The next day, Mu Chenfeng came to the team to report at the specified time, but he was greeted with a pair of extremely cold eyes, yesterday's defeat made him have a very negative impact in front of his teammates and coaching staff, if it was just a simple defeat that was acceptable, it was a 0:5 without any suspense, although his opponent was Oscar, it was almost impossible to win, but it was somewhat unreasonable to not score a point.

After all, he is also a player with a full scholarship, but his performance is far from the school's expectations, so the school also specially sent people to pay special attention to Mu Chenfeng's performance on the day he joined the team.

Compared with the NBA scouts, the NCAA scouts have a more vicious vision, they seem to have a pair of eyes that can see the future of the players, and they are not interested in the player's present, but their future.

Barton gathered the players and read the team's final 15-man squad, and Mu Chenfeng's name was placed last.

As we all know, there are all kinds of "unspoken rules" when a team fills in the list, and generally the players at the top of the list are either starters or strong players, and the further back they are, the weaker they are.

What Mu Chenfeng cares about is not the ranking of strength, which he doesn't care about as a newcomer to the Chinese player, but generally speaking, the ranking order of the players on the list is the order of the player's play, the higher the ranking, the more priority will be selected, and the lower the ranking, the fewer opportunities to play, Mu Chenfeng is ranked last among all 15 people, which means that he is the team's last choice, unless the first 14 people have a very serious problem, otherwise it will not be his turn to play.

In contrast, Felix, who is also a freshman, is relatively high, ranking eighth among everyone, just in the middle, which shows that he is at least in the coach's tactical system, while Mu Chenfeng is completely outside the tactics.

Mu Chenfeng was very unconvinced, with a straight face, looking at Barton with hateful eyes, this list was made by him.

"What? Not convinced? Barton saw Mu Chenfeng's displeasure, so he stepped forward and said, and then said something even more unacceptable in front of everyone, "If it weren't for the school spending a full scholarship on you, I wouldn't have let you appear on this list." The implication is that Mu Chenfeng's appearance on the list is completely based on the face of the school leaders, and from Barton's personal point of view, he didn't want to bring Mu Chenfeng into the NCAA at all.

"The NCAA arena is not like the "playing house" you play in China, it is a real battlefield, a battlefield where you exchange your life for victory. Barton's words are not exaggerated, the NCAA is very important in the American basketball world, especially in March every year, after the NCAA enters the knockout stage, the intensity and heat of the game will reach its peak, and even in the finals, the NBA and other tournament leagues will choose to suspend for a day to make way for the NCAA, and many stars and stars will also pay attention to the NCAA games, which shows how important the NCAA is.

Especially this year's UCLA, aiming to win the championship, as a championship favorite, they must have a complete lineup, obviously Mu Chenfeng is just a dispensable piece of the puzzle.

This is not Mu Chenfeng's original intention of coming to the United States, he came here to conquer the NCAA and NBA with his skills, obviously sitting at the end of the bench can not achieve this goal, only on the court can have a chance to prove himself.

"One day I will prove you wrong." Mu Chenfeng was not carried away by the ranking, but was very calm, but a fire was burning in his eyes.

Barton was taken aback by this determination, and said slowly, "Okay, I'll wait, but to prove me wrong, you must at least get a chance to play." "Anyway, Barton is also an old man with rich coaching experience, how can he be flustered because of a few "trash words" from a freshman? Moreover, whether Mu Chenfeng can play or not is completely up to Barton, as long as he doesn't give Mu Chenfeng a chance, he will have no chance to slap himself in the face.

It's just that Barton was taken aback by Mu Chenfeng's eyes, it is true, he has never seen that kind of expression from any international player, he is very serious about "fighting" with himself.

After a brief assembly, Barton divided the team into two groups for confrontation training, in order to balance the strength of the two groups, the main players led the team to fight, the captain was Oscar and Leo respectively, and the two chose teammates in turn, and finally formed a team of seven and a team of eight.

Mu Chenfeng was the last to be chosen, not so much to be chosen, but to be "determined", because he was the last, and Oscar had to choose, so Mu Chenfeng was naturally "selected" into the A team led by Oscar.

Felix was selected by Leo for the B team.

In the tactics arranged by Barton, only 10 players will be used at most, that is to say, only the top 10 players will really carry out tactical training, and the remaining 5 players will not be able to play even if they are chosen, and the whole training game will be spent on the bench.

Whether it's the NCAA or other basketball leagues, the survival status of bench players is mostly the same, no coach will have a bad brain to waste trouble arranging tactics for a dispensable player on the team, but these players must exist in the form of a "spare tire" to avoid accidents, in case of emergency, but most of the time this kind of accident is difficult to occur.

Ranked 15th, the last place in Group A, Mu Chenfeng didn't expect to play at all, and as a result, the whole training match lasted 30 minutes, and Mu Chenfeng and several other teammates watched the full 30 minutes off the court.

After the training, Felix, who was sweating, walked to the side of Mu Chenfeng, who was depressed, and he showed amazing basketball talent in this game, even overshadowing captain Leo, and even Barton, who has always been strict with players, praised Felix's performance, and he even began to consider arranging a starting position for Felix.

Felix was able to play such a performance is completely expected, he was already famous in high school, otherwise he would not have been ranked 8th on the list without a game, but after this training match, Barton has a new look at Felix's ability, and he should be ranked higher.

Felix's appearance can be regarded as a solution to Barton's "urgent need", because although UCLA has been in the ranks of strong teams, but the team has also had the problem of replacing the old and the new, several core players in the team are juniors and seniors, they are about to leave school or enter the professional league, if these players leave the NCAA, then UCLA will directly lose competitiveness, Barton has been worried about the replacement of the old and the new, but Felix's appearance made him relieved, In this way, he does not have to worry about the "graduation" of core players, and even if these players leave the varsity team, UCLA can continue to be competitive with Felix as the core of the team.