Chapter 347 346. Develop the chase shot!
On the 24th, the Bobcats came to the Air Canada Arena to challenge the Raptors away.

At 4:40 in the evening, Zhang Yang and his teammates entered the stadium. When greeting Bosh before the game, he noticed that the Giraffe was not as happy to see him as before.

He asked curiously, "Chris, you are not in a good mood?"

Bosh: "It's not just bad, I'm starting to get desperate."

He said this and looked at O'Neal Jr.

Zhang Yang: -_-||
Is it so direct to express dissatisfaction?

But Bosh was really miserable. Not only was his best teammate on the backcourt traded away, but he also got a completely unsuitable inside player.

Bosh + O'Neal, this operation is no different from the Nowitzki + Walker + Jamison that the Mavericks did back then.

Bosh's main shooting range is medium and short distances, and he mainly cuts in, runs back, and follows up on fast breaks under the basket. O'Neal's shooting range is also medium and short distances, which completely overlaps.

In the last game before the All-Star Weekend, O'Neal Jr. had not yet reported to the Raptors. The Raptors played quite well in that game. Even without Ford, the strength was reduced, but it was not to say that they could not play. Bryan Colangelo still laid a solid foundation for this team.

But O'Neal reported to the Raptors during the All-Star Weekend and participated in the game between the Raptors and the Hawks the day before yesterday. The second wave of damage from the deal came. Not only did the Raptors lose an outside breakthrough expert and counterattack advancement expert, they even lost the conditions to play a light and agile offense. They could only fight slowly in positional battles with O'Neal.

The Raptors, who averaged 103 points per game in the early stages, only scored 90 points against the Hawks, their direct competitor. It was impossible for the Raptors players not to work hard. They simply collapsed, and the collapse was more exaggerated than anyone expected.

If the Raptors' record declines later, this deal will not only waste the team left by Colangelo Jr., but the trading value of the remaining high-quality role players will also decline. The value gap between role players who put up good stats on a bad team and role players who put up above-average stats on a strong team is not a little bit.

And this trend cannot be reversed. If O'Neal is traded, he cannot be traded unless he is given high-quality players and draft picks. As the team's record declines, O'Neal's trading value will continue to decline. Moreover, he cannot be used. If he is kept in the cold, he will not be traded...

Zhang Yang patted Bosh on the back and said, "Chris, I hope you stay strong."

Bosh smiled indifferently when he heard this...

The game starts at 5pm.

After playing for half a quarter, Zhang Yang knew why Bosh was so frustrated. The opposing team had completely changed!
Before the All-Star Weekend, the Raptors were a team with 45 to 50 wins, the kind of team that could win against anyone in the regular season.

But now, Zhang Yang feels that the opponent is not much better than the Clippers.

The Raptors couldn't run a fast break, and their two inside players were floating outside the three-second zone in positional offense. Their wing players didn't have enough athletic ability, and O'Neal's slow offensive rhythm didn't match the others...

It can be seen that the Raptors players are trying very hard to get along with each other, but some things cannot be achieved by just working hard, and the types of players are completely mismatched.

However, this is a good thing for Zhang Yang, as they can adjust the details of tactical coordination with confidence.

At 7:20 pm, the game ended and the Bobcats defeated the Raptors 98-85, winning their 40th game of the season!
费尔顿今晚全场最佳，8投5中拿到12分7板9助攻3抢断。

张杨16投9中，其中三分球2中1，加上5中5的罚球，拿到24分5板2助攻3抢断。

奥卡福15分12板、迈克-米勒13分4板、米尔萨普10分6板2助攻、布拉德-米勒6分7板4助攻、贾莱特-杰克8分2助攻……

After the game, Zhang Yang felt more sympathetic towards Bosh. It was no wonder that he was thinking about leaving less than a year into his second contract.

If Bosh hadn't signed the 3+1, his experience wouldn't have been much better than Carter's.

The Bobcats played poorly on offense tonight, yet still won by more than ten points. Zhang San didn't even know their team's defense was so good.

...

The game ended early, and there was still nothing to do in Toronto in February. After returning to the hotel at around 9 o'clock in the evening, Felton called the members of the Boss Gang to his room to discuss the gains and losses of tonight's game.

The members of the Big Boss Gang are all very motivated, as if they have returned to the early stages of the season when they held meetings so frequently. Brad Miller, who was newly recruited by Tyronn Lula, also felt very special.

But after some discussion, everyone became depressed.

They felt that in tonight's game, they should have scored 120 points and won by or points.

Among them, Brad Miller, who was born in the Rust Belt and was sensitive and inferior, felt the most uncomfortable. Although the coaching staff had been comforting and encouraging him, he still felt that he was holding the team back.

Felton noticed that the new core player in the interior was in a bad mood and said, "Our cooperation tonight was still very bright. I went around the high post to receive the pass from Brad and Paul, and then broke through. After they passed the ball, they helped me block the defender. We played very well together."

Millsap heard the boss' words and echoed: "Brad taught me well. He has been teaching me the details of the support. He came to talk to me every day during the days in New Orleans."

Brad Miller is not young anymore. He understood the good intentions of the two and responded shyly: "The key to this cooperation is not me, but Jack. When Jack is being closely guarded on the wing, we can play this cooperation. This is just a small change in the system."

Hill continued, "We rarely played this kind of tactical response before. This is a huge improvement. Although Jack is the key to the response, it would be difficult to play it without your support awareness, Brad. This is a good start for the improvement of our system."

Zhang Yang: "I think so too. I heard from Randy that Rick had thought of these tactical contingencies when he was conceiving the tactical system, but we just couldn't implement them before.

Like tonight, Raymond cuts in from the high post and breaks the ball, which is based on the tactical response of the Princeton system. It requires a long-range shooter on the wing who is threatening enough like Peja, or a striker with mid-range shooting ability and the ability to cut into the basket like Webber. The timing of the ball passing and the judgment of the screen position are very high, and the threat of the point guard who is holding the ball and playing in the wrong position to attack the basket must also be big enough. "

Brad Miller: "Jack, you weren't that threatening in the early part of the season, but since you've been firmly in the top two of the scoring list, you've been threatening enough. Although your three-point shooting isn't as good as Peja's, and your cutting threat isn't as high as Webber's, I think your overall scoring threat on the wing is stronger than both of them."

Zhang Yang: "Thank you."

Brad Miller: “…”

Big White Bear didn't know whether Third Brother was worthy of the praise or not, but seeing that his teammates didn't have any strange expressions, he just assumed that he was worthy of the praise.

The few of them discussed for a while about the areas where they played poorly tonight, and were ready to end the meeting and go back to their rooms to sleep as they would go to Detroit tomorrow.

Zhang Yang said with emotion: "I used to have a misunderstanding that stars are the best at responding to situations on the court, but after playing in the NBA for two and a half years, I found that this idea is wrong, at least not completely right."

Felton: "Does the star have poor on-the-spot adaptability?"

Zhang Yang: "It is amazing that stars have the ability to respond on the spot and make adjustments on their own, but that is something only very few people can do.

And even if a star player can make adjustments on his own and direct his teammates, when making on-the-spot adjustments, his teammates will always misunderstand the information, which will be terrible if it happens at a critical moment.

If you can summarize most of the points that may require on-the-spot responses into tactics, you can use tactics to solve problems, which is better than on-the-spot responses!"

When talking about this, Zhang Yang thought of the Spurs during Duncan's fourth peak period, which was infinitely close to this ideal state.

Felton thought about it after hearing this and said, "That makes sense!"

Hill: "I feel like Rick's goal is the kind of team you talked about, Jack."

Zhang Yang: "More than that, I guess, his goal is to build on this and enable us players to make independent responses when we encounter more special situations."

Felton: "Well... it's very similar to Rick's ambition. No wonder he didn't have a good relationship with the players he coached before. Such a request would put too much pressure on the players. He is not the kind of person who would explain to the players, so conflicts will definitely continue to accumulate."

Zhang Yang: "Who said it wasn't... But we have you, Boss!"

Zhang Yang thought of Carlisle's original coaching career. If it weren't for the Silver Horn King, who descended from heaven, Carlisle's reputation would probably not be much better than Thibodeau and Adelman.

Felton was so happy to hear the word "boss"... He said, "Don't worry, leave this to me!"

...

On the 26th and 28th, the Bobcats played against the Pistons and Magic on the road respectively.

分别以95比106输给活塞队、109比115输给魔术队，战绩来到40胜16负，被41胜15负的活塞队超越，掉到东部第三。

On the 29th, the Bobcats returned to their home court to play a back-to-back game, defeating the Wizards 117-112, ending their losing streak and tying the Pistons who were defeated by the contemporary Jordan the day before.

After three consecutive away games and back-to-back games, the Bobcats got two days of rest.

On March 3st, a new month arrived, Zhang Yang came to the gym in the afternoon to practice shooting.

The team started the second half with 3 wins and 2 losses, just a little short of 50 wins. Even if he was mentally prepared, he would still be depressed after two consecutive losses to the Pistons and Magic.

Fortunately, his teammates are working hard to adapt to the rhythm of a higher level, and their progress is visible in every game. They are very stable when bullying weak opponents, and when playing against opponents with poor defense like the Wizards, their passing and receiving under the new rhythm have improved significantly, and they defeated the Wizards with fierce offensive firepower in the confrontation... In this way, he can keep a steady mind.

In addition to this, there is another thing that makes him very upset. In the past three games, he "only" scored 3 points, 31 points, and 26 points. After the All-Star Weekend, he averaged 28 points in the five games, and his average points per game also dropped to 5 points.

Part of the reason is that he took the initiative to reduce his wasteful shots and invested more in team cooperation to help his teammates adapt to the new rhythm.

However, from a tactical perspective, once the team system is fully improved, it may be difficult for him to take as many shots as he did in the first half of this season.

Although he had known that this situation would occur, he couldn't help but feel sad at this stage.

Of course, there is a solution to this problem - just shoot as accurately as Curry.

Even if Golden State's LaVine was shooting in a tactical situation, he still averaged 30 points per game and won the scoring title.

The Bay Area dunk king is more than just the best three-point shooter in history.

So, he practices more whenever he has time.

Also, I'm only 10 points away from a full 2000 shooting value. If I work hard in the next two days, I may be able to save enough. Then I can quickly master the chase shot and try to incorporate it into my playing style before the playoffs. In short, the sooner I learn it, the better.

After a set of close-range layup training, Zhang Yang was about to eat something to replenish his sugars when the "Gate of Experience" suddenly popped up.

"Congratulations, your strength has increased from 84 to 85, your layup talent limit has increased from 90 to 91, and your layup has increased from 90 to 91. Please keep up the good work."

Suddenly there was a little surprise!

He had previously speculated that his layup ceiling was 'only' 90, affected by his strength.

His strength '6 years later' was 89, one of the strongest guards, and his upper limit in attacking the basket was 93, mid-level.

Now that he was 19 years old, even though he weighed 93.5 kilograms, his strength was definitely much lower than that of a man of the same weight after his body had matured a few years ago. And after returning from that training, he had not drawn any strength talent points...

Strength also has an "upper limit". This upper limit does not mean that the strength can be increased to the limit regardless of the impact on speed and flexibility, but it means that the upper limit is based on ensuring that other physical conditions are not significantly affected.

He did not deliberately gain weight or train strength in the past six months, so this increase in strength is a natural growth of his body, and his layup talent has also improved accordingly.

As for his layup talent, his layup ability directly filled the upper limit... He did not stop practicing just because his layup ability reached the upper limit. He has been enriching his layup methods and honing his good way of attacking the basket.

This little surprise made Zhang Yang more motivated. After eating two bananas and drinking a cup of energy drink, he rested for a few minutes and continued practicing!

Another day passed, and on the afternoon of March 3nd, after a day and a half of intensive training, the "Gate of Experience" popped up again, and I had accumulated 2 shooting points!

He quickly redeemed the 'Quick Mastery of Chase Shots', and the 100001 shooting points instantly became 1 point, but a bunch of 'pictures' emerged in his mind!
He sat down to eat while digesting his newfound quick learning method... Unlike previous 'quick starters', the 'pictures' he obtained this time were more numerous and more complex.

The difference between mastering and getting started can be seen from this.

After eating, he excitedly practiced two more sets of shooting, 20 balls in each set, all chase shots. With the training method, the practice was really different.

However, although there are training methods, everything from catching the ball, to quick stop shooting, to rhythm...etc. needs to be figured out step by step by yourself.

'Mastering' is definitely better than 'Entry Level' in most cases, but the latter also has its advantages. The 'pictures' given in 'Entry Level' are all the basics of the basics, while the basic part of the 'pictures' given in 'Mastering' is relatively general.

But it doesn’t matter, he can shake people!

...

On February 3th, the Bobcats' 3rd game day of the season arrived.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, in the third indoor training court of the Turkish Airlines Arena, which only had a small rental training court that covered the entire court, Mike Miller began to help Zhang Yang develop his chase shot.

There were also onlookers on the side, including coaches such as Carlisle, Vincent, Engelland, and Randy Brown.

In the morning, Zhang Yang conducted preparatory training. At noon, he asked the trainer to prepare the training ground. After learning about this, Englander, who was in charge of the team's training, guessed that Mike Miller had some skills that Zhang Yang liked and wanted to learn. He decisively chose to watch, and Carlisle and others followed after learning about it.

As Englander expected, the coaches saw that what Mike Miller taught Zhang Yang was his chase-down shooting technique, which ranked among the best in the entire league!
In actual combat, Mike Miller can only follow up and shoot after receiving the ball, but it does not mean that he cannot counterattack and shoot after holding the ball. In college, he was also very powerful in shooting after holding the ball.

But in the NBA, if he counterattacks with the ball, many power forwards can catch up with him with his speed, and he cannot create any chances for chase-down shots.

But he is not a reckless person. When he is faced with a one-on-one counterattack, he will only choose to rush into the inside and dunk, instead of shooting three-pointers like the Bay Area dunk king.

Watching Mike Miller's expression change from excitement, to surprise, to shock, to frustration, to confusion, and then to determination...

Vincent said to his colleagues, "I feel bad for Mike. He is the best pitcher on our team. Don't let Jack get in the way."

England: "I don't think so. Mike has a good mental state. I hinted to him that this might happen during lunch."

Carlisle: "...Next time Jack wants to learn a technique from someone, let's just say it directly. Grant was already insecure because of Jack. That was Grant Hill."

England nodded to show that he understood.

When the teaching just started, they could see that Zhang Yang had made preparations to learn, and he had a certain foundation in the theory and movements of chasing shots, but it was not enough to "know how to do it".

But under the guidance of Mike Miller, Zhang Yang's movements became smoother in more than half an hour, and he began to adjust the details of his force. After another half an hour, Zhang Yang was able to start practicing connecting shots by slowing down his advancement speed and the speed of his sudden stop and jump shots.

The speed of developing new technology shocked the onlookers. They could imagine how big of an impact Mike Miller, who was coaching the game, had.

However, even so, none of the coaches would be so foolish as to run to Zhang Yang and say, "Please consider the feelings of your students when developing new technologies."

They wish Zhang Yang could learn faster and develop new techniques like the legendary McGrady and Josh Smith and use them in games within a few days!

As for the other team member who was hit, they can only hope that he or she will be strong.

(End of this chapter)