zero second lore

Chapter 42
Zhang Run has average physical fitness, average basketball talent, and mediocre rebounding, assists, and defensive abilities.

After joining the basketball team for more than a year, the basic skills of dribbling are not up to standard, not even as good as Lu Yuan, who has learned basketball for three weeks.

His only pride and hobby is shooting basketball.

Zhang Run loves shooting so much that he spends all his alone practice time practicing shooting.Morning reading class, physical education class, the gap at noon, if Zhang Run appears alone on the basketball court, he will only practice shooting.

Because Zhang Run believes that people should give full play to their strengths and avoid weaknesses, instead of wasting time desperately on what they are not good at.

Shooting is what Zhang Run is good at. Since elementary school, Zhang Run has fallen in love with basketball, but he is not tall, he can't run fast, he can't jump high, and he always suffers from playing with his classmates.

Later, Zhang Run found out that he shot very well. Without professional training, he just practiced on weekdays, and he had a good shooting percentage.

So he started shooting like crazy.

Zhang Run's father is a sailor and goes to sea all year round. His mother works in an accounting firm and often travels on business. Most of the time, his grandmother is at home to take care of him.

Therefore, Zhang Run has a lot of time to spend on the court. He often practiced shooting after school until it was dark and he could not see the basket.

In junior high school, in a physical education class, Zhang Run practiced three-pointers by himself and hit more than a dozen three-pointers in a row. He was spotted by the physical education teacher who was also the coach of the basketball team and joined the school basketball team.

Since then, Zhang Run has more time to play basketball and more time for shooting training.

Under the more professional guidance of the coach, and studying various shooting training materials in his spare time, Zhang Run's shooting level has improved by leaps and bounds in the three years of junior high school.

Although his performance in other aspects was mediocre, in the special recruitment examination that year, Zhang Run, who lost two of his strongest competitors, was favored by Gao Jing, and fortunately joined the Licheng Middle School basketball team.

That's why Gao Jing asked Zhang Run to be Lu Yuan's shooting teacher. She knew that this was what he was good at.

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Before the teaching started, Zhang Run asked Lu Yuan another question.

"What's the first step in making a good shot?"

"Uh...you have to stand still."

"Congratulations, you got the answer right. Next, I will teach you how to stand up."

"Huh? Isn't this a brain teaser?"

"No...I'm serious."

Zhang Run explained to Lu Yuan with a very serious expression, which convinced Lu Yuan that the first step in practicing shooting is not how to shoot with hands, but how to stand with feet.

Zhang Run took out a piece of chalk from his pocket, drew a white line on the ground facing the basket, and said to Lu Yuan: "Many people practice shooting and only focus on practicing hand movements, just like I did when I was in elementary school. I didn’t realize until I joined the basketball team that how to stand is as important as how to shoot.”

As he said, Zhang Run stood in front of the white line. He stood at one end of the white line with his left foot and behind the white line with his right foot. His knees were slightly bent, his back was arched, and he turned sideways. His body and the white line were at 60 degrees, and his hands were open. The chest is catch-shaped.

"This is the basic preparation for players to catch the ball and shoot. Once they receive the ball, they are ready to shoot at any time."

Then, Zhang Run asked Lu Yuan to throw the ball to himself, Zhang Run caught the ball, his left foot was the axis, his right foot stepped on the ground, turned around, changed from 60 degrees to parallel to the white line, and stepped on the other end of the white line with his right foot.

At this time, Zhang Run was facing the basket and shot a jumper. The ball crossed a beautiful arc and entered the basket hollowly.

The whole movement was done in one go. Obviously, Zhang Run had practiced this movement countless times.

After the demonstration, Zhang Run began to instruct Lu Yuan, and also asked him to stand in front of the white line, with his left foot at one end and his right foot behind, with both hands in the posture of catching the ball.

However, Zhang Run directly put the ball into Lu Yuan's hand, and said: "Hold this ball, and practice turning around constantly. It is required not to look down at the white line on the ground, but to control the angle of turning by feeling, and then look at it after turning around." , Is my right foot just stepping on the white line?"

This kind of empty-handed practice can exercise a player's ability to quickly enter the shooting state after receiving the ball, and form the muscle memory of the legs. After a long period of training, no matter what angle the ball is received from, he can face the basket directly after turning around.

"It is not necessary to pursue the right foot to step on the white line, it can be slightly beyond, because when shooting with the right hand, the right foot should generally be a little ahead of the left foot. Remember, the toes should be forward, and the knee can be slightly inward. , but don’t be guilty, be full of elasticity and strength.”

Zhang Run taught Lu Yuan very seriously and responsibly, as if he wanted to teach Lu Yuan all the knowledge and skills about shooting. He had never shared these things with others.

Lu Yuan also studied very seriously, he didn't talk too much, just followed Zhang Run's instructions.He doesn't know what this kind of training means for shooting, but he knows that someone has done it and succeeded, so he can't go wrong in doing it.

There is always one sentence in his mind:

"If there is a shortcut in this world, it must not exist in the basketball world." - Gan Guoyang, "A Basketball Player's Self-Cultivation"

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After the second quarter's evening self-study get out of class, Lu Yuan and Bai Ye went back to the classroom together. On the way, Lu Yuan continued to make empty-handed gestures for shooting, bending his arms, lifting up, throwing the ball, turning his wrist, dialing the ball, and maintaining his hand shape.

Bai Ye couldn't help but said, "Can the excavator stop for a while?"

Lu Yuan replied: "What, Zhang Run said that my shooting shape is standard, so let me practice more empty-handed and keep it up."

Zhang Run taught Lu Yuan several shooting postures. After a little practice, he began to teach Lu Yuan the most important shooting posture. He found that Lu Yuan was very suitable for standard shooting postures, so he asked Lu Yuan to do more empty-handed training to strengthen muscle memory.

Bai Ye said disdainfully: "What's the use of the standard, and you can't vote in it."

Lu Yuan said: "Well, I tried a few times, but I couldn't make a shot. Zhang Run said, Bai Ye, your shot is ugly, but it's very accurate."

After Lu Yuan finished speaking, Zhang Run couldn't help shaking on the way back to the classroom, a gust of cold wind blew goose bumps all over his body.

Bai Ye asked: "What else did Zhang Run say?"

While continuing to make shots, Lu Yuan said: "He also said that most people can't learn your shooting posture. Most people use their forearms, wrists, and fingers to make shots. You almost only use your fingers and wrists to make shots. The fingers are the middle and ring fingers. He said I should use the middle and index fingers to exert force."

When Lu Yuan said this, Bai Ye realized that Zhang Run, who had always been silent, was quite good at shooting.

Bai Ye's shooting is indeed different. Generally speaking, shooting can be divided into two categories in terms of hand shape, one is two-handed, and the other is one-handed.

Both hands are mostly used by female or child players with insufficient strength, and there are also a few weird ones with too long arms. In addition, most of the shooting hands are one-handed.

The posture of one-handed shooting is also strange, but in general it can be divided into two categories, one is one-handed overhead shooting, and the other is one-handed shoulder shooting.

As the name implies, a one-handed overhead shot means raising the ball above the head with one hand to shoot, and a one-handed shoulder shot means raising the ball with one hand above the shoulder to shoot.

The two postures have their own advantages and disadvantages. Generally speaking, one-handed overhead shooting is a more standard and more beautiful shooting hand. For various reasons, one-handed shoulder shooting will lead to many wonderful shooting hand shapes, which can also be derived. Come up with many magical shooting methods.

Stephen Curry's quick shooter, Larry Bird's mortar, and Steve Nash's lying jumper, these famous super shooters in NBA history all have shoulder shots.

Elegant mid-range killers like Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, and Carmelo Anthony are standard overhead shooters.

The feature of the shoulder shot is that it exerts force from multiple parts in a straight line, and can borrow more strength from the upper arm. The shooting speed can be very fast or very slow.

The characteristic of overhead shooting is that it requires high strength on the forearm and wrist. The upper arm plays more of a supporting role, and the shooting speed is generally faster. Most of the fingers are the middle finger and index finger.

But Baiye's shooting is quite unique. From the perspective of the starting action and the position of the ball, his shooting is a one-handed shoulder shooting, and it is a slow shooting shoulder shooting, because he will adjust the release point to a high level; Judging from the part where the force is exerted during the shot, it looks like an overhead shot. The force is exerted with the wrist and fingers, and the forearm hardly exerts force forward.

But the fingers he used to handle the ball were the middle finger and the ring finger.

With such a strange shooting hand shape, the preparation movement is relatively long, and the ball needs to be lifted to the highest point, so the defender will feel slow; It is often thought that it is too late to interfere, but the ball has already gone out.

This kind of mix-and-match shooting is not without precedent in the history of basketball. The Chinese god of war Liu Yudong is an outstanding representative of this hand shape, and Liu Yudong has worked hard to practice this stunt.

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The two returned to the classroom while talking. Ge Yiming was copying something with a pen and a light yellow bookmark paper.

Seeing Lu Yuan came back, Ge Yiming leaned over and said, "Lu Yuan, come and see, how is my poem?"

Lu Yuan was a little puzzled, and asked, "Aren't you writing novels, why are you writing poetry again?"

Ge Yiming said: "I can write both novels and poems. I am an all-rounder. Lu Yuan, when the time comes, I will put the transcribed poems in the envelope containing the novels, and you can send them to me together."

Lu Yuan nodded, and Ge Yiming said again: "Hey, show me, how is my poem?"

As he spoke, Ge Yiming handed the bookmark he had just transcribed to Lu Yuan.

Although Ge Yiming is a bit wretched, he jumps up and down all day and is not serious, but his handwriting is very good, neat and powerful, obviously he has practiced.

Lu Yuan took the bookmark and looked at the poem on it.

"Missing is walking in the summer.

Where the moon is bright, the birds are asleep.

A smile climbs into the night, how many flowers bloom and wither in the dark.

I love the ups and downs of suffocation.

Just sink in and let life fall in love.

Missing is deep in memory, waiting is deep in the future..."

What is written here?Lu Yuan looked at it and felt dizzy, not knowing what Ge Yiming wanted to say.

Seeing that Lu Yuan looked like he was reading a book from heaven, Ge Yiming took the bookmark back and said, "I'm playing the piano for you... Hey, I can't find anyone to appreciate it, point it out, and see if there is anything to modify."

Lu Yuan had an idea, and said: "Why don't you let Bai Ye show you, his language is so good."

Ge Yiming nodded and agreed, but he was not familiar with Baiye, and Baiye was so cold, so he asked Lu Yuan to ask for him.

So, Lu Yuan took out his mobile phone, took a photo of him, and sent it to Bai Ye via WeChat.

Two seconds later, Lu Yuan was still typing and said, "I wrote it at the same table, please help me to see how it is written." Bai Ye replied with four words: "What do you want to do."

Lu Yuan turned his head to look at the fourth group, Bai Ye was looking at him coldly, he felt a chill down his spine, his hands trembled, and he sent out what he hadn't finished typing.

Bai Ye looked at the phone and received three words: My comrade.

(End of this chapter)