Chapter 131 Three-Point Contest

Author: Feng Yuanhua

Chapter 131 Three-Point Contest

"Wang, be careful, I feel like I'm in pretty good shape today."

Hornacek also came to the scene and showed full confidence, as if he was going to win the three-point contest.

It's no wonder that Huo Ansaike is so confident. In fact, he really has such strength and confidence.

First of all, Hornese is a well-known shooter in the NBA. He has participated in the three-point contest more than once and has enough experience.

Moreover, in the last three-point contest, Hornacek successfully won the championship of the three-point contest.

In other words, he is now the defending champion, and the other participating players are just challengers.

In this regard, Wang Hao was naturally unwilling to be outdone: "Really? I think so too, Jeff, little Abby won't be watching the game today, right?"

"What's wrong?"

For some reason, Hornacek always felt something was wrong. Why did this guy always care about his little Abby?

"I'm worried that if I win against you later, it will definitely make little Abby very sad, and that won't be good."

Hearing this, Hornacek couldn't bear it: "Hey, boy, come here!"

"Jeff, calm down. You are not a gentleman at all. You will definitely scare little Abby."

Hearing this, Hornacek was completely speechless. She only thought about the game and taught this arrogant but ignorant guy a lesson.

However, if you think about it carefully, it's not like the two of them didn't meet each other during the competition, but it just seemed like he didn't take advantage.

The Masters Tournament is finally over and the three-point contest is about to begin. At this time, all the contestants have arrived.

Ray Allen, Jeff Hornacek, Allen Houston, Allen Iverson, Dirk Nowitzki, Terry Porter, Bob Sura, and Wang Hao.

Looking at these opponents in front of him, Wang Hao focused on a few people.

For example, defending champion Hogan, super shooter Ray Allen, and then Dirk Nowitzki.

As for other people, including Iverson, they basically came here to make soy sauce.

Wang Hao is full of confidence in this.

After all, he is a man with cheats, and he is full of confidence in this kind of training-style competition.

Others may have deformed shooting movements due to psychological changes, so he doesn't have to worry at all.

As long as he is normal, his technical movements can be stabilized, and his hit rate will naturally be high.

Under the introduction of the on-site host, the participating players appeared one after another and enjoyed the applause and cheers of the fans.

The ones cheering the loudest were naturally Wang Hao and Iverson, even the defending champion Hornacek was inferior.

There is no way, let alone the three-point contest champion, even if it is the dunk contest champion, not many people paid attention to it before.

Seeing this scene, Hornacek couldn't help but feel a little resentful. He was the defending champion!

Not only him, but others also had some resentment and envy.

After all, for NBA players, popularity is also very important, which means endorsements and income.

"King, come on!"

"Jeff, win the championship."

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The voices of O'Neal and Karl Malone rang out one after another. It turned out that when everyone was warming up, many stars had already entered the stadium.

I have no interest in celebrity plugging, but for the next two games, many players are still willing to attend the games.

Apart from anything else, it is also important to cheer for your teammates.

Of course, everyone is obviously more interested in the slam dunk contest than the three-point contest.

In any case, no matter in any era, dunk is the most exciting thing on the basketball court.

After a while, the game officially started.

To be honest, NBA officials are still very particular about the arrangement of the order of appearance.

As the defending champion, he will definitely appear last. At this time, everyone's results have been announced, so the psychological pressure will be less.

However, this is not necessarily a good thing. After all, the longer you sit, the colder your hands will feel.

If the last champion who appeared later had a psychological advantage, then the few people who appeared in the second half were unlucky.

It just so happened that Wang Hao was one of the unlucky ones. He was the sixth player to appear and had to sit on the sidelines for a while.

Allen Iverson will appear second and Ray Allen will appear third. This is the proper seeding position.

The first one to appear was Bob Sula, who took the perfect cannon fodder position.

Sure enough, and I don't know if it was because of too much nervousness, none of the five goals in the first group was scored.

In the second group, perhaps in order to stabilize his shots, Bob Sura consciously slowed down his shooting rhythm.

But the problem is, there is a time limit, just one minute. If you don’t finish throwing the ball, it’s over.

In the second group, we actually scored two goals and a flower ball, and got 3 points.

But there's not enough time.

Sure enough, when Bob Sula came to the last group of basketballs, the time was less than 5 seconds.

He had no choice but to throw the ball out with his eyes closed, and he didn't even have a second to do so. The final result can be imagined.

8 servings, which almost didn’t break the record held by Mr. Qiao.

By the way, I also want to say that the current three-point contest system is different from the later one.

Currently, the NBA All-Star Three-Point Contest has a total of five shooting spots, each with 5 balls.

25 balls, 25 shots, including 5 flower balls. The flower ball counts as 2 points, which is 30.

Later, there was a shooting spot where all 5 balls were 5 balls, and there were 4 more balls, so the total score became 34 points.

As for what's the point of doing this? Change for the sake of change? I don't know.

Maybe to break the record.

In NBA history, the All-Star Three-Point Contest record is 25 points, set by Craig Hodges in 1986.

Even if he hits all the balls, he still makes 20 of 25 shots, a hit rate of 80%, which is indeed exaggerated.

This record has never been broken.

It wasn't until later that the All-Star Three-Point Contest changed the format that anyone scored more than 25 points.

But precisely for this reason, this record can never be broken.

The three-point contest is very fast, with only 1 minute of game time and preparation time before the game.

It was Iverson's turn to come on the court, and there was a huge cheer. Unfortunately, there was no bonus.

Like Bob Sula, he got zero points on the first shooting point and got better on the second shooting point.

It's a pity that Iverson's three-pointers are just like that.

10 points. Looking at this score, Iverson was still laughing when he walked off the court, but he was just a little embarrassed.

Fortunately, Bob Sula was at the bottom, otherwise it would have been embarrassing.

Then it was said that Ray Allen played, but the result was not very good, and he only scored 15 points.

Then came Alan Houston and Terry Porter, but both of them only scored 14 points.

If the people behind do not exceed this score, the two people still have a chance to enter the finals.

Today's competition system, whether it is the three-point contest or the slam dunk contest, only three people enter the finals.
Chapter completed!