21. Tournament victory and promotion! The best player in the league!

The New York Knicks were really looking for a player who could take the pressure off Patrick Ewing in the paint.

From Luke's performance on the field, and his play in the Big East.

Ernie Grunfeld could clearly see that.

This guy was exactly a gift sent from God.

Possess excellent athletic ability.

Especially on the defensive end of the air defense level, very outstanding.

If you can really take down Luke Hobbs.

Then you can greatly reduce Ewing's consumption on the defensive end.

"The most important thing is that Luke's draft forecast is currently only in the second round."

Jason continued to analyse: "Although his athletic talent is outstanding, his physical condition is also excellent."

"But Luke Hobbs lacks more scoring tools. Most of his scoring is through dunks."

In this simplified scouting report.

The advantages and disadvantages of Luke Hobbs were clearly written.

There was almost no shooting, and most of the points were pie + fast break counterattacks.

Although there had been a one-stop counterattack with the ball in the frontcourt.

But not enough to prove that Luke's ability to handle the ball was excellent.

More importantly.

After Jason defaulted to Luke's role as an athletic, traditional center.

Holding the ball too much was not a good habit.

"I think his final pick will be in the middle of the first round and even have a chance to enter the lottery."

Jason wasn't stupid either.

He was very clear, in front of Luke's talent. These shortcomings were nothing at all.

In the NBA, a fancy talent league.

Luke's final pick will definitely go up.

"As long as he's not the No. 1 pick, I can get him to New York."

Ernie Grunfeld also took a fancy to Luke: "Jason, continue to observe Luke's performance. If there is any new situation, let me know at any time."

"I understand, Mr. General Manager!"

New York Knicks management also began to join the Luke Hobbs delegation.

As a client, Luke received an invitation from Allen Iverson on Christmas Day and came to AI's home for the holiday.

In addition to eating and drinking according to the Christmas custom, he also watched this year's NBA Christmas battle with AI - Houston Rockets VS Orlando Magic!

The two sides played in the first quarter of the game, and the Magic only led by 1 point at 29:28.

As a result, in the second quarter, the situation suddenly became one-sided.

Magic single quarter 22:10, won the Rockets by 12 points.

But in the third quarter, the situation changed.

The Rockets scored 36 points in a single quarter and beat the Magic by 17 points in a single quarter!

The fourth quarter of the game, entered the decisive moment.

In the end, under the play of O'Neal + Penny Hardaway, the Magic 92:90, a two-point advantage narrowly defeated the Rockets and won this season's Christmas battle.

Full game.

Big Dream Olajuwon scored 30 points and 12 rebounds, while O'Neal contributed a large double-double with 22 points and 18 rebounds.

"Wonderful, really wonderful!"

After watching the Christmas fight, Iverson was filled with emotion.

The NBA will always be the ultimate pursuit of all players who love basketball.

"Luke, seriously, after my sophomore year, I will directly participate in the 1996 draft and enter the NBA."

Iverson didn't hide it, and chatted with Luke about his future plans: "What about you? Will you go directly to the NBA after this season?"

"If we can win the championship, I'll go straight to the draft."

Luke also said the truth: "I said before entering the team that I must lead the team to win the championship."

This was Luke's ninja way!

"Then we have to work harder."

Iverson took a bite of a turkey leg: "I know the champion you're talking about is not the Big East League champion, but the NCAA Championship champion."

"I know everything~"

Luke also took a turkey leg and nibbled it.

To be honest, before eating this turkey, Luke thought turkeys were only available on Thanksgiving.

Didn't expect Christmas too.

He wasn't an American in his last life!

In addition to turkey, Christmas had ham, sweet potatoes, vegetables, raisins, pudding, fruit cakes.

But after eating and eating, Luke still felt:

The most delicious meat!

The end of Christmas also means that the tour stage of the Big East was drawing to a close.

After successively defeating the two toughest opponents in the league - the Villanova Wildcats and the Connecticut Huskies.

The Georgetown Exclamations, in the closing stages of the final tour, carried out their winning streak to the end.

With an unbeaten record of 22 consecutive victories on the tour, as the No. 1 seed on the tour, it advanced to the knockout stage with its head held high.

22 tournaments.

Allen Iverson averaged 28.5 points, 8.8 assists and 2.2 steals per game.

Ranked second in the Big East in points, first in assists, and first in steals.

Luke Hobbs averaged 29.7 points, 17.5 rebounds and 4.2 blocks per game.

Ranked first in the Big East in scoring, rebounding, and blocks!

The tour averaged 4.2 blocks per game, setting a Big East Tour stage record for blocks per game.

At the same time.

Luke Hobbs also became the first player in Big East history to average 29+17+4 blocks per game on tour.

This was a feat that even legendary centers like Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning have never achieved!

Not only that.

Luke Hobbs had 5 blocked triple-doubles in 22 tours.

Set a record for the number of blocked triple-doubles in a single season.

In the Georgetown University newspaper.

Luke's tour performance in his freshman season was officially selected as: Georgetown Marvel's best freshman career performance in the history of the tour.

Before the playoffs began, Big East officials gave Luke the award for the best player on the tour this season.

He also became the first freshman in the history of the Big East to win the best player on the tour!

While he set a series of records and won a series of awards.

The No.1 seed in the Big East this season.

Georgetown could even skip the first two rounds and directly advance to the quarterfinals, waiting for their opponents in the first match of the knockout round.

With the end of the first two rounds of the knockout rounds.

The final eight-final matchup of the Big East League also occurred immediately.

The first opponent Georgetown will face in the knockout stage is the West Virginia Mountaineers.

On the tour stage, Georgetown had double-killed opponents and won the Mountain Man by 58 points in two games.

Beating them in the knockout round was basically a certainty.

But it was such a game that should have been nothing to watch, but instead became the focus of media hype.

Because.

In the history of the West Virginia Mountains, there had been a player in the top 15 in NBA history.

His name is - Jerry West.

As the NBA's LOGO prototype, Mr. West is not only a legendary alumnus of the West Virginia Mountains.

He is also a legend of the Los Angeles Lakers and the general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers this season!

The general manager of the Purple and Gold came to Washington, to the Verizon Center.

Came to the quarterfinals of West Virginia VS Georgetown!

Why would he come to a match without any suspense?