I'm not really a role player

Chapter 46 Hidden danger tournament finals (recommended tickets please!)
Time has entered March, and the second round of the playoffs of the Big [-] League has also started, only one day away from the first round.

After all, time is running out, and the playoff champion of the competition area must be determined quickly, and the 68 schools that will participate in March Madness will be decided by the way.

The NCAA's real drama that hundreds of millions of people have watched has always been March Madness.

Whether it is the regular season or the playoffs in the division, it is just foreplay.

The University of Oklahoma is indeed not strong. The team's top scorer, Nate Carter, has been transferred and has been a ball supervisor for a year. If you really want to count, he is already a senior this year, but he still has no hope of entering the NBA. It shows that his strength is not strong.

In the game, although he lost his explosiveness and agility, Li Ke still relied on his strength and speed, and through the targeted video research before the game, he easily locked Nate Carter to death.

The No. [-] scorer, Longa Longa, is a center of Kenyan origin. He is tall and strong, with strong physical fitness and a little rough technique, but he still disturbed the inside of the University of Texas.

The final winner was still the University of Texas. Xiao Du scored 32 points, and Li Ke also scored 26 points in the first game of the playoffs, raising his personal single-game scoring record again.

With a decisive battle, the University of Texas entered the second round of the Big [-] League.

Although they won the ball, the University of Texas still exposed a little hidden danger in this game:
"Longa Longa can't stop the University of Texas' insiders. How should they deal with Greg Oden, who has dominated the NCAA basket this season, and the star insiders of the Gators?"

"The University of Delaware is too biased. Their outside line is very strong, but their inside line is too weak. In March Madness, there will definitely be problems..."

"In this year's NCAA, the favorite to win the championship is the University of Florida, and Ohio State at most."

"..."

As the defending champion, there is no damage to the strength of the championship season, and there are even supplements.

It also swept the Southeastern Conference where it belongs. Such a University of Florida Gator team has long been one of the favorites for the NCAA championship this season.

For the University of Texas, which intends to win the championship, the worse news is that this alligator is very restrained.

"The Alligators' inside line is their strength, and the Longhorn's inside line happens to be their weakness. The Alligators' outside line may not be as good as Deda, but Corey Brewer's presence also prevents them from losing too much. Overall, the Alligators are naturally stronger."

There is also Ohio State University. The Buckeyes rose in the same way as Dezhou University. When phenomenal freshmen joined, they immediately became a strong team.

But it is different. Ohio State is more balanced, with Oden on the inside and Conley and Daequan Cook on the outside. It is more champion-like than the top-heavy University of Delaware.

……

Two days later, the University of Texas easily defeated Oklahoma State, which ranked seventh in the regular season, in the semifinals.

This time there is no insider rampage. Although Oklahoma State's top scorer is also an insider, this insider is quite special.

Mario Bogan, a power forward, this guy has been a ball supervisor for two years because of transfers and off-court issues. Like Nate Carter of the University of Oklahoma, he is a senior this year. He is only 2 meters tall, short and stocky, and he is not a big threat to the University of Texas.

Rick Barnes changed Li Ke to the fourth position, which directly solved this possible hidden danger.

Mario Bogan is very powerful. During the regular season, Li Ke played against him.

At that time, Li Ke was still very surprised. He had never heard of this guy with such great strength. He was still too short. Although he had great strength, his speed was slow and he was not flexible enough.

Otherwise, just this strength alone should have a place in the NBA.

This time, after gaining weight, Li Ke easily solved Mario Bogan.

On the contrary, the outside line of the University of Delaware was without Li Ke's defense. James Ang Curry and Terrell Harris played hard, but they were still no match for Xiao Du, who scored 34 points, and Li Ke, who scored 20+ points.

The University of Detroit won easily and entered the final, where they will play against the University of Kansas again.

Before the finals, both TU and Kansas had two days of preparation time.

In the past two days, Li Ke has not been idle, and his daily morning run has not changed. From the previous one and a half laps, it has already approached almost two laps.

Two laps is equal to completing the task, that is to say, Li Ke is about to complete the task.

However, his endurance has not been upgraded again because of the morning run of one lap to nearly two laps.

"C-level to B-level should be a big improvement, and you can get a glimpse of it from the air cutting skill..."

Li Ke's current scoring still relies heavily on air cuts, and the D-level three-pointers are too limited, so he doesn't shoot many.

The C-level mid-range shot can make a big splash in the NCAA, but since he finished playing Kansas last time and got the C-level mid-range shot, he has only used the mid-range shot in team training and competitions.

Only the coaching staff and teammates of Deda University know that Li Ke has practiced a mid-range shot that is even more accurate than a three-pointer.

In the actual game, no one knows that Li Ke will make a mid-range shot.

On the one hand, he does have the idea of ​​hiding tricks.

From finishing Kansas in the regular season to the first two rounds of the playoffs, the opponents were really not strong. His air cuts and occasional three-pointers were enough for him to score high points that satisfied him.

The real stage of the NCAA is March Madness. When you encounter a strong opponent and hit a higher-level mid-range shot, it will be a trick, just like the previous regular game against Kansas.

At that time, if it wasn't for Li Ke's three-pointer that caught Kansas by surprise and helped him score 8 points in a row, Texas, which collapsed at the beginning of the second half, would have been difficult to recover from the already huge gap-like disadvantage at that time.

On the other hand, the CIC is not the same as the three-pointer. The three-pointer can open up space, but the CIC is a bit of an invasion of space.

Li Ke can't play singles, he can only catch and shoot.

This means that he needs the coaching staff to specially arrange tactics and give him space and the right timing before he can make mid-range shots.

Of course, Rick Barnes has arranged tactics, but the problem is that there is no shortage of mid-range shooting masters at the University of Deutsche. Xiao Du is a higher mid-range shooting master. Augustin and Abrams' mid-range shooting levels are not much different from the current Li Ke.

The tactics are arranged, but most of the time, it is not Li Ke who executes the tactics and shoots, but Xiao Du, followed by Abrams.

Augustin's pick is similar to Li Ke's, but if you add the ball, Augustin's priority will also be ahead of Li Ke.

Therefore, the second reason is that Li Ke has no chance to shoot, and what the team needs more is his air cuts and three-pointers.

Combining the two reasons, Li Ke just hid his CIC. He is not in a hurry. There is still a long time before the end of the season. The real big stage is March Madness, and the real strong opponent is still to come.

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The final of the Big Twelve League playoffs is coming soon, and it will be a decisive battle.

As long as Kansas is defeated, the University of Deutschland will win another important championship this season, a championship even more important than the regular championship.

The playoffs are also called tournaments, and the champion is called a championship.

Before the game, Rick Barnes explained in short words why this championship is more important than the championship in the regular competition:

"If we don't win the Big [-] playoff title, we'll have to resign ourselves to March Madness by relying on the selection committee's selection, though, and the selection committee won't ignore the top four teams in the Big [-] tournament."

In addition, Rick Barnes also said a few small details: "The champion of the regular season cannot cut the Nets, but the champion of the playoffs can. The regular season is held in the home and away games of each school, but the playoffs are held in a neutral position..."

In the end, he also emphasized: "Don't underestimate Kansas. We only won by 3 points in the last match. The difference in strength between them and us is almost negligible!"

Kansas also thought so. Before the finals, the coaches and players of Kansas had the same slogan: Revenge!

They didn't hang their heads because of the loss in the regular season.

Instead, their vengeance was burning.

"Listen, the regular season is nothing, what really determines everything is the playoffs!"

"At the last moment of the last game, we made a mistake. We will not make the same mistake again!"

"Everyone is saying that our goal is revenge. Wrong, our goal is to defend the title. Last season, we were the champions of the Big [-] Conference Championship. This season, we will still be!"

"..."

(End of this chapter)