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"Hello everyone, I'm Gan, I'm from China, it's a pleasure to meet you, and I hope we can get along happily in the future."

On the first day of school, Gan Guoyang came to the new classroom, faced new faces—white, black, and yellow—and made a brief self-introduction on stage.

The audience applauded him, of course, in their opinion, it was normal for a Chinese transfer student to enter the school. There are many Chinese people at Palo Alto High School, and Asian faces are not uncommon here.

The most enthusiastic applause was Gan Guoyang's younger brother Gan Guohui and Chen Xing, fortunately, the three of them entered the same class. In this way, the Guns N' Roses basketball team can still study together every day.

The schedule of American schools is really relaxed, starting at 9 a.m., leaving school at 3 p.m., and having a lunch break at noon. After school, students have plenty of time to participate in club activities.

Today, Gan Guoyang's first class was geography, which was a breeze for him. In later Chinese high schools, he was known as the "Little Prince of Geography" in his class. The only difficulty in this course for him is that it is more difficult to understand proper nouns, after all, he is Chinese.

The day's lessons were coming to an end soon, and Gan Guoyang felt unexpectedly relaxed. In the last math class, Gan Guoyang, who had long learned calculus, was shocked by the math teacher's ideas and methods when solving problems, and felt that this was not the level that a high school student should have.

Gan Guoyang said in his heart: "This is because your high school math is too simple!" ”

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the bell rang for the end of class, and Gan Guoyang sorted out his books and prepared to leave with Gan Guohui and Chen Xing.

"Hey, Gan! Wait a minute! Behind Gan Guoyang, there was a voice telling him to wait.

Gan Guoyang looked back and found that the person who called him was a little familiar.

"Hello Gan, I'm Peter Dippenbrock of the basketball team." The speaker was a white boy with chestnut hair, about 6-foot-2, who appeared polite and shy.

"Hello, what's the matter with you?" Gan Guoyang recognized him as a player who was training there when he went to the basketball stadium that day. However, he didn't laugh at Gan Guoyang, he just stayed there and watched, so Gan Guoyang had a good impression of him.

"Well, our coach, Mr. Bobby Bellman, wants you to go for it."

Gan Guoyang was stunned at first, and then he was overjoyed, thinking that although his performance yesterday was not seen by the coach, it must have also reached the coach's ears, and now the coach must have let him join the team.

"Okay, no problem. Guohui, Chen Xing, you go to play first, and I will go to the basketball hall with him. ”

Saying that, Gan Guoyang and Diepenbrock walked out of the classroom of the wooden room and walked in the direction of the basketball hall.

Yesterday's bullfight with the tall black man, of course, Gan Guoyang won, but the game was still a bit suspenseful.

Gan Guoyang found that the players who have gone through the basic practice of the system are different, and they are standard and powerful in their actions. The card position and top person are very solid.

Although Gan Guoyang has undergone the training of a superstar like Thurmond, to be honest, his level of practice is too high. Some of the techniques that Gan Guoyang has learned can be used in the professional arena, but he is not very proficient in some very basic techniques.

For example, the stability of the next game, which Thurmond often mentioned in training, has never been well resolved.

Therefore, although Gan Guoyang won, it was not very easy, and he finally won the bullfight 5:3.

However, winning the bullfight is not the ultimate goal, entering the basketball team is what he wants, but unfortunately the coach never showed up in the afternoon, and he had to leave first with Gan Guohui.

On the road, there were a lot of people wearing all kinds of sports uniforms, including baseball uniforms, football uniforms, and football uniforms, all of whom seemed to have changed their clothes after school to participate in club activities.

"Bang", Gan Guoyang felt a pain in his shoulder, as if he had hit something.

"Hey, what are you doing? Don't you have long eyes when you walk? ”

It turned out that Gan Guoyang was thinking about yesterday's bullfight while walking, and accidentally rubbed his shoulder against a person.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I'm really sorry." Gan Guoyang apologized politely.

"Excuse me?" The man who was hit took off his helmet, a member of the rugby team, fully armed and dressed like a gladiator ready to go to the field for training.

"If I'm sorry to be useful, the world would have been peaceful and settled a long time ago." The person who was hit was obviously a militant, and he also came to Gan Guoyang.

"And what do you want?" Gan Guoyang saw that this guy was looking for trouble.

In the more than two months since he arrived in the United States, most Americans of his age have felt very good, polite and humble, and black people are also very welcoming. But the forest is big and there are all kinds of birds, and it seems that what I have encountered today is not a good stubble.

"Yellow-skinned monkey, you'd better be careful in the future, this is not your territory." The man only threatened and walked away with the rest of the rugby players.

It seems that he has also noticed that Gan Guoyang is tall and strong, and he is not so easy to mess with.

"He's Gary Halek on the rugby team, his father is a member of parliament in Palo Alto, and he's a racist." Diepenbrock explained as he watched them go.

"It's okay, let's go."

The two of them soon arrived at the basketball hall, and at the same time, many members of the basketball team also arrived together, and everyone looked at Gan Guoyang with strange eyes.

On the one hand, in their opinion, this guy is arrogant and arrogant, and a Chinese dares to run to the basketball stadium and say that he wants to join the team. On the other hand, this man is really strong, and he was able to beat the team's main power forward, Jot Davidson, in a bullfight, which was very unexpected.

Gan Guoyang also felt the complicated and different eyes of the players, he took a deep breath and smiled lightly, trying to make himself look friendly. However, it doesn't seem to work very well.

Entering the stadium, there was already a middle-aged man standing on the court. He wears leather shoes, brown bib pants, and a green-checked shirt on a white background, and holds a record board in his hand. This should be the team's coach, Bobby Bellman.

Watching the players enter the stadium one after another, there was also a Chinese student who came in, and he knew that the person he was waiting for was coming.

He stepped forward, looked at Gan Guoyang, and said to him, "You are Gan, come with me." ”

"Others, start warming up first! Run twenty laps along the course! Bellman then yelled.

Gan Guoyang followed Coach Bellman apprehensively and entered the office inside.

"Hello, Gan, please be seated." Coach Bellman and Gan Guoyang sat together in the office.

"I'm Bobby Bellman, the head coach of the Palo Alto Vikings. I think you should know why I brought you here. ”

"Yes, I want to... I want to join the team and I think I can give the team some help. ”

"So, you came to the arena yesterday and went head-to-head with the players on the team and beat the team's power forward, and then you thought you could replace him in the team?"

Gan Guoyang heard that the coach's tone was not good, and his behavior in the stadium yesterday was indeed inappropriate.

"I'm sorry, Coach Bellman, I was too impatient. Because I just transferred and I'm in the twelfth grade, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to make the team again. ”

"The most important thing as a team is to stick together. And if you let you into the team, I can't guarantee that it won't affect the unity of the team! ”

Gan Guoyang's heart was cold, did he have to reject himself like this? But after thinking about it, I feel that it is not right, if I want to reject myself, do I need to let myself come here? If you don't leave it alone, it's over. So he patiently continued to listen.

"But if you can beat Davidson with your inside skills, it shows that you do have good quality. Plus, there's a big guy who wrote me a letter of recommendation recommending you to join my team. ”

Hearing the word "but", Gan Guoyang knew that there was a play, and when he heard the "big man" recommend himself, he had already thought that it must be Mr. Nate Thurmond.

"So, I'm giving you a chance to try out with the team for a week. If you do well, you can stay in my team. Otherwise, Mr. Thurmond's letter of recommendation would not have worked. ”

"Thank you, Mr. Bellman! I'm going to do a good job! Gan Guoyang stood up excitedly and thanked him busily.

"Mr. Gan, when I say good performance, it's not just on the pitch, but off the pitch, and I want you to get along with all the players. A united team is more important than a good player. Coach Bellman reminded him.

He was certainly not wrong in doing so, and from Thurmond's recommendation to Gan's defeat of Davidson, Bellman had already seen that the Chinese kid would be a rare talent in the history of Palo Alto High School's basketball team. But in order to prevent Gan Guoyang from arrogantly arrogance and destroy the unity of the team, he used both grace and power to make Gan Guoyang understand that the interests of the team are above all else.

And Gan Guoyang is not a thorn, yesterday's behavior was just a momentary impulse in a hurry, so he agreed, and he was confident to do a good job in unity.

"Hey, gentlemen, assemble! Don't run anymore, you're already running like a, I can't stand it anymore!

"Today we will have a new member joining, everyone to get to know one.! Gan, introduce yourself. Coach Bellman pulled Gan Guoyang and stood in front of the assembled team of players and asked him to introduce himself.

"Hello everyone, we already met yesterday, but I'm sorry to make a bad impression on you. My name is ...... Sunny•Gump！ Gan Guoyang hesitated for a moment, and did not say that his name was Gan, but called himself "Sunshine Fool"! Gump is pronounced very similar to Gan, which means stupid.

His name drew a burst of laughter from everyone, and the whole atmosphere lightened up with Gan Guoyang's apology and funny name.

The subsequent communication was naturally much simpler, and a group of high school students quickly accepted this cute Chinese boy. And they all know that this guy's strength is very strong, and even Davidson is not his opponent.

"All right, ladies, stop chattering like a. Later training will leave you speechless. "Coach Bellman interrupted the arguing of the players, and today's training is about to begin.

After the preparation activities and motivational shouts, the real training begins. For the first time, Gan Guoyang realized how different and painful a complete basketball team training and one-on-one coaching are.

From just over three p.m. to seven p.m., the team conducted:

1. Passing training, including five-corner passing, four-corner passing, half-time two-on-one, half-time three-on-two passing practice;

2. Decompose tactical exercises, including half-court man-to-man, strong side three-on-three, weak-side two-on-two, and half-court defensive positioning running practice;

3. Five-on-five all-confrontation practice.

Among them, Gan Guoyang did not participate in the five-on-five confrontation, but was called aside and accompanied by Coach Bellman to do the back-to-back confrontation.

"Forcefully, what are your feet doing! Maintain your balance! I don't want you to staggered like a! Bellman yelled in his ear as he held a large cushion against Gan Guoyang's back.

"If you — fucking thought you were going to make it to the team with that little skill, I—fucking would have been in the NBA! Come on! Bellman continued to torture Gan Guoyang with words. And Gan Guoyang gritted his teeth and worked hard to do the card position practice.

Passing and breaking down tactical exercises consumed a lot of his physical strength, and he was out of breath by this point. Gan Guoyang didn't expect that the training of a high school team would be so professional and hard.

When he finished the back exercise, Gan Guoyang felt that his back was no longer conscious.

"Hey! Diepenbrock! What the hell are you doing! You're a point guard, protecting the ball is your number one duty, and if you can't even do that, you-fucking don't touch a basketball! ”

Dippenbrock, the player named Gan Guoyang, is the team's backup point guard. Apparently his performance displeased Bellman, who did not hesitate to scold the seemingly well-mannered white coach.

Gan Guoyang has lost count, this is the first time he has heard Coach Bellman say "fuck" today.

It was dark, the training was coming to an end, and sure enough, there was no one to say when we reassembled. Today is just the first training session since the start of school, and everyone can't understand why the usually strict Coach Bellman has become more strict.

"Alright, ladies, today's game is over, I hope you have a good time and go back and have a good dream! Let's all go back, see you tomorrow, disband! As soon as Bellman finished speaking, the players dragged their tired steps to the locker room to change clothes and leave the stadium.

"Mr. Bellman, I want to practice a little more." There was one person who didn't move, it was Gan Guoyang, and he still wanted to practice.

"If you still want to practice, it means that you are not tired, which is my dereliction of duty. However, I have other important things to do today, and I can't continue to torture you, so practice hard. Also, if you die here, I'm not going to add a dead person to the roster. ”

After saying that, Bellman gave Gan Guoyang the key to the arena and left. It's not just that I want him to lock the door at night, but also that he will be the first to come in the morning.

Gan Guoyang held the ball and was ready to practice a few more unskilled technical moves, but found that he was not the only one in the stadium, there was also a figure.

"Diepenbrock?" Gan Guoyang recognized it as Diepenbrock.

"Hey, Gan, I want to practice for a while, too."

"Yes, I'm too lonely, we can be companions."

In this way, the two of them cooperated with each other and helped each other, and practiced for more than an hour, and finally they couldn't bear it anymore, so they went to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.

"Hey, Gan, you know what? I could tell Coach Bellman was happy and excited. He had never been as passionate as he was today, so he said so many dirty words. While taking a bath, Dippenbrock suddenly said to Gan Guoyang.

"Really? Wasn't he like he was today? Gan Guoyang was also impressed by this coach who was full of trash talk.

"There were, but not as much as it is today. I can tell he's very focused, very strict, more strict than he's used to. It's all because of you. ”

"Because of me?" Gan Guoyang is very strange.

"Yes, because you're a genius, and on the basketball team at Palo Alto Middle School, there's never been a genius."

Downbrock's statement startled Gan Guoyang, and he looked at Diepenbrock with some surprise.

"Palo Alto Middle School has never been famous, and Coach Bellman is actually very ambitious, but he has never had a chance. However, your arrival made him feel that the opportunity had come. ”

"But... Actually, I'm not that great. Gan Guoyang didn't know how to respond.

"No, you're amazing, but you're not a genius, you can see it in one training. Why doesn't Coach Bellman let you participate in a five-on-five and instead take you to practice alone? Because he knows that if you go and play 5-on-5, we don't have any chance to perform. ”

Gan Guoyang originally thought that because he was a newcomer, he could not participate in the full-court confrontation practice.

"But even if you don't do 5-on-5 practice, I don't have much of a chance to perform. I think... I don't really have any talent...... I don't think I'll be with this team for long. Deadenbrock clearly thought of his performance in the afternoon and the scolding he had been scolded by Coach Bellman, and bowed his head deeply in the mist of the showerhead.

"Diepenbrock, everyone's existence must have his meaning. So never give up on yourself, if you give up easily, the game will end early. It's the same with your basketball career. ”

Diepenbrock looked up at Gan Guoyang, his face flowing with water or tears.

"Never give up."

Gan Guoyang's words deeply encouraged Dippenbrock, who had little basketball talent, to insist on walking on the road of his basketball dream. Decades later, he sent that quote to another point guard, encouraging him not to give up.

Dippenbrock later became the head coach of the Palo Alto High School basketball team, and the guard he encouraged was the later Chinese Light, an inspirational legend of NBA minions, Jeremy Lin, who graduated from Palo Alto High School.