"Coach Jones, I'm here!"

Li Chenglong didn't care about wiping the sweat on his forehead, and reported to the coach first, fortunately, the dormitory was not far from the stadium, and it only took a few minutes to run over, Li Chenglong didn't want to be expelled from the school team just after deciding to play basketball to make money.

"Humph!"

The white-haired old man of the basketball team snorted softly.

Li Chenglong felt that he should want this weird-tempered old man to explain: "Coach Jones, I accidentally fell down on the stairs a few days ago, I asked you for leave, and I have been resting in the dormitory for the past two days......"

"Haha......"

As soon as Li Chenglong said this, his teammates who were shooting and warming up over there burst into laughter.

"Isn't it funny? Is it that the shooting warm-up is not enough, and you need to run 30 laps around the court? ”

As soon as the old man Jones spoke, the guys obediently continued to shoot, and then Jones turned his head to look at Li Chenglong and said, "Bruce, do you think I'm easy to deceive?" You're an athlete, you won't get hurt at all if you accidentally fall, I asked people to go to the school doctor to confirm that you have no major problems at all, do you need to rest for four or five days? I thought you fell from the third floor of the library. ”

Li Chenglong didn't know how to explain, and the old man Jones didn't want to listen to his explanation, so he said directly: "Go and change your clothes!" ”

After changing into his jersey in the locker room, Li Chenglong looked at the faint marks on his wrists, hoping that they would be useful.

The Columbia University Lions are Columbia University's basketball varsity team that represents Columbia University in the NCAA basketball tournament, but Columbia University's basketball has been weak for a long time and has not performed well in recent years, or it should be said that there has been no good performance in recent decades.

In fact, Columbia University has not been able to stand up in sports, and all competitions are the target of bullying by weak teams in the NCAA.

Joe Jones is the coach of the Lions, in fact, he was neither a basketball player when he was young, nor did he systematically study basketball coaching courses, he is considered a 'long-term illness becomes a good doctor', working in the basketball department of Columbia University for more than ten years, from assistant to assistant coach, and finally became the head coach of the Lions three years ago.

Jones has worked at Columbia University for more than ten years, which is quite prestigious, and his temper grows with age, so everyone on the basketball team is afraid of him.

When Li Chenglong returned to the court, the whole team was still shooting to warm up, he first pressed his legs on the sidelines, and then picked up a basketball and threw it.

Standing outside the three-point line, holding the ball with the five fingers of his right hand, holding the ball with his left hand, and jumping lightly under his feet at the same time, as soon as Li Chenglong's shooting posture was made, he felt a stream of heat on his wrist conducted to his hands, and inadvertently, it seemed that the shooting posture became more natural and heartfelt.

But this sudden heat flow made Li Chenglong startled, and when his feet landed, he found that the ball had not been thrown, and he hurriedly threw the basketball, and finally became a three-no-stick.

Li Chenglong didn't care about this three non-sticks at all, what he cared about was the heat flow that just appeared, it should be the effect of the magic equipment, just now it was correcting his shooting posture to guide him to exert appropriate force, which made Li Chenglong very happy.

The effects of the magical equipment seem to be still there.

Li Chenglong was secretly happy, and a voice came from an undersized voice: "Hey, soft egg, did you break your head or are you so soft that you don't have the strength to throw the ball into the basket?" ”

You don't need to look to know that it is the team's main scoring guard Andre Jackson who speaks, and Li Chenglong is the substitute for him when he is just a junior this year.

Andre Jackson is a mixed-race black player, half of the black blood and half of the white blood makes his physical fitness particularly good, maybe he has been used to bullying people with his body for a long time, he has always learned not to shoot, and the offense basically relies on rushing in to dunk, while Li Chenglong is the opposite of Jackson, mainly relying on outside shooting three-point life, thanks to Jackson's poor outside projection ability, Li Chenglong can often get a lot of appearances.

Head coach Jones has repeatedly criticized Jackson's mid-range shooting, saying that if you have Bruce Lee's long-range shooting ability, you might even be able to play in the NBA.

Jackson didn't dare to refute Old Man Jones's words, but over time, the relationship with Li Chenglong became stiff, and Li Chenglong was still his substitute, so he often sarcastically said something when he had nothing to do.

"Even if I break my head, it's better than your muscular brain, I think you should go home and ask Mam if the hospital made a mistake when she gave birth to you, threw people into the placenta and raised them."

Li Chenglong's unhesitating counterattack made Andre Jackson stunned, and when he reacted and wanted to fight back, he saw the old man Jones on the sidelines looking at this, leaving only a cruel sentence: "I will make you look good when you train in groups." ”

Jackson walked away in a huff, but another teammate came over and said, "Bruce, when did you become so vicious?" Watch out for him to play in groups against you. ”

"I'll take note, Smith."

This reminded him of another teammate, Smith O'Connor, who is a senior like Li Chenglong, in fact, O'Connor and Jackson are both types of players, relying on physical fitness to play, but it just so happens that both of them are starters, a scoring guard and a small forward, and there is some overlap on the court.

In line with the principle that the enemy of an enemy is a friend, Li Chenglong and O'Connor have become good friends.

Li Chenglong continued to shoot to warm up, and he found that when shooting, not only did there be heat flow on both hands, but also a faint heat flow appeared on the magic jersey on his body to guide him to use the appropriate force under his feet, and when he broke through with the ball and changed direction, there was also heat flow guidance so that he could make more breakthrough moves.

However, the presence of these heat currents always distracted him, and he was not able to adapt to the change right away.

Li Chenglong was adapting to the changes brought to him by the magical equipment there, but in the eyes of outsiders, it was not like that.

On the sidelines, Lions assistant coach Ryan Brown told head coach Joe Jones: "Bruce doesn't look very good, maybe he's really not fully recovered. ”

Head coach Jones just snorted coldly, noncommittal.

Joe Jones has been a bit hot lately, and although most people seem to be on fire all the time, he knows that he's been really hot lately.

It's early November, and the NCAA tournament is about to begin, but the Lions' current roster doesn't look good.

This is Jones' fourth season in charge of the Lions, and the results of the previous three seasons were sixth, eighth and seventh, if you don't know about the NCAA and the Ivy League, you may think it's okay, in fact, there are only eight universities in the Ivy League, that is, the results of his first three years in charge are ranked third, first from the bottom and second from the bottom.

Columbia basketball has been at the bottom of the Ivy League for a long time, so this result has not made his coaching position turbulent, but he has taken the countdown every year, and seeing that this year is going to be a countdown again, no one will be happy to be the head coach, and Li Chenglong, who did not come to train today, has become the object of his anger.

The warm-up on the court was almost over, and Assistant Coach Brown began to distribute the vests as usual in training, and immediately began to play against each other in groups.

Li Chenglong got a substitute vest without surprise, and when he put on the yellow substitute vest, Andre Jackson's annoying guy came over again and said viciously to Li Chenglong: "Boy, I'll see how I beat you later." ”

Brown, the assistant coach who was handing out the vests, looked at them and didn't say much, which is common on the court.

Speaking with strength on the court, Li Chenglong used to rely on a three-handed three-point team to mix in the Lions, but he was thin and afraid of confrontation, and the three-point shooting rate would drop significantly in the case of interference, so he was only the second substitute on the quarterback, and the first substitute for the quarterback just past summer graduated and left, and Li Chenglong took advantage of this to take the position.

Jones has always wanted to find a more reliable backup point guard, but it is difficult for a coincidence woman to cook without rice, in Columbia, it is easy to find a top student, and it is really difficult to find a basketball level that is good enough to cope with the NCAA. (To be continued)