24. Neither humble nor arrogant
On May 1st, Zhang Hao went to shoot an advertisement for McDonald's, which was a very simple advertisement, which was to catch the ball and shoot, dunk, and just these two actions. Then after the game, a group of people made an appointment to eat McDonald's' happy scene...that is, the extras, or the extras in the advertisement.
Taking advantage of the popularity, the advertisement soon came out, and Zhang Hao also went on TV again, and at least showed his face.
Time passed day by day, and Zhang Hao went to the stadium for four or five hours every day, which was very boring, but in the more than two years he came to the United States, he was so boring, so he persevered.
On May 8th, finally, the subtitle prompt came!
“Growth Card: The mid-range shooting expert has successfully completed the use.
The muscle memory bonus for mid-distance shooting training has ended, and the ability bonus for mid-distance shooting training has ended."
"Special signing player Zhang Hao's ability evaluation: 65
Physical fitness: speed 90, strength 76, bounce 93, flexibility 95, physical strength 90...
Shooting: 49 three-pointers, 90 mid-range shots, 86 layups...
Technology: 54 ball control, 43 pass, 86 catch and shoot…”
After more than a week of training, his Centre Investment has been improving rapidly. When his strength of Centre Investment has been improved to 90, his ability evaluation finally exceeded 65!
Basically, he only has the ability to invest in the CPC and eat cakes. In this way, his ability evaluation is about to catch up with Pierce!
This made Zhang Hao understand the importance of having a strong point again. He knew a lot about the NBA in the future information explosion era. There were many players who were very versatile in college and seemed to know everything, but they became rookies with high picks in the NBA. The reason was that those players knew everything, but they were not good at anything. They couldn't see any problems in college. At most, they suffered losses when they fought with those same top college students. However, in the NBA, all their opponents were not weaker than the strongest opponents in college. Even if they were a substitute, they were also a powerful player in the NCAA back then, so no one could beat them and ended their NBA career hastily.
At the 90-level NBA-level CET, Zhang Hao wanted to yell: "Who else!"
However, due to his usual noble and cold image in the school team, Zhang Hao held back. After all, he only had such an absolute strength.
In addition to the improvement of mid-range shots, his strength has also been improving over the past period of time, because he has specialized in training strength, and has reached 76 from his initial early 70s. However, due to his weight and no real strength training, his strength is far worse than that of Pierce who has first-class level in the NBA. He is more than 100 kilograms and is also a powerful type. If Pierce gets rid of fat and strengthens muscle training, his strength can still reach one or two levels.
The ability of the three-pointer has also been increased to 49, the layup has been increased to 86, and I have also practiced to catch and shoot recently, and has been increased to 86.
When training mid-shots, the head coach of the school team Scott Collins will come to help Zhang Hao practice catch-and-shooting when he is free. Zhang Hao is also practicing very hard, but receiving and shooting is his strength, and it is difficult to improve too much. This technique is more important than training, but the game is not available every day, so it can only be trained at present. However, due to the rapid improvement of mid-shots, the receiving and shooting is also improved well, breaking through the small bottleneck of 85 ability value and reaching an 86 catch-and-shooting shot.
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On the evening of the 8th, Zhang Hao invited Pierce, April Clark, and an April Clark teammate, a white female high school tennis player to have dinner together.
April Clark brought his female companion with him for Pierce's sake.
But Pierce is really a talkative man. He doesn't understand what Apple Clark meant at all. He makes Pierce speak nonsense when dealing with various types of people. He is very good at that, but he has no consciousness at all.
Pierce bit a chicken leg with a big mouthful and asked while chewing, "Aix, how many days do you take to go to Adidas Training Camp?"
Zhang Hao replied: "About 8 days, I will report tomorrow. If I can enter the final competition list from the 10th to the 16th training camp, I will have to stay for another day."
"You can definitely make it. I made it last year. Your recent progress has been too fast. Your mid-range shot... Wow, really, I have to train well too. What should I do if you accidentally surpassed you when you were beaten up by you when you were beaten? No! I must train well, and my mother has been a little impatient recently. I have to stay in the arena for more than three weeks and it is time to train well..."
Pierce has started chatterbox mode again. Zhang Hao, two other sports figures in the school, and April Clark, have long been used to it. As top athletes in school sports, they have spent more time together, but they used to take Zhang Hao, but now Zhang Hao has become more proactive;
"Epley, the exam will be in two days. How are you preparing?"
“No confidence…”
"You will definitely be admitted to college. When you become a drama artist, I will definitely buy tickets every day to watch your performance."
"You will definitely get a college basketball scholarship through this training camp, but you won't need to buy tickets. As an actor, there must be a family ticket. Give me the money, I will give you the ticket..."
As we chatted, we talked about college. Pierce sighed: "I never thought it would be so difficult for international students to get a sports scholarship."
When talking about this, Zhang Hao felt so distressed. Fortunately, he was used to it. He replied: "It doesn't matter, just get used to it. I am very calm now."
Seeing that Zhang Hao didn't seem to care about this matter as much as a month ago, Pierce and April Clark breathed a sigh of relief, but they actually felt that Zhang Hao was frustrated this time, because what they saw was that after this setback, Zhang Hao did not collapse because of the blow, but instead became much happier.
But the two of them wouldn't say this, and they were really confused that universities without a first-tier league were willing to give Zhang Hao a full basketball scholarship.
On the contrary, Zhang Hao's side became more and more calm because of the examples of Jeremy Lin in the future and began to plan a variety of alternatives.
The young man does not recognize the taste of sorrow. Although everyone has obviously become busier and less time to spend together recently, the three of them don’t feel much, and they always feel that life like this will never end.
We had a meal together. The next day, Zhang Hao took the plane to San Francisco at 9 am. It took a flight a little more than an hour + an hour airport bus. At around 11 noon, Zhang Hao finally arrived at the San Francisco Auditorium Stadium. After the report, there was a free lunch, so Zhang Hao must have to go there.
This stadium was rebuilt on the basis of the Warriors' home stadium 30 years ago, and has held many large-scale events, and the Cardinals of Stanford's basketball team often hold games here.
Adidas Training Camp will be held here this time.
If you want to talk about whether the previous McDonald's slam dunk contest champion has brought benefits to Zhang Hao, you can see the benefits this time. Compared with the previous McDonald's slam dunk contest, no one is interested in it. This time when Zhang Hao appeared in the San Francisco Auditorium Stadium, a reporter came to interview him as soon as he arrived at the stadium!
However, the reporter's question was obviously not as friendly as the reporters invited by McDonald's before.
"Hello, Aix, I am Emil Jackson, a reporter from the open stands. Can you give you a simple interview?"
The reporter in front of him looked like a terrifying person, but he didn't feel that he was kind to Zhang Hao.
Zhang Hao nodded and replied: "Ok."
"Aix, you are the first Chinese to participate in the McDonald's All-Star and Adidas training camp. Is it because you received excellent and advanced basketball guidance after you arrived in the United States that you got such an opportunity?"
really!
This high-ranking tone, this topic... Zhang Hao was not angry, and quickly thought about it and replied: "The United States is the country with the highest basketball skills in the world. I am very grateful to our school coach Mr. Scott Collins for inviting me to join. His guidance is very important to me. I was attracted by Mr. Collins through a game. He thought I was more talented than the American students he led. It is a great honor. I went to the American high school in the United States and was selected for the first team of California and the third team of the United States."
Zhang Hao's answer surprised the reporter who was obviously unfriendly. He was young and neither humble nor arrogant in his answers nor was hesitant, which was indeed beyond expectations.
Just one thing, this is the normal situation for most young people.
It is rare to be able to make effective counterattacks without being angry.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, in order to divert domestic conflicts, the United States had to find an imaginary enemy. Regardless of whether the other party wanted or not, China was the first candidate to threaten US hegemony.
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Chapter completed!