If it is the future NBA, it is estimated that it is necessary to shoot one step outside the three-point line, which is embarrassingly called "long-range shooting". An unreasonable shooter like Curry may be called "long-range" only if he gets the midline position.

However, in the forties, a mid-range shot from the free-throw line was considered a long-range shot. And in those days, there were very few players who chose to shoot outside the three-second zone, even if there was an open opportunity.

Mid-range shooting is not a very esoteric technique, and even many high school students will be able to master it in the future. Although the physical fitness of the players in the forties is not as good as that of later generations, the players are not stupid, and if they really practice, they will definitely be able to master the mid-range shooting technique. The main reason why the players didn't practice was because under the basketball system at that time, mid-range shooting was not a practical technique.

At that time, basketball did not have a 24-second limit for attacking, and the ball holder had time to organize the offense, and because there was plenty of time to organize the offense, the offense would not easily lose the ball. Therefore, the attacker at that time will choose the most secure way to attack with the greatest probability of scoring.

It's just an indisputable fact that the closer you are to the basket, the higher the percentage of points you can score. Therefore, in the absence of an offensive time limit, the attacker will try to select the shooting point close to the basket as much as possible to pursue the shooting percentage. At the same time, the early absence of a three-second offense means that players can stay close to the basket. Since you can stand under the basket and score, a fool will choose a mid-range jumper away from the basket!

Therefore, in the early days of basketball, the mid-to-long-range jumper was a forbidden technique, and if a player made a mid-range jumper during the game, he would definitely be replaced by the coach.

It is also for this reason that when Chen Qiang mentioned making a jump shot outside the three-second zone, Ferris would say that the shot at that distance was "not easy".

Early basketball teammates were extremely unfriendly, and until the seventies, jump shots were not the dominant means of scoring on the basketball court. Many fans can name some early NBA giants, such as George McCann, Chamberlain, "Lord of the Rings" Russell, "Skyhook" Abdul-Jabbar, etc., but none of these players are pitchers, and none of them rely on jump shots as their main means. Even a die-hard fan can't name a pitcher from 60 years ago. Among the future superstars, Jordan, Kobe, Durant, Curry, and Harden, which one does not use the jump shot as the main means of scoring?

In that regard, there is one person the NBA should be thankful for, and that is Bob McAdoo, the assistant coach of the future Heat dynasty.

Although Bob McAdoo has also been a five-time All-Star and won three scoring titles, his fame is far less than that of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and others, and even a few points weaker than Bill Wharton and Elvin Hayes, but Bob McAdoo is the one who redefined the jump shot, and it can be said that he used the jump shot to lead a revolution in basketball.

As a 6-foot-10-inch big center, Bob McAdoo's main scoring tool was the outside jumper, and he was even hailed as one of the greatest shooters of his era, even Larry Bird, who was influenced by Bob McAdoo. It's fair to say that Bob McAdoo's game is built around jumper technique.

If you want to find a template player, the future Nowitzki, or Durant, they should be more similar to Bob McAdoo, both have enough height and good enough mid-to-long-range shooting skills. So in the future, when many fans say that Nowitzki's style of play is unprecedented and Durant's style of play is unique, it can only mean that these fans are too young. The originator of the big man playing mid-to-long-range jumpers has to look at Bob McAdoo.

It may be difficult for fans in later generations to imagine that the most scoring method used by outside players is the jump shot, which starts with an inside center!

(Regarding the claim that Bob McAdoo's jump shot led the basketball revolution, it was put forward by the famous American basketball reporter Sean Fury, and the pass is just more agreeable, if you have different opinions, find Shaun Fury to debate, don't come to spray the pass nonsense.) ）

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After Chen Qiang's explanation, Ferris still has some different opinions, but he agrees with the idea of using the adjustment of the rules to force players to learn new techniques and force coaches to adopt new tactics.

Sports is constantly developing, if it is always the same, then the sport will eventually decline, not to mention that the current basketball is boring enough, if not changed, it must be a dead end, since there is no reform will die, it is better to gamble, maybe the modification of these rules can really bring basketball back to life.

However, the matter of revising the basketball rules cannot be done with a few pieces of paper or one or two sentences, so at the meeting that day, there was no consensus on the revision of the basketball rules proposed by Chen Qiang.

No one at the meeting explicitly objected, but the likes of Fort Wayne Rosser owner Fred Zorner, Washington Congressman Miguel Yulin, and Philadelphia Warriors owner Peter Tyrell all said they wanted to go back and think about it.

None of these three people are well-versed in basketball, and they don't know the pros and cons of such a rule change, so they naturally have to go back to the professionals for advice. Pistons owner Fred Zorner even offered to have the team's head coach attend the next meeting in his place, so that he could be judged from a professional point of view.

For Chen Qiang, it is imperative to revise the rules of basketball, the ABL league and the NBL league that adopted the old rules are now in a half-dead state, and the NBA has just been established in the first few years, and it is also on the verge of bankruptcy, the reason is that under the old rules, basketball is too boring. The sports industry in the United States is so developed, and the audience has so many sports to choose from, why choose basketball?

Even in the future, the NBA will continue to revise and modify and encourage offense, but in the United States, basketball still can't do football. The slow-paced and boring basketball of the thirties and forties, competing with other sports, is to find death!

If you want the new league to survive, you must revise the rules of basketball, so Chen Qiang must try his best to promote the revision of the rules of basketball.

Among the eight teams, the New York Knicks are Chen Qiang's own team, the Rochester Royals and the Baltimore Bullets, Chen Qiang is also a big funder, and the Boston Celtics also have Chen Qiang's shares, if you vote, Chen Qiang already accounts for half, which seems to be a big advantage.

But if the other four teams don't agree to change the rules, they will also have half of the votes. So Chen Qiang has to at least get one more supporter.

In the next meeting, other teams will send coaches, these coaches are professionals, and it is not easy to fool, and it is indispensable to have a lot of words.

The key is that many basketball coaches in the thirties and forties were more traditional and conservative, and even in the fifties, there were still coaches who were against jump shooting, and such people would most likely oppose Chen Qiang's changes to the rules.

"I don't know what kind of head coaches will be sent by each team in the next meeting! These basketball head coaches are not easy to deal with, so let's see how to dismantle them when the time comes! Chen Qiang thought to himself.

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Chen Qiang returned home, only to see guests coming to the house. This guest is none other than Hu Shi.

"Sir, why did you come to New York? Don't say hello to me in advance, I'll pick you up at the station! Chen Qiang asked in surprise.

"Hehe, I'm here this time, I'm afraid I'm going to bother you for a few days." Hu Shi paused, pointed to a suitcase in the corner, and continued, "I have to live in your house today." ”

"No problem." Chen Qiang first nodded in agreement, and then asked with a smile: "Sir, you haven't come to New York much over the years, or is it the first time you've stayed with me, and the hotel in New York doesn't agree with you?" ”

"It's not that I don't want to stay in a hotel, mainly because it's too expensive to stay in a hotel! I don't have to spend money to live here, you still have to take care of my food. Hu Shi shook his head helplessly.

"Sir, you're making fun of me. No matter how poor our embassy is, we can't even afford to live in a hotel! Chen Qiang said with a smile.

"I'm not from the embassy anymore." Hu Shichang sighed.

"What? Sir, not an ambassador to the United States? The country has given you a new position? Chen Qiang immediately asked.

"Not long ago, I submitted my resignation to Chongqing, and Chongqing immediately approved it. But Chongqing didn't let me go back. I'm now unofficial and light, but I've also become an idle crane with nothing to do, so I can only come to New York to join you. I know that you kid is a rich man now, and I won't eat who you eat! Hu Shi explained slowly.

Then Hu Shi gave a general explanation of his situation.

After the Song envoy came to the United States, he put Hu Shi in the air, and if he played political struggle, Hu Shi was not worthy of carrying shoes for the Song envoy, so Hu Shi, the ambassador to the United States, gradually became an ornament.

Special Envoy Song is a doctor of economics from Columbia University, has served as the Minister of Finance in China, and can run the Song family into one of the "four major families", it is certainly not a straw bag, he still has a certain ability. Although when he first came to the United States, the work of Special Envoy Song was not smooth, not to mention the walls everywhere, and he was constantly suppressed by Japan on the diplomatic battlefield. But with the passage of time, Special Envoy Song gradually became familiar with foreign affairs with the United States, coupled with the outbreak of the Pacific War, Special Envoy Song also slowly accomplished several major things.

Rather, a major event recently accomplished by Special Envoy Soong, that is, he signed the "Sino-US Agreement on Mutual Assistance in Resisting Aggression" with US Secretary of State Hull in Washington, D.C., in which the United States pledged to provide military assistance to China. Chennault's Flying Tigers officially joined the U.S. Army Air Corps one month after the agreement was signed.

Obtaining military assistance from the United States is definitely a great achievement, and this credit also makes Special Envoy Song feel that the embassy no longer needs Hu Shi, anyway, Special Envoy Song has a bad look at Hu Shi, so he began to suppress Hu Shi more and more.

The various political methods of the Song envoy were used, how could Hu Shi, a scholar, stand it, and Hu Shi was also a scholar, he was already very arrogant, and he couldn't stand this kind of suppression, so he submitted his resignation to Chongqing in a fit of anger.

Chongqing, on the other hand, was unloading the mill and killing the donkey, and didn't even bother to give it verbal retention, so it agreed directly.

During his tenure as ambassador to the United States, Hu Shi also made remarkable political achievements, especially when the domestic War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was at its most critical, and he got tens of millions of dollars in loans from the United States, which was definitely a mouthful of old blood for the country. It is said that in this case, Chongqing should promote Hu Shi and let him go back to an important position, at least a ministerial-level official, even if he does not have a real position, he should be a member of some important committee.

However, Chongqing only agreed to Hu Shi's resignation, but did not arrange a new job for Hu Shi.

There is no doubt that Chongqing does not want Hu Shi to go back, after all, Hu Shi sinned against Chongqing's interest groups during his tenure as ambassador to the United States, and Chongqing does not want an influential nerd like Hu Shi to go back and stir up the situation.

So Hu Shi could only stay in the United States.

The key is that Hu Shi, a nerd, has been an official for so many years, but he can't make money, this person has been honest all his life, so he is very strapped for money, and the living expenses in the United States are expensive, and he has no salary without the position of ambassador to the United States, so Hu Shi is reluctant to even live in a hotel, so he simply went to Chen Qiang's house.

At this time, Hu Shi probably fell into the biggest low ebb in his life, and he did his best for the country, but he was tragically unloaded and killed a donkey, and anyone would be extremely depressed.

In the next three years, Hu Shi will live in New York, engaged in academic research, after the end of World War II will be sent by Chongqing to UNESCO, and later Hu Shi returned to China as the president of Peking University, in 1949, the three major battles were finished, Nanjing was defeated, at this time the Nanjing big man remembered Hu Shi, so he re-enabled Hu Shi, let him go to the United States as a lobbyist, hoping that the Americans could directly send troops to China and intervene in China's civil war. However, as soon as Hu Shi arrived in the United States, he learned that the People's Liberation Army had crossed the Yangtze River and was unstoppable.

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After settling Hu Shi, Chen Qiang continued to be busy with the affairs of the new alliance.

Although the second meeting has not yet been held, Chen Qiang still has to prepare for the implementation of the new rules.

On this day, Chen Qiang made an appointment to meet a man named Daniel Biasson, an Italian immigrant who owned a factory that produced timepieces.

There were no electronic timers at the time, so most of them were physical timers in the style of pocket watches. If Chen Qiang were to introduce the 24-second rule in basketball, the pocket watch timer would be more cumbersome, and the players on the court and the spectators on the sidelines could not see how much offensive time was left. You can't watch the game with this stopwatch in everyone's hand!

Therefore, Chen Qiang needs a big digital timer, which is placed directly in the stadium, so that players and spectators can intuitively understand how much 24-second offensive time is left.

In the future of basketball games, there will be an electronic timer above the basketball hoop to indicate the time, and in the forties, there was no LCD screen at all, let alone an electronic timer with an LCD screen.

Fortunately, there was already a kind of automatic scrolling digital timer at that time, similar to the date display in a watch, so Chen Qiang planned to customize a digital timer like that. So he found Daniel Biason, who produced the timer.

However, what Chen Qiang didn't expect was that Daniel Biasson was interested in Chen Qiang's new basketball league.

After the two chatted for a long time, Daniel Biasson asked, "Mr. Chen, does your new league still need a team?" ”

"Is Mr. Biasson interested in organizing a team?" Chen Qiang asked rhetorically.

"I'd like to try if I could!" Daniel Biasson continued: "My factory is in Syracuse, so I want to set up a team in Syracuse. I've got a name in mind, it's Syracuse Citizen! ”

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