I was determined to be bad, but I went straight to the Basketball Hall of Fame

Chapter 14 Good basketball talent

For two days on the weekend, Curry settled down in Los Angeles. He picked an ordinary house in San Gabriel in the northeast, bought it directly, and lived in it with his girlfriend Ayesha.

It is a middle-class community in Los Angeles. The advantage of living there is that it is quiet, safe, and convenient for my girlfriend to work.

The downside is that it is far away from the training center, and it takes more than 40 minutes by car.

But there was no way, he didn't want to live in Inglewood, where gangs were rampant, it was really not safe enough.

A slightly longer drive can't stop his enthusiasm for basketball, and he can't wait to go to the team to prove his strength.

The public opinion during this period is really unfriendly to him. The media are overwhelmingly questioning Curry's selection as the No. [-] pick, thinking that he is not qualified to overtake Griffin to become the No. [-] pick.

"Los Angeles Times": "The Los Angeles Clippers missed the next Karl Malone and chose a weak outside shooter, which will be another major mistake in their draft history."

"Los Angeles Weekly": "The Clippers have experienced amazing chaos within the team. Their treachery not only hurt the team's credibility, but also ruined the team's record and box office for the next decade."

ESPN's official website's ball review article: "...Curry is a guard worth looking forward to. He has excellent outside shooting ability, but he can hardly take on the heavy responsibility that the No. [-] pick should bear. This is too difficult and heavy for him. This obsession may have been with him throughout his career..."

Among the various media in Los Angeles, only the "Los Angeles World Journal" said some good things, thinking that this unexpected choice may bring unexpected changes to the Clippers.

Of course, one of the reasons why the "World Journal" said good things may be because it is a Chinese newspaper. The news that the Chinese are serving as the general manager of the Clippers made them a little excited, so they naturally wanted to say good things.

Ayesha tried to put away all kinds of newspapers in the past two days, and did not let Curry watch sports news, just to reduce this pressure.

But with the development of Internet information today, it is impossible for Curry as an adult to be ignorant of this.

On his personal website at Davidson University, he even received insulting short messages from some fans, bluntly saying that Curry is not worthy of being the No. [-] pick at all, and that one day he will become the No. [-] pick in parallel imports.

Facing these tides of negative voices, Curry is under a lot of pressure.

But he did not back down, but turned these pressures and doubts into his driving force on the court.

He printed several copies of the draft comments given to him on the draft website, and posted them on the wall of the bedroom, in the bathroom, and on the locker in the training gym and the Staples Center.

"Stephen Curry is 1.91 meters tall and weighs 83.9 kilograms. His physical fitness is below the average NBA level, his ball-handling skills need to be improved, and his ability to finish at the basket is weak. It's tough; good shooting, high IQ, composure in the clutch. It's hard to get to a high level, and don't expect Curry to run the offense."

These comments will always inspire him to improve himself in the future.

The team will start training camp on Monday afternoon, and he drove over in the morning to start training early.

When he saw Min Congda, Curry felt happy for a while. For the manager who picked him with the first pick, instead of complaining about him, Curry felt that this man had a good eye.

If you treat me like a gentleman, I will repay you!
Curry has long made up his mind that he must use his excellent performance in the future to repay Min Congda's favor as the champion.

"Hey Smart! Try the hoop here!"

Curry greeted Min Congda and threw the ball at him as he spoke.

This startled Min Congda, and barely caught the ball, feeling a little pain in his hand.

"It's so powerful."

Min Congda holds a basketball in his hand. The last time he touched a basketball dates back to the distant elementary school.

At that time, the school gave each child a basketball, but it was not to encourage everyone to play basketball, but to do basketball exercises!

It is hard to imagine that basketball is not for playing, but for holding and doing exercises. This is the domestic physical education.

He took the ball and slapped it on the floor twice. Min Congda's shooting skills were very amateurish at first glance.

Curry laughed: "Smart, don't you know how to play basketball?"

Min Congda threw the ball back to Curry and said, "I'm watching the game, I don't need to know how to play!"

In fact, Min Congda hasn't watched much football. The only game he's watched is Xiangbei vs Lingnan.

That was when he was in elementary school, and he lost his fate with basketball after that, and I don't know how the system found him.

Curry takes the ball, does a few smooth crotch dribbles from beyond the arc, and then makes a quick [-]-pointer.

The ball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then fell into the net with a "swish", light and smooth.

Seeing his movements, Min Congda looked chic and natural, and his shot was very far away, one step away from the three-point line.

Can this be put in?Sure enough, he is a professional player, and $500 million a year is not for nothing.

Then, Curry ran over to get the ball, dribbled the ball out of the three-point line, and changed another place to shoot again.

Smooth shot, beautiful arc, hit again!

He won several times in a row, and Min Congda was dumbfounded.

He asked Ada worriedly: "Ada, are all NBA players shooting so accurately?"

Ada said: "They are all accurate. When no one is defending, they almost hit every shot. They are the best basketball players in the world."

Min Congda said oh, and he felt relieved when he said that. Everyone agrees, and Curry's behavior is nothing special.

In fact, Ada also wanted to say that although everyone is very accurate when they are relaxed, but they shoot as easily and naturally as Curry, and they can shoot casually from such a distance. It seems that they have never seen it in training.

But Ada thought, how could Mr. Smart not know about this kind of thing?

He just asked casually to check his basketball knowledge.

After Curry finished warming up, he said to Min Congda, "Hey Smart, how about some shots?"

With that said, he threw the ball to Min Congda again. Min Congda was prepared this time and caught the ball very steadily.

He saw Curry's easy shot, so he tried it if he wanted to, throwing the ball into that small iron basket, what's so difficult?
So, he imitated Curry, held the ball up from his chest, and threw the ball with one hand over his head.

The place where Min Congda was standing was not very far from the basket. The ball drew an unsightly arc in the air, hit the basket for a while, turned around... and fell into it!
Ha, it's quite simple, it really isn't difficult.

Curry applauded, picked up the ball and threw it to Min Congda.

"Go farther and cast another one!"

Min Congda stood a little farther away, caught the ball, adjusted it, and threw it with greater force in the same posture!
This time the posture was a bit ugly, but the ball bounced on the hoop and fell in again!
"Not bad, do you want to try a three-pointer?"

Curry encouraged Min Congda to try a three-pointer.

The NBA's three-point line is very far away. If ordinary people don't practice or don't play often, there is a high probability that they won't even touch the basket when they shoot three-pointers.

Min Congda stood outside the three-point line, looked at the basket more than seven meters away, and swallowed his saliva. This distance is really far away. How did Curry throw the ball in so easily?
Adjusting his breathing, Min Congda mobilized all his strength and pushed the ball towards the basket!

The ball drew a straight arc, hit the backboard with a "bang", and bounced into the basket!
Three hits from three shots!

"Wow! Mr. Smart, it seems that you are very powerful, amazing!"

Min Congda rubbed his arms and smiled. It turns out that basketball is quite simple.

He patted Curry on the shoulder and said, "This is my first time playing basketball. It doesn't seem difficult. You have to work hard and train hard."

When Curry heard that Min Congda was playing for the first time, he showed a surprised expression.

"Is this really your first time playing ball?"

"Yeah, I never had a chance to play before."

"Then you must have great talent. If you practice hard, you might become an excellent basketball player."

Min Congda sighed. If he had known that he could earn hundreds of millions of dollars by playing basketball, he should have given it a try.

A thick voice came from the other corner of the court, "The accuracy is not bad, but the shooting posture needs to be improved! There is also a problem with your power, Mr. Smart."

An old man in a white coaching shirt came towards the two of them. It was Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy.

Behind him were members of the Clippers coaching staff, as well as young Clippers players who came one after another.

The Clippers' first group training of the new season is about to begin.

(End of this chapter)