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Yang Yiming read the letter two or three times again and again against the mobile phone application of the English-Chinese dictionary, and finally put down the two objects, letters and mobile phones, and his mood could not be calm for a long time.

He lay on the bed, his eyes staring at the ceiling. Yang Yiming wanted to drain the content of the letter from his mind, but the white-colored ceiling was like the magic paper in Harry Potter at this time, and the more he didn't want to think about it, the more the words and sentences in the letter kept appearing on it.

"Excellent".

"Inferior greatness is excellent".

"You need a noble person who matches greatness, a program like YACAP that brings its own experience and resources."

"I'm also going to help you become great."

"Never forget the 'great' beauty that exists somewhere in this world, waiting for you to explore and discover..."

Sentence after sentence, Yang Yiming completely lost his sleepiness. The alarm clock at the bedside shows 2:45 a.m. He stuffed the letter and envelope into the bedside table, rolled out of bed himself, picked up his laptop and walked to the living room, where he sat down on the couch.

Enter your password, open your browser, and click on the familiar link in your favorites.

"Offensive Rebounding Special: Season 17-18 Final Edition".

Choose time and chapter: March 16.

A 60-minute video and explanation plays.

Yang Yiming put on the headphones, and the puzzle of three NBA players, DeAndre Jordan, Anthony Davis, and Carl Towns, appeared on the screen, and then typed the title of this video:

"Inside towers: Clippers, Pelicans, Timberwolves."

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Along with the rebounding highlights of the three interior players mentioned at the beginning, an emotionless mechanical voice over sounded in the background. "The Los Angeles Clippers, New Orleans Pelicans, and Minnesota Timberwolves will be the next opponents of the Houston Rockets.

"Deandre Jordan, Los Angeles Clippers, 2m 11,120 kg. He averaged 15.4 rebounds per game during the season, including 11.2 defensive rebounds and 4.2 offensive rebounds. ”

Anthony Davis, New Orleans Pelicans, 2.08m, 115 kg. He averaged 11.2 rebounds per game during the season, including 8.6 defensive rebounds and 2.6 offensive rebounds. ”

"Carl Anthony Towns, Minnesota Timberwolves, 2m 13,113 kg. He averaged 12.2 rebounds per game this season, including 9.3 defensive rebounds and 2.9 offensive rebounds. ”

"Your goal is to take a bite out of those rebounding machines and turn their defensive rebounds into your offensive rebounds — but how?"

yes, how? When Yang Yiming heard this, he couldn't help but complain angrily: Who doesn't know that they are very powerful insiders, but if they can defeat them by checking the data, I don't know how many times they have been abused by keyboard warriors.

As if hearing Yang Yiming's heart, the words of the video immediately turned around:

"The message of this video analysis is that don't try to defeat them easily. Neither from a statistical nor empirical point of view will work. Yang Yiming 15 rebounds, Jordan Jr. 3 rebounds? This happens almost in a dream. What we're really going for is to get close to their rebounds and even try to get a tie, and that's enough. ”

With this in mind, your game strategy can be more targeted (the voice voice emphasizes the word "targeted"). For example, the first thing to do is to take advantage of the rotation time. ”

"All three of these interior players started their respective teams, which means their playing time is the same as the main lineup: the first half of the first third quarter, the second half of the second quarter and the closing of the fourth quarter." (A histogram of the three people that appeared in 48 minutes is displayed on the screen, and the more times they appear in a given minute, the higher the bar.) Yang Yiming's histogram and they really have obvious peaks and troughs. "Your appearance time is not the same as theirs first. This is an opportunity that you can take advantage of, and in the rotation, you have to go for every offensive rebound without going head-to-head against these towers. ”

"To take advantage of your advantage in judging where your teammates' shots landed, please refer to the previous teaching content for details."

Several link buttons popped up on the side of the screen, corresponding to the previous chapters, but Yang Yiming didn't click on them, he already knew those contents well.

"Second, unconditionally believe in the conclusions you have learned in this series! Say important things three times and believe them unconditionally! Believe! ”

"Even if Jordan Jr., Davis, and Towns are all top rebounders in the NBA, they can't make an incomparably accurate judgment on where every rebound will land! No one is perfect, as long as it is, no matter how perfect and stable it is, there is the potential for mistakes. So when Yang Yiming is on the field at the same time as them, you don't have to be afraid of your own position and them to the left. They rely on experience, you rely on science. Science is a high level of generalization and sublimation of experience, and if you pick a rebound completely differently than these centers, it's likely that they're wrong, not you. ”

"Resist the urge to confront them head-on. It's hard, but once you restrain yourself, you'll find your chance coming. ”

"At the end of the day, rebounding, like three-pointers, is a matter of probability. If you vote too many times, there is always a probability of deviation. Even if 80% of the time it will be taken away by the 'rebounding harvesters', it will be enough to grasp the remaining 20%. ”

Listening to the reason, Yang Yiming couldn't help but nodded. The accuracy of this set of "cheats" for rebounding landing predictions has been experienced by him through the practice of the first two games against the Mavericks and Spurs. It seems that what he has to do next is to continue to insist on "recharging his faith".

Thinking of this, the video continues to talk about the last point:

"Finally, finally, take advantage of the opponent's shortcomings appropriately."

Shortcoming? Are there any shortcomings that these three towers can take advantage of? Yang Yiming will be skeptical.

"DeAndre Jordan's agility, Anthony Davis' position, Carl Downs' bounce speed."

Photos of the three of them appeared on the same screen again, and the words "agility", "position", and "bullet speed" were marked below, but all three words were marked with red crosses, which looked bloody.

Then the camera everything, Jordan Jr.'s rebounding video was broadcast first. Yang Yiming hurriedly pressed the spacebar to pause the video, he knew that according to the convention, the video was going to start a detailed analysis of Little Jordan's weaknesses in "agility", he got up and found a notebook and a pen, and recorded them carefully.

The clock in the living room points to 3:10.

Wan Lai was silent, but Yang Yiming felt more and more sober.

In an instant, the letter that haunted him half an hour ago was really forgotten...