Chapter 258 257. Coach, why don’t you unify your style with the management?
"Available shooting value: 120001, can extract random talent limit +1..."

At 29:10 am on the 24th, Zhang Yang made another three-pointer after a long-distance run, and the "Gate of Experience" popped up, reminding him that the mission was finally completed.

It was a little later than he expected half a month ago, mainly because he had been arranged to practice catching the ball and shooting three-pointers after long-distance running since the 25th, such as going around the baseline from the mid-range to the top arc and shooting a three-pointer; going around the baseline from the mid-range to the top arc and shooting a three-pointer... This is a very difficult three-point shooting method. Apart from him, only Mike Miller was arranged to do similar running and shooting after starting personal training on the 27th.

During the individual training phase, Carlisle developed a training plan for each player based on his needs and the actual situation of the players.

Zhang Yang immediately said "extract" in his mind, and the words on the door changed.

"Physical talent upper limit +1, your physical strength/physical talent has been increased to 90 (94), and your physical talent is only 1 point away from the historical level. Please keep up the good work."

“Name: Zhang Yang.

Age: 19 (Date of birth: June 1988, 6.)
Height: 196 cm, wingspan: 210 cm.

Weight: 93 kg.

Ability value evaluation: three-pointer 85, mid-range shot 88 (upper limit 94), layup 90 (upper limit), ball control 89, passing 82, speed 93, strength 84, jumping 87, physical strength 90 (upper limit 94)...

Cumulative shooting value: 1..."

After an offseason, although I had some initial contact with Grove's physical training plan, my physical strength is still 90, which is already at the top level. It is really difficult to improve it further... However, except for the physical fitness of James and Beast, there seem to be few players who have the top NBA level of physical strength at the age of 19. Even Durant may not have such physical strength when his physical functions are at the peak.

After all, he was able to throw the ball more than 30 times and play for 40 minutes in the playoffs, although he didn't care about defense... But if the same style of play was given to Durant, Durant's scoring performance and hit rate would be higher, but his continuity might not be as good as his.

Three months later, his mid-range shot only increased by 1 point, which was lower than his expectation. In fact, both his mid-range shot and his physical strength increased slowly after reaching 85+, but his three-point shot improved significantly, soaring from 81 to 85. His original target was 84.

A new task has arrived. With 12 shooting points, he will get a random shooting talent +1. He hopes it will be attacking the basket or making a mid-range shot. Another task is with 2 shooting points, which requires him to quickly learn the butterfly step breakthrough... Zhang Yang glanced at Hill, who was training high-post and wing pick-and-roll coordination with Felton, Okafor, and Perkins.

Butterfly step breakthrough, that is, pulling the ball to create a gap and then relying on explosive acceleration to break through, this is not very suitable for Zhang San, right? And it is quite harmful to the knees and ankles. When he trained this move with Tim Grove and Engelland before, the progress was relatively slow, and it was similar when he learned it from Nash.

It's just 20,000 shooting points. If you practice shooting, you can accumulate enough in eight or nine days. It's okay if you learn it. What if you can create a chemical reaction with his rhythm flow breakthrough?

Keep up the good work! Zhang Yang continued to practice catching the ball and turning around to shoot three-pointers after long-distance running with the help of a trainer.

Before the training camp started, Zhang Yang was in a good mood after completing the previous task. In the evening, another piece of good news came...

...

美国时间2007年9月30号晚上、北京时间9月30号早上，蓝协宣布，通过张杨的国家队入队申请，张杨正式成为中国男篮08年奥运队的一员。

Chaoting Sports Channel, Comprehensive Channel, BJ Sports, Guangdong Sports and other TV stations were the first to broadcast the news - the youngest FMVP in NBA history returned to the national team and will represent the Chinese men's basketball team in the Olympics at home!

As early as after Zhang Yang's rookie season, there were constant calls for the domestic Basketball Association to invite Zhang Yang, an overseas Chinese, to return to China to participate in the Olympics. On the eve of National Day, when the news came out, the domestic sports world was in an uproar.

Domestic fans were happily and excitedly discussing the combination of Zhang Yang and Yao Ming. In Charlotte, Zhang Yang, Tellem and the officials of the Basketball Association also had a great celebration banquet.

Although the negotiation process was unfriendly, the matter was finally settled and both sides were very happy.

Zhang Yang was of course happy that he didn't have to be a scapegoat.

The blue assistant who went to the United States: We are not the ones who feel cheated by not getting any advantage. It's those people. We are traveling at public expense. They provide us with good food, drink and accommodation. What's there to be unhappy about?

But after the meal, Zhang Yang received the dinner bill from his father, and his mood was not so good. He complained to Tellem: "Are they pigs? They can eat so much? When I go to the training camp, I will eat it back!"

Tellem smiled and said, "How about I pay for it?"

Zhang Yang: "Forget it, forget it. I'll pay. It's from my pocket to my dad's pocket anyway. I'll discuss with him whether he can just charge me the cost price. Thank you for your hard work these past few months, A'en."

Tellem: "It's work. You pay me, and I do my job well. It's what I should do. And it also involves my interests. If they want a share of the money, it's like taking money from my pocket. Of course I have to fight with them..."

In fact, as early as last summer, after Zhang Yang won the best sixth man award, was selected into the first rookie team, and reached the second round of the playoffs, domestic fans were calling on the Blues Association to call him back to the team.

But the Basketball Association chose to play ostrich, pretending not to hear the reporter's questions and not to see the netizens' calls... The players within the system performed dismally, but a foreign overseas Chinese player became very successful in his rookie year. Don't they have any face?
Until this summer, the Rockets were eliminated in the first round again, the Bobcats fought back and won the championship, Zhang Yang was selected as the second team + FMVP, Yao Ming refused the Blue Association's request to stay in the Rockets and applied for a transfer. The Blue Association's lie of promoting Yao Ming's championship in the NBA in order to create the "superiority of our player training system" was exposed, and the lie of self-proclaimed "CBA is the second largest basketball league in the world" was also exposed as the 04 Argentina team won the Olympic championship and the Spanish team won the World Championship. Public opinion was surging, and the Blue Association had to contact Zhang Yang.

Then came the three-month-long negotiations between Tellem and the Blue Association.

The Blues Association put forward many demands. They were reluctant to recruit Zhang Yang. In addition to the face issue, there was another important reason - they had no reason to take a cut from Zhang Yang's salary and endorsement fees, and they were worried that they would not get any benefits.

Representing the national team in the Olympics, Zhang Yang's commercial value in China will inevitably increase further. Although this has little impact on the blue assistant managers, they feel uncomfortable seeing that they cannot get a piece of such a huge gold mountain.

During the negotiations, Tellem showed the greedy nature of a broker to the fullest. He forcefully rejected the unreasonable demands of the Blue Association and made it clear that if the Blue Association talked nonsense after the negotiations broke down, he would expose the demands put forward by the Blue Association and fight to the death.

Tellem and Zhang Yang reached an agreement after discussion - if he could not join the national team and could not further enhance his domestic commercial value through the Olympics, it would not affect Zhang Yang's current off-court income. Most of Zhang Yang's current endorsements are American brands, and domestic brands are mainly sponsoring the Bobcats. Even if there is a loss, it is Jordan's loss.

The Blue Association will take a portion of the money, and Tellem's share will also be reduced. Is that money? That's his life!
The main reason was that they had legitimate reasons to refuse. Zhang Yang had never received any training from the Blue Association and had never enjoyed any benefits from the Blue Association. Even if the relationship broke down because of money, he was open and aboveboard and was not afraid of the Blue Association's public opinion attacks.

Moreover, Zhang Yang is different from Yao Ming. Yao Ming is willing to compromise on national team matters. In addition to basketball itself, there are other interests to consider. Zhang Yang does not need to care about his relationship with the Basketball Association. He can do whatever he wants.

In fact, if the Basketball Association received the sponsorship fees and really spent it on the development of domestic basketball, no matter how much development Zhang San's meager contribution could bring to domestic basketball, as long as it could help the domestic youth basketball training, he was willing to sacrifice some personal interests... People always have to have some dreams, and he also longed to see the Chinese men's basketball team stand at the top of the world one day.

But the Basketball Association is not much better than the football shoes. The booming development of domestic basketball in the past decade is purely due to the continuous emergence of talented players such as Hu Weidong, Liu Yudong, Wang Zhizhi, and Yao Ming. The role played by the Basketball Association is... a drag?

Zhang Yang would rather earn less than let that group of people take advantage of him.

After three months of tug-of-war, the Blue Association had to compromise.

The main reason is that Zhang Yang just won the FMVP and is very popular in the domestic sports arena. The Olympics will be next year. The Blue Association can't delay the heat even if it wants to. The people of the country are all paying attention to this matter. The Blue Association can only give up its improper demands and formally approve Zhang Yang's application to join the national team.

That's right, it was Zhang Yang who 'actively applied' to join, and the Blue Association approved it after 'repeated consideration'. Since they couldn't steal any benefits, they went back to the matter of saving face.

Zhang Yang was speechless about this, but he had no objection. If they wanted to join, then they could join. The Blue Association wanted to save his face in this way, but he felt that this was not a bad thing. He flipped through the materials sent by the Blue Association Manager, including the receipt of the application approval, the national team training schedule, the national team regulations, and the commercial activities that had been agreed upon...

Seeing Zhang Yang looking at the arrangements for the men's basketball team's collective commercial activities, Tellem said, "Don't worry, I've looked carefully. The sponsors of these commercial activities will not conflict with our own endorsement brands."

Zhang Yang nodded, but still read it again. It is better to be cautious. In case there is anything missed, he can communicate with the Blue Association as soon as possible.

In order to keep most of the interests, he also had to pay a small price and participate in several commercial activities with his men's basketball teammates... and this was also a public appearance as a member of the national team. For him, the benefits outweighed the small price.

This negotiation with the Blue Association made Zhang Yang feel the benefits of having a profit-oriented agent!

...

The next day, October 10st, a new month arrived, NBA training camp began, and the 1-2007 season kicked off.

Zhang Yang arrived at the Turkish Airlines Arena before 7 o'clock in the morning to participate in the live broadcast of the Imperial TV station.

Facing the camera, Zhang Yang sent his best wishes to the motherland on its 58th birthday: "I wish the great motherland prosperity. I hope that my efforts on the basketball court can contribute a little to the development of the motherland's sports cause and make a difference in the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation."

After saying this, Zhang Yang felt something was wrong, as if this sentence had not come out yet... It doesn't matter, it's National Day, just be happy.

The other members of the Bobcats also got up early and sent their blessings in front of the live camera. Some wanted to show their faces, some wanted to help Zhang Yang, and some were forced to do business... Boss Joe was the most active. In Zhang Yang's eyes, the God of Basketball had turned into a real profiteer.

After the live blessing time of Chaoting TV ended, an exclusive interview with Zhang Yang was also conducted.

The topic must be related to joining the national team. He is as humble as ever. It is better to keep a low profile at this time. He will answer questions about results with "try his best" to avoid being embarrassed. Of course, when it comes to the game, he will do his best to win.

Zhang Yang was very busy for the whole day. Today was the media day of the Bobcats training camp. He was busy with the final photos, the team's promotional posters, billboard posters, stadium posters, interviews... He was busy from morning to night.

After a busy day, on October 10, the open training day of the Bobcats training camp, Zhang Yang no longer cared whether there were cameras or not. He devoted himself to the training and preparations for the new season. The excitement and joy of joining the national team were thrown aside. Cameras and filming were useless.

If he hadn't won the FMVP last season, if he hadn't been able to tear apart the false prosperity of domestic basketball in the past two years, would he have been able to make those bastards in the Basketball Association compromise so easily?
The only way is to become stronger and perform better!
As time goes by, the Bobcats training camp progresses steadily.

During this period, Zhang Yang felt Carlisle's professionalism. In terms of preparation for the battle, Carlisle was better than Bickerstaff!

It may be related to Bickerstaff's age. In the past two years, during the more than ten days of preparation before the preseason, it was not Bickerstaff who was responsible for most of the work, but assistant coaches such as Bickerstaff Jr., Randy Brown, and Engelland. Bickerstaff is in his sixties, and his energy and physical strength are not enough to support him to go to the gym from seven or eight in the morning and be busy until late at night for more than ten days in a row.

Carlisle is different. He does everything by himself. He is not sure about anything and has to go over everything personally. In terms of professional ability to coach a team, he is obviously better than several assistant coaches.

This is good for the players. Carlisle is the builder of the team's new system. He certainly understands every tactic and every detail better than the assistant coaches. Under his supervision, the players can avoid many detours.

That's right, Zhang Yang looked at Carlisle's head. He's not even 50 years old...

It is October 10, the last day of training camp. Today the Bobcats conducted several simulated combat trainings to test their tactics.

At 5 p.m., all training tasks of the last day of training camp were completed. Carlisle announced that tomorrow would be a day off, and they would gather the day after tomorrow morning, leave Charlotte, and go to Chicago to start their preseason journey.

After more than ten days of continuous training from the 25th to today, we can finally take a break. The Bobcats players cheered collectively and are also looking forward to the new season that is about to begin.

Carlisle listened to the cheers of his players and smiled. It was great to coach such a vibrant team!
However, while he is highly motivated, he is also under a lot of pressure.

In today's simulated combat training, the players executed the tactics very well, but this was just an internal training match. Although he arranged it to be played like an actual combat match, the players obviously followed the tactics regardless of offense or defense. The real tactical test will have to wait until the preseason games or even the opening games of the regular season.

His pressure comes from the fact that he almost completely overturned the Bobcats' championship-winning style of play last season!
Last season, the Bobcats' offense was mainly based on attacking the basket and combining inside and outside play. The tactics were almost all centered around the core scorer to attract double-teaming and pass the ball.

Defense is mainly based on single defense inside and outside lines, and connection between the front line inside and outside.

Bickerstaff is very good at responding to situations on the spot, but his system building is very traditional.

In fact, if possible, Carlisle also wants to use the system left by Bickerstaff first and make gradual changes.

But Gerald Wallace, the core figure of the Bobcats' offense and the best defensive player connecting inside and outside defense, has left, and he had to start over.

Carlisle was about to go out for dinner, and took the video home with him. He stayed up late watching the training video and thinking about what needed to be adjusted. At this time, a handsome guy came up to him.

Carlisle: "Jack, what's up?"

Zhang Yang: "Rick, have you ever thought about changing your hairstyle?"

Carlisle touched his head and said, "Jack, are you trying to make fun of me? With my hair volume, what hairstyle can I have?"

Zhang Yang: "For example... bald head? Don't be angry, look, our boss is bald, and the general manager is bald. If you are bald too, the style will be the same, isn't it cool?"

Carlisle responded with a dark face: "Then I suggest you shave your head too. The boss, general manager, head coach, and star player all have bald heads, which will make the style more unified!"

Zhang Yang: "I don't need that. Isn't Raymond also bald? It's enough for him to have the same style as you guys... Hey, you can't catch me!"

Watching Zhang Yang dodge flexibly, Carlisle, who was trying to grab him, smiled helplessly.

He touched his head again. His hair was indeed getting thinner and thinner. He had bought many brands of hair growth products but they were useless. How about saving some money in the future? He spent hundreds of dollars every month on shampoo and hair growth products, but they were never used up. He still bought more every month.

After Zhang Yang flirted with Jim Carrey as usual, he was about to go for physical therapy when he was pulled into the lounge by Felton.

Felton: "Jack, look! The Kings' media is so shameless!"

Zhang Yang's interest instantly piqued. What was the royal media up to again?
Zhang Yang glanced at the computer screen... This is incredible! The Royal Media has come up with the player rankings and team rankings!

It’s not like the previous way of grading teams, but directly ranking them!
The description on the webpage said that the Royal Media invited many reporters and experts to vote and rank the active NBA players and teams.

Zhang Yang didn’t care how they were ranked. He scrolled down. First place: Kobe Bryant, second place: Tim Duncan, third place:...LeBron James!
(End of this chapter)