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Chapter 637: Do you want me to teach you how to win the championship? _3

Chapter 637: Do you want me to teach you how to win the championship? _3

Nash made a helpless expression, "So, my job is not just to help you integrate the crossover step into our common breakthrough techniques but also to help you develop a technical expansion plan for scoring with left-sided breakthroughs?"

Zhang Yang: "Yes, I appreciate your hard work, Steve. If it’s just about integrating the crossover step, I could do it myself with some extra time, but having a clear follow-up technical expansion plan would be even better. You’re the most skilled player in the world, you understand the differences better than I do."

Nash was pleased to hear this and replied, "Of course, I definitely know that. Attacking from the non-dominant hand’s direction, the angles for shooting and layups are different, and there’s a great technical disparity."

"Previously, your scoring on the left side of the three-second area was usually off the ball, and you would consciously avoid going left, utilizing screens or passing the ball to the playmaker spot."

"When you had to go left, you would usually choose to step back and shoot or do a lateral crossover jump shot, voluntarily giving up rhythm to escape confrontation, relying on a strong shooting touch."

"During the past two years, the opponents rarely targeted this aspect of your game, as back then nobody expected you to improve so quickly. But now it’s different, you’ve become one of the players everyone wants to target the most. Regular season is fine, but come playoff time, this will definitely become a flaw in your offense. That you’ve noticed this early and are looking for ways to compensate... Grove, talents like you who are gifted, hardworking, and have a sense of crisis, are really annoying!"

Zhang Yang: "..."

How did the conversation turn into cursing?

However, speaking of this, he felt a bit excited. After several years, he finally had the opportunity to develop new techniques outside of his routine training.

In the training mode, his displayed strength was based on his current techniques and talents at a specified age, representing the upper limit he could reach. Previously, he updated his limit by improving his physical fitness and shooting talent. As for techniques, he either learned them in the training mode or developed them around what he had gained from it.

There was nothing wrong with that, and new techniques were also learned through hard work in the training mode.

But as his talents improved more and more, the shooting value he needed to continue enhancing his talent also increased, consuming more time, and the rate of improvement on his limit from the talent-enhancing direction started to slow down, which would also decelerate the rate of strength improvement reflected in the training mode.

Now, with the ability and conditions to develop new techniques outside his training and perfect his gameplay, he could enhance the strength improvement reflected in the training mode. This meant there was a higher probability of completing training tasks and receiving more rewards, which in turn would nourish his own growth... maintaining the previously beneficial cycle!

Moreover, being able to develop techniques and perfect gameplay outside of training was a positive thing in itself, proof that he had reached a new level of personal strength.

Nash had a momentary mental explosion but quickly recovered, saying, "You’re laying your weaknesses out in the open like this, aren’t you afraid we’ll target that? We do have guard Raja Bell."

Zhang Yang: "No problem, it doesn’t matter if I have weaknesses against your Suns team; I can just play the pick-and-roll, your interior defense is worse one after another... And even if I don’t say it, you could see it, but you’ve never taken good advantage of it."

Nash clenched his fist and said, "Alright, you’re right. Even if we know, we can’t do anything about it. Damn it, capitalists aren’t as exploitative as you are. Okay, no more talking, let’s start training!"

Zhang Yang ignored Teacher Nash’s complaints, realizing that every time Nash taught him, he became more irritable than the last, but he was used to it.

He began to demonstrate his crossover step, something he was already capable of, but just that—capable. Since he didn’t use it often, he could only say he knew it rather than was proficient in it.

In the most recent training, he learned a more comprehensive method for the crossover step breakthrough from Nash, made adaptive adjustments with Grove’s help, and learned the complete version of the crossover step breakthrough during the off-season... although it was still just that, head knowledge not frequently trained or reinforced in actual combat.

After watching Zhang Yang’s demonstration of the crossover step technique, Nash saw what he expected: the kid had already learned it and possessed a comprehensive set of crossover breakthrough skills... But something felt off. Why did Zhang San’s crossover breakthrough resemble his own so much?

Never mind, it’s not important. Let’s get to it!

Even though he felt exploited, he had chosen his own successor and had to continue mentoring through gritted teeth...