Chapter 36: Rest Day
He is 188 cm tall and weighs 80.5 kg.
Speed: 87.
Strength: 42.
Bounce: 80.
Passing: 60.
Ball control: 60.
Three points: 100.
Overall: 71.5 (65.8).
This is Ye Feng's physical data after completing the task for the third time.
Because of the confrontation problem, Ye Feng has been thinking about gaining weight.
But after consulting the Cavaliers' team trainer and veteran Ollie, Ye Feng gave up temporarily.
According to them, gaining weight during the season will make the body uncomfortable and affect the performance of the players. In particular, it has a very large impact on the shooting feel, and it is likely to lead to a significant drop in the shooting percentage.
If you want to gain weight, you can only wait until the end of the season.
However, the coaching staff also put forward training requirements for Ye Feng, reducing the training of three-point shots and increasing the training of mid-range shots, especially emergency stop jump shots, back turn jump shots, backward jump shots, catch-and-shoot jump shots, and confrontation jump shots......
Ye Feng was still a little confused at the time, and the coaching staff seemed to dislike three-point shots very much, but were keen on mid-range shots.
But after thinking about it for a while, Ye Feng finally figured out the reason.
In 2003, it was not the future era of small ball, and the three-point point was not the main means of scoring, but could only be seen as a tactical means to break the joint defense and open up space.
If you want to ask why, one sentence will answer you.
The closer you are to the basket, the higher your shooting percentage!
This sentence is the consensus of almost all coaches in this era.
In the recent past, when the big four centers dominated the league, they naturally scored on 2-pointers.
Before 2003, a shooting guard named Michael Jordan dominated the league for 15 years with his mid-range jumper and breakaway, and his scoring style was also dominated by 2-point shots.
Jordan retired, and the four successors came to the stage, Kobe, Maddy, Hill and Carter are also better at 2-point shots.
So it's only natural that the coach likes the 2-pointer.
One of the most exaggerated is Larry Brown, who once said that if a player shoots more than five three-pointers in a game, whether he scores or not, it is the wrong way to play.
Looking at Ye Feng's template, Richard Hamilton, who averaged 14.4 shots per game in his career, only 1.7 were three-pointers.
In the small-ball era, his three-point shots are not as good as many centers!
Thinking about this, Ye Feng calmly accepted the arrangement of the coaching staff, and there was no harm in practicing hard in the middle distance. At the very least, we can enrich the means of attack.
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That night, Ye Feng continued to run five kilometers with weight.
Before going to bed, I turned on the computer, and my first reaction was to check the entertainment section.
The Internet is still full of news about Avril's plagiarism.
Avril's agency and studio have issued statements that reserve the right to use legal means to pursue rumors.
But because Avril herself still has no information, it seems to have evaporated from the world. All kinds of remarks on the Internet have not only not faded away, but have intensified.
When Ye Feng saw this, he felt unhappy for no reason, and that small figure appeared in his mind.
In a fit of anger, Ye Feng forked all the web pages.
Bite!
Then the computer automatically pops up a new page.
"The Bryant Eagle County Incident."
Ye Feng clicked in and took a look, and suddenly thought of many things in his previous life.
At the end of June 2003, Bryant checked into a hotel in Colorado to treat his knee injury.
In early July, the hotel's front desk lady took Bryant to the local court on charges of sexual assault.
Today, at the beginning of October, Kobe Bryant still hasn't gotten out, which is likely to affect Kobe's preseason and even the first half of the regular season.
The Cavaliers and Lakers originally had two preseason games, and Ye Feng was ready to witness the first 23vs24 on the spot, so he had to give up.
In fact, three months have passed since the Eagle County incident, and it has slowly faded, and the reason why it has made trouble again is because Kobe Bryant said something that should not be said.
Although he flatly denied the charge of sexual assault, Kobe Bryant said that Lakers star O'Neal often had such incidents, which caused O'Neal to be annoyed and angry and directly scolded Kobe.
An Eagle County incident took more than half a year to subside, and there was no winner in this matter.
If you insist on saying that there is, it should be the hotel front desk lady who received a million compensation.
The NBA league has suffered huge losses, and its face has been discredited. And it was the superstars of the entire league who did all this, which made the league unable to say what it was, so it could only swallow it by itself.
In the Lakers, Kobe Bryant and O'Neal are also becoming more and more contradictory because of this incident, which is likely to affect the rhythm of this season's championship.
And for Kobe, it is the black history of the great star's career that is difficult to erase. Because of too much pressure at the time, Kobe's wife Vanessa finally miscarried, which made Kobe Bryant haunted and never forget.
Ye Feng shook his head, he didn't want to make any comments on this matter, after all, he didn't know the truth.
What's more, Kobe Bryant's historical status in the NBA will not change because of this incident. Black Mamba will always be a supergiant in the hearts of countless fans.
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The next morning, under James' organization, the Cavaliers went together to visit Da Juan Wagner at the Cleveland Clinic.
Ye Feng met Da Juan's father, Milt Wagner, a former NBA player and a member of the Lakers' 1988 championship.
Both father and son had a bad look on their faces, and Dajuan was said to have suffered from a severe colorectal ulcer that had to be removed and reconstructed. And once you go through this kind of major surgery, you will become very weak, and you will basically say goodbye to the NBA game.
This makes last year's No. 6 rookie, who once scored 100 points in a single game in high school, and has been compared to Iverson, how can Dajuan, the proud son of heaven, accept it?
Ye Feng also didn't like it, although he had heard in his previous life that many excellent players had said goodbye to the field because of injuries. But when I saw it with my own eyes, I still felt sad.
At this time, Ye Feng remembered the three Chinese medicine prescriptions in his hand, and he didn't know if he could provide a little help to Da Juan.
Ye Feng didn't know about traditional Chinese medicine, but he also knew that traditional Chinese medicine was very effective in replenishing qi, blood, and essence. If he could, Ye Feng naturally didn't mind helping his teammates.
But before that, Ye Feng still had to find an opportunity to let his uncle take a look at these prescriptions first. What the system gave, Ye Feng didn't dare to show others casually, only relatives like his uncle could believe it.
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After going through the hospital, Ye Feng was not interested in the afternoon party. But James must give face, at least as a teammate.
James, who has experienced various endorsements since high school, is not the same as Ye Feng, Ye Feng guesses that James is now worth at least tens of millions.
His mansion has everything you need, including a swimming pool, gymnasium, private basketball court, ......
Ye Feng was also taken aback by James's paranoia about muscles, in order to train muscles, this guy spent money to hire a team of 7 people, including trainers, physical trainers, equipment technicians, and nutritionists.
James also showed favor to Ye Feng, saying that Ye Feng could come to the gym here to exercise at any time as long as he wanted.
There is no alcohol at the party, it is all replaced by fruit juice. It can be seen that James is also very strict with himself, which is worth learning from everyone.
In addition, Ye Feng found that Dalius frequently talked to him, like an old friend.
Ye Feng asked curiously.
The guy said arrogantly, "You kid is very much to my liking. Obviously he couldn't prevent James and rushed up again and again, very brave. So as the core of the bench lineup, I'm bullish on you! ”
Ye Feng just wanted to hehe.
If you hadn't been beaten stupid in the first place, I would have needed to defend James? You think I like to be abused?
AT THE END OF THE PARTY, JAMES ALSO GAVE EVERYONE A SET OF THE LATEST FIIL DIVE HEADPHONES AND IDUDIO WALKMAN.
After returning to the apartment, Ye Feng went online to download songs, originally planning to download Chinese songs, but found that there were few Chinese songs on North American websites in 2003, and most of them were English songs.
So, Ye Feng entered a name in the singer's search bar - Avril Lavigne.
What Ye Feng didn't know was that he had just left James's mansion with his front foot. James' agent, Riczy Paul, came along.
"Hey! LeBron, it's important that you have a good relationship with that Chinese man. You know, after the rocket's Francis has Yao Ming, how much his popularity has improved, and how much the market has improved. Although Ye is only Chinese and a Mi nationality, as long as he appears on the regular season, the impact is not even less than that of Yao Ming. ”
"You understand, Yao Ming is too tall, and the gap between him and ordinary people is too big. The leaf is only 188 centimeters, which is almost not different from ordinary people, and is more acceptable. And as a defender, the style of play is much better than that of a center. I bet that as long as Ye makes a little famous, he will definitely be more popular than Yao Ming! ”
(To put it simply, O'Neal isn't weaker than Kobe, right?) But O'Neal's influence will never be comparable to Kobe, just because Kobe Bryant's height is closer to ordinary people. )
"So for the sake of your own business empire, you must have a good relationship with him."
Rizzie Paul tried to persuade him.
James's green face sparkled with two deep eyes, and then nodded.