Volume 1: The Road to the European Emperor Chapter 5 The real-life version of "The Shawshank Redemption"
After returning from the Hongyuan Youth Team, Sun Hao started thinking about various possibilities.
In the end, he chose the dumbest, but also the only way that might succeed.
write a letter.
He looked up the contact information of those NCAA schools on the Internet, and then chose one - Sierra Canyon School, and insisted on writing to them.
The letter contained only one thing: the hope was that they could send scouts to China to watch their games.
This method may seem stupid, but it is not impossible, and it is even quite likely.
On the one hand, as a high school in Los Angeles, Sierra Canyon School is relatively tolerant of overseas players.
UCLA, which originally recruited Ma Jian, is a well-known university in Los Angeles.
On the other hand, anyone who has seen the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" should know that the protagonist Andy wrote letters to the governor continuously throughout the year. Finally, after six years of writing, he won a considerable sum of funds to build a library for his prison.
Another point is that Sun Hao's system is different from those systems that are directly cheated. It takes time to produce results.
Therefore, in the next one to two years, in addition to continuing to write letters, he must also continue to train within the system.
Since the system can be accessed at any time and anywhere, he can persist in training.
Opportunities come to those who are prepared.
When the letter he wrote is really successful, and scouts come to China to watch him play games, and he can perform well enough to impress the other party, then entering an American high school will naturally be a matter of course.
He had been a mess in his previous life, and with the stimulation from Li Yuanwei and Yang Wei, he had no shortage of motivation in this regard.
Now that you have a plan, a goal, and even motivation, the next step is to persevere.
Just like when people start running they will feel very tired, but after running for a while they will feel very relaxed.
This is a process of overcoming both the physical and mental aspects.
At first, Sun Hao also felt very tired, it was not worth it, and unnecessary. It would be better to just live a muddled life like in his previous life.
You know, as a time traveler, it is relatively easy to make money.
But when he thought of Yang Wei's smiling face and Li Yuanwei's attitude, he gritted his teeth and persevered.
Sometimes, people live just to breathe!
All things are difficult at the beginning. After gritting his teeth and persevering through the initial period, Sun Hao gradually adapted.
He would feel .
Frost hits the eggplants, spring comes and flowers bloom, frost hits the eggplants again, everything comes back to life...
Two years passed in the blink of an eye.
While Yi Jianlian is still in junior high school, Sun Hao has already finished his junior high school career and became a local high school student.
He did not fall behind in his studies and his height soared to 1.6 meters in two years.
Children at this age are in the developmental stage. Although they grow a little fast, they are still within the scientific range.
Some well-known players, such as Jeremy Lin and McCollum, have also experienced a sudden increase of 10 cm or more in height in a year.
Of course, after two years of training, he has grown not only in height, but also in physical fitness, from strength to jumping, to ball control and shooting and so on.
The time ratio is 1 to 2, which means two years in reality is equivalent to four years of systematic professional training.
To put it in a more vivid way, except for his height, his abilities in other aspects are already very close to the level of CBA players.
The so-called CBA level is just an amateur competition like Jordan's.
After entering high school, he successfully joined the school team and led the school team all the way to the finals of the Guangdong High School League.
He averages 20+ points per game.
This score is relatively not very impressive.
It's not that he is not strong enough, but that he is too strong. Basically, he led the team to defeat the opponent in the first half.
Even so, no CBA youth team, including the Guangdong Hongyuan team, has ever invited him.
It is an obvious established fact that they all believe in the bone age test and firmly believe that as those big guys get taller, Sun Hao's advantages will become smaller and smaller.
But Sun Hao didn't care about these.
What he really cares about is tonight's final.
After two years of writing letters, Sierra Canyon School was finally moved by his perseverance and sent scouts to watch his game.
Or in other words, how well he plays tonight's game may very well determine whether he can eventually play in an American high school.
He must seize it!
The basketball atmosphere in Guangdong Province is second to none in the country. The evening final also attracted much attention, and the venue with a capacity of 3,000 people was packed.
Sun Hao took a look around the scene and spotted an American scout at the back of the stands.
Although there was a distance between them, Sun Hao still found him in the crowd.
You have to know that in this era, there are not many Americans coming to China.
What's more, Smith was also looking at Sun Hao when Sun Hao was looking at him.
But unlike Sun Hao's eyes which were full of passion and desire, there was more helplessness in his eyes.
Centers are now dominant in the NBA because the United States is very interested in big players from overseas.
The reason why Ma Jian was favored by them in the first place had a lot to do with this.
But the defenders... were at the extreme.
The United States has a lot of defenders, and each one is more physically fit than the other. They are indeed not very interested in these overseas players.
Not to mention the yellow defenders.
The yellow race defenders are notoriously bad at confrontation and have poor basic skills.
To be precise, they don't think there are any yellow guards who can play in the NBA.
There was really no other reason why we sent him to China, because this kid named Sun Hao was too persistent.
Their school mailbox receives a letter from across the ocean every day. Not only the security guard, but even the principal's lover already knows about Sun Hao.
The movie "The Shawshank Redemption" was released in the United States only last year and caused a sensation. But what happened is that a real-life version came out the following year.
And it took me two years to write it.
So the school finally sent him here.
Judging from the occasional videotapes he had seen before, Sun Hao’s talent was average, so he just treated this trip as a trip.
After the opening ceremony, the starting players of both teams came on stage one after another.
There was a burst of cheers from the audience.
The atmosphere for student basketball is always very good no matter in which country.
The game started quickly amid the cheers of the audience.
Sun Hao played as a point guard, and he started to show himself right from the start.
In the basketball games during my school days, when someone had outstanding individual skills, it was all about the individual.
Sun Hao was no exception. He shook off the opponent's defender and made a three-pointer.
The atmosphere on the scene was ignited as soon as the show started.
In the stands, Smith opened his sleepy eyes, not sure whether it was due to jet lag or boredom, and turned his gaze to the court.
Sun Hao's shot looks pretty good.
But this wasn't the only unexpected thing.
Right after shooting a three-pointer, Sun Hao turned around and stole the ball after a physical confrontation, and then made a fast break layup.
And in the next round, he used his 1.6-meter body to grab the frontcourt rebound and score a tip-in!
As soon as the game started, Sun Hao scored 7 points in a row!
Smith's expression turned a little serious at this time.
It’s not because of how many points Sun Hao scored.
In a competition of this level, even if you get 30 or 40 points, it doesn’t mean anything.
Instead, Sun Hao demonstrated a completely different level of confrontational ability from his peers.
This is rare among the yellow race, especially those of this age group.
Sun Hao can shoot and is not bad in confrontation. He dares to keep writing letters to Sierra Canyon School. His confidence is well-founded!
Just as he thought so, Sun Hao jumped into the air to assist in defense and actually gave his opponent a big shot!
This kid can really jump!
When Smith saw this, he suddenly thought that it might not be a bad idea to give Sun Hao a chance.
In the previous games, Sun Hao started to slack off after he had played the game badly, but tonight, with scouts present, he took ruthless action.
He showed all his strength.
He is responsible for scoring, steals, rebounds, assists, and even shot-blocking defense.
He completely dominated the game.
He is the focus of the entire stadium tonight.
As eye-catching as an exclamation mark magnified a hundred times.
In the end, he scored 50 points, 8 rebounds, 6 steals, 5 assists and 3 blocks in the game, helping the team to win 72-47 and win the provincial league championship.
He also successfully won the league's Most Valuable Player.
When holding up the MVP trophy, Sun Hao saw Smith in the stands applauding him, and he knew that the matter was almost certain.
At this moment, he was indescribably excited.
After two years of hard work, the results finally came!
After celebrating with his teammates, Sun Hao returned to the locker room.
He was waiting for a scout from Sierra Canyon School to come find him.
However, before the scouts arrived, he waited for Yi Jianlian to come first.
She gave him a big hug and almost knocked him to the ground.
Yi Jianlian looked even more excited than him.
After he entered high school, the two of them met less and less frequently, and this time it was two months later.
"You're getting taller again."
"You're taller, too, and stronger."
The two people repeated the conversation they had when they met in the past two years.
Yi Jianlian is getting taller and taller, and is almost 1.9 meters tall.
Although Sun Hao is still nearly a head shorter than Yi Jianlian, he has grown to 1.6 meters, and as Yi Jianlian said, he has become stronger.
"You can definitely play professionally, how about I talk to the coach? This time it's not the youth team one, I've been promoted to the second team."
Yi Jianlian couldn't help but speak.
Although it had been two years since the tryout, he still didn't give up the opportunity to play professionally with Sun Hao.
Sun Hao smiled and waved his hand.
Putting aside the fact that CBA still uses height as the selection threshold, having been rejected once, there is no way he would go for it a second time.
The fact that CBA didn't take the initiative to contact him means that their opinion of him is still the same as when he was tried out. There's no need for him to make himself miserable.
And now CBA is no longer his goal.
Seeing Sun Hao's refusal, Yi Jianlian could only shake his head helplessly.
After seeing off Yi Jianlian, Smith came to the locker room shortly afterwards.
