Chapter 863: 371. Student King’s only hope for scoring king_2
Hill ca off the bench and shot 6 for 10, plus made all 3 of his free throws, scoring 15 points, the highest among the bench players.
Zhang Yang shot 14 for 24, including 3 for 7 from three-point range, and 4 for 5 from the free-throw line, scoring 35 points, with 6 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1 steal.
With the leadership of the four players, the Bobcats defeated the Kings 115 to 103, winning their ninth ga in a row!
After the ga, the Big Brother Group went to console Rondo a bit. Rondo knew this bunch of rascals just wanted to bully him, but he gritted his teeth and shook hands and hugged a few of them.
Even after getting hamred, the chubby boss couldn’t easily show it on his face; he had to maintain the deanor of a boss. Coach Long also wanted to have such a status in the league, so naturally, he had to adopt that deanor.
After hugging Rondo, Zhang Yang was about to return to the locker room when he glanced at the big screen, where his stats were still displayed… What was so special about scoring 35 points? They even listed his three-point performance prominently. He rembered he only made 3 threes… huh?
“Whoa, my three-point shooting percentage is 40%!”
On the big screen, behind his three-point performance for tonight, it showed his total three-point attempts, total makes, and shooting percentage for the 80 gas this season.
He attempted 7 three-pointers tonight, bringing his total to exactly 480 attempts this season, averaging 6 attempts per ga, with a total of 192 makes, averaging 2.4 per ga, shooting at 40%!
At the beginning of the season, when the Bobcats started with a winning streak against weaker teams, his three-point shooting percentage once reached 43%. By Christmas, it dropped to 41%, mid-season it hit a low of 36.7%, and by the halfway mark, it climbed back to 38%… After that, he stopped paying much attention to his shooting percentage; he didn’t care. Others dared to leave him open, he would shoot, but unfortunately, no one left him open, so he wasted his anticipation.
Unexpectedly, by playing and playing, by the end of the season, his three-point shooting percentage climbed back to 40%!
Reflecting, he realized the shooting percentage increased probably after the All-Star Weekend when he played extrely efficiently over that period. In that one month, he followed the tactics entirely, with shooting percentages over 50% in 8 out of 10 gas, naturally keeping his three-point shooting percentage decent.
In the half-month since officially executing the tactics, his condition was good, and his shooting touch was consistently warm… In 28 gas, he raised his three-point shooting percentage from 38% to 40%, feeling fulfilled!
The next day, a rest day, Zhang Yang slept until noon. The team did not schedule any training, but after lunch, he went to the arena intending to practice for an hour.
Even with the recent tight schedule, he dared not push himself to the limit. Today’s additional training was just to maintain his shooting form, keeping up with his shooting routine.
Effort never betrays, Zhang Yang felt that today.
His three-point shooting percentage reaching 40% yesterday already made him very happy, and today brought more joy.
After an hour of shooting practice, the Gate of Trials popped up!
On the gate was a single sentence: “Three-point ability increased from 88 to 89, keep up the hard work.”
Both three-point and mid-range shots were at 89! Only two points away from a 90 in all three areas!
Zhang Yang actively recalled the strongest tiline at age 10… When he was eliminated in the second round of the 2013 playoffs, his three-point ability was 88!
His three-point ability had surpassed his self five years into normal growth!
No, not just that. In the tiline at age 10, there was initially no talent boost, but after he himself improved his talent, when he went back for trials in that tiline, the talent boost carried over.
Because his talent improved on this side, it also improved on that side; however, the enhancent on that side ca ‘later,’ and the growth ceiling on that side would be affected by older age.
Based on his past trial experience, his talent improvents here, developing new skills, would correspond to the point when the last trial ended. The ti between the end of the last trial and the start of the next trial was the growth period for ‘him.’
Zhang Yang knew the day would co when he would surpass the strength of the ‘self’ in the trials, a completely different starting point.
The self at 21 on the age 10 tiline entered the NBA early in the draft, only being a backup player with so imdiate impact, predominantly defense-oriented, with later strength improvents based on that ti.
The self on the age 80 tiline, entering the NBA post-college graduation, had much more strength than when he first entered the NBA at age 10, entirely different league, and when chosen by the Celtics, dia and fans outside Boston all believed he could enhance this championship-contending team imdiately, but only as the sixth man, touching the threshold of a top-notch scorer, with mature defense.
But less than a month short of turning 20, he surpassed the self who was just one month away from 25, remaining quite excited, even if it was just surpassing in three-point.
He wasn’t content with this, instead, wanting more.
He wanted to sit there with soone coming to crown him a king, not to wear the crown himself and be ridiculed; he must continuously surpass himself!
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After the excitent, he trained an extra set of chasing shots, as opponents valued this move more, and the pressure on its developnt pace increased.
However, after finishing one set, he still restrained himself from continuing, recalling that there was a ga tomorrow.
After showering, he rembered he hadn’t paid respects to Second Master at the arena today and intended to make up for it, but the boss’s office door was closed.
On rest days, Jordan usually kept his office door open, letting Second Master receive continuous offerings. Zhang Yang hesitated, deciding not to pay respects today, as it wouldn’t be appropriate if he disturbed the boss and his Cuban sweetheart during the day doing sothing.
Anything else could be managed, but if he startled the boss doing that, he would be rembered grudgingly for sure.
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