king of defenders

Chapter 183
Davidson College, basketball court.

Today's training has come to an end, the players packed their things and left one after another.

"Meng Yun, are you still leaving?" Andy asked.

"Let's go first, I'll practice for a while." Meng Yun said with a smile.

Andy shrugged his shoulders, Evan said with a smile: "Meng Yun has to practice more every day, and I'm used to it, let's go first." After speaking, he said to Meng Yun: "Don't work too hard, there is still a game tomorrow .”

Meng Yun hummed and watched the two leave.

In fact, Meng Yun's training topics have been completed today, including training on three-pointers, mid-range shots, and passing.However, he stayed and planned to practice for a while.

Meng Yun scored a new personal high of 26 points in yesterday's game against St. Louis University, but what he gained was not just points, but more.

Although Meng Yun doesn't like Werner Rodney, he has to admit that Werner Rodney is a formidable opponent with a very fast speed, only a line behind him, and his skills are even higher than him.Including experience, Werner Rodney is also richer than Meng Yun, but Werner Rodney was in a bad mood yesterday, and the advantage of experience was not brought into play.

Playing against Werner Rodney has benefited Meng Yun a lot.

The first is mentality.

In this game, Meng Yun was stimulated to his strongest state. He played more proactively than usual in the game, believed in his own strength, dared to make shots, and dared to play singles.

Don't underestimate this point. For many Chinese players, this is a weakness. The overall domestic basketball atmosphere, including cultural and other factors, has caused more emphasis on the whole, but neglected the individual.

This can be seen from some domestic games. Unless there is strong foreign aid, the average team rarely relies on a certain player, and most of the players are more selfless.

Selflessness is a good thing, but not absolute.

For example, in the United States, the basketball atmosphere here is that the strong are respected, including the entire American culture, and individual heroism can be said to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, as can be seen from comics and movies such as Marvel and DC.

So playing in the United States, being too selfless is not a good thing. You have to be proactive and dare to express yourself. It’s okay to make mistakes, but you can’t restrain yourself because of the fear of making mistakes.

Only in this way can it be recognized.

Some Chinese players can't play well in the NBA, and there is a certain reason for this, because they are not confident enough and dare not express themselves, so they often can't let go on the court and miss many opportunities.

And what the coach values ​​is often your performance on the court, not your performance in training. What good is your performance in training?If the chain is dropped when it comes to the game, which coach will like it?
After all, Meng Yun did not grow up in the United States. Although he is more daring to express himself than most Chinese players, his style of play has not completely changed. He pursues reasonableness, but ignores the ever-changing situation on the court. In many cases, there is no way to pursue reasonableness. , A good player can score under reasonable circumstances, and can also score under unreasonable circumstances!
"My strength in this game has not changed compared with the previous ones. At most, I am in a better state, but a better state is not enough for me to beat Werner Rodney and hit 26+3+3 data."

After this game, Meng Yun has some understanding: "So besides the state, there must be other factors, such as my own mentality."

"Yes, it's the mentality. I have to change my mentality. I have to believe in my own strength, believe that I can do my best, and can defeat any opponent." Meng Yun was thoughtful, "Xiang Long is better than me at this point, Maybe it's because he grew up abroad. Although his character is too proud, pride is also a kind of extreme self-confidence, and this kind of extreme self-confidence, on the other hand, may not have made Xiang Long strong one of the reasons."

Pride is undesirable, but cowardice is equally undesirable.

Of course, with the example of Xiang Long, Meng Yun will not completely imitate him. Xiang Long's pride is not restrained enough, so his self-confidence is almost too conceited.

Confident, but not conceited; proud, but not arrogant.

This is what Meng Yun wants!

"Xiang Long's self-confidence is almost conceited, and he may suffer in the future." Meng Yun thought to himself, thinking whether he should remind Xiang Long, but thinking of Xiang Long's character, he gave up.

I'm afraid it's not that no one reminded him, it's just that it doesn't work.

With Xiang Long's character, most of them will not change until they really suffer a big loss. No one else can help him, only he himself can do it.

"Huh, continue training."

After figuring this out, Meng Yun suddenly became enlightened. He picked up the basketball, stood outside the three-point line and flicked his wrist.

Then Meng Yun continued, not stopping until he hit a hundred three-pointers.

Next is the training of ball control, breakthrough and layup.

After some training was over, Meng Yun looked at the basket, and suddenly felt an impulse in his heart. He hugged the basketball and retreated beyond the three-point line, then started to accelerate, rushed into the three-point line, and stepped into the free throw line. Live the basketball soaring into the air, raise your arms high, far beyond the basket, and when it reaches the highest point, your arms exert strength.

Bang!
With a loud bang, the basketball was slammed into the basket by Meng Yun.

"nice shot."

Just then, a voice sounded.

Meng Yun turned his head to look, and happily called out, "Coach Karl, why haven't you left yet?"

Outside the court, Mason Carr came with a smile on his face. Instead of answering Meng Yun's question, he looked Meng Yun up and down, and said after a while, "Your body coordination has improved a lot."

"Huh?" Meng Yun was stunned, and then he realized that he was pleasantly surprised, "Yeah, my body coordination is much better than before, I haven't noticed it all the time, and I don't know when it started. It didn't bother me enough. And now, it doesn't feel like it at all."

"Hehe." Mason Carr said with a smile: "Although I don't know what's going on with your body, it's clear that your physical fitness is very good, but your coordination is poor. But after a few months, you are improving every day, and your coordination is also improving. It is improving. It should be completely fine by now, your coordination is already very good, otherwise, even if you could do the dunk just now, the degree of completion would not be so good."

Hearing what Mason Carr said, Meng Yun immediately understood.

In yesterday's game against Saint Louis University, he had two dunks. He was a little rusty at first, but then quickly adapted. Until just now, he felt that there was no problem.

This is the performance of a certain degree of physical coordination. Meng Yun didn't pay attention to it before, and didn't think about testing it. It's only now that he realized it.

"Well, it seems that you gained a lot from yesterday's game." Mason Carr said with a smile. The more he watched Meng Yun, the more he liked him. This young man is really good.

Meng Yun nodded, isn't it? Yesterday's game was really worthwhile, and the harvest was too great!
(End of this chapter)