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Chapter 44 National Championship Fourth Seed

There's nothing better than cutting your "nemesis from the same state" to advance to the national championship!

If there is, then pretend I didn't say it.

This is what Zhou Shuren said.

If he didn't say it, it's also like I didn't say it.

Anyway, the students at Arizona State University are feeling good right now.

Like them, UCLA fans are also feeling great now. UCLA, which has successfully joined the Sun Devils in the finals, is now officially confirmed to be the No. [-] seed in the Big [-] Pacific League for "March Madness"!

All the teams have played from the regular season in November to the current stage, just for a "March Madness" ticket, and now they have successfully got it!

It's just that this made them lose their fighting spirit in the final.

After all, they have already won the playoff championship of the Pacific Twelve League, which does not arouse their interest at all.

Well...they're definitely not saying that because they can't beat the Sun Devils, they're really...well, really not interested in this playoff title.

Didn't you see that we all took the initiative to lie down and let the Sun Devils ravage us?

87 to 60, this is the final score between the Sun Devils and UCLA after the finals. They have lost their fighting spirit and lost to the Sun Devils twice in the regular season.

Probably this season was also numb from abuse. Anyway, the UCLA guys didn’t feel too emotional after the game.

They don't think that other leagues have such a perverted team as the Sun Devils!

"We are not inferior to other teams, it's just that the Sun Devils are too strong..." Zhuo Ledi stubbornly emphasized that they are not weak, but just happen to be in the same division as the Sun Devils.

He had to emphasize such a thing!
Because in the three games against the Sun Devils, he didn't even score 11 points per game, and his shooting percentage was only about 35%, but his average turnover per game was as high as 4!
His draft prediction prospects have become more and more bleak after this game. If he doesn't justify a few words, he will fall out of the 20th pick in the first round.

He is now waiting for the "March Madness" to start, and then prove himself again by playing against other teams!
It's really hard!
Who would have thought that such a monster as the sun would appear in this year's Pacific [-] League!

Jordan Hill: Who said no?

After the Sun Devils rampaged UCLA, there was no change in expression, as if they were not playing UCLA, the No. [-] NCAA team, but a little-known small school team, and they were not playing the playoff finals of the Big [-], but just a normal warm-up match. They didn't even look like the winning side, but rather the losing side.

There is no way, they are too fierce this year. After a season of raging in the Big [-] in the Pacific, UCLA and the Wildcats are like paper in front of them.

Really got used to it!
Lin Day's first thought after finishing the finals was to contact shooting coach Walker. He was not satisfied with his success in the semifinals being restricted to the low post by the Arizona Wildcats.

At the same time, this is also a hidden danger. It is difficult to guarantee that after entering the "March Madness", other teams will not follow suit.

You must know that it is not five or six years ago. At that time, the teams entering the "March Madness" had too few information channels to understand their opponents, which made many duels often conducted without the two sides knowing each other.

Now with the rapid development of the Internet, there are too many ways for the head coaches of each team to understand their opponents. Lin Ri does not think that his weakness of not being able to hold the ball will not be targeted in "March Madness".

I'm afraid it's a strange thing not to target it!

So Lin Ri had to find a way to solve this problem.

Of course, with his current D+ level ball-handling ability, D-level ball-holding singles ability, and D-level inside footsteps, it is no different from dreaming to practice ball-handling singles ability in less than two weeks before March comes.

But... he may be able to "pretend" that he has a very strong ball-handling ability.

Especially the ability to play singles with the ball in the low post is really what he needs urgently.

After all, when Lin Ri stands at a high position, he can cover up his lack of ability to hold the ball through a series of methods such as pick-and-rolls with James Harden, air cuts, shooting and passing.

But when he was in the low post, Lin Ri was unable to form an effective double-team attraction due to his lack of personal offensive ability with the ball. This made him helpless after getting the ball. He had to wait for someone to respond before he could pass the ball. This is too passive!

When "March Madness" begins, all they have to face are the tyrants of other major leagues. If he falls into a passive position and the others don't perform well, they are likely to lose!
The only team that can survive to the end of "March Madness" is the team that has been winning. Apart from this, there is no other way. Even if they only lose one game, the only result is "going home".

Lin Ri can accept defeat, but he does not accept defeat caused by his own failure!
Doesn't that mean that he is not suitable to be a core player?

This is something he absolutely cannot accept!

Be prepared for danger in times of peace, just like Lin Ri's first love said: Ah Ri has always been a very crisis-conscious person.

Lin Ri has some ideas. If his idea can be successful, maybe he can "pretend" to have the ability to play singles with the ball in the low post as he thought.

This is also the reason why he came to Walker. The latter has always been his shooting coach. He is very familiar with his style of play. With his help, Lin Ri believes that his ideas will be realized with greater confidence.

……

While Lin Ri tried to disguise his lack of low-post singles ability, the playoffs of the NCAA major leagues are gradually coming to an end. With the birth of the playoff champions of the major leagues, the top 32 seeded teams directly to the national competition were also officially born.

The NCAA officials have clearly divided the top 32 according to various factors such as the overall strength of the major leagues and the lineups of these playoff champion teams.

Since the regular season has not yet started, North Carolina, which has a high voice to win the championship, has become the No. [-] seed, followed by the University of Michigan, and the third seed is Connecticut with Thabeet... No one expected that the Sun Devils were officially ranked by the NCAA as the No. [-] seed.

"No one would think that UCLA is a weak team, but in front of the Sun Devils, they did become a weak team. There is no other reason, but because the duo of the Sun Devils, James Harden and the sun, are too strong! This is why they are ranked No. [-]. Even if this team only has these two guys, these two guys are enough to put them in this position!"

This is the official explanation!

Among the top ten seeded teams this year, there is no other team in the top ten because of only two players!

The Sun Devils duo is officially sanctioned!
After that, it is the ranking of the top 32 after entering the national championship through the regular season record ranking.

In fact, there is still an overtime match for the top 32 ranking. The playoff champions of some weaker alliances need to play overtime against the "second child" of these other alliances in the regular season to compete for spots.

But these things have nothing to do with UCLA. As the No. 64 seed in the Big 39 in the Pacific, their final ranking in the top [-] in the country is not low. They are ranked No. [-] in the national team.

That is to say, among the "second seeds" of so many leagues, UCLA is ranked 7th. To be honest, it is really not low. After all, they are the most miserable losing team in the finals of the major league playoffs this year.

It's not a team at all with the Sun Devils.

In this way, it can still be officially ranked by the NCAA as the No. 39 seed team. It can only be said that the gold-lettered signboard of "NCAA's No. [-] giant" is really easy to use.

……

"Dayao was replaced. He only played less than 27 minutes in this game. The game will be over in about 3 minutes. The Rockets are leading by 9 points. He should not play again. It can be seen that Adelman used Dayao very clearly this season, allowing Dayao to play enough performance in the shortest possible time. This is why the Rockets can rank fourth in the Western Conference this season."

At the same time, Station C was broadcasting a game where the Rockets played the Kings at home. The Rockets played the whole game very easily, and they kept pressing the Kings. In the last 3 minutes, they even established a 9-point advantage. If there is no accident, the Rockets should have won.

Anyway, Zhang Weiping has already started to summarize the game.

He highlighted Adelman's use of Yao Ming, which seemed reasonable to him.

Yao Ming's physical fitness is his biggest problem. If he can handle this problem well, then Yao Ming will be the most terrifying weapon in the fifth position!
Judging from this game and even the entire regular season, Adelman handled Yao Ming's physical problems very well. He controlled Yao Ming's playing time to about 33.6 minutes, which was the lowest in Yao Ming's average playing time in the past six seasons, but his shooting percentage was a new high in the past four years!
Yao Ming's high efficiency has also made it easier for the Rockets to win. They currently rank fourth in the Western Conference, overwhelming the Mavericks and Jazz over the past few seasons.

This is the most promising year for the Rockets!
Although I have been shouting this every year, it seems that this time it will be true!

In the end, the Rockets won the game without any surprises. After Zhang Weiping once again praised the Rockets' "reasonable" performance in this game, the broadcast of the Rockets officially ended.

The first time Zhang Weiping took off the headset, he yelled at the staff: "Well, has this year's NCAA National Championships been divided into groups? What seed is the team that the little guy named Lin Ri is on?"

The staff responded, but didn't come out to answer immediately. They should have asked other staff.

During this gap, Yang Yi, who was explaining the game with Zhang Weiping, asked Zhang Weiping curiously: "Director Zhang, I heard that we are going to broadcast a few games of Lin Ri's NCAA games. Has this matter been settled?"

"It shouldn't be a big problem." Zhang Weiping didn't give an affirmative answer, but it can be seen from his attitude that this matter should be pretty close.

"Recently, his popularity in China is really too high! There are videos about him everywhere on the Internet..." Yang Yi thought about the various admiration and shock for Lin Ri in China, and he was very moved. He really didn't expect that there would be a newcomer like LeBron James who became famous before entering the NBA in China!
"This kid is really good material for playing basketball!" Zhang Weiping also had admiration in his eyes. He was very happy to see a good seed like Lin Ri appear, and he was also very pleased to see such a good seed can perform in such a way in the NCAA!
In fact, he has long wanted to interview Lin Ri. He had this idea when Lin Ri appeared on ESPN's column for the first time. He didn't have to interview anything, he just wanted to express his support for this kid.

But at the beginning, the meaning above is to try not to put too much pressure on the child. After all, he is just 18 years old and has traveled across the ocean. He must have a psychological burden. Let him adapt first.

Now, finally, when "March Madness" is about to start, the higher-ups finally nodded and began to arrange interviews and broadcast related matters. It is estimated that it will not take long, and Lin Ri's name will be quickly known to basketball fans in China.

Although, the current Lin Ri has already aroused huge repercussions among fans in China!

　Brothers, ask for tickets every day! ! !Everyone recommends a ticket to go and go.

　　


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