When Zhang Hao arrived at the gym, he began to practice running, catching the ball and shooting under the guidance of Chris Irving.
Shooting training is easy and can be more efficient with guidance.
While Zhang Hao was doing shooting training, Butch Baird and Randy Whitman were in the head coach's office talking about the problems of each player, but when they talked about Zhang Hao, they had different opinions.
Randy Whitman shook his head and said to Butch Baird, "Axel is still young. We don't need to be so anxious. We can wait until the middle of the season to strengthen his training in this area. He hasn't even played a real game yet."
Butch Baird had expected Randy Whitman to say this. Although Randy Whitman was always cold to every team member, Zhang Hao was no exception. In fact, Butch Baird discovered that Randy Whitman cared for Zhang Hao as much as he did. It was certainly not like this at the beginning, but after a long time, changes appeared.
Now, Randy Whitman really treats Zhang Hao as his junior and wants to carefully nurture Zhang Hao's growth.
However, Butch Bell has a different opinion on Randy Whitman's statement: "It is because he has not played a real game and has not formed the habit of being a black hole for shooting rights that we should correct it as soon as possible. Didn't you say before that Akers' offense ends almost every time he receives the ball? Alvan has the same opinion as you, and so do I. I believe Akers has talent."
"He has talent, but he is developing new shooting skills now, and it would be too much pressure for him to join the training of connecting the team's offense."
"We can give it a try. If it affects his shooting training, we can just temporarily stop it. If we can let him learn how to integrate into the tactics early instead of simply becoming the final link of the tactics, it will be more beneficial to his shooting, right?"
Randy Whitman was convinced that Butch Baird was right.
But in this case, Zhang Hao's training pressure...
Seeing that Randy Whitman was no longer determined to stop him, Butch Baird said to Alvan Adams, "Alvan, I'll leave Axe's case to you."
"Axel is a very talented kid, and I hope he can drain my skills." Alvan Adams said something nice.
In the previous dispute between Butch Baird and Randy Whitman, Alvan Adams did not interrupt the whole process. The head coach gave the order and he just had to execute it, even though his opinion was the same as Randy Whitman's.
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At 10 o'clock in the morning, after two hours of shooting practice, Zhang Hao was about to take a shower when a staff member found him and said, "Axel, Coach Adams asked you to go to the conference room to learn how to pass the ball."
Learning to pass the ball in the conference room ? Zhang Hao took the towel handed over by the staff and walked towards the conference room with confusion.
I knocked on the door and pushed it open, and saw Alvan Adams writing and drawing on a small blackboard.
While wiping his sweat, Zhang Hao asked, "Alwan, aren't you going to teach me how to pass the ball? What are you doing in the conference room?"
Alvan Adams picked up the small notebook, walked to the small blackboard and said, "It's quieter here. You need to practice passing the ball on the training ground. You will need to practice that afternoon. Now I want to teach you how to organize the offense, not just pass the ball."
Many people confuse passing the ball and organizing the offense. Alvan Adams distinguished the two in his first sentence, so that Zhang Hao could understand this clearly from the very beginning of learning in this area.
This sentence was easy to understand. Zhang Hao nodded, wiped the sweat off his face, put the towel aside, and listened to the class attentively.
Zhang Hao sat up straight and listened to the class like a good boy. Alvan Adams admired this attitude very much.
Without wasting time, Alvan Adams said while drawing a route map: "As an inside player, we have to pass the ball with a purpose. Our purpose of passing the ball is not to get assists, but to make the team's offense better and help the outside ball-holding core to organize the team's offense.
This is the same concept as your catch-and-shoot style. The biggest purpose of your catch-and-shoot style is actually to help other teammates to contain the defense, or to seize the shooting opportunities that other teammates attract and pass the ball to, rather than always thinking about running out of position to shoot by yourself. It is impossible for one player to score more points than the entire opposing team.
The same is true for organizing an offense. Passing the ball directly to the person who receives the layup to complete an assist is a good pass, but the purpose of the pass should not be this, because the opportunities to directly provide an assist are relatively small. If this is all you know, it won't actually be of much help to the game.
Especially with your style of play, if your shooting opportunity is blocked after you receive the ball, and there is no one within the passing range to assist directly, you will often choose very risky passes and ignore the real opportunities to help the team..."
At this point, Alvan Adams finished drawing on the blackboard. After attracting Zhang Hao's attention to the blackboard, he continued, "For example, in last night's game, you received the ball at the right elbow. At this time, Garnett was sticking to you. At this time, PJ was cutting in from the baseline, but your passing angle was blocked. In the end, you chose to return the ball to Kenny, which was a very safe choice, but you didn't notice that Kevin pulled out from the left at this time. If you passed the ball here at this time, he would have a good passing angle and pass it directly to PJ who cut into the basket from the baseline to assist.
However, if it was Almon who was pulled out, then your choice to pass to Kenny was correct. Almon's style of drilling into the basket is not suitable for playing against opponents with many tall inside players.
When I observed your games and training, I found that you made very good use of the positions of your teammates and opponents when you were running, but as I said to you before, you only regard yourself as the finishing link and a pure scorer. If you are just a shooter, it's good to do so, but you should not want to be just a shooter.
Therefore, your consciousness has to change. I can see from the training these two days that you have the idea of ​​adjustment, but you only start from the aspect of positioning. What you really need to change is your consciousness. You have to connect your playing style into a whole.
Chris and I have also discussed your catch-and-shoot problem, and you always separate the catch-and-shoot turnaround jumper from the catch-and-shoot…”
Zhang Hao nodded as he listened, and he really wanted to take out a small notebook to write it down, because what the other party said really made sense and the analysis was very good.
As if he had heard Zhang Hao's thoughts, Alvan Adams said, "I have written down everything I said. I will tell you first and then you can understand it yourself. If you have any questions, you can raise them and we can discuss them together."
"Next I will talk about the details of our team's tactics. This is tactic number 02, the most commonly used tactic in our team. In this tactic, the most likely position for you to move is this way. This is a good choice, which proves your awareness of movement.
But you didn't notice that you ran out here, you could stop here, you see, if you stop here, when Kenny breaks through and PJ pulls to the free throw line, if Greg is at this position, he will have a chance to cut in, then Kenny passes to you, and you pass to Greg..."
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Alvan Adams began to explain tactics to Zhang Hao one by one. Zhang Hao listened to these, as if a new world had opened up! This was much better than him working on his own. He only had that knowledge, and Alvan Adams was a historically-supporting inside player with 13 years of playing experience and an average of more than 4 assists per game in his career. He was experienced and could find several points to support the offense with one tactic.
Zhang Hao estimated that even Randy Whitman, the chief assistant coach who formulated the tactics, might not have analyzed these opportunities so comprehensively.
Alvan Adams paused as he spoke and said, "It's almost 12 o'clock. Let's talk about these tactics today and continue tomorrow.
This is the manuscript of what I talked about today. You can take a look at it or think about it yourself. I may not be able to find all the opportunities that are suitable for you in a tactic... I just teach you how to analyze. You need to observe your teammates' running positions and playing habits, and communicate more with your teammates..."
Doing something you don’t like seems like a long time.
When you do things you love, time flies.
After Alvan Adams left, Zhang Hao looked at the manuscripts left behind. There were more than 30 circuit diagrams for four commonly used tactics. These were changes beyond the tactical changes made by the coaching staff.
"This veteran is very serious about his work! No wonder the Suns have been begging for him to come back for several years. Fortunately, his wife likes to live in Pennsylvania, so we have the opportunity to invite him to teach me..."
In the past two days, Zhang Hao deliberately got to know his team's inside technical coach and learned some things.
In the afternoon, Zhang Hao began to train the basic skills of passing under the guidance of Alvan Adams.
His passing is indeed average. In 7 preseason games, he averaged 1.7 assists per game, but he actually averaged 2.7 turnovers per game. There were mistakes when he passed the ball too boldly, and mistakes when he passed the ball reluctantly. There is nothing we can do about these, but the mistakes when he passed the ball straight and long... The biggest problem is that his passing accuracy is not good enough, his technique is not good enough, the details of receiving the ball and then passing the ball are not good enough, and the target of the ball is easy to be judged...
Zhang Hao himself knows this, but he did not have much time to practice this during the preseason. Now it is the sharpening stage before the regular season. If he has the opportunity to practice, he will naturally practice seriously.
After a 20-minute passing training class, Zhang Hao rested for 10 minutes and then started practicing catching the ball and shooting. After 20 minutes of shooting training, it was time for basic passing training... At the end of the day, Zhang Hao's training volume had almost reached its limit.
Zhang Hao hasn't felt this tired for a long time since the training camp.
But he knew that this was a physical test for the team before the start of the regular season. The test was to see how long Zhang Hao could maintain stability in training in situations close to the game, such as shooting and passing, based on his physical condition, shooting distribution, etc.
Another thing is to test Zhang Hao's shooting hot zone again. When formulating tactics and actually applying them, we can better place the team's best mid-range shooter in the appropriate position in the tactics.
After the training, Zhang Hao went to the office to look at his teammates' physical test report. Just like the ability evaluation of his teammates he saw, Kenny Anderson has the best physical fitness in the team. Even though he is 5 pounds heavier than last season, he is still the best in the team. His current physical fitness rating is 93, which seems to be only 2 points higher than Zhang. However, he has more experience and better physical energy distribution, so it seems like there is a big difference.
In this regard, Zhang Hao needs to play more games and learn to allocate physical energy according to his actual situation.
Zhang Hao's physical strength rating of 91 was only third. After getting back into the swing of things in the preseason, the team's two main inside players showed excellent physical strength. PJ Brown reached 90 in the player detection system, and Jason Williams reached 92.
These three are between 25 and 27 years old, which is the peak of their physical period. Although Zhang Hao is extremely talented, there is still a certain gap in physical strength compared with these three.
Given his age, Zhang Hao had no choice.
Zhang Hao was quite dissatisfied with the results of his physical test, but the coaching staff was very satisfied. He still had more than two months to go before he turned 19. With this level of physical strength, what else did he need a bicycle for?
Moreover, Zhang Hao's test results are slightly better than at the beginning of the training camp. Perhaps it is that Zhang Hao can make better use of his body and reduce physical exertion, or perhaps it is that Zhang Hao's physical strength has improved. No matter which one it is, it is progress worth being happy about.
Physical strength has always been a very important part of talent. Whether in competition or in training, physical strength is very important.
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At night, Zhang Hao prepared to go to bed early. Before he fell asleep, the reminder came!
Zhang Hao had been looking forward to this tip since he learned how to organize an offense from Alvan Adams in the morning, but this tip was different from the last time he learned from Jordan.
"The host has received guidance from Alvan Adams, the top supporting inside player in NBA history, and has begun to learn about inside support.
Learning task: The writing of the encyclopedia of organizing offense has begun.
Mission Objective: The host can improve his ability to guide players to learn to organize offense through learning from famous players, self-learning, self-development and other methods. If the host has successful experience in learning content or it is proven to be practical in the game, it will be entered into the learning mode database, and the host can use the learning mode to deeply memorize it.
Mission Reward: Every time the host completes the knowledge of organizing an offense in a position, he will get a chance to learn a single skill from a top star player in that position. "
"The collection of Alvan Adams' offensive data during his career has been completed; the integration of Alvan Adams' today's guidance content has been completed.
The host can learn through learning mode..."