As the second half of the game progressed, Wu Dao, who had not been able to catch the basketball for a long time, finally realized that he was too young.
He thought that as long as he performed some performances and shocked these black players, they would pass the ball obediently. Of course, in fact they do pass the ball to martial arts.
However, when the assistant coaches of the white team faced Kobe and asked for the ball, they still ignored the martial arts inside and gave the ball to Kobe instead.
In the matchup with Grant Hill, Kobe was also beaten a little. After receiving the ball, he frequently made one-on-one bursts, trying to prove his ability. However, under NBA-level defense, the young Kobe could not adapt to such intensity immediately. His offensive success rate was quite low.
Moreover, under the double-teaming of Duke University's main players, Kobe also made several mistakes.
A player like Kobe is what Dayao calls a player who can bear being called lonely.
This kind of player is extremely competitive. Even in such an unfavorable situation, he still dares to play after getting the ball. Of course, for professional players, this style of play is beneficial, but this benefit must be based on strong enough personal skills.
If Kobe was at his peak, there would be no problem playing like this, but for the current Kobe, playing like this is not necessarily a problem, but at least it is quite detrimental to the team.
As the game progressed, the white team fell behind by more and more points, but Kobe just went his own way and wanted to defeat the opponent in front of him.
Seeing that strong fighting spirit, Grant Hill couldn't help but be secretly frightened.
He did have an absolute advantage against Kobe, but Kobe's strength also left a deep impression in his mind.
In the matchup with Kobe, Grant Hill also understood why this player was called to the team for trial training by the old coach K. From his perspective, Kobe will definitely become an excellent arrow player after several years of training.
Coach K was watching the game off the court. He wasn't angry at all when he saw Kobe playing crazy singles on the court. Instead, he was watching the matchup between Grant Hill and Kobe with great interest.
No matter how good a coach is, he is bound to have preconceived notions.
How do you say that? Beauty is in the eyes of beholder.
In the heart of the old coach K, he loved Kobe very much. Now Kobe's independence, in his eyes, is a manifestation of his desire to win. Although his current abilities are still lacking, he and Grant Hill have the same idea. In time, Kobe will definitely become the most dazzling player on the court.
He is quite satisfied with the quality and fighting spirit displayed by Kobe at this stage.
On the court, Kobe also abandoned all distracting thoughts and focused on the game. Near the end of the game, Kobe finally found his long-lost touch and hit consecutive mid-range shots.
In the next attack, Kobe successfully deceived Grant Hill after a fake shot, and rushed directly into the basket to score a dunk.
He scored six consecutive points in just over a minute, attracting the attention of Coach K on the sidelines and the players on the court.
At the end of the game, the white team lost to their opponent 77:104.
Kobe scored 34 points, accounting for almost half of the team's points. He scored 19 points in the first half and 15 points in the second half. Looking at the data alone, Kobe's performance in the second half seems to be similar to the first half.
But in fact, Kobe took 22 crazy shots in the second half. He alone takes up almost all of the team's shots.
Apart from those two highlight performances in the second half, Martial Arts became somewhat invisible to others.
Grant Hill also used his passing skills to connect his teammates after being blocked by Wu Dao. The center assistant coach of the white team moved very slowly.
Every time Wu Dao left the basket, he had no way to cover the opponent's power forward immediately.
This leaves Grant Hill always with an open pass.
After being passed by him a few times, Wu Dao became more worried when defending and became easy to take advantage of.
This allowed Grant Hill to seize the opportunity and play a good role in martial arts.
And Wu Dao also had unspeakable difficulties. His teammates inside were unreliable. He had to provide defense for Kobe, the "colander", and also take care of the defense inside. The opponent was either the starting power forward of a strong NCAA school.
Either it's an NBA rising star like Grant Hill, and it's really impossible for one person to guard two in martial arts.
On the defensive end, he was involved in a lot of energy, and on the offensive end, Budo could hardly catch the basketball. In this practice match, he played in unprecedented sadness and pain.
After the game, Coach K was very satisfied with the result. He saw the possibility in Kobe and decided to include this player in the team.
Grant Hill also played very happily. In 20 minutes, he not only opened up the game, but also beat the opponent Kobe. At the same time, he also "played" the high school student who blocked him.
Grant Hill also felt relaxed.
And Kobe is also very happy. He met a strong opponent like Grant Hill, and Kobe himself can realize that after this game, he has become stronger. If he meets an opponent like Grant Hill again, , he will definitely be able to perform better.
At the same time, Kobe also felt that he could fully adapt to the intensity of college competition.
What if someone says he doesn't adapt?
Then Kobe will tell the other party that he scored 34 points alone in a practice match with the Duke University draftees!
The only person who is dissatisfied with this practice match is probably Wu Dao.
He played the entire second half and scored 11 points, 6 rebounds, 3 blocks and 1 steal. The data is very good. As a high school sophomore, being able to hit this kind of data on Duke University's head at halftime shows everyone's talent and ability in martial arts.
But even so, Martial Arts still feels very uncomfortable.
Because he felt that he did not use his full strength in this game.
It's not that he doesn't want to use his full strength, but that the team doesn't have the corresponding system to match his abilities.
In the junior high school era, when martial arts became the absolute starting lineup, Hisashi Mitsui had just retired from the team, and the entire team of Takeishi Middle School was built around martial arts.
And when I got to high school, I went to Xiangbei.
Mitsui Hisashi directly gave up his position as the first core to martial arts, and the entire Xiangbei can be said to revolve around him.
During his first trip to the United States, after getting used to the team for a period of time, Wu Dao showed his terrifying strength in regular training matches. After seeing Wu Dao's strong personal ability, his teammates all passed the ball to Wu Dao. In Oak Hill, Wu Dao also played with a big core.
But in today's practice match, Wu Dao really got a good feel for what it means to be second in command.
Ouch. Wrong.
He is not the second in charge. After all, the second in charge still has a lot of ball rights. In this game, he is at best an NPC grabbing rebounds. This is the first time I have hit this kind of ball after so many years of martial arts. I am really not used to it.
However, after the game, Coach K did not forget to encourage martial arts.
In his eyes, although martial arts cannot be compared with Kobe, in his opinion, with his talent in martial arts, he may be able to grow into Pippen next to Jordan in the future.
So who is Jordan?
Do you even need to ask? !
After the training match, the players from Duke University also had some changes in the way they looked at martial arts. If they had naked tinted glasses originally, then at least they have learned to look at people with a straight eye.
But the rejection of martial arts is still very strong, and martial arts can feel this.
"That player definitely has the potential to become a superstar!"
"Now it seems that Duke University doesn't pay much attention to that player!"
On the sidelines of the court, all the North Carolina scouts who had watched the normal practice match were staring at the "calm" Budo who was sitting on the sidelines and thought to themselves.
Compared with the old coach K, this North Carolina player is more optimistic about martial arts with explosive talent.
Although there were only a few high-profile performances in martial arts, those few outstanding performances were deeply engraved in his mind.
Compared to Coach K, the North Carolina scouts have a much stronger desire for martial arts.
After the afternoon practice match, Wu Dao did not stay on the court to train with other college students. He just came today and needs to settle down first. Old coach K randomly called a substitute player and asked him to take Wu Dao to the dormitory to stay first.
Coach K himself started the team's training.
Before training, old coach K called Kobe in front of him and talked about some of the problems that Kobe had on the court. Although he likes Kobe, old coach K did not coddle Kobe after the game and talked about his problems.
After Kobe calmed down, he also knew that there was something wrong with his performance in today's game, and he accepted the coach's criticism calmly.
This pair of "master and apprentice" get along quite harmoniously.
After Wu Dao settled down in the dormitory, he stood by the window, looking at the campus of Duke University, and fell into deep thought.
"Even if I didn't enter the draft, I wouldn't be able to attend Duke."
"There is no way for me to grow on this team."
After this afternoon's practice match, Wu Dao has eliminated Duke University from his options.
For a player of his age, the strength of the team is not actually critical. The most critical thing is that the team has a suitable training method for the players.
Wu Dao clearly felt that the old coach K was planning to train him as a power forward, but Wu Dao knew that his height did not have enough advantages, and his strength was not outstanding at this position, and he did not have a big butt like Barkley.
If Budo wants to play power forward, he must gain muscle. However, if he gains muscle, Budo will lose his current mobility, and even his shooting touch may be affected by muscle gain.
This is something Wu Dao doesn't want to see.
If he was allowed to play as a swingman, maybe Martial Arts would be able to accept it, but this kind of training method is definitely not what Martial Arts wants.
He is someone who has experienced the small ball era. Players of his age can still catch up with the peak period of the small ball era.
Although Duke University had already been eliminated as an option in his mind, Wu Dao did not pack up his things and leave immediately.
You can have low emotional intelligence, but you can't have it without it.
The next day.
Early in the morning, Wu Dao received physical training from Duke University. The content is also the most conventional things, such as return running, reaching height, bench press, and the measurement of basic body data.
The results of the physical test surprised the other players. The second-year martial artist can jump high, run fast, and has excellent strength. Looking at his physical data alone, he can be called a "hexagonal warrior."
Even in terms of touching height, he is much more terrifying than Kobe, who is now a senior in high school.
With a reach height of 378cm, as soon as this reach data came out, the entire Duke University arena exploded.
The absolute bounce of martial arts is not as good as that of Zion Williams, the famous monster of later generations. The fat tiger can reach an absolute bounce of 114cm with his height of 198cm and weight of 129kg.
Carrying 20kg more muscle and fat than Martial Arts to reach a height similar to Martial Arts, Fat Tiger can be said to be a real talent monster.
But people like Fat Tiger are a minority among the minority after all. The current physical test and jumping data of martial arts have already made many people look up to them.
After seeing Wu Dao's physical data, Old Coach K also made up his mind to let Wu Dao move inside.
In the next few days of trial training, old coach K firmly placed Wu Dao on the power forward position. The most important thing to cultivate is the individual defense and assistive defense capabilities of martial arts.
The training at Duke University is very intensive, and there are many tricks. It is also the first time for me to come into contact with many martial arts things, which feels quite novel. On the first day of training, although he was trained in the direction of power forward, he practiced martial arts very seriously, and the training state made Coach K very satisfied.
In the afternoon, Coach K organized another practice match. In this game, Wu Dao and Kobe were separated into two teams, which also allowed Wu Dao to release the ball.
At the end of the first half, they went straight to a terrifying 8-for-8 score, and scored a total of 19 points including free throws.
In the second half, Martial Arts continued its stable performance, shooting 9 of 11 and scoring a total of 22 points.
After one game, Wu Dao immediately became the "absolute thigh" of the team, and many Duke players couldn't help but look at the high school student.
In contrast, Kobe was in very good shape today, scoring 36 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists.
Just looking at the data of Wu Dao and Kobe, there is no way to imagine that these two players are high school students coming to college for trial training.
But this is just the two of them enjoying the "newcomer" bonus.
On the second day, after the training, Old Coach K organized another practice match. In this game, Wu Dao encountered an off-ball attack. Under such circumstances, not to mention an outstanding performance, Wu Dao was beaten in the paint. The two black brothers were so jammed that they couldn't catch the ball at all.
When Wu Dao wanted to catch the ball from the outside, Coach K ordered Wu Dao to move according to the tactics, which made Wu Dao very choked.
The same goes for Kobe. Coach K completely grasped Kobe's competitive characteristics and asked his players to give Kobe a little "trash talk", which directly caused Kobe to start a violent attack mode.
It's just that Coach K won't be stupid enough to let Kobe play in singles. He has already arranged martial arts to defend Kobe.
With his excellent movement and jumping, martial arts also made Kobe suffer a lot.
After one game, Wu Dao and Kobe "lost". Wu Dao scored 9 points in the game. As for Kobe, he scored 8 points.
He is considered an elder brother and younger brother.
After this match, Wu Dao also calmed down and trained hard.
Playing power forward, right?
Even if I play power forward, I will beat these guys to pieces!
In the evening, after the team's training ended, Wu Dao, with this belief in mind, hired an assistant coach to help him practice more. Although the invited teaching assistant didn't want to "work overtime", he readily agreed when he saw that the person who invited him was actually a martial artist.
The reason is also very simple, because he feels that martial arts can help him get ahead, that's all.
When Wu Dao and his assistant coach came to the gym, Wu Dao found that there were already people in the gym. When he walked in, he saw a young blacksmith practicing his blacksmithing skills.
Kobe Bryant, who was practicing in the arena, was a little surprised when he saw Wu Dao who came to practice for extra time. He also gave a kind smile to Wu Dao.
After simply saying hello to Kobe, Wu Dao practiced his steps around the block with the help of his assistant.
Kobe and Wu Dao, who are both seeking higher development at Duke University, saw each other's dedication to basketball on this night.
In their hearts, both of them admired each other.
At the same time, he also regards the other party as his biggest opponent in this trial.
(End of chapter)
