you are all star

Chapter 96
Through this duel with his father, Neil finally understood the gap between himself and his father. Besides, he had longed to challenge his father and defeat him. It was not until this time that he finally understood that many things were not true. If you want to win in your heart, you can win, not as you wish, and you will get as much as you put in.

But in the end he really lost, but his father said that he won, which made Neal's confidence not take much hit, and in the end the father and son left the slum court, and on the way home, Louis specially taught Neal this way, even though he He is very strong now, but he still can’t beat even his father who rarely plays golf, and it’s been like this for nearly 20 years. Therefore, let him be humble, devote himself to cultivation, keep a low profile, and endure loneliness.

In the end, it was the same for Neil when he thought about it. He also assured his father that he must keep the teachings in mind, be down-to-earth, and persevere in doing things, not impetuous or frivolous.

Neil's pertinent answer made Louis feel that his two-day hard work was not in vain, and he expected him to pass the special basketball assessment tomorrow.

For Neil, a new day, a long-awaited day, and at the same time, a very important day, a day that may directly change the trend of his future destiny, just like this, as the sun rises in the east, the birdsong on the branches of the trees And all things come in prosperity.

After Neil and his parents prepared everything, they ate breakfast and set off for the High School Affiliated to Alexander University.

After a hitchhiking car drove on the asphalt road at a speed of tens of kilometers per hour for nearly two hours, they followed the direction and path indicated by the driver and passed through a road surrounded by dense forests on both sides, which could be vaguely seen through the gaps in the trees. Neil and his parents were not sure about the gravel paths of houses and buildings. What they could see was that they were going to school, but most of the passers-by were wearing school uniforms with the LOGO of the High School Affiliated to Alexander University. Some of them, like Neil and his parents, didn't wear school uniforms, and they all seemed to sign up just like them.

They looked at everything in front of them, and listened to the laughter of each student from time to time, the melodious singing of birds from the dense forests on both sides, and the sound of the leaves being rubbed by the breeze.

Everything here seems to be so good, without the slightest disturbance, while Neil followed his parents towards the end of the gravel road, while looking around from time to time, he had infinite reverie and longing for everything here, his shining eyes His eyes reveal that he has longed to live here for three years, and wonders if God will give him this chance.

Neil, his parents, and a group of other classmates and parents walked to the end of this gravel road in the dense forest. The school's appearance in the admission notice appeared in the eyes of Neil and his parents, but they had to wait until they reached the main gate of the school. It takes a distance to cross an asphalt road lined with plane trees.

Nuana looked at the school gate in front of her and asked Neil with a smile, "Son, are you satisfied with your first impression here?"

Neil glanced at his mother, with a happy smile on his face: "Mom, I like this place so much, but I don't know if there is any chance to stay here for three years."

Nuana looked at Louis, touched his head and said, "Son, as long as you try your best and feel that you have done your best, then what happens next will not be a question for you to think about."

As soon as Nuana finished speaking, Louis patted him on the shoulder twice trustingly and said, "Your mother is right, we all believe that you can do it, and we will always be by your side."

Neil looked at his parents with grateful eyes, and said thank you, Mom and Dad.

Afterwards, the family of three quickened their pace and walked into the best high school in Alexandria, which has a history of more than 40 years.

After they walked into the campus, they checked the time. There was still about an hour before the assessment time. The parents took Neil to walk along the road leading to the gymnasium according to the instructions on the schematic diagram and browse the area of ​​more than 100 million square meters. Secondary school in square kilometer.

After they figured out the specific location of the gymnasium and browsed the general appearance of the school, Louis looked at the time in his hands. It was only 20 minutes away from Neil's special basketball assessment, so he called Nuana and Neil to go Go to the gym.

It seems that today's assessment is very formal, and there are many students in the assessment. At this moment, the entrance of the gymnasium has been guarded by security personnel, and a cordon has been pulled up. Every student who enters, the parents must take out the admission notice for the assessment, otherwise they will not be admitted. allowed.

Therefore, after Neil and his parents, who were standing in the middle of the crowd, saw all this, Nuana took the assessment acceptance letter from her bag.

After the students in front of them finished checking, Nuana pointed to his son and handed the admission notice to the security guard. Seeing the dark family of three, the security guard made a very puzzling and unimaginable move, using contempt He glanced at them, shook his head and handed the assessment acceptance letter to Nuana, but she still didn't embarrass them and let them in.

Neil walked into the large gymnasium with his parents, and a middle-aged teacher in his 40s and [-]s raised his voice and kept warmly reminding: "Students, parents, please hand over the admission notice you received to me. In a short while, we will assess each student in the order they were handed in, and hope for your support and cooperation."

After hearing such a reminder, Louis looked at Nuana, took the assessment acceptance letter from her hand, walked over with a calm smile and handed it to the woman who had just warmly reminded her.

Then, the elegant, beautiful, and temperamental teacher in his 40s and 50s announced the formality of the assessment, and then white-skinned white men in their early forties walked in from a side door of the gymnasium, all of them with smiles on their faces. More than [-] students and all parents greeted each other.

When the assessment interviewers were seated one by one, the elegant female teacher wearing a pair of black high-heeled shoes and a long black dress announced the number of people participating in the assessment, their names and how many people would pass the assessment.

In the end, Neil and his parents listened to the fact that only 55% of the 20 students were admitted, that is, only 11 students were admitted. Hearing the bad news, Neil and his parents were a little worried, and among the 55 students present, only 5 blacks, however, no matter how great the pressure is, they will bite the bullet.

I don't know if that elegant female teacher did it on purpose or for other reasons, the first person to be assessed was actually Neil.

When Neil heard that he was the name of the first assessment, his heart jumped up. Nuana and Louis patted him on the shoulder believing him. He nodded to his parents and met the contemptuous eyes of many white students. Walked over in the discourse of talking and laughing, and politely smiled and bowed to the assessment interviewers and the elegant and beautiful female teacher.

Several assessment interviewers looked at Neil's whole body. The sweatshirt and sweatpants were full of holes, and the shoes were also ordinary rubber shoes that were yellowed. Only one of the five assessment interviewers was wearing a suit and leather shoes. His hair is parted in the middle with white and brown, and he has a kind and big round face with a high nose bridge, a pair of brown eyes, two thick eyebrows, and a pair of medium-sized ears, which set off his big round face.

Only the oldest of the five assessment interviewers, he, who is about 50 years old, greeted Neil with a smile and greeted him with a smile, followed by the elegant female teacher. The rest of the assessment interviews The official has indifference written on his face.

The assessment interviewer who smiled at him looked at Neil with a smile and said, "Son, the content of your assessment today is to make 10 free throws, 10 dribble breakthroughs, 10 fadeaway shots, and find out from outside the three-point line. Take ten shots from ten points that you are best at, that’s all there is to it. Of course, except for free throws, in all other tests, there will be obstacles at your front, back, left, and right sides that are about as high as yours. Your assessment is mainly based on your shooting percentage. , good luck and you can start."

As soon as the kind old man finished speaking, the off-court staff moved out five dummies who were about the same height as him, or even one or two taller than him, and these five dummies were still being moved by the staff all the time. .

Neal is very smart. He wants to save the breakthrough layup over the obstacle until the end, so that he has enough physical strength to do the other three items. The first item is free throws, and the staff will move the five dummies to play the whole game like a regular player. The position of the foul free throw, after the simulation, Neil stood on the free throw line, took ten shots, and missed one. Only the old man scored ten points, and the rest were 6 points, 8 points, 7 points, 7 points, free throws Neil The final score was 38 points. The old man looked at the score and glanced at the four teachers sitting next to him. He felt that it was remarkable for a [-]-year-old kid to have such a free throw percentage. He should be given full marks, but the old man Still didn't care about them.

Neil then chose the second item to be a fadeaway jumper, and the staff moved the dummy around his fadeaway jumper. There were two taller ones in front of him, two on the left and right sides, and one behind him.

Neal started to make fadeaway jump shots. He ignored these obstacles and scored 70 out of [-] shots, with a hit rate of [-]%.

It was difficult this time, but Neil's shooting percentage did not fall below 60%, and he scored 39 points.

This time Neal shot a three-pointer, the staff placed the five dummies in order this time, and put the two tallest ones in front of Neal, and the shots from every angle were placed like this, and the rules were still the same as before Similarly, once the dummy accidentally touches the ground, the score is zero. This time, Neil felt that the difficulty increased again, because the dummy was about one meter away from him.

Neil still gritted his teeth, his forehead was sweating, and he heard his parents cheering him up below.

He took a deep breath, the first time he took the shot, the ball missed. He quickly adjusted the shape of his hand, the height and arc of the shot, because he felt that he was blocked by two tall dummies for the first shot.

In ten shots, he only scored five goals, with a shooting percentage of 50%. He scored 41 points in the final three-point test, and every time he scored higher than the old man who smiled at him before.

When it comes to the most critical item, put the two dummies side by side in two rows, and there is a tallest dummy standing under the basket, and the gap between the dummies is only about one meter, and the distance between the front and back is two meters. Left and right, every time Neil has to pass through the gap, the ball cannot touch the dummy, and once it touches, this item is zero. Based on such strict requirements, Neil had to choose simple movements. I was a little scared, even my parents were worried about Neil.

Neil put the ball on the floor, took a deep breath, exhaled again, wiped the sweat from his brow, and began to take the test. In order to get a high score, after he crossed the obstacle, he still staged a few times his father's handout yesterday. Give him the lost step, the butterfly piercing flower step, and the hundred-step piercing Yang, plus the pull-bar giant swing, the pull-bar folded layup, and the pull-bar folded layup, although the pull-bar giant swing did not make it, but he still won the applause of the old man .

In the end, Neal successfully completed every test, and for the last layup, he made 36 shots and scored [-] goals, but scored the lowest score, [-] points.

Except for the old man, the other four assessment interviewers thought that his most critical goal lost his appetite, so they gave him six points, but the old man knew that if one of the points was lower than 36 points, he would be out of the game and eliminated. In the end, he felt that Neal had done a good job and gave him full marks, bringing him back from the brink of death.

Finally, when the elegant and temperamental female teacher announced that Neil passed the basketball test with none of the scores lower than 36, Neil bowed deeply to the old man and said thank you.

The other four assessment interviewers looked at the old man several times with strange eyes. They thought that he intended to fight against them, but they didn't dare to do anything to him, after all, he had a lot of experience.

Louis and Nuana couldn't help sighing: "Fortunately, there are noble people helping today, otherwise my son would have died on that ball."

When Neil returned to his parents, he burst into tears as he hugged his parents, because for Neil, those previous assessments were really not assessments, but today's assessment is the real assessment, and the requirements are too subtle and too harsh.

(End of this chapter)