At 8 a.m. on Dec. 15, Tim Hardaway arrived at the arena on time to practice on his own before the team assembly time, so that he could earn respect when it was time to practice.

The point is to seize this job opportunity.

Tim Hardaway, in fact, is a rather unlucky person, at least he himself thinks he is unlucky.

After being drafted by the Warriors with the 14th pick in the first round in 1989, he quickly showed top talent in the Rocky Mountain Yellowstone Summer League, signing a four-year, $2.3 million contract with the Warriors.

Such a contract was quite rare in those years.

At the end of the 80s, the NBA salary was still not particularly high, and it was already very powerful to get more than 500,000 US dollars a year, Jordan's salary in the 88-89 season was 830,000 US dollars, and the new two-year 5 million US dollars in the summer of 89 was already the third highest salary at that time, second only to Magic and Big Bird.

At that time, there was no contract period, at that time, many rookies signed seven or eight years of contracts, and at that time, the ghost knew that Boss Joe's salary would grow wildly after retiring for the first time, in the eyes of the players of that era, Jordan, Magic, and Big Bird's contracts of more than 2 million US dollars were already sky-high, and ten years ago in 1979, when Abdul-Jabbar took the league's highest salary, he was also hundreds of thousands of US dollars.

So once the rookie can get a contract of five or six hundred thousand US dollars that year, he will choose to "ask for a sky-high price" and want a long-term contract, just like in the summer of 1991, when the Bulls offered Pippen a contract as big as Jordan, Pippen had the same mentality as signing for seven years no matter what was said, and felt that he had the same salary as the first person in the league, so how could he think about such a long-term thing.

But Tim Hardaway has faith in himself, and he is not willing to be satisfied with "tying" Abdul-Jabbar's salary, he feels that he can get the same salary as Jordan, Magic, and Big Bird.

And then he did, playing an epic rookie contract, averaging 20 points and 10 assists per game as a point guard, at least one of the top three point guards in the league in any era.

But before the rookie contract was finished, he suffered a serious injury, and in this year, Jordan retired, and a contract with a starting salary of more than 5 million US dollars began to appear in the league, but because of the injury, he only got a 3-year contract extension of 10 million with the data of the league's No. 1 point guard.

The most important thing is that in the year of his reimbursement, Penny was born, and in the first year of Jordan's retirement, Penny showed talent, aura, and charm that seemed to be able to pick up stars with his hand, and won the nickname of Hardaway the star picker, becoming the first generation of "Jordan's successor", covering up all his light.

By the time he came back, people only knew about Penny and completely forgot about The-Bug, and in the years of Penny peak, Tim Hardaway was completely forgotten.

This is not the end, Tim Hardaway has been pursuing championships in his career, he has always been a big winner in terms of individual performance, he was selected to the best team a total of 5 times in the 90s, and 1 time, but the team's results are average, although there are three times to lead the team to 55+ wins, but he has not won the first place in the division, the best performance in the playoffs has reached the Eastern Conference finals, in the 1997 playoffs, Tim Hardaway and Jordan, the two guards, played in the Eastern Finals, and the two staged an epic iron battle, Tim Hardaway is shooting 35 percent from the field, Jordan is shooting 38 percent from the field, Tim Hardaway is averaging 11 irons per game and Jordan is averaging 17 irons per game.

It turned out that it took a lot of iron to win the championship, and Tim Hardaway lost 1-4 to Jordan and missed the finals.

However, youth is capital, and in 1998, Tim Hardaway finally put Jordan up until he retired again, and in the 98-99 season, Tim Hardaway led the Heat to the first place in the East, and Jordan also retired, Tim Hardaway felt that the championship was close at hand, and then ......

In the end, Tim Hardaway retired without touching the championship trophy.

But after retiring, Tim Hardaway was once again suppressed off the pitch by Penny, who became the small owner of his hometown team, and he now works for the Penny team......

Comparisons are odious.

But now Tim Hardaway is happy, the Grizzlies head coach is looking for a coach for Sun Ce, not looking for the team's small owner Penny Hardaway, but looking for him Hardaway!

Although he has been retired for several years and his weight has soared from more than 80 kilograms to 105 kilograms, Tim Hardaway is still very confident in terms of technology, and in 08 he also faced off against Boss Joe in an amateur game, and once again staged a wave of iron fights.

does not have the outstanding appearance of pennies, and after retiring, there is no way to live an easy life with endorsement fees like pennies, and there is a big gap between the two in terms of career salary, Tim Hardaway has received an annual salary of 10 million in the Suns, and has spare money to invest in NBA teams, Tim Hardaway can only rely on hard work.

He wants to be the head coach of the NBA, and this time he was asked to be an assistant coach with the Grizzlies, which is the beginning of his NBA coaching career, and he wants to take advantage of this opportunity.

He feels that he is already early to the stadium at 8 o'clock, and as far as he knows about the current NBA players, there are not many people who really work hard for these players who are more talented and earn more money overall, mainly reflected in the fact that the skills of players who have entered the NBA in recent years have become more and more single.

But when he entered the training ground, he saw Sun Ce, who had already trained and was sweating!

Sun Ce came very early today, finished breakfast at half past six, and ran to the stadium at seven o'clock to start training directly.

The impression of last night's low-level footsteps, although it is getting more and more faded, he still wants to practice more of what he can remember, and the temporary muscle memory is gone, but if he practices more, he will leave some muscle impressions more or less, and he can learn faster when he trains independently or finds a learning object for the "soft egg flow" low-position play method in the future.

After 40 minutes of low-post practice, Sun Ce rested for 10 minutes and began to practice shooting, and after a group of mid-range shots, when he was practicing the bottom corner three-pointer, Tim Hardaway came.

Tim Hardaway looked at Sun Ce's mid-range shooting accuracy is not bad, as a sophomore, it is quite rare to have a mid-range shooting ability like Sun Ce.

But when I saw Sun Ce practice three points in the bottom left corner, he scored 4 of the first 10 shots......

Too bad!

Is this mid-range shot and this three-pointer the same person?

The trainer who passed the ball to Sun Ce next to him had an unbearable expression.

Sun Ce finished a set of bottom corner three-point shots, making 27 of 50 shots, barely exceeding the training shooting rate of 50%.

Sun Ce himself felt embarrassed.

But there is no way, the three-point foundation is too poor! The three-point rating in the left sideline is D-, which is already the best of all positions.

Although the three-point is one of the easiest techniques to master in contemporary basketball, it is not as simple as you think.

Based on the three-point training that Sun Ce had learned from Curry, Sun Ce knew why Curry was successful.

In the summer of 2006, Curry was rejected by Duke University, and Davidson College, which was also in North Carolina, was willing to accept him, but was unwilling to offer him a basketball scholarship, and he felt humiliated for three years, as long as there was no game or no need to prepare for the game, no injuries and other effects, even if it was Christmas, he had to shoot at least 500 threes a day on average before he was willing to end his training, three years as a day, an average of at least 10,000 threes per year in individual training, plus team training, games, Far more than 10,000 three-point shots a year, there is Curry, a god pitcher who averaged two three-pointers per game when he entered the NBA last season and dominated the three-point list since his sophomore year.

Sun Ce knew that he needed to work hard and knew that he still had a long way to go, but he was not discouraged because he was still young!

He will only turn 21 on the 7th of next month, and Curry's little brother will turn 23 in March next year.

Just as he was about to let the trainer massage and relax, slow down, and then practice the second set of shots, Sun Ce turned his head and saw Tim Hardaway.

Tim Hardaway's expression is familiar to Sun Ce, and a little over a week before training camp began, there was a 1997 line-back who looked at him with the same expression every day.

"Tim, I've worked hard!" Sun Ce complained.

"Yes, yes, I know you're working hard," Tim Hardaway looked at Sun Ce sweating profusely, of course he knew that Sun Ce was working hard, but he still said with disgust: "But your three points are like shit......"

When Sun Ce heard this, he slandered in his heart: In 1997, a guard had such an annoying mouth?

This is not over, Tim Hardaway continued to complain: "No, it's not even as good as shit, shit will stink and keep people away, and your three points can only be seen as a joke." ”

"Hey, I'll rub it!" Sun Ce couldn't stand it, and couldn't help but retort: "You're so powerful, you want to try it?" ”

Hearing this, Tim Hardaway came to his senses.

Originally, when he saw Sun Ce's three-point shooting, he wanted to give up the idea of teaching Sun Ce, Sun Ce's three-point basic skills were too poor, and he was worried about ruining his reputation, after all, he was hanging the signboard of "Three-point Zero-based Teaching Package Teaching Package" to find a job, and it was precisely because of this that Coach Hollins took a fancy to him, and he knew that many teams wanted to find him as a trainer or assistant coach, all of which took a fancy to the feat of having a zero-based three-point connection to the three-point king in the regular season, and the signboard could not be smashed.

There is also Sun Ce is too "humble", looking like a good baby, although people like to listen to good words and like to be respected, but on the court, Tim Hardaway prefers a tough type of player, he is not familiar with Sun Ce, it is difficult to really understand a person's character when watching the game, Tim Hardaway's first impression of Sun Ce yesterday cannot be said to be bad, but it is not good.

But now, Tim Hardaway is interested!

Without further ado, Tim Hardaway took off his jacket and walked to the three-point line to the trainer, who was used to getting up early in the morning and working overtime, and began to shoot three-pointers, not caring at all where he was in, he shot 37 of 50 shots......

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Let's go around 5 o'clock in the next chapter, ask for a monthly pass!