Basketball: Starting from the Rodman template

Chapter 40 No. 62 on the list of the best high school students in the United States

ESPN's list of the best high school students in the United States.

It will be updated every month. A list based on various dimensions such as the player's game performance, popularity, and media public opinion. It is like a new book list at the starting point. Book friends need various votes, interactions, collections, and rewards...

It is a relatively authoritative list.

There is not only one similar list, TNT, "Sports Illustrated", "Bleacher Report" and other media have their own "Best High School Student List in America".

But because ESPN is gradually becoming bigger and stronger, and faintly overwhelms the momentum of traditional powerhouses like TNT, their list is the list that most fans pay attention to.

Well, well, the main thing is that they are good at and love doing things!
In the middle of each month, there will be a change in the "List of the Best High School Students in the United States", reminding fans of the "people who deserve attention" in the American high school basketball field in the past month!
At this time, the new season has not yet started, and often the changes will not be great.

But this is previous years.

In the December issue of this year, a Huaxia high school student appeared. With two friendly matches, he went from "starless high school student" to the top 12 of the list.
Fans who knew the news at the beginning, the first reaction was that ESPN started to make trouble again.

But after they saw the performance of this rising "newcomer high school student" in two friendly matches, they suddenly changed their views:
ESPN did nothing this time!

But play for real!
This Huaxia high school student named "Woody" first scored 56 points, 20 rebounds and 15 assists in a face-to-face victory over ESPN's "2th best high school student list" Perkins;
Then St. Mary's High School, which led LeBron's absence alone, defeated Starkville High School, which has the "28th best high school student list in the United States" Outlaw High School.

His performance in this game was even more exaggerated, with 38 points, 16 rebounds and 4 assists.

Although it is two friendly matches, because of the opponent and his personal performance, it can be said to be full of gold.

Therefore, even in just one month, Woody has soared to ESPN's "National High School Student List No. 62", and these fans also think that this is India's holy water-"in the Ganges".

Woody was also very excited when he knew he was on the list.

ESPN is the "big traffic" in the sports category, which will help increase his popularity. He believes that more media will pay attention to him in the future.

Famous all over the United States!

Perhaps a little exaggerated.

But it is still possible to become famous in the "National Scouting Circle".

Knowing what Woody was thinking, Brian Wenhorst said with a smile, "Man, you can rest assured on this point, even if ESPN didn't put you on the latest list of the best high school students in the United States, you won't lack attention!"

Woody looked at him with some doubts, not knowing where he started talking.

Because he is next to LeBron James, so there is no shortage of attention?

Seems to make sense...

But after Brian finished speaking, Woody also understood what the reason was.

This has to start with the friendly match against Starkville.

Before the game, the Ohio State newspaper's article caused the laughter of some colleagues. They were ready to expose Woody and make the Ohio State newspaper a complete laughing stock.

In addition, when Ben Wallace mentioned Woody on the media open day, more than a dozen media attracted them. After the "double star shining" match between Woody and Stephen Curry, they crazily praised the two people, including those reporters who were going to expose Woody, and they also "betrayed"!

It doesn't matter that their "betrayal" made the hearts of other reporters itch.

no……

This Woody really has such great magic power?
They still don't believe it!

As a result, more reporters became curious about Woody. Unfortunately, after the two friendly matches, St. Mary's High School did not have any games until the start of the new season.They can only hold back and wait for the regular season to start.

There were also journalists who couldn't help but acted like paparazzi and came to St. Mary's College to secretly take pictures.

When Brian said this, Woody was bewildered. No wonder the reporters who came to the school recently became more and more frequent.

"They are all waiting for the opening game of the regular season to watch you play! Play well, kid, maybe you will become famous in one battle!"

In the high school basketball league these years, very few can become famous in one battle, including LeBron James. It was only after two years of playing that the entire lineup completely exploded and became the "little emperor" in the eyes of ESPN reporters.

However, Woody is indeed very different from him. Two high-quality warm-up matches have already given him a lot of fame. He also has Ben Wallace to "endorse" him. In addition, his skin color is destined to be a gimmick.

Therefore, the entire media reporting American high school basketball now, not to mention 100%, [-]% to [-]% of them have the name "Woody" in their reports and filings.

With such a large exposure, Woody really has the possibility of "fight to fame"!

After getting such news from Bryan, Woody is looking forward to the new season even more.

With Joyce leaving the team, the team temporarily entered the "calm sea". Stephen Curry joined the starting lineup, bringing long-range shooting ability to this team.

After the catch-and-shoot tactics that Drew arranged for him went online, St. Mary's High School added a "mortar".

But it also brought a problem, his height is only 1 meters, about the same height as Romeo.

With one of these guys on the court, Woody and LeBron can make up for it, but now that there are two of them, the deficiencies in defense are obvious.

Just the players of St. Mary's second team can find the flaws in St. Mary's starting lineup in this area after playing for a long time.

Drew didn't hesitate much this time, putting Romeo in the second team and taking a taller bench player Jack Richard into the starting lineup.

This is how Woody reaped the unexpected joy: Task [-] "Make at least two members of the "Four Akron Brothers" change from starters to substitutes" completed!
Seeing the 5000 achievement points in the account, Woody didn't "consume" immediately. After seeing the achievement points needed to upgrade his immediate combat power, he knew very well that the system didn't even think about allowing him to use achievement points to improve his combat power. He should save up to upgrade the system level and make another template!

What's more, his current combat power is very sufficient, and he can completely walk sideways in the high school league.

On October 10, the NBA regular season opener kicked off.

Woody watched Yao Ming's NBA debut with Stephen Curry.

Since becoming the "NBA No. [-] pick", Yao Ming's popularity has continued unabated. The outside world has been discussing for so long, whether it is a mule or a horse, it is time to bring it out for a while.

In the first game of his career, Rockets coach Tom did not let Yao Ming start. Instead, he came off the bench after a period of time in the game.Looking at the close-up shots of the scene, from head to toe, Stephen Curry couldn't help murmuring:
"so high!"

Indeed high!
Like a lighthouse!
It’s just that after playing, Yao Ming didn’t show the intimidating power of his height. On the contrary, it can be clearly seen that his condition is not very good, and he is not very adaptable to the intensity of the NBA game. In the end, after the whole game, the first Chinese champion in the NBA finally ended his career “debut” with 0 points.

It is not difficult to imagine what kind of doubts will be waiting for him after the game.

Woody was hit.

He had seen Yao Ming's performance in the CBA before, and he was like a monster.

But such a monster still showed an extremely immature side on the NBA stage.

NBA...

It's so far!

Woody, whose "star disease" has skyrocketed recently, now has a clearer understanding of the NBA.

Early the next morning, Woody bought two major magazines, The New York Times and ESPN.

Sure enough, the reporters from these two companies tried their best to ridicule Yao Ming, who swallowed "eggs" in his debut last night, belittled him in various ways, and called him "the biggest parallel import champion in NBA history"!
Woody paid attention to the name of the reporter in one of the reports. He thought it looked familiar. He went home and looked it up on the computer, only to find that this reporter had just written a report two weeks ago predicting that Yao Ming would become the next "super center".But now, just after Yao Ming finished his first game, he was ridiculed and ridiculed.

The face-changing speed of these reporters made Woody think of the "Sichuan Opera Face-changing" in his hometown.

"Brian, if I behave badly in the future, will you write crazy articles and scold me?"

In the afternoon, Brian blocked Woody in a familiar way, but he was taken aback by Woody's words, but as a basketball-related media reporter, he knew why Woody asked such a question after a little thought.

He said: "Dude, there are differences between reporters. There are good reporters and there are bad reporters. I belong to the reporter who can report realistically. I really believe in my vision!"

"So your girlfriend is still your first love?" Woody asked sincerely.

Brian showed an expression of "Okay, I'm defeated": "Okay, I have to correct my words, I really believe my vision in basketball, that woman is a bitch, she swiped my card to get a room with that man, and even used the dodger I bought, fxxk!"

Woody didn't expect that his casual joke brought back painful memories for Brian.

"However, buddy, you do have to pay attention. China's No. [-] pick has a bad debut, and even you are suspected by many media. They think that Kendrick Perkins and Travis Outlaw probably didn't play seriously in the friendly match. When the regular season starts, you will show your true colors!"

Brian also thoughtfully found out those reports to prove that he wasn't talking empty words.

Woody said: "This is actually good news, so that more media will come to see me!"

"Wow!" Brian was frightened by Woody's confidence, and it also made him look forward to St. Mary's High School's regular season opener. He was looking forward to what kind of performance Woody would use to slap the reporters who questioned him in the face.

The end of October is Halloween in the United States.

In Chinese, it is "ghost festival"!
This is a traditional festival in the United States, often on this day they will cosplay into various "monsters" and strange creatures to go out and wander.

LeBron James specially invited Woody to their evening party after practice that day.After practicing together for so long, the relationship between them is no longer as embarrassing as it was at the beginning, and has eased a lot, so Woody agreed without much hesitation.

　Brothers, the second update is here, ask for tickets! ! !
　　
　
(End of this chapter)