I’m Really Playing Basketball

Chapter 27: 5 stars, 5 stars, or 5 stars!

　　 "Sleigh, empty road, aurora, Alaska, here we are!"

　　 "Aurora, Aurora, Aurora!"

　　 This Alaska Challenge is very important for the team's first-year players.

　　 But these first-year players on the team are mostly 18 or 9-year-old players.

　　Any tension or pressure can't compare with the excitement of coming to a new city.

　　 And it's such a special new city.

　　 Apart from these excited Americans, Chen Xiao, a Chinese, is actually more excited than they are.

　　 Alaska For Chen Xiao, this is a very distant and unfamiliar name.

　　In his life, he never thought about the intersection with this name.

　　Because it is really too far away.

　　 But this time, because I came here to play games with the team, I had the opportunity to check in in this famous tourist destination in the world.

　　 "Is this Alaska?"

"To be precise, this is Fairbanks, Alaska, the famous aurora capital of the world. This time our game is at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the aurora can be seen during the game. No, did you see it? In front of the lake that passes through the school, it is the best place to observe the aurora. In October, Alaska enters winter. We go there after 10 o'clock in the evening, and there is a 90% probability of seeing it. The explosion of the aurora."

　　 "Great, great!"

　　Looking at Ron Howard's delicacy and talk about this place, Chen Xiao and Wade, the two guys who exuded the sour smell of poverty, were already full of envy at this time.

　　 Even Dina, who is considered to be a middle-class American family, is shining with the light of being a big boss.

　　 "Ahem, I used to come here several times a year with my family, and I am a little familiar with it."

　　 Ron Howard said with a smile.

　　Young man, you are not a little familiar, you are here prepared!

　　 Chen Xiao remembered the various camera lenses in Luo Ge's backpack when he set off.

　　 Traveling to Alaska is actually not cheap even for Americans.

　　 Alaska is an enclave in the United States, not in its homeland, but also in the extremely cold Arctic Circle.

　　 Being able to treasure this place so much is like entering my back garden...

　　 In Ron Howard’s very temperamental laughter, Chen Xiao, Wade and Dina, who came out with them this time, felt the magic of money...

　　According to Ron Howard, in Alaska, in October, after the winter, there will be a lot of people visiting here.

　　 Rich people all over the world, as long as they have time, they will choose to take their family here to see the aurora at this point in time.

　　 Aurora, to Chen Xiao and Wade, is just a picture in a textbook.

　　 But for these wealthy people, that is a landscape within reach of their back garden.

　　 "It's nice to have money."

　　 Chen Xiao thought silently in his heart, hoping that one day, like Ron Howard, he could turn the world's wonders into ordinary superpowers.

　　If you have money, you can use the whole world as your back garden!

　　 Chen Xiao and Marquette University came to Alaska to stay at the hotel next to the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

　　 Now it is the peak season for Fairbanks tourism. In addition, this time the Alaska Challenge has gathered 32 NCAA teams. The entire campus of the University of Alaska is extremely lively.

　　 Before coming to Alaska, Chen Xiao always felt that compared to Milwaukee, it might be a small rural place suitable for tourism.

　　 After coming here, Chen Xiao discovered that this place is actually a modern city.

　　 Although Alaska Fairbanks is located in a lush forest, there are white tiles and snow-colored domes everywhere. Chen Xiao can't see any wooden buildings at a glance.

　　 This is completely different from the fantasy of the small wooden house in the woods in the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that Chen Xiao has always imagined.

　　 There is aurora here, it is indeed a fairy tale place.

　　 However, this is a modern fairy tale city.

　　 Chen Xiao, Wade, and Dina all want to see the Aurora.

　　 But it is daytime, and the aurora is temporarily absent.

　　 Finally, Chen Xiao, Wade and Dina, under the leadership of Ron Howard, the ‘guide’, began to play around the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

　　 Usually Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard have the best relationship, and they often go in and out together.

　　 But sometimes, Dina will come over.

　　 Chen Xiao and Ron Howard had never known before that Dina was recruited by Wade.

　　 So, the relationship between Dina and Wade is actually good.

　　 He and Howard had always thought that Dina came because the head coach had promised Marquette’s boss position.

　　The campus of Marquette University Fairbanks is not very big, much less than the campus of Marquette University.

　　 Although the air here is exceptionally fresh, the sky is clearer.

　　 But for people like Wade and Dina who were originally born in the Northland of the United States, the daytime scenery of Fairbanks is not so unusual.

　　 Chen Xiao is really enjoying shopping.

　　 But Wade and Dina obviously felt that they were not so impatient.

　　 "I thought there was a sleigh ride here."

　　 "Sledding is not allowed in the school. To play sledding, you need to climb over that mountain. There is a special field there, but the coach does not allow us to leave the school too far."

　　 Well, Alaska is also the United States. It’s not that safe to go out privately.

　　 Especially now that the University of Alaska Fairbanks has swarmed so many people here to play games.

　　 Fairbanks is lively now, but it is also a mixed bag.

　　 So, after the freshness of coming to the new city passed, Chen Xiao and the others returned to basketball itself.

　　 Especially this time in the Alaska Challenge.

　　 In this Alaska Challenge, Marquette University is the eighth seed. Among the 32 invited teams, the strength belongs to the higher position.

　　 However, compared with the first-seeded University of Kentucky and the second-seeded Michigan State University, there seems to be a big gap in strength.

　　 Want to beat the University of Kentucky or Michigan State University to win the championship, basically nothing.

　　 Therefore, the task of the team here this time is to inspect the newcomers, by the way, to train the newcomers and prepare for the official NCAA game that will start in half a month.

　　 Of course, this is the arrangement of the head coach.

　　 For Chen Xiao and other young players under investigation, that's not the case.

　　Young man, who doesn't have a heart against the sky?

　　 If you win the championship in this Alaska Challenge and get the MVP, not only will you establish the team's position, but you can also make a name in the United States. It is also very important for future participation in the NBA draft.

　　The NBA draft is so fierce, and the media's focus is on the star players of North Card Duke, Jay Williams and other star teams. If you don't want to be unknown, you must work hard to challenge.

　　 "According to the ranking of our seeds in the conference, we still hope to enter the semi-finals in this competition. As long as we enter the semi-finals, we can attack the MVP!"

　　 "Although the University of Kentucky and Michigan State University have many powerful stars, they are also the case. The player data of their teams will certainly not be too good."

　　 "Although the championship is stronger and more advantageous, the MVP, the strength is not so strong, and the stars are not as advantageous to so many teams."

　　 Listening to Wade and Ron Howard and Dina talking about the MVP of this game, Chen Xiao is also quite envious on the side.

　　MVP has nothing to do with him.

　　 He hasn't even completed his basketball enlightenment now.

　　 is the kind of beginner who stands on the court, can't defend, can't attack, can't shoot, and even the position on the court is messy.

　　 Well, what it's like to throw a twelve or thirteen-year-old child into an NCAA game is his current situation.

　　 Of course, he is more powerful than a twelve or thirteen-year-old child. He has an old body. Others want to bully him by bullying a child, but they can’t do it.

　　 It can be said that he can't be on the court for a long time now, otherwise he will be a loophole on both sides of the offense and defense.

　　 Chen Xiao's expectation for this game is not an MVP, but hopes that there will be one or two flashing moments, so that the coach can see his potential, so that he can stay in the team's official lineup of players.

　　 Now Chen Xiao's plan for herself has not changed.

　　 Build the foundation in one year, start in the second year, and shine in the third year. It depends on the timing to enter the NBA right away, or wait for the fourth year to graduate.

　　 Therefore, Chen Xiao can only envy the expectations of the three MVPs around him.

　　 "I hope that next year or this time the year after, I can also talk about MVP!"

　　 Chen Xiao silently looked forward to it in her heart.

　　 "Huh? Why are there so many people surrounded there?"

　　 "Those are all players in this Alaska Challenge?"

　　 Chen Xiao followed Ron Howard, and Wade and Dina followed them curiously.

　　 found an open-air basketball court here, where two teams are playing a 3-on-3 match.

　　 "They actually competed here..."

　　 After Chen Xiao and Wade squeezed to the front, the game on the court has entered a fever.

　　 "Who is that person?"

　　 "Xiaotai, do you know?"

　　 "Cedric Banks, our most talented defender in Chicago at that time, ranked 19th among high school students in the United States, and should now attend the University of Illinois at Chicago."

　　 Ranked 19th among high school students in the United States? !

　　 Five-star high school student? !

　　 Chen Xiao was stunned.

　　Seriously, it was the first time he saw a live 5-star high school student so close!

　　 You know, Dina is the 40th place in the United States and is already the first genius in Milwaukee and Wisconsin!

　　 Top 20 in the United States, five-star genius, what a genius?

　　 And when Chen Xiao was about to appreciate how this genius shines on the court, he just looked at it for a while and frowned.

　　 If I’m not mistaken, this five-star genius of the 19th National Congress of the United States is being beaten with his team?

　　 I'm not mistaken, am I?

　　 Chen Xiao looked at Wade next to him not sure, wanting to find some answers.

　　 But at this time, he discovered that whether it was Wade, Ron Howard or Diner, all looked at the three people on the opposing team on the court with excitement.

　　 "Xiaotai, who are they?"

　　 "University of Kentucky!"

　　 University of Kentucky? !

　　 The number one seed in this game? !

　　 "The tall and thin man standing at the basket, UU reading www.uukanshu.com is called Tayshaun Prince, ranked 12th in the United States in the 1998 class."

　　 is a five-star player again? !

　　 "The one standing on the left is Rashard Carus, the star player of Oak Hill College and the 20th player in the United States in 2001."

　　 One more five stars? A team actually has two five-stars? !

　　 "The guard standing on the outside..."

　　 Wade paused, then looked at Ron Howard next to him.

　　 "The defender standing on the outside is called Keith Bogans, the second player in the United States in the 2000s."

　　 Ron Howard finished speaking in a calm and deep voice, Chen Xiao felt his head exploded a bit.

　　 All, second in America? !

　　 And it's still in 2000?

　　 I remember that Jay Williams was only third in the 2000 class, right? !

　　 "This person is more talented than Jay Williams?!"

　　 Chen Xiao subconsciously exclaimed.