Chapter 80 79. Where to go to college and more terrible choices
Zhang Yang scored 61 points in the final, which was not in his plan, but since DeRozan brought his teammates to help, he accepted the favor. Indeed, this can help him to skip a grade and enter the NCAA.

He took the initiative to recall his last experience, and felt that there was a clear gap between his strength and that of the 80th grader in high school on the 12 timeline. There, he scored 12 points in a single game in the 69th grade. Judging from the message description, he should have scored it all by himself. Here, he had the help of his teammates, but he 'only' scored 61 points.

However, when he first started his training last time, the techniques he learned were not much different from what he learns now, except for the lack of the post-up move, which he is still not familiar with and does not dare to use casually in the finals. He was a year older then than he is now, so it is normal for him to be stronger than he is now.

This also means that as long as he keeps working hard, he will be able to reach that level by the 12th grade.

Moreover, he does not plan to continue playing in high school, and has decided to play in a higher-level league. The training he can get there is bound to be more than what he would have gotten if he had stayed in high school and bullied the weak in the 80s when he was in grade 12… Leading a team and scoring 69 points in a single game, isn’t that bullying the weak?

His 61 points in this single game also made him famous by taking advantage of the popularity of the California high school basketball finals.

There are many cases of high school students scoring high in competitions. The highest individual score in a formal competition for high school students in the education system this season is 85 points. Just looking at the score, it looks much more impressive than Zhang Yang's 61 points.

But that game was a low-level game in Massachusetts, a competition between high schools in several neighboring towns. A 19-year-old high school student with decent talent faced a group of opponents with very poor level. He took more than 60 shots and scored 85 points. The highest score for a high school student since the new century was 91 points. These were data from the minor league in Charlotte.

Zhang Yang's 61 points this time is the only 60+ in a single game in the top high school basketball leagues in various states this season!

The highest score this season was previously held by two players, Monta Ellis, the second-ranked high school student in the United States, and Louis Williams, the fifth-ranked high school student in the United States. Both of them had a highest score of 55 points this season.

As an 11th-grade player, Zhang Yang scored 60+ points in a single game in the top league. The last player to achieve such a performance was Chris Paul in the 01-02 season.

However, fame brings trouble. After this incident was posted online, some netizens saw that Zhang Yang had 0 assists while his teammates had a lot of assists, and said that he was cheating with points.

The rebuttal voices came immediately - if you can do it, then go for it. In the final of the top high school league, even if you are given an open shot and keep shooting, you still can't get 61 points.

Standing on the moral high ground to point fingers, venting emotions to refute... the wind on the Internet is always noisy, but it also pushed the heat of this matter to a higher climax, allowing more people to know that there is a high school basketball genius like Zhang Yang.

Unfortunately, March Madness has already begun. When the match day for the top 16 to top 8 arrived, the heat of the high school league quickly faded, and the topic raised by Zhang Yang also quickly lost its heat. NCAA is the king of campus sports!
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After the end of the season, Zhang Yang and DeRozan both rested for three days to relieve their pain, and resumed training at the same time on Thursday, the 24th.

They all have new plans, but whether they go to the NCAA or the Moore League, they need to have stronger strength.

Zhang Yang’s SAT score is out, 1542. Now he is just waiting for the third year of college entrance exams to be over so that he can contact his favorite universities.

On Sunday, the 27th, the CIF league announced the season awards.

Zhang Yang won four major awards including League Best Player, First Team, Championship Tournament Best Player, and California Basketball Player of the Year.

DeRozan was also selected to the California first team.

DeRozan was in a good mood, but Zhang Yang felt a little regretful: "DeMar, why weren't you born a few months earlier? Then you could have broken Farmar's record of being the youngest player in the California First Team."

法玛尔86年11月30号出生，02年3月首次入选加州一阵的时候，年龄是15岁零4个月不到，德罗赞已经15岁零7个月了。

DeRozan was speechless and responded: "LeBron James was one month younger than Farmar when he was selected to the Ohio State First Team. He was also selected to the Ohio High School Football League First Team and won the Ohio Basketball Player of the Year. There are so many better players than me. I must be very sad."

Zhang Yang: "That's true, but I just want to compete with the best."

DeRozan was silent. The idea of ​​endlessly competing with stronger people... stimulated him again!
He felt that he should raise his spirits a little bit higher.

Two days later, on March 3, the Associated Press and USA Today both announced this year's high school basketball awards.

Zhang Yang was selected to the All-American First Team by USA Today, but was only selected to the Third Team by the Associated Press.

DeRozan was selected to the third team on both lists.

Both of them were very happy. In the past two days, some media in California predicted that they would be selected into the best team in the United States, and they were actually selected.

However, this time both of them have one thing in common that they want to complain about - the reason why USA Today selected Zhang Yang into the first team is exactly the same as the reason why the Associated Press only ranked him in the third team.

Comment from Zhang Yang of the USA Today team: With such an outstanding teammate in DeMar DeRozan, Jack still played the best performance in the United States.

The Associated Press's comment on Zhang Yang: Jack's performance was among the best in the United States. He made Compton High School another undefeated champion in CIF District III, but he had such an outstanding teammate in DeMar DeRozan, so the game would be easier for him than for other players.

They all made sense, but the two of them just complained about it for a long time.

This year's best high school student in the United States is Josh McRoberts, the top high school student in the United States in 05. He was selected to the first team of the Associated Press and USA Today's best lineup. The media commented that if he skipped college and participated in the draft, he would definitely be selected in the lottery.

But McRoberts said in an award-winning interview with the Associated Press that he was not satisfied with the lottery and wanted a higher ranking, announcing that he had accepted an invitation from Duke University to play under coach K.

The player Zhang Yang remembered that he would be teammates with Kobe and Wade in the future. Through two years of hard work in college, he successfully improved his draft pick from the lottery zone when he graduated from high school to the second round.

Zhang Yang was two months away from turning 17 and being selected to the All-American First Team... He wasn't selected to the All-American First Team, but he could barely be considered the First Team. Zhang Yang and DeRozan talked about the youngest record again.

James was mentioned by the two again. When he was 15 years and 3 months old, he was not only selected to the first team of Ohio High School Basketball and Football, but also selected to the All-American First Team, and was ranked 5th among high school students in the United States "across grades"... When it comes to the youngest record, LeBron James cannot be avoided.

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On April 4, Zhang Yang watched the NCAA March Finals live with DeRozan, Tatum, and Thomas.

North Carolina defeated the University of Illinois 75-70, Deron Williams fell in the final, and Sean May won the MOP of the semi-finals.

Watching the crazy celebration of the four young players from North Carolina, DeRozan said: "Deron Williams had a chance to score the winning goal at the last moment, but he didn't have the courage to press the time, missed the shot, and was counterattacked."

Zhang Yang responded: "He didn't seem that confident playing against Raymond Felton. If he had faced Chris Paul, I think he would have made the shot."

DeRozan: ????
Zhang Yang: "Ahem, college games are exciting. The tactical coordination is incomparable to high school games. It's just that the game pace is a bit slow. We have to be well prepared when we go to college."

Thomas on the side said, "Don't worry about this. The coaches in college pay more attention to this than you do. They are very experienced... Jack, do you have anything to say to me?" Zhang Yang nodded and said, "I am ready to skip the 12th grade and go directly to college... Carmelo, you will lead the main team next season."

Tatum: ?

Give it to him? He's not the second best player on the team...

Before Tatum could express his doubts, DeRozan said, "Coach, I also have something to discuss with you. Next season, I want to take the 11th and 12th grade teammates who were not selected for the main team to participate in the Moore League competition... Carmelo, come on, the main team depends on you."

Tatum:!

It’s true that he wants to be the boss, but this is not the way to be the boss!
No one cares about Tatum, who has become the leader of the team without doing anything.

Thomas asked the two why they made this choice. He had been aware of this matter in recent times and was mentally prepared.

Zhang Yang: "So and so..."

DeRozan: "This is it..."

Thomas sighed after hearing this: "Oh, I didn't expect that having too many talented players would cause such troubles... No, it's not that having too many talented players would cause such troubles, but that you two are too talented."

Zhang Yang: "This is John and Del's fault. They are so good at training new players. All the talents who chose our school in the past two years have performed well. They also discovered two potential stocks, James (Keefe) and Alfred (Abuya)."

The three people next to him: "..."

What brand of pot is this? In recent years, the local talents who chose to stay in Compton were all attracted by the coaching staff of Johnson, Burke and Thomas!
The championship had been won, and Thomas, who was mentally prepared, said: "Jack, if you want to go to a bigger stage, go ahead. Once you decide which university you want to go to, I will write a recommendation letter for you. I know some college coaches. DeMar, you want to lead a team to the Moore League, I support you and I will help you form a suitable team. You can take Alfred with you."

DeRozan: "Bring Alfred? He must be able to play for the main team next season, right?"

Thomas: "If he trains for another half a year, he may be able to play in the main team, but the main team has James, who has a similar style to him and is stronger than him. James will definitely take up more playing time. He doesn't have many opportunities in the main team. If he plays in the Moore League with you, he will get more opportunities to perform, and you will also have a teammate who is good enough to help you... You don't want to lose there, right?"

DeRozan thought about it and nodded in agreement. That’s right, he went there to exercise, not to be abused.

Thomas continued, "Not only Jack needs to be prepared for a slow-paced game, but DeMar, you also need to be prepared. The rules of the Moore League are different from those of CIF. It is closer to a university. The game is 20 minutes each in the first and second halves. A team has only seven players. And not only high school students participate, but also people between the ages of 7 and 16. Usually, they play two games in a row on the weekend. You need to be prepared physically..."

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The NCAA season was over, and Zhang Yang told Thomas his decision. The next day, he began applying to universities and graduating early.

He plans to keep a low profile on this matter. He will only be 17 in two months, and he doesn't know how he will perform in college. In order to avoid being humiliated, he'd better keep a low profile... He'll show off when he has the ability.

Just like his 10th grade season, he was barely making it in the Southern California League, but in his 11th grade season, after playing for two months and realizing he could be arrogant, he became as arrogant as he wanted...

There is no wall that is impenetrable, and the news spread quickly.

Tatum's mouth is bigger than Tam's!
Zhang Yang did not blame Tatum. This teammate was not tight-lipped to begin with, and he did not say that he could not tell anyone.

However, the feedback he received after this matter was spread was beyond his expectations.

He thought that since he had just finished his 11th grade season and skipped the 12th grade, those universities would not be that interested in him. However, within two days of the news spreading, his school’s phone was almost blown up. His mother also called and said that many universities had called their home, and some university coaches wanted to arrange a time to visit them…

The gap between what Zhang Yang thought and the actual situation can be blamed on the NCAA regulations.

College teams can have contact with high school players, but only up to 12th graders.

Not only can they not touch them, college teams can't even evaluate players below the 12th grade.

Otherwise, he will be fined, and if the player joins the university later, it may trigger a ban clause.

Even when Farmar almost skipped a grade and joined UCLA directly in the summer of 03, the two sides did not have direct contact. UCLA only made a statement in an interview to avoid being punished for violations.

Zhang Yang has been paying attention to the intentions of universities to recruit high school students in recent months, but has never seen his name because of this rule.

Thomas hadn't mentioned this to Zhang Yang, because the universities Zhang Yang had indicated were Stanford, USC, UCLA, the University of Arizona... He knew people at these universities in and around California. With Zhang Yang's talent, any university he recommended would surely agree.

Zhang Yang's situation is also different from Farmar's. His SAT scores are out, and he has formally applied for early graduation from Compton High School. It will not be against the rules for college teams to contact him.

Faced with such a situation, Zhang Yang... was very glad that he didn't give his mobile phone number to anyone else, otherwise his phone would have been bombarded!

Now he has difficulty making decisions. His original target universities were California and its surrounding universities. He thought that the only universities that would be interested in him after skipping a grade were local ones. But now North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, Kentucky... all asked the schools to convey his call requests. Among them, North Carolina, which just lost its four young players, even wanted to visit him...

Just when he was in a dilemma, someone gave him a new choice, a very scary choice.

On April 4th, Sunday, Zhang Yang was watching the women's volleyball match on the school playground.

Usually when he comes to watch women's volleyball games, he is very focused. The ball is so straight... No, the power of the shot is so white... No, in short, women's volleyball games are more exciting than women's basketball games!

But today his mind was distracted, he was struggling with where to go.

USC has a lot of seniors, UCLA has Farmar and Afflalo, Kentucky is said to have the best ability to train players, North Carolina has the flying man heritage, Duke is also good for learning tactics, and has McRoberts as a helper...

At this time, a man sat down next to him and handed him a business card: "Jack, sorry to disturb you watching the game, I'm Arn Tellem, a professional agent. You may not know who I am, but you must have heard of a high school player I signed in 1996. His name is Kobe Bryant..."

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