America is unique in the popularity of college basketball, and its popularity can even rival the Super Bowl.

As the regular season of the NCAA basketball competition approaches, the basketball atmosphere at the University of Southern California, a school that is not considered top-notch in basketball, has become extremely popular.

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

But he doesn’t think he should want this fame!

Recently he has been pointed at by passers-by at school.

What is known about his playing ability is that he led his team to two miserable defeats to the fine arts team.

As for his personality, the main thing that has spread is that he often gets into fights.

To sum up-can such a guy actually make the roster? I’m afraid it’s not a spot that can be bought with money!

Trojans fans are unhappy, and that sentiment is growing as the new season approaches.

The root cause of dissatisfaction is actually 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 player in the United States. This year only

A No. 89.

There has to be a place to vent emotions, and it just so happened that Li Ao was caught in the crossfire. Trojans fans put all their dissatisfaction on the fact that he was selected for the roster.

Li Ao was very angry at first. Why didn't anyone mention the fact that he had good academic performance?

If nothing unexpected happened, he estimated that the fact that he led the team to a miserable defeat of the art team and had frequent fights was spread within the department.

Those who talk about cross talk can live together until death.

Also, he is an overseas student from China, which is another debuff.

But over time, I got used to it.

Just think of the entire University of Southern California as the computer science department plus.

However, college team fans are more passionate and loyal than he imagined. No wonder even though the Trojans are scum within the great Trojans, Vivian and Liam still support the Trojans.

The team, this basketball atmosphere is so great.

Li Ao looked away from the matter. What Liam was more concerned about was that more people knew Li Ao. When he and Li Ao went out together, more people saw them, which made him feel more honorable.

But Vivian was very troubled. She wanted to explain to the students and teachers that, regardless of the facts, Li Ao was really a good boy, and he was not as bad as he was rumored to be.

But when the words came to her lips, she didn't know what to say, and for a moment she doubted her own knowledge...

The time came to November 20, Saturday, at 8:30 in the morning. There was still half an hour before the gathering time. Li Ao arrived at the Memorial Stadium in advance, but he was not the first to come. To be precise, after he arrived, only

No one arrived - clocking in Shelby Jordan.

Because we have to start preparing for the opening game today. When we start preparing, we have to determine the lineup. The lineup for the opening game represents the 12-man roster.

Some of the 16 people who arrived first came before 8 o'clock, but until Li Ao arrived, no one was training. They were all chatting or discussing the opponent for the opening game.

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

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

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

So after he arrived, he started to warm up directly and led the trainer to conduct individual defense training.

He feels that he is now in a stage of rapid improvement. The day before yesterday, on Thursday, his mid-range shot had improved to 70.

He heard Xavier Johnson, a professional, say that after a player starts receiving professional shooting training, there will be a stage of rapid improvement after a certain period of training.

But generally speaking, that stage occurs after half a year to a year of practice. Depending on the talent, if it lasts longer, you can basically be sure that you have no shooting talent.

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

After passing this stage, you will enter a bottleneck period, a big bottleneck between being able to shoot and an excellent pitcher.

That's a big bottleneck that many professional players can't get over until they retire.

Li Ao now wants to take advantage of this stage to work hard to improve his mid-range shooting, and hopes that the bottleneck will appear later. They are both capable of shooting, and there is a big difference.

At 9 o'clock, the coaching staff arrived at the main training ground on time. After calling the names, they did not say a lot of chicken soup like when the 18-man roster was announced. Henry Bibby said directly: "On the 24th, our opponent is the Bruins. The starter is

Brandon, Jeff, Shelby, Brian, Costas..."

The teammates looked at the five people standing together. When their names were called, they were Brandon Glanville, Jeff Trepagnier, Shelby Jordan, Brian Scalabrine, and Kostas.

-Charles and the five of them came together in tacit understanding, just to enjoy this moment.

Overwhelming sense of superiority!

Then there is the substitute list, Nate Hale, Malachi Thurston, Li Ao, David Brusenthal, Sam Clancy, Rashad Jones, Frankie Evanisco.

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

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

Several people who were close to him came up one after another to congratulate or make fun of Li Ao.

Li Ao was pleasantly surprised but relatively calm. He knew that he would not be a member of the core rotation, and being selected for 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 does he feel this way, but others also feel this way.

Regarding Li Ao being selected for the main roster, those who were not selected felt more disappointed than jealous of him.

He has never missed training in the past three months, and he trains with full enthusiasm every time, which his teammates can see.

Even the two top 100 high school students Sam Clancy and Nate Hale, who were unhappy with him, didn't think there was anything wrong with his selection. He earned it through hard work and talent, but they still couldn't stand it.

That's him.

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

Xavier Johnson said that Li Ao's mid-range improvement speed is rare. In fact, he has deliberately lowered his evaluation. He likes to say words of encouragement, but sometimes he will not praise it so harshly to prevent the players from being distracted.

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

Bai Mamba recalled that back then, his progress was not as fast as that of Li Ao. It could be described as terrifying.

After responding with a few words of "I am a genius", Li Ao received a system prompt!

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

Note: If the host is able to play in the game, he or she 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. In actual matches, it may be different from the strength evaluation report due to matchups, playing restraints, etc.

There is a big gap.”

The system screen switches back to the main interface, and the 'Team' option that was previously unavailable is now on.

After giving the command in his mind, he opened the team interface, which displayed the Trojans' player list for the 1999-2000 season and the player list of the Bruins, the team they were about to face.

He first looked at the opponent's lineup.

The one ranked first, the strongest, is a freshman.

Jason Kapono with an overall rating of 91!

He immediately took a look at his side. The strongest white man, Barbraine Scalabrine, had a comprehensive rating of 92!

After a wave of analysis, he figured it out - in the NCAA, where there is no defensive three seconds and experienced zone defense, the role of a top tall pitcher is greater than that of a center that surpasses the top.

These two are basically destined to play in the NBA. If they are white pitchers with running ability, many teams will want to try if they are not picked high, and the top evaluations of universities are normal.

When these two graduate as seniors, their abilities may be close to the top of the NCAA level.

He really wants to know how high the comprehensive evaluation of Adam Morrison, who will dominate the NCAA's invincible opponents in the next few years, will be, surpassing the top? That guy averaged 28 per game in his last year of college.

However, although the White Mamba can't beat Kapono, the gap between the others is huge.

In addition to White Mamba, they also have a first-class player - 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 will be no players with a comprehensive evaluation of 80.

And on the other side...

Jerome Moiso, Earl Watson, Dan Gazulic, Matt Barnes... there are 7 people who were in the top 100 in the United States in high school alone!

Although not all of these seven high school geniuses in the top 100 in the United States have been successful in college, there are only two of them in the top 100 high school students in the United States. One has not been successful, and the other is still a rookie, and their strength is far less than that of Kapono.

Outstanding.

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

If nothing else, there were quite a few names that impressed him.

Fortunately, there are still several players on their side who have a comprehensive evaluation of over 70. They are at the fringe level of Madness III. Even though the Bruins have lost Baron Davis, they are not without hope.

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

The first is never promising scholarships to high school students who are not in the top 100 in the United States, and the second is not allowing freshmen to start.

Baron Davis, who was famous all over the country in high school, had been playing as a substitute during his freshman season. Even though his team role, personal performance, and playing time in the latter part of the season exceeded that of starter Toby Bailey, he still played a few games.

Year substitute.

In the early years, this wasn't a problem. The Bruins were a big name.
To be continued...