Chapter Eleven Yu Family Banquet
"Zhou, I can help you!" Coach Tom said.
Zhou Mubai looked at Coach Tom in confusion, asking in his eyes.
Coach Tom looked at Zhou Mubai with joy: "Zhou, you may not know what a great honor it is for a university coach to develop an NBA player, especially for an Ivy League school like Harvard, which is not good at sports."
Zhou Mubai suddenly understood.
Harvard University is one of the world's top universities, but it has not made much achievements in sports.
Among many universities in the United States, Harvard's sports have always been very weak.
Of course, this does not affect his attractiveness to outstanding students. It is just that Harvard is not a good choice for students who want to develop in the field of sports. They rarely choose Harvard. They are more willing to choose sports schools such as Kentucky, North Carolina, and Duke.
For coaches from Kentucky, North Carolina, and Duke, as long as they coach for a long enough time, a large number of disciples who entered the NBA will not be so proud and eager.
For Tom Emeco, it is still quite difficult to develop an NBA player. Oh, no, it should be extremely difficult, hell level difficulty!
Looking back at how many NBA players there are in Harvard's history, well...
The first one is Thor Mariasin, who only stayed in the NBA for one season, and the other is Ed Smith, who also stayed in the NBA for one season, and then... it's gone!
This is still the case in the 1940s.
If Tom wants to coach an NBA player, it seems that there are only two options now.
Either he left Harvard to teach at other universities, or he could see if he could teach Zhou Mubai.
Oh, Jeremy Lin also plans to enter the NBA, but he is not optimistic. Although Jeremy Lin is outstanding in the team, he doesn't seem to be able to enter the NBA anyway.
Well, no one is optimistic about Jeremy Lin at this time.
In the opinion of Coach Tom, it doesn't matter if Zhou Mubai can't play. Although it's a little late, it's not without successful examples. On the contrary, there are many other ones. Duncan only plays basketball at the age of 14, Nowitzki only plays basketball at the age of 14, Dadman only plays basketball at the age of 14, and Rodman even came into contact with basketball at the age of 14.
Although Zhou Mubai is a graduate student, he is actually just an ordinary junior. Well, although he may be the last person to come into contact with basketball, he has a high talent!
In Tom's eyes, Zhou Mubai's talent in passing has never had such a freak in the current league and even in the history of the NBA.
Just this pass alone may make Zhou Mubai grow into a super point guard like Stephen Nash. The key is that Zhou Mubai's defense is better than Nash.
A point guard who can pass and defend at least must be a qualified starter, right?
After thinking through this, Zhou Mubai nodded happily and thanked Tom: "Coach Tom, thank you. I will do my best to help the team. I have some tactical ideas to share with you."
Coach Tom accepted happily: "Okay, then you will train with the team in the future. Smith and I will specially customize a training plan for you, so that your basic skills can cope with the NBA games in this six months."
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When Zhou Mubai returned to the apartment, she saw the bored Yu Lingyu leaning in the corner to play with her cell phone. The footsteps woke Yu Lingyu who was immersed in the mobile phone world. When she saw Zhou Mubai, she cheered and jumped up, jumping all the way to Zhou Mubai's eyes.
"Where have you been going? Why did you come back?"
Zhou Mubai looked at Yu Lingyu's face that was very similar to Xu Donglai, with a similar expression, and felt a strange feeling in his heart. He quickly turned his head and opened the door, suppressed the strange feeling, and said with a forced smile: "I'm going to the basketball hall. Some things are to be busy with, why are you here?"
Yu Lingyu said curiously: "Do you play basketball in the basketball hall?"
Zhou Mubai nodded and said, "That's right, I'll go to the basketball court to practice football every day in the future."
"Why, are you going to participate in NCAA? No, only undergraduates can participate in NCAA, and graduate students can't participate. Is it... you want to join NBA?"
Yu Lingyu stared at Zhou Mubai with wide eyes, and then looked frightened when Zhou Mubai nodded.
"How is it possible, have you played the ball before?"
Zhou Mubai shook his head and said, "No, but the coach thinks I am talented and will develop a special training plan for me... Hey, what are you here to do, why do you ask me thoroughly?"
Yu Lingyu suddenly remembered his mission: "By the way, my grandmother asked me to invite you to attend our family dinner tonight."
Zhou Mubai was stunned and said, "Family banquet?"
Yu Lingyu nodded heavily: "Well, family dinner."
Zhou Mubai remembered that Xu Donglai seemed to have told him that the person he married was a Chinese-born family in the United States. He had two sons and was quite promising. But what did he invite himself to do?
"Who is there?"
Yu Lingyu broke up his fingers and counted one by one: "This is a small family dinner, only my grandparents, my uncle's family, my parents, my uncle's two sons, my family... I am the only one, hehe, that's nine people, plus you ten people!"
Zhou Mubai said curiously: "Is there a small... or a large one?"
Yu Lingyu raised his head and said proudly: "Of course, our Yu family is a big family in the United States. There are clan meetings every year, and there must be hundreds of people gathering together."
Zhou Mubai nodded in surprise. It seems that the Yu family is really a so-called big family.
Since Xu Donglai wanted to invite him to visit his home, Zhou Mubai did not resist. He also wanted to see what the family Xu Donglai married into was like.
The place where Yu's family lives is not too far from Harvard University. Yu Lingyu drove over by himself. On the way in the past, Yu Lingyu chattered and introduced the situation of Yu's family to the sky.
Xu Donglai's husband is Yu Jiangyue, who was a second-generation immigrant at that time. He took over the Chinese restaurant left by his parents and opened it into a chain store of more than a dozen stores in decades. He is also very capable.
Yu Jiangyue and Xu Donglai's two sons, the eldest son Yu Chengde, the youngest son Yu Jiye, and Yu Lingyu's father is Yu Jiye.
Yu Chengde has two sons, the eldest son is Yu Lingjiang and the younger son is Yu Linghe.
Judging from Yu Lingyu's tone, he seemed not very good to these two cousins.
Although the Yu family is in the United States, we can still see that many domestic customs have been preserved. The whole family did not live separately, but lived in a big house.
Chapter completed!