The rest is just noise

Louis met John Dunsmore, the head coach of the Louis College basketball team.

In the past year, he has been leading the training of these children.

It was he who selected six children from all levels of the team who were about to be sent to the United States.

Louis looked at the list, and as expected, 16-year-old Hu Weidong was among them. Deng Shimo put an asterisk after Hu Dashen's name to indicate that this was a young boy with great development potential.

"Does more asterisks mean higher training value?" Louis asked.

Deng Shimo snapped his fingers and nodded: "It seems you understand me."

Among these children, the eldest is Hu Weidong, 16 years old, and the remaining four are 15 years old. The youngest is 14 years old, named Liu Yuqing.

"And there are girls?" Louis discovered that this Xiao Liu had more stars than Hu Weidong.

"When I first saw this name, I thought he was a girl." Deng Shimo spoke highly of him, "Not only is he not a girl, he is also a young man with a lot of personality."

What a personality he has, Louis will understand after just taking a look at his training.

From a distance, 14-year-old Liu Yuqing is nearly 1.9 meters tall.

How should I put it? Except for his height, he is not the kind of person who is very athletic at first glance.

His explosive power is not strong, but he excels in the coordination of his limbs. Every basketball move looks particularly stretched, probably because of his wingspan. His unformed shooting looks more comfortable than the kids around him.

"He is now about 6 feet 1 inch tall (187CM), but his wingspan is 6 feet 6 inches, and..." As soon as Deng Shimo finished speaking, Liu Yuqing used her own training methods to give Louis a preliminary understanding of his

Play style.

He shot against a basket without a net and picked it up himself. His hit rate reached over 80% and he shot continuously for 20 minutes.

Deng Shimo praised: "He is a bit like Dell Ellis of the Knicks."

"Is it possible that he is as stupid as Ellis?" Louis asked.

"He is indeed a bit silent, but he is not introverted. Although he is not sociable, he is very friendly when getting along with others."

Louis thought that Deng Shimo was demonstrating linguistic contradiction, and couldn't help but reply: "What you said is quite good, but the logic is a bit poor."

"I'm not kidding." Deng Shimo seemed very satisfied with Liu Yuqing, "He is a very special guy."

"Is it too early to go abroad at this age?"

Louis was not sure what would happen to a 14-year-old, silent and introverted, unsociable but friendly child who traveled across the ocean to study in another country.

"It's not early at all." Deng Shimo said seriously, "He is a talented shooter, but before coming to Luyuan, his first position was point guard and he has good ball-holding ability. Fortunately, we tested him

With his bone age, it was predicted that he would grow to about two meters, so we made two preparations. On the one hand, he was allowed to maintain basic movement control training, and on the other hand, he was allowed to strengthen his shooting. In less than a year, he was already a player at all levels in the academy.

The best shooter in China, even Hu Weidong is not as good as him."

Deng Shimo was eager for Liu Yuqing to return to the United States with Louis.

"Staying here will only delay his development." Deng Shimo wanted Louis to understand the urgency of the matter, "Coach Lu, you are a scout, you should know how important this matter is than me."

"What do his family think?"

"We'll get the job done."

It was not that easy for parents of ordinary families in the 1980s to let their children study abroad with confidence.

"I will make arrangements for studying abroad, but it must be with the consent of his family, not just Xiao Liu, but also several other children."

"The family's wishes must come first."

Deng Shimo asked: "What about the child's wishes? I mean, what if a child wants to study abroad but his parents don't agree?"

"Let them figure it out for themselves. You can provide advice and help them make decisions, but you can't make decisions for them."

Although Deng Shimo has a Chinese name, he obviously has not yet mastered how to deal with Chinese people.

What Louis said made him dizzy, feeling that his year in China was wasted.

Afterwards, Louis also inquired about this year's enrollment situation.

There is also the construction status of the branch campus.

One school alone can only attract children from one place. Although the road school has its own scouting system and parents from all over the country will send their children, these people are only a small number after all.

For Luyuan to become the arsenal of Chinese basketball, the scale of the school must be expanded.

Once the scale expands, the coaching team must also expand.

To do this, the first thing you need is money.

Fortunately, Louis has made a lot of money in the past year. The reason why he never misses any opportunity to make money is that domestic projects are in great need of money.

The problem is that these projects basically don't make much money, because his main purpose of training people is to let them strengthen the strength of the national basketball team.

This is the process of a basketball player from the past life traveling to this life to realize his dream.

In just one year, in addition to the great master Hu Weidong, the average-sized road courtyard has already unearthed good talents like Liu Yuqing. He believes that there are more talents hidden in the sea of ​​​​people.

In mid-July, Louis returned to the United States.

He immediately started preparing plans for the six children to travel to the United States, including what kind of schools they would go to.

It was not enough for him alone, so he called his friends in the circle and asked them to give him a list, and he would do it himself.

On July 20, the National Basketball Team came to New York, and many despicable New York media went to watch it with a sense of curiosity.

This phenomenon made Louis very uncomfortable.

Their attitude is as if a group of aliens have arrived in New York.

This is a bit like the Chinese Olympic team playing against the North Korean men's basketball team in his previous life. The Chinese Internet is full of strange legends about the North Korean basketball league, such as how a dunk counts as 4 points.

As a result, they played very impressively. If it weren't for the home field advantage, I guess the National Olympics would not be their opponent.

Many domestic fans and media had the same attitude towards the North Korean team as the New York media today.

Therefore, on the day of the friendly match between the Knicks and the Chinese team, Louis refused to allow any media to enter, and the game was not broadcast live.

Louis leads half of the Knicks team, including Dale Ellis and Benjamin Wilson, who are enough to pose an overwhelming threat to the national team.

The game started, and as Louis expected, the national team was very serious.

They will try their best to beat the Knicks.

Before the game started, Louis had told the players to treat it as a teaching game, and whether they won or not would come second. Ensuring their own health was the most important thing.

Tonight, the Chinese team shot extremely accurately.

No, it should be so accurate that Louis was shocked.

There is a background here that Louis doesn't understand.

Two years ago, in 1984, FIBA ​​officially introduced the three-point line. In order to improve the three-point ability of domestic players, the Chinese Basketball Association introduced a policy. In official games, if someone can score four goals in a single game

For three-pointers, starting from the fifth goal, scoring will count as 4 points.

As a result, a bunch of three-point maniacs appeared in China, and their outside shooting standards skyrocketed.

Tonight's lack of touch even from outside the three-point line at the NBA level is considered an extraordinary performance, but it can also be seen that these players have very good basic skills and shooting abilities.

This scene once again aroused Zhou Qi's PTSD in Louis. Thinking back to the 2019 World Cup, under the influence of the three-back tactics guided by Li, the national basketball defenders were not squeezed by the opponent's forwards in every game, and their shortcomings of unstable long-range shots were exploited.

Deadly.

The guards stood up straight and lined up to see that their shooting percentages were all below 40%... Let's look at the shooting of the older generation.

Louis was furious on the spot and asked the players to be more intense. Don't let them think that NBA players are only at this level.

Wilson began to exert his strength. An offensive machine like him with a height of 203 centimeters is inherently unsolvable in international competitions.

The problem of poor confrontation was not reflected in the game against the Chinese team, but the offensive skills that have swept all directions in the NCAA are really unstoppable here.

104 to 88

The Knicks came out strong in the fourth quarter to win the game.

The two sides shook hands in a friendly manner, and they will play three friendly matches next.

Basically, they played very seriously. The Chinese team wanted to win. Louis would not give up the victory, but he had the ability to control the field and made the game look fierce.

In the fourth game, Louis deliberately used penalty kick tactics to make the game end in a tie.

There is no overtime.

Although the Chinese team did not win, it was a very impressive result to tie the Knicks with half the lineup.

Next, the two sides trained together at the Blue Palace. Although they didn't understand each other in the language, they often made appointments for matches.

In the competition, the performance of the Knicks players without Louis' restraint was much more brutal.

This also allowed Chinese players to see the gap.

At the same time, Song Tao officially signed with the Knicks and became the 14th member of the team.

In August, the Chinese team was going to participate in the World University Games. Louis asked Song Tao to "recuperate" on the grounds that he was injured.

Song Tao thus escaped the greatest disaster in his life.

He also became the first player in Asian history to sign an official NBA contract.

Louis never regarded himself as a savior, he just turned some bad things into good things and prevented some things he didn't want to see happen.

There were many things he couldn't control, but in this case, he not only controlled the entire process, but also changed Song Tao's entire life.

Compared to Song Tao's original broken life, Louis prefers his current future, which is full of unknowns but very promising.