Chapter 18: Detroit!
"The Hornets' New Giant" - Sports Express.
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Chen Yu's news undoubtedly made the headlines of the sports section, and the popularity of Weibo reached the top five. The excellent performance of two consecutive games has made him one of the hottest sports stars in China at present.
In particular, the last leg shot was hyped by the media as the greatest shot of the 21st century.
I don't know if it's a praising or a black.
At this time, Chen Yu did not pay attention to these domestic news that were not important to him, and he was thinking about his future development.
There is no doubt that he can hit 100 percent in the Land of Red Lights.
But in other positions, his strength is still the same.
In the NBA, the world's top basketball league, a player has only one skill, and he will soon be targeted and strictly guarded.
For example, in these two games against the Coltics and Jazz, Chen Yu's disadvantage in shooting from only one place was revealed. The opponents are all there to guard tightly, preventing Chen Yu from approaching the position inside the three-point line on the left.
In the end, his split-leg shot was also a helpless move.
You can't shoot the basketball in the future, right?
Not to mention whether others will doubt it, just that ridiculous shooting posture, Chen Yu felt that he would die of shame if he came a few more times.
"Ugh."
Puzzled, Chen Yu sighed, picked up the basketball on the ground, and began to practice shooting.
"Bang! Swish! Bang! Swish! β
The shooting percentages in other positions were a bit ugly.
If no one is guarded, you can hit nine of ten shots from inside the three-point line, and six of ten shots from beyond the three-point line. While this level may seem good, when you encounter a defender, especially one in the NBA, your shooting percentage plummets.
It can't be helped, the pace is too fast, the competition is too fierce, and the average player has to work hard every time he gets a point.
In the empty training room, Chen Yu threw one ball after another.
Slowly forgetting the time.
I don't know how long it took, but the tired Chen Yu suddenly found that after he threw a three-pointer, the position under his feet lit up with an undetectable red light.
"What?!"
Chen Yu looked down carefully, but the red light disappeared again.
This red light flashed away, and if it weren't for the clever position of Chen Yu's shot, which could reflect the light from the glass backboard, he wouldn't have been able to detect this phenomenon.
Chen Yu's eyelids jumped, picked up a basketball on the ground, shot a three-point shot again, and then hurriedly looked down.
Sure enough, when the basketball was out of his hand, a red light appeared on the position where Chen Yu stepped on his feet, and it disappeared in an instant.
"Is it ......?"
Chen Yu's eyes flashed with excitement, and without hesitation, he stood outside the three-point line and began to throw the ball.
"Huh!"
"Huh!"
"Bang!"
"Huh!"
β......β
Throwing out one ball at a time, Chen Yu found that the red light under his feet was getting brighter and brighter, and the three-point shooting rate was getting higher and higher.
"It turns out that as long as I keep training a position, I can slowly make that position shine red!"
The more Chen Yu throws, the more excited he becomes, the whole person forgets his tiredness, and throws one ball after another.
"Hoo ......"
After shooting continuously for more than an hour, Chen Yu finally sat down on the ground tiredly, his arms trembling slightly, and it was difficult to even lift it.
The exhaustion and pain of his body could not suppress the excitement in his heart.
After several hours of shooting, every time I make a shot, the red light shining under my feet is as strong as the first red light, but strangely, this red light is not shaped. Once Chen Yu finished shooting, the red light would disappear.
"Is there still an opportunity missing?"
Chen Yu was puzzled.
After thinking for a while, Chen Yu was suddenly stunned and thought of something: "Could it be that if you shoot a ball in an official game, will you completely fix which red light?"
"It has to be like this, it has to be like this."
The more he thought about it, the more likely it was for Chen Yu to rub his hands excitedly.
If he can have a second red glow from beyond the three-point line, it will be difficult for the opponent to limit him.
And if you are in the three-point position, you can also hit every shot......
Chen Yu didn't dare to imagine how beautiful that picture was.
Standing up, Chen Yu wanted to continue practicing shooting, but found that he couldn't lift his arms at all.
"I can't continue to practice, there will be a game the day after tomorrow."
I took out my phone and looked at the time, it was already one o'clock in the morning.
"In three hours, Kobe Bryant will get up and practice, hahaha." Chen Yu smiled and put on his coat, walked out of the training ground, got into his car, and drove towards his home.
A day later.
9 p.m. local time in the United States.
The Hornets host the Detroit Pistons.
Head coach Scott pondered for a long time, but still did not put Chen Yu, who had performed well in the last two games, into the starting lineup.
Chen Yu's rise is too fast.
It's still unclear whether he's breaking out or if he's really going to be able to maintain that kind of strength. So Scott cautiously chose to investigate Chen Yu for a while.
The game was not broadcast on China's CCTV sports channel, so Chinese fans watched the game live first, and could only watch some text live broadcasts.
At the beginning of the first quarter, Paul exploded into his All-Star prowess, hitting three assists in a row to tie the whole team together and start with a 12-2 score.
The cheers at the Orlando basketball arena continued.
"Doot toot!"
Four minutes into the game, Pistons head coach Larry Brown couldn't stand it and called a timeout.
As we all know, the Pistons are a strong team that has always defended, and can even be said to be the strongest team in defense.
Under one of the NBA's most well-known coaches, Larry Brown*, this civilian team of ordinary players has become a fearsome presence for other teams.
Even giants like Kobe Bryant and James have to peel off a layer of skin if they want to score goals under the Pistons' defense, which is no exaggeration.
The Pistons even defended the strongest inside-outside combination in NBA history!
This team has defended to the extreme.
And this kind of team with outstanding defensive ability was actually scored six goals by the Hornets in the opening four minutes!
This makes old Larry Brown how to endure it.
"Did all five of you go to the nightclub? Single defense, supplementary defense, and auxiliary defense are not in place, what are you doing?! Larry Brown's roar was heard clearly by even the Hornets bench.
When the pause time ends.
When the players from both sides were on the court, the Hornets players clearly felt that the momentum of the five Pistons players had changed dramatically.
Paul swallowed, feeling that something was wrong.