Jim Bass Ambition

Chapter 110 The Art of Naming

It is said that a person's name has magical powers.

Such as Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, Michael Schumacher, Michael Johnson, Michael Phelps, Michael Faraday...

Compared with the star-studded Pan-Michael family, people from Gerrard's line prefer aerial work.

Such as Gerald Wilkins, Gerald Green and even Gerald Henderson.

And what about the Wallaces who bear the surname of the leader of the Scottish Liberation Organization?Both Rashid and Ben are the kind of fierce people who would give up three points as soon as they meet.

Combine those two names and a guy with explosive physicality, passion and energy is born.

Of course, this naming rule is not completely universal, otherwise Michael Malone is not just a coach, and the No.1 battle in history may be between Jordan Hill, Michael Carter Williams and LeBrian Nash unfolded.

Gerald Wallace's last trip to the dunk contest was not a pleasant one.

Originally, he was full of ambitions to win a slam dunk king, but he caught up with the innovation of the competition system and adopted the magical lottery salute mode. Gerald Wallace had all the skills but was unable to use them, and finally lost to Jason Richardson in the final .

This time, after hesitating for a long time, he finally made up his mind to sign up for the Atlanta All-Star Slam Dunk Contest, and prepared for it for a month.

Once, after coming out of the president's office with a lewd smile on his face, Gerald Wallace often pulled Matt Barnes and Desagena Diop to practice mysteriously. As for the content, Hua Lai Shi and the other three kept all the teammates they met strictly confidential, and everything will be known until the All-Star Game.

The All-Star Weekend is held in Atlanta, starting with the rookie game.

Since Yao Ming, the No. 02 pick in 99, was directly entered into the All-Star Game, he will not participate in the rookie game according to the current competition system.Ginobili, who was originally selected in [-], was called a member of the rookie team because he had just landed in the league.

The rookies in 01 are headed by Pau Gasol, Gilbert Arenas and Jason Richardson, and they are already quite effective, while the 02 team has only Jr. Meyer, Caron Butler and Boozer are still on their way.

The result is naturally a big victory for the second-year team, which has experienced a year of NBA baptism, is equally young, talented and more mature.

In the three-point contest the next day, the league had hoped that Kobe Bryant, who had just created the number of three-pointers made in a single game and the number of hits in a row, would also be able to participate, but Kobe didn't seem to have any plans in this regard.

The field was reduced from eight to six, and Stojakovic faced Wesley Person and, after experiencing a series of problems including timer failure, finally won the championship again.

The slam dunk contest was the highlight of the night. The league canceled the ridiculous tribute link and left it to the players to decide the winner with two dunks.

In many cases, the lineup of judges in the dunk contest is much more gorgeous than the lineup of the game on the court. In the 80s, most of the dunk contest participants were famous princes, such as Jordan, Wilkins, Drexler, including La Ryan Nance is an All-Star player, and since the 90s, the slam dunk contest has become a stage for rookies to become famous. Except for Carter's shocking performance, there are few highlights.

The judging team led by Dr. J is seated, and the competition is about to begin.

Stoudemire was the first to play. He walked to the bottom line on the left side, ran up, jumped under the basket while changing hands, turned 180 degrees and dunked the ball.

"If this action is done by Vince, T-MaC or you, it will be a perfect dunk, but Amare's height does not always feel good." Jim patted Kobe next to him and commented.

Kobe shook his head, his slam dunk champion was also full of moisture.

However, the referee was not Jim. Except for Jordan who gave 9 points, the remaining 4 people gave 10 points.

Desmond Mason was second to play, and his move was Larry Nance's famous cradle dunk.

In the first attempt, the jump height, range of motion, and strength were almost perfect, but it was a pity that the basketball hit the basket's neck and bounced hard.

The second time, the range of motion was reduced by half. If the trajectory of the first time was a perfect half moon, the second time was like a flat tire.

Mason scored 46 points.

As the last runner-up, Gerald Wallace third debut, and he also played with teammate Matt Barnes.

Barnes moved a chair and sat near the dotted line in the paint, holding the basketball with his back to the hoop.And Gerald Wallace retreated to the other side of the court, preparing to complete a long approach.

The entire audience held their breath, only the Lakers were watching the show.

Wallace starts, accelerates, and sprints across the field.At the same time, Barnes threw the ball into the air and immediately put his head in his hands.

Wallace took off from the free throw line, caught the basketball in the air, and glided over Barnes with his legs bent, and dunked the ball hard into the hoop!

The audience was boiling, and the players watching the game on the sidelines expressed their surprise with various unique expressions and body language. Dr. J and Jordan, two representatives of dunks from the free throw line, also laughed and scored 10 points .

Wallace got a well-deserved full score for this dunk.

"Gerrard has enough jumping power to get to the free throw line, but he doesn't look good in the air, so I figured out this way, let everyone focus on the alley-oop and the jump Matt, it's just a pain for Matt, I don’t know how many times I’ve been kicked, no matter whether Gerrard wins the championship or not, he’s going to treat him.” While waving the 10-point card in his hand, Jim explained the idea of ​​this dunk to the Lakers players.

Richardson, who played next, obviously felt the pressure, and resorted to the one-handed windmill that imitated Wilkins last year. The height of the almost flat basket and the perfect arc also won him 50 points.

In the second round, Mason played first. He ran up from the flank, took off from the three-second zone line, walked in the air and dunked vigorously sideways with one hand. His movements were stretched and elegant, but the difficulty was too low.

Mason's second dunk only scored 45 points.

And Stoudemire chose to run up from the left side, took off with both feet, turned around 270 degrees and dunked with both hands, but failed both times. The score of 30 points declared that his slam dunk contest came to an end.

Gerald Wallace only needs to score 41 points to enter the finals. He chose the baseline run-up, double-handed windmill back dunk, full of strength, but that's all. The 45 points that came were enough to send him to the final.

Richardson did his best, and his positive 360-degree windmill brought him his second 50 points in the game.

Thus, the slam dunk contest, like the three-point contest, became the second duel between the champions and runners-up last year.

　Not surprisingly, it should be on the shelves on November... so panic.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)