the rest, only noise

Chapter 391 Full of Unknown and Hopeful Future

Louie meets John Dunsmo, head coach of the Louis College basketball team.

In the past year, he was the one who trained this group of children.

It was him who selected six children who were about to be sent to the United States from all levels of echelons.

Louis looked at the list, and as expected, Hu Weidong, who was only 16 years old, was among them.Deng Shimo put an asterisk behind Hu Dashen's name to indicate that this is a seedling with great development potential.

"Does more asterisks mean higher cultivation value?" Louis asked.

Deng Shimo snapped his fingers and nodded, "It seems you understand me."

Among these children, the oldest is Hu Weidong, who is 16 years old, the remaining four are 4 years old, and the youngest is 15 years old, named Liu Yuqing.

"There are girls?" Louis found that Xiao Liu had more asterisks than Hu Weidong.

"When I saw this name for the first time, I thought he was a girl." Deng Shimo spoke highly of him, "Not only is he not a girl, but he is also a young man with great personality."

What a personality he had, Louie could tell just by taking a look at his training.

From a distance, 14-year-old Liu Yuqing is nearly 1 meters tall.

how to say?Apart from his height, he is not the kind of person who looks very athletic at first glance.

His explosive power is not strong, but his strength lies in the coordination of his limbs. Every basketball move looks particularly stretched, probably because of his wingspan. His unformed shots look more comfortable than the children around him.

"He is about 6 feet 1 inch tall (187cm) now, but his wingspan has reached 6 feet 6 inches, and" Deng Shimo just finished speaking, Liu Yuqing used her own training methods to let Louis understand his style of play.

He shot at a basket without a net, and he shot and picked himself up. The shooting rate reached more than 80%, and he shot for 20 consecutive minutes.

Deng Shimo praised: "He is a bit like Dell Ellis of the Knicks."

"Could it be that he's as dumb as Ellis?" Louis asked.

"He is indeed a bit quiet, but he is not introverted. Although he is not sociable, he is very friendly with people."

Louis thought that Deng Shimo was showing off his language contradictions, so he couldn't help but reply: "Your words are quite good, but the logic is a bit poor."

"I'm not joking." Deng Shimo seemed satisfied with Liu Yuqing, "He is a very special guy."

"Is it too early to go abroad at this age?"

Louie wasn't sure what would happen to a 14-year-old, quiet and unintroverted, unsociable but friendly kid who traveled across the ocean to study in another country.

"It's not early at all." Deng Shimo said seriously, "He is a talented shooter, but before he came to the Road Academy, the first position was point guard, with good ball-handling ability. Fortunately, we measured his bone age and predicted that he would grow to about two meters, so we made two-handed preparations. On the one hand, let him maintain the basic training of movement control, and on the other hand, let him strengthen his shooting. In less than a year, he is already the best shooter among all levels of players in the Road Academy, even Hu Weidong is not as good as him."

Deng Shimo wished that Liu Yuqing and Louis would go back to the United States together.

"Staying here will only delay his development." Deng Shimo wanted Louis to understand the urgency of the matter, "Coach Lu, you are a scout, so you should be more aware of how important this matter is than I am."

"What is his family's opinion?"

"We'll get the job done."

It is not so easy to reassure the parents of ordinary families in the 80s to let their children study abroad.

"I will arrange for studying abroad, but it must be with the consent of his family. Not only Xiao Liu, but also several other children."

"The wishes of the family must come first."

Deng Shimo asked: "What about the child's wishes? I mean, what should I do if the child wants to study abroad but the parents disagree?"

"Let them figure it out for themselves, you can give advice, you can help them make decisions, but you can't make decisions for them."

Although Deng Shimo took a Chinese name, he obviously hasn't mastered the method of dealing with Chinese people.

What Louis said made him dizzy, and he felt that he had wasted a year in China.

After that, Louis also inquired about this year's enrollment situation.

There is also the construction of the branch school.

A school alone can only attract children from one place. Although the Road Academy has its own scouting system, and parents from all over the country will send their children here, these people are only a small number after all.

In order for Luyuan to become the arsenal of Chinese basketball, the scale of the school must be expanded.

Once the scale is expanded, the coaching team must also be expanded.

To do this, the first thing you need is money.

Fortunately, Louis has made a lot of money in the past year. The reason why he doesn't miss any opportunity to make money is that domestic projects need money.

The problem is that these projects basically can't make much money, because his main purpose of training people is to let them strengthen the strength of the national basketball team.

This is the dream-fulfilling process of a basketball player from his previous life traveling to this life.

In just one year, besides Hu Weidong, the average-sized Luyuan has already unearthed good seedlings like Liu Yuqing. He believes that there are more talents hidden in the sea of ​​people.

In mid-July, Louis returned to the United States.

He immediately started to prepare a plan for the six children to travel to the United States, including what kind of school they would go to.

It was not enough for him alone, so he called his friends in the circle and asked them to give him a list, and he would do it himself.

On July 7, the national basketball team came to New York, and many lowly New York media watched with a curiosity.

This phenomenon made Louis very uncomfortable.

Their attitude was like a bunch of aliens had come to New York.

This is a bit like his previous life when the Olympic team played a game against the North Korean men's basketball team. The Chinese Internet was full of strange legends about the North Korean basketball league, such as how a dunk counted as 4 points.

As a result, they played brilliantly. If it weren't for the home court advantage, it is estimated that the National Olympics would not be their opponent.

Many domestic fans and media have the same attitude towards the North Korean team as the New York media today.

Therefore, on the day of the friendly match between the Knicks and the Chinese team, Louis refused any media entry, and the game was not broadcast live.

Louie took half of the Knicks with Dell Ellis and Benjamin Wilson, enough to pose an overwhelming threat to the national team.

The game started, and as Louis expected, the national team was serious.

They will do everything they can to beat the Knicks.

Before the start of the game, Louis had already told the players that they would play as a teaching game, and the winner or loser would be the second place. The most important thing was to ensure their own health.

Tonight, the Chinese team shot extremely well.

No, it should be accurate enough to scare Louis.

There was a background that Louis didn't understand.

Two years ago, in 1984, FIBA ​​officially introduced the three-point line.In order to improve the three-point ability of domestic players, the Chinese Basketball Association has introduced a policy.In an official game, if someone can score four three-pointers in a single game, starting from the fifth goal, scoring is counted as 4 points.

As a result, a bunch of three-point madmen appeared in the country, and the outside level rose sharply.

Tonight, the phenomenon of feeling convulsive outside the three-point line at the NBA level is considered an extraordinary performance, but it can also be seen that the basic skills and shooting ability of this group of players are very good.

This scene once again aroused Louie's Zhou Qi's PTSD. Thinking back to the 2019 World Cup, under the influence of Li's three-guard strategy, the national basketball guards were not squeezed by the opponent's forwards in every game, and the shortcoming of unstable long-range shots was tightly controlled.

The guards stood up straight and lined up to see that the shooting percentage was below 40%, and then looked at the shooting of the older generation.

Louie was blown up on the spot and asked the players to put up a little more strength, so as not to let them think that NBA players are at this level.

Wilson began to exert his strength. His 203 cm offensive machine was originally unsolvable in international competitions.

The problem of poor confrontation was not reflected in the game against the Chinese team, but the offensive skills that have swept all directions in the NCAA are indeed unstoppable here.

104 is better than 88
The Knicks made an effort to win the game in the fourth quarter.

The two sides shook hands friendly, and then there will be three friendly matches between them.

Basically, they played very seriously. The Chinese team wanted to win a game. Louis would not give up the victory, but he had the ability to control the field, which made the game look intense.

In the fourth game, Louis deliberately played a penalty kick to make the two sides draw.

There is no overtime.

Although the Chinese team did not win, it is a very impressive result to be able to tie half of the Knicks.

Next, the two sides trained together in the Blue Palace. Although they did not understand the language, they often made appointments for confrontation matches.

In the matchups, the performance of the Knicks players without Louie's restraint was much more brutal.

This also allows Chinese players to see the gap.

At the same time, Song Tao officially signed with the Knicks, becoming the team's 14th player.

In August, the Chinese team was going to participate in the Universiade, and Louis used Song Tao's injury as an excuse to keep him in New York to "rehabilitate".

Therefore, Song Tao escaped his greatest calamity.

He also became the first player in Asian history to sign a formal NBA contract.

Louis never regarded himself as a savior, he just turned some bad things into good things, and prevented some things he didn't want to see from happening.

He couldn't control many things, but for this matter, he not only controlled the whole process, but also changed Song Tao's entire life.

Compared with Song Tao's original broken life, Louis prefers his current future full of unknowns but promising.

(End of this chapter)