I’m Really Playing Basketball

On April 18, 2001, it was almost ten o'clock in the evening Eastern Time, and Marquette University head coach Tom Kerin was still in his office.

As May approached, the freshman report time ended, the new semester was about to start, and the rest of the team's senior students were about to return, Tom Klein felt that he was getting more and more busy.

The time now is that the NCAA finals have just ended, and the NBA playoffs are about to start. It is just half a year before the start of the NCAA next season, and there are still five months before the team training camp starts next season.

Logically speaking, this period of time was still very easy for him.

In the NCAA, as long as the training camp is not open, students still mainly focus on learning, supplemented by practice.

Their coaching work will not be so busy.

That's true for most of the NCAA's head coaches.

But he can't.

The Marquette Golden Eagles are really a mess right now.

The former boss of the team, Waddle, graduated as a senior and has now gone to the NBA to participate in the draft.

And his favorite future core player of the team, the rumored retarded genius, does not know if he will pass the make-up exam.

It's okay to pass, if he can't pass, he needs to continue to find a core player for the team to lead the team next season.

In the NBA, the core players are prone to accidents. In the NCAA, the players are younger and more aggressive, which is even more so.

Marquette looks to be full of talent next season, with super-talented newcomer Travis Diener at guard, second-year point guard Codd Henry, plus that headache , The team's perimeter next season will be unprecedentedly strong.

Center Scott Merritt and power forward O'Mara Ennamaka, who sit on the inside of the team, are also a very good combination.

Three years ago, he was the assistant coach of the famous Michigan State University coach Tom Aesop, and he came to Marquette University as the head coach. Next season will be the third season.

In the past three years, his staff has never been as abundant as next season.

It looks like next season will be his time to make a name for himself.

But Tom Klein was not so optimistic.

Because the team seemed strong, but except for the guy who gave him a headache, the other four couldn't hold back.

The hope of him and the team is tied to the man whom Marquette's basketball fans call a mentally handicapped genius.

Is it a bit of an exaggeration for someone who has never played on the team to wear him and the team's hopes?

In fact, it is not an exaggeration at all.

Although he didn't play a game last season, and his evaluation in school was also very bad. Most people in school had never met him, so they had full malice towards him, and wished that the two of them would leave together.

But in the Marquette University team, he has a high prestige.

Although he couldn't play, Tom Kline saved a place for him in the team last season against all odds. After a year of getting along, everyone was conquered by him.

Including his head coach.

Although he can't play, he has done too much other work and contributions for the team.

When the team is training, he can work with the assistant coach to assist the head coach to train players, arrange tactics, and record the tactical points of the players' games and training.

At the same time, it can also point out where teammates are not doing well enough.

Although his learning IQ is very low, his basketball quotient is extremely high.

This is definitely the player with the highest ball intelligence he has ever encountered in his coaching career.

And he is not only high in golf quotient, his strength is also extremely good.

In the annual "Midnight Madness" of the Marquette University Golden Eagles, his outstanding athletic talent and rocket-like instant explosive power were terrifying to the point of suffocation.

On the usual training ground, today he can play the opposing team's core guard, tomorrow he can play the opposing team's star small forward, the day after tomorrow he can play the opponent's inside player, and the day after tomorrow he can even play the opponent's three-point shooter. play.

Although his three-point shooting skills are not strong, he is very strong off the ball.

Therefore, whether he plays the opponent's guard, forward, insider or shooter, he, who has comprehensive skills and strong skills, can even be stronger than the person he plays.

Such a person in the team, even if he doesn't have a high prestige.

Those people outside had never seen him, so it was quite understandable to speak ill of him.

Inside the team, as long as he is not blind and stupid, no one will dissatisfy him.

So much so that when the team played away games last season, because he could not accompany the team or appear in the away locker room, the team specially equipped him with a mobile phone.

Let him continue to lecture the players like the team leader and captain during the intermission.

That's right, last season Marquette University's midfielder was not the team's nominal core Waddle.

It's the mentally retarded genius who has a very low evaluation in school and is almost the biggest stain on his coaching Marquette University, Dwyane Wade!

Dwyane Wade, this retarded genius, is the only core candidate in his and the team's minds next season.

Even Dina convinced him, because Dina was recruited by him with Wade.

But it is also true, if Wade continues to fail, what will happen to the team next season?

Tom Klein couldn't even imagine it.

The thought of this kid's incredible learning ability gave him a headache.

This kid's terrifying golf quotient, wouldn't it be obtained by sacrificing his own IQ?

"Tom!"

Just when Tom Kline thought of Wade's daily headache, the door of his office was pushed open.

Tom Klein looked up to see his assistant coach, Tim Barkley.

Seeing Tim Buckley's excited appearance, Tom Klein was a little surprised.

He rarely saw his assistant like this.

In fact, his assistant is a very gentle person.

Unlike his professional coach, Tim is not a professional coach.

Tim is also a teacher at Marquette University, where he is a part-time assistant team coach.

"Tim, is there anything urgent?"

The excited Tim Buckley didn't speak, but turned on the office TV and put a videotape into the VCR.

"Tom, look at this. This is a video of an amateur game recorded by one of my students who worked as a part-time reporter for the school newspaper yesterday."

Video of an amateur game?

Tim, you found another good seed?

If this is the case, it is understandable. After all, recruiting that Chinese student into the school team is a stain that Tim has always been ashamed of, and he has always wanted to make up for it.

Um?

But after the video started playing, Tom Kline was a little dumbfounded.

Although the recording equipment is not very good, coupled with the problem of light, the picture is not very clear, but he can still see clearly who is the focused person in the middle of the picture.

"List?"

"That's right, this is a halftime five-on-five match between Chen and Joe Gordon!"

"Joe Gordon? This name is familiar."

"He came to the team last year to recruit and was selected, but Tom you insisted on leaving a spot for Dwyane, so..."

Tim Buckley didn't say it later, but Tom Kerin remembered it.

"A very good defender."

Now it was Tom Crean's turn to be surprised.

Chen actually played against Joe Gordon?

Tim is so excited, it can't be that Joe Gordon abused Chen in the game, and Chen's strength was exposed to the whole school. Tim didn't want him to expel Chen from the school team and forcibly erase his own stains, right?

Tim, shouldn't that be the case?

"Tim..."

"Tom, keep looking down, the game has started."

Tim Buckley didn't give Tom Kline a chance to convey the spirit of the Golden Eagle to him, so he blocked Kline's mouth first.

Seeing Tim Barkley like this, Tom Crean had no choice but to continue watching the game, with curiosity, to see how badly Chen was abused, which made Tim so excited.

After two hours.

Tom Klein, who had watched the video countless times, had the same look on his face as Tim Buckley had when he watched the video for the first time.

Shocked, unbelievable, unbelievable.

"Tom, do you want more?"

"want!"

Another replay.

That totally amateurish dribble was on TV again.

Although dribbling is a layman, the scene that happened next is enough to shock any basketball coach.

"The way of dribbling is very amateurish, but he can come and go freely and score calmly in a small space, which is full of enemies."

"Not only that, but the enemy defending him can't even spray him. All the defenders are like wooden stakes in front of him!"

If a player like Jay Williams treats these guys like stakes, he probably won't feel that way.

However, this person is a beginner who has just learned basketball for less than half a month!

He doesn't have the skill set of Jay Williams.

He used all his extraordinary predictions!

On the TV, there was once again the crisp sound of a successful layup.

"It's not the best-looking layup, and it's not the most unstoppable, most powerful layup!"

"This is the most intelligent layup!"

"He looks down on the whole earth like a god!"

"He predicted everyone's prediction!"

At this time, Tom Klein had already clenched his fists tightly, and he couldn't control himself to stand up in excitement.

...

...

"Brother Luo, this is the brother I met last night, Tai Long, Xiao Tai."

"Xiaotai, this is the Luo brother I told you about. Ron Howard, the future leader of the Marquette University Golden Eagles. After hearing what happened to Xiaotai yesterday, Luo Ge also wants to get to know you."

Ron Howard looked Wade up and down.

Black frame big eyes, big cheeks, gentle and gentle.

It was the same as what Chen told him.

Such a different kind of black man has a super high IQ, super athletic ability, and the strength to knock Joe Gordon into the air.

"Xiaotai, don't look at me blindly, come, call Luo Ge."

"..."

Wade, who was observing Ron Howard and didn't know whether he knew him or not, heard what Chen Xiao said, and wished he could kick him over.

In fact, Ron Howard felt that Chen Xiao's self-invented names were a bit weird, but he couldn't correct them, so he just ignored them.

There is no need for others.

Chen said that China has its own national conditions, and this is the habit of their country.

Then he, the United States, can naturally have its own national conditions here.

"Don't listen to Chen, just call me Ron. My name is Ron Howard. Nice to meet you. Since you are Chen's good brother, you are my good brother."

Ron Howard's words made Wade heave a sigh of relief.

"Hi, my name is Tyrone Vaughn, nice to meet you."

This man's demeanor is indeed extraordinary.

Wade nodded secretly in his heart.

"Your elder brother is much stronger than you!"

"That's right, otherwise how could he be our big brother?"

"That's your big brother, not my big brother!"

"Xiaotai, wait a minute, you won't say that right away."

"Hmph, wait a minute, even if you wait for a year, or for a lifetime, that's what I always say."

Chen Xiao and Wade, who were following Ron Howard, kept communicating in low voices.

Soon, with a click, Ron Howard opened the door of the dormitory, and the two young people who came in after him, among them, the one with the bigger cheeks, his legs softened, and he almost knelt down.

"Luo, Brother Luo, this, this is your dormitory?"

"..."

Look, you were still strong just now, how is it now? Kneel down, hahahaha...

"well……"

Another young man who didn't talk about martial arts and suddenly attacked him...

Looking at Ron Howard, who was caught off guard by Brother Luo's sudden attack, Chen Xiao almost burst out laughing in his heart.

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