Carrying an old science teacher with him

Chapter 11 The Champion's Reward

"Hey Wang, I'm having a party at my house tomorrow, would you like to come?"

"Wang, I have two tickets to the Orlando Disney Resort. Would you like to come with me?"

"Prince from the East, may I invite you to my birthday party?"

Wang Kai and the rest of the Hawks received a warm welcome from local fans and classmates upon returning to Montverde after winning the state championship, as this was Montverde's first state championship in five years.

As the team's core player, Wang Kai naturally became the focus of everyone's attention.

"You little rascal, you'll have to get used to this kind of enthusiasm. Back in my day..."

"Did you get so many female classmates to invite you out back then?"

"Uh, there probably are, but I haven't paid any attention to them."

Old Ke was too embarrassed to say that he was very naive when he was in high school, and was even stood up by someone at his homecoming dance.

"Which one should I go to? Or should I go to both?"

"Go to whichever one you like, or go to both if you like them all. You have that right now."

"But I don't like any of them. They all wear perfume, and I don't like the smell of perfume, nor do I like girls with more arm hair than me."

"Shit, that's racist, you bastard."

Wang Kai really wasn't attracted to Western girls. Perhaps this was due to his subconscious Eastern heritage. He preferred traditional Eastern women who were gentle and virtuous. Well, this guy just wanted to find someone who could cook like his mother. After eating steak and Western food for more than half a year, Wang Kai missed his mother's braised beef terribly.

Being in a foreign country, even hearing your parents' voices on the phone can't ease your longing.

However, Wang Kai is a person who is very good at adjusting his mindset. Since he has chosen basketball and this path, he will continue to walk it no matter how difficult or lonely it may be in the future. This is something that Kobe appreciates.

Back then, after a lazy, overweight guy left, Kobe was unable to lead the team any further, but he never admitted he was wrong, or rather, he didn't think he was wrong at all. At that time, he took the most difficult path and ultimately succeeded.

After winning the state championship, the Montverde Hawks entered the offseason, but the team's training continued as usual.

"Hey kids, I've prepared a champion's reward for you. This reward will benefit you for the rest of your lives, and you'll be grateful to me for it forever. So, don't thank me, just keep going, OK?"

After the team returned to regular training, Coach Kevin Boyle brought in a new training team with professional nutritionists and trainers. He also developed detailed training plans for each player based on their individual characteristics, which he called "the reward for champions."

After listening to Coach Kevin Boyle's training plan for Wang Kai, Coach Ke didn't let Wang Kai refuse. After all, he wasn't a professional nutritionist or trainer; he was just training Wang Kai based on his own experience and deep understanding of the future of basketball. Coach Ke was still far from perfect in some training details and planning.

Coach Kevin Boyle's training plan for Wang Kai focuses on two main aspects: first, the continued development of Wang Kai's physical talents, currently not emphasizing muscle training, but mainly training body coordination and core; second, the development of Wang Kai's off-ball ability and rebounding ability.

By March 2002, Wang Kai had grown to 192 centimeters tall. Kevin Boyle had the medical team predict Wang Kai's future height, and the team estimated that he would eventually grow to between 206 and 209 centimeters, and that was his barefoot height.

Based on this prediction, Coach Kevin Boyle believes that Wang Kai should not be confined to the point guard position in the future, and he should be considered for the small forward or even power forward positions.

Kobe Bryant couldn't predict Wang Kai's height before, so he thought he could train Wang Kai to become China's "Curry". But now Kobe thinks he can train Wang Kai to become China's "Durant", no, he should be able to monopolize his future and turn him into "American Wang Kai".

In general, Wang Kai is training according to Coach Kevin Boyle's arrangements, but regarding some details of shooting and dribbling, Wang Kai is privately listening to Coach Kobe's training.

Based on historical records that Kobe knows, Curry is indeed better than Durant, but Kobe believes that Durant is more threatening when it comes to unleashing his unstoppable abilities on the court.

Although Wang Kai doesn't have an armband like Durant, when it comes to shooting talent and ball handling, Kobe believes Wang Kai is definitely superior.

To compensate for Wang Kai's lack of wingspan, Coach Kobe began to adjust Wang Kai's shooting style, changing it from the current one-stage shooting style, which is similar to the future Curry, to a two-stage shooting style that can better utilize Wang Kai's future height advantage.

Kobe is still adjusting Wang Kai's shooting height, changing it from a bent-arm shot to a semi-bent-arm shot or even a straight-arm shot.

Wang Kai possesses outstanding shooting talent and ball feel. In the future, if he uses a straight-arm shot, he will be almost impossible to block against defenders of the same height. Against taller defenders, Wang Kai will have a speed advantage. Ultimately, it will be a test of Wang Kai's own form and shooting touch.

Wang Kai and the Hawks players' "championship reward" continued until the Easter Spring Break.

Coach Kevin Boyle's coaching team wasn't long-term either, after all, they were just a high school. Even though the school board members were quite wealthy, capitalists wouldn't invest heavily for such an uncertain future.

However, Wang Kai's training continues, and he even gave up some invitational tournaments and travel competitions for it.

Although Wang Kai's shooting motion was not completely fixed, it had already formed certain habits. Moreover, his previous near-single-step shooting motion was done in conjunction with his dribbling, so it is actually not easy to change to a new shooting motion now.

So even during the Easter holiday, Wang Kai was still working under Kobe's guidance to modify his shooting form and adjust his dribbling technique.

"What is a champion? A champion is someone who trains while others rest, and when you win a championship, you are still training while others rest. That is my secret to winning championships."

Kobe is truly admirable in this respect. He may not have actually seen Los Angeles at 4 a.m., but he has definitely seen the court after every game in every NBA arena.

"You worked so hard, and you only won five championships? You're not good enough. Look at Jordan, he could still score 51 points at 39. You, on the other hand, retired at 37."

They kept poking at the lung tubes.

"There's a slut in the law school, you bastard. If I talk to you again, I'll be that fatso."

Old Ke broke through the defense again and again.