From sparring to superstar

Chapter 16 15. The object of study is actually him
In the popularity of college basketball, America is considered to be the only one. By the time of Crazy Three, it can catch up with the Super Bowl.

The NCAA basketball regular season is approaching, and the basketball atmosphere of USC, which is not a top-notch school, is already extremely hot.

With the announcement of the 18-member roster of the school team, Li Ao's reputation outside the School of Computer Science also began to increase.

But this fame, he thinks it's worth it!
Recently, he has been pointed at by passers-by at school.

In terms of his playing ability, he led the team to two disastrous defeats to the art team.

In terms of his personality, what was spread was mainly about his frequent fights.

To sum it up - how can a guy like this make the roster?I'm afraid it's not a place to buy with money!
Trojans fans are disaffected, and as the new season draws closer, the sentiment is only growing.

The root cause of dissatisfaction is that they failed to attract those talented high school students to join this summer, and their signing performance was not even as good as last summer. Although Sam Clancy did not perform well last season, they at least introduced a top 50 in the United States. An 89th place.

There must be a place to vent emotions, and it happened that Li Ao hit the gun, and the fans of the Trojans put all their dissatisfaction on the fact that he was selected for the roster.

On Li Ao's side, he was very angry at first, why didn't anyone mention his good academic performance?
If there is no accident, he guessed that the news that he led the team to defeat the art team and often fights was spread within the department.

Those who talk about cross talk hope to die together.

In addition, he is a Chinese student, which is another debuff.

But over time, you get used to it.

It is enough to regard the entire school of Southern California as a plus of the computer department.

However, the fans of the college team are more enthusiastic than he imagined, and their loyalty is also extremely high. No wonder Vivienne and Liam still support the Trojans even though the Trojans are a scum within the great Trojan Legion. Team, this basketball atmosphere is too full.

Li Ao took this matter aside, Liam was more concerned about the fact that more people knew Li Ao, and when he and Li Ao went out together, more people saw them, so he felt more honored.

But Vivienne was very distressed. She really wanted to explain to the students and teachers that aside from the facts, Li Ao was really a good boy, not as bad as the rumors said.

But when the words came to her mouth, she didn't know what to say, and she doubted her cognition for a while...

The time came to November 11th, Saturday, 20:8 in the morning, half an hour before the assembly time, Li Ao arrived at the Memorial Stadium ahead of schedule, but he was not the first one. To be precise, after he arrived, only No one showed up - clocked in Shelby Jordan.

Because we are going to start preparing for the opening game today, and when we start preparing for the game, we must determine the lineup. The lineup for the opening game represents the 12-man roster.

The first 16 people came before 8 o'clock, but until Li Ao came, no one was training, and they were all chatting or discussing the opening game opponent UCLA.

At this time, there is no way to concentrate on training.

Those who are not confident to enter the main team are looking forward to it, and those who are confident to enter the main team also want to know who their teammates will be in the opening game in a few days.

Li Ao is also looking forward to it, but he is not so entangled. He feels that he is very lucky to be selected for the squad. He was already prepared to be a training partner for a year.

So when he arrived, he started warming up directly, pulling the trainer for single-defense task training.

He feels that he is now in a stage of rapid improvement. The day before yesterday, on Thursday, his CIC has been raised to 70.

He heard Xavier Johnson, a professional, say that after a player starts professional shooting training, he will have a rapid improvement stage after training for a certain period of time.

But generally speaking, that stage appears after half a year to a year of practice, depending on talent, if it takes longer, you can basically be sure that you don't have shooting talent.

It is rare for him to reach this stage in 3 months in the career of Xavier Johnson, a shooting coach with many years of experience.

After passing this stage, it will enter the bottleneck period, a big bottleneck between being able to shoot and being a good shooter.

That big bottleneck, many professional players can't get over it until they retire.

Li Ao now wants to take advantage of this stage to work hard to improve his CIC, hoping that the bottleneck will appear later, and there is a big difference between being able to cast.

At 9:18, the coaching staff came to the main training ground on time. After the roll call, Henry Bibby said directly, "On the 24th, our opponent is the Bruins. Brandon, Jeff, Shelby, Brian, Costas..."

The teammates looked at the 5 people standing together. During the roll call, Brandon Granville, Jeff Trepagnier, Shelby Jordan, Brian Scalabrine, Costas -Charles and the five of them came together tacitly, just to enjoy this moment.

The sense of superiority is overwhelming!
Then came the bench list, Nate Hale, Malaji Thurston, Li Ao, David Brusenthal, Sam Clancy, Rashad Jones, Frankie Evanisco.

This time, the teammates, including the five starters, all looked at Li Ao, and even the weird Shelby Jordan was surprised.

Trepagnier came up and gave Li Ao a small fist in the chest: "Haha, I didn't expect you to be selected. If you can play, I will pass the ball to you!"

Several people with good relationship came up to congratulate or ridicule Li Ao.

Li Ao was pleasantly surprised but calmer. He knew that he would not be a member of the core rotation, and being selected to the 12-man roster did not mean he would have a chance to play.

This can be heard from Trepagnier's congratulatory words.

Not only did he think so, but everyone else did too.

Regarding Li Ao's selection to the main list, those who were not selected felt more disappointed than jealous of him.

In the past three months, he has never missed training, and every time he trains with full enthusiasm, his teammates are watching.

Even Sam Clancy and Nate Hale, the two top [-] high school students who watched him as a group, didn't think there was any problem with his selection. He was won by hard work and talent, but they still couldn't get used to it. He is.

Yes, the word "talent" also appeared in the mouths of his teammates after Li Aozhong reached the stage of rapid improvement.

According to Xavier Johnson, Li Ao's progress in mid-range shots is rare, but he has deliberately lowered his evaluation. He likes to say words of encouragement, but sometimes he doesn't exaggerate so hard, lest the players get lost.

Teammates who have less knowledge, there is no one around them who can achieve a good level of mid-range shooting after three months of zero-basic training.

Bai Mamba recalled that he didn't improve as fast as Li Ao back then, which can be described as terrible.

After answering a few words "I'm a genius", Li Ao received a system prompt!

"The host has been selected into the main lineup of the Trojans and will represent the Trojans in the game against the Bruins. You can view the strength evaluation report of the teammates and opponents in this game.

Note: If the host can play the game, you can view the player strength evaluation report for the game. The strength evaluation report is only judged based on the player's past comprehensive performance. There is a large gap. "

The system screen switches back to the main interface, and the 'Team' option, which could not be viewed before, is now on.

After he issued an instruction in his mind, he opened the team interface, showing the player list of the Trojans for the 1999-2000 season, as well as the player list of the upcoming team UCLA Bruins.

He first looked at the opposing lineup.

The first, the strongest, is a freshman.

Jason Kapono with a comprehensive evaluation of 91!
He immediately looked at his side, the strongest white mamba, Brian Scalabrine, with a comprehensive evaluation as high as 92!

After analyzing a wave, he figured it out—in the NCAA, which has no defensive three seconds and has rich experience in zone defense, the role of top tall pitchers is greater than that of top centers.

These two are basically destined to play in the NBA. If a white pitcher with running ability is not high in the draft, many teams will want to try it, and the top evaluation of the university is normal.

When these two graduated from their senior years, their strength may be close to the top limit of the NCAA level.

He really wants to know how high the comprehensive evaluation of Adam Morrison, who will be invincible in the NCAA in the next few years, surpasses the top?The guy averaged 28+ in his final year of college.

However, although Kapono's White Mamba is strong, the gap between the others is large.

In addition to the White Mamba, they also have a first-class player on their side-Granville, with a comprehensive evaluation of 87.

Behind them are Trepagnier with an overall rating of 81 and Brusenthal with an overall rating of 83.

After that, there is no player with a comprehensive evaluation of 80.

And opposite...

Jerome Moiso, Earl Watson, Dan Gadzulic, Matt Barnes... 7 of them were in the top [-] in the United States in high school alone!
Although not all of the 7 top [-] high school geniuses in the United States have achieved success in college, there are only two of them in the top [-] high school students in the United States. outstanding.

Even if Baron Davis participated in the draft early and the Bruins fell from the top team, the lineup still made Li Ao speechless.

Not to mention anything else, he has a lot of names in his impression.

Fortunately, there are still several of them with a comprehensive evaluation above 70. They are at the fringe level of Crazy Three, and they have no chance to play when the Bruins lose Baron Davis.

He heard Vivienne say something about the Bruins. This team may be the most successful basketball team in NCAA history. They are very proud of their players, mainly reflected in two points.

The first is never to promise scholarships to high school students who are not in the top [-] in the United States, and the second is not to allow freshmen to start.

Rao is Baron Davis, who was well-known in the United States in high school. He has been playing as a substitute in his freshman year. year substitute.

In the early years, this was not a problem, the UCLA Bruins, that is a famous brand.

But in recent years, the age of rookies in the NBA draft has been decreasing year by year, and more and more of them earn a lot of money after playing freshmen and sophomores. Many talented high school students have begun not to favor UCLA, such as this year’s No. -Harvey rejected UCLA's invitation and joined the University of Florida, which guaranteed him the core position of the striker.

In the past summer, the Bruins suffered the biggest Waterloo in team history in the competition for talented high school students, and only got the [-]th in the United States Jason Kapono.

The top 1 high school students in the United States are not enough points for the first-level league teams. Because UCLA does not promise to give full scholarships, the high school students who are outside the top [-] need to compete for scholarships with performance and cannot guarantee playing time. This has led to UCLA this summer. There is one and only one copy of the full basketball given in advance, which is for Jason Kapono.

Those who were famous outside the top [-] were all snatched away by various colleges and universities, and none of them went to UCLA to try their luck.

Although relying on the top 70 high school students in the United States recruited in the past two summers, there is also Kapono, a shooting striker who is more suitable for the NCAA, to replace Baron Davis. The high-level combat power is enough, but the role player with 70+ level strength , The Bruins team is pitifully small and faulty, and one-third of the players have a comprehensive evaluation below [-].

Looking at it like this, Li Ao suddenly felt that he could fight too!
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After announcing the lineup, the coaching staff began to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the game against the Bruins and talk about how to play.

Like Li Ao's analysis, the coaching staff also believes that their advantage lies in the second team.

But what surprised him was that in the starting stage, the key player in the minds of the coaching staff was not the White Mamba or Granville, but Shelby Jordan.

At the tactical level, the coaching staff is well-prepared. The Bruins, the opponent, play against each other at least twice a year. The opponent’s coach lineup is stable, and the players change, but the tactical system is stable. Media experts analyze the Bruins’ style of play repeatedly every year. In other words, preparing for this opponent is the easiest.

Then began to carry out targeted tactical training. At this time, some people were extremely active and wanted to steal the show very much. The coaching staff stopped this behavior.

After being stopped, some were thin-skinned and stopped doing unnecessary things, and some were thick-skinned, such as Sam Clancy and Nate Hale, who did not listen to what they said, but the coaching staff did not order them to stop ,just a reminder.

The coaches felt that Sam Clancy was difficult to discipline, but this kind of person who wanted to make a difference always left a deeper impression on them.

Li Ao just does what he can do. His role in the tactical system is very simple, and the things he does in training are also very simple.

When he has nothing to do, he runs away to practice the basic skills needed for shooting or single defense.

This stable mentality also made the coaches appreciate it very much.

Henry Bibby was very sorry at this time.

Li Ao has talent, hard work, and psychological quality, but just like Li Ao's systematic evaluation, in the eyes of Henry Bibby, Li Ao is not a qualified member of the NCAA Division I school team, and his ability is too single.

But Henry Bibby regretted that Li Ao couldn't make a contribution right away... no, he couldn't start squeezing this kid right away.

4 days passed quickly, and November 11th arrived.

Today is Wednesday, tomorrow is the Thanksgiving holiday, from Thursday to Sunday, 4 days of holiday.

Before the start of Thanksgiving, two to three hundred teams in the NCAA Division I will kick off the new season today.

Li Ao didn't have to go to class today, and the school was on holiday, but he still went to class in the morning.

The arrangement of the coaching staff is to gather at [-] o'clock in the afternoon to prepare for the evening game and let the players sleep in. The non-academic Henry Bibby knows the players.

The new season is about to begin, and the enthusiasm of the fans will usher in the first climax. Some men and women in the school who use sleeping school team members as a way to show off their capital are particularly excited at this time. When I came out of the memorial gymnasium, I was hooked up by men and women... well, men and women.

Those who want to hook up with Li Ao are actually the most, and the choice of flesh and blood is based on face.

But seeing too much of the auntie next door, these really-coquettish sluts, he really doesn't like them.

However, there are those who look very mature, who look like 40 or [-] years old, and he will take the small card sent up and give it to Liam, in exchange for a "good brother".

After lunch, Li Ao came to the Memorial Gymnasium to report on time, and accompanied the team for the final preparations before the match.

In the past 4 days, except for Sunday because of Sunday, there was no team training, and the other three days were spent in training after school, and all the preparations that could be made have been done. Today's preparations are very simple. I have emphasized the execution of tactics, and put the time into practice. handed over to the players.

Li Ao discussed tactics with his teammates. He was mainly responsible for listening. Kevin Henderson told him that as a defensive pitcher, he needs to learn more about how his teammates are used to playing and how he is used to doing when encountering different opponents. what an adjustment.

He didn't teach too much in detail, so he followed his own way—first of all, he listened.

The basketball system in the United States is too mature. For intramural games, each department will hire a coach. The price is not expensive. American coaches are worthless. Although the three melons and two jujubes in their computer department are worthless, they also hired coaches. .

There are professional coaches in junior high schools in the United States, and his teammates are very familiar with how to prepare before the game.

But in China, not to mention junior high school, it would be nice to have a physical education teacher with professional basketball knowledge in high school, and even most universities cannot find a professional basketball coach in the true sense.

In this regard, Li Ao is actively learning, starting from listening.

Just like what he thought, when discussing tactics, the teammates who talk are basically the core of the tactics, or the team's strongest player like the White Mamba, and the others basically don't intervene. What surprised him was Sam Crane West's attention-grabbing love didn't intervene.

Sam Clancy used to like to interject, but basically he interjected. He wanted everyone to listen to him. No one responded to him, and even after he was laughed at, he stopped interjecting randomly. His heart is also made of meat. , when being ridiculed but unable to refute and dare not fight, it still hurts.

He didn't make no progress last season, it's just that the points of improvement are hard to notice, such as this aspect.

On the contrary, Shelby Jordan, chatting very enthusiastically with the tactical core and main scorers, teammates who usually don’t like to see or are afraid to talk to him, are discussing with him at this time, mainly analyzing the brown bears team defense.

Even Li Ao can feel that Shelby Jordan is better than other teammates in this respect.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Ao understood the reason-Shelby Jordan is really talented in defense!
For the understanding of defense, Shelby Jordan is far better than his teammates, so he is so valued by the coaching staff.

It's a pity that this guy's physical condition is too mediocre except for his height. He only went to college at the age of 20. At the age of 22, after his body has fully developed, he has enough physical condition to cope with NCAA-level competitions. He didn't go any further. possible.

Hearing that Shelby Jordan helped White Mamba analyze how to deal with Matt Barnes, Li Ao thought of Kapono's scouting report, and followed Shelby Jordan's thinking about how to deal with Kapono...

He doesn't want to admit it, but learning from Shelby Jordan seems to suit him best right now.

When he realized that his train of thought had already followed the path of his insanity, it was too bad, he couldn't stop.

(End of this chapter)