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Chapter 90 Westbrook's Transformation Plan
Chapter 90 Westbrook's Transformation Plan
Amid the exclamation of the audience, Westbrook and Stern took a group photo, stepped off the stage and walked to the ESPN interview area.
Seeing this, Su Yang followed at the same time, planning to wait until the interview was over, and immediately talk to Westbrook.
At the same time, the big screen in the center of the draft stage is showing highlights from Westbrook's college days.
In the highlights, Westbrook quickly made a one-on-three breakthrough, made an emergency stop, turned around and made a mid-range shot, took off from the free throw line and dunked, predicted a steal and made a quick pass to assist his teammates, predicted a steal and made a quick layup, crushing the defender for a layup, Anticipate steals and quickly make one-handed dunks...
Judging from the collection, Westbrook has two major characteristics: good physical fitness, and good steal prediction when defending without the ball.
After the highlights were finished, the central big screen showed Westbrook's last season's data: 12.7 points and 4.3 assists per game.
Such data is really not good for sophomore players, and they are only third team in the Pacific Big Ten Division.
Therefore, Westbrook was elected with the fourth overall pick, which surprised many fans and felt that the Sonics had lost their minds.
While giving the data, the central big screen also pointed out the place Westbrook needs to improve most: shooting stability.
To put it simply, scouts feel that Westbrook lacks stability in shooting, sometimes very accurate, sometimes very iron.
"Shooting starts with rookies..."
Looking at the big screen, Su Yang made up his mind that Westbrook must practice qualified shooting as soon as possible.
"When defending without the ball, the habit of staring at the ball holder needs to be slightly improved..."
Su Yang realized again that when Westbrook relied on off-ball defense in college, he had a lot of anticipatory steals and tasted a lot of sweetness, including being selected with a high pick, which led Westbrook to maintain that habit for a long time, and there were many famous scenes of missing people. .
While thinking about it, ESPN began to ask questions about Westbrook. The guest responsible for the analysis was Jeff Van Gundy. He said that Westbrook is not an orthodox point guard, and it may be difficult to help Durant and the team, and suggested that Westbrook improve his ball-handling ability.
After Van Gundy finished speaking, the camera lens immediately turned to the interview area, and the person interviewing Westbrook was Stephen Smith.
Stephen relayed Van Gundy's question, and Westbrook, who was wearing a suit and a ball cap, put on a big guy sitting posture, and replied with a smile: Ah, I'm a shooting guard, you know, I will do my best to train , Help the team with all your strength.
The interview ended here, Wei Shao got up and left the table, and walked quickly towards Su Yang's position.
"Hey, Coach, nice to meet you." Westbrook offered to extend his hand, quite enthusiastically.
Su Yang raised his hand to give him a high-five: "Hi, congratulations on your election, and welcome to join the team."
Westbrook nodded, and said with high spirits: "Do you have a task for me? I'm ready!"
Su Yang was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, thinking that he had gotten into the topic so quickly, then he smiled and said, "I have a question, if you can choose a career, would you prefer to average a triple-double for three consecutive seasons, but you still can't break through?" In the first round, he still won the championship for three consecutive seasons, but his personal data is only at the All-Star level, and he can't even win the MVP."
"Forehead…"
Wei Shao was stunned for a moment, raised his hand and scratched his head, and said with a serious face: "I want them all, is that okay?"
"Forehead…"
Su Yang was also stunned for a moment, then grinned lightly: "Of course you can, but you have to improve your shooting level first."
Westbrook showed curiosity, Su Yang continued: "The way you shoot the ball consumes too much power..."
When Westbrook shoots hard, there is a big difference from most players, that is, the degree of waist and abdomen participation is very low, which is what fans jokingly call zombie jump shots. The whole person jumps up directly, and then uses the strength of his arms and wrists to push ball.
But after jumping into the air, the arms and wrists exert too much force, which will seriously affect the balance of the body.
In order to solve such a problem, Westbrook's solution is to make a sudden stop and pull, especially when he is on a fast break, he often rushes to the vicinity of the three-point line, makes a sudden stop and pull without warning, and then uses the body's impact inertia to balance hand movements.
Therefore, Westbrook especially likes to stop and pull up suddenly, so that he has developed his representative zombie jumper.
But exerting force like that requires more participation of arms and wrists, and will also consume more knees and thighs, which leads to Westbrook often having plenty of energy in the first half and a very high shooting percentage, but lacking physical strength in the second half and a very high shooting percentage. Low.
If you suffer from a knee injury, it will be a devastating blow to Westbrook's shooting, and even become the iron king.
"Is it really necessary to change? I think it's okay..." Westbrook hesitated, seeming reluctant.
"Of course it is necessary! Do you know the story of Michael Jordan's determination to improve his shooting level in the early years..."
Su Yang understands Westbrook's thinking. Players with explosive physical fitness tend to pay less attention to various technical details, especially shooting, because for them, shooting and scoring are much easier than ordinary players.
Just like Jordan, when he was young, he relied on breakthroughs and unsolvable mid-range jumpers to run wild in the world.
But Jordan soon found out that even though he averaged 40 points per game many times in the playoffs, he still couldn't make it to the Finals.
Since then, Jordan has realized the importance of shooting, practiced hard, and finally made the first mid-range shot in NBA history.
Westbrook's situation is very similar. His physical fitness exploded during his rookie period. Generally, players want to shoot. The process is to dribble-observe-see the situation to decide whether to shoot, but Westbrook mostly dribble-dry-draw-shoot. improvise.
After the rookie, the coach's connivance, fans' expectations, and record requirements caused Westbrook to remain unchanged.
"Do you think I should demand myself according to Jordan's standards?" After listening to Su Yang's story, Westbrook showed excitement.
"Of course, you are an MVP-level player, we choose you, and the goal is to build a dynasty."
Su Yang said calmly: "This summer, you have two tasks. The first is to change the way you shoot and use an easier and more stable way to shoot. The second task is to practice ball control, practice reading defense, and achieve Before taking a shot, find more space and don't always rely on explosive power to pull out, so as to reduce consumption and reduce the probability of injury..."
After the words fell, Westbrook's eyes dodged slightly, as if a little discouraged, but he immediately nodded excitedly.
"Okay, coach, I will definitely do it!"
Su Yang was keenly aware of Westbrook's emotional changes, and thought that he might have spoken too harshly. After all, Westbrook is a rookie now, and he was almost completely rejected when he first came into contact with him. From shooting to understanding the game, he made it sound like he had no skills. Will be reckless.
He thought about it carefully, and Westbrook's situation was also related to his sudden growth in high school.
In one summer, the skyrocketed nearly 20 centimeters, which greatly changed the technical requirements.Moreover, Westbrook basically sat on the bench in his freshman year and ran in his sophomore year. There are not many games to change. Now there is no more efficient way, which is understandable.
But after thinking about it again, Westbrook must be changed now, and it will only be more difficult in the future, so he must be ruthless!
After making up his mind, Su Yang said again: "When the preseason is over, if you can reach an average of 40% shooting in a more efficient way, I will let you directly serve as the team's starting point guard. You became the rookie of the year..."
(End of this chapter)
Amid the exclamation of the audience, Westbrook and Stern took a group photo, stepped off the stage and walked to the ESPN interview area.
Seeing this, Su Yang followed at the same time, planning to wait until the interview was over, and immediately talk to Westbrook.
At the same time, the big screen in the center of the draft stage is showing highlights from Westbrook's college days.
In the highlights, Westbrook quickly made a one-on-three breakthrough, made an emergency stop, turned around and made a mid-range shot, took off from the free throw line and dunked, predicted a steal and made a quick pass to assist his teammates, predicted a steal and made a quick layup, crushing the defender for a layup, Anticipate steals and quickly make one-handed dunks...
Judging from the collection, Westbrook has two major characteristics: good physical fitness, and good steal prediction when defending without the ball.
After the highlights were finished, the central big screen showed Westbrook's last season's data: 12.7 points and 4.3 assists per game.
Such data is really not good for sophomore players, and they are only third team in the Pacific Big Ten Division.
Therefore, Westbrook was elected with the fourth overall pick, which surprised many fans and felt that the Sonics had lost their minds.
While giving the data, the central big screen also pointed out the place Westbrook needs to improve most: shooting stability.
To put it simply, scouts feel that Westbrook lacks stability in shooting, sometimes very accurate, sometimes very iron.
"Shooting starts with rookies..."
Looking at the big screen, Su Yang made up his mind that Westbrook must practice qualified shooting as soon as possible.
"When defending without the ball, the habit of staring at the ball holder needs to be slightly improved..."
Su Yang realized again that when Westbrook relied on off-ball defense in college, he had a lot of anticipatory steals and tasted a lot of sweetness, including being selected with a high pick, which led Westbrook to maintain that habit for a long time, and there were many famous scenes of missing people. .
While thinking about it, ESPN began to ask questions about Westbrook. The guest responsible for the analysis was Jeff Van Gundy. He said that Westbrook is not an orthodox point guard, and it may be difficult to help Durant and the team, and suggested that Westbrook improve his ball-handling ability.
After Van Gundy finished speaking, the camera lens immediately turned to the interview area, and the person interviewing Westbrook was Stephen Smith.
Stephen relayed Van Gundy's question, and Westbrook, who was wearing a suit and a ball cap, put on a big guy sitting posture, and replied with a smile: Ah, I'm a shooting guard, you know, I will do my best to train , Help the team with all your strength.
The interview ended here, Wei Shao got up and left the table, and walked quickly towards Su Yang's position.
"Hey, Coach, nice to meet you." Westbrook offered to extend his hand, quite enthusiastically.
Su Yang raised his hand to give him a high-five: "Hi, congratulations on your election, and welcome to join the team."
Westbrook nodded, and said with high spirits: "Do you have a task for me? I'm ready!"
Su Yang was slightly taken aback when he heard the words, thinking that he had gotten into the topic so quickly, then he smiled and said, "I have a question, if you can choose a career, would you prefer to average a triple-double for three consecutive seasons, but you still can't break through?" In the first round, he still won the championship for three consecutive seasons, but his personal data is only at the All-Star level, and he can't even win the MVP."
"Forehead…"
Wei Shao was stunned for a moment, raised his hand and scratched his head, and said with a serious face: "I want them all, is that okay?"
"Forehead…"
Su Yang was also stunned for a moment, then grinned lightly: "Of course you can, but you have to improve your shooting level first."
Westbrook showed curiosity, Su Yang continued: "The way you shoot the ball consumes too much power..."
When Westbrook shoots hard, there is a big difference from most players, that is, the degree of waist and abdomen participation is very low, which is what fans jokingly call zombie jump shots. The whole person jumps up directly, and then uses the strength of his arms and wrists to push ball.
But after jumping into the air, the arms and wrists exert too much force, which will seriously affect the balance of the body.
In order to solve such a problem, Westbrook's solution is to make a sudden stop and pull, especially when he is on a fast break, he often rushes to the vicinity of the three-point line, makes a sudden stop and pull without warning, and then uses the body's impact inertia to balance hand movements.
Therefore, Westbrook especially likes to stop and pull up suddenly, so that he has developed his representative zombie jumper.
But exerting force like that requires more participation of arms and wrists, and will also consume more knees and thighs, which leads to Westbrook often having plenty of energy in the first half and a very high shooting percentage, but lacking physical strength in the second half and a very high shooting percentage. Low.
If you suffer from a knee injury, it will be a devastating blow to Westbrook's shooting, and even become the iron king.
"Is it really necessary to change? I think it's okay..." Westbrook hesitated, seeming reluctant.
"Of course it is necessary! Do you know the story of Michael Jordan's determination to improve his shooting level in the early years..."
Su Yang understands Westbrook's thinking. Players with explosive physical fitness tend to pay less attention to various technical details, especially shooting, because for them, shooting and scoring are much easier than ordinary players.
Just like Jordan, when he was young, he relied on breakthroughs and unsolvable mid-range jumpers to run wild in the world.
But Jordan soon found out that even though he averaged 40 points per game many times in the playoffs, he still couldn't make it to the Finals.
Since then, Jordan has realized the importance of shooting, practiced hard, and finally made the first mid-range shot in NBA history.
Westbrook's situation is very similar. His physical fitness exploded during his rookie period. Generally, players want to shoot. The process is to dribble-observe-see the situation to decide whether to shoot, but Westbrook mostly dribble-dry-draw-shoot. improvise.
After the rookie, the coach's connivance, fans' expectations, and record requirements caused Westbrook to remain unchanged.
"Do you think I should demand myself according to Jordan's standards?" After listening to Su Yang's story, Westbrook showed excitement.
"Of course, you are an MVP-level player, we choose you, and the goal is to build a dynasty."
Su Yang said calmly: "This summer, you have two tasks. The first is to change the way you shoot and use an easier and more stable way to shoot. The second task is to practice ball control, practice reading defense, and achieve Before taking a shot, find more space and don't always rely on explosive power to pull out, so as to reduce consumption and reduce the probability of injury..."
After the words fell, Westbrook's eyes dodged slightly, as if a little discouraged, but he immediately nodded excitedly.
"Okay, coach, I will definitely do it!"
Su Yang was keenly aware of Westbrook's emotional changes, and thought that he might have spoken too harshly. After all, Westbrook is a rookie now, and he was almost completely rejected when he first came into contact with him. From shooting to understanding the game, he made it sound like he had no skills. Will be reckless.
He thought about it carefully, and Westbrook's situation was also related to his sudden growth in high school.
In one summer, the skyrocketed nearly 20 centimeters, which greatly changed the technical requirements.Moreover, Westbrook basically sat on the bench in his freshman year and ran in his sophomore year. There are not many games to change. Now there is no more efficient way, which is understandable.
But after thinking about it again, Westbrook must be changed now, and it will only be more difficult in the future, so he must be ruthless!
After making up his mind, Su Yang said again: "When the preseason is over, if you can reach an average of 40% shooting in a more efficient way, I will let you directly serve as the team's starting point guard. You became the rookie of the year..."
(End of this chapter)
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