Chapter 14: Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes ()

However, Coupard's change directly increased the morale and confidence of the whole team, which made Benjamin feel that he should thank Stephen very well. Nick Young and Gabu Pruitt also quickly integrated into the team's tactics and showed super adaptability.

The tactics of American college basketball are very rich and changeable, and they often appear. After finally recruiting high school star players, they cannot master college basketball tactics after they arrive at school. Especially for those black players with super physical fitness, they have played basketball more than they learn since they were young. In high school, most of them play basketball based on their physical and skills, and do not require any tactics, so they perform very well. However, once they arrive at university, they are abandoned by the coach because they cannot integrate into the school tactics. Because the coaching work of college basketball is relatively stable, they generally do not change their tactics just because of a player.

The two players he picked this year are smarter and mastered tactics very quickly. Coupard's changes also made him have great expectations for his performance this year, but he didn't know what role the Stephen could play.

Every day, Stephen is conducting his own separate training, and the team is participating in more and more training, but he never leaves the court, which makes the water dispenser guards very surprised. Since they don’t play, they still go to train secretly every day. Once they took the excuse to break into Stephen’s training ground and find that Stephen is doing normal shooting training. However, the shooting rate is worse than that of them, they laughed and left, and never pay attention to Stephen again.

For so long, they also knew that Stephen’s background was quite unusual, so they didn’t dare to provoke Stephen casually. In addition, Stephen was able to recruit Cooperd as a follower, whether it was money or other things, which made them very afraid, so no one dared to provoke Stephen.

This is college life? There is nothing. Stephen doesn't know how he got through it. He was able to adapt to such bitter and boring training, and he practiced these very basic movements day after day.

However, training corrected the habits that were not very standardized in the movements that Stephen had learned before. When he was with his aunt, Stephen slowly learned his aunt's way of speaking with a sharp-tongued but not without demeaning. In the words of his aunt, he said: "Use words to make others angry, but don't be angry."

Soon, the time comes to the golden autumn season, and the "Pizza Hut Classic" named by Pizza Hut will soon begin. This classic competition is participated by the University of Southern California, the University of South Carolina, the University of Neca Vegas, Morgan State University, California State Polytechnic University, San Diego State University, University of Nabaska, Northridge University, University of California, Riverside, and the University of Minnesota.

Since such an invitational competition must also be counted as a score, it is also a basis for whether to enter the championship, no one dares to underestimate such a competition.

In the Pizza Hut Classic, the University of Southern California was a big surprise. In the first five games, three homes, two away games, they achieved zero losses and five wins, especially in the third game against the University of Minnesota, they won with a record of 8659. The 17-point difference made many California media shout "The Wolf is Coming". Within the Southern California School, the basketball team suddenly became a star in the school team, and each game attracted a lot of audiences.

Especially Nick Young and Gabu Pruitt are known as the title of "South Carolina Gemini". Coupard's extremely explosive state in the game, which is very different from the past, has also won him the title of "Resurrection Demon".

After the classic game, Nick Young averaged 17:4 points per game, while Gabu Pruitt averaged 14:6 points per game, Cooper scored 12 points, 9:8 rebounds, 2:33 blocks, and both rebounds and blocks were the first in the team.

In every game, Stephen sat quietly on the bench, waving his towel weakly like everyone else, cheering for his teammates. Except for when the timeout, he would come over to listen to Benjamin's tactical arrangements, other places were no different from those water dispenser guards. Therefore, after the classic game, Stephen did not attract other people's attention at all.

Shi Xianghua originally said to see Stephen's game, but when Stephen told her that she would not play, Shi Xianghua was about to call Nicholas on the spot and questioned Coach Benjamin's professionalism. His nephew is so outstanding and trains so hard that he doesn't even let the game play. Is it racial discrimination against us?

Stephen explained it over and over again. Shi Xianghua was considered to let Benjamin go. Others didn't know, but she knew it clearly. Her nephew got up early every morning to exercise, and when she returned home at night, she still had to train at home. Even on weekends, she was training at home. She couldn't even play with such hard training. Isn't that unfair? If you say that you didn't perform well on the field, it would be considered that you didn't even allow the field to play. This is not discrimination.

However, Benjamin also told Stephen that when it comes to the regular game, he does not intend to let Stephen hide it anymore. Because the results of the routine game are very important, Benjamin decided to not hold back from the first game.

In this training class, Stephen officially changed into the team's uniform and stood on the court. He was the shooting guard on the substitute side. Nick Young was also arranged to play the role of a small forward, while Gabu Pruitt was on the main side, facing Stephen.

With the assistant coach whistle, the team competition began. Stephen followed Gabu Pruitt in a daze for several steps, causing bursts of laughter and realized that he was the offensive side, so he ran to the defensive side.

The point guard on the substitute side was named Aliasso. Seeing Stephen running around like a headless fly on the court, his eyes turned and he started to tease Stephen. He had long been a little dissatisfied with Stephen's extraordinary treatment. Why can he accept the coach's separate training and guidance? If the foundation is poor, it is reasonable. His foundation is not very good. Why no one will take care of it? Thinking of this, he shook his hand and the ball flew towards Stephen immediately.

Stephen just rushed to catch the ball, and his clumsy appearance made many people laugh. Gabu Pruitt stood in front of Stephen without any hesitation, and reached out without any honesty in his hand, forgetting the kindness that Stephen had just bought him for a hamburger.

Stephen was panicked and didn't care about it. He hurriedly turned his hand and passed it back to Eliasuo. Fortunately, many days of training have achieved great results, but the passing ball seemed to be similar, and there was no problem.

After receiving the ball, Eliasso giggled and moved forward two steps, then passed the ball to Stephen again. Gabu Pruitt had just left Stephen and looked away. Seeing this, he hurriedly reached out to cut the ball from the middle and cut the ball down.

Stephen naturally quickly reached out to take the ball, stretched out his left arm to block Gabu Pruitt, and drove his right hand a few times, but found that there were defenders standing in front of him, so who would he pass it to?

At this time, Eliasso ran to the corner of the court. Although he also took away a player, leaving Stephen with a large blank field, he made Stephen even more unaware of what to do.

Fortunately, there was Knick Young on this side, so he hurriedly came out from the bottom line to pick up Stephen. After handing the ball to Knick Young, Stephen's heart relaxed.

"Don't be nervous, relax." When Stephen was out of the ball, he saw that Stephen didn't even know how to run. Just stood there and didn't move. Gabu Pruit whispered to comfort him.

"Thank you." At the same time Stephen answered, Nick Young had already made a mid-range shot from the 45-degree angle on the left, scoring two points for the substitute.

It's easy to say when defending. Just follow Gabu Pruitt to run, prevent him from catching the ball when there is no ball, and prevent him from taking action when there is a ball. The defense work is relatively simple than attacking.

The opponent indeed regarded Gabu Pruit as a weakness in the attack. The ball quickly came to Gabu Pruit's hands. Gabu Pruit changed direction and threw Stephen away half of his body. When he was about to attack with the ball, he suddenly felt that his hands were empty, and the ball disappeared at some point.

It turned out that Stephen had made a sudden move and stole the ball from Gabu Pruitt's hand. Nick Young, who had been staring at this place worriedly, had already started running towards the frontcourt, and was still greeting Stephen while running.

Stephen raised his hand and the ball immediately flew high and flew towards the other side of the court. However, it was obvious that the force of the attack was a bit too high. However, as Nick Young chased through, he finally caught up with the basketball in the penalty area. He saw Nick Young jumping high in the air, taking off the ball with both hands and smashing it into the basket. An aerial relay spanning most of the basketball court was finally completed with the concerted efforts of the two people.

After jumping down, Nick Young excitedly bumped his chest and high-five with Stephen. Since it was a team training match, everyone else came to express their appreciation or excitement, because Nick Young jumped too high at that time.

Only Benjamin shook his head aside. Stephen's pass was still a bit bigger just now, that is, Nick Young is in good physical fitness and has potential. He has a super level of performance. No one else in the team can receive this ball, but this is an unexpected surprise. Whether it is Stephen's sharp steal just now or his long pass to launch a fast attack, it proves that he has huge potential, and isn't he a little nitpicking?
Chapter completed!