Nowitzki knew that the AUU League grouped players by age.
"Do they still play in the AUU League? Why are they playing up a division? Is Zheng Zhun playing too? He's only fourteen, isn't he?" Nowitzki asked, pointing at the boy.
Song Jun was seventeen, making him eligible for the U17 division. Luo Mu and Aierditi, however, were both born in 1990 and only sixteen years old. Zheng Zhun was even younger at fourteen. As Grover had put it, the age gap alone made losing expected. To make matters worse, some of these kids had never even touched a basketball until they were selected and brought to the United States to train. Furthermore, the U17 division in the AUU League was typically populated by high schoolers. The genuinely talented ones had usually already made a name for themselves across the country by this age. It was entirely natural that Song Jun and his ragtag group were outmatched.
