Eighteenth Palm Amphibious Star(1/2)
Recently, Gan Guoyang has been doing everything well and everything goes well.
The victory on the court made him more and more confident in his basketball level. After returning to class, he was not like some sports students who were very proud of the field and were frustrated in the exam.
After returning to Palo Alto after the weekend, the school held a midterm test, and all cultural courses were scheduled for an exam.
In all courses, in addition to biology and history, Gan Guoyang won A. Because biology is indeed difficult, Gan Guoyang's biological scores in later generations were not good, so there was only B.
American history is too fresh and natural for a Chinese who has long been accustomed to the history of smelly and long foot binding. Gan Guoyang's Chinese-style historical thinking reflected in the answers to the exam forced the teacher to give him a B because he couldn't understand it.
What made Gan Guoyang most proud was his English literature. Not only did he get an A, but he was also selected as an excellent article published in the school magazine, which made Gan Guohui very much admire him.
Gan Guoyang felt that he had finally begun to understand what Bill Russell said, "control yourself."
Especially after the second season of the "Revenge Battle" with Pittman, he could feel that he controlled himself, his teammates, his opponents, and finally his game.
He knew that Pittman would never come to seek revenge on Guns and Roses, because Pittman had lost his confidence and felt fear.
And now, he still controls his own cultural courses.
Now that school is over, Gan Guoyang has packed his books and is ready to go to the locker to change clothes, and go to the basketball court for training as usual.
"What a fucking wonderful life." Gan Guoyang sighed. Influenced by Bellman, the words starting with F appear more and more frequently in his words.
But no matter how beautiful your life is, it will be stained.
For Gan Guoyang now, the biggest stain on his better life in Palo Alto High School is Gary Halleck.
Moreover, this stain always appears repeatedly under Gan Guoyang's nose, because he is in the class next to Gan Guoyang. Every day after school, he has to go to the locker to change clothes for the rugby team training.
"Hey, you're a sunny fool. I heard you did a good job in the warm-up match last week?"
Usually, Gan Guoyang would try his best to avoid the annoying ghost of Halek, but today he was in a good mood and relaxed, and forgot to avoid it.
"Hello, booze." Gan Guoyang gave Halek a nickname called "booze," to reflect his extremely annoying but always-present characteristics. "How is the crawling practice on the playground? I see you are going to practice again in this outfit? Come on!"
In addition to shoulder pads and knee pads, Gan Guoyang naturally would not miss this opportunity to mock him.
"Go to you - Damn it, don't think you can win the state championship by winning a warm-up match. You - you are still far from the fuck! Just wait for fucking!"
Halleck's English literature course was obviously not very good. He was sprayed in several times when he had a fight with Gan Guoyang, and only one mouth was intact.
"Whatever you say, booze~ I can pop you out anytime anyway." Gan Guoyang pretended to be indifferent, changed his clothes and prepared to leave.
"By the way, Gan, there will be a warm-up match for the football team this afternoon. I advise you to have a good look and see what men's sports are." This is the main purpose of Halek's search for Gan Guoyang today, and the California Rugby High School League is about to begin.
"No problem! I will go see it. I hope your performance will satisfy me."
"Don't call me booze again!" Halek was extremely unhappy with this nickname, but Gan Guoyang had already left.
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After school, the basketball team's training was still as strict, hard, and full of Bellman's roar.
"Vigis! Can you give me a quicker time! Hurry up, hurry up! I can see how you look in a wheelchair when you get old!"
"Dipenblock, you are like an old lady, I will send you to the nursing home tomorrow."
"Gan, you're such a stupid guy! Can your passes be more fucking smoother! Remember your teammates' running position, remember their position, just like remember where your home is! Damn San Francisco."
However, for Vikings players, such curses have long been accustomed to them. There is no trace of unpleasantness on their faces, only seriousness, concentration and hard work.
In addition to using Bellman's trash talk to encourage players, another important role is to teach them to concentrate and not be disturbed by things other than basketball.
Of course, what Bellman didn't expect was that he worked tirelessly to spit out the trash talk king of the NBA.
"Okay, ladies! Gather!" Bellman blew a whistle, and asked the players who were doing tactical running exercises to stop and gather on the sidelines.
"You guys did a good job in training today, ladies, so I decided to finish today's training early because I have an important training to participate in."
The training lasted only one and a half hours, and there was no single technical training or full-scale training.
For players, it is of course a good thing to finish training early. You can go home or the dormitory early and do whatever you want to do at night.
However, the players' faces were expressionless and calm; some even showed a hint of pain, as if they were reluctant to finish the training early.
"Okay, ladies, your acting skills are pretty good today, but I do have other things this time. If you are willing to practice more, you can stay by yourself. Okay, I'm leaving, you can do it."
It turns out that the players have been fooled by Bellman before.
Bellman deceived the players and said they were going to have a meeting, so they finished training early. Many players cheered, but the whole team practiced for an hour, and the cheering players did a hundred push-ups.
From now on, as long as Bellman says he will disband early, everyone will be careful and will keep it in his heart and will never show it.
Now, Bellman really left, and the players were relieved, and they scattered and ran to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.
"Hey, Gan, don't you stay for extra training today?" Dipengblock asked when he saw that Gan Guoyang seemed to be preparing to go to the locker room to change his clothes.
Before, the two of them would stay for half an hour to an hour every day, and they could not move.
"Oh Peter, I think I'll be working on a little longer later. Now I'm going to see a game."
"Match? I remembered that today the rugby team from Crystal Springs Highland Middle School was visiting to play a warm-up match with our school's rugby team."
"That's right, I'm going to see how that guy Halek played in today's game." Gan Guoyang's eyes showed a hint of evil eyes. He just wanted to see Halek's joke.
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The NFL, the American professional football league, was established as early as 1920, nearly thirty years earlier than the NBA. In the 1960s, rugby surpassed basketball and baseball with a longer history, becoming the most popular sports in the United States.
Therefore, on high school and college campuses, football games are more eye-catching than baseball and basketball games.
Although today is not Friday and weekend, when Gan Guoyang and Dipengbloke arrived at the stadium, the entire stadium was already full of people. Except for the audience, the ground and all other places where they were free were crowded.
Gan Guoyang also has to sigh that in the United States, football is worthy of being the number one sport.
Regarding rugby, Gan Guoyang had seven orifices and had no idea. He only knew that a group of people would chase an olive-shaped ball and run around the world until they ran to someone else's house with the ball, and they would be considered a score.
So he came here just to watch the fun, and he didn't know that it was the most intense moment of the game.
The score of both sides is 19:24, Palo Alto High School is five points behind Crystal Springs Highland High School. The game has reached the fourth quarter, and there are 28 seconds left before the end of the game. Palo Alto High School has the right to attack, which is their last chance.
Gan Guoyang saw a bunch of people wearing protective gear, like ancient Roman gladiators, standing face to face on the grassland with many bars.
Everyone bent their knees, bowed their backs, and looked ready to go.
On the side wearing the dark green uniform (dark green is the main color of Palo Alto, and so is the basketball team), there was a man standing behind the crowd, as if waiting for something. There were also some teammates next to him.
"Who is the one standing behind?" Gan Guoyang asked.
"It's the quarterback, the team's brain." Diepembroke looked at the field without blinking. This was indeed the most tense moment.
The referee whistle sounded, and a ball was thrown from the crowd, and the quarterback who was staying behind received the ball. The gladiators standing in a row instantly collided like a bison.
A large number of players from Crystal Springs Highlands High School rushed towards the position where the quarterback was. Part of the players from Palo Alto High School protected the quarterback and some began to run towards the opponent's field.
"Damn, that quarterback is so pitiful. Everyone seems to have to kill him." Gan Guoyang shook his head and observed a moment of silence for the thin-looking quarterback.
Sure enough, the quarterback's ball was killed before it was passed.
A black man on the offense and defense line broke through Palo Alto High School's defense, and a pounced to knock down the quarterback who was still observing, and his heavy body was pressing on the poor quarterback.
Immediately afterwards, a bunch of people pressed up, just like a small hill of human flesh.
"Damn, what kind of sport is this? Isn't it a foul?" Gan Guoyang took a breath, feeling incomprehensible about this brutal and rough movement.
The whistle sounded, and the people on the hills of human flesh separated one by one, but the poor quarterback who was pressed to the bottom could not stand up.
When the coach off the court saw that the situation was not good, he immediately took the team doctor to the court to check the situation of the quarterback who was lying there.
After a while, volunteers carried the stretcher to the field and carried the quarterback down.
"O my god, this guy must have bruised his ribs." Dippenblock said worriedly.
"Poor guy, I don't know which more pitiful guy will go up to replace him. But it seems that there is not much time." Gan Guoyang looked at the time on the scoreboard, with 17 seconds left.
But at this time, no one had to change Palo Alto High School.
For a professional football team, the number of players in the entire team will reach 50, divided into two groups, offensive and defensive groups.
But it is impossible for a high school team to recruit fifty people. Generally speaking, 30 people are enough. Among them, the quarterback position is irreplaceable because of its irreplaceability, there will definitely be a substitute.
However, the quarterback who had his ribs injured just now was already a substitute. The starter was out due to a sprained thigh, and no one can replace Palo Alto's coach.
"Fuck! Who can stand up to this quarterback? Marco Broto Willis!"
"No coach, I have never practiced passing."
"Coach, why don't you find a pitcher from the baseball team or someone from the basketball team? They practice passing every day."
"Where the hell did you ask me to find someone from the basketball team? Are basketball and rugby the same?"
"Coach, I saw Forrest Gump in our class. He is from the basketball team, and he is there!"
At this time, Gan Guoyang was waiting for the timeout to end the game and continue in an open space not far from the coach's seat.
Although he was anxious as the school team was about to lose, he was also looking forward to the opportunity to swear at Halek after the game. He was almost ready to think about the lines to laugh at him.
"Hey, Gan! Come here."
Suddenly someone called him, Gan Guoyang was stunned and realized that it was John Parry in his class, who was the running back of the rugby team, a smart and fast black guy.
"What's wrong with John?"
"Come here, come here quickly! Our coach asked you to go there, hurry up!" John Parry didn't care about Gan Guoyang being confused and pulled him to the coach's seat.
To be continued...