I'm really good at shooting.

Then, like most undrafted picks, he played summer league year after year, looking for a chance at a non-guaranteed contract.

Bell was also taken aback when he came in, and after saying sorry, he backed out.

But after he confirmed the room number, he walked in again.

"Are you from the Mavericks?"

Obviously, he didn't expect the Mavericks to have yellow players.

This is his second year playing in Summer League, but it's his first encounter.

Sun Hao nodded.

After confirming that he had gone the right way, Bell didn't say anything, and started to put his things away.

After the release, he went out directly wearing his jersey.

Sun Hao put down his phone, Bell looked a little withdrawn.

But he didn't think too much, and then entered the system to start training.

Before the training started, he took another look at the location of the system store.

Whether it is the beverage area or the equipment area, you need something called honor points when purchasing.

This honor point is similar to the currency in the system, there is only one way to get it, competition.

As for how much to get, the system has a set of very rigorous mathematical formulas. After Sun Hao read it, he felt that the mathematical level taught by numerology could not be understood.

However, the general conclusion that can be drawn is that the higher the level of competition, the better the performance, and the more honor points you will get.

The level of competition in the summer league is not high, so in order to get honor points, he has to play a strong enough performance in the summer league.

He did have that chance, too.

The summer league teams are generally divided into second-year players, rookies, undrafted players or free agents.

Among them, second-year players and players with guaranteed contracts will be the focus of the coaching staff's inspection.

After all, these players and teams are under contract, and their performance is what the home team is most concerned about.

This opportunity for Sun Hao is a second-year player.

Most second-year players, after playing in the NBA for a year, are much better than rookies in terms of physical confrontation, technical tactics, and even psychological quality.

So what often happens in the summer league is that the second-year players are the thighs and score crazy points.

And yet the Mavericks ... don't have a second-year player.

Last year the team selected two rookies, one was Wang Zhizhi and the other was Gordon Girisek.

Both are overseas players, Wang Zhizhi can't come out in China, and Girisek has been staying in Europe.

So this Mavericks team is their rookie Big Three, plus some free agents and undrafted teams.

This is the best opportunity.

Sun Hao has been training in the system for a long time.

The increased time ratio has really greatly improved his training time.

I practiced in the system for more than two hours, and only about 10 minutes passed when I came out.

The team arranged for the first joint practice in the afternoon. He went out to eat something, rested for a while, and then went to the training hall.

The head coach of the Mavericks this summer league is Delmar Harris, also known as the "Silver Fox" Harris well-known by fans.

Harris is over sixty years old, three in 60 years.

Although he is now an assistant coach of the Mavericks, his coaching career is also full of legends.

He coached the Houston team as soon as he debuted, and in 1981, in the third year of coaching, he led the team to the finals.

After that, he followed the old Nelson to the Bucks and became the head coach of the team after the old Nelson left.

After that, he moved to Los Angeles and was elected NBA Coach of the Year in 1995, helping the Lakers build the foundation of the OK dynasty.

In the end, he returned to the old Nelson's coaching staff and became the team's chief assistant.

Sun Hao doesn't know all of these resumes, but his impression of Harris is more about the national team.

In the 2004 Athens Olympics, Harris became the head coach of the Chinese men's basketball team.

He led the Chinese men's basketball team to defeat Serbia and Montenegro, the world's number one team at the time, and reached the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games.

With this period of history alone, he is enough to be remembered by the people of the country.

Of course, his relationship with the Chinese men's basketball team goes far beyond that.

Because the relationship with Wang Zhizhi and the Basketball Association is good, when the "Wang Zhizhi did not return" incident occurred, it was he who came forward to mediate and was able to mediate the conflict between the two parties.

Even, the Bucks will choose Yi Jianlian in the future, and Harris has made a lot of efforts in it.

When you slowly get to know the draft of this era, you will find that it is full of stories.

Harris is also the first head coach to question the selection system of the men's basketball team.

“中国体育部门一直注重对高大球员的培养，所以在2米10到2米25之间有很多很好的球员，但我们在1米83到1米90之间的后卫非常缺乏，即便是现在国家队的后卫，技术也需要提高。”

This is what Harris told the media at the time.

"The strengths of the Chinese team's defenders are shooting and passing, but they have no professional training in breakthrough skills. How to find a gap during the dribble and complete a mid-range jumper is what they need to learn. Jonas's first experience in China The task is to improve their individual abilities in the middle distance."

Even before leaving office, he gave Jonas advice.

Looking back, these suggestions can be said to be quite professional and hit the nail on the head.

But until Sun Hao's era, this problem was not taken seriously, nor was it resolved.

"I won't ask you to run any complicated tactics. I just need you to do two points in the next week of games, do every defense well, and seize every opportunity."

Harris' voice pulled Sun Hao back from his thoughts.

Harris doesn't say much about tactics, what he teaches and requires is the most detailed thing in the game.

For example, defensive footwork, such as shooting hand shape, such as the focus of the pick and roll is to remove rather than block.

The silver-haired old man taught me earnestly.

This was Sun Hao's first feeling.

If the old Nelson is described as a fiery coach, then Harris is a kind elder.

One is like fire and the other is like water.

It's no wonder that the two were able to partner again in the Mavericks after they worked together in the Bucks.

After the first day of practice, Harris named the starting lineup for the summer league.

Sun Hao, Raja Bell, Courtney Alexander, Donnell Harvey and big center Saunders.

Three rookies, one undrafted pick and one free agent.

It can be seen that Harris is more concerned about the people the team wants to inspect than the outcome of the game.

After announcing the starting lineup, Harris suddenly called Sun Hao to his side.

"Have you ever thought about how to give yourself more shot space?"

Harris asked Sun Hao a slightly strange question.

Sun Hao didn't quite understand.

"Have you ever thought about practicing the step-back three?"

Seeing Sun Hao's reaction, Harris spoke more bluntly.

"A three-point step back?"

Hearing what Harris said, Sun Hao's first reaction was a certain James.

"Yes, I have seen the video of your game in Europe. With the same style of play, you may encounter a problem in the NBA. There is not enough room for shots."

Sun Hao understood what Harris said next.

The level of basketball in the NBA is definitely higher than in Europe.

But compared to skills and tactics, the more obvious gap is physical fitness.

It is not an exaggeration for the NBA to say that it is a group of birds and beasts.

Recall the scene where Nate Robinson covers Yao Ming, although Yao Ming didn't jump that ball, but Robinson is so tall.

Even Paul, who you thought was a floor player, was a master of all kinds of dunks flying into the sky and escaping from the ground before he was injured.

This is true for the defenders, let alone the strikers who help defend.

A pick-and-roll for Sun Hao in the summer league is an opportunity, but in the NBA, he may be blocked before he makes a shot.

Even if it is not covered, it will be disturbed.

There are only two ways to solve this problem.

Improve the speed of the shot, or get more space for the shot.

The step-back falls into the latter category.

Chapter 94

"I don't practice much, but I think it's necessary."

Sun Hao told the truth.

He also used the step back in Europe, but he had to spend a lot of time practicing ultra-long three-pointers, and he didn't have much time to practice this.

"I can teach you some details, but whether you can practice it depends on yourself."

Harris said with a smile.

After listening, Sun Hao looked at Harris with gratitude.

At this time, Harris has nothing to do with the Chinese men's basketball team, and lacks the ability to guide him in these shooting details.

You have to know that the summer league hasn't played a game yet, who knows if he will play or sit on the bench for a season.

So it's really rare.

Harris did what he said, and the other players left after training, and he stayed alone to give Sun Hao a small talk.

Of course, what Harris taught is not the double retreat that will follow the rules of Harden in the future, but the standard retreat.

But even with a step back, there are many details that can be delved into.

Like dribbling.

It seems that it has nothing to do with the step back, but it is a very important detail.

Because the retreat step has an action of withdrawing to collect the ball, if the ball is in front of the body at that moment, it is easy to be intercepted.

So if you want to step back, it is best to bring a crotch when dribbling, which can effectively avoid being intercepted.

Another example is footsteps.

When stepping back, the foot of the step and the hand of the dribble are preferably opposite, so as to fully open the distance from the defender.

"The retreat step is the same as the dribble, and both the left and right sides need to be mastered together, so when you usually train, you have to practice and master both the left and right foot retreat."

Some of what Harris said involved basketball technical details, which Sun Hao didn't know.

This is also the experience that Harris has summed up after so many years of coaching.

Especially since Harris spent a long part of his coaching career as an assistant, he will pay more attention to these technical details.

These have benefited Sun Hao a lot.

He looked at Harris still gratefully.

After all, he was just an NCAA assistant in his previous life.

Don't think this position is too awesome, the head coach of ncaa is the biggest, with power and authority.

A teaching assistant is just a little better than doing odd jobs.

It is completely two concepts from the teaching assistant of the nba.