During the month Wang Yi spent at the basketball school, all he had to do each day was come up with a training plan and announce it to the students. They would follow it without complaint, no matter how grueling it was.
After all, the plan had been drawn up by Brother Yi.
And unlike the other teachers, Wang Yi didn't have to stand beside them and keep them in line.
He didn't even have to say anything. He could just hand the training plan to the class monitor, then sit off to the side and chat with a few teachers.
The students would obediently get to work on their own.
Wang Jianhua and Teacher Yu weren't the only ones. When the other teachers heard about it, they all came to observe his classes.
They saw that at the start of each class, Wang Yi simply told the students what they'd be training that day, then sat by the court and chatted. The students would obediently complete the plan without anyone having to yell at or nag them—and it worked better than when the teachers kept a constant eye on them.
The teachers were at a loss for words.
Was Wang Yi here to put them all out of business?
Some of them tried to copy his teaching methods, but they soon realized that his approach couldn't be replicated.
The students listened to Wang Yi because they idolized him.
But the other teachers couldn't inspire that kind of response.
After all, in the students' eyes, the teachers were just ordinary teachers.
Wang Yi did come up with an idea, though.
He told the students about the teachers' past accomplishments, shared their records, and played footage of them competing.
That helped the students understand that, in the context of their time,