Ball control is the most basic skill on the basketball court, but it is also one of the most difficult to master.

It is said that it is simple to control the ball, because its essence can be summed up in two words: "shooting the ball", how simple is it to shoot the ball? It's so simple that elementary school students can easily learn this basic basketball skill in a matter of seconds. In addition to our common basic ball control techniques such as speed change, direction change, and rhythm change, it has also developed a lot of unexpected, gorgeous and dazzling movements. On the street court, there is more room for the development of ball control technology, and some ball control actions even exceed the rules of basketball itself.

For the NBA, the earliest point guard was positioned literally, responsible for pushing the ball across the half court to his teammates. Then, with the rise of various basketball tactics, point guards have been given the responsibility of centering and organizing the team's offense, and the great "Magic" Johnson, the all-time assist king Stockton and the two-time regular season MVP Nash are undoubtedly the peak of the organizational point guard. Of course, with the change of the times, people's requirements for point guards are getting higher and higher, and the functions of point guards are becoming more and more abundant, and scoring, defense, and rebounding have gradually become the work of point guards. As a result, offensive point guards and all-around point guards were born one after another, and as a result, the kind of point guard who rushed into the box with the ball appeared, and the kind of point guard who didn't want to run all over the court appeared. Among them, the representatives of offensive point guards include "Smiling Assassin" Thomas, "AI" Iverson, "Rose" Rose, etc., while the representatives of all-round point guards include "Big O" Robertson, "Old Demon" Kidd, "Turtle" Westbrook and so on.

In the 21st century, the fate of point guards has changed again, and in the "small ball era", the status of point guards is getting higher and higher, and now they have almost replaced the center as the most important position in a team.

Theoretically, we can indeed say that a good point guard can bring out a good team, such as Stephen Curry for the Golden State Warriors, Steve Nash for the Phoenix Suns, Chris Paul for the Los Angeles Clippers, or Derrick Rose for the Chicago Bulls.

The style of the point guard can be representative of a team's style, and the data is even more telling, after Steve Nash's whirlwind of "small ball tactics" swept across the league in the 2004-2005 season, 5 of the last 12 MVPs in the NBA were taken by point guards (2 times for Nash, 2 times for Curry, 1 time for Rose), a whopping 41.67%. And if LeBron James, who calls himself a "playmaker" and takes the majority of the ball on the team and is responsible for initiating offense (4 times), is also included in the category of point guards, the proportion is even more staggering.

Arguably, point guards are in the best period in NBA history. The point guard of today's era is not only responsible for organizing and sorting out the team's offense, but also has the ability to attack the city and end the offense, and even some extreme point guards must be able to grab rebounds, carry their bodies, and act as a spoiler on the inside.

A good point guard is a high-speed brain for a team that can dictate the tempo of the game, change the team's tactics and motivate teammates, while a bad point guard can make an easy game complicated and difficult.

The biggest problem the Knicks are facing at the moment is the lack of a good point guard, and the injury-plagued Derrick Rose is not, and it is a miracle that he can play now, let alone how much he can play; Vujacic on the bench is even more not, he is not a regular point guard in the first place, and with his advanced age, it is barely enough to call him a passing level now. So, in the end, the responsibility of the whole team's offensive organization fell on Roy's shoulders.

Of course, in all fairness, Roy is also not a good point guard, he does have a very good passing sense and big picture, and he does have the necessary physical qualities for a good point guard, but his ball control skills and passing skills are not enough to support him to do all the work that a point guard needs to do, and Roy himself admits that there are technical flaws, such as playing poorly against strong defenders (Beverley, James, Bradley) and double packs.

It is precisely because of this that Rose decided to use this week or so to give Roy a good improvement of his ball handling skills, just like the NBA team's tradition of old and new, passing and helping, Derrick Rose also intends to teach all his skills and stunts to his little brother in his lifetime.

Perhaps, Roy can take his shadow to cross the alliance again? Maybe Roy can really help him make his championship dream come true?

"How many XP and stat points can you earn in one hour of training?" Rose's tentative question was to find out what range Roy's hidden attribute "talent" was, and when he got the answer of "5 points", Rose was not surprised.

Earning 5 XP and stat points in an hour means that Roy's "talent" is at least 90 or more, which is a remarkable statistic. Rose is well aware that even before he was destroyed by injury, the upper limit of "talent" was only just 90, and Roy now has more than 90 talent, he is really an out-and-out talent.

Speaking of Derrick Rose's ability to control the ball, at his personal peak, he was almost invincible, not to mention his "no deceleration and change direction" skills beyond human limits, that is, Rose's ordinary cross-step and speed-changing skills can shake 90% of NBA players to doubt.

Rose's passing is actually very simple and crude, one is speed, the second is agility, and the third is explosiveness, these top physical qualities combined with Rose's perfect ball control skills, with a little change, can show a lot of gorgeous and practical passing moves.

Roy has always been a big gap in ball control skills before, although he has learned a little decent ball control skills from Jordan before, but in the end it is all entry-level movements, to say that the real ball control skills, except for the use of speed and basic crossover, Roy really has no passing moves that can be handled.

However, this is also quite in line with Roy's actual situation, compared to those top point guards, Roy's speed (95) and explosiveness (93) are enough, but the ball control (80) and agility (81) are still a little worse, so Rose's focus this time is to improve Roy's ball control skills and agility.

"Roy, your height is a bit taller for a point guard, but that's not a big deal, there are a lot of tall and good point guards in history, 'Penny' Hardaway is about the same height as you, and 'Magic' Johnson is even taller. The key thing we need to grasp during this time is the ability to combine people and balls. ”

Rose said and made a triple threat move, although he had just recovered from a new injury, but when he started playing basketball, his interest came at once, and he did a few moves in a row very beautifully and crisply.

"There are several modes of passing, as long as your physical fitness and ball control skills reach a certain level, many movements can be used by yourself without being taught, such as Owen and Wall of speed flow, they are already half successful with just one start; For example, Harden and Lillard, who have a rhythmic flow, need to use their brains and react quickly; There are also physical streams like James and Westbrook, whose excellence is basically based on strong bodies and physical strength, well, no aesthetics. ”

Rose grimaced, he stopped, it seemed that he was finally ready to teach, and Roy opened his eyes wide.

"Look, I'll start with one of my best 'Fake Hesitation'."

As soon as Roy's words fell, his steps started, a simple cross step, his body suddenly leaned forward, this realistic feint caused Roy to instinctively raise his hand, taking advantage of the gap Rose changed direction with another cross step, like a gust of wind over Roy.

"It's amazing." Roy couldn't help but clap his hands.

Ross was also a little proud, "This technical move is not easy, I think you may have to take your time." ”

"Take your time? So what do I practice first? ”

"I think your training has to start with improving your sense of the ball."

"Enhance the ball sense?" Roy looked at Rose suspiciously.

"Yes, the ball feel is the most important thing for a point guard, like me."

Rose said and did a dozen quick dribbles under his crotch in a row, and Roy was dazzled to watch.

"Or something like this."

As he spoke, Rose began to dribble the ball quickly behind his back again, only to see Rose's play, he simply closed his eyes, but even so, the ball seemed to be stuck to Rose's hand, and there was no tendency to leave his hand.

"It's okay."

Rose changed his trick this time, he sat down in his chair, and slapped the ball between his feet with his two hands, and there was not a single touch between his feet.

"With the sense of the ball, even if our eyes can't see the basketball, we can guide it exactly where we want it; With the ball sense, even if the opponent's defense is on our face, we can find the gap that is passing. ”

After dribbling the ball and chattering for a while, Rose was probably tired too, he sat down in a chair and threw the ball to Roy, "So, let's start training." ”

"Training? You haven't told me how to practice your ball senses. Roy looked at Rose, who was snickering, and suddenly felt a little bad.

"Well, I've already demonstrated it just now, it's just a constant close contact with basketball." After saying this, Rose couldn't hold back any longer, and he laughed "hahahahaha".

"You're kidding, Derek (Rose), you're asking me to practice with the ball for a week?"

"That's right, that's right, and you have to practice at least 6 hours a day, and trust me, this training definitely works." Rose covered his mouth, probably amused even by the spoof.

"Okay, then I'll start practicing."

A second later, Rose suddenly put away his smile, because Roy actually made a standard "worship Buddha" gesture.

"Congratulations on receiving 666 negative energy from Derek Rose."

Ross was really stunned, Roy only watched it once and learned to "worship Buddha", this guy is really a basketball genius......