If it is a future NBA, it is estimated that you have to shoot one step outside the three-point line before you have the nerve to call it "long-distance shooting". An unreasonable shooter like Curry, perhaps only if you get the center line position is called "long-distance".

However, in the 1940s, mid-range shots at the free throw line were even long-distance shots. And in that era, few players chose to shoot outside the three-second zone, and would not shoot even if they had an open position.

Mid-distance shooting is not a very profound technique, and in the future, it can even be mastered by many high school students. Although the physical fitness of the players in the 1940s was not as good as that of later generations, players were not stupid. If they really practiced, they would definitely be able to master the mid-shot technique. The reason why players did not practice was mainly because under the basketball system at that time, mid-shot was not a practical technique.

At that time, the basketball did not have a 24-second limit. The ball-holder had time to organize the offense. Because the attacking time was plenty of time, the offensive side would not easily lose the ball rights. Therefore, the offensive side at that time would choose the most secure and scoring method to attack.

In basketball, the closer you are to the basket, the higher the shooting rate of the score, which is just an indisputable fact. Therefore, without an offensive time limit, the attacking side will select the shooting point as close to the basket as possible to pursue the shooting rate. At the same time, the early three-second violations mean that the player can always stand near the basket. Since you can stand at the basket and score, the fool will choose to jump shots away from the basket!

Therefore, in early basketball, mid- and long-distance jump shots were a technology that was prohibited. If a player makes mid-range jump shots in the game, he would definitely be replaced by the coach.

For this reason, when Chen Qiang mentioned jumping outside the three-second zone, Ferris said that the shooting at that distance was "not difficult".

The early basketball teammates and pitchers are extremely unfriendly. Until the 1970s, jump shots were not the mainstream scoring method on the basketball court. Many fans can name some early NBA giants, such as George McCann, Chamberlain, "Lord of the Rings" Russell, "Tian Gou" Jabbar, etc., but none of these players are pitchers, and none relies on jump shots as the main method. Even hardcore fans may not be able to name a pitcher sixty years ago. Among the future superstars, Jordan, Kobe, Durant, Curry, and Harden, who does not use jump shots as the main method of scoring?

In this regard, the NBA should be grateful to someone, that is Bob McAdu, the assistant coach of the Heat Dynasty in the future.

Although Bob McAdou has also been in the All-Star five times and won the scoring champion three times, his fame is far less than that of his contemporaries Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Tiangou Kareem and others, and even weaker than Bill Walton and Elvin Hayes. However, Bob McAdou has redefined the jumper. It can be said that he led a revolution in basketball with jumper shots.

As a 6-foot-10-inch big center, Bob McAdu's main scoring method was to jump shots from the outside. He was even known as one of the greatest shooters of his era. Even Larry Bird was influenced by Bob McAdu. It can be said that Bob McAdu's game was built around jump shot techniques.

If you want to find a template player, the future Nowitzki or Durant should be similar to Bob McAdou, both have enough height and good mid- and long-distance shooting skills. So many future fans say that Nowitzki's style of play is unprecedented and Durant's unique style of play can only mean that these fans are too young. The originator of big men's mid- and long-distance jump shots depends on Bob McAdou.

It is probably hard for fans in later generations to imagine that the most scoring method outside players actually started with an inside center!

(The statement that Bob McAdu's jump shot led the basketball revolution was proposed by the famous American basketball reporter Sean Fury. Passing the mark is just a more agreeable. If you have different opinions, please debate with Sean Fury. Don't criticize the mark and talk nonsense.)

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After Chen Qiang's explanation, Ferris still had some different opinions, but he agreed with the idea of ​​using the adjustment of rules to force players to learn new technologies and force coaches to adopt new tactics.

Sports are constantly developing. If they are always unchanged, then this sport will eventually decline. What's more, basketball is boring enough. If it is not changed, it will inevitably be a dead end. Since there is no reform, it will definitely die. It would be better to take a gamble. Maybe the modification of these rules can really bring basketball back to life.

However, the issue of modifying basketball rules cannot be done in just a few pieces of paper or just one or two sentences, so at the meeting that day, no consensus was reached on the amendment of basketball rules proposed by Chen Qiang.

No one clearly expressed opposition at the meeting, but Fort Wayne Rossey owner Fred Zorner, Washington Congressional owner Miguel Yulin, and Philadelphia Warriors owner Peter Tyrell all said they wanted to go back and think about it.

These three people are not professional basketball. They don’t know the pros and cons of this rule modification, so they naturally have to go back and consult with professionals. Pistons boss Fred Zorner even proposed that the team’s head coach would take over him in the next meeting, so that he could make a judgment from a professional perspective.

For Chen Qiang, it is imperative to modify basketball rules. The ABL League and the NBL League that adopt the old rules are now in a state of half-dead. In the first few years of its establishment, NBA was also constantly wandering on the verge of bankruptcy. The reason is that under the old rules, basketball is really boring. The American sports industry is so developed and the audience has so many sports to choose from, why should they choose basketball?

Even in the future, NBA continues to modify and encourage offense, but in the United States, basketball still cannot beat football. The slow-paced and boring basketball in the 1930s and 1940s compete with other sports, is seeking death!

If you want the new league to survive, you must modify the basketball rules, so Chen Qiang must try his best to promote the modification of basketball rules.

Among the eight teams, the New York Knicks are Chen Qiang's own team, the Rochester Royals and the Baltimore Bullets, and Chen Qiang is also a big money owner. At the same time, the Boston Celtics also have Chen Qiang's shares. If the vote is conducted, Chen Qiang already accounts for half of it, which seems to be a big advantage.

But if all the other four teams do not agree to the amendment of the rules, they will also occupy half of the votes. So Chen Qiang must at least gain another supporter.

In the next meeting, other teams will send coaches. These coaches are professionals and are not easy to fool, and there are many verbal controversies.

The key is that many basketball coaches in the 1930s and 1940s were relatively traditional and conservative. Even in the 1950s, there were still coaches who opposed jump shots. Such people would most likely oppose Chen Qiang's modification of the rules.

"I don't know what kind of people the head coaches sent by each team will be in the next meeting! These head coaches of basketball are difficult to deal with. Then we can deal with them when we see the moves!" Chen Qiang thought to himself.

...

Chen Qiang returned home, but saw a guest coming from home. This guest was nothing but Hu Shi.

"Sir, why are you here in New York? Don't say hello to me in advance, so I can go to the station to pick you up!" Chen Qiang asked in surprise.

"Haha, I'm here this time, I'm afraid I'll bother you for a few days." Hu Shi paused, pointed to a suitcase at the corner of the wall, and then said, "I have to live in your house today."

"No problem." Chen Qiang nodded first and agreed, then asked with a smile: "Sir, you have come to New York a lot over the years. This is the first time you have lived here with me. Is the hotel in New York not your favor?"

"It's not that I don't want to stay in a hotel, but mainly because it's too expensive to stay in a hotel! I don't have to spend money on my stay, and you have to care about my meals." Hu Shi shook his head helplessly.

"Sir, you are making fun of me. No matter how poor our embassy is, you won't be able to pay for the money to stay in a hotel!" Chen Qiang said with a smile.

"I am no longer a member of the embassy." Hu Shi sighed.

"What? Sir, are you not the ambassador to the United States? Have you given a new position in China?" Chen Qiang asked immediately.

"Not long ago, I had already resigned to Chongqing, and Chongqing approved it immediately. However, Chongqing did not let me go back. I am now indifferent to the official position, but I have become an idle cloud and wild crane, and I have nothing to do, so I can only come to New York to join you. Do I know that you are a rich man now, and if you don't eat who you can eat!" Hu Shi explained slowly.

Then Hu Shi roughly explained his situation.

After the Special Envoy Song came to the United States, he overthrew Hu Shi. If he was playing political struggle, Hu Shi was not worthy of carrying shoes to the Special Envoy Song, so Hu Shi, the ambassador to the United States, gradually became a decoration.

Special Envoy Song is a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. He has served as the Minister of Finance in China. He is certainly not a fool to be able to run the Song family into one of the "four major families". He still has certain abilities. Although when he first came to the United States, Special Envoy Song's work was not smooth, and he was not only hit by walls everywhere, but was constantly suppressed by Japan on the diplomatic battlefield. However, as time went by, Special Envoy Song gradually became familiar with diplomatic affairs with the United States. In addition to the outbreak of the Pacific War, Special Envoy Song also gradually accomplished several major events.

It is a major event recently that Special Envoy Song has accomplished, which is to sign the Sino-US Mutual Assistance Agreement on Resistance to Aggression in Washington with US Secretary of State Hull. In this agreement, the United States promised to provide China with military aid. Chennard's Flying Tigers officially joined the combat sequence of the US Army Air Force one month after the agreement was signed.

Obtaining military aid from the United States is definitely a great achievement. This contribution also made Special Envoy Song feel that the embassy no longer needs Hu Shi. Anyway, Special Envoy Song was disliked by Hu Shi, so he began to suppress Hu Shi more and more.

The various political means of Special Envoy Song were used, and how could Hu Shi, a scholar? Moreover, Hu Shi was also a scholar with a temper and was very arrogant and could not stand this kind of suppression. He asked Chongqing to resign in anger.

Chongqing, on the other hand, was too lazy to give verbal retention, so she agreed directly.

During his tens of millions of dollars in his tens of millions of dollars in his tens of millions of dollars in his country during the ambassador to the United States, he would definitely bring back his blood to the country. In this case, Chongqing should promote Hu Shi and let him go back to serve as an important position. At least he must be a ministerial official. Even if he does not have a real position, he should join an important committee as a member.

However, Chongqing only agreed to Hu Shi's resignation, but did not arrange a new job for Hu Shi.

There is no doubt that Chongqing does not want Hu Shi to go back. After all, when Hu Shi served as ambassador to the United States, he blamed Chongqing's interest groups. Chongqing does not want Hu Shi, a very influential nerd, to go back to disrupt the situation.

So Hu Shi could only stay in the United States.

The key is that Hu Shi, a nerd, has been an official for so many years, but he can't make money. He has been honest all his life, so he is very short of money. The living expenses in the United States are expensive. Without the position of ambassador to the United States, he will lose his salary. Therefore, Hu Shi was reluctant to even stay in a hotel, so he simply ran to Chen Qiang's house.

At this time, Hu Shi probably fell into the biggest low point in his life. He devoted himself to the country, but was killed by the donkey. Anyone would be extremely depressed.

In the next three years, Hu Shi lived in New York and engaged in academic research. He was sent to UNESCO by Chongqing after the end of World War II. Later, Hu Shi returned to China to serve as the president of Peking University. By 1949, all three major battles were over and the defeat of Nanjing was decided. At this time, the boss in Nanjing remembered Hu Shi, so he re-activated Hu Shi and asked him to go to the United States to be a lobbyist, hoping that the Americans could directly send troops to China and intervene in China's civil war. However, as soon as Hu Shi arrived in the United States, he learned that the People's Liberation Army had crossed the Yangtze River and was unstoppable. At that time, let alone the United States sent troops, even if the gods came, they would be unable to turn the world back!

...

After settling down on Hu Shi, Chen Qiang continued to be busy with the new alliance.

Although the second meeting has not been held yet, Chen Qiang still needs to prepare for the implementation of the new rules.

On this day, Chen Qiang met with a man named Daniel Biasson, an Italian immigrant and a factory that produces timers.

There was no electronic timer at that time, so most of the timers were physical timers in pocket watch style. If Chen Qiang wanted to introduce a 24-second rule in basketball games, that kind of pocket watch timer would be more troublesome, and the players on the court and the spectators on the sidelines would not see much offensive time left. Everyone can't pinch this stopwatch in their hands to watch the game!

So Chen Qiang needs a big digital timer to place it directly on the stadium, so that both the players and the audience can understand more intuitively how much time is left in 24 seconds of offensive time.

In future basketball games, there will be an electronic timer above the basketball stand to prompt the time. In the 1940s, there was no LCD screen at all, and it is even less likely that there would be an LCD screen electronic timer.

Fortunately, there was already an automatic roller-type digital timer at that time, which was similar to the date display in the watch, so Chen Qiang planned to customize such a digital timer. So he found Daniel Biason, who produced the timer.

However, what Chen Qiang did not expect was that Daniel Biasson was very interested in Chen Qiang's new basketball league.

After chatting for a long time, Daniel Biasun asked, "Mr. Chen, do you still need a team in your new league?"

"Mr. Biasson is interested in organizing a team?" Chen Qiang asked back.

"If I can, I want to give it a try!" Daniel Biasson continued: "My factory is in Syracuse, so I want to set up a team in Syracuse. I have already thought of the name and I am called Syracuse National Citizen!"

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Chapter completed!