Chapter 2: Heads-up 100 Balls
With the end of the team's collective practice, most of the Lakers players have left the arena, and I don't know most of their names, but since everyone is teammates in the future, I have to find an opportunity to get to know them slowly, understand their personalities and skills, and of course, the most important thing is the latter.
At the beginning, I just did some simple stretching exercises, and the common sense of sports in my previous life still told me that I had to protect my body from a young age, you must know that I didn't pay attention to protecting my body when I was very young, which led to a significant decline in physical fitness, and now I have the opportunity to have Kobe. Bryant's healthy body, which has just turned eighteen, must be well maintained if he wants to make a name for himself in the NBA in the future!
Especially considering that I am about to have a devil training today, if you want to have less soreness in your body the next day, you must stretch and relax your body strictly and seriously, although Kobe's eighteen-year-old body is not expected to have any tiredness, but the wear and tear of the body will accumulate, if you don't pay attention now, the body may not be able to use so well after a few years of high-intensity NBA.
I also think of LeBron, who has an influence in NBA history and even surpasses Kobe. James, with his extremely strict and disciplined training habits, was the key to his ability to dominate the NBA for most of the nearly two decades.
After completing the stretching exercise, I began to train all the basic basketball skills that I can master now, including dribbling, passing, shooting, foot movement, back body skills, key position skills, etc., the first thing I need to do is to find the feeling of the palm of my hand on the ball.
When I tried to grab the ball with one hand, it didn't seem to be as easy as I thought, and sure enough, Kobe's palm was really small compared to the super big hands like Jordan and Kawaii, and I slapped a ball in each hand, and then dribbled back and forth around the sides of my body, and then dribbled the ball in circles as I walked.
I did these simple movements for almost 20 minutes, and the most important thing about spending so much time on dribbling was to re-develop my brain's sense of the ball, after all, no matter how strong my body had muscle memory before, but now I can't seem to fully control them, so I have to re-strengthen the connection between muscle memory and brain.
After the dribbling session, I arranged for myself about 10 sets of sprints and jogging intervals, one set of all-out sprints and one set of jogging around the basketball court, and then I did stretching again.
What I didn't expect was that Kobe's eighteen-year-old body contained in the physical strength was really a monster, and after finishing the team training game and completing the dribbling and running training, my body did not feel tired at all, and even the sweat only slightly wet the jersey.
It's no wonder that Kobe Bryant was able to carry out the legendary 6*6 horror devil training, the so-called 6*6 is six hours a day, six days of ultra-high-intensity special training, if you change the body of ordinary people, not to mention how much improvement you get, so I am afraid that the body will have to be abolished long ago.
Just when I wanted to do some special shooting training, I saw a guy who was half a head shorter than me and should be about 1.9 meters tall threw the ball at me, and I saw that he had a pair of mustaches and laughed a little obscenely.
"Kobe, you were really unique when you were training on the team today, you know that in order to be a good partner with a dominant interior player like Shaq, you need at least a good passing skill and a wide passing vision, just like the match between Magic and Tiangou back then."
"I'm sorry, I seem to have forgotten your name!" I looked at him with a little embarrassment, and saw that this guy immediately showed a really bad expression of the current young man, he looked relatively old, and now it seems that he is likely to be an old player left over from the Lakers SHOWTIME period earlier, so that I thought he was just a sparring partner at first.
"My name is Byron. Scott, boy, you remember that name, I'm not a nobody, and I'm not going to be like you guys who went straight into the NBA straight from high school, and at most shine in the league and then fall like a meteor in a season or two, and this is my eleventh season in the NBA, with three championship rings. ”
"What's the big deal? If it weren't for the three champion magicians, Skyhook and James. Worthy, why do you get three championship rings, don't make a look of relying on the old and selling the old, okay, and don't say that I don't respect my predecessors, this is an alliance that survives by strength, if you want me to obey you, unless you convince me! ”
I showed a very disdainful expression, I didn't like this little old man very much when I watched the NBA before, I just pretended not to know him, in fact, the head coach in the last few seasons of Kobe's career was Byron. Scott, as well as the head coach of the Cavaliers in the seasons after James left the Cavaliers for the first time, is also him, and it can be said that this guy is really a pretty qualified swing coach except for saying something chicken soup.
"Heads-up?" Scott had a rather amused look on his face, as if he was incredulous that I would make such a request. "Don't look at me now, I'm a little old, but it's not easy to beat a rookie like you to blow up!"
After saying that, we walked to one of the basketball courts, and I also wanted to laugh a little at this result, I really didn't expect that my agitation method would succeed so easily, and I had to clean him up today.
"How many?" I tossed the ball to him and motioned for him to serve first, and then he asked.
"Of course, it's a hundred balls, I didn't even sweat in today's team training, so I expect seniors like you to accompany me to practice well and guide my skills!"
"Humph! A hundred is a hundred, am I still afraid that you won't make it? ”
As soon as the words fell, this guy took the lead in attacking, and before I could react, he raised his hand outside the three-point line, and when I just reacted and wanted to go up to block, the crisp sound of basketball passing through the net had already come.
Then I attacked, and just as I was about to make a forward change of direction to bypass him, my body suddenly stumbled, and the ball seemed to have been swept away by one hand, and before I could return to the defense, Scott had already scored the second goal.
On the third pitch I forced a break through Scott's defense, but this guy's defense was tougher than I expected, and in the end the basketball hit the rebound and didn't bounce into the basket smoothly, Scott had already grabbed the defensive rebound and dribbled the ball out of bounds.
"How about the boy, it's still too late to surrender now, if you really have to play a hundred balls, I can accompany you to the end, I'm afraid that you will lose too badly by then, and it will leave indelible traces on the psyche!"
This old boy's words are really annoying, but I don't have anything to refute him now, the basketball court has always relied on strength to speak, and I still can't completely control this amazingly talented body, if you want to beat an experienced court old man like him, he really can't think of a better way than to be tired.
"Why do you talk so much nonsense, just let the horses come."
I didn't give in to it, and then lowered my center of gravity, ready to defend him seriously.
This time his offense didn't go so well, I used the advantage of my feet to follow his offensive footsteps closely, not giving him the slightest chance to break through me easily, and finally succeeded in forcing him to force a shot from one step into the three-point line.
"Replace me!"
I dribble with my back, use my back to feel the direction of his defensive center of gravity, and then a dribble that lowers the center of gravity smoothly gets rid of his defense, facing the unguarded basket is a tomahawk splitting dunk, the embarrassment is that it seems that my starting distance is a little far, plus the jumping action is not enough, this dunk was actually taken by the basket, it is really a bit embarrassing!
Holding my breath, I further strengthened my defense in the next round, after all, I had an advantage in height and footspeed, and as long as I could resist and not eat his feints, I was able to limit him to the outside as much as possible.
However, I obviously defended the ball a little too tightly, so that when he made a feint to worship the Buddha, my body was a little out of balance, and when I reacted again to go over to block, he had already used a small throw to complete the score.
It seems like I haven't scored a single goal yet, this guy has already scored three, but I haven't found any shooting sensation yet.
"What's the matter, are you just going to go to layups and dunks? Didn't you dare to shoot a three-point shot when you were training in the team today? Although I cast three three-non-sticks and five irons, hahahaha! I'm going to die laughing. ”
the old boy who looks down on me so much!
As soon as my body was hot, his desire to win was immediately provoked by him, hum, I will let you see my backward shooting.
"Bang!" As a result, it was embarrassing, although the backward action was quite handsome, but the result was still a striking iron.
In less than an hour, the score between us had reached fifty to twenty, and the guy who was fifty points ahead was naturally not me, but Byron, who I had always thought was very good. Scott, it seems that people can't look like the sea is invincible, and the guy who can play the main team in the NBA for more than ten years can't be too bad, but it's absolutely impossible for me to just admit defeat, at this point I have the same paranoia as Kobe, and the extreme desire to win!
"Go on!" I yelled loudly, as if I wanted to vent the frustration in my heart.
Then I increased the intensity of my defense against him again, especially on the defensive end, because Scott is getting older, and my advantage is that I am young and physical, and I have to use my strengths to win from behind.
Obviously, after a series of fierce battles of dozens of balls, Scott has shown fatigue, coupled with my increasing defensive intensity, soon his shots have not been able to enter the basket smoothly for more than a dozen consecutive times, and in turn, taking advantage of his mistakes and physical exhaustion, I have quickly chased the score to 40-55.
"No, let's take a break first." Scott finally couldn't bear it anymore and took the lead in admitting a wave of cowardice.
"My shooting feeling today is a little poor, but I have gradually found the feeling of those balls just now, and I will only get more and more accurate later, you still have time to surrender now, we will surrender according to the old rules and count half of it, don't we bet that whoever loses will invite the other party to dinner for a month, you surrender now and please ask for half a month, no, it's ten days."
"Don't talk nonsense, people who don't know still think that you are now leading by fifteen points, don't think that I can't play when I'm a little old, tell you that I still have more gas in my mailbox, even if I play in the NBA for another five years, there is no problem."
"Okay, then I'll convince you to lose."
After that, as I said, as I had struck iron before, I had gradually mastered the trick of not being so iron, especially after my body was completely warmed up, and that steady stream of power poured out of my body, which made my attacks more and more sharp and fierce.
When I hit Scott's defensive dunk with a tough top, the gap was 30 points, but the relationship between lead and backward was reversed, and I was already 98-68 ahead of Scott, which meant that when I scored one more goal, it was the winner.
"Okay, I'll surrender, what you said, surrender is only half of the loss, not one-third, I just need to bring you ten days of dinner."
I saw a sly smile on the corner of Scott's old boy's mouth, as if people who didn't know would have thought he had won the game if they saw it.
"Come on, where do I need you to bring dinner, you just need to admit that my level as a high school student is enough to play in the NBA!"
However, Scott's expression instantly became solemn, and he pretended to be quite embarrassed.
"That's not good, you just bully and bully an old man like me who is about to retire from the league, and if you want to gain a foothold in the NBA, of course you have to win against stronger opponents."
"Who, for example?" I asked, a little curious.
"Iverson, for example! It's your champion this year, I think that kid is more than ten times more powerful than you, otherwise why are you the champion and you are just a thirteenth show? ”