This striker is a bit of a monster

Chapter 45 Preparing for the Preseason

Starting from June every year, the teams aiming to hit the NCAA championship will be full of training subjects, sharpening their swords, and George Mason University is no exception.

Since the end of June, Zhou Lin has started a two-point and one-line life in the restaurant of the training hall.

The head coach Jim Lallanaga is a passionate coach. Although he is over half a century old, he is not very old among college coaches. He is energetic and always sweats with the players, and he is very good at training. The quality is very demanding, and often after the end, they will shout loudly to ask the players to have another set of training.

Of course, he is not stingy with praise.

Such a coach can resonate with the players very well.

And after training, he likes to chat with the players and talk to them about some fashionable topics.

Of course, the Patriots are also a well-disciplined team. Jim will emphasize three issues before the first training session of each season.

First, academically, if the grades fail to meet the standards many times, he will let him get out of the team without hesitation.

Last year, two players did not appear in the team's lineup this year because of their poor performance.

Second, there must be absolutely no drug-addicted players in his team. Once discovered, there is absolutely zero tolerance.

Third, women, players can have girlfriends, but they must not have multiple girlfriends. It is also very important to organize your private life.

In addition to this, there is also the attendance rate of training sessions.

When the number of absences reaches 2 times, no matter what the status in the team is, Coach Jim will stop the training without hesitation and make a public review.

And there will be some special requirements for each player.

For example, the main insider, Jay Lewis, likes to eat candy very much, and almost every pocket has a few.

Before each training session, Jay Lewis's training clothes will be searched. If a candy is found, 5 sets of strength training will be added.

It is said that Coach Jim found 20 candies from his pocket earlier.

And the team's leading scorer, Lamar Butler, will always have some unreasonable shots, and he is an emotional player.

This kind of nerve-knives player is really accurate when he is accurate, and he is also really accurate when he is accurate.

And once Lamar Butler does not meet the requirements of Coach Jim, he will be called off until he realizes his mistake and promises not to make such a mistake again.

And Tony Skin, as the team's number one brain, has a lot of bad defensive habits and fancy moves, and Coach Jim's request is that he can't play on the field, because there will be a lot of bad things on the field. Habits, and once discovered, will be suspended.

Newcomers Blair and Zhou Lin were also requested.

Blair's request is that he must strengthen shooting practice, and must study defensive skills seriously, and learn to play smarter.

As for Zhou Lin.

From the very first training session, it was focused on.

In the confrontation training match between the freshman team and the veteran team, Zhou Lin was assigned to the fifth position. He had to fight against Jay Lewis, who was about one and a half of his own weight, and Coach Jim also made a request that Zhou Lin could not leave the third position. Second zone attack.

Captain Lewis also took good care of this rookie player.

Spouting trash talk, elbows to clear the way, big buttocks to block the road, stumbling on horses... Zhou Lin, a rookie, really suffered a lot.

According to Coach Jim, since Zhou Lin has entered the Patriots team, no matter what his previous status was, he played brilliantly in high school.

Now it is necessary to make changes for the team. Zhou Lin will take on different responsibilities when facing different teams.

In fact, Coach Jim's skills and tactics are not very good, they are all conventional tactics.

Not creative, but a good fit for the Patriots right now.

This team has a strong fighting spirit, pays great attention to fighting, and needs to do its best for every ball.

That's what Coach Jim is asking for.

As for stuffing chicken soup, Jim Lalanaga is still very good at it.

It's like every time the training can't last, Jim will give Zhou Lin a chicken soup class with enthusiasm.

In fact, this is really useful.

Zhou Lin's physical fitness, in high school competitions, is already against the sky, but among college players, there are many good physical fitness, and Zhou Lin also needs to adapt.

Many players whose skills are not as good as yours hope to pull you to the level of the competition body, and then beat you with rich fighting experience.

In more than three months, Zhou Lin has gained 10 pounds, and his body fat rate has dropped from 11% to 8%. He is also a man with six-pack abs.

Of course, Zhou Lin also found a tacit understanding with his teammates during these trainings, and he has officially integrated into the big family of the George Mason Patriots.

At the end of October, Coach Jim talked with the whole team about the opponents in the warm-up match for the 10-2005 preseason.

In many things, Coach Jim is not an autocratic coach. He respects the opinions of players and coaching staff.

In the preseason, you can find opponents across regional leagues, and you can even find non-NCAA teams, but these games will be recorded in the book, and the NCAA Tournament Committee will evaluate the strength of a team.

If you can defeat some strong teams in the preseason, you can also increase the impression points of the tournament committee.

Of course, if you lose too much, it will damage morale and may affect future championship rankings, so it is necessary to choose some suitable teams.

In the preseason every year, only one or two teams with relatively strong strength and one or two teams with relatively weak strength will be selected, and the rest of the teams will have similar strength rankings as themselves.

Zhou Lin's coming to George Mason University disrupted Coach Jim's deployment, which is of course a good thing.

In the first evaluation by the competition committee, George Mason University, which has a five-star high school student Zhou Lin and whose main players stayed on the team, was evaluated as the second in the CAA league, and the prediction ranking among the 2 teams participating in the preseason was 335th. bit.

Last year, the Patriots only ranked 6th in the CAA league and 216th in the league.

It is also based on this confidence that the final schedule is at least two stars more difficult than last year.

Zhou Lin felt that the old man was really floating...

Three of the six games are top 50 teams in the United States.

The first match, coincidentally, was against the Huskies of the University of Washington, which Zhou Lin almost joined.

Last year's NCAA top 16 team.

Although the point guard Nate Robinson was lost, the main guard Brandon Roy continued to stay in school, and the team also had Bobby Jones, Jamal Williams and other quasi-NBA players.

This year, they got Joan Brockman, Justin Dantemont and other potential rookies. The team's strength rating is even higher than last year's preseason prediction. The prediction ranking given by the competition committee is 17th in the country.

In the second game, the opponent was Tulane University.

The latter is predicted to rank 262, and it is also a big player in the minor leagues. It is the best team among the six opponents.

In the third game, the opponent was the Demon Deacon team of Wake Forest University.

In fact, none of the teams in the ACC are easy to mess with.

However, this team was rated as the bottom team in the ACC league this year, with a predicted ranking of 232. The second-year Chris Paul has brought talent into the NBA, which caused the team to suffer heavy losses and the ranking plummeted.

Of course, playing against this team, Zhou Lin was able to meet his old teammate Eric Mason. Eric Mason, a freshman, is working hard for playing time.

Game [-] was against the University of Texas Longhorns.

This team still maintains last year's main lineup, with PJ Tucker, Lamar Aldridge, and Daniel Gibson as the core. Although they were eliminated in the first round of the championship last season, this team is more mature than last year. , predicted to rank 36th in the United States.

As for the fifth matchup, it was the University of Miami Hurricanes.

Zhou Lin is going to face to face with his old acquaintance, his girlfriend's handsome father.

One thing to say, this team has done a good job of recruiting this summer. In addition to Melt from Virginia, they have also recruited three high school players who are among the top 100 in the United States.

However, in view of the fact that the team's historical performance is not outstanding, it has missed three consecutive NCAA national championships, and it has also suffered a lot of defeats in the ACC league. The ranking given by the tournament organizing committee is only a stingy 116th.

As for the last opponent in the preseason.

The sixth game will be the famous North Carolina Tar Heels, last year's defending champion, and this year's prediction ranks third in the United States, second only to UCLA and Duke.

This team is a victorious team that hits the championship every year, and there are still a large number of high-quality players in the team.

But after winning the championship last year, many players participated in the draft. Four of the starting five entered the NBA, namely Redmond Felton, Sean May, Rashad McCants, Jawad Williams, And the super sixth man Marvin Williams even entered the NBA as the No. [-] pick.

Instead, it was supplemented by a group of high-quality high school students such as Taylor Hansbrough, Danny Green, Bobby Fraser, and Marcus Kinyard.

The strength is slightly inferior to last season, and the specific quality also needs to be tested.

　The opponents of the competition have basically changed, otherwise they will be pecking at each other!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)