On February 20, Beijing time, following yesterday's NBA Rookie Challenge, today the NBA staged a three-point contest, a skill contest and the most concerned dunk contest for fans. Unfortunately, this dunk contest is regarded as the lowest quality dunk contest, and the four dunks will be dunked through one mistake after another, neither the classic dunks of Vince Carter and Jordan, nor the pleasing performances of Aaron Gordon and Zach Lavin a few seasons ago.
It can only be said that the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, especially for the Rockets rookie Jaylen Green, many fans before the game are optimistic that Jaylen Green can win the championship in this dunk contest, unfortunately, the 19-year-old rookie player did not perform well, he tried 9 dunks in the preliminaries, only once, and was eliminated in the first round of preliminaries.
The final dunk contest title was won by the Knicks' Topin, but his dunk was also not bright. With only 1 hit in 9 dunks, not to mention whether it's wonderful or not, Jaylen Green's dunk shooting rate is even lower than his shooting percentage and three-point shooting rate this season, only 11.1%, which is a bit embarrassing.
After the dunk contest, Jaylen Green was also interviewed, and he said in the interview that he would participate in the dunk contest in the future because he "messed up" this time. Green said he also wants to participate in the dunk contest next year if possible, "My dunk has enough strength and height, but I just couldn't dunk the ball today." Green explained.
In fact, This personality of Green also led to his failure today, what kind of personality? Loves to talk big. Green always gives people hope, such as last offseason, he was picked by the Rockets with the second pick in the first round, said a lot of wild words, not only said that he wanted to become the best rookie, but also said that he wanted to become a future defensive team member, but also to enter the future All-Star team, of course, now everyone looks at what Jaylen Green said before, it seems to have become a joke.
This season, the Rockets are not only the bottom team in the West, but Also Jaylen Green's performance is also up and down. Earlier, Jaylen Green was able to rank 6th and 7th in the rookie list with similar data, but now with the rise of Sargus and Cuminga, Jaylen Green has fallen out of the list for a while. In the latest issue of the rankings, Jaylen Green is only ranked 10th, not only is it difficult to compete with high-ranking rookies such as Cunningham and Mobley for the best rookie award, but also compared with himself, it is far from his mid-season performance.
Green will also participate in the dunk contest next year, and he is indeed very confident. But this made many fans feel that Green did not participate. Because Green's performance in the dunk contest this year was really disappointing, not only failed to dunk, but also frequently tried to waste the enthusiasm and patience of fans, some fans said that next time or do not dunk again, and some fans said that Jaylen Green is the first player to dunk people to be annoying. The implication is that no matter where the NBA dunk contest goes in the future, it's better for Jaylen Green to stop participating.