stadium ambition

Chapter 1 Can you shoot basketball?
Woodjoy High School, Irvine, California.

Su Yang stepped on his bicycle and drove into the banyan tree path. The sunlight shone from the dense leaves, and danced back and forth between his jersey and his handsome face. The female students smiled and waved along the way, and cheers came from the baseball field in the distance.

It was just after school in the afternoon, and he was about to rush to the basketball hall to participate in the school team training for the first time as a player of the third team.

On the way, many students greeted each other, most of them were Asian faces, and I heard several dialects from all over the motherland.

Many people know him as a transfer student, and the reason why he is famous is that he hung the horizontal bar on the sports field for three months in a row, trying to imitate Michael Jordan to grow taller, although he could only hold on for more than 80 seconds each time, it became an anecdote.

Leaving the trail, Su Yang lightly squeezed the brakes to slow down, turned and diverted into the basketball court area.

There is a large display board at the entrance of the arena, with a photo of the Western All-Stars headed by MVP Nash printed on it.

There are a few words written with a black marker on the top of the group photo, which roughly means "Join us, this group of people will be your future", which looks particularly exaggerated and a little exciting. Where's the star?

And Su Yang felt that it was entirely possible, because it was an even more exaggerated thing for him to stand here.

He used to be a basketball game text commentator. He fell asleep while watching Teacher Yongle's science popularization video about parallel universes. When he woke up, he was 17 years old again.

In the past six months, except for the occasional thought of imitating and challenging NBA players to do things, Su Yang has almost completely adapted to this sci-fi movie-style change.

Hearing the hurried footsteps of passers-by, Su Yang stopped his thoughts, parked his bicycle casually, and walked quickly into the gate.

Follow the breeze through a corridor, and the stadium that can accommodate nearly 1000 people to watch the game appears in front of you.

This arena has only recently been renovated, with [-]-hour power supply and temperature control, a brand new locker room, and a training room with various equipment. The level of professionalism is close to that of a professional team, and the strength of imperialism is undoubtedly evident.

There are already many teammates sitting on the sidelines, most of them are white teenagers, and there are some obvious faces of European descent. Su Yang went straight to the only vacant seat in the front row. Just as he put down his backpack, the head coach David Kemp suddenly said: "I know you , the master of the horizontal bar."

Su Yang responded with a smile, flipped through the small brochure on the seat, and found that it was an introduction about the basketball team.

The first page after the cover is the introduction of head coach David Kemp. Judging from the photos, David looks like a simplified version of the Celtics marshal. He said that he has studied Don Nelson's coaching cases for a long time and has been coaching for eight years. , with rich tactical reserves and advanced management experience, has trained more than ten NCAA first-level league players in total, and just came to Muqiao High School to coach this year.

"To learn from old Nelson, you must either be awesome, or have a name for nothing." Su Yang speculated in his heart.

Because of the changeable style of the old Nelson, he first built a super defensive lineup with Moncrief as the core in the Bucks, but sent away three inside players in the Warriors to engage in run-and-gun tactics. In the Knicks, he dared to use Ewing to replace him As a young O'Neal, he almost completely adapted to local conditions, knew people and used them well, and was bold and careful. Unfortunately, he never won an NBA championship as a coach.

Just thinking about it, Coach David clapped his hands: "OK, today is our first training this season, and the first game will start next month. Our opponent in that game is last season's champion - Adishia high school."

"We have never played against them before, but you all know that the main reason they can win the championship is that they have the most powerful high school player in Southern California and even the entire West Coast, that is, James Harden!"

"He was selected to the national high school first team in the summer, and the players tied with him are Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley, Eric Gordon, and Kevin Love. They will enter the NBA [-]% in the future and be able to perform."

"James Harden is more than six feet two inches tall. He is very strong and has rich technical means. He can break through with a European step, can make a sudden stop and make a mid-range shot, and can get into the penalty area and dunk. He is almost omnipotent and extremely powerful. !"

"He also has two center teammates who are over 33 feet 1 inches tall and are responsible for protecting the rim, so they can achieve an amazing record of [-] wins and [-] loss throughout the season, and they have an absolute dominance in the entire Southern California high school league!"

Coach David stopped, and slowly turned his head to scan the audience, with a burning flame in his eyes.

"But! We will win, I will teach you how to beat James Harden, even if you will not be able to enter the NBA [-]% in the future, you can tell others in the future that you have beaten an NBA player!"

"That may be the most glorious moment in your basketball career, do you have confidence?"

"Yes!" Su Yang got up and shouted. Coach David's words sounded a bit ignorant. Thinking that he was about to play against a player in the Hall of Fame, even if it was just a substitute to watch the whole process, it was worth going all out. That was James Harden.

The shouts spread throughout the empty stadium, echoed clearly, and there was no response from any teammates, which was quite strange.

Su Yang subconsciously turned his head to look behind him, and found that his teammates were looking at him curiously, as if they were looking at aliens.

"Okay!" Su Yang sat down slowly, guessing in his heart that Harden might be too famous, and his teammates were more cautious.

"Very good! Since everyone is confident, let's start right away." Coach David snapped his fingers, turned around and took the basketball from the assistant coach, "First of all, we need to be clear that we can't win by defense alone, because it is difficult for us to completely restrict haha Deng."

"We need to strengthen the offense in an all-round way, and even give up part of the defense actively. It is also difficult for us to score through breakthrough layups or low-post strong shots, so our best choice is to strengthen long-range shots and mid-range shots, and speed up and increase offensive rounds."

"In order to achieve a better shooting effect, we will focus on single-action shooting for the next month." Coach David walked to the three-point line and stood still. "Different from double-action shooting, this method is faster and less labor-intensive. Pay attention to my movements."

After the words fell, Coach David bent his knees and kicked the ground to take off, throwing the ball to the basket like a pass.

when!The basketball hit the hoop and fell.

There were bursts of intentionally suppressed laughter in the arena, as if he was happy to see Coach David strike iron.

Su Yang thinks it is normal. Changing the shooting method will of course easily reduce the shooting rate. Paul George changed from the typical double-action shooting to single-action shooting. do not adapt.

After demonstrating many times in a row, David turned around and faced the whole team: "Next, I will give guidance according to your actual situation. This horizontal bar expert student, please come over and give everyone a demonstration. Your five feet nine inches Height can fully reflect the advantage of single-action shooting."

Some teammates laughed, as if they also knew the name of the horizontal bar master, Su Yang stood up and entered the arena feeling a little shy.

"Do you know how to shoot? Why don't you show us your usual shooting methods first, and then make a detailed comparison."

"Of course." Su Yang nodded, took the basketball and stood on the three-point line, thinking how to show off the Kobe-style shooting that he had specially practiced for a long time. In the past, he used that picturesque posture to fascinate many classmates.

Under the watchful eyes of his teammates, Su Yang jumped up with his knees bent, pressing the ball with two fingers.

boom!The basketball falls straight to the ground, three non-stick!

"Haha." There was laughter in the arena.

Su Yang shrugged and spread his hands, "This was an accident..."

"Again, don't stretch your body too tight." Coach David clapped his hands to encourage him, and waved his hand to stop laughing.

Su Yang walked back to the three-point line, quickly going through all the details from the jump to the shot just now in his mind.

I didn't recall any unreasonable things, probably because I was a little nervous under the eyes of everyone, just pay attention to relax.

Thinking about the reason, Su Yang took a deep breath to calm his emotions, stood with his feet slightly shifted back and forth, and took off with his side facing the basket, keeping his right foot, hip, and right shoulder in a straight line, pulling his abdomen in the air and exerting force, pressing the ball with two fingers again.

The basketball fell from the side of the basket, almost brushed the net, and hit the floor with a 'bang', another non-stick!
"Grass!" Su Yang shook his head and complained, and laughter was everywhere in the arena.

"Emm...Honestly speaking, your double action shot is pretty standard, one more time, take it easy."

Su Yang picked up the basketball and quickly walked to the top of the arc to stand, thinking that this time he would be sure to hit the board and shoot.

But you still can't be too deliberate, it's so easy to make it look like you're admitting cowardice, and you can't lose your momentum.

Su Yang jumped up and deliberately reduced the range of the arm's push to weaken the force.

boom!The basketball missed the Nets just a little bit, and the third time is three non-stick!
The laughter in the arena was like hundreds of fireworks rising into the air and exploding, one after another, wave after wave.

Su Yang froze on the spot, annoyed in his heart that he shouldn't save face, and now he feels extremely uncomfortable.

"Everyone, don't laugh! He may have spent too much time hanging on the horizontal bar, which affects his habit of exerting force on his arms." David suppressed the smile on his lips, walked quickly to Su Yang, and gently patted his shoulder as a sign of encouragement, "It's not as good as now Just try a single-action shot?"

Su Yang nodded, took the basketball and dribbled two steps to the right, then jumped with the ball on his feet, imitating Curry to push the ball.

boom!The basketball flew over the top of the backboard, hit the wall and stopped the timer!

Strictly speaking, this is also considered a three-non-stick shot, and it is the fourth time in a short period of time!

"Haha." Coach David also laughed, and the whole arena seemed to be a performance venue for Deyun Club.

The situation was a bit embarrassing, Su Yang frowned and thought about how to better complete the shooting, and a thought suddenly popped up in his mind: "After imitating and challenging Kobe Bryant four times in the playoffs, shoot consecutively for a whole day!"

(End of this chapter)