Chapter 22: Into March Madness

With eight minutes left before the end of the game, Li Kaiming grabbed a frontcourt rebound in an offensive attack, and then squeezed Britton to jump on the spot and dunk with both hands.

A system prompt suddenly appeared in his sight.

[System]: Congratulations to the host, complete the D-level basic task, get 3 basic reward attribute points, and 5 points!

He was relieved to see this, and before he knew it, he had already scored 30 points stipulated by the system, and at this time, the difference between the two sides also came to 14 points, and the Tigers led 60:46.

But he can't get off the field yet, because the advanced mission requires him to keep a clean sheet against the defender, that is, the center of the Shakhtar team, Britten, if he is replaced, Britton takes the opportunity to steal a chicken and scores, then his first thirty minutes of full defense will be wasted!

So when Pastner asked him if he wanted to rest during the pause, he shook his head decisively, "There is still time, the other side may fight back desperately, so we must not be careless!" ”

Pastner's heart moved, and he immediately nodded, and said secretly in his heart, "Josh, Josh, as a coach, how can you realize that you are not as good as a player?" On the pitch, anything is possible, and you can't let your guard down until the last minute. ”

Thinking of this, he looked at Li Kaiming with even more appreciation, "No wonder Li can perform if he gives him a chance, such a mentality must be what a successful person should have." ”

Back on the court, Li Kaiming still worked hard to defend, did not let go of any layup on the opposite side on the defensive end, and tried to pounce on all the shots.

On the offensive end, Li Kaiming took the lead, actively blocking and dismantling his teammates, paying attention to sharing the ball, and at the same time, he did not forget the tactical strategy formulated before the game - to burst the opposite inside.

The miners' interior defense is already weak, and when encountering a center like him who is no less offensive than some NBA All-Stars, he can't parry at all, and in the face of his powerful attack basket, the miners' restricted area is like a wooden railing meeting an infantry fighting vehicle, and it is destroyed in an instant!

Once the miners can't defend him, they will have to take out the final weapon in the roar of coach Tony Bobbie - the three-person bag, but although Li Kaiming's passing is not particularly good, he can still pass out the huge space brought by the three-person encirclement, coupled with the vision bonus brought by his extraordinary height, the miners' tide-like "dying counterattack" was resolved by him layer by layer......

The rest of the Tigers, who had been iron for ten minutes in the second half, gradually woke up, and the three-pointers they shot from their hands were like swords straight into the chest of the Shakhtars.

In the face of being eliminated, the miners burst out with unprecedented energy, but this energy is limited.

Especially when they found that no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't guard against the 34 opposite, and the point difference was still getting bigger and bigger in their desperate eyes, their burst of energy quickly disappeared......

How Tony Bobbi, the coach of the Shakhtars, roared and yelled on the sidelines, the players on the court were like corpses, mechanically shooting, passing, shooting, and hitting iron......

In the end, the game ended with the whistle of the on-the-spot referee, and the University of Memphis Tigers defeated the University of Texas at El Paso Shakhtar 78-56 to win the 2009-2010 C-USA Conference Championship and represent the C-USA League into March Madness, becoming a seeded team in the Midwest Division of the NCAA National Championship.

Li Kaiming looked at the prompt of the completion of the advanced task displayed by the system in the field of vision, and silently breathed a sigh of relief, in the last few minutes of the game, the miners saw that the general trend had gone, so they took the lead in withdrawing the main force, and he also applied to Pastner to rest, if the opposite coach Tou Tie let the starter play to the end, then he would have to be cheeky and always on the field.

However, Rao also dominated the group with 34 minutes of playing time, becoming the player with the longest playing time in both teams, and the result was that he scored 40 points, 15 rebounds, 10 assists and 5 blocks in the game, while shooting 70 percent!

Calvin and Jackson on the commentary bench were still summarizing after the game, "Who would have thought that Memphis experienced a change of coach and a shortage of personnel in the offseason, and encountered the main injury and retirement in the playoffs, and it could actually go to the end!" ”

Jackson also sighed, "yes, after Calipari joined Kansas, I even thought that Memphis would be at the bottom of the regular season, but I didn't expect them to be the champion of the C-USA league." ”

Calvin nodded, "Ladies and gentlemen, let's congratulate the Memphis Tigers, who have made it to March Madness for three consecutive seasons after today, becoming the first team in the C-USA league to do so." In the 2007-2008 season, Memphis reached the NCAA finals under the leadership of Derrick Rose but lost, in the 2008-2009 season, Memphis had Tyrek Evans, who was later selected by the Kings with the fourth pick in the first round, and under his leadership, Memphis reached the Sweet Round of 16, and this year, the highest predicted pick in the Memphis lineup is Elliott Williams, and there is a sudden Li Kaiming, how far can this Memphis youth army go under the leadership of the two of them? We'll see......"

In the audience, Maren Barthes put away his notebook, and he looked at what he had written by himself on the notebook, and a strange feeling rose in his heart.

Originally, the team sent him to investigate Elliott Williams, but most of the content in his notes was related to Li Kaiming.

However, he was also extremely glad in his heart, fortunately he saw this game, otherwise he would have missed this unicorn-like monster player, and he believed that when he put the performance of this No. 34 Chinese player in front of the team management, they would not be much less shocked than him!

The fat man next to him, Kent, also wrote a few pages contentedly, he put away his notebook, looked at Maren Barth, and at the same time, Bart also looked at him, and the two looked at each other and sighed in unison.

"Genius!"

The scout's schedule was very tight, and the two exchanged pleasantries before quickly leaving, and Kent had completed his main mission to the area, and he had to return to the team to report the results of the trip to the management.

Barthes's task is more complicated, with a solemn expression and hurried steps.

He wanted to rush back as soon as possible and send the content of the game, especially Li Kaiming's performance, to the team as soon as possible, because he knew that with the performance of that Chinese teenager tonight, within 24 hours, all the sports media in the United States would focus on him.

He wanted to persuade the team to contact him in advance before Li Kaiming appeared on the front page of the newspaper, and he had an intuition in his heart that if he missed this guy, he might regret beating his chest in the future!