Chapter 16 A powerful opponent is coming
After playing Winthrop University in the Great Southern League, the Longhorns won six straight games in the preseason, without losing in six games.
With such a hot state, Durant, who averaged more than 30 points per game, the Longhorns are already one of the favorites to win the NCAA in the new season, along with the University of Florida, Ohio State, and Kansas in the league.
"Kevin Durant, a phenomenal freshman, is running towards the first NCAA title in team history."
"Just just started the season, the number one seeds in the fourth major division in March Madness have been confirmed, Kansas in the West, University of Texas in the East, University of Florida in the Midwest, and Ohio State in the South..."
"This year's freshman is too perverted. Kevin Durant, who scored 30 consecutively, Mike Conley, who led the team to win a strong opponent by himself, and Greg Oden, who has not yet appeared but is expected to be the most anticipated team, three of them have created two top NCAA teams."
“…”
Looking at the comments of these media reporters, Xiao Du's face was not very good.
"Greg Oden hasn't even made a show yet, why is he still here?"
Li Ke, who was standing beside him, shook his head and complained secretly: This is the familiar Kevin Durant. He always cares so much about others' evaluation of himself, and even those closely related to him.
As for Li Ke, he looked through all the newspapers and magazines brought by Xiao Du, but saw no reports related to him.
"The opponents are too weak. If you continue to play like this, don't think about going to the NBA at the end of this season."
Sports Illustrated has started to specialize in the NBA talent show. So far, Xiao Du is the top pick in the prediction.
But this did not make Xiao Du happy: Greg Oden, who did not play in a game, was the second best in Sports Illustrated predictions.
A very simple truth: Oden is the second place if he doesn't play in one game. If he doesn't perform badly, wouldn't he be the top pick?
This is why Xiao Du was quite angry.
"This guy hasn't played the game yet, and no one knows what kind of performance he can play, why is he the second place?"
Li Ke shook his head. In the gambling-like career, NBA executives have been favoring big players for a day or two.
It’s not that Xiao Du is not a big man, but the big man that NBA executives like are big men like Sharks, Yao Ming, Duncan, and weird guys like Xiao Du who only knows how to shoot are obviously not within this range.
This means that no matter how amazing the Du performs, the No. 1 pick will likely be Oden.
Unless Oden performs extremely badly, Oden just encounters injuries. If it weren't for the injury, this guy was definitely a historical level and no one could question this.
So, Oden's performance will not be bad at all, as long as he can make the appearance.
Compared to Xiao Du, Li Ke is more concerned about himself.
The special topic of Sports Illustrated does not mention his name at all, which means that he has not received any attention from NBA yet.
"It's really, it's still far..."
After thinking about it, he closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, but in fact he entered the system.
"Damian James: Hostile Value 75."
“Kevin Durant: Friendly level 66.”
“d.j.Augustin: Friendship 38.”
“Daniel Gibson: Friendship 24.”
"Taylor Hansblu: Hostile Value 10."
“Dexter Pittman: Friendship 5.”
"Joe Crawford: Hostile Value 5."
“…”
Xiao Du's friendliness is only 66, and Li Ke wants to roll his eyes a little.
Although he did not deliberately make friends with Xiao Du, the two had a lot of communication during this period, and their friendship only rose to 66 points. From this, he saw Xiao Du's personality traits.
"This guy is really not that easy to get along with. Thinking about it, he didn't have any real friends in NBA later."
However, Damien James' hostility value is almost at the 80-point limit.
"It seems that it is very useful to often bring down Damien in the team training these days, so we still have to continue."
Li Ke didn't know much about the peak Damien James, but he had decided that if he really didn't have any top skills, he would choose talent. I think a black player's talent would not be much worse.
"There will be a competition again tomorrow. Georgetown University, they should be not weak, right?"
Li Ke opened his eyes, flipped through the sports pictorial, and found CBS' latest national live broadcast arrangement, including the next game at the University of Texas.
"Georgetown University? They reached the Sweet Sixteen last year. In the new season, the main core has not been lost, and their strength will definitely be strong."
Xiao Du knows the situation of various top-level schools and second-level schools in NCAA. I have to say that it is also related to his frequent reading of newspapers.
However, even though Xiao Du said so, Li Ke still didn't know much about Georgetown University.
Until the afternoon, Rick Barnes called all the players and held a pre-match tactical meeting.
"Tomorrow evening, we will usher in the most important game in the preseason, with the opponent being Georgetown University. In March Crazy, Georgetown University is our competitor in the same district..."
Not only Georgetown University, North Carolina, the opponent in the opening game of the preseason, will also be the opponent in the same district in mid-March.
"Sheldon, your opponent will be Jeff Green in this game."
Li Ke was named immediately afterwards, but he was more concerned about the familiar name Rick Barnes said.
"Jeff Green?"
If you remember correctly, the fifth rookie in the 2007 draft was Jeff Green. He and Xiao Du both went to the Supersonics that were later renamed the Thunder. In the early days, he was also a member of the Thunder Youth League.
"They also have Roy Hibert in the inside, and we need to focus the defense on the inside, so your teammates won't help you too much."
Roy Hibert, another future NBA big shot, has a good draft pick. With these two names alone, Li Ke understands that Georgetown University, which is not as good as Germany University, is not easy to mess with at this time.
Perhaps, at this time, Georgetown University was holding on to the idea of using the current University of Texas, which is currently in full swing, and came to challenge it with great momentum.
"You need to note that Jeff Green is a master of back frames. At the same time, his mid-range shots are also very accurate. The scoring method he often uses is a turning jump shot behind his back, or a face-frame shot after a breakthrough..."
Rick Barnes is still introducing Jeff Green's style and technical style.
Li Ke was already thinking about finding some videos of Jeff Green, and using this night before the game to get a more realistic understanding of Jeff Green.
So he raised his hand: "Coach, is there any video of Jeff Green?"
"Video? Georgetown University was considered a dark horse last year. There were not many live broadcasts across the United States, and there were not many videos. However, you can find a computer and go to the ncaa official website to find it."
The computer has to go to the official website of NCAA. At this time, Li Ke could only spread his hands. If he didn't have enough time, he would go to build a computer.
Chapter completed!