Chapter 25 The pleasure of licking a dog
"Let's introduce our opponents to the opening game..."
Nothing different from the preseason, Rick Barnes called all the coaching staff members and all the players the day before the game started.
"Texas Agricultural Machinery University, head coach Billy Gillispi, star Asilau."
Before he could really introduce Asilau, Rick Barnes looked directly at Li Ke: "Sheldon, he's handing it to you."
Although it would not be surprising, such a sudden attack still made Li Ke stunned for a moment, paused for a second before answering: "Okay, coach."
"Chris, let's talk about Asilau in detail."
The team's assistant coach Chris Price is responsible for detecting the opponent, and he will come out to introduce it before the game:
"Asilau, you can regard him as Chance Billups of NCAA. Whether it is the trajectory of his career or the characteristics of his style, he is very similar to Chance Billups..."
Li Ke nodded. This was no different from what Xiao Du said before, but it was more specific.
Asilau is a bit similar to Russell Westbrook, and is also a high school rating star Samsung. He ranked 150th in the United States. In his first season at Agricultural Machinery University, he was not valued. He just relied on his will and hard work to kill step by step.
By his sophomore year, he became the starter and also made some achievements, with outstanding defense and balanced skills.
In his junior year, Asilau's performance became phenomenal, averaging 16.1 points, 3.4 rebounds, 4.0 assists and 1.7 steals per game, even the data is very similar to NBA's Billups.
In this season, Axilao averaged 18.1 points, 3.3 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.1 steals per game in the preseason, and all parties took a step further.
"The overall situation is outstanding, the ball quotient is extremely high, and the Chinese shooting is accurate. In the preseason in the new season, his three-pointers seem to have made great progress, and his shooting percentage has increased from 33.0% in his junior year to 45.8%..."
In terms of technical characteristics, Asilau is also very similar to Billups.
Then, Chris Price began to take out what he had been under his chest.
"Note that Sheldon, he is not slow, but his explosive power is insufficient. Breakthroughs rely more on angle changes, and there are more fake moves. In addition, he rarely enters the inside line, and scores more often than mid-range jump shots..."
In other words, Asilao's body is very similar to Li Ke now, both of which have speed and no explosions. In this way, Li Ke should indeed defend Asilao.
"Defend him, Sheldon, we need a good start."
Rick Barnes finally encouraged Li Ke, and Li Ke nodded.
After a complete preseason game, no one will question Li Ke's main position anymore.
Including Damien James, he also became much more low-key after he was discovered in the last game against Georgetown. He knew very well that Li Ke, who had been improving during this period, was no longer Li Ke at the beginning of school.
At the beginning, he had no advantage in the confrontation with Li Ke. Now, Li Ke can even crush him on both offense and defense.
If this continues, Li Ke and Kevin Durant will run for the NBA after this season, and he, D.J. Augustine and Dexter Pittman, will have to continue to stay in NCAA.
In fact, not only Damien James, but also the coaching staff of the Longhorns have realized this.
At the beginning of the season, they thought the team's offensive core was Durant, Augustine and Abrams, and the defensive core was Dexter Pittman.
As a result, when they started fighting, they realized that Augustine was too young, Abrams was controlled by her body and was not very stable, and the Longhorn's attack could almost rely on Durant.
Defensively, Dexter Pittman is too slow and his skills are too rough.
Without Li Ke, the Longhorns this season would have to be able to take Durant on the offense and defense.
So, the fact is that Xiao Du is the eldest and Li Ke is the second in the current Longhorned Niu.
From beginning to end, the topic of this pre-match tactical meeting never left Asilau, which also made Li Ke understand that in this opening game, they really could win the game as long as they were guarding Asilau to death.
Just thinking so, Li Ke will be under greater pressure.
After the meeting ended, Li Ke, who returned home, took out some videos of the preseason competition of the Agricultural Machinery University this season. He stayed up until midnight before finally unable to hold on and fell asleep.
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The next day, the first sunlight in the morning shone through the curtains and shone into the room, and Li Ke woke up.
Although he was very tired and wanted to sleep when he closed his eyes, his work and rest habits still made Li Ke shake his head helplessly and get up.
As usual, he jogged around the streets of North Camps for half an hour until his sweat soaked his clothes, and he ended the morning exercise that he had barely stopped since his time travel.
There was still class in the morning. Li Ke took the book and walked towards the teaching building of the School of Education. When he passed by Frank Irving Center, he stopped for a while.
Since yesterday, huge posters have been hung on the exterior wall of Frank Irving Center.
Rick Barnes stood in the center with his hands on his chest, beside him was Du and Abrams, and further out were Li Ke and Augustine, as well as Connor Archley, Dexter Pittman, Damien James...
No one was missed, everyone in the Longhorns was on the poster.
Li Ke stared at himself on the poster for a while and made a decision: "Next time, I will sit in the C position!"
Li Ke finished listening to the psychology course in the morning in a daze.
In the afternoon, he couldn't wait to rush to the stadium.
Because it was the opening game of the regular season, the Frank Irving Center, which was still pedestrian in the morning, became crowded in the afternoon, and the traffic was getting busy. Not only did the students from Germany University come to watch the game, but the residents of Austin are also supporters of the Longhorn for many years.
Wrapped in a thick mink suit, standing in the square in the center of Frank Irving, Cong Ming stomped his feet in a hot air, and stood beside him the center of the football game Archie, and two girls in the cheerleaders, one of whom had short hair was what Cong Ming had been pursuing eagerly.
The group of four looked around, as if waiting for something.
Not long after, Dong Jinji gasped and ran from a distance.
"I got the ticket, I got it..."
"Several pictures!"
Cong Ming didn't care about the others, he just wanted to know how many tickets there were.
"Just... just two..."
"Two pictures?"
"There's no way, Brother Cong, this game is the opening game of the regular season. It's too hot. More than 20,000 tickets have been sold out long ago. I begged my grandfather to sue my grandma. I finally found two tickets."
Dong Jinji looked bitter, Cong Ming took the two tickets helplessly, turned to the two girls with short hair: "Small, just two tickets, or..."
Before he could finish speaking, the short-haired girl named Xiaoyang snatched the ticket: "Then let Sister Lu and I go in."
"ah?!"
"What, why don't you and Sister Lu come in?"
"No, you'll go, you'll go..."
Cong Ming stood in the square and watched the short-haired girl and Sister Lu whom she mentioned entered the stadium step by step. He was not angry, but was happy.
When the two of them walked a little further, they shouted: "Chen Xiaoyang, I want to have fun!"
It seems that doing this is very romantic.
Chapter completed!