Chapter 11 Full Scholarship
After playing away from the University of Pittsburgh, the team returned to Connecticut.
At the end of the day's training session, Cajon called Tang Tian to his office alone.
"Don, you may not know how difficult it is for NCAA non-scholarship players to apply for full scholarships, there's such a story here." Cajon motioned for him to sit down, and then told him the story.
Tang Tian listened patiently, Cajon couldn't be so bored that he just asked him to listen to the story.
"There was a student named Jerome, he joined the NCAA Division I team, he trained very hard, he kept going for four years, but in the end he didn't get a full scholarship, the team gave him 30 seconds of playing time in the last game as a compliment, and his story ended up in the NCAA as an inspirational story, but this is also the unwritten rule of the NCAA, players who don't have a scholarship basically don't get playing time."
Tang Tian nodded after hearing this, Cajon was using this story to remind him of how special he was.
"Of course, you're not your average player, you've proven your quality, so I've been trying hard and finally yesterday the school gave me an answer, and they agreed, and you'll be the team's ninth full scholarship winner."
After a period of foreshadowing, Cajon finally told Tang Tian the news.
"Thank you, coach, I will play hard and live up to your kindness." Tang Tian got up with a smile and said very calmly.
Cajon, an old-school coach, just likes to follow the form, and this is nothing more than thinking that if he soars in the future, don't forget him as a teacher.
As a human being, Tang Tian didn't care too much, anyway, he could get a full scholarship, and his goal had been achieved.
"Good, good." Cajon smiled happily.
"Oh yes, I also asked the school for a nutrition package for you." Cajon said suddenly in his mind.
Nutrition package?
Tang Tian looked a little puzzled at this time.
"I know you've been working on fitness, and the method is good, but in addition to the method, the nutrition must also keep up, so that there will be better results." Cajon continued.
"Thank you, Coach." Tang Tian really thanked him from the bottom of his heart this time.
Cajon has his old-school style, but as he has known before, he's still a good coach at heart.
Cajon just told Tang Tian the news, and not long after, someone from the school came to communicate with him and asked him to go elsewhere to receive the scholarship.
As a well-known university in Connecticut, UConn still invests a lot in scholarships, taking the full sports scholarship as an example, it has 50,000 US dollars a year, which is incomparable to many other universities.
Of course, it is only relative to other schools in Connecticut, and there are still quite a few schools in the country, such as Duke and Kentucky, which are estimated to be twice as much.
However, with 50,000 US dollars in hand, Tang Tian is completely enough.
Back in the dormitory, his roommates were all in class, and he then pulled out the system interface.
He glanced at his kryptonite value.
$50,600.
50,000 is the money he just received on a full scholarship, and 600 is his salary as a caddy.
Because he has become a member of the school team and won a scholarship, 600 is also his last caddie salary.
But the mantissa is not important, what matters is the big head.
The value of 50,000 US dollars of krypton gold is enough for him to have a wave of krypton gold in the mall, and he will directly change to a white skill.
Compared to other levels, the white skill is the least and weakest, but when he first saw the system, he actually had a decision.
Among these white skills, things like the King of Bouncing (James White) are the most useless, let alone in the NCAA, and it is estimated that they are not easy to play in the lower leagues, and they can be played during exhibition games, as for the fake fall actor (Vallejo) and the king of free throws (Calderon) are also temporarily unused.
In fact, he already had a goal.
Open Threes (Novak): Three-point sharpshooter Novak's skill allows his owner to shoot 97% from the field, but in the face of confrontation, the shooting percentage plummets below 30%, and as his fitness decreases, the open shooting percentage decreases from 97% to 50%.
It's a strange skill, and it matches Novak's abilities.
In Novak's most accurate season, he shot 75% from three-point range, and even in his entire career, he shot more than 43% from three-point range!
That's a pretty scary statistic, considering that a lot of top three-point shooters haven't surpassed that number in a single season in their careers.
At the NBA level, after 40% of the time, you're already an absolute marksman.
But such a shooter is a wanderer who wanders almost the whole time in the NBA, because he can't do anything except shoot, no defense, no confrontation, no passing, and he doesn't even have the ability to run on his own except for the opportunities given to him by his teammates through tactics.
To put it bluntly, this is a machine that can only shoot, and it will only shoot at fixed points.
But for Tang Tian, this was enough.
What he has now is exactly what Novak lacks the most, defense.
With defense, and this almost unmissed shot, he can stand up to the NCAA.
Although Kangda has recently ushered in a wave of three consecutive wins, he has slowly begun to be targeted by opponents, and he is often shorted in games.
This is also a completely normal situation, at first the opponent is not clear about your ability, so naturally they dare not do it, but as you play more time and become famous, the opponent will definitely study you and then target you.
For example, if you look at your statistics after the game, there are defensive steals and rebounds, but the score is always 0, which is definitely not normal!
If it's not normal, you'll try, and if you try it, you really can't shoot, or you basically don't shoot, then the shortness will naturally appear.
Therefore, the exchange of three points for this empty position is definitely the most effective.
And there is another very important point for Tang Tian, NCAA is not like the NBA, players can make money by advertising and endorsements, in NCAA, players are not allowed to make money in any form, even if it is given privately by the school, as long as it is violated, there is a high probability that they will be kicked out of the league directly.
This is also something that the NCAA has been criticized for, you must know that this league makes more money every year in March Madness than in the NBA playoffs!
But that's the rule, it's not something you can control.
Therefore, the 50,000 krypton gold value may be the largest head he can get, and in this case, he should choose this vacant position for three points.
With this empty three-pointer, and then training his body, he is a proper 3D player.
In the future, when basketball is developing faster and faster, this is quite popular, and it can even be said to be scarce.
And he's only 18 years old now, and his body will rise a little more under normal circumstances, and then the spatial No. 4 position and the 3D forward swing man are all completely possible things for him.
This wave of krypton gold is definitely a sure win.
ps: Is it because I'm not sassy enough or you can't get tough, the recommendation ticket was blown up miserably, brothers!