Chapter 283: Chen Qiang Teaches You to Play Basketball (5)
Chen Qiang completed the offense with a jumper from outside the three-second zone.
The audience obviously rarely saw such an offensive method, and they all let out a cry of amazement.
The Pistons players stood on the spot dumbfounded, they all shrunk to within the three-second zone to defend, and then watched Chen Qiang shoot, and Chen Qiang really shot.
Pistons head coach Carter Bennett almost dropped his jaw in shock, he categorically did not expect that Chen Qiang would shoot directly outside the three-second zone.
As mentioned above, in the old basketball rules, the mid-to-long-range jumper is a forbidden way to score, in the past, there was no 24-second offensive limit, the team in order to pursue the shooting percentage, will only play as far as possible towards the basket, the easiest way to score is the team, no player will use the mid-to-long-range jumper to score, and the coach does not allow players to use the mid-to-long-range jumper.
This has been going on for decades, and coaches, players, and fans have become accustomed to the way they used to play, to basketball without mid-to-long-range jumpers, and they have decided that no one will use it to score. So when Chen Qiang jumped outside the three-second zone, everyone's first reaction was, this is incredible!
"How can he just jump and shoot from that position? And it's in! This must be a coincidence! Shooting outside the three-second zone can't be an established tactic, and no one will specialize in practicing that far jump shot! Yes, it must be a coincidence! Pistons head coach Carter Bennett secretly said in his heart, he couldn't help but comfort himself that Chen Qiang was just lucky enough to be able to score a goal in that position, which could make his mind calm down a lot.
I saw Carter Bennett stand up and shout at the Pistons players: "Steady, it's just a coincidence!" Everyone must be stable and fight according to the original tactics! ”
Carter Bennett was worried that the players would mess up because of Chen Qiang's shot outside the three-second zone, so he couldn't stop cheering up the Pistons players.
The Pistons are a strong team, and the players are all experienced players, they did not panic because of Chen Qiang's jump shot, and with the encouragement of the coach, the Pistons players immediately returned to their original form.
In the next round of defense, the Pistons are still implementing the strategy of tightening defense, and the players retreat to within the three-second zone to prevent the Knicks from breaking through.
Chen Qiang saw that the Pistons didn't have a long memory, and he was not used to them, so he stood outside the three-second zone and made an unmarked empty shot.
"It's still a jumper from outside the three-second zone!"
"It's in again!"
"Same position, same way, one more goal, the coincidence of that goal just now!"
"It's definitely practiced to score twice in a row!"
"It's amazing that he can shoot from such a distance, how did he develop this technique?"
There were shouts of surprise from the surrounding audience. For the audience of this era, where have they seen this kind of mid-range jumper, this kind of scoring method that will be very regular in the future, it really looks like a magic show to the audience in this era.
In the future, when the NBA just drew the three-point line, the situation was almost like this, both players and fans felt that such a long distance outside the three-point line, how good luck it must be to be able to shoot a three-point shot, and the three-point shot in that era was all about luck. Later, with the development of shooting technology and the improvement of players, more and more players mastered the three-point shooting technique, and the three-point shooting rate became higher and higher, and there were shooters like Curry who could hit unreasonable three-point shots in the midcourt.
In the stands, the star center of DeWitt Clinton Middle School, Dolph Sheyers, looked at Chen Qiang with an excited face.
"Jump shot, that's how it is, the way to deal with the expansion of the three-second zone and the offense to the three-second rule is the jump shot. If you master this long-distance jumper technique, then you don't need to enter the three-second zone at all, you only need to stand outside the three-second zone, and you can score directly! ”
"And a center like me has a height advantage, if I do this kind of jumper, then the chance of being blocked by the opponent will be extremely low, doesn't this mean that if I master this scoring skill, no one will be able to limit my share in the court!"
At this time, Dolph Seeers had already made up his mind that when he returned, he would go to practice his jump shooting skills, and he would also use the jump shot outside the three-second zone to score like Chen Qiang.
In 1948, when he participated in the NBA draft, he was selected by the NBL's Tri-City Blackhawks and the BAA's New York Knicks at the same time, but at that time the BAA was a newly formed league, and the Knicks gave fewer offers than the Black Hawks, so in the end Dolph Shayers chose the Black Hawks.
Unfortunately, the Blackhawks ran into financial difficulties, and the selection was won by the Syracuse Nationals, who became a Syracuse Nationals, making the All-Star team 12 times in his career and winning the NBA championship in 1955.
The Syracuse Nationals are now the Philadelphia 76ers, so Dolph Seeers is also the first basketball superstar in the history of the Philadelphia 76ers.
Dolph Shayes at his peak, averaging 24.9 points and 14.2 rebounds per game, as an interior superstar, good rebounding data is inevitable, but Dolph Shayes's scoring means are different from his contemporaries George McCann, he is a pitcher, and many of his points come from outside projection.
Influenced by Joe Forks, Dolph Seeers is a big man shooter, this kind of interior player who can grab rebounds and has strong shooting ability is rare even in today's NBA, and it is even more rare in the NBA at that time.
Dolph Shayers is best at scoring with his two-handed shot, and even though the advanced one-handed shooting moves have begun to become popular in the NBA, Dolph Shayers is still using the traditional two-handed shooting technique.
As a superstar in the transition period of basketball from primitive technical style to modern technical style, Dolph Shayers was also selected as one of the NBA's top 50 superstars in the future.
Chen Qiang didn't know that he had gained another follower at the top 50 superstar-level level, and at this time, he was using jump shooting skills to educate the Pistons.
After Chen Qiang scored two goals in a row, Pistons head coach Carter Bennett, even if he was stupid, had already realized that Chen Qiang's jump shooting technique was not blind, but a specially practiced skill.
Carter Bennett thought it was incredible, in his opinion, this kind of "long-range" jump shot was so difficult that he couldn't imagine how Chen Qiang practiced it.
With the level of basketball training in the 40s, it is true that excellent pitchers cannot be trained, and there are no pitchers at all in this era, let alone training pitchers, even if you look all over the world, you can't find a tutorial for pitcher training.
That's a lot of things, when people don't know how to get there, then it's incredibly difficult, and when people find a way to get there, it's easy.
It's like playing a game and brushing a copy, a very difficult copy, when everyone can't brush it, continuous team annihilation, and when the player finds the trick, this copy will become simpler, and even the original group annihilation copy has become an idle pass.
This is the so-called "it is not difficult for those who will be, and it will not be difficult for those who are difficult".
This is especially true of sports that tend to be technical, such as the curve ball in table tennis and the topspin ball in tennis, which were difficult to master when they first appeared, and they were only used by a very small number of athletes, but now, these techniques have become the basic skills of professional athletes.
Therefore, many "second-generation balls" in the NBA are more prominent than their parents, and a large part of the reason is that the training they have experienced is more scientific and advanced than their parents.
Although Carter Bennett was the top basketball coach of that era, and he led a first-class team like the Pistons, the limitations of the times limited Carter Bennett's vision, and with his understanding of basketball, he couldn't figure out how Chen Qiang mastered this kind of jump shooting technique outside the three-second zone.
Chen Qiang scored consecutive jumpers outside the three-second zone, which made Carter Bennett very blind, and also made the Pistons players very blind, but the blindfold is a circle, and the game still has to be played, so Carter Bennett quickly called a timeout and adjusted his defensive strategy.
After the timeout, the Pistons' defense no longer continued to pile up within the three-second zone, but expanded to the edge of the three-second zone, obviously preventing Chen Qiang from continuing to jump shots.
However, what the Pistons didn't expect was that Chen Qiang's range was not just on the edge of the three-second zone, even if he was one or two steps to the left and right of the three-second zone, Chen Qiang could still throw the ball in.
At the same time, Chen Qiang also showed another skill, that is, shooting directly after receiving the ball.
It is much easier to catch and shoot than to dribble and shoot, if you dribble and shoot, you still need a process of adjustment after the body stops, and when you catch and shoot, the player often has completed the body adjustment before shooting before receiving the ball.
But in the '40s, people didn't care about the difficulty, anyway, for people at the time, this kind of jump shot outside the three-second zone was very difficult.
"No, I can't defend against that Chinese at all, his attack range is too big, a whole circle around the three-second zone, all within his range, so there is no way to defend at all, and more importantly, his shooting speed is still very fast!" Carter Bennett's brows furrowed, and at this time he could already see that Chen Qiang's shooting speed was fast, so fast that it was difficult for defenders to interfere with him.
"With such a fast shooting speed, there is not much time to aim, how does he maintain his shooting percentage?" Carter Bennett had doubts and carefully observed Chen Qiang's jumper.
In the next second, Carter Bennett suddenly found that Chen Qiang's jump shot was different from other people's jump shots, when Chen Qiang shot, he only used one hand to exert force, and the other hand was used to support the basketball.
"It's a one-handed shot!" Carter Bennett gasped.
At the time, many people had never seen one-handed shooting, but Carter Bennett was a first-class basketball coach after all, and he was also well-informed on weekdays, and he had seen someone use one-handed shooting techniques.
It's just that the one-handed shooting technique that Carter Bennett has seen is very different from the shooting technique used by Chen Qiang.
The speed of one-handed shooting is obviously faster than two-handed shooting, and the rhythm of shooting is better than that of two-handed shooting, so in the future NBA, one-handed shooting will soon be popularized, and two-handed shooting technology will be abandoned by players.
"Another new technology!" Carter-Bennett was shocked in his heart, but at this time he felt that he was numb.
This game has brought Carter Bennett so many new things, not only new rules, but also new tactics and new techniques, which Carter Bennett has never seen before. And because there are too many new things to see, Carter Bennett has also changed from the shock at the beginning to slowly become accustomed to it.
At this time, Carter Bennett looked at the score and finally realized that the Pistons were gone, so he finally gave up resistance, replaced all the main players, and then replaced the bench.
In the next second, Carter Bennett suddenly realized that today's game, and the previous basketball, are more like two different sports, under this new rule, the original old way of thinking, can no longer survive, must use the tactical system of faith, with new technology, to adapt to the new rules.
"Basketball is going to change!" Carter-Bennett couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
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At the end of the game, the New York Knicks won their first game in the NBA with a big win over the Fort Wayne Pistons.
However, the fans were reluctant to leave the stadium, and many of them stood in front of their positions, looking at the stadium with blank eyes, looking unsatisfied.
Fans are not enough to see!
Sports in the United States are very popular, even though basketball was a very protracted and boring sport at the time, but there are many people involved, and the sports culture in American schools is prevalent, so that everyone who is educated knows about the sport of basketball.
However, today's game broke their stereotype of basketball.
In people's impression, basketball is a very slow offensive sport, but the game just now made them see a fast-paced basketball sport, after every ball exchange, the attacking side will be very eager to attack, which gives fans a feeling of overwhelmed. The fans haven't recovered from the attack just now, and the next attack has begun.
In the past basketball games, when I went to the toilet on the way, the score may not have been rewritten after I came back, and even the ball possession has not changed, but in today's basketball game, I went to the toilet and came back, and I missed several offensive rounds. It wasn't a big timeout like halftime, and fans didn't dare to go to the toilet for fear of missing the exciting game.
For the fans, this kind of offensive battle is really so beautiful that they are reluctant to leave the stadium after the game!
In the arena, Chen Qiang looked around, and the reaction of the fans was beyond his expectations.
"I was going to continue to be free for the next game, but now it seems that the next game will have to sell tickets!" Chen Qiang said to himself.
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