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Chapter 19. I will keep voting!
At 4:55 PM, the Husky team and the Wildcat team decided the winner.

Curry missed his last two shots, going 3-for-3, bringing his total to 28 points, along with 3 rebounds, 6 assists, and 2 steals.

易水最后又进了一个攻防转换的抛投、以及一次突破进篮下造成犯规1+1全中，19投11中、其中三分球9中4、外加7中6的罚球，后来居上拿到全场最高的32分，外加7板4助攻1抢断1盖帽。

加上塔比特的8分8板5盖帽、罗宾逊11分、亚德12分12板……以及全场戴森全场第三高的15分，哈士奇队以87比80逆转野猫队，赢得胜利！

McGillop felt it was a pity; when he saw Curry hit the front of the rim twice in a row, he knew the game was over.

The strongest player is already exhausted, and the two best forwards in the zone defense can no longer keep up with his speed.

This is the head coach's fault. The game's progress exceeded his expectations, disrupting his rotation plan. After all, it was just a warm-up game, and many things are unpredictable. Moreover, their overall strength is only so-so, and they have difficulty dealing with unexpected situations, so they can only rely on Curry...

The players were unaware of the Huskies' current situation in another state and league, which was far away, but head coach McGillop frequently followed news from other leagues and knew that the Huskies' glorious era was over and that they had just gone through an extremely unsuccessful season.

Last season's defeats against several top-league teams were a huge blow to the players, and he was hoping to score against the Huskies today to boost their confidence...

'A fallen powerhouse is still a powerhouse after all; they have so many geniuses! They only declined for a year, yet they've regained this strength. But in the Big East League, returning to Madness 3 will probably be very difficult.'

McGillop sighed inwardly, but despite the comeback, the team's performance was actually better than he had expected!

However, three players on the opposing team also performed exceptionally well, leaving a deep impression on him.

Dyson, who went straight into action and shot the ball without hesitation, hit that buzzer-beating three-pointer at the halftime mark, a move that seemed divine. Without that shot, McGillop believed they would have had more control in the second half and might not have been overturned.

Thabeet's five blocks in a single game made McGillop instantly fall in love with this big center. Compared to their tall but useless player, this was a true genius. He single-handedly prevented their inside-outside game from working together seamlessly.
But what impressed McGillop the most was Yi Shui. He recalled Yi Shui's shots during his appearances. It seemed like he was playing very aggressively and taking a lot of shots, 19 shots in 28 minutes, not counting the plays that drew fouls. But his shooting points were highly concentrated! In other words, he always took shots from his preferred shooting spots, maintaining a very high level of consistency!
For some reason, he thought of a super genius from the state more than ten years ago. But that genius was an inside player, so it was normal for his shots to be concentrated at one distance and one angle. Yi Shui, on the other hand, was an outside player...

...

After celebrating the victory with his teammates, Yi Shui looked around but didn't see Curry. He didn't know when Curry had run away.

I was even thinking of showing off my victory... oh no, I meant having a friendly post-match chat.

However, the ugly autograph and silly photos have already been obtained, and the embarrassing history has been acquired. Nowadays, elementary school students are 'useless'.

After their first encounter, Yi Shui lost interest in becoming friends with Curry and preferred to be his opponent!
Perhaps because I was happy about winning, that feeling had faded a lot, but there was still a little bit of resentment.

His teammates were so much better than Curry, but no matter how hard he tried, he could only go back and forth with Curry's team, and in the end he had to wear Curry down to win the game.

In reality, after playing against Curry, Yi Shui didn't think Curry was so strong that he couldn't handle him. He had a fighting chance, but Curry's contribution to the team's offense far exceeded Yi Shui's.

He turned his frustration into motivation, vowing to crush the elementary school students and their team in the next encounter!
It's just unclear when they'll face off again. Will it be during the qualification competition? The qualifiers? It all depends on the group stage, and they'll need to perform well enough in their current regional stage to qualify for the competition.

On the other hand, the elementary school teams are already stronger than the minor league level, and it's no surprise that they will win first place in the Southern League and qualify for a spot.

Yi Shui followed her teammates back to the locker room and immediately went into the bathroom.

He opened the system and saw the reward... all his bad mood disappeared.

"Mission: Angry Elementary School Student."

Objective 1: You have led your team to victory. Objective 2: You scored 32 points, more than Stephen Curry's 28 points. Objective 3: You made 4 three-pointers, more than Stephen Curry's 3. Congratulations on receiving the reward: Beginner Blind Box and Rhythm (Talent).

"Competition Level: Warm-up Match... Congratulations on receiving the following rewards: 3-hour Double Efficiency Card for Close-Range Shooting Training, 3-hour Double Efficiency Card for Interception (Steal and Block) Training."

"...Target achieved: 31 points. Congratulations on receiving the reward: 1-hour double efficiency shooting training card..."

易水看了下档案里的训练卡一栏，13小时整体投篮、3小时三分、3小时近距离、3小时篮板球、3小时抢断和盖帽，训练动力直接拉满！有比赛打就是好啊！
He looked at his newly acquired talent.

"Talent: Rhythm-oriented. Your ball control has greatly improved, and you have acquired the talent to develop a top-notch sense of rhythm. When practicing rhythm-related offensive techniques, your training efficiency is increased by 50%."

Only 50... When Yi Shui saw the words "training efficiency," he thought it would be a 100% bonus like the "angled genius" bonus. However, this also gave him the talent to become a rhythm-based player. It's hard to say which is better.

'After practicing, we'll see which method is better by observing how it helps in the match. Let's open a blind box first!'

"Beginner Blind Box (used), Congratulations on receiving the reward: 10-hour mid-range shooting training double efficiency card."

Another training card, not bad. Although he really wanted to see what other rewards were available, the thought of Curry making shots from any position... he wanted that too!

...

After playing against the elementary school students, the Husky team did not stay overnight in Davidson. They brought their luggage when they arrived at Belk Arena in the morning. After finishing their post-game work, they went straight to Sherlock International Airport and flew back to Connecticut, arriving at New Haven International Airport at around 9 a.m.

When they got off the plane, the trio of yellow, white, and black were overjoyed. Their teammates were all complaining that it was so late and they still had to drive for half an hour to less than an hour to get back to school, while the three of them could get there in just a few taps on the gas!

After returning from two matches, Yi Shui felt that his life had changed again, for example, he wanted to change his phone number.

He returned to his dorm, turned on his phone, and saw many text messages.

When he first transmigrated, he deleted Guo'er's numbers 1 to N and didn't contact her proactively. For several days in a row, he received calls and text messages from strangers, but after ignoring them for a while, they gradually stopped.

He had already been sidelined by then, and those who still contacted him were people who knew him well and were drawn to his magnanimity. Now that he's back with the team, his performance in the two warm-up games has been quite good, and the game against the Timberwolves reportedly caused quite a stir in the state basketball scene... and the fans have come running again.

And here comes another call, from an unknown number. I just turn off my phone.

As the new week of school began, more changes occurred. There were more people in his classroom, and people would try to exchange contact information or give him gifts. These were all fine; he could just politely decline. But when a female classmate took off her clothes in front of him and tried to stuff them into his clothes, he was so frightened that he jumped back several feet.

He didn't intend to become an ascetic. If he encountered something that matched his aesthetic sense and resonated with him, he would want to explore its depths.

But these girls... if they make an appointment, it's almost certain they'll be competing against one or even most of their teammates...

Thinking of this, and considering his previous experience, he held firm to his principles.

He also noticed the changes during the team's training session on Wednesday afternoon.

The coaching staff seems to have sped up the pace, conducting more complex and intense team defensive drills!

He had heard Clark mention before that the warm-up games totaled 10 games over 5 weeks, and the coaching staff planned to gradually practice their teamwork... He asked Clark about the reason for speeding up the pace and learned that it was because of the warm-up game against the Davidson Wildcats that made the coaching staff feel a sense of urgency.

However, Yi Shui noticed that few of his teammates complained about the team's sudden increase in training intensity.

During a training break, he chatted with Robinson, Yad, Price, and others, mentioning last Sunday's game, and several teammates felt that the performance was too embarrassing.

He then realized the difference in perception between himself and his teammates. He knew that Curry would have an amazing performance in the third season after training in the new season, but the others did not... That's not bad!

In addition to external changes, Yi Shui also felt changes in his personal training.

Mainly in terms of passing and control, simply put, he felt that he had better control of the ball. After a few days of training, the system's strength assessment had changed. His ball control had increased from 85 to 86, and his passing had increased from 73 to 75!

There are also places where the progress bar stops—I don't know where to start with rhythm-based techniques.

Clark is a very well-rounded trainer, proficient in everything from perimeter players' driving and shooting to interior players' basic rim protection, but this is indeed beyond the capabilities of the top trainer in the Big East League.

Of all the NBA stars who came out of UConn, not a single one was a rhythm-based player.

However, Clark said he would try to help find some training videos and instructional videos of rhythm-based players, but also reminded him not to bite off more than he can chew. He could try to see if he had the talent to develop this kind of technique. If not, he shouldn't force it. There are many types of techniques that can be developed. He shouldn't get stuck on this just because Curry's rhythm-based offense is strong.

Having just played a game against the Davidson Wildcats, Clark witnessed how outstanding Curry was and naturally assumed that Yi Shui was motivated by Curry's performance.

After learning that he wanted to develop rhythm-based techniques, Fugo Yad found some training and game videos of NBA stars who emphasize rhythm online for him to refer to, and also bought a few recordings of Larry Bird's games online as a gift.

Yi Shui sighed again, realizing that meeting these two was truly his blessing! Not the kind of blessing that the arrogant concubine had mentioned.

...

As the month drew to a close, the Huskies played two warm-up games at home on Friday the 28th and Sunday the 30th.

This was Yi Shui's 'first' visit to their home arena, the Harry Gamper Arena, an NBA-level stadium. The feeling of being surrounded by more than 17,000 people was far more awe-inspiring than when he 'watched' it in his memory.

Their opponents are the Rutgers Red Riders, also in the Big East Conference, and the Boston College Eagles, in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Just like I remember, in the first half of the preseason, the opponents were all bottom-ranked teams in the major leagues or minor league teams, all used to practice tactics. These two teams performed better than the Wolves, and the Huskies easily won against them. The Wildcats were purely an exception...

In both games, Yi Shui played exactly 30 minutes, and his shot attempts exceeded 20 in both games.

However, unlike last week's match, Calhoun deliberately arranged for him to play this way.

He remembered Clark saying that Calhoun thought he was just as shameless as Ray Allen, and he never expected that he would actually receive the same treatment as Ray Allen!
Perhaps it's because the team is in a period of decline after its peak? Anyway, it was a win!
不过这两场比赛他命中率都不高，一场23投10中、一场21投9中，三分一场9中2、一场6中2。

Unlike the Wolves, who were considered to be 'relegated', the Red Knights and Eagles were standard major league teams, with a few talented players despite their poor records.

Corey Chandler, a freshman guard for the Rutgers Red Cavaliers, ranked 68th in the nation among high school players, is a purely athletic guy, as strong as an ox, looking like Dwyane Wade. At just over 1.9 meters tall, he probably weighs 100 kilograms, and Yi Shui was thoroughly exhausted by him.

Rajon Sanders, a former top 100 American talent and senior in college, is a 203cm tall guard. His long-range shooting was heavily blocked, and his three-point attempts decreased by a third compared to the previous game.

His being targeted by the two teams' most talented outside shooters is all thanks to the female fans who came to the stadium.

Those two guys probably didn't know him, but when they heard so many female fans calling his English name, and even some outgoing girls lifting up his shirt... he didn't know what kind of image he had in the eyes of those female classmates, that they would do such a thing to him in public!

The two were already unhappy about being used as 'practice partners,' so they suddenly had a target to vent their frustrations on.

Yi Shui scored 26 points and 11 rebounds and 24 points and 6 assists in the two games, respectively, which were excellent statistics. However, the game once again sparked controversy because he took too many shots and his shooting percentage in the warm-up game was only 42 or 43 percent.

The last time a Husky player made a shot like that was Hamilton and Ray Allen...

Despite Calhoun's best efforts to shield Yi Shui from criticism during the home game, Yi Shui was still subjected to harassment by reporters.

When asked about missing more than ten shots in every game, Yi Shui said, "Missing the shot is my problem, but next time I think I should shoot, I will still take the shot with determination!"

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