Shi’s Unstoppable: American Sophomore is a valuation machine – The Mercury News

Fremont-after shooting a 20 plus point of points in each game, width is back to the home of his family Fremont.

There, the work behind the scenes continues for the American high position.

The fast arsenal of the sharp crossovers of Shi, knee fluctuations and difficult dribres, so that effective teammates believe that its mastery of the ball is “God-like”-they exacerbate the old-fashioned way.

The 16-year-old security carefully practices his moves about an hour in the backyard on warm evenings and inside the garage on Chilean evenings.

“Especially if I’m not satisfied with my performances, I will continue to work,” Shi said.

This aspiration, along with the huge talent and athleticism, which is far away from her 5-core-3 frame, helped Shi be interested in colleges and run a Resurgent Eagles team, who dreams of winning the first section on the northern shore of the program S

Shi scored 35 points in wins over midfielder Moon and San Jose Mission and 20 or more points in all, except three of her matches so far.

At 15-4, the American has already surpassed the victory last season, thanks to a large extent to Shi’s fearless game, determination forged on the courts in a nearby Northgate park as a small child.

Her grandfather, whom Shi said he was also a talented basketball player in her youth, would take her granddaughter to the local park and make her learn by playing against the boys.

“I was always the fastest … and the smallest,” Shi remembered. “I was obviously not the best, but I learned to play the way I wanted to play.”

The love of the game was further nourished by her parents, Amy Gian and Charles Shi, as their daughter is obsessed with receiving baskets.

Her ruthless style, determined by an endless blitz of crossovers and frenetic drives in search of arrangements among much higher players, has translated from the park into the high school vessel.

Shi immediately became the best goalkeeper of the American as a freshman after he lit the Aau chain as a high school.

“I know her from the fifth grade, so there is nothing she has done is surprising,” said teammate Lian Wang.

Shi is the latest in a long line of fruitful buckets of buckets who have played with longtime coach Keith Rami. This is a list that includes former players at Kiara Brown and Dawson Bell.

Rami sees Shi, who also has a 4.0 GPA, joining them at college, is ranked after graduating from an American.

Watching Shi Conside Defense, it’s easy to understand why.

It is convenient to end around the rim with two hands and has a compact firing shape that can be unleashed from the dribble or captured if even the smallest space is given.

“If I attack the gaps, it can create more opportunities for my teammates,” Shi said.

This player made her the undeniable general on the Eagles floor. She is asked to balance her outbursts of evaluating the type of passing votes that college teams will need it to do at the next level.

The flowering interest of colleges – UC Santa Cruz and Cal State Monterey, among them – is something that Shi is grateful and motivated by.

“You have so much more weight for you and more expectations,” Shi said. “Just because you have these offers, it doesn’t mean you can work less. If nothing else, you need to work more. “

It is not a shock that born in the Bay area model his game after Stephen Curry, although while WNBA is preparing to enter the region, Shi also began to comply with the biggest star in this league.

“Caitlin Clark, with a three -point range and how she changed the game, how she changed women’s basketball, I just love her game,” Shi said.

The teammates of Shi, who include colleagues Captain Sahana Pamarty and Wang, called her as the most daunting person in the team who can break into random dances and get off witty single-linen to keep the mood light in practice.

There is a different question in court.

“She accepts things very seriously and wants to win, and many of us support her,” Pamarty said. “We are all repelled by the energy of width.”

This energy is not only translated from the offensive side of the ball for Shi, which is far from a single -dimensional artillery.

Shi has become enthusiastic – if it is still improving – the stopper around the perimeter after being chosen in defense as a freshman.

“Everyone thinks she’s just a great goal scorer, but I think she’s a great player in the all-round world who will get even better over the next two years,” Rami said.