75: 74.
The high school competition can no longer accommodate this duo!
75: 74.
The high school competition can no longer accommodate this duo!
After Jack, DeRozan, and Harden finished dinner, they took a stroll by the river to help digest.
Although Da Luo and Zhang San had invited him for dinner, Er Ha swore to himself after paying for his share that he would definitely settle the score in this ga!
(A handso picture of Harden with a middle part hairstyle)
Looking at Harden’s fierce deanor, DeRozan said he got it, he got it.
DeRozan really envied Harden’s optimistic and cheerful personality.
This little buddy either lived worry-free or dashed forward with all his might once he had a goal, fearing nothing.
*Zhang Yang wasn’t worried about Harden being mad either; a al was enough to placate him, and it was even a shared-cost scenario.*
He reviewed today’s ga.
For the previous six gas, he hadn’t helped adjust the strategy in this way; he only directed teammates’ positioning based on his or DeRozan’s scoring needs within the tactics.
Those gas, while so were quite tough, hadn’t reached the point where tactical targeting was needed.
He and DeRozan could solve problems with their personal abilities and still improve their skills.
Today, facing Lynwood High School, a team described as ‘talent as abundant as Tatum and Miller,’ he realized without strategic planning, they really couldn’t win.
After making on-the-spot tactical adjustnts, he found the opposing coach was nearly incapable of making effective counter adjustnts.
From the fact that the opponent could integrate Harden Jefferson, alongside other super-talented role players, into such a beautiful team play, it suggested that the coach’s ability to develop tactics was competent, at least in using Harden’s talent.
This ant the other side lacked the ability to adjust on the spot…
It seed Thomas also didn’t make on-the-spot strategic adjustnts much, mostly adjusting after a quarter or half-ga, and those weren’t micro-adjustnts either.
*Previously, he hadn’t noticed this.
Thinking back, maybe high school coaches generally lacked the ability to micro-adjust tactics and command on the spot.*
*However, the coach’s on-the-spot command ability also indeed didn’t play a major role on the high school court.*
*Suddenly calling a tiout to arrange a new play, players were unlikely to execute it well unless they had soone like Jack Zhang who could direct teammates’ positioning correctly on the court.*
*Player developnt ability > crafting suitable tactics ability > …
> on-the-spot command ability, if high school coaches were like this…*
*No wonder Farmar and Jas could lead a group of diocre teammates to frequently achieve winning streaks of over ten gas after adapting to high school competitions in their sophomore years.*
Farmar led his team to a 15-ga winning streak in the second half of his sophomore year, seizing a spot in the District 3 Championship.
Jas’s side was even more dramatic; in his sophomore year, the 2000-2001 season, he led his team to a 26-1 record and won the championship as the sole core.
*When star players had sufficient personal ability and could make tactical adjustnts, they generally dominated the high school top leagues.*
*Forget players who had both; even players with just the skill level of Farmar and Jas were rare, and those with such exceptional tactical minds were even scarcer.*
Farmar was shockingly strong in high school, known as the best point guard in the United States.
Jas was more exaggerated; judging by his tank style of play averaging 20 points per ga in the NBA since 18, he might have had NBA-level physical fitness at fifteen or sixteen.
*Zhang Yang felt that he and DeRozan, compared to the two at the sa age, still had a gap.*
*Having a group of ‘diocre’ teammates was not that easy.*
Take their Compton High School, for example; the three seniors, Monroe, and Kanter, were considered quite burdenso, but they were already the best players in the 11th and 12th grades aside from the five starters.
If these five could be swapped with CIF top-level average players, their team’s strength would imdiately rise by half a level.
But he was in the sa team as DeRozan!
Zhang Yang stopped walking and said, “DeMar.”
DeRozan also stopped, asking, “What’s up?”
Zhang Yang said, “This season, let’s take the championship and dominate high school!”
DeRozan was taken aback for a mont but soon regained a calm expression, responding, “Okay.”
Harden said, “Hey hey hey!
I’m still here!
Even if we lost today, we’re still second in District Three.
Wanting to grab the championship, you have to ask us first if we agree!”
DeRozan said, “You can’t beat the two of us.”
Harden clutched his chest and stepped back: “You’re bullies, Jack, I was obviously first here!”
Zhang Yang was speechless, thinking this drama queen.
DeRozan said, “How about transferring back?
We can dominate high school together?”
Harden said, “No way!
I want to defeat you guys!
From today on, we are enemies…”
Zhang Yang said, “Jas, want so dessert after dinner?”
“Co with , the strawberry cake at that place over there is really delicious!”
…
As Thomas expected, the battle for the top spot of District Three attracted quite a bit of dia coverage, and with information spreading online, teams in the division closely watching Lynwood High School quickly found out that three days later, on Sunday, Lynwood High School, second in the division, was unexpectedly defeated by Long Beach Middle School, ranked eighth.
*Thomas felt bad for Harden, backstabbed by his two brothers, but he thought this was also good training for Harden.
After all, the lineup at Lynwood High School was too good.
Harden’s style in the first six gas was simple and relaxed; he could use his brain to lead the team to defeat opponents, with little opportunity for personal ability developnt.
Now, finally, he had the conditions.*
*If you had to say, Harden should probably thank his two brothers.*
*While he couldn’t bring Harden in, Thomas still hoped Harden could fully develop his talents.*
Thomas’s ti focusing on Harden didn’t last long, as the two geniuses over on his side were stirring things up again!
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