Rekindling the dream of becoming a star

Chapter 7 Mixed joys and sorrows
"Drip drip."

The sound of the alarm clock woke Chen Fang up from his sleep. Rubbing his eyelids, the boy half opened his eyes and looked at the time.

5: 30.

Yawning, Chen Fang struggled to get up.

He set the alarm clock himself, and 5: will be his wake-up time from now on. Since he cannot give up his studies, he has to squeeze out more time to play basketball.

After washing his face and brushing his teeth, Chen Fang slowly came to his senses. He put on his schoolbag, gently closed the door, and started a new day.

It was still dark, with only a slight light in the eastern sky. Chen Fang knew that by the time he rode to school, it would be completely bright.

The streets were empty except for the sanitation workers in orange vests who were finishing their work. They were the first busy people in the city, galloping on the black asphalt road, breathing the fresh air, and feeling the vitality of life rippling through their bodies.

This is youth!

Chen Fang stood up and ran towards the school as fast as he could.

When the sun was shining brightly over the mountain ridge, Chen Fang also arrived at the school gate. Uncle Liu from the security department was sweeping the floor at the gate. He looked up and saw Chen Fang. The old man recognized the boy and stopped him with his broom: "Morning exercises are at 6:45. It's not even 6 o'clock yet. What are you doing here?"

"If you haven't finished your homework, come here early to make up for it!" Chen Fang responded improvisationally.

"I know you, Class 12, Grade . If anything happens during this period, you will be the first one I'll look for!" The old man gave a warning and let him go.

In the past, Chen Fang would definitely curse the old man in his heart for meddling in other people's business, but now he feels that the old man's responsibility is a moral character that is worthy of admiration.

"Uncle, don't worry." Chen Fang entered the school from the security department carrying his bicycle. The school gate was not opened so early.

The campus is quiet at this moment, with only the birds singing in the big trees. It is early autumn, and the morning breeze always brings down a few yellow leaves.

Chen Fang liked this feeling, and he wanted to cherish it all the more. He turned off the main road and came to the bottom of the Xuezhi Building. Because the campus is large, there is a carport under each teaching building. At this time, the carport is empty, and good locations are everywhere.

After locking his bike in the middle of the outermost row, Chen Fang quickly climbed the stairs to the classroom to put his schoolbag down and get his basketball.

Two minutes later, Chen Fang came downstairs and started running towards the nearest court with a basketball in his arms. He was eager to verify some conjectures, which were very important to his plan.

Except for the rubber court which is locked, the concrete ground is unguarded. This is the common practice in the school, and the same is true for Dongsheng.

Chen Fang likes cement floors very much. They feel very solid underfoot and are much more comfortable than rubber floors or wooden boards.

Start dribbling the ball first. Continuously dribbling the ball with great force is the best way to regain the feeling of the ball. After just a few times, the feeling will come back.

With his hands controlling the basketball well and without any sense of separation, Chen Fang began to move the ball horizontally and vertically in a V shape. As his feet moved, he became more and more certain that the skills he had practiced for more than ten years had returned along with his soul.

Chen Fang combined a series of dribbling skills including single hip, double cross, back dribbling and oscillation dribbling in one go without any lag or drop. Finally, he slammed the basketball heavily to the ground, looked up at the basketball that bounced into the air, and let out a long roar.

Chen Fang caught the falling basketball and hugged it tightly. He felt relieved.

If the ball is not lost, then the show can go on.

I looked at my watch. There was still enough time. I would go and see if the other technicians had returned while no one was around.

First he came to the basket and started shooting.

Shooting warm-up must be from near to far, starting with just the fingers and wrists, gradually involving the forearms, upper arms, waist and hips, legs, ankles, and finally toes, adding force to the torso from top to bottom.

After that is completed, it is time to look at the various angles in the mid-range, and finally the five points outside the three-point line.

There was no problem with the previous shot. Chen Fang retreated all the way to the free throw line and the three-point line, but he missed once and the ball hit the front frame.

At this point, it was time to use the power of the foot. Chen Fang picked up the ball, returned to this point, and shot again, but still missed and hit the front frame.

The front frame represents exhaustion. If you hit the front frame repeatedly, it proves that at this distance, your shooting power is not enough to ensure a high and stable hit rate.

Many golfers will ignore this detail, but experienced scouts will use it as a basis to judge your shooting range.

Chen Fang figured it out immediately. His current body could not support his original shooting range.

This is an unsolvable problem. Only by strengthening strength training can you regain your hit rate.

Then he began testing his signature move - the pull-up shot.

Many players have poor basic jump shot skills, and the benchmark for measuring jump shots is the completion of the pull-up shot.

Jump shot is one of the most core basic skills in basketball, and it is the embodiment of a series of skills.

Also, like dribbling, the earlier you start learning it, the more likely you are to achieve mastery.

Chen Fang started practicing jump shots too late. He didn't know how much hardship he had to endure to reach the level where he could wow everyone with his jump shots. However, he was still some distance away from the great success level, and Chen Fang knew in his heart that he would never be able to reach it in this lifetime.

A jump shot is a two-step shot, which requires active force to shoot without any leverage in the air. Shooting is a highly synthetic technique that can be explained in detail for more than 300 days without repetition.

This is an epic technique that stacks countless kinesiology buffs.

Smash the ball, sink your hips, close the ball, use the rebound force of the basketball to pull your body upward, lift the ball and shoot.

"when!"

The ball hit the front frame.

Pick up the ball, repeat.

The fifth time, hit.

Chen Fang stood there, keeping his shooting hand raised at an angle, and did not put it down for a long time.

problem occurs!
There is no feeling of dry pulling at all!
This spot, four meters away from the basket, is definitely his own sweet cookie area, but Chen Fang doesn’t feel any sweetness at all.

Something went wrong. It’s impossible for some of it to come back, and some of it must be lost.

Chen Fang was a little panicked. Jump shot was his meal. Without it, all his plans for last night would be ruined.

More awakening may be needed.

Chen Fang began to repeat, increasing the strength of his hips to reduce the force of hitting the ball. He didn't know how long he had been shooting. His T-shirt was soaked with sweat. Chen Fang gasped and looked at the shaking basket. He finally accepted this fact. The guy who was eating was out of touch!

Sitting on the court in frustration, Chen Fang rubbed his temples, wondering what went wrong. Because this didn't make sense. Putting aside the unreasonable setting of soul-crossing, just looking at the skills, how could this happen?

Wait, is this the reason?

Chen Fang thought of a possibility.

His shooting technique was developed in college. As we all know, there are as many shooting postures as there are people playing basketball. Even if the same coach teaches, everyone's shooting posture is different.

Because each person's force-generating habits and shoulder width ratio will lead to this result.

At the age of 16, his body has not developed yet, especially his arm span and shoulder width are very different from what they were then, so it is inevitable that his shooting skill package will not return.

"Ugh!"

Chen Fang, who had figured it out, was speechless.

It's half over. Let alone breaking out of Shandong and breaking into the whole country, even Nanyang is in danger now.

"Oh my god!" Chen Fang cursed, slowly calmed himself down, sighed a few times and stood up.

I picked up the ball and looked at the time. It was almost half past six. Students would soon appear on campus. It was time to go home.

Chen Fang walked a few meters away from the three-point line, looking listless. He stopped somewhat unwillingly, looked back at the basket, and suddenly threw the ball over.

"Bang!" The basketball hit the backboard and bounced back.

Chen Fang felt a long-lost sense of familiarity in his heart, and he remembered something he had overlooked.

Three points!

Chen Fang has always been a firm jump shooter, even outside the three-point line, he also uses jump shots. But in the current environment, Curry's one-point three-pointer is the world, and many people have begun to use Curry's shooting style.

After Chen Fang suffered a serious ankle injury, his jumping ability could no longer support him in making high-intensity long-distance jump shots. In this situation, he also began to accept the one-step force, and this involved his survival, so he did not play around, but really dived in to change the shot.

Changing the shooting stroke was extremely painful, just like a patient with a comminuted fracture going to the hospital to remove the steel nails and plates. After enduring for a long time, Chen Fang finally had the confidence to shoot one-step in the game.

In the next three years, Chen Fang's mid-range off-ball pull-up shots, back-to-the-basket fadeaways and ultra-long three-pointers became his signature weapons.

Maybe, I didn't miss the three-pointer.

Chen Fang ran up, picked up the basketball and came to the three-point line. He took a deep breath, dribbled the ball first, kept his toes raised, leaned forward and slightly bent, and opened his feet, one in front and one behind.

The shooting hand should hold up the ball with the auxiliary hand, and exert force directly at the moment it touches the basketball. At this moment, the body should maintain a horizontal tilt to the right, so as to ensure the accuracy of the shooting hand's direction.

The basketball drew a very high arc and fell towards the basket.

"when!"

The basketball bounced high, and before it fell, it was caught by Chen Fang who ran in. He dribbled the ball without stopping and made a three-pointer, then made a simple cross dribble and shot again.

The moment the basketball flew out of his fingers, Chen Fang felt it!

So he maintained his shooting posture, his eyes fixed on the flying basketball.

Hollow frame!

The basketball fell to the ground and bounced high.

The shooting posture turned into a fist, raised high.

Become!

My three points are still there!
A minute ago, when Chen Fang slammed the basketball into the backboard, the feeling of flicking the ball was very familiar, and Chen Fang's memory was immediately triggered.

Why is this skill pack here?
Chen Fang also figured it out at once.

Let's take a very simple example, two ordinary people, A can play basketball, B can't. The two stand eight meters away, A shoots with a shooting posture, B throws the ball with one hand, who can touch the backboard?
The result is obvious, because the formal shooting posture is for accuracy, and range is considered later. Strictly speaking, accuracy and range are contradictory in themselves.

If you want to shoot accurately, you have to get close to the basket.

When it comes to Kuznetsuo's shooting, he deviates from the technical framework of shooting and follows the most natural force of the human arm. On this basis, he makes a high-precision optimization through a series of force sequences, especially the force sequence of the three joints in the arm, shoulder joint, elbow joint, and wrist joint, to regain accuracy.

It is a combination of perfect power and high precision. Not only that, but the shooting speed and ball-handling speed are also extremely fast.

The only drawback is that it requires high-frequency consistency of shooting space and whole-body coordination.

Especially the latter one, because all technical movements are completed in a very fast time, and the coordination of force must be throughout the whole body. How to ensure that the muscle instinct of each shot is at a power frequency is the key to restricting the majority of players from becoming the second Curry.

This is a basketball skill that has a low threshold but the highest peak.

This is why there is only one Curry in the NBA. He has been using this technique in the league for so many years, and I have never heard of any media saying that a certain rookie is a Curry template, or to be more precise, a shooting template.

Chen Fang couldn't do it either, but under the tremendous pressure of survival, this technology was far ahead in the country at that time.

He can ensure that in the game, when he is around seven meters away and unguarded, his three-point shooting percentage is over 45%.

A very rare technical package!

"Ha ha!"

Chen Fang smiled happily. He kept throwing and picking up the ball. The feeling of exerting force returned to his body more and more fully.

He didn't wake up until the first bell rang on campus.

After picking up the basketball, Chen Fang slowly took a deep breath. He knew how he was going to play against the school team in the afternoon.

The dream of becoming a football star is still there!

(End of this chapter)