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Chapter 204 A Hum for Gordon
Now that he has decided to continue this wonderful performance, Jiangbei will never take it lightly. You must go all out in every game to complete this feat. Otherwise, after completing several consecutive games, everyone will stop you from completing this task.

Because they don't want to be used as a background board to become history, but rather want to be the people who end history, so as to give them a sense of accomplishment and avoid being reduced to the background.

The next game of the Suns is against the Orlando Magic. This is the second time the Suns have met the Magic. The last game ended with a victory for the Suns. This time, the Magic don't know how they will perform.

The current record of the Magic team is at the bottom of the league, ranking third from the bottom in the Eastern Conference, and they have lost three games in a row. The situation is not clear, but they seem to be planning to mess up, so it doesn't matter.

The Magic now have two main scoring points, namely Vucevic and Evan Fournier, but there is also Aaron Gordon who also has a very strong presence in the Magic.

本赛季武切维奇在场均33.1分钟的出场时间内可以为球队贡献23分10.7篮板3.5助攻1.1抢断0.5盖帽，场均能命中2.7记三分，场均内线得分8.8分，投篮命中率达48.7%，三分命中率达44.6%，是魔术的头号得分点。

The Magic averaged 12 offensive rebounds per game and ranked first in the league. Among them, Ken Birch averaged 3 front boards per game and ranked first in the team. Vucevic averaged 2.3 per game, Aaron Gordon averaged 1.8 per game, Clark averaged 1.4 per game, Cole Anthony and Ennis averaged 0.8 per game.

Such a high offensive rebound rate should not be the current result. After all, a rebound represents an offensive opportunity. With so many offensive opportunities, and such a poor result, we can't find any reason to explain this result except for poor performance.

Looking at their other statistics, you can see where they lost. The Magic averaged 104.8 points per game and ranked third in the league, averaging 22.5 assists per game ranked 25th in the league, and their 42.8% field goal percentage ranked first in the league.

Such a low shooting percentage is also doomed to the reason why they are so tragic, and there are not many players in Jiangbei who need to pay attention to this game, and Vucevic is definitely the most important one.

But Gordon is a player that Jiangbei needs to pay attention to in the future, not in regular games, but in the dunk contest.

Aaron Gordon was selected by the Magic with the 14th pick in the 4 draft, and he has been playing for the Magic since then. Except for only 47 games in the first season due to injury, he performed well in the remaining games.

However, he will participate in the All-Star Slam Dunk Contest almost every season. In the 20215-16 season Slam Dunk Contest, Aaron Gordon and the defending champion Zach LaVine experienced two overtime games, competing for a total of 6 rounds, and finally passed the championship.In the finals, Gordon cooperated with the mascot of the Magic team twice. Once he caught the ball from the mascot, turned around with one hand and made a dunk, and touched the back of his head with his left hand. In the other time, he jumped over the mascot and changed hands under his legs to dunk. The judges all scored full marks.

In the next few seasons, Aaron Gordon also participated in the slam dunk contest. Except for the 2017~18 season, which was withdrawn due to injury, he participated in the slam dunk contest every year in the other seasons. This season is probably no exception. After all, he has not won a slam dunk contest.

When it comes to Aaron Gordon and the slam dunk contest, we have to advance to the slam dunk contest last year.

Jordan and Wilkins once worked together in Chicago to contribute to a slam dunk contest that was enough to go down in history. In the slam dunk contest 32 years later, when the All-Stars returned to Chicago again, Gordon and Derrick Jones Jr. once again made the dunk contest the focus of worldwide attention.

In the first round of the dunk contest, Gordon and Jones came to the final stage.In the final two dunks, both of them got full marks.So entering the first round of the playoffs, Jones and Gordon are still evenly divided.It wasn't until the second round of the extra match that the two decided the final winner.

With a dunk from the free throw line, Derrick Jones Jr. finally defeated Gordon by 1 point and was crowned the champion of the 2020 All-Star Slam Dunk Contest.However, such a result still caused a lot of controversy after the game.

In the eyes of more people, Gordon is more worthy of being the champion of this year's slam dunk contest.But he scored only 47 points in the last dunk, which eventually led to Gordon's 1-point loss to his opponent.In the post-match press conference, Gordon looked extremely depressed. He even said with a little anger: "Flying a 7-foot-5 guy, this is no easy task. But how many points did I get? 47? Come on, what the hell are you doing?"

Objectively speaking, Gordon's last dunk over Tucker Farr was indeed not so perfect.However, Derrick Jones Jr.'s last dunk also had obvious flaws.That dunk is said to be a dunk from the free throw line, but Jones has already taken a step towards the free throw line when he vacated. Strictly speaking, this is not a dunk from the free throw line.

Perhaps because of this, Jones Jr. scored 48 points instead of 50.But after Gordon completed the dunk, he scored only 47 points.Since Wade scored 10 points when he dunked Jones Jr. while playing for the Heat, but only scored 9 points when Gordon dunked, many people think that Wade's scoring is unfair.However, in an interview later, Wade did not agree with this statement.

"If you look at all the judges' scores, I'm not biased against Gordon. He lost by one point, but I'm not the only one who scored a 9. Three judges scored a 9. I know people will criticize my score, but most of all, I want people to enjoy the dunk contest. Gordon will not lose sleep because he didn't win the dunk contest. It's unfortunate but it's what the judges had to do," Wade said.

However, some people did not think it was a big deal to watch the excitement. Some judges said that it was originally agreed to give Derrick Jones Jr. and Gordon both 48 points and let them play an extra match.Candice Parker quickly came out to clarify that he had nothing to do with him and said: "The judges have discussed before and give a tie, and I did give a perfect score of 10 points. If you don't believe me, you can look at the scoreboard at that time. I didn't change my mind temporarily."

(End of this chapter)