章 9: Chapter 9 Goal: Champion!
Megan Fox took a break from school to go to Hollywood. Compared to her glamorous past at school, her departure seemed a little too quiet. The episode didn't bring much change to Moss Middle School, people lived as they always had, but everyone always felt like something was missing.
The girls of the school noticed a sudden drop in the amount of gossip to be had on campus, while the boys, who were still in the imagination stage, collectively fell into a state of despondency over the loss of their crushes. For the first few days after Megan's departure, Moss Middle School was a bit dull, which was noticed even by the teachers as the classroom was filled with lethargy.
The sexy cheerleader could no longer be seen on the field, and she could no longer be heard outside the stadium cheering for the players. The Fire Foxes' players' recent performance in practice had made Jefferson angry, and he tortured each player's eardrums with loud reprimands filled with vulgar words, and doubled up on practice as a way of venting his anger.
Only Lin Mingyang and Thomas are not affected by this anger in the team, Thomas' training has been very satisfied with Jefferson, while Lin Mingyang recently seems to have changed a person, training only his performance can make Jefferson's face become better.
Jefferson insisted that this is his own many times "bitter" talk with Lin Mingyang, finally played the effect. Let Lin Mingyang this "lost sheep" finally accepted his "penitentiary", such success makes the Firefoxes coach heart full of sense of accomplishment, if not for the recent performance of the other players to destroy his good mood, it is estimated that when he walks will be He would have been floating when he was walking.
Watching his teammates on the court being drilled to death one by one by Jefferson, Lin Mingyang and Thomas, who were sitting on the side resting, started one of the few conversations between the two sides. To be honest, Lin Ming Yang had always looked down a little bit on this teammate of his, in his opinion Thomas' skills were rough and he relied entirely on his body when he played. On the basketball court, Thomas took the route of rigidity, relying on a brute force to tear through the opponent's defense, while Lin Mingyang, although not afraid of physical confrontation, but relies more on technology and clever cooperation to complete the attack, he went to the technical flow.
The two are usually a little bit against each other, private more will not take the initiative to talk to each other, but this time looking at Jefferson used all kinds of means to torture the teammates on the field, the heart of Thomas for the first time produced and beside the Lin Mingyang talk yu hope.
"Coach must be crazy today!" He said in a vague voice, aiming only to attract Lin Ming Yang's attention.
"Huh?" Lin Ming Yang's mind wasn't on the basketball court, and when he heard Thomas mutter in a low voice, he came back to his senses, "Thomas, are you talking to me?"
"I'm saying Coach is really mad today!" Thomas raised his voice and repeated, his tone faintly dissatisfied.
"I don't think he's ever been sane!" Lin Mingyang's was in a good mood at this moment, so he didn't care about Thomas' attitude. Unfortunately, not far away, Jefferson heard the sound of the two men talking, and he viciously turned his head and glared at the two men
"I'm asking you to rest, not to chat there, if you don't want to crawl back, shut up now!"
"Who says it isn't!" Thomas spat, this time keeping his voice low, "There were rumors all over school about you and Megan a while back, did she really go to Hollywood?"
Lin Ming Yang said that it was strange today, this Thomas guy actually took the initiative to open his mouth and talk to himself, it turned out to be another person who wanted to beat around the bush and inquire about Megan's news.
Lin Ming Yang twisted his head and glared at him, Thomas shrugged his shoulders in mock relief, "I'm just casually asking, you can pretend I didn't say anything!"
"She did go to Hollywood and got a role in a certain TV series, that's all I know!"
Lin Mingyang's answer made Thomas a little disappointed, as it was the same as the story that had been circulating in school. "She should become a big star soon, I should have asked her for an autographed photo if I had known!"
"Everyone who goes to Hollywood wishes they could become a big star, but dreams and reality differ greatly!" Lin Mingyang interjected in a very spoiled manner.
"Felix, know what I dislike most about you?" Thomas glared back at him with some indignation, "You guys always have that smug, dead look whenever you're around, I think Megan will definitely become a big star, it's what she's always dreamed of, and she's working very hard to realize her dream, and you're just sitting here talking smack, I know that you're just jealous of her!"
"Jealous?" Lin Ming Yang suddenly felt that talking to Thomas was a bit fun, "Why would I be jealous of her?"
"Felix, don't be sophomoric, you can't fool me, you'll definitely be unhappy in your heart when Megan becomes a big star, in the past you guys were getting the same amount of attention as you were in school, but in the future she'll be getting even more attention, and the gap between you guys will get bigger and bigger!" Thomas analyzed smugly.
"Whatever you think!" Lin Ming Yang made a disinterested expression, speaking of dreams, he suddenly wondered what Thomas's dreams were.
"My dream is to lead the Firefoxes to better grades in the National High School Basketball League, and after graduation there will be a college willing to offer me a basketball scholarship. I can go to a good college just as well without good grades!" When it came to the matter of going to college, Thomas was more or less a little short of breath in front of Lin Mingyang, knowing that he was sitting next to a high scoring monster who would most likely be competing for admission to several top universities in the U.S. after graduating from high school.
"What about after college?" Lin Ming Yang didn't notice the unnaturalness of the other party's expression, "Continue to play soccer?"
"Coach thinks that my skills need more time to be perfected, so of course I'll continue to play when I go to college, and then take my chances in the NBA after graduation!"
"I thought you would choose to give up college like Kobe and go directly to the NBA to play!"
"You think I can?" Thomas looked a little excited, "I actually thought so, but Coach said that wasn't realistic!"
"Are you referring to Jefferson?" Lin Ming Yang glanced at the guy with a slack-jawed face not far away, "I admit that a lot of the time he's a whimsical lunatic, but his advice to you in that question just now made me think that he's not so hopeless!"
Lin Ming Yang finished his sentence before Thomas realized that he had been tricked by him, annoyed he was about to snap, but the commotion over here just now had once again caused Jefferson's displeasure, his grim face blocking the words that were ready to be cursed out of Thomas's mouth.
"Actually, I have a way to make your dreams come true!" Jefferson had just turned his head back again when Lin Ming Yang muttered softly.
"What? You have a way!" Thomas, who had suffered a loss once, became cautious this time.
"Forget it if you don't want to hear it!" Lin Mingyang threw a sweat towel over his face and leaned back in his chair to recuperate.
"Alright Felix, go ahead, I need your advice!" Thomas had no choice but to put his head down and beg, playing in the NBA straight after high school was a big temptation for him.
Lin Ming Yang lifted a corner of his sweat towel and hooked his finger towards Thomas, signaling him to come closer.
"It's actually very simple, if the Firefox can win the championship of the All-American High School League, I think there will definitely be NBA scouts who will pay attention to you!"
"Are you sure this works?" Thomas could be sure that Lin Mingyang wasn't joking with himself.
"What do you think?" Lin Ming Yang glared at him without any good reason, "As long as you perform more prominently in the league and help your team get more scores, the more likely you are to enter the NBA, at least that's what Kobe did back in the day, he led his varsity team to a 77-13 record in his last three years of high school, and he scored 2,883 points in his entire high school years. All of these dazzling accomplishments capitalized on him going straight to the NBA out of high school!"
"So what should I do?" Thomas finally had his heart set on it.
"Thomas, you should know exactly who has the most chances to touch the ball on the court?" Seeing the fish take the bait, Lin Ming Yang began to slowly reel in his line.
"It should be you!" Despite being a little reluctant to say this fact himself, Thomas still had to admit that Lin Mingyang, as the point guard, was the one who touched the ball the longest and the most times on the court.
"You need to prove yourself in the game, but that requires others to create offense for you, you have to get more passes, who else on the team can help you besides me?"
"You're really willing to help me?" Thomas suddenly had a feeling of being smashed by happiness, he knew that if Lin Mingyang, who was responsible for organizing the team's offense, thought more about himself when handling passes on the court, then his score per game would be a very objective number.
"Is there any deep hatred between us?"
"What should I do?" Thomas wasn't someone without a brain, Lin Ming Yang's hint was already clear, he was willing to help himself, but such help would never be gratuitous.
"On the court, you have to listen to me!" Lin Ming Yang's request was very simple, he had been thinking about this ever since he and Megan agreed to lead the Firefox into the finals. Basketball was, after all, a five-player sport, and to achieve his goal, Lin Ming Yang alone couldn't do it. Other people are good to say, in the field they and Lin Mingyang's cooperation is very tacit understanding, but Thomas this guy has not been listening to the command, get the ball to know their own breakthrough scoring, for such a destabilizing factor, Lin Mingyang must find ways to make him become "obedient" up.
"No problem!" Thomas agreed, but he immediately thought of another problem, "What if your idea conflicts with the coach's tactics?"
"Even the best ideas can't replace us playing on the field, when the time comes you just need to do what I say!" Lin Ming Yang waved his hand with disinterest, Jefferson the coach really didn't carry much weight in his eyes.
"But coach ..."
"The process of the game is not important, the important thing is the result of the game, only if you can win the game, do you think he will be so bored that he will catch a little bit of your little problem and not let it go?" Not only Thomas, even Jefferson was eaten to death by Lin Mingyang.
Thomas was eventually convinced by Lin Mingyang, and he soon got the sweet spot from such a cooperation.
In the following game, Thomas found himself following Lin Ming Yang's request, after getting the ball, instead of thinking about scoring himself and distributing the ball to his teammates, he himself was more likely to get a chance to break through and score. Lin Mingyang honored his promise, in every game consciously pass the ball more to Thomas, as the team's scoring machine, Thomas also lived up to the expectations of every game took the team's highest score, and began to refresh their own single-game scoring record.
For such a result, the team up and down is naturally a piece of joy, 7 consecutive victories in the war so that the team's morale has reached an unprecedented high, the court's original rivals began to do not need to force themselves to consciously take the initiative to cooperate with this change is more excited Jefferson.
The Firefoxes' winning streak had also successfully diverted the attention of most of the people at Moss Middle School, and the short-lived depressing atmosphere left by Megan's departure from the school was washed away by the news of the team's victory. Basketball had once again become the center of everyone's attention, and that beautiful girl had gradually faded out of people's sight.
No one could have imagined what a great surprise she would deliver when she reappeared!
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