Chapter 126 - First Day (2/2)

FIBA Personal: ”Please stand there; we will measure your height.”

Shun recognized the equipment. It was a stadiometer. He had seen it in his school, father's clinic, and at the hospital, his mother worked in.

The machine was simply a ruler and a sliding horizontal headpiece, which is adjusted to rest on the top of the head.

The personal looked at measurement and stated.

Next was the weight. Shun stepped on a weight scale and stood up straight.

The personal jotted down the number on the scale and told Shun.

FIBA Personal: ”70 kg.”

Shun had a pretty high metabolism from eating healthy and exercising at a high level every day. His lifestyle, which was a combination of sports and healthy living habits, had made it difficult for Shun to gain weight.

Shun ran around the court a lot every day to be ready for both offense and defense, plus he stayed late every day to train more, this didn't allow Shun to put on weight.

If Shun wanted to gain weight, then he would have to change his diet and work more on the physical exercises that would guarantee muscle gain.

But currently, Shun didn't have any intention of gaining weight in muscle or fat.

Next, they measure Shun's wingspan, hand length, and hand width for ball grip, standing reach, and BMI.

Calipers at eight-points on the body were used to take in skinfold measurements to find out BM.

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After physical measurements, the time was for an actual test of athletism.

The tests included standing and maximum vertical jump, measured on a vertec.

The Vertec was one of the most common apparatus for measuring vertical jump ability. It was the vertical jump-testing device of choice for many college and professional teams.

It was of steel frame construction with horizontal vanes that are rotated out of the way by the hand to indicate the height reached.

After vertical reach, was bench press measurement which was followed by, three-quarter-court sprint time, lane agility time, and modified event time.

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Shun returned from his physical assessment and asked others about their scores.

Shun: ”How did you guys do?”

All six of them compared scores, and Shun noticed the difference between him and high schoolers.

Shun lost to everybody except Ming in the vertical jump, both standing and with a run-up.

Shun lost in the bench press to everyone, Shun might have the explosiveness to force the ball in, but he didn't have the endurance to keep up the reps on a bench press.

In speed events, Shun matched with Roger and Ming, he won against Douglas and lost to Rafael and Bruno.

Shun sighed as he scratched the back of his head.

Shun: 'And, this is only tests in a controlled environment. In an actual game, the results would be worse than this.'

Douglas slapped Shun's back and laughed.

Douglas: ”Don't worry about the small stuff.”

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Shun redeemed himself in the shooting test. Everybody had to shoot regardless of their preferred position.

They had to shoot from the mid-range, three-point line, shooting off the dribble and timed jump shots on the move.

Shun made a hundred percent of his mid-range shots, both catch-and-shoot and off-the-dribble, and timed ones.

On three-point shots, Shun managed to make all of his catch-and-shoot, he missed one off-the-dribble, and one of his timed ones.

He almost had two misses in the timed three-pointer, but because Shun always a good amount of backspin on the ball, it bounced on the rim, but it went because of the backspin.

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Douglas missed all but one three-pointer, and that was a catch-and-shoot. He scored fifty percent from mid-range.

Rafael was bad at shooting and scored worse than Douglas and didn't make a single three-pointer and scored forty-five percent from mid-range.

Roger only made three three-pointers, one from each category, and made sixty-five percent of his mid-range shots.

Bruno made seventy percent of his mid-range shots but missed all of his three-pointers.

Ming scored thirty percent from three-pointer range and made seventy-five percent from mid-range.

So, when it came to shooting, Shun wiped the floor clean with everyone else. But, at the same time, none of them were shooting guards or even small forwards.

Even Ming stated that he was a supportive point guard rather than an offensive-type.