Weekends, early in the morning.

For Lin Dong, the only point of the weekend is to be able to play all day without wasting his time recovering from training in the classroom.

The effect of recent training has begun to weaken, whether it is the lack of confrontation or the constraints of training conditions, which are the reasons for the bottleneck of recovery training.

These are all troubles that Lin Dong can't solve for the time being.

You can only make up for it by being diligent.

I still got up early at four o'clock, washed and ate, put on my backpack and went to school, as usual.

The only thing that's different from usual is probably that Lao Lin bought him a Sony Walkman yesterday, although it's not as convenient as the mobile phone he was used to in his previous life to search for songs, but he can listen to music at any time, which is also a good spice.

Lin Dong has always liked music, or most athletes like music.

Music relaxes one's mind and adjusts your mental state.

Music can also make you passionate and keep you feeling like you're fighting at all times.

Yesterday, I went to the street audio store with great interest, but unfortunately on the streets of Japan in 2000, I really couldn't find those songs that he liked in his previous life.

Most of those songs haven't been written yet, after all, 28 years later.

When he finally went to the Mito bath bath, Uncle Kawayori lent him a CD of nostalgic golden songs.

Most of them are in Japanese, but they are all familiar tunes.

For example, the light music "The Original Scenery of Hometown", such as "Li Xianglan" by Koji Tamaki, such as "Until the End of the World" by Noboru Uesugi, and even a Cantonese song by Beyond......

Gentle, passionate, lyrical.

Anyway, it's not bad, it's better than nothing.

The music in the earbuds kept playing on a loop, and Lin Dong thought as he hummed softly.

The security guard at the school gate and Lin Dong are already very familiar with each other, and they are deeply impressed by this Dragon Kingdom transfer student who is almost the first to come to the school every day.

Before Lin Dong walked to the door of the security room, the uncle had already poked his head out of the window, opened the electric door, yawned and smiled at him and said, "It's so early on the weekend, don't you take a break?" ”

Lin Dong turned the basketball on his fingertips: "What about training." ”

The security guard said with a smile: "The people in your basketball club don't know what they have been stimulated recently, and they didn't fight so hard last year. ”

"Someone is here today, too?" Lin Dong was a little surprised, usually Fujima and Hanagata would be earlier than him, but today is the weekend, those two guys will not come to school, they both live by the sea of Enoshima, there is a field where they train on the weekend.

"Isn't it, it's coming at four o'clock......"

The lights in the basketball hall were on, and the sound of dribbling could be heard inside.

Lin Dong opened the door and took a look, but it was not Xiangyang's main forces, but the second-year substitute guard Ito Zhuo.

"Morning, Lin Dongjun."

It can be seen that this guy has been here for a while, and when Lin Dong came in, he was doing the physical training that Lin Dong had taught the whole team before, and he was sweating profusely.

Speaking of which, except for Lin Dong, Fuji Zhen and Hanagata, this guy is probably the earliest person in Xiangyang's team to arrive at school every day, and he has always been the most active in training, but he doesn't know where to live, and Lin Dong has never cared much about these.

"So early today?" Lin Dong took off one earbud and said hello casually.

"The prefectural trials are about to start, so it's okay to stay home on weekends anyway." Taku Ito smiled and said, "I just wanted to come and practice." ”

"Let's do it together." Lin Dong greeted him.

…………

Ito had almost completed one round of physical training before, and by the time Lin Dong had completed two rounds, his second round had just been completed, and he was so tired that he sat on the ground, gasping for breath.

Lin Dong listened to the song while starting the third round of training in an orderly manner.

Takumi Ito's physical strength is not as good as Hasegawa and others, and the team's three rounds of training every morning are too reluctant for him.

"I envy your physical strength." Ito Zhuo sat on the floor, propping his body upside down with his hands, and looked at Lin Dong with envy in his eyes.

"Huh?" Lin Dong took off half of the earbuds.

Ito Zhuo didn't repeat what he just said, and instead asked, "Hey, Lin Dongjun, will you play professionally in the future?" ”

"Of course."

"What about me? What do you think of me? Is there a chance to play professional basketball? Takumi Ito asked with great interest.

"I don't think you can fight."

A fairly straightforward answer, without hesitation and without the slightest emotion.

"Sure enough......" Ito Zhuo lowered his head in frustration: "Alas, the gap with you is still too big." ”

Normal reactions.

Lin Dong smiled and continued his training.

As Fujima's substitute defender, Takumi Ito is actually qualified.

has a certain organizational ability, has a basketball vision, and has a good understanding, is a guy who plays with his brain, and has baskets on the outside, and his physical fitness is passable.

But...... As a defender, there is no speed, no explosiveness, and the mediocrity of these two is enough to make him doomed in the position of defender.

In high school, you can still rely on your brain to play ball to fight for a place, but when you enter college and even want to go professional, it is almost impossible.

In this life, he is destined to be only a basketball enthusiast and has no chance to play professionally.

His future life path is probably to enter an ordinary university after the third year of high school, and then gradually put basketball at the back of his life for credits and graduation certificates.

After a little longer, I entered the social work, and under the pressure of heavy work and life, I finally got away from the court, maybe a week or two before I had the opportunity to meet three or five friends to play on the wild field, and then I was pressed to the ground on the court by those young people who were younger and more impactful, but in their eyes, the ball skills were poor.

The last few sat on the side of the court panting, while sharply commenting on the low-level mistakes of the young victors who had just defeated them, and then sighing about what I could have done back then......

Lin Dong played on the domestic field for a while in his previous life, and he saw a lot of similar uncles, and he could see the end at a glance, probably like that.

He has never been the kind of person who likes to encourage the weak with false words.

Forcing a dream onto someone who is destined to be ungifted is not encouraging, but a more brutal destruction.

I thought that this guy would be lost for a while, but I didn't expect to turn my head and see him getting up from the ground panting again.

"Third round!" Ito said as he cheered himself up.

Lin Dong couldn't help but look at him more.

Are these guys so capable of adjusting their mindsets? Fuji is really like this, and so is Ito Taku.

"Actually, Senior Fujima also said the same thing to me, not to mention professional basketball, even if it is college basketball, I know that I may not be able to play, but what does it matter?"

"I'll go all out when I can play now, and when I can't play in the future, I can still go to the stands of the professional arena to cheer you on, and by the way, brag to my girlfriend who I brought over when I know you or something, don't ignore me when the time comes, let me lose face!"

"After all, we have fought for basketball together!" He smiled and grabbed the dumbbells on the ground as he began his third round of physical training: "Even if you can't play basketball for a lifetime, you can always love it for a lifetime!" ”

Lin Dong was slightly stunned.

In the earbud in the left ear, "Until the End of the World" by Uesugi is playing.

- I don't want to be separated from you until the end of the world, why is the time when I made a wish for thousands of nights and never returned, so dazzling......

For the Japan of this world, this is just an ordinary album released by Noboru Uesugi in '94, which tells a love story.

'I will not be separated from you until the end of the world', this is clearly what is said to the lover.

But in Lin Dong's former world, this song is exclusive to basketball.

Takumi Ito in front of him can see the end of his basketball road, and the uncles who have been abused thousands of times on the field court have also come to the end of the basketball road.

In the year on the sickbed, Lin Dong saw the end of his basketball career, and reincarnation and rebirth can be regarded as truly coming to the end of the world.

But it's still love.

Still unwilling to separate.

Even if time passes, it is still extremely dazzling in memories!

That's probably how everyone who loves basketball feels.

Basketball isn't just the NBA, and it's not just the glittering stars.

And it is precisely because of ordinary people like Ito who love it that basketball has real meaning.

It's not just dreams that can be realized.

Maybe I shouldn't have said it so directly.

Lin Dong smiled and reached out to pat Ito Zhuo's shoulder.

"Why don't I teach you a hand?"

"Huh? Really, Lin Dongjun! What to learn? Ito Zhuo suddenly became excited, today is really like winning the lottery!

You know, even Senior Fuji Zhen is looking forward to Lin Dongjun's individual guidance!

"Don't you always think you're too slow and not explosive as a defender? In fact, there is also a slow way to play," Lin Dong said with a smile: "I know a guy called Human Creep Essence......"

Ito's eyes widened.

Human peristaltic serum?

Sounds so ashamed......

Is this really a serious basketball technique?