Do you know how Downes grew up?

Downs was born into an ordinary black family in Taway, Pisca, New Jersey. Because of his poor family, Downs' parents who work in a pharmaceutical factory have to work outside to support their families. As a college basketball star, Old Downs worked as a coach in Tawei Technical High School in Pisca. Since he was three years old, Downs has been attached to basketball. When Downs was 8 years old, his family moved into a shack. At that time, Downs' height soared, and his parents raised the ceiling of the restaurant and bought a big bed for him.

On Christmas Eve, when Downs was in the fourth grade, his poor father apologized to Downs and said, "I can't afford any Christmas presents." But he finally gave Downes what he called "the most precious gift in life": after saving money for several months, Downes Sr built a basketball court in the backyard. "A few months ago, we couldn't afford a basket, so I had to run around and practice attack and defense with my father," Downs recalled.

In the fifth grade, Downs was 1 m, 9 1 m. At school, Downs needs to customize special desks and chairs, because the public desks in the school can't support Downs' long legs. Towns, whose figure is different from ordinary people, has become the object of ridicule by his classmates. So, Downes went to the library to find biographies about O 'Neill and Yao Ming, trying to understand how the predecessors of these giants spent this embarrassing period when they were growing up.

Every day, Downs looks forward to the arrival of three o'clock in the afternoon, because at that time, his father will take him to Pi Scata Wei Technical High School for basketball training. Although he is only in the fifth grade, Downs has been training with the second team of the senior high school team. At this time, his mother began to realize Downs' unusual basketball talent. She thought, "despite his huge figure, his steps are so elegant." At that time, I began to think that he would make a difference in basketball. "

As a basketball star of Monmouth University with a height of 1984, Old Downs, who leads the national rebounding list with a height of 1.96 meters, knows the importance of basic basketball skills. "I don't want him to have any shortcomings. I want to make sure that Carl's skills are comprehensive, "said Old Downes. Every Saturday, Downs' parents will accompany him for special training such as dribbling, shooting, breakthrough and agility. Six days a week, Downs must shoot 65,438+0,000 shots a day. Only on Sundays do parents give Downs a day off.

Towns, who is gifted and has excellent basketball skills, received scholarship invitations from famous universities such as Michigan State University, Syracuse University and the University of Connecticut in his freshman year. But at that time, David Turk, the coach of his high school team, thought that Downs had not found his "Niu Yi nine hairs", because Downs was always outside the three-point line and rarely engaged in hand-to-hand combat inside. Downs was the team's three-point champion in high school and was compared with his idol, Aaron Buys.

Of course, Downs has been honing his inside skills. Besides studying Len Bias's videos, he often watches "Big Dream" and Kemp's videos and spends a lot of time recreating the footprints of his predecessors. Downs' mother still remembers that Downs stood on the bed with a marker and wrote many inspiring sayings on the wall, including "greatness comes at a price".

Because his mother was Dominican, Downes was selected to the Dominican national team at the age of 16, and served as the replacement for NBA All-Star center Horford. This experience was very valuable, and Horford also established a friendship with Downs. As a senior student, Horford is very optimistic about Downs' future and thinks he will make a difference.

Calipari, a legendary coach of NCAA, was the head coach of Dominican national team in 20 1 1 and 20 12, and led the team to win the bronze medal in the US Championship in 20 1 1. Due to his experience in the Dominican national team, Downs became attached to calipari, and finally decided to join the University of Kentucky men's basketball team led by calipari after graduating from 20 12.

In his senior year, Downs averaged 20.9 points 13.4 rebounds and 6.2 blocks per game. This season, he cut four pairs of super data twice, including 16+17 board+1hat+1/helper, 20+14 board+/kloc-. At that time, Downs was regarded as the third seed in the 20 15 draft by ESPN experts, and was elected as the best Gatorade player in 20 14.

Of course, Downs, as a star, has many spots on his body. Some voices criticized him for being too soft, too thin legs and too big feet, and even criticized him for being too friendly and not having the conditions to be a good big man.

His mentor calipari is the most ruthless critic in Downes. But as the saying goes, "A strict teacher makes a brilliant apprentice", even the old Downs is very supportive of calipari's beating Downs.

Calipari is very strict with Downs. First, Downs' playing time is strictly controlled. Secondly, calipari strictly limited Downs' three-point shot. As a traditional coach, calipari is very attached to the basketball concept of combining inside and outside. He believes that as a big man, the dominance in the inside is the right way.

Cousins and Davies, the two most outstanding young insiders in the league today, are both disciples of calipari.

As a result, Downs practiced confrontation, strength and low-post skills. Finally, he became an offensive killer with both internal and external skills. In high school, Downs hit a 3-pointer of 127, but at the University of Kentucky, he always made only eight shots.

Downs was in a low state when faced with 16 from the University of West Virginia, and only got 13 minutes. Old Downs immediately sent a text message to head coach calipari: "Coach, keep an eye on him and don't let him get away with it."

Old Downs said, "You have to let your children know right and wrong. Nowadays, parents always encourage their children blindly and sometimes they should fight. " Two days later, Downes scored 25 points against Notre Dame University and led the Kentucky Wildcats into the NCAA semi-finals.

In fact, it is the strict family education of Downs' parents that shapes Downs' perfect personal qualities. Unlike many NBA players who are slightly inferior in cultural courses, Downs is a good student with excellent academic performance. Growing up, in addition to basketball training, parents also asked Downs to guarantee three hours of study time every night. When he graduated from high school, Downs' GPA was as high as 3.96 (out of 4), and he was an out-and-out schoolmaster. It can be said that Downs can basically choose the top universities in the United States.

Despite the influence of basketball, Downs said that what attracted him more was the excellent subject of sports science. Downs always wanted to be a professional kinematic doctor after finishing his basketball career. Today, he is still studying online courses at the University of Kentucky, and he hopes to get his degree this morning. Don't think Downs is that nerd. Besides basketball, he can also play the piano, golf and ultimate frisbee. He even bakes cookies for his teacher.

The poverty of the family made Downes very precocious and sensible. Due to the large amount of food, the expenditure on food has always been a big burden for the Downs family. Soon, Downs found a good way to reduce the burden on the family-collecting coupons. Every Sunday, Downs and his son go to the convenience store to collect the inside pages of back-dated newspapers. "We didn't buy anything, just to get coupons," Downs recalled.

Although the family also had financial difficulties, his father's generosity in raising money for charity set an example for Downes. "They always taught me to be grateful for what I have," Downs said. Downs has been participating in various charity activities since high school. Although he had no money at that time, he had a warm heart. Although Downs' financial conditions were not better than others at that time, he always believed that there were more people in need of help in the world than he was.

Vanity Fair always makes people bad, but Downes has never expanded and changed his personality since he became a dazzling star. Last August, all members of the Kentucky Wildcats participated in international social service activities, and Downs also went to the Bahamas with the team to donate new shoes and socks to poor teenagers. Tall NCAA players bend over to wash the feet of hundreds of poor children who are about to put on new shoes and socks.

At the end of the activity, there seems to be a shortage of socks, and a tall child can't seem to find socks of the right size. A volunteer asked, "Do we really have no socks of size 10- 13?" There was silence in the room, but soon a gentle voice said, "He can wear mine." Downs took off his brand-new "Captain America" socks and bent down to put his size 20 socks on the child.

When talking to others, Downs always looks into each other's eyes and never interrupts. Words like "please", "thank you", "yes, sir" and "yes, madam" are always on Downs' lips.

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