One day during the off-season this year, Doug Rivers, the coach of 76 people, was enjoying a rare holiday at home. The visit of two unexpected guests brought Rivers a difficult problem.
These two were members of the 76-person coaching team. They came to beg Rivers to come forward and drag maxi out of the stadium. Because maxi practiced too hard during the off-season, he took the stadium as his home, practicing from dawn to noon every day, taking a break and continuing to practice until late at night. The 76-person coaching team worried that Maxi’s body could not afford it, but they couldn’t stop maxi, so they had to come and ask rivers for help.
Rivers thought for a moment and said, “let him go. It is very difficult for him to stop training. He is so young that all you can do is let him practice.”
In the preseason match, Maxi brought his crazy energy in training to the official match. In the first two matches of 76 people, Maxi played only 29 minutes in total, however, he cut 41 points with super high efficiency in 19 votes and 15, which attracted the praise of American journalists.
The new season is only the third season of Maxi’s career. He is still under 22 years old, but he has become the third giant of 76 people. This statement may be too polite, because according to Rivers’s statement during the training camp, Maxi may replace Harden as the second scorer and second head of the team in the new season. As for the future, all-star seats and top-salary contracts may be waiting for Maxi.
The past drops are the prelude to success. Behind the speed of light jump in maxi is the accumulation of those exercises at 4:30 in the morning.
There are many roads to success, and Maxi only believes in the one of “hard practice. Maxi had a good leader. His father Dillon was once a famous local player in Dallas. He led the team to the state championship in high school and studied in Washington State University. Dillon’s talent and resume were not enough for him to enter NBA. In order to continue the road of basketball, he chose to become a trainer and coach of high school team.
Under the guidance of Dillon, Maxi started regular basketball training early. Although his son was the apple of his eye, Dillon showed no mercy on the training ground. He trained maxi with the intensity of training professional players. Dillon knew that his son regarded Dwain Wade as an idol, and he inspired maxi to say, “Do you want to be a star of Wade’s level? Then you have to know that every time they come to the training ground, they are really trained.”
Dillon’s professional guidance, together with Maxi’s own hard work, made the birth of a new basketball star. In high school, Maxi was rated as a five-star high school student. He accepted the recruitment of NCAA famous Kentucky and went to the famous coach Cali pari. When Calipari met maxi, he was also amazed by Maxi’s technical completion. He Praised Dillon’s cultivation of maxi.
In Kentucky, Mark Westfield scored 14 points and 3.2 assists. The data is good, but the efficiency is not high, especially the three-point hit rate of less than 30% makes people in various industries worried. Then, during the joint trial, Maxi showed his poor performance when showing his shooting ability, which directly affected his comments, many teams only identified projection as Maxi’s weakness based on Maxi’s shooting performance at that time, but they did not consider the space for growing up day after day. Finally, Maxi fell to the 21st order of the first round and was picked by 76 people.
In the rookie season, Maxi hit only 30.1 percent in three points, which seems to confirm the industry’s concern about its projection ability. However, among all the factors that affect the market situation of a young player, the projection ability is most likely to be improved through efforts the day after tomorrow. Shooting does also pay attention to talent, but compared with speed and bounce, shooting obviously requires lower talent, and even “brother Ball” Bauer with strange shooting posture can practice it, there is no reason for Maxi to practice the standard shooting posture.
Last season, Maxi shot 42.7 percent of the three points, which was 12.6 percent higher than the rookie season. It was a miracle to have such progress in a short period of time. Maxi’s three-point hit rate of holding the ball reached 40.3%, while the three-point hit rate of receive the ball reached 45.1%. This characteristic of both holding the ball and shooting without the ball made him perfectly compatible with the combination of Harden and enbede.
Maxi’s speed of light jumped, which was purely the accumulation of those hard exercises in the early morning. Since high school, Maxi has been used to getting up in the morning and practicing hard. His coach Rod Clark followed Michael Jordan to organize a “Breakfast Club” and started training at 4:30 in the morning. Maxi didn’t lose this habit after he went to Kentucky. He became the organizer of the “Breakfast Club” and often called his Kentucky teammates to train with him in the early morning.
After Maxi joined 76 people, the team’s technical coach Spencer Rivers and Assistant Professor Sam Castle were “tortured” by Maxi. They would receive a call from Maxi to help him train in the stadium in the early morning.
“They called me” crazy “. They didn’t understand why they had to train with me at the training hall from 6 a.m. to 6 a.m.,” Maxi said with a smile. Maxi was driven out of the stadium by Rivers several times because he practiced too hard, but the next day maxi still trained according to the old rhythm.
Maxi knows that many people think that his outbreak last season may be a flash in the pan. In order to dispel such doubts and prove himself, maxi started a new round of training plan after taking a break after the 76-person round. He organized a training camp in Philadelphia and participated in the local game Bureau in Philadelphia. Where there is a stadium is home.
“No matter I am in Los Angeles, Dallas or Philadelphia, I can’t do less strength training four times a week. No matter what happens, I will finish it,” Maxi revealed, “I feel that I am stronger than before.”
“What I want is to increase by 1% every day during the off-season. In these exercises, I have established psychological advantages over my opponents. During the off-season, I can obviously sleep until 10 o’clock, 11 o’clock or even 1 o’clock in the afternoon and then get up for training. Few people will train at 5 o’clock in the morning, and I have a psychological advantage when I do it.”
Maxi’s so-called “psychological advantage” has also been seen by the world in preseason. The receive the ball of those high-speed attacks directly pulled three points, those who crossed the four defenders to complete the swing and layup, and those emergency stops and jumps after the middle distance are all actions made by Maxi with high confidence, and these confidence comes from his hard practice in the morning day after day.