Chen Qiang began to explain in detail the planning of the All-Star Game.

"As the name suggests, it is a competition of skills. I plan to select several athletes with good skills in all aspects. They need to complete several fixed links such as dribbling, passing, layups and shooting. Whoever uses the least time will win the Skill Challenge." Chen Qiang introduced.

"This doesn't sound difficult. Dribble, pass, layup and shooting are all basic skills for players. Will there be fun in this competition to compete in basic skills?" someone said.

"So I will set obstacles in the field and set the route to increase the difficulty of the game." Chen Qiang said with gesture: "For example, I can set up several fixed puppets, players need to dribble around these puppets; for example, I can place a bamboo basket, and players must pass the ball into the basket within a certain distance."

"It seems like a level? It seems to be interesting." The man said.

The first NBA All-Star Skills Challenge in history was held in 2003. The reason for the Skills Challenge was that the 2002 Dream Team lost a bit ugly. The World Basketball Championship that year was held in Indiana, USA. The local Dream Team was taught a lesson by Argentina and the former Yugoslavia, ending the 58-game winning streak in the international competition and missing the semi-finals of the World Championships for the first time, which made the entire American basketball team lose face.

In the post-match summary, the US team realized that the players' advocacy of physical confrontation and personal performance and their neglect of basic skills were the key to the defeat of the Dream Five Team. In order to motivate the players to pay attention to the three basic skills of "fortune, pass, and shoot", and to allow American basketball to regain the lost halo, the 2003 All-Star Weekend added a skill challenge.

The first few years of the Skill Challenge were indeed the field of top point guards. Just look at the winners, such as Kidd at the peak, Nash at the peak, Deron at the peak, Rose at the peak, Parker at the peak, etc. Later, the Skill Challenge became a show for big men to show themselves. Towns, Porzingis, Jokic, Embiid, Vucevic, and a group of seven-foot-long people came to participate in the Skill Challenge.

Of course, this does not mean that the skills of big players must be very poor, but compared to those top point guards at their peak, the skills of big players are really much inferior. Even if Porzingis is flexible in body style, can he be able to compare with the peak Kidd and Nash? Letting them participate in the skills challenge more for entertainment and ratings, rather than really deciding the champion of that skill.

As the rules of the Skill Challenge game change, the game has changed from playing basketball's basic skills to who can shoot a three-pointer that is extremely long-distance. Since the rules allow three passes to skip this stage after failing, for big men who are not good at passing, at worst, they can throw three times and then quickly enter the next stage, and they will not lose too much time. As long as the last ball can be thrown in as soon as possible, the gap will be recovered. Therefore, there is a scene in the Skill Challenge game where they start to fall behind a lot, but rely on a three-pointer in the midfield position to turn defeat into victory.

Perhaps this also represents a trend in the development of basketball. You can not get the ball well or pass it well, but the three-pointer must be accurate enough and the three-pointer range must be as far as possible so that you can win the game.

For future fans or players, the Skills Challenge that lasted for more than ten years has become a little aesthetically exhausted, and many people even regard it as a boring show. Even the participating players do not care so much about the champion of the Skills Challenge.

However, for people in the 1940s, the skills challenge proposed by Chen Qiang is really too novel. They have never seen such a way to compete with skills.

Originally, everyone thought that the All-Star Game created by Chen Qiang was the same as the All-Star Game of Baseball MLB, and it only selected two teams to play a game. Now after listening to the introduction of the Skills Challenge, everyone realized that the All-Star Game designed by Chen Qiang was definitely not as simple as it seemed.

At this time, Chen Qiang began to introduce the shooting competition again.

"In the shooting competition, of course, I am comparing who is more accurate in shooting. I am using a fixed-point shooting method. There are five shooting points in total, two symmetrical foot, two symmetrical angles in 45 degrees, and the last one is at the free throw line, and the distance between the five shooting points is almost the same." Chen Qiang said.

"That is to say, if you shoot one shot at each shot, will you compare who will be the final shot? What if you shoot all five points?" another curious baby asked.

"Each shooting point is not to shoot one, but to shoot five. In this way, everyone has to complete twenty-five shots, and it is not easy for them to make twenty-five shots." Chen Qiang replied.

"That's true. Even an accurate shooter wants to shoot twenty-five consecutive shots at five shooting points at this distance, and requires very precise and careful aiming." Someone nodded and said yes.

Chen Qiang then introduced: "In addition, I also limited the total shooting time, the purpose is to make it impossible for participating players to aim at the basket without limit. He must take action as soon as possible so that all shots can be completed within the specified time."

"This is a good idea. It can prevent players from aiming for a long time and then taking action. Then the players will make more mistakes and their shooting rate will also decrease, so it will be easier to determine the winner." Someone responded.

"I have also considered the situation of equal scores, so once the number of scores occurs, then the extra round will be played. I think it is not very likely that the scores are the same for two consecutive rounds, according to the competition system I have set." Chen Qiang said.

Chen Qiang's shooting competition was naturally derived from the three-pointers competition in the future All-Star Game, but in basketball in the 1940s, there was no three-point line, so Chen Qiang set the shooting point at the distance of the free throw line. Judging from the players' shooting skills at that time, this was already considered a long shot.

Moreover, Chen Qiang did not introduce the lottery mechanism of the later three-point competition.

In the three-point competition in later generations, hitting an orange ball is counted as one point, and hitting a color ball is counted as two points. The appearance of the color ball makes the three-point competition more exciting. It doesn't matter if there are more ordinary balls in front. As long as the color ball is hit, the score can catch up.

The reason why Chen Qiang did not introduce a color ball mechanism is that he did not want to bring out all his creativity. Secondly, he thought that this was the first All-Star Game of Basketball, and created a skill challenge, shooting competition and dunk competition were already considered fancy enough. If the rules were complicated, ordinary fans might not be able to accept it for a while.

This is true. For the management of these teams participating in the meeting, you have to think about the rules of the shooting competition before you understand. Ordinary fans may have to think about it for a long time before they can fully understand it.

Moreover, the future three-point competition will be compared with two rounds. The first round is considered the preliminary round and the second round is the final. Chen Qiang did not intend to be so complicated. The shooting game only takes one round to determine the outcome, and the purpose is to avoid the rules being too complicated and fans cannot accept it.

For later fans, they have been watching the All-Star three-point competition for many years and are well aware of the rules. However, for people in the 1940s, this is a new thing after all, and it takes some effort to understand it. Too complicated rules will make fans lose interest.

Immediately afterwards, Chen Qiang introduced the dunk contest.

For the future All-Star Game, the dunk contest can be said to be a core content, and its popularity is no less than that of the All-Star Game on the last day.

Before 1984, the All-Star Game had only one content, that is, the East-West All-Star Game. After 1984, the dunk contest, which was a gripping match, entered the All-Star Game for the first time, and since then, the All-Star Game has also made a qualitative leap. The Dunk Contest brought unparalleled popularity to the All-Star Weekend. It can be said that without the Dunk Contest, there would be no All-Star Weekend today.

At the same time, the dunk competition has also made many legendary athletes, bringing many unforgettable classic moments to the All-Star Game. Jordan's free throw line dunk was hailed as the most classic moment in the dunk competition, and was also tributed and imitated by countless contestants in the later dunk competition. Carter's 360-degree windmill turned the dunk basketball technique into an art. I believe that every fan can recall one or several wonderful dunk competitions in his mind.

It is no exaggeration to say that the dunk contest is the soul of the entire All-Star Weekend. For many fans, they can not watch the rookie challenge, the skills challenge and the three-point competition, or the All-Star Confrontation, but they will definitely watch the dunk contest. Even if they miss the All-Star Weekend for various reasons, they will also find a special video to watch the exciting process of the dunk contest.

Now that Chen Qiang wants to hold the All-Star Game, of course, he has to introduce the Dunk Competition into the All-Star Game, and also promote it as a core project.

However, except for Chen Qiang, the others present could not understand the importance of the dunk contest.

Dunks depend on physical fitness. In the 1940s, no black players participated in professional basketball games, so there was no such muscle stick with a lot of physical fitness on the court. White athletes were naturally far worse than blacks in terms of bounce. At that time, many professional basketball players could not complete dunks. In the 1940s, they were often those who were more than two meters tall who could complete their skills. Even many players with two meters tall were not enough to bounce.

Therefore, holding a dunk contest in the 1940s was definitely a competition for big men. Moreover, due to the limitations of physical fitness, it is probably difficult for these big players to make fancy technical moves. They may only be able to do some basic and simple dunks.

But this is enough. After all, in basketball in the 1940s, dunks were a new thing in themselves and were extremely rare in the game. Fans in the 1940s had no knowledge, and they had never seen very fancy dunks. It is estimated that a simple all-relay dunk would be enough to shock fans.

Chen Qiang said: "The scoring mechanism of the slam dunk competition is different from the Skills Challenge and the Skills Challenge. In the Skills Challenge, the rating standard is time. Whoever takes less time to complete the specified technical movements will be the champion; the rating standard of the shooting competition is the hit rate, and the more goals he scores, the more he scores, the champion. However, if we are in the slam dunk competition, we cannot find a unified and standardized rating standard to determine the final title."

"Then how are you going to determine the outcome?" someone asked.

"Since there is no unified and standardized scoring standard, we can only adopt a scoring system and determine who is the winner through subjective judgment." Chen Qiang replied.

"Who will give the score? Are we?" someone asked again.

"Of course, we can't be our people, so that fans will question our fairness. So I plan to invite four or five basketball celebrities to score, which can also ensure the professionalism of scoring. In this way, even if fans question the fairness of scoring, they will not blame us. Moreover, I believe that those basketball celebrities will respect the facts for their own face and cannot give scores randomly." Chen Qiang paused and continued:

"Next, let's talk about the rules of the slam dunk contest. Each contestant completes two dunks, and the number of two dunks is added. The person with the highest score is the final champion. I think you have no objection to this rule, right?"

"You think very thoughtful and very reasonable." Everyone responded.

The future dunk contest will be more than two rounds. Chen Qiang also does not intend to be so complicated. It will determine the outcome in one round. After all, this is the first time that the dunk contest has appeared. The simpler the rules, the more direct it is, the easier it is for fans to understand. When fans become familiar with the rules in the future, it will not be too late to make improvements.

After finalizing the Skills Challenge, Shooting Competition and Dunk Competition, the next discussion is the All-Star Confrontation Competition.

"What method do you plan to select players in this All-Star Confrontation? Are you going to let two All-Star coaches directly select players like baseball mlb?" someone asked.

"Of course not. Although our All-Star Game is creative from the MLB League in baseball, I don't plan to copy the way they operate." Chen Qiang replied.

mlb's All-Star Game began in one year. mlb's All-Star Game consists of fans picking players, and the head coaches of each team select players to form another team, and both sides play a game. The rules have changed since 1935, and two All-Star head coaches select people, and both sides play another game, and fans do not participate in the selection.

This situation continued until 1947, and the rules were changed again, and fans could choose eight players. In 1957, this rule was cancelled and resumed again in 1970, and it was repeated many times. It was not until 2002 that the public All-Star voting was not available. In 2003, player voting was added, and the head coach selected pitchers. In the following year, the All-Star selection rules were changed again.

The league adopts the rules of selecting two All-Star head coaches. As a result, the All-Star head coach chooses players from the entire team very utilitarian, because the cooperation between players of the entire team will be better and the probability of winning is higher. After all, the head coach who can be selected as All-Star is also shameless and does not want to lose, so how can he win? So the mlb All-Star Game became the two strongest teams in the league to play a confrontation game, and the star players of other teams can only watch.

This was the case in all mlb All-Star games since the years, and the two All-Star coaches each chose a whole team. It was not until the rules changed in 1947 that this situation ended.

With Chen Qiang's sports knowledge, of course he could not copy the unscientific old rules of mlb.
Chapter completed!