Chapter 188 Slam Dunk Contest
"Hello everyone, welcome to the 1985 NBA All-Star Dunk Contest Championship. This will surely be an exciting night. I am Henry Weizel of CBS TV. I hope all viewers will enjoy the slam dunk Contest we broadcast for you."
On the evening of February 9, the 1985 All-Star Game dunk contest will be held at the Citizen Plaza Arena in Indiana. CBS TV broadcast the whole country live. At this time, the TV station's footage gave the players on the court, who were each wearing team's sportswear to perform pre-match warm-ups.
For the audience, the dunking movements of these players during the warm-up were enough to make people dazzled. Julius Irving's windmill, Michael Jordan's reverse dunk, Drexler's folding dunk, and Terrence Stansbry's aerial relay all made the fans excited, and some fans have already started dancing on the sidelines.
"The scene was so deserted." Gan Guoyang, who was sitting in the audience, felt that the scene was quite deserted, and he was probably the only one who thought so.
Indeed, compared with the later NBA All-Star Weekend Dunk Competition, the 1985 slam dunk competition looked a bit simple, at least not very entertaining.
There are no NBA stars, big and small, and there are no colorful side shows. In addition, there are Indianapolis, and there are no stars from the entertainment industry.
Overall, this is a real dunk match, without so many gimmicks and packaging, but the players participating are all very powerful.
As many as eight players participated in this dunk contest, namely Michael Jordan, Dominic Wilkins, Clyde Drexler, Julius Irving, Darrell Griffith, Larry Nance, Terrence Stansbrey and Orlando Woolridge.
Unlike the "gategory" such as the 21st century famous stars no longer want to participate in the slam dunk competition, some popular stars at that time were willing to participate in this newly established competition to show off.
"Okay, the game is about to begin. Our game will be divided into three rounds. In the first round, except for Larry Nance and Julius Irving, the other six players will have to make three dunks. After the three dunks, the three players with the highest score will enter the second round. In this way, there will be five players competing in the second round, and we will also have to make three dunks. We will select the two who have the highest score to enter the final final battle. In the final battle, the person with the lower score in the previous round will start first, each person with three dunks, and the person with the higher score will win. It is that simple." The host of the TV station introduced the rules of the dunk contest.
Since Larry Nance and Julius Irving were first and second in the last dunk contest, they were treated as a first-round bye.
In this way, Michael Jordan, Dominic Wilkins, Clyde Drexler, Darrell Griffith, Terrence Stansbrey and Orlando Woolridge will participate in the first round of dunks.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the first person to bring everyone a dunk performance was the small forward from the Atlanta Hawks, Dominic Wilkins!" The DJ on the scene began to introduce the players who played in the order.
Accompanied by the audience's applause, Wilkins, wearing the No. 21 Hawks jersey, walked onto the stadium with the ball.
I had no impression of Wilkins Gan Guoyang, because the Trail Blazers and the Hawks only played one game, and at the beginning of the season, Gan Guoyang played very shortly, and the two were in different positions, so Gan Guoyang was not deeply impressed by this famous decoy in history.
Wilkins' first dunk hit the ball high on the floor, then jumped up, held the basketball in the air with one hand, and smashed the ball into the basket hard.
"Um~" There was a burst of exclamation from the scene. Although Wilkins' dunk was simple, it was defeated by the momentum and the entire basket was obviously suppressed at an angle.
"9 points, 9 points, 10 points, 9 points, 10 points." The judges on the scene gave their ratings. At that time, the judges of the dunk contest included media reporters, NBA commentators, and former coaches. Anyway, Gan Guoyang didn't know anyone at first glance.
"If you don't have creative dunks, you can even score 47 points." Gan Guoyang felt a little disdainful when he saw such a dunk.
"Gan, this dunk is already great, I can't do it anyway." The person who spoke was Gan Guoyang's teammate, Van dervich.
"Look, Clyde will be better."
"Dominic Wilkins, the first deduction is 47 points, the second contestant is the shooting guard from the Portland Trail Blazers, Clyde Glider Drexler!" Now Drexler's name has spread throughout the league.
"Come on, Clyde!" Gan Guoyang shouted from the side. He found that Drexler was still a little nervous. Drexler participated in the dunk contest last year, but he performed poorly and was eliminated in the first round.
Drexler took the ball in the middle line. He grabbed the ball with one hand and started running. He rushed straight to the basket from the right side, jumped about 15 feet away from the basket. His whole body was completely spread, his legs were bent, and he flew towards the basket like a big bird spreading his wings!
"Bang!" When Drexler was about to descend, he dunked the ball into the basket!
"Oh, it's worthy of being a glider. We see that he is really gliding! He is gliding!" The TV station's commentator saw Drexler's dunk, so he naturally thought that he dunked the wonderful fast break dunk when he played against the Lakers, which was really like a glider flying.
"10 points, 10 points, 9 points, 9 points, 10 points." The judges gave the score. Although Drexler's moves are very simple, the winning is that the jumping distance is long and the posture is beautiful and stretching. This is something Wilkins in front of him did not do. This undoubtedly gives the audience and the judges different artistic enjoyment, and it is not surprising that they get 48 points.
Next, Jordan started his first button. As soon as Jordan came on the court, he attracted everyone's attention because everyone else was wearing the team's dark away uniform, only Jordan was wearing a black short-sleeved shirt, a red vest on the outside, a red and black sports trousers and a red and black Nike shoes on his neck, and a thick gold chain.
This style is unique among all players, and his dunk is nothing special. It is almost the same as Drexler's, and it is also a gliding dunk.
"Their dunk styles are really different." Gan Guoyang sat on the sidelines but saw that they were both gliding dunks. Drexler's sense of stagnation in the air was stronger, but Jordan's more stretched and his movements were more beautiful.
44 points, because Drexler had done this action before, Jordan's ornamentality was also discounted.
Afterwards, Griffith, Stansbry and Woolridge also completed their first dunks. Overall, everyone was just ordinary in the first dunks, and there were not many surprises. At least in Gan Guoyang's opinion, this is the case.
After the test of the first button was over, the second round began immediately, and everyone was about to start to use real skills.
Wilkins is still the first place. This time he took the ball to the bottom corner on the right side of the basket, outside the three-point line.
Wilkins dribbled the ball, and his dribbled ball was very rushing, and he slapped the ball quickly and powerfully. He took the ball under the basket with two big steps, took off with both hands, then turned the back to the basket, and folded one with his hands on the back!
"Oh-My~" The commentator finally felt some passion and exclaimed at Wilkins' dunk.
"10 points, 10 points, 10 points, 10 points, 9 points!" Wilkins' dunk scored, only one judge gave 9 points, and the others were 10 points, so Wilkins scored 49 points!
Now, Wilkins has scored 96 points after two rounds, a very high score.
But the audience's attention was quickly attracted by Drexler, who was the second to play, and Gan Guoyang, who was invited by Drexler to the court.
"Oh, Drexler Trail Blazers' teammate Gan came to the court. What's going on? Can you still ask for off-court aid?" There was no idea of letting others cooperate in one slam dunk contest. It took only a time before someone came up with this idea. Gan Guoyang let this idea be advanced one time.
"Let's see what they want to do, Gan stood behind the rebound with the ball, and Drexler stood at the bottom line."
All the audience's eyes were closely attracted to Gan Guoyang and Drexler. They were all curious about what kind of dunk this was.
"1,2,3!" Gan Guoyang shouted slogans. When he shouted 3, Drexler rushed towards the basket, while Gan Guoyang threw the ball towards the back of the rebound!
This is a classic dunk imitating Iguodala in the 2006 slam dunk contest, receiving the ball from the back of the rebound, jumping to the front of the basket and turning around to the dunk - but now Iguodala has just been born, this creativity has been stolen by Gan Guoyang.
Initially, Drexler's idea of dunking was to take the ball from the right side of the basket and jump from the right side to the right side to the dunk. However, after watching Drexler's performance, Gan Guoyang felt that Drexler's man-to-ball combination was not good. Because he wanted to jump with the ball, his stagnant and leap distance were greatly discounted, and the overall effect seemed very mediocre.
So Gan Guoyang decided that he would throw the ball so that Drexler could not be bound by the ball, and could fully accelerate and jump, then catch the ball in the air, glide, and cross the basket.
"Drexler traveled through the basket, took the ball and dunked it back! It was so wonderful! It was so wonderful!"
The atmosphere at the scene was instantly detonated by this dunk. Countless audiences stood up and applauded, and at the same time picked up the scoreboard in their hands to score Drexler. They all held the "10-point" scoreboard without exception.
"10 points, 10 points, 10 points, 10 points, 10 points!" Five tens! The first full-score dunk in this slam dunk competition was born like this!
Drexler stepped forward and hugged Gan Guoyang to thank him for the excellent creativity he provided.
Chapter completed!