Time flies, and it's June in the blink of an eye.

In the past two months, except for a trip to Washington in May with UConn as an NCAA champion to receive President Obama, Tang Tian has never left the training hall.

Even for the joint trial, he accepted Fagan's advice and did not participate.

After nearly two months of training, his shooting speed has improved significantly.

Normally, when he was in the NCAA, the average time from receiving the ball to shooting was about 1.5 seconds, but now he can basically control it to less than 1 second, about 0.8 seconds, and the shooting percentage can be maintained at about 80%.

That's already a pretty big boost considering the training time.

But thanks to Procopio, it would not have been possible otherwise.

The shooting acceleration training has begun to pay off, and Tang Tian should then think about the next step.

Although the endorsement contract has not yet been signed, there is not enough krypton gold value to exchange for new skills, but before that, he must plan well.

He pulled out the system interface and focused on the green skills.

Muscle Bar (Margeti): To increase body resistance by 10%, the body weight needs to reach 105kg.

Street Ball King (Alstom): Increases ball control and dribbling stability by 10%, but has a chance to make a walking error.

Roar (Rasheed Wallace): When roaring, all opposing players' abilities are reduced by 10% for five minutes, but there is a chance to receive a technical foul.

Microwave (Jamal Crawford): Increases consistency on all shots when coming off the bench by 10% for five minutes.

Strongest 175 (Isaiah Thomas): Increases breakthrough speed by 10%, only for players under 185cm tall.

Receiver (Korver): 10% faster off the ball and 10% more stability in three-point catch-and-shoot shots, and needs to weigh less than 95kg.

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The green skill, which is more advanced than the white skill, is that he is no longer limited to no confrontation or passive, but after all, it is only green, and there is not much added to the ability, and they all have their own limitations.

For example, the muscle stick needs to weigh 105kg.

This is completely reasonable, physical confrontation and weight are inseparable, it is impossible to say that you lose weight and the confrontation will go up, which is why Harden will choose to gain weight later, he needs to increase the lethality of the breakthrough, he needs to have a stronger confrontation.

If you can't add weight to the confrontation, then Harden won't be overweight and slow down the lateral movement speed, and he will be overtaken by various steps on the defensive end.

The same goes for catch-scorers, if you want to have speed, you have to lose weight.

In fact, this is also the position that Tang Tian was considering at the beginning, when he arrives in the NBA, should he gain weight to play the No. 4 position, or lose weight to play the swing man, these are actually two development directions.

If he's going to play the No. 4 position, he's going to have to gain weight this offseason and then trade for muscle sticks, and if he's playing a swingman, he's going to have to lose weight for a catch-and-shoot scorer.

There is a process for both gaining and losing weight, so the sooner he makes a decision, the better the results.

After thinking about it for a while, he finally made the decision to lose weight and beat the Swingman!

Cause?

In fact, it's very simple, he was a 3D when he was in the NCAA, playing the No. 4 position, and he was still a swinging No. 4 position, even if he gained weight, and then exchanged for muscle sticks, when he got to the NBA arena, the height disadvantage made him easy to be targeted by opponents in the low post.

But if he plays the No. 2 position-based striker swingman, because the speed has gone up, his height is an advantage.

Jimmy Butler and Paul George, who are tall swing guards, almost all followed this path when they first entered the league.

Of course, this is not the whole reason, there is a more important point that he needs to enrich his arsenal.

In the NCAA, his defense plus open three-pointers were enough to get him on the court, because the NCAA defense is relatively weak, and because a team has fewer points, the coach will set up a strategy specifically for him, like Cajon did.

But the NBA certainly doesn't, there are very few coaches, or they don't design tactics for role players, role players need to run their own positions to find opportunities, just standing there and waiting for three points, maybe not a chance in a game.

This is another important reason why Novak struggled to survive in the NBA in the first place.

After thinking about it, Tang Tian put away the system interface and made a plan for his next step.

The first is weight loss.

Weight loss and weight loss are not the same concept, and in order to maintain the current level of confrontation, it is necessary to gain muscle, which is best done under the guidance of a dietitian.

In other words, he still has to improve his team first.

Buns have to be eaten one bite at a time, and Prokopio is his first target.

On this day, as usual, the three of them were training in the training gym, because there was only about half a month left in the draft, and their training was almost over.

Before the end of the morning training session, Tang Tian pulled Prokopio alone and chatted at the door for a while.

"You want me to be your personal trainer?" Prokopio looked at Tang Tian in surprise.

If he had just met, he would definitely reject Tang Tian directly, but the relationship between the two has progressed well in the past two months, and he is more of an accident.

"Yes, I need a professional trainer like you to help me, and of course I will give you the reward as you ask." Tang Tian's attitude was sincere.

"No, Don, it's not about money, it's been a long time since I've been anyone's personal trainer, I'm more of a trainer now, or a trainer for a certain team." Prokopio now regards Tang Tian as a friend, and he has no intention of hiding it.

The meaning of this sentence is also easy to understand, he is no longer an ordinary trainer.

"Why don't you think about it?" Tang Tian didn't let Prokopio make a decision in a hurry.

"Okay, I'll think about it, I'll tell you if I'm decided, by the way, I heard Clay say you're going to lose weight now?" Perhaps a little embarrassed as a friend, Procopio took the initiative to ask.

"yes, I'm a little bit slower right now, I'm going to lose weight and increase my speed, and then I'm going to go in the direction of the Swingman." Tang Tian nodded.

"Well, that's a good idea, your three-point and defense are very distinctive, and now there aren't many 3-and-D forward swingers in the league, you're going to be very marketable, have you found the right nutritionist?" Procopio continued.

Tang Tian shook his head, Fagan has been busy with the draft recently.

"I can introduce you to someone, it's new, but it's very professional, and I can introduce her to you if I need to."

Procopio introduced that this level will definitely not be bad.

Although he may not be able to sign him, if he can sign the nutritionist he introduced first, this wave will not be a loss.

"Yes."

"Okay, I'll ask her out at the end of training tomorrow, and you'll talk to each other in person then."

Tang Tian nodded, Prokopio was indeed a very good person.