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Chapter 298 Retaliation against UCLA

Chapter 298 Retaliation against UCLA

Larry easily realized the dominance of the inside. Looking at the entire NCAA league, his inside dominance is also unique. ESPN's evaluation is: The last inside player with such dominance was named Shaquille O'Neal.

To limit him, at least two players are needed.

This is undoubtedly a historical level of evaluation, but it only took one year for Larry to leap from obscurity to historical level.

A year ago, Larry Bell was still an unknown player, and his name was not even seen in the rankings of the top [-] high school students in the United States.

However, in the last year of high school, Larry suddenly began to grow, and his height soared by 17 centimeters, from 188 to 205. His body also became stronger. The change in body shape forced Larry to change his position on the court. With the change of position, his style of play also changed drastically.

Generally speaking, player changes are mostly adjustments in similar positions, such as power forward and center, guard and small forward, etc. Such a role change only requires fine-tuning of technical characteristics. Few people like him directly change from the guard position to power forward. These are two completely different positions, and the technical characteristics are even worse.

Changes like this are accompanied by intense labor pains. Most players need to spend a long time to adapt.

However, Larry's transformation was extremely smooth, without any "discomfort". He even discovered his potential to play inside. His ability to protect the basket, blocking skills, and support choices were all impeccable.

When he graduated, the coach only wrote a one-sentence comment on his graduation statement: Larry is a player born specifically for the inside.

"The two most correct choices in my life: marrying a good wife and sending Larry inside." His coach said.

Larry's strong performance made Mu Chenfeng think of a player whose style of play was very similar to his: Enzo Ronnie.

In the past two years, the basketball environment in the United States has undergone great changes. Players who were once unknown have risen like a spring. Of the players who participated in the training camp with Mu Chenfeng, only 15 players entered the top 50. There are 11 players in the top 20, 8 players in the top 10, 4 players in the top 5, and "0" players in the top [-].

Those favored ones who had been glorious for a while gradually lost their dominance in the waves of change, while those players favored by God successfully completed the counterattack.

Larry is just one of many counterattack players.

Felix's national ranking is 17th.

Enzo Ronnie ranked 78th, several levels behind Larry.

But there is a name on the list that Mu Chenfeng is very familiar with.

Kyle Terry, ranked third among the 100 strongest high school students.

The son of the slum who once wanted to give up basketball, finally walked out of the slum.

Today's Kyle Terio is doing well at Duke University.

"Hoha, do you regret your choice? I "love" UCLA!" It was an unforgettable pain for Larry to be abandoned by UCLA. He loved this school and this land so much, but they did not bring themselves here as agreed, but chose the Chinese boy who could not even set foot on the court.

Larry played with obvious anger in his eyes. He hated everyone at UCLA, and his revenge was to bomb the UCLA basket.

Under the performance of Larry Bell, Kentucky quickly opened up the point difference. As Larry smashed away the duo, Kentucky led UCLA by 25:14.

This dunk stopped UCLA. Before the players returned to the bench, Barton's angry voice reached everyone's ears. Obviously, this kind of start could not satisfy anyone.

"You actually allowed a freshman player to score 12 points. Can you play?" Barton reprimanded, but the players dared not respond.

Larry's performance was indeed incomprehensible. He scored 7 points on 6 of 12 shots, and all 6 goals came from dunks. Faced with such a result, the two insiders have an inescapable responsibility.

"It's our fault." Marek and Damian lowered their heads and did not dare to look directly into Barton's eyes, but it is not difficult to imagine that Barton's eyes at this moment can kill.

"I don't need to say more about the importance of this game." Barton said seriously, but his mood calmed down a little, and his tone dropped, "If you can't win, you won't report to the team tomorrow."

In the last words, Barton spoke calmly, but it sounded like he was being pinned against his heart by an extremely sharp dagger, and there was no way out.

Although Barton’s performance was too serious, it was understandable. After all, UCLA and Kentucky were special schools. They were the top two teams in the history of the NCAA. Therefore, the games between the two teams would attract great attention from the outside world. Even if it was just a warm-up match, the media and reporters would make a big fuss about the game.

The media only needs one result to make up a realistic and tortuous process.

Victory is the only way to make the media favor yourself.

But now, Kentucky is the dominant side, and UCLA did not think of an effective way to contain Larry.

"boom!"

Just after the timeout came back, Larry bombed the basket again, but this time he did not suffer too much resistance, because both Damian and Marek chose to get out of the way.

"Two cowards!" Larry began to taunt the dunk as the dunk was not enough. "Playing with you is easier than training."

"Hey, the two of us have been underestimated." Damian looked at Larry's back in a low voice.

"Hey, I'm still a freshman." Marek replied, and his face gradually calmed down.

"Then it's time to get serious." Damian's state has also changed. After all, he is the NCAA champion, so how could he be defeated so easily.

Oscar and Felix ran all of UCLA's offense, leaving Damian and Marek to focus on defending Larry.

Felix received Oscar's pass and hit the middle distance, pulling the point difference back to 9 points.

"Single digits." Larry murmured, "This point difference is really ugly." He doesn't like single digit points difference, he likes double digits, an absolute lead.

"Then widen the point difference." Gatlin gave the ball to Larry again, and immediately Damian and Marek greeted him, forming a double defense in front of Larry.

"No matter how many times it is the same, you are not my opponent at all." Larry started, driving his huge body to crush towards UCLA's inside line.

(End of this chapter)