You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 1 Scary Smile
"Run fast! Little ones! Don't let up!"

"Keep going, don't stop! Think of what the people at Hareton High are doing right now!"

In the gymnasium of the Lower Merion High School basketball team, head coach Greg Donner prepares for the first game of the new season in three days.The whole team was tense and did not dare to relax. Coach Tang Na's anger was not a joke.

Lower Merion High School is located in the mainline suburb of Philadelphia and is one of only two middle schools in the Lower Merion School District.The opponent of the Lower Merion Aces in the first game of the new season is Hareton High School, another middle school in the Lower Merion School District.

Derby battles have always been fierce, and Donald will never allow them to lose the game.

"Fortunately, we are in the reserve team, otherwise it would be miserable. Look at those guys, they usually look down on people with their eyes above the top, and now they are not trained like dogs by the coach!"

Although Lower Merion High School is located in the suburbs, it has produced legends such as Kobe Bryant. There are countless children who come to sign up every year, and the selection of the school team is very large.I think they were just a weak team when Kobe joined the team. They finally led the team to win the Pennsylvania High School Basketball Championship in Kobe's senior season and became a high school giant in Pennsylvania.

What is certain is that every teenager who joins the ace team dreams of becoming a "Kobe 2.0".

There are a dozen people in the reserve team, among them is an Asian face, obviously surrounded by peers of the same age, but he looks the petite.

His name is Wei Xia. He comes from a happy family of five. He has just entered the ninth grade this year and joined Lower Merion High School with great enthusiasm. Just like all the children in the Narberth District, he has a big dream of "one day I will become the second Kobe".

The reality is cruel. Wei Xia, a 15-year-old in ninth grade, is only 159 cm tall. Even if he is a full-time number one, his figure is too thin.

The coaching staff believes that there is still about 15 centimeters of room for his height to rise. Even if he increases his height by 15 centimeters, it will only be 174 centimeters. Compared with the minimum of 183 centimeters for the first position in professional basketball, there is a gap of 10 centimeters.

It is true that there are stories of small men creating a world in professional basketball all over the world, but in the final analysis, basketball is still a sport for elders.

At this time, seeing the members of the first team being tortured by Coach Downer, Wei Xia had no sympathy or regret in his heart. He thought that if it was him, he would definitely persist for more than 15 laps.

"Felix, it's a good thing you didn't make it into the first team, otherwise you'd be dead!" Someone who was joking about the encounter with the main force suddenly turned the topic to Wei Xia.

Felix is ​​Wei Xia's English name, and it was given by her mother, because she thought it was more convenient to have an English name when she grew up abroad.Fortunately, his mother is a self-cultivated woman after all, unlike his brother who is talking nonsense, and he may not be the most talented player on the Aces team, because his body looks more suitable for playing American football, but he is definitely the player with the most unique name.

His name is Dick Long. Leaving aside the "Long" surname, it is rare enough, and he can still choose his first name as "Dick". Wei Xia has to worry about his friend's future life⑴.

([-]) The free translation of Diklon is "Jimmy Butler".

Wei Xia heard Dalong's ridicule, and in order to show his pride and difference from others, he bravely said to the colleagues in the reserve team: "I am different from you. I want to become the second Kobe Bryant. What is this suffering?"

That moment was subtle. They seemed to have come to the world of the Ice Age, as if a black-and-white silent film was shown to its climax, as if Kobe Bryant’s four-point shot against the Jazz in the playoffs, as if in 1998, after Jordan became a god in World War I, an ignorant fool from Boston snatched the Chicago city broadcast and said: “Stop fucking, even if Michael wins ten championships, he will always be a younger brother before Larry!”

Do you know what's the worst part about this?The worst thing is that the exasperated Jordan fans can't refute.The Boston idiot was right, Jordan will always be the younger brother in front of Larry, because the brother of the basketball god is indeed called Larry Jordan.

Many years later, the Chinese-style attack method of taking advantage will also be extended to James' fans and Jordan's fans.Who is the father of the god of basketball? Coincidentally, his name is James Jordan?
What is the difference between what Wesha said and what the non-existent Boston fool said?One of them will be punched to death by angry Chicagoans, and the other will be laughed to death by teammates.

Dalong took the lead, and everyone in the reserve team burst into piercing laughter. It took about 10 copies and pasted of Jennifer from "Friends" to achieve a similar effect.

Their laughter inevitably attracted a lot of attention.

The head coach Kubu Kiefer, who was in charge of training them, had a serious look on his face.

Coach Tang Na, who was worried about the game a few days later, couldn't believe that the brats in the reserve team couldn't detect the seriousness of the situation from the frightened faces of the first team players. Is it time to smile?Who gave them the courage to giggle?

Reserve team development coach Kiefer was called by Donald to give him some advice.

Then, Keefer came to everyone in the reserves.

He had a wide smile on his face, and the children who had been laughing clinkingly just now couldn't laugh anymore.

"It seems that you are energetic and ready."

"Not good." Dalong muttered softly.

Kiefer immediately said; "You are the future of the team, now let me see your energy, move me up, boys!"

A laugh of nothing but joy and good cheer, double practice for the Lower Merion High School Basketball Reserves.

They obviously have another year or two to enter the first team, but they have enjoyed the training intensity of the first team in advance.

"It's all your fault after all the thinking, Felix!" Dick Long, the core figure of the Scary Scream team just now, slapped him.

In other words, Wei Xia is the most wronged person.He didn't laugh, he didn't spoil the atmosphere, he was ridiculed for just stating his goals, and now he has to pay for their mistakes.Wei Xia is not sad or sad, he is very excited. Besides them, who else in the history of the ace team, except Kobe, can receive a team-level training in ninth grade?
Thinking of this, Wei Xia felt that he was one step closer to becoming the second Kobe.

(End of this chapter)