basketball god eye

Chapter 331 An Elite Tournament Without Breaking Points
The regular season is really coming to an end. The next game of the Bulls is three days later. After entering the end of March, the schedule has become looser.

The current situation of the playoffs in the Eastern Conference is still unclear. From the No.6 Philadelphia to the No.12 Knicks, there are opportunities. In the West, it is almost time to decide the winner.

During this period, the ncaa's quarterfinals started. Li Lei didn't go to watch the match, but watched it at home.

The quarterfinals of this year's elite competition are much less star-studded than in the past, because the three giants of the NCAA, UCLA, Duke, and North Carolina, collectively rushed to the street. Although Kansas and Connecticut made up in time, compared with previous years, this year's elite competition can really be described as dim starlight.

First of all, on March 3th, the Maryland Terrapins and the Connecticut Huskies will fight to determine the first place in the top four. Compared with the other six, these two top eight teams are relatively stronger in terms of strength. It is really a good thing for the other six opponents to kick out one at a time, but you have to make sure that you can eliminate the opponents in front of you.

Li Lei was sitting in front of the TV, watching the broadcast of the game, and Li Guodong was also on the side. He is a basketball fan, and during this period of time in the United States, he no longer has a half-knowledge about NCAA.But Father Li is not familiar with the two teams that are duel.

"Xiao Lei, two teams, who do you think will win."

Li Lei didn't turn his head, but the smell of the soup in the kitchen was still coming out. You don't need to guess. Mom must be making that strange soup again. Speaking of it, the two elders are really self-willed. They have passed the New Year in Chicago, but they are not ready to go back. Li Lei really wants to ask, are you not guilty of absenteeism like this, but you get paid with peace of mind.

But according to what my father said at dinner that day, he and his mother are planning to stay in Chicago. As for the school, the two of them want to retire. Although the teaching experience is still a few years apart, from their tone, it seems that this is not so difficult.Li Lei expressed his support for the idea of ​​the two elders. Compared with teachers of ordinary teaching age, the two of them are really not young, because they both got married after they were 30 years old.

"I am optimistic about the Maryland Terrapins. I played against them last year. As for Connecticut, they may have been competitive in the past few years, but if they want to win the championship, they must have a decisive role in the team." University of Connecticut's current lineup has Okafor, Ben Gordon, Caron Butler, these future NBA stars, but the current core of their team is not these few people, but second-year insider Justin Brown.Li Lei couldn't understand what Jim Cahoron, who had worked in Connecticut for 16 years, thought.If Cajon sets up Butler as the core, the result may be completely different.

The progress of the game was the same as Li Lei thought. The focus of Jim Calhoun's tactics was not on the three future NBA stars. This led to them being completely overwhelmed by water turtles. Blake's advantage in the position of point guard was too great, and Ben Gordon and Okafor were completely serving as water fountain managers.

In the end, the water turtles eliminated the favorites, the Connecticut Huskies, and entered the semifinals. They were eliminated by Li Lei in the quarterfinals last year, and finally reached the semifinals this year.

As for the remaining three matchups, Li Lei didn't watch them, but they were basically the favored teams that advanced. Except for Connecticut, which was eliminated as the big favorite, the other favorites didn't overturn. It's not so difficult to counterattack in the elite competition. Last year's UCLA could win the championship.

Except for the University of Maryland, the remaining three promotion opponents are the Kansas Jayhawks, the Indiana Hulseys, and the Oklahoma State Jayhawks. Of these four teams, Maryland once again encountered a tough Kansas Jayhawks, and the other two teams automatically formed a group.

Compared with previous years, the ratings of this year's elite game dropped by a lot of percentages. This made the chairman of the NCAA Alliance very happy. They also invited Kelly Clarkson to sing on the stage of the semifinals, but Ivanka refused. What a joke, this year's elite game is not at all compelling. It is better to let Kelly Clarkson take a few more commercial performances than this. There is really no comparison between ncaa and NBA.

Although the playoff situation in the Eastern Conference is still very chaotic, for the bottom teams, all they think about is finding something good in the draft.

After being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the Elite Tournament, Caron Butler also announced his plan for the draft. Together with the previous Duke team and the UCLA gang, this year's draft gave many players in the NBA a chance to bottom out.

But none of this has anything to do with the Bulls. The Bulls have only two picks this year, one is their own, and the other is given by the Magic when Ewing sent it. Basically, these two picks are unlikely to be lottery, but that fat Krause still wants to pick something from these two picks.

Because the current Bulls lineup framework is very reasonable, with Li Lei as the axis, in the future, if you choose anyone randomly, the results will not be too bad. The most important thing is that these guys are all rookies, which are more profitable than child labor contracts.

Among the top ten salary teams this season, except for the Nets and Kings, none of them are favorites to win the championship, and some are still on the edge of the lottery, such as the Knicks, Bucks, and Suns. The salary levels of these three teams surpassed the Spurs, Lakers, and Bulls by a large margin.

This is the most uncomfortable part for those bosses. I spend a lot of money, but you bastards use the poor record to fool me. Believe it or not, I just sold the team and quit playing?

The Bulls’ salary situation is so good, it’s all because of Li Lei. Without Li Lei, the Bulls would have followed the old path of the previous life, sending Brand to the Clippers, making Fizer and Seymour the core, and then in the middle of the season, sending Seymour to the Pacers in exchange for Jaylen Rose and a bunch of junk contracts.So until the emergence of Ben Gordon and Rose, the Bulls showed some signs of recovery.

(End of this chapter)