Chapter 39 39. Must learn from the best
Should I choose the ordinary one or the high-end one? It depends on how much money I have in my pocket…ah, it depends on the actual situation.

Ordinary tasks are actually not bad if you have no choice. You don’t have to spend time and energy practicing basic positioning.

Now that there are more tempting advanced tasks, his mind has changed.

The reserve team has two or three team training sessions a week, in which they teach basic positioning. It’s not difficult and doesn’t require too many techniques. You can practice with the team and slowly get good at it. The reserve team has no shortage of training time.

But advanced missions carry risks.

Zhang Yang calculated that it took 8 days from August 10th to September 9th to accumulate 12 shooting points.

There are nearly three and a half months from now to Christmas. Based on the efficiency of the past month, the minimum shooting value can be 3.

Your shooting will become more accurate as time goes by, and the shooting values ​​in training and games will increase. The shooting values ​​that can be accumulated in three and a half months will definitely be higher than 7.

The risk is whether the speed of progress can meet expectations. After all, it is hard to predict when the bottleneck period will come.

Just like DeRozan, he has been worried about the lack of significant improvement in his mid-range shooting for some time.

Zhang Yang comforted his opponent that his mid-range shooting had reached a bottleneck, so he should focus his training on three-pointers and layups.

The third brother is from the top class and has a better brain, so DeRozan is quick to learn from his advice.

However, Zhang Yang did not hesitate for long before decisively choosing the advanced task.

There is motivation only when there is pressure!
After he made the decision in his mind, the task bar changed. The description of the ordinary task disappeared, and only the task of accumulating 100,000 shooting points before Christmas remained.

The value displayed for the shot also changed to 21/100000.

After closing the door to training, Zhang Yang continued to train. What was the chord tune of that folk song from Eastern Europe?

On Saturday, after a month of training, the 11th and 12th grade players officially determined a 10-man roster and a 5-man reserve list, forming a new main team lineup with Afflalo and Ship as the core.

In the afternoon, the coaching staff pulled the reserve team to play an intra-squad match with the main team. The 20-minute match was very brutal.

The people in the main team... no, they were simply not human. They punched the younger students hard and showed no mercy. They almost laughed out loud.

So, the next day, when the reserve team played away against San Diego Mission High School, the whole team, led by Zhang Yang and Tatum, turned into mad dogs, biting the opponent to death. DeRozan was also like a possessed afro, shooting wildly...

The collectively rampaging Compton High School prep team defeated the stronger Missionary High School main team with an upset score of 114 to 86.

德罗赞31分、张杨13分6板2助攻4抢断2盖帽、塔图姆15分9助攻3抢断、米勒15分……看到队员们这表现，约翰逊觉得把预备队拉去给主力队当陪练这事儿可以常有！
Apart from his outburst of grief and anger after being 'bullied' by the main team, there was one other thing about the reserve team that made Johnson very satisfied - in the fifth warm-up match, several basic tactics of the reserve team were already functioning normally, more than half the time he had initially estimated.

It's great to have a floor general! Johnson feels the reserve team has reached the next stage.

...

The team was preparing to make changes, and Zhang Yang also began to make changes.

The next day, Monday, Zhang Yang's life was no different from usual. He went to class, trained, and during the lunch break, he went to fry fish with DeRozan and Tatum.

After being able to attack with the ball, Zhang Yang started to like playing cricket on the playground during lunch break and became the playground troublemaker of Compton High School.

When Tatum plays dam ball, he likes to let the ball flow so that everyone can have fun.

When DeRozan plays dam ball, he likes to create difficulty out of nothing and always gives his opponents hope.

Zhang Yang is different. He always likes to fight as simply as possible and exercises his ability to utilize his body with the help of his classmates.

But even so, they had no shortage of opponents. When the three of them went to play cricket together, a group of people lined up to play against them. The situation that Tatum worried about, that no one would play with them, did not occur.

During the afternoon and after-dinner training, Zhang Yang made a change - he added an hour of shooting training time.

He had to accumulate 100,000 shooting points in less than three and a half months, which put him under a lot of pressure. He decided to push himself and try to increase his training time. How much to increase would depend on the feedback from his body.

Make the most of your time each day, but be aware of the impact on your body, as we learned from time management guru Steve Nash.

A week passed quickly. After a few days of experiments, Zhang Yang determined that increasing the training time by one hour was a suitable option. If it was increased to one and a half hours or two hours, he would obviously feel tired the next day, which would affect the efficiency of classes and training.

By Saturday, the changes in the team emerged.

Johnson moved ninth-graders Alfred Abuya and Sam Smith to the reserve team.

Abuya, 15 years old, 206 cm, white power forward, good one-on-one skills, decent mobility, good strength, but his weaknesses are lack of explosiveness and jumping ability.

Sam Smith, 15 years old, 180cm small point guard, not particularly fast, normal for a small guy, his strength is long-range shooting. As people come, some leave, but the ones eliminated from the reserve team are not the weakest, but the two who are least active in training.

Except for the few top-notch and most talented players in the reserve team, the other players in the team are not much different in strength.

After more than a month, Zhang Yang felt the changes in his teammates.

Tatum used to think he could rely on his body and breakthroughs to be successful, but now he practices his skills every day.

Talent is a cruel thing. Tatum worked very hard, but the gap between him and DeRozan not only did not narrow, but was widened little by little, because DeRozan is not only more talented, but also works harder than Tatum.

But Tatum was not discouraged. Instead, he became more and more courageous and spent more and more time on the training ground.

Such a person, even if he cannot become a professional player in the end, will not do too badly if he changes his industry.

It’s just that not everyone is as resilient as Tatum.

Some reserve team players already knew after their freshman season that they were no longer the protagonists of the team like they were in junior high school. They accepted the reality but still had a passion for basketball.

Some people are unwilling to accept the reality of becoming supporting roles, but they do not have the courage of Tatum to compete with the strongest players, and their training becomes more and more sloppy... These people make Zhang Yang see the shadows of Jones and the Myers brothers.

Zhang Yang never thought about "correcting" his teammates' ideas. How many high school players can eventually become professional players? For most of the school team, basketball is just a hobby, just like ordinary League of Legends players. If you like it, you will continue to work hard to improve your skills. If you don't want to play anymore, then don't play.

Time passed day by day. With classes and training every day and a game every week, Zhang Yang's life was monotonous but fulfilling. In a blink of an eye, a month had passed and it was October 10, Sunday.

Last weekend, on the 5th, the reserve team played their last warm-up match, and today the reserve team will face the league stage.

The Southern California League has a total of 20 rounds, with one game per week, played on Saturday or Sunday.

Compton High School's first opponent in the prep league is Pier High School in Redondo Beach, where they played once in a warm-up match.

At 10 a.m., the two teams faced off at Allen Arena.

The improvement in the Compton High School prep team exceeded the expectations of the Pier High School players, and Pier High School was caught off guard in the early stages of the game.

Compton High School's offensive coordination has improved a lot compared to a month ago, especially the coordination between DeRozan and Tatum. DeRozan plays singles in the high post, while Tatum cuts in from the wing with the help of a screen and then receives the ball to attack the basket and split the ball on the sidelines, creating shooting opportunities almost every time.

Tatum learned this move from Zhang Yang, and the effect of his performance is better than that of Zhang Yang at present.

The speed at which the personal abilities of the fourteen or fifteen-year-old players from Compton High School improve makes the seventeen or eighteen-year-old players from Pier High School jealous.

However, after recovering from the shock, Pier High School launched a fierce counterattack and successfully reversed the score.

Compton High School fought hard but ultimately failed to win its first league victory, losing to Pier High School 104-111.

The players were not reconciled, but Johnson was quite satisfied. During the warm-up match, Pier High School did not play so seriously, and Compton High School lost even more miserably. The biggest score difference reached 30 points. They only narrowed the score difference to 18 points by fighting hard in garbage time. This time we can see progress, very big progress. There is still a gap between them and the top 10 teams in the Southern California League, but they have the strength to win against mid-level teams.

Zhang Yang also used "progress" to comfort DeRozan, who was introverted after losing his first official game in high school.

The comforting effect was not good, so Zhang Yang did not continue to comfort him. He was also very unhappy about the loss, so he would not absorb too much negative energy from DeRozan. He believed that the young man would adjust himself.

He played for 21 minutes today, and like before, his playing time was very stable, ranking third on the team's outside line, scoring 15 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, 2 steals and 2 blocks.

Since his offensive role is simple, as his strength improves, he finds it easier to attack, so he starts to pay more attention to defense in the game. He doesn't have any skills at the moment, and mainly plays reckless, rushing, stealing the ball, and blocking shots. Of course, it's not mindless recklessness, but training through competition.

He was in no hurry to expand his skills, he wanted to learn 'better' ones.

Before Christmas, he continued to practice basic ball-handling, shooting, and counterattacks, with an emphasis on mid-range shots.

In this game he took 13 shots, scored 7 goals, made 4 layups, 2 dunks, 1 mid-range shot, and 1 free throw, getting a shot value of 165.

He opened the door of experience and took a look. Adding the 165 shooting points in this game, the total shooting points accumulated to 27129 points.

Today is exactly the 30th day since the start of the mission. This month, his shooting value accumulation rate has increased by nearly 40% compared to last month. There are still 2 months and 13 days left.

Keep shooting and keep missing!

Zhang Yang came to the training ground to continue practicing shooting. Teammates including DeRozan, Tatum, Abuya, Miller, Keefe and others also came back for more practice.

After seeing these people, Zhang Yang is still very confident about his high school career. He has a goal for high school - to become the number one high school in California!

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