Sakuragi's road to NBA superstardom

Chapter 107 Against Duke
In the next game, Sakuragi still tried his best. Regardless of the cold eyes of others, he fought hard for every opportunity.

In 3 minutes of garbage time, Sakuragi scored nine points and two rebounds.

Compared with his four teammates who seemed to have not finished warming up, Sakuragi was already panting and sweating profusely.

Every coach has said that he will see everyone's efforts in his eyes.

But not every player will take such words seriously and take them to heart, but Sakuragi always believes that hard work may not be rewarded, but there will be no rewards if you don't work hard.

Throughout the game, Coach Odom's face was very gloomy, but only when he looked at Sakuragi, there was a gleam of relief in his eyes.

Coach Odom tortured Duncan's conscience after the game.

Odom: "Tim, what do you think of our opponents from the secondary league today?"

Duncan: "I think they have huge potential."

Odom: "..."

Duncan knew that he didn't play very well today, but he didn't have the slightest doubt about his own strength.

This game was Duncan's college debut, as well as Sakuragi's college debut.

In 3 minutes, Sakuragi showed a lot of positive performances, which earned him a B- rating of 80 points in the system.

He also received a reward of 650 tokens, and with the hard training earned in recent days, after Sakuragi spent all the tokens, his comprehensive ability value has reached 60 points in the CBA confrontation level.

The disastrous defeat to the University of Alaska Huskies did not worry Odom too much, because the two generals under his command have not yet returned.

Sakuragi didn't see the two giants returning from injury until two weeks later in training.

They are Anthony Tucker, a four-year-old small forward who is [-] meters tall and weighs [-] kilograms.

And Randolph Childrins, who is 1.8 meters tall and serves as a point guard.

As soon as he saw these two people, Sakuragi immediately remembered their resumes, Anthony Tucker's loss in the 1994 draft.

This player has outstanding physical fitness, but his skills are very rough, so no team favors him in the draft.

But he still got a chance to go through the NBA. In the 1994-1995 season, the Washington Bullets, who were short of major generals, still signed Anthony Tucker as a free agent.

安东尼.塔克当赛季共为华盛顿子弹队出赛62场，期中在赛季中段首发了16场，在场均15.8分钟的上场时间里，只能得到3.9分2.7个篮板和1.1次助攻。

Although Randolph Childrins was selected by the Detroit Pistons with the No.1995 pick in the first round in 19, his soy sauce career was not even as good as Anthony Tucker.

两年的NBA生涯他只出场了52次，不到8分钟的出场时间，他只有2.4分0.5个篮板1.0次助攻的数据。

It is these two NBA players who can make a difference in the training of the Devil Deacon team, which also shows the weakness of Wake Forest University that season.

The return of two players with NBA experience in the future has intensified the competition between marginal players like Sakuragi.

However, through extremely hard training and systematic blessing, Sakuragi's rapid progress has successfully impressed Coach Odom.

Sakuragi's dribbling level and rebounding level have greatly improved, and he used the tokens he obtained to improve these two abilities.

As a defender, you must have the ability to control the ball, and Sakuragi was deeply influenced by the famous Japanese center Takenori Akagi, "Controlling the rebound is equivalent to controlling the entire game". He also used part of the tokens to improve his rebounding ability.

Sakuragi discovered a problem during training. He has a very keen sense of where the rebounds will fall.

But no matter how good the rebound position is, it is useless without rebounding ability, so Sakuragi allocated nearly half of the tokens for the improvement of rebounding ability value.

Half a month before the start of the ACC regular season, Sakuragi finally went ashore and entered the final roster. Coach Odom did not do anything else, only for Sakuragi to play at any time and maintain a consistent and serious attitude.

The players at the end of the bench can lead anyone. Of course, Coach Odom must bring someone who has a positive attitude and looks pleasing to his eyes.

Moreover, Sakuragi's current strength is already on par with his competitors.

Although he was only on the last train of the roster as a fringe figure, this will not affect his future development at all. Competitive sports have always been home to the capable, and a lower starting point is nothing.

As long as you show the ability that the team needs, you will also be reused by the coach.

At present, there are 9 teams in the ACC league, and each team will have 32 home and away games in the regular season. The Wake Forest University Devil Deacons will face their first opponent at home, the Duke University Blue Devils.

Krzyzewski, the coach of the Duke University Blue Devils, is the well-deserved No. [-] coach of the NCAA basketball program.

Since his tenure at Duke University in 1980, he has led the Blue Devils to remarkable achievements.

The current star of Duke University is the senior Grant Hill. Hill's college career is extremely brilliant.

Under the leadership of Coach K, Hill won two NCAA championships in the first two years of college.

Especially Hill's second championship. Hill assisted Laettner in the last 2.1 seconds of the final and beat the University of Kentucky. That game has also become a classic NCAA battle and has been passed down to this day.

Although Wake Forest University has Tim Duncan on the inside, it is at an absolute disadvantage against Duke University.

Sakuragi knew that Duncan's first season in college was not impressive, but it didn't seem to be because of Duncan's strength.

Regarding this guess, Sakuragi still needs to confirm it in the game.

However, Grant Hill, a senior at Duke University, has outstanding abilities visible to the naked eye. After his senior year, Hill will be selected by the Detroit Pistons with the third overall pick in the first round.

In his rookie season in the NBA, he was able to score 19.9 points, 6.4 rebounds, 5.0 assists and 1.77 steals per game.

Such excellent performance also allowed him to share the honor of the best rookie with the super rookie of the same year, Jason Kidd from the Dallas Mavericks.

Sakuragi recalled these NBA memories, which made him feel a lot. A few months ago, he was still fighting hard for the national championship in Japan.

The current self is actually able to compete with NBA-level star players. Although these benefit from the blessing of the superstar road system, they are absolutely inseparable from Sakuragi's own efforts.

The game with Duke University is about to start tonight. Wake Forest University's home stadium can accommodate 14665 people. The Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Stadium is already full.

Sakuragi's road to stardom will also open a new chapter!

(End of this chapter)