activa-t Chapter 292 The Team's Sixth Man
Chapter 292 The Team's Sixth Man
Chapter 292 The Team's Sixth Man
The next day, Mu Chenfeng came to the team to report according to the stipulated time, but he was greeted by a pair of extremely cold eyes. Yesterday's loss had a very negative impact on him in front of his teammates and the coaching staff. If it was just a simple loss, it would be acceptable, but it would be a 0:5 without any suspense.
After all, he was also a player with a full scholarship, but his performance was far below the school's expectations. For this reason, the school specially sent people to pay special attention to Mu Chenfeng's performance on the day he joined the team.
Compared with NBA scouts, NCAA scouts have a more vicious vision. They seem to have a pair of eyes that can see the future of players. What they look at is not the present of the players, but their future.
Button called the team and read the team's final 15-man roster, and Mu Chenfeng's name was placed at the end.
As we all know, a team will have various "hidden rules" when filling out the list. Generally, the players at the top of the list are either starters or strong players.
It is not the ranking of Mu Chenfeng's care. This is not considered as a first -time Chinese player, but in general, the ranking of players on the list is the order of this player. The more the ranking will be selected, the less the ranking. It means that he is the last choice of the team. Unless there is a very serious problem in the previous 15 people, it will not be his turn.
In contrast, Felix, who is also a freshman, ranks relatively higher, ranking eighth among everyone, just in the middle position, which shows that he is at least in the coach's tactical system, while Mu Chenfeng is completely out of tactics.
Mu Chenfeng was very unconvinced, with a stern face, and looked at Barton with hatred in his eyes. This list was drawn up by him.
"Why? Are you not convinced?" Barton saw Mu Chenfeng's displeasure, so he stepped forward and said, and then said something even more unacceptable in front of everyone, "If the school hadn't spent the full scholarship on you, I would not have let you appear on this list." The implication is that Mu Chenfeng's appearance on the big list is entirely based on the face of the school leaders. From Barton's personal point of view, he never wanted to bring Mu Chenfeng into the NCAA.
"The NCAA arena is not like the "play house" you play in China. It is a real battlefield, a battlefield where lives are exchanged for victory." Barton's words are not exaggerating. The NCAA plays an important role in the American basketball world, especially in March every year. The game shows how much attention the NCAA has received.
This year's UCLA, in particular, is aiming to win the championship. As a popular championship team, they must have a complete lineup. Obviously, Mu Chenfeng is just a dispensable piece of the puzzle.
This is not the original intention of Mu Chenfeng coming to the United States. He came here to use his skills to conquer the NCAA and NBA. Obviously sitting at the end of the bench cannot achieve this goal. Only when he plays can he have a chance to prove himself.
"One day I will prove that you are wrong." Mu Chenfeng was not dazzled by the rankings, but was very calm, but there was a flame burning in his eyes.
Button was taken aback by this determination, and said slowly, "OK, I'll wait, but if you want to prove me wrong, you must at least get a chance to play." After all, Button is also a veteran with rich coaching experience, how could he be flustered because of a few "trash talks" from a freshman?Besides, whether Mu Chenfeng can play or not is entirely up to Barton. As long as he doesn't give Mu Chenfeng a chance, he won't have the chance to slap himself in the face.
However, it was true that Barton was taken aback by Mu Chenfeng's eyes. He had never seen that expression on any international player. He was seriously "fighting" with himself.
After a brief meeting, Barton divided the team into two groups for confrontation training. In order to balance the strength of the two groups, the main players led the teams to fight against each other. The captains were Oscar and Leo respectively. The two selected teammates in turn, and finally formed a seven-member team and an eight-member team.
Mu Chenfeng was the last one to be chosen. Rather than being chosen, it was better to say that he was "determined", because he was the last one, and Oscar had to choose, so Mu Chenfeng was naturally "selected" into Team A led by Oscar.
Felix was selected into the B team by Leo.
The selection process was in full swing, but in fact the selection was just a formality. In the tactics Barton arranged, only 10 players would be used at most, that is to say, only the top ten players would actually conduct tactical training. Even if the remaining 5 players were selected, most of them would not be able to play.
Whether it is the NCAA or other basketball leagues, the status quo of the survival of substitute players is mostly the same. No coach will be so bad-headed that he will waste his time arranging tactics for a dispensable player in the team, but these players must exist in a "spare tire" to avoid accidents in case of emergencies, but in most cases such accidents are difficult to occur.
Ranked 15th, the last place in Group A, Mu Chenfeng didn't expect to play at all. As a result, the entire training match lasted 30 minutes, and Mu Chenfeng and several other teammates watched the whole 30 minutes off the court.
After the training, Felix, who was sweating all over, walked up to Mu Chenfeng, who was depressed. In this game, he stole the limelight, showing his amazing basketball talent, even surpassing Captain Leo. Even Button, who has always been strict with the players, praised Felix's performance. He even began to consider arranging a starting position for Felix.
It was completely expected that Felix could perform like this. He had already been famous in high school, otherwise he would not have been ranked 8th on the list without playing a game. But after this training match, Button has a new look at Felix's ability, and his ranking should be higher.
The appearance of Felix can be regarded as a solution to Barton's "urgent need", because although UCLA has always been in the ranks of strong teams, the team has also faced the problem of changing from old to new. Several core players in the team are juniors and seniors. They are about to leave school or enter the professional league. If these players leave the NCAA, UCLA will directly lose competitiveness. Even if these players leave the school team, UCLA can continue to maintain competitiveness with Felix as the core of the team.
(End of this chapter)