Because of basketball, the first semester of the first year of college passed quickly, and there were too many gains in this year.

Since the last meeting with Coach Aaron McCarthy of Parklane Basketball Club, Gao Dazhuang has communicated with the team's head coach Liu Qing, and Coach Liu Qing also agrees with Gao Dazhuang's idea and encourages him to go out and see more and learn more.

Then, until more than a month before the holiday, Gao Dazhuang dragged Yang Kai and came to Changsha Parkin Basketball Club for training many times, and Coach Aaron McCarthy personally taught him several times.

Better training methods and more advanced basketball concepts have made Gao Dazhuang and Yang Kai further mature.

Changsha Railway Station.

The holiday has just arrived, and Gao Dazhuang went to Changsha Railway Station accompanied by Yang Kai and Summer.

Seeing the invitation card of the "Torch Camp - Yi Jianlian Basketball Training Camp" in Gao Dazhuang's hand, Yang Kai said with envy and hatred: "Master, can you get another ticket?" I want to go too, and you can't pull me down. ”

"Ha, I'll study hard, and I'll pass it on to you when I come back, apprentice" Seeing Yang Kai's aggrieved appearance, Gao Dazhuang couldn't help but tease.

"There are a lot of beauties in Guangzhou" in the summer encouraged Gao Dazhuang to take the road of basketball, and she has always been optimistic about Gao Dazhuang's potential.

"Well, it's a lot, but it's not as beautiful as you," seeing that Summer's face turned red and black, the tall and strong man said with a twist.

"It's pretty much the same, pay attention to safety on the road," Xia Yi said reluctantly.

"Well, when you get to the phone" Gao Dazhuang talked with Yang Kai for a while, and embarked on a journey to Guangzhou again.

With the experience of the last CUBA Southwest Division expedition to Guangzhou, although after half a day of travel, Gao Dazhuang still found the host of this training camp - South China Normal University.

South China Normal University, like Guangzhou University, is also in the university town of Guangzhou, and when I came here, I not only remembered the bits and pieces of CUBA, but also that it was here that Tall and Strong basketball has been greatly improved in all aspects.

As a partner of the "Yi Jianlian Basketball Training Camp", South China Normal University not only provided a training hall, but also provided a student dormitory for this training camp.

The 80 trainees who participated in the camp will be accommodated in 16 rooms with 5 people each.

When Gao Dazhuang came to the registration point, the person responsible for receiving the training players was a Chinese staff member, named Zhu Yanshuo, in his 40s, with a scholarly atmosphere.

It is also true that Zhu Yanshuo was not born as a basketball player, he was a famous basketball commentator in Taiwan, and later developed and succeeded in the mainland.

He is currently the deputy editor-in-chief of Hooptaiwan magazine, an important contributor to Round Ball City, and a TV and basketball commentator of Weilai Sports Channel, and has long been engaged in NBA, CBA, SBL and other basketball professional leagues, international basketball events, as well as cross-strait basketball exchange news commentary.

Zhu Yanshuo himself is a very good friend with Yi Jianlian, so he came to the training camp to help without hesitation this time.

Zhu Yanshuo saw the training camp notice handed by the tall and strong, looked at the tall and strong carefully with interest, and said meaningfully: "You are tall and strong?" Specially approved to enter the camp? ”。

"Yes, what's the problem?" Gao Dazhuang asked suspiciously.

"It's okay, your room is room 102" Zhu Yanshuo didn't say anything more.

Gao Dazhuang came to room 102, there were already 4 people in the room, and it seemed that Gao Dazhuang was the latest to come.

Tall and strong looked at the 4 people in the room, to the surprise of tall and strong, these 4 players are relatively young, at least smaller than tall and strong, 1 person is more than 2 meters tall, and the other 3 people are relatively thin.

While Gao Dazhuang was observing his new roommate, the four people in the room were also looking at Gao Dazhuang.

"You must be the last roommate, right? Now that we're all in the dormitory," the boy of about 2 meters began, breaking the ice.

"My name is Zhao Tianyi, 16 years old, 2.03 meters tall, from the Northeast, we will be brothers in the trenches in the future," the 2-meter boy took the lead in introducing himself.

"My name is Qin Hongjin, 15 years old, 1.62 meters tall, from Guangxi, take care of your big brothers," said the shortest boy in the dormitory, who was only 15 years old, and should be the youngest player in this training camp.

"Peng Yijia, 16 years old, 1.76 meters tall, from Jiangsu," the boy sitting on the bed said concisely.

"Hello everyone, my name is Yang Yankun, I am also 15 years old, 1.86 meters tall, from Shandong, I am really honored to participate in this training camp" The boy named Yang Yankun spoke in a rich local accent.

After listening to the introductions of the other four people, Gao Dazhuang said: "It seems that I am the oldest, my name is Gao Dazhuang, 17 years old, 1.95 meters tall, from Hunan."

The most important thing that young people are together is enthusiasm, especially a group of teenagers who love basketball, and soon, the five of them became a hot match.

In fact, the training camp organizing committee also thought a lot when dividing the room, and the 5 people were actually a team.

Gao Dazhuang himself is the oldest among these teenagers, especially when others learned that Gao Dazhuang was actually a player of the CUBA national team Hunan University basketball team, they unanimously elected Gao Dazhuang as the captain of the team.

Through mutual communication, Gao Dazhuang also learned that the other teenagers were not simple.

For example, Zhao Tianyi from the Northeast is more than 2 meters tall at the age of 16, and he originally participated in a basketball training in Ohio, USA, but when he heard that there was a basketball training camp for Yi Jianlian, he ran back to participate.

It is said that the youth team of several Guangdong teams has taken a fancy to him.

After a night of hustle and bustle, the excited teenager woke up in the morning with dark circles under his eyes.

In the gymnasium of South China Normal University in Guangzhou, the Torch Camp - Yi Jianlian Basketball Training Camp was officially opened.

The ceremony was very simple, and Yi Jianlian, the organizer of the training camp, did not attend the opening ceremony because he had the task of competing with the national team.

After speeches by leaders at all levels, the head coach of the training camp, American O'Connor, spoke on behalf of the training camp.

After the introduction of the host, Coach O'Connor is already an old friend, he has been helping Chinese youth players train for many years, almost every year to come to China to participate in Nike's training camp, and also served as an assistant coach of the NBA Denver Nuggets.

"If you can study hard and follow the coach's instructions during the training camp, you will make great progress. On the contrary, it is better not to come" Coach O'Connor's first words revealed the seriousness of this old American man.

"In this training camp, don't play tricks on me, I'm going to train you the way you train as a professional player, and it's up to you how much you can improve," Coach O'Connor continued.

This is the biggest goal of Gao Dazhuang's trip, in fact, this training camp is mainly to cultivate potential high school students, and it is estimated that Gao Dazhuang is also the only player of CUBA.

But the main purpose of Coach Aaron McCarthy to bring Gao Da Zhuang to the training camp is to hope that Gao Da Zhuang can be exposed to real professional player training methods and better basketball concepts.

Coach Aaron McCarthy also has a lot of respect for Coach O'Connor.

Next, several more American coaches spoke.

Finally, Zhu Yanshuo, as the leader of the training camp, made a concluding speech: "In this training camp, you all came here as amateurs to feel what professional training is like. In this camp, there are a number of players who may play CUBA in the future and may play on a professional team's youth team, although most of them will continue to be part of grassroots basketball."

So, how do you keep the flame of grassroots basketball burning? The answer is definitely not professional basketball. The number of professional basketball teams in China has reached a certain degree of saturation. But compared with professional basketball, campus basketball has not been promoted," Zhu Yanshuo said the biggest purpose of the training camp.

"The United States, even Ben, South Korea, and Taiwan can make high school basketball leagues all the rage, but China can't do it, which is puzzling. In fact, China is fully capable and qualified to do high school basketball, and there is no reason why such a large basketball population base cannot be reached. Even if the conditions for playing the national tournament are not so mature, it is completely possible to combine several cities in one province or in one province," Zhu Yanshuo pointed out the biggest shortcoming of Chinese basketball.

"I hope that through this training, some of you outstanding players really want to enter the CBA, then studying and being able to enter CUBA is also a way out. And we also have the main players of the CUBA national team in this training camp. Zhu Yanshuo glanced at Gao Dazhuang and continued, "The prospects for playing professional games may not all be good, and in the future, CBA teams will recruit more from universities." Even if you can't make a career, getting a college diploma is better than nothing. I don't want to be so desperate to play that I have to waste my studies. If you can make good use of your time and don't waste it doing things that don't make sense, you will find that playing and studying are not necessarily in conflict. ”

Indeed, grassroots basketball in China needs to rise.

After a brief opening ceremony, the tall and strong training camp life officially began.

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