Chapter 26 26. Hidden Hills Nash and Compton Kobe?

Zhang Yang followed Thomas to the basketball court for a tour. There were thousands of seats around the court. He closed his eyes and imagined the scene of thousands of people cheering and shouting... He was a little excited.

But after the experience of the training journey, he will not feel pressured by that kind of "small scene". His goal is to really step onto that arena.

After walking around the gym, Zhang Yang followed Thomas to the basketball team's training ground.

He glanced around the door and thought that the Microsoft tycoon was really generous.

He recalled that the home team's training ground at the America West Arena was about this size, which meant that Paul Allen had built an NBA-level training ground for them, with six full basketball courts.

There were already several people training in the training ground. The person training on the court in the corner was Zhang Yang's friend DeRozan.

The day before yesterday, Zhang Yang made an appointment with DeRozan to go to school for training together this afternoon.

Zhang Yang said to Thomas, "Tony, I'm going to train with DeMar first. Will you come home for dinner tonight?"

"I'm going to have dinner with two other coaches tonight, so I won't be going home to eat. After training, come to my office and meet the other two coaches. The basketball team coaching office is the second room on the left in front."

Zhang Yang responded, ran to the corner court, took a ball from the rack on the sidelines, and said, "DeMar, you're here really early."

DeRozan responded in a cold tone: "My mother had to work in the afternoon and left early, so she sent me to school first."

He didn't say that he wanted to train with his friends as soon as possible and urged his mother to send him here earlier.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Yang started practicing dribbling and shooting in the next half of the court, but he missed every shot.

This shot was a little too crooked because he used all the dribbling, lateral pulling, stopping the ball, and shooting movements he learned from Nash.

Since I haven't mastered each single skill yet, it's natural that I can't use combos very well.

The main reason was that he had just practiced a single basic movement for 3 hours in the morning and now wanted to change the training content. This was his way of adjusting the boredom of training.

Another thing is to practice dribbling and shooting completely so that you can know which part you do worst and strengthen it. Keeping the progress of several training contents consistent can better develop the move of dribbling and shooting.

After completing the complete dribbling and shooting training, he can also know what details of each training need to be adjusted. Nash's teaching is very good and detailed, and also takes his physical condition into consideration, but he may not be suitable for all of them, and his current physical condition is still far from that of his 21-year-old self.

After practicing two sets of dribbling and shooting, Zhang Yang made only a handful of shots. His interest quickly faded and he decided to focus on practicing the basic skills.

After Zhang Yang practiced a few more sets, a surprised voice suddenly came from the side.

"Jack, have you started practicing shooting?"

Zhang Yang turned his head abruptly and looked to the side, saying, "DeMar, you scared me!"

DeRozan: "Sorry, I forgot you were so engaged in practice."

Can you not look so cold when you say sorry? Never mind. Zhang Yang thought for a moment and said, "I've been watching Nash's basketball teaching videos these past two days and I'm going to learn from him."

DeRozan: "Is Nash your favorite player? He is really good, the best point guard in the NBA in terms of scoring skills... The players in the 96 class all have good skills."

Zhang Yang was not surprised that DeRozan spoke highly of Nash.

The Nash that Zhang Yang learned about here was different from the "late bloomer" that he saw in China in his previous life. In the 02-03 season, Nash was already very popular. Among the Western Conference All-Star guards, only Kobe and Francis received more votes than Nash, and Nash only received 18 fewer votes than Francis. The reporter from the Arizona Daily was not convinced by this and said in the news that if the Rockets did not have Yao Ming, the stronger Nash should have been the All-Star starter - Nash was on the third team in the 02-03 season, and Francis was not selected.

This also answered a confusion Zhang Yang once had.

If Nash had no reputation before joining the Suns and his strength was not recognized by other players in the league, why would the Hacker and the Little King be willing to play with Nash? The 04-05 Suns amazed the world from the beginning, instead of gradually becoming stronger after internal fighting and running-in.

Stoudemire was lucky, as he just entered the NBA in 02 and was only in his third year. In his sophomore season, he was overshadowed by Yao Ming.

In the 03-04 season, Yao Ming, who was only in his second year, was selected to the third team, which slapped the faces of those who did not vote for him in the best rookie voting and also suppressed Stoudemire's limelight. At that time, he had no chance to be selected as the core player of the Suns.

Marion is a top forward who has been selected to the All-Star Game and won the Player of the Month Award. He was from the class of 99, and entered the NBA not much different from Nash. They barely entered the NBA at the same time. If he wanted to compete for the top spot, D'Antoni, who was a rookie coach at the time, would have no way to deal with the internal strife.

Marion was willing to play as a supporting player because Nash was already an All-Star player in the 01-02 season, and was selected to the third team for two consecutive seasons in the 01-02 and 02-03 seasons. He was one of the top players in the league and had many more honors than Marion.

As for Nash's poor performance in the 03-04 season... the Mavericks also brought in Antawn Jamison and Anthony Walker. Nash and Nowitzki were both badly screwed by Cuban's amazing operations this season.

Of course, if we compare winning the MVP, which means becoming the best player in the regular season, with being in the third team, which means being in the top fifteen players in the league, he can barely be considered a "late bloomer."

Zhang Yang noticed the last sentence DeRozan deliberately said, and said with a smile: "How about a competition to see who will be more powerful in the future, Hidden Mountain Nash or Compton Bryant?"

DeRozan's eyes widened and he said, "I want to know too...I will definitely win!"

After saying that, DeRozan went back to training.

Zhang Yang: “…”

He was just joking, but he didn't expect the other party to take it seriously.

And it seems that he really regards him as a future opponent?
It's really an honor!
...

Time passed minute by minute, and by 3 o'clock in the afternoon, more and more people came to the training ground.

Some people came for training, and some started playing half-time games in groups of three or five.

When they choose a court, they usually give priority to the two courts in the middle, or the two courts near the door.

Zhang Yang trained on the court in the far corner. No one came to take his seat, and no one invited him, a rookie who was still practicing the basic skills of ball control and shooting.

However, in the same corner, someone approached DeRozan, but not to invite him to play basketball, but to provoke him.

"Are you the top junior high school student in Southern California?"

Zhang Yang looked in the direction of the voice and saw a sturdy young man, a little taller than DeRozan, but not noticeably taller. About 1.9 meters tall, and... very dark. When he smiled at night, you could probably only see his teeth.

DeRozan looked at the charcoal in front of him and responded, "I'm not No. 1 in Southern California, I'm No. 1 in California!"

Zhang Yang: -_-||, my friend is very obsessed with "No. 1 in California"!
The charcoal boy sneered and said, "No. 1 in California? That's even better! I love to beat the No. 1. I'm Carmelo Tatum. Do you dare to challenge me?"

Zhang Yang focused his attention on the dark-skinned boy. What a cool name!

DeRozan responded with a sneer and said, "I haven't heard of it."

Tatum: "Then you have to remember this name. He will be the nightmare of your basketball career. Your entire high school will be under the shadow of this name!"

"If you want me to remember your name, you have to beat me first." DeRozan said and sneered again.

Xiao Zhang, a bystander, broke into a sweat again. If he was laughed at once, he had to respond twice?

DeRozan is very low-key outside the court, but this guy is never low-key on the court. Would a low-key person on the court go to participate in a dunk contest?
At this time, some people started to make a fuss.

"Camelot, let the No. 1 junior high school student know how powerful you are. Kick his ass hard!"

Zhang Yang looked over when he heard the voice and saw that the person who was speaking loudly was a young man with dreadlocks.

Before coming to Compton, he looked up the basketball talents at Compton High School.

He recognized who this person was - Josh Shipp, the captain of the school team and a 12th grader soon. He was 19 years old and was ranked 04th among all high school students in the United States in the 79 class by the Associated Press this summer.

It still goes back to the old saying that people with power speak louder.

As soon as Ship finished speaking, another person next to him spoke up, even louder: "Josh, you support Carmelo? Then I'll support the No. 1 junior high school student, DeMar, come on!"

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