I'm not really a role player

Chapter 34 Great Victory over the Unfamiliar and the Biggest Opponent

At halftime, the University of Texas led Texas A&M University by as many as 44 points with a score of 25:19, almost doubling their opponents.

Such a huge score gap is very rare even in the NCAA.

Not to mention, before this game, Texas A&M was considered one of the top four teams in the Big [-].

With the game played like this, people can only sigh: this year's University of Texas is too strong, I am afraid that Kansas is not even their opponent!

Larry Cooper only watched half of the game before making a conclusion for Li Ke.

Next, he focused his investigation on Du and Asilao.

"Compared to Sheldon Lee, who can get it in the second round, KD, who is the top pick, and Asilao, who is the favorite in the lottery, are the key points."

The performance of the Bobcats is terrible. After all, they are a rookie who joined the NBA in the 04-05 season. This season, it is only the third season.

They are not pretending to be bad, they are really bad.

In this case, Li Ke, who is regarded as the puzzle of a strong team, will naturally not be popular. The talented Xiaodu, or the general-like Asilau, are what this Bobcats urgently need.

"I don't know what Michael thinks. Let KD, who looks like a superstar at first glance, not investigate, but focuses on a natural role player like Sheldon Lee. Doesn't he know that a player like Sheldon Lee is nothing without a super giant as his thigh? How can the Bobcats have a super giant, unless Michael himself returns, huh..."

On the court, the second half of the game started.

Li Ke's defense against Asilau was even more tight.

In fact, Asilao only put a little pressure on Li Ke at the beginning of the first half. When Li Ke figured out Asilao's routine, the defense became very simple.

"This guy is a bit like Cheng Yaojin. He has three tricks. Either pick and roll, or make an emergency stop and change direction. If the first two fail, just pull one. If you go in, you go in. If you don't make it, it counts."

Said it was Chauncey Billups of the NCAA, but Li Ke felt that Asilao just abused the NCAA.

He and Chauncey's similar skills, once put in the NBA, will immediately become commonplace or even unqualified.

"No wonder this guy disappeared after a few seasons in the NBA."

Asilau spent seven seasons in the NBA, but based on the total number of games played, 82 games in a regular season, he only played less than three seasons in the NBA.

The University of Agricultural Machinery is Asilao's team alone. Once he is locked up, it will be difficult for other powerful factions that Xiao Du believes to play their original role.

The first half of the game was one-sided. In the second half, when the score fell behind, Billy Gillispie did not sit back and watch the team lose. He tried to replace Donald Sloan, focusing on the new style of double control.

Such a change only made A&M's offense a little more flexible, but it still couldn't solve the fundamental problem: they couldn't defend against the University of Texas' offense.

In the end, with a score of 86 to 54, the University of Texas defeated Texas A&M University at home and won a good start in the Big [-] regular season.

At the end of the game, the CBS commentary shouted: "The University of Texas has maintained its unbeaten record since the preseason of this season. This major victory over Texas A&M University, the top four seed in the Big [-] League, is enough to prove that the University of Texas is one of the most powerful contenders for the NCAA championship in the new season..."

On the court, Li Ke and Xiao Du clapped hands. The victory came so easily that Xiao Du couldn't believe it:
"This is Texas A&M University. We actually beat them by 32 points. Are we so strong?"

Li Ke shook his head: "I don't know, but I am sure that Texas A&M University is very weak."

Walking to the sidelines, Xiao Du immediately began to pay attention to the technical statistics of this game.

"37 points, 15 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals, 1 block...perfect debut statistics..."

Xiao Du continued to look down, and the next one was Li Ke.

"Selton, you are also very good, with 22 points, 3 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals, the same perfect debut data."

Li Ke was very dismissive: "Kevin, don't pay too much attention to the data."

Although, when he got the technical statistics, Li Ke was also very happy: finally, his NCAA scoring reached 20 points for the first time.

But looking at Xiao Du's data again, Li Ke immediately became righteous.

"Statistics are useless, Kevin, you will soon understand this. Sometimes, some things without statistics are more important. Of course, the most important thing is the victory of the game."

Xiao Du didn't have much time to listen to Li Ke's teachings, and soon he was pulled away by the CBS reporter.

Although he also performed well, after the game, Li Ke was ignored and could only follow other teammates and leave the court first.

Fortunately, when they reached the entrance of the passage, a group of Longhorn fans shouted Li Ke's name.

"Sheldon, Sheldon!"

"Come on, Sheldon, keep locking Brandon Rush!"

"..."

"Li Ke, Li Ke!"

Wait, there seems to be a different shout?
Li Ke turned his head and saw two beautiful faces, one of which was still familiar.

"That's Young Master Cong's favorite? I only saw it once, I don't quite remember..."

Li Ke shook his head secretly, because he was not familiar with it and the distance was too far, he had already reached the entrance of the passage, and he didn't want to turn around again.

Then he took a step and continued to walk towards the locker room...

"Sister Qiqi, tell me, did he see us?"

"Should... have seen it."

"Then why did he ignore us?"

"do not know."

"Did he not pay attention to us?"

"..."

"is not it?"

"..."

"No, I'm going to find him and ask him clearly!"

Sister Qiqi, whom Chen Miaoyang was talking about, sighed secretly, and grabbed Chen Miaoyang who was on the verge of going berserk.

"Forget it, Xiao Mian, maybe others feel that we are not familiar with us."

"Not familiar?!"

"..."

"Well, I'm really not familiar."

Chen Xiaoyang was like a deflated ball, drooping on the spot.

……

On the evening of the same day, the University of Kansas defeated Kansas State University at home, but it didn't win much. The score was 67 to 64, which was a narrow victory by 3 points.

Although it was a narrow victory, the Kansas locker room was filled with joy until they heard that the biggest rival in the league, the University of Texas, had won by a full 32 points against the second-largest rival, Texas A&M University.

"The Longhorns are really strong this year."

"Kevin Durant is phenomenal."

"There is also Sheldon Lee. It is unimaginable that Asilao was defended by him and only scored 7 points and 5 turnovers. That is Asilao, a guy with an outrageous assist-to-turnover ratio."

"..."

Brandon Rush slapped the cabinet and made a muffled bang:
"Okay, don't blow up others' prestige and destroy your ambition, it's just a regular season, it doesn't mean anything!"

Mario Chalmers also stood up: "Brandon is right. Let me add that the Longhorns are superstar basketball. We are team basketball. Team basketball will always restrain superstar basketball!"

(End of this chapter)