I'm good at basketball too

Chapter 9 Calipari's Plan

From Li Ran's point of view, Calipari obviously put Li Ran's old and new grudges together.

For the rest of the game, he forced Li Ran to sit on the bench and didn't give him a minute of playing time.

It's just that the daily training is quite normal. He trains with his teammates every day, and is even assigned to the main team during the training games.

This made Li Ran a little strange. If Calipari wanted to hide him, he should go to the substitute team in the training game and let him fend for himself. .

He is not in a hurry, his strength is there, as long as he is given a chance, he will not worry about whether he will enter the NBA in the future.

The Tigers were already very strong this season, so even without Li Ran, they still had an almost perfect record.

26 consecutive victories at the start, 33 wins and 1 loss throughout the season, these are the impacts this Memphis Tigers have brought to the entire NCAA.

The perimeter combination of Rose and CDR has also become a popular fried chicken in the NCAA league, improving his draft prediction ranking in the NBA time and time again.

"It's a pity. If you had been able to go to the Tennessee game, we would have finished the season with a perfect record."

Rose said to Li Ran regretfully while warming up.

How well Li Ran performed in team training is obvious to all teammates.

He just smiled and continued jogging on the treadmill at his own pace.

After more than a month of training, all his attributes have been more or less improved. Although the already high attributes such as speed and bounce cannot continue to improve, he has almost made up for his shortcomings.

"Li Ran, 19 years old"

“身高：195公分（199公分），臂展：218公分（221公分），体重：86千克”

"Movement: Strength 73, Speed: 91, Dexterity: 84, Bounce: 93, Stamina: 81"

"Shooting: Three Points: 77, Mid Range: 65, Free Throws, 70"

"Inside: post-up technique: 45, inside shooting: 47"

"Rebounds: Defensive Rebounds: 51, Offensive Rebounds: 99"

"Breakthrough: Ball Control: 71, Footsteps: 61, Freestyle: 57"

"Organization: Vision: 43, Passing: 41"

"Defense: Inside Defense: 44, Outside Defense: 57+3, Help Defense: 66, Blocks: 68, Steals: 81"

: Capability value: 73"

"Status: OK"

"Skill: None."

"Evaluation: The patron saint of drinking fountains"

He grew another two centimeters, his wingspan grew a bit, and his evaluation went from NCAA elite player to drinking fountain patron saint.

Li Ran knew that this water dispenser did not refer to the NCAA water dispenser, but the NBA water dispenser.

With an ability value of 73, he can indeed be a qualified marginal player on an NBA team.

However, this did not satisfy Li Ran.

His goal is to raise his ability value to around 75 when he wins the championship at the end of the NCAA season and participates in the draft.

The reason why he wants to win the championship is because of the half-dead system. After he was given the task of participating in the first NCAA game last time, he finally issued a new task.

"Mission: Win the NCAA championship and become the MOP."

"Reward: Draw once in a row, 5000 ability points. 5 free attribute points."

The system was obviously much more generous this time, not only gave him a reward worth 25000 ability points, but also gave him 5 free attribute points.

After all, the requirement of this mission is to win the championship and get the title of MOP in March Madness.

Li Ran has some headaches. The relationship between him and Calipari has not eased. Although he concentrates on training on weekdays and performs well in training, Calipari does not let him play during the game. It would be the same without him.

In this case, it was not Li Ran, Calipari, or Ross who were most anxious, but Cui Wanjun.

Cui Wanjun saw it in his eyes and was anxious in his heart. For Calipari, one more Li Ran for the Tigers is not much, and one less Li Ran is not much.

But for him, Li Ran is the hope of China's basketball forward and defense line.

If you don't let Li Ran play the game, isn't that person useless?

He also went to Calipari and Li Ran, hoping to ease the relationship between the two, but Calipari's performance was very cold.

Li Ran also looked indifferent.

The knockout stage of the Southern University League is coming soon. As No.1 in the league, the University of Memphis does not need to play in the first round of the knockout round. They need to face the winners of No.8 and No.9 in the second round.

After a fierce battle, Tulane University ranked ninth with a record of 49-48, narrowly beating No.8 Marshall University by one point.

They will challenge the University of Memphis, the king of the Southern University League two days later.

After finishing the training session, Li Ran prepared to go back to the apartment with Rose as usual.

However, at this moment, an unexpected voice called out to Li Ran who was putting on his bag and preparing to go out.

"Li, you stay here, I have something to say to you. Derek, you go back first." Calipari pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose, and said to the two with a blank expression.

Ross glanced at Li Ran worriedly, but Li Ran nodded to him.

"You go back first."

Then, Li Ran followed Calipari to his office.

It's been almost a year, and this is the first time Li Ran has come to Calipari's office.

His office is large, but the space is very cramped, because there are too many things in the office.

There are two huge bookcases against the walls on the left and right sides. One bookcase contains all kinds of basketball books, and the other bookcase is full of video tapes. They are neatly categorized according to the age and competition.

These two bookcases are paired with the huge, solid wood desk full of things, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

Calipari unexpectedly came to the water dispenser in the corner.

"What to drink, coffee, tea, cola."

He looked up at Li Ran.

Li Ran was a little surprised: "Coffee."

Calipari came to Li Ran with two cups of coffee and handed him one of them.

Then he came to his chair by the window and sat down. The sunlight came through the window, and because of the backlight, it seemed that Calipari was shrouded in shadow.

Calipari looked at Li Ran who was sitting across the desk, and took a sip of coffee from his cup.

"Li, first of all, I want to say sorry to you. I did it on purpose for what I did to you this season."

As soon as he opened his mouth, Li Ran was taken aback.

Li Ran looked up at the serious Calipari.

"After this period of attention, I confirm that your injury has completely healed."

Li Ran suddenly became interested, half curious and half questioning.

"In this case, why did you put me on the bench and not let me play for the entire season?"

"I can tell you the truth, because of your accidental injury at the beginning of the season, I was under a lot of pressure from the school's senior management. They thought I was a wrong choice to recruit you and Derek into the team. We have One Derek is enough, but the team's record this year is very good, and then slowly they stopped talking."

"And in the only game you played, you only played 15 minutes. As a player who came into the team with a full scholarship like Derek, I think you deserve a chance now, a chance to express yourself."

When Calipari recruited Li Ran and Rose, he thought they were the most suitable players for his DDM tactics, but he didn't expect Li Ran to hurt him badly.

But now, Li Ran's injury was healed, and Calipari's heart began to stir again.

If Li Ran, who became the twin stars of Illinois with Rose, can also perform like Rose. . .

The picture is so beautiful that Calipari dare not think about it.

(End of this chapter)