XLIV. The Beginning of History-Making

As we all know, the NBA is a commercial league, and most teams, with the exception of a few teams, never have the word "human touch." As a talent for the NBA, the NCAA is not as rich in money, but like the NBA, most teams will not tell you about human feelings.

Take training as an example, if Li Wu decides to play in the NCAA for a few more years, the Lions' coaching staff will definitely give him various step-by-step point guard training, but Li Wu has now announced his participation in the NBA draft, which means that his days in the NCAA are only more than a month, and how to use Li Wu to get the best results for the Lions is something that the coaching staff considers.

"Thank you, Abby." Li Wu thanked Abby seriously, summed up the experience of the boxing circle in his previous life and Abby's reminder to Li Wu, he finally understood one thing, why sports stars are particularly easy to mix with entertainment stars, because the sports circle, like the entertainment industry, is a profit-oriented vanity fair, especially in the United States.

"No, no, no!" Abby smiled and waved her hand: "You'll understand these things sooner or later, I just told you in advance." ”

After Abby asked some questions about Li Wu's training at the tank, today's interview ended.

The next day, Li Wu came to the training hall and immediately began to divide the ball.

Compared with holding the ball to accelerate, the ball sharing training is much easier for Li Wu, because compared with shooting, this is just another form of throwing the ball out, the difference is that the shooting target is the basket, and the ball is thrown to the opponent's hand.

In order to train Li Wu's ability to divide the ball, Coach Smith specially arranged a five-on-five offensive and defensive drill, so that Li Wu passed the ball to the vacant players in the confrontation, in fact, Li Wu did not read all the tactical manuals and shooting heat maps, but it did not affect the accuracy of his passing, and the passing after he performed Tangmen's big hand, whether it was speed, angle, or route, was almost the best choice when passing, which surprised the coaching staff of the Lions.

"This kid's passing talent is the best I've seen in the NCAA in the last three years!" Chief Assistant Coach Derek said excitedly.

"Yes! If we had known that he was so good at passing, we should have developed his skills a long time ago! "Offensive assistant coach Kevin Horford interface.

"Guys, don't forget, his split ball is not a break ball in the traditional sense, but a split ball under a static ball bag and a step after starting, which is more predictable than a break ball......... In other words, as long as these two tricks have been used in one game, the coach in the next game will definitely set up targeted defensive tactics if he is not a fool. Defensive assistant coach Adam reminded a colleague.

"Oh! Adam, I know what you mean, but every game we win in the March Madness tournament will move on to the next round, so as long as we can win one game, it will be the round of 32, and if the opponent's targeted defense is not perfect, and we win another game, then we will enter the 'Sweet 16' stage, and every promotion is equivalent to creating Lions team history. Derek said with a smile.

"Derek is right, Lee's ability to accelerate with the ball is not as effective as his ability to share the ball in the short term, in fact he doesn't have a chance to play with us, even if we can get to the round of 16, he will only be able to play five games, and maximizing his impact on the team is the most important thing." Coach Smith said.

In the next few days, Li Wu has been practicing ball-sharing, and his teammates are slowly realizing one thing when they are amazed by Li Wu's passing level: the coaching staff intends to make Li Wu fixed in the position of starting point guard, otherwise there is no need to train his ball-sharing skills in this way.

Although Li Wu's ability to break through is far inferior to that of Maodore, Franksky or even backup point guard Kyle, his passing accuracy far exceeds that of these three, and in the first two days of his trip to the University of Pennsylvania, Li Wu's pass can accurately pass to the most comfortable shooting position of all players, and they will receive Li Wu's pass as soon as they run successfully, which makes them feel that they can't live with Li Wu if they don't come to a catch-shoot.

This is, of course, because Li Wu has memorized all the players' shooting heat maps and tactical manuals.

On March 6 and 7, the Colombian Lions will play away from Pennsylvania and Princeton, respectively, and all the Lions players are expecting more points than usual because of training, and they have seen Li Wu's pass, and they are confident that they can score points.

But Coach Smith disappointed them, in the game against the University of Pennsylvania, Coach Smith's tactics were still Li Wu's single with the ball to give Ma Odo a second attack, and there was no strategy for Li Wu to pack the ball and share the ball after one step, even so, the University of Penn still couldn't stop Li Wu and Ma Odo from scoring.

In the end, the Columbia Lions defeated the University of Pennsylvania 88-72, and Li Wu clocked out again at halftime, scoring 27 points, 3 steals and 3 assists on 9-of-10 shooting.

Then in the away game against Princeton, the Lions players still did not get a pass from Li Wu, although the Princeton Tigers often sent their main division Corey Wilson and main small forward Spencer Wiez to contain Li Wu, but Li Wu still passed the ball to Maodore, who was defended by the main point guard Amir Bell, instead of passing to Corbe-Jeff, who was at the point guard.

Maodore's singles ability is undoubted, he is almost nothing in the face of Amir's defense, or sudden or shot, Amir simply can't limit the guard selected for the German national team, plus Li Wu as long as he has the opportunity to suddenly shoot cold arrows, with pull-up jumpers and dry pulls to score points, resulting in the Princeton Tigers collapsed in the first 7 minutes of the second half, and finally lost 76-90.

Tigers coach Mitch Henderson knows exactly where he loses, because Harvard's coach Mark has named Li Wu's weaknesses, but he is in the same predicament as Mark, he does not have the kind of player who can defend Li Wu as Mark speaks, although his weaknesses are so obvious.

After the final game of the Ivy League, the Columbia Lions ranked first in the league with a record of 12 wins and 2 losses in 14 games, and won the ticket to the March Madness Tournament with an absolute advantage, which is the first time that Columbia University has entered the NCAA Championship after 47 years.

Only a small number of Lions fans who followed the team to Princeton's home stadium witnessed this historic moment, and their number was less than half of the Chinese audience present, and Li Wu also made history on this night, he is the only player in history to enter the NCAA Championship as Chinese.