NBA peak

Chapter 678 Joshua's Potential

Chapter 678 Joshua's Potential

"McGee, come here and confront Joshua."

After getting a general grasp of Joshua's physical fitness, Kobe immediately called McGee over.

Kobe had McGee attacking in the low post and Joshua defending.

If Joshua can defend McGee's big hook, then the Lakers' deal will be considered a success.

When Joshua defended against McGee alone, his eyes were extremely serious.

McGee is very lethal in the low post.

At his peak, McGee was even able to confront Howard without falling behind.

Bryant sent the ball to McGee, then stepped back and began to observe Joshua's technical movements.

McGee directly chose his favorite low post.

Joshua's confrontation didn't look too good, and he was quickly carried to the basket by McGee.

McGee came to his shot and easily completed a standard low hook.

This is the most commonly used move after McGee's peak is gone.

"Snapped!"

However, at this moment, something unexpected happened.

McGee played the ball a little casually. When hooking, he didn't force Joshua away completely.

This gave Joshua a chance to block the shot.

I saw Joshua soaring into the sky, almost at the highest point of McGee's hook, slapped the ball out of bounds.

After McGee was hated, the whole person was in a state of bewilderment.

Once upon a time, McGee was also known as the "elevator" man.

At his peak, McGee often contributed one or two interference shots in the game.

At that time, McGee was already jumping very high.

But judging from the height of Joshua's take-off just now, even McGee at his peak is still a little young.

Bryant began documenting his latest discovery of Joshua excitedly.

Not only the vertical jump height, Joshua's jump speed, and continuous jumping ability are among the top in the NBA.

McGee was mentally prepared for the next few attacks.

Every time McGee completes the finish, he pushes Joshua away hard, and then completes the shot.

In this way, the problem of Joshua's poor defense was exposed.

Joshua can't resist, and because Joshua's defense relies too much on jumping, in many cases, McGee can directly fly Joshua with a simple fake move.

Kobe frowned, lost in thought.

Joshua's habit of jumping blindly is not good. After all, basketball is not a high jump competition. It doesn't mean that whoever jumps high will win the game.

In the next time, Kobe let Joshua and McGee complete the swap.

Joshua attacks and McGee defends.

After the position swap, Joshua's offensive and defensive problems were completely exposed.

As an insider, Joshua is not good at confrontation. Facing the strong McGee, Joshua has been hovering near the three-point line by McGee, and it is difficult to get close to the penalty area.

But Joshua jumped really high.

After several attacks, McGee's long arm almost covered Joshua.

But Joshua insisted on using the jumping height and the ability to stay in the air comparable to "beasts" such as Jordan, Kobe, and Ge Feng, and waited for McGee to land before Joshua completed the shot.

Joshua scored five goals, and under McGee's full defense, he actually made two goals.

This surprised Kobe and McGee a bit.

Joshua has been depressed in the NBA, and the team rarely allows him to participate in offense.

Therefore, Joshua's offensive ability has not been recorded in his personal file.

Joshua could have become an excellent professional high jumper, but Joshua likes basketball. Even though he has wandered in the NBA for many years, he has not given up his so-called basketball dream.

When he has nothing to do on weekdays, he will hold a basketball alone and float outside to shoot, exercising his touch.

But because Joshua is valued by the team, so on the court, Joshua takes very few shots per game.

Moreover, 75% of Joshua's career shots so far have been completed by grabbing offensive rebounds by himself.

Joshua's shooting ability is definitely underestimated.

If Kobe can jump up Joshua's shooting enthusiasm, then with Joshua's jumping height, air force, as well as his height of 206cm and wingspan of 211, he can definitely become an existence beyond Durant.

Of course, all of this must be based on a good shooting touch.

Joshua's biggest problem is that it comes from confrontation and being easy to eat.

Kobe's key training for Joshua in the next stage will be on these two abilities.

After all, no matter how good the potential is, if it is not realized, it is tantamount to throwing away everything.

Because of this, Joshua is often ridiculed by his teammates, which leads to his low self-esteem.

After doing all this, Kobe asked Joshua to participate in the team group and play the team training game.

Joshua was assigned to Group A with Ge Feng and Bo Yang, while Schroeder led Harrell and McGee to Group B.

Group A and Group B have a 3V3 half-court confrontation.

Seeing the lineup allocation, Schroeder couldn't help whispering to Harrell with joy: "Hey, buddy, this is your chance! Let's smash Ge Feng's ass together!"

Harrell also looked excited.

As a team rotation, Harrell has been losing in the usual training games.

Today, I don't know what Kobe was thinking, but he actually let Schroeder and McGee team up with him.

According to this distribution, only one Ge Feng in Group A has the ability to score. Joshua and Bo Yang only need to simply mark, and Group B can easily win the game.

Ge Feng secretly smiled at this time.

How could Ge Feng not guess Schroeder and Harrell's careful thinking.

Schroeder and Harrell still don't understand that no player who can enter the NBA is as vulnerable as they imagined.

Although Bo Yang's singles ability is not strong, as long as he uses it well, he can directly turn the 3V3 situation on the court into a 2V2 situation.

This is Kobe's real intention.

As long as Bo Yang pulls beyond the three-point line and creates a three-point threat, Ge Feng and Joshua can cooperate to make a big fuss near the penalty area.

The internal training started soon. According to the principle of rock-paper-scissors, Schroeder in Group B defeated Bo Yang and won the opportunity to start the game first.

Schroeder was very clear-headed. He knew that Ge Feng was very good at defending, so after passing the ball to Harrell, he kept walking back and forth between the two bottom corners for three-pointers, preventing Ge Feng from participating in the defense of the penalty area.

In this way, Harrell and McGee can easily smash Bojan and Joshua under the basket.

However, Schroeder and Harrell fell completely on their arrogance and carelessness this time.

Harrell and McGee made a simple pick-and-roll. After the split, Harrell took the ball and attacked again. At this time, the defender in front of Harrell became Joshua.

Facing the team's rookie Joshua, Harrell didn't take it seriously at all. He just accelerated a step and squeezed past, and then easily completed the basket pick.

Harrell hooked the corner of his mouth, the goal must be scored.

Kobe also smiled at this time.

Harrell, you have committed an old problem again-underestimating the enemy!

(End of this chapter)