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Chapter 76 75. Beat up the boss at the beginning (please subscribe)

"Do you want to give me a chance?"

"do not you?"

Zhang Yang and DeRozan smiled at each other, they indeed thought of the same thing.

Three and a half months ago, in the warm-up match, the two had to give their all, cooperate with each other, and unite with their teammates to win.

But now, they can clearly feel that they have "delayed" each other's growth.

The team they have now is too strong for high school competitions. Even if there are two or three teams that have a chance to beat them, they will only play against each other a few times in a season.

If one person leads the team alone, he or she will definitely get more training.

Both of them were worried that saying this would create a rift with the other, but now they don't have to worry about it.

DeRozan: "Jack, are you going to skip a grade and go to college?"

Zhang Yang: "Yes, I will take the SAT in March, and the AP and graduation exams in April."

DeRozan: "Going to college will be very stressful! The strongest opponents we face now were just freshmen in college. If I go to Moore League, you don't have to skip a grade, right?"

Zhang Yang: "Next season, Carmelo, Kevin, and James will definitely be stronger than they are now. The three players from the reserve team will also join the main team. I heard that Gordon is even better than Carmelo last year. Playing with them will make next season easier... I am eager for more worthy opponents."

DeRozan: "More worthy opponents? The only way is to go to college, college..."

Zhang Yang: "You also want to skip a grade?"

DeRozan: "I have no confidence in my grades. I may not pass the 11th grade exam."

Zhang Yang: "You need to be confident. If you eliminate the possibility, you will definitely fail the exam."

DeRozan: Do you believe that I can kill you with a headbutt and die with you?

Don't be angry, don't be angry, I chose my teammates, don't be angry...

The two communicated in advance, informed each other of their future decisions, and reached an agreement happily.

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In the evening, Zhang Yang returned to Yinshan and saw that his mother's belly had become very big.

Zhang Yang: "Mom, when will my younger brother be born?"

Yang Jing: "There's still a month until the due date, but it's hard to say for sure. Why? Didn't you say you wouldn't help mom take care of your brother? Why are you more anxious than me?"

Zhang Yang: "I won't take him. If he's born next month, he'll be little brother Wukong. If he's born in February, he'll probably have to become a rapper and learn to sing and dance."

Yang Jing: "You want your brother to be a singer and dancer and learn to be a rapper? That's fun! It would be best if he could learn street dance and be a cool kid... Ahem, I mean if Zhong Yang has artistic talent, we can train him in that direction, not just for fun."

"...I believe it!" Zhang Yang was speechless for a moment, then suddenly realized what was happening and asked, "Zhong Yang?"

Yang Jing: "We have already chosen a name for your brother, Zhang Zhongyang."

Zhang Yang: "My name is Yang, and my brother is called Er Yang? These names are too rustic and random! If I have a new brother in the future, will you name him Shu Yang? San Yang Kaitai? Why didn't you discuss the name with me before choosing it? I don't agree with this name!"

Yang Jing: "Do we need your approval to name our son? Isn't it easier to name him this way...Okay, Yang Yang, what good names do you have?"

Zhang Yang: “Of course!”

Yang Jing: "What's your name?"

Zhang Yang: "Zhang Dijia... Hey hey hey, mom, please stop hitting me... Then why not call me Zhang Tailuo..."

After a while of noise, his father prepared dinner and the family of three had dinner together.

At dinner, Zhang Yang mentioned that he wanted to skip a grade and go to university.

His parents have no objections, so it’s really not a big deal.

If you can skip grade 12 and enter a prestigious university, from an economic perspective you can save a year of high school tuition and living expenses. If you fail to skip a grade, you can just continue with grade 12. After all, the purpose of going to high school is to get into university.

It's not like he's skipping a grade to go to college at the age of 17 or . If that were the case, his age difference with his classmates would be too big and his parents would be worried. In another half a year, he'll be years old, so it's normal to go to college at this age.

Zhang Yang got the idea of ​​skipping the 12th grade from Farmar.

After the end of his 11th grade season, Farmar felt that he was not getting enough training in high school and wanted to go to college early. He did have the ability to play in college at that time. UCLA was very positive when it learned about this and offered many preferential conditions, such as allowing Farmar to ignore the Bruins tradition and start directly in his freshman season.

But when everything seemed ready, something went wrong with Farmar. His academic performance was too poor. He failed the college entrance examination four times in a row in March, May, June and August 03. His SAT score did not even meet the minimum requirement for special admissions. He could enter UCLA as a preparatory student, but preparatory students could not participate in NCAA competitions... In the end, the matter was dropped. Farmar returned to high school and worked hard for a year. Finally, in June of this year, he passed the minimum score and successfully entered UCLA.

DeRozan and his parents have all talked about this. As for the coach, he and DeRozan have agreed to wait until the season is over before talking about it. He will give the coach some hints first so that the coach will not be unable to accept it.

Zhang Yang did not go to training for the next two days and stayed with his mother to rest for two days.

On the 25th, Christmas Day, Zhang Yang and his family watched the Christmas game between the Lakers and the Heat.

The Sharks traveled east, and Afro finally realized his dream of becoming the boss. In the process, he kicked out the charlatan who had been targeting him and replaced him with a new coach, Tom Ijanovich.

Under Tomjanovich's coaching, the Lakers have had a decent record so far, with 14 wins and 11 losses, tied for seventh in the Western Conference.

In the OK game, the Lakers and the Heat fought back and forth. Kobe played against the sophomore Wade, beating the opponent up. While scoring 42 points himself, he prevented Wade from making 26 of 9 shots. The Lakers almost won... In the last moments of regular time, Eddie Jones made two three-pointers in a row to tie the score and enter overtime.

After many years, Eddie Jones finally took revenge on the No. 8 jersey that squeezed him out.

In overtime, Kobe was exhausted - he gained weight to 105 kilograms during the offseason, which seriously affected his physical strength and even his health. He missed 25 of the first 5 games.

In the end, the Heat reversed the Lakers through overtime, and O'Neal won the OK battle.

After watching an exciting game, Zhang Yang said goodnight to his parents, took a shower, and lay down.

He opened the door to experience, and on November 11, he accumulated 8 shooting points and received a reward of +6 physical talent. His physical talent had increased by 1 points. When he was almost 4 years old, his physical strength was 23 after adding 1 point of physical talent. Then his talent ceiling should have reached 88.

On December 12, he accumulated 17 shooting points and received a notification to start training tonight.

The schedule of the main team was more intensive, he could score eight or nine goals in every game, his three-point accuracy was steadily improving, and his training time was extended after his physical strength was improved... It took a total of 11 months and 3 days to get 5 shooting points, and the speed of obtaining shooting points was greatly improved. New tasks were also refreshed on the 10th. They were different from the tasks of shooting talent and physical talent that he wanted. One task rewarded a random shooting talent +1, 6 shooting points, and the other task rewarded a faster shooting speed, which required 8 shooting points.

The second task was so expensive that Zhang Yang was hurting, but the reward was a good one. If the shooting speed could be increased without affecting the stability of the shot, whether it was shooting after a pick-and-roll, a quick stop jump shot, or a European step to attack the basket... it would be of great help.

During the two days of rest, Zhang Yang has sorted out the basketball skills he has learned in the past year and a half, his strengths, his weaknesses, and the areas that need to be strengthened the most... He is ready to ask for guidance!
The person he most hopes to meet is, of course, Teacher Na, but in a different timeline he probably wouldn't know him, but it doesn't matter, he is thick-skinned and can just get to know him again.

Curry is also good. He is the best long-range shooter in history. His three-point shooting is needless to say, and his long two-point shooting is amazing. In some seasons, he can make at least two shots per game with a long two-point shooting percentage of 60+%.

Curry's mid-range hits are the lowest among the top shooters, averaging less than 1 per game, but his terrifying long two-point shooting ability has raised his average mid-range hits to 3 per game, a top performance.

Alan Houston is also good. He is unparalleled in the world in terms of positioning and mid-range shooting, and it is said that he has a good personality too.

He is not incapable of playing in the interior either. Nowitzki's playing style is not much different from that of a guard, and he is known as the seven-foot Bird.

Anyway, don't be like Garnett or Kobe, they have great skills but it's too hard to get along with them...

Zhang Yang fell into a deep sleep while thinking about all sorts of things...

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After waking up, Zhang Yang found himself in a strange room again.

He sat up and saw the big-butt TV at the end of the bed, and felt something was wrong.

I picked up the mirror on the bedside and took a look. This boy is so handsome!

I took the initiative to recall the 10 timeline... I looked about the same as I did in 11, about or years old.

It’s this mirror that looks quite old.

At this moment, a message flooded into his mind.

He was born on June 1963, 6. He is a Chinese American. His grandfather's family and his maternal grandfather's family all fled to California during World War II.

He was discovered by the school team coach in high school and started playing basketball. He loved scoring and scored 12 points in a single game in the 69th grade. He also became the first California Basketball Player in the 12-80 season.

Because he admired Wilt Chamberlain, the best scoring player in basketball history, he chose to join the University of Kansas Jayhawks. During his college years, he was constantly controversial and was ridiculed by his teammates for only focusing on scoring, but his teammates couldn't do without him. If he couldn't score, the team would lose. The media also criticized him, but he didn't care.

In 1985, after his senior season, he participated in the NBA draft. During the tryout, the Lakers, who had the 23rd pick in the first round, promised to select him, so he rejected all subsequent tryout invitations.

The Lakers were ridiculed for wasting a first-round pick, and he was also accused by the media of being arrogant.

There were rumors before the draft that the Lakers would break their draft promise and regret it.

However, he doesn't know whether the Lakers regret it, because the Cardinal, who claimed to have watched two of his games in person, selected him early with the 20th pick in the first round.

He didn't go to the Lakers, he didn't go to the team of his idol Chamberlain, and instead went to the Celtics, the Lakers and Chamberlain's common rivals.

Auerbach told him that his innate fast break talent, persistence in shooting, and toughness on defense were perfect for the Celtics, and his three-point shooting ability was what the team dreamed of.

Then, on his first day reporting to the Celtics, he got into a fight with team leader Larry Bird.

Big Bird told him to go back to the beach in Los Angeles and throw baseballs, and he told Big Bird to go back to Ireland and farm, and then they started insulting each other. Big Bird started first, and then he knocked Big Bird down.

This incident caused an uproar, and the Boston media attacked him and called on the Celtics to throw this rookie who always talked about the Lakers and Chamberlain to Los Angeles.

But the Cardinal still gave him a check for $9 as he promised. The median annual salary in Boston the previous year was $1.9.

The fight with Bird didn't seem to have any impact on his joining the Celtics. The atmosphere in the Celtics was already weird, everyone was weird, and having him on the team didn't seem out of place at all.

No one helped when Bird was beaten, and no one in the NBA likes Larry Bird.

Danny Ainge is polite when talking to everyone and seems to care about everyone, but he says nice things but never takes any actual action, which makes people feel hypocritical. Just like when Big Bird was beaten, he, who usually calls "big brother" diligently, did not help, and did not even make a move to stop it.

McHale seemed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. Even his changed jerseys had to be folded neatly and then thrown into the laundry basket by the staff. He would get angry if anyone touched his things.

Bill Walton is a stutterer. He can't speak clearly for a long time, and he gets angry and furious when others become impatient.

Dennis Johnson and Robert Parish only played with each other and were very exclusive because most of the players on the team were white.

Big Bird didn't shut up just because he was beaten. He would mock him when he saw him, and would quarrel with him when he was fought back, but he didn't take the initiative to fight. It was just a pure quarrel.

In the opening game, he caused trouble again. Because he was fouled by Bill Laimbeer, he fought back on the spot and started a fight with the opponent, which led to a group fight... He was suspended for two games and was embroiled in controversy.

Later, he was criticized for his unique style of play because of his passion for shooting, and for destroying the beauty of basketball because of his passion for defense...

Laimbeer, who had a fight with him, stood up to support him - if defense is not possible in basketball games, then the NBA should just give the championship trophy directly to Michael Jordan, because that guy has the most accurate shooting.

He performed well in his rookie season. After playing four years in college, he was already very mature. He played 80 games as a substitute, averaging 26 minutes per game, scoring 14.6 points, 5.1 rebounds, 1.1 assists and 1.4 steals. His shooting percentage was 45.5% and his three-point shooting percentage was 37.5%. He and Bird were the only two players on the team who could shoot three-pointers.

He ranked first in the league in scoring among all substitutes, but did not win the Sixth Man of the Year award.

Yesterday, the day before the start of the playoffs, his teammate Bill Walton, who averaged 7 points, 6 rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.4 blocks per game, won the Sixth Man of the Year award.

Upon learning of his award, Bill Walton was tongue-tied. In an interview with the media, he said it was ridiculous for him to win the award and refused to accept the trophy.

Today is the first game day of the playoffs...

After Zhang Yang read the message, he felt numb.

Putting aside other things, he wanted to be on the same team with the technical master, but he was on the same team with Larry Bird! This is worse than being teammates with Garnett and Kobe!
That’s not all, he also beat Larry Bird!

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