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Chapter 158: Record-breaking, three-point champion!
Time quickly comes to the second day of the All-Star Weekend. Tonight, Duan will participate in two events-the skills challenge and the three-point contest.

Because the skill challenge combines dribbling, passing and shooting, only guards usually participate.

However, Duen mainly plays the second position this season, so it makes sense to participate in the skills challenge.

In other words, today's skills challenge is not a competition system where two people will compete at the same time in the future, but one one at a time.

The Skills Challenge is limited to only 4 participants. This year’s participants are Duane, Arenas, Earl Boykins, and Nash.

Duan is a second-year rookie with the least seniority, so he is also the first to appear.

The other three also came on stage based on their seniority. Nash, the 96 golden generation, became the veteran who held the stage.

Under the guidance of the on-site referee, Duen came to the starting point in the right bottom corner.

After the referee repeatedly confirms whether Du En is ready, the Rookie Challenge will begin.

There is a sensor under the ball at the starting point. After Duan picks up the ball, the timer officially starts.

The first goal was a layup. Duan came to the basket in two steps and easily hit the layup.

Because the rules only allow layups, dunks and throws are not allowed, there is also a probability of missing a layup.

The fans at the scene saw Duan's layup so smoothly, and there were many cheers, although not a lot.

When the basket fell into the net, I saw Du En on the court. Without stopping for a moment, he continued to run 45 degrees to the left, picked up the second ball, and dribbled it to the opposite side.

The dribbling event requires you to bypass three human-shaped obstacle signs along the way, and under normal dribbling rules, ensure that you cannot turn your wrists or walk and dribble across half the court.

Once a foul is committed or the dribble is lost, the player must return to the first human obstacle card and dribble the ball across half the court.

Therefore, most players who are over two meters tall and have poor movement and control skills simply do not dare to participate in the skills challenge.

Now that he is participating in the skills challenge with his height as a striker, he is definitely the only one for Scorpion Baba!
Fortunately, Du En has practiced many times in advance, and his own control level and combination of man and ball are not bad. He did not stumble or lose the ball due to nervousness along the way.

Instead, he relied on his dribbling skills of turning around to break through and passing the ball. He quickly passed the human-shaped obstacle card.

Because there were no mistakes, it only took Duen more than 7 seconds to complete the layup and dribbling.

Seeing Du En's outstanding performance, the fans at the scene also let out more surprises and cheers.

However, the passing game is still more troublesome.

Because the shooting machine is placed on the ground to catch the ball, the position of the ball is relatively low, which is contrary to the conventional passing and receiving position.

Even top passers may have inaccurate passing problems due to habits.

The opening of the shooting machine is slightly larger than that of a conventional basket.

Even Duan missed the first pass.

Fortunately, with four balls next to him, Duan could still make four mistakes.

There is no problem with Duan's passing attributes, but it's just his first time participating in a skills challenge and being the first to play, so he is a little nervous.

After picking up the first ball and continuing to pass the ball, Duen quickly passed the ball into the machine.

Immediately afterwards, he ran to the penalty area, picked up a ball, and passed the ball to the machine under the basket by hitting the ground.

This time, there was no mistake, and the hit hit.

After completing two passes, Duen came to the three-point line. The next step was the three-point shooting project that Duen was good at.

Duen did not disappoint the fans at the scene. He raised his knife and hit a three-pointer.

"Dune, Dawn, Dawn!"

Seeing this, fans at the scene can basically confirm that Dune can enter the finals of the Skills Challenge.

Because the next project is no longer a problem for Du En.

I saw Duen turn 45 degrees to the right after shooting the three-pointer, and once again took the ball and passed it to the shooting machine in the right corner.

Duen found his touch with the help of the previous pass, and this time he hit it directly without any surprise.

Next, Duan only needs to dribble past three human-shaped obstacle cards again, and then shoot a mid-range shot.

At this time, Du En took the time to look at the timer on the side, which was just over 22 seconds.

"Dune, Dawn, Dawn!"

Amid the cheers of the fans at the scene, Duan quickly dribbled the ball across the half court, and then without adjusting, he took off directly from the three-point line and shot an arrow on horseback!

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The ball was scored, and Duan made only one mistake in the whole game and completed all the events of the skills challenge.

The other three contestants at the scene also stared at the timer on the sidelines after Duan made the mid-range shot.

The data recorded above is - 27.6 seconds!
Du En actually directly broke the record for the shortest time in the skills challenge!

You must know that the previous contestant with the shortest time was Baron Davis, the champion of the last Skills Challenge, who set a competition record of 28.7 seconds in the preliminary round.

At this time, Doon's outstanding performance in the preliminary round is just like a harbinger of winning this year's Skills Challenge!
Perhaps it was also because Du En performed too fiercely that Arenas, who was stunned by the sight, acted like a clown on the court like a zombie.

Just for obstacle dribbling, Arenas dribbled three times, which is obviously not his normal level.

After three passes, Arenas wasted all four balls on the ground pass.

The three-pointer was pretty solid, and he hit it in one shot, but it was already too late.

When Arenas finished the race, he looked at the timer - 51.7 seconds, which suddenly lowered the lower limit of the Skills Challenge.

In the past, other contestants only took 44.5 seconds no matter how long it took, but Arenas suddenly took it to a new level.

Perhaps it was Arenas who shared the pressure with the following contestants. Earl Boykins performed much more steadily after coming on the court.

Although there were mistakes in ground passes, three-pointers, and mid-range, it only took 32.6 seconds.

Nash's pressure will be lighter when he plays. As long as he doesn't make too many mistakes, there will be no problem in reaching the finals with Duan.

In 31.4 seconds, Nash made three mistakes, but still narrowly defeated Earl Boykins.

In this way, Nash and Duan will compete for this year's skill king.

After the finals started, it was still Du En who came first.

Du En thought stability was more important than speed!
Duane has the first-mover advantage. As long as he doesn't make mistakes and completes the challenge within 27-[-] seconds, he will put pressure on Nash, forcing Nash who comes on later to make mistakes and waste game time.

It was also because of Du En's steady performance that he made no mistakes along the way. Du En completed the lap in only 26.7 seconds.

However, Nash, who returned to play, played even better than he did in the first round.

Nash withstood the pressure from Duan, also made no mistakes, and finished faster - 25.8 seconds!
The strongest has its own strong hand!Nash directly performed at the ceiling level in the Skills Challenge, but Duan lost because of his desire for stability.

Meeting a historical point guard and a historical star, it is not unacceptable that Duan lost to Nash.

After all, it took Kidd 35 seconds to complete a lap in the skills challenge... Besides, there will be opportunities in the future, which doesn't mean that he can't participate next year.

"Steve, congratulations, you won!"

"Duen, I want to thank you very much. You bring out the best in me!"

Du En showed the demeanor of losing, and Nash reciprocated the favor, exchanging business blows with Du En.

Soon, Du En gave up the center of the stage and went to the technical stage nearby to collect the bonus.

The All-Star Weekend competitions all have bonuses, such as the skills challenge. The champion is $2, the runner-up is $5, and the participation prize for the remaining two contestants is $1.

When Duane comes to the All-Star Weekend, even if he doesn't get a trophy, he can still make money.

However, Duan will undoubtedly pay more attention to the next three-point champion and All-Star MVP.

After all, Duen's passing and control attributes are already at a super level, but his three-point ability and other offensive abilities need to be improved.

After the skills challenge, the three-point contest began immediately.

Participants in the three-point contest this year are Korver, Duane, singles Joe, Quentin Richardson, 01 three-point champion Ray Allen, and defending champion Wash Leonard, a total of six people.

Like the Skills Challenge, the order of appearance is also affected by seniority.

As a second-round pick in 03, Korver was one step ahead of Duane and took the lead in the three-point contest.

Korver participated in the three-point contest last year. I don't know if it was because he was the first to appear, but his performance was a little abnormal.

Only 2 goals were made from the bottom corner three-pointers at the first point, not including flower balls, and only 3 goals were made at the second point.

Soon, with 1 seconds left on the 2-minute clock, Korver completed all his shots.

In total, he made 25 of 11 shots, hit 2 flower balls, and scored a total of 13 points.

With Korver as a pawn, Duan felt more at ease.

There are a total of 5 shooting points in the three-point contest, each point has 5 balls, and each point also has a flower ball.

As long as each flower ball can be thrown in, the minimum is 10 points.

Therefore, you can try the feel of the four balls in front of each point.

With Duan's three-point ability, it shouldn't be difficult to exceed 13 points.

However, because the time limit is 1 minute, you cannot be too relaxed, otherwise you will not have enough time in the next few points and you will make random shots.

Duane had practiced several times in Chicago before.

Within the 1-minute time limit, there are many times when all 25 goals can be made. In most cases, about 20 goals can be made.

Of course, there is still a big gap between competition and simulation training.

After Du En came on the field, he also had problems with his nervousness, which affected his feel.

Duan only made 3 shots at the first point, but fortunately he made the flower ball.

When he reached the 45-degree angle on the left, Du En was not in a hurry and still shot at his own pace.

Made 5 of 4 shots and only missed one ordinary ball in the middle.

The three-pointer at the top of the arc is the area where Duen is best at. Duen made no empty shots and made all five of his shots.

In this way, he has surpassed Korver and gained 14 points.

However, Du En did not control the rhythm of the game well.

After finishing 5 out of 4 shots at the fourth point, while moving to the fifth point, I found that there were only 8 seconds left.

Five points in 60 seconds. Counting the running time in the middle, it will take at least 5 seconds to finish shooting one point.

In order not to waste the ball, Duen could only speed up his shots, but this caused the shooting rhythm to be messed up.

In the end, Duan made five shots at the buzzer, but only made 5 of 2 shots, and did not make a flower ball.

Despite this, Duan was able to score 21 points in the preliminary round of the three-point contest, and was basically guaranteed to advance to the finals.

After Duane returned to the bench, singles Joe, Quentin Richardson, Ray Allen, and Wash Leonard also appeared one after another.

Singles Joe is indeed the contemporary Jordan!

Even though he didn't feel good, he didn't control the shooting rhythm well, and he couldn't finish all the shots at the last point.

In the end, he scored 8 points, which was more than a little better than Jordan's 5 points.

Quentin Richardson was relatively slow. He only scored 3 goals in the first two points, but he scored consecutively in the following points.

Relying on 25 of 12 shots and two flower balls, he scored 14 points and narrowly defeated Korver.

Ray Allen, who came on next, had a sluggish performance. He actually shot almost the same as Quentin Richardson, making 25 of 12 shots. He also made two flower balls and scored 14 points.

Wash Leonard, who played last, was better than the previous two. He made 25 of 14 shots and scored 4 points by hitting 18 flower balls.

As a result, in order to compete for the last spot in the finals, Ray Allen and Quentin Richardson had to play an extra game.

Quentin Richardson made 25 of 17 shots, scored 4 points, and knocked out Ray Allen who only scored 21 points.

After the final list was determined, Du En quickly came to the court again.

Because he had been sitting on the bench for too long, Duen didn't feel good at first. He only made an ordinary ball and a flower ball at the first point.

The second touch was restored, but he missed the ball.

The top of the arc at the third point was Du En's specialty, and he hit it all again.

At the 45-degree angle on the right side, Duen also hit consecutive shots and found the feeling of being the three-point king.

In the final right corner, Duen missed the last flower ball, which was a bit of a pity.

However, relying on a record of 25 of 20 shots and hitting three flowers, Duan scored 23 points!
In the past, this was enough to win the crown of three-point champion!
However, Quentin Richardson was not to be outdone and once again exploded. He only missed one goal in the first two points, and it was just an ordinary ball.

By the third point, Quentin Richardson's touch began to decline, he hit three goals and missed a flower ball.

Then the situation took a turn for the worse, and only an ordinary ball was scored on the fourth point.

Knowing that he had missed the three-pointer, Quentin Richardson seemed to have a sudden mental breakdown, and he only made an ordinary ball at the fifth point.

As a result, he made 25 of 14 shots, scored 2 flower balls, and scored 16 points.

Finally, the defending champion Wash Leonard came on the scene. Perhaps the pressure brought by Duan was a bit too much, and he was inaccurate at the beginning.

After shooting the first three points, he made 15 of 7 shots. There was basically no hope of winning the championship, and he could only compete with Quentin Richardson for the second place.

After all the shots were taken, he made 25 of 14 shots and made 3 flowers. He narrowly beat Quentin Richardson by 1 point and became the runner-up in this three-point contest.

Du En took his place and was crowned the king, becoming the new three-point king!
(End of this chapter)