stadium ambition

Chapter 44 The Stars Gather
Hearing that he could train with NBA players, Su Yang immediately thought of Tatum and Jaylen Brown, who trained with Kobe and Tracy McGrady in the off-season respectively. As a result, in the new season, the fans joked that one only learned how to strike iron, and the other only learned how to pull.

"Ron Harper, you should know?"

Su Yang nodded, feeling a little regretful in his heart, originally thought he would meet a legendary star.

However, Harper is also considered to have real skills. As an important contributor to the Bulls' second three consecutive championships and an important veteran of the Lakers' two consecutive championships in the new century, he has excellent defensive skills and the number of total steals in his career is also at the top of the list.

Harper also said a particularly famous saying: "If there is no championship, then 72 wins are meaningless!"

At the end of the Bulls' 95-96 regular season, Harper printed this sentence on a T-shirt and gave it to his teammates. He may never have thought that this sentence would have the opportunity to be discussed again. Another flip side.

"He's going to hold his first personal training camp in Anaheim tomorrow, and he needs some well-known local players to fill in the field. The organizer has made contacts everywhere. He found me just now. It happens that you rejected the invitation from AAU, so I recommend you."

Su Yang understood it, that is, he learned the technology for free, and the training camp used himself to promote it.

The nature is mutually beneficial. It may be because Harper’s appeal is relatively low. After all, the impression left by the fans is that he is a defensive champion and belongs to a blue-collar role. However, nine and a half out of ten high school players are not interested in learning defense. .

But when Harper played in the Cavaliers, he was called the poor man's version of Jordan. He averaged 22.9 points per game in his rookie season.

"If you want to go, I'll call the organizer back, and it doesn't matter if you don't want to go."

"I want to go." Su Yang reached out and clenched his fist, "Thank you for your recommendation, coach."

Joining the star training camp, on the one hand, is to follow the stars to learn various skills and career-related experience, on the other hand, to meet more young players, and to be able to figure out their own strengths and weaknesses, which is good for determining career goals.

For example, Curry, Harden, DeRozan, Cousins, Walker and other players once participated in the training camp jointly organized by LeBron and Paul. opponent.

What's more interesting is that LeBron would never have imagined that Curry would become his great enemy.

And Paul would never have imagined that Harden would become his teammate, and Cousins ​​hated him very much.

"Then I'm going to call them back now, you should rest early, and don't train too much." David responded with a fist bump, got up and took two steps, then turned his head, and continued: "I still suggest that you can go for a fight." AAU competition."

"I will seriously consider it." Su Yang nodded to express his understanding, got up and walked to the locker room.

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At four o'clock in the afternoon the next day, Su Yang rode his bicycle and went straight to Anaheim.

After half an hour, I finally arrived at the place mentioned in Coach David's address - a small basketball stadium next to the Arrowhead Stadium in Anaheim. .

"I chose this place to make it easier for the players to find their way." Su Yang complained in his heart. Arrowhead Field is the home field of the Major League Baseball Angels. It is equivalent to the landmark building of the Staples Center. It was also the Clippers home field.

After pulling over and parking the car, Su Yang went straight to the door, and the staff asked him to register with slightly puzzled eyes.

The general content is the name, school, how to learn about the training camp, and what you most hope to learn.

Su Yang wrote as soon as he picked up a pen, and filled it out in five seconds. He strode into the arena and heard the sound of hitting the ball from afar.

Going around the wall, several spirited boys appeared in front of them, most of them were black.

Among them was a tall, fat, white man who looked familiar at first glance, and Su Yang stared at it for a long time to identify it.

"Fuck? Love? The one next to him is Westbrook, and the other one is the African prince Ba Mote?"

Before the shock was over, someone suddenly heard shouting: "Hey, Su, come here!"

Su Yang turned his head when he heard the sound, and suddenly saw the USC point guard Gabe Pruitt who had had a one-on-one matchup before.

And the guy next to Gabe also turned his head, it was Nick Young!
"Good guy! There are five NBA players gathered in such a poor place. After all, Harper is still famous, and he has such a wide network of contacts. The key is that they are willing to give face and have something." Su Yang sighed in his heart, and strode towards the crowd.

Suddenly seeing so many players who could only be seen on TV before, Su Yang felt a little strange, but also a little excited, wishing to have a BATTLE right away to try how fierce these people are.

Gabra brought Su Yang to the side of Nick Young, and said excitedly: "This is the guy I said. His technical moves are very similar to Kobe. You can come to a heads-up later, and it will be the inheritance between the USC bosses. "

Nick Yang didn't answer, and his face was cold, with some doubts in his eyes.

"Who said he must join USC?" Westbrook walked over with the basketball in his right hand, stood next to Su Yang, and looked up and down carefully, "It's hard for me to imagine that a figure like yours can be locked for two consecutive rounds James."

"You mean James Harden?" Su Yang smiled, "At that time, he was lucky, and his physical strength dropped a lot."

"Yeah, he was going to die of anger." Westbrook also smiled, "Sent me several text messages that night, asking me how to increase the speed of lateral movement, in case I meet you in the playoffs and get caught by your kind again. Fighting defense gives restrictions."

After Westbrook finished speaking, Gabe turned his head and gave Nick Yang a look, as if to say: "Look, he is really hanging."

Nick Yang snorted twice, and said with a smile: "Come to our school next year, you have a chance to be the boss."

"Don't go, they are too weak." Westbrook rushed to say, "Unless you like to lose all the time."

As soon as the words came out, Nick Young's expression became a little ugly, and he continued: "They were indeed ranked higher than us last season, but we will complete the overtake this season, and if you go to them, the style of play will be greatly restricted. .”

Su Yang smiled, knowing that what the two said was true.

Nick Young's USC basketball team has always been at the bottom of the Pacific Big Ten Division, while Westbrook's UCLA tactical system will always be the classic tactics left by John Wooden, and coaches and players dare not make changes.

"I haven't considered joining that university yet. Why are you all here?" Su Yang changed the subject, not wanting everyone to focus on himself. That feeling was a bit weird.

"Learn to defend, brother! That's Ron Harper, the five-time NBA champion." Nick Young said excitedly, "Anyone who has watched the video of Gong's three consecutive championships knows that he has special defensive skills. .”

Nick Young used to love defense, Su Yang felt a little strange.

"There is also his deep understanding of the triangle offense, as well as passing and running awareness. These things cannot be learned by watching videos. You must know that Phil Jackson wanted him to be the starting point guard for the Lakers. He is about to retire, which is enough to show his superb strength, if he can learn something, it will be of great help to his career."

Hearing the word 'pass', Su Yang was startled.

How did Nick Young become the singles king who averaged only 1.0 assists per game in his career, or just said it casually, and immediately said: "So you are also a teenager who once thought about passing the ball..."

"I don't understand what you said..." Nick Yang looked puzzled, "How can you win the game without passing the ball?"

"Don't talk about this, it's too boring." Gabe interrupted, as if he couldn't stand it, "We all heard from the coach that Harper is going to hold a training camp and can participate in it for free, so we rushed over to see it, how about you?"

"I also heard that you can participate for free..." Su Yang turned to look at Westbrook curiously.

"What a coincidence, haha, me too!" Westbrook laughed, "But I really want to learn technology..."

"Would they be the same?" Su Yang pointed to Love and Mbah a Moute who were shooting.

"It's true, but I came here more to gain knowledge. I just ran into you. When James comes later, I can see how you defend him. Is it okay?" Westbrook looked expectant.

"Okay, are there just a few of us now? Where's the trainer?"

Su Yang looked around the entire arena, and found that there were only nine players in total, and a few arena staff. The trainer hadn't seen him at all. If it wasn't for the words Ron Harper Training Camp on the wall, he definitely suspected that he had gone to the wrong place.

"I just received a call. They are on their way. They shouldn't be late." Love came over and extended his right hand to Su Yang, "Hi, I'm Kevin Love, I've seen your continuous shooting all day long video, nice to meet you."

"I'm also glad to meet you." Su Yang raised his hand and shook it lightly. Thinking that he was preparing to gain weight, he subconsciously asked, "How much weight do you have now? How did you gain weight? What should you pay attention to during the weight gain period?"

With a series of questions, Le Fu was stunned for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders: "I eat a lot, four meals a day, and recently I am thinking about losing weight."

"Okay." Su Yang suddenly thought of Le Fu's handsome appearance after losing weight, "Fatty people are potential stocks, come on."

Everyone chatted for a while, Westbrook and Nick Young took Su Yang to meet their teammates.

After a while, Harden and DeRozan arrived, Paul George also entered the arena, and the player Su Yang couldn’t name him, but they all seemed to be players of a certain level in Southern California. recommend.

At ten past five, Ron Harper and his team of five finally arrived.

"Don't talk nonsense, first of all, I am very happy to see you come to the training camp. Considering that you are all high-level players, there is no need to talk too much about basic skills. I hope you will play a 5V5 first, and I will check your problems one by one. "

After Harper finished speaking, he raised his hand to signal that it would start immediately. As for the small problems of grouping, he can solve it by himself.

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and Westbrook stepped forward.

"What do you think of my proposal to try to group all high school players together and try to group all college players at the same time?"

(End of this chapter)