From sparring to superstar

Chapter 14 13. It's His Problem

Li Ao's expression was embarrassing at the moment.

Can anyone tell him what's going on?
The dozen or so newcomers who joined this year were also full of astonishment. It was true that they got out of their seats with the mentality of watching the excitement.

But this opening was completely different from what they had imagined.

The rest of the school may not know what happened, but everyone in the team basically knows that Li Ao sent Shelby Jordan to the hospital. It is said that Li Ao's family spent a lot of money to keep it secret.

After disappearing two months ago, they thought that the legendary 'Little Lambert' was hiding from Li Ao who joined the team. They never expected that Shelby Jordan would dare to come back!
And when he came back, he went straight to Li Ao, and the first thing he said was like... Shameless!

But the old teammates, although equally astonished that Shelby Jordan could say such a thing, were not surprised.

Because this is so in line with their perception of Shelby Jordan-a school bully with a different brain than ordinary people.

In terms of face, compared to Shelby Jordan, the old teammates think Li Ao is a shy person.

"Shelby, what are you doing here, you bastard?"

Henry Bibby, who rushed to the training ground after receiving the security notice, helped Li Ao out of the siege.

Rao is that he has seen too many strange flowers of all kinds in the era of information explosion more than 20 years later, and he doesn't know how to deal with the overbearing flower in front of him.

It would be easy for the other party to seek revenge. His big trick... No, it's because his fists are already hungry and thirsty.

But what is it!

Seeing Henry Bibby coming, Shelby Jordan said with a playful smile, "Henry, I was injured. I went out to find a doctor to treat me. I came back right after the injury. I'm really afraid that the new season will be delayed."

New season?This guy actually wants to play the new season?

The old teammates were speechless, but the dozen or so newcomers, including Li Ao, couldn't believe it.

But reality tells them cruelly that strength is king!

Henry Bibby said with a look of disgust: "Get out and do a physical test."

After speaking, he turned and left the training ground.

This is obvious. Even if he is not in training for two months, even if he does not participate in any selections, as the team's first defensive champion in the frontcourt, Shelby Jordan is still a member of the roster.

If the coach wants to deal with things like absent training, he can be expelled from the team directly, but if he doesn't want to deal with it, he can at most scold him. After all, this is not a big violation of the rules, and it can't even compare to a fight.

Henry Bibby's operation also made the players who didn't understand why he recruited Li Ao into the team understand the reason at first.

This veteran player who has been in basketball for more than 30 years is a more capable head coach.

...

The thickness of the skin, there is a comparison to see the difference.

Li Ao is also a person who only practiced his face in the golden bell cover. He was embarrassed to death just now, and after a while he chatted with Trepagnier as if nothing happened. Alby Jordan.

There is not much sense of threat. Since the other party has no intention of seeking revenge, then don't worry about it.

Although the two are considered to be in the same position and both are defensive players, but he has a score, and it seems that he knows that the opponent is the main striker, and he still doesn't know if he can be included in the squad.

He wanted to know what kind of person this guy was, and this guy couldn't be more flamboyant.

He didn't find out before because he never thought that the guy who ran away would come back, and the coaches didn't tell him.

Trepagnier didn't hide it, and told Li Ao everything he knew about Shelby Jordan.

These are no secrets. After getting along for a while, Trepagnier found that Li Ao is not a complicated person. It is true that he has violent acts, but if you don’t provoke him, even as long as you don’t take the initiative, he will not do any violence. things, but shameless...

Li Ao knows that knowing another person from one person's mouth can only be one-sided, but he also has a preliminary impression of Shelby Jordan.

He felt that this guy was more like Rodman, to put it mildly, a very dashing guy, maybe only because he was white, so he was called 'Little Lambir'.

After a while, the coaching staff took Shelby Jordan back to the training ground.

Henry Bibby started a chicken soup speech, telling the unselected players not to be sad, but to continue to work hard and so on.

Looking at Shelby Jordan, who was not alone by the side, Li Ao felt that this guy really deserved it.

He violated the team's regulations twice in three days, and the coaching staff just scolded him every time. Unless something was particularly excessive, there would be no substantive punishment. One can imagine what the rest of the team would think of him.

Eh?Li Ao suddenly realized that he seemed to have scolded himself too.

Do not!
He was sure he was different from this guy, at least he was much more handsome.

If it weren't for the fact that [-]% of the school of computer science is male, his popularity wouldn't be so bad.

No, here comes the basketball team, and people from the women's team often come to watch him train, even if he is so good.

After pouring chicken soup, Henry Bibby began to read the official list of 18 players who had passed the application.

After being treated like this by Shelby Jordan, Li Ao really completely put aside the mentality of worrying about gains and losses.

This kind of person lives so happily, why is he so entangled.

His original purpose was just to try a different way of life, and basketball is a sport that can make him happy, so he chose to join the school team. Now he has lost his heart so much and violated his original intention. This is not good.

The first to be called was the White Mamba, followed by Trey Pagnier, David Brusenthal...

He had read the names of more than a dozen people, but Li Ao didn't. Although he still felt lost, he calmly accepted the fact that even though the Trojans were not outstanding, they were even more "shameful" in the Trojans. But at any rate, it was a fringe team of Crazy Three, the school team of the NCAA Division I school. He was a rookie who had only practiced for two months, so it was normal that he couldn't make the official roster.

But at this time, Shelby Jordan hasn't been read yet. Li Ao thinks he's 'mistaken' the middle-aged sassy man?

The middle-aged man is still very principled?
Soon, his idea was slapped in the face.

Henry Bibby's 17th name was Shelby Jordan.

Discontent spread within the community, but more so against Shelby Jordan.

After all, the head coach of the university has absolute authority, and Shelby Jordan is the representative of the negative image.

But the most important thing now is the 18th place, the last place.

The names of those who should be selected have already been called, and it is really hard to say who the remaining places will fall to.

With so many places in the front, people who haven't been selected don't have so much desire. When it comes to the last one, the desire value is directly filled!
Henry Bibby read out the last name: "...Leo, congratulations on becoming a member of the destined to be a great Trojan team for the new season. Those who are not selected should not be discouraged..."

Actually selected!Li Ao didn't hold out any hope at first, this is simply too pleasant a surprise!
And as soon as Henry Bibby finished speaking, Li Ao immediately received a reward reminder!

"Congratulations to the host for being selected as an official member of the Trojan team. Rewards: 1000 achievement points, 2 level 1 skill upgrade card."

Li Ao was very excited. He had been working as a sparring partner for the past period of time. With the addition of these 1000 achievement points, his current achievement points have reached 5650 points, and the thousand digit has broken through 5.

The skill upgrade card made him both happy and pained.

He only has the skill of 'transfer expert', but he is not good at passing control.

At present, it seems that skill upgrade cards are easier to obtain than skills.

Without hesitation, he sent out an instruction in his heart to upgrade as a 'transfer expert'. After getting the skills, upgrading is a matter of the future.

Now that he has been selected for the big list, if he has a chance to play, he can pass the ball anyway. This is a hard effect.

"Congratulations to the host, the skill: transfer expert has been upgraded from level 1 to level 2."

"Transfer expert level 2: If the host passes the ball directly without dribbling after receiving the ball, the mind will be clearer and calmer, and the feel of the ball will be improved. If the host's pass evaluation is lower than 85, it will be temporarily raised to 85 in this pass. "

This effect is really hard!

When supporting the pass without dribbling, the passing ability is abruptly increased to 85.

But he knows that if his passing is improved to a first-class level above 85 in the future, the latter bonus will be nothing.

At this time, Li Ao has become the focus of the eyes of his teammates, with all kinds of eyes.

Speaking of 'special treatment', in the past period of time, he was the one who enjoyed the most special treatment in the eyes of his teammates.

The team resources he enjoys make most of the team envy and hate.

However, compared with Shelby Jordan, Li Ao is not so annoying.

After all, everyone can see the hard work.

In good conscience, few people in the team feel that they have Li Ao's perseverance and can persist in completing so many trainings arranged by the coaching staff. Even if he is given the same resources, he can't do as well as Li Ao.

Li Ao's sparring partners... No, the teammates who regarded Li Ao as a sparring partner and were selected into the big list came forward to congratulate them one after another.

In the past 20 days of sparring, he has won a lot of respect.

Even Sam Clancy was happy that Li Ao won the last spot, not because he wished Li Ao well, but because Li Ao entered the big list, he would have more chances to beat Li Ao in one-on-one!

Brusenthal can avoid Li Ao's foul-style collision defense at close range. As a former top 50 high school student in the United States, it is naturally impossible that he can't deal with this newcomer!

At this time, a discordant voice sounded—"Wow, Leo, you are also selected, hot pants! Congratulations, brother!"

All eyes were on Shelby Jordan, and it was he who spoke.

The tone of his speech seemed to be sincerely congratulating, rather than being sarcastic, which gave people a very weird feeling.

Li Ao was stunned for a moment, then smiled and replied: "Thank you."

The teammates looked at Li Ao again with strange eyes.

They were not sure whether they had a problem or Li Ao had a problem, so they actually responded to that psychopath.

They were relieved when they found that they both felt that there was something wrong with Li Ao.

Americans don't like this way of raising their hands and not hitting people with smiling faces, but Li Ao still likes it.

After the players digested the fact that the roster was determined, Henry Bibby said: "Those who read their names just now, come with me to customize jerseys and training uniforms for you."

He just said a few minutes ago that 'regardless of whether he is selected for the squad or not, everyone is a member of the team and will live together for a long time', and now he has started to treat them differently.

But this, on the contrary, makes some people more eager to join the school team and have different treatment from others.

Li Ao and other 18 people left the training ground happily, and those who stayed were full of loneliness and unwillingness.

The joys and sorrows of people are really not connected most of the time.

...

"cheers!"

At noon on Sunday, at Liam's house, Li Ao, Vivienne, and Liam toasted to celebrate.

It's a pity that there are hospital assistants, and Li Ao and Liam are drinking soft drinks.

But it doesn't matter, Li Ao and Liam had secretly drank a bottle of red wine last night.

"I didn't expect you, Leo, to be selected for the school team. God, I go to the park to play with the school team members every week!" Liam felt drunk when he drank soda. I should be excited.

Vivian's eyes gleamed even more: "I just said you can do it!"

Enjoying the flattery, Li Ao said embarrassingly: "Of course, I'm a genius. I just didn't want to practice before. When I got serious, I was scared myself!"

Liam laughed and poohed and said: "Fuck you, if you praise you, you will go to heaven. When you went to play with me before, you were abused with me, and you grew taller. Dunk... It's good to be tall!"

Vivienne interjected, "That's right, you've grown a few inches in a year and it's not in vain. By the way, Leo, I heard you've grown taller again?"

Li Ao's smile broke when he heard this: "That's right, I measured it when I ordered the jersey yesterday, and it grew to 199 centimeters. The coaches said that I might still grow."

Liam immediately scolded: "Your dick is still growing? God, will I be a head shorter than you in the future!"

Li Ao responded immediately: "It's almost a head shorter now."

"No, I'm taller than your chin!"

Vivienne asked: "Is it still growing? Isn't height important for playing basketball!"

It is quite troublesome to talk about professional matters with female fans. Li Ao responded as simply as possible: "It is a good thing to be tall, but too high will affect the speed and flexibility. It is not a good thing for me who is laying the foundation. I am To lay the foundation in the direction of a defensive striker, if you grow to the height of a center forward, the direction is wrong... and it is so difficult to buy clothes when you grow taller!"

The two felt that Li Ao cared more about the difficulty of buying clothes. After all, although this product was not stingy, it was not a child from a rich family in their eyes.

Customized clothes are not cheap in every country, and large-size clothes that are not customized are generally ugly.

However, although Li Ao complained about growing taller, the two didn't feel that Li Ao was much troubled by it, so they didn't take it to heart.

As for playing basketball, it is said to have a dream and aim to play professionally, but now the three of them just regard it as a hobby.

After a brief celebration, Vivian left, and Li Ao stayed at Liam's house playing video games all afternoon.

There is a room in Liam's villa filled with the latest arcade machines, but the two prefer to go to the arcade rather than play here.

The main reason is that both of them have good skills. Every time they go to the arcade, there are people watching. Liam, who likes to show off, feels that there is no such atmosphere at home, and Li Ao does not like to stay in such a big house. Although he has a thick skin, he always feels A little cramped.

On the outside, the wealth gap is not obvious, but when it comes to the other party's home, it is very intuitive, even if the other party has deliberately not shown off.

...

On October 10, the first day of the new week, the NCAA officially announced that the new season will start on November 26, and announced the regular season schedule for each division.

When Li Ao went to measure the customized jersey last Saturday, he and his teammates had already got the schedule. The opening game of the new season was played at home, and the opponent... the most successful basketball team in NCAA history, UCLA!
When the teammates saw this opponent, they were both excited and nervous.

But his reaction was relatively flat. He has been in USC for more than a year, and he only occasionally watched NBA live broadcasts when watching games. Liam invited him to watch the NCAA finals last year, but he didn’t go. He can't afford to pay back the favor.

So he doesn't know much about the grievances of the NCAA teams.

Even for the Trojans who are already in it, understanding is limited to teammates.

After all, he is neither a native of Los Angeles, nor has he played in the United States since he was a child.

Therefore, facing this opponent, his mentality is very relaxed. It doesn't matter to him who the opponent is in the opening game.

He may not even be able to play.

But one thing surprised him.

In the past month, the coaching staff wanted to occupy all the rest time of each player. If it weren't for someone going to church on Sunday, they would all want to arrange training that day.

But after the 18-man roster was selected, the training arrangement returned to the month when he first came here. He practiced three times a week, and there was no mandatory requirement for other times. And absenteeism.

Their team really... attaches great importance to learning.

However, in principle, it is not allowed to delay learning because of practice, but Li Ao had already heard some teammates discussing which classes can be taken off or skipped that day.

After school in the afternoon, Li Ao came to the Memorial Stadium for training on time.

After the selection of the big list, the first training, the content is basic skills, but mainly testing.

Not surprisingly for Li Ao, in terms of shooting, only two pure centers, Sam Clancy, and Shelby Jordan are worse than him.

After all, it is a team with too much technology. Although the newcomer Nate Haier is not very strong immediately, his overall ability is quite good, which is in line with the status of the top [-] high school students in the United States.

This test training, Li Ao worked very hard, the items were very comprehensive, and he was very serious. At the end of the training at 6:[-], his physical condition was at the forefront of the whole team, and he became the most tired one.

He doesn't want to be a pure 3D.

I’m not good at it now, so I’ll practice it later, if I have a chance to experience it, I’ll try it out.

After the team's training was over, Li Ao was about to leave, but he saw only one teammate walking towards the gym, and the others were discussing what to eat before continuing to train.

The only ones who left early were Shelby Jordan, who was heading to the gym.

Li Ao didn't go to take a bath right away, wait a moment, although it seems to be a smile to wipe away the grievances, but there is no need to take a bath together.

What hurts his ass now is - this group of people are really curly!
Even Sam Clancy, a man with high self-esteem, stayed to practice more!

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