Chapter 64 Rejection
The coach of the Quaker team at the University of Pennsylvania saw that his team was falling behind from the start of the game due to the erratic play of his main playmaker Andy Toole, and wanted to make a substitution to catch up on the score a little.
However, his efforts were not in vain, as substitute David Krasgay was not as technical and physical as Andy Toole, and he was also unable to resist Luciujian's increasingly brilliant trash talk, and it took less than three minutes for the margin to reach double digits, and the first half was barely halfway through.
There's no way around it, the Ivy League has rarely given out basketball scholarships, and those who get into these elite schools are elite talents, and it's always easy to forget about the game when faced with the cutting-edge knowledge of their majors, and then again, they can't get into these schools without this thirst for knowledge.
Even if the Specifiers' third-organization guard came on the court, it couldn't change the situation on the court, and the gap between the Princeton Tigers and their opponents was slowly widening.
"Spencer, shoot beautifully!", Lu Qiujian gave a thumbs up to Spencer, who had just dropped three points, with the victory of a game, the confidence of these teammates is getting more and more, and the game is playing better than one game, if it continues to develop like this, it may go further after entering the championship.
"It's your beautiful pass!", Spencer beckoned, and when he received the ball just now, the closest to him was Quaker big forward Koko Archiebon, and he also knew that he would not have time to stop Spencer anyway, so he could only watch him shoot and score.
Changing the Quaker team's offense, center Angner Oye saw that his playmaking guard was out of shape, so he passed the ball to small forward Jeff Seaver, who dribbled the ball to the Tigers' half, and saw that because his own playmaking guard became an ornament, the Tigers' outside line was equivalent to an extra defender, and he couldn't find a chance at all, so he had to hoist the ball to Oyecha and let him single Patrice.
Although also from Africa, Patrice clearly had no intention of giving face to his fellow countrymen, and fanned Oyecha's turnaround shot beyond the three-point line, and not only the defense, but also the Quakers' offense was in trouble.
Having a player who is a big hole in defense and not playing any role in offense is simply a five-on-four! The Pennsylvania coach couldn't slow down the widening of the margin until he used up all his timeouts.
"Well done, try to settle the battle in the second half within ten minutes!", Coach Thompson said just one sentence in the locker room before going out to chat with a blonde female reporter, who seemed to be very pleased with the performance of his players.
"The opponent's center is not very solid in basic skills, and after receiving the ball, he is always used to looking around first, so you can seize the time to wrap up!", Lu Qiujian took over Thompson's work and guided his teammates based on the observations of the first half, "Jeff Seaver seems to have an injury to his right knee, Will, you can be a little more aggressive when you defend, I believe he will be scared!
At the beginning of the second half, Jeff Seaver hit a three-pointer, but before their cheers were over, Lu Qiujian was in the same position, the same three-point was still colored, and the momentum of the Quakers was beaten down before they could get up!
Just eight minutes into the second half of the game, the difference was widened to more than 25 points, Coach Thompson began to gradually change people to the next break, tried to make a final impact, still did not find any hope of closing the score, the opposing coach no longer wasted strength, and then replaced his main force, and the last ten minutes of the game became garbage time!
When the game was over, cheers rang out again at the Fladivos Indoor Stadium, and Princeton Tigers supporters knew that after the defeat to the Pennsylvania Quakers, the entire Ivy League would never find its own opponent again, and they could even think about the tournament from now on.
The competition was smooth sailing, but Lu Qiujian's paper did not move, and until a week after the match with the Quaker team, Lu Qiujian still did not receive a reply email from Science.
What happened? Did the editor forget his paper, or did the reviewer not understand the gist of his paper? Or did the steps not exactly need to be revised? Even if the standard review deadline for Science has not yet passed, it is estimated that the time is now to decide on the layout of the next issue.
Lu Qiujian faintly felt that something was wrong! It stands to reason that such an important article would definitely be published as soon as possible, and it would not be an exaggeration to even become the main article of a certain issue. But why haven't I received any reply so far?
Do you want to go to Professor Thurston for inside information? If you want to change it, I don't know if you want to change it back to Princeton's signature, if that's the case, it's too depressing!
Forget it, let's wait, maybe because this paper is so important, a reviewer doesn't dare to determine it alone, and asks Science to invite more industry experts to review it, right?
"Nat, Harvard will come to Princeton next month to play, I looked at the date, it happens to be the weekend, will you come over?", Lu Qiujian chatted with Natalie on MSN in front of the computer.
"Come and see how my beloved alma mater has been ravaged by you?", Natalie quickly replied.
"No, no, no, that's not what I mean!, I just want to meet you!", Lu Qiujian chatted with the elf on the other side of the computer with a smile on his face, and every time he chatted with her, it always made people feel happy, which made the depressed mood of the submission a lot better.
"Hmm~~ I'll take a look, if I have time then, I'll consider going!", Natalie, who had been entangled for a long time, finally relented.
Just as he was about to cheer, the email prompt sounded! Lu Qiujian's heart began to beat faster, could it be that the reply from "Science" came?
Taking a deep breath and calming down with excitement, Lu Qiujian closed the chat box with Natalie, clicked on the mailbox, the computer he specially assembled was very fast, and the page of the inbox appeared in front of him as soon as the mouse was pressed.
Sure enough, it was a reply from Science! Let me see what was written in it? I wonder if my article will be on the cover of the first page! Lu Qiujian clicked on the email.
When the email was opened, the smile on his face froze, and he saw the words "rejection" written prominently in the email, and Lu Qiujian stood up, what was going on!
I don't want to write about this year and '08, as long as I write about it, it will not only be in danger of sealing the book, but it will not be pleasing to you, so it's better to treat it as if these two things didn't happen in this plane.