I’m Really Playing Basketball

Chen, your running position, mid-range shooting and escape ability in this game are impressive. As a beginner, your progress is incredible. I hope you can still maintain a curiosity about basketball in the future. That's the noblest quality of a basketball player, it's what sets you apart, we old men love the curiosity and love in your eyes, it makes us remember the past, it makes us younger, and it makes you stand out on the court.

Dwyane, you are great, very, very good, maybe you are now the most powerful player in the history of the Golden Eagles, you have an incredible desire for the game of basketball, the statistics of the game, the desire to win, your talent, you It is comprehensive enough to support you to go far on the road of basketball. Now, you need to use your strength to create greatness, continue to maintain your hunger for everything, and you can become great beyond Butch player.

Ron, I can't describe your excellence in words. You are a perfect player. You can do everything on the court, but you are willing to sacrifice for the team and for your teammates. You are the favorite of all the coaches. That kind of player, whether it's in the NCAA or in the NBA, you're going to be successful.

Watching the old man leave surrounded by school leaders and team celebrities, the expressions on the faces of Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard were still quite excited.

The other Marquette University players around Chen Xiao were envious.

This old man is the greatest player in the history of the Marquette University Golden Eagles, equivalent to Zhang Sanfeng of the Wudang faction.

Mr. McGuire has been in a state of seclusion since he retired 25 years ago. I didn't expect him to appear on the team this year. Dwyane, Chen, and Ron. The three of you have caused a lot of commotion this year!

After McGuire led Marquette University to a miraculous championship in 1977, he quickly resigned as the team's head coach.

Not only did he resign as the head coach of the team, he also never coached in the NCAA.

That's the real retreat.

At that time, he was only 49 years old, the most glorious peak age of a coach!

When he created a miracle in 1977, he was famous in the United States. As long as he wanted, he could coach any team in the United States.

But he still refused them all.

The godfather of Marquette University is such willful and special.

At the same time, it is precisely because of this specialness that makes him even more legendary.

Of course, Chen Xiao had heard about the godfather of this team. Unexpectedly, this legendary godfather, who hadn't appeared for an unknown period of time, was alarmed by them just like that.

So, after a group of people from the team surrounded the old man and left, Chen Xiao and Wade subconsciously raised their heads and leaned back.

What is the card face, this is the card face!

And the other Marquette University players next to them looked at these two guys so flirtatiously, and felt resentful for a while.

Little boy, you have changed, you have learned badly from Dwyane.

Yeah?

It's your size, when did I become a bad guy?!

The originally resentful atmosphere, because of Wade and Chen Xiao's fight, once again burst into laughter.

Mr. McGuire, thank you very much for recommending me to the school as the head coach of Marquette University.

Tom, you don't have to thank me, I should thank you, you did a great job with the Golden Eagles.

Thank you for your compliment.

This is not a compliment, it's a fact. You are a very meticulous head coach. You did a great job in this game. In the NCAA, you may encounter unexpected teams at any time, and some teams are unexpectedly weak. , There are also some teams that are unexpectedly strong. A team does not have the ability to deal with accidents. No matter how strong it is, it will not be able to win the NCAA championship. Tom, I like your ambition very much. Give me a huge surprise.

Watching Al McGuire leave, Tom Crean and Tim Barkley looked at each other.

This 73-year-old man is still so wise.

Such a massacre of Marquette University against Chicago State University, he can actually see so many things.

The careful planning of the two of them for this game was just like that...

This strength...

Regarding the team's goals this season, neither Tom Klein nor Tim Barkley have spoken to the team's players.

Now is not the time to say this.

But there is no doubt that the championship is Tom Klein's pursuit this season.

He didn't say it, but he kept doing it.

It is more meaningful to slowly build the team into a more champion-like atmosphere than always emphasizing the championship in the team.

But his thoughts were exposed by McGuire in such a game.

As expected of the head coach who is the best at making surprises in the history of the NCAA!

Tim Buckley sincerely admired.

Tom Creon nodded, deeply agreeing!

Day 2 of the Marquette-Chicago State game.

Marquette's 58-point home win over Chicago State quickly became a national basketball sensation.

In the United States, the media prefers the NCAA over the NBA. An NCAA victory close to 60 points can definitely become a national news hotspot.

What's more, the team that made this hot news is Marquette University, which is already very hot.

Seeing that the sports news headlines of the major media in the United States were all about him the next day, Chen Xiao and the players from Marquette University were very surprised.

Especially Chen Xiao.

Because he was a little skinny during the interview yesterday, he thought it was nothing, but O'Neill, who was skinned by him, actually responded!

Wonder boy said that Dwyane Wade can teach me mid-range shooting? This is great. If this is the case, of course I would like to be teammates with him. Dwyane Wade can teach me mid-range shooting. I can teach him how to win the NBA. championship.

Shaq, do you think you and Dwyane Wade can win the NBA championship together?

Why not? I can win the NBA championship with a dog!

Hahahaha, what I said above was just a joke, Dwyane is a human, not a dog, and the NBA doesn't allow pets to play, hahahaha...

However, I'm not kidding about teaching Dwyane how to win the NBA championship. I like them. They are a very interesting group of boys.

Looking at the newspaper in his hand, there was a huge black and white photo in the middle of the newspaper, O'Neill was being interviewed, and sitting next to him was his teammate, Chen Xiao's current idol Kobe.

For some reason, Chen Xiao always felt that next to the laughing O'Neal, his idol, Kobe Bryant, looked very, very ugly.

Could it be that I deliberately made Pioneer avenge my idol and caused trouble?

I didn't expect O'Neill to respond to you...

It's not just Chen Xiao.

Wade, Ron Howard, the rest of Marquette's players were all surprises.

Little one, I feel that you are now, maybe, really going to become household stars!

Just a random interview after the game can startle the No. 1 NBA bowler like O'Neal. This influence has definitely gone beyond the scope of Milwaukee and Wisconsin!

Compared with the other players at Marquette who were amazed, Tom Klein, a former Michigan State assistant coach, was no surprise.

Because of what happened to Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard, he hadn't seen each other for the first time.

He happened to be a young assistant coach at Michigan State University 8 years ago when the Michigan Five Tigers trend was raging across the United States.

Michigan just happens to be the center of that storm, and he has witnessed the whole process of this storm from its rise, its glory to its final regret.

How similar the rise of the Marquette Trihawks is to the rise of the Michigan Five.

In the NCAA, because of the needs of the audience, the media always likes to create young heroes who are interesting and have stories.

This is the luck and misfortune of these young heroes.

As a close witness of the era of the Michigan Five Tigers, it is hard to say whether the ending of the Five Tigers would have been better without the hype of public opinion in the United States.

But one thing, he can confirm that the group of young heroes of the Michigan Fab Five failed to withstand the huge pressure from the public opinion in the United States. They collapsed first...and finally failed to stand up when they tried to get up again.

Now, eight years later, he will witness the rise of a new group of heroes.

This time, he will no longer be a close bystander.

This time, he became a participant, even the creator, of this storm!

Tim, our ending this time must be different!

hope so.

Since Marquette Mitaka's public opinion in the United States continued to heat up, Chen Xiao found that there were some differences around him, Wade and Ron Howard.

On November 21, 2001, Chen Xiao followed Marquette University to Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska.

Marquette will play three games against Tennessee, Indiana and Gonzaga over the next four days at Sullivan Arena in Anchorage.

This is one of the official NCAA promotions this year.

Including the pre-season Alaska Challenge, are part of this promotion.

The NBA and NCAA have actually been developing their own markets in the United States.

In the development market, the NCAA is even more aggressive.

Directly move your own official game outside the mainland, and send all the strong teams, don't play tricks, talk directly with the strong, let the people here see what the highest level of NCAA competition is like.

Because of the Alaska Challenge, Chen Xiao is still well-known in Fairbanks, but in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, he should not have much popularity.

But this time, returning to Anchorage again gave Chen Xiao a completely different feeling.

On the night of November 21, 2001, Sullivan Arena.

Before the game between Marquette University and the University of Tennessee, the audience in the Sullivan Arena, which should be regarded as a neutral court, was shouting the names of Marquette University, Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard.

If you ask which one is more famous in the NCAA, Marquette University or the University of Tennessee, there is no doubt that it is 50-50.

The University of Tennessee is also a giant!

Even, the performance of the University of Tennessee has been above Marquette University in recent years.

The current head of the University of Tennessee is the 11th high school student in the United States in 1998, a five-star genius Vincent Yarborough, who is a top swingman in the entire NCAA, a top player with both offense and defense, nicknamed Pippen Jr.

In addition to Vincent Yarborough, the University of Tennessee has four other star talents, guard, Jon Higgins, No. 82 talent in the United States in 1999, center, Brandon Crump, 2000 No. 86 in the United States in 1999, power forward Ron Slan, No. 51 high school student in 1999, and small forward Derek Streberlin is the No. 89 talent in the 2001 class this year.

Five star talents plus the team's star insider Marcus Heslip.

Although the strength of the University of Tennessee has not become the seed team of this year's NCAA, it is generally believed that the strength is above Marquette University.

The strength is above Marquette University, but when he came to Alaska, he was beaten in popularity.

This makes these young people at the University of Tennessee uncomfortable.

Seeing Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard being frantically asked for autographs by the fans at the scene, but no one cares about them, I feel so uncomfortable.

Sure enough, in the basketball world, we big guys just can't compete with those little guys in terms of popularity!

Haislip and Yarborough gritted their teeth and looked enviously at the three Marquette University players not far away.

This is the reality, you can't accept it, neither O'Neill nor Duncan can sell sneakers!

We don't want popularity, we just want victory!

When Haislip yelled this sentence, there was always a sense of depression that although I was ugly, I was more powerful.

It doesn't matter whether he is Xiao Suo or not, brother is jealous anyway.

Now you laugh haha, after the game is over, let you cry!

The University of Tennessee is a very strong team.

And it is a strong team with the completely opposite style of Marquette University.

Marquette is strong on the perimeter.

The University of Tennessee is strong on the inside.

Marquette is strong at 1-3.

Tennessee is strong at 3-5.

With such two teams with very different styles, this game is naturally a spark hitting the earth.

Anyway, Marquette University's insiders are sent here in Tennessee.

And this group of big men in Tennessee can't keep up with the footsteps of Marquette's group of small men. They shoot casually outside, just don't come in.

The styles are very different and they are not compatible with each other, neither side can defend the other.

In the end, the game turned into a battle between the inside team and the outside team.

When the game hits the last moment.

For this extremely anxious situation, Marquette University head coach Tom Klein was very calm after arranging the final tactics.

But University of Tennessee head coach Buzz Peterson was a little worried.

Pay attention to No. 11 Chen of Marquette University, don't give him a chance to catch the ball at the last moment!

In Bass-Petersen's call, Haislip and Yarborough, the inner and outer cores of the University of Tennessee, did not dare to neglect in the slightest.

This Chinese is one of the candidates for Marquette University to execute the lore.

Especially Yarborough, who is known as Pippen in the NCAA, did not dare to slack off. He failed to defend Wade in this game, and in the end he could not fail to defend this Chinese kid.

Boy, I'm the one defending you now. Under my defense, you can't have any chance to score!

Yeah?

What? !

The game restarts.

Wade, who was dribbling from outside the three-point line, suddenly threw the basketball in his hand into the air, and saw Wade's completely inexplicable pass.

At this moment, the audience at the scene were all suffocated.

Wade didn't even think about attacking himself, just passed it like that?!

On the sidelines, Buzz Peterson thought Wade might be crazy.

How could such an excellent player such as Wade pass such an unreliable pass.

You know, it is Yarborough who is defending Chen now, he is much taller than Chen, and he is preventing Chen from receiving the ball.

Such a pass cannot stand a chance!

Soon, it didn't take long, just a moment.

Buzz-Petersen felt that the last crazy person must not be Wade, but himself.

Because on the court, a shadow that suddenly exploded escaped all the defensive players waiting in full force, ran an incredible running route, and finally received the pass from Wade and completed an even more incredible layup.

Looking at No. 11 of Marquette University who completed the layup, Yarborough and Haislip who followed him were dumbfounded.

How did he get here? !

How can this be? !

As long as it's defense, even if it's the defense of the god of defense, I can still score.

That sunny smile.

That cheerful voice.

Those big bright eyes.

Under my eyes, even gods can kill!

After a moment of silence, the Sullivan Arena suddenly exploded. Seeing the smile and big bright eyes on Chen Xiao's face, Aberle and Heisley felt chills in general.

85 to 84!

Marquette beat the University of Tennessee at the buzzer.

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Tips: Marquette University has historically defeated the University of Tennessee 85 to 74. With the presence of Chen Xiao, Marquette University's defense has become weaker.

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