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31. This girl is not bad

Hearing the white man's self-introduction, Chamberlain was stunned and asked in surprise: "What did you say? Your name is Eaton Lavender? Is it Chris Paul, the trainer Eaton Lavender of Cameron Anthony?"

Lavin didn't care about the rude details of his failure to reach out to shake hands with him. He casually withdrew his hand, hugged his arm and smiled: "I think you should be talking about me. I am indeed a trainer, and I have indeed trained the two children, Chris Paul and Anthony."

After receiving the other party's affirmative answer, Chamberlain took a breath. His previous guess about this old man might be correct. This guy is indeed not an ordinary cleaner, but a low-key giant. Because ordinary people cannot invite great masters like Eton Laven, the cleaner will naturally not be able to invite them.

Eaton Lavender, a famous American basketball trainer, has no capital to show off compared to his peers. He has never played basketball seriously since middle school, has never worked for any NBA team, and has not even had the qualifications to practice as a trainer, and does not look like that material.

His parents are from Russia and Israel respectively. They are not tall and do not have the appearance of athletes. They speak more like sociologists than basketball experts. In fact, Chamberlain had a correct impression of him at the beginning. This guy was indeed a lawyer before he became a trainer.

But if we want to list the top NBA trainers, Raven will definitely be among them. He is also McGrady's trainer Wayne Hall, Cannon Baker, who has been invited by major training camps many times, Jordan's trainer Tim Gulliver, etc.

There are two types of NBA trainers. One is a trainer who is good at helping freshmen to polish basic skills. Among the above characters, Cannon Baker is best at this. He can always train NBA rookies into old birds on the court as fast as possible; the other is a trainer who is good at coaching superstars. There are fewer such trainers, but each one is a well-known big shot. If you want to get training from these people, you must not only have money, but also have an identity and be able to match them.

Although Lavender knew that Chamberlain had heard of himself, he still made a simple introduction. Like ordinary Americans, he was not humble or implicit when introducing himself, but was generous in showing his achievements. Finally, he said: "If I had not received the invitation from Mr. Gottrib, I would have gone to Cleveland in a few days. LeBron James's agent had already negotiated with me the price. I was going to train him."

Chamberlain nodded quickly and said to the old man: "I don't know what you call me? No matter what, thank you for helping me contact such an excellent trainer, but...haha."

The old man seemed to be very anxious. Before Chamberlain finished speaking, he interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said, "You don't have to thank me, rookie, you just need to train well and then play well on the court. By the way, what does it mean to say 'but'?"

While talking, the old man sucked the gravy that flowed on his fingers, and he didn't have the style of a master. Chamberlain had to doubt that these two people were not lying to him together, right?

This is not his unnecessary worry. You should know that because of his rich pockets, NBA players are surrounded by sexy and enchanting women, as well as various scammers. Their purpose is very consistent, to get money from NBA stars.

Chamberlain spread his hands helplessly and said, "I shouldn't be able to afford Laven's training fee. You may not know that the team and I only signed a ten-day short contract."

The old man's words dispelled his doubts. He waved his hand indifferently and said heroically: "You don't have to worry about the training fee. It is his honor for this kid Lavender to train you, and he will not train you all the time. In another half a month, when my daughter comes back from Switzerland, I will let her train you personally. Only she can carve your piece of gold and uncensored jade into a shiny treasure."

Damn, let your daughter train me? Chamberlain thought for a long time, but he didn't expect any master-level aunt trainer in the sports world. There is no doubt that in this old man's mouth, his daughter is a more awesome than Eaton Lavender.

But what is incredible is that when the old man said this, Lavin did not refute it, but nodded instead, as if he agreed with the old man's words.

Chamberlain was full of doubts, but Lavin did not give him much time. He first directed Chamberlain to do a simple squat, jumped and turned back to warm up, and then began to help him train.

Lavender took off his coat and exposed a No. 0 jersey. This jersey is the home style of the Golden State Warriors, with the words "SUPER-Z" printed on the back. Seeing this jersey, Chamberlain's blood suddenly became excited because it was his jersey, which shows that his jersey has appeared in the market and he is already a star with fans.

Seeing Chamberlain's changes, the old man muttered while eating a hamburger: "This kid Laven is really good at having a set of clothes. A piece of clothing can scare this rookie. It seems that I have to let Winnie and him learn "Psychology" well."

Lavender warmed up Chamberlain, and he followed and said, "I have studied your videos, Z, your strength, speed, explosive power and even flexibility, which is shocking. When studying your videos, I am also studying LeBron James. You two are very similar. I really didn't expect that you have such excellent physical fitness in the world. And relatively speaking, you are even more shocking than James because you are taller than him."

Chamberlain felt happy when he heard this. Damn, this guy doesn't know how to train, but he is quite good at speaking.

But Laven changed his tone and continued: "But you have the same problem as James, that is, your flexibility and coordination are too poor, so bad that I can't bear to see it! And in this regard, you are worse than James. In addition, James is one thing that is 10,000 times stronger than you, that is, the control of strength. Flexibility requires long-term training. Winnie will train you in the future, so today I will train you to control strength and offensive skills in the ball state."

Regardless of the authenticity of this LaVin, his words make sense. Chamberlain's two biggest weaknesses were expressed by him, one was the control of power, and the other was the pale offensive ability.

While Chamberlain was practicing strength, Laven placed more than twenty orange cones on the court, then called Chamberlain down, threw him a basketball, pointed at the cones and said, "You take the ball around these cones, remember, no one can fall down!"

After a pause, Raven ignored the relaxed expression on Chamberlain's face and continued: "After the dribble is over, you have to complete a layup, and then do it again in the opposite direction. But you have to remember that every time you pass a cylinder, you change the dribble method, such as under the crotch, behind the back or emergency stop."

The expression on Chamberlain's face suddenly changed from ease to depression. He shouted: "I am an inside player, a center guy. I can understand you let me practice dribbling, but why do you need to practice so many ways of controlling the ball? Also, you are going to help me practice control of strength tonight, so that I can shoot accurately, not practice these bullshit dribbling!"

Lavine has a good temper. His order was questioned by Chamberlain, but he still smiled and said, "You have a problem that you didn't think clearly. Z, your shooting accuracy is too poor, not only because you can't control your strength well, but also because your body is too stiff and you want to get the ability to accurately shoot. This is not a matter of one or two days. What I want to train you now is to let you try to get better when you have the ball and enter the penalty area and get closer to the rim faster. Do you understand? The closer you get to the rim, the better your dunk ability can be performed."

Chamberlain's ball control level is OK, but he certainly can't match the defender. Laven is right. If he can dribble the ball and break through to defend his inside line, it will be equivalent to developing offensive capabilities. The role model in this regard is Sean Kemp at the peak.

"Rain Man" Sean Kemp made a mid-range shot, and his hook and even back-playing skills were very bad, but this guy had a good dribbling skills. Even if he didn't have a defender and let him dribble himself, he could easily break into the penalty area and then have a hot dunk.

After thinking it through, Chamberlain started training. As soon as he got the ball, he ran forward. Lavin suddenly asked, "Rookie, what's my finger?"

Chamberlain was inexplicably raised his head and looked at LaVine, saying, "Of course it's 2, what's the matter... shit, damn!"

Just as Chamberlain raised his head, Laven stretched out his index finger and middle finger with his left hand, and raised his right foot and kicked the ball on the ground, kicking it away.

"Dribbling failed, start over again." Laven said calmly.

Chamberlain was depressed and said helplessly: "What are you kidding me? You obviously kicked my ball away, okay? This is playing football!"

Lavender was still calm and said, "Is that true? But I know that NBA players' hands are much faster than mine. So, if you can't even avoid my feet, then your training is unnecessary, because when you dribble on the court in the future, you will be easily stealed by your opponent."

I have to admit that Laven’s words were completely correct, and Chamberlain had no choice but to start from scratch. The little old man was watching with a smile while eating the burger, as if he was very happy to watch, and occasionally cheered a few times. Of course, in Chamberlain’s opinion, this was all cheering because the little old man cheered when Lavender kicked the ball in his hand away.

Chamberlain practiced various ways to drive the ball forward all night, while Lavine kept wandering around him, asking him to see the number of his fingers from time to time, and then took the opportunity to kick the ball in his hand. Whether he said the number of fingers wrong, the number of his fingers too late, or the ball was lost, he had to start over.

Lavender asked him to look at his fingers to train him to drive the ball forward while playing football, while kicking football to train him to drive the ball and avoid the ball.

I don’t know how long it took for training, Lavin blew a whistle and said with a smile: “Okay, the first training session ends here. You have some rest and eat something. If I don’t guess, you haven’t had supper yet, right?”

Chamberlain was sweating all over. Not only was he tired, but he was also nervous and unwilling to give in. Training with LaVine is even more tiring than fighting Duncan. When playing games, you only need to rush up with your blood. Teammates help you, but this kind of training can only rely on himself. LaVine kept saying trash words and interfering with his emotions, making him very tired.

Wiping the sweat from his forehead with a T-shirt, Chamberlain said helplessly: "You guessed it, I really didn't have supper."

"I'm not guessing, but seeing it from my eyes," Laven smiled. "There is a beautiful girl who brought you dinner. She has brought so many dishes, obviously it's not just a midnight snack."

Chamberlain raised his head in surprise and saw Li Qun sitting next to the old man and chuckling at him. Beside the two of them, a big Chinese lunch box was placed on the floor.

Seeing this, a surprise appeared in Chamberlain's heart. His tired body was once again full of strength. He ran up happily and asked happily: "Li Qun? Why are you here?"
Chapter completed!
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