Jaycee Carroll

But only one dimension in his game, but this is the best dimension in European basketball right now. Do not worry about minute play, almost never starts playing, does not think about failures, simply shoots and hits in large quantities.

Metralleta is on a Spanish automatic rifle. Uzi, Kalashnikov, Hekler, Jaycee Carroll. There is no intruder here. They all have a frame and a burst of fire. Metrallet is the nickname Carroll received in Spain. If you've only looked at one game of Real Madrid in the last two years, then you understand why ... If you're not, look at at least one.

Wherever he played in his career, Jaycee picked up a nickname. In Italy, as he performed for Teramo, he received the nickname Bum-Bum, because he hit two triples in the end of an uncertain game in a span of seven seconds. At Utah State College he received a bizarre nickname of "Wyoming squirrels", because he was elusive of the opponent's defense (probably just because of that).

It's kind of assumed that a child born in Laramieu has a good shot. The city of Wyoming is not known for good athletes, especially non-basketball players, but there was a breakthrough during the Wild West. Laramie is well-known by everyone who loved cowboy comic bookings, sculptures, baluns, tobacco chewing and cartons with six bullets.

Given that winter is pretty long, someone who wants to play basketball in Laramieu or nearby Evanston can hardly work on dribbling, penetration or pivoting. Although Daddy Jerry was a basketball coach, there was not much in the nearby high school for free Jaycee. The recipe was the next, shovel clearing the approach home, Dad mounts the basket on the garage and shoots from the trotter without much dropping the ball. So, under the watchful eye of his father, Carroll began to develop a skill in which he would become famous ...

In Evanston High School, they simply were not ready for someone who was affected by all situations and positions. In the fourth, Carroll had an average of 40 points per game! In the game against Green Rivera he scored 56 points, kicking the threes 14-16 ...

"When I hit the first two balls, I had the feeling that they would get everything I threw into the basket, so it was about that."

Colleges, regardless of long-range firing, did not exactly stand in line with the offers. Brigham Young did nothing, Utah did nothing, Wyoming did nothing, he offered to Weber State, but they told him that they did not have space for him. Finally, he contacted Utah State and gave a scholarship, but Jaycee, like Mormon, had to respect things relating to his and family beliefs. Carroll went to the Utah state camp and immediately went to a two-year Mormon mission to Chile. The struggle with learning the Spanish language lasted and lasted ...

"For two months, I taught the tongue every day for seven hours and in vain, I did not go in. I basically numbed the nonsense. After these two months of intense learning, I needed six more months to start talking normally." On one occasion, the lady told me that she my husband died. I said 'Well that's great !, I can not wait to talk to him!' I did not have a clue so much. "

In Chile, Jaycee passed the best life school. Basketball was not even traceable. The ball did not touch for two years. The hope of making a basketball career was less and less. NBA had no place to follow. The friends sent letters from their colleagues in which they described in detail the games and the players that were dominant. Carroll did not even open them out of grief ...

"I thought it was almost my basketball way, and Father Jerry was pretty suspicious." I returned home, I was 21 years old, and the first thing I did was to take the ball and to silence a series of three. "

At Utah State he looked like he spent two years in the hall. Already in the first year he was the most useful player in the final tournament tournament. At the second year he scored 10 trophies in one game and led his team to Martov's madness. On the third, he scored 44 points in 34 minutes against New Mexico State! During the summer, he felt that he could still make progress, and he set himself the task of throwing 20,000 shots !? And it's not any, but from the situations and movements that happen to him during the games ...

"I spent the summer in the hall, I just kicked the real shots I had in games. Every week I made weekly tables on the computer house with the number of balls that I shot, the positions from which I shot and the move I made before the shot. shot and hit 20,178 times. That summer I married and my wife Baylee went with me to the hall and returned my balls. I found an ideal partner. "

Carroll finished his career as the best shooter and troika in the history of Utah State. His percentage of three points in his college career is 46.5 percent, the fourth best in NCAA history.

All this was fantastic, but Carroll did not have an engagement at the end of the college ...

"I did a poker tournament in Portsmouth and the NBA Summer League, but there was no offer. The wife was in a bitter pregnancy and it was crystal clear to me that I