NBA villain

Chapter 25 Rebounding Ability Advances to Sweep Chicago

An ordinary dormitory in a residential area of ​​Chicago.

The room is not big, but it is very clean, with NBA star posters hanging on the whitewashed walls.On the extended version of the single bed, a young man with slightly dark skin closed his eyes tightly, sweating constantly broke out on his forehead, and his body trembled from time to time.A pot of green cactus was placed on the window sill, and outside, the crescent moon quietly illuminated the dark night sky.

Suddenly, Yang Di opened his eyes, and a bright light flashed in the dark eyes.

"45 offensive rebounds, 47 defensive rebounds!"

"Rebounding grade D-!"

"I didn't expect template training to improve me so much. It almost surpassed my usual months of hard training. It's like an epiphany." Yang Di's heart was full of enthusiasm. In the movie, he trained with Popeye-Jones for an hour, and the two of them jammed each other to grab rebounds. For the first time, Yang Di got a taste of what an NBA-level player is.

Popeye-Jones is similar in height to Yang Di, and may be a little shorter than Yang Di in real height, but his strength, reaction, speed, agility and positioning ability completely crush Yang Di.

Especially when it comes to judging rebound placement, Yang Di is simply a layman.

As a fierce man who once averaged more than 10 rebounds per game in a single season, Popeye-Jones has an unusual sense of predicting the placement of rebounds.

At the beginning of the training, Yang Di basically couldn't grab one of the 10 rebounds, and was stuck outside the three-second zone every time.Afterwards, Yang Di fully figured out the essentials of the card position, and under various means, he finally picked up 10 out of 1 rebounds by chance. When the intention was still unfinished, an hour of training passed.

After leaving the training space, his familiarity with rebounding skyrocketed by one quarter, and even reached the NBA's rating standard, reaching the lowest level of D-.

At this speed, he will soon be able to reach the level of an NBA drinking fountain player.

Yang Di took a look at his current overall basketball skill rating, and it also skyrocketed to 44, just a little bit short of the NBA's lowest rating standard, and the system rating became "a young, stocky rebounder with potential."

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The cycle of the second-level league is relatively short, and in the case of semi-professional and semi-amateur, the game time is not fixed.

There is no so-called knockout game, and it is just three months of games that started intermittently in November. The Windbirds have their own set of technical statistics.

After Yang Di entered January, he helped the Windbirds defeat teams from neighboring states such as Iowa and Anna, Indonesia, and grabbed 1 rebounds in one game. You know, the game here According to the 17-minute first and second halves, including the rest time, Yang Di only played for 15 minutes.

Yang Di got a new main mission to dominate the second-tier league.Mission introduction: Players who climb up from the bottom always have to go to the top step by step. The host is a key step on the road of professional players, defeating all other teams at least once, and becoming the best player in the second-tier league.Task completion time: end of the season, task completion reward: 150 villain points, 3 free attribute points.

At this time in the NBA, Yao Ming, as the No. [-] pick in the NBA, was playing well.

In the game against the Heat, he contributed 5 blocks and 8 offensive rebounds. In the game against the Spurs, he grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds. He was the best rookie in the NBA Western Conference in November and the best rookie in the NBA Western Conference in January.He is like a red star rising slowly in this land of capital.Everyone looked at Yao Ming with admiration, and they all remembered that people of yellow race can also play basketball well.

Yang Di is like a little guy struggling slowly at the bottom. He has no aura of genius, no media has noticed his growth, and no one knows. On the last day of January, Yang Di defeated the powerful Tiger Cats in the same city. He grabbed 13 rebounds and completed 6 dunks, receiving his first championship trophy in his life.

The names of Yang Di and other players were engraved on the crystal-clear trophy. The trophy remained at the headquarters of the Windbirds. Since the founding of the Chicago United Secondary League the year before last, the Windbirds won the glory of the league championship for the first time. .Smith, the player-coach-owner, invited everyone to a party for dinner.

"Thank you, Dick Yang!" Smith looked at Yang Di who had just cut his hair, feeling a lot of emotion in his heart.

"There is nothing to be thankful for. I have learned a lot from competing and training here. If I want to say thank you, I am the one thanking you." Yang Di put his hands in the pockets of his jeans, and still had the same pair of Joe Seventeen on his feet.

"That's it, Dick Yang, you're improving so fast." Jimmy said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, it's a terrifying learning ability." Everyone nodded, and it was obvious to the naked eye that Yang Di's progress in the past two months.

From the wrong position on the court at the beginning, to now he has basically become the player with the best awareness of assisting defense, replenishing defense and retreating, and the most exaggerated is his rebounding ability. It seems that he does not know when he started. All of the rebounds bounced to Yang Di's hands, and Yang Di often rushed to get offensive rebounds and completed the second offensive score.

"I think you are talented, and you should get the most formal and advanced basketball training in a super league like the NCAA. This is the right path. With your talent, you shouldn't waste it playing against a group of people like us who are relatively low-level and not A regular game," Smith said sincerely.

Yang Di sighed, "To be honest, I actually stayed at the University of Wisconsin at the beginning."

Everyone was in an uproar, no wonder it was so powerful.

"But I was actually a training partner of the University of Wisconsin Badgers, not an official college player. Later, I had a big conflict with the team's assistant coach, and then I came to Chicago to ask for a living." Yang Di shrugged his shoulders. Said.

"You have such great talent and potential, but the coach only let you be a sparring partner. This coach is really blind." The University of Wisconsin is in Madison, not far from Chicago. The University of Chicago also has an NCAA team here, not as good as the Badgers. Everyone knew about the NCAA, and felt aggrieved for Yang Di.

Smith said: "I know a few friends who are part-time NBA scouts. If possible, I can help you contact them."

"Scout?"

"That's right, they are scouts. Well, their task is to search for basketball seedlings all over the world, and then pass them on to the home team of the NBA. They make forms one by one, put them on the general manager's desk, and pass them a cup of coffee."

"What a laid-back job, enviable."

"In fact, many of them are part-timers, and they only do this job incidentally. However, it is undeniable that this is the NBA. If you have enough strength, amazing potential, and far-reaching places, they will find you."

"My dream is to become an NBA player, and I also want to be able to participate in the NBA draft, but it's a pity that I didn't get into college." Yang Di sighed. It has always been his regret not to be able to go to college, not just playing basketball, There's other learning, that cultural vibe.

"It's okay, we believe that you will be able to enter the NBA one day." Jimmy patted Yang Di on the shoulder and comforted him.

"Come on, drink." Garcia poured a glass of whiskey for Yang Di, and the transparent light yellow amber-like liquor was poured into the glass and swirled gently.

"No, no, no." Yang Di pushed quickly, and then took the beer from the side.

"I'd better drink this beer, I really can't drink whiskey."

"That's fine." Garcia clinked glasses with Yang Di boldly, and said with a smile: "If you become an NBA star later, remember to invite some of us to watch the game."

"For sure." Yang Di also smiled. The players of the Windbirds are very friendly. Besides training and games, they also have part-time jobs. Life may be more difficult, but they are sincere and friendly to each other. What kind of interests come and go, let him enjoy this team atmosphere very much.

(End of this chapter)