Chapter 5: The Humble Shooter

Eight points in a row!

In the first 37 minutes of the NIKE Basketball Summit game, Gu Yu, the "hairstyle brother" who didn't get half of the playing time, was full of firepower as soon as he got on the court, with four shots and four hits plus one free throw...... Uh, zero hit, eight points in one go. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

And what is surprising is that Gu Yu's four shots are all in the same position.

Exactly the same on a "peculiarity".

"It's SWEET-SPOT!"

Gu Yu has performed several rounds in a row, and the fans who understand the ball have already seen the doorway: "'Brother Hairstyle' has shot in the same position four times in a row, and as long as he gets the ball in that position, no matter whether there is defense in front of him or not, and how tight the defense is, he will ignore the reason for the direct shot, it must be because that point is his 'sweet spot'!" ”

The so-called sweet spot, old fans know this concept. Although the players practice, they basically use the same amount of practice from all angles and positions, seeking a balance of attacking range. But everyone's habits are different, shooting posture, shooting rhythm, offensive preferences, psychological factors, etc., will cause players to have their own sweet spots.

At this particular point, the players' shooting crosshairs will be exceptionally high. Players with a stronger level can expand their sweet spot and turn it into a "sweet spot", or even a "sweet distance", and feel explosive in a certain area or even a certain distance.

Gu Yu's performance is quite obvious now, half a step inside the three-point line on the court, and the position at the top of the arc is on the left, which is his "sweet spot"!

Seeing through this, it is not only the fans, but also the coaches, media, scouts, and players on the field who are also aware of this for the first time.

Especially Brandon Knight, who was against Gu Yu, made the most direct and toughest response directly in this round, that is......

"Stick to the sweet spot!"

Knight opened his hands and simply didn't follow Gu Yu, but stood on the sweet spot, without the slightest looseness under his feet, just waiting for Gu Yu to come and get stuck with him.

Aren't you able to shoot? Aren't you particularly accurate at this point?

Come on! Try to snatch your place from under my feet!!

"Oops."

On the sidelines, Chen Mu naturally saw the problem, and when he saw Knight's actions, he immediately frowned: "Xiao Gu's sweet spot is here, I have never shown it in the previous joint practice, and even I don't know." But now that he has been seen through, his weaknesses have been exposed. ”

Chen Mu clearly remembers that when he first received the invitation to be the head coach of the international team, when he met with the players, he first asked the players to play and play for five minutes at will according to their own habits, so that they could see how they looked.

There was no confrontation in this process, and the performance of the players naturally hung up one by one.

The players who love to show off their personalities go up to all kinds of violent dunks, gliding rods and baskets, regardless of their skills, first show their unique physical fitness.

Players with relatively low-key personalities focus on showing their technical advantages after they go on the court, passing, layups, shooting, vision, dribbling, etc., and all aspects are displayed as comprehensively as possible. At the same time, we must also cover up our shortcomings and highlight our strengths, hoping to attract Chen Mu's attention and get more opportunities to play in the game.

Gu Yu at that time, what did he do after he came on the field?

"Huh!"

Shooting.

When Chen Mu got the 30-man squad selected by NIKE from various youth leagues around the world, Gu Yu was ranked 31st on the list according to the comprehensive value of ability and potential.

That's right, thirty-one on the list of thirty.

To get into the NIKE Basketball Summit and compete, the process that young players have to go through is quite brutal. Generally speaking, NIKE will hold a training camp more than a month in advance, and the selected players come from all over the world, including players under the age of 19 in the United States.

The players are ranked according to their potential when they enter the training camp, and the total number of players has risen every year and is now in the thousands.

The brutal journey of the training camp began here.

The back numbers of the players are determined according to the strength ranking. In other words, the player with the back number of 1000 is the tail of the crane, and the player with the back number of 1 must be the god of the training camp.

When Gu Yu entered the training camp, his back number was 1000 miles away, and the scout's evaluation of him was:

"It has a silky soft feel, a strong desire to score, and a perfect shooting stance. But other than that, it's almost nothing good at the professional level. ”

The body is not good, the bounce is not good, the strength is not good, the speed is not good, the explosiveness is not good, the dribble is not good...... Gu Yu's problems are countless.

The worst thing is that Gu Yu's psychological quality is quite bad.

As a shooter, the most important thing is to have a stable mentality and be ruthless. And Gu Yu is shy, even a little timid, there are people defending within three meters in front of him, and the shooting crosshairs will drop sharply.

If physical and technical skills can be tempered, then the mentality problem is likely to accompany a player for a lifetime.

Therefore, almost all scouts and professionals have a simple and crude identification of this outside player from China:

He can't.

However, because among the young players, physical fitness abounds, and there are endless dribbling fancy and explosive power, but there are very few who have a beautiful shooting posture. Considering the scarcity of shooters, Gu Yu still got some opportunities at the beginning of the training camp.

On the one hand, it was lucky, and on the other hand, of course, there was NIKE's selfishness to help young Chinese players considering the Chinese market, and Gu Yu was so stumbling that it was the final stage of the training camp.

Throughout the training camp stage, Gu Yu, as a shooter with extremely single functions, was decent. With a completely empty position, the shot is almost 100 shots. But with a slight loss of defense, the shooting becomes a mess.

On the defensive end, limited by physical fitness and psychological weaknesses, Gu Yu's performance was extremely bad. If it weren't for the fact that the other players in the training camp looked down on him too much, he got a lot of vacancies in the team knockout rounds again and again, and the final scoring data was passable, Gu Yu wouldn't have been able to go now.

"Huh"

And when Chen Mu saw Gu Yu for the first time, in five minutes, the timid Gu Yu only did this one thing:

Shooting.

Gu Yu shot in all positions and corners of the court, and the shooting rate was quite amazing. The key is that as a young player whose skills have not yet been finalized, Gu Yu's shooting posture is beautiful like a sculpture, and every shot is flawless.

Even so, the other young players on the sidelines still sneered at Gu Yu. Because they know that Gu Yu's accuracy, that is, when there is no defense, is really on the field, if the other party does not relax his vigilance, Gu Yu will not have the slightest chance.

In the knockout round of sixty into thirty, Gu Yu had already been eliminated. But in the end, among the top 30 players, one of them had no choice but to withdraw due to injury, and Gu Yu was lucky enough to stay in the squad in Chen Mu's hands as the 31st person.

And what happened later, until now, Chen Mu can't forget it.

"Pass it to me!"

On the field, the game came to the last thirty seconds, and Gu Yu's sweet spot was stopped by Knight. But Gu Yu, who was already hilarious, didn't care about it, and still opened his hand to ask for the ball.

"Pass it to him!!"

American fans like Gu Yu's character of "whether you are a god or a Buddha" is the most important, and loudly put pressure on the point guards of the international team.

The point guard of the international team was originally resolute, but when he looked around, Kanter, the core of the attack, was guarded solidly, and the other players couldn't run a chance.

At this time, the physical advantages of the players of the American team were shown, and the international team was already a little unable to bear this kind of confrontation, only Gu Yu's physical strength was quite abundant.

Then pass it on......!

"Whoosh!" A basketball sounded, and the moment Gu Yu caught the ball, Knight's eyes were quick, and his knife was stabbed down, and he was about to break the ball.

Gu Yu made an astonishing choice that would later be called "the origin of the most convulsive scoring maniac in history".