Chapter 17: Former Captain
The sun has set.
Since leaving the dormitory at one o'clock in the afternoon to start practice, Chen Zhi has been practicing ball control for four hours in a row, without stopping, and the white short-sleeved T-shirt on his body has been soaked with sweat.
When he finally felt tired to the limit and had to put away the ball to rest, a burst of applause came without hurry.
Chen Zhi turned his head to look, and there was a gazebo not far away along the path where he practiced, crawling with lush vine trellises, and under it sat a guy who was much bigger than ordinary people.
Liu Ning's father is also burly, but compared to this guy, he is a big deal.
Even if he was just sitting, Chen Zhi had already felt the sense of oppression brought by his huge body, and when he stood up and beckoned to Chen Zhi, Chen Zhi could only look up.
It is definitely a giant with a height of more than two meters, and it is the type of tiger with a wolf's waist, which is definitely relatively rare on the average university campus.
However, he doesn't look like a college student, with a white shirt, a red checkered striped tie, light gray trousers, a pair of oversized leather shoes on his feet, and a suit of the same color as the trousers.
Seeing him smile and beckoning to him, Chen Zhi sat down and patted the stone seat beside him, obviously beckoning himself over.
Don't look at his tiger's back and wolf's waist, he is extremely friendly when he laughs, revealing sincerity, which makes people feel close at first sight.
"Brother, the basic skills are very solid!" He saw Chen Zhi walking with a basketball on his shoulder, and praised him without hesitation, and then stretched out his hand to Chen Zhi, seeing that Chen Zhi was a little puzzled, he pointed to the basketball on Chen Zhi's waist.
Seeing this, Chen threw the basketball towards the big man with his backhand, and the ball was very fast.
The big man straightens his right arm, spreads his fingers, and grabs the ball firmly in his hand from the air, which is enough to show that he has excellent ball ability.
"My name is Li Wei, what do you call my little brother?" The big man put the clothes he was holding in his left hand on the stone table, and asked Chen Zhi while playing with the basketball.
"Chen."
Li Wei nodded and didn't speak, but he stood up, walked to a relatively open place, and began to dribble, changed direction in front of his left hand, handed the ball to his right hand, and then handed the ball to his right hand with a C-shaped dribble on one side of his crotch, and the basketball was transferred from the right crotch to his back, followed by his right hand to the right back side and flicked hard, took a back dribble, and turned the ball back to his left hand to retract it.
Chen Zhi's eyes couldn't help but light up, this happened to be one of the combination moves he had just trained, made by this big guy named Li Wei, it was not clumsy at all, it could be said to be done in one go.
It's just because of the height, the center of gravity is naturally much higher than when Chen dribbles, but the big guys usually dribble like this, and it's not a problem.
After Li Wei finished a set of actions, he collected the ball and returned it to Chen Zhi, pointed to the stone table again, and motioned for Chen Zhi to sit down.
Chen Zhi was also very curious about this big man with good ball skills, and he didn't know what he wanted to say to himself.
"You're a freshman, aren't you?" Li Wei nodded when he saw Chen Zhi and continued, "Otherwise, we must know each other, in the past four years, I have known almost all the basketball masters of Yangda. ”
He looked a little nostalgic, perhaps thinking of his old friends when he first entered Yangda.
"You're on the varsity team, right?" Chen Zhi heard what he said, and he had already guessed a rough idea.
"He has been a member of the Yang University team for four years, and the captain of the school team of Yang University for three and a half years. Now I have graduated and retired. When Li Wei spoke, his pupils unconsciously dilated, and he was a little high-spirited, but the latter sentence was a little heavy.
When Chen Zhi heard Li Wei say this, he didn't have any doubts, and it didn't feel abrupt to have this kind of height ball skill to become the captain of the Yang University team.
"Seeing you practicing here, I seem to see myself who entered Yangda at the beginning of the year, and I have also been like you, secretly practicing in a no-man's corner, practicing for hours, and I don't feel bored at all. I've been watching you practice for hours now, do you know why? Li Wei said, turning his head to ask Chen Zhi, but he didn't seem to need Chen Zhi to answer.
"I found in you the same simple love and dedication for basketball as I did back then! But you were much better than I was back then, when I wasn't good at the game, and I was selected as a backup center for the varsity team solely because of my outstanding height. After a semester, the senior captain handed over the burden of captain to my shoulders! ”
Chen Zhi quietly listened to him talk about the past, and did not interject when Li Wei paused to remember, he could hear that Li Wei had no intention of showing off, just a senior's simple confiding in his junior.
"But I'm ashamed, the school basketball team has not improved in my hands, and it can't rank well in several universities in the same city!"
"In the end, the senior still led the team to achieve a breakthrough in the history of Yangda!" Chen Zhi comforted.
Li Wei turned his head to look at Chen Zhi, smiled and did not respond.
After a while, he looked at Chen Zhi and asked, "Do you know why I'm here today?" ”
He looked at Chen Dao, waiting for Chen Zhi to answer, as if he was deliberately taking a test.
Chen Zhi glanced at him, did not speak, looked around, and finally stretched out his hand and pointed in the northwest direction.
Li Wei looked at the direction of Chen Zhi's finger, and didn't turn his head to look, he clearly knew what the place Chen Zhi was pointing to, "Yangda Alumni Guest House"!
Unlike several other guest houses of Yang University, this alumni guest house is only arranged for past students of Yang University, because this guest house is located in the dormitory area of Yang University.
Although the environment is not as good as those beautifully decorated guest houses, it is also a unique glory and recognition! The most authentic side of the students of Yang University will be revealed in front of their eyes.
Li Wei nodded, seemingly agreeing with Chen Dao's answer.
In fact, he didn't need to answer a precise answer to his question, otherwise, he would have suspected that the other party had mind reading, or someone within the company had leaked the news of the plan.
"Let me tell you this, the reason I'm here today is because of basketball!" Li Wei looked at Chen Dao, "The students of Yang University do not worry about the way out after graduation, and they can always find a good job to make a living." ”
"But it's not easy to take root in a big city like Yangcheng, I wanted to go back to my hometown to find a job and leave Yangcheng, but Yuqun Group contacted me and gave me a job that was enough to settle down in Yangcheng! Avoid being separated from your girlfriend and finally breaking up! ”
"It's all because of basketball, because the Yang University varsity team made a historic breakthrough and won the quarterfinals in the Northeast Division!" He clenched his fists, muscles bulging in his arms.
"You earned it yourself!" Chen Zhi responded.
Li Wei's experience is not moving, nor is it very inspirational, Jordan, James, Wade and other superstars have grown up many times more inspirational than him.
However, his story is ordinary and true, the graduation season has always been a breakup season, how many people are actually unwilling to separate, but in the end, they can only end up helplessly in the face of reality.
"No, I have one person to thank for all this." Li Wei shook his head when he heard Chen Zhi's words, and then said a familiar name to Chen Zhi!
"Jiang Lanyue!"