Head coach Dako came over and slapped Zhang Yu's hand.
"Right, you have to be confident. When you get an opportunity, take the shot! As a Three-point Shooter, as long as you find your Three-point Touch, as long as you think you have an opening, just let it fly! Don't worry about what the haters say, and don't worry about whether the shot goes in. As a Three-point Shooter, you should trust your own instincts!"
Coach Dark understood players' psychology deeply, and those words really resonated with Zhang Yu.
Back when he played many games at home and across Asia, coaches often criticized him for taking unreasonable shots.
Take that last shot against King Arthur, for example.
King Arthur had already gotten right in his face, yet he still took the shot. By ordinary standards, that was clearly an unreasonable attempt.
Even as a Three-point Shooter, he should have waited until he was open instead of shooting over a defender.
But a true Three-point Shooter understood that there was no such thing as a reasonable or unreasonable shot.
Whether he took the shot didn't depend on whether anyone was guarding him, or how many defenders there were. Everything depended on how he felt.
If everything felt right and he was in rhythm, he'd shoot even with a defender in front of him. He might even shoot with two defenders guarding him.
Take Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, for example. Did people think many of their shots were reasonable?
They weren't.
Shots taken over defenders, drifting threes—how could any of those look reasonable?
But for them, that was just part of the game.
And the reason they did it was that they trusted their instincts.
Of course, later on, Klay Thompson and Curry's approaches diverged a little.
After Curry missed several