Since he decided to join Duke University and pursue this path, Chen Jie decided to do his best.
During the summer vacation, he spent every day in the training gym. Although he had all the talent inherited from Jay Williams, it was impossible to go further without putting in his own efforts.
Chen Jie knows this very well.
Practicing strength, flexibility, jumping, dribbling, and shooting... Chen Jie poured his sweat into the city's training gym, and slowly transformed the talent from Jay Williams into his own.
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When he was playing basketball in New York, his dunks and breakthrough shots were more of a subconscious action that he couldn't control at all, as if he couldn't control his body.
Chen Jie didn't like that feeling very much.
So in the past two months, in addition to continuing to improve his skills, his only task was to integrate Jay Williams' skills.
Beyoncé did not go to a newspaper for an internship in the past two months, and she did not write a report on the day of the draft. Ever since Chen Jie started practicing hard in retreat, Beyoncé seemed to have become his full-time secretary.
Beyoncé did everything from delivering food and water to arranging Chen Jie's admission procedures with Gilbert.
Halfway through the summer vacation, Chen Jie also had a new identity certificate.
Gilbert still has a lot of connections in Delek, North Carolina, so he completed this matter for Chen Jie in more than a month.
The only bad thing is that Chen Jie may have American citizenship in the future.
In the past life, many Chinese people tried their best to get the green card, which did not make Chen Jie very excited. On the contrary, he was very disappointed that he would no longer be able to play for China.
With the new identity certificate, Chen Jie also has a new name, Jay Sean. After all, such a name will help him develop in the United States. Although he has yellow skin and dark eyes, he can say that he is of Chinese descent who grew up in the United States.
All of this was naturally planned for him by Gilbert.
Gilbert, who always thought that Chen Jie had a past that he could not complain about, did not ask Chen Jie about these things, but just told him that from now on, he would have a new beginning.
When Chen Jie heard this, he nodded with a heavy heart.
After time travel, it seems that formal life is really about to begin.
It is impossible to repeat things in the past, so take advantage of the future.
In fact, it was not until this day that Chen Jie truly integrated into his life as a time traveler.
In the past, he still used to think of himself as the otaku in his previous life, the fan who liked Tracy McGrady. But now, he knows that he is no longer. He is a time traveler who knows many things in the next ten years, and he is a person favored by God.
A Chinese-American who has received a lot of talent may become a well-known NBA superstar in the future.
My name is Jay Sean.
Chen Jie said this silently to himself, put down the series of identification documents, and came to the training hall again.
The requirements he set for himself were to perform ten sets of upper body strength exercises, twenty sets of lower body strength exercises, ten sets of bench presses, and one hundred jump ropes every day... These are just the items to be completed in the gym.
When he comes to the arena, he still has to score 1,000 free throws and 500 three-pointers. Moreover, he is very strict with himself, and every goal must be hollow.
As someone who has played basketball, he knows that if he barely manages to bounce or climb in when shooting in training, then in the game, under the fierce physical confrontation, it is very likely that a deviation will cause the ball to hit the iron.
As the saying goes, one minute on the court, ten years off the court. In his previous life, Chen Jie was envious of Kobe Bryant's ability to make so many difficult mid-range shots. He knew that he also spent a lot of sweat and countless hours in the gym to make this change.
Everything that comes.
Therefore, Chen Jie set such an almost strict requirement for himself.
In the first few days, it was usually late at night before Chen Jie could complete his goal. After returning to Beyoncé's house, he usually fell asleep without even eating dinner.
Slowly, the time for Chen Jie to complete his goal began to advance, from late night to evening to afternoon.
A few days before the summer vacation is about to end, Chen Jie's strength training only takes two hours to complete, and his shooting training almost only takes one noon.
Beyoncé, who was doing statistics for Chen Jie on the sidelines, discovered that over the past month or so, his free throw shooting percentage during training had slowly increased from over 70% to nearly 90%.
The three-point shooting percentage has also increased from 60% to 80%.
When Beyoncé showed this amazing data to Chen Jie, he just shook his head slightly and seemed not satisfied and said: "This is just training. During the competition, it will definitely be much lower than this."
In his previous life, what he admired most was Steve Nash's free throw shooting rate of more than 90%. In the game, Nash was able to make almost every free throw after committing a foul.
Although he can reach 90% in training now, competition and training are still different after all.
The physical exertion during the game is high, and the interference from off-field factors and changes in one's own mood can affect the free throw shooting rate.
If Nash were allowed to shoot free throws during training, he would probably hit 100% of the time.
Chen Jie knows that he is still far behind Nash.
As for three-pointers. Players like Kobe James, who shoots 40% of three-pointers in games, can hit 90% in training. What does his own data mean?
Although the next step is to play in the college league, Chen Jie still sets his goal to compare with NBA stars.
Just like his daily training, when shooting three-pointers, he uses the NBA three-point line instead of the NCAA three-point line which is more than one meter shorter.
Under this almost perverted demand for self-improvement, the summer vacation slowly came to an end.
Duke University also ushered in a new semester.
The tragedy of Jay Williams does not seem to affect the goals of this famous basketball school this year. The Blue Devils, the basketball team of Duke University, have already started training before the school started.
A group of stars have left, and a new group of players will naturally come in to fill the gap.
And Chen Jie is one of them.
During the school team trials, Chen Jie, who had been training for a whole summer, lived up to the trust of Beyoncé and others and passed the test easily.
During the subsequent physical examination, Chen Jie naturally had no problems.
When Beyoncé started taking classes, Chen Jie was going to Duke University's basketball team to start reporting for training.
When he came to the training hall, Chen Jie couldn't help being shocked when he first saw Coach K, the future head coach of the dream team who only appeared on TV. He was the second big man to get close to him after time travel.
