pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 305 Mediocre Performance

It is far from enough for Barton to see his basketball alone. Mu Chenfeng will use his basketball to make the entire United States fall.

Wake Forest University was the beginning of his conquest of the United States.

The head coach of Wake Forest University is the famous NBA star: Tim Duncan. After retiring, he broke off with basketball. He once worked as an assistant coach under the old teacher Popovich. When Wake Forest sent him a coaching invitation, he agreed without thinking.

Today, the core of Wake Forest is Tim Duncan’s youngest son, Tim Duncan Jr., who has completely inherited his father’s basketball genes. He is about the same height as his father and can serve as both a power forward and a center forward.

He is the contemporary Tim.

Duncan has always been proud to have such a son. As the second generation of the star, every move of Duncan Jr. has been followed by the media. He is still a fledgling fledgling, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in various skills.

This is why Wake Forest's record has always been in the middle.

However, under the guidance of the old Duncan, Duncan Jr.'s strength has improved by leaps and bounds in the past offseason, which also gave Wake Forest a higher expected goal.

As the first game of the defending champion UCLA trials, this game also attracted a lot of attention. ESPN arranged a national live broadcast. The game between UCLA and Wake Forest was one of the five live broadcasts.

This treatment has far surpassed the trials themselves.

The eyes of all Americans are watching how UCLA will perform this season. The game of another championship favorite Duke University is tomorrow, so the whole team arranged to watch the game.

Duke is just one of the many teams watching before the live broadcast, and the rest of the NCAA teams who have no game mission are also learning about their possible future opponents through the live broadcast.

In the BC industry, Wake Forest's odds are 16 times that of UCLA.

Wake Forest is the underdog.

Before the game, the players of Wake Forest gathered together and meditated with their eyes closed under the leadership of head coach Duncan. This is a unique decompression method of Wake Forest University, which uses meditation to relieve the tension of the players.

The NCAA trials are different from ordinary games. Winning or losing a game or even a point difference is very important for a team's ranking. It is very likely that the team will lose and enter the knockout round because of this point.

There are 64 teams participating in the trials, and 32 teams will eventually enter the knockout round, which means that half of the teams will be eliminated.

It seems that the possibility of entering the next round is very high, but the new NCAA competition system stipulates that only the No.8 of the 1 groups can directly enter the knockout round, and the remaining 24 places will be determined according to the relationship between the teams in the same group, the number of wins and losses, and the number of points.

Therefore, the team needs to go all out in all games to have a chance of qualifying from the group.

The small goal of Wake Forest is to show up.

But for a giant team like UCLA, if they don't qualify as the top of the group, they will fail in the trials.

At the beginning of the game, Duncan successfully grabbed the ball and Wake Forest went first.

The opening situation was somewhat unexpected. Wake Forest, who came from afar, had the intention of turning against the guest. From the very beginning, he seized the rhythm of the game and scored consecutive points around the basket around Duncan Jr. In the opening 2 minutes, UCLA fell behind the opponent by a score of 2:8.

The UCLA players were a bit slow to enter the state, and it took 3 minutes to fully enter the state. This is also reasonable. As the defending champions, the pressure on the UCLA players is much greater than that on the Wake Forest players. They have no second choice for the result of the game.

The performance of Oscar and other veteran players was also stable. The problem of UCLA appeared in Felix. As a "newcomer" of NCAA, Felix seemed a little stiff on the court and never let go. His only pass and shot also ended in failure. After a long period of time, Felix did not touch basketball.

A 5vs5 game is actually 4vs5.

Felix never thought that his first NCAA game would start in such a way.

The pace of the NCAA game is very fast. After only a few rounds, Felix became exhausted, his breathing became short of breath, and his face was a little pale.

This was Button's mistake. He overestimated Felix's adaptability. The basketball session he was in before was so "easy" that he couldn't bear it immediately when the intensity of the game reached the NCAA.

Felix is ​​still the best among the newcomers. He has such a reaction, and the other newcomers must not be much better.

Instead of letting Felix do the back and forth on the field, it is better to replace him and calm down on the bench.

UCLA applied for a substitution, and Mu Chenfeng replaced Felix.

"How is it? The intensity of the NCAA is not bad." Barton joked, "This must be experienced, and it will take some time to get used to it." Barton is very fortunate that the opponent is Wake Forest, an opponent with a high fault tolerance rate.

"It takes some time to adapt." Felix was very dissatisfied with his performance, and he was even more dissatisfied that he was replaced before he could adapt to the game.

Before Mu Chenfeng stepped onto the field, he was shocked by the cheers from the audience. When people saw a person with black hair and yellow skin appearing on the field, it gave them something to talk about.

"Mu Chenfeng!!!" In front of the TV, Enzo Ronnie, who was wearing a Duke uniform, recognized Mu Chenfeng at a glance. He hasn't changed at all since we haven't seen him for two years.

Enzo Ronnie wouldn't have grown so fast if Mu Chenfeng didn't invest in it at the beginning, and he even entered Duke University.

"If we meet again in the future, we may be opponents." What Mu Chenfeng said to Enzo Ronnie two years ago actually came true, and he did not break his promise.

"Come on, let me see your growth in the past two years." Enzo and Kyle Terry in front of the TV stared at the screen, wanting to see Mu Chenfeng's strength.

The UCLA venue can accommodate more than 4000 people at the same time. Although not so many people came today, the attendance rate has reached more than half, and more than 2000 people came to watch the game.

Under the watchful eyes of more than 2000 people, Mu Chenfeng shot a very serious bridge over the first shot, and didn't even touch the rebound. Duncan and Damian fought for the rebound, but Duncan took the rebound first.

(End of this chapter)