Chapter 43: School Basketball Team

  "Wow, look at that long-haired girl on the platform, my god, when did our school have such a beautiful girl?" Zhang Jialin, who was doing warm-up exercises according to the coach's instructions, poked Han Dali beside him and said with a silly expression.

  "Hey, you pervert, stay away from me! Can't you see that girl has a guy sitting next to her? He's probably her boyfriend. They're so close together... and he's way more handsome than you. Don't be dreaming!" Han Dali gave his good friend Zhang Jialin a disdainful look, but he couldn't help admitting that the girl sitting in the stands was indeed stunningly beautiful.

  "Come on, die big and strong, don't hit me like this, I'm the best at playing basketball among men. Look at that beauty, she seems to like basketball too. If I show off my incredible skills, maybe she'll fall for my charming figure and dump her boyfriend to throw herself into my arms..." Zhang Jialin was lost in his own fantasy.

  Han Dairen was already used to this good friend's state of always being in a daze, so he just gave Zhang Jialin a white eye and stopped paying attention to him. Although Zhang Jialin liked to talk big, his ball skills were actually quite good, and in this school, there really wasn't anyone who could be considered an opponent for this guy who liked to brag a bit. He really did have some real skills on the court. Of course, except for him, that was the captain of their school's basketball team.

  After finishing the on-site joint warm-up exercise, the middle-aged coach wearing a blue sportswear had the team members start jogging around the basketball court. Those players would always sneak a peek at Yan's seating area whenever they ran past it, their eyes filled with astonishment.

  Lin Xiaoyu watched the basketball team's training and knew that this coach was much better than Zhu Chenggong, the pig-headed coach in Feicui No. 4 Middle School. Just by looking at how he arranged the warm-up exercises for the players, it was clear that he was a coach with rich training experience.

  Bian Guohui is already nearly forty-seven or eight years old this year, but after many years of physical exercise, Bian Guohui looks like he's just over forty. His hair on his head is still black and there are no wrinkles on his face.

  Ban Guohui was very tall and big, he was a football player when he was young, but only played as a second-line player in a Class B club. Although he worked hard, due to the complex and dark environment of Chinese football, Ban Guohui had no choice but to give up his football dream and returned to his hometown to become a physical education teacher.

  Bian Guohui, who was extremely disappointed with Chinese football, began teaching basketball in school. With his passion for basketball and sincerity towards education, Bian Guohui also gained a certain reputation in the basketball circle of Feicui City. Relying on his many years of sports experience and hard work on basketball, Bian Guohui, who has taught students to play basketball for over a decade, has also developed many skills. Bian Guohui also led a team to participate in national-level basketball competitions, but that was already many years ago.

  Bian Guohui, who was originally teaching at the First Middle School, came to this newly established Experimental Middle School as a basketball coach under the strong persuasion of his old friend. His old friend is the principal of this experimental middle school, and in terms of treatment, his old friend has indeed given Bian Guohui many benefits. However, the basketball level of this experimental middle school is far from what Bian Guohui used to lead at Feicui City First Middle School. This makes Bian Guohui feel a bit uncomfortable as the basketball team coach at Experimental Middle School. In the previous Feicui City Inter-School Basketball Tournament held at Experimental Middle School, the performance of the team led by Bian Guohui was not very ideal. Although they won third place in the junior high school division, seeing his high school team lose miserably to his former school, Feicui City First Middle School, in the semifinals made Bian Guohui feel really bad.

  This year, the new semester has started again. The graduates who played basketball well have already gone to university, and Chen Yongzhi, the most promising student in the junior high school team, has also gone to Feicui City First Middle School. When the principal's old friend came to drink with him, he asked him to bring the school's basketball team's strength up within the next two years, best to go to the national high school league, which can improve the school's reputation. As for the expenses of the team, they will be fully supported. This made Bian Guohui feel very helpless.

  This year, Shiyan Middle School did not have any special basketball recruits, which made Bian Guohui lose hope in the use of new players. Moreover, the strength of each player on the team was far inferior to that of other middle schools, and other middle schools all had special basketball recruits. As a result, the gap between Shiyan Middle School and others widened again.

  Bin Guohui couldn't help but smile wryly as he looked at the kids jogging in front of him. The best player on his team hadn't come to training with the rest of the squad. The player, who had satisfied Bin Guohui in every aspect of his technique, had been out for nearly two months due to injury. It was unclear whether his strength would decrease after recovering from his injury. Bin Guohui hoped he could return to the field soon, as he was the key to the team's victory. Bin Guohui subconsciously pulled out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it up.

  Deeply exhaling a mouthful of thick smoke, Bian Guohui saw two students sitting on the stands watching their team train. The boy made Bian Guohui feel like he had seen him somewhere before, but Bian Guohui couldn't quite recall who this handsome-looking boy was for the time being.

  Just as Ben Guohui was thinking about the identity of that boy, a boy holding a basketball walked onto the court. The appearance of this boy immediately caught the attention of the players training on the court.

  Because usually when they trained, other students didn't dare to come to this court to play, as the best players in the whole school had already gathered here, and no one dared to come here to humiliate themselves.

  A student with a short, flat head, dark skin, and wearing an AND1 basketball uniform walked up to Bian Guohui's face with a cold expression and asked: "Excuse me, are you the coach of the basketball team?" This dark-skinned boy spoke with a northern accent, apparently not a local from Feicui City.

  This dark-skinned boy originally spoke with a fairly polite tone, but the cold expression on his face made people feel that this very polite sentence had changed in tone.

  "Yes, I'm the basketball coach. What's up?" replied Bian Guohui. He noticed that the dark-skinned student was holding the ball with one hand, but it wasn't just a casual grip - his five fingers were stretched out and tightly grasping the ball. The student was at most 1.78 meters tall, yet he could hold the ball with such ease in one hand. His hands weren't particularly large, but they seemed to possess considerable strength. Bian Guohui couldn't help but take a liking to this dark-skinned student.

  "I'm a first-year student, I want to join the basketball team." The dark-skinned boy said calmly, with a very confident expression on his face.

  The dark-skinned boy's words had just come out, and the players training nearby felt that this boy was really arrogant, coming to join the school team alone. To participate in the school team is to participate in the selection competition of the school team. A low murmur spread among the team members, with a tone of disdain for this self-aggrandizing boy.

  Guo Hui was not unfamiliar with such confident self-recommended students, he calmly said: "The basketball team has a new student assessment test next week, you can participate at that time."

  Ban Guohui thought that this dark-skinned boy should also have some strength, otherwise he wouldn't dare to come over and ask to join the basketball team. He hoped that in next week's selection, this boy would show his good skills. Ban Guohui didn't hold much hope for finding good players among the new students from school, because those who were good at playing basketball had all been specially recruited by other schools. It was difficult to find a few high-level players among ordinary students.

  "I don't want to run around taking those tests anymore, just find a player now and let's play a game, you can judge whether my skills are good enough to join the school team or not." The boy with a northern accent sounded somewhat arrogant.

  The dark-skinned boy's words had just come out, and the players next to him couldn't help but let out a slight sneer. Bian Guohui felt that this young and arrogant student was a bit too much, so he decided to find his own player to go up and practice with him. Even if this kid had the ability to join the basketball team, he still needed to suppress his arrogance, because playing ball is a collective sport, not just relying on one person's strength to win.

  Bian Guohui took a glance at his players, wanting to find someone with a similar build to the dark-skinned boy to practice with. Looking at the boy's physique, he should be playing in the defender position. Bian Guohui's gaze then fell on several of his own defenders.

  "Coach, let me go deal with him." Zhang Jialin was the first to step out among the players. Zhang Jialin had long been somewhat displeased with this arrogant new high school student, who dared to look down on their school team's players like that, so Zhang Jialin thought about teaching this self-important kid a lesson.

  PS: I'm really sorry. Recently, there's been some problem with the internet and the update speed is a bit slow. Please forgive me, please forgive me. I will definitely update within two days. Please tolerate it, tolerate it.