No.1 in basketball scoring-Chapter 855 - 368. Treat everyone equally

On the 12th, at noon the next day, Zhang Yang’s house, Zhang Yang, Felton, Paul, Harden, and Tatum had lunch together.

Paul played an away game in Orlando yesterday. After the Hornets flew to the hotel in Charlotte this morning, he came to visit Zhang Yang’s house along with Felton, who came to pick him up.

Seeing Paul, Harden and Tatum were very calm, no longer getting overly excited over merely seeing an NBA player like in the old days—among new-generation NBA stars, even the top idol Zhang San has to pay for their meals, so why be surprised by a little shell like Paul?

In the past two game days for the Bobcats, after lunch, Harden would run to Tuhang Stadium and practice step-back shooting with Felton. Six months ago, Felton was the main focus, but now Harden has taken the lead because he’s more open and assertive than when he first entered college.

Harden indeed has an extraordinary talent for the step-back move. Despite being limited by his skill level and fundamentals, he might not immediately unleash its power in the NBA or hit a wall after initially stunning fans because opponents are targeting him.

But after starting to develop the step-back shot with Zhang Yang in 2004, over four years, the step-back shooting technique from close, mid-range, and long distances has become very well-developed. In terms of step-back skills, he’s much richer than Zhang Yang.

Moreover, Harden is limited by his foundation and can’t use many skills in actual games, but Felton has a solid foundation, and he can use them!

Whenever Felton needs to strengthen an area, he goes back to his alma mater to find junior students, and whenever Harden has ideas, he calls Felton...

It’s like... Harden is using Felton to test the development outcomes of his step-back shooting technique?

Zhang San’s comment on this—Er Ha: "My template, I cultivate it myself."

Harden, who is about to enter the draft, has two templates provided by major media, the upper and lower limits, Wade and Felton. The media mentioned the lower limit Felton more because both came out of North Carolina.

During the meal, they talked about the post-game press conference last night.

The Bobcats defeated the Spurs, finally breaking the current Western Conference top-three ’winless curse.’ It was a hot topic after the game, Zhang Yang’s 30 points overshadowed Ginobili’s 27 points, with many fans discussing it. Most headlines in today’s basketball news were occupied by last night’s game.

But the direction of the public opinion...

Felton: "Popovich really wasn’t up to any good, last night I just felt something was off about him, he actually praised us so earnestly, said all the compliments I wanted to say, turns out he wanted to praise us to death."

Paul laughed upon hearing this; he’s very interested in the Bobcats and Spurs game.

His Hornets will soon face the Bobcats and are in contention with the Spurs for second place in the West.

If the Spurs beat the Bobcats and they lose to the Bobcats, at this stage, second place in the West would be pretty much out of reach.

He saw the news about the Bobcats being praised to death this morning as he left the Orlando hotel.

Under Popovich’s guidance, Zhang Yang’s trailing three-pointers were hyped by the media as a ’historic-era shooting method’; the Bobcats’ offensive system was hyped as a ’leading-era basketball system’; the future prospects of the Bobcats were also wildly exaggerated...

If another coach said this, the influence wouldn’t be so big, but that was Popovich, a three-time championship coach, the only active coaches with more honors than Popovich are Zen Master and the "Rat King," his exaggerated praise drew a lot of media to follow suit.

Such excessive and ridiculous praise might make Bobcats players arrogant... Paul thinks it’s unlikely, Felton isn’t arrogant, and it’s hard for the Bobcats to get carried away, but it will surely irritate other top strong teams, even if they know Popovich said it to annoy the Bobcats, they’ll still be annoyed.

Popovich kind of set up a not-too-big but not-small pit for the Bobcats, won’t kill them, but might make them suffer a bit.

Paul looked at Zhang Yang, wanting to know what his fellow 3-numbered jersey would say about this.

Zhang Yang showed a satisfied expression, saying: "It’s been a long time since I’ve seen news of praising us to death, this feeling is truly nostalgic."

Paul, Felton, Harden, Tatum: "..."

Little shell: "Well, what exactly was I expecting?"

But suddenly Paul felt something was wrong with himself, from Zhang Yang’s tone, he felt Zhang Yang was speaking from the heart!

Indeed, he had not seen the news of praising the Bobcats to death for a long time, even when the Bobcats faced the Cavaliers there was none, it should be noted that last season there were frequent excessively praised waves for the Bobcats, some media seemed to feel the Bobcats didn’t attract enough hate, helping them make enemies everywhere.

This season, as the Bobcats entered the midseason, after dropping from the league’s first place, the news belittling them was more than the previous two years, mainly focusing on the defensive system collapse after losing Gerald Wallace, the poor defense prospects before a defensive-focused playoffs, etc.

During the period when the Bobcats were adjusting their offensive system, the public opinion attacking their defense was also very fierce.

Paul thought this situation was very normal; the Bobcats won the championship last season, how else can they be praised?

The points worthy of praise after last season’s finals have already been fully used by the media; fans probably are tired of seeing them and might as well pick on their flaws to attack them to gain higher heat.

But Popovich managed to drive the car on this broken road...

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After a day of rest, the 13th arrived, and it was the fourth last game day of the season for the Bobcats.

After the morning pregame training ended, Zhang Yang and Felton pooled money to invite guests for lunch again, this time it was the Big Brother Group, including former Big Brother Group member Rondo, all of them to his farm for lunch.

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