UNLV, namely the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

As the ruler of the Great Western Union for nearly a decade, UNLV's strength needs no need to say.

In 1990, under the leadership of aunt Larry Johnson, they won the NCAA Championship.

Because of its outstanding achievements in recent years, UNLV has also entered the ranks of NCAA prestigious schools, and the enrollment is extremely attractive.

Their head coach was Rolei Massimino, who had previously led Villanova to win the NCAA championship.

The team's number one star is Isaiah Ledel, a typical black poor student.

After two years of college, he successfully advanced to undergraduate last season, and then joined UNLV.

In his first NCAA season, he averaged 20.7 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.2 assists, and he became the top card of UNLV.

This season, he broke out further, with averaging 29.1 points per game in the preseason, and another 8.9 rebounds, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals.

He also ranked before Lin Xing because of his explosive performance in the preseason and the Sport Illustrated Simulation Draft.

In addition to Ledel, they also have sophomore shooting guard Dexter Bernie, who averaged 17 points per game in the preseason;

And third-year forward Everick Gray, who averaged 16.2 points and 7.4 rebounds per game in the preseason.

Just look at the configuration, UNLV is very similar to the Long Beach branch.

They all have a good forward and a good shooting guard.

Also, their core height is around 2 meters, and their average score in the preseason is around 30 points.

Even the center position is equally weak, and the Long Beach School can only use the soft Chris Tavern.

UNLV is even more straightforward. Except for Danny Griffin, who is 2.06 meters tall, most of the time it takes to the center position is Everick Grey, who is 2.01 meters tall.

The inside line is full of slags, and the competition is just the outside line?

Lin Xing believes that the 3L combination composed of Byron Russell and Lucios Harris is definitely stronger than the UNLV trio.

However, the media don't think so.

In fact, you can see through the idea of ​​this group of media reporters and experts from the Sport Illustrated Simulation Draft.

During this period, Lin Xing led the team to sweep the preseason, won 14 games, and averaged 31.6 points, 3.4 rebounds, 10.3 assists, 3.5 steals per game, and only ranked fifth in the predicted ranking.

But judging from his performance against Grant Hill and public opinion suppressing Penny Hardaway, at least, he should also be in the top three.

Why is it just the fifth?

Because in the eyes of many journalists and experts, Lin Xing is too young and has not fully proved himself.

The 14 preseason games, to put it bluntly, are a short period of the long season.

That is, the NCAA, the preseason can be as important as the next regular season and championship.

Especially for schools like Long Beach, which are in minor leagues, the opponents you encounter in the preseason are much better than those in the league.

When it comes to value, the value of preseason is obviously higher.

The only difference is that there are no championship trophys in the preseason, and there are regular season and championships.

Many years later, people will not remember the Long Beach preseason victory this year.

What they can remember is only the Grand Western League this year, who is the regular season champion and who is the championship champion.

So, after all, Lin Xing just proved that his upper limit is very high, so high that it is like an explosion.

But more competitions need to be confirmed by his lower limit.

In contrast, Chris Webber, Isiah Laidel, Penny Hardaway, and Grant Hill, who is already the third season of the NCAA.

They all have enough games to prove that their upper limit is not low and the lower limit is very high.

Nowadays, the NBA still prefers to choose some finished products.

For example, in the 1992 draft, from the No. 1 pick to the Tanhua, the third-grade Shark, the fourth-grade Morning and the fourth-grade Christian Leitner.

They don’t like young semi-finished products like Lin Xing.

This situation was not changed dramatically until Kevin Garnett was selected by the Timberwolves and succeeded.

"Although we beat Duke in the preseason and won a complete victory, this does not mean that we are already invincible. The old players should understand how powerful UNLV is..."

Not only the media, Seth Greenberg also emphasized in various ways, trying every means to reduce the team's fire.

Lin Xing felt that this wave was Greenberg's situation was smaller.

When he turned his head and looked at his teammates, he found that Lucios and Russell's faces were full of caution.

"No, are you all so cowardly?"

"Star, we are really not cowardly..."

Lucios felt that he needed to explain,

"Do you know what UNLV record last season?"

"What's the record?"

"They only lost two games in the preseason, both of which were lost when the lineup and rotation at the beginning of the season were still uncertain. In the next regular season of the Great Western Conference, they won a complete victory..."

"All win?"

This surprised Lin Xing a little, but it was just an accident.

The Great Western League is too small, so small that its regular season intensity is too low, so low that it must be worse than the preseason.

Lin Xing felt that a complete victory in the regular season really couldn't prove anything.

"Yes, they didn't lose a game, completely crushing the Great Western League last season.

This season, compared to last season, they only lacked Elmer Spencer, who graduated from senior year."

Lin Xing shook his head, but he still looked down on this UNLV.

But now, he understands why that group of media reporters are optimistic about UNLV.

...

When Lin Xing looked down on UNLV, Las Vegas and UNLV were also discussing the regular season schedule.

"The first game is going to play Long Beach, and the pressure is so great..."

The person who said this was UNLV's 183-year-old controller Dedan Thomas, who was from the heart.

As soon as he thinks of the next game, he will face Stalin, and he feels uncomfortable and wants to take a sick leave.

Teammates nodded as well—

"Yes, Long Beach is so powerful that even Duke is fucked by them!"

"The game within the Great Western League this year is no longer easy."

"You must never lose in the first game, if you lose..."

In the locker room, Isaiya Laidel, who had been silent, sneered:

"I really don't know why you panic, Long Beach? We played two games with them last year, how many points did we win in total?"

Leder spread his hands, "I won 25 points in one game and 19 points in the other game. Is there any suspense?"

"But, they are different this year, they have one more..."

Dedan Thomas wants to remind Ledel that there is an extra pervert at Long Beach this year.

But Laidel interrupted him directly: "That East Asian? He is indeed not weak, but with me here, he is just a dish, do you know?"

Isaiah Laidel is very confident, his confidence comes very directly:

"Do you know Sports Illustrated? Do you know Sports Illustrated's mock draft? Do you know the mock draft I ranked ahead of that East Asian?

You guys relax. With me here, Long Beach is no different from last year!”

Other UNLV players still believe in Ledel's strength.

After all, this guy brought them to the terrifying record of winning the regular season with the Grand Western Conference. Stalin was in the limelight this season, and Leider was no less than Stalin.

Looking at the extremely confident Ledel, Dedan Thomas touched his chin: Perhaps, Isaiah really has the possibility of crushing Stalin...

...

Lin Xing didn't know whether the opponent in the next game was already considering whether to crush him.

There was a long holiday between the preseason and the regular season. He took advantage of this long holiday to go back to Los Angeles.

He had no choice but to go back, Lin's father and mother would rush to Changtan and take him back.

While carrying him back, he would also say:

"Other people's children run home as soon as they are on holiday. You'll stay in the basketball hall as soon as they are on holiday.

Why, you want to be a mouse in the basketball arena, right?"

Listening to this, Lin Xing really wanted to nod.

Basketball Hall Rat? For those who play basketball, this is the ultimate praise.
To be continued...