Chapter 3: St. Gabriel High School Basketball Team
St. Gabriel High School is an aristocratic high school in California, with a total of 2,383 students in four grades, and an academic achievement index of 811 higher than the California average, ranking among the top in California.
But when it comes to sports, especially basketball, St. Gabriel's High School doesn't do much.
The team's current starting five after a holiday:
C: Rondo is 2.06 meters tall and 6 feet 9 inches tall in shoes.
PF: Wallace is 2.01 meters tall and 6'7 inches tall in high school shoes.
SF: Mo Jayer. Li Gaosi is 1.98 meters tall in shoes, 6 feet 6 inches.
SG: James is 1.88 meters tall and 6 feet 2 inches in shoes.
PG: Oscar is 1.85 meters tall in shoes and 6 feet 1 inch.
As he ate his mother, Mary Jane, he thought back to the current state of the St. Gabriel High School basketball team, and there were no players with amazing potential among freshmen.
And in terms of old students, Li Mojie did not find that these people appeared in the NBA and CBA in the future. Obviously, these people will be "amateur basketball enthusiasts" who have no chance to play professional basketball in the future, just like Li Yun in their previous life.
Mary Jane, now it's time to be called Mary Lee, after marrying Li Jianguo, she also understood that Hollywood was not so easy to break, so she opened a gym in Los Angeles with Lao Li and settled down. Although she was wearing an apron and sitting on a chair, she could still see that Mrs. Li was no less than 1.75 meters tall, and her skeleton was wider than that of a yellow woman.
"Mo Jie, you are now in your senior year of high school, and you will be 18 years old in a few months, what will you do in the future?" She said to Marc Jab with her chin in her hands.
"You said that your grades are not good, and you have no specialties. Basketball didn't make a name for itself, what do you think you're going to do? Dad Li Jianguo said unceremoniously. came, early in the morning, the Li family and his wife began to talk endlessly about their unconscious son.
"I'm going to be the heart of the team!" Suddenly, Li Mojieteng, who had been eating breakfast, stood up suddenly.
This is through a night and a breakfast time, Li Mojie has set a goal for himself after clarifying his current situation, Li Mojie is now a senior in high school, and he will face the choice of going to school next year, based on Li Mojie's previous grades, it is estimated that after graduating from high school, he can only go to the gym opened by his parents to help.
Not to mention, not a single member of the St. Gabriel High School basketball team received an invitation to an NCAA team, and the NCAA was the most suitable path after 2005 when high school players were banned from joining the NBA directly.
If he wants to enter the NBA through the draft, he first needs to make a name for himself in the league near San Gabriel High School, and then attract the attention of UCLA and USC scouts and coaches of California college basketball teams, and successfully get athletic scholarships for these college basketball teams. Then he became a star in the Pacific 12 League, then made it to the Sweet 64, got the attention of NBA teams in Crazy March, and entered the NBA with a high draft, which is the smoothest way to enter the NBA.
"Mo Jie, Mo Jie, let's go, if you don't leave, the coach will be angry." Suddenly, a voice came from outside Li's house. I saw a "white man" with curly hair sitting in the driver's seat of a Ford and waving at Li Mojie.
"Oh, here we are." Li Mojie immediately picked up his backpack and basketball, swallowed the bread in his mouth, and ran to the co-pilot of the Ford car with a whoosh.
"Drive slower, James." Mary Lee ran out and said to James.
"Oh, I will, goodbye, Mrs. Lee." James waved at Mary Lee and stepped on the gas pedal and walked away.
"Goodbye, Mom." Li Mojie also waved his hand at his mother.
"Goodbye." Mary Lee waved her hand.
"Are you saying that Marc Marc is telling the truth?" Mary preached to Lao Li.
"What did he say?" Lao Li ate bread and said without raising his head.
"Be the heart of the team!"
"Guess?"
And here, Li Mojie and his little friend, James, who is also a mixed-race black man like his mother, entered St. Gabriel's High School in that Ford. Since the school year started today, many St. Gabriel High School students walked, bicycled, and drove into the school along the way.
"Oh, Lee, look, that girl is so spicy! Do you think he's going to like me as the team's star shooting guard? Along the way, James pointed to all kinds of beautiful women and shouted to Mo Jie.
"Oh, I'm afraid it's difficult, everyone knows the quality of our team. And didn't you say we're going to be late? Please, can you concentrate a little? Li Mojie said helplessly to the old friend of his predecessor.
St. Gabriel High School Basketball Hall, St. Gabriel Sr. Steve is 61 years old this year is a white basketball coach hired by St. Gabriel High School, he graduated from this high school, and then became a basketball coach in this high school, and has been working for nearly 10 years, but his grades are still mediocre, and he is about to retire.
Of course, the school management of St. Gabriel High School did not have any high expectations for the St. Gabriel High School basketball team, but only held the goal of all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical and aesthetics, so that students who love to play basketball have a chance to play, and each high school must have several sports teams. But old Steve was not reconciled, he always wanted to raise a figure like the little emperor James of St. Vincent St. Mary's High School to prove that he did not come to St. Gabriel High School just to get a salary for retirement.
He has been a high school basketball coach for nearly 10 years, and he still hasn't produced any decent stars, in short, he has no satisfaction or sense of accomplishment in his work, but feels like a bastard.
The most exciting day was when Li Mojie entered the basketball team for the first time, and the elder Steve still remembers that when he saw Li Mojie's physical test data, he said a few times God, God. I thought I had met a yellow James, but then it became clear that playing basketball is not good without a body, but it is not good to have a body alone, and Li Mojie, who has not yet understood the tactics, is still a rough brother, and the old Steve can only arrange him as an outside defensive gate and contribute to the team as a blue-collar player.
"Last year, our St. Gabriel High School basketball team didn't have a good record, and that's my problem, and it's your problem!" Old Steve originally wanted to pour some chicken soup with his teammates, but when he looked at this group of players who were wandering in the world, he was suddenly angry.
"Boys, now play a training match, let me see how you are after a holiday, red for the starters, blue for the substitutes, if any of you play well, the substitutes can be the starters, the starters play well, and then they will treat you as the core, now, immediately, right away!" Old Steve growled.