Lu Yuan didn't expect that he would sit on the bench like this, although he had the consciousness of sitting on the bench before coming to the United States, but Wilson's basketball level in high school made it really unconvincing for him to sit on the bench.

However, Lu Yuan didn't argue much, he honestly sat at the end of the bench, next to the four-eyed steel teeth, Luciano Marinka, he greeted Lu Yuan very friendly.

"It's great to have you on our basketball team. ”

Marinka stretched out his hand to Lu Yuan, and showed a smile and a mouthful of steel teeth.

"Thank you. ”

Lu Yuan didn't say anything, he was still a little depressed.

"Coach Hart is like that, weird, no matter what, always pessimistic. ”

"Pessimistic?"

Lu Yuan didn't understand this word very well, and Marinka explained: "He's like an old woman who has no hope and receives a subsistence allowance every day, and he doesn't have hope for anything, there is no hope, do you understand?"

Marinka looked undeveloped, although he was a high school freshman like Lu Yuan, he was thin and small, like a primary school student, but he was very articulate and his pronunciation was very accurate, and Lu Yuan could understand what he was saying.

"Is he divorced?"

Lu Yuan gossiped, Marinka nodded vigorously, and said, "How do you know?

Lu Yuan hurriedly said: "No, I guessed, guessed." ”

Lu Yuan thought of Wang Yourong's junior high school coach, but also because of the marriage problem, he was particularly decadent.

Unbeknownst to Hart, of course, there were two players gossiping about him on the bench as he made the final preparations before the game began.

In fact, there is nothing to prepare for, the opponent is too strong, it is a strong team that can compete in all California, and last year they played against Palisades High School, and the worst game lost by 51 points, which is simply miserable.

Hart just wanted to not lose this game so badly, try to lose within 50 points, and lose by 40 points to win.

Maybe everyone knows that there is no hope for Wilson High School in this game, so the atmosphere at the scene is quite relaxed, the students in the stands are talking and laughing and playing with their mobile phones, parents are cheering for their children, even the referees are busy chatting, and there is no atmosphere of the game in the gymnasium.

The Palisades charter high school players looked relaxed, they were tall, muscular, and predominantly black, with the tallest of them, about 6'9", with long arms that felt like they could touch the basket with a single foot.

On Wilson's high school side, the tallest is their center Adam Edwards, who is 6-foot-4 tall and the standard of an NBA point guard, and the difference between the two positions makes it difficult to know how to play.

Before the start of the game, a simple ceremony was held in the center of the court, because today's game is the 5,000th basketball game in the history of Wilson High School, from the establishment of 1937 to the change of school location in 1970, the Wilson High School basketball team is very bad, but it has been with the students of one class after another.

The ceremony was over soon, and the game was about to begin, Lu Yuan was sitting on the bench, but he was more nervous than on the court, he kept rubbing his hands, thinking about what the game would be like.

Jumping ball, the center of Palisades High School jumped lightly and flicked the ball to his teammates, and Palisades High School won the offensive rights.

Palisades High School's first offense came very quickly, their No. 12 point guard quickly dribbled across the halfcourt, followed by an inside hanging pass, and the No. 8 center took the ball straight into the interior and received the ball directly into the basket with one hand!

Wilson's high school interior line is simply useless, and it is easy for the opponent's center to succeed.

2:0, the game set the tone at the beginning.

Then Lu Yuan saw that Wilson High School faced Palisades High School, which was not at the same level at all, and there was a big gap in speed, strength, and basic skills.

In contrast, the players at Palisades High School have strong individual ability, they have almost no particularly complicated coordination, and they can attack individually, at most there are some small cooperations, a block, an acceleration, and a downlink can break through Wilson High School's defense, hit the basket and make a layup, or directly soar three points from the outside.

It can be seen that the players at Palisades High School have strong individual ability, they are skilled, fast, powerful, and run like the wind on the field.

Lu Yuan watched from the sidelines, thinking to himself, if Lizhong and Palisades High School came to compete, it would be enough to choke, the speed was too fast, and they were too capable of jumping one by one.

And their offense is very aggressive, everyone can attack with the ball, and the advance speed is extremely fast, almost five land sources are playing.

This made Lu Yuan's heart itch, and he really wanted to go up and compete with them.

However, the game lasted for nearly 10 minutes, although Wilson was at an all-round disadvantage in high school, and the score difference was getting wider and wider, Lu Yuan found that Wilson's players did not completely collapse, and every time they attacked and defended, they could keep up with the opponent's footsteps, but they couldn't prevent it. On the offensive end, he can occasionally play a few decent attacks, but the finishing ability is too poor, and some shots can't be shot when they have a chance.

It seems that even if Wilson is a fish belly, he is not an interest group without any level, he still has the ability to resist, at least he has physical strength, and he can keep up with running.

The game was uneventful, and by the end of the first half, Palisades High School had turned the score into a huge gap of 61:20, 41 points, which was desperate.

The best performer at Palisades High School is their center, No. 8 Clifford, who is like no one on the inside, in fact, his offensive skills are not outstanding, but he can run and jump, and he has a strong finishing ability under the basket, as long as he cooperates with his teammates, he can eat crazy cakes on the inside.

In the first half of the game, Clifford scored 25 points, and the gap of 41 points was almost irreparable, and according to the trend of the first half, Wilson High School lost 60 points is not a problem, it depends on whether Palisades High School will converge a little.

A 60-point massacre in Wilson High School's 5,000th game was a bit unreasonable.

Because the confrontation of the game was not fierce enough, the whole first half was carried out very quickly, 20 minutes of the game, less than half an hour to finish, basically no timeouts, substitutions or too many fouls, the two sides played very well, but it was also very boring, and the difference in strength was too big.

Lu Yuan can sit still very well, he used to sit up from the bench in Lizhong, often not playing in the entire first half, and only started to play in the second half, so he had enough patience.

However, Jensen, who was sitting in the stands, did not have this patience, and at halftime, Jensen began to shout at the top of his voice: "Why don't you let the best players play, you have to lose all the pants? You are committing suicide, you are committing a crime, let that Chinese kid play, he can bring the team back to life, can make you see hope." Your coach is a fool, idiot, take out your best players, please, please!"

Jensen scolded, it was simply its own Rap, which amused the surrounding audience, anyway, everyone came to see a lively today, and did not expect the team to win, but when they heard that a Chinese boy came to the team, that is, the person who had just taped the number behind him, many people began to coax, shouting "China boy".

Hart looked at Jensen's size and estimated that he had no way to deal with him, and in the second half, he was indeed ready to let Lu Yuan play.

"Lu, I'm going to play in the second half, I know the situation on the field is very bad, so you don't go up to win for the team, go up and get used to it. In the second half they're going to come off the bench and you haven't worked with your team-mates to play a dozen of the opposition bench and step by step, it's a good option for you. ”

It turned out that Hart had his idea, if Lu Yuan was allowed to go up directly to fight with Palisades' main force, without joint training and cooperation, he might fight like a headless fly.

Now that Palisades are 40 points ahead, they won't be fielding their main players in the second half, but will have to give their bench players a drill.

And this is a good opportunity for Lu Yuan to train his troops, the opponent's strength is weakened, the state is relaxed, and there is no psychological pressure of winning or losing, which is more conducive to Lu Yuan's play.

Although Hart doesn't want Lu Yuan to join the basketball team, but since he is in, Hart still has to do his part, he is not a good coach, but he is not too bad.

Lu Yuan nodded as if he didn't understand, he didn't know what kind of players the opponent would send to the court, or what Coach Hart had in mind, he only knew that he was going to play, as long as it was a game, he would go all out.

The two sides had a short break and the second half of the game was about to begin.

Palisades Charter High School really replaced the main players, and the five starters in the first half, leaving only one starting point guard on the court, it seems to be a drill.

Palisades didn't take the game too seriously, and Wilson High School was one of the worst schools in basketball in the Los Angeles area, and although there were always a lot of students here, the elite of the sport was absorbed by the football team, and the basketball team had to pick up some leftover scraps and piece them together.

And as a public high school, Wilson's athletic scholarships are so limited that they don't appeal to those talented players, and at the high school level, the difference between one or two talented players on the team is obvious.

There are two such talented players at Palisades Charter High School, one is their center Clifford, a sophomore in high school this year, his defensive talent and outstanding physical fitness have made some colleges begin to notice him, and the other is the team's point guard, John Carpenter, a basketball kid who grew up on the streets of Los Angeles, has extremely skilled ball control skills, outstanding passing awareness, and plays very smart, and is also favored by basketball coaches in many places, and has the potential to enter the professional basketball circle.

At the beginning of the second half of the game, Lu Yuan stood on the court, and the person he had to face on the court was John Carpenter, a square-headed kid with small eyes, making it impossible to see what was going on in his head.

In the audience on the sidelines, the shouts of "China boy" began to sound, in fact, everyone was making fun, they didn't know who Lu Yuan was, so they had to shout so.

As a result, Carpenter thought that Lu Yuan was some star of Wilson High School, or a famous person, and he knew that he was different from his unique Asian face.

So, Carpenter took the ball in the backcourt, faced Lu Yuan, suddenly accelerated strongly, and then stopped and closed, Lu Yuan didn't seem to be completely ready, and as a result, he almost fell to the ground with garlic under his feet.

Carpenter took the opportunity to dribble past Lu Yuan from the left side, entered the frontcourt, and completed an offensive cooperation with his teammates, and his teammates made a layup, 63:20, and the point difference was stretched wider.

And Lu Yuan, who had just come on the court, lost a big face, and was actually shaken down with a dribble, which is really a great shame.

The audience who was still shouting "China boy" before also shut up, they were originally making fun, and when they saw Lu Yuan embarrassed, they immediately stopped making a sound. Many people think to themselves, but it's just another rookie.

Lu Yuan got up from the ground, touched his ankle, and felt that it was okay, so he threw himself into the attack.

“Give me the ball。 ”

This was the first communication between Lu Yuan and his teammates, that is, to give me the ball, and the teammates who served the ball at the bottom line did not hesitate and gave the ball directly to Lu Yuan.

From the speed of Carpenter just now, Lu Yuan could feel that this place was indeed a new world.

And he wants to continue his basketball journey in this new world.