Who's this?

It only took Li Dong half a quarter of the game to let the audience know his name - Li from the Far East!

"I didn't expect Bill to hide such a hand!" Coach John looked at the University of Kansas players in the distance, and his heart swelled up with a deep fear of this basketball team. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In his opinion, with the talent and strength that Li Dong showed just now, it was enough to make up for the vacancy caused by the departure of Jonny Flynn, and even more than that, after all, they also found a super student with great physical talent like Kelly Oubre.

"It's hard to fight~~" Coach John let out a long sigh and touched his head in annoyance.

In fact, Coach Beal also felt that this game was very difficult to play, the interior duo each carried three fouls, and even the bench players had fouls, Downs was too lethal to the University of Kansas inside, if he continued to chisel so hard, Coach Beal estimated that he would have to put Kelly Oubre in the power forward position immediately to put out the fire.

Both coaches found it tricky, but luckily it was only a friendly game, not a game with a bad league result.

At the beginning of the second half, Coach Beal put Li Dong on the bench and rearranged the previous starting lineup, while the University of Kentucky still had a team with Towns as the core.

"Haha, it looks like the University of Kentucky is very strong!" While Bill was thinking about what to do on the field, Jack walked over with a bottle of mineral water.

Beal glanced at him, then returned his gaze to the court, and said helplessly: "There is a lack of a player on the inside who can compete with Downs, although our young players are very active defensively, but Downs is not the kind of player who goes straight to the bottom, you see his footsteps and feints under the basket, it's really good." ”

"Why don't you use Lee?" Jack said, taking a sip of water.

Bill was stunned for a moment, then reacted and gave him a blank look: "I used it in the first half." You go to the hall now, and I guarantee that all the audience will already know Lee's name by now! ”

"Oh?!" Jack came interested, "Why?" ”

Bill didn't bother to explain to him and shrugged, "I think you can go and ask Don directly." ”

Li Dong had already seen Jack who suddenly appeared, he looked at Jack who was talking to Coach Bill, from the bottom of his heart, after being with Jack day and night for three months, he felt that Jack was his real coach. Therefore, he is also very concerned about Jack, staring at the two of them.

Jack turned his head, glanced at Li Dong, and then suddenly smiled: "Behave well, Don!" Li Dong smiled and nodded.

The players around him were a little curious: "Hey, Lee! You'll know Mr. Jack! ”

"Mr. Jack?"

"Jack is our Pine Eagles' dedicated trainer and nutritionist, oh my God, have you ever tasted his nutritious meal, I think it's something that breaks people!"

Li Dong was recalled by his teammates' words, and remembered the miserable diet control situation for three months, and couldn't help but shudder.

The situation on the court was still dominated by the University of Kentucky, and Kelly Oubre staged an empty dunk in the middle of a fast break, which ignited the atmosphere of the scene!

"The two new players are very good, the physical quality of these two is really amazing!"

"yes, they both had a really nice dunk in each half, and oh my god, I'm starting to look forward to the University of Kansas this season!"

Coach Bill, who mainly practiced soldiers, did not take the victory or defeat in mind, and it was not until the end of the second half that Li Dong was given the opportunity to play again.

As soon as Li Dong came up, he immediately played with Kelly Oubre to block and cooperate, and Kelly hit a mid-range shot and scored two points.

At this time, Coach John Calipari saw that the player he thought was a swingman at the forward turned out to be a point guard, and judging from his performance, he was still a point guard who liked to pass!

However, Li Dong still had too little time to run in with his teammates, and although he passed a good ball, he also made two passing errors, one of which was caught by the University of Kentucky and turned into a counterattack.

Confusion and turnovers dominated the University of Kansas' second half, as it did at the start of the first half, while the weak interior defense was like paper paste, and Downs scored in the box like a bag.

At the end of the game, the University of Kansas Pine Hawks lost 54-66 to the University of Kentucky basketball team.

Coach Bill was not unhappy about losing the game, he saw the potential of the players and the hope of this team, and at the same time saw the current shortcomings of the team, which made him gradually have an overall idea of training in his heart and began to look towards a farther goal.

And the audience at the University of Kansas who left the venue also looked at Li Dong who came down from the audience with interest.

They still can't forget the earth-shattering slam dunk that Li Dong completed after he came out, and he completed the slam dunk on the body of the opponent's strongest inner line, Tang Si. That picture is deeply fixed in their minds, and every time they meet a classmate, they will still come forward to talk and show off!

"Hey, buddy! Did you know that we have a new player on our basketball team, and the paint section has dunked Kentucky's Downs! ”

"Have you heard of Lee? A freshman from China slammed the head of the center in Kentucky! ”

Some people don't believe it, some people are skeptical, and it's a pity that there is no camera to shoot the whole process of this innocuous friendly match, and some students want to find the school to get the video, but the school doesn't have it.

Finally, a lucky guy uploaded a video he shot with his mobile phone on YouTube, the video was very blurry, and the angle was 45 degrees upward, he was just idle and bored, wanting to see the appearance of this new Chinese player, but he didn't expect to shoot an out-of-print video material.

The number of clicks is not high, but the entire University of Kansas knows Li Dong's name!

In less than two days, Li Dong walked on campus, and he would be pointed at along the way, he is now a celebrity Li at the University of Kansas, and there are many people who talk to him and chat, and there are even a few very good-looking senior sisters. At the beginning, Li Dong was still very unaccustomed to politely replying to everyone he talked to, and his English speaking level rose rapidly, and gradually he became less optimistic, and he was able to talk to everyone naturally and skillfully, and the whole person became old.

And as the days passed, the time for the opening event of the Great East Conference Championship was getting closer and closer.

The NBA has also started preseason games after an offseason. The University of Kansas found several prestigious schools to warm up.

In one game against the University of Texas Longhorns, Li Dong came off the bench for 17 minutes and scored 14 points, and the University of Kansas took half a game to establish a nearly 20-point lead. The warm-up game played people like this, and the spectators were speechless, and the Longhorns players of the game were even more depressed: "If our power forward, the 2.11-meter-tall Myers Turner, is here, how can the University of Kansas be so arrogant?" How dare this yellow-skinned kid repeatedly score inside? ”

After winning this game, the University of Kansas attracted a lot of attention from the outside world, and some NBA scouts with a keen sense of smell have begun to wander around the University of Kansas in an attempt to dig out some new talents.

In the fifth game against the University of Tennessee, Li Dong met a formidable opponent.

His name was Josh Richardson.

Li Dong played as a starter, and after nearly 20 minutes of trash talk that he chattered about, Li Dong didn't say a word, just attacked with his head bored. What makes Li Dong depressed is that after several invincible breakthroughs, this time he finally met his opponent, Josh Richardson's defensive skills are very good, not shaking, and fast lateral movement, it is difficult for him to live cleanly, and his efficiency is greatly reduced.

The game has also become very anxious, and Tennessee is also considered the No. 1 player in the Southeastern Conference, with superstars like Bernard King and strong strength.

After 40 minutes of fierce battle, the University of Kansas narrowly defeated the University of Tennessee volunteers 63-61, and the two sides fought to the end, and Li Dong stood for nearly 30 minutes. The victory of such a game made the University of Kansas fans who watched the game live at that time very happy, and after this game, a small group of Li Dong's first wave of fans appeared.

In the end, in six friendly matches, except for the rout in the first one, the University of Kansas won the next five. Of course, except for Kentucky and Tennessee, which are traditional powerhouses, the other college teams are not strong, and they are not even affiliated with the six major leagues, it is purely Bill who gives confidence to this group of players at the University of Kansas.

Fast forward to the official start of the NCAA Tournament......