The basketball court at Jinbi Tianxia is not big, but its facilities and environment are among the best among outdoor venues.
Long Xiaochuan stepped onto the shiny, new plastic court. He felt that the yellow rubber shoes on his feet were incompatible with the environment. He even regretted not bringing his expensive pair of basketball shoes.
Long Zaiyuan rubbed the basketball in his hand and frowned slightly: "You can throw this ball..."
Long Xiaochuan smiled: "My father bought it for me, and he didn't want to part with it."
"forget it."
Long Zaiyuan leaned down and started dribbling, using various techniques and feints such as pulling back, changing directions, turning around, and worshiping Buddha in front of his body, behind his crotch, behind his crotch, and behind his back. Everything was skillful and natural.
Basketball is like a part of his body. He looks forward and suddenly behind. He is more skillful, faster and dazzling than Long Xiaochuan's dribbling.
Long Xiaochuan waited for him to warm up briefly and then asked: "Pitch one?"
Long Zaiyuan stood outside the three-point line and stopped the ball. He held the ball with his head down, his knees slightly bent, and his eyes were deep and distant. He knew that his shot meant that his three-year dormancy was over.
In order to get a good start, he took a short breath to calm down, then raised his elbow, jumped up, and pushed the ball in one go. The basketball flew towards the basket in a very high arc and hit the board into the basket!
"nice shot!"
Long Xiaochuan cheered loudly and ran to pick up the ball, his heart full of joy.
Long Zaiyuan's face turned red and he said frankly: "Hey, this shot was purely blind. I haven't shot it in a long time, and the feel is really worse."
Long Xiaochuan also stood outside the three-point line and shot a shot, but it missed the basket.
He stuck out his tongue: "It's okay, you are still better than me. Shooting is all about muscle memory, and you will recover quickly after practicing for a few days."
Long Zaiyuan became interested and commented casually: "I watched your game and found that your attack method is very single and you rely too much on breakthrough layups."
"Yes, I'm not very accurate in shooting. If I'm interfered with a little bit, I'll miss easily, so I like to make breakthrough layups just to be on the safe side."
Long Xiaochuan nodded and admitted his shortcomings. He missed a key three-point shot in a duel with Shi Lang; in a duel with Wei Shang, he had to rely on his teammates to passively pick and roll to find an open space before he dared to make a mid-range shot; that time when he went to the Tomahawk Arena, if
If you have accurate long-range shots, you will definitely not run out of stamina early in the first level.
Long Zaiyuan pointed out how to improve his anti-interference long-range shooting percentage: "To shoot faster and with a higher arc, you have to do this..."
Long Xiaochuan studied hard, just like he was back when he was a child, practicing basic skills with Long Zaiyuan. However, this shooting requires changing from habit, and it is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
Basketball allowed them to eliminate the last bit of barriers. On a whim, Long Xiaochuan showed off the results of his practice over the years, including a flying gliding dunk.
The basketball slammed into the basket, not only receiving applause from Yong Jae-yeon, but also bursts of applause and "one more" cheers from the sidelines.
The two of them followed the sound and discovered that some community owners had gathered at the edge of the basketball court to watch the excitement.
In the eyes of these owners, women, children, old and young, this was just a basketball interaction between a young migrant worker and the community security guard. It was interesting to watch, but that was all, so they didn't say anything at first.
But when you see a "migrant worker" wearing yellow rubber shoes who can fly and dunk, who would be stingy with applause?
Long Zaiyuan watched his nephew take off and dunk again and again, releasing his passion. His eyes were filled with the shadow of his own youth, and even his eyes became kind: "It's amazing, I could still compete with you five or six years ago."
I can't do dunk now. I'm old and can't jump anymore."
"Nonsense! Why are you old? You are only 30 years old. Both the NBA and CBA are at their peak, and James is still competing for the championship at 38!"
Long Xiaochuan handed him the ball and motioned for a dunk too.
Long Zaiyuan touched his right knee: "Then try one."
He held the ball for a long run and only took off when he got to the basket. Unfortunately, his take-off height was just a little short. He barely completed the dunk action, but the basketball only hit the front edge of the basket and flew away.
"It's good. You will recover after training for a while," Long Xiaochuan was afraid that he would be discouraged, so he suggested, "Do you dare to challenge me in a duel?"
With the audience present, Long Zaiyuan seemed to have regained the feeling of being all-powerful on the court: "Come on, let's see how you break through my defense."
The two have similar technical characteristics. Long Xiaochuan is faster, but Long Zaiyuan has many offensive methods, outstanding timing ability, and richer defensive experience. He has not touched basketball for three years and still has the upper hand.
They fought for a while, and more and more spectators gathered on the sidelines, which alerted the security guard on duty in the property monitoring room of the community.
At first, the security guard on duty thought it was the owner playing ball, so he adjusted the camera to zoom in on the scene to watch the excitement. Soon he discovered something was wrong. Why was the person on the field wearing our security guard's clothes?
As the surveillance screen gradually enlarged, Long Zaiyuan's face became clearer and clearer.
When the security guard saw that his colleague was hiding secretly, he took a wonderful shot and sent it to the security work group with the mentality of discovering a new world.
His intentions were good, but he forgot that Long Zaiyuan's unauthorized use of the owner's cultural, sports and fitness facilities was against the rules.
So the property manager held accountable in the group, and the security captain led several of his men to the basketball court in a hurry: "Stop! Who told you to play here? Give me the basketball!"
Long Zaiyuan immediately stopped attacking, but he knew that Long Xiaochuan valued the basketball, so he did not hand it over obediently, but held it in his arms to protect it.
When the security captain saw that Long Zaiyuan was disobedient, he immediately got angry and rushed to snatch it: "I asked you to call out the basketball, are you fucking deaf?"
The other security guards looked at each other, and no longer took into account the friendship they had on duty together on weekdays, and chose to help the captain grab the ball together.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
When Long Xiaochuan saw that his uncle was under siege, he quickly went to "break up the fight", but was kicked away by the security captain: "Migrant workers, get out of here, you dare to pull me? You think you are the owner!"
When Long Zaiyuan saw his nephew being kicked, he immediately became furious. He put the basketball on the ground, raised his huge fists and shouted, "Let's see who dares!"
His momentum was so strong that the embarrassed security guards around him, who had their hats crooked and their buttons ripped off, immediately looked like "two devils" and cowered and backed away.
Seeing that each of his men had turned into cowards, the security captain could only muster up the courage: "Long Zaiyuan, you are violating company regulations and being arrogant. I think you don't want to do it anymore!"
"Yes! I quit!"
Long Zaiyuan immediately took off his security uniform and threw it to the ground, then walked towards the security captain with murderous intent.
The man was so guilty that he took two steps back: "You, you, what are you doing...don't come over, you don't want this month's salary?"
"I don't want the salary anymore. You must apologize to my nephew. He is an upright college student, unlike us who can let you bully him!"
Seeing that the unlucky security captain was about to be beaten, Long Xiaochuan and several enthusiastic owners came to break up the fight...