Chapter 314: Cultivating Immortals
Hart, the head coach of Wilson's high school basketball team, was both nervous and excited today, after the morning class, he came to the gymnasium early, waiting for the players to come over for practice at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and he had big news to announce to everyone today.
Of course, today is April Fool's Day, and the students have to joke with him, such as texting him to call in sick today, or putting a bandage on his arm or something to pretend to be injured. The most exaggerated is the fat Marin Noel, who went directly to the arena in a wheelchair, which really scared Hart.
Lu Yuan's first formal class in the afternoon was a history class, and after the class, he felt dizzy and confused. After all, he became a monk halfway, and he didn't go to the village or the store before he studied, so it was natural for him to be confused.
When I arrived at the gymnasium, I saw that Coach Hart was neatly dressed, his hair was combed neatly, and his beard was cleanly shaved, which showed that Hart, who has always been sloppy, was in a good mood today.
Lu Yuan walked up to Hart with a heavy heart and said, "Mr. Hart, I have bad news for you. ”
Hart glanced at Lu Yuan and replied: "I haven't heard good news today, let's say, as long as you don't owe a lot of debt to the Los Angeles gang, now I can accept being asked to borrow money from me with a gun." ”
"No, my leg hurts."
"Oh please, this is the worst April Fool's joke I've heard today, you should at least put a cast on your foot."
"No, I mean, I'm really hurt, with a groin strain, and I need to rest for a week."
Lu Yuan said with a serious expression, Hart stared at Lu Yuan for a while, and confirmed it several times, making sure that this kid was not lying to tease himself, and gritted his teeth and scolded, "Vark!" ”
Hart never expected that the number one fighter in his hand, the secret weapon, would be injured, and the reason for the injury was that he ran to San Francisco to dunk a basket.
"Are you sure you'll be able to recover in a week?" Hart asked Lu Yuan, looking nervous.
Lu Yuan thought for a while and said, "Professor Walter said yes, but you have to rest well this week." ”
"Which Professor Walter?"
Lu Yuan described his work at the Walter Treatment Center in San Francisco to Hart, who was surprised and said, "That should be no problem, she is a big expert, you can even ask her to help you treat, tell me, how much money did your father embezzle in China?" ”
Lu Yuan didn't answer this question, but he knew that it seemed that this Professor Walter was quite famous, and even Hart knew him.
Since Lu Yuan was injured in the leg and naturally could not participate in the training, Hart immediately regarded Lu Yuan as a key object of protection, and directly let him lie in the audience and listen to him announce important matters.
Lu Yuan couldn't help it, Hart asked him to lie down, he had to lie down, which was indeed good for the recovery of his legs.
Hart gathered everyone together and announced the big news.
"This weekend, we're going to play a game at the ULCA Arena against Oak Hill High School from Virginia."
Lu Yuan was lying in the stands, and found that after Hart finished saying the news, the teammates standing there were all stunned, really stunned, looking at each other.
Lu Yuan was also stunned because he didn't know what was going on, Oak Hill High School? A school name that sounds earthy.
"This opportunity is the opportunity I have worked so hard to get over, the opportunity to play against the strongest team in the country, this is your chance to show yourself, please go and fight, fight like Rocky!"
Hart tried to encourage the team and moved out of Rocky, but apparently the dry encouragement was useless, and everyone looked at Hart like a fool, and Hart himself didn't know what to say.
Recently, many famous high school basketball teams in the United States are playing in various places, and California, as one of the hottest areas in the United States, has attracted famous schools from all over the country to come to California to compete.
Such a game will not only attract local fans to watch the game and sell tickets, but more importantly, there will be scouts, coaches, and agents from various universities and even professional teams to watch the game and inspect the players.
Since the '80s, there have been many similar training camps, invitational tournaments, and amateur leagues, and generations of American basketball talents have stood out in such games until they reached the highest level of basketball.
Of course, on this step-by-step climbing road, there are "bones" of untalented, eliminated players, and now Hart's Wilson High School basketball team is willing to make such bones once.
As the strongest high school in the country, Oak Hill High School, which has long ranked first in the high school rankings, took advantage of the opportunity of the McDonald's National High School Star Game held in California.
Former NBA player Earl Watson took the opportunity to open a training camp in Los Angeles this week, which will be attended by other great team players in addition to Oak Hill High School.
On weekends, the training camp teams will play four games a day at UCLA, and in order to find opponents for the training camp teams, Watson used his connections to post hero posts, and soon many teams came to sign up to play against a strong team like Oak Hill.
It stands to reason that a bad team like Wilson High School has no chance to participate in the game, but Hart worked and studied in Watson's "Watson Elite Team" for a long time before coming to Wilson High School. With this connection, he actually got the opportunity to compete in the weekend, and the opponent was Oak Hill High School.
For Hart, he sensed his chance to turn over.
I think he was a technical coach for a long time in Watson's amateur team, and then went out to coach in high school, but he struggled in the quagmire of Wilson High School in Los Angeles.
Such precedents are not uncommon in the American high school basketball world, and a high school basketball genius can often change the fate of a team and a coach.
Of course, Hart doesn't think that Lu Yuan's talent is strong enough to make the team and himself famous in the United States like Howard and James, but at least he should be able to show his face, right?
He is ready to use this week to train Lu Yuan and the team well, in order to make a splash in the weekend's games. Who knew that as soon as Monday came, Lu Yuan would give him a slap in the face, and this kid was injured and couldn't participate in training.
Fortunately, he should be able to play on the weekend, otherwise without Lu Yuan, Wilson's remaining lineup will really be embarrassing to play against Oak Hill.
There was no way, Hart could only take the rest of the players to practice, and Lu Yuan changed from lying down to sitting, relaxed his whole body, sat there, closed his eyes, and began to meditate.
About five minutes later, Lu Yuan's snoring came from the stands.
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At this time in China, it was already late at night, and the dormitory area in Lizhong had already turned off the power and lights, and the dormitory manager patrolled in front of the dormitories to see if the students had turned off the lights and went to sleep.
There are a small number of students who either hide in the quilt and play with their mobile phones, or write homework with the light on the quilt, and those who are diligent and studious, lock themselves in the cabinet and read with a flashlight.
Chen Cai couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, tossed and turned on the bed in the dormitory, and finally couldn't do it, sat up cross-legged, closed his eyes and began to cultivate immortals.
That's right, this is what Lu Yuan told him, saying that if you want to practice basketball well, you must be able to cultivate immortals. According to Lu Yuan, after the end of training every day, you have to cultivate immortals for half an hour, on the one hand, you can go through the content of the day's training in your mind, and on the other hand, you can slowly fall asleep and get a good night's sleep.
Chen Cai still believes in Lu Yuan's words, now that school has been a month and he has joined the basketball team for a month, he insists on doing exercises seriously every day, not only in the morning, but also at noon and evening. Because every time he does the posture is very standard in place, as a result, his flexibility has become very good, which is very beneficial to his defense, Gao Jing also asked Chen Cai during training, why is his body so flexible, Chen Cai said the secret, and this secret is to do exercises.
In addition to doing exercises, the guy Ghost Head Sun was also entangled by Chen Cai, and taught one trick after another, and in a month's time, he almost learned all the ugly little actions of Ghost Head Sun.
Now he has dared to practice with Bai Ye for a few rounds every morning during morning exercises, although he is beaten violently every time, Bai Ye can clearly feel that Chen Cai is becoming more and more difficult - of course, his attack is still a piece of.
This is also the most worrying place for Chen Cai, the defense is improving, but the offense is stagnant, the three basic skills, the dribbling is finally barely qualified, the passing is so-so, as for the shooting, it is a blind man who goes to the South Pole, and he can't find the North at all.
Chen Cai heard Zeng Hongzhi in the team say that Lu Yuan was proficient in dribbling, shooting, and passing in a week after joining the basketball team, so shocked that Chen Cai hurriedly came back and asked Lu Yuan how to improve.
And Lu Yuan's answer was, "Close your eyes and cultivate immortals!" Because at that time, Lu Yuan was practicing meditation and felt very comfortable sleeping.
Chen Cai is no stranger to meditation, when he was in the Taoist temple in Sichuan, his grandfather Yu Lao Dao often sat on the futon to meditate, and fell asleep thinking about it, and he was very energetic after waking up. It's just that Chen Cai never knew what Yu Lao Dao was thinking.
In the dead of night, Chen Caipan sat on the bed, closed his eyes and began to think, thinking about the content of his recent training, thinking about how he practiced basketball, thinking about Chen Cai, and finding that the more he thought about it, the more chaotic his brain became, and he couldn't calm down at all.
So he calmed down again, thinking about training, thinking about basketball, thinking about the little movements that the ghost head Sun taught him, thinking about thinking about the math class he had taken recently, thinking of his grandfather in Sichuan, thinking of Principal Han's daughter, and thinking of Qiang Wei in the class......
In the end, Chen Cai couldn't stand it anymore, and lay on the bed and slept with his eyes closed, why did he feel useless? I knew that I should have asked clearly, what exactly did Lu Yuan think about when he was meditating, and what were the benefits for basketball?