One Thousand Five Hundred and Ninety-Nine. The Strongest 3-Point Contest Champion in History!
Moving the 45-degree angle on the right side of the basket to a position further to the left, Sun Ce confirmed with the referee that his shooting line was not the obvious hard angle position at the 45-degree angle on the right side, but moved to the area within the 45-degree angle on both sides. It did not move too much, more than 20 centimeters, and it seemed that there was no problem. The referee agreed.
As for the 45-degree angle on the left side and the left sideline, it was mainly because Sun Ce was a "left-handed" and had to adjust the position. This was no problem. It should have been done, but no one remembered that Sun Ce was a "left-handed".
Done!
Sun Ce came to the bottom corner on the right side, took a deep breath, stretched his body, and signaled to the referee that he was ready.
Everyone at the scene and the fans in front of the TV saw that Sun Ce had finally finished the trivial matters and was ready to start the game. The group of players on the sidelines began to make noises, and the fans at the scene cheered again.
Listening to the malicious noises of the players on the sidelines, who seemed to want to see him, Sun, play a good show, Sun Ce was not unhappy in his heart and quickly focused on the state of the game.
As the referee blew the whistle, the timer began to count down. Sun Ce quickly grabbed the ball with his left hand and passed it to his right hand. He swung his right hand in a semicircle and raised it. When it reached the top of his head, he let go of his hand and the ball flew out...
This shooting posture almost slapped the waists of the fans and players at the scene! The referee was stunned. In the three-point contest, he actually played a hook shot!
The key is that it went in!
And in the process of landing after the shot, Sun Ce's left hand had already stretched out to grab the ball. He grabbed the ball while landing, and then shot again!
Although the shooting action was a bit too showy, the fans and players at the scene were attracted by the rhythm of Sun Ce's shooting. This rhythm... seemed to be the same as Curry's shooting just now!
And, it was so fast! Almost the same shooting speed as Curry! The key is that it seemed to be more stable than Curry's action!
At the technical desk, the league officials looked at the shooting action in the monitor and the time when each shot was refreshed, and they were stunned!
In fact, many league officials were basketball fans when they were young, and there were even few who were not. Moreover, many of them were members of the college or high school team. The NBA is still very reliable in this regard, and these officials all understand basketball.
The last contestant, Curry, had an average shot time of 0.57 seconds, which is a little faster than Sun Ce's current average of 0.7 seconds. This little difference cannot be observed by the naked eye, and the difference can only be seen by the monitoring time.
But what is more terrifying than Curry is that Sun Ce's shot time is the same every time! That is, the moment when Sun Ce's last shot left his hand, and the moment when the ball left his hand next time, it was exactly 0.7 seconds!
The technical station officials further looked at the more detailed time points. From Sun Ce taking the ball back to prepare for the shot to throwing it out, each ball was 0.5 seconds!
Although the overall speed is slightly slower than Curry, Sun Ce's stability is even better!
Moreover, this is not just fast. Sun Ce made all 5 shots in the first point!
The hand feels so hot!
The fans, players, and fans in front of the TV, although they can't see the detailed data from the technical station, they are all stunned from their senses!
When the first ball was still falling, Sun Ce had already hooked the second ball, just like a string of cannonballs. In about 4 seconds, Sun Ce hit the first point 5 times in a row!
The other players were shocked, and the most shocked was Curry!
In the game, Sun Ce's three-pointer was definitely not as good as Curry's, but in this project, Curry felt that Sun Ce seemed to be stronger than him! Curry knew that he had just performed exceptionally, even if Sun Ce was also performing exceptionally now, but he really looked better than him!
On Sun Ce's side, he felt that he was in great shape when he shot. He felt that he was going to score after he shot. He kept shooting and scoring. Even with the effect of "cold-blooded killer", he still felt excited, but he calmed down immediately after shooting and quickly moved to the second point.
After adjusting, Sun Ce was nearly 30 cm to the left of the 45-degree angle on the right.
Without the ball in his hand, he took a look with his bare hands and felt that it was almost done, so he grabbed the ball and shot!
After shooting from the last shooting point, Sun Ce immediately started shooting quickly again after a few seconds.
This point was not very accurate, and Sun Ce only scored two goals, the first and second goals and the last flower ball did not go in.
After shooting from two points, the score reached 8 points.
However, although it did not go in, Sun Ce's shooting rhythm was still stable, and he was not affected by the three missed shots at one point. He moved to the top arc and continued to adjust to the changes in distance, angle, etc.... Then he grabbed the ball and continued to shoot without any influence!
When the other players saw that Sun Ce only made 2 of 5 shots at the second point, their mood calmed down a little, but within a few seconds, they started to spray their catchphrases crazily again!
Top arc, Sun Ce made another five consecutive shots!
Like a string of cannonballs, Sun Ce did not miss the top arc three-pointer, which was his best and had the strongest bonus effect, and all of them went in!
18 points!
When he reached the 45-degree angle on the left, when Sun Ce moved with the referee just now, he determined the shooting point to be a little bit past the 45-degree angle on the left to the 30-degree angle.
After getting to the position and adjusting himself, Sun Ce started shooting a left-handed three-pointer!
This scene has been anticipated by fans for a long time, Sun Ce's left-handed three-pointer!
Now Sun Ce feels that he has already made the shot, and the effect of "fighting left and right" is triggered. When shooting a three-pointer, his left hand feels the same as his right hand. Although the effect of the shot will be different due to the difference in shooting ability, the shooting state is the shooting state!
At the 45-degree angle on the left, Sun Ce shot with his left hand, and the number of hits was one more than the 45-degree angle on the right, and he made 3 shots! The key is that one of them was a flower ball!
After shooting at four points, Sun Ce got 22 points!
At the last point, at this position, Sun Ce grabbed the ball and hooked it. After hitting 4 balls in a row, Sun Ce has broken the NBA's historical three-point contest scoring record! Of course, it also surpassed Curry who just tied the historical record!
When Sun Ce's last head hit the basket, the fans at the scene made a slightly disappointed sound, but then immediately cheered!
46 seconds to complete the game, got 26 points! Sun Ce surpassed Curry and temporarily ranked first in the preliminary score of this three-point contest!
Unlike Curry's elementary school, Sun Ce clapped his hands and walked straight back to Abby Hornacek, pretending to be quiet and pretentious as if he had done nothing.
When Curry saw Sun Ce's behavior, he wanted to jump up and knock Sun Ce's knee!
He deserved a beating!
The players on the sidelines were all shouting "Lord, you are the three-point king", which made Curry feel even more angry!
And the most annoying thing was that Harden was also cheering for Sun Ce with the players on the sidelines... Is this still a teammate?
The current score is Sun Ce 26 points, Curry 25 points, Lillard 23 points, Morrow 17 points, Klay Thompson 11 points.
After Harden and Irving were shocked by Sun Ce's performance, they looked at each other, and Harden asked with his eyes: Is there still fun?
Irving felt that there was no fun, and suddenly thought of something, and squeezed his eyebrows at a Buddhist man with a mole on his forehead and clumps of hair.
What Harden read meant that there was fun to be had, at least not to get the lowest score tonight.
The two reached a consensus and went for it!
The second to last player to play was Harden.
The fans and players at the scene watched Harden come on the court with a determined expression, and immediately focused. This guy's expression... is he going to do something!
Could he break the record just created by Sun Ce?
Looking at this determined look and steady steps... the fans' enthusiasm rose again!
Then... Harden made 8 of 25 shots, scored 5 flower balls, and got 13 points...
After seeing Harden make the flower ball at the last point, he ran towards Irving with a crazy cheer, and the two bumped their chests to celebrate, and then watched Irving's ambitious look ready to go on the court, and the fans at the scene were stunned... It turned out that this guy was going to not get the lowest score! I thought this guy was going to do something big!
It's just to surpass Klay Thompson's 11 points, so is it necessary to make a gesture to break the record?
Seeing Irving take the court with the same resolute expression and firm steps this time, the fans had no expectations at all.
The players on the sidelines were all amused by Harden's operation.
As for the Buddhist man Klay Thompson, he continued to have a blank expression... but his heart was bleeding...
"Brother San, where is the brother you promised? You saved so many people last year, why didn't you save your brother this time?"
When Sun Ce scored 19 goals and scored 26 points, Irving and Harden had already lost their fighting spirit. Not to mention the top three's 26 points, 25 points, and 23 points, even Morrow's 17 points in fourth place are not something that every top three-point shooter can get.
This kind of game is very different!
Lillard is actually okay, but Sun Ce and Curry are too desperate in the eyes of other contestants.
Irving only shot 4 points this time. He pursues stability, not high scores. He scored 15 points with 9 of 20 shots. He was satisfied that he didn't get the last place.
The result is obvious. After the referee and the technical station officials re-confirmed the validity of the results through the game videos of each participating player, they announced that the four players with less than 20 points, Morrow, Irving, Harden, and Klay Thompson, were all eliminated, and Sun Ce, Curry, and Lillard advanced to the finals!
This year's rules are to arrange the order of appearance in the finals according to the scores in the preliminary rounds.
Lillard was the first to appear.
After Lillard came on the court, he felt the gazes of the two opponents behind him, and felt like a thorn in his back.
Not only the other four participating players, Lillard is also desperate now!
There is nothing wrong with the rule change, he is also a beneficiary. If it weren't for that "good point", it would be difficult for him to exceed 20 points.
However, the performance of these two opponents is too exaggerated! They are not at the same level at all!
In the competition, Lillard is not afraid of these two people, but here, there is really no comparison!
Lillard, who was seriously affected psychologically, started the game. In the expectation of the fans on the scene, Lillard performed abnormally.
All 25 shots were taken, but only 10 of them were made. The worst thing was that Lillard missed all the shots at the 45-degree angle on the left, which was his "good point". He scored two of the other tricks and only got 12 points!
Originally, when Lillard won the Skills Challenge and performed well in the preliminaries, fans thought that Lillard might have a chance to hit the Grand Slam of the three events in a single year.
Although Lillard's performance in the preliminaries was obviously not as good as Curry and Harden, the three-point contest was very special. Pierce had won the three-point contest championship. The players that Pierce defeated that year included Curry and Billups.
However, in the finals, Lillard was overwhelmed by the pressure and lost the possibility of hitting the Grand Slam.
The fans at the scene were a little regretful, and Curry came on the court next.
Fans began to cheer for Curry. Many fans at the All-Star Weekend were not fans of the stars, but they liked basketball itself. Of course, whoever played better and looked more like a superstar would be paid more attention to and cheered louder.
Seeing Lillard being beaten, fans did not want Curry to collapse.
However, this time the fans were overthinking.
After Curry stepped onto the court, he continued to designate the top arc position as his "good point". After getting ready, he quickly got into the state and started shooting three-pointers!
With the adaptation of the first round, Curry, who was in hot form this year, shot better in the finals!
Curry often performed very strangely in the three-point contest. Most of the time, he was actually eliminated in the preliminaries.
After shooting 18 out of 25 in the preliminaries, Curry shot 20 out of 25 in the finals!
All 5 flower balls in the top arc were scored, 10 points; 8 were scored in the bottom corners on both sides, and the last flower ball in the left bottom corner was scored, a total of 9 points, 7 were scored in the 45-degree angle on both sides, and the flower ball in the 45-degree angle on the right side was also scored, scoring 8 points.
As Curry scored one goal after another, the scene was boiling again!
James, Wade and others seemed to have seen some terrible scene, leaning on a group of people and pointing at Curry.
Was Curry nervous when he went on the court? Of course he was nervous, but at this moment, Curry was coquettish again! Just after Sun Ce refreshed the historical record of 26 points, Curry immediately surpassed it!
27 points, a new three-point contest historical record was born! Moreover, Curry only took 44 seconds! He shot very fast like the preliminaries!
"Ni Ma..."
Sun Ce saw Curry scored 27 points with 20 of 25 shots... This guy really can't be suppressed, but he still exploded under pressure!
After hearing the fans cheering for Curry, they began to shout his name.
This time, Sun Ce didn't give the girl next to him the opportunity to continue to add pressure on him. He walked directly onto the court and walked past Curry.
Curry still wanted to pretend, and seeing Sun Ce walk directly past him, he wanted to vomit blood! Then he wanted to beat him even more!
On the referee's side, after confirming that Curry's score was valid, he saw Sun Ce on the court and immediately moved the ball stand with Sun Ce.
After Sun Ce determined that the top arc, which was the same as Curry's, was his "good point", he came to the right corner.
27 points...
Even if the total score was 34 points, it was extremely awesome to get 27 points!
Let's not talk about the last century. In the past 13 years of the three-point contest, only 4 champions scored at least 20 points. In fact, in the three-point contest, most of the champions scored less than 20 points.
In this case, Curry has participated in three times and has not won the championship, which can further illustrate how big the difference is between the three-point contest and the usual game.
When Sun Ce came to the right corner, the sound of "Tun Shaet" led by James spread and reached the ears of everyone on the scene.
But at this time, it could not affect Sun Ce. When Sun Ce came to the right corner, he had already entered a state of concentration.
He nodded to indicate that the referee was ready. As the referee whistled, the countdown began. Sun Ce grabbed the ball with his left hand and hooked it with his right hand...
Curry, after getting a feel for the shot in the preliminaries, felt even better in the finals.
And Sun Ce, the same thing!
Moreover, Sun Ce was already in a hot state, and his shooting feeling improved because his positional sense was stronger!
In the expectation of the fans, Sun Ce made all 5 shots in the first point again!
Then, it was the key 45-degree angle on the right side. This was the worst position for Sun Ce to shoot in the preliminaries. The fans were all worried. This position might be the key position for Sun Ce to win the championship!
However, this time, Sun Ce shot well at this point, 3 out of 5 shots. The first two missed shots, and the fans at the scene felt like they were going to collapse. They were more worried than the players themselves, but the next three points were all scored. After the first two points, Sun Ce got 10 points!
At the top arc, the fans at the scene were excited again, and Sun Ce made another five consecutive shots!
20 points! There are two points left, and Sun Ce has already scored 20 points!
Curry on the sidelines began to spit foul language... There are still 12 points left to shoot, and Sun Ce has already scored 20 points!
Coming to the 45-degree angle on the left, Sun Ce's left-handed shot came!
When Sun Ce scored 4 goals in a row... that is, 12 goals in a row from the third goal starting from the 45-degree angle on the right, the scene was completely crazy, and the cheers never stopped.
24 points!
Unfortunately, when he reached 12 consecutive shots, surpassing Larry Bird's 11 consecutive shots, and came to the second place in the consecutive shots list, it was broken. However, the record of Craig Hodges, the first in history, is 19 consecutive shots. After Sun Ce missed the second shot in the second point, Sun Ce had no hope of breaking the consecutive shot record.
Moreover, Sun Ce had already scored 24 points after shooting the first four points. As long as he could get 4 points in the last left bottom corner, he could break the historical record!
It took more than 38 seconds to shoot the first four points. When Sun Ce moved to the left bottom corner, there were still 20 seconds left!
When Sun Ce moved to the left corner, there were still 20 seconds left in the game. He didn't rush to shoot, but grabbed the ball with one hand and pointed a gun at the six opponents.
This scene made several opponents angry and helpless. This guy is too hateful! But, he is too strong!
The group of players who wanted to see the excitement... they really saw the excitement! No matter whether Sun Ce performed well or not, it was exciting. They started to make noise again, and the fans at the scene also cheered wildly!
There are also those who are impatient. Abby Hornacek, the daughter of a famous player who is responsible for interviewing Sun Ce today, is a representative. She snatched the microphone from the host and yelled: "Lord, hurry up, there is no time!"
Indeed, Sun Ce stopped at this time. Many fans at the scene were very impatient, and fans in front of the TV and computer even cursed directly.
Sun Ce ignored it, but he was not idle. He tried hard to adjust the calculation to find the feeling.
On the scene, Curry began to twist his thigh. There is no doubt that he was the most tortured one!
Time passed second by second. The fans at the scene were about to explode. Even other participating players were nervous. The officials at the technical desk were going crazy and wanted Sun Ce to shoot quickly... As a player, who would not want to see a wonderful performance? Except for the restless Curry, the other five contestants had been eliminated long ago and now wanted to see the birth of a new record.
Although they are opponents, they do not refuse to see the record breaking. Anyway, this is not a regular season or playoffs.
When everyone in the stadium and the fans in front of the TV were almost mad at Sun Ce, there were 4 seconds left, and Sun Ce started shooting!
One after another, one after another, and he completed the process from catching the ball to shooting every 0.7 seconds. When Sun Ce shot the last ball, the ball was still in the air, and the 60-second countdown ended.
At this point, Sun Ce hooked the ball with the same feeling as the right bottom corner!
As five consecutive basketballs fell into the basket with the most special arc in this three-point contest, the whole audience went crazy!
With 22 of 25 shots, Sun Ce broke the highest number of hits in the history of the three-point contest!
Among them, 8 flower balls were shot, and a total of 30 points were scored!
If the score of 30 points is said, because the total score is 34 points, there will be more or less comments from the older generation of fans.
However, with 22 shots, while the total number of shots is still 25, Sun Ce broke the highest record of 21 shots in the history of the three-point contest held by Craig Hodges, creating a new record!
Moreover, even if the total score of 34 points is more than the original, even if the additional 4-point flower ball is deducted, Sun Ce still has 26 points.
No matter from which angle, Sun Ce has completely broken the historical record of the three-point contest!
The fans at the scene were cheering wildly. Among the spectators on the sidelines, James roared to the sky as if he had won the championship. Among the participating players, the "Anti-Lord Alliance" also had a spy, Harden ran to form the James-Harden combination with James, and roared to the sky for Sun Ce.
On the TV side, Jason Capono, who served as the commentator of Time Warner Cable Sports Network Live TV, could only smile bitterly.
With this performance, Sun Ce could still break the historical record even if he didn't add the four flower balls that he was good at!
The times have really changed. Capono looked at Sun Ce's statistics this season, averaging 3.9 three-point hits per game and 10.5 three-point shots per game... This was impossible in their era, and it was unlikely that someone could shoot so many three-pointers and still guarantee the hit rate. One or two games are okay, but Sun Ce has done it for two consecutive years!
The key is that 3.9 three-pointers per game is not the best in the league!
On the scene, Sun Ce hooked the last ball at the buzzer. The referee confirmed through slow motion playback that Sun Ce's every shot was outside the three-point line and that the ball had left Sun Ce's hand before the 60-second whistle sounded. The technical desk confirmed the result.
The host wanted to announce the end of the game, but the microphone was snatched away. Abby ran to Sun Ce and asked excitedly: "Lord, you created the worst record in history last year, and you made a comeback this year and broke the best record in history..."
Amy was so excited that she couldn't speak clearly. Sun Ce waited patiently for Abby to finish speaking, and responded: "I don't like to shoot three-pointers. I hate three-pointers the most. It doesn't matter if I can't make a shot. Last year's three-point contest results have no effect on me, but I don't like to lose. They have worked hard. I am very happy that their efforts have given me a happy All-Star weekend..."