Chapter 298: Revenge on UCLA
Larry easily achieved domination on the inside, looking at the entire NCAA league, his interior dominance is also unique, ESPN gave the evaluation: the last interior player with such dominance was named Shaquille. O'neill.
To limit him, you need at least two or more players.
This is undoubtedly a historic-level assessment, but it took only one year for Larry to make the leap from obscurity to historic.
Larry a year ago. Bale is also an unknown player, and his name is not even seen in the ranking of the top 100 high school students in the United States.
But in the last year of high school, Larry suddenly began to develop, his height soared by 17 cm, from 188 to 205, and his body became stronger.
Generally speaking, most of the players' positions are adjusted in similar positions, such as power forward and center, guard and small forward, etc., such a role change only needs to fine-tune the technical characteristics, and there are few people like him who change directly from the guard position to the power forward, which are completely two completely different positions, and the technical characteristics are even worse to the horizon.
Changes like this are accompanied by intense labor pains, and it takes a long time for most players to adapt, and of course there are those who are not adaptable to the soil and cannot adapt to it no matter what, thus wasting their talent.
However, Larry's transformation was unusually smooth, and there was no "discomfort" performance, and even tapped out his potential to play inside, his ability to protect the basket, blocking skills, and the choice of strategy were impeccable, and the transformed Larry led the team to advance by leaps and bounds, successfully leading the team to the eighth place in the United States, and since then he has become famous in the United States, and his high school ranking has appeared in the TOP10 for the first time.
At the time of graduation, the coach only wrote one sentence on his graduation note: Larry is a player who was born specifically for the interior.
"The two most correct choices in my life: marrying a good wife and sending Larry to the inside." His coach said.
Larry's strong performance reminded Mu Chenfeng of a player who played very similarly to him: Enzo. Ronnie.
In the past two years, the basketball environment in the United States has changed greatly, and the players who were once unknown have risen like a spring, and only 15 players have entered the top 100 players who have participated in the training camp with Mu Chenfeng, 11 in the top 50, 8 in the top 20, 4 in the top 10, and 0 in the top 5.
Those who were once glorious and proud of the sky gradually lost their dominance in the change of big waves and sands, and those players who were favored by God successfully completed the counterattack.
Larry is just one of many counter-attacking players.
Felix is ranked 17th in the United States.
Enzo. Ronnie is ranked 78th, several levels behind Larry.
But there is a name in the list that Mu Chenfeng is very familiar with.
Kyle. Terry, ranked 3rd among the top 100 high school students.
The son of the slum who once wanted to give up basketball finally got out of the slum.
Kyle today. Terry is thriving at Duke University.
"Whoa, do you regret your choice? UCLA I "love"! "Being abandoned by UCLA is an unforgettable pain for Larry, who loves the school and the land so much, but they didn't bring themselves here as agreed, but chose the Chinese boy who couldn't even set foot on the court.
Larry played with obvious anger in his eyes, he hated everyone at UCLA, and his revenge was by bombing UCLA's baskets incessantly.
In Larry. Under Bell's play, Kentucky quickly opened up the difference, and as Larry smashed away from the two of them, Kentucky led UCLA 25-14.
The dunk halted UCLA, and before the players could return to the bench, Barton's angry voice reached everyone's ears, and it was clear that such a start would not please anyone.
"You actually let a freshman player score 12 points, can you play?" Patton reprimanded, and the team did not dare to respond.
Larry's performance was really inexplicable, scoring 12 points on 6-of-7 shooting, and all 6 goals came from dunks.
"It's our fault." Marek and Damian lowered their heads and didn't dare to look directly into Barton's eyes, but it was not difficult to imagine that Barton's eyes could kill at this moment.
"I don't need to say more about the importance of this game." Barton said solemnly, but his mood calmed down a little, and his tone lowered, "If you can't take it, you won't be reporting on the team tomorrow." ”
The last words were spoken lightly by Barton, but they sounded as if he had been pressed to the heart by an incomparably sharp dagger, and there was no way back.
Although Barton's performance was too serious, it is understandable, after all, UCLA and Kentucky are two special schools, respectively, the top two teams in the history of the NCAA to win the championship, so the game between the two teams will receive a lot of attention from the outside world, even if it is just a warm-up game, but the media and reporters will make a big fuss about the game, they will usually exaggerate, magnify the grievances and details of the game between the two teams, and then use flowery words and rhetoric to convince the unknown masses that the situation is true, this is their job.
The media only needs one result to make up a realistic and tortuous process.
In order to tilt the media in their favor, victory is the only way.
But now, Kentucky is on the side of the ascendancy, and UCLA has not thought of an effective way to contain Larry.
"Boom!"
As soon as the timeout returned, Larry bombarded the basket again, but this time he didn't encounter much resistance as both Damian and Marek chose to dodge.
"Two cowards!" The dunk wasn't fun enough, and Larry began to taunt the other party, "It's easier to play with you guys than it is to practice." ”
"Hey, we two are underestimated." Damian whispered as he looked at Larry's distant back.
"Ah, I'm still a freshman." Marek replied, his face slowly calming down.
"Then it's time to get real moving." Damian's state has also changed, after all, he is the champion of the NCAA, how can he be defeated so easily.
Oscar and Felix handled all of UCLA's offense, allowing Damian and Marek to focus on defending Larry.
Felix took Oscar's pass and hit the middle range to bring the deficit back to nine points.
"Single digits." Larry muttered, "That's an ugly difference. "He doesn't like single-digit point differences, he likes double-digit points, absolute leads.
"Then pull the difference apart." Gatlin gave the ball to Larry again, and Damian and Marek met him and formed a double defense in front of Larry.
"No matter how many times it is, you're no match for me at all." Larry activates and drives his massive body towards UCLA's inner line.