Chang Wei's desire to develop the spatial No. 4 position is not purely for fun, he really thinks that taking out the spatial No. 4 position now is simply a big killer. As long as West can extend his range beyond the three-point line, then when Colorado is on offense and he pulls out to shoot, dare to ask your power forward to go out with him or stick to the basket with the center?

If you want to go out, the inside line will become a lot empty, and a small player can teach you to be a man with a casual cut; If you don't go out, with West's height on the outside, it's basically a direct shot, and whichever way you choose is a dead word. The only thing you can pray for is your center to protect the basket, or West's three-pointer.

Therefore, while Chang Wei appropriately reduced the strength exercise of the lower limbs, he also added the training program of outside shooting to West. Not only that, Chang Wei also arranged for Palesio, Patick and Korver to work with him on outside shooting. In Chang Wei's view, the outside shooting of Palesio and others is already good, but it has not yet reached the top level, if they are complacent because of the three-point shooting rate of about 35%, then Chang Wei can only say that they are a group of dirt buns who have not seen the world.

But he didn't plan to say these words, just let them practice their three-point shooting, and when the regular season officially begins, he can let others see how strong Colorado's firepower is.

In the process of joint training, Chang Wei witnessed another major event about the team, and the school was transferred from the Western Athletic League to the Western Mountain League. To be precise, it's a big change for multiple NCAA teams, just look at the teams in the Western Mountain League. In addition to the University of Colorado, the consortium includes the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico, the University of Wyoming, Brigham Young University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the University of San Diego.

In Chang Wei's view, Colorado's power has nothing to do with which league the team is in, whether it is the Western Athletic League or the Western Mountain League, as long as it is not those top leagues. However, even if he joins the Atlantic Coast League where North Carolina is located or the Pacific Ten League where UCLA is located, Chang Wei is confident in the team, and if he can't win the league championship, he will definitely be favored by the selection committee, and it is normal to directly get a place in the top 64 of a national championship.

There's nothing to discuss with the players, in which league is it not for them to play? In addition, the University of Utah and the University of New Mexico in the new league are old rivals last season, they are not very new to this new league, and the team's performance in joint practice is getting better and better, and their morale is also very high, since the team was able to reach the championship last season and almost eliminated a strong team like Duke, so why can't this season go further?

The two new signings are even less concerned about it, and as newcomers anyway, everything in the NCAA is new to them. West, in particular, is now busy practicing back-to-back singles and three-point shooting, and is as tired as a dog every day, so how can he have time to think about these issues again? If you have that time, you might as well shoot a few more three-pointers and try your hand!

Seeing West's performance from beyond the three-point line getting better and better, the smile on McKay's face grew. Of course, this also made him write and draw on the tactical board in the middle of the night countless times, busy thinking about how to combine this feature to design tactics for West, but he was still willing, if the team can win the championship, he estimates that there will be no problem if he doesn't sleep for a week.

In the first preseason game, perhaps because he was not very adaptable, West was under the basket and mid-range for almost the whole game, and even if he pulled to the high position, he did not go outside the three-point line, and seemed to have forgotten all his previous training content. Although he explained after the game that he wanted to test the results of his offseason low-post back-to-back singles drills, McKay ordered him to shoot more from beyond the three-point line in the next game. Now that you've tested your back-to-back singles, it's normal to test your three-point shot again!

West said it was okay to test the three-point shooting, so the opponents in the second preseason game of the Colorado State were stunned, and it was the first time they had seen a power forward pull beyond the three-point line to shoot. Even the head coach on the sidelines was dumbfounded, who to let defend? A big man who is close to 2.10 meters tall runs to the outside to shoot three points, what the hell is this tactic?

Although West's three-point shooting percentage was relatively average, shooting only 4 of 12 in the game, it was enough to make the opponent's heart tremble. McKay didn't let him on for the last five minutes of the second half, but West was still smiling from the sidelines, and there was nothing more pleasing to a motivated player than a significant improvement in his own right.

Of course, the most excited is Chang Wei, who has already made the spatial No. 4 position appear in advance, and may be able to speed up the evolution of interior players. In fact, it's been the second decade of the 21st century to pull the inside to the three-point line, but maybe Colorado State can lead the way now.

It wasn't just West who excelled in the preseason, but Korver, who joined him along, also showed his potential to be a three-point threat. However, in Chang Wei's opinion, he still needs time to grow, because Korver's fitness is still a serious problem, averaging less than 20 minutes per game, which is obviously not enough.

But Korver also had a hard time, he didn't expect Colorado State to attack so quickly in official games, it was more than a notch faster than when he was training. Rao Changwei gave him a special physical training in the offseason, and Korver also felt a little overwhelmed. However, as a player with a strong sense of responsibility, he still kept running in his limited playing time and then threw the ball passed by his teammates into the basket.

The rest of the players were in a decent manner, and even the team's captain and last season's leading scorer Palacio didn't seem interested in scoring, averaging just 12.3 points per game, in stark contrast to last season's 20+ points per game. But McKay doesn't mind, he's seen what he wants to see, and the team's new tactics are running well, and that's enough.

Of course, only these teams that played the preseason game against Colorado experienced the power of the spatial No. 4 position, and those big teams didn't even bother to look at it, and there was not much coverage in the media. For such treatment, the players are naturally a little resentful, but in Chang Wei's opinion, it is very good to be able to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger like this.