super heavy artillery

Chapter 39 UCLA
An Luo played golf for a while with this group of foreign friends he had just met.In the process, he tried several times to finish off the offense with his insane driving layup.But it turns out that at this stage, he still shoots more reliably.

Sweating all over, An Luo felt much more comfortable, and his somewhat sluggish spirit was shocked.

When he got home, his wife had prepared breakfast for him.

Very simple, a bowl of egg noodles.An Luo considered that his mother was not very good at cooking, and he was in a foreign country, so he felt that he was really happy.

After dinner, Fu Yao, who is An Luo's old mother, told An Luo that he was going to take him to UCLA, which is the University of California, Los Angeles.

Before An Luo came to Los Angeles, he always thought that the universities that Fu Yao contacted him might be those NCAA third-level community colleges, but he didn't expect it to be UCLA.

You know, this is an NCAA top ten basketball school with the same reputation as the University of North Carolina, Indiana University, University of Kansas, and Duke University.Especially UCLA men's basketball, with its profound background and outstanding achievements, ranks first in the United States.Under the leadership of Coach Wootton, he won 1964 championships in 1965, 1967, 1973-1975 and 10.This includes winning the championship seven years in a row (7-1967), the 1973th being won in 11 under coach Harrick.As far as An Luo knows, no other university has won more than 1995 championships in a row until now.And also maintained a record of winning 2 consecutive NCAA men's basketball games.

Over the years, UCLA has sent a large number of players to the NBA.The famous "Skyhook" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Wharton, Reggie Miller, and the active Thunder core Westbrook all came out of UCLA, and finally became the best in the league.

Although UCLA has begun to decline in recent years, it is really not that easy for ordinary people to enter the school's basketball team.If you want to qualify for scholarship invitations, it will be very difficult.And An Luo, as a person of yellow race, was even more difficult.But An Luo was very excited when he thought that he had the opportunity to be a part of it.Perhaps one day in the future, his name, An Luo, will appear among these names.

After breakfast and tidying up, An Luo followed his wife and drove to UCLA in the west of Los Angeles.

The traffic in Los Angeles is really terrible.The two stopped and stopped all the way, and An Luo felt as if a century had passed before they finally arrived at this well-known university in the United States.At a glance, the artistic buildings and beautiful scenery gave An Luo a good feeling.Especially that oak tree-lined Dixon Square, which has been featured in many movies.

After crossing half of the campus, the two of An Luo came to the school's Paley Stadium, which is where the other party arranged for players to try out.In fact, for UCLA, they don't care much about these players who signed up by themselves or recommended by other channels.Those talented high school students on the national rankings are the highlight of their annual enrollment.But with so many teenagers signing up, they still have to give them a chance.What if there is a buried talent.

Fu Yao made a phone call, and not long after, a big white man came out to greet them.Fu Yao greeted him, the two looked very familiar.After exchanging a few pleasantries, the big white man led the two of them towards the stadium.

Arriving at the court, An Luo calmed down.Although the road for Chinese players to enter the NCAA is full of hardships, it is not without success.Over the years, many Chinese players have played in the NCAA, and there are not a few of them who can play in the first league.

Among them is Ma Jian, the first Chinese player to land in the NCAA. In his second season at the University of Utah, he averaged 21.8 points and 8.2 rebounds in 3.7 minutes per game, and helped the team reach the top 16 of the NCAA.There is also former men’s basketball center Zhang Zhaoxu, who received attention at the University of California, Berkeley. He played 24 minutes in the first game of the year, scored 3 points, 7 rebounds and 5 blocks on all 2 shots.The former Aoshen player Shangping also had a brilliant season in 2005-2006. He played 30 games at Illinois Central College and averaged 14.5 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.Chang Lin, who is currently playing in the CBA league, played for two seasons at the University of California, Long Beach, averaging 1.9 points and 1.5 rebounds per game.

But An Luo's path to the NCAA will be more difficult than these seniors!As a defender, without the advantage of height, it is difficult to be recognized for his physical fitness and technical ability.He needs to fully prove himself and show the ability to impress the coaching staff.Of course, he's confident with his ball handling and three-pointers.

Arriving at the stadium, An Luo, led by Chris, filled out the form and received the number plate.Chris is the big white man, and An Luo's spoken English is not bad, so basic communication is not a problem.

There were quite a few people in the stadium, except for the staff who were young men who came to participate in the trial training, all accompanying people were arranged in the stands.When An Luo was queuing, he saw many blacks, whites, and a few yellow-skinned Asians, but he didn't know if there were any Chinese.

Soon it was his turn, first of all the data collection of the physical test.Height, weight, bounce, running, etc.An Luo was not too worried, after all, the ability of the bracelet gave him confidence.He calmly carried out the tests one by one according to the relevant staff.

The final result surprised Chris.He is 187cm tall with bare feet, weighs 83kg, has a wingspan of 202cm, jumps 62cm in situ, runs up 71cm, runs 12 meters in 67 seconds, sprints in three-quarters of 3.87 seconds, and has a body fat rate of 8.2%.

After all, he has improved to the intermediate level of physical fitness.Among a group of high school students, he can't be said to be the most outstanding, but he is definitely not weak.Even if he doesn't look very strong.Although in terms of bouncing, An Luo is indeed a bit worse.But because of the genetic limitations of the race, such a bounce is already very good.

Chris told An Luo that his physical measurement data is very good, and he is already considered to be above the middle level in the NCAA guard line.If it's true, An Luo can really feel relieved.This old man has worked at UCLA for many years and has seen countless high school players, so his judgment is still very accurate.

Regardless of the physical test data, more than 80% of the high school players who come to UCLA every year are eliminated on this.Although these data cannot determine a player's actual combat ability, they can reflect talent.Maybe you can achieve something in basketball if you work hard enough, but with the same effort, people with high talents will grow even more.In a league like the NCAA, it takes only a few years for a player to graduate. If the talent is too poor, they cannot grow in such a short period of time.Therefore, such players have no training value, and the team will not recruit them.

(End of this chapter)