was exactly the same as the preliminaries.

Followed by Ray Allen, it stands to reason that he may be more tired than Jones at his age, but on the contrary, Ray Allen still appeared on the stage in high spirits, both in terms of hand shape and shooting speed. He is the three-point leader in NBA history.Thanks to his good condition, Ray Allen's performance was even better than the preliminaries. He hit five flower balls and scored a total of 24 points.

Now the pressure was all on Ye Feng, he took a few deep breaths and started to shoot.The first point, three ordinary balls and one bouquet, 5 points; the second point, all hits, 6 points; the third point, four ordinary balls, 4 points; the fourth point, all hits again, 6 points; the fifth point, two ordinary balls and one flower ball, 4 points.When he hit the last bouquet, the audience cheered, 25 points!Tied the historical record of the three-point contest!Both Westbrook and Love rushed to the court to hug Ye Feng to celebrate their friends being crowned champions of the 2011 All-Star Three-Point Contest.

(End of this chapter)