NBA: The best team doctor in history

Chapter 183: Curry, I suggest you change the way you shoot and land
After Jiang Ming and Lawson finished their talks, there were fewer scouts gathered around Curry, and LeBron had already gone to chat with North Carolina head coach Roy Williams, Jordan, Carter and others.

Because not many reporters are allowed into the NCAA games, let alone camera broadcasts and sound collection, even big stars can feel the true joy of basketball here and talk about anything freely.

The players of Davidson College also left the field one after another in dejected mood after losing the game.

After all, this is North Carolina's home court. The scouts who wanted to know Curry can be said to have known him thoroughly in the past two months. The Trail Blazers have prepared a scouting report on him. Other people who have taken a fancy to him must know his whole story even better, right?

Therefore, executives from the Knicks, Warriors, Nuggets and other teams only watched Curry's performance against the North Carolina team and then left. Some of their teams had already asked Curry for individual tryouts in advance.

Those who haven't found one can wait for the joint tryout. Based on Curry's predicted draft position, he should be able to participate in the joint tryout.

After all, the rookies who stand out in the rookie joint tryout are undoubtedly lottery picks. It is the real Shura field for the rookies every year.

It was at this time that Curry and his agent Austin actually recognized Jiang Ming first.

"Hey! Austin, is that the miracle doctor from the Trail Blazers?"

"Doctor Jiang Ming! Yes! Wow, he came to watch the game!"

Because compared to the people who were hanging out together in North Carolina, the two people walking alone from their side were very obvious.

The main thing is that Jiang Mingyan is a well-mannered yellow man who walks with a straight back and has a graceful manner. He can be recognized at a glance.

Austin quickly urged Curry to go up and say hello:
"Let's go say hello!"

"Of course. Didn't you keep nagging me to go to the clinic tomorrow to get my bones straightened and my height increased? Now the dean is here."

Curry wiped the sweat off his face with a towel, then quickly ran towards Jiang Ming who happened to be walking over.

His agent had already introduced him to Jiang Ming, and he firmly believed that he could help him grow taller. Austin has always said that if Curry grows to 196cm, he might be picked higher in the draft.

Because he is 188cm barefoot, other teams may have to consider him, but at 196cm with shoes, he is definitely a hot rookie.

After all, he is good at scoring, so it would be most appropriate for him to play as a shooting guard in the NBA, and 196cm is the standard height for a shooting guard.

If it can really help him grow taller, then with his current dribbling ability, what does it matter if he is the top pick Griffin?

But after meeting and greeting Jiang Ming, the dream was shattered:
"Ah? You want to straighten your bones and grow taller?"

Jiang Ming thought to himself that he should not move forward any further, as he would be completely out of ideas if he did.

"Yeah." Curry, who did look thin, put his hands on his waist and nodded, looking silly and cute.

"I'm old now. It's too late."

Jiang Ming's words made "primary school student" Curry unhappy:
"Ah? Then when is the best stage?"

"If you are under 10 years old and a real elementary school student, there is still some hope."

"I thought that the great god could even cure the length of legs."

Curry scratched his head. It was not a pleasant feeling to have your hopes dashed.

"That's the length of his legs. His legs are just that long. You are like that. It's fixed."

Jiang Ming smiled.

The traditional Chinese medicine method of increasing height does have scientific basis. Traditional Chinese medicine can generally promote children's height growth through diet adjustment, massage, acupuncture, moxibustion, medication and other methods. Even a single word from traditional Chinese medicine can make a child grow taller.

For example, let him find a high object that he can try to touch when he is young, just like touching the frame, touching the net, and then touching the backboard. Jumping and challenging some heights when he is young will stimulate the bone growth faster, and at the same time his jumping ability will increase.

But I also said it, kid.

Only useful for children.

At Curry's junior year, everything has been set.

So he didn't explain too much to Curry. Don't say too much when you can't do it.

"Oh, it hurts."

"What's so hard about this? You are 191cm tall with shoes on, which is enough. We are here to invite you to try out with the Trail Blazers individually."

Jiang Ming signaled to the scout next to him to exchange contact information, and Curry's agent quickly took out his mobile phone to record it.

Curry also nodded directly:

"No problem, I do."

Although he is considered a hot pick among this year's rookies, and his father has also promoted him to want to go to a big city and play for high-ranking teams like the Kings, he still has his own ideas.

After playing with Evans, Harden, DeRozan and Lawson today, he still feels that he has many shortcomings, especially in defense. In fact, he may not necessarily choose a team based on paper strength in the future.

Not to mention going to a big city, he went to the NBA not for enjoyment or to make money. If he really wanted to get the spotlight and praise, the most important thing was to play well. He also wanted to be a player like his father, or even surpass him!

Therefore, the most important thing is to play more in the NBA and stay there.

Therefore, he now wants to see more about a team's ability to train him, such as the level of trainers, fitness trainers, and team medical staff.

Recently, even he himself feels like a "crispy chicken" after watching the news.

Looking at so many injuries in the NBA, everyone definitely wants to have good medical care.

If you go to the NBA and keep getting injured, there will be no point and your playing career will be very short.

So when Jiang Ming invited him, he agreed immediately.

The main thing is that the team doctor in front of me looks very nice, polite and graceful, with a little sense of humor. He said he looks like an elementary school student.

So he rolled his eyes and thought, it seems that going to the Trail Blazers is also a good option!!!
His agent was also communicating with the Trail Blazers scouts, saying that Curry had already accepted tryouts from two teams, so Austin was very surprised that he immediately accepted the Trail Blazers' invitation.

Jiang Ming and the scouts can only guess one of these two teams.

One team is definitely the one that Curry loves, the New York Knicks.

In fact, the other team is the Sacramento Kings. Curry refused tryouts from other teams such as the Thunder, Grizzlies, Timberwolves, Warriors, etc. So the question is, why would Curry, who only wanted to go to the Knicks, accept a tryout from the unknown Kings?
This is why sons tend to be rebellious at this age.

Originally, according to Curry's idea, Curry only needed to try out with the Knicks team.

And the results of the tryout are indeed very good, even quite good! Curry is the Knicks' chosen one!
But in Curry's own opinion,

The Knicks are in a state of chaos. They play recklessly on the court and off the court, and every single player is a troublemaker.

When he was watching the live game in his dormitory, a camera swept over and saw a row of gangsters sitting on the bench, all of whom were dissatisfied and angry. The infamous "Madison Square Brawl" had taken place two years ago.

The main performance is not good, and the reputation has dropped to the bottom. No matter whether it is a big brand or a small brand, no one likes to go there.

And the boss Dolan, who is fat and big-eared and has no knowledge of basketball, was very fond of Curry's three-pointers during the tryout, so the Knicks management naturally tried to please him and made big promises to Curry, saying that if there was a chance to choose Curry, it would definitely be Curry. And why did he and his agent Austin so decisively accept Jiang Ming's invitation for a one-on-one tryout?

It seems that he is giving face to Jiang Ming and is interested in the Trail Blazers.

In fact, it is not that simple. They are all smart, but the deeper reason is that they hit a wall with the king.

It can be said that after Curry's father arranged for him to have agent Austin, more than half of his decisions were made for his own benefit.

Before March Madness, teams like the Thunder, Grizzlies, Timberwolves, Warriors and others had approached Curry, but he rejected all of them. So why did Curry, who wanted to go to the Knicks, accept a tryout from the little-known Kings?
The reason is simple. The Curry team and Curry Sr. reached a conclusion after discussions at the beginning of the year.

The Kings have been going crazy for a point guard in the past few seasons. Apart from the mediocre Beno Udrih, there is no other serious point guard in the team.

If Curry goes, regardless of other things, at least the Kings can guarantee his playing time.

Moreover, the Kings have only won 15 games so far this season, which is the worst record in the league. The team is full of rookies, which is more conducive to Curry's good personal performance.

But
On the day Curry tried out with the Kings, the Kings played a trick and also tried out another player, Tyreke Evans.

The Kings let the two players perform the same movements on the same basketball court and shoot from the same position, which can more intuitively reflect the level of the two rookies.

What is meant by the bright moon to fireflies, the heaven and earth to ants, gold to bronze, and Zheng Haixia to Pan Changjiang? This is the scene of the tryout.

Yes, Curry is a firefly, an ant, and bronze.

It's hard to describe the specific process of the tryout. In short, this tryout greatly strengthened the Kings' confidence in selecting Evans...

So I never contacted Curry's team again.

Curry himself knew that he was completely defeated in the tryout, so when he met Jiang Ming, he thought about growing taller and stronger. The Kings would definitely not choose him.

If the Trail Blazers invite me, there is absolutely no problem in giving it a try. The knockout rounds are coming up soon anyway, and I will have plenty of free time after the games.

"Let's go find a coffee shop and chat."

Afterwards, the four of them chatted for a while in a coffee shop on the North Carolina campus. Jiang Ming didn't explicitly say that the Trail Blazers needed a sharpshooter point guard like him, but just said to give it a try.

Curry and the other guy really wanted to make friends with Jiang Ming.

From this conversation on, he started asking me questions about sports medicine and was clamoring to learn the Chinese medicine movements.

"What do you mean? Eight-Section Brocade?"

"Yes, that's the warm-up exercise that your team members will do before the game. So cool, isn't it called Tai Chi?"

"Tai Chi is much cooler than this. Tai Chi is the martial art that we had at the opening ceremony of the Olympics. OK, if you want to learn it, I'll send you a video teaching Ba Duan Jin. You can learn it. If you have any questions, just ask me."

Jiang Ming could only keep the next sentence in his heart: When you really can join our team, I will teach you step by step.

To be honest, after spending such a short period of time together, Curry's agent wants to go to Portland. Such a humble doctor is very rare. And if you think about the Trail Blazers' lineup carefully, as long as Curry can perform at the NCAA level, he will definitely be the icing on the cake.

Is this the first top 5 team in the Western Conference to approach them for individual tryouts?

So in addition to asking about Ba Duan Jin, Curry also asked some questions about his own movements.

"Director Jiang, I can also ask about my playing posture. Will it be easy to get injured? For example, my push shot, will it still be useful in the NBA?"

Jiang Ming smiled and said:

"The push shot is fine, Marion's is even more exaggerated, but don't lean forward when you land, it's easy to step on your feet if you lean forward."

"The defender's feet?"

"Yes, Roy on our team didn't bend his knees when he landed, and he landed on the soles of his feet, so his knees were injured at that time. You don't have these problems, and your shooting movements are very smooth and continuous, but you lean forward when you land, which makes it easy to step on the opponent's feet! It's best to land in the same place after shooting so that you can control it in the future. This will also help you return to defense and switch."

The Trail Blazers scout next to him also nodded:
"Right. The NBA is not the NCAA. The defense is very close, and the offense and defense transition only takes a split second. I know Clifford likes to lean forward for jump shots, so he looks very passive when returning to defense, which also gives everyone the impression that he has bad defensive habits."

Curry nodded as if he understood something, and the agent next to him secretly gave Jiang Ming a thumbs up, saying that this was real teaching and there was something real.

When Jiang Ming was working part-time as vice president of the Trail Blazers, the media thought it was just an empty title, and some even mocked him, saying that he should just focus on being a team doctor.

It now seems that the person is fully capable of being the vice president.

So the agent quickly asked sincerely:
"What about Curry's weight? Does he need to gain a lot of weight to adapt to the confrontation?"

Curry also nodded quickly:

"Yes, yes, yes! This is what I really want to ask! Director, you are the most professional."

Jiang Ming shook his head:

"I have discussed this before I came here. There is no need to gain weight. After arriving in the NBA, with diet and fitness, you will naturally reach a suitable weight. It is best to control your weight below 190 pounds (about 86.3 kilograms).

This is your ideal weight if you don’t want to affect your flexibility.”

"I definitely don't want to compromise my mobility! My killer move is the quick three-pointer."

"uh-huh."

Jiang Ming thought to himself, I came to you because I like this point about you.

He has now discovered that long-range three-pointers have become one of Curry's trademarks. To achieve this, not only accurate shooting skills are required, but also excellent waist and abdominal strength as support.

So Curry's body is much better than he thinks.

Because Jiang Ming also plays basketball, he knows very well that it is difficult to maintain that kind of shooting action at 40 to 50 feet, which requires very strong waist and abdominal strength.

For example, when he was in junior high school, he had to put all his energy into shooting three-pointers, so accuracy was out of the question.

When I watched it live today, I also found that Curry had many very fast rotational movements under the basket, and few people could do it better than him. Most players would get injured very easily if they did the same movements as him, but Curry currently has no major injuries, which shows that his core body is very well trained.

With a good core and light weight, he plays very flexibly and gracefully, and he is actually not that vulnerable in confrontations.

He was not afraid of anyone in the one-on-one match today, and he only stopped after Roy Williams chose to double-team him.

This is related to his physical test data. Although Curry is very thin, he is very strong. With the hexagonal barbell deadlift, he can reach 400 pounds, which is more than twice his weight.

"So your physical attributes are also a talent. You'd better listen to me and change the way you shoot. See you in Portland."

Jiang Ming's last words before leaving hinted at too much.

What this means is that if you don't fall forward when you land during the tryout, you will definitely pass the test for the Trail Blazers!!!
"Got it. See you in Portland!"

(End of this chapter)