Chapter 41 The New Semester Begins

At the beginning of September 1995, Li Rui took Liu Han and Safina back to the United States after a long flight, this trip to China made a breakthrough in the relationship between a couple of young men and women, although Liu Han still thought that Safina was going to be his "daughter-in-law", he currently has no real understanding of the word girlfriend.

In September, the fall semester of American universities officially began, and Liu Han returned to his normal student life after returning to Los Angeles, and his early morning running continued, but now sometimes Liu Han will have a beautiful girl next to him.

In the first training camp of the Bruins in the new semester, Liu Han unexpectedly met Paul Pierce, who had fought with him in the summer training camp.

Paul Pierce won the title of California High School Player of the Year in high school for his outstanding performance in the game, which aroused the interest of major well-known colleges and universities in the United States, and he received a lot of invitations from basketball schools after graduating from high school. And Liu Han's personality also seems to be very good, sincere to people, Paul Pierce finally decided to join UCLA.

The Bruins used their fame as an NCAA championship last season to invite many high-profile high school players to join, and the final choice to join the Bruins was small forward Paul Pearce, center Kevin Horford, and point guard Stephen Anderson.

The Bruins left a number of players after a successful season last year, with Adio Bonno, George Zidike, and Teus Edney, who graduated in the NBA draft in their senior year, and Hudson White, a backup point guard midway through the season. Head coach George Krent chose to invite the above three high school students to join after consideration, the strength of the Bruins seems to have declined because of the three absolute main players, in fact, now Liu Han has successfully transformed into a point guard, coupled with the addition of Paul Pierce, the team is still a little immature in terms of internal strength, the outside firepower is very strong, head coach George is in accordance with his own vision to choose players, and the new players behind have good projection ability, George wants to make the Bruins a team that focuses on outside offense.

"Okay boys, I think you've seen these three newcomers around me, this is the new member of the team this year, I hope you can get along happily." George Krent introduced the new players to the veteran players in the first training session.

"Welcome, I believe that your joining will allow us to win the ultimate championship in the coming year." The team's new captain, Thomson, welcomed his new teammates, and after the departure of the senior players, head coach George handed over the captaincy to center Thomson, in George's opinion, Liu Han's personality is not suitable to be the team's captain, and now it seems that Thomson is doing a good job.

"Welcome, Paul, it's a pleasure to see you again." Liu Han gave Paul Pierce a hug.

"Seriously, I chose to join the Bruins because of you. It's a shame you left to let that Exploding Kid end up being the MVP of the training camp. Paul Pearce felt a little sorry that Liu Han didn't make it to the end of training camp, and he was very unaccustomed to the unruly Kobe Bryant.

"Okay boys, it looks like you're going to get along well, so now let's start training, I hope you didn't play unbridled during the holidays, I don't want you to start losing weight in the first place."

After head coach George Krent's speech, the Bruins began training for the new semester, starting with a physical test, George had to make sure that every player was ready for the new season, and he didn't want injuries to start the team.

George was slightly reassured by the fact that the test results were good, and the new players were more physically fit than the older players, but none of them showed a spike in weight.

The Bruins' training for the new season starts with physical training, George admired the training arranged by the NBA physical trainer invited by Mr. Abdul-Jabbar in the summer training camp, and in the new season, he hopes that the Bruins players can also have outstanding physical fitness, because the team's main tactics this season are based on the outside line, which will be a big challenge for the players' speed and fitness.

Liu Han and Paul Pierce seemed to be at ease in their physical training because they attended the holiday training camp, and the other players were a little uncomfortable with the heavy physical training, because no coach had ever arranged such a large amount of physical training for a college player before.

The team began to arrange the team's tactics after nearly a month of physical training, at this time most of the players in the team have basically adapted to this high-intensity training mode, under the arrangement of head coach George Crent, the Bruins have to carry out a variety of offensive and defensive routines every day, the three-line fast attack cooperation when attacking, the Hawks offensive coordination invented and promoted by Mr. John Wooden, and the rotation rotation when defending, Players who have adapted to high-intensity physical training can practice for long periods of time in tactical training, and the Bruins have begun to change in this training.

Paul Pierce found his most suitable position in the Bruins, Paul has a maturity that he does not have at this age, his physical condition is not too outstanding, but he has skilled offensive footwork and back body skills, and the projection ability is also very good, the mature mental state makes him not feel that he must have the ball in the team, he can run open shots, and he can also use back singles to finish the offense in the attack, and the defensive attitude is also very positive, Head coach George was very happy with the player recommended by his old classmates.

Liu Han successfully transformed into a point guard after the training of the summer training camp, skillful dribbling, sharp breakthroughs, simple and threatening passes, coupled with Liu Han's original three-point ability, which makes him very prominent in the team's training, and Liu Han's height makes him very advantageous in the position of point guard.

At the beginning of the team's training, the newcomers Kevin Horford and Stephen Anderson of the Bruins were surprised that the team's boss was an Asian, and the arrogant Stephen Anderson also tried to provoke Liu Han after training, he said in public that if Liu Han couldn't beat him in a bullfight, he should let him play the main point guard, but Stephen Anderson was shaved by Liu Han without three points in the laughter of a group of Bruins players - ten to zero, such a score once made Stephen Anderson feel that he couldn't raise his head in the team, But when he once saw Liu Han's performance in the addition of three points, Stephen didn't feel ashamed at all, because he felt that compared with a "pervert", any result was normal, and he might be written into a book in the future as a substitute for such a person.

Liu Han has to practice for an extra hour of three-point shooting after the end of his daily training, he feels that since his most outstanding ability is this, he should practice three-point shooting to the extreme, and he feels that he also likes to hear the sound of the basketball brushing the net with a strong spin. At the beginning, when Liu Han began to practice, Paul Pierce and captain Thomson would choose to stay together and practice, but after Liu Han could shoot for an hour without conceding a goal, Thomson, who was devastated, chose to give up, he felt very unhappy to see Liu Han so accurate every day and he did not make any progress, although Paul Pierce was also hit, he still persevered, he actually thought in his heart, since he can't be more accurate than this pervert, then how can he be more accurate than others.

Safina will also take time to come to the UCLA training hall to watch Liu Han's training after the day's classes every day, although sometimes it feels a little boring, but seeing Liu Han's wonderful performance every day will also make her mood better. Although Liu Han will not give her sweet words and romantic dates like other boys, Safina feels that this simple and sincere Chinese guy will be sincere to her in the future.

LaBeouf still insisted on playing with Liu Han every day after dinner, but what he didn't expect was that Liu Han began to ask LaBeouf to continue teaching him boxing, which made LaBeouf very happy, and he seemed to see the hope of accompanying Liu Han to appear in the professional boxing ring again. Although Liu Han only received a short period of boxing training, he felt that such training could help him improve, so he offered LaBeouf to continue training him.

Li Rui will take care of him and Nasha's children for a long time after returning home every day, but he proposed to let Liu Han also learn yoga after seeing Liu Han and LaBeouf learning boxing, because Li Rui has always believed that basketball players can not only improve the strength of the body, flexibility and body coordination are also very important, the former ensures that athletes can make a variety of difficult movements, and can ensure that players are not prone to injury, while the latter can ensure that players maintain physical balance in fierce confrontations.

Liu Han's daily time began to be filled with all kinds of training and studies, but he didn't feel how irritating these training and studies were, compared to his previous life, Liu Han felt that his life was busy but fulfilling now, and with Safina's company every day, Liu Han was willing to work hard and tired.