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Chapter 306 Difficult running-in
McHale played 13 seasons in the NBA as a player, so he naturally knows what kind of problems players will encounter when they suffer serious injuries, especially foot injuries.In his opinion, Xu Hao is in such a situation now. Although he says that everything is OK, he will subconsciously protect his newly injured ankle on the field, so he chooses a more secure method.

There is nothing wrong with Xu Hao doing this. All players will do this after recovering from their injuries. To put it more broadly speaking, this is also due to the human nature of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. McHale has nothing to criticize.But if Xu Hao keeps doing this, it will be very problematic. It will not only affect the team's tactical system, but may also affect his career.

After defeating the Cavaliers, the Timberwolves will go to an away game to challenge the Knicks, and Xu Hao also goes to New York with the team.On the plane, McHale deliberately changed seats with Ellington and sat directly next to Xu Hao. He wanted to have a frank talk.

Faced with Xu Hao's surprised eyes, McHale didn't make any preparations, and said straight to the point: "Chris, I know you need time to find your form, but it's obviously not okay for you to continue playing like this in the next game. "

Xu Hao blushed and said hesitantly: "I'm sorry, coach, I'm still too afraid of getting hurt..."

McHale waved his hand and said: "I've also played in the NBA, so I naturally know what kind of mentality I have after returning from injury. I didn't say that what you did was wrong. You really need to ensure that the injury will not recur to the greatest extent when you just came back. But you have to be tough and try to make moves, or you'll always be scared inside."

Seeing McHale talking like a philosopher, Xu Hao quietly wiped his cold sweat, scratched his head, and said sincerely: "Coach, I know you have a lot of experience, can you give me some advice, what should I do next? Do?"

McHale thought for a while and said carefully: "You still have to position yourself in the supporting role first. Maybe you can organize the offense when leading the second team, but when you appear with the starters, you still mainly play without the ball. Of course you are When attacking, you can appropriately try to do some actions that require bursting and bouncing to see if anything bad will happen. If you have other feelings in the ankle area, you must tell me immediately and I will let you off the field to rest."

This suggestion is actually not so good for Xu Hao. After all, he was the core of the team's outside line before the injury, and he was also the commander on the field. McHale asked him to temporarily give up command and play off the ball. position in the team.But judging from the current situation, it seems that there is no better way, Xu Hao can only choose to accept.

Anyway, it’s not like he didn’t play off the ball in college. At that time, the star of the team was Harden. Although the two of them were later called the Sun Devils, he was still an outsider, and he played off the ball more frequently. over Harden.And McHale is not saying that he will play like this in the future, as long as he can quickly return to normal, the outside core is still his.

However, in Xu Hao's view, if he wants to play off the ball, his current state is not good enough, so he has to improve his shooting percentage first.If you still keep hitting the iron, running without the ball is meaningless, and Jordan can't grab so many rebounds inside.So he is going to practice extra after the team's training, trying to get back his fiery shooting touch.

On the second day after arriving in New York, the entire Timberwolves team went into training.Everyone was surprised to find that Xu Hao was consciously adjusting his style of play. Even if the ball was handed to him, he would pass it quickly.They had never seen Xu Hao like this before. During the rest, many people looked at each other in blank dismay, thinking that Xu Hao had just broken the jar, and his good friend Ellington was even more worried.

He leaned over and whispered: "Chris, don't take the previous game to heart, we all know you need time to adjust. Those reporters outside are talking nonsense, you don't pay attention to them, follow your ideas Just come."

Xu Hao patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Thank you, brother, but I don't want to drag the team down. This is also the advice given to me by the coach. I am going to start playing without the ball first, and I will talk about other things when the time comes. Hold you back?"

Hearing what Xu Hao said, Ellington shrugged, what else could he say?Everyone can see Xu Hao's state, but everyone doesn't want to provoke him, and they don't want to see him sink.But now it seems that Xu Hao is very aware of his situation, and is willing to make changes for it. Even if Ellington has a good relationship with him, he dare not talk too much about it.

After the team's training, the others prepared to go to the restaurant for dinner in twos and threes, but Xu Hao just drank a few sips of sports drinks, ran to the sidelines, picked up a basketball and began to practice three-pointers.At the beginning, he really didn't find the feeling. He only made one of the first five shots. For him, who often shoots more than 90% of his shots in training, this is obviously unqualified.

Fortunately, Xu Hao quickly found the way, and the muscle memory that had been hidden for a long time was awakened by him. Both the shooting speed and the hit rate have been greatly improved.Although the ankle was a little sore due to continuous jumping, Xu Hao didn't take it to heart. With such high-intensity training, ankle soreness is inevitable.However, he was also very cautious. He stopped when he felt a little soreness in his ankle, massaged it a few times, and went to the restaurant for dinner after the soreness disappeared.

For Xu Hao's extra training, the coaches did not stop too much, because the team doctor Torik told them that this kind of three-point shooting training would not cause problems to Xu Hao's injured ankle, so everyone just ignored it .

But they still told McHale about it, and the latter couldn't help but be filled with emotion.It is obvious that Xu Hao is trying hard to get better, and he does not hesitate to pay more sweat for this, regardless of whether his ankle can bear it.McHale couldn't help but think of those great figures in NBA history, who reacted almost the same way after suffering injuries.

For any player, injury is the biggest enemy in his career. When they finally get rid of it, some people will be silent because of it, and some will even choose to leave, but those great players will fight hard and fight for their careers. To strive for a better future in life, for them, injuries are just a hurdle, and they just need to cross it hard.

(End of this chapter)