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Chapter 581 - 250. The so-called details_2

Chapter 581: 250. The so-called details_2

Felton: "So, by reviewing old knowledge and gaining new insights from it, I could become a teacher? If I could do that, after I retire in the future, could I also become an excellent trainer like Tim?"

Zhang Yang: "Well, it’s possible, I guess. Why did you suddenly think of this?"

Felton: "The moment I held the O’Brien Trophy, I never wanted to leave the world of basketball, but I will retire someday. These past few days while traveling, I often thought about what I would do after retiring. Now I know, I want to be a trainer!"

Zhang Yang: "That’s a good goal, but then you’ll need to master a lot more techniques."

Felton: "Of course, I know that. Although my talent isn’t as good as yours, my learning ability isn’t as fast, nor am I as hardworking... Grove, Jack, how can you be so excellent?"

Grove: ???

The Rondo from the next court couldn’t stand it any longer. He was mixing things up with just three sentences? Where was this even going?

He shouted at Felton: "Big guy, hurry up with the training content! I’m still waiting here!"

Felton looked at Rondo with a wronged expression. What’s with the aggression... But it seemed he indeed had delayed the camp’s time. The topic should be discussed after work.

Enough chit-chat, time to work!

Grove: The internal situation of the Bobcats is really... interesting! Little fatty boss is quite a reasonable one...

But eventually, he managed to keep Felton’s arrogance in check. That’s good, time to start working!

With a goal in mind, Felton was motivated. Facing Grove’s set up camera, he smoothly completed the demonstration of technical and fundamental training processes.

After the demonstration, Felton’s work for the morning came to an end. He could go home from work, but he didn’t leave. Instead, he went to an empty court nearby and practiced catching and shooting from the corner.

It was Zhang Yang’s turn to show the training content.

Zhang Yang listened as Grove read out the names, demonstrating one by one.

His demonstration took almost twice as long as Felton’s. In terms of fundamentals and technical reserves, he was much richer than Felton, not including what he had just learned from his recent training.

After Zhang Yang finished, Grove exclaimed: "Jack, you’re so outstanding that you don’t even seem like a 19-year-old player. Even if you don’t learn any new techniques and just practice these, in a few more years, you’ll definitely be one of the top stars in the league!"

Zhang Yang, reminded of his training from the previous night, nodded in agreement: "I know."

Felton and Rondo, eavesdropping from the side, both smashed their thrown balls against the backboard.

Little brother (Third Brother) really is... quite confident!

Seeing Grove speechless, Zhang Yang felt a bit embarrassed and changed the subject: "When you were reading out the names during the demonstration, I realized I’ve forgotten many of the details of when I learned them. I haven’t practiced them in a long time."

Grove’s train of thought was brought back as well. He said: "Those were probably techniques you developed when you first started playing basketball, the fundamental skills you practiced. Many of the details of basketball technique, once you reach a certain level, don’t need further improvement and won’t affect your gameplay, so you wouldn’t practice them anymore.

But these early things you practiced are actually the foundation of your basketball abilities, and you need to pay attention to them.

Because you haven’t trained them specifically for a long time, you may have developed some bad habits in games, or perhaps you didn’t quite get them right from the start. They might not have affected your early gameplay much, but when you need to become a greater player, these details will hold you back.

Correcting these areas is difficult, and even just identifying the problems is hard. Few people pay attention to this, and this is what makes a huge difference between great players and average ones.

But this is something you must do. As your experience in the game continues to grow, you’ll find that what you need to focus on and strengthen is actually these very detailed areas."

Details, huh?

Zhang Yang thought of Kobe, who after retiring, loved to analyze the technical details of a player and then made them public... His actions were so deplorable that they are indescribable.

Seeing Zhang Yang deep in thought, Grove felt very happy.

Working with a player who can understand humans is simply too blissful, like the past two weeks helping Kobe with improving his fadeaway jump shot with Hamblen, which was a very enjoyable process and gave a great sense of accomplishment.

But going to help that high school Center draft first pick on the South Coast in May was torture, he just wouldn’t listen to anything.

At first he maintained his professionalism, patiently instructing. But later on, he gave up; if the other guy wanted to learn forcefully, he’d teach forcefully, and if they were just showing off, he’d just laugh along...

Working for the Bobcats was also a happy and fortunate experience. Bad boy Jack was quite mature, aside from sometimes making him feel like punching someone, he had no other serious faults.

Felton, with his arrogance, was also kept in check by bad boy Jack. The kid Kidd was still green, but from what he learned from Ingles and Carlisle, apart from being a bit cold and arrogant, the kid didn’t have any bad habits either.

The key was that all three were very talented! Teaching them felt rewarding!

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On the first day of the training camp, the job was simple, just demonstrate the training content.

At 2 PM, after Rondo spent 10 minutes demonstrating the training, Grove went off to Jordan’s house to perfect the training plan for the next four weeks.

On the second day, July 17th, the training intensity significantly increased.

The amount of daily training content refinement wasn’t large; the main thing was to practice! Once changed and learned, one had to practise until the body remembered how to execute the drills.

Zhang Yang, Felton, and Rondo all progressed at completely different paces.

The training Rondo did was roughly equivalent to the training Felton underwent to simplify his playing style with Ingles’s help after being enlightened by Zhang Yang during the early part of his rookie season.

Rondo actually had a good sense of self-adjustment; he realized upon entering the NBA that many things he could do in college just weren’t possible in the NBA. He consciously simplified his playing style but still often made mistakes during games.

Ingles, with his workload, mainly had to take care of Zhang Yang, Felton, Gerald Wallace, and Okafor. Although Rondo later also became an important player to develop, Ingles couldn’t possibly spend time focusing on Rondo’s playing style. The time Ingles spent on Rondo was all about how to help him train on free throws and three-pointers.

Now, with Grove’s guidance, Rondo finally began optimizing his playing style. Based on Rondo’s actual conditions, Grove explicitly pointed out which of Rondo’s skills should be abandoned, which should be strengthened, and which should be developed.

Felton was still in the midst of optimizing the details of his technical moves.

As for Zhang Yang, he was the furthest ahead, having entered the stage of re-optimizing fundamental skills.

In terms of difficulty, Zhang Yang faced the highest challenge. These fundamental skills were mostly small habits, which had become subconscious, instinctive motions requiring tremendous willpower to overcome... This was even harder than overcoming the ’previous lifetime’ basketball mind when he first started playing basketball four years ago.

Grove said to him, "If you, Jack, think it’s too troublesome, we can skip this step. These details won’t prevent you from becoming a superstar."

Zhang Yang knew this was reverse psychology, but he chose to take the bait and face the challenge head-on!

He knew that correcting those instinctive bad habits, perfecting the details that weren’t learned well at the start, and rebuilding the foundational movements that had become ’outdated’ with his growth would make his movements on the court much more concise.

Duncan was a prime example; conciseness meant efficiency!

Jordan’s basketball play was also clean, simple, and efficient.

On the first day, Zhang Yang suffered and struggled, his training appeared much simpler compared to Rondo and Felton’s, but only he knew the real difficulties.

At 4 PM, the first day of the two-hour morning and afternoon training camp ended. Grove and Ingles were ready to finish work and grab a drink when Zhang Yang stopped them.

Zhang Yang, "Tim, Chip, help me develop some new skills!"

Ingles, "Who have you been watching videos of and want to learn their skills from this time?"

Grove: Huh?

Zhang Yang, "Last night I was watching Nash’s videos, there are 3 moves I learned a bit of, almost got them down; I need you guys to help me set up a training plan."

Grove: ???

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Two hours left to ask for monthly tickets~ Continuing to write, I’ll write one more Chapter tonight, it’ll be short and exciting~