First in scoring

Chapter 40 40. A new experience is about to begin

As fall turns to winter, the bed in California in early winter is like a devil, wearing down the will of young people.

But Zhang Yang still stubbornly resisted the temptation of bed every day and persisted in training.

Persistent hard work pays off. In late October, Zhang Yang's free throw accuracy surpassed O'Neal and Duncan. He regarded this as a milestone progress.

However, by this time his free throw improvement speed has reached a small bottleneck, and he needs to spend a lot of time on training. At present, the input-output ratio is not high, so he increased the proportion of free throw line distance jump shot training at five angles.

His shooting training progressed step by step, and his ball control continued to improve. When he and DeRozan played together, he began to try to play singles directly at the top of the arc and make change-of-direction breakthroughs. Let's not talk about how he played, let's just say whether he was brave or not. After he became a little familiar with it, he dared to try it in the game.

Anyway, Johnson didn't stop him from playing like this, and he even took the initiative to arrange a sparring partner for him when he was training change of direction breakthroughs.

The accumulation speed of shooting value also increases as the shooting ability improves.

From short-sleeved T-shirts to long-sleeved T-shirts, and then to wearing a jacket when going out, by mid-November, Zhang Yang's shooting evaluation value successfully exceeded 11.

He thought that passing and controlling the ball would be evaluated earlier. He was already very proficient in violently attacking the basket and counterattacking with the ball. But to be honest, his shooting was not very confident after the confrontation. He did not expect that shooting would be evaluated first.

But when he thought about it carefully, he could only pass and control!
After all, his role in the team does not require much passing. When both his teammates and himself have opportunities, he will choose to do it himself first.

This is high school basketball, and the overall shooting level is not high. It is normal to reach a qualified level after a few months of hard training. Moreover, his shooting improvement is indeed very fast. In just a few months, his shooting surpassed Tatum.

As for ball control, all the guards who can join the Compton High School team are excellent in ball control. Even Keefe, who usually serves as a sideline spot shooter in the team, can do some tricks when playing on the playground. He is just limited by insufficient confrontation and slow speed, and cannot be the ball holder in the school team games.

In other words, the overall ball control level of high schools is higher than the shooting level...or rather, much higher.

This also illustrates the importance of physical fitness in competitive sports. Zhang Yang's ball control is worse than Kief's, but he can rely on his top high school physical fitness to charge through the game.

At the end of November, on Thanksgiving Day, Zhang Yang had a taste of roast turkey and understood why this animal with so much meat could not be raised on a large scale in China. He still had to believe in Zhang Qian's selection and Zheng He's selection.

Time passed day by day, and Zhang Yang's 10th grade fall semester came to an end. On December 12, Saturday, at 20 pm, the Compton High School reserve team started the 3th round of the league away from home. Their opponent was their first opponent in the warm-up match, the main team of Liberty Park Academy in the same city.

Today, Ron Rhodes, the boss of Liberty Park Academy, felt how cruel talent is.

Four months ago, the white guy named Miller was obviously not as strong as him in the interior, but just four months later, although he is still better than Miller, the gap has been greatly narrowed, and the opponent can already compete with him in singles.

The Chinese student who didn't dare to dribble the ball too much when they played against each other four months ago is now counterattacking like crazy. When Compton High School counterattacks, their first choice is to give the ball to that guy.

Rod clearly saw that the oriental handsome boy's counterattack route selection was better than that of the black-haired guy... Tatum was also desperate about this...

Rod was also surprised by the pressure defense at the top of the arc when the oriental handsome boy and the black-haired guy played together... This was because Tatum saw Zhang Yang turning into a mad dog on the defensive end and also turned into a mad dog.

And the top junior high school student really has the style of being the 'top' this time...

At first, their players' individual abilities prevailed, their team play was far ahead, and they beat Compton High School to pieces. Now, they can only rely on teamwork to hold on.

Although the Compton High School reserve team has made great tactical progress, it is still far behind the Liberty Park Academy main team. Judging from the tactical coordination alone, the Liberty Park Academy main team is not necessarily worse than the Compton High School main team. Limited by individual ability, the Liberty Park Academy main team focuses on team offense, while the Compton High School main team relies more on the personal abilities of two top 04 high school students in the United States. In the latest ranking of high school students in the United States, Afflalo has already entered the top 50 of the grade.

Rod was unwilling to accept this, so he led his teammates to fight hard. He knew that he would definitely not be a match for this group of people in front of him in the future, but at least today, he didn't want to lose... But unfortunately, the harder he tried, the more excited DeRozan, Tatum, Zhang Yang and others became!

At 9 minutes and 22 seconds in the final quarter, Liberty Park Academy guard Courtney missed a three-pointer. Tatum grabbed the defensive rebound and counterattacked, rushing from the right to close range and lobbed the ball. Zhang Yang followed up on the left, jumped high, and scored two points with an alley-oop slam dunk.

111 to 100, with 38 seconds left, the score difference was 11 points and the game completely lost suspense.

The final score was 113 to 103, and the Compton High School prep team avenged the defeat in the warm-up match four months ago!
德罗赞拿到全场最高的26分5板3助攻，张杨22分6板2助攻2抢断1盖帽，塔图姆20分3板7助攻3抢断，三人同砍20+。

Johnson was also excited when he saw his teammates celebrating together after completing their revenge.

After this game, the reserve team's record was 6 wins and 5 losses, ranking 21th among the 10 teams in the Southern California League, which is definitely a mid-level team.

Before the season started, Johnson set a goal for the reserve team to be at the middle level of the Southern California League by the end of the season.

That is already a pretty high goal, and even if the reserve teams from Southern California High School and Inglewood High School were asked to come, they might not be able to achieve it.

He set this goal, on the one hand because of the pressure brought by the lack of talent in the 11th grade, and on the other hand because he had DeRozan, so he felt there was hope that he could do it.

As a result, before the winter vacation, he had already achieved this goal, nearly 3 months ahead of schedule!

However, there were only three points that actually exceeded his expectations.

The first point is of course DeRozan's talent. Halfway through the 03-04 season, DeRozan's performance was the best among all the 9th and 10th grade players in California. His progress was astonishingly fast, and Stewart, Afflalo, Shipp and others could not compare with him. In recent years, among the high school students in California, there are only two players that Johnson can compare with DeRozan, one of whom is the All-American super point guard Jordan Farmar from Santa Barbara High School.

The second point is the speed at which the players learn tactics, and the third point is the speed at which Zhang Yang improves. These two points can actually be seen as one point.

In terms of talent, another player that Johnson compared to DeRozan was Zhang Yang.

He feels that their team might actually produce two NBA players!
As for Tatum, Johnson is both relieved and regretful. Tatum's improvement this season is much faster than in the 9th grade, but the improvement from 75 points to 80 points is not as fast as Zhang Yang and DeRozan's, and the role he plays in improving the team's strength is also not as good.

It’s not that Tatum is not good enough, but that those two are too talented.

...

If you lose the game, you practice more to vent your dissatisfaction. If you win the game, you practice more to celebrate.

After every game, Tatum would complain about Zhang Yang and DeRozan thinking about training all day long, but today after returning to school with the team, he still followed the two to the gym to practice shooting for a while.

At 6pm, the extra training ended and the three of them went to take a shower.

When grown men take a shower together, they always have to talk about random things. The final exam just ended, and this time they talked about grades... Who said that poor students don't like to talk about grades.

Tatum: "How did you do on the test?"

DeRozan: "I got a B in science, C in everything else, and an A in sports."

Tatum: "All Cs? NO! I got a D and an F, and I have to make up for it next year... Jack, how about you?"

DeRozan responded: "Don't ask him, you will be mad to death."

Tatum: "Oh, right, Jack is in Class B, so his grades must be very good... No, his grades must be very good in Grade 9, but he spends every day in the gym this semester, training more than DeMar and you, so his grades must have gotten worse, right, Jack?"

Seeing the expectant expression on the black-haired boy's face, Zhang Yang didn't want to discourage him, so he said, "I got Cs in two subjects, art and community activities, and a B in music."

Only two Cs? Failed all the others? Tatum didn't believe it. His grades weren't that bad, but he still asked with expectation: "Failed all the other subjects?"

How dare you ask that! Zhang Yang was not going to tolerate it anymore and replied, "All other A's."

"NO! Why?"

Even people passing by outside the bathroom heard Tatum's wailing. They thought something unspeakable had happened inside and hurried away to avoid being beaten.

Zhang Yang accidentally became a top student again, and developed a sense of distance from his teammates, which he didn't want.

But the learning environment is too important. Being in the same classroom with those test-takers in Class B, he had no choice but to be serious. The DNA from his high school years in his previous life was completely awakened. In addition, the knowledge taught in American high schools was simpler than that taught in domestic high schools, and the exams were even simpler. He just prepared, attended classes, and did his homework seriously, and he got A's in all four main subjects.

Seeing Tatum's entire face turned gray, DeRozan couldn't bear it and changed the subject: "Jack, are you going back to Hidden Hills for Christmas?"

Zhang Yang: "Of course, what about you?"

"I won't be back until after Christmas."

"Okay, let's train together then."

"Um……"

After taking a shower, Zhang Yang trotted back to his coach's house. Today, the school coaches had a year-end dinner, and Thomas would not be back for dinner. Zhang Yang grabbed something to eat and went to the yard to continue practicing shooting.

The reason why he is so active is that after the afternoon game and extra training, he is only 221 points away from shooting value!

It was the right decision to choose the advanced mission more than three months ago to push himself. The pressure brought by the mission made him more motivated and work harder in training.

More than two hours later, it was already past 9 o'clock in the evening and the street lights had already been on. Finally, the shooting value rose to 99999 points. Zhang Yang was exhausted from training today.

He picked up the ball under the basket and ran out. This time he didn't shoot. Instead, he rushed into the basket again, jumped, and made a layup in the air... He didn't have enough strength, so he threw the ball towards the basket with all his strength... With good luck, the ball hit the basket frame and fell into the net.

The door of training appeared before his eyes, and the number one on the door turned into two!

“姓名：张杨……身高190公分，体重79公斤……投篮66，传控—，身体素质92……历练收获：史蒂夫-纳什控球节奏感（初级）……投篮值：100000/100000。”

"100000 shooting points have been accumulated, the mission is completed, and the second experience is about to begin.

Opening time: the evening of December 2003, 12.

Timeline: After you helped the Suns sweep the Spurs in 2010.

Difficulty of training: You will choose after entering the training..."

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