Hogle is 72 years old, his hair is already in a Mediterranean style, his bare head is surrounded by silver hair, and his hooked nose makes him look like a vulture. Hogel doesn't like to talk, in the past few days of Yang Yiming's training, he came at more than two o'clock in the afternoon every day, stayed for an hour, watched Yang Yiming shoot, and drank the coffee in the thermos cup while drinking it (it is said that the thermos cup made in Germany and the Chinese are completely two-level industrial products), and then quietly left.

Hogel "Vulture" always wore a dark plaid shirt over a tough leather jacket with jeans and sneakers. He has a bend in his back and drives an old Mercedes-Benz jeep that likes to drive open to the wind. Yang Yiming once saw during a training break, Hogel, who is usually a little sluggish, stepped into the driver's seat like a different person, galloping, the wind blew the silver hair around the Mediterranean Sea and danced wildly, and there seemed to be an imperceptible smile under the black sunglasses? In short, it has the taste of the German soldiers of the old era who are rushing at the end of the road, but because "German soldiers" seems to be a historically sensitive topic, Yang Yiming has not been able to take the initiative to talk to Hogel about this view.

"Yiming, your shooting is really good. I don't know what else I can teach you. ”

It's been nearly a week since Yang arrived at Fort Worth, practicing daily in the private basketball arena owned by Hogel. Old man Hogel has retired, and the daily operation of the basketball hall has been handed over to his daughter-in-law, who is more like the image ambassador of the stadium. The stadium has two professional courts, an uncomplicated gym, except for the floor of the stadium, which is a little old, and the other aspects are well maintained. The basketball hoop seems to have recently been replaced, and the photo of Hogel pointing out the young Nowitzki was printed as a small poster and pasted on the wall behind the basketball hoop.

The utilization rate of the two courts is not high, Yang Yiming has only received a group of children's basketball summer camps in these days, and it has been lively for a few days in the other field, but it soon quieted down. Wolfburg is an industrial city in northern Germany, although it has a large population, but it is clear that football is the city's number one sport, and the scorching heat of July and August is already a holiday time for Germans, and the stadium is becoming more and more crowded and business is cold. Even if there are occasionally a few groups of players who play in twos and threes, they don't recognize Yang Yiming, who trains on another court, as an Asian rising star who has just won the NBA championship.

"Hogel Basketball Sports Center".

After coming to Fort Worth, every time Yang Yiming stepped into the stadium, he looked up at the signboard above the gate of the stadium, and the same question inevitably surfaced in his heart:

Is this place, really out of a generation of legendary Dirk Nowitzki?

Yang Yiming has read articles about Dirk Nowitzki and Hogel's mentorship. The article said that Nowitzki's favorite sport as a teenager was not basketball, but tennis and handball were the top two sports he was interested in. But Hogel, who was the head coach of the German men's basketball team at the time, impressed the other party with sincerity and enthusiasm after seeing the 16-year-old Dirk. He told him that by his side, he would be one of the greatest basketball players, even though Nowitzki was still vague about the rules of basketball.

But one of the greatest careers began in this mess.

It is unclear what techniques Hogg taught Nowitzki, and whether Hogel's iconic "Golden Rooster Independence" shot was Hogel's brainchild is anyone's answer. I only know that in Dirk's basketball career for nearly 20 years and still going on, the ordinary basketball hall in this small German town, and his owner "Vulture" Hogel, are the places he will always return to.

In his rookie season, he also had a smashing of American superstars at the Nike Summit, but only had a dismal 8.2 points and a 20% shooting percentage.

In his early days in Dallas, he formed a troika with Finley and Nash and galloped through the alliance.

When he reached the Finals for the first time in 2006, he was taught to be a man by The Flash and the old shark.

At the time of being blacked by the warriors of the old Nelson...

In 2011, he turned on the god killing mode and won the championship and the MVP of the finals.

With the signature Golden Rooster independence, when crossing the 30,000-point mark.

Dirk Nowitzki, the sixth man in history and the first white man to do so, was in the arena when he was saluted by the stadium, while the 71-year-old tough German Hogel was holding back tears.

The footnotes to these historic moments, Dirk Nowitzki's most intimate place to lick his wounds and reminisce about his honors, are they all the ordinary arenas where Yang Yiming is now?

Yang Yiming still couldn't figure it out.

He had seen Hogel's photographs and videos of Nowitzki. The veteran coach has the rigor inherent in the German, who will break down Nowitzki's shooting action into countless segments, requiring the opponent to maintain the same breaking action for a long time, and make the most subtle adjustments from top to bottom. Through this repeated and almost mechanized carving, Nowitzki has the ability to shoot without disadvantage in the NBA.

And the instructions Yang Yiming has received now are exactly like coming from two people:

"Don't think about your shots."

"Let your body drive your mind."

"It doesn't matter how many shots a day. Just once a day and you feel like you've made a perfect shot, that's enough..."

"What is a perfect shot? I don't know; But when the perfect shot does come along, you'll be the first to get the signal. ”

It's completely metaphysics!

According to Hogel, Yang Yiming has never shot that "perfect shot". In the past few days, he has completed a lot of shots that far exceed his daily training every day, but it is really impossible to say which shot will make him receive the signal in the first place. It can only be said that sometimes the hand is smooth, and the shot can be hit continuously, as if the "perfect shot" is in the mouth, and if you stretch your neck a little more, you can put it in your mouth.

But no matter how good the wind is, the ball will eventually be lost. Once you miss it, the feeling you have just accumulated seems to be like sand in the wind, unpredictable.

Yang Yiming was so angry that he wanted to smash the basketball.

This Hogel can't be a charlatan, right?

Or is it Dirk Nowitzki's own talent that is a cut above himself? As many NBA seniors said, shooters are born, because hard training can train a full set of weapons for shooters, but they can't practice a good feel.

This sullen breath reached its peak more and more when Yang Yiming watched Hogel just wander around the stadium leisurely every day, sometimes slapping his ass and leaving after drinking coffee without saying a word, while Yu Xiaochun on the other side also paid him a high special training fee of 5,000 euros a day!

What's the difference between this and cheating money?!

The most important thing is, doesn't it mean that Nowitzki will come back every summer to return to the "Hogel Basketball Center" for training and coaching? If Dirk really comes, it will be more helpful to communicate with him a few times than this metaphysical teaching method, right?

But right now, where is the king of Nuotian?