basketball behind the spotlight

Chapter 38 Many Questions
Lu Ziqiu took George back to the office early the next morning. Yu Qin had already prepared an agreement, and the terms of the agreement were all written according to Lu Ziqiu's requirements.

George glanced casually and was about to sign.

Lu Ziqiu stopped his hand, "Coach, the agreement is not a joke, you'd better read it carefully."

George smiled and pushed his hand away, "Will you talk to me?"

Lu Ziqiu shook his head with a wry smile.

"That's it?" George quickly signed his name, stood up after signing everything, and rushed to the arena for training in a hurry.

Lu Ziqiu took out the car keys, "Okay, I guessed that you would be like this, so I prepared the car keys early in the morning."

"Sure enough, I didn't hurt you in vain, let's go."

Back in the arena, Lu Ziqiu asked the coaching staff to assemble the players, and introduced George grandly to them all.

Everyone was not in high spirits, and applauded sparsely.

Lu Ziqiu frowned, "Lan Feng, why are everyone listless?"

Lan Feng stood up with a wry smile, "Coach, where is our psychological coach?"

"She has asked for leave for something these two days." Hua Luo glanced around everyone, "Are you training for a psychological coach?"

Lin Sen also stood up, "You don't have to lie to us, do you think we don't know anything?"

"What do you know?"

"She won't be on the team again."

"Nonsense, who told you?"

Lin Sen didn't bother to answer, and retreated to the team with a sneer.

Lan Feng said: "Coach, you don't have to worry, it's just that everyone suddenly can't accept it, and it will be fine soon."

"You go back to the team first." Lu Ziqiu sighed, and looked at Thompson beside him, "What's going on?"

Thompson replied with a wry smile: "The chairman's wife came over early this morning, and she announced in front of all of us that Miss Xia would no longer be our psychological coach."

"Is she the only one here?"

"The chairman's secretary also came together, saying that it was the decision of the board of directors. At the same time, he said that if we still need a psychological coach, the board of directors can consider hiring another one from outside."

"No need." Lu Ziqiu took a deep breath, and looked back at all the team members again, "I will give you half a day off this morning, and everyone will cheer me up for training in the afternoon, do you hear me?"

The team members responded sparsely.

Lu Ziqiu yelled suddenly, "Didn't you eat? Did you hear that?"

"I heard it!" Lan Feng took the lead and shouted.

With Lan Feng taking the lead, except for Luo Mang and Lin Sen, everyone was startled, stood up quickly, and shouted in unison: "I heard that."

"Disband, what should I do?" Lu Ziqiu waved angrily and called the coaching staff to the conference room for a meeting.

As soon as the meeting room door was closed, Lu Ziqiu's expression darkened, "Is there something you are hiding from me?"

The coaches looked at each other and shook their heads.

"How long has Kexin been in contact with them? If it is said that Lan Feng and Lin Sen are depressed, I believe it, but how can other players be like this?"

Rhoda smiled wryly, "We really don't know, and we're also a little confused, really."

Lu Ziqiu swept across their faces one by one, everyone had a bitter look on his face, he couldn't help frowning, "What else did the chairman's wife say?"

Rhoda replied, "I didn't say anything."

"Did you really say nothing?"

Everyone nodded seriously.

The more Lu Ziqiu thought about it, the more something went wrong, "Who else came to the team yesterday?"

Luo Da said: "Miss Yang, the team reporter, has been here."

"What did she tell you?"

"I didn't say anything, just like before, just follow up and report on our training."

"Then has she been in contact with the players?"

"In contact, she chatted with the team members for a while during the break, and it has always been like this before, so we ignored her."

Lu Ziqiu took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, "It's nothing, everyone go to rest, practice hard for me in the afternoon, until they all lie down."

The members of the coaching staff knew that he was angry, so they left without saying anything.

George sighed and said, "It seems that you have a lot of problems here."

Lu Ziqiu sighed with a wry smile, "I made you laugh at the coach."

"It's better to solve the problem in front of us first. I think it will be difficult for those players to mobilize their emotions for a while."

"I understand, I will take care of this matter."

George got up and patted him on the shoulder, "If there is nothing else, I would like to discuss the training content with the coaching staff first."

After the two separated, Lu Ziqiu called Lan Feng.

Lan Feng was doing extra training in the gym just now, and when he came over, he was covered in sweat, "Coach, do you have anything to do with me?"

"Sit down and talk." Lu Ziqiu pointed to the opposite side.

After Lan Feng sat down, he asked, "What did the team reporter tell you yesterday afternoon?"

"It's nothing, I just got to know each other for a while, and then chatted casually."

"Think about it carefully and see what makes you feel strange."

Lan Feng said firmly: "No, just chatted with me casually."

Lu Ziqiu frowned, "Where are the others?"

"I don't know about the others. She didn't come here for a long time yesterday, but she spent a little longer communicating with Luo Mang."

"Luo Mang?" Lu Ziqiu pondered for a while, Luo Mang doesn't know how to gossip, it is impossible to talk nonsense.

"That's right, that woman seems to be very interested in Luo Mang."

Lu Ziqiu didn't care about this, "Did Yang Xiaojing mention yesterday's report about me?"

"If you didn't tell me, I would have forgotten it. Everyone seems to have talked about it with her, but I don't know what it was about. At that time, Lin Sen and I were in a duel, and Luo Mang was listening to the song alone."

"Help me find out what she said to the team members yesterday. I think it's weird."

Lan Feng nodded in agreement, and then said, "Except for me and Lin Sen, the others are not familiar with Coach Xia, so I also think their performance today is a bit abnormal."

"Well, go ahead and tell me immediately if there is anything."

Lu Ziqiu stayed alone in the office for a while, but couldn't think of any clues, so he went to retrieve the video and watched everyone's training situation, recorded the characteristics of each player one by one, and then wrote some training notes. The situation that needs attention is handed over to the coaching staff.

At noon, Lan Feng came to him again and told him about Yang Xiaojing's communication with the team members.

From his report, Lu Ziqiu didn't hear anything wrong, and couldn't help but feel a little troubled. Could it be that this happened to the team members because Xia Kexin couldn't come?

This afternoon, he stayed to personally guide the training, and the mood of the team members improved a lot. As a result, he gradually put this matter behind him.

After training, I was about to go back, but I met Yang Xiaojing who rushed over.

She warmly greeted everyone, and Luo Mang just took a look, then walked out of the training hall indifferently with headphones on.

Lu Ziqiu and George also left afterward, but Yang Xiaojing chased after them not long after they walked out, "Mr. Lu, can I spare you a little time?"

(End of this chapter)