Chapter 4: The Young Demigod

  Daytona Beach is a very small town in central Florida, and after leaving Seattle, Zhuang Fei rushed here directly. In the past few years, this small town with no connection to basketball has become one of the focuses of Florida's basketball world this year, as Daytona Beach High School won the championship of the Florida State High School League this year. It wasn't hard for Zhuang Fei to find Daytona Beach High School, and after asking around a bit, he found it.

  "Now he should have received many college invitations like Terry, right?" Zhuang Fei sighed secretly, the blows of these two days made him a little short of confidence in persuading these future NBA star-level players.

  Zhuang Fei arrived at Daytona Beach at 4 pm, so he went straight to the basketball gym of Daytona Beach High School. At this time, these high school students should be training.

  As soon as he arrived at Daytona Beach High School's basketball gym, Zhuang Fei locked his eyes on that familiar young man.

  Winskat, 18 years old, height: 1m95, position: SF/SG, shooting: 63, offense: 85, defense: 56, physical talent: 80, ability rating: 75, potential level: A+.

  "It's him after all, the future NBA demigod, one of the three top scorers in the American high school league now, the first hero who helped Daytona Beach High School win the Florida championship"

  This player, known to everyone for his dunks and underestimated because of his dunks, is thought of as a dunker by everyone. Few people know that he has many other weapons besides dunks. He's an all-around player. However, it seems like in everyone's eyes, Carter only has dunks and no other skills. Now, Carter has already started being underestimated, because now he's been labeled as the "Dunk King".

  Zhuang Fei has already seen from the scouting report of the Wang Dynasty system that Carter's current bias is still quite serious, and his offensive score is far higher than the scores of the other three items. However, his talent is enough to make him grow into a comprehensive player in all aspects, and Zhuang Fei hopes that this future half-human and half-god can get rid of the label of "dunker" when he comes under his command.

  The hierarchy in American basketball is very strict, with each level moving up one by one: low-level leagues, high school leagues, college leagues, and finally the NBA. Nowadays, there are many players called geniuses, with thousands of high schools across the country, each having one or two genius players. However, not all of these geniuses can get the opportunity to enter the NCAA's top league, and even if they do, it's still uncertain whether they can eventually make it into the NBA.

  At that time, Carter's reputation in the basketball world was very high, although not as good as Garnett, Rashid, Marbury and other top five players.

  Better than these guys a notch higher, Trey is also currently the toast of the basketball world, he's the Washington High School League champion.

  Zhuang Fei wasn't very sure if he could persuade this new star who was even more arrogant than Bitri.

  There are many onlookers in the training hall now, Carter and his teammates are stars of Da Tongna Beach High School, every day there will be many students coming to watch their training. Carter seems to want to satisfy these onlookers as well, one after another wonderful dunks keep emerging, the atmosphere in the gym is also

  The more it's hyped, the higher it goes.

  At just 18 years old, Carter's physical gift has already reached 80 and it can be seen that he is a big chunk higher than other players. Basketball players are

  Under normal circumstances, physical talent will continue to grow until around the age of 24 before stopping. Now being able to reach 80 is absolutely an extraordinary thing.

  "He's dunking too much," Zhuang Fei shook his head. He didn't oppose players dunking, but there should be a limit. Carter was only 18 years old now, and it was the peak of his physical development. If he started wildly dunking now, the damage to his body would be immeasurable.

  "This may be one of the sources of his injuries later on." In high school, he was touted as a great shooting guard, which made Carter, an 18-year-old kid at the time, become deeply indulged in it.

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  "Are you the head coach of the Vicksen Forest University team?" Carter looked at Zhuang Fei with a suspicious face, making Zhuang Fei very uncomfortable, as if he was a weirdo deceiving little girls.

  "That's right, I'm the newly appointed head coach of Viksund University, Zhuang Fei" said Zhuang Fei calmly.

  "So that's it, newly appointed, I see. No wonder he's not Coach Odom." Carter looked at Zhuang Fei with some disappointment.

  "Odoum? Do you know Coach Odoum?"

  "Yeah, I'm a North Carolina fan and I'm familiar with the ACC. Mentioning Odom got him excited and he continued: "Although Wake Forest defeated UNC to win the ACC championship last year, I wasn't disappointed at all. Wake Forest was great last year, the combination of Lando and Tim was dreamy, unfortunately they fell down at the threshold of the Sweet 16." Carter said with a hint of loss."

  "Hey, Vince, have you thought about which college you're going to? I know you've already gotten a lot of offers, but I hope you'll seriously consider our Vicksburg Devil Dogs."

  Carter shook his head and then curled up his lip, saying: "This is the fifth time I've heard something like that in the past month."

  "For the fifth time?" Zhuang Fei smiled bitterly, apart from the sign of Viksen Forest University, he really didn't have anything to defeat other competitors and attract Carter.

  "Yesterday, the head coach of the University of Kansas also came to me, hoping that I would go to Kansas and form a super outside combination with Pierce."

  "Pierce? Paul Pierce?" Zhu Fei Lun asked.

  "Yes. He has decided to join Kansas."

  Zhuang Fei cursed under his breath, because the sixth player on Zhuang Fei's list was Pierce. At present, Pierce's reputation is much lower than Carter's. In Zhuang Fei's view, Paul Pierce is a reliable backup plan. Even if he can't convince Carter, there's still Pierce. Now that Pierce has gone to Kansas, it forces Zhuang Fei to put all his eggs in one basket and bet on Carter.

  "Vince, if you come to Vicksburg Forest, you will be the ace of our team. You have the highest tactical level," Zhuang Fei said sincerely. Such a condition is very generous, and for a high school player who has not experienced NCAA baptism to receive such a promise is like an NBA player who has never played in the league being promised that he will definitely be the team's starter and core.

  But Carter seemed not to be surprised at all, and smiled with a hint of pride: "You are the second head coach this month who has said that to me. This month, including your invitation, I have received invitations from five top schools, and the schools that have given me the highest tactical authority, apart from you, also include the University of Florida. To be honest with you, before you came, I was considering whether to go to Florida or North Carolina. Now, I have added another option, Wake Forest is also within my consideration range. Mr. Zhuang, I hope you can persuade me to join Wake Forest, because today I will make the final decision."

  Zhuang Fei opened his mouth, wanting to speak but hesitating. Being the head coach of a university team wasn't an easy job after all. If even he, the head coach of a prestigious school, was like this, what about those second- and third-rate schools?

  "Wens, you've been waiting for the promise from UNC, haven't you? In your heart, UNC is the first choice. If UNC gives you the highest tactical authority, you will go to UNC without a doubt. UNC should have found you a long time ago, but they didn't give you a promise, which is also the reason why you've been hesitating." Zhuang Fei tried to make his tone softer.

  "That's right, so I refused all the schools that didn't give me an offer except for UNC. But UNC is still my first choice now, I'm a fan of ACC league, ACC league is my first choice, if you weren't here, I would have joined UNC today, although no offer was given but I believe in my strength"

  Carter's words did not surprise Zhuang Fei, but Zhuang Fei had already seen a glimmer of opportunity between the lines. Carter was somewhat dissatisfied with North Carolina University's distrust of his strength.

  "North Carolina is a powerhouse with a very glorious history, to be honest, Wake Forest University is one level worse than them, they just won the championship two years ago, we just made it to the round of 16, they have three championships in their history, we don't have any, only once entered the semifinals"

  Carter nodded in agreement. Zhuang Fei continued.

  "They are strong and have a glorious history, they had players like Jordan, and even aside from Jordan, the previous two years' Stackhouse was also excellent, Vince, to be honest, if you join North Carolina, you will always be suppressed by these two people, not to mention these two, even now's Antawn Jamison will also be higher"

  "Even if you were to win a championship at North Carolina, Vince, your value would not be fully realized. But here at Wake Forest, we don't have any championships, not even an appearance in the finals. If you can bring us a championship and success, you will go down as one of the greatest players in school history. At Wake Forest, you will be a trailblazer."

  Carter's face showed surprise for the first time, and Zhuang Fei continued to speak.

  "If other teams said that, I think you would laugh at them, champion? Create history? It's not that simple. But since it's Duke saying it, I think you won't disagree. You've said before that you're an ACC fan, so you should know about Duke's strength. And as for Tim Duncan's strength, you shouldn't be unaware of it either. We have the foundation and conditions to create history. Last season, we didn't lose in the Sweet 16 because Tim Duncan wasn't good enough - he had 22 rebounds and 8 blocks in that game. It was because of Randolph Childress' weakness. Do you think your strength is worse than Childress'? You're a natural scorer, while Tim is last season's NCAA best defensive player. Your combination is a dreamy, historic-level combination." Zhang Fei finished speaking, looking at Carter with some anxiety. These were his final and only reasons. But what made Carter better than Jaren Tri was that Carter understood the ACC, understood Duncan, and understood Duke University, while Jaren Tri didn't even have an opportunity to give Zhang Fei a chance. Now Zhang Fei was waiting for Carter's final decision.

  Carter also lowered his head, he was considering too.

  "Perhaps you're right, Mr. Zhuang, I agree to join the Vikings Forest Devils squad, please instruct me, Coach."

  Zhuang Fei almost had a heart attack, it was a success, finally succeeded in recruiting an NBA all-star level player after four failures. Zhuang Fei felt an overwhelming urge to cry tears of joy.

  "Alright, alright, Vince, you will soon receive an invitation from our school, I think you will be proud of today's choice," said Zhuang Fei excitedly.

  "I won't regret my choice, Coach Zhuang, you are a very special head coach"

  After the two left school, Zhuang Fei also invited Carter to dinner before leaving Florida and returning to North Carolina. In the previous few days, Zhuang Fei had learned from Bill Laimbeer that Wallace Szczerbiak, James Posey, and LaPhonso Ellis had all agreed to join the Vancouver Grizzlies, so Zhuang Fei's main lineup was settled. He couldn't wait for the new season to arrive.