Ben Simmons' 30,000-pitch shooting drill completes a third of the plan.

3,000 shots a day: 000 free throws, 000 mid-range jumpers, 000 fixed-point shots from beyond the three-point line. After three days of practice, plus LeBron James rushed to his business event on the afternoon of the first day, he was only asked to practice 500 three-pointers, but he stayed for an extra 20 minutes and let Simmons make 500 mid-range jumpers.

A total of 10,000 balls.

Ben Simmons feels like three days and 10,000 goals are going by quickly. He arrives at the arena at 8 a.m. every morning (LeBron James arrives along, sometimes even earlier than him), warms up for an hour, shoots for three hours in the morning, has lunch at 2 and rests for an hour, and then pours out in the afternoon, practicing for five hours until late in the evening. After soaking in the arena all day, watching the number of shooting targets for the day decrease little by little, time does fly by.

Want to ask what it feels like to have 10,000 balls? Ben Simmons sometimes feels that his shooting percentage has improved significantly for a period of time, and sometimes he still feels like he is shooting poorly, but all in all, he guesses that the mysterious "touch" is closer to him than before the 30,000-ball special training begins.

Andrew Bogut was also responsible for passing the ball to Simmons and pointing to the shooting action, and they occupied one side of the court, while LeBron James and his strength and conditioning trainer dominated the other side of the court, Simmons made 3,000 shots a day, and LeBron also completed 3,000 shots (Simmons even felt that was more because LeBron practiced more often and had less time to stop to correct his posture during shooting practice). LeBron also arranged for his two personal bodyguards to come to the court, one for him and Simmons, one for each of them, and the bodyguards helped pick up the ball and collect it to ensure the coherence of the shot.

No matter how much Simmons' touch improves, he feels the most benefited from training with LeBron on the same court. LeBron James, as the most dominant player in the entire NBA, has made great strides in overall shooting percentage last season even at the age of 34, and it seems that there is no secret to immortality, except for the total dedication of every summer and training day.

The 34-year-old LeBron is not inferior to a young junior in his early 20s in terms of training volume. And because the body will inevitably age, LeBron will spend more time than Simmons every day to warm up before training and recover and stretch after training. If he does more training one day, he will spend another two hours with a physiotherapist for recovery treatment, and at 90 o'clock he will leave the sports center of Kyoto University and return to his hotel in the city center, and so on every day.

After 10,000 goals, LeBron James did not schedule additional physical and strength training for Simmons.

"Your body is quietly fissioning during shooting practice, so I won't add extra burden to it and don't disturb its memory. Just let your body remember the changes in feel alone. LeBron James explains.

It seems that if it weren't for the fact that this time it was just to solve the shooting, Simmons would have to undergo the Devil's Power Special Training every day. When the time comes, Simmons is not even sure that he can withstand it like LeBron.

During the whole day in the training hall, LeBron not only received this baptism physically, but he also had to pay attention to the phone calls to the male assistant, if there was a basketball or business matter that the assistant could not decide, he would shoot while quickly figuring out the crux of the problem, come up with an accurate solution, and clearly state it for the male assistant to implement.

All of this made Ben Simmons, who saw it, secretly admire.

In that sense, Kobe Bryant is a training maniac, basketball and games are all he has, and he takes them to the extreme; But LeBron James, the "junior" of the purple and gold jersey, not only takes care of basketball and games, but also builds a business empire!

Maybe in the future, he will become the first person in the past!

In addition to 30,000 ball training, LeBron actually recommended a Japanese basketball cartoon to Simmons, called SLA Dunk (Slam Dunk). It's said to be a well-known cartoon in Southeast Asia, but Simmons is watching it for the first time - I wonder how LeBron managed to squeeze in the time to watch it!

LeBron recommends Simmons to start with the second half of the cartoon. The protagonist of the anime is a red-haired guy named Sakuragi, a high school student who is physically gifted but can't play basketball. Simmons saw Sakuragi and his teammates pass the regional basketball budget tournament and confidently prepare for the summer to compete in the national tournament.

And Sakuragi's head coach, an old Japanese man who is as fat as Totoro, arranged a summer special training for Sakuragi, and it was actually 10,000 shots!

Could it be that LeBron's inspiration for this arrangement also came from this?

I really don't know if after completing 30,000 shots, I will also celebrate like the Sakuragi Army. Or is it completely desperate, finding that the hand feels no better, and that he is not a shooting material at all?

Sometimes it's good to just rely on talent and do what you love.

Like that red-headed Sakuragi, it's not impossible to train as a 20-board rebounding reaper.

So it is difficult for a strong man - the result of 10,000 shots, if it is really in the game, will it help determine "sex"?

Simmons finished the 10,000-ball cartoon the night he finished the slam dunk cartoon. At the end of the cartoon, there is an abrupt ending. Sakuragi and his teammates played against the "underdogs" team in the qualifiers, and his special training results have not been "revealed" much, and the limelight is still his long-haired rival Rukawa. Rukawa had the idea of playing in the United States, but was dissuaded by a coach like Totoro, and decided to become the No. 1 high school student in Japan first. It's kind of like the goal he set in college: to be the No. 1 newcomer in the country. The teammates around him at the time seemed to have a similar fate to the supporting characters in the cartoon: when he lost college at the NAA tryouts, some of them graduated from college and never had a chance to play basketball, while others planned to prepare for a summer and fight again next year. Even in the summer when Ben Simmons joined the NBA as the top pick, the hope of such an effort seemed as distant and ethereal as the redhead's scoring ability.

Fortunately, Ben Simmons doesn't need to worry about that. He successfully became the No. 1 in the country, and although the injury delayed for a year, he finally burst into the light that he should have burst out.

Until today...

30,000 balls of shooting practice.

He seemed to have turned back into that red-haired one, sweating and practicing hard in the arena where he didn't know the outcome but was full of hope. The strongest man in the United States, who should have been his next target, was sweating like rain in the half next to him. LeBron's goal is probably the strongest in history.

I really don't know what kind of ending will be in that red-haired Sakuragi summer and his national competition.

The cartoon didn't come out, so I had to look for a comic book by SLA Dunk.

Ben Simmons thought of this, changed into slippers, and rode to the first floor of the hotel lobby. The revolving door of the hotel brings a cool evening breeze, and he walks through the revolving door into the night of Kyoto.

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