You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 14 Wish
Where Havlicek lives, the freeway runs through it, paralleling Route 9 to the south, while in Lansing, where he grew up, the grocery store downstairs where he lives opens the door to Route 40.

When Weisha entered the old time for the third time (not counting the game), he found that Havlicek's house was built on a curve, the front door was only 10 to 12 feet from the highway, and the whole house shook when a large truck passed by at night.

For safety reasons, but also for the family's financial considerations, Havlicek's parents did not grant his wish to buy him a bicycle.

Since he doesn't have a bicycle, Havlicek can only use his feet to move around with other playmates on bicycles. Fortunately, the elementary school he attends is just down the block, and the church is opposite, so traffic is not a problem at ordinary times.But when he was out and about playing ball with the other kids in the neighborhood, Havlicek had to run as hard as he could to keep up with his fellow bikers.Among them, except for his elder brother Field who was five years older than him, he lived across the street and was born on April Fool's Day in 1939. Phil Nicholas, who was exactly one year older than him, was closest to him, and the two of them almost grew up together.

Wei Xia found that their entertainment items were extremely poor.

Fishing, hunting squirrels, throwing butterfly balls.The first sport Havlicek learned was not basketball, but baseball.Perhaps it was because he played baseball since he was a child that he passed the ball very deftly on the basketball court later.

When he came to the old time for the sixth time, Wei Xia discovered the secret that Havlicek could always find the position to cut in and out in the positional battle.

Havlicek and Nicolo were inseparable, but the only time they were separated was when Field was riding a bike with Nicolo, who was four years his junior.

Lansing is a small town in the Ohio Valley. The Highway 40 built along the Wyoming Creek is the lowest point of the valley. Therefore, Havlicek, who saw Highway 40 when he opened the door, lived at the lowest point in the town.

Wei Xia was fortunate to be Havlicek to attack the hills by himself, and he felt that he benefited a lot from being in it.

Since he had to catch up with his companions, he had to abandon the regular road and take a shortcut through the woods to the top of the hill to save time. This was also Havlicek's private space.When going downhill, he likes to deviate from the path in the woods and play dodge games, trying his best to use various fake moves to avoid possible obstacles such as trees, boulders and tree roots, and often falls and is covered with injuries.

For the first time, Wei Xia discovered that what he experienced in childhood would have such a profound impact on Havlicek's life more than ten years later.

A few months later, Wei Xia found that what he did in his dream produced obvious changes in his body.

His physical strength is getting better and better, his muscles and bones are stronger, and his height is growing at a speed beyond imagination.

Wei Xia still can't understand the "old times".

He didn't know where it was, and he didn't know what the mystery was. He only knew that as soon as he fell asleep, he could feel the time around him go backwards, bringing his consciousness back to the past.

Finally one day, he realized that he might have Havlicek's talent.

In the following year, Wei Xia grew 12 centimeters in height, which is still very short for a high school student, but the altitude of 171 centimeters is completely different from that of Pudding, who is 159 centimeters.

The coaching staff found that he had grown in height without slowing down, his agility was stronger, and his physical strength was increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In the first training session of the tenth grade, the head coach Greg Donner promoted Wecha from the reserve team to the first team.

It was the happiest day of his life.

Hearing that he was selected for the first team, Mei Chen made an ugly but delicious cake to celebrate him.

Wei Xia is still far away from becoming a star in the high school basketball world. He still doesn't know whether he can enter the NBA like Kobe, but he can vaguely feel that everything is changing for the better.

He represented the Lower Merion Aces as a key player in the Pennsylvania 4A High School Championship.

Vershaw's first game on behalf of the Aces came off the bench, with Greg Donner putting him at the No. [-] position.

The second position of 171 cm is like O’Neal waiting for you to foul in the professional arena. If you don’t force him, I’m sorry that he dared to play the second position with 171 cm.

The high school game is a completely different concept.

Although Wei Xia is only 171 cm, he is not afraid of confrontation.In one year, he used the transformation of the "old time" to train a body of iron. He cut inwards crazily in positional battles.

The most distinctive feature of the American high school game is speed.

There are only 8 minutes in a quarter, and there is very little time to play positional battles, and the style of play is casual, and there are not a few players who attack with the ball.

This results in plenty of defensive rebounds for the energetic kid to rush.

"If Felix can continue to grow taller, he can transition to the second and third positions." Kubu Kiefer commented after watching Wesha's first high school game, "He has the instinct to use running positions to cut defenses."

In the eyes of Coach Downer, Wei Xia's biggest advantage is not his ball-holding advancement, not his cutting, but his defense.

With a height of only 171 centimeters, it is not easy to defend the opponent's outside line in three positions one-on-one.

In his high school debut, Wei Xia scored 14 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

For the next ten games, he became the Aces' sixth man.

Among them, the much-anticipated civil war in the Lower Merion School District, the game between Lower Merion and Hareton, Weisha appeared 2 minutes after the start of the game, and then played the remaining 30 minutes. Witnessed by his parents, he blocked the core of Hareton High School, destroyed the opponent's pass 8 seconds before the end, and rushed to the frontcourt to complete the first lore in his life.

Just as he was about to turn around and make a poss, the alumni at the scene had already overwhelmed him. He didn't know how many people ate the tofu, and about ten girls gave him a kiss. Of course, he didn't mind.

That lore made it to the Philadelphia Daily News.

For the first time, someone called Wei Xia "Wish".

The headline is eye-catching "The next Kobe? Ace team star Wish lore Hareton!".

Since that goal, Wei Xia is no longer "Felix" in the eyes of others, but "Wish".

At first he didn't like the nickname because it was a mispronunciation.

An unprofessional reporter pronounced "Wei Xia" as "Wish". A mistake at work made Wei Xia a nickname that will accompany him all his life.

It's just that at first he really didn't like everyone calling him "Wish" except family and friends.

(End of this chapter)