Chapter 191 Bad Slam Dunk Contest
"Do I know them so well?" Emperor Wu didn't know who messed up his hairstyle. He didn't like this way of celebration. If a group of beauties were surrounded by him, he would naturally not say much. Even if he was more enthusiastic, he would be fine, but a group of black and hard would be fine.
Wu Huang finally struggled out and was automatically sent to Miller's sister for an interview. The fans in front of the TV saw Wu Huang with a slightly messy hair and smiled: "I will participate in this competition next year. It will not consume my physical strength when participating in a three-point competition. However, I will not participate in other personal events in the future. Even if I ask me to replace him, I will refuse."
Miller's sister asked, "Did you imagine you could break the record and get an unprecedented 29 points before the game?"
Wu Huang shook his head and smiled, "I can think of myself winning because I have such confidence. But being able to break the record and win the championship and get 29 points is as unbelievable as the fans on the scene. If I remember correctly, this is the third time I have scored 29 points in my impression, and the first two times were in training."
Miller's sister asked again: "You mean, you will participate in the three-point competition next year?"
Wu Huang replied: "Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, I will participate. Now I have achieved 29 points in the championship and no longer bear the pressure. My next goal is to become a triple crown like Larry Bird and Craig Hodge."
The fans in front of the TV did not think about his answer. Wu Huang broke the record in the three-point competition after all, and it was a 29-point shooting technique. His three-point shooting technique can be said to be the only one in the world, and the possibility of three consecutive championships is very high. As long as he is not too lucky, he can become the third player to win the triple crown.
At this time, fans have shifted their attention from the three-point competition to the dunk competition. Although the dunk competition in recent years makes people feel a little aesthetically exhausted, the dunk players seem to have lost all their skills. The players participating in the competition lack novelty, while the dunks lack creativity. Big-name stars have refused to participate in the dunk competition. These factors have made the dunk competition in recent years worse and worse than before.
Wu Huang was also invited by the league before the game. However, he was not interested in this game at all. He rarely dunks in games. How could he go to participate in such a special dunk game?
Garlinari began to instigate him on the sidelines. If he wins another dunk king, he will be a Grand Slam, and why would he participate in the dunk contest next year.
Wu Huang still shook his head and retorted: "Where is there any Grand Slam without winning the All-Star MVP?" Although he said so, he won the Skills Challenge Championship and the Three-Point Championship in one All-Star MVP. In addition, the Rookie MVP has created a record of winning the most All-Star Championships. If he wins the All-Star Championship tomorrow, he will accomplish an unprecedented achievement. Of course, if he can win the All-Star MVP, it will be a true unprecedented person and no one will come.
But this task is too difficult. Although he can be rampant in the rookie challenge and do whatever he wants, in tomorrow's All-Star Game, he suddenly became the least famous of the 24 players. Whether he can get more than 24 minutes of playing time will be a problem, let alone compete for MVP.
"David, I'll help you score tomorrow!" Wu Huang sat between Gallinari and David Lee, and suddenly said.
"Don't, I'll help you get points." David Li now had no idea of winning the boss with Emperor Wu, and he reacted very quickly. He hurriedly said when he heard this.
Emperor Wu laughed in his heart. That's what he meant. David Lee was very smart. If it were DeRozan, he would probably agree immediately, so he would not be polite to the little nigger.
"Dermal, come on!" Emperor Wu was whispering to others in his heart, but he shouted at DeRozan with a smile on his face. At this moment, all four people participating in the dunk contest had already played.
The three-point competition ended and the highly anticipated dunk contest finally opened. Although James still broke his promise and failed to participate, the lineup of defending champions Nate Robinson, Lakers' Shannon Brown, Bobcats' Gerald Wallace and Raptors' DeRozan were also well-known.
The last sentence is an explanation of the slam dunk contest. What Rockets legend Drexler said is actually just a polite statement. This lineup doesn't attract much attention at all. The ratings of this year's slam dunk contest are probably going to hit a new low.
DeRozan also greeted Emperor Wu. Although they didn't catch a cold in their hearts, they still had to do enough skills on the surface.
In the first round of the game, DeRozan was the first to play. His first dunk failed. He assisted from behind the rebound during the second dunk. After taking off, he changed hands and dunked back with both hands. This dunk was quite difficult, but the referee believed that his flight altitude and completion were not enough, and he only scored 42 points.
Emperor Wu secretly mocked the little black ghost on the court. If DeRozan's bounce and air stagnation ability are full of 10 points, it is 8.5 points, so once such difficult aerial movements are performed, there will be no super decoupling like Carter in the future.
Shannon Brown, the second player, can reach 9.5 points in bounce ability, but he scored up to 8 points in flexibility, coordination, and waist and abdomen strength. So his first dial line turned 360 degrees and failed. He also jumped and switched hands and dunked in the air after the second free throw line. However, in the end, because of the lack of coordination and flexibility, he had to cancel the rotation and only scored 37 points in the end.
The Bobcats' Gerald Wallace was the third player. This guy is similar to Shannon Brown. He has enough absolute bounce ability, but his stagnation, flexibility, coordination, and waist and abdomen are all one level worse. If it is a straight dunk, it is naturally no problem, but it is much worse to play the trick. What's more, Wallace is now 28 years old and has long passed the peak of physical fitness. His 180-degree twist of his hands and back buckles were also very low, and he only scored 38 points.
When Wu Huang saw the dunks of these three people, he felt itchy in his heart because his stagnation, flexibility, coordination, and waist and abdomen were all above 9 points. He could play tricks in the air, but his pure bounce ability was at most 8 points. I wonder if he could achieve good results when participating in this type of competition?
"Damn it. I want to practice bounce in summer. This thing can be improved through training." Wu Huang felt that he should practice bounce. Even if he didn't participate in the dunk competition, jumping higher could come in handy at some point. Although it is unlikely to improve to Nate Robinson's perverted level through training, it is no problem to reach DeRozan's level. His current bounce is only a little worse than the Little Nig.
Speaking of Nate Robinson, the defending champion's last appearance, he failed twice in a row, throwing the ball high for the third time. After receiving the rebound, he dunked with a big windmill with both hands, and the result was naturally a big guy from the short and scored 44 points.
In the second round, Xiangnon Brown, the last one, played back and forth. Kobe passed the ball for him. Brown received the ball and relayed the ball in the air, and dunked with both hands in the air. This time the dunk was quite boring, but he still scored 42 points with extra points to summon the boss to enter the court.
Gerald Wallace, the second player, naturally refused to suffer losses when he saw this and called his friends. But it would be nice if he didn't deduct points from Murray, whom he called, he took Murray's rebound ball on the floor, jumped from under the basket and turned around and dunked, only 40 points.
DeRozan made the third appearance. After jumping up in the air and receiving Williams' pass from the edge of the rebound, he dunked a one-handed windmill and only scored 41 points. If the ball was for Wu Huang to cooperate, he might get another point, so if the double-dunk cooperation, he must choose a suitable partner to truly achieve the effect.
Nate Robinson was the last to play again. After two consecutive failures, he received a pass from Rondo and dunked 180 degrees in the air, scoring 45 points.
In this way, DeRozan and Nate Robinson joined hands to advance to the finals, and Xiangnon Brown and Gerald Wallace, who were the most popular before the game, were both eliminated.
After the preliminaries, Wu Huang pretended to be cheering in Chinese and shouted softly: "It's so boring...it's so boring..."
In the final, Nate Robinson first prepared to run the rebound on the back and dunked 360 degrees in a rotation, but after two consecutive failures, Little Potato changed his movements and threw himself from outside the three-point line, and finally made a dunk, but after the difficulty was reduced, he only scored 45 points.
DeRozan chose to run the dunk and crossed his standing teammates after running, received his teammates' assists from behind and dunked with one hand. The ball also scored 45 points because he crossed Calderon. Espanyol was only 191m tall and he supported it with his hands, so this ball was not very difficult for DeRozan.
Nate Robinson dunked the second time. After hitting the board himself, he took the rebound and turned around and pulled the back of the rod with his hands in a back. His movements were very elegant. The judges gave the highest score of 48 points today.
After successfully dunking, Nate Robinson was very proud. He grabbed the cheerleader's flower ball and kept waving it, and then danced a chick dance, looking like a villain's success.
Under the strong pressure of Nate Robinson, DeRozan failed to succeed in his first dunk. For the second dunk, he chose to run a long distance. After jumping inside the free throw line, the little windmill glided and dunked successfully.
Wu Huang knew that the little Nigami would definitely lose now. If this ball starts off outside the free throw line, it would definitely be a classic dunk. Unfortunately, he starts off inside the free throw line. This kind of dunk can pull out a player in a company and do it again. It is nothing at all.
The judges scored 45 points equally. If they were based on the rules two years ago, Nate Robinson would have won the championship, but the rules of the dunk contest had long been changed to fans' text messages to vote. Their ratings were of no use. The reason why these judges were still rating was just doing their responsibilities.
Finally, after fans voted to vote, Nate Robinson defeated DeRozan by 52% to 48%. The difference between the two was not big. It is probably because many people were annoyed by this little potato, but he eventually won the dunk championship.
Nate Robinson became the third player to win the dunk contest for the second time and the first player in NBA history to win the dunk championship for three times. He surpassed Jordan and Richardson in this regard.
"It's gone" Wu Huang looked like he was yawning. This kind of dunk contest was neither creative nor difficult. Just seeing Nate Robinson making a fuss about his height, it was really boring.
In fact, Nate Robinson's dunk was really not technical at all. He was bullying people entirely because of his height disadvantage and perverted bounce. No wonder Howard and James were unwilling to participate. If he lost to this little green frog for this reason, it would be too unworthy.
After the game, the media wanted to interview Wu Huang who had a great harvest today. In history, he was the only player in the Technique Challenge, the three-point contest and the rookie match MVP. Today he was the focus of the game. As soon as Xiao Tudou won the championship, he was left behind.
Reporting this person is not at all topical. You must interview Emperor Wu before you can report to the leader.
However, Emperor Wu was unwilling to mention his several championships, but instead brought the topic to tomorrow's All-Star Game.
Yahoo Sports reporter had bad intentions and first asked him: "Do you have any plans to compete for MVP in tomorrow's main competition?"
Emperor Wu laughed: "This is my first time participating in the All-Star Game. I plan to see how this game is played first. I will answer your question at this time next year."
Espn's reporter then asked: "What do you understand about the All-Star Game?"
Wu Huang replied: "The All-Star Game is an exhibition game that gives back to fans. There are generally three situations for performances here. One is the exciting ball in the game, and the other is cross-dressing, such as Yao Ming and Warcraft shot three-pointers, and the point guard misplaced the defense big man. This is all a cross-dressing performance method. The other is pure performance, such as O'Neal's crotch dribbling. If these are done well, then this All-Star Game will be impressive." Then he added. "But I think it's a bit monotonous to always repeat this pattern, and appropriate competition is also a highlight, so I think everyone performs in the first half and change the second half to real play will make the game more beautiful."
Finally, a reporter made things difficult for him and actually asked him what he thought about Kobe, Iverson and O'Neal's failure to participate in the competition?
Emperor Wu was very unhappy and thought that what did it have to do with me whether these three people came or not?
But he still replied: "It is a pity that O'Neal was not selected as the All-Star, because O'Neal did not withdraw from the stage of history and he still played an important role in the team, but this is the result of the fans' selection, so it is not a question I can comment on."
After answering three cheating questions from the media, Emperor Wu quickly stood up and said goodbye and left.
According to the unwritten regulations of the league, players will not be disrespectful to the media if they answer more than three (including three) questions after the game, and they will not be punished by the league if they forcefully leave.
Now that Emperor Wu has answered three questions, he can leave now, and he is a fool if he doesn’t retreat at this time!
The next day, espn really bombarded this slam dunk contest. They wrote in the report: There is no doubt that this is a slap dunk contest. There was no exciting dunk performance in the whole game, and no pleasing performance. It made people think of a topic: what the future of the slam dunk contest will look like, and whether it has to be stopped.
This is natural. The dunk contest since 1984 is like an old man who is about to lose sight of himself and needs a shot of cardiotropic to stimulate it.
Nate Robinson's championship is a tragedy for this event. This year's Little Potato is no longer Nate's previous performance. His performance is not outstanding, nor does it have a storyline like the two-year showdown with Howard. Now Nate has finished his talent, and even before the game, he was complaining that he was deceived into this field. To put it in a popular saying, he was "winned".
When countless classic occasions such as the All-Star Dunk Contest have been born, they actually rely on a second-rate star with a subjective desire to save the game, which is also an irony for the dunk Contest. Of course, the NBA League may not have expected such a scene. Xiangnong Brown from the Lakers was given higher expectations before the game. But as we said before, neither Brown nor Nate Robinson, they are not the top-notch stars in the league, and it is difficult to attract the real attention of the media and fans.
In the history of the dunk contest, there has never been a shortage of top-notch stars. Jordan, Wilkins, Carter, McGrady, and even Howard have left their names in this event. But yesterday, DeRozan needed to support her with her hands to complete the rider dunk, and there was no exciting point afterwards, which even made fans unable to help turn off the TV.
Among the new generation of NBA players, among the new generation of top stars, there are few dedicated players. The most typical example is LeBron James.
The little emperor has amazing physical fitness. Fans and the media hope to see him appear in occasions like the dunk contest. However, James repeatedly declined. Last year, James finally relaxed and planned to consider participating, but eventually escaped.
This year, he still escaped at the last minute, which is disappointing. Perhaps in the future, James will also get a new nickname "Zhan Paopu".
James may have his own considerations. He wants to become a comprehensive player and is unwilling to be dunked. But this idea is too selfish. If Jordan can devote himself wholeheartedly several times, then what qualifications do you have to retreat? The league needs signature stars to promote, which is the unshirkable responsibility of the players. The big stage is left to superstars like James. This dunk contest is so boring and like a useless rib, and James has to bear certain responsibilities for his breaking promise.
Fans who defended the young emperor said that there is no need for James to participate in such a game in his current status, but as mentioned earlier, as a player in the league, James has the obligation to promote the influence of the NBA, and he cannot just consider the problem from his own perspective.
At this time, Wu Huang understood the most why James did not participate in the dunk contest.
In fact, one of the real reasons is Nate Robinson.
Because this is an opponent who cannot be defeated with his strength, Howard can only return with regret.
In addition, there is the most important point, that is, although James has many fans, there are many opponents of James. Once he participates in the game, James will definitely vote for Nate Robinson. With those sympathy points, James will still lose the game in the tenth.
Chapter completed!