The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master

Lao Lin has recovered well these days, but he has also changed his previous attitude and became quite interested in Lin Dong's playing ball.

When they won against Shohoku before, although the newspapers and media also praised them overwhelmingly, Lao Lin heard from his colleagues that the basketball level of Longguo was much higher than that of Japan. In addition, Shohoku itself was the bottom team in Kanagawa, and Lin Dong used a set of He was confused by the rhetoric of 'a skill gained through playing on the field'.

And this time when they won Lingnan, the media made a big deal about it, making it appear that it was entirely due to his son, and the rest of the Xiangyang team was completely a soy sauce character...

In addition, he didn't know what Yua Ishihara said to him when he was accompanying him. It was already difficult for Lin Dong to fool him if he just wanted to use "play" again.

then……

"I've been playing since I was in China. I would play casually with my classmates on the school court, but I didn't join the basketball team."

"...Weren't you still practicing boxing at that time? There must be a choice between these hobbies."

After a thorough understanding, Lao Lin finally determined two things.

First, my precious son is really a basketball genius, and he is still a very powerful genius. Although the basketball level of the Dragon Kingdom is indeed higher than that of Japan, it is not true that he can defeat his peers in Japan just by practicing casually. What is talent?

The second thing is what makes Lao Lin feel most guilty.

I cared so little about my son before... I didn't even know he could play basketball before.

Since the day his son was born, he has been very busy with his work. When the child was three years old, even his wife could not stand his workaholic and got divorced. Although since then, Lao Lin has tried his best to learn to take care of the family, but he still has no regard for this baby. Apart from three meals a day, what my son does the most is to give him money directly. He can’t go to parent-teacher meetings every time, so he doesn’t even know that his son has always liked playing basketball.

Lao Lin learned from the pain and decided to change.

"Dad will cheer you on in the next game, which is next Saturday at the Yokohama Stadium, right? Don't worry, we've decided to go! What dad said, even if the Jade Emperor comes, he won't be able to stop us!"

………………

As Lao Lin slowly accepted that his son was a basketball genius, his classes and training in Xiangyang remained the same.

The victory in the first game of the semi-finals was overwhelmingly reported in newspapers, and it was really talked about in Xiangyang school for a while.

There will be the last two semi-finals of the county competition next week. More and more students are coming to the arena to watch the ball and Lin Dong. The school board is afraid of affecting the team's training, so they simply close the windows around the basketball hall. The curtains above were also hung with notices prohibiting onlookers.

A series of actions have made the recent training environment in the basketball hall pretty good. At least there is no need to worry about a group of women blocking the door arguing about whether Teng Zhen is handsome or Lin Dong is handsome.

Now Xiangyang has barely adapted to Lin Dong's energy system training in the morning.

Fujima, Hanagata and others were able to complete it with ease, and Ishihara Yua also helped Lin Dong do a new physical examination.

Height 194.5cm, weight 85KG.

Compared with when I first traveled through time, I have grown 1.1 centimeters and gained 8 kilograms in about four months.

The strength of his body is constantly improving, but it is precisely because of this improvement that he can no longer feel the intensity of confrontation during team training.

...A videotape is playing on the TV.

A little man wearing a white No. 3 jersey steals the ball from midfield and starts a one-stop fast break. He faces the defense of No. 50 and No. 17 in black jerseys. He dribbles behind his back and changes direction, abruptly passing through the gap between the two. Zhong squeezed through and scored a layup.

This is an NBA game video from the 1999-00 season. The white No. 3 is Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers, and the black jerseys belong to the Admiral and Avery Johnson of the San Antonio Spurs...

Japan's NHK TV station has obtained the broadcast rights of the NBA in 1990, but the broadcast frequency is not high. If most basketball fans want to watch NBA games, it is much more convenient to buy or rent video tapes.

This was lent by Fujima to Lin Dong. The guy is an avid fan of Iverson and has collected a lot of Iverson's video tapes.

There is no so-called high-definition video tape in this era, and the picture is not very clear, but if you control the fast forward and slow playback, you can basically see the details.

The extremely delicate and natural changes of direction, the control of speed and rhythm, and most importantly, the strong physical confrontation when facing the Admiral and Avery Johnson.

Frankly speaking, Lin Dong felt that if the ball was given to him, he might not even have the courage to break through in the face of such a defense. He would most likely have to settle down first and wait for his teammates to fight in a positional battle, but Iverson easily made it. One person completed this fast break.

A layman looks at the excitement, an expert looks at the door.

This is not just a choice, but a huge confrontational gap.

During this period of time, I borrowed a lot of NBA videotapes from Fujima, and the more I watched, the more Lin Dong began to realize a problem that he had not noticed before.

In the era of 2000, whether it was FIBA ​​or the NBA, there seemed to be a big gap between the refereeing, physical confrontation, and skills and techniques of my own era.

In this era, the physical confrontation of top players is too strong, much more wild than the era in 2028.

Their scoring ability may not be as strong as the three-pointers that were common nearly thirty years later, but the breakthrough ability, confrontationalness, etc. of top stars are obviously a level higher than that of their own era.

This also means that if you really want to reach the top in this era, you must strengthen your confrontational nature. Otherwise, in this era of loose penalties and generally focusing on improving physical strength in defense, you will have to rely on those of later generations. It is difficult to reach the peak of body hair foul habits in this era.

At the same time, it is easy to get injured if you are not used to this style. Although there are protective props in the system mall, after playing two games now, and the previous duel with Fujima, I only collected 5 points, which is far from the cheapest. Knee pads are still far behind in terms of points, so we can't rely entirely on them.

I am in urgent need of a tough confrontation, even if I just want to experience it?

Lin Dong became increasingly aware of the importance of this issue.

But Japan's high school league is too unconfrontational for me.

Whether it was Rukawa Kaede from Shobei before, or Sendou Akira, whom he had some expectations for a few days ago, Lin Dong couldn't feel the slightest intensity of confrontation.

This makes him now completely unclear about the extent of his antagonism and what level it has reached in this era.

CBA? NCAA? Or NSAA?

It is difficult to make an accurate judgment for yourself out of thin air.

Lin Dong is already trying his best to warn himself that he needs to be patient and calm. After all, he is now trapped in Japan, trapped by his identity and situation. This is not a problem that he can solve immediately.

But life is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat.

It was okay when I could feel progress before, but once I started to feel that progress stopped...

Confused, irritable.

For a person who strives to make progress, this is the cruelest torture.