Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

Chapter 181 Creativity

Dongyuan Basketball School.

Zhou Zhiming knocked on Coach Ike's office, and Coach Ike asked, "How about a cup of coffee? This is the coffee beans I brought from my hometown, my favorite."

"Thank you." Zhou Zhiming said with a smile.

Coach Ike didn't have any airs, especially when facing this assistant whom he valued very much, he personally made a cup of coffee for Zhou Zhiming and put it on the coffee table.

The two sat down on the sofa.

Coach Ike took a sip of his coffee and asked, "I heard that you went to watch your high school basketball league in Southern Province again. Was the game exciting?"

Zhou Zhiming was a little surprised. He didn't expect Coach Ike to remember this, but he came here today to talk about it with Coach Ike.

Immediately said: "Yes, that was the final of our Southern Provincial High School Basketball League. The game was very exciting. A very special team successfully defeated an old strong team and won the championship of the provincial league."

"Oh?" Coach Ike became interested, "Tell me about it."

Immediately, Zhou Zhiming briefly explained the course of the game.

When it came to Zhuang Yu's one-handed lore in the end, Coach Ike's eyes lit up, and he praised: "This is indeed a very wonderful lore. It's a pity that I couldn't go to the scene to watch it."

Coach Ike went back to the United States a few days ago, and he just came back yesterday.

Of course, even if he was in Dongyuan City, Zhou Zhiming would not call him. Even though Coach Ike said last time "go to the scene when I have time", he felt that it was just casual talk.

But looking at Coach Ike's expression at this moment, Zhou Zhiming found that he seemed to be really interested, and immediately said with a smile: "It doesn't matter, Jiangning No. [-] Middle School has won the provincial league championship, and will participate in the Southern District Competition next. If Coach Ike is willing , you can still go to the scene to see it.”

"Actually, I came to you today just to talk about this team."

Coach Ike put down the coffee cup and signaled Zhou Zhiming to continue.

Zhou Zhiming said: "I think this is a very interesting team. They are different from many domestic high school teams, from the lineup to the style of play."

"You know, many high school teams in our country focus on the inside and think that the inside is the weight to win. But Jiangning No. [-] Middle School is different. They don't have the height of the inside. After the main center was injured, they directly switched to 'one'. Big, big, and small'. Not to mention in China, even in the NBA, there are not many teams that dare to do this."

"Also, Jiangning No. [-] Middle School has succeeded."

"Relying on 'one big and four small', they successfully defeated one opponent after another and finally became the champion of the Southern Province. Don't you think this is very interesting?"

Listen, Coach Ike nodded: "It's really interesting. I have observed your domestic youth teams and found that they have obvious problems in playing. For example, the basic skills are not solid enough, for example, they only follow the tactics assigned by the coach on the field. Lack of adaptability. Once there is a problem with tactics, either the offense will stagnate, or it will become a personal force."

"You know, this is not the best solution. They can play more flexibly and be more creative."

"Yes." Zhou Zhiming had to admit that what Coach Ike said was true.

Although as a Chinese, he is not willing to accept it emotionally, but it is the truth.It is also one of the reasons why there are few excellent defenders in China.

Especially the kind of defender who can change a game by himself, it may not be possible to appear in a few years or even a dozen years.

Because from the time they were teenagers, the training they received and the basketball concepts instilled in them have shackled them, and the coach will repeatedly emphasize tactics and the team.

This is certainly true.

But you can't blindly stifle the player's personality and creativity for the sake of tactics and the team-creativity is actually what domestic players lack the most.

When creativity is stifled, players can only play mechanically according to the coach's arrangement on the court, but once the tactics don't work, it will become as if they suddenly can't play.

Not just teenagers, but many professional players too.

"Coach Ike." Zhou Zhiming opened his bag and took out a USB flash drive from it, "This is the video of several games of Jiangning No. [-] Middle School that I compiled. I hope you can watch it when you have time."

Coach Ike laughed: "I have time now, and I'm very interested, let's watch together."

After plugging the USB drive into the computer, the two began to look at each other.

A total of three games, quarterfinals, semi-finals, finals.

Zhou Zhiming found some contacts and got the video of these three games. He has actually watched it once, if you count the live watching, it has been more than twice.

While watching, the two were also discussing.

Coach Ike said: "This No. 7 is very good. He is skilled in ball control, details are in place, and his physical fitness is also very good. He is good at breaking through and passing the ball. Oh, this pass is very creative. And that time just now Offensively, you can see he's smart."

Coach Ike showed appreciation on his face.

When he saw Zhuang Yu performing a dunk, he exclaimed even more, and he did not hesitate to praise him.

This made Zhou Zhiming very happy, but at the same time, he couldn't help feeling a little bit. If it was some other coaches, he might say "it's a pity that he's a little short" when he came up.Indeed, Zhuang Yu's height of 183 centimeters is not too outstanding. In the domestic environment, many people will regard it as a blemish.

But Coach Ike doesn't care about this at all, not because he thinks height is unimportant, but because he understands that other talents are equally important, or even more important, besides height.

Because there are many examples in the NBA, such as Nate Robinson, Chris Webber, Kemba Walker, Chris Paul...

Height is not the only criterion.

Of course, some people in China will say that "height is not everything", but it is a pity that people will ignore you at all, and will only sneer, "You think you are those black players, do you have that kind of physical fitness?"

This is not Zhou Zhiming's imagination, because he has seen and heard it with his own eyes.

If a foreigner said so, he would fight for it.But the person who said this was a Chinese, and he was only sad, and he couldn't even get angry.

After watching a game, Coach Ike said: "Zhou, you are right. This is a very interesting team. They are very different from other teams. Their No. 7 and No. 15 are very different. Excellent. Especially No. 7, his physical talent and field performance are not even lost to some foreign players of the same age."

"The most rare thing is that he plays very smartly, but at the same time he is not lacking in creativity, which is different from many young players in your country,"

The so-called "creativity" can also be called spirituality.

Some coaches describe a player as very spiritual in playing, and this spirituality is actually "creativity."

And Zhuang Yu has not been in contact with formal training for a long time, just self-study, this is a bad thing, but it is a good thing from another perspective.

Because of this, he retains more creativity.