Nanjing No. 5 Middle School, once a strong opponent in East China's No. 9 Middle School, in the early days of the NHBA, the two teams can be called Jinling double, in all competitions have good results, and the game of the two teams is called the Jinling derby.

It's just that compared with the glory of the ninth middle school in the national competition, the performance of the fifth middle school in the national arena has been unsatisfactory, and then the ninth middle school is not as good as a year, and the fifth middle school has become a difficult brother, not taking advantage of the decline of the ninth middle school and rising, but the decline is even worse, so that the affiliated of the Southern Sports University has risen smoothly.

Later, the ninth middle school slowly recovered, and the fifth middle school also recovered, and they were really blessed and enjoyed the same difficulties, this time they also entered the East China competition, but unfortunately they returned home with the same feather and failed to break into the national competition.

In this way, they put all their energy into the challenge competition in the second semester, on the one hand, to train the team, and on the other hand, to strive for some economic benefits.

No. 5 Middle School is now an A-level team in the Nanjing Division, but the game points are not enough, and they want to challenge the affiliated students of the Southern Sports University on May Day, play the golden ring match, and impact the position of the champion in Nanjing.

In this way, they need to find some teams to practice and pick and choose, and Licheng Middle School, which lost Lu Yuan, has become one of the goals of the fifth middle school, which is why there is this challenge on the weekend.

The head coach of the fifth middle school is called Chen Huaqiang, a native of Guangdong, a typical southern basketball coach, who took over the fifth middle school when he was at its lowest point that year, selected and cultivated players according to the ideas of the southern school, and brought the team up little by little.

It's just that the team doesn't have particularly talented players, only a tall and thin striker named Suo Chao, who is Chen Huaqiang's trump card, because he has the same name as the generals of the Water Margin, so he is called "Urgent Pioneer".

On Sunday morning, the whole team of Lizhong got up and washed, had breakfast and went to the competition venue to prepare for the fifth middle school. When I arrived at the Wutaishan Sports Center, there were already many reporters waiting outside the gymnasium, and when I saw Lizhong appear, many reporters rushed up and said that they wanted to interview the team's players.

The players in Lizhong are a little busy, where have they seen this battle in the past, they were all ignored in the past, and there may not be an interview when they win, but now it's good, there are reporters coming up before the game starts.

However, Gao Jing refused all the reporters' requests for interviews, saying that the students were still young and came to participate in the competition, so it was inconvenient for them to be interviewed. Then, like an old hen with a chick, she escorted all the students into the locker room of the gymnasium.

Although they were not interviewed, the players in Lizhong know that they are no longer the unknown division of the past, and they are also a strong team that has defeated three national champions and entered the national competition!

But the so-called Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind, and Lizhong, who is promoted to a strong team, will receive more attention and greater pressure, Gao Jing understands this truth, so he does not let the students be interviewed.

"In today's game, everyone must go all out, and if you win, the prize money is very rich. ”

Gao Jing encouraged everyone in the locker room, but everyone didn't seem to be too interested in the prize money, Gao Jing thought again, if Lu Yuan was here, he would be full of vitality and lead everyone to win the game.

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Lu Yuan was in the team's training camp on Sunday morning, and he knew from Luciano that the person who played with him yesterday was Blake Maxime James, the son of NBA superstar LeBron James.

The reason why he knew was because in between training, Lu Yuan asked Luciano what powerful players were in Oak Hill High School, the opponent of the afternoon game, and Luciano showed Lu Yuan the photo of Blake James, and Lu Yuan recognized that this person was the Maxim from yesterday.

At the same time, he remembered that this Maxim was also the standout guard of the Eastern Army in the McDonald's All-Star Game in San Francisco last week - he didn't have James on the back of his jersey because he didn't want to be protected by his great father and amazing older brother, who were both James and he was Black.

"He's a shot booster for his dad, great physicality, great passing, and shooting. I heard that after he graduated from high school, he would go straight to the NBA draft, and there are already many scouts paying attention to him. Hey, I wish we could lose less in the afternoon. ”

Luciano praised Blake James to the sky, and he had no confidence in the afternoon game, not only him, but the entire Wilson High School players, Oak Hill High School was indeed amazingly strong, and the game against Wilson High School was completely a chicken knife.

Lu Yuan listened to Luciano's narration, nodded, and felt that what he said made sense, Blake James is indeed very powerful, he has watched him play on the sidelines, and he has played on the same field with him personally, and he can really feel his strength.

The kind of people who are real, full of talent, full of strong cells, are the people on this planet who can stand on the top league, so to speak, people from another world.

However, Lu Yuan did not feel as worried or afraid as Luciano, but was very excited, because he knew that he finally had the opportunity to verify how much he had improved in his skills after a month in the United States, and how far away he was from those best high school students.

Of course, Lu Yuan can feel his progress, not to mention anything else, he has grown a lot in height alone, he was already 185 when he came to the United States, he had a reasonable diet this month, exercised enough, and pulled up three centimeters taller, and to 188, the pair of Kobe Bryant 11 generations can no longer be worn.

In all other aspects, under Teresha's tutelage, it is an all-round advance, but there has been no reference comparison. Wilson's teammates are still relatively bad, and Lu Yuan can't figure out the strength of the opponent himself, anyway, he is playing anyway, losing more and winning less, so that he doesn't know how much he has improved.

In the past, Lu Yuan relied on going head-to-head with Bai Ye to verify the progress of his technical level, and regarded Bai Ye as a benchmark, but now Bai Ye is not in this benchmark and is lost.

Listening to Wang Yourong said, Bai Ye is training like a madman every day, he must be improving quickly, I don't know if I can win him single-handedly when I return to China, but I haven't won once so far.

Thinking so in his heart, Lu Yuan practiced with his teammates for an hour, and then Hart called Lu Yuan aside and asked him the main points and details of the afternoon game.

"The point is, get the ball and try to do it yourself, and in the details, your team-mates will give 100 per cent of the effort on the defensive end, you just attack. ”

Hart's orders are simple and easy to understand, and a fool like Lu Yuan also understands that he is to let him attack with full firepower, and then the whole team will defend to the death.

This week, Hart is leading the whole team to all kinds of defensive exercises, full-court pressing, half-court pressing, double packing, three-man packing. He removed Limberd from the center position, let the fat man Marin Noel go to the center position, and boldly used the little strong man Tini, let him play small forward, he is strong, has good mobility, and can be used on the defensive end.

In this way, with Lu Yuan and point guard Panson, Wilson High School barely managed to put together a lineup of one offense and four defenses. Hart had studied the roster at Oak Hill High School, and they were a perimeter-oriented team that wasn't very tall and a strong Humpty Dumpty on the inside. The real strength of them is that one is that several outside players are super capable individually, and the other is that the team's passing is smooth and the offensive points are scattered, which is a typical offensive strong team.

Hart knows that if he runs and attacks, he will definitely lose, and if he fights defensively, there is still a little hope of winning.

And in this game, Hart wants the team to win, not lose. It was an opportunity for him to regain hope in his basketball coaching career and to help Wilson High School get out of the quagmire. Hart is selfish, and he wants to prove himself to more people through this competition, but he also hopes that Wilson High School will have a chance to rise up.

Even once.

After talking to Lu Yuan about everything, Wilson High School's morning training camp ended, and they will leave for UCLA in the afternoon. When they left the arena, no one felt like they could win, not including Hart, not even Lu Yuan. Everyone has a mentality of fighting and trying, so they are all relaxed.

At this time, Lu Yuan received a phone call, it was Jensen who asked him to go to the gym after training, saying that someone wanted to see him.

Lu Yuan hung up the phone and thought to himself, why did I not know the place where I was born in the United States, and there were still people who wanted to see me, it was really a charm value.

When he returned to the gym to take a look, he realized who wanted to see him, it was the doctor in San Francisco, the one who said she was mentally ill, and Zhao Ming, who couldn't deliver flowers.

As soon as Lu Yuan saw the two of them, he opened his mouth and shouted: "I... I'm not sick... He's sick..."