Chapter 3: The Death of the Basketball Team
Although the first impression of the new school was unsatisfactory, early the next morning, Bai Xiaonian still walked to the school's basketball hall with anticipation, after all, it would be the place he would fight for in the next four years.
When he came to the basketball hall, he didn't see the excitement as he imagined, the whole stadium was empty and only Anne was cleaning the colorful wooden floor with countless patches with a mop, she heard the footsteps of someone approaching and raised her head, and saw that it was Bai Xiaonian who was obviously relieved, and greeted Bai Xiaonian with a smile: "Hey! Bai Xiaonian, are you here? It's early. ”
"Why are you alone? What about the others? This place is really. While Bai Xiaonian raised questions, he also did not forget to complain about the infrastructure of Wellington High School, to be honest, this basketball stadium is one of the worst Bai Xiaonian has ever seen in his two lives.
Wellington High School's basketball hall is located in a desolate and remote corner of the campus, and the interior of the stadium is as dilapidated as its vicissitudes of life, with at least half of the broken lights making the whole court gray and lifeless, as well as the tin canopy that clangs when the wind blows, the spectator seats made of rusty iron frames, and the changing rooms full of dampness and mildew, all of which left a deep impression on our newcomers.
Time passed minute by minute, and the sun's brilliance could already shine directly on the faded floor through the hollow in the rusted roof, imprinting a golden circle, Bai Xiaonian yawned boredly, and an embarrassing atmosphere quietly rose between the two.
"Hey! I said, Annie, why hasn't anyone else come? You can't mistake the time, can you? If you don't come again, it's going to be dinner. After a long wait, Bai Xiaonian finally got impatient, so he asked.
"Well, probably... Maybe they're delayed, wait a minute, they'll be here right away. Anne replied apologetically with a twinkle in her eyes.
Bai Xiaonian had no choice but to pick up the basketball first and start his own personal training, Anne on the side looked at Bai Xiaonian's skillful basketball skills in training, her eyes were full of hope, and another half an hour passed quietly, and finally the messy footsteps sounded at the door of the basketball hall.
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Bai Xiaonian watched the official members of the Wellington High School basketball team on the court for daily training on the court, the more he watched, the more frightened he felt, rubbed his eyes that were a little sore because of disbelief, and his heart was full of questions, is this really the school's basketball team? Or is it the rugby team that is in the wrong place?
On the court, a big fat man whose tonnage is not proportional to his height is trying to shoot the ball, "running" towards the basket at a crooked speed, starting from the free throw line and walking seven or eight steps in a row, jumping up almost 10 centimeters with all his strength, and lifting up with both hands, wanting to make a civilian layup, but the reality is very skinny, the basketball flew out of his hands, and went straight to the audience outside the court, Bai Xiaonian on the sidelines jumped up lightly and intercepted the ball that he didn't know where it would fly.
"Oh my God, what's that skinny bamboo pole doing over there? Could this be the legendary inverted toilet? His shooting posture is the same as that of Nicle Zheng's...
This situation of the basketball team was definitely not expected by Bai Xiaonian before, he threw the basketball in his hand back on the court, turned his head and looked at Anne suspiciously, what is going on?
Even with Anne's arrogant personality, she was a little embarrassed at this time, and whispered: "You can also see it, this is the current situation of our basketball team." ”
"What do you mean?" Bai Xiaonian said a little angrily, he had a feeling that he had been deceived.
Anne saw that Bai Xiaonian was really angry, so she decided not to hide the facts anymore and truthfully told the basketball team about the current situation.
"Actually, our basketball team is about to be disbanded." From Anne's mouth, a piece of news shocked Bai Xiaonian.
It turns out that Wellington High School has never reached the top 32 of the Division I in the past ten years, and has not even reached the knockout round in the statewide competition.
Therefore, Wellington High School officials paid less and less attention to the school basketball team, and even hated this burden of recruiting black for the school, so they simply broke the jar and let it fend for itself.
There is neither a full-time coach nor a formal training plan in the current basketball team, everything is handled by Annie, a big girl who loves basketball, and the team's nominal instructor or the coach of the volleyball team makes a cameo.
That's why Anne is so excited about Bai Xiaonian's arrival, and sees this famous basketball talent as the savior of the Wellington basketball team.
You must know that after graduating from junior high school, Bai Xiaoxiao immediately became the object of competition for many famous basketball schools, and countless high school team coaches hoped to coach an elf who wrote a legend in the junior high school league. It's just that by accident, Bai Xiaonian was sent to Wellington High School, which doesn't pay attention to basketball, by his father.
"Why is the team so difficult, even hopeless, that you are willing to stay and bear the incomprehension of others?" Bai Xiaonian only now understood the meaning of the strange look of the teaching director Davis yesterday, wasn't he feeling sorry for such a genius who saw himself destroy the Great Wall!
Anne's sturdy body shook, smiled bitterly, bent down to lift the hem of her trousers, and showed Bai Xiaonian the position of her calf near the heel, where a hideous and terrible scar was deeply engraved on her skin.
"Actually, I was a basketball player in junior high school, and I led our school to the fourth place in the state, but just when I was at my most energetic, I was not as good as the sky, and in an accident I completely ruptured the Achilles tendon in my left foot, and after removing an Achilles tendon, the doctor told me that I could no longer play, and it was..."
"But even though I can't play in person anymore, I still want to dedicate my life to basketball, and I can never leave the basketball I love, so when I got into Wellington High School, I took over the basketball team mess and became the manager of the basketball team, and I vowed to make him better, so no matter how bad it was, I couldn't give it up." Anne's brave and stubborn eyes deeply touched Bai Xiaonian on the side.
He listened to Anne's monologue silently, how similar was the seemingly tough-looking girl in front of him to his fate in his previous life? But she didn't bow to fate, but fought against fate tenaciously in a different way.
With his nails embedded in his palm, Bai Xiaonian raised his head firmly and looked directly into Annie's eyes and said, "Don't worry, eldest sister, the basketball team will be covered by me in the future, and you will no longer be alone!" ”
He decided to revive the Wellington High School basketball team, for the sake of such a lovely and respectable indomitable soul, but also for his own basketball beliefs.
Anne was stunned for a moment, then a smile bloomed on her face, and she stretched out her hand that was not smooth, Bai Xiaonian smiled when he saw this, he never thought that King Kong Barbie could smile so well, and he also stretched out his hand, and the two hands were tightly clasped together...