rpbooks Chapter 194 Slam Dunk Contest
Chapter 194 Slam Dunk Contest
Chapter 194 Slam Dunk Contest
After this period of rest, the slam dunk contest resumed and the game entered the second round.
The first player to play in the second round is still the small forward Chase Budinger of the Houston Rockets. Compared with his flying dunk in the first round, Chase Budinger's second dunk looks a bit simple rough.Chase Budinger started from near the center line, ran into the penalty area and jumped up with a big windmill-style buckle.However, despite the seemingly simple action, Chase Budinger's first dunk was unsuccessful.
"I feel that Chase Budinger's dunk is not as good as your dunk just now!" Ricky Rubio said to the promise.
Xu Nuo shrugged, "Maybe." Xu Nuo said.
At this time Chase Budinger began to try the second dunk, this time Chase Budinger succeeded.After Chase Budinger ran into the penalty area and smashed the ball into the basket with one hand, the lights of the scene began to flicker.
"It's really simple and rude." Xu Nuo said, he didn't applaud like the others, but looked at the court with a blank expression.
"There's nothing brilliant about it," Ricky Rubio said, too.
"I guess after this dunk, Chase Budinger will hardly win the championship." Promise said.
Ricky Rubio didn't speak, he held his chin and watched the game on the court intently.
After the successful dunk, Chase Budinger didn't have any excited expression on his face, and it seemed that he was not very satisfied with his performance.
After Chase Budinger, the second player to play was rookie Jeremy Evans from the Utah Jazz.
At this time, Xu Nuo noticed that the referee standing on the field had two balls in his hands.
"Is he going to smash two balls?" Xu Nuo thought.
Sure enough, another player of the Utah Jazz, Gordon Haywood, was sitting under the basket. When Jeremy Evans ran into the penalty area, he threw up the two balls in his hand at the same time.
"Wow!" There was a burst of exclamation immediately.
Unlike JaVale McGee's double dunk last year, Jeremy Evans is going to dunk two balls into the same basket after flying over Gordon Haywood sitting under the basket. JaVale McGee's dunk is as good as it gets.Xu Nuo stopped talking and watched the game on the court carefully.
However, Jeremy Evans' first dunk was unsuccessful. Jeremy Evans was not able to get the ball after jumping up.
"As long as Jeremy Evans can dunk this ball, then he is very likely to win tonight's slam dunk contest champion!" Xu Nuo said.
"Maybe." Danny Granger, who was sitting next to Xu Nuo, said, "However, Paul is also very likely to win the championship!"
"That's right." Xu Nuo nodded.
Jeremy Evans did it on his second attempt, managing to get two balls in the air after getting past Gordon Haywood who was sitting under the basket, quickly putting them together. After dunking into the basket!
"Beautiful!" The fans at the scene were boiling, and the arena was full of cheers. Everyone couldn't help applauding Jeremy Evans, including the promise.But what Xu Nuo is most interested in now is, what will JaVale McGee think in his heart now?
But Xu Nuo didn't have time to think about it, because the next player to play was Xu Nuo's Indiana Pacers teammate Paul George.
Just after Paul George entered the court, the lights in the stadium were dimmed, and the noise in the stadium also weakened.
"What is he trying to do?" Ricky Rubio asked in a low voice.
But no one came to answer Ricky Rubio's questions, and everyone was waiting for Paul George's performance.
However, although the lights of the audience were dimmed, people could still vaguely see the figure of Paul George.Paul George gets the ball, starts from the halfway line, and runs toward the hoop.
Everyone held their breath watching Paul George perform.
It can be seen from the faint fluorescent light that Paul George jumped up in the air and made a 360-degree turn and windmill dunk!With just one chance, Paul George made a dunk!
"Yes!" Xu Nuo and Danny Granger said loudly at the same time, stood up and applauded their teammates.
"How did he do it?" Ricky Rubio asked with a puzzled face.
"How is it? Isn't this idea good?" Xu Nuo asked Ricky Rubio excitedly, "To be honest, we spent a lot of effort to come up with this idea!"
"Okay!" Ricky Rubio nodded and said, "It's my turn to play next!"
"You?" Xu Nuo asked puzzledly.
Ricky Rubio smiled, "I want to help Derek complete this dunk." After Ricky Rubio finished speaking, he left his chair and came to the court.
Xu Nuo watched the court carefully, wanting to see exactly how Ricky Rubio assisted Derek Williams to complete this dunk.
Ricky Rubio holds the ball and stands at a zero-degree angle on the right side of the basket, and Derek Williams follows behind Ricky Rubio.Ricky Rubio tossed the ball up after a two-step trot, followed by Derrick Williams who jumped up and seemed to get the ball and turn around for a dunk, but Derrick Williams didn't Was able to get the ball, failed on the first try.
"Their cooperation is a bit like the dunk that Paul Pierce assisted Gerald Green back then, both the angle and the way of assisting are similar." Xu Xu, who was sitting in the stands, said.
Danny Granger, who was sitting next to Xu Nuo, nodded, "That's right!" Danny Granger said.
The second time Ricky Rubio changed the line of the toss and hit the ball on the side of the backboard, which made it easier for Derrick Williams to receive the ball.This time Derek Williams succeeded. After getting the ball, he turned around and dunked 360 degrees successfully!Kevin Love, who was sitting courtside, stood up and applauded Derrick Williams.Xu Nuo clapped his hands twice, watching Derek Williams and Ricky Rubio embrace on the court.
"It's really hard to say who will win the championship now." Xu Nuo said to himself.
"Every player has great strength!" Danny Granger next to him continued.
"Let's save everything until the third round." Xu Nuo said.
After a piece of violin playing, the third round of competition is about to begin.Before Chase Budinger played, the big screen at the scene played the video of Cedric Ceballos' blindfolded dunk of the Phoenix Suns. "Is Chase Budinger going to dunk blindfolded like Cedric Ceballos?" Xu Nuo said speculatively.
Xu Nuo guessed right again. After Chase Budinger played, he changed to a retro Phoenix Suns jersey and covered his eyes with a black cloth.
"It seems so." Xu Nuo said to himself.
"This kind of dunk depends entirely on the feeling of usual practice to dunk." Danny Granger said.
However, Chase Budinger's first dunk was not successful. Judging from Chase Budinger's movements, it seemed that Chase Budinger's body was still tight and did not let go at all.
"Please, was Cedric Ceballos so tight back then?" Xu Nuo said.
That's when Chase Budinger, along with Cedric Ceballos, was on the court measuring how many steps he needed to get from near the halfway line to the basket.After this, Chase Budinger started the second attempt.
Chase Budinger's second dunk seemed to be more cautious than the first one. After trotting to the basket, Chase Budinger suddenly started, jumped up, turned around and dunked successfully!
"The normal dunk is just a tribute to the seniors." Xu Nuo said.
If Chase Budinger's dunk was a tribute to Cedric Ceballos, Jeremy Evans' dunk was a tribute to Utah Jazz legend Karl "The Postman" Malone.Before Jeremy Evans began dunking, a man dressed as a postman walked onto the court and handed Jeremy Evans a Karl Malone No. 32 jersey from his backpack.
Immediately afterwards, Jeremy Evans invited the "postman" to come under the basket. "It's really boring to pay tribute to the seniors and fly over the dunk." Xu Nuo said.
As Xu Nuo said, although Jeremy Evans dunked successfully with only one chance, the applause at the scene was not warm, and Xu Nuo didn't even raise his hand.
"It seems that retro style is very fashionable now!" Xu Nuo said, because the teammate Paul George who will play next will also pay tribute to his predecessors, but different from the previous two players, this time Paul George will give the Indiana Pacers A photo of the team's president of basketball, Larry Bird, was affixed to the backboard.Since Paul George is his teammate, this time he promised nothing more.
However, Paul George failed to succeed after four or five consecutive attempts, but there were already two more Larry Bird photos on the backboard.
"Come on buddy, you will definitely succeed!" Both Danny Granger and Xu Nuo stood up to cheer for their teammates, with only 40 seconds remaining.
This time Paul George succeeded, after sticking the third Larry Bird photo with his left hand to the bottom right corner of the backboard, he smashed the ball into the basket with his right hand! "Finally succeeded!" Xu Nuo said while applauding, Danny Granger standing beside him didn't say anything.
The last one to play was Derek Williams. The dunk chosen by Derek Williams was somewhat difficult. He needed to change hands and dunk after receiving the ball bounced off the backboard.The first two times Derek Williams did it by himself, but both failed.Seeing this, Ricky Rubio ran onto the court once again.
"Derek, let me help you," Ricky Rubio said.
But the two of them failed after two attempts, with Derrick Williams still looking to complete the dunk on his own after receiving the ball from Ricky Rubio.
But until the time was only more than ten seconds left, Derek Williams still failed.The players on the sidelines stood up and cheered for Derek Williams.
"Come on, Derek, you must be able to succeed!" Derek Williams' teammate Kevin Love said to Derek Williams on the sidelines of the court.
In the end, Derek Williams changed his action and directly received the bounced ball and successfully dunked with both hands, without changing hands under the crotch.In this way, Derek Williams will definitely lose a lot of points.
So far all the dunks are over, but the time to wait for the winner is too long.After a few minutes of waiting, Cheryl Miller announced the winner of the dunk contest.
"It's actually Jeremy Evans?" Xu Nuo opened his mouth wide in surprise.
However, the fact is that the champion is voted by the fans, and no one can argue about it.But when Jeremy Evans took over the slam dunk contest championship trophy, there was only a sparse applause at the scene.
Tonight's game is all over now, and now there is only the main game of the All-Star Game tomorrow night, but in Xu Nuo's view, the All-Star Game is the most boring game.
(End of this chapter)