From sparring to superstar

Chapter 70 68.27 consecutive victories!

The NCAA has spent a lot of thought on the grouping of the top 64 of the Crazy Three, trying to arrange each team that has scored in the Crazy Three in a suitable position. The strength gap between the 9-12 and 13-16 in each group Possibly quite large.

The most intuitive statistical statistics show that every year, teams ranked 9-12 will be defeated, but teams ranked 13-16 will be upset, which is already a matter of the late 70s.

Seeing the current situation of the teams in the same league who have competed for several months, Li Ao felt deeply sympathetic and very sad.

Squeezed, but did not squeeze out tears.

Then use a wry smile to express the sadness in your heart.

With the experience of the first game, Li Ao and his teammates have a better understanding of how to make good use of the current stage of the game.

Winning must be won. Although these games are not paid attention to, they are still official games in the official NCAA statistics. Now they are winning streak, and they must continue.

But the mentality of the game has been relaxed, and he is more focused on exercising his own abilities, polishing the team's tactics, and forming a better tacit understanding with his teammates.

Li Ao now has three strengthening directions, one is to continue to strengthen the defense, one is the catch and shoot style of play as the main attack point, and the other is the movement method as the main attack point.

When playing against the Aztecs, although he relied on consciousness and used emergency stops and turns to create shooting opportunities, he reviewed the game after the game and felt that his running position was not good enough.

You can't blindly think about running fast, but you need to be fast and grasp more details. This is a different rhythm from the running position of containment + support.

In addition to the aspects he personally wants to improve, the coaching staff also arranged a new direction for him to strengthen-rebounding.

As a main striker, his rebounds are too few.

It has something to do with his style of play. He floats on the outside for a long time, and his defense is also the main defense against outside shooters.

But it also has a lot to do with ability.

After today's team training, the coaching staff specially arranged several training sessions for him to block the board.

On the 23rd, on Wednesday, the Trojans defeated the Idaho Broncos with a score of 95 to 87. The point difference was not big, but the mentality of the Idaho Broncos players collapsed after the game.

They have always seen hope, and the point difference fluctuates around 10 points, but they just can't narrow the score further.

After this game, Li Ao's emergency stop basic skills and emergency stop catch and jump shot both reached the passing line, raised to 60!

In addition, the CIC has been raised to 79, and the overall evaluation has come to 72!

Day by day, Li Ao and his teammates are getting better little by little.

Hard training and suitable opponents are very suitable for him at this stage.

But what he is most happy about is not the improvement of CIC's basic skills, that will happen sooner or later.

With the evaluation of the emergency stop catch and jump shot ability raised to 60, his "mid-range fixed-point catch and shoot" training method was successfully upgraded to the "mid-range catch and shoot training method", and the level came to level 3!
With DeRozan's CIC bag, experience bracelet, level 1 tasks, and level 3 training methods, his CIC training efficiency has exceeded 200%!Reached 205%!

25号，特洛伊人队以74比69险胜高乔人队、27号以96比69屠杀西部野马队、29号以84比71大胜走鹃队，这个阶段5场比赛全胜！
After each of the five teams in the Pacific Sports League played against the Trojans, they were doubting their lives and feeling that their basketball dreams were broken.

They are all the top teams in the competition area, and the gap in strength is also a bit big.

Each of them came to Los Angeles with pride and ambition, but they met the top league division. Except for the Gauchos who broke out at the last moment and narrowed the point difference to 5 points, the other 4 teams were not even close to the point difference. No.

People are really quasi-professionals, but they are really amateur teams.

On Li Ao's side, every time he saw his opponent's expression of doubting his life, he couldn't bear it.

So, at the end of each game and every time his winning streak increased by one game, he celebrated wildly with his teammates, trying to use a joyful atmosphere to drive and cheer up his opponents.

Although he didn't succeed, he worked hard and his merits are immeasurable.

...

After the 5 games at home, the new month has arrived.

On March 3st, after a day of training, on the 1nd, the Trojans left Los Angeles and came to Dallas.

From Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the bus drove for about ten minutes and arrived at the destination - the University of Dallas in Irving Town.

It deserves to be the state with the strongest sports atmosphere and the most irritable mood of sports fans. The basketball fans of the University of Dallas gave the Trojans a warm welcome-the parade-like crowd sent cheers and curses.

This has become the instinct of the Texans, even if they are playing against the Trojans for the first time in team history.

Seeing this organized and disciplined welcome ceremony, Li Ao couldn't help sighing:
"It's a beautiful landscape."

It was night, and all the players of the Trojans had a good rest in the dormitory, even Shelby Jordan didn't go out.

It doesn't matter in other states, but in Texas, it's really possible that there are fanatics waiting for them outside, and these people can really do it.

The opponents this time, there are 3 teams from the Minor League Southwest Athletic League, ranked 4-6.

It's also a minor league, the Southwest Athletic League is much stronger than the Pacific Sports League, the first place is locked in the crazy three.

Before coming to Dallas, Li Ao learned about the Southwest Athletic League. The 12 members of this league are all universities in the Southwest of the United States. Every season in this division, 2-3 teams enter the Crazy Three.

The fourth team is from the American Athletic League, the Texas Broncos of Southern Methodist University.

Southern Methodist University's basketball level is average. This season, it ranks 13th in the American Athletic League, the strongest league. It is at the level of the Sun Devils or the Dukes.

But the football of this university is very good. The team history has won 3 national championships, 11 league championships, and completed two consecutive national championships in 81 and 82.

Compared with the previous five opponents, the strength of the four opponents this time is obviously much stronger, but they are within the range that the Trojans can handle with ease.

After Li Ao analyzed this wave of schedule, the NCAA is black and white, but he also did some things. The purpose must be to make the Crazy Three games more exciting and make more money, but it did help teams with potential.

As for what happens to teams that are seen as 'no potential'... luckily they've had a good year with the Trojans.

After a night's rest, on March 3, a new wave of the Trojans' schedule began. The first opponent was the Texas Broncos.

Facing the Texas Broncos, whose strength is similar to that of the Dukes and Sun Devils, the Trojans will play better against those two teams in the final stage of the civil war!
The Texas Broncos are unrestrained and unrestrained. They are indeed worthy of the name of the Broncos. They are much better than the two lame horses in the Pacific Sports League.

The Trojans didn't defend well.

But even if the Cardinals come, it is estimated that they will not be able to defend very well, and it is possible to be upset. Perhaps the Duke team, a team with extremely fast switching defenses, can defend the Texas Broncos instead.

The progress made in the past ten days was reflected in this game.

The adjustment of the Trojans' style of play is very smooth, from the integration of offense and defense to the priority of offense. After the adjustment, there is not much discomfort. They quickly increased their firepower and suppressed the Texas Broncos.

In the end, the Trojans defeated the fierce offensive firepower of the Texas Broncos 99 to 91, increasing their winning streak to 24 games.

This game is more difficult to play than the previous 5 games, but the opponent has been strengthened appropriately, just in line with their current preparations for the crazy three games.

...

Training, competition, one after another.

到了3月9号，特洛伊人队以68比57击败了德克萨斯农工大学农家子弟队，9场练兵阶段的比赛全胜，连胜场次提升至27场！
The Trojans players were so excited after the game, they celebrated wildly on the spot, and they fought back the visiting fans who cursed them and booed them for several days.

Booed the whole way, 4 games played, all games over, still booed.

It can be said that Texas fans have a very local sports concept, but they are not happy as opponents.

But winning the game itself also made the Trojans fans very happy.

This relatively easy game is equal to a winning streak for nothing.

Every victory they win now is creating a new record in team history.

In order to leave a big record for the future students and give them the motivation to work hard.

There is absolutely no other reason. As kind and friendly seniors, what bad thoughts can they have?

Back in the locker room, everyone was still very excited, Li Ao was also very excited, but when he was excited, he suddenly became worried: "Crazy Three is coming soon, we will play against the 63 strongest college teams in the United States, I hope Can continue to win, don't play a 27 wins and 1 loss."

These words undoubtedly poured a basin of cold water on everyone's excitement.

Sam Clancy complained: "You are such a shame, how could we lose!"

Bai Mamba is on the side of Li Ao: "I also think it is impossible for us to lose, but we can't be careless. The next opponent is completely different from these 9 games. We must do well that every opponent is better than the Cardinals and Wildcats." Be prepared!"

Sam Clancy opened his mouth twice, but no sound came out.

He just habitually wanted to fight again, but he already agreed with what the two said in his heart.

Even Sam Clancy was like this, and alarm bells were ringing in the hearts of others.

27 consecutive victories to enter the Crazy Three, if you get out early, it will be more embarrassing than not being in the Crazy Three!

Henry Bibby, who was watching from the sidelines, was not disturbed. He also found that the players were too excited, but he didn't think about how to deal with this problem.

That kid will definitely stand up at this time, this kind of dirty work that offends people, just let that kid do it.

The coach is always serious about it, and when he says the same thing, it's hard for the players to empathize, and he knows that as a player.

Seeing that the atmosphere was gradually suppressed and was about to go from one extreme to another, Shelby Jordan stood up.

He said carelessly: "Leo, you are right, we will work harder next time, but tonight, we are the winners, get up!"

"Oh……"

The teammates immediately agreed.

What the handsome boy said made a lot of sense, but what 'Little Lambir' said, they liked it better.

'Little Lambir' is usually annoying, but this time he is still very cute!

...

On the morning of the 10th, Li Ao returned to Los Angeles with the team.

The coaching staff gave the players two days off and assembled at 12 am on the 9th.

The following days, their Trojans players do not need to continue to attend classes until the end of the season.

After that, the school will give small lessons to the participating players to cope with the exams in mid-to-late May.

Although there is a score requirement to play in the NCAA Division I, you only need to get a D or 2 points... After all, you can only get 5 points in the Einstein exam.

With such a performance requirement, even if some black players whose brains are really stuffed with muscles, there is no problem if they work a little harder and read more books.

Li Ao made a lunch appointment with Vivienne and Liam at noon. Today is Friday, and there is no class in the afternoon. He and Liam went to the arcade hall for an afternoon to relax.

After a day's delay, on Saturday morning, he arrived at the Memorial Stadium at 8:9, and shook the old man over for extra training at [-]:[-].

Firstly, I did the level 2 mid-range catch and shoot training task, and the system returned 100 achievement points after completing it once.

During the time he went to Dallas, he had successfully completed this training task, and now he can complete it stably.

The old man sighed: "Leo, you have improved so fast. I remember that you did this training half a month ago, and the degree of completion was very low. Now you can complete it quite well."

"The team's nine games have given me a lot of opportunities to attack. It's normal to improve quickly with the combination of competition and practice."

"No, no, it's mainly about talent. With so many players in college, who is improving faster than you?"

"That's right, I'm a genius..."

Li Ao recalled the past 9 games, and he did get a performance opportunity that he never had before.

He averaged 5 points per game against 19 opponents in the Pacific Sports League, and his shooting percentage was higher every game. After 5 games, the total shooting percentage was 46%.

When it came to playing in the Southwest Athletic League, the scoring dropped to an average of 14 points per game, but the shooting percentage stabilized!
The opponent is stronger, and the team's style of play has also changed. Although he is still the main offensive point when he comes off the bench, he is not as unlimited as before. His personal strength has improved and his shooting choices have become better.

After another day of hard training, Li Ao went back to the apartment and used the function of 'body therapy'. After receiving professional physical therapy, he returned to his small apartment to take a shower and lie on the bed.

There are so many distracting thoughts that I can't sleep for a while.

I don't have so many distracting thoughts during the day, I just know that I will get it done if I work hard.

But at night, it starts to cranky.

Tomorrow and Sunday, the NCAA will announce the Crazy Three matchup table, and their Trojans will also start preparing for the Crazy Three.

Who is the next opponent?Strong or not?What kind of opponent will you encounter?Will you meet future NBA stars like Arenas?

Where is their Trojans?Should be the first, right?How embarrassing it would be if the first one lost in the first round...

How far can you go if you win?What a maddening knockout match!But also exciting...

He wanted to sleep very much, but his head became more and more awake.

He quickly stopped his distracting thoughts, took the initiative to think about other things, and diverted his attention.

He turned on the system, looked at the comprehensive evaluation of 74, and his expression became strange.

(End of this chapter)