61. It's really life! (Seeking the moon(1/2)
Since the three superstars who surpassed the era level demonstrated the super strength of NBA stars in the Barcelona Olympics, everyone's attention in the basketball world has focused on the NBA.
From 1991 to 1993, Michael Jordan took over the league's first torch from Magic Johnson, and led the team to win the first and only three consecutive championships in modern basketball, establishing a dynasty. The focus of the NBA was on the Bulls.
In 1992, a large number of brands invested a total of $90 million, plus Chicago City Hall invested $30 million, and the Bulls invested $60 million, totaling $180 million to build a new stadium. Since United Airlines invested the most, in addition to having the long-term use rights of a store like other sponsors, they can also pay $1 million a year to have the long-term naming rights of the stadium. Therefore, the stadium was named the Chicago United Center and put into use last Christmas.
Now that Michael Jordan has made a comeback, the United Center has once again become the most popular stadium in the basketball world.
Because Jordan is here, it is even more lively than the Los Angeles West Forum Hall, the Madison Square Garden Arena in New York, and the Boston North Shore Garden Arena.
At 9 p.m. on October 14, 1995, the lively scenes during the day all dissipated, and the stadium was silent, with only the sound of slapping the ball, and the sound of throwing the ball into the basket or hitting the iron.
Jordan ate something after the game. At this age, he would not go out with his young teammates during the season. Not only him, but Pippen and Rodman are also old players over 30, so Rodman just fucked him.
Jordan will be 33 years old during the season, Pippen is already 30 years old, and Rodman will be 35 years old during the season. This age brings people the feeling that they may be very strong and are the favorites to win the championship, but they are not the biggest favorites to win the championship in people's eyes.
Jordan was very angry and unhappy about this, but he was very calm.
Age is a hurdle that cannot be overcome, so he chose to be self-disciplined.
In the game this evening, he was not tired, so he was serious in the third quarter.
Maintaining his physical strength is a source of his confidence. He believes that with his current skills, as long as his physical strength does not decline seriously, he is the best basketball player on the planet.
But he did not slacke in this. Before the new season officially started, he was preparing for the new season and adjusting his condition at all times.
Tonight, he took a break after dinner, returned to the arena again, preparing for training.
The team has changed to a new stadium, and he also wants to win the championship again in this stadium. The key is to defeat Olajuwon and prevent that guy from winning the championship to catch up with him.
However, after entering the stadium, he was surprised that there was actually someone in the stadium!
From the fork in the employee passage, he came to the entrance of the visiting team training ground and saw the little devil...
It's just a little devil. Jordan thought Zhang Hao was just a little devil when he saw Zhang Hao's appearance.
Mid-range shots are the most difficult to practice in all shooting areas, because mid-range shots cannot be practiced only for a few points or only for a specific distance, so it would be too easy to defend. I heard that Zhang Hao, a rookie, had excellent mid-range shots, so Jordan became interested before the game.
In the subsequent games, Zhang Hao surprised Jordan even more, with his talent visible to the naked eye!
But that's all. Zhang Hao is too weak, so weak that he can't pose any threat to Jordan. Even Jordan is not sure whether Zhang Hao has grown up when he retires again.
Growing up is possible in four or five years, but Jordan has no intention of going to that time.
Originally, Jordan had already put the evening behind the third quarter, which was barely considered a pleasant one, but he didn't expect that when he came to the stadium to practice, he actually saw that little guy again.
After watching Zhang Hao's training for a while, Jordan felt so angry...
It is really amazing to see mid-range shots alone. At the age of 18, he had such mid-range shots just after graduating from high school. It must be a combination of talent + hard work. Jordan has reached the pinnacle of the basketball world and knows that it is definitely not an easy thing to practice to Zhang Hao's level.
But apart from CIT, in Jordan's opinion, Zhang Hao's other skills are useless.
Dribble is at the amateur level, and you can turn over and jump shots... probably only has the advantage of being smarter than the body size.
Just as he was about to leave, Zhang Hao was picking up the ball and found someone was coming. It was Jordan!
Not during the game, Zhang Hao was of course very excited to see Jordan and shouted loudly: "Mr. Jordan, are you here to train too?"
After dinner after the game, Zhang Hao couldn't wait to practice a turnover jump shot, so he asked Randy Whitman for help, and it was easy to borrow the Bulls' stadium for training.
Jordan tilted his lips and tilted his neck, shrugged his shoulders at the same time, saying yes, then walked into the training ground, took out a ball from the basket, ignored Zhang Hao, and started a turnover jump shot from the side.
Zhang Hao felt Jordan's pride, but of course he wanted to see Jordan's training.
Just like looking back + re-polishing his own foundation, Jordan's movements were not fast, and every movement was done in full, without saving unnecessary movements like he did during the game.
Real actual combat is definitely very different from training. During training, you often need to practice all the basics. These basic movements are often more comprehensive. In real games, you can use one or two parts of the basic movements based on actual conditions to successfully complete the technical movement and shoot.
He turned over and jumped to Jordan's level, and basically he could complete it as long as humans could successfully make a move.
Is this showing your basic skills?
Still want to teach him the rookie first-hand? Zhang Hao doesn't care about that much and works hard to remember every detail of Jordan's movement.
For half an hour, Jordan spent this technique, which was extremely boring, but every time he turned over and shot, he was meticulous.
He has a talent that far exceeds most geniuses, and at the same time, he also has the efforts and persistence that far exceeds most players!
Zhang Hao will practice it by himself for a few minutes after watching it. When he came back, Jordan was still practicing basic skills.
He understood that Jordan just wanted to teach him a lesson, but he just didn't want to say it out.
If he doesn't go and see because of the other party's ignorance, he will miss this opportunity to study.
However, such guidance really depends on the learner's talent. Not every player can learn it by looking at technical movements. On the contrary, most players need to teach them step by step, otherwise they will not be able to learn some complicated technical movements.
A turnover jump shot doesn’t seem difficult, but it’s really difficult to practice to a good level!
Fortunately, Zhang Hao has a good talent in this area and has been studying all the time for half an hour.
After practicing the basic skills of turning over jump shot for half an hour, Jordan ignored Zhang Hao, left the visiting team training ground, and returned to the home team training ground to train alone.
It’s not that I’m afraid that Zhang Hao will learn more, but that Zhang Hao’s practice of something else will affect Zhang Hao.
The turnover jump shot is not particularly demanding on ball control. Because of this, Jordan saw that Zhang Hao wanted to learn, so he taught him. Whether he could learn it depends on Zhang Hao himself.
Jordan thinks he is not a good person, but he is not a bad person. In life, he feels that he is an ordinary rich man.
From the perspective of the senior basketball player, he is like a bad guy in this regard, and he does what villains should do. He likes to bully young players the most.
But has this affected the genius that continues to emerge in the NBA?
No, he thinks he is just an executor of filtering genius, and there are many such people in the NBA.
Perhaps, a rookie met when she first entered the NBA, who had not played well in the NBA for many years but liked to bully rookies, and was also one of those people who filtered geniuses.
In the evening game, Zhang Hao had proved that he would not be defeated so easily, and he also won Jordan's admiration in this regard, which can be said to be appreciated. Jordan demonstrated to Zhang Hao.
After Jordan left, Zhang Hao immediately began to practice basic movements.
He doesn't know how to choose these movements in actual use to make them more suitable for the situation at the time of the game, but this is not important now. Now he should practice the full set of movements. He is still far from Jordan's body forming muscle memory and making on-the-spot reactions in the game like a natural reaction.
It's done!
I wanted to practice for a while, but at 10:30, after two hours of training, the staff informed him that the stadium was about to close and had a car ready to take him back to the hotel.
He was practicing happily and was "driven" away. Zhang Hao asked the staff: "Is Mr. Jordan still practicing?"
The staff responded: "Michael may sleep in the arena again tonight, he has the key himself."
Zhang Hao has nothing to say.
Back at the hotel, Kenny Anderson opened a room by himself and came to Chicago, a big city. The nightlife was much richer than Charlotte and Rutherford towns... Although it was stipulated that he had to go back to the hotel to sleep at night, he could open a room by himself to pack or order takeaway, and he didn't care about this little money.
After taking a shower, it was 11 o'clock, and Zhang Hao returned to the bed and lay down.
In fact, two hours ago, when Jordan came to the United Center visiting training ground, Zhang Hao had already felt a little frustrated.
He practiced turnover jump shots almost from scratch. Although he had the talent for mid-range shots, turningover jump shots might also have the talent to learn, learning technology has never happened overnight.
Perhaps his speed of learning this aspect is stronger than most people and he will learn faster, but for him, it is still too slow. He feels that even if he hires a private training, he will not be able to go any faster.
Basic skills must take time to polish them.
Listening, watching, learning... all takes a process.
Jordan came to demonstrate for half an hour, and Zhang Hao learned a lot, but when he looked at Jordan's half an hour of strict training, he realized that Jordan's skills were not born, but were polished day by day, because Jordan could not rest for half an hour without stopping and his technical movements were not deformed... He kept practicing the same technique.
This definitely took a lot of time to train.
But what he lacks the most is time!
In the eyes of others, he is just a rookie, an 18-year-old high school rookie. In his rookie season, he can apply what he is good at, namely, central shooting and athletic ability, and football quotients to the game, which is enough to gain a foothold in the NBA.
But after fighting with Larry Johnson, Glenn Rice, Jordan, Pippen..., he is eager to become stronger.
He really wanted to borrow another five hundred years from heaven.
One year is not enough!
He was very focused and refreshed during training. Now he relaxed and lying on the bed, Zhang Hao quickly became sleepy.
Just when I was about to fall asleep, the subtitle prompt suddenly came...
"The host successfully obtained Michael Jordan's turnover jump shot teaching guidance. The system has recorded and printed Michael Jordan's teaching materials in all aspects, and collected Michael Jordan's turnover jump shot technology practical information in the game. The technical analysis mode can be turned on in the learning mode, and learn how to guide players to turnover jump shot training. Is it turned on? (90 days of life) (the remaining life is 327 days, and the available life is 326 days)"
After the game, Zhang Hao received a one-day life reward for participating in the game due to his loss.
When Zhang Hao saw the first half of the newly triggered thing, he was ecstatic, but when he saw the content in the last bracket, Zhang Hao started to spray: "Damn! He just got a 60-day life span, and now he wants me to pour it out for 90 days at once?"
If someone else is kryptoning money, Zhang Hao will kill him!
He finally knows what it means to be a usable lifespan!
It seemed like he just covered his quilt on his head and turned off his golden finger to sleep, but... that was Jordan's turnover jump shot!
Zhang Hao did not question Jordan's turnaround jump shot was the strongest in history!
Jordan's high-level back-on-on-bottom and low-level back-on-bottom are both jump shots.
Taking a deep breath, Zhang Hao decided to do it!
I have received guidance from Jordan and have collected teaching materials. I will always think about it when I put them there.
There are more than 300 days left for the time being, and I can't die if I spend 90 days. There are so many games in the future... Zhang Hao made up his mind. He knew that his current situation was the same as if he wanted to buy an expensive thing but felt sorry for him. He would still buy it in the end.
To be continued...