In a downtown Durham tavern, two well-known figures in the NBA scouting community raise their glasses to a bottle of wine on the table.

Finally, after drinking the last drop of the glass in the glass, Joey. Adam smacked his lips in dissatisfaction. "I didn't expect to be able to drink such pure French brandy here."

"If it doesn't feel enough, you can get another one." Woning. Chapman looked at the thin layer of elixir at the bottom of his cup.

"Forget it, if you drink too much, you won't have any taste. Well, come with one? Adam shook his head and pulled a box of cigarettes out of his pocket.

"No, oh, why did you get into a cigarette?" After rejecting his friend's offer, Chapman asked with a look of surprise, because he had never known that his friend who had known him for many years still had such a hobby.

Call! Adam spat out the smoke that wandered in his chest through his nostrils and mouth at the same time. "I've been a bit annoyed lately, and Mitch has rejected my suggestion. It seems that for a long time, that Chinese player will not be able to wear the Lakers uniform. ”

"Huh! I knew you had been beating that little guy's idea. Honestly, when did it start? Chapman didn't seem surprised at all by his friend's words.

"The first time you saw him play in New York, didn't you do the same? Why, aren't you ready to act early? ”

Chapman was silent for a moment in the face of his friend's rhetorical question. "I'd love to bring this treasure to the Knicks, but alas, you know, I don't count these things."

As if realizing that he had said the wrong thing, Adam hurriedly comforted: "Isaiah's shit doesn't understand what kind of scourge has made a good team." Look, his days won't be long. ”

Chapman, who drank all the wine in his glass, sighed with a gloomy expression: "Yes, I see it that way too." However, by the time he's gone, the little guy will probably be dressed in another team's clothes. ”

Silence, a wordless silence, spread out between the two friends who had nothing to talk about.

After a long time, Adam finally spoke: "Actually, last year, Mickey acquiesced to my suggestion and even started to do some foreshadowing work. However, as soon as he entered 07, his attitude towards this matter completely changed. I suspect he's going to make a big move this summer, a big move that no one could have imagined. Unfortunately, I never guessed what it would be, who it would be? "Since O'Neal left for Miami, the Lakers, who have had an illustrious history, have embarked on a painful and long rebuilding period. The unsatisfactory results put Kupchak, who is the president of basketball affairs, under great pressure. If there is no improvement, the increasingly irritable old Bass may one day sweep him away.

"Okay, why do you want to do so much, we don't count anyway. Or another bottle? ”

"Well, I'm going to see who gets down first today."

……

*

"Jin Yiwei Da has finally come back to life, I don't know who has watched this game? How did Sun Yi play? A netizen who has been diving for 10,000 years with ID excitedly said after finding that the post that had been silent in the forum for a long time had updated the video again.

"In the morning, when the class was all over, the game was watched. Sun Yi scored 24 points alone and abused Jordan's alma mater, North Carolina. "This netizen whose ID is called Qianzhou seems to be a student at school.

"Why hasn't Sun Yi's three-point shots been shooting too much recently?" The netizen with the ID JLEE obviously likes the extremely elegant dry pull three points.

"I feel the same way!"

"I feel the same way!"

Due to the tactical reasons of the Blue Devils, Sun Yi does not have many opportunities to play singles with the ball now, and after cooperating with his teammates' blocking and dismantling, he will more often kill the opponent's penalty area or burst or pass. And catching and shooting after running without the ball is not what he is good at now. Therefore, Sun Yi now averages a lot less three-point shots per game than before.

……

In the office of the Technical Department of the Chinese Basketball Association, An Ran, who had just finished the video of Sun Yi's game, didn't even bother to eat lunch and soaked a bucket of instant noodles, and watched it while eating.

The sound of sucking and eating noodles, combined with his preoccupied demeanor, makes it easy to think that this young guy is enjoying a romantic action movie from the island country next door.

This player is so good, if he can enter the national team, he can just deal with the stubborn problem of not being effective on the outside. Alas! Those inactive bureaucrats are really sinners who have brought disaster to the country and the people!

*

After beating arch-rival North Carolina, the Duke Blue Devils are firmly at the top of the ACC league with an 8-2 record. But on Feb. 11, they almost lost their third game of the season against the University of Maryland.

The opponent's three perimeter players who are over 1.96m tall have successfully limited the outside strength that the Blues are proud of this season. Especially Grevis. Vasquez, a tall point guard at the University of Maryland, actually defended Sun Yi, a Chinese player who has been performing very well, without a temper. The Blue Devils ace only scored a season-low 12 points on 4-of-15 shooting.

It stands to reason that Vasquez, who is athletically talented, will have a hard time defending against this ACC league star. A lot of things don't make sense, but it just happens.

At the critical moment, it was the captain Mike Roberts who stepped up. He used excellent playmaking and passing to create a succession of easy scoring opportunities for Nelson and Henderson to make it 68-65.

After a short low ebb, Sun Yi, who returned to the home court, once again found the feeling of the game. On Feb. 14, the Blue Devils scored 29 points, seven rebounds and seven assists in an 86-70 win over Boston College.

On February 18, in the revenge battle with Georgia Tech, Sun Yi even cut 42 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists on Critanton's head. So that Henderson, his friend who vowed to beat his opponent before the game, finally did not have to run naked on the campus naked. 96-82, the Blue Devils got revenge.

On 22 February, the Blues won the ACC regular season two rounds ahead of schedule after beating Claremason University away, while also securing a national top 64 seed.

Five days later, Duke University will face another revenge game against the University of Virginia, which tied with North Carolina for second place in the regular season. It was also a battle to prove himself to the Blue Devils' no.8.

Since that exchange of blows with Reynolds, Sun Yi, who has been practicing defense, has higher and stricter requirements for himself. In order to practice hand speed, the team has to exhaust themselves from training before they stop. Every day when I returned to the dormitory, it was basically past the early hours of the morning.

Seeing his friend demanding himself so harshly, Thomas couldn't help but want to persuade him several times. But seeing the other party's resolute eyes, I couldn't help but silently swallow what I wanted to say back into my stomach. Then, continue to accompany the friend who has known each other for 5 years without complaint......

On February 27, in the game against the University of Virginia, Chinese player Sun Yi set a new personal steal high of 8 in the season. Coach Collinson's words in front of the three of them that night reminded Sun Yi of his early season work on defense against Stephen. Curry stumbled into a wonderful state.

He had always been desperate to get that feeling back, and he kept looking for it in the previous games, but unfortunately things didn't go well. And in this battle of revenge, Sun Yi finally regained his long-lost telepathy.

Every dribble of the opponent is clearly left in his mind. That amazing feeling of knowing the rhythm of the opposition came back to the Blue Devils' No.8 again. But this time, it wasn't a chance encounter.

Reynolds, who wanted to blow up his opponent on the offensive end again, felt that the Chinese player had suddenly become an insurmountable mountain in front of him. The successive mistakes made him even hot-headed and blindly attacked. But Sun Yi, who has entered the state of a defensive master, used blocks and steals to prove that the previous game was just an accident.

As a result, the University of Virginia, which failed on the outside, was defeated by the Blue Devils away by a large score. Sun Yi once again became the focus of Cameron's Arena, with 26 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists, 8 steals, and 4 blocks. All key stats, almost all of which are on the top five, is the first time in the history of the Duke Blue Devils.

On March 4, Duke University played at the home of sworn rival North Carolina in Dean. The Smith Center finally failed to withstand the opponent's almost frantic attack. In particular, the sudden outburst of the 'White Monster' Hansbrough made 'Odd Soldier' Zobeek commit 5 early. With the support of the fans in the audience, this interior Raptors single-handedly turned the interior line of the Blue Devils, which was not very strong, upside down.

And the inspiration that I just found to be able to peek into the rhythm of the opponent in the last game disappeared without a trace again. This feeling of being ineffective from time to time made Sun Yi crazy.

In the end, Hansbrough, who scored 40 points and 14 rebounds, led the team to defeat the arch-rival Duke University 84-75, and also beat the University of Virginia by one win and ranked second in the regular season of the ACC league.

The more than two-month ACC league regular season has finally come to an end. Sun Yi, the core player of the Blue Devils, led the team to win the regular season championship with his outstanding performance. With an average of 27 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals per game, he was undisputed as the Most Valuable Player in the ACC League, and was selected to the league's first team as a freshman.

Before Duke competes in the NCAA National 64, commonly known as March Madness, there's a cup mission ahead of them.

As the regular season champion, Duke automatically qualified for the Final Four of the ACC League Cup. On March 10, they faced Boston College in the semifinals. The Blues easily defeated their opponents 84-67.

I thought that the opponent in the final would be the second-seeded arch-rival North Carolina, but I didn't expect the league's fish belly North Carolina State University to defeat the opponent for the second time this season.

You know, NC State had just three wins in today's regular season, one of which came against a city rival. This trait of going crazy at the touch of this card is indeed worth learning from many teams in the league.

However, after this upset, there is little suspense left in this year's ACC League Cup.

On March 11, the Blues defeated a tenacious NC State 73-68 to claim their second major championship honor of the season.

The Duke Blue Devils, who became a double winner of the ACC Conference, didn't have time to celebrate more. Because, the NCAA National Round of 64 will start in four days. The real test for this team has only just begun.

*

The first two rounds of the NCAA National 64 East Conference will be held in the industrial city of Winston-Salem, Central North Carolina, and Sacramento, California. Duke, the No. 1 seed in the East Conference, is placed in the top half of the bracket and will play both matches in Winston-Salem before they reach the Sweet Sixteen.

Also in the top half of the East are the No. 4 seed with super scorer Kevin. Durant's University of Texas, No. 5 seed USC, No. 8 seed Marquette University, No. 9 seed Michigan State University, No. 12 seed University of Arkansas, No. 13 seed New Mexico State University, No. 16 seed Eastern Kentucky University.

On March 15, the Duke Blue Devils will welcome Eastern Kentucky, the first opponent of March Madness. Although the strength of the opponent is average, every team that aspires to win the championship will not be careless in this kind of win-win competition. Because a trivial mistake can undo an entire season's hard work.

However, as the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, Duke University wants to have a relatively easy schedule. In addition to the first game against the weakest Eastern Kentucky University, if they go well, they will play the winners of Marquette University and Michigan State University in the round of 32, although these two opponents are good, but as long as Duke University plays normally, there is basically no problem in taking them.

To be the top seed, the treatment is really good. As you can see from this, the Interstate Invitational before the regular season mentioned above is also a very important tournament.

DUKE AND BIGEAST REGULAR-SEASON CHAMPIONS GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ARE BOTH 13-3, BUT THE BLUES HAVE BEATEN THEM IN INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENTS. Although this game is only a warm-up competition, when the two teams have similar records, it becomes an important basis for judging who is higher and who is low.

Georgetown University, the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference, won't have an easy time with their boss. The University of North Carolina, Washington State University, and Vanderbilt University are all quite tough bones to gnaw, and a bad one may break a mouthful of teeth.

*

The day after winning the ACC League Cup, the Duke Blue Devils arrived at Winston-Salem, not far away. Lawrence of Wake Forest University. Joel Arena will host the first two rounds of the top half of the East.

Because it's in North Carolina, Duke can play here like a home court. Judging from the screams of the female classmates of Wake Forest University on the sidelines when they stepped on the field to warm up the day before the game. Duke University, which has the appearance of leading Sun Yi, is the natural owner of this arena both geographically and psychologically.