Jim Bonham is the man most familiar with Syracuse University’s basketball gym on the planet.
Since becoming a student at Syracuse University in 1962, he has only played in the professional league for a few years and spent most of the rest of his time in this arena.
He became an assistant coach at Syracuse University in 1969 and has been the head coach of the Orangemen since 1976.
Coach Jim noticed Jake Sue a week ago.
Originally, it was a trade between him and Reggie Weems that allowed Jack Su to enter the team's roster.
In college basketball, although superstars do not receive abundant material rewards, they do have privileges. Reggie Weems named the Chinese point guard to the roster, and the coaching staff and the sports committee had to fight for a scholarship for him.
With the unexpected death of Reggie Weems, this 'unfinished project' became a priority that the coaching staff had to deal with.
In the NCAA, each team's official roster has personnel limits, and they don't want to waste another spot. Because the roster itself is redundant.
This past week he returned to school and started working. Every day you can see Su Xi going out early and coming back late for training. This kid is working hard and improving very quickly.
In the evening, he also went to the surrounding courts to play ball.
Coach Jim went to see it twice. Although it was a relatively low-level game, Suhi showed abilities that he did not have last season.
Jim likes players who work hard.
And he has no color discrimination. He does not think that people with yellow skin should sit in business school classrooms and study hard and work hard for Wall Street offers.
Interestingly, yesterday afternoon, Jim Boham accidentally witnessed the whole process of Su Xi rejecting the girl. At that time, he was dazing in front of the office window with a cup of coffee.
Then, he saw a beautiful Chinese girl calling Su Xi out of the gym.
This beautiful Chinese girl expresses her love to Su Xi very carefully. It can be seen that she is very brave and she really wants to date Jack Su.
Jim laughed then.
He came from a young age and he didn't think it was something inappropriate.
He even thought in a wicked way: Jack won't consume the arena's electricity bill tonight. He will go to a hotel to train all night.
However, something happened that he didn't expect.
Su Xi actually rejected this girl. He said firmly: "I can understand your emotions because I have helped you. But you have to know that I helped you because I thought you needed my help. You just came from China and you have language problems. , and I can also speak some simple Chinese.”
"It's gratitude, it's not love."
Su Xi calmly rejected Huang Xiaoman.
However, Huang Xiaoman stated clearly: "No, I know very well that this is not gratitude. I just like you."
Jim mentally praised this brave girl. He knew that Chinese girls are usually very shy.
He hoped that little bastard Jack would agree to this brave girl quickly. After all, this girl was so beautiful and outstanding.
Su Xi still shook her head. He said: "You should focus on your studies, you have a bright future. You should not focus on me, as if I am going to focus all my energy on basketball now. I can't separate Any bit of energy given to others.”
"sorry!"
Su Xi finally gave the girl a gentleman's hug, and then he returned to the basketball court, as if nothing had happened, he continued training, and he was performing his training tasks according to the original plan.
Jim Bonham was very shocked. He had seen many restless teenagers at Susie's age. He had worked on the basketball team for so many years, and he knew very well what kind of behavior these sports stars had on campus. A girl would often come to him crying to accuse an irresponsible basketball player.
As a head coach, he tends to push these things down.
This made many members of the basketball team feel that this was a 'hint' that they could do whatever they wanted in the relationship between men and women.
This guy actually loves basketball so much?
Coach Jim was shocked at this moment. He thought of himself... In the distant 1962, he also loved basketball so much, but at that time he confessed to the girl he liked and was rejected.
He then begged his roommate Dave Bing to help him get into the school team so he could be favored by more girls. He even pursued the girl, but unfortunately, the girl ended up marrying the school's rugby star.
As a freshman, he didn't get a chance to play at all. His self-esteem pushed him to train tenaciously, and he continued to improve, reaching heights he could not have imagined.
Then he forgot about the girl.
In his senior year, he even became the captain of the school team, and then led the team with Dave Bing to achieve the best results in the history of the school team at that time. Then Dave Bing entered the NBA, and he quickly returned to campus and has been coaching the school team to this day.
He saw his own shadow in Su Xi... although this shadow was opposite to his.
But he doesn't mind. It's not normal for people to have memory deviations as they get older. Is there any difference between me rejecting that girl and that girl rejecting me? Does it affect me becoming a head coach?
Coach Jim thought: Maybe it would be a good choice to keep this little guy on the school team. He could stay in the reserves and maybe be like me one day?
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When Gray McNamara showed up at the Orangemen basketball gym at Syracuse University carrying a duffel bag, no one recognized the Pennsylvania high school Mr. Basketball player.
Wearing simple shorts and a T-shirt, he came to visit the future home arena.
McNamara was different from other high school stars in that he had no swashbuckling pomp.
Su Xi ran wildly back and forth on the court. He tied sandbags to his legs and kept sprinting. He used this method to improve his strength and explosiveness.
McNamara stood on the sidelines, looking at Su Xi who was sprinting madly.
I thought to myself: A different training method, don’t you worry about your knees?
He walked around the arena for half an hour.
He is very satisfied with the hardware facilities here, which is similar to what the coaching staff said when recruiting. It is indeed the best college basketball team in New York State.
He walked over and asked Susie: "Hello, are you a player for the Orangemen? I'm Gray McNamara."
Su Xi raised her head. This was a plainly dressed white boy with a clear smile on his face.
he said yes."
Then, he added: "You can visit at will. If you want to play for a while, there are basketballs and locker rooms in the back. Our summer vacation management is not very strict."
McNamara laughed. He thought to himself that this new teammate must not know his name yet.
That's right, this is not Pennsylvania, and my fame has not expanded to the United States.
However, it was also very fast.
After all, my goal is not to become an ordinary NCAA player, I want to play in the NBA!
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