On Friday, Coach Bellman did not let the Vikings train as usual, but gave the players a holiday, saying that it was time for everyone to relax because of their recent streak of victories.

This made everyone a little uncomfortable, especially Gan Guoyang, who would be very uncomfortable if he didn't touch the basketball for a day, as if there was a missing part on his body.

So after school, he took the basketball out of the school gate by himself, and in the gray weather and light rain, he started his "street basketball practice" again.

Since his first "street basketball practice" in San Francisco, running around the city with a basketball has become one of the main practice methods for Gan Guoyang on his rest days.

For athletes, the terrain on the street is much more complex than that of a basketball court, with steps, street lights, fire hydrants, trash cans, and traffic lights. How to dribble all the way to the destination without holding the ball in your hand will be a big challenge.

Moreover, the weather is not very good today, and if you accidentally drop the ball on the road, it is very likely to cause a traffic accident, so this is a dangerous practice mode.

However, this practice method has certain benefits for the player's ball sense, judgment and flexibility. Especially for the sense of the ball, due to the different materials and even unevenness of the street ground, how to control the ball to bounce on this kind of ground will be a test of the feeling of the hand.

Gan Guoyang didn't know that this kind of exercise would play a big role in his future capture of the terrible Boston Garden Arena.

Now, his destination is Willow Oak Park in East Palo Alto, which has a small basketball hoop near East Palo Alto Private High School.

In fact, before playing East Palo Alto High School, Gan Guoyang often played there for the same reason as he played in San Francisco's Union Park, where the field is small and there are few people.

He likes the feeling of practicing alone under a basketball hoop, and he has little interest in playing against people on the street anymore, and he doesn't like playing with his classmates in Palo Alto.

And it's been a while since he played against Dongpa High School. One is because there are more games and the training is also very hard, and the other is that he is a little worried that he will slash 40 points in the opponent's home court, will it arouse the hatred of the students of the other school......

When he arrived at Willow Oak Park with the ball in sweat, he found that he had also met some students from Dongpa High School along the way, but they didn't know him at all, let alone run up to beat him.

However, it seems that Gan Guoyang is not the only one who plays in Willow Oak Park this time, because he has seen a small figure under the basketball hoop shooting, picking up the ball, and shooting again.

"People still come to play basketball in this weather?" Gan Guoyang thought in his heart, he didn't realize that he was one of them, and he came all the way over.

He slowly walked into the court and found that it should be a little boy who was playing, and the little boy also found him, stopped his movements and held the ball to look at the tall Gan Guoyang who was walking slowly.

The two of them were a little stunned after seeing each other, one was because Gan Guoyang found out that the boy was actually a Chinese like himself, and the other was that the clothes worn by the two were exactly the same, both of which were cotton bell bottoms sportswear popular in the eighties, and the color was dark green.

Another thing that amazed Gan Guoyang was that this little boy was so good-looking. Gan Guoyang himself is also good-looking, a handsome little guy. Since coming to the United States, he has given himself a crisp short hair according to the aesthetics of later generations, which is contrary to the popular explosive head at the time, but he did not expect to become popular in Palo Alto High School with his fame.

But although this little boy has an old-fashioned three-seven points, he is really good-looking, and his hairstyle is not an obstacle at all. His eyes, nose, and mouth make Gan Guoyang, who is characterized by "positive", ashamed of himself, this child is definitely a shocking handsome guy when he grows up.

"Hey, hello." Gan Guoyang went over to say hello to him in Chinese first.

"Hello." The little boy greeted him too, but his voice seemed to be cold, and in English. After saying that, he turned around and continued to play.

"Can I play with you?" Gan Guoyang looked at this cool child and asked cautiously.

"Are you a Pit Bull player?" The little boy asked suddenly.

"No, I'm a Viking player." Gan Guoyang replied.

"Vikings? Palo Alto High School? The coldness on the boy's face seemed to be dispelled, but he quickly added, "The Vikings are enemies too." ”

"Enemies?" Gan Guoyang thought it was strange, why did the Vikings become enemies?

"On Tuesday, Hyde Rolls-Royce High School is going to play against you!"

"Tuesday? How do you know? Gan Guoyang felt even more strange, he only knew that he would compete with Skyrim High School tomorrow Saturday, and how did this little guy know about the Tuesday competition.

In fact, many of the next schedules have been discharged, and many players know who to play against, only Gan Guoyang is too lazy to watch, anyway, the soldiers will cover up the water.

"Yes, tomorrow we're going to race the bulldogs, and on Tuesday we're going to compete with you." The little boy was shooting as he spoke.

"You're a student at Hyde Rolls-Royce High School?" No matter how Gan Guoyang thinks of this child, he is only seven or eight years old, although Americans go to school early, and he goes to elementary school at the age of five or six, but he can't be a high school student.

"I'm from Hyde Rolls-Royce High School Elementary School! I will also be at the Rolls-Royce School in Shanghai. The little boy replied forcefully.

Gan Guoyang realized that he was a little fan, but he didn't know where this Hyde-Rolls-Royce High School was, which sounded quite high-end.

"Tomorrow you'll fight Skyrim High School, be careful." The little boy even knew about the Vikings' game schedule for tomorrow.

"You know Skyrim High?"

"The thing I hate the most is Skyrim High School, you have to teach them a good lesson tomorrow! But that number 20 is really powerful. "The little boy seems to know a lot about what Skyrim High is like.

"Do you also watch Skyrim High School's games?"

"We're in the same district as them, so of course we'll see it!" The little boy glanced up at Gan Guoyang with disdain, and then shot, but his strength was not enough, and he didn't touch the basket.

"It turns out that Hyde Rolls-Royce High School is in the Oakland district, so this little guy is really a hardcore guy who chased Palo Alto to watch the game." Gan Guoyang understood at this time, and Rolls-Royce High School, which is also in the Auckland area, also came to Palo Alto to play the invitational tournament. And for the convenience of the road, I am preparing to finish all the games in Palo Alto in a few days.

"You really have to be careful of that number 20! That guy is a nuisance. The little boy reminded again.

"You see I'm so tall, do you need to be afraid of him?" Gan Guoyang lowered his head and looked at the little guy.

"He's a 'King-of-Rubbish'!" The little boy suddenly shouted.

"King-of-Rubbish" means the king of trash talk, which suggests that the number 20 is supposed to be a very good trash talker.

However, for Gan Guoyang, who has been sprayed by Bellman for a long time, trash talk is really nothing new. And judging from the situation he used to squirt with Halek, this guy is not a good stubble.

"Trash talk king? I'm not afraid of him, I don't play basketball with my mouth. ”

"He was so good at playing on the streets that he got that call. He's a point guard! ”

Point guard, No. 20, trash talk king, Gan Guoyang suddenly remembered someone in his mind.

"It can't be him, right? What a coincidence......"

"Hey, big man, you teach me how to shoot, it's so hard for me." Because of his relatively small strength, the little boy shoots with both hands, and sometimes he can't even reach the basket.

"You're still too young, let's practice dribbling first." Gan Guoyang looked at the thin child, squatted down and said to him.

"But many of my classmates were able to play, and they played well. I want to be a basketball player in the future. Gan Guoyang squatted down, and the little boy still looked up at Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang only remembered after listening to it that the basketball level of seven or eight-year-old elementary school students in the United States was already very shocking. Some children have no problem playing the whole court, making layups, mid-range shots, and three-point shots, and they play well.

"You're going to get older, and then you're going to be able to shoot. But not everyone can become a basketball player. Look, you look so handsome, you can be an actor in the future! Gan Guoyang looked at his handsome face and felt that it was a pity that this kid didn't become an actor.

"I don't want to be an actor, I want to play basketball! You teach me how to dribble. ”

"Okay, come, let's dribble around the court two times first!"

In this way, two people, one big and one small, braved the drizzling rain and dribbled in the open space of the park.

While running Gan Guoyang, he asked, "Little friend, what's your name?" ”

The child dribbled the ball seriously, apparently not very skillful, and replied: "My name is Daniel." ”

Gan Guoyang took Daniel to enjoy the fun of basketball on the park court in the afternoon.

And this Chinese child also has a Chinese name, called: Wu Yanzu.

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Finally, after a day of rest, it's time for Saturday, December 12, when Palo Alto High School will host two major games, a football game and a basketball game, against the Oakland Skyline High School Eagles.

Unlike Dongpa High School, the Palo Alto Vikings arrived at the gymnasium early, and it was just after one o'clock, and the school audience had not yet entered the stadium.

"Ladies, we had a good day of rest yesterday, and today we came here ahead of schedule to rehearse our tactics, and move your muscles and bones by the way, OK?" Bellman began directing his "ladies" to the field for some simple tactical drills in preparation for the afternoon game.

"Diepenbrock, watch your dribble, you always raise your hand so high, be careful!" Bellman began to criticize Diepenbrock again, and his dribbling was indeed relatively high. However, there have been no major problems in the previous games, and he is now a consistent starting point guard for the Vikings.

The Vikings mainly practiced a few of the more common offensive routines, especially Diepenbrock's pick-and-roll coordination with the inside. Downbrock's attacking threat is not great, but his tactical interpretation is very strong, and the passing ball is very threatening.

If Gan Guoyang is the core of the Vikings, then Dippenbrock is a booster.

Slowly, the audience in the stadium began to increase.

In the past, the most popular sport at Palo Alto High School was football, and every football game was sold out. In comparison, the attendance rate of basketball games is much more examined.

This year is different, the Vikings have won five in a row after returning from the core, and more and more students are beginning to pay attention to the school's basketball game and the team's No. 1 star - Gan Guoyang.

"Good afternoon, Milena! You've even come to see the game! ”

"Of course, I pay attention to the preview of the school's basketball game every day."

"That's a real honor, just look at my performance today!"

"Wow, there are so many fucking people today, if I don't win a dozen or twenty points in today's game, I feel embarrassed to face the audience."

"I'm going to dunk a ...... today"

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Before the game had even started, the Vikings players were thrilled to see so many spectators and receive such a warm treatment at home for the first time. Everyone looks like they're eager to try and do a big job in the game.

Only Gan Guoyang, his heart was a little uneasy, he could feel the emotions of contempt for the enemy spreading in the team, as if this game had been like a bag, and in fact, everyone didn't know what kind of team Skyrim High School was.

Because in the past few years, Skyrim High School's basketball team has not come to Palo Alto to play an invitational tournament, and the Vikings players only know that Skyrim High School has won a few championships but has not gone far, so they are not worried about today's first meeting with Skyrim High School.

Just as the Vikings players giggle and nonchalantly do shooting exercises, the Skyrim High School players arrive at the gymnasium.

It was as if a torrent rushed into the green grassland, and the Skyrim High School players in blue jerseys lined up in a neat line and entered the stadium full of green from the main entrance.

The gymnasium seemed to be quiet in an instant, and the players who had been chatting and warming up there also stopped and looked at the blue torrent.

All of them could feel the oppressive momentum coming from this torrent, and they washed away the noise and chaos in the gymnasium with neat formations, consistent steps, and indifferent expressions.

The thought came to everyone's head: "This must be a strong team." ”

"Ladies, what's wrong with you, are you stunned? This is your opponent today, and I hope you are ready. Bellman sensed the mood change in his teammates and reminded them loudly. However, this is the kind of spectacle that Bellman wants to see, and he feels that it is time for his group of players to learn a lesson.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's attention was also attracted by the arrival of Skyrim High School, but what attracted him the most was the leader of this team, a small black player who looked inconspicuous.

He was about 6-foot-2 (1.87 meters) and looked relatively thin, but he had a big head, and he walked with a bobbing head, which made him feel out of place with the entire team of Skyrim High School players.

Gan Guoyang looked at him, he also saw Gan Guoyang, and glanced at Gan Guoyang with a cynical look, and led the team into the locker room.

"Gan, do you know the person at the top of the line?" Downbrock noticed the direction of Gan Guoyang's eyes, and he also knew that the person Gan Guoyang was looking at should be a point guard, and he was going to play against this person in this game.

"I... I don't know him, but you have to be careful. Gan Guoyang's answer was very strange, what should I not know.

But he knew in his heart who this person was, because he had already seen that this little point guard was the future NBA "trash talk king", super point guard, gary Payton.