Chapter 180: Mathematics and Sports
For Junxin, the assistant basketball coach is just an occasional pastime, and it does not occupy much of a place in his heart. However, excellence has always been Junxin's pursuit, so he will not be perfunctory at will, so he still went back to the library to check a lot of information and did a lot of homework.
The game of basketball originated in the United States. It was invented on December 21, 1891 by James Naismith, a physical education teacher at Springfield YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. In 1896, basketball was introduced to China
In 1904, the first exhibition basketball game was played at the St. Louis Olympics. In 1936, basketball was included as an official sport at the Berlin Olympics. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics began, and professional players could compete in Olympic basketball. That is when the NBA Dream Team came out to compete in the world basketball arena.
Junxin didn't know much about basketball, or he didn't know anything about basketball except that reading a book was to throw the basketball in his hand into the opponent's basket.
Therefore, since I promised Coach Pique, I naturally have to have a considerable understanding of basketball. Therefore, after finishing dinner, Junxin sent Gu Mengxue away, and came to the sports book collection of the Princeton Library alone.
There are a lot of books here, but the most are football books, with two whole shelves of books. There aren't a lot of basketball books, probably only about one side of a shelf, and some places are not full.
Instead of focusing on the dazzling tactics books, Junxin found an introduction to basketball written by Naismith himself after some searching, and then followed up with some information about the development and rules of basketball.
The next day came to the appointed time, Junxin sat next to the training ground with a pile of A4 white paper early, watching the players train individually or in pairs. Then from time to time he wrote something on the paper, and during that time he did not say anything, and no one was allowed to come and disturb him and watch what he was writing.
During this period, Junxin didn't say a word, and the players of the Tigers were a little inexplicable, but considering that this was the new assistant coach of their Tigers, he didn't say anything gossip. However, Junxin can also see the suspicion and distrust in their eyes when they look at him, but he doesn't care in his heart, and he is still holding back the big move in his heart, so he will endure it for the past two days.
Since the seventies of this century, a new branch has been born in the field of mathematics - the applied mathematician J-B. Keller of the United States has pioneered a new method of studying sports with modern mathematical methods! He used his mathematical knowledge to build a new theory of running, which he used in the training of long-distance runners, and achieved good results!
At the same time, Esther, a computer scientist in the United States, used the knowledge of mathematics and mechanics, and with the help of computers, studied the popular discus throwing technology at that time, so as to put forward his own set of training theories. Based on his own theories, he made corrections to the discus throwing technique. Let the athletes under his guidance improve their results by four meters in a short period of time and break the world record three times in a row in the following Olympic competitions. There are many more examples like this!
Now the situation faced by Junxin is slightly more complicated than his two predecessors, the problem of basketball games, is much more complicated than a single race and a single discus throwing, which not only involves the basketball player's data training, physical fitness, competitive action, confrontation, but also involves the cooperation of players, offensive routines on the court and passing and cutting cooperation, etc., not to say that you can build such a model if you want to build a model, which requires a lot of information.
But Junxin doesn't care about this at all, if there is no challenging thing, Junxin himself is not willing to do it, it is precisely because the workload is relatively large, the difficulty is relatively high, Junxin took over the position of assistant coach, otherwise no matter how hot-headed he is, he will not agree to be so ghostly.
"Letter, don't you need to say a word?" At the end of the training, Coach Pique walked to Junxin's side and asked in a low voice, in just over two hours, almost a hundred blank sheets of paper, Junxin had been densely written with words and sketches.
Jun Xin nodded when he heard this, and then walked to the Tiger Team of twelve members who had gathered and began his first lecture.
"Hello everyone, my name is Junxin, an exchange student from Shuimu University in China, and a sophomore in the Department of Mathematics. Maybe some of you have heard my name, but I think most of you are hearing it for the first time. Junxin's speech carried a touch of oriental elegance and humility, but it gave people a powerful feeling.
However, Junxin is indeed a bit humble, and there may be people in Princeton who have not seen Junxin now, but there is absolutely no one who does not know this name, even those from the most remote art colleges.
"I had a conversation with Professor Keller a few days ago, and it was refreshing for me to start creatively integrating mathematics into the training of runners in the seventies. At the same time, the famous computer scientist Professor Esther's method of applying mathematical models to the movement of throwing discus is also a relatively successful example. ”
"On the basis of the two professors, I used one night and your training just now to do a virtual model construction, this model will be aimed at your physical training and other reserves, dribbling and shooting actions and other competitive action specifications, physical confrontation training simulation and tactical coordination related training."
"I know you may have some doubts about my training methods, or even disagree with them at all. But it doesn't matter, I hope you can train according to my training content for half a month, and in half a month, we will start the first game of the season, and we will play against the Yale Bulldogs, which is a good litmus test, believe it or not, whether my training methods are effective, whether there is a problem with my tactical design and tactical system, will be reflected in this game. When the time comes, everything will naturally be judged. ”
"But..."Speaking of this, Jun Xin suddenly raised his voice, "But, in the past half a month, you must train according to the training plan I have drawn up, this is my only request, and it is also a non-negotiable request, do you hear?" ”
"Yes, Coach!"
"Do you have any questions? Now it's time to ask questions. ”