Chapter 308: Beginning with Victory
"Are you alright?" Felix didn't care about the goal, he ran out of the court as soon as he completed the layup, concerned about Mu Chenfeng's condition, the jump just now was really scary, and he landed in a state of physical imbalance, and fell out of the ground for a full three meters after landing.
"I'm fine." Mu Chenfeng's excellent physical fitness helped him completely resist the impact, and Mu Chenfeng handled it very properly when he landed, allowing him to avoid all the hidden dangers of possible injury.
This is the perfect match from the UCLA "trio", Oscar as the initiation point of the offense, although the choice of passing timing is a bit risky, but it brings the lethality of the fast break to the extreme, and the reason why this fast break can be successful is entirely because Mu Chenfeng's speed is fast enough, this is Mu Chenfeng, and it is impossible for anyone else to recover this ball, Mu Chenfeng's speed is the first level even in the NCAA where there are many blacks, As for Felix's layup at the end, it was undoubtedly the finishing touch, drawing a perfect end to this fast break.
It only took a few minutes for Mu Chenfeng to make the American audience remember his name, and in the past five minutes, Mu Chenfeng showed his bounce, speed and overall view without reservation.
"Who's that yellow-skinned player? I don't think I've seen it before. The audience has focused on Mu Chenfeng, which has made him receive unprecedented attention.
"He is Chinese, a freshman this year." A person in the know explained next to him.
"Chinese?" The other party showed an incredible look, in the impression of most Americans, the impression of Chinese players is also mostly like Yao Ming, Yi Jianlian, Zhou Qi like a soft touch of big man inside players, of course, there have been Sun Yue like the outside, but when it comes to results, you still have to be tall, height is the only way for Chinese players to gain a foothold in the NBA.
At least that's the case in the American stereotype.
Mu Chenfeng is not the first Chinese player to play NCAA, but he is undoubtedly the most brilliant one, from the birth of the NCAA to the present, a total of 9 Chinese players have played NCAA, but most of their endings are unknown, no one can pass the NCAA test to reach the finish line and log in to the NBA.
Will Mu Chenfeng be the first?
People are starting to talk about the future of this teenager, and this is the American audience, when they see a person shining, they will imagine in their minds the future path of this person, and the end of this road is the NBA.
Among the people in the crowd of these discussions are doing something with the tools in their hands, and they are a special group of spectators, who are scouts sent by the NBA to the NCAA league.
From the moment the NCAA league kicks off, these scouts are at their busiest, because the league is the best time to reflect a player's talent, so those scouts will collect and evaluate the team's favorite objects in specific games, and then formulate a "scouting report" and submit it to the team management for them to screen.
The NBA has a total of 30 teams, and a total of 19 teams in the UCLA and Wake Forest games sent scouts to observe certain players.
Oscar is the player that all teams crave, but of course only those who are in the middle and lower reaches of the NBA league because they are the only ones who have the high enough picks in their hands to recruit Oscar.
Of course, like Los Angeles. Although a team like the Lakers also has a preference for Oscar, and Oscar's hometown is in Los Angeles, the Lakers do not have a high enough draft pick to bring him back to Los Angeles, even if Oscar's draft pick is low, it is impossible to be out of the top ten, and the highest pick in the hands of the Lakers is only the 17th pick, and it is impossible to get Oscar directly through the draft, so it can only be through follow-up trades.
After this NCAA tournament, Oscar will also say goodbye to his college career and go straight to the NBA, and he knows that he can't play for Los Angeles, which makes him fall into a state of depression for a while, and it takes a long time to accept this reality.
The other two scouts are targeting Duncan Jr., who has draft picks that are basically in line with Duncan's draft projections, and they happen to be short of interior players on their team, so they want to win Duncan.
Originally, these scouts were all here for Oscar and Duncan, who would have thought that a Mu Chenfeng would come out halfway and steal the limelight.
His performances weren't as consistent as Duncan's or Oscar's, but as a rookie, he managed to catch the attention of scouts.
"This kid is amazing, it's hard to take your attention off him." One of the scouts wrote down such a paragraph on Mu Chenfeng's scouting report, as if there was some kind of magic in Mu Chenfeng's body, which made people want to stop.
The game that followed completely became the exclusive match of Mu Chenfeng and Felix, who tore the entire defense of Wake Forest apart with the strength of two people.
"They are like two beasts that have just been lifted, and their sharp minions can shatter everything."
Wake Forest was defeated after resisting for a few rounds, Mu Chenfeng seemed to deliberately press Felix, whether it was points, assists, rebounds or any other statistics, Mu Chenfeng was not more, no less, only "+1" than the opponent.
In his first NCAA game, UCLA got off to a flying start with a score of 99-82 against his opponent.
A goal difference of 17 points is quite impressive, but in the eight games that have ended, such a difference can only be placed in fifth place, with the first four teams all winning by more than 20 points.
"These guys can play hard enough." Damian complained, "Win so many points in the first game. ”
"Where the game is divided into the first and last game, any game is crucial, any point may affect the final qualification and ranking, so the game is naturally as much as you can win." Oscar explained.
Mu Chenfeng, who had an amazing performance in this game, looked at the score table in his hand and calculated silently in his heart.
"What's it?" Felix asked.
"Calculate the difference." Mu Chenfeng replied lightly, "20 points, a difference of 20 points." ”
"What 20 points?" Felix asked, puzzled.
"He's counting the difference in net points, and we're 20 away from the number one, right?" Oscar answered.
Mu Chenfeng nodded, "That's right." ”
"So what?"
'So we're going to have to win by at least 20 points more than them in the next game so that we can close the difference.' Oscar continued.
"Win by at least 20 more points!" Hearing this, the team members said that it was difficult, and winning 20 more points is a very demanding condition, which means that if the opposite side wins by 10 points, UCLA will win by at least 30 points, and if the opponent uses 30 points, UCLA will win by 50 points......
"It's simply an impossible task."