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After the training camp officially began, Adidas also began to promote the elite competition that will be held on May 19.
Garnett is on fire again!
High school students with perfect scores on all tests! The last one, or Grant Hill! A superstar who won the All-Star ticket in his freshly concluded rookie season.
The opening test results of the Adidas training camp are quite recognized by basketball fans, and Garnett was given an NBA draft template by Adidas that made fans feel crazy - Kevin McHale with Moses Malone's athletic talent!
Kobe Bryant was originally very popular because of his father Joe Bryant who posted his son on TV twice in three days, of course, it was mixed, and this Adidas training camp also gave a high evaluation - a player who can do anything on the court and has an extraordinary learning ability.
This rating actually just seems high, but what ball-handling tall guard isn't omnipotent in high school?
The point is that Bryant's college template is sassy – Anfernee Hardaway.
So, Kobe's father came out to build momentum for his son again...... was so angry that Kobe directly pulled off the big brother's battery and refused to answer the call at home.
Why did Kobe Bryant arrive at training camp and only talk to a few people? It's because he still has a big brother with him when he participates in the training camp, as if he is afraid that others will not know that his father is rich.
And Marbury, Odom, Bibby, Raheem, Jamison...... and others were also highlighted by Adidas.
However, among the high school students who were highlighted this time, there was one person who surprised many people - Zhang Hao!
10 points for athleticism, some basketball fans learned about this super athletic Chinese high school student after the McDonald's Slam Dunk Contest, but they didn't expect him to shoot with 10 points.
But it's nothing, there are seven players who have shot 10 points this year, and this one doesn't stand out.
The key is Adidas' evaluation of Zhang Hao - can you imagine a dunk player with the ability to dunk like Julius Irving, and can also have an accurate mid-range shot like Andrew Toney?
Through the McDonald's slam dunk contest, Zhang Hao has become famous, but not many people care, in the final analysis, it's just a dunk, there are so many amateur dunk contests every year, especially street events, some of which will be on TV, and will be forgotten after a while.
But Zhang Hao just emerged in the McDonald's Slam Dunk Contest half a month ago, and now he has come to the Adidas training camp, a place that only looks at the strength of the court, and he has actually emerged again!
There are people who are idle in any era, and there are really many people who check Zhang Hao's information, and then they find out that Zhang Hao was selected for the third team of the best high school students in the United States but did not want college.
People, they all like to watch counterattacks, and Adidas, which has been running this business for many years, has regarded this as a gimmick, and it is really hot!
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The mid-range shooting king of this training camp, Zhang Hao, practiced fast shooting and practiced well, and was suddenly crowned with such a title, which was given by Adidas.
Zhang Hao was even more sure of why he received "preferential treatment".
In the past few days, Zhang Hao has seen fewer and fewer players participating in the training camp, and people are constantly being eliminated, but no one here has asked him for assessment or other requirements, and when he was chatting with Hamilton, Hamilton once said that after his guidance at each stage, there will be an assessment.
Take their shooting group as an example, not every guide needs to be practiced by players, like his Zhang Hao's fast shooting training method learned, the shooting coach began to teach him the running position to catch the ball and turn and shoot skills and other very detailed things, after learning how to practice these, it is the next item, the training camp time is a week, they are only responsible for teaching you how to practice, if you can't even learn how to practice, can't remember, then eliminate, if the physical strength is not good to complete the training content, just eliminate, and the group of people who are lazy by nature, As early as the first two days, they were all eliminated.
However, these are none of Zhang Hao's affairs, just like Adidas will never eliminate Garnett, Kobe, and Bibby because of their training performance, Zhang Hao's mid-range shooting ability far exceeds the highest standards divided by the training camp from the beginning, and there are not so many so-called rules.
This made Zhang Hao's perception of basketball, his own strength, and his opponents begin to change...... This situation is a good thing for him, don't worry so much, and devote himself to his studies.
This is really more professional than the guidance of a coach in high school, it's not that Inglewood High School's coach Scott Collins is unprofessional, Zhang Hao heard that some NBA and NCAA teams invited Scott Collins to be an assistant coach, but Scott Collins wanted to be the head coach with the highest voice on the coaching staff, so he didn't go.
But Scott Collins is just one person after all, and there are areas that he is good at and what he is not good at.
Here, Zhang Hao relied on his mid-range shooting ability to win attention, so that those trainers and shooting coaches who seemed to have found a treasure were all around him to figure out how to help him strengthen, this treatment is not too good!
Chris Irving, the chief shooting coach of Adidas training camp, was really amazed by Zhang Hao's mid-range shooting, he is a well-known shooting personal coach in the basketball world, and he has to work for several NBA players almost every summer.
Student basketball is a dream world, and every time Chris Irving works as a shooting coach at Adidas training camp, he will have fun, find a talent, and do his best to help him get better.
Zhang Hao's mid-range shot won the attention of the coaches and trainers of the shooting team, and after the promotion of Adidas, there was another wave of fame improvement, but it also made him a little more troublesome.
Some people began to watch his training, and some even directly challenged him to shoot in a one-to-one match, excluding Kobe, Hamilton, Bibby and Corey Benjamin, who always wanted to compare with Zhang Hao.
Trainers and coaches don't stop this kind of challenge, but let the cameraman shoot it, no matter who challenges whom, maybe in the future, any of these players will emerge in the professional arena, and they can promote it again.
Adidas spends money to hold training camps, including food and accommodation, providing venues and providing guidance, and this reward is the right to use the image of these players during the training camp, portrait rights, etc.
Then, all the challengers were defeated.
When Zhang Hao took the initiative to talk to someone before, there were not many people who were familiar with him...... There are almost no acquaintances who rely purely on accosting, but after accepting many challenges in just three days, more and more people take the initiative to talk to him.
He found a misunderstanding - the basketball world, the high school basketball world, and the workplace are very different, and in this basketball world, some things are relatively simple.
In addition to becoming friends with similar smells, it is more likely that they will become friends after working together for a long time, or they will attract each other by their strength.
Zhang Hao felt that it was almost impossible for him and these black high school students who were far from each other in skin color, personality, and habits to become "like-minded" friends.
Long-term cooperation...... It seems to be Pierce?
Then it's just a matter of strength on the pitch!
Of course, social networking is not useless, but it needs to be based on strength.