Chapter 37: Liu Han's Rhythm
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and John Wooden's basketball summer camp began after 10 days of physical training. Liu Han didn't attract much attention at first, but after a bullfight with Kobe Bryant, Liu Han's excellent projection ability amazed a group of young talents who came to the training camp.
Just as Liu Han was sweating in the training camp, his former teammates Edio Bonno, Teyus Edney and George Zidyk participated in the 1995 NBA Draft together, Edio Bonno won the first pick in this draft, but surprisingly he was not selected by the New Jersey Nets until the ninth pick in the first round, and the Golden State Warriors who won the first pick chose Joe Smith of the University of Maryland, the list was Antonio McDyes, and the flower was won by Jerry Starkerhouse, The Washington Wizards, who picked up the fourth draft pick, selected Rasheed Wallace, and the physically gifted high school kid Kevin Garnett was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves, making him the first high school player under the age of 20 to enter the NBA Draft. Liu Han's teammate George Zidyk was drafted by Charlotte until the 22nd pick in the first round, Teyus Edney was selected by the Sacramento Kings until the 18th pick in the second round because of his height, and although the Bruins won the NCAA championship this year, the players who participated in the NBA draft were not ideal.
Liu Han didn't pay much attention to this year's NBA draft, his attention is now focused on this summer camp with many young talents, Liu Han, who has lived in the United States for nearly a year, has grown two centimeters taller and weighed two kilograms.
The time entered the middle of July, the training of the summer camp finally shifted from physical training to ball training, and the training that began at eight o'clock in the morning was for the basketball basic action training of these young players, correcting some of their irregular movements and teaching some of these young people to need a lot of games to gain experience, because the number of players participating in the training is large, and the coach needs to train the players according to each person's different positions and technical characteristics, so there is a lack of coaching in the initial ball training.
"John, there is a problem now, our initial arrangement did not take into account that there will be so many players, so now the number of coaches is insufficient, and the funds are limited, so I thought you could find a few experienced coaches." Kareem Jabbar asks his mentor for help.
"Well, that's a real problem, okay, I'll try my best to help you find it, and hopefully find it soon." John Wooden also hopes to make this training camp more successful, so that more players will participate in the future, and once this training camp can have a lot of fame in the future, it can be held regularly, which is good for UCLA and sponsors.
Mr. John Wooden's first thought was George Crent, who had just returned from a vacation in Hawaii, and he knew that George would definitely agree to help.
George Crent, who won the NCAA championship in his first season of coaching, went directly to Hawaii for a vacation after the season, and the tense game made George feel physically and mentally exhausted, and he wanted to relax his spirit through vacation, after receiving a call from Mr. John Wooden, George readily agreed to Mr. Wooden's request, and brought a coach to Mr. Wooden-Li Rui, who was also on vacation. Li Rui's tenure at Inglewood High School was very successful, his sincerity and ability were recognized by all the players, and he was very happy to learn that he could go to this summer camp, Li Rui has always valued Liu Han.
"Hey George, no formal congratulations yet, a successful season, how's Hawaii? Have you ever had an affair, seriously, it's time for you to find a nice girl to take care of your life, the coach's time is always not enough. Li Rui, who came to the training hall together, said to George Crent.
"Thank you, Lee, Hawaii is very good, it's just some sun, I still prefer to stay in the stadium, at least there is air conditioning." Through the training camp that Mr. John Wooden helped to find enough coaches, the training officially began, the basketball basic training was arranged in the morning, and the confrontation between players was arranged in the afternoon, and the training camp was officially launched, but Liu Han is now facing an embarrassing situation.
In the confrontation game, Liu Han's position on the court has become more embarrassing, his current height is 1.95 meters, weighing 87 kilograms, it is just right to play a shooting guard, but many players in the training camp are in this position or small forward, and let Liu Han play a scoring guard is a bit of a waste of his excellent projection ability, if the ball can be controlled in Liu Han's hands, then coupled with his excellent projection ability, and then be able to have a good breakthrough and pass, it will be a big killer on the field, but now Liu Han's ball control action is very standard, But he always gives people a sluggish feeling, lacking his own rhythm and grasp of the situation on the field, and he has not yet learned how to reasonably use his breakthrough skills on the field.
"Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, I think what Liu Han needs most now is a lot of games, and he should be allowed to experience the rhythm in the game, so that he can learn how to control the situation on the court, if I can, I want to put Liu Han in the point guard position in the afternoon practice, let him cooperate with these players with different characteristics, and also limit his shots from the three-point line, and I think I should find an experienced point guard to teach him some experience and skills." Li Rui's familiarity with Liu Han is the highest, and he hopes that Liu Han can go more smoothly in the future.
"Li, I know you attach great importance to Liu, but now training to win is not just for him alone, I think more people are thinking about the progress, but the previous thing you said I think can be arranged, as for finding an experienced point guard to help Liu Han, please forgive me for not being able to do anything, if I find special training for Liu Han alone, I think other players will also want to have such a person to help themselves." Jabbar didn't completely agree with Li Rui's opinion, but he still attached great importance to Liu Han.
Liu Han began to receive point guard training in the following training, and his daily morning training gradually began to focus on passing techniques and breakthrough techniques, Liu Han received LaBeouf's boxing training before the start of the training camp, which made him accept the technical training of point guards very quickly, and Liu Han's talent also allowed him to grow rapidly in such training.
In the afternoon training, the players participating in the training camp were divided into five teams according to their respective positions and technical characteristics, and the lineups of these five teams are not fixed, but can change at any time, and Liu Han needs to play as a point guard in each team. Every time he plays a 20-minute match, Liu Han needs to cooperate with all players with different technical characteristics and different personalities, and according to the coach's requirements, he can only shoot outside the three-point line four times per game, and the losing side needs to be punished at the end of each game, and do push-ups according to the difference in scores.
In the beginning of the confrontation, Liu Han often needs to do more than 200 push-ups in an afternoon, because he almost doesn't know how to organize offense and defense, but fortunately Liu Han has Li Rui and George Krent, who are very concerned about him, and during the break at the end of each game, Liu Han spent time in Li Rui and George's game analysis, these two coaches with a lot of experience analyzed the characteristics of each player for Liu Han's performance on the field, and told him how to cooperate with such players. What kind of passes each player needs, what time on the pitch he needs to break through. At the beginning, these young people who participated in the training were still a little gloating about Liu Han's need to keep participating in the competition, but later they found that Liu Han began to get stronger in this constant push-up, and they began to envy Liu Han for such treatment.
Kobe Bryant, who has always been unconvinced by Liu Han, was also a little happy at first that Liu Han needed to keep doing push-ups, but when he found that Liu Han began to mature more and more in the confrontation, he felt that the coach was a little biased. After a strong demand, Kobe Bryant also began to participate in the confrontation game non-stop, hoping to catch up with and surpass Liu Han as soon as possible.
Liu Han gradually began to find his rhythm in such a large number of games, dribbling and breaking through are becoming more and more proficient, coupled with his 1.95 meter height in the point guard position, although his passing is not so aura, but can already organize the offense through a reasonable distribution of the ball.
Liu Han's performance in the training camp is getting better and better, he began to form his own style, his dribbling is not fancy, unpretentious movements can always be through a reasonable change of direction and dribbling behind or under the crotch to avoid the opponent's defense, with the ball in hand and gradually rich experience, Liu Han's projection power is even greater, because the defenders not only need to prevent Liu Han's breakthrough and pass, but also have to pay more attention to Liu Han's three points against the sky.