Chapter 8: Carter
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Wake Forest University east of the living area, a Chinese restaurant in this street is particularly conspicuous, Wake Forest University has about 10,000 students, although the scale is not very large in the United States, but the sparrow is small, all kinds of organs, Wake Forest campus still has a small living area, there are supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, etc., just like an ordinary pedestrian street, at night it is always lit up.
The owner of this Chinese restaurant is an American, but the chef here is a Chinese, for Zhuang Fei, although most of the dishes here have the name of Chinese cuisine, in fact, they are still full of American flavor, not authentic, just see this shredded potatoes cut like potato wedges, Zhuang Fei wants to laugh.
"Vinnce, here" Zhuang Fei saw Carter come in, and hurriedly greeted him, today he made an appointment with Carter and invited Carter to dinner.
"After taking a bath, people have become a lot more nervous," Zhuang Fei praised, but the fatigue on Carter's face was still clearly visible. Looks like he's quite tired right now.
"Vince, can you afford the team's training now," Zhuang Fei asked with concern. Since Zhuang Fei asked Mark Allen and Bill Rambo to give these players a dose, these players have not complained about it, especially these freshmen, they have not suffered this kind of hardship in high school, at first they thought that college training was like this, but when Duncan inquired about it, they found out that this was not the case at all, especially when they were training for about a week, Zhuang Fei received complaints from many teachers in the school, saying that these players slept during class, looking like they were depressed. This also put Zhuang Fei under a lot of pressure.
"Fortunately, I haven't trained with such a large amount before" Carter replied tiredly, the last half month is the most exhausting half month of his life, he was exposed to the sport of basketball when he was very young, whether it was in elementary school or high school, he was the most prominent one in the team, he always did better than others, he was always so easy, in the past, he was more playing, but even if he played, he was the most sè, but, now, he obviously felt that he was tired, For the first time, he felt that playing basketball could be so tiring, and his strong competitiveness made him not go to class to sleep like Wally Szebiak and them during class, nor did he shout that he was tired during training like them, he even felt that his training was specially arranged by Zhuang Fei, which was larger and harder than others, but he still gritted his teeth and insisted, he didn't want to come to the appointment today, he just wanted to sleep with his head covered after taking a shower, he was very tired now.
"Vince, do you have a complaint against me? You should find that I am more demanding of you than others," Zhuang Fei said with a smile.
Carter groaned for a while, a little yù and stopped, and finally said: "Yes, at first, I don't understand why you want me to put so much effort into learning how to pass, and let Coach Beal continue to polish my ball control skills, and even asked Coach Mark to let me read those tactical guidance books that are more boring than textbooks, I always thought I was a small forward, not a point guard, but now, I have no complaints."
"Why?" When Zhuang Fei heard Carter say this, his interest immediately rose. Could it be that Carter had understood his intentions? He didn't say a word to the players about the team's triangular offense.
"Because Tim and I train exactly the same thing, and if he can do it so well, I can do it too," Carter said in an unusually determined tone.
This time it was Zhuang Fei's turn to stop, I didn't expect Carter to train so hard without complaint because of Duncan's encouragement, Carter and Duncan's training content is the same, this is also Zhuang Fei's arrangement, of course he didn't arrange it this way to stimulate Carter, in fact, this is his intention, the dynasty system report said that Carter needs to practice shooting and offense, in fact, through the usual training, he found that Duncan's interior offensive skills are quite proficient and rich, but Duncan's offensive score is still only more than 70 points, This is likely to be related to Duncan's passing ability, ball control ability, and even organizational ability, and in the tactical system of triangle offense, Duncan, the inner core, still needs strong organizational and passing skills, although Duncan is not weak in this aspect, but it is not particularly sè, so Zhuang Fei let Duncan and Carter use a training content to train. A mistake actually became the key to motivating Carter. It's no wonder that Carter has always been the best on the team before, but now because of Duncan, he is always pressed on the head, and Carter is very unwilling to be pressed by an inside player in the passing organization training.
"Well, Vince, what is your position for yourself?"
"What positioning?" Carter asked, a little puzzled.
"It's what kind of player do you think you're going to be in the future, I know a lot of people are calling you a great dunk now, but I don't ask that, I mean would you rather be a pure scorer or be the soul of a team, I'll give you a simple example, would you rather be a player like Stackhouse or a player like Grant Hill, I don't think you'll be a stranger to both of them."
"I don't know" Carter thought for a moment and then shook his head, he didn't know, because these two were people he couldn't match now, but now some people said he looked like Stark House.
Zhuang Fei was not surprised by Carter's answer, a high school student who has never been exposed to college basketball cannot judge his future even if he is talented.
"Vince, you're Stark House now, but I want you to be Grant Hill in the future."
"Can I be a player like Grant Hill?" Carter is still puzzled, he doesn't have doubts about his talent, if he scores a single point, he doesn't think he will lose to Grant Hill, however, Grant Hill's all-round is not something he can compare, in his heart he is more inclined to be a player like Starkerhouse, the two are similar in stature and have a similar style of play.
"Why not, you're still young and have a lot of possibilities, Vince, you're a natural attacker, but I don't want you to be just a simple scorer, I want you to be an all-around core like Hill and Pippen," Zhuang Fei continued.
"You may be puzzled, but I still have to say that in the future NBA, the position of small forward is not only to score outstandingly, but also to have a certain organizational ability, and even to have good offensive and defensive skills, the more versatile the better" The traditional definition of the small forward position is to score, but as a person who traveled back from 2012, the small forward has been given a different definition in that era, scoring is right, all-around is better. In fact, now Pippen and Hill have begun to change the definition of small forward.
"So you're asking me to learn the skills of a point guard, just to make me more well-rounded, not only to score on my own but also to organize my teammates to score?" Carter asked, uncertain.
"That's right, that's where I position you, and that's what I want you to do" Zhuang Fei smiled, and then continued: "Do you still have any questions?" ”
Carter shook his head, nodded again, and said with a little puzzlement: "Why are you so confident in me, to be honest, I'm not very sure if I can succeed in my transformation, but I think you always seem to be confident."
"Haha, it's a secret, the dish is already on the table, how about you taste it?"
"Hey, is this Chinese food, the white sè lump has red sè particles on it, it looks beautiful" Carter picked up the spoon and ate a piece.
"Wow, it's so spicy, what is this" After only taking one bite, Carter hurriedly picked up the water cup in front of him and filled it with water in one go.
"This is a very famous dish in China, called mapo tofu" This Chinese restaurant also has this dish Zhuang Fei can still see, but Zhuang Fei likes it right, but Carter cried, where did he eat such spicy food. But in the end, Carter finished his meal sweating profusely.
"Jīng, it's so refreshing," Zhuang Fei said with a smile. After eating mapo tofu, Carter's jīng god was obviously much better.
"Yes, thank you, Coach," Carter said gratefully.
It was almost half past nine after the two of them finished eating, and they both had to get up early tomorrow, so they parted ways after eating.
"Vinnce, what did that perverted Chinese tell you to go out for" Carter was caught by James Posey as soon as he returned to the dormitory.
The two are a major and a class, and they are still in the same dormitory.
"It's nothing, just invited me to a meal, and, please don't say that Mr. Zhuang is a pervert, he is a very normal person" Carter punched Percy lightly in the stomach.
"Ah, it hurts, Vince, when did you become so perverted with that, ah, I was wrong, it should be, when did you become so good with Mr. Coach, you never cared when I said that"
"Don't ask me, I still have to take a shower, you should be very tired now, don't you sleep? Are you going to sleep in class tomorrow? ”
"Take a shower again? Hey, Vince, is there something weird that Mr. Coach did to you," James Posey put the word strange in particular.
"You beg to fight"
"Hey, I'm wrong, can't I, hey, Vince, my stomach really hurts, don't fight anymore, I surrender"
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