Basketball boy, starting to shine from the slam dunk

Los Angeles, USA.

UCLA finally ended its losing streak, with a regular season record of 6 wins and 3 losses, which is the same as the University of Southern California. It has temporarily maintained its sixth position in the standings.

Although the game is over, people are still talking about Zhuang Yu's performance and regard him as the biggest surprise of the UCLA Bruins this season.

"Zhuang is great."

"Yes, his performance in the past few games has been very stable. He scored more than ten points in almost every game, and also had more than five assists. For a freshman player, this is already very good. What's more, He scored 27 points in this game."

"I admit that I was wrong, and I must apologize to Zhuang. In the past, I always thought that China did not have good players, at least no good defenders. But now I know that I was wrong. Zhuang's performance can completely prove that this view is wrong. He’s awesome!”

Some good people also started voting online to select the "UCLA Most Popular Player". Many students rushed to participate and voted for Zhuang Yu.

Chinese students, in particular, spontaneously organized themselves to vote for Zhuang Yu, and even contacted Chinese students they knew from other schools to vote for Zhuang Yu together.

Ji Chen is a sophomore studying at UCLA. He is only 1.65 meters tall and has black-rimmed myopic eyes. In the eyes of a group of foreign students, he is like an ugly duckling who is always bullied. that one.

In order to fit in with his classmates, he changed his English name to Jack, but he was laughed at for a long time.

In the end, no one called him by his English name, only his Chinese name. I don’t know if the foreigners’ pronunciation was not standard or intentional. It didn’t sound like “Ji Chen”, but more like “Chicken”.

The word can also refer to "weak chicken".

At this moment, Ji Chen is sitting in the classroom, holding a laptop in his hand, and voting for Zhuang Yu. Although he is short, he likes basketball very much.

It’s just that I don’t dare to play at school for fear of being laughed at.

"Chicken, what are you doing?"

A voice came from behind.

"Oh..." Eric was obviously disappointed. He patted Ji Chen on the shoulder and turned to leave.

Looking at Eric's back, Ji Chen didn't know where she got the courage and shouted at Eric: "My name is not Chicken."

what?

Eric looked back.

Ji Chen took a deep breath and did not dodge this time. He met Eric's gaze and said word by word: "My name is not Chicken, nor Jack. My name is Ji Chen."

The two looked at each other for a few seconds. To Ji Chen's expectation, Eric did not laugh at him, but said: "Okay, I won't call you Chicken from now on. In fact, I am still very talented in Chinese. I have You can read Zhuang's name, right?"

Ji Chen couldn't help but correct him: "It's Zhuang Yu."

Eric muttered the word "Zhuang Yu", turned around and left.

It wasn't until Eric's figure disappeared that Ji Chen came back to his senses. He reopened his notebook and wrote online: "Thank you Zhuang Yu, thank you for making me brave."

In fact, there are still a small number of people like Ji Chen. There are also many Chinese students who have a good life at UCLA and get along well with their classmates.

For a moment, the office became quiet.

The three assistant coaches looked at Coach Holland, and Coach Holland frowned, seeming to be thinking...

[Author's digression]: Change first and then change!