ebonymovies Chapter 206 Foreign Aid
Chapter 206 Foreign Aid
Chapter 206 Foreign Aid
The first game of the semi-finals started at SZ City Sports Center at 08:30 in the morning. The two sides were the High School Affiliated to Suzhou Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and Furen High School in WX City.
In this way, each prefecture-level city has at least one of the four teams in the semi-finals, which is very balanced.
It's just that in the past, Suzhou had two teams participating. After Changshu Sports was eliminated unexpectedly, the two Changzhou teams took up half of the country.
After breakfast, the Lizhong group arrived at the gymnasium on the school bus, where each team was assigned a seat.
In the lobby, Lu Yuan and Jia Yumeng bid farewell. Today is not only a basketball game, but also a cheerleading game during the intermission. The final champion will join the basketball team in the Eastern China competition during the winter vacation.
"Well, you work hard, I think your actions are quite dangerous, so be careful."
Lu Yuan rarely told Jia Yumeng earnestly. He had seen it during the cheerleading rehearsal before.
Jia Yumeng hummed, nodded, and said, "Then you have to work hard for the game in the afternoon. Let's try to go to Shanghai together."
This year's East China competition has been confirmed to be held in Shanghai. Whether you can get a train ticket to Shanghai depends on the three-day competition.
Lu Yuan grinned and said, "No problem, I can't even go to Shanghai, how can I go to BJ."
Then the basketball team went to the stands, and the cheerleaders went to the locker room.
The principal really wanted to follow the cheerleaders to the locker room, but he hesitated for a while and went to the stands with the basketball team.
It was the first time for Zhu Yida to go out to watch a game with the basketball team. Lizhong had never had such an opportunity in the past. This time he finally showed his cool and was able to use the school's funds to play in Suzhou for three days.
Just because it was the first time, Zhu Yida seldom talked along the way, which made the basketball team members not used to it.
After arriving at the stand and taking a seat, Lu Yuan sat next to Zhu Yida.
As a basketball player with special treatment, Lu Yuan sits with the principal on the left, the coach on the right, and next to him are the vice principal and the dean, which can be described as "heavily guarded".
Lu Yuan felt complacent, staring at the players on the field and pointing.
"Hey, I saw that person, that foreigner, my God, it's so dark." Lu Yuan pointed to a player wearing a white jersey on the court and said.
The player was a black man with curly hair, about 190 tall, brown-black skin, muscular arms, and "Xijiao-Liverpool Affiliated Middle School" printed on the front of the jersey.
Before the start of the semi-finals, Gao Jing summarized the information of the three opponents, and explained and analyzed them to the players in the training class. Among them, Carl Vincent from the Liverpool Middle School attached to Suzhou Xijiao was one of the players that Gao Jing highlighted. The reason is simple, he is an American, and he is an out-and-out black player.
The NHBA has allowed foreign players to participate in the competition since its establishment, as long as the basic conditions for participation are met.
It’s just that NHBA is a campus league. Foreign students will not go to China to play campus basketball. Only a few children of foreign residents who have settled in China study in Chinese schools. Talented people will join the school basketball team and accompany the team. Participate in the NHBA league.
There are very few such cases. After all, there are very few foreigners who have settled down and studied in China, and even fewer of them are children who are talented in basketball. The NHBA league is not for everyone.
Another situation is different, that is, foreign aid is invited, such as Licheng Foreign Language School recruiting Shimada Sho.
However, more schools are still willing to recruit American children, pay their families generous scholarships and admission conditions, and invite them to play in China.
Carl Vincent is the latter type. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was picked up by an NHBA scout by chance. After discussing with his single mother, he came to Suzhou to work for the Xijiao-Liverpool Affiliated Middle School. play ball.
Of course, such situations are rare in the NHBA, not because there are no good players, but because the vast majority of children are unwilling to come to China.They would rather hang out on the streets of the United States and fight for a chance to play professionally in the future than go to China thousands of miles away to play and study.
Of course, Suzhou Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool Affiliated High School relies on Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and has experience in Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. Therefore, they have always had a tradition of inviting foreign aid for campus sports.
Their football has always been very strong before, because they can introduce small players from the UK. Now the school has begun to shift its energy to basketball, hoping to use foreign players to quickly strengthen the team's strength and achieve good results.
Lu Yuan was very interested in this American player from the very beginning, because he knew that the United States is the country with the strongest basketball in the world, and the ultimate dream of any professional basketball player is to be able to play in the NBA.
Lu Yuan's ultimate dream is to sit on the bench and earn a million dollars a year. This coincides with the ideal of playing in the NBA, so he really wants to know what kind of level American players are.
After he started to like basketball, Lu Yuan watched many NBA games, videos, and highlights, and knew that American players are very good.
But you can't get an intuitive feeling just by watching the video. Only when you compete with them face to face on the court will you understand how powerful these people with different skin colors are.
Sitting in the auditorium and watching from a distance, Lu Yuan could see that this player was physically stronger than others, with longer arms, more obvious muscle lines, slender and powerful calves, and he was able to jump at a glance.
The match between Lizhong and Xijiao Liverpool is scheduled for tomorrow. Lu Yuan really wants to play against him. Today is just a good time to see his performance on the court.
Not only Lu Yuan thought so, but the other players in Lizhong and the audience all focused on the American foreign aid.
In the previous games, he has always been the team's top scorer, averaging 30 points per game, and has a super scoring ability.
The principal looked at the dark boy and said: "This guy is black. He really sent carbon from Dongshan and dug coal from Xishan. But those powerful NBA players are all dark. You say Lao Pan, can we make a game like this?" players coming?"
Vice-principal Pan Minghe smiled, said "Yes, yes", and said nothing more.
Lu Yuan found that the vice principal had no sense of presence. No matter what the principal said, he would always say "okay" and "not bad". He always had a gentle smile on his face and gave off a very good temper.
Such a vice principal is a perfect match for the talkative Zhu Yida.
At this time, the warm-up of the two sides is over, and after the introduction of the players, the game will begin.
Lu Yuan noticed that the cheerleaders from the four schools were already sitting behind the basket, and Lu Yuan saw Jia Yumeng, she was wearing a navy blue tights today, she looked really good.
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The first half of the match between Xijiao Liverpool and Fu Jen Catholic High School was quite fierce. Carl Vincent was indeed very good. He scored 20 points in the first half alone, half of which were dunks.
This guy is really good at jumping, and he is very strong. His physical fitness is amazing. Fu Jen Catholic High School's insiders can't resist his impact at all.
However, Fu Jen Catholic High School’s outside three-pointers are very accurate. When Xijiao Liverpool kept relying on Vincent to score points inside, they could always hit three-pointers from the outside to close the score.
The overall height of Fu Jen Catholic High School is average. They are good at speed and shooting accuracy, with smooth coordination and decisive shots.
During the intermission, there were also cheerleaders from two schools performing. Lu Yuan stared at it for a while, and felt that the level of cheerleaders from these two schools was too different.
The principal agreed with this deeply, and said that he would vigorously develop the school's dance activities in the future.
In the second half, the situation suddenly changed. Xijiao Liverpool still played the same way in the first half, but Fu Jen Catholic High School's three-pointer suddenly missed, and they couldn't make any shots.
This is the flaw of a team that relies on outside three-pointers. Once the feel is lost, the offense of the entire team will stop.
The point difference between the two sides quickly widened, and Carl Vincent played better and better, constantly hitting the inside and dunking, which made the audience very enjoyable and applauded.
Even Lu Yuan's blood was surging with excitement, and he wished he could go up and buckle one up.
The score gap began to widen, but Furen High School never gave up, because even if they lost, they still had to count small points.
In the end, Xijiao Liverpool, which was more powerful, still defeated Wuxi Furen High School by 80:71, 9 points, and won the first game of the semi-finals.
Half an hour later, it will be the match between Lizhong and Changzhou Benshi Middle School. Seeing that the first game has been divided, Gao Jing called out all Lizhong players, and everyone left the auditorium and went to the dressing room downstairs to prepare Dressing contest.
The crucial first battle to determine the places in the East China Regional Competition is about to begin.
The principal and vice-principal followed the basketball team to the locker room to cheer them on before the game.
The headmaster naturally wanted to speak eloquently, and everyone changed their clothes while listening, and did warm-up exercises by the way. After the headmaster finished speaking, it was almost time to go on stage.
Lizhong's starting lineup is different from the previous games. The starting center changed from Zhang Fan to Wang Yourong, and the other positions remained the same.
This made Wang Yourong quite nervous before the start of the game, and ran to the toilet to vomit again, because the opposite center was Tang Yiyang, a very skilled insider, and Wang Yourong was most afraid of this kind of opponent.
After returning from the toilet, Vice Principal Pan Minghe walked up to Wang Yourong, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Wang Yourong, work hard, I believe in you."
This was the longest sentence Pan Minghe said after arriving in Suzhou, but the effect seemed to be very good. Wang Yourong's ugly face immediately improved a lot, and he said softly to Pan Minghe, "Got it, principal."
(End of this chapter)