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Chapter 43 The next opponent is North Carolina!

Su Wen was interviewed the night before and said that he had a high probability of participating in this year's draft, which caused a stir. The NBA league heard the news and set their sights on Auburn University and him.

The uniform team who had been tracking and observing him and were optimistic about him were actually waiting for his words.

Although what he said is still a bit ambiguous and not so sure, as long as he reveals such information, it is enough to attract attention.

Just like many teams are waiting for Patrick Ewing's declaration of participation, they are all waiting for the latter to personally say that he will participate in this year's draft.

The New York Knicks are such a team.

So when Dick Maguire reported Suvin's information, the Knicks management, which already had Bernard King and Bill Cartwright, did not think highly of Suvin and was waiting for Ewing.

What's more, they don't have the first round in hand, and they are planning to play hard to get the No. [-] pick next year.

Su Wen, or any other rookie in this class, is not part of their plans.

Dick Maguire, the new scouting director, was so angry that he excluded Su Wen and stopped sending people to follow him.

But only a few teams, such as the Knicks, clearly did not need Su Wen. Other clubs with high draft qualifications still sent many people to Birmingham, Alabama, and came to the venue.

Suddenly, the situation was turbulent and turbulent, and many scouts and uniform staff began to compete with other colleagues.

Bill Burtka was already a little frustrated after it became clear that Jerry West couldn't win Su Wen, and he was very conflicted about continuing to observe this sudden rise of the freshman.

He still cherished Su Wen's talents, but he couldn't defeat the management, so he was in an embarrassing situation.

In the end, he decided to stay and pursue Auburn until it reached the national championship.

When does Auburn get eliminated, when does he leave again.

Tonight is the sixth game day of the NCAA National Championship, and it is also the quarterfinals battle.

Among the top eight, they will fight against each other, and the winner will advance to the final four.

When the semi-finals arrive, all four teams will go to the final venue, a public venue in Seattle.

That's the final stage for the final battle this year.

Ok?
Just after breakfast after going out, Bill Burtka walked into the hotel lobby when he saw a colleague he knew, SuperSonics senior scout Gene Banks.

The other party was holding a notebook in his hand, and there was a young man following behind him. Seeing that the latter had a childish and respectful look on his face, Burtka thought that he should be the other party's assistant or a newcomer.

"Jean, did the manager really agree?"

Burtka deliberately stayed where he was, and then heard the anxious voice of his young colleague.

"They will agree." Banks replied with a confident look: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have sent you to follow me."

"Is that right?"

It seems that young people have just entered the industry and are not so familiar with the working process of the scouting system, so they are skeptical of Banks' words.

"just wait."

Banks said with a smile: "When the manager thinks about it clearly, he will call."

"Ok!"

The young man nodded hurriedly, tightened his handbag in his arms, and followed his boss.

At this time, his boss noticed Burtka who had been staying at the door of the hotel. He immediately became alert and tilted his head to look at the latter.

"Are you Bill from the Lakers?"

Seeing that this person looked familiar, Banks asked uncertainly.

Although I don’t know Burtka very well, as a colleague, I have more or less met him and said hello to him.

Looking at his cautious eyes, Burtka felt calm and responded with a smile: "Yes, Gene."

"We met before in Houston."

Last year, they, or many people, were very interested in a player, and then they gathered together, mixed with each other in the audience, and coincidentally bought tickets for connecting seats.

Let people have a face-to-face meeting like this.

However, later this player was not captured by their team, but was taken advantage of by the Trail Blazers.

That player is Clyde Drexler.

The Sonics were robbed of a higher draft pick because their record that season was not bad enough.

However, the Lakers wanted to add a backcourt attacker to the original established lineup, so they focused on Drexler, who was famous at the time, in order to seek a high draft pick.

Unfortunately, because the Lakers' record is too outstanding, clubs that don't want to be rivals have rejected their trade requests.

"Are you here to see Su?"

After chatting with the other party, Burtka suddenly asked this question out of nowhere.

"How do you know?"

The first person to respond to him was the young man behind Banks, but he was immediately forced back by Banks' eyes. The latter gave the young man a sharp look, as if to say: Don't talk too much.

"Stop hiding."

Seeing the other party being so cautious, Botka smiled brightly and said calmly: "We are not in a competitive relationship now, don't worry."

"Huh?" Banks looked confused.

"Our management didn't want to disrupt the tacit understanding of the current lineup, so we cruelly rejected my proposal to trade up the draft picks." Burtka explained with a smile.

There's nothing to hide behind management's decisions.

After all, the Lakers are currently the favorites to compete for the championship, and they are chasing the championship. This is already known to everyone.

The draft picks of championship teams will not be too high, and everyone else knows that.At the same time, it is also clear that with the Lakers' current championship momentum, they will never disrupt the original lineup framework because of a rookie.

Therefore, Burtka directly showed his cards, without worrying about what the other party would do with this.

Can't figure it out either.

Anyway, the Lakers will neither trade up to participate in the battle for Su Wen, nor will they trade their late first-round pick.

The other party can't take advantage of it at all.

What's more, sometimes peers with good relationships will provide each other with intelligence and share information.

Now that Burtka had made it clear, Banks didn't have to guard against anything. He followed the former's words and asked, "So, how much do you know about Su?"

Burtka pondered for a while, then immediately said with a smile: "You must have seen what I observed."

"I won't say anything more."

As he spoke, he reminded with a very sure tone: "My suggestion is, try your best to win over Su, he is very suitable for your existing lineup."

"You can't go wrong by choosing him!"

"Your team manager is new, and he should be eager to get rid of the influence of the previous one, right? So you just need to work hard to persuade and add fuel to the fire."

"He will be moved."

"Su, he is really strong!"

There were a total of four games on this night.

North Carolina vs. Virginia State;

Auburn University vs. Illinois State;

University of Houston vs. Wake Forest;

Georgetown University vs University of Dayton.

Except for the eliminated University of Kentucky, all high-ranking rookies from the past and future are concentrated in these top eight teams.

Hakeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Sam Perkins
It can be said that this quarterfinals battle is full of talents with outstanding talents, and each one is a high-profile potential rookie.

Any club that has ambitions for these talents has already sent its own scouts to the auditorium of each game to blend in and observe.

In this Auburn University game, there were especially many scouts.

Without him, just because Su Wen personally said that he would have a high probability of participating in this year's draft, there are many clubs that are interested in him and it is impossible to miss him.

What's more, in the quarterfinals, the key battle for tickets to the final four, the intensity of the competition will be even higher. No one will miss watching Su Wen's performance in this high-intensity competition.

This is the real time to test Su Wen's strength.

Illinois State does not have any particularly outstanding players with particularly strong scoring abilities, but their lineup is balanced and their overall defense is very strong.

Fighting all the way to the quarterfinals, they relied on their ability to stay alive and tear into their opponents' tough defense.

But tonight, they never expected that Barkley's sudden explosion would directly penetrate their defense at the basket.

The cause was Illinois State's No. [-] George Montgomery. After receiving a pass from his teammate and completing an alley-oop, he pushed Barkley.

Buckley exploded on the spot.

Auburn University was tortured by their candy-like defense from the beginning. Coupled with the poor offense and falling behind in the score, Barkley was so excited that he exploded at the first moment.

Not only did he immediately respond to Montgomery's punch, but after receiving a technical foul warning, he continued to ask for the ball and force the opponent during the rest of the game.

Once this guy gets aggressive, he doesn't care at all and just takes the ball.

On the first ball, he used his big butt to sit under the basket, knocked the opponent away, and performed a very violent slam dunk.

For the second ball, he simply opened the way with his elbow, rushed to the basket, fended off two double-teams, and dunked again.

Not only that, in the next round, he received a sudden lofted pass from Su Wen, performed an alley-oop one-handed dunk, and roared at Montgomery.

"Come on, keep coming!"

His roar almost made the whole audience dumbfounded.

Do you think this is over?

A face-to-face roar could not fully vent his anger.

In the subsequent offense, he made sudden shots and broke through Illinois State's interior defense alone, killing the opponent's opponents and defeating them.

最后，他硬生生出手了28次，命中其中的18球，怒得40分14篮板2抢断4封盖的可怕数据。

More importantly, every time he scored from Montgomery, he would taunt him and almost get into a fight again, and no one could stop him!

He beat that Montgomery until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. As soon as the game was over, he ran away in despair.

Buckley in his rage was so terrifying.

The fans and scouts who came to watch the game were stunned.

Especially thinking that some of the scouts who were mainly observing Su Wen tonight finally remembered such a number one person like him.

After Su Wen's rise this season, Barkley has been overshadowed by the opponent's light, and his short and powerful talent has almost been forgotten.

Tonight, with his sudden outburst, he finally shined in the audience again!

And Auburn University, relying on his unreasonable bombardment, finally defeated its opponent cleanly, ended the game with a score of 79:70, and reached the final four.

Their next opponent also appeared one day later.

Fortunately, they got a winning lottery ticket - North Carolina!
(End of this chapter)