The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master.

Chapter 205 Daily life of the international team

Unlike the U.S. youth team at Nike headquarters, which is full of variety and media highlights, the training of the international team is relatively calm, and every day is business as usual.

In the morning, there is usually basic training to warm up, and in the afternoon, the 11 players will be divided into two teams plus one free agent to play two intra-team games.

The grouping is basically fixed, mainly to balance the strength of the two teams. The red team is Lin Dong's captain and mainly consists of Asian players.

Small forward Lin Dong, shooting guard Zhu Fangyu, point guard Rukawa Kaede, plus power forward Nick Lotz, and center Greek Shark Sophocles.

On the blue team's side, small forward Pietrus, shooting guard Alexander, point guard Zoran, power forward Mazi Lampe, and center Darko Milicic.

The captain of the blue team is also Darko Milicic from Serbia.

Although the second overall pick in the NBA draft in 03 failed to perform as well as the second overall pick in the NBA, at least his high pick was enough to prove his strength as a youth.

Before Lin Dong defeated Pietrus, he and Pietrus were the captains of the red and blue teams that Yunus had designated in his mind for training. Compared with Pietrus, the current Darko Milicic was obviously better. One chip.

In this group, except for Lin Dong, the red team is almost completely weaker than the opponent in other positions.

Even Sophocles, the Greek shark who is most valued by Jonas, is still much inferior when facing Darko Milicic.

There is a huge difference in height. Although he has an absolute advantage in weight and strength, Darko Milicic is the type who uses his brain to play. His experience and skills are far above that of the little shark. He can suppress him steadily and has absolute control. Dominance at the basket.

Shooting guard Alexander, who is also from Serbia, is much stronger than Zhu Fangyu, and he is the shooting guard. Zhu Fangyu switched positions from forward, and their interpretation of court positions is not at the same level. He is an outstanding blue-collar player who later played in the Cavaliers, averaging 9 points and 2 rebounds per game and shooting 40% from three-point range. It is no surprise that he suppressed Zhu Fangyu.

The gap between point guard Zolan and Rukawa Kaede is even greater.

Different from other children who have not yet entered the professional field, as a first-round pick in 03, Zoran has already won the regular season MVP in the Croatian Professional League. As early as the international team just invited Yunus to serve as the MVP. When coaching, Yunus appointed three people, one was Darko Milicic, one was his favorite Greek Shark, and the other was Zoran.

Compared to Rukawa Kaede, who only has experience in the Japanese high school league, Zolan completely outperforms his opponent in terms of speed, consciousness, golf intelligence, skills, physical fitness, etc. He is 2 meters tall and has more delicate ball control than Rukawa Kaede. Skills, the matchup between the two was almost like Rukawa Kaede, who was constantly running for his life, but to no avail.

In these three points, the international team completely defeated the Asian team, and power forwards Nick Loz and Mazi Lampe were tied with each other.

Therefore, in such a grouping, Yunus's main purpose is to create coordination between the main starting players of the international team.

Of course, Lin Dong is also the absolute main force of the international team in Yunus's mind, but if he is also assigned to the blue team, then the red team will have nothing to play, and the intra-team competition without the opponent will not have the training effect.

As for the 'extra' Hanamichi Sakuragi, Yunus placed him in the red team, but basically the Greek Sharks got tired first when fighting against Darko Milicic, and then Hanamichi Sakuragi appeared. Chance.

Before this, Yunus thought that Sakuragi Hanamichi was a pretty good defender, but after actual training, he realized that this guy's foundation was really poor... except for one-handed defense, he was not good at many other things. Yes, his ability to hold the ball is almost zero.

Although he had some experience at Lloyd and during the winter selection in Japan, he seemed to have some ability to hold the ball, but when the intensity of the game rose to the level of this international team, Sakuragi Hanamichi's various rookie shortcomings were completely eliminated. It was exposed that Sakuragi Hanamichi was often at a loss on the offensive end when facing the defense of his opponent, so that although he had some defensive effects, in Yunus' view, he still could not make up for his lack of offensive end.

So he can only be a substitute among the substitutes. If the international team falls behind significantly during the official game, Yunus doesn't mind letting him go up and show his face.

But if the game between the International Team and the US Team remains anxious, then Yunus feels that the chance that he will send Sakuragi Hanamichi to the field may be very small.

I thought that with two positions being superior, one position being crushed, and one position being tied, even if Lin Dong could defeat Pietrus, the red team would not be able to win.

But the results of the two teams' battles in the past few days really made Yunus feel a little incredible.

A total of 11 intra-team games were played in a few days. On the first day, the red and blue teams each had one win and one loss. On the second day, they also had one win and one loss. However, since the third day, the European team has never won again. Pass the red team...

In only 11 games, the Asian red team, which he considered to be significantly weaker, actually won 9 games.

The first person to bring about this change was Lin Dong, the captain of the red team.

In just a few days, this young man, who seemed to have reached a certain bottleneck in Yunus's eyes, was actually improving his skills at a rapid rate.

His breakthroughs have become sharper. If he had to go all out to break through the opponent's defense when he challenged Pietrus a few days ago, now Lin Dong feels like he has defeated Pietrus. Ruth saw nothing.

It's not like he suddenly became faster or more agile.

Yunus felt that Lin Dong was more sophisticated and smooth on the basis of his original breakthrough. Not only was he able to easily ignore all interference from the European team members on the defensive end, he was always able to Use a small cost to lure out the defender's flaw, and then seize it at the first opportunity.

To put it simply, his reading of defenses has improved tremendously in a short period of time.

Yunus knew that this was definitely the result of Payton coming to the gym to practice with Lin Dong after everyone finished training every day. There was only one explanation.

But even so, Yunus still found it incredible. How could the training effect of a few days be so good?

Unless this young man has been studying Payton's style of play before and has a sufficient accumulation foundation, then he can suddenly understand it under Payton's guidance, then it is barely reasonable.

But how can a 17-year-old boy have so much foundation for research and understanding of Payton... I can't figure it out. Yunus is a bit confused anyway. His progress is too contrary to common sense. In addition, there is another reason why the red team can win, and that is that there is another guy like Lin Dong who makes progress against common sense!

That is Hanamichi Sakuragi, who cannot even find a suitable position for him in this international team.

Although Lin Dong's defensive skills have improved by leaps and bounds in the past few days, although they are not as exaggerated and obvious as Lin Dong's improvement, he is actually able to defend as he should when facing Pietrus when he is out of position on the court...

This guy's defensive moves are exactly the same as Lin Dong's, no, it should be said to be exactly the same as Payton's!

When Payton and Lin Dong were practicing alone, didn't they not allow others to enter the gym? Moreover, even if Payton is teaching him, there is no reason for him to progress so quickly. You know, just a few days ago, Pietrus was crossing the cherry tree flower path as easily as crossing the road in the early morning. On the same day, when Hanamichi Sakuragi came on the field in the second half, he used his new force to beat Pietrus and other players who were tired at the beginning. The effect was surprisingly good. Ten balls could at least allow him to defend three or four by himself. Yesterday, when the team During the intra-game, even in the last 5 minutes, he replaced Rukawa Kaede to zero-block Zoran, who was the main attacking point at the time, and stole three of Zoran's goals in succession!

It's rare that there is something in this world that makes Yunus extremely curious... So he talked to Sakuragi Hanamichi in private.

As a result, he had to coax and lie, and he had to face this guy's poor English skills and make guesses. After all, Lin Dong was usually the one who helped him translate Chinese and Japanese on the team. It was not easy to figure out the whole story.

The first two days after coming here, Sakuragi Hanamichi was really depressed. The gap between him and this group of people was too big. What should I do? As a result, that day he heard Yunus say that Brother Gao Ren had improved. It must be because of Payton who practiced alone with Brother Gao Ren every day.

Therefore, the concept that you can become stronger by practicing alone with Payton was engraved in Sakuragi Hanamichi's mind.

But every time Payton came, no one else was allowed to stay in the arena, so Sakuragi would use the toilet as an excuse after disbanding, and then squat in the toilet for an hour... By the time Lin Dong and Payton were alone, After practicing, he ran out with a smile, pretending to be 'sorry for disturbing me', served tea and water, and served Payton in various ways...

"Brother Takato said a lot of good things to me, but it was mainly because Mr. Payton said that I have a talent for defense! That's why he is willing to teach me! It's definitely not because I want to please him!" Sakuragi Hanamichi said proudly. .

That's Glove Payton! Although he had no idea what this glove was for before coming here, at least now he knows that this guy competed with the God of Basketball!

Even people like this say that they have basketball talent. Dad really doesn’t lie to me!

"Then they allowed me to watch from the side. Later, Brother Payton liked me more and more. Every time he played with Brother Gao Ren for a while, he would let me come on to replace him and play against Brother Gao Ren. Then he would The attentive guidance from the side! Brother Payton is really nice!”

After hearing what this kid said, Yunus also burst into laughter, and was really impressed by this little guy.

At first, when most people in the team, including Yunus himself, became accustomed to ignoring Sakuragi Hanamichi, the smiling and nonchalant expression on this kid's face even made Yunus feel a little disgusted.

If you have strength and have a good attitude, that's called a good attitude. But if you don't have strength and have a good attitude, that's called unmotivated.

But I didn't expect that the smile on his face was just the appearance of this young man, but in fact he had done a lot of things secretly behind his back, even hiding in the toilet and then running out to shamelessly serve tea to others. …

Yunus probably understands now.

If Lin Dong's rapid progress is due to his profound accumulation, then Sakuragi Hanamichi's rapid progress is due to an innocent heart that purely pursues basketball. Of course, it also benefits from him and Lin Dong Completely opposite way of promotion, because he himself is a 'blank slate'.

It is always easier to draw on white paper, not to mention that Sakuragi Hanamichi himself is also the kind of person who has quite defensive instincts. Under the guidance of a defensive master like Payton, he has made rapid progress in a short period of time. In fact, it is better than Lin Dong's success is much easier.

I originally thought that I only had a group of European generals under my command, but now I suddenly have a pair of heaven and earth double tracks. Although I can see the reports of the American youth team from the American media everywhere in the past two days, it is simply unbelievable, but Yuna Sri Lanka still has good confidence in the international team.

We are also surprisingly strong!

If the international team can really defeat the American team this time, it will be regarded as the pinnacle of his coaching career, and it will definitely be a highlight!

This is all thanks to that guy!

…………

Payton was in the gym looking at a big butt running diagonally opposite him with a smile on his face. Sitting in his position, he had a clear view of the scenery behind him.

That elasticity, that compactness, tsk tsk tsk...

"Aqiu!" He sneezed suddenly and unexpectedly, causing the big butt in front of him to turn around and look.

Big Butt seemed to have noticed him a long time ago. He turned his head and smiled at him, while winking at Peyton.

Then, the smile on Payton's face that had lasted for at least ten minutes suddenly froze.

Damn, this is too old... a person in his forties or fifties, what are you doing with such a big ass? It’s really eye-catching! If you have time to watch this product, you might as well go to the arena to complete today's mission.

Ah, speaking of missions, Payton is even more annoyed.

That kid Lin Dong is making progress too fast... It's only been a few days? Payton felt that when he faced the opponent, he had to go from being able to control the opponent at 60 to 70% strength, to now having to use at least 89% strength to suppress him!

This progress is so fast, he can teach him anything just once, as if he has learned it before, and he is just reviewing and understanding it in depth...

Payton felt that if he continued like this, not only would he soon have nothing to teach him, but he might even have this kid break through his defenses. Even if it was just once, it would be a huge disgrace!

So now he no longer dares to wear flat shoes for sparring. He always puts on his own competition sneakers and insoles.

And just like that, it was also very difficult, not defensively, but physically!

This kid's endurance is so good, it's so good that he doesn't even know he's tired, and he recovers quickly. He really wants to work with him for an hour or two every day. Payton feels that he has relaxed after the break. The lack of daily training is really too much for me...

So in the past few days, I started to go to the gym. I also took advantage of the unknown guy who was hiding in the toilet in the gym. Overtly, I wanted to give Lin Dong a face and help train the little red-haired guy. Secretly, In fact, he took the opportunity to restore his physical strength and let the young man consume each other.

Damn it, you're a high school student and you still need help, it's embarrassing for the NBA...

　Let me explain in advance that Payton is a wife-protecting maniac. He got married in 98 to his childhood sweetheart. Therefore, what Payton said to Lin Dong about women before, including seeing beautiful women in the gym now, is just lip service. In fact, Payton is a good man with no scandals... I will introduce it later, so explain it in advance to avoid being criticized.

　　

　

(End of this chapter)