Chapter 68: The National Contest Begins!
The opening ceremony was not long in coming.
Sixty-seven colleges and universities representing Southwest China gathered in the largest downtown gymnasium in Southwest China.
Perhaps because of the recent broadcast of a variety show about basketball, the gymnasium is basically filled with basketball viewers from major colleges and scouts from local basketball professional teams in Southwest City.
Although high school basketball in Southwest City is only in the middle of the country, it has been developing rapidly for ten years. The city has also seen players from the national team.
Guo Jun is the only national team player in Southwest City in the past ten years, he became famous in high school, was selected into the national youth team at the age of 17, and entered the national team at the age of 20. In addition to being a national team player, he also has an identity as a shooting guard at a CBA club in Shanghai, and his performance also earned him the CBA's MVP this year.
However, in the second half of this year, he had to suspend the game due to a recurrence of his leg injury. Helpless, he made a decision after hesitating again and again in the second half of this year. That decision was to return to his hometown and accept Nike's official invitation. Be a judge and guest of the Southwest City High School League.
To be honest, although Guo Jun stood out from the Southwest City High School League. However, he has never looked down on the Southwest City High School League.
In his eyes, basketball strength is the original sin. In addition to the session where he was studying, the best result in the Southwest City High School League is the quarterfinals of the national competition.
This achievement is undoubtedly a humiliating performance in his eyes, and he can't understand why just the results of the national top eight that 717 Middle School was blown into the hope of Southwest City.
He watched the opening ceremony indifferently, indifferently looked at the high school students who were as hopeful as rookies in his eyes, and read out the code of conduct for basketball players enthusiastically.
He looked at the person in charge of the organizer more indifferently and said the arrangement of the first game of the opening ceremony today.
He looked coldly at his alma mater, and the ten basketball players from Brilliant High School (including the substitutes) walked up to the stage and waved.
"It's really going back the more I fight. I couldn't even get into the quarterfinals of the summer tournament. Seeing the athletes of his alma mater on the field, Guo Jun did not have any nostalgia and reminiscence, he only had ridicule.
Perhaps, under the pollution of the professional life and the great dye vat of society. Guo Jun no longer has the original intention of being in the high school league.
He now only sees fame and fortune, as well as victory and defeat.
"In this game, you have to win at least 40 points from the High School Affiliated to Beijing University!" After the principal and coach of Brilliant Middle School took the athletes to the stage, they said to the athletes seriously:
"Losing to Southwest No. 1 Middle School by 30 points, the High School Affiliated to Beijing University is undoubtedly the best stepping stone, and this competition must let Southwest No. 1 Middle School see how strong our school is. And, don't forget, this time, we're aiming for a national competition! ”
The coach's words made the basketball players of Brilliant Middle School feel dignified, and also made them look at the basketball players of the High School Affiliated to Beijing University who were a little uncomfortable on the stage with the eyes of looking at broilers.
They smiled cruelly.
"It seems that they look down on me." Their cruel smiles and the eyes of looking at the broiler were taken in by Mother Lin, and she couldn't help but feel funny.
"Are you ready?" Lin Mu looked at the basketball players of the High School Affiliated to Beijing University who also felt funny and asked.
"Of course... You ready! Everyone on the basketball team of the High School Affiliated to Beijing University responded in unison!
And just like that, the competition finally began in this wonderful atmosphere.
High School Basketball League. Divided into four subsections.
Each bar is twelve minutes, and the first two bars are divided into "ten-a-side". That is, each team will play, and ten people will play in two groups for 10 minutes each.
Of course, in the first quarter, everyone will be on the bench.
Therefore, the High School Affiliated to Beijing University divided two sets of lineups before the start of the game.
The A lineup is the main team composed of the five main lineups of Gu Jing, Gu Beicheng, Murong Bei, Qian Duoduo, and Qin Weijia.
The B lineup is a death squad composed of five substitutes: Lin Mu, Xiong Wei, Jin Jie (Golden Retriever), Li Xu (Green Winged Bat King) and Mo Fan (Gibbon).
And the two lineups of Brilliant Middle School, one is the main center four-pitcher formation. The other set is a team of five long-term players who are good at inside attack, all of whom are over 185cm tall.
His second team was actually after the defeat in this summer. The principal specially recruited five athletes with basketball foundation from other places.
This lineup is a secret weapon against Southwest No. 1 Middle School. Similarly, this lineup is also the sword he wants to show at the opening ceremony.
Before the start of the game, the coaches of both sides faced the 10 men they were about to play. All making final arrangements.
The coach of Brilliant Middle School simply and rudely asked himself to be a long-term team and gave up the so-called mid-to-long range shooting. Directly bombarded the death squad of the High School Attached to Beijing University.
His only requirement for the elder team is to play with momentum, even if the score is behind, he must ride on the head of the death squad of the Beijing University High School to dunk!
And Lin Mu only had four words to the death squad formed by Lin Mu and five people. Those four words are required
"Just be happy".
The requirement of these four words made everyone in the death squad hold their breath.
With gloomy faces, with everyone's blessing, they walked onto the field.
"What's going on?" Watching Lin Mu walk up to the stage with four friends who didn't look very strong, there were two members of the team in the audience. There were incredible cries.
These two teams are Beigong Academy and No. 3 Middle School.
Li Tianren, the glasses boy, as the main organizational defender of Beigong Academy and the second defender in the city, watched his friends walk onto the field with teammates like miscellaneous fish. He didn't know what it was like.
He knows Lin Mu's strength very well, and in his eyes, Lin Mu should be able to be placed in any team and can be the main organization defender. However, the situation that appeared in front of him now undoubtedly subverted his cognition.
He looked at the basketball team of the High School Affiliated to Beijing University on and off the stage, and guessed the strength of this basketball team in his heart.
Similarly, Li Si and No. 7 in the third middle school and the three center forwards, they know Lin Mu's strength better than Li Tianren, and seeing him reduced to a "substitute", they also have their own suspicions about the operation of this school team.
"Is that him?" In the center of the stadium, fifteen cynical-looking players sat up. The gorgeous school uniforms and jerseys on their bodies represent their status in the basketball community in Southwest City.
They are the 717 Middle School, known as the king, and they have never missed the finals in the ten-year high school basketball history of Southwest City.
Among these fifteen people, there was a young man with a handsome face, he looked at Lin Mu among the substitute players of the High School Affiliated to Beijing University, and he silently muttered about this opponent who appeared in his memory.
He is Xia Yubing, who is known as one of the twelve rookies in the country, he looked at the boy named Lin Mu on the field, and inadvertently recalled that in the last game of the year.
There is a teenager who is very different from his own strength, and after the whole team gave up the game, he is still holding on alone.
The boy was embarrassed after his teammates gave up the game. But that teenager is the only opponent in the Southwest City Junior High School League who has really inspired all his strength because of his persistence and perseverance.
"It doesn't look like we're going to get a chance to play again this season." Looking at Lin Mu, who was still a substitute in high school, Xia Yubing said a little regretfully.