7. Important puzzle pieces
The only reason Kyle joined the basketball team was because he felt that girls were more athletic boys, and when he was in high school, he wanted to join the football team or the baseball team, but the coaches of these two teams didn't like him, so he went to the basketball team.
Basketball's appeal to him is limited to the ease of picking up girls, and aside from that, it is not as attractive as the websites that translate Chinese online novels that obsesses him.
This kind of uncaring attitude made him not care too much about his playing time and ball possession, so when Li Wu was conducting one-offense and one-defense singles training, Li Wu was directly cut off three balls in the horn area.
It wasn't until Adam angrily reminded him to be serious that Kyle started to get serious.
This time, Kyle dribbled at the top of the arc, alternately dribbling with his left and right hands, and the basketball bounced left and right under his boast, and the speed was amazingly fast, which made Li Wu very envious, if he had this dribble rate, then his dribbling breakthrough ability would rise a lot.
After a few seconds of cross-dribbling, Kyle leaned towards Li Wu's left, as if he was about to cut into the basket from Li Wu's left, and Li Wu then turned sideways to the left slightly.
"Bang!" Kyle slapped the basketball hard, and then the basketball came to his left hand, and at the same time, his left foot quickly made a step and scurried towards Li Wu's right, his slender figure allowing him to easily jump past Li Wu's right.
"Aha!" Kyle smirked out, his killer CROSSOVER is a stunt that beats invincible opponents in high school, and it seems that this Chinese cultivator can't compete!
Just as he was proudly preparing to go to the basket, he discovered a serious reality: his ball was missing....
"Where's the ball?" Kyle looked at his hands, looked back blankly, and found Li Wu's big hand on his right hand holding the ball, looking at Kyle with a smile.
"Uh..... Sir, I have tried my best. Kyle awkwardly spread his hands out to Adam.
Adam looked at Li Wu in shock, he didn't see how Li Wu copied Kyle's ball just now, and when Kyle used the killer CROSSOVER just now, he almost applauded loudly! Because he'd never seen Kyle use this trick, in fact, Kyle had already done a pretty good job.
The killer CROSSOVER relies on the shaking of the body and head, with the crotch dribbling, making a feint to dribble to one side, and then breaking through to the side according to the opponent's defensive tendency. Adam particularly appreciates this type of extraordinary, which is like a duel of the western cowboys, a split-second confrontation like two cowboys shooting: the center of gravity, judgment and experience on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends meet in less than a second, and the winner is decided in an instant.
In fact, the center of gravity of Li Wu's body has shifted to the left, but when Kyle cut to the right, Li Wu's body quickly tilted to the right, his right arm was extended, and the next moment, the ball was in his hand, and it was firmly in his hand.... You know, most interceptions are racket flying, and it's rare to confiscate the ball like this.
Not to mention that Kyle was doing the killer CROSSOVER, at this time, the ball bounced up at a very high rate, and the height was low, and it was already difficult to intercept, and what was even more difficult was that Kyle was still excited to make a layup after the ball was copied.... Adam, as a bystander, was also confused, and Adam knew in his heart that if he couldn't see anything, the referee couldn't see either.
"If only there was a slow-motion camera...," Adam thought to himself, and said to Kyle, "You, do off-ball defense with Lee." After saying that, he called the big 215cm white man Connor yesterday: "Then do another dodge and block drill." ”
There is no suspense in the result of the off-ball defense, Kyle, who is 195cm tall and weighs 80 kg, was completely defended by Li Wu, no matter how he runs, he can't shake off Li Wu's entanglement, after several places of entanglement at the top of the arc, on the wing, in the bottom corner, in the horns, in the paint area, and at the free throw line, Kyle said to Adam: "Sir, I think I can't get rid of his defense, Lee's pace is too fast." ”
Adam then asked Connor and Kyle to cooperate in the pick-and-roll, while Li Wu was responsible for dodging the pick-and-roll and defending Kyle.
Although Connor is a backup center, he is 215cm tall, plus 114kg in weight, his body is relatively strong, and he can provide good coverage.
But this is completely difficult for Li Wu, when dodging Connor's blocking, Li Wu directly performed in addition to swimming in the Baguazhang's body method, this body is shaped like a swimming dragon, turning like an eagle disk, sticking to Connor's body to slip like a loach when bypassing the block, Connor's blockade is almost useless.
Despite this, Kyle was able to get a little space advantage with Connor's pick-and-roll, but Li Wu's start-up speed after bypassing the block and pick-and-roll was extremely fast, and Kyle was once again defended by Li Wu before adjusting his action of receiving the ball or shooting, which made Kyle very frustrated. It also made the stout Connor doubt himself.
"Do I have to weigh more than 120 kilograms of Corey?" Connor was in a quandary, the team's main center, Corey Ossetkowski, who was 211cm tall and weighed more than 120 kilograms, was better than Connor in terms of basket confrontation and pick-and-roll quality, but his jumping and footwork were not as agile as Connor's.
Originally, Connor knew his strengths and weaknesses very well, but after Li Wu easily avoided his block, he was a little skeptical that he needed to gain weight.
While Li Wu was doing these drills, the team's head coach Smith, head assistant coach Derrick Phelps, and offensive assistant coach Kevin Horford were watching from the sidelines.
"Derek, Kevin, what do you think of this Chinese student?" Smith asked the two.
"From what I've seen, he's very fast, he's good for perimeter defense, and his strength doesn't hurt the upfront players, and in terms of switching, he can switch defenses indefinitely, except for the height disadvantage against the No. 5 position. And.... His interception ability is almost as good as the NBA's top defenders. Chief Assistant Coach Derek spoke.
Derrick had a short NBA career in '95, playing for the Sacramento Kings, making three appearances, averaging 1.7 minutes per game, all of which were zero, with only one assist, and three games averaging 0.3 assists per game, and one foul per game, which is full of water cooler caretaker stats.
But this does not affect his vision, and this white man was born to play guard, and his control of the situation is relatively clear.
"I agree with Derrick that if his shooting is as consistent as you and Adam say, he's definitely a consistent 3-and-D player who can solve a lot of problems for us on both ends of the floor." Offensive assistant Kevin spoke directly.
"Aside from Maodore, there are very few people on our team who can consistently score 10 points per game, Luke did well in the first few games because he improved his mid-range shooting level during the holidays, but as long as he meets a fast moving power forward, he definitely can't score 10 points, so I think the importance of this young man to us is undeniable, you must know that Princeton has three points above 10 points per game this year." Coach Smith summed it up.