The first is the defensive general Bobby Jones!
After graduating from North Carolina, Bobby Jones entered the NBA draft in 1974 and was selected by the Rockets with the 5th pick in the first round. However, he did not play for the Rockets, but instead chose to join the ABA Denver Nuggets, where his mentor was. He was selected to the ABA All-Defensive First Team twice, and in 1976, he was selected to the ABA All-Star team and the All-ABA Second Team.
In 1976, the ABA merged into the NBA, and Bobby Jones also entered the NBA with the Nuggets. In 1978, Bobby Jones transferred to the Philadelphia 76ers. In 1983, he won the NBA championship with the 76ers, was selected to the NBA All-Star team four times, the NBA All-Defensive First Team eight times, was named the first NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 1983, and was selected to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 1985.
In the NBA of the 1980s, the only player who could be compared to Bobby Jones on the defensive end was McHale of the Celtics.
Bobby Jones is widely recognized as a defensive master among the older generation!
The second is the talented scorer James Worthy!
James Worthy was a key member and leading scorer of the 1982 NCAA Championship North Carolina basketball team, and the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four that year.
This attention was remarkable!
They discovered that He Ximeng's tactical translations were not only fast and accurate, but more importantly, in ambiguous areas, He Ximeng would add his own understanding and interpretations, and these annotations were often divine strokes, more excellent than the original meaning of the two!
Thus, Bobby Jones and James Worthy, without consultation, began to focus on this yellow-skinned player whose English was even better than that of the American team players and whose tactical understanding was leagues ahead of everyone else...
The three days of training passed quickly.
During the day, He Ximeng received instruction from Bobby Jones and James Worthy, and at night, he would return to the gym for extra training with Kobe!
On the International team, He Ximeng also brought along Da Zhi, Nowitzki, and Gasol, and of course, Ginobili!
On the American team, Kobe, alone, did not call anyone and went his own way.
Due to the difference in positions, during the extra training, He Ximeng, Kobe, and Ginobili were on the same half-court.
Da Zhi, Nowitzki, and Gasol were on the other half-court.
What was called extra training was actually mostly mutual sparring between the players, that is, one-on-one!
Kobe never held back during one-on-one games and was as dedicated to victory as ever!
He Ximeng, on the other hand, never went all out in one-on-one games, as he believed that such individual duels were merely for honing individual skills. Basketball, after all, is a team sport, and team cohesion will always be stronger than individual heroism!
Despite their fundamental differences in basketball philosophy, this did not prevent them from appreciating each other...