Basketball trainer, I created a super giant

Chapter 439 Not being easily injured is also an important criterion

The situation in the west surprised all the media.

I feel like the Suns and the Mavericks have a kind of underdog-overlord vibe.

Especially the sun.

The Mavericks invest so much every year, and they are still one of the top three teams in Texas and a traditional powerhouse in the West.

And the sun?
They were drafted as the top pick last year, and they're still rebuilding.

In just one season, they'll be able to go toe-to-toe with the Spurs.

In the words of The New York Times, the quality of Townsend's products continues to rise.

Tang Sen, however, focused entirely on his own plan.

Since the announcement of the plan, in just one week, the NBA website has received more than 23,000 applications.

Most of them went to great lengths to send their own match videos.

Storing these massive amounts of video data would require renting new servers.

Tang Sen also hired a large number of scouts.

Not only Stern supported this plan, but the league's teams also supported it.

If Tang Sen can truly train the next Jordan, it will benefit the entire league and all teams, increasing the revenue of all teams.

No boss would refuse this.

Therefore, Tang Sen not only hired a large number of international scouts who traveled all over the world, but also had a unique ability to judge whether a player had talent.

In addition, they also invited senior scouts from various NBA teams.

They often have more than ten years of work experience, and have a wealth of experience in their long careers. Many of them are former players, and they know what qualities and talents a top player needs.

There are two groups of people, totaling 75.

All of them were invited to New York by Tang Sen to conduct the selection process at his huge training camp.

Tang Sen roughly divided them into three groups.

The team consists of a group of international scouts, a group of senior scouts, a group of ordinary scouts, and a group of senior international scouts.

Each application needs to be reviewed by three groups.

What I fear most is that someone might misjudge a talent and miss out on a top genius.

Although the probability of this is extremely low.

Scouts make a living from this, so there's no need to question their professionalism.

However, it is necessary to take precautions.

First, an initial screening is conducted, and then the results from their screening are compiled.

After going back and forth, we combined them again and conducted a unified screening.

The ones that were filtered again still didn't work.

Tang Sen also plans to hire some coaches and have them screen candidates.

And you also need to assess your own team from a trainer's perspective.

Scouts, coaches, and trainers—these are professions closely related to players and are among the most professional. Tang Sen believes they are sufficient to screen out truly talented players.

The huge training hall was temporarily renovated.

Some of them are now filled with computers, one for each person.

The company's administrative staff moved among them, assisting them in their work.

But the workload is still staggering.

More than 20,000 applications have been received, and the number is still increasing.

Everyone's registration needs to be reviewed.

Moreover, some of them are just written randomly, so there is also a process of judgment and screening.

For example, someone might write that they have amazing talent, but they don't provide any relevant competition videos to prove it.

He might have faked it, but it's also possible that he simply didn't attach the video or film it; some people just have this extraordinary talent.

Because we need to consider one scenario.

For example, players from impoverished families or those with terrible academic performance who are unwilling to go to school and therefore do not enter the high school training system.

They may make a living by playing pickup games, and they haven't focused on practicing their skills, so they can't adapt to formal competitions.

But they just have physical gifts.

It can jump more than a meter in one leap, and its arms are longer than a monkey's.

In such cases, their talents are buried because they haven't put in the effort. But if discovered, Tang Sen has the ability to teach them skills and help them develop their talents.

Therefore, in such cases, if the scouts who are selecting players think they are suitable, they will mark them and then ask the media to verify their identity information.

It's just a matter of making a phone call to verify.

If such a person truly exists, the local media would surely know about it.

In short, Tang Sen tries to use the most stringent methods to select the players he wants to the greatest extent possible.

Even Tang Sen wasn't sure if he could find such a player.

Otherwise, why hasn't another Jordan appeared in over twenty years?

That would prove that Jordan's talent was truly rare in history.

But Tang Sen was also mentally prepared for this.

If it doesn't work this year, we can try again in a few years when the next batch of players develop.

Anyway, I have the ability to mobilize resources of this level to get this done.

In the past few days, in addition to his usual training sessions with Bynum, Tang Sen has been keeping a close eye on this matter.

Not too long, not too short, Bynum has been training with me for five months.

He has been completely transformed.

Watching his training, Tang Sen suddenly remembered someone.

When Connors first went to scout Bynum, he mentioned a player's name to him.

His name seems to be Greg Oden.

I don't know if anyone has registered.

After Bynum finished training, Tang Sen returned to his office and searched through the list of registered participants.

It really does.

17 years old, from Terre Haute, Indiana.

The basic data is, as Connors said, exceptionally good.

After graduating from high school, he was already nearly 6 feet 11 inches tall, or 2.11 meters, barefoot.

His wingspan reached an astonishing 2.24 meters, and his standing reach was 2.84 meters, which was only 3 centimeters shorter than Shaquille O'Neal's and not much shorter than Yao Ming's.

But how tall is Yao Ming? How tall is he?

This shows that he not only has an amazing wingspan, but also a sufficiently tall effective height.

The information states that his maximum vertical jump reached 35 inches, which is even stronger than Brown's back then, but it's unclear whether that's an exaggeration.

Considering his weight of just over 110 kilograms, it's quite exaggerated.

Tang Sen clicked on the match highlights video he had attached.

It was immediately apparent that Connors's description of it running like a big truck was not entirely an exaggeration.

Tang Sen has personally trained so many star players, so his eye for talent must be top-notch.

In terms of technique, judging from what's shown in the highlights, he's not much better than Brown back when he knew nothing.

In high school leagues, you still have to rely on your physical strength to win.

But physically, I feel really good.

He performed even better than Brown, possessing speed comparable to a guard or small forward.

His speed in making moves under the basket is also quite fast.

For interior players, this is actually a very crucial indicator.

It is also an important talent.

Look at O'Neal, with such a huge weight, how agile he is when he turns around under the basket.

It's a pity he's an inside player.

Tangsen is currently looking for perimeter players, but isn't interested in interior players.

Incidentally, Tang Sen searched online for media reports about Oden and discovered that he also had potential injury problems.

That's another big problem.

During Bynum's training, Townsend was very cautious, for fear of causing problems.

Sometimes, Tang Sen couldn't help but think that being able to withstand hardship and not easily get injured was actually a very important talent.

(End of this chapter)