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Chapter 889 Disgusting AAU Basketball
The Barcelona Olympics ends on August 8.

On August 8, Louis returned to New York with Ewing and Wilson.

There is still more than a month before the start of the preseason training camp, and they can take a good rest.

Louie wasn't completely idle either, he had one more thing to do in August.

He set up a brokerage company, mainly for the overseas students of the road school who want to join professional basketball after completing their studies in the United States.

After all, not everyone has the chance to make it to the NBA.

The advantage of completing studies in the United States is that most of them can get used to living abroad and at least master a foreign language. In this way, even if they can't play in the NBA, they can go to Europe to play.

There is still no professional league in China, and the salary is very low. If you can go to Europe, you will undoubtedly earn more money than in China.

For example, this year, four of the six students in the first phase of the Road Academy in the United States graduated, and two of them were selected by the NBA.

In order to avoid this kind of thing from happening again in the future, it is what Louis should do to set up a professional brokerage company to prepare the way for the overseas students of the Road School.

It cannot be said that just arranging them to enter the university smoothly is enough. As their guide, he is obliged to plan a better career for them-as long as they are willing, he is always willing to help.

Apart from this, there is nothing else going on in August.

Due to the Olympic Games, Louis did not return to the Road Academy this year to follow up the preparations for the sixth phase of his trip to the United States.

Louis has no vacation all year round, because the NBA season is very long, and the preparations for the offseason, the trip to China, and countless business entertainments have made him overworked. This year he decided to take a vacation for himself.

Back in the U.S., he wanted to get down to life and enjoy life before preseason training camp began.

April 8

Louie's house has a new resident.

He is Wang Zhizhi from the fifth phase of Luyuan Traveling to the United States.

Before Wang Zhizhi came out, Louis promised his family that he would be with him until he went to college.

In the fifth period of brilliant talents, Wang Zhizhi is not the only genius, but he is the only certain genius.

He is only 15 years old this year, but his height has reached 2 meters. After a year of study in a language school, he has a preliminary understanding and mastery of local American culture and basic daily language.

"Little Zhi, from today onwards, this is your home." Louis introduced his two children to him, "This is my son and daughter, Lu Wuxia and Lu Wuyan."

Wang Zhizhi was a shy person, so he greeted him unnaturally.

"Brother Wang, you are so tall!" Lu Wuxia was curious about Wang Zhizhi, "Are you seven feet tall?"

Although Wang Zhizhi has been in the United States for a year, he doesn't know the unit of feet, so he said: "Two meters and seven."

"Whoa whoa!"

Lu Wuxia acted familiar.

"Then you must be playing center forward!"

"Well, with such a height, he can only play as a center forward."

"Can you dunk?"

"can."

"Awww~~~!!!" Lu Wuxia said excitedly, "Brother Wang, I want to pass you an alley-oop!"

"Okay!"

There was basketball to play, Wang Zhizhi slowly let go, and he accompanied Lu Wuxia to the comprehensive gymnasium that Louis' home brought.

Louis could only ask the nanny to help put Wang Zhizhi's luggage away.

"Dad, what's so fun about basketball?"

"It's probably like a Nintendo game for them."

Lu Wuyan couldn't understand, for her, playing basketball was far less fun than dressing up as a Barbie doll.

Louis then went to the gym and saw these two kids fighting bulls there.

There is a 7-year difference between Lu Wuxia and Wang Zhizhi. For their age group, a one-year difference has a clear advantage, and it is basically unnecessary to think about a 7-year difference.

The 8-year-old O'Neill will also be beaten to shit when he meets the 15-year-old Zhou Qi.

Although the bullfight between the two was not strong enough to speak of, Wang Zhizhi's footsteps without confrontation still showed Louis' face.

Sometimes, Louie has to sigh that this kind of rhythm of inside footsteps is innate.

Louis liked the player Wang Zhizhi very much in his previous life, and at the same time felt sorry for his experience.Even in his previous life, he had a chance to be an Asian version of Luis Scola, but in the end, he looked more like a bankrupt Nowitzki.

If Wang Zhizhi grew up in the competitive environment of the United States, would it be different if he was the gatekeeper and showed the way?
Louie wasn't sure.

A few days later, Louis received an invitation from Wilson.

The Converse shoes endorsed by Wilson will hold an invitational tournament in New York in his name.

This is an AAU-style urban tournament.

Louis felt that it was okay, so he selected elites from the children in the road courtyard to form a temporary team to compete.

In this temporary team formed by Louis, there are Lin Junwu (fourth period) and Qi Chengyan (fourth period) who have become famous in New York State, as well as Van Helsing and Wang Zhizhi from the fifth period.

A total of 10 people, Louis as their temporary coach.

At the beginning, Louis was worried that this group of children would be overwhelmed by a temporary team composed of elites from all over the country, and the result was unexpected.

The team formed by Louis was called "Morning Stars" by him.

The Venus star made a big splash in the Wilson Invitational, and Lin Junwu, Qi Chengyan and Wang Zhizhi attracted the attention of college scouts everywhere.

But the reason why they are truly invincible is actually very simple.

They are united and selfless enough.

And that's something you don't see on other AAU teams.

This is what has ruined American youth basketball.

AAU, known as the Amateur Sports Union, is a commercial promotion carried out by the sponsors behind them in order to dig out "Jordan's successor" and "The Next Benj" after the commercial value of a group of new-generation stars such as Jordan and Wilson took off.

In order to unearth talents from all over the world, they will hold invitational tournaments and training camps all over the United States in the name of stars.

Some unscrupulous AAU team coaches will promise their parents that they will play a large number of these invitational games during the holidays to gain college attention for their children for scholarships.

They often don't have a long-term training plan and are only responsible for hype, letting their children play selfish basketball games on the court.

Because the essence of the championship is not to win, but to show yourself.

Therefore, in order to attract attention, immature children will ignore the essence of basketball - the team - and only care about whether their statistics look good.

In order to increase his popularity, the child must go all over the world with the team.

Some of these trips are necessary and some are not.

Soon, when some bright kid sees that the team is dragging them down, they will choose to break away from their current team, usually at no cost, and join a team with other star players.

Have you seen that, the seeds of future basketball huddles are planted here.

In order to play more games, they will despise training.

Because many AAU teams have to play two to three games a day during the holidays, this not only leaves them no time to train, but also increases the risk of injury.

The most unbearable point for Louis is that the AAU coaches have no long-term plans for children, and only value talented players. They believe that talent is more important than skill.

Therefore, when the Morning Star team became the champion of the Wilson Championship and Wang Zhizhi and Lin Junwu were selected to the best team, Louis could not feel the slightest happiness.

He thought he had wasted a few days.

Wilson couldn't be blamed for this incident, he had good intentions, just like Louis didn't know the nature of this kind of competition before he came.

Louis used to be very envious of the countless AAU clubs and games in the United States, and envied that their children would play forty or fifty games a summer, but now, he can already understand why Kobe hates this organization so much⑴.

After the rise of various AAU training camps, the favorites like O'Neal and Webber got a lot of exposure early on.

They have been treated as superstars since high school, and there are countless eyes staring at them wherever they go.

This makes them swell.

The result of the expansion is that they can’t stay in college with peace of mind. In the end, they all only stayed in college for two years, and use their own successful experience in the NBA to tell those talented children in the future that playing in college for one year or four years will not affect your development, so why bother?Wouldn't it be nice to come out early to make money? No matter how much money the NCAA makes, will it give you a dime?

Louie has always been opposed to slow-moving talents playing the full four years in college.

In the 90s, college students in the first and second grades ushered in the climax of dropping out of school and became the practice of "hitting and leaving after one year". At best, it was just a side effect of the AAU mechanism.

Its real harm is to make children impetuous, selfish, arrogant, greedy and disregard the basic laws of team sports.

This incident made Louis realize that in order for the future international students of the Road School to grow up healthily, they must be kept away from AAU basketball, and to do this, he is busy again.

⑴I'll just post Kobe's original words—"AAU basketball, horrible, terrible AAU basketball. It's stupid. It doesn't teach our kids how to play the game at all so you wind up having players that are big and they bring it up and they do all this fancy crap and they don't know how to post. They don't know the fundamentals of the game. It's stupid."

(AAU basketball sucks, it doesn't teach our kids how to play, so all you see are big players who play fancy moves but don't know how to play low post. They don't understand the fundamentals of basketball. It's stupid.)
　Chapter 2 is late because of a typo

　　
　
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