Chapter 287: The Age of the Pitcher

Joe Fox stepped onto the pitch and listened carefully to the cheers of the crowd around him.

Although he has only played a few games, in the city of Philadelphia, Joe Fox can already enjoy the treatment of a sports star.

A big man like Joe Fox was unique in basketball at the time, and Joe Fox still used one-handed shooting skills, which was not seen in other professional basketball games.

People are curious, and fans are even more so, if a star has a unique skill, then fans will always expect that star to use that skill, and this unique technology is equivalent to an exclusive trait that can make fans remember that star, and that star will gain more visibility and more fans as a result.

This is probably like a two-person actor in the Northeast, who has so many "unique skills" in his hands, and this "unique skills" is the sharpest weapon to attract the audience. These "unique skills" may not be so exciting, and some may even seem like inhumane acts of self-harm, but as a form of artistic performance, it is enough to attract the audience, after all, the performance is for the audience.

This is the case with Joe Folks, although fans may not like his one-handed shooting skills, and they may not like this kind of big man pitcher floating outside, but Joe Folks's uniqueness has made fans remember him and make many people start to like him.

Joe Folks' performance in the first few games made the fans cheer for him, and in three consecutive games, Joe Folkes scored more than 20 points, such data, even in the future NBA, can touch the threshold of the All-Star, and in the forties, such data can be called a god-level performance.

In the season when Joe Fox won the scoring title in history, he averaged 23.2 points per game, and in the future, how can the scoring champion average more than 30 points per game! For example, Harden averaged 36.1 points per game, an absolute god-level performance. And Joe Fox in the forties, his scoring ability is equivalent to that of Harden in that era.

And Philadelphia itself is also a city with a strong sports atmosphere, and in this city, sports stars are in much better condition than other cities. The city is home to some of the craziest fans in the country and can even riot over sports. The city's sports stars are always able to enjoy the most enthusiastic cheers.

Joe Fox looked at the team's head coach, Eddie Gottlieb, and he couldn't help but feel a ray of emotion rise in his heart.

Joe Fox, who is 1.98 meters tall, was definitely a big man in basketball at the time, and he also had a very good jump, so the coach would ask him to run to the basket and play physical confrontation with those interior players.

However, Joe Fox doesn't like this style of play, preferring to stay on the outside and use his best one-handed jumper technique to score. The jump shot is more exciting than hitting the basket to complete the offense, and Joe Fox enjoys the anticipation of waiting for a goal after a basketball shot.

Unfortunately, in those days, mid-to-long-range jumpers were an absolutely forbidden technique, and every coach Joe Fox met didn't allow him to use them. That is until he meets Eddie Gottlieb.

Gottlieb allowed Joe Fox to use one-handed jumper techniques, and even allowed him to shoot from long range, and Gottlieb also developed a special strategy in order to allow Joe Fox to make the most of his mid-to-long-range jumpers.

This made Joe Fox feel that he, a thousand-mile horse, had finally met Bole!

Joe Faulks, who was once not recognized, finally met a coach who could recognize him, which made him feel like a confidant died, so since the start of the new season, every game, Joe Faulks has played very hard, he wants to repay Coach Gottlieb's kindness, but also to prove to the world that the mid-to-long-range jumper is possible!

When the whistle blew at the beginning of the game, Joe Fox quickly got into the groove, although it was only the first offense, and his body was not fully warmed up, but his heart was on fire, and when the basketball was passed to his hands, the feeling of blood boiling made him full of strength.

Jumping, shooting, Joe Fox used his best one-handed shooting technique to kick off the offense.

At the moment of the basketball shot, Joe Fox even thought that the New York Knicks must have been stunned by their special offensive style!

In the surrounding crowds, a cheer full of anticipation also sounded at this time, and Joe Fox's jumper was definitely the most desired way for the home audience to attack.

Joe Folks' bounce is so good that he lives up to the nickname "Hopping Joe", so he has a high shot and sees the basketball fly in the air, arc through it, and then smash into the basket.

Joe Fox didn't throw the ball in.

A few disappointed voices sounded around, but Joe Fox didn't care, after all, the game has just begun, the feel has not yet been cultivated, and it is normal to not be able to throw, as long as you throw a few more times and slowly cultivate the feel, you can definitely throw in.

Chen Qiang shook his head with a smile, in his opinion, Joe Fox's one-handed shooting skills still have more room for improvement.

Joe Fox was the first person in the NBA to use the one-handed shooting technique, which also means that Joe Folks' one-handed shooting technique is the most primitive one-handed shooting technique. After decades of development in basketball, the shooting technology has been continuously improved, and the one-handed shooting technology of later generations naturally has to compete with Joe Fox's original one-handed shooting, which is more scientific and more standardized.

After looking at Joe Faulks' shooting posture, Chen Qiang didn't think that Joe Faulks would have a high shooting percentage.

There are also many bizarre shooting postures in the future NBA, but those shooters who are really remembered by people will never use that bizarre posture to shoot, and every epic shooter, their shooting posture is a textbook for shooting.

For example, Ray Allen, such as Curry, this undisputed god shooter, their shooting posture is definitely the best teaching material for learning jump shots, and for example, Jordan's pull-up jumper, Kobe's "picturesque", Maddy's dry pull, Harden's step-back, although these shooting methods have a strong personal style, even others can not imitate, but in terms of their shooting posture, they can also be used as a textbook to learn.

And a few guys in the NBA who shoot weirdly, such as Sean Marion and Kyle Martin, although they have had good stats and even made it to the All-Star team, no one will think they are great shooters, and no coach will advise players to learn their shooting postures. Their names are also not remembered by most people, and perhaps many young fans of the new generation will find their names unfamiliar.

Joe Faulks's one-handed shooting posture, in 1942, was indeed very advanced, but in the eyes of later generations, it was very strange, and any professional basketball coach would not think that such a shot would have a satisfactory shooting percentage after Joe Faulks's shooting posture.

In fact, Joe Fox's shooting percentage is really not that high.

Joe Fox was the first scoring champion in NBA history, averaging 23.2 points per game in the season he won the scoring title, which is also a good statistic today. And his shooting percentage at that time was only a pitiful 30.5%, and the following year Joe Fox's shooting rate even dropped to 25.9%, and his free throw shooting percentage fell below 70% at the worst time!

As a pitcher, shooting only 25 percent from the field and less than 70 percent from the free throw line is definitely hard to imagine in later generations. Compared with the modern scoring champion, Harden's shooting rate has reached 44%, and even Westbrook, who is known as the "data brush" by many people, has a shooting rate of 42.5% in the season when he won the scoring title.

In such a comparison, Joe Fox's shooting percentage is really low!

In the 40s, basketball didn't have three-pointers, and at that time, one goal was two points, and if you hit three out of ten shots, you scored six points, and if you could make 40 shots per game, you would score 24 points. In other words, Joe Fox's scoring title was earned by averaging nearly 40 shots per game. If this is placed in the future, it will definitely be a "ball tyrant" level existence, Westbrook, the "data brush" in the eyes of fans, when he won the scoring title, he only averaged 24 shots per game. Bryant scored 34 points on 41 shots and was almost sprayed to death by fans. In this respect, Joe Fox is more powerful than Wei Shao.

However, in that era, no one accused Joe Fox of being a statist, and in the eyes of most people, this kind of mid-to-long-range jumper with a 30% shooting percentage was already a great thing.

Compare with the superstar George McCann of the same period, in his peak season, the average shooting rate per game was only 42.8%, you must know that George McCann is a center and an invincible existence under the basket, but this kind of player who relies on the basket to attack, the best shooting rate is only in the early 40s, which is not as good as Curry's three-point shooting rate, which also shows that in that era, the player's shooting rate was indeed low and pitiful.

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Joe Fox missed, the ball shifted, and it was the New York Knicks' turn to attack.

The Knicks are still the signature breakthrough ball, the player with the ball broke through quickly, attracting the attention of the Warriors' defense, and then distributed the ball to Chen Qiang, who was waiting on the outside, and after Chen Qiang received the ball, he directly chose to shoot.

Chen Qiang's shooting was unexpected by the Warriors.

"What? He also voted! ”

"Anyone other than Joe Fox would shoot from this distance?"

Joe Fox couldn't believe his eyes, he didn't expect someone to use the same offensive style as him!

"How is that possible!" Joe Fox exclaimed in surprise and watched the basketball go into the hoop.

"Thrown?" Joe Fox couldn't believe his eyes, he thought that only he would float on the outside to make a jump shot, but he didn't expect that there were others like him, and more importantly, someone else also threw in, but Joe Fox missed!

Catching and shooting is originally a kind of shooting with the highest hit rate of Chen Qiang, not to mention that it is still in the case of no one marking, it is similar to shooting practice, one shot and one accurate.

Philadelphia Warriors head coach Gottlieb stood up straight from the bench: "Is it a coincidence?" How could anyone other than Joe Fox use this alternative style of offense? ”

Gottlieb has been a basketball coach for so many years, and finally found a player like Joe Fox who can float on the outside jumper, Gottlieb thought that Joe Fox was a unique existence, except for Joe Folks, no one would delve into this alternative offensive defense, and now Chen Qiang is also an outside jumper, which instantly broke Gottlieb's cognition.

Although Gottlieb is talking about "coincidences", as a senior basketball coach, Gottlieb knows that there are so many coincidences in basketball, basketball is a technical sport after all, and the so-called coincidences are also based on practice and experience.

Sports competitions are still about strength, and the so-called luck or coincidence is also supported by strength. For example, there are many zero-second shots in the NBA, or the so-called "God Moment", these seemingly incredible performances are not just caused by luck or coincidence, but behind the countless practice of the players, as well as the experience accumulated by hundreds of thousands of games.

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Chen Qiang's shooting surprised Joe Fox, and his mentality seemed to have been affected, and he didn't shoot when he was on the next offense. And the Philadelphia Warriors don't seem to have any plans to change other offensive methods, and they are still determined to let Joe Fox shoot.

With an average of nearly forty shots per game, it's really not blown, and Joe Fox has unlimited right to fire.

As for the Knicks, the offense should be more diverse, and there are many changes in the tactics of fast breakout, whether it is a successful breakthrough or an unsuccessful breakthrough, there are many tactical options, so the Knicks team's offense will not be confined to Chen Qiang's offense.

After Chen Qiang completed his first jumper, he didn't shoot again on four consecutive offenses, and it wasn't until Joe Fox hit a shot that Chen Qiang chose a mid-range jumper again.

This time, Joe Fox also saw Chen Qiang's shooting posture clearly.

"Like me, it's a one-handed shot!" Joe Fox gasped.

The same outside shooter, which already makes Joe Fox feel incredible, and the opponent actually uses a one-handed shot!

"How can he shoot with one hand?" Joe Fox suddenly felt a sense of grievance rise in his heart.

Joe Fox has always thought that he is a unique existence in basketball, and his outside jump shots and one-handed shooting skills are not possessed by others, and this is what Joe Fox is quite proud of.

But today, Chen Qiang's appearance broke Joe Fox's sense of superiority, which made him realize that he was no longer the only existence.

It's like a very face-saving young man showing off his brand-name sports car, thinking that this sports car is the only limited edition in the world, but the next second he found that an identical sports car also appeared in front of him, and other people's sports cars are more powerful and have better handling.

Now Joe Fox, this is probably the case, he has felt that the same one-handed shooting technique, Chen Qiang's one-handed shooting posture seems to be more beautiful and elegant than his one-handed shooting posture!

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On the sidelines of the court, Warriors head coach Gottlieb also saw Chen Qiang's shooting posture from later generations.

"It's such a beautiful shot, it's so smooth, it's art! With this kind of shooting, it feels like even scoring has become easier! Gottlieb couldn't help but sigh softly.

There are no other pitchers in this era, and Gottlieb has never seen the world, so Chen Qiang's jump shot in a standard posture is already "picturesque" in Gottlieb's eyes.

However, after his sigh, Gottlieb suddenly realized something.

If the jump shot makes scoring easy, then the era of the pitcher is coming!

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