Chapter 9: George and Liu Han

George was looking forward to seeing Li Rui again, and he wondered what it would take for his old friend to give up the dreams and expectations he had when he left the United States and come back to the United States.

The new season is about to begin, the UCLA Bruins are ready to start a new journey, and the team's three main players have also been promoted to their senior year, if the Bruins fail to break through this season, they will have to start again in the next few years. At the beginning of the new season, the team's usual training was led by George, and the head coach Jim? Harrick had to choose a few days off because of a bad cold, so George, who was fully leading the team for the first time, was a little hectic. George, who was in power, asked Li Rui to take Liu Han directly to the stadium where the Bruins were training to find him.

Li Rui took Liu Han to the University of California, Los Angeles, and LaBeouf, who had already accepted the reality, also went with him, and he was also curious about what Liu Han was capable of.

Liu Han looked at the beautiful and elegant campus scenery of the top American school in a daze, he grew up in the dusty Loess Plateau since he was a child, and he was very surprised to see this exotic beauty for the first time.

None of the three of them had ever been to UCLA, so they didn't know the Bruins' training facility, but they happened to walk by a young man with an East Asian appearance with eyes.

"Excuse me, where is the basketball gym at UCLA?" Li Rui chose to ask the young man in English first.

"Training gym? That should be in the east side of the school, you are Chinese, right? Is it from China, is it for the team to try? The young man subconsciously replied in English.

"Ha, yes, we came from China, but I didn't expect to meet our compatriots just after we came." Li Rui was very happy to meet his compatriots, after all, it was not easy to meet a Chinese-speaking compatriot in a foreign country, so he enthusiastically stretched out his hand.

"Hello, my name is Shi Lei, I've been in the United States for three years, I can take you there if you want to go to the stadium, I usually like to play basketball, where is your hometown?" Shi Lei is also very enthusiastic.

"My name is Li Rui, I am from Lu Province, this is Liu Han, I am from Shaanxi Province, and this is LaBeouf, my father-in-law. The assistant coach of the Bruins is my former classmate, and I plan to recommend Liu Han to him. Li Rui made a brief introduction.

"Hello, Liu Han. Hello, Mr. LaBeouf. ”

"Hello, my name is Liu Han and I am eighteen years old this year." Liu Han was watching the scenery in the school, and when he heard someone say hello, he subconsciously replied in English. LaBeouf, on the other hand, muttered in a low voice: "Another Oriental boy." ”

Liu Han's slightly dull performance made Shi Lei feel that he had little hope of staying in the United States. Shi Lei has always liked basketball, so he has watched a lot of school games, and once saved a sum of money to watch the Lakers games, so he feels that the current level of basketball in China is still very far behind that of the United States.

Shi Lei took Li Rui and the three to the training hall of the Brown Bears.

"Can I go in with you? Actually, I'm also interested in basketball, and I've never watched the school team practice up close, so I can be your interpreter. After Shi Lei said this, he smiled awkwardly, because he knew that Li Rui's English was no problem at all.

"Haha, let's go, let's see it together, it's actually good to have someone cheering for Liu Han later."

George gave Li Rui, who had met again after four years, a fierce hug.

"Ha, you lucky guy, it seems that LaBeouf didn't prepare a 'big gift' for you."

"George, I don't think it's time for you to lose weight after four years, Nasha's belly isn't as big as yours." Li Rui first teased George.

"Hello, LaBeouf, it's been a long time, didn't you prepare a 'surprise' for Rui when you saw him?"

"Of course I'm ready, but I can't beat his father in front of my grandson, can I?" LaBeouf knew George at an early age.

"Let me see, this tall figure should be what you call a genius - Han, right? So who is this? George expressed doubts about Shi Lei's identity.

"Hello, Coach George, I'm a Chinese student at UCLA, it's Liu Han, uh, translator ......" Shi Lei suddenly felt a little embarrassed about his identity.

"Hello, Mr. George, my name is Liu Han and I am eighteen years old." Liu Han practiced this sentence very skillfully. And Liu Han's slightly accented English made Shi Lei feel even more embarrassed.

"Hello, young man, your English is not bad, but the accent is slightly strange."

"Let's go, let's put our genius to the test." George led the crowd into the arena.

George took Liu Han to do some physical tests, which were much more professional than the physical tests that Li Rui did for Liu Han when he was in China.

"Han's physical condition is good, his explosiveness and endurance are good, but his strength is slightly insufficient, but he is still young, and it is not too late to start strength training when his physical development is over, let's go to the court now to try his skills!" George is pleased with Liu's physical condition, with height and arm length making him a good defender in the second position.

Inside the arena, the Bruins are engaged in a fierce match. Liu Han, who turned his head to look at the fierce game on the court, suddenly felt that he had a gap, which was not at the same level as the confrontation he had with college players when he was in China.

Liu Han, who was fascinated by watching the game, didn't notice Shi Lei who had stopped walking in front of him, so he directly knocked Shi Lei to the ground. Liu Han's flustered performance made George a little disappointed when he saw this scene.

"Okay, let's stop and rest for a while." George called a halt to the game.

"Rui, let Liu Han show what he stands out about first." George wanted his old friend to surprise him.

"Liu Han, don't be afraid later, just like before, I believe you will do it."

After a brief warm-up, Liu Han took the ball and walked to the top of the arc outside the three-point line. And Li Rui pushed a basket of basketballs to the basket.

"Ready? Liu Han. Wait for the speed to run. Li Rui chose a special way to show Liu Han's projection ability.

Li Rui hit the basketball in his hand to the ground and passed it to the left side of the top arc at a position of 45 degrees, and the ball speed was relatively fast. Liu Han reacted quickly and ran to the position to catch the ball and shoot, a perfect arc, a perfect hollow into the net. Li Rui threw the second ball directly to the other side at 45 degrees, and Liu Han quickly caught the ball and hit another one. The third ball flew to the bottom corner of the right side, and Liu Han still quickly caught the ball in place and hit it again.

George just felt that this young man's shooting posture was perfect when he saw Liu Han's first shot, and when Liu Han hit three points one after another in the rapid run, George had already felt Liu Han's extraordinary.

When the tenth ball was hit in a row, Shi Lei on the sidelines had already stood up a little excitedly, and when the twentieth ball was hit in a row, the players of the Bruins who were resting on the sidelines also cheered.

Liu Han, who has been fully entered on the court, shoots three-pointers like a machine, no matter where the ball flies, he can quickly get in place and hit it perfectly.

Thirtieth, fortieth, and when Liu Han hit the fiftieth in a row, all the players of the Bruins counted in unison.

Fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three......

George, Shi Lei and LaBeouf on the sidelines were also completely stunned by Liu Han's performance, you must know that this is not a simple fixed-point catch and shooting, Liu Han has been catching the ball in a rapid movement, the difficulty of projection is quite large, and the physical strength will be consumed very quickly under the fast running, and it is not easy to have such an accurate projection with less physical strength.

After Liu Han hit 100 three-pointers in a row in the rapid run, Li Rui stopped, and Liu Han, who was sweating profusely, still insisted on picking up the ball and hit another ten.

Li Rui, who walked to the sidelines, said to George, who was still in shock: "He has only been in contact with basketball for three months, and I swear to the God you believe in and the ancestors we believe in." ”