Strong Offense and Defense

"When your strength comes to the waist, continues up the spine, and your arms are ready to shoot, that's 'two.'"

"Ah."

"Then, you throw the ball. Imagine the arc of the ball, imagine the distance from your fingertip to the basket. The parabola is a resultant force that can be decomposed into vertical upward and horizontal forward. Can you understand this?"

"Yes." Nie Chuan nodded.

"Your upper arm determines the height of the basketball, and your forearm determines its forward horizontal force. When you stand at different distances from the basket, your upper arm and forearm must cooperate to achieve the most perfect progress. arc of the ball."

Reese dribbles to the basket, starts shooting from the service line, and steps back step by step until he is beyond the three-point line.

Nie Chuan couldn't help sighing in his heart, Reese is really amazing!

"Nie Chuan, there may really be many geniuses with extraordinary physical fitness and coordination in this world. Even geniuses, they need countless shooting experience to form, so that they can shoot no matter where they stand."

"Compared with Ewing, who is better at shooting?" Nie Chuan subconsciously asked.

After asking, Nie Chuan suddenly felt that he had no brains.

This question... There is only one answer for Rees, that is, the tall, handsome and cool Rees is better than Ewing!

"Of course Ewing."

"what?"

The answer was completely beyond Nie Chuan's imagination.

"If we had made it to the Final Four last year, Ewing would have been the mvp. Unfortunately we didn't."

With such a strong Reece, DK did not reach the semi-finals, which made Nie Chuan unable to help but imagine how many masters there are in the league.

"And for three-point shooting practice, Ewing's practice volume is at least three times that of mine. There is a saying in your China, 'Heaven rewards diligence', which should refer to Ewing."

Reese took a step back and scored another easy goal.

Nie Chuan suddenly understood that Reese's sharpness was not conceited. On the contrary, he would be very humble when facing hardworking people.

"Okay, throw some more shots while the lights are on. Remember that rhythm."

"Well! I see!"

Nie Chuan held the ball and silently said "one-two-three!"

He soared into the air and sent the ball away.

Following Nie Chuan's line of sight, the basketball drew an arc and fell steadily into the basket.

Nie Chuan was still immersed in the feeling of that ball, and Rees threw the ball back to him: "According to this feeling, do it again!"

Nie Chuan caught the ball, jumped up on the spot, and scored another goal.

"Good, remember this feeling, this way of exerting force. On the real court, your opponent will not give you any time to prepare, and you can't fully concentrate on shooting the ball like you are now. So you You have to let your body form a natural reaction to the shot, from the kick to the magic, it has to be done in one go, without hesitation. It's a whole."

Nie Chuan caught the ball, took off again, and the ball went into the basket again.

"Nie Chuan, there is no 30.00% shooting rate on the basketball court, even [-]% is already very high. But you don't need to feel burdened when you shoot, because even if the ball hits the basket, there are Montenegro and Carlo. Their rebounding strength is very strong."

"understand……"

At the moment Nie Chuan took off, Reese suddenly rushed in front of Nie Chuan, jumped high, and easily covered Nie Chuan's ball with his palm.

Nie Chuan was so startled that he was about to fall back and sit down, but Rees grabbed his wrist and pulled him back.

The heart was about to jump out of Nie Chuan's chest, and all the shooting rhythms were thrown behind Nie Chuan's head in an instant.

"You look terrified, but this is a common thing on the court." Reese let go of Nie Chuan's wrist, "If a block can make you mess up, you will lose the entire game."

Nie Chuan's mentality was completely seen through by Rees.

"If you have been blocked, you must immediately enter the defensive state. Don't forget that you are the organizer and linker of defense and offense. Quickly return to the defense, cut off the person who cut you again, and reverse the situation."

There was deliberate calm in Reese's voice.

"Ah."

"But if you haven't been blocked, assuming your reflexes are quick enough, you have two options." Reece held out a finger, "One, pass the ball to a partner who is in a better scoring position than you. Second, again Shots. It's just that this time the shot is faster than the last one."

Nie Chuan nodded.But he knows that the second option is based on the rhythm and feel of the shot being fully integrated into the musculoskeletal foundation.

"Come again, see if you can get back to your original rhythm after being interrupted by me."

Nie Chuan took a breath, counted silently in his mind, took off, the strength of the upper arm, the coordination of the forearm, the delivery of the ball between the fingers, and the basket again.

At that moment, the lights of the entire stadium were dimmed.

"Pick up the ball and go back to the dormitory." Reese's voice became the only presence on the field.

Nie Chuan packed his backpack and followed Reese out of the court.

The two were speechless all the way.

Nie Chuan once again enjoyed the special treatment of being sent back to the dormitory by Reese.

By the time he turned around to say "thank you" to Rees, Rees had already walked away.

Back in the dormitory, Nie Chuan saw Zhou Bin sitting on the bed and talking on the phone with his girlfriend, his face full of spring.Nie Chuan threw the pillow directly on his face and went to the bathroom to take a shower.

When the water flowed down his body from the top of his head, Nie Chuan suddenly thought of Reese's hands.

How he lifted himself up, how his palms pressed against the temperature of his calf, how his fingertips went up along his spine.

Time seemed to go backwards, and Nie Chuan's mind was full of Reese's hands.

"……depressed……"

After Nie Chuan finished washing, he returned to the bed and was about to sleep as soon as the quilt was rolled up.

Zhou Bin, who was on the opposite bed, just finished his phone call. Seeing Nie Chuan with his back to him, he said, "A Chuan, are you back from playing basketball?"

"Yeah, I'm so tired, I'm going to sleep."

In fact, he couldn't sleep at all. Nie Chuan felt like Reese's hands were still covering his calves.

It's warm, from warm to hot.

"You don't eat chocolate anymore? It's imported from Belgium."

"Don't eat."

"It's okay not to eat, you always eat chocolate after brushing your teeth, be careful of tooth decay."

"Oh, my teeth are very hard and won't be bitten out by moths." Nie Chuan waved his hand impatiently.

Zhou Bin smiled.

The next afternoon, when Ewing was practicing shooting with Nie Chuan, Carlo's eyeballs were about to fall out.

"Alan, you are really advancing by leaps and bounds!"

Ewing pushed away Carlo's face and said, "Of course, can Alan be the same as you idiot? Alan, did you practice late last night?"

Nie Chuan nodded embarrassingly: "Yeah. But it's really like what you said, after you find the feeling, your hit rate will be much higher."

"Don't be lazy, practice a lot!"

"I know."

"Show your skills on Saturday!" Ewing blinked, the small freckles on his face matched his big eyes, Nie Chuan suddenly felt that it was unfair, obviously Ewing was more like a child than himself.

"But this guy Reese is really uninteresting! We practice so hard with Allen, and every time he either says he has groupwork or has it." Carlo said dissatisfied.

Nie Chuan opened his mouth to defend Reese, but remembering that Reese once said that he didn't want anyone to know that he taught him, he could only swallow the words abruptly.

"Forget it, Reese is not suitable for teaching people, we are enough!" Ewing patted Nie Chuan on the shoulder and said.

It was finally Friday night, and Nie Chuan still felt extremely nervous when he thought that he was going to participate in the practice match the next day. Even though it was only contacted by Carlo and the others privately.

He tossed and turned in bed and couldn't sleep at all.

Zhou Bin on the side couldn't help but sit up and said, "A Chuan, if you really can't sleep, just get up and warm up a cup of milk!"

"Ah, yes!"

Nie Chuan remembered that Reese said that drinking milk could help him grow taller, so he quickly warmed himself a glass of milk and drank it to the end.

After a lot of trouble, Nie Chuan finally fell asleep, but the glass of milk worked. Before dawn, Nie Chuan couldn't go to the toilet because of the suffocation.

This whole night, he really didn't sleep well at all!

Early in the morning, a car stopped at the door of Nie Chuan's student apartment. It was Carlo's Mercedes.

"Let's go! Nie Chuan!"

There were also Ewing and Black Mountain in Carlo's car. Seeing Nie Chuan's face, Ewing patted Nie Chuan's shoulder funnyly and said, "Hey...are you very nervous! You seem to be sleeping well!"

"It's all the milk's fault," Nie Chuan murmured.

Carlo couldn't help laughing: "This is just a practice match! The strength of the opponent is the top 32, and with the graduation of their center last year, this year's strength may not be as good as last year. Why are you so nervous!"

Of course nervous.

I don't want to hold back either!

Heishan was the most considerate, he said to Carlo: "Turn off the music and let Nie Chuan sleep for a while."

"Where's Reese?"

"That fellow Rees should have left long ago?"

Their practice venue is in a nearby city, where Connor's hospital is located.

When the car was about to drive onto the highway, Carlo received a call.

"Hey, Reese, where are you? What restaurant? Oh oh...Okay, see you there!"

"What's wrong?" Ewing asked.

"Reese said to have breakfast at the Chinese restaurant before leaving. But... I have already eaten two hamburgers in the morning!" Carlo said.

Montenegro replied: "But judging by Alan's appearance, he probably didn't eat anything in the morning, right? It's good to go to a Chinese restaurant to eat something."

Ewing also nodded.