stadium predictor

Chapter 224【】

[Chapter [-] A necessary competition]

Xiu Yulan chose statistics as the department at the University of Minnesota. After Wang Zhen and the others settled down, she also moved to live in the villa, living together with Song Feng.After Wang Zhen and Song Feng trained with the team for a week, they also gradually got to know some of the NCAA.

In fact, the NCAA will not officially start until November. Although it is only March, there is no need to worry that the University of Minnesota basketball team will not have any games to play.

On the contrary, in the "Big Ten Conference" where the University of Minnesota basketball team is located, the committee will select the top eight teams from last year and start fighting against each other to compete for the conference championship. This championship will affect the [-] teams in the NCAA League next year. In addition to the [-] league championship teams, the teams in each league still invest great enthusiasm in competing for the championship of each league championship.

After all, the NCAA is actually not just as simple as the National College League. With the extremely successful operation of the NBA, a business machine, many NBA business ideas have also penetrated into the NCAA, and the most successful one is the ticket mechanism. .

Due to the division of [-] leagues in the NCAA, many teams in the same league have basically become enemies. This of course stimulated fierce competition among teams, and indirectly stimulated the In addition to the single game system adopted after entering the top [-], there has never been a lack of dark polo teams in the NCAA, which will also make most Americans feel extremely exciting.

The broadcast fees obtained by the NCAA's TV broadcast rights will also be divided according to the final ranking of each university team. Of course, except for the top four, the difference in the distribution of other teams is not large.

Even so, a championship team will earn millions of dollars, and even the famous University of North Carolina once earned more than 600 million dollars in net income in a season.

Faced with such huge profits, it is naturally not difficult to understand why universities across the United States are going crazy for the NCAA championship. Naturally, it is not difficult to understand why more and more foreign players are coming to play in the NCAA.

Although theoretically speaking, each university does not allow teams to send money to players, but scholarships of various names and sponsorship fees mixed in various strange ways still appear in the NCAA, and there are even some The young coach simply used money to poach the outstanding players he liked in the high school league.

According to incomplete statistics, the apparent income of the outstanding star players in the NCAA is already enough to match the income of some middle-class families in the United States.

Of course, there are still many successes of the NCAA. For example, the players on the team are quite strong in implementing the tactical arrangements of the coaches. Even the dynamic offensive tactics pioneered by Duke University have been learned by the NBA.

Having said that, in the upcoming "Big Ten" tournament, the University of Minnesota basketball team will face seven other opponents in the league, including even traditional strong teams like Ohio State University.

The basketball standard of the University of Minnesota is not high. As for the championship in the league, Siss and his team could only imagine in the past days, so they occupy one of the [-] committee selection quotas in the NCAA league. For them it has become a very important thing.

All in all, the University of Minnesota basketball team has only one sentence for this championship: try your best!
Seeing that the day of the game was approaching, Heath and Smith discussed it and decided to hold a match within the team to determine the team's starting lineup.

The team has a total of fourteen players, and it is easy to form a team. It is composed of six "old" players: Huo Huabo, Bu Bu, Huo Lun, Bell, Winters, and Harding, while Wang Zhen and Song Wind will form another pile with six players who have joined the team as substitutes.

Seath and Smith will lead the two teams against each other, and then select the strongest five players to form the starting lineup.

The level of confrontation in NCAA is not as strong as that of NBA. If players can enter the starting lineup, it will mean that there will be more opportunities to show themselves to others, and of course there will be more opportunities to sell themselves and enter the NBA.

Therefore, when Sith announced the news, the training atmosphere in the University of Minnesota basketball team, which was still a little loose, suddenly became tense.

Friday, March 27
The internal match of the University of Minnesota basketball team was scheduled for this afternoon. After all, the players had to consider their own academic problems at other times. If they could not get a certain score in the professional courses they studied, they would lose Qualified to play NCAA.

Of course, this rule is just a rule. The lecturers of each school will still give a lot of care to athletes like the basketball team or the rugby team. Otherwise, these college students who spend most of their time on training, How many can get enough credits?

Song Feng chose the number [-] for his new jersey, saying that he hoped that he could go six-six and everything would go smoothly.

Wang Zhen chose number [-]. Song Feng asked him what he meant, but Wang Zhen just said "nine and nine return to one" and ignored him.

With Song Feng's IQ, how can he understand what kind of realm Wang Zhen said "ninety-nine return to one"?
Perhaps, there are thousands of situations on the court, but Wang Zhen hopes that he can always achieve the only constant "one"!
Of course, this "one" contains too many meanings, maybe Wang Zhen himself is not completely clear about it.

But no matter what, when the two of them put on their jerseys, there was still a burst of whistles in the locker room. After looking at the two numbers that were quite similar but completely reversed, all the foreign boys were thinking Full of curiosity.

Captain Huo Huabo came up and laughed, "Wang, have you made an appointment with Song? Your jersey numbers are really similar!"

Wang Zhen laughed and said, "This is a lucky number we chose ourselves, but the meaning is a little different."

Oh! ?

Lucky number?

meaning! ?
After a period of contact, the teammates have become more familiar with each other. As the team's "foreign aid", the two Chinese have naturally received great attention from others. In addition, Americans have the habit of respecting the strong. Everyone in the team can speak a few words of Chinese with a strange accent, and these foreign guys are more interested in Chinese culture.

"King, what does it mean? Tell me!"

"Yes! What do the numbers [-] and [-] mean in China?"

All the teammates gathered around, and Wang Zhen said with a smile: "[-] represents success in China, and [-] means more success, so Song chose this number. And the number [-] I chose is in China. It has more meanings, it is more complicated to say, it involves many things, and it represents a kind of ideological realm. I can’t explain it clearly at the moment, and I will tell you when I have time later.”

Song Feng curled his lips aside, feeling very disapproving.

Ninety-nine to one!
Even a native Chinese like myself would find it difficult to understand this stuff, let alone these foreigners who don't have much research on Chinese culture?
Bell silently looked at Song Feng who was arming himself with a piece of equipment, but his face was relaxed, and he muttered to himself.

After a period of training, there are not many people in the team who have a competitive relationship with Bell. After all, Bell, who is [-] meters tall, can not only play the power forward position, but also play the center position. In the entire University of Minnesota basketball team, Bell and Winters are the only players taller than two meters.

On the contrary, there are many people competing for the small forward position. Captain Huo Huabo and Bush both play the small forward position. Isn't Song worried?

Perhaps, this Song, who has never been able to defend one-on-one in training, will really squeeze out Howard and Bush and become the team's first small forward, right?

Looking at Wang Zhen who was chatting and laughing with others over there, Bell felt even more strange.

Is he not stressed at all?
Although it cannot be denied that Wang Zhen's ball-handling skills are very good and his speed is very fast, but his scoring ability is really average. Why does he seem so confident?

In the process of getting in touch with Wang Zhen and Song Feng, Bell, the black guy, has already been a freshman because only three of the 14 members of the team are freshmen. , and developed an intimacy with the two of them, and now that they are not in a hurry at all, Bell is really confused.

In fact, in their usual observations, Siss and Smith have already given high praise to Wang Zhen and Song Feng, and unanimously believe that these two Chinese boys have enough strength to occupy two of the team's starting five spots.

It's just that they still need a chance to prove their strength to their teammates.

Of course, in the minds of the two coaches, the positions of the two Chinese boys are point guard and shooting guard respectively, not the small forward and point guard that Bell thinks of himself.

In fact, Wang Zhen's ability to control the game, as well as Song Feng's desire for offense and his excellent breakthrough, shooting and other comprehensive abilities have already determined their positions on the court. Even if Wang Zhen has more offensive skills in the future, In order to make greater progress, he will also be limited to the position of point guard.

I'm afraid there isn't a coach in the world who knows Wang Zhen well enough to place him at a position other than point guard, because as long as a team has Wang Zhen on the court, the coaches don't have to Don't worry about your team's execution of your own tactics anymore.

Of course, the candidates for the two positions of center and power forward are the issues that Seath and Smith have to consider.

Should the center use Winters, who has solid basic skills, or Bell, who is more explosive?

This is a multiple choice question!
And the answer will even affect what kind of tactics the University of Minnesota basketball team will adopt in future games, and what kind of effects different tactics will bring, what Sith and Smith are eager to know right now .

As for the candidate for the small forward, the conclusion has already been reached.

The captain of the team, Huo Huabo, not only has a steady style of play, but also has quite comprehensive skills. Although he is not outstanding in all aspects, he is a genuine all-rounder, and he is the captain of the team. Can he be missing?

Of course, another purpose of this internal match was that Sith and Smith hoped to take this opportunity to confirm the identities of Wang Zhen and Song Feng's starting players without affecting the unity of the team.

One reason after another decided that this internal competition must be carried out.

When Bell was worried about Wang Zhen and Song Feng, he never expected that the one who needs to be tested in this internal confrontation is precisely himself.

Since the NCAA stipulates that various college teams are not allowed to accept commercial sponsorship without authorization, so in addition to the jerseys provided by Nike, the designated sponsor of the NCAA, the players' equipment is diverse, with various brands of sneakers and protective gear emerging in endlessly, and the colors are not uniform.

After preparing everything, the fourteen players left the locker room and approached Sith and Smith in groups.

Sith was fine, he kept telling his players tactical requirements, but Smith irresponsibly said, "Everything is under the command of the king", and then ran to the side to sit and rest.

(End of this chapter)