Chapter 1: My Name Is Yes
On the evening of January 29, 2005, the arena in Seattle's Alaska Airlines Arena, which can accommodate 10,000 people, was packed.
The ongoing game is a focus game of the NCAA Pacific Ten Conference, University of Washington vs. University of Arizona.
The University of Arizona has always been a strong team in the Pacific Ten.
The University of Washington's rise in the past two years under the leadership of Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy is also amazing.
Last year, the two led the team to the finals of the Big Ten Divisional Tournament.
It just lost to Stanford University led by Josh Childress, the No. 6 pick in the first round in 2004.
However, with the entry of Josh Childress into the NBA, and the growth of Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy.
University of Washington fans can have higher expectations and greater enthusiasm for this team.
Compared with the excited University of Washington fans in the audience, the two teenagers in the front row, one black and one Asian, looked particularly conspicuous.
Most of the fans of the University of Washington are local fans in Seattle. These two teenagers are naturally familiar with each other.
Black teenager, Mattel Webster, a senior at Seattle Prep School and a first-team All-American high school player.
Also represented Team USA at the Nike Hoop Summit.
He is one of the top ten high school players in the United States selected by USA TODAY.
Asian-faced teenager, Yeth, a senior at James A. Garfield High School in Seattle, and a star player on the Washington State High School League Championship Team.
Although Yeth is not a genius known throughout the United States like Webster, his popularity in Seattle is no less than that of Webster.
As two of the most well-known star high school students in Washington State, Webster and Yesi came to the home court of the University of Washington to watch the game, and it is easy for people to have more daydreams.
I am afraid that the next day the media that pay attention to basketball in the United States will have such a news report: the popular high school student Mattel Webster watched the University of Washington game live, and there was also Garfield High School’s Jess. According to previous media reports, the two Man has committed to joining the University of Washington next season.
"It's great, the University of Washington this year is really great! Ye, I swear, as long as we join, the University of Washington will definitely dominate the NCAA next year!"
The black boy was very excited, but the eyes of the Asian boy kept flickering at the No. 2 and No. 3 players of the University of Washington, Nate Robinson and Brandon Roy.
After studying abroad in Seattle for four years, it is naturally the best choice to join the University of Washington.
However, he is not the same as Webster.
Webster is a swingman and he's a guard!
Robinson and Roy are also guards, and they are both juniors this year. If he joins, he will need to be a substitute for them for a year.
Although Roy was his senior, in the first year of high school, he also played as a substitute for Roy, the head player of the team at that time, for a year, but that was irrelevant in the first year of high school!
But now, if he wants to enter the NBA, he must show himself all the time.
Webster's talent has been recognized.
And him?
His scouting report reads: A speedy player with comprehensive skills and talent can become a substitute sharp knife for a wealthy ncaa team, and the possibility of entering the nba is extremely low!
Nate Robinson and Roy are powerful, and other role players of the University of Washington are also quite good. Although the University of Arizona resisted tenaciously, it still lost to the University of Washington at home.
"Ye, Seattle's first NCAA championship trophy will be born in our hands!"
"Well, Martel, I'm not from Seattle, I don't have a historical mission like yours, well, the game is over, I'm going home"
"Go home? Yeh,
Don't you say hello to Brandon and the others? Here are your four high school seniors! "
Ye's mood is very abnormal recently, is he reluctant to graduate from high school?
Although the black boy was very puzzled, he still chased after him.
"Brandon, what about Martel?"
"Let's go"
"Gone? Now?"
"Um"
"You two boys, we agreed to celebrate together!"
Seattle is a big city, a big city full of feasting and feasting. After leaving the arena with Webster, Yeth has no attachment to Seattle's feasting and feasting.
As a small celebrity in Seattle, as long as he wants, he can also sleep with a different 'easy-girl' every night like Webster.
However, this kind of life is not what he can enjoy now.
He doesn't have Webster's talent to squander.
He did not come to the United States to study for these things.
Garfield High School, one of the four famous private boarding schools in Seattle, as the recipient of the school's full scholarship for four consecutive years, his dormitory has always been very good.
And it's a single room!
Open the door of the dormitory, turn on the light, close the door, pick up the basketball on the table, and throw it into the basket behind the door, hollow, all in one go!
"In 2005, I have been here for four years without knowing it"
Lying on the bed, looking at the incandescent lights on the ceiling, Ye Si slightly closed his eyes.
Four years of American high school career is coming to an end.
The past four years have been both anticipation and suffering for him.
It has only been four years since I was full of confidence at the beginning and now I am uneasy.
As an ordinary Chinese high school student, he should be working hard for the college entrance examination half a year later like many Chinese high school students of the same age.
But now, he is in the United States.
All of this is because of this inexplicable 'basketball superstar training system'.
Main Quest: First Steps to a Superstar
Task Requirements: Become a member of a sports school basketball team or a member of an American high school basketball team
Task reward: draw a single player card
Task Status: Done
In order to complete the so-called main task of this system, he has been preparing to study in the United States since the fourth grade of elementary school.
Why not go to a sports school in China?
He also consulted that his height is too short, even if his basketball skills are already outstanding among his peers in China, it is useless.
His height has grown to the third grade of junior high school, and he has already successfully applied for studying in the United States at that time.
In order to complete the main task of the first step of this superstar.
He is a basketball boy who has practiced basketball since he was a child. He just scored 106 points in the TOEFL IBT test and 2250 points in the SSAT test.
Coupled with his basketball skills, he finally got a full scholarship to the prestigious James A. Garfield High School in Seattle.
The reason why I came to this school is because this school has the best word-of-mouth, the least racial-discrimination, a basketball tradition, and high scholarships.
"How long have you had this system?"
Honestly, he didn't know either.
In short, this system has been with him since he can remember.
Babbling as a toddler, he once asked his family members, and after that, he knew that no one except him could see this inexplicable system.
As a child, in order to want to explore what this interesting thing is.
When other children were only interested in the little sister's son, he started the arduous journey of learning characters.
Finally, when he was three years old, he learned that this interesting thing is a system called "Basketball Superstar Training System".
Also at this time, he learned that there is a same-sex hand-to-hand game called basketball...
Since then, other children have played games in their age group, but his only game is basketball.
In addition to the mission templates for this main mission, this system has a property panel for it.
As a teenager with obsessive-compulsive disorder since he was a child, he was thinking about how to increase the numbers on the panel every day.
In order to improve his ball control, at the age of three, he shot the basketball that was not much shorter than him for a full year.
In order to improve his passing, at the age of four, he used a basketball to attack his father continuously for half a year. Fortunately, he is weak, otherwise he would not have a mother.
In order to improve his balance, the seven-year-old would roll on the floor for half an hour at home and school regardless of the strange stares from his family and others.
After knowing that peeing against the wind can improve strength, well, let’s not talk about it...
In short, because of this inexplicable system, his life trajectory has become completely different from other peers.
However, he didn't feel that there was anything wrong.
Whether it is to study hard to complete the main task of this system and come to the United States to study abroad.
Whether he did those silly-looking exercises in order to make the system's property panel move was all voluntary.
After all, this system is his exclusive basketball superstar development game!
And he has always wanted to be like the name of the system, to become a real basketball superstar!
"Thinking about it now, this is just a dream, a dream that has made people sleep for eighteen years"
In the beginning, he always thought that the property panel of the system could be improved infinitely.
Therefore, he is full of confidence in his future.
No matter how hard and strange the practice method to improve attributes is, he is willing.
Because hard work pays off!
Until one day, no matter how hard he trained for a certain attribute, it had no effect, and he began to worry.
Until the number of attributes reached to the top became more and more, and finally all the attributes reached the top, he was finally afraid.
In his third year in the United States, all his attributes could no longer be improved.
He knew that his potential had been exhausted, and his fear had turned into confusion.
Name: Yes
Age: 18
Height: 1.91 meters
Weight: 85 kg
Positions: Point guard (100%), shooting guard (100%), small forward (75%), power forward (15%), center (5%)
Team: James A. Garfield High School basketball team
Physical state: weightlessness (explosive power attribute increased by 10%, speed attribute increased by 10%, strength attribute decreased by 10%)
talent: no
Skills: None
Technical attributes; ball handling: 45 (45), passing: 40 (40), overall rating: E (amateur first-class)
Shooting attributes; dunks: 35 (35), layups: 55 (55), close shots: 55 (55), mid-range shots: 55 (55), long shots: 50 (50), three-pointers: 40 (40) , free throws: 60 (60), overall rating: D (amateur top)
Defensive Attributes; Steals: 50 (50), Blocks: 30 (30), Defensive Rebounds: 45 (45), Offensive Rebounds: 40 (40), Overall Rating: E (amateur-class)
Physical attributes; strength: 45/50 (50), explosive power: 66/60 (60), speed: 66/60 (60), lateral movement: 60 (60), agility: 60 (60), bounce: 50 (50 ), Balance: 55 (55), Stamina: 55 (55), Overall Rating: D (top amateur)
Player evaluation: D, a speed-type top amateur player with comprehensive skills
It is his dream to become a basketball superstar.
But the reality is that his potential can only support him to the level of "a speedy top amateur player with comprehensive skills".
A top amateur player, he is very strong in the high school league, and he can perform well even in the NCAA.
However, this is too far away from the basketball superstar he dreamed of, so far away that he can't see the edge at all.
His potential has come to an end, and his hard work can no longer support him to pursue his dream.
Now he can still give the star card that he hopes to get after completing the main task.
And the rewards obtained after completing the second mainline task.
Main mission: The second step of the superstar
Mission Requirement: Become an NCAA player
Task reward: draw a single player card
Task Status: Not Completed
According to the speculation of the first two main quests, the third main quest is probably for him to become an NBA player.
If this star card single draw can't change his fate that his potential is now exhausted.
I'm afraid, he will bid farewell to the NBA, and naturally he will never be able to complete the third main task.
"After so many years of hard work, will it be in vain in the end?"
I have thought about this question countless times, and it still makes me bitter every time I think about it.
Webster picks up girls every day, not only can't he catch up, but the gap between him and him is getting farther and farther.
"Huh? The card pool of the star card has been updated?!"
Just when Ye Si was thinking about what to do in the future, the star Kakachi, who hadn't been updated for almost two years, was actually updated!
"This time it's finally not the double UP of Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry?"
"The strongest player on the ground, the North Carolina Flyer, the five-star card, Jordan in high school is in the UP!"
Um, Jordan? high school?
Ye Si suddenly felt a bit of kidney pain.