Volume 1: The Road to the European Emperor Chapter 1 Do you like basketball?
boom!
boom!
The basketball hit the floor with a series of dull sounds.
On one side of the indoor court, two children, one tall and one short, were training.
The shorter one was about thirteen or fourteen years old , and a little over 1.4 meters tall.
The tall one is only eleven or twelve years old, but his height is over 1.8 meters.
The two practiced for a while and were sweating all over.
“Bang!”
The tall man suddenly accelerated forward and soared into the air, spreading his wings like a roc, and slammed the ball into the basket with one hand.
Sun Hao grinned and made a clicking sound, and he couldn't help feeling envious in his heart.
Yi Jianlian is only 11 years old, but he is already 1.8 meters tall and can dunk with one arm.
This talent, this physical quality, and the endurance of being able to soar into the air with ease after so much training...
Oh no, endurance, it’s so damn enviable.
"Brother Hao, what's wrong?"
After dunking the ball, Yi Jianlian saw Sun Hao's expression and couldn't help but speak.
Didn’t he just make a mediocre dunk?
"It's okay. I'm jealous of you because you look so handsome."
Sun Hao said with a smile.
Yi Jianlian's face turned slightly red.
He is a shy person, although he is more relaxed when he is with Sun Hao, but Sun Hao is so direct...
Seeing Yi Jianlian's reaction , Sun Hao couldn't help but burst out laughing, and in his heart he felt secretly happy after successfully teasing him.
After seeing this, Yi Jianlian also scratched his head and laughed.
The two of them were originally a pair of parallel lines, with no intersection from beginning to end.
But a year ago, Sun Hao suddenly turned himself gay and performed frontal penetration.
“Do you like basketball?”
This was the first sentence Sun Hao said to him.
He didn't know what basketball was, but when he started playing, the feeling of hitting the ball into the basket and the sight of his female classmates screaming for him made him very happy.
That kind of happiness is unimaginable to others.
Especially a week ago, they lifted the Guangdong Junior High School League championship trophy in front of more than a thousand people.
At that moment, he felt that he had reached the pinnacle of his life.
So much so that after the award ceremony, he didn't hear a single word the class beauty said when she confessed her love to him.
"By the way, how are the preparations going?"
Sun Hao's voice brought him back to reality.
After winning the championship, they, as the core, attracted the attention of the Hongyuan Youth Team, and both of them were invited to participate in the youth team's trial training a month later.
"No way."
Yi Jianlian's confidence is written all over his face.
Sun Hao gave him a thumbs up.
"Play professional basketball together."
He then opened his hand and made the Give Me Five gesture.
Yi Jianlian also reached out.
The two people high-fived and made an agreement.
There is light in Yi Jianlian's eyes.
He is now looking forward to playing professional basketball with Sun Hao.
After the training, the two separated at the school gate.
Sun Hao walked forward alone, looking around as he walked.
Looking at the unfamiliar scenes around him, he couldn't help but feel dazed.
He is not of this era.
One year ago today, he was 28 years old and an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut in the NCAA (National College Basketball Association).
He still remembers that day, which was also in an indoor stadium, he was herding the team's talented players who had the opportunity to enter the NBA in the future like ducks.
Running around the field, passing obstacles, dribbling the ball over the poles, suicide training, one-minute rapid fire…
As an assistant coach in charge of team training, he is young and promising at the age of 28.
If he can endure another ten or twenty years, he may have the opportunity to become the new head coach and reach the peak of his life.
After training, he took a nap in the locker room, daydreaming as usual, when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his heart and then lost consciousness.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself here.
He traveled back in time to China in 1994 and became a 12-year-old child.
It took him a long time to adjust.
After all, from 28 to 12, not only have all the parts of his body become smaller, but the environment is also completely new.
Then, there is Yi Jianlian, whose status in domestic basketball history is second only to Yao Ming.
He never thought that after traveling through time, he would end up in the same school as Yi Jianlian!
Of course he had to hold on to a powerful figure. He created some opportunities to meet Yi Jianlian, and then led him into the basketball court step by step.
Yi Jianlian is very talented, and with his professional approach, his level improved by leaps and bounds, and they easily won the provincial junior high school league championship.
But starting from tomorrow, the two people may very likely take completely different paths.
Yi Jianlian is extremely talented. Even without his help, he represented the national team abroad at the age of 17 and entered the NBA as the No. 6 pick at the age of 20.
In contrast, he...
He stopped and looked at a bush beside him that was almost as tall as himself, and couldn't help but sigh.
It’s all because this body wasn’t strong enough when it was still a tadpole !
Although he has always wanted to play basketball, it seems that he has no chance of doing so, either in his previous life or in this life.
He...is not convinced!
Others who traveled through time all had golden fingers in their hands, and they could counterattack and advance all the way, but he traveled through time and space and he is still an ordinary person? !
In 1995, going to Hangzhou to find an English teacher named Jack Ma and going to Shenzhou to invest in a programmer named Ma Huateng could both make him rich.
But, that's not his style at all!
He loves doing what he loves!
He raised his hand and gave a big middle finger to the sky, then kicked the bushes beside him hard.
"are you crazy!"
But as soon as he kicked the ball, a man and a woman ran out of the bushes in panic.
The man cursed at him and the woman frantically pulled up her pants.
The two of them quickly disappeared from his sight.
He turned around and saw a square package that had fallen beside the bushes. He silently picked it up and put it in his pocket.
Alas, the world is going downhill!
…
Sun Hao sighed for a while and then continued walking forward.
After walking for a while, he suddenly heard a familiar voice and turned to the right to look.
It was an outdoor basketball court, and a group of people were playing inside.
The fierce muscle confrontation on the field, the occasional shouts, cheers, and the passionate faces...
He felt his blood boiling.
This is what he loves to do!
To be honest, he loves basketball, but he is tired of the experience of having to sit on the sidelines and watch games in his previous life.
Now that he has a new lease on life, he wants nothing more than to play basketball!
He wanted to imitate Mitsui Hisashi in "Slam Dunk" and shout to Coach Anzai: Coach, I want to play basketball!
“Do you like basketball?”
At this moment, a voice suddenly popped up in his mind.
This sentence sounds so familiar.
This is the sentence he used when he tried to scam Yi Jianlian.
Who the hell learned to talk like him?
"Of course I like it!"
His mind was still thinking, but his body had already answered honestly.
"Congratulations to the host for successfully obtaining the Basketball Devil System."
Another voice appeared in his mind.
Just as he looked around to find out where the sound came from, or whether he was hallucinating.
In a blink of an eye, he found that everything around him was white.
He entered a blank world.
To be precise, it was not completely blank, because a floating selection box appeared in front of his eyes.
Point guard: No. 1 position, height 1.80-1.90 meters, the offensive organizer of the team, can unlock badges such as the core of the organization and ten cents;
Combo guard: No. 1/2 swing, 1.85-1.95 meters tall, can take care of both organization and scoring, can unlock badges such as organization core, mid-range and long-range sharpshooter;
Shooting guard: No. 2, height 1.90-2 meters, scorer and sniper, can unlock badges such as catch scorer and powerful finisher;
Swingman: 2/3 position, height 1.95 meters to 2.05 meters, scorer and breakthrough player, can unlock badges such as catch-and-shooter and powerful finisher.
…
This is a selection box for basketball positions, very similar to the NBA2K game, the difference is that it has more positions.
In addition to the five traditional positions, there are also point guards, forwards, forwards, and inside swingmen.
Sun Hao has played 2K a lot, and the scene in front of him feels very familiar to him.
"The host can choose the court location according to his needs. Once selected, it cannot be changed."
At this moment, the voice echoed in the space again.
The sound drew Sun Hao's attention away from the selection box.
He looked around again, and slowly he realized what he was going through.
He actually felt like crying.
Damn, I finally have a golden finger!
Could it be that the middle finger he raised to the sky earlier let God know that he was going to defy fate and change his destiny?
I guess not. God saw it and gave him some face by not sending down hail.
It must be his love for basketball that touched the system.
A very obvious evidence is that he asked Yi Jianlian the same question that Haruko asked Sakuragi Hanamichi in "Slam Dunk", which was also the system prompt just now.
Do you like basketball?
Isn’t this the simplest and most passionate love!
Now that we have the golden finger, then...
He put his eyes back on the selection box, scanned it from top to bottom, and finally stopped at the column for point guard.
He was only 1.75 meters tall before he traveled through time, and this height accompanied him almost throughout his life.
If he were to grow to more than two meters in an instant, he probably wouldn't be able to accept the feeling of having telephone poles everywhere he walked.
Everyone has their own comfort zone, and they will feel awkward if they leave it.
To put it another way, with such an obvious height, even eating an egg-filled pancake would probably have to be reported.
Defender is the most suitable position for him.
On the one hand, he doesn't need to adjust his mentality due to the huge change in height. On the other hand, he has been practicing guard skills in the past year, which can be seamlessly connected.
The system has a badge feature, and there are more combo guards than point guards.
He thought about it and then reached out and chose a point guard.
After confirmation, the location selection interface disappears and a property interface pops up.
Height: 140cm; Weight: 40kg
Strength: 16; Speed: 37; Agility : 39; Jumping: 14; Physical: 30; Basketball IQ: 51
Ball control: 33; Passes: 21; Dunks: 0; Layups: 35; Mid-range: 25; Three-pointers: 18
Defense: 25; Blocks: 12; Steals: 33; Rebounds: 16
With a maximum attribute of 100 points, his best is his basketball IQ which is just over 50, and his dunking ability is a glaring 0.
This is a standard weakling.
But it's also understandable.
He is an ordinary person now, still an underdeveloped junior high school student.
His basketball IQ is a bit higher, which is probably due to the fact that he was an assistant coach in the NCAA in his previous life.
In addition to the attributes, there are three notes under the interface.
Note 1: Once the position is confirmed, the system will help the host to increase his height and arm span to the lowest point of the required position within five years, and to the highest point within ten years.
Note 2: Space-time consumption is proportional to reality, and the current ratio is 2 to 1.
Note 3: When the host's ability reaches a certain condition, the system will be upgraded, the time ratio will increase, and more functions and props will be unlocked.
