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Chapter 295 A Bigger and Bigger Puzzle
Louie would never have dreamed that he would watch a high school game with Jennifer Beals in a stadium in Chicago that could hold thousands of people.

Two teams participated in the game, one was the Simeon Career Academy and the other was the Rock Island High School Bulldogs.

At this moment, gifted high school students all over the United States still have a mysterious aura around them.

The style of going to a strong school to beat other schools together has not yet taken shape. Most of the talented teenagers come from an ordinary high school, and then lead that high school to sweep all the high school achievement championships in the state, and then become Mr. Basketball in XXX state to attract the attention of college scouts.

No rankings, no star high schoolers, no social media, just word of mouth.

In Chicago high school basketball, there is a legend.

"Magic Johnson with Jump Shooter at Simeon".

Isn't that James with reduced athletic ability?
Louie is worried about being recognized, so like Bills, he wears dark glasses.

The Kevin McHale-funded arena, also known as McHale Stadium, is already filled with students from two high schools, as well as parents of participating players.

"Who's the 'jump shot magician'?" Bills asked Louie.

Louis didn't know either.

"You don't even know Benj, how can you get tickets?" A high school student asked contemptuously.

Louie asked with a smile: "Is Benj the 'magician who can shoot jumpers'?"

"Yes! No. 25 of the Wolverines, that's him!" The high school student pointed out the direction for Louis.

The eyes of Louis and Bills immediately fell on the talented boy.

He is 17 years old and a senior in high school, but several professional scouts think he is the best high school student in the United States.

Louis read his name carefully, Benjamin Wilson (PG/SG/SF/PF).

He racked his brains and couldn't think of anyone named Wilson or Benj in the 90s.

Could it be a shooting star like Sampson?

It's not impossible, like he's never heard Sampson's name before.

However, the odds are low.

Because Wilson is only a senior in high school this year, he will have to enter the NBA for at least two years. By the time he enters the NBA and becomes famous, it should already be in the 90s.

Were there really short-lived '90s stars?Or is he just a blown bubble?

Louie carefully observes Wilson's warm-up. He already has beautiful shooting movements and solid dribbling. He is about 203 cm tall and has a long wingspan. +15, or +20?It's all possible.

His teammates' body language told Louie that Wilson was the leader of the Wolverines.

Everyone surrounds him.

At one point, Wilson's ball flew right where he was.

Louie catches the ball, Wilson runs up and he returns it.

"Thank you," he said.

This was the first time Louis saw Wilson, and the other's face once again awakened a certain message in Louis' mind.

Not a player from the 90s, but a face from three decades later.

How come they are so similar?
Is there something wrong with his memory?

"What do you think of him?" Bills asked incredulously.

Louis is still not sure: "We will know when the game starts."

Wilson handles the jump ball and is the tallest man at Simeon High.

His wingspan helped him win the ball, teammates passed it to him, and on the perimeter, he was directly opposite Louie, looking directly at opponents with fiery eyes.

There is no extra action, just pull it up and cast.

With a height of 203 cm and a wingspan of +15 cm, there is no solution at the high school level.

"Shh!"

It was an NBA distance [-]-pointer.

McHale Gym immediately went into a frenzy.

He showed a variety of abilities, big shots, defensive rebounds, and precise passing.

Louie feels like he plays five positions on the field, sometimes at the one, sometimes at the two, sometimes at the three, and often on defense at the four and five.

The impudent teammate makes a fast break and misses a layup.

However, Wilson flew across the opponent to grab the offensive rebound and made a backhand.

"Benj!!!"

People in the gym were yelling his name like crazy.

There was no smile on his face, only a cold, yet angry expression, especially those eyes.

These are the most angry eyes Louie has seen on a basketball player since Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Westbrook, and LeBron James in the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals.

When the opposite insider meets him, he usually only hits back.

Moreover, he will definitely hit him until he can't take off and block the shot.

Doing so can effectively avoid being blocked.

Once scored, he will immediately return the ball.

This is a cocky and proud competitor who doesn't allow his opponents to take advantage of him.

He grabbed another defensive rebound, dribbled the ball directly from the backcourt, took off in two steps from the free throw line, and slammed the basketball into the basket with a wingspan of +15 cm.

Like someone setting fire to a gym, the atmosphere suddenly heated up.

That young man who was called "Benj" clenched his fists and roared. This is a guy who really cares about the game and plays with anger every second.

He is definitely not a "magician who can shoot jumpers". This kind of evaluation is like saying that Josh Jackson is a full version of Wiggins, Lonzo Ball is a two-meter version of Curry, and DeAndre Ayton is a modern Chamberlain.

The first impression of "Benj" on Louis is more like a combination of Garnett's personality and McGrady's style of play.

He may not be as extreme as Garnett, nor can he have the ultimate sense of the ball with no difference between left and right hands like McGrady, but he can indeed make people see the two.

Great static talent, top dynamic talent, good movement control ability, and the desire to fight that "very much cares about the game" that Louis appreciates.

No matter how you look at it, this guy is a superstar embryo.

"This kid...he looks so fierce when he plays." Bills could already feel the murderous aura on Benj.

"Exactly," Louie said. "He plays like he's going to eat every round."

The boiling atmosphere in the audience completely exploded in a round that Benj can be called the essence of human movies.

With a height of 1.8 meters, he misplaced the dribble and hit the opponent's defender under [-] meters.

If he fights with his body, this round is a normal big fight.

As a result, everyone saw that he dribbled the ball with his right hand and made an emergency stop, then turned his left hand to shake the small guard, and then used his left hand to make a Buddha that no one had ever seen before, and no one knew what it was, and lit the small guard.

Then get out of the way and score an open jumper.

Elegant movements, like Harden, can kill people with rhythm. This kind of ball sense appears on a tall man of 2 meters, and he is given a wingspan that is 03 cm longer than his height. It is not controversial to say that he is the son of heaven.

"Benj!"

"Benj!"

"Benj!!"

Bills asked thrillingly: "Can he play in the NBA?"

"There is no doubt about it," Louis said firmly.

It's just that now Louis has even greater confusion.

Why, in his world, there wasn't a monster named "Benj" in the 90s?

If the NBA needs to find a comparable opponent for Jordan, a player who can compete with him in terms of killing, fighting spirit and talent, Benj will be Louie's recommended candidate.

How can a monster who can dominate the game with his body but use his skills to finish the game be lost?
What happened to him?
"Benj" brought Louis more and more confusion.

This is a game dominated from the first second by detached little monsters.

At the end of the third quarter, Benj had scored 46 points.

You must know that there are only 8 minutes in a high school game, and his scoring efficiency is terrifying.

The climactic scene came in the fourth quarter, when he finally got tired of humiliating opponents with technology, outsmarted his opponent with an explosive first step, stepped into the paint, jumped into the air and smashed through the body of the opposing center.

He really wants to eat an opponent who weighs much more than him in that position!
Only a little short!

He dunks so hard, the ball goes in and bounces out.

In order to compete for the ball, the others made a mess again.

The ball flew into Louie's hands again, and the referee awarded the ball to Simeon.

Louie had the ball in his hand and saw Benj walking towards him.

The face became more and more distinct, and Louie realized that there was a reason why he felt familiar with Benj.

He tossed the ball to Benj, who thanked him, and got into the game again.

Similar but slightly different faces, aggressive game desire and style like a bite, and excellent skills in luck, throwing, and passing.

Benj is like the Emoni Bates of the 20s.

This is another regret after Louis traveled. He didn't see Bates' senior season in high school, college performance, whether he fell after entering the NBA or became James/Durant in the 20s with Zion.

The first time he met Benj, Louie felt like Bates, and now he looks more like Bates.

He is more complete than Bates.

One of Louie’s worries about Bates is that he develops too early. The younger he is, the stronger his dominance. He hasn’t seen Betts’ performance after entering the senior year, and he doesn’t know what will happen after he goes to the NCAA and NBA, which are not at the same level of confrontation and competition as high school.

But in Benj, he saw infinite possibilities.

In his heart, the mystery is getting bigger and bigger. What happened to Benj?
He can swear by more than ten years of professional basketball work experience that this is a player who cannot be lost.

What can destroy him can only be disasters like Len Bias (drug overdose), Reggie Lewis (sudden heart attack), Jay Williams (car accident), Harry Giles (3 ACLs).

(End of this chapter)