Those hot basketball days

A minibus drove slowly down the highway.

This is the exclusive school bus of the Longcheng Z high basketball team, and after a week of adjustment, it once again embarked on the road to Fengtian.

Next, Dragon City Z High will once again face the three opponents who have defeated them in the past to fight for a chance to qualify from the group.

Zheng Xueqi sat at the front of the line, discussing something with Anna.

To be honest, there are still changes in the team, at least not as chaotic as before, everyone knows their place in the team, the passing awareness has improved a lot compared to before, and the attack is more patient.

I just don't know if I can successfully break through from the group just by relying on this little change.

As long as you can win the first game, you will have at least three days to consolidate your tactics again.

For this reason, Anna also had a video call with her parents overnight, giving a detailed introduction to everything in the team, hoping to get guidance from her parents.

Her father was very happy to know that she was the coach of the high school basketball team, and immediately patiently explained and instructed her, and told her to lead the team well, promising to take a trip to China to see it for himself after his team finished the state league.

Anna listed all the things her father taught one by one and had a profound discussion with Zheng Xueqi.

With the training in the past few days, Zheng Xueqi has become more and more admired for this little girl from the United States, it seems that the basketball environment of the United States is indeed different, while giving full play to its own advantages, it is also absorbing some advanced things from abroad to seek changes, which can adapt to the development trend of contemporary basketball. This is something that Zheng Xueqi didn't expect at all.

In exchange, Anna also told her father Zheng Xueqi's consistent defensive thinking and understanding of defense, hoping to bring some inspiration to his future coaching career.

Originally, Zheng Xueqi was dismissive of high school basketball in the United States, believing that the results of the high school league in the United States were all based on the physical and star players' talents, and there were too few things at the tactical level. But as I talked more and more with Anna, I gradually learned about the basketball culture of high school in the United States, and it seems that they not only have the NBA, but also attach great importance to the cultivation of young people, and they are wrong.

"When we arrive in Fengtian in a while, do we have any arrangements?" asked Zheng Xueqi.

Anna said: "In the evening you are leading the team to do one last confrontation drill, to fully penetrate our system into every attack of the players, Jamin lent me and I am going to take him out.

After Zheng Xueqi listened to Wu Xining's quick translation next to him, he asked curiously: "Do you want to take Jia Ming out?" But without Jia Ming, our tactics are missing the most important link. Anna

said: "It doesn't matter, each of them has to master the passing skills, it doesn't have to be Jammin's presence, there is always a break in the game, if there is no second person to step up, then our system still can't play."

Zheng Xueqi nodded and said, "I know."

Since Anna is not yet proficient in Chinese, Wu Xining can only sit next to her and act as a translator. I wanted to take a good look at Su Ce, but now I have no chance at all.

But despite this, Wu Xining would still sneak a glance back from time to time to take a look at the side face of the boy who made her miss her.

Zhao Xuanting was still leaning on Su Ce's shoulder, holding his arm. Since Anna joined the team, Wu Xining, as the interpreter of the team, naturally followed her at all times, which made Zhao Xuanting, who was originally defensive of Wu Xining, naturally feel an unprecedented sense of crisis.

Her conditions are not worse than herself, and she is even much better than herself in some aspects.

She just likes basketball, but she doesn't know how to play, but she plays very well, although she was once educated by Su Ce very badly, but she is also a relatively powerful existence among ordinary people, after all, she can dunk.

Compared with her, Zhao Xuanting even felt ashamed of herself.

In the past, I felt that my biggest advantage was that I was tall, long-legged, and had a lively and cheerful personality. But when I met this Wu Xining, who was taller than herself, had longer legs than herself, and grew up in the United States since she was a child, she felt that she was inferior to her in everything.

The reason why he was able to get Su Ce's favor was mostly because he knew him first, if he had known Wu Xining in advance, it is estimated that he would not like him for anything.

Zhao Xuanting suddenly felt a sense of loss in her heart, felt stuffy in her chest, and even felt like crying, and couldn't help but hold Su Ce's arm harder, and her head was tightly resting on his shoulder.

Su Ce felt her strangeness, subconsciously rubbed her hair, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Zhao Xuanting shook her head with an aggrieved face, like a poor kitten, her head leaning on his shoulder was even harder.

Su Ce has always been more nervous about this kind of thing, so naturally he wouldn't think that she was because of Wu Xining's relationship, thinking that she was nervous and afraid when she was approaching the game, and couldn't help but caress her back with his hand to stabilize her emotions.

Wu Xining turned her head sideways again and glanced at Su Ce gently.

Seeing the two snuggling together so happily, his heart suddenly felt as if he had been hit hard, and his face was lost and bitter.

yes, he already has a girlfriend, so why should I ask for it.

But I just like him, what can I do?

Almost every night, I dreamed of him, played ball with him, and imagined him holding his hand and strolling through the park.

Wu Xining suddenly felt like crying.

How much I hated him when we first met, and how much I like him now.

As long as you close your eyes and think about the scene of him violently dunking on the court, the shock and inner excitement brought to you can still be vaguely felt after so long.

It was a feeling that hit the depths of my heart and made my heart beat faster.

He is his tablemate, and he usually sees everything he looks like when he goes to school. is obviously a boy who rarely speaks, but he can burst out with such powerful energy on the court.

Wu Xining had to admit that he was the most special boy he had ever seen.

Although he had told himself more than once that no matter whether he liked him or not, he would just be able to play with him all the time, but seeing the scene in front of him still made him feel a heartache.

It was a feeling of being slashed by a knife.

"Minnie, Minnie!" Suddenly heard Anna on the side calling herself, quickly came back to her senses, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes

, and shouted, "What's wrong?" Anna asked with concern, "Are you okay?"

Wu Xining shook her head and said, "It's okay."

Anna looked at her insincerely, and naturally knew what was going on with her, but if she didn't say it, she couldn't break it.

Although Minnie usually looks much more mature than the average girl, she is like a helpless little girl when it comes to this kind of emotional matter.

Hey, I really hope that one day she can completely let go and start a new life.

At this time, the atmosphere in the car is different from the last time I came back. Although they were not as excited as when they drove to Mukden for the first time, everyone's eyes showed confidence, and they looked eager to try it out, eager to play right away, and then show everyone the current atmosphere of their team.

When I arrived in Mukden, it was still the same hotel, but this time I didn't have the same leisurely mood as last time.

Zheng Xueqi motioned for everyone to rest quickly, and then moved freely for half an hour after dinner, and then continued to do the last training before tomorrow's competition.

Everyone didn't show any negative emotions this time, after all, they were already Xi to it.

Although the training is hard, the effect is there after all, and everyone, like Zheng Xueqi, feels more and more admiration for Anna from the United States, and naturally supports every decision she makes.

After dinner, Su Ce and Jia Ming were about to change their shoes and go out for a walk, when there was a knock on the door.

Jia Ming hurriedly went to open the door, but unexpectedly found that it was Anna and Wu Xining standing outside the door.

"Ouch, the beauty is coming, it's a long way to go!" Jia Ming has always been cheeky, although Anna has become a coach, but it can't affect anything, and she still uses the previous way of speaking.

Su Ce scolded: "You can't fucking pay attention to the influence, people are coaches now!"

Anna smiled and waved her hand, signaling that it was okay, and asked, "Can I come in?"

Anna laughed, walked into the house quickly, and said, "You two live together

?" Su Ce stood up, nodded, and subconsciously said, "Is there anything wrong, coach?"

Anna smiled and said: "Just call me Anna, we don't pay so much attention to it."

Su Ce smiled and nodded.

Anna said, "Jamin, you go somewhere with me."

Jia Ming didn't expect such a good thing, and immediately clapped his hands and shouted, "No problem." Is the boss going too?"

Anna shook her head and said, "Su Ce will train with the team for a while, tomorrow is the first game, Coach Zheng is going to take you to play a training match with No. 7 Middle School to see how effective our training has been recently."

Jamin shouted, "Ah, isn't the boss going, just

the two of us?" Anna smiled and said, "Just the two of us."

Jia Ming suddenly showed a lewd expression on his face and said, "Oh my God, my beautiful lady, you don't want to do anything to me, do you?"

Anna smiled and said, "You'll know when you go." Then he went out and said, "Come out when you're ready, I'll wait for you at the door."

Su Ce hurriedly asked, "Anna, the training match for that while.

Anna waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, just follow the usual training, everything is up to Coach Zheng's arrangement."

Su Ce nodded, really didn't know what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd.

Jia Ming was very happy, the first was to be able to go out alone with the beauty, and the second was that he didn't need to train, so he quickly ran to the bathroom and grabbed his hair carefully, and then went out handsomely.

Sure enough, Anna was already waiting for her at the door, and Jia Ming said curiously, "Where are you going to take me?" Anna said

: "Just follow me, don't ask so much." "

I took a taxi immediately, although Anna is a native of the United States, but I seem to be very familiar with this place in Fengtian, the taxi drove for a long time, turned several corners, and entered several small roads, and finally arrived.

Jia Ming rushed to pay, then got out of the car and looked around.

Anna actually took him to

a bar, but this bar didn't look so high-class from the outside, it looked plain, even a little tattered.

Jia Ming couldn't help but complain: "Oh my God, you actually brought me to this kind of place?

"Go through the back door?" Jia Ming muttered, "Ah, yes, we are still minors, so we have to go through the back door."

Anna knocked on the back door, and Jia Ming couldn't help but complain again: "This store is too old, isn't it, the back door is still this kind of iron door

?" Anna still ignored him, knocked on the door again, and shouted: "Josh, are you there?"

After a while, an African-American foreigner finally appeared to open the door, it was still winter, but this person was actually wearing a T-shirt, showing his bulging muscles, speaking in the standard Mukden dialect, and said: " What are you doing, you haven't opened so early, so let's come back later. Anna

smiled and said, "Josh, who do you think I am?" Josh rubbed his eyes, looked carefully, and suddenly showed a happy smile on his face, exclaiming, "Oh my God, it's actually our Anna sweetheart, hey, how are

you?" Anna nodded and said, "I'm fine, what about you?"

Josh said

as he opened the door, "Very good, come in." Glancing at Jia Ming next to him, he asked curiously, "This is your boyfriend?"

Anna beckoned Jia Ming to come in as she entered the room, and said, "No, this is my friend."

Josh patted his head and said, "Fortunately, I thought you found a Huaxia boyfriend and will ignore me in the future." What a sweetheart, did you miss me?"

Anna shook her head and gave him a middle finger.

Jia Ming felt amused for a while, but still stretched out his hand and said, "Hello buddy, my name is Jia Ming."

Josh was surprised to hear that the emaciated Chinese man in front of him could actually speak standard English, and at the same time he got a lot closer, and said, "Hello man, call me Josh." He shook his hand.

Jia Ming said: "It's a pleasure to meet you.

Josh let the two of them into the house and said, "Sweetheart, I haven't opened the door yet, you're early." Walking quickly to the bar in front, Jia Ming realized that there was a hole here, although it looked very dilapidated outside, but the decoration inside the house was very elegant, common in the movie, quite a small bar with the pastoral flavor of the United States.

Anna said, "Bring me a glass of whiskey."

Josh quickly poured a glass of wine and said, "Here, a glass of whiskey."

Jia Ming felt a burst of amusement, this shout was a bit Huaxia, it seems that this guy has been in Huaxia for a long time, and he can say such authentic words.

Josh glanced at Jia Ming and asked, "What about you, my friend?"

Jia Ming waved his hand and said, "I don't want it, thank you."

Josh nodded and asked, "Sweetheart, long time no see, is there anything special about coming to me today?"

Anna said, "I need your help."

Josh smiled and said, "What do you need me to do?"

and Anna said, "I'm looking for Old John."

Josh was disappointed for a moment and said, "Sweetheart, you haven't been here for so long, you didn't miss me, you came to find that old fellow?"

Anna smiled: "I recently became the coach of the basketball team, and I came to learn skills from Old John."

Josh glanced at Jamin next to him and said, "Is that him?"

Anna smiled, "That's right."

Josh shook his head and said, "This guy is too skinny to play basketball." He waved his hand at Jia Ming and said, "Don't mind."

Jia Ming smiled and nodded, indicating that it was okay.

Josh continued, "Basketball is also a sport where skill determines the upper limit, but trust me, the body is the most important thing. Anna

smiled and said, "You don't have to worry about this, he is in very good physical condition."

Josh's eyes widened and he said in surprise: "How do you know that he is in good health, this Chinese boy, are you... You guys?"

Anna naturally knew what he was thinking, and couldn't help but give him another middle finger and scold, "Fuck you."

Jia Ming also saw foreigners scolding people in reality for the first time, and couldn't help laughing.

Anna said: "Tomorrow is the game, I need old John to give him a special training!" Josh

shook his head and said: "The old man no longer teaches basketball, now in addition to whiskey, he sleeps, occasionally listens to Chinese opera, plays Chinese chess, plays mahjong or something." "

Why don't you teach?" said Anna

, "He's too old to be as tossed around as he was when he was younger." Anna

asked, "Can't you help me persuade him?"

Josh shook his head and said, "It's useless for anyone to say, last time I flew from Los Santos to Mukden to look for him, but he was still refused." Anna

felt a pang of disappointment.

Josh said: "What position is this friend playing, maybe I can teach him!"

Anna's eyes immediately lit up when she heard this

, and said, "Are you willing to teach?" Josh smiled and said, "I am willing to do anything for you." "

Please, Josh!" Anna frowned and said, "I said a long time ago that it was impossible for the two of us.

"Why?" Josh's eyes widened again.

"Because you're not my thing. Anna took a sip of her wine and said, "He plays power forward, and I hope you can teach him to attack."

Although Josh was a little disappointed, he still said: "Attack, what do you want

to teach?" Anna said helplessly: "You can teach anything, how to say it... He was in a special situation. Then he briefly told Josh about Jamin's situation.

The more Josh listened, the more surprised he became, and said, "Oh my God, there really is such a player? Anna

nodded and said, "That's right, I play as a defender, and I naturally can't teach him anything, so I had to come to Old John."

Josh nodded and said, "Okay, it's just that you only have one night, and it's impossible to learn them all."

Anna nodded and said, "I naturally know that as long as you can teach him to shoot today, you can score one or two points in the game tomorrow, and deter the opponent from letting him go easily and then taking a trap on us."

"As for the follow-up skills, we will have to stay in Fengtian for a long time, and then let him come and train with you every night.

Josh shook his head and said, "I don't understand, why do you need me to teach you how to shoot, isn't this thing common?"

Anna shook her head again and said, "As I told you, he has too much strength, and his wrist strength is too strong, and his hand is relatively hard, and his normal shooting action will not exert force at all, and his shooting has no arc, so it is very difficult to do."

Josh thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll try it, I'll prepare something and take you to the court later." Anna

smiled and said, "Thank you."

Looking at the back of Josh leaving, Jia Ming couldn't help but ask, "What the hell is going on?"

Anna explained: "This store is opened by Old John, he has been in China for almost ten years, Old John played in the ABA when he was young, once teammate with Tiangou Abdul-Jabbar, and later became a basketball trainer after retiring, and many of the top players now have trained with him."

Jia Ming shook his head and said, "I haven't heard of it." After a pause, he asked, "Then why did he come to Huaxia?"

Anna said: "He has basically disappeared from the public eye since he retired, and those stars who have trained with him have never claimed to have trained with him, because this is what they have discussed in advance, and it is normal that you have not heard of it."

"I came to China purely because I like Chinese culture, anyway, I yearn for the life of China, like me, almost every foreigner comes to China for the same reason. "

It's very reassuring and amazing, everything is so cool, I love Huaxia. Anna said happily.

Hearing her suddenly become lyrical, Jia Ming couldn't help but laugh and asked, "What about this Josh? How did you meet?"

Anna said: "I once came to China with my dad two years ago, just to visit Old John, we stayed here for almost two months, Josh was still a child at that time, we were together every day, and we knew each other like this.

Jia Ming nodded and said, "No wonder you are so familiar with Fengtian, it turns out that you have been here before!" Anna

also nodded and said: "Josh has been raised in John's house for so many years, his parents fostered him here, and he will go back to the United States about once or twice a year, and he is going to go to college in the United States and then strive to play in the NBA when he is old enough."

Jia Ming let out a "hi" and said, "Okay, then according to you, this Josh should be considered super powerful." Anna

nodded and said, "Among my peers, he is the strongest I have ever met!"

While the two were chatting, Josh had already packed up, changed into the equipment he used to play, and walked over and said, "Let's go." The

two of them quickly got up and followed him to a side door of the bar, which probably looked like a warehouse, and the space was narrow but long. Walking through the warehouse again, there is another door, and outside the door is an outdoor basketball court.

"Wow, this stadium?" Jamin couldn't help but exclaim, "It's too street-style, isn't it?" "

This court can be said to be very cool, surrounded by a tall iron fence, the court is also surrounded by a fence, and there are cool lights, even at night can illuminate the entire court, plastic field, standard basketball, and simple staircase-shaped audience seats for watching the game, what is even more amazing is that there is a vending machine next to it, you can buy water at any time, it is really intimate.

Anna said proudly, "Not bad.

Jia Ming nodded, had to admit, and said, "It's really good."

Josh walked up to the court first, quickly passed the ball, and said, "Come on my friend, let me see your basics." Jamin

received the ball and Xi inertia dribbled in place.

He is also like this when he usually warms up, only dribbling, not shooting, and when everyone starts to run the basket, he just jumps high and puts the ball in, unlike others who gently pick the ball into the basket by shaking their wrists.

The last body changed direction, the ball quickly reached the left hand, and then smashed into the basket with a violent two-handed dunk to dunk the ball into the basket.

Josh said, "I'll take another shot." With that, he passed the ball out again.

The ball came fast and straight, Josh seemed to throw it casually, but he didn't expect it to be such a good pass, Jaming effortlessly received the ball in front of his chest, and at the same time bent his knees to exert force, and then lifted the ball, according to the previous coach's teaching, keep the shoulders, arms, and wrists into 3 90 degrees, and jump up quickly.

As soon as the ball was shot, the three people knew that there was no play, not only did the ball have no arc, but the strength was pitiful, so it naturally threw a three-no-stick.

"Look, that's it. Anna shook her head helplessly and said.

Josh thought for a moment and said, "His movements are still very standard, but he didn't master the power point, so he practiced too little."

"Actually, for basketball, there is no skill that cannot be practiced at all. I guess he should have played a role in the system before, and he didn't need to shoot at all, so there was no chance to practice hard. He spends his training time Xi passing and dribbling, defense and blocking, which brings more benefits to the team than shooting alone. Josh continued.

Anna said, "You mean, he can actually have a consistent shooting percentage?" Josh

laughed and said, "Man, how many years have you been playing?"

Josh said: "That's it, he probably just started to get into basketball three years ago, he didn't have the basics of systematic training, and then he started playing games everywhere, and his daily training was to defend and grab rebounds, and then to cover his teammates. So the shooting training was neglected.

"That is, you were completely trained as a blue-collar player at the beginning, because the team needed your talent, and it was too late, so you were forced to train you to defend alone, and over time you formed the Xi you have now, so you can't shoot."

"In other words, to understand it in Huaxia's words, you are a little in a hurry. Josh said with a smile.

"This... Jia Ming was stunned, but he didn't expect Josh to be able to analyze the matter without being wrong by simply dribbling the ball by himself

His basketball path is indeed like this, the reason why he first played basketball was because he wanted to be a girl and accompany Su Ce, running back and forth on the court every day, and never calmed down to practice Xi basic skills, until he was recruited into the team by Lei Hongjun later, and he did not cultivate his offensive ability at all, and maximized his defensive ability to enhance the team's immediate combat power, and over time formed his current style.

Anna nodded, thinking he had a point.

I came to John with this idea, because there was not much time left for me, the game started immediately, and it was definitely not allowed to slowly cultivate Jia Ming.

"My dear, let me tell you, if you just want to cope with tomorrow's game, I have a way, but if you want to plan for the long term, you have to let him do it step by step, and you can't rush it. Josh said, "It's up to you how you choose."

Anna couldn't care about Josh's ambiguity about herself at this time, paused, and said: "You first find a way to help me cope with tomorrow's game, I want to see the overall situation of the team, and the follow-up situation will be discussed later." He turned his head and glanced at Jia Ming, and asked, "What do you mean?" Jia Ming

never thought that he would one day play such an important role in the team, to be honest, after joining the Z high, he was very depressed in every game, his teammates couldn't throw in, it was all up to Su Ce himself, and he was in a hurry but there was nothing he could do, because his offensive ability was limited.

Now that Anna has brought herself to find someone to learn to attack, she naturally can't ask for it.

"I'm willing!" Jia Ming said quickly, "I can come over every night in the future."

Anna looked at him as a child, but she didn't expect him to agree so decisively, but she was a little impressed by him.

Josh nodded and said: "Actually, there are many stars in the NBA whose shooting movements are not very standard, but it does not affect their shooting rate, I think if you have the most comfortable shooting action, it is actually okay to practice according to this."

Anna said: "Tonight in the way he is most Xi, no need to be high, two percent of the hit rate is enough."

Jia Ming nodded and said, "I know, I'll work hard."

Josh laughed, "Okay, let's get started, I'm a very strict fellow."

Jia Ming also smiled: "Shut up, you, if you have any ability, hurry up, I can't wait." Night

is gradually falling, but the two figures on the basketball court are still practicing Xi in full swing, sweating wantonly.

Anna stood aside, quietly looking at the two people on the field, and couldn't help but show a look of anticipation in her eyes.

Tomorrow is the first game of the second round, and it is also the first game since I became a coach, I don't know what the effect will be?

Some places may be exaggerated, and they will be slowly adjusted according to everyone's opinions. Thanks again