Chapter 12: Sunrise in Los Angeles

The morning air in Los Angeles is crisp in the winter, and the city on the east coast of the ocean is so pleasant all year round, and the sea breeze from the Pacific Ocean always carries a nourishing warmth at this time of year.

Liu Han has been living in this new place, thousands of miles away from his hometown, for a month. He used his outstanding talent and love of basketball to impress the eighty-year-old John? Mr. Wooden, while the head coach of the Bruins, Jim? Harrick has always been prejudiced and discriminated against him, but he still used his sincere attitude and passion for training to make most of his teammates and coaches accept him. John? Mr. Wooden used his connections and influence to help Han Liu solve the last hurdle to joining UCLA, and Han Liu is now an official UCLA sports student.

At six o'clock in the morning, Liu Han walked out of LaBeouf's house in the morning haze with the last trace of night, and he and Nasha still lived in LaBeouf's house. Li Rui, whose visa has expired, has returned to China, and he will return to the United States after all his work in China. Li Rui in John? Mr. Wooden and his old classmate George? With his help, Krent has found a job as a basketball coach at Inglewood High School when he returns to the United States. Nasha, who is deeply pregnant, is no longer fit to fly long distances, and Liu Han, who does not speak English well, needs someone to help him settle into his new life, and Mr. LaBeouf will not allow his beloved daughter and unborn grandson to leave again.

Mr. LaBeouf's home is about 15 kilometers away from UCLA, and Mr. Liu goes to language classes every morning, choosing to run to school. The fifteen-kilometer distance did not cause trouble for Liu Han, who had been herding sheep all over the mountains since he was a child, on the contrary, he felt that doing such exercises every day could keep him in good shape. Liu Han, who grew up in discrimination and abuse since he was a child, has a good mentality under his grandmother's education, although he will always be a little uncomfortable when entering a new environment, but he can clearly feel who is good for him and who is bad for him, Liu Han knows that as long as he listens to the opinions of those who have good intentions towards him and completes it seriously.

Shi Lei has become a loyal fan of Liu Han, he admires this big man who only has a primary school education and has some naïve spirit from the bottom of his heart, in his opinion, if he puts himself in the same position as Liu Han, he doesn't know what he will become. Every day at noon, Shi Lei would wait for Liu Han at the agreed place, and he would take Liu Han to lunch and teach Liu Han some small details that need to be paid attention to in living in the United States. Shi Lei hopes that what he has done can help his new friend.

Liu Han jogged in the morning light, he has gradually become accustomed to the new life, his serious attitude and the help of his friends have made him improve by leaps and bounds in the learning of English, and now he can complete some basic communication, he has only had a slower brain development since he was a child, not really a fool, his naivety is only because of "virginity". He also figured out that his black teammates were not really tanned, but that they were so dark, because he also made a big joke about this matter, he directly asked his teammate Obonor in a training session if he was exposed to the sun for a long time every day, otherwise why was it so dark, and many teammates fell to the ground laughing.

Liu Han is grateful to his teammates because they are all friendly to Liu Han, except for Hudson, who pushed him in the training match? White, Hudson White always finds trouble for him in training, or relies on his status as a veteran player to order Liu Han to do this and that. In fact, Liu Han feels that this is nothing, because he has been bullied by many others since he was a child, and these innocuous things cannot cause him any harm, but Hudson's behavior completely angered the team's captain and main point guard Teyus? Edney. In a training match, Hudson once again deliberately pushed down Liu Han, who was shooting, and the angry Teyus directly punched Hudson, Hudson didn't expect that the temper of this small main point guard was so hot, and Hudson, who fell to the ground, didn't react at all. After that, Hudson's behavior has been much more restrained.

The people Liu Han is most grateful to are Zhou Yibin and Coach Li Rui, the former introduced him to basketball and fell in love with the sport, while the latter put a lot of effort into him. After his grandmother's death, Liu Han originally felt that except for the third uncle, there should be no one in the world who really cared about him, but he didn't expect that he met so many good people one after another, so in addition to missing his hometown a little bit about the third uncle and Zhou Yibin, there are only those 'good' memories when he lived with his grandmother.

In the beautiful air bathed in the sun in the early morning, Liu Han met many people who ran in the morning along the way, and most of them chose to smile and say hello, which made Liu Han feel very good and comfortable. It is undeniable that Liu Han was just a boy playing with bricks on the construction site three months ago, but who would have thought that only three months later, Liu Han would be smiling and greeting strangers in a foreign land in the morning run. This may also be due to Liu Han's beautiful face inherited from his mother, who has never met, coupled with Liu Han's good body shape cultivated by long-term work, most normal people will probably smile at the person who left a beautiful first image for themselves.

Liu Han, who is about to arrive at school, will first go to Shi Lei's place for a simple wash, this is what Nasha told him, a clean and tidy image is his basic courtesy to his classmates and teachers, Liu Hanjue's this makes sense, because he is clean and tidy, tall and smiling, he will always get help from his classmates.

Liu Han, who finished the language class, sometimes got John at noon? Mr. Wooden's invitation to his home, the octogenarian will always tell Liu Han a lot of truths, some about basketball, some about life, and Shi Lei, who followed Liu Han to Mr. Wooden's house to be responsible for translating for Liu Han, also felt that he benefited a lot, and the words of this legendary old man who created a legend revealed many true meanings of life. Liu Han loved to listen to this venerable old man tell his old stories, which reminded Liu Han of his grandmother, although John? Wooden's words were much more elegant than Grandma's, but the truth was the same.

John? Wooden also likes Liu Han to come to his house, older people will hate the hustle and bustle on the one hand, but on the other hand, they also like to be lively at home, he can't feel the impetuousness of a normal young man from Liu Han, Liu Han only has innocence and love for basketball, so John? Wood will tell Liu Han about his basketball experience and life insights one by one. It is undeniable that the United States during this period was undoubtedly the world's leader in terms of economy and culture, but their concept of family affection was indeed relatively weak. Wooden felt some of the warmth of family affection. Every time Liu Han and Shi Lei arrived, John? Wooden would have his family prepare a lot of food, and John? Wooden will also give Liu Han a lot of advice about what basketball players should pay attention to in terms of diet. Wooden doesn't give up on learning, and he keeps up with a lot of current events about basketball. Liu Han also made the delicacy he misses for Mr. Wooden, whom he respects very much-artichoke rubbing, and this food, which was translated by Shi Lei as "shredded potato pancakes", also made John? Wooden was full of praise.

Every afternoon, Liu Han would come to the training gym after saying goodbye to Shi Lei and Mr. Wooden, and at the beginning his training was all about the most basic basketball movements, dribbling, passing, and shooting that he relied on. Liu Han's learning speed on these basic basketball moves made George, who was in charge of training, ? Krent exclaimed, sure enough, a genius. In just over half a month, Liu Han's dribbling has been able to ensure that he does not lose the ball in the general training game, and the passing pays more attention to vision and awareness, which requires Liu Han's accumulation of experience, and he has basically mastered all kinds of passing techniques.

It has always been George who has been in charge of Liu Han's training, and the head coach Jim? Harrick has never paid much attention to this Oriental who has swept his face, and more importantly, this Oriental kid is John? Wooden stayed in charge, which made him feel a little disgusted even more, so he kept a state of ignorance to Liu Han's existence.

George did not rashly let Liu Han start strength training as soon as he came, although Liu Han is indeed a little lacking in strength, but George feels that the most important thing for Liu Han now is to maintain his mobility and projection ability, so that Liu Han can show in the game, rashly increasing strength training George is afraid that it will destroy Liu Han's soft touch.

The teammates all had expectations for Liu Han, and they were also shocked by Liu Han's learning ability during training. Liu Han followed the main point guard Teyus to learn to dribble for more than ten days, and he played well, except for some lack of rhythm and speed, it was not clear that Liu Han had only started to learn to dribble for a short time. Tejus is looking forward to the upcoming Pacific 10 League tournament and the upcoming NCAA Round of 64.