super heavy artillery

Chapter 45 New Teammates
Compared with the huge security and coaching team, the number of players in the UCLA Bruins is somewhat small.In fact, there are very few. Including An Luo, there are only fourteen people, and the roster of 15 people has not even been made up yet, but anyway, only twelve people can be included.

Besides, the fewer people, the less competition!An Luo wished there were only five people in the entire team.

After several seasons of troughs, under the leadership of the new coach, the team finally played the momentum it should have as an NCAA giant.Although it's a pity to fail in the top 64, such a result is already very remarkable.After entering the championship, the game became extremely cruel.The single-elimination game made a total of [-] teams from all divisions in the United States feel like they were walking a tightrope, and they would fall off if they were not careful.

For a team with championship genes, winning the championship is their goal every year.A new cycle will start in three months, when all the teams will become UCLA's roadblock.If you want to go to the end, you have to go all the way, and you have to act now.

Head coach Steve Alford is a commanding middle-aged man.He briefly summarized the past year, and then introduced some personnel changes in his team. Finally, he introduced the new players who joined this year to everyone.

The first is Aaron Holiday from Campbell Hall, who is considered one of the most dynamic guards in the country.As a high school student ranked among the top 2015 in the United States in 75, Holiday is the focus of the UCLA Bruins this summer.Fortunately, this guy with excellent physical fitness and personal ability plays the first position.This is not a bad thing for An Luo.

An Luo knows this person, mainly because he has two powerful brothers, the eldest brother Justin Holiday and the second brother Zhu Holiday are both NBA-level players.Especially the second child of this family, Zhu Holiday, was selected as an NBA Eastern All-Star in 13.

I don't know what kind of powerful genes created such a family, it's really enviable!

In addition to Aaron, the big man Alex Olesinski who chatted with An Luo before, and the four-star high school student "Prince Ali" Prince Ali are also new to the team this year. An outstanding player.

The rest are old sophomores and juniors. An Luo doesn't know if these people are good or not, but one of them caught his attention.This man was Bryce Alford, one of the few Alex introduced at the beginning.Although it is normal to have the same surname, An Luo's intuition tells An Luo that this person may have something to do with the team's head coach Steve Alford.

"Well, no matter what, we should have a better relationship with this person." An Luo couldn't help thinking in his heart.

For any team, it takes some time for a newcomer to blend in.There will be some gaps between old people and newcomers.Therefore, small circles are formed.Take the current Bruins team as an example, basically every grade has a circle, and there is still a lot of competition among them.

No matter what grade the player is, he will try his best to fight for his position in the team.The players who can enter UCLA are all powerful figures in high school, and no one wants to be mediocre in college.Everyone wants to have enough playing time, and then play a good record and personal data, so that they can enter the NBA smoothly.

Anyway, there are only five positions on the court, and everyone wants to play.And in the current Bruins team, the main competition is on the back line. With the addition of An Luo, there are nine defenders in the entire team.In other positions, there are three forwards and two centers. People only worry about whether the game is tired or not, and they don't have to worry about playing time at all.

Such a lineup configuration is very unreasonable, but it is a microcosm of current basketball.

The development of the NBA in recent years has been going from big to small, from the four great centers in the 90s, to the brave performances of Duncan, Garnett, and Nowitzki at the beginning of the century, and then to a few years ago James, Durant, Anthony, Paul George and other small forwards dominated the league, and finally reached the current prosperous age of guards, especially the number one position is full of flowers.Like Curry, Westbrook, James Harden, etc., a group of extremely talented guards, they have different styles, but they can all lead the team to victory with their own styles, and it is the guard group led by them that is too strong , So it also led to the gradual decline of inside players.

For young players, they also prefer the position of defender.Smart and handsome dribbling, precise and handsome shooting, and unexpected passing, these actions are very entertaining, allowing them to "show".

But An Luo is not afraid of competition. As long as it is fair and just, he has the confidence to gain a firm foothold in the team and get a place.

Throughout the morning, the relevant personnel of the coaching staff were measuring the relevant physical data of these [-] players.This link is very important. The coaching staff must know their players well enough to formulate the best training plan.

An Luo's side data remained unchanged.Basically, relying on intermediate physical fitness can only improve to this level.An Luo feels that he can develop like Curry. Of course, Curry's physical fitness is not bad.

There is no training arranged in the afternoon, and the coaching staff's plan also takes time.So let everyone move freely, and the players can get acquainted with each other by the way.

An Luo, Aaron, Alex, and Prince got together consciously. After all, they all came to grab someone's position.I have to say that these guys are really powerful, and each has its own characteristics.Aaron's dexterous body and excellent ball-handling ability, Prince's explosive body and sharp breakthrough, Alex's stable mid-range shot and sharp rebound, are too strong.What makes An Luo even more envious is that these guys can easily abuse the frame, especially Aaron, who is 1.8 meters five, without any effort.Unlike An Luo, he is 2 centimeters taller than others, but he can barely buckle.Fortunately, it was his three-pointer that convinced these few.Aaron was the happiest. A backcourt partner who can score stably without occupying the ball is the dream of every No. [-] position.

These new radishes quickly became a piece.Everyone gathered under one rebound, An Luo taught them the fadeaway jumper, and they taught An Luo to dunk.After all, he is a young man, has common hobbies, and has strength, so it is natural to get along.

An Luo felt a bit like being in No. [-] Middle School, and he liked it very much.

(End of this chapter)