Chapter Ten Never Give Up(1/2)
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"Hello everyone, I am Gan. I am from China. I am very happy to meet you. I hope we can get along happily in the future."
On the first day of school, Gan Guoyang came to the new classroom and faced a new face - white, black, and yellow people, and gave a simple self-introduction on the stage.
The students in the audience applauded and welcomed him. Of course, in their opinion, it was normal for a Chinese transfer student to enter the school. There are many Chinese people in Palo Alto High School, and Asian faces are not uncommon here.
The ones who applauded the most were Gan Guoyang's younger brothers Gan Guohui and Chen Xing. Fortunately, the three of them entered the same class. In this way, the Guns and Roses basketball team can study together every day.
The schedule of American schools is really relaxed. They go to school at 9:00 a.m., finish school at 3:00 a.m., and have lunch breaks at noon. After school, students have plenty of time to participate in club activities.
Today, the first class in Gan Guoyang was a geography class, which was simply easy for him. In later Chinese high schools, he was known as the "Little Geography Prince" in his class. The only difficulty in this class was that it was difficult to understand the proper noun, after all, he was Chinese.
The day's course was about to end soon, and Gan Guoyang felt unexpectedly relaxed. In the last math class, Gan Guoyang, who had learned calculus, had already learned calculus, and scared the math teacher, thinking that this was not the level that a high school student should have.
Gan Guoyang said in his heart: "This is because your high school mathematics is too simple!"
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the bell for the end of get out of class rang. Gan Guoyang sorted out his books and prepared to leave with Gan Guohui and Chen Xing.
"Hey, Gan! Wait a minute!" A voice came from behind Gan Guoyang that made him wait.
Gan Guoyang turned around and found that the person who called him looked familiar.
"Hello, Gan, I'm Peter Diepembroke from the basketball team." The person who spoke was a white boy with chestnut hair, who looked about 6-foot-2, looking polite and shy.
"Hello, are you doing something?" Gan Guoyang recognized him. He was a player he trained there when he went to the basketball hall that day. However, he did not laugh at Gan Guoyang, but just stayed there to watch, so Gan Guoyang had a good impression of him.
"That's right, our coach Mr. Bobby Bellman wants you to go there."
Gan Guoyang was stunned at first, then he was happy. He thought that although his performance yesterday was not seen by the coach, it must have been heard by the coach. Now the coach asked him to go must have let him join the team.
"Okay, no problem. Guohui, Chen Xing, you guys go to play basketball first, I'll go to the basketball court with him."
As he said that, Gan Guoyang and Dipengbloke left the wooden classroom together and walked towards the basketball hall.
Yesterday, Gan Guoyang won the bullfight with the tall black man, but the game was still a bit suspenseful.
Gan Guoyang found that players who have practiced systematically are different. They are very rigid when doing the movements, standard and powerful. They are very solid in positioning and positioning.
Although Gan Guoyang has been trained by the superstar Thurmond, to be honest, the level of practice he started to practice is too high. Some of the techniques learned by Gan Guoyang can be used in professional arenas, and he is not very proficient in some very basic techniques.
For example, the stability issue in the lower plate is something Thurmond often mentioned in training, and Gan Guoyang has never solved it well.
So, although Gan Guoyang won, it was not easy. He finally won the bullfight with 5:3.
However, winning the bullfight is not the ultimate goal. He wants to join the basketball team. Unfortunately, the coach never showed up in the afternoon, so he had to leave with Gan Guohui first.
On the road, there were many people wearing various sportswear walking, including baseball uniforms, football uniforms, and football uniforms. It seemed that they all changed their clothes to participate in club activities after school.
"Bang", Gan Guoyang felt a pain in his shoulder, as if he had hit something.
"Hey, what are you doing? Don't you have eyes when walking?"
It turned out that Gan Guoyang was thinking about yesterday's bullfight while walking, and accidentally ran into someone on his shoulder.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it, I'm really sorry." Gan Guoyang apologized politely.
"Sorry?" The person who was hit took off his helmet. This was a rugby team, who was fully armed and dressed like a gladiator, ready to go to the court for training.
"If I'm sorry, it would be useful, the world would have been peaceful and stable." The person who was hit was obviously a militant, and the man also pushed towards Gan Guoyang.
"Then what do you want?" Gan Guoyang realized that this guy was looking for trouble.
After more than two months in the United States, most Americans of the same age gave him a good feeling, polite and humble, and blacks were also very enthusiastic. But there were all kinds of birds in the forest, and today it seemed that what they met was not a good person.
"Yellow-skinned monkey, it's better to be careful in the future. This is not your territory." This man just threatened and left with other rugby players.
It seems that he also noticed that Gan Guoyang is tall and strong, so he is not that easy to mess with.
"He is Gary Halleck of the rugby team, his father is a racist in Palo Alto," Deepenblock explained as he saw them leave.
"It's okay, let's go."
The two soon arrived at the basketball hall, and at the same time, many members of the basketball team arrived together. Everyone looked at Gan Guoyang with strange eyes.
On the one hand, in their opinion, this guy was arrogant and arrogant. A Chinese man actually dared to run to the basketball arena and said he wanted to join the team. On the other hand, this man is really powerful and can defeat the team's main power forward in bullfighting, Jote Davidson, which was very unexpected.
Gan Guoyang also felt the players' complex and strange gazes. He took a deep breath, smiled slightly, and tried to make himself look friendly. However, it seemed that the effect was not very good.
After entering the stadium, a middle-aged man was already standing on the stadium. He was wearing leather shoes, brown overalls and a white green plaid shirt, and holding a record board in his hand. This should be the team's coach, Bobby Bellman.
Seeing the players entering the hall one after another and a Chinese student came in, he knew that the person he was waiting for was coming.
He walked up, looked at Gan Guoyang, and said to him: "You are Gan, come with me."
"Others, start warm-up training first! Run twenty laps along the court!" Bellman continued to shout.
Gan Guoyang followed Coach Bellman with trepidation and entered the office inside.
"Hello, Gan, please sit down." Coach Bellman and Gan Guoyang sat in the office together.
"I'm Bobby Bellman, Palo Alto Vikings head coach. I think you should know why I invited you."
"Yes, I want to...I want to join the team, I think I can give the team some help."
"So, you ran to the stadium yesterday and fought with the players on the team, beat the team's power forward, and then you think you can replace him and join the team?"
Gan Guoyang heard the coach's tone of bad voice, and his behavior of fighting in the stadium yesterday was indeed inappropriate.
"Sorry, Coach Bellman, I'm really too impatient. Because I just transferred to school and am in the 12th grade again, I'm afraid I won't have the chance to score in the team again."
"As a team, the most important thing is unity. If you make your behavior join the team, I can't guarantee that it will affect the team's unity atmosphere!"
Gan Guoyang felt a chill. Could it be that he would reject himself like this? But when he thought about it, he felt that something was wrong. If he wanted to reject himself, would he need to come here? It would be over if he didn't hear or ask. So he continued to listen patiently.
"However, being able to defeat Davidson with the skills of the inside means that you do have good strength. In addition, a big shot wrote me a recommendation letter, recommending you to join my team."
When Gan Guoyang heard the word "but", he knew there was a chance. When he heard the word "big man" recommending him, he had already thought that it must be Mr. Nate Thurmond.
"So, I'll give you a chance to try out for a week on the team. If you perform well, you can stay with my team. Otherwise, Mr. Thurmond's recommendation letter wouldn't work."
"Thank you Mr. Bellman! I will definitely perform well!" Gan Guoyang stood up excitedly and thanked him hurriedly.
"Mr. Gan, what I meant is not just a performance on the court, but also off the court. I hope you can get along well with all the players. A united team is more important than an outstanding player." Coach Bellman reminded him.
He did not do this wrong. From Thurmond's recommendation to Gan Guoyang's defeat of Davidson, Bellman has seen that this Chinese kid will be a rare genius in the history of Palo Alto High School basketball team. But in order to prevent Gan Guoyang from being arrogant and destroying the team's unity, he used his kindness and power, so that Gan Guoyang understood that the interests of the team were above everything else.
Gan Guoyang is not a thorn. Yesterday's behavior was just a moment of impulse, so he agreed and had the confidence to do a good job of unity.
"Hey, gentlemen, gather together! Don't run away anymore, you are already running like foals, and I can't stand it anymore!
"Today we will have a new member joining. Let's meet you! Gan, let's introduce yourself." Coach Bellman pulled Gan Guoyang and stood in front of the gathering team of players and asked him to introduce himself.
"Hello everyone, we have seen each other yesterday, but I'm sorry, I'll leave a bad impression on you. My name is...Sunny?Gump!" Gan Guoyang hesitated for a moment, and did not say that he was Gan, but called himself "Sunny idiot"! The pronunciation of Gump is very similar to Gan, which means idiot.
His name attracted everyone's laughter, and the whole atmosphere became relaxed with Gan Guoyang's apology and interesting names.
The subsequent communication naturally became much simpler. A group of high school students quickly accepted this cute Chinese boy. And they all knew that this guy was very strong, and even Davidson was not his opponent.
"Okay, ladies, stop talking like a foaler anymore. The training will make you speechless later." Coach Bellman interrupted the players' noise, and today's training is about to begin.
After completing the preparation activities and the motivational calls, the real training began. This was the first time Gan Guoyang realized how different and painful it was to a complete basketball team training and one-on-one guidance.
From around 3pm to 7pm, the team conducted:
1. Passing training, including five-corner passes, four-corner passes, two-for-one half-time, and three-for-two half-time passes;
2. Decomposition tactical exercises, including half-time man-to-man, strong side three-to-three, weak side two-to-two, and half-time defensive positioning running exercises;
Three, the whole game is full five-on-five.
Among them, Gan Guoyang did not participate in the five-on-five confrontation, but was called aside, accompanied by Coach Bellman to fight back and forth.
"Put hard, what are your feet doing! Maintain your balance! I don't want you to fall and fall when you touch it like a woman!" Bellman yelled in his ear while holding a big mat against Gan Guoyang's back.
"If you fucking thought you could score a team with just this skill, I fucking had already entered the NBA! Get more hard!" Bellman kept tormenting Gan Guoyang with words, while Gan Guoyang gritted his teeth and worked hard to do the positioning practice.
Passing and decomposing tactical practice consumed a lot of his physical strength, and he was already out of breath at this time. Gan Guoyang did not expect that a high school team would be so professional and hard.
When he finished his back practice, Gan Guoyang felt that his back was no longer conscious.
"Hey! Diepembroke! What the hell are you doing! You are the point guard, protecting the ball is your first responsibility. If you can't even do this, you - don't fucking touch the basketball!"
Dippenblock is the player named Gan Guoyang, the team's substitute point guard. Obviously, his performance made Bellman very dissatisfied. This seemingly gentle white coach cursed without hesitation.
Gan Guoyang can't count how many times he has heard coach Bellman say "Fuck" today.
It was getting dark and the training was coming to an end. Sure enough, no one could say anything when they gathered again. Today was just the first training after the start of school, and everyone didn't quite understand why coach Bellman, who has always been strict, became more strict.
"Okay, ladies, today's game is over. I hope you have a good time and go back and have a good dream! Let's go back, see you tomorrow, and disband!" As soon as Bellman finished speaking, the players dragged their tired steps to the locker room to change clothes and leave the stadium.
"Mr. Bellman, I want to practice for a little longer." There was one person who didn't move. It was Gan Guoyang, and he wanted to practice for a little longer.
"You still want to practice more, which means you are not tired yet. This is my dereliction of duty. However, I have other important things today and can't continue to torture you, so practice hard. Also, if you practice here, I will not add a dead person to the team list."
After saying that, Bellman gave Gan Guoyang the key to the stadium and left. This not only hoped that he would lock the door at night, but also hoped that he would be the first to come in the morning.
Gan Guoyang took the ball and prepared to practice a few unskilled technical movements, but found that he was not the only one in the stadium, but another figure.
"Dipenbloke?" Gan Guoyang recognized it as the guy Dipenbloke.
"Hey, Gan, I want to practice for a while, too."
"Yes, I'm too lonely alone, we can be a companion."
To be continued...