Recently, Gan Guoyang has been doing everything smoothly and everything is going well.

The victory on the court gave him more and more confidence in his basketball skills. And after returning to class, he is not like some sports students, who are proud of the field and disappointed in the examination room.

Back in Palo Alto at the end of the weekend, the school held a mid-term test and an exam was scheduled for all cultural classes.

In all courses, except biology and history, Gan Guoyang got A's. Because biology is really difficult, Gan Guoyang's biology performance in later generations is not good, so there is only B.

And American history is too fresh and natural for a Chinese who has long been accustomed to the history of smelly and long footwraps. Gan Guoyang's Chinese-style historical thinking embodied in * made the teacher have to give him a B because he couldn't read it.

What made Gan Guoyang most proud was his English literature, which not only got an A, but also was selected for an excellent article published in the school magazine, which greatly praised Gan Guohui.

Gan Guoyang feels that he is finally starting to understand a little bit of what Bill Russell said, "Take control of yourself".

Especially after playing the second season of the "revenge battle" with Pittman, he can realize that he is in control of himself, his teammates, his opponents, and finally the game.

He knew that Pittman would never come to Guns N'Rose's revenge again, because Pittman had lost faith and felt fear.

And now, he is also in control of his own cultural classes.

Now that school is over, Gan Guoyang packed up his books, prepared to go to the locker to change clothes, and went to the basketball gym to train as usual.

"It's a fucking good life." Gan Guoyang sighed. Under Bellman's influence, words starting with F appear more and more frequently in his discourse.

But no matter how good a life is, there will be a stain.

For Gan Guoyang now, the biggest stain on his good life at Palo Alto High School is Gary Halleck.

And this stain always recurs under Gan Guoyang's nose, because he is in the class next door to Gan Guoyang, and every day after school, he has to go to the locker to change clothes and go to the rugby team to train.

"Hey, hello Sunshine Idiot, I heard you did well in the warm-up game last week?"

Usually Gan Guoyang tries to avoid the nasty ghost of Halek, but today he is in a good mood and too relaxed to forget to avoid it.

"Hello, boogers." Gan Guoyang nicknamed Halek "Boogers," to reflect his extremely annoying but ever-present characteristic, "How is the crawling practice on the playground?" I see you're wearing this outfit, so you're going to practice again, right? Keep it up! ”

In addition to shoulder pads and knee pads, Gan Guoyang naturally will not let go of this opportunity to mock him.

"you, don't think you're going to win a warm-up game and win the state championship, you're far off! Just wait to be fucked! ”

Halek's English literature course was obviously not very good, and he was sprayed in several fights with Gan Guoyang, and only one mouth was left intact.

"Say whatever you want, boogers~ Anyway, I can pop you out at any time." Gan Guoyang pretended to be indifferent, changed his clothes and prepared to leave.

"By the way, Gan, there is a warm-up game for the rugby team this afternoon, I advise you to take a good look and see what is a man's sport." This is the main purpose of Halek's search for Gan Guoyang today, and the California Football High School League is about to start.

"No problem! I'll go and see it, and I hope your performance will satisfy me. Booger. ”

"Don't call me boogers again!" Halek was extremely unhappy with this nickname, but Gan Guoyang had already gone away.

………………

After school, the basketball team's training was still as usual, strict, hard, and full of Bellman's roar.

"Vicis! Can you please hurry up for me! Hurry up, hurry up! I-can see you in a wheelchair when you're old! ”

"Dippenbrock, you're like an old grandmother again, and I'll send you to a nursing home tomorrow."

"Gan, what an idiot you are! Can your passing be a little more fucking smooth! Remember your teammates' positions, remember where they are, just like remember where you are! Damn San Franciscans. ”

However, for the Vikings players, such swearing has long been taken for granted, and there is no trace of unhappiness on their faces, only seriousness, concentration and hard work.

In addition to being used to motivate the players, Bellman's trash talk also plays an important role in teaching them to concentrate and not to be distracted by something other than basketball.

What Bellman didn't expect, of course, was that he would work tirelessly to spit and eventually water out a future NBA trash talk king.

"Alright ladies! Gather! Bellman blew the whistle and stopped the players who were doing tactical running practice and gathered on the sidelines.

"You did a good job today, ladies, so I decided to end today's training early because I have an important training session to attend."

The training lasted only an hour and a half, and neither the single technical training nor the full-time training was carried out.

It's certainly a good thing for players to end training early, to go home early or back to the dormitory, and to do whatever they want in the evening.

However, the players' faces were expressionless and unfazed; Some even showed a hint of pain, as if they were reluctant to end their training early.

"Okay ladies, your acting skills are pretty good today, but this time I do have other things, and those who are willing to practice can keep it by themselves. Okay, I'm leaving, you can do it. ”

It turns out that the players have been played by Bellman before.

Bellman lied to the players that he was going to a meeting so he ended the training early, and many of the players cheered, and as a result, the whole team practiced for an extra hour, and the loudest cheering players did 100 push-ups.

Since then, as long as Bellman says that it will be disbanded early, everyone will keep an eye on it, and if they want to be happy, they will hold it in their hearts and never show it.

At this time, Bellman was really gone, and the players were also relieved, scattered in a hurry, and ran to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.

"Hey, Gan, aren't you going to stay and practice today?" Dippenbrock saw that Gan Guoyang seemed to be about to go to the locker room to change clothes, so he asked.

Before, the two of them would stay and practice for half an hour to an hour every day, and the thunder could not move.

"Oh Peter, I'd like to come back to practice later, and now I'm going to watch a fight."

"Competitions? I remembered that the Rugby team from Crystal Springs Highlands visited today to play a warm-up game against our school's rugby team. ”

"yes, I'm going to see how that guy Halek is doing today." There was a hint of evil in Gan Guoyang's eyes, he just wanted to see Halek's joke.

………………

The NFL, the professional football league in the United States, was established as early as 1920, nearly three decades before the NBA. In the '60s, football overtook basketball and the much older form of baseball to become the most watched sport in the United States.

As a result, on high school and college campuses, football games are more visible than baseball and basketball games.

Although it wasn't Friday or weekend, when Gan Guoyang and Diepenbrock arrived at the stadium, the stadium was already full. Except for the auditorium, the floor and everything else that was open was crowded with people.

Gan Guoyang also had to sigh that in the United States, rugby is worthy of being the first sport.

For rugby, Gan Guoyang knows six out of seven, but he doesn't know anything. All he knew was that a group of people were going to chase an olive-shaped orb around the world until they ran to someone's house with the ball, and then they scored.

So he came over to watch the excitement, not knowing that this time had reached the most intense moment of the game.

The score was 19:24, with Palo Alto High School trailing Crystal Springs High School by five points. The game was already in the fourth quarter, and with 28 seconds left before the end of the game, Palo Alto High School had the offensive possession and this was their last chance.

Gan Guoyang saw a group of people wearing protective gear, like ancient Roman gladiators, standing face to face on the grassland with many horizontal bars.

All of them were bent on their knees, hunched over, and bent over, looking ready to go.

On the side wearing the dark green jersey (dark green is the main color of Palo Alto, as is the basketball team), there is a person standing at the back of the crowd, as if waiting for something. He also has some teammates next to him.

"Who's that guy standing in the back?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"It's the quarterback, the brains of the team." Diepenbrock looked at the field without blinking, and this was indeed the most tense moment.

The referee blew the whistle, a ball was thrown out of the crowd, and the quarterback, who was in the back, received the ball. The gladiators standing in a row instantly collided like bison.

A large number of Crystal Springs Highland players are rushing for the quarterback's position. Some of the Palo Alto High School players protected the quarterbacks, and some of them began to run wildly toward the opposing court.

"Damn, that quarterback is so pathetic, everyone seems to be going to kill him." Gan Guoyang shook his head and mourned in silence for the thin-looking quarterback.

Sure enough, the quarterback's ball was killed before it could be passed.

A black man on the offensive line broke through the defense of Palo Alto High School, and a lunge knocked down the still watching quarterback, and his heavy body pressed down on the poor quarterback.

Immediately after that, a bunch of people pressed up, like a small mountain bag of human flesh.

"Fuck, what kind of sport is this? Isn't that a foul? Gan Guoyang gasped, feeling incomprehensible to this barbaric and rough movement.

The whistle blew, and the people on the hill of human flesh parted one by one, but the poor quarterback, who was crushed at the bottom, could not stand up.

The coach off the court saw it and knew that the situation was not good, and immediately took the team doctor to the court to check on the situation of the quarterback who fell there.

After a while, a volunteer carried a stretcher to the field and carried the quarterback down.

"Oh my God, this guy must have bruised his ribs." Diepenbrock said worriedly.

"Poor fellow, I don't know which more pitiful fellow will go up and take his place. But time seems to be running out. Gan Guoyang looked at the time on the scoreboard, there were 17 seconds left.

But by this time, Palo Alto High School had no one to replace.

A professional rugby team will have 50 players in two groups, an offensive group and a defensive group.

But it's impossible for a high school team to call up fifty people, and in general, 30 is enough. Among them, the quarterback position must have a backup because of its irreplaceability.

However, the quarterback who was crushed in the rib just now is already a substitute, and the starter went off the court with a sprained thigh, and Palo Alto's coach has no one to replace.

"Fuck! Who can top this quarterback? Mark? Brotto? Willis! ”

"No, coach, I haven't practiced passing at all."

"Coach, if you don't find a pitcher from the baseball team or someone from the basketball team, they practice passing every day anyway."

"Where the are you going to let me find someone from the basketball team? Is basketball the same as football? ”

"Coach, I saw Forrest Gump in our class, he is on the basketball team, he is there!"

Gan Guoyang was waiting for the timeout to end and the game to resume in the open space not far from the coach's bench at this time.

Although he saw that the school team was about to lose, he was also very anxious. But he's also looking forward to a chance to squirt Halek after the game, and he's almost ready to laugh at his lines.

"Hey, Gan! Come here. ”

Suddenly someone called out to him, Gan Guoyang was stunned, only to find out that it was John Parry in his class, he was the running forward of the football team, a nimble and fast black guy.

"What's wrong, John?"

"Come here, come here! Our coach told you to pass, hurry up! John Parry didn't care about Gan Guoyang's confusion and pulled him to the coach's box.

"You're Forrest Gump on the basketball team?" The coach of the football team was a dignified old white man with silver hair.

"No... That's right..."

"Take off your clothes!"

Now Gan Guoyang is stupid, take off your clothes? What is this for? It's still a game.

"Hurry up! Others cover for him! A bunch of tall men from the rugby team surrounded him and wrapped Gan Guoyang inside.

"Take off your clothes, put on this jersey and go up and be our quarterback. Remember, you just have to throw the ball forward as hard as you can and try to get it into the hands of your teammates. ”

As the coach spoke, he had already helped Gan Guoyang pick up his clothes.

Gan Guoyang then understood that this was to make himself a quarterback! It turns out that I'm the fucking one of the hapless quarterbacks!

Now I was really lying down and was shot.

But Gan Guoyang was not allowed to hesitate, surrounded by a group of big men, he was already fully armed and dressed in a football uniform, which fit well, but was a little smaller.

At this point, the timeout is up, and the final 17 seconds of the game are about to begin.

Gan Guoyang was driven to the shelves and became the quarterback of the football team. As he walked, he pulled his ass at the same time, and it was very uncomfortable for him to strangle him because of the small pants.

"My God, how did you end up in such a field and let a layman be the brain of the team." The coach of the football team looked at Gan Guoyang, who was twisting his butt on the court, and he also felt that it was too incredible to let a basketball player be a quarterback, but he was also sick and rushed to the hospital.

Gan Guoyang stood in the place assigned to him by Parry, and his heart was beating wildly.

He wasn't afraid that the ball wouldn't pass out and he would lose, but that he would be brought down by the big black man on the opposite side and end up with the same fate as the quarterback before.

But I've already gotten on the thief ship, and I can't get down!

"Beep!"

With the referee's whistle, the final assault of Palo Alto High School began, while their hopes were pinned on a layman.

As before, the players of the offensive line passed the ball to Gan Guoyang and began to fight hand-to-hand with the opponent's offensive line. The players around Gan Guoyang are also trying their best to protect Gan Guoyang from the invasion of the other party.

At this time, Gan Guoyang calmed down. Although he didn't understand the rules of rugby, he knew that the ball must not be lost, and then he had to do what the coach said, pass the ball to the wide receiver who ran to the opponent's position.

Gan's 6-foot-8 height played a role, and he could see the wide receiver in the dark green jersey running toward the position and looking back, followed by two opposing players defending him.

Now is the time! Gan Guoyang thought of the long pass that he sent across the field in the last warm-up game. However, the basketball court is only 30 yards (about 28 meters), and his pass is only about 20 yards.

Now he's at least 50 yards away from the wide receiver! More than twice as much.

There is no choice! Gan Guoyang used all his strength to pass the ball in his hand before the opposing defender pounced.

As for himself, he was thrown to the ground by the other party, and there was a pain in his back, and he didn't know if he was injured.

However, after only three or four seconds, the tsunami-like cheers came, as if the stadium was about to be overturned, making Gan Guoyang, who was lying on the ground, feel in a trance.

"Success?"

Before he could think about it, he was suddenly pressed up by the people of his own team, and then more and more people were pressed up, and Gan Guoyang felt that he was about to suffocate.

"Damn, I'm going to be pressed after the game!"

After a while, the teammates got up again, lifted Gan Guoyang high again, and began to throw it into the sky. Gan Guoyang, who had just experienced the pressure of Mount Tai, experienced a trapeze again.

"It's so torturous, I won't play rugby in the future!" This is what Gan Guoyang thinks in his heart at this time.

Little did he know, though, that from this moment on, he had become a true amphibious star at Palo Alto High School.

(Rugby is just an interlude, and the protagonist doesn't have to play rugby and basketball like Iverson or James.) ）