"Yangzi Evening News": The team is expected to provide Lin Wei with 15-20 minutes of playing time in the first season

Hupu October 3rd News Today, the Yangzi Evening News social media published an article saying: The team is expected to provide Lin Wei with 15-20 minutes of playing time in the first season.

The original text is as follows:

"On October 2, the agent team of Chinese basketball player Lin Wei officially released the news that Lin Wei has successfully passed the NCAA (American College Students Sports Association) qualification review and will wear the Oregon University jersey in the 2025-2026 season to compete in the NCAA Division I League. It is worth noting that Lin Wei's choice has also made him the first to be a professional CBA player. Chinese basketball players fighting against the NCAA.

As a traditional NCAA powerhouse, the basketball background of the University of Oregon will be very conducive to the 22-year-old Lin Wei's continued growth. The school is the winner of the first championship trophy in NCAA League history. It has entered the "March Crazy" event 19 times and has also trained Dillon Brooks (now played for the NBA Houston Rockets) and Chris Boucher (now played for the NBA Toronto Raptors ), Payton Pritchard (now playing for the NBA Boston Celtics) and many other active NBA players.

What is most beneficial to Lin Wei is that the school has a very mature defender training system, which is highly consistent with Lin Wei's technical characteristics of breaking through the ball and shooting with three-pointers. It is reported that the team has planned a rotation role for Lin Wei, and the first season is expected to provide him with 15-20 minutes of playing time.

This success in joining was not smooth. Lin Wei's NCAA qualification review faced the problem of credit certification due to "non-US high-level background". His team spent several months sorting out the training logs, competition videos and cultural course transcripts during the domestic youth training period, forming 63 pages of application materials, and finally equipped with an "Academic Assistant" to assist in completing the registration with the support of the school, avoiding the risk of "red shirt season" (retaining one year of qualification). It is worth noting that in NC Under the framework of the new AA regulations, Lin Wei can also obtain income through the NIL policy (commercialization of name, image, and portrait rights), providing guarantees for life and training during his overseas study.

At present, Lin Wei, who has landed in the NCAA, has chosen a new path of "unprecedented". This also means that he can only rely on his own exploration to accelerate the role transformation from the CBA arena to the NCAA stage. In the 2024-2025 season, Lin Wei, as the local scoring champion of CBA, delivered impressive data of 21 points, 5 assists and 1.4 steals per game in the regular season, leading Nanjing Tongxi to enter the playoffs for the first time in history. In the playoffs, he also had an explosive performance of 30.5 points, 11 assists, 6.5 rebounds and 1.5 steals per game.

However, even in the CBA league, Lin Wei's lack of moving speed and weak ability to confrontation has always been a clear idea of ​​his personal ability. Showing shortcomings. Therefore, after joining the NCAA, the tactical adaptation under high-intensity confrontation will be a difficult problem that Lin Wei needs to overcome as soon as possible. In addition, the competition in the University of Oregon is also fierce in the backcourt. The team currently has two four-star high school guards and third-year guards who averaged 12 points per game last season. Lin Wei needs to further prove his strength through the training match.

In fact, Lin Wei's NCAA journey is not only related to personal career development, but also to Chinese basketball The ball explores the road to overseas development has a new significance. Previously, Chinese players started as "student players" when they entered the NCAA, and he joined as a mature professional player, breaking the traditional path restrictions and providing young CBA players with a new option to "polish their abilities through the NCAA and impact the NBA."

Yesterday, Lin Wei's agency officially announced that Lin Wei will join the University of Oregon to play in the new season of NCAA Division I League.