One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Six. Off-Season with a Leap in Strength

Sun Ce still underestimated the critical age of 25.

This summer, he finally understood why many stars have such a big change in their performance at the age of 25 or 26.

Originally, Sun Ce thought that his progress might slow down, but it continued. He could feel his progress every day after training, and he could find his shortcomings and find out what they were after training every day, and then consult people and discuss how to train and strengthen next...

Time passed day by day, and this feeling did not stop until the end of early September.

Originally, Sun Ce thought that his progress was so rapid because of the improvement of core strength, but the improvement in shooting was obviously not the case. On September 2, the core strength had broken through.

When Sun Ce felt that his progress slowed down, it seemed that he could not see where he had problems, and he needed to find problems in the game around July or August, and then he clearly felt that his progress slowed down.

After thinking about it himself and asking his predecessors, Sun Ce roughly understood what the "golden period of career" was.

For a long time, the five years from 25 to 29 years old have been regarded as the golden period of basketball players' careers, but some players have this period and some players don't.

Some players collapsed directly during this period, and no team wanted them, or perhaps no team wanted them even if they had the ability.

Those who were not wanted by teams or were sold off in the theoretical golden period of their careers are usually top talents, the kind of talents that were regarded as the core of the future by their parent teams in their early years.

Some talents work very hard and polish their basic skills. When they are around 25 years old, their bodies are fully developed, and their skills have also undergone qualitative changes as their bodies enter their peak period. Training is also more effective because of their solid basic skills.

But some talents rely on their talents to play in their early years, and they don't think about polishing their basic skills. What level they were when they entered the NBA is still the same level when they are 25 or 26 years old, but the key is that he plays with a core style. At the age of 22, the team can tolerate his inefficient core style, but at the age of 25, they really can't stand it.

Of course, there are also players like Gay who don't play with a core style, and are willing to work hard and accept non-core player roles, and can play well, but it is obvious that Gay, who averaged 20 points per game in his second year, is definitely a model of wasting talent. There is no motivation to improve during the critical rookie contract period, and the environment has a great impact on a player.

Sun Ce still recognizes his own efforts. From being criticized for not knowing anything except passing the ball and grabbing rebounds, to becoming one of the recognized players with the best basic skills in the league, he definitely has the top basic skills.

At this time, his strength has improved significantly, and Sun Ce himself feels that this seems to be a matter of course. It's time for him to enter the golden period of his career!

His shooting talent is not bad. After the basic skills are solid, his right-handed mid-range shot on the right side of the three-second zone, the right baseline hook, the top arc area three-pointer, and the right sideline three-pointer have all reached A+ level. As for the left-hand shooting, it's just that his personal right-handed shooting is not good at that angle. With "left and right shooting" and upgraded to level 5, there will be no problem.

A+ level is not bad, it is the top level. Later, he had the opportunity to become a mid-range shooting expert, which allowed him to further develop his basic skills.

Sun Ce felt that the improvement of his core strength must have helped his technical progress. This is definitely a comprehensive reason for his rapid progress at this stage.

It is the same as the various reasons faced by those players who cannot survive in the NBA at the age of 26 or 27.

Solid basic skills, continuous hard training, improvement of core strength, guidance from Olajuwon and Aldridge, and the body entering the theoretical peak period... These factors combined together allowed him to make such obvious progress in the first offseason of his golden career!

"Ability evaluation S,

Physical fitness S-: speed S-, strength A+,

Core strength S+, endurance S-, jumping B+, static confrontation A+, leg explosive power A+ (explosive acceleration, rebound speed), explosive confrontation ability A+...

Shooting evaluation S: three-pointer S- (top arc area S, right sideline S-, left sideline A+), mid-range shot S- (mid-range on the right side of the three-second zone S, mid-range on the right baseline S, free throw line area S-, left side of the three-second zone S-, left baseline S-), layup S...

Technique Evaluation S-: ball control S, passing A, pick-and-roll jump shot A+, dribble-and-shoot S-, pull-up jump shot A+, low-post back-up technique S-, high-post back-up technique S-, three-threat stance C, jump step A-, behind-the-back dribbling A, turn technique A, crossover change of direction A..."

Originally, Sun Ce thought that it would take a long time to improve his left-handed shooting in the left area, but he didn't expect that except for the left sideline three-pointer and the 45-degree three-pointer on both sides, the shooting in other areas has been rapidly improved in the past two months!

Although there are many reasons, Sun Ce thinks that the improvement of basic skills + core strength is the most critical, among which the improvement of core strength is the key among the keys!

Although the S+ level core strength did not improve the level of strength and confrontation in the system evaluation, he personally really felt the improvement. When the trainer, Olajuwon, Aldridge and Sun Ce confronted, they also felt that Sun Ce's confrontation was strengthened.

The hard training during this period also squeezed out some of Sun Ce's potential in the theoretical physiological peak period. His endurance broke through the quasi-top level and reached the S-level on the edge of the top.

Perhaps because of the increase in core strength, he has better control over the whole body when exerting force, and his jumping ability has also improved a little, reaching the quasi-first-class B+ level... Fortunately, he has the skill of "performance type", which allows him to be happy even when he dunks without mana.

However, whether the core strength has improved or not... Sun Ce really doesn't feel anything, it's just a natural improvement.

And the progress is so rapid, the "Humble Learning Section" is also very important. The muscle memory training effect bonus of "Persistence at Four in the Morning" and "Blessing of the Legendary Center" are all part of the "Humble Learning Section".

Sun Ce knows that after reaching the A-level, which is the first-class level of the NBA, the progress will slow down. After reaching the S-level, it is even possible that the comprehensive strength will never break through the S-level, because this level is already the level of one of the best players in the world.

It doesn't mean that you can keep improving if you work hard.

Perhaps other players can play better by playing in a better system, getting more ball possession and more help from teammates, and their ability evaluation can be improved in his system, but Sun Ce himself knows that his ability evaluation is a pure improvement in strength, which can only be improved by hard improvements in physical fitness, shooting and technology.

Between scoring by technology and scoring by performance, Sun Ce definitely prefers the former, because the former can clearly see his own shortcomings, while the latter... Some players who play well in the system, if not sober enough, will think why they are "suppressed" when they are so strong, choose to change teams, and then find that they are nothing.

In the past period of time, the comprehensive evaluation has been upgraded from S-level to S level, and now Sun Ce estimates that his hard strength is good or even above average in S level. He feels so wonderful, even the hard work every day feels so wonderful.

This summer, Sun Ce's only regret is that this wonderful feeling of progress every day comes and goes quickly...

The training with Olajuwon is about to end. Sun Ce did not slack off because of his progress. It is a rare thing to communicate more about basketball with retired celebrities and famous superstars in basketball history. When he communicated with Jordan, Barkley and others, he rarely mentioned anything related to basketball.

Time passed day by day, and on September 15, the 8-week training finally came to an end...

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"Noah, you are the most talented genius I have ever seen. It is really a pleasure to help you train. I always feel a sense of accomplishment..."

It's time to say goodbye. Olajuwon praised Sun Ce. Aldridge, who has trained with him for almost a month, also sighed. No wonder those superstars who have trained with Sun Ce called him a monster.

Aldridge recalled the first time he played against Sun Ce six years ago. At that time, Sun Ce only had two skills, dribbling and layup. He relied purely on his excellent vision and offensive organization awareness. His passing accuracy was not very good, far from the first-class passing accuracy now. But six years later, he was already so strong, and this summer, he improved again!

Aldridge didn't know much about Sun Ce's previous progress, but from the first time he saw Sun Ce six years ago to the current strength, Aldridge was very sure that this guy had at least such a big step forward every year!

Olajuwon wanted to stay in Los Angeles. His company was here. Next, he had to organize a basketball training camp that he had agreed with the local high school.

Aldridge took Sun Ce's family's chartered plane. Sun Ce's family was going to return to Memphis tomorrow. This year's training camp started on September 19th, and the preseason started on October 1st.

Because the number of preseason games last season was reduced, many veterans had not adjusted their status according to the habit of previous years through the preseason, and the regular season started. Injuries and status became problems in the early part of last season.

So this season resumed the full 7 preseason games, and the training camp is not two weeks, but 12 days. The main purpose is to advance the training camp of the 30 teams in the league to the 19th, which is the limit of the league's coordination.

Among them, the Staples Center is the biggest obstacle. There is a concert to be held at the Staples Center on September 18th.

The two girls and the two old men have packed their things and hired people to send them to the airport and load them into the warehouse. After Sun Ce and Aldridge said goodbye to Olajuwon, they drove directly to the airport.

After getting on the plane, Sun Ce looked at Zu Ge next to him and felt that something seemed wrong...

"Juanjuan, you lost weight?"

"Of course! I'm 99 pounds!"

"I remember you were 100 pounds before? How can 100 pounds be so different from 99 pounds?"

"I'll bite you to death!"

"No!"

"...? Ah... Brother, you're driving again!"

"Sorry, sorry, I'm used to driving with Lily. You know, her Chinese has just improved a little, it's fun."

"..."