Chapter Eighty-Five: The First Person in High School
In the second battle, the Xiong Bo team was easily defeated by the Agni team with little resistance, and in the end, the Agni team won a full twenty points. All the team members www.biquge.info have become more confident. You can see how confident their current teammates are. Originally, the slogan of the Agni team was to win it, and now the slogan of the Agni team has changed to the championship.
In the following games, in the games against the Wildcats and the Ravens, the Agni team was also relatively easy, and they passed the series 2:0 and 2:1 respectively. In these games, Zhao Wei also got the opportunity to play. However, instead of playing as a starter, he played as a backup point guard, and was able to get about fifteen minutes of playing time per game. Although Zhao Wei wanted to play the whole game like the rest of the team, he also understood that Whitty was too much to say. His body is not back to its best, and it can even be said that it has not recovered even seventy percent. And the series is more fierce than the extremely fierce and physical confrontation. If you can play for 15 minutes all the time, it's already an improvement. Fifteen minutes, he was not able to do as much as before, and since the first game, Zhao Wei's shooting was not good, for this, Zhao Wei couldn't help but cry out for danger. But Zhao Wei did his job well. In his time on the court, he has connected the team's offense well, and his average of five assists per game is the best proof of this.
"Good, good. Next we will face the most formidable opponents. In the locker room, Whitty summoned the players who were changing clothes after training.
Hearing Whitety's words, several veteran members of the team turned solemn.
"Yes, the team you have in mind. Montverde Academy. Their team includes Ben Simmons, a gifted high school student who ranked No. 1 among his peers in ESPN reviews. "He's led their team to the National High School Championship three years in a row." Maybe some of you haven't heard of him. ”
Zhao Wei and the others were indeed very unfamiliar with this name, and looked at Whitty with curiosity.
"I know him." Nathan on the side attracted everyone's attention, "I saw him last time I was invited to Jordan's training camp, and he can be said to be the strongest guy in the entire training camp. I was easily beaten by him in a one-on-one heads-up with him. ”
"Yes, this guy has a lot of talent, and he's considered by many experts to be LeBron James II." Hearing Whitety's words, everyone was shocked, what kind of level is LeBron James, that is the first person in the NBA league today, "So, you have to do your best in tomorrow's game." Everybody gave me a break tonight, and if anyone dared to sneak out for me, I would kick him out of the team immediately. ”
It was the first time for all the team members to see Whitty so stern, and they couldn't help but be shocked. A few lucky team members didn't dare to have other ideas.
Zhao Wei was lying on the bed with a scouting report in his hand.
At the top is a striking headline: Ben Simmons.
"The first person in high school? Then I'm going to get to know you. Zhao Wei muttered to himself and flipped through the scouting report.
Ben Simmons. Seventeen years old, A+ in physical fitness, A- in ball control, S in vision, A in bounce, B in shooting-......
After reading the overall evaluation at the beginning, Zhao Wei couldn't help but be very interested in Ben Simmons, according to his information, his position should be a power forward, and this guy's ball control has reached the A- level, and his vision is an amazing S-level, no wonder he can become the favorite for the NBA draft in the future. However, Zhao Wei also found some flaws in this guy's perfection, and his weakest one seems to be his shooting, which does look a little shabby in the lowest A- of all other disciplines. However, when Zhao Wei continued to watch, he had a new understanding of this shooting B-, which he originally despised relatively lightly.
Sophomore year of high school
In January 2013, Simmons moved to Montverde, Florida, USA, to attend Montverde Academy and immediately became a member of the varsity team. In April 2013, he led Montverde Academy to a 16-point comeback in the National High School Championship, defeating St. Benedict's High School in New Jersey 67-65 to win the championship. After playing in that year's Jordan Classic - which included Jamal Murray, Thorne Markle, Dragan Bender and others in addition to Simmons - he returned to Melbourne to join the Bulleenboomers in the bigV, where he played in six games, averaging 12.3 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists, 1.3 steals and 2.3 blocks per game.
Senior year of high school
This season, Simmons is averaging 18.5 points, 9.8 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game, shooting 69% from the field and 77% from the free throw line, and has 88 blocks throughout the season. Montverde High School won all 28 games this season, beating OakhillAcademy 71-62 in the finals and lifting the National High School Championship trophy at Madison Square Garden. Simmons had 24 points and 12 rebounds in the finals, and he also won the Most Valuable Player award. After this season, Simmons was invited to participate in LeBron James' NBA Top 100 High School Camp
Senior year of high school
On November 12, 2014, Simmons officially signed a letter of intent to join Louisiana State University to compete in the NCAA. [15]
On January 28, 2015, Simmons was selected to participate in the 38th McDonald's All-American High School Star Game, and on March 10, he was honored with the ManwoottenAward, which recognizes the best, most leading, and most valuable McDonald's All-American male high school basketball player. Simmons won the Naismith PrepPlayer of the Year and the Gatorade National Player of the Year award. Simmons led the team to an average of 28 of the 29 high school games this season, advancing to the National High School Championship for the third year in a row. In those 29 games, he averaged 28.0 points, 11.9 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 2.6 steals per game, shooting 70.7 percent from the field and knocking out a double-double in 24 attempts.
In the National High School Championship, Simmons was poked in the eye in the first quarter of the game, blurred vision throughout the game and didn't return to the court until the second half of the second quarter, when Montverde High School was already 19-28 behind. At that time, with Simmons' 20 points and 11 rebounds, as well as four free throws and a counter-attacking dunk in key moments, Montverde High School came back to defeat OakhillAcademy 70-61 and advance to the finals for the third consecutive year.
At the 2015 Nike Basketball Summit, Simmons scored 13 points as a member of Team World to help the team beat the United States 103-101. [21]
Simmons was named a Five-Star Recruit by ESPN and was also listed as the best high school power forward in the nation in 2015.
After reading these, Zhao Wei had to sincerely admire this guy, he could get so many grades in just three years of high school, and all of them were so good. While admiring, I couldn't help but feel a fighting spirit in my heart, looking forward to being able to fight such an opponent.
Zhao Wei didn't dare to underestimate this guy's shooting ability, and it is estimated that the scout's rating of his basketball ability B - is based on his excellence. This is a guy who can dominate the game alone.
"Are we ready?" Whitty asked out loud to all the team members.
"Ready." The answer was sparse.
"Are you ready?" Whitty asked again.
The answer is still sparse.
"Hey, hey, hey." Whitty grabbed Lucas and Nathan's heads with his hands and said, "Don't be nervous, just treat this as the most normal game, release your energy, we win or lose." ”
All the team members looked at Whitty and nodded heavily.
Although Whiti comforted his players in this way, he was actually nervous in his heart, and his efforts for so many years finally came to this point again, and he stepped on this court again. Regardless of whether he won or lost, he was actually full of desire for victory, and he would dream countless times at night of the moment when he lifted the final trophy.
"Hey, Zhao Wei, how's it going?" Whitty walked past Zhao Wei and asked.
Zhao Wei squeezed his eyes and said that everything was ok!
Whitty nodded in satisfaction. As he walked down the hallway to the court, Whitety's ears sounded as if the radio of the game from many years ago: "There was no laughter here tonight, because the Fire lost the championship game, and Whitety was very disappointed. And we have to think about whether such an opportunity to get so close to the championship will come to the Fire again in the future. We're crying with questions, what's wrong with Scott tonight? He has so much to explain. There's no doubt about it, and everyone in Oak Town broke their hearts tonight. ”
Whitty gritted his teeth and walked out of the tunnel of the players. The moment he stepped out of the tunnel, he had already made a decision in his heart: I must win this championship match.