At the beginning of the knockout round, North Carolina directly lost the absolute main force Joel, which made the outside world generally not very optimistic about North Carolina.

Now, everyone thinks that if nothing else, North Carolina will become the most favorable contender for the championship, because the appearance of Cheng Lei has given every remaining team a headache.

The media was overwhelmed with information about Cheng Lei, and soon, the news spread to China, Mingguang High School has been busy in the past few days, and reporters have constantly come to interview, which makes Mingguang's principal happy, and the school's fame has risen all of a sudden.

Wu Chunlei is happy for Cheng Lei from the bottom of his heart, and he practices hard every day, just to catch up with Cheng Lei's pace, Wu Chunlei has only one goal, that is, one day, he can also step on the NCAA stage.

Zhuo Jiayue was in a bad mood for the first two weeks of Cheng Lei's departure, but every time she went to Wu Chunlei to ask about Cheng Lei, Wu Chunlei always kept silent.

In recent days, there have been rumors about Cheng Lei everywhere in the school, and she realized that Cheng Lei had gone to North Carolina.

The sourness in her heart can only be experienced by herself, burying her head and thinking about things alone.

After a long time, she finally made a decision, she decided to follow in Cheng Lei's footsteps and go abroad!

In fact, Zhuo Jiayue's family had this intention for a long time and wanted to send her to study abroad, but at that time, she herself had been unwilling and reluctant to leave here, and now, she has a new pursuit.

After a few days of waiting, the next opponent is finally decided, the No. 4 seed, Butler University!

Butler University, far better than the first two teams, after a difficult battle, North Carolina won the final victory by a narrow margin.

On the whole, North Carolina did not have an advantage, Cheng Lei could only defend one person, but the other players of Butler were also very capable, and the two sides played very anxiously, and in the last two minutes of the game, North Carolina was still two points behind.

At the last moment, relying on Cheng Lei's cold-blooded three points, he killed Butler University.

After Cheng Lei took the initiative to receive the ball, he quickly pushed the ball across the half court, faced the defenders, and suddenly made a shot when he was still two steps away from the three-point line.

Everyone thinks that Cheng Lei is crazy, and if this ball can't be thrown, North Carolina will lose.

However, the ball went into the basket steadily, and the remaining time was no longer enough to support a normal offense.

After the Butler College player received the ball, he dribbled a step and threw the ball towards the basket, the ball did not go in, and the game was over.

A hard-fought win that saw North Carolina reach the final four.

The opponent in the semifinals is the University of Kentucky, which has already won the game early and entered the final four.

The University of Kentucky, an NCAA giant, sends a lot of outstanding talents to the NBA every year, which can be described as a gathering of superstars.

Downs, cousin Cousins, and Anthony Davis all came from the University of Kentucky.

The coach briefly analyzed the strength of the University of Kentucky, among them, Kevin Locks, which needs to be paid attention to, this marking task, of course, is handed over to Cheng Lei.

In recent years, the trend of basketball has been biased towards the next lineup, and it can be seen from the NCAA games that there are very few big centers used, and many of the original big forwards have been replaced by the center position.

It improves the flexibility of the team and speeds up the pace of the game a lot, it is this kind of lineup that allows Cheng Lei to give full play to his ability, otherwise, with Cheng Lei's current height of 193, if he goes to make up for the big center, isn't it hitting a stone with an egg.

The game will start in three days, during which Cheng Lei continues to temper with the team, although he has reached the semi-finals, but the team is not in the best state, Cheng Lei and the team, still need more run-in.

Now on the field, Cheng Lei is fighting alone many times, and does not form a whole, fortunately, no one is clamping Cheng Lei, so that Cheng Lei can easily score points, if the package is clamped, there is no tacit understanding, and the ball passed out is easy to be broken.

In the past two days, Cheng Lei, in addition to eating and sleeping, has been soaking in the training ground as a whole, and his physical strength is different from that of ordinary people, which makes Hicks and his gang admire.

By the way, since the last mission was completed, Cheng Lei hasn't checked the system, will there be any strange tasks?

With curiosity, Cheng Lei checked the system.

Hehe, seeing that the average value has become eighty, Cheng Lei is beautiful, sweeping away the previous dissatisfaction with the system task, it is so fragrant!

Eighty points, what is the concept, this is basically the value in the NBA blue-collar workers, that is to say, Cheng Lei is now fully capable of standing on the NBA arena.

As far as Cheng Lei's defense is concerned, it has indeed attracted many NBA teams, especially the Spurs, who are particularly interested in Cheng Lei, and specially filmed the team to inspect Cheng Lei.

After Bowen retired, they have been looking for someone with excellent defensive flank ability, and Cheng Lei's defensive ability is really what they like.

Cheng Lei After all, it has only been half a semester since he came to North Carolina, and his affairs on the basketball team are all in charge of Johnson, the coach of the second team, which has not changed even after he arrived in the first team.

What Cheng Lei didn't know was that after Johnson watched Cheng Lei's outstanding defensive performances, he actually signed Cheng Lei up for the NBA draft, thinking that Cheng Lei would test the water, maybe it would be done.

Cheng Lei is still in the dark, Johnson thought, when Cheng Lei's game is over, he is telling him to give him a surprise.

A newcomer who suddenly appeared like thunder suddenly announced that he would participate in the draft, and for a while, the whole circle was full of discussions.

This is also why, in the past few days, there have been scouts investigating Cheng Lei's information.

Cheng Lei's defense has been recognized by everyone, but from the current data of the offensive ability, it is obviously weak, and the three-point shooting ability is only the ability to shoot at the top, even if he participates in the draft, the position is not ideal.

Everyone is not optimistic about Cheng Lei's participation in the NBA draft, and it is likely that he will be defeated.

"Ray, do you have something on your mind?" Hicks asked after the training.

After getting along for a period of time, Hicks and Cheng Lei have always maintained a good relationship, looking at Cheng Lei's somewhat lonely eyes and asking.

"Nothing, just a little homesick!"

It's been a few months since I came to North Carolina, and it's false to say that I don't want to go home, usually, Cheng Lei can only anesthetize himself through continuous training, and after training, Cheng Lei will unconsciously think of the previous days.

"Let's go, let's have a drink!" Hicks patted Cheng Lei on the shoulder and said.

"Forget it, we have a game tomorrow!" Cheng Lei shook his head.

"I'll take you to a place, today, but there is a wonderful show to watch!" Hicks said mysteriously.

This aroused Cheng Lei's curiosity, and it was okay at night anyway, so he thought about going and seeing, so he agreed to Hicks.