Chapter 326: To forge iron, you need to be hard yourself

Kobe and Fan Xi are the biggest competitors in the City of Angels, and also the closest professional players in the City of Angels.

Kobe hopes Fan Xi will make achievements in stop-and-go jump shots. As possibly the player with the best technique in NBA history, Kobe's pursuit of technique is endless, and he hopes Fan Xi can also achieve this. (Zen Master publicly said Kobe's technique is better than Jordan's, but the physical talent is quite different. It's not that Jordan's technique is not good; Jordan's technique is definitely top-tier in history, it's just that his physical quality made him not need to make more delicate techniques to complete the finish.)

Why wouldn't Fan Xi want to practice stop-and-go jump shots well? But... his palms are too big... Usually, players with huge palms have poor shooting. Just like Rajon Rondo of the Celtics, his palms are huge, but his shooting is terribly bad, often being left open.

The only god among guards with huge palms and accurate shooting is Jordan.

Leonard's palms are also very large, and he has been refining his shooting recently, and his shooting percentage is rising in a straight line, but what he sacrificed is the coherence and stretch of his movements... Leonard plays by the book, without the delicacy and beauty of traditional technical flow... but in fact, he is also technical flow.

Fan Xi returned home and practiced stop-and-go jump shots in his backyard for another hour and a half.

Stop-and-go jump shots are very important for ball-handling penetration guards; it means that defenders must remain vigilant during the defensive process.

The Thunder were able to win the second game because Westbrook's stop-and-go jump shot was very accurate in that game, bringing a severe test to the Clippers' entire defensive line.

Because Fan Xi doesn't have the ability to stop and jump to shoot, when Fan Xi initiates a breakthrough, the Thunder's Coach Brooks adopts a way of setting up checkpoints at the entrance of Fan Xi into the paint, forming a way of pinching the head and tail and leaving the middle empty when defending.

The limitation on Fan Xi is immediate. As the absolute core and absolute leader of the Clippers, being targeted is a matter that affects the whole situation.

But fortunately, the Clippers didn't completely establish a fixed tactical routine on the offensive end, so the impact wasn't that big.

And during the regular season, Fan Xi established a pick-and-roll system with Nowitzki in preparation for a rainy day. This move can break Coach Brooks' defensive moves to a certain extent.

But it will also expose the pick-and-roll ability of Fan Xi and Nowitzki.

Obviously, Fan Xi didn't want to reveal his hole cards so early. Because playoff teams study their opponents in great detail, only by hiding their weapons well can they take their opponents down by surprise.

Fan Xi hoped to use this move on the Lakers or Heat.

Thunder?

There is still a gap in rank.

Before going to bed at night, Fan Xi chatted with Kendall Jenner for a while about coming to watch the game.

However, Kim Kardashian was already sitting next to Jenner, giving advice to her little sister, helping her politely decline Fan Xi.

Fan Xi frowned, feeling a bit strange: What's wrong with Jenner?

He even felt a little nervous subconsciously.

He rarely felt nervous about women.

Taylor Swift's phone call relieved this tension. Swift returned from her European tour and prepared two love song duets for Fan Xi. She hoped Fan Xi would take some time to record with her on the phone, but Fan Xi said he would wait until the playoffs were over.

Then Taylor Swift planned their summer trip on the phone. She hoped to go on holiday to a Pacific island with Fan Xi, preferably for half a month, and she even started to cancel some activity schedules.

But Fan Xi told her that even in the summer, there might not be much time. Because he had to play for the national team, he had to go to London for the Olympics.

Taylor wasn't depressed at all; on the contrary, she excitedly expressed that London was too good, "Jack, I like England too much, I want to accompany you to the Olympics in England."

Uh...

This is the performance a Fan Girl should have.

Fan Xi thought in his heart.

No matter how shining and sought-after these Fan Girls are as super female stars outside, in front of Fan Xi, they are always unconditionally obedient.

Fan Xi ended the call with Taylor, a wave of fatigue struck, and he fell into a dream.

The next day was a rest day, but he still soaked in the training hall, crazily practicing stop-and-go jump shots. The shooting percentage was relatively bleak, about 35-36% in the training hall, and it would definitely slide in the game.

This shooting percentage couldn't even be used as a conventional weapon output.

Arenas stood next to Fan Xi, observing Fan Xi's shooting movements.

Fan Xi's shooting movements were very standard, impeccable, and could be called a textbook.

However, the stop-and-go jump shot was always a little bit off.

Arenas let Fan Xi shoot a few open 3-pointers, and they were incomparably accurate.

He frowned. He is a shooting expert, and Hamilton is also a shooting expert. The evaluation they gave was surprisingly consistent: "Jack, I think this might be the reason for your body, maybe it's coordination, maybe it's something else. Your shooting is so accurate in a static situation, but so terrible in a dynamic situation. Could it be because you lack some kind of talent? Invisible talent?"

Fan Xi also frowned high, thinking: Is there any trace element that hasn't been absorbed?

Fan Xi's physical talent is already very good now. At least on the surface, he has speed, strength, explosive power, and jumping ability.

However, when Fan Xi played one-on-one with guards of the same position and type like Westbrook and Derek Rose, he would still carefully discover some problems, as if in some places that couldn't be seen, he really lacked some.

Even Curry, a guard who looked physically mediocre, Fan Xi also felt that Curry had many talents that he didn't possess.

Hoo!

Fan Xi took a deep breath.

He hadn't activated the halo in his brain to obtain new talents for a long time.

Because his threshold was getting higher and higher, it was difficult to generate brain waves as easily as before.

Fan Xi soaked in the training hall until night, and at night, he watched the Lakers vs. Jazz game with his teammates in the office.

The Lakers played really fiercely.

They started with an 11:0 run in Salt Lake City.

The Clippers fans in front of the TV were terrified. Although they had beaten the Lakers three times in the regular season, they had to admit at this moment: the playoff Lakers are really terrifying, this is the ultimate Lakers.

Chris Paul, Kobe Bryant, Webster, Pau Gasol, Dwight Howard, the starting lineup composed of these five people is too terrifying.

They have height, speed, shooting, defense, and strong play.

Crucially, after being humiliated by the Clippers again and again in the regular season, their team soul also became resilient, and the chemical reaction was surprisingly good.

In a seven-game series, the possibility of taking shortcuts is minimal; it's all a collision of hard power.

A real narrow road meeting.

Hoo!

Fan Xi breathed out a turbid breath deeply when the game was paused.

He understood in his heart that even if he took out the pick-and-roll with Nowitzki, playing a series against the Lakers, there was no certainty of winning.

To forge iron, you need to be hard yourself.

Self-strength needs to evolve further.

Dominating the regular season and dominating the playoffs are two different things.

The playoffs are the real superstar stage.

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