you are all star

Chapter 39
Neil, with his persistent efforts and the help of his uncle downstairs, has initially learned to imitate Jordan's back pass.

Ke Neil thought that he didn't get a penny yesterday, especially when he saw his parents dragging their exhausted bodies back home last night. There wasn't much money in the money box, at most ten dollars or so, and the family's daily living expenses cost a few dollars. Dollar, if this continues, when will this day end?
Seeing all this, Neil's heart seemed to be stabbed hard by something. He made up his mind in his heart that he must lighten the burden for his parents, but he must not let them know that he wanted to make money by playing football. After knowing it, they will oppose themselves again. After all, it is easy to get injured in a fierce game.

So, the next morning, Neil woke up very early. He was in bed, listening to the creaking sound of the door, it was opened and then closed again, and he guessed in his heart that his parents should go out.

He got up, opened the door of his room lightly, looked into the living room, listened for a while, and walked into the kitchen without making any noise. Seeing that the covered food on the dining table was still steaming, I ran out of the bathroom, finished washing quickly, went back to the kitchen, picked up the dishes and started gobbling.

After eating, he washed his own bowls and chopsticks, held the ball and closed the door and left.

It may be because it is still early, the sun has not yet come out, the sky is cloudy, and the surrounding area is shrouded in layers of morning mist. Neil runs along the road leading to the slum stadium. The fog is so thick that he can only see the nearest He can't see the road, the road in the distance, and everything else. He can only rely on the closest familiar things to identify the direction and path to the destination, and try his best not to get lost in the clouds and mist. The destination is the opposite.

Under the surrounding mist, Neil still didn't get lost, and came to the slum court by his own feeling.

After he arrived at the stadium, because it was too early and his tone was very loud, no one came.

Neil, who is diligent and studious, closed his eyes and took a look around. It was very quiet, and he could only hear the chirping of birds from the big tree that Neil remembered from a very young age, like a beautiful movement. Immerse yourself in it.

Neil closed his eyes and listened quietly for a while, then opened his eyes slightly, pursed his lips, smiled slightly, and went around the playground to warm up.

While running, he recalled the incredible ball passed by his idol Jordan on TV yesterday, and with the help of the uncle downstairs, he basically mastered its skills, but yesterday's imitation experiment, the defensive People are the ones I want to get out of. The only moving object is me. Even the trash can representing Jordan's teammates is fixed.

Thinking of this, the clever Neil seemed to have some inspiration suddenly, and suddenly stopped running, turned his head and glanced at the backboard with glowing eyes, then looked down at his feet, and found that the distance was a little far, so he ran over and took a look at the backboard. Pick up the ball from the ground, get a little closer to the backboard, then turn your back to the backboard, still follow the technique taught to him by the uncle downstairs yesterday, close your eyes tightly, imitate Jordan's posture and movements, and then look for the direction of the backboard with your heart, When his heart directed his brain and told him that the backboard and the ring were in the 54-degree direction of his lower right corner, he hooked the ball with his back to the basket.

But the ball hit the backboard far from the basket, and no goal was scored.

But he did not regret giving up, but kept hinting to himself: "Everyone is rebounding, as long as you don't give up, try to calm down your mind and let your heart find the position and direction of the rebound, it will definitely be like yesterday. The same, hooking the ball into the basket, and, as long as I close my eyes, I can easily hook the ball into the basket, and then I will open my eyes, and I will feel more."

After giving yourself hints to cheer yourself up, continue to pick up the ball once, twice, three times... N times of hooking.

Some of these balls approached the basket, but they only hit the crying basket, and some hit the board and touched the basket, but they just failed to hook the ball into the basket.

After a wave, Neil was already sweating and exhausted, and he was also a little desperate. He lay his body flat on the court, looked up at the misty sky, and sighed: "Why? Why is it the same principle as yesterday? , but it just doesn’t work? Is there something wrong with it?”

After he questioned himself several times in his heart, it suddenly appeared in his mind that he saw his idol Jordan on TV yesterday, and he did not pass the ball with his eyes closed, and before he passed the ball, he scanned the surroundings from the corner of his eye, and then passed the ball again. It took 0.3 seconds before throwing the ball to a teammate.

Thinking of this, he murmured to himself and asked himself: "Could it be the reason?"

As soon as the words fell, he climbed up again with confidence and anticipation, picked up the ball, stood only three meters away from the backboard, and turned his back to the basket. He glanced at the backboard and the rim, then turned his head back. Based on the impression he had just glanced at, he felt the direction of the backboard and the rim with his heart, and then hooked the ball one by one. The basketball drew a beautiful rainbow bridge in the air arc.

After the ball was hooked out, Neil hurriedly turned his head and watched the basketball fly towards the backboard. The basketball and the basket were straight, trying to be in a straight line. His heart was full of expectations and blessings. I hope I can make it this time. God bless !

When the ball was spinning in the basket, and he still didn't want to go into the basket, Neil's heart was suddenly beating nervously, and he could only hear the sound of thumping, and he whispered in his mouth: "In, in... don't get out .”

But the basketball seemed to understand his words. After five laps on the basket, the ball still went in.

He jumped up happily and praised himself: "Neil, you are quite smart. You actually not only learned the back pass from your idol, but now you also understand the skyhook."

Since the ball was hooked, he thought there was some luck in it, and he thought in his heart that maybe the farther the distance is, the less likely the hook will be and the difficulty will increase, so think about it. To make up for this kind of chance that it is not easy to hook in when you are far away, and make it a killer move, you have to work hard to make up for it.

With this idea in mind, Neil picked up the basketball that jumped to his side, first from near to far, from the penalty area to the outside, until all corners were hooked.

Because of the feeling he had before, he set goals for himself in his heart, ten to five in the near one, four to four or three in the far or dead corner, and he could not set too high requirements and goals for himself at the beginning .

After he set such a goal, he hooked ten balls at each position and angle. At first, he only scored one goal when he hooked ten balls. But Neil was still very happy. After all, God gave him hope and made him have the possibility of dreaming.

He didn't give up, and continued to switch positions and angles to hook the ball, but he still scored one out of ten and two out of ten.

It's almost impossible to get into three or four out of ten, but Neil believes that as long as he is willing to persevere, pay, and practice repeatedly and repeatedly without interruption, hard work can make up for his weakness, and he will turn the sky hook he has realized into a killer move.

In fact, Neil knew very well that basketball is originally a sport of shooting probability. No one dares to say that he will make ten out of ten shots. Hook training to eighty-nine out of ten, he only wants to be able to hit five or more out of ten with one goal and two goals, and he is satisfied, even if this is the case, it can become a killer move.

Neil is like this, even if he is very tired, whenever he wants to sit down and take a rest, he suddenly hooks another goal, it seems that all the tiredness and tiredness have disappeared, and he immediately reaches out to wipe the puffiness on his forehead with a smile on his face. Sweat, continue to practice over and over again.

(End of this chapter)