The spring breeze is bleak, cold and desolate.

There aren't many places in the entire U.S. where April feels like November, and Milwaukee is one of them.

The spring sunrise not only does not bring any warmth to this land, but even makes people feel depressed.

Milwaukee has the impression that most of it is cold.

But......

At the moment, there is no such depression on the campus of Marquette University in Milwaukee, but it is full of a different style.

In the somewhat boring campus, you can see energetic college students and knowledgeable professors and teachers shuttling around.

Among them, the outside of a venue where the campus is not remote or conspicuous is even more crowded and lively.

Both old and new Marquette University students know what this unremarkable and slightly boring venue is, which is the training hall for the Marquette University men's basketball team.

And at the moment, Tim Barkley, assistant coach of the Golden Eagles at Marquette University, is presiding over the recruitment of the basketball team.

A prestigious American school like Marquette University has many sports teams, and it is not surprising that the recruitment of basketball teams can be so prosperous.

Although Marquette University has not reached the NCAA Championship for four years, even in 1997, it was beaten 81-59 by Providence University led by Austin Clohill and Jamal Thomas.

However, a prestigious school is a prestigious school, and an NCAA champion is a champion.

In the NCAA, there will be such things as the dragon swimming in shallow water and being bullied by dogs, such as the NCAA all-time champion school like Marquette University being abused by a little-known team in the tournament by more than 20 points.

However, the smug cat is better than the tiger, and the down-and-out phoenix is not as good as the chicken, which is impossible in the NCAA.

No matter how strong the cat is, if he hasn't won the championship, it's still a cat, and the phoenix is down, as long as there is an NCAA championship, it's still a glorious phoenix.

The cats have been in charge for a season and have not won the championship, and after this group of players graduated and left, the cats are of course still cats.

Phoenix has been down for a season, as long as it has the championship and the status of a prestigious school, it can also attract high-quality talents to join next season, and Phoenix is naturally still a phoenix.

Of course, it is also true that the current University of Marquette is no longer the same as that of the legendary manager McGuire.

Maguire University, led by Al McGuire, head coach of Madmans, made it to the NCAA Championship for 11 consecutive seasons from 1966 to 1977.

The team led by the head coach of the madman, with a tough defense and a tough style, made the entire NCAA fearful.

It was the team's most glorious period, and it also laid the foundation of the Golden Eagle spirit that the team has always been proud of.

Compared with that period of history, Marquette University is now a little lonely.

Isn't it just loneliness?

It has been 25 years since Madman coach McGuire led the team to win the championship in 1977 and resigned bravely from the rapids.

During this time, Marquard's best result was reaching the third round of the tournament, which is Sweet 16, and only twice.

Most of the time, Marquette University was either eliminated in the first round or did not even qualify for the first round.

Arguably, Marquette is definitely one of the worst championship teams in the NCAA right now.

From the glory of the year to the present, not only the results have not improved, but even the 'Golden Eagle Spirit' that the team has always been proud of......

It seems like I'm going to lose it lately.

The rookie head coach Tom Crane was hired by the team the year before last, but he wanted to be a 'rebel'.

The young coach in his early thirties is unlike most of Marquard's previous managers.

Instead of repeating the 'reincarnation of legends' from those failed managers, Tom Creen brought an attacking style to Marquette.

When the NBA was still trembling under the domination of the big man on the inside led by O'Neal Duncan, Crane actually shifted the team's center of gravity outward in the NCAA and Marquette University!

In the two years since Marquette arrived, Crane's main focus has been on talented outside players.

Inside, defensively, whether in the NBA or the NCAA, this is recognized as the right path to success.

If you want to succeed, you must have one or the other.

And as soon as Tom Creon took office, he was on a path that is now considered to be never going to be successful.

Neither the inside nor the offense......

This is very much to the chagrin of Marquette supporters.

And what makes them even worse is that the talented outsider recruited by Crane with high hopes last year is still mentally retarded in terms of learning ability......

With a full score of 36 points in the academic exam, as long as he has 17 points at a time, he can pass, and the outside genius has taken the test so many times, and he has not passed once.

In the end, for a whole season, you can only sit on the bench.

The distrust of supporters, the suspected intellectual disability of the talent recruited by the team, the loss of tradition in the team, and the results are still not improving.

The entire Marquette University basketball team is now going farther and farther on the road of internal and external troubles.

As a result, there seemed to be some people in the whole team who were panicking.

Now, no one knows where the team's rookie head coach and the mentally retarded talent he recruited will take the team to.

In fact, in the past two seasons, if the results of Marquette University had been changed to the 80s or 90s of Marquette University, Crane would have been out of the way.

He didn't make it to the tournament for two years in a row, and the talent he recruited couldn't play because of his grades.

The team has also been troubled both internally and externally, and Crane will be ruthlessly swept away by the team, just like the short-lived managers of Marquette University.

It can only be said that in the past 25 years of Marquette University, the lower limit of the middle has long been lowered to the point that it cannot be lowered.

So much so that even if Krien's start was not successful, it did not seem to be the worst in the long history of the past 25 years......

And this allowed Crane to keep his position.

However, the pressure is still on Marquette University manager Tom Creen.

And as his assistant, Tim Barkley, of course, is no different.

Tim Barkley takes this recruitment very seriously as he presided.

The new talented players on full scholarship were recruited by the head coach and had nothing to do with him.

The main strength of the team is also these talented players.

However, that doesn't mean the other players aren't important.

There are only a few talented people on a team of 12 players with full scholarships?

They represent the majority of the team's strength, but the rest of the role players are also important.

Marquette University is not as proud as a top school like Duke and North Carolina.

The substitutes for these teams are all talented high school students, and even five-star high school students!

You know, Marquette University's attraction now attracts about 40 four-star high school students like Travis Diner across the United States.

Even Diner, he was invited by head coach Crane because he was a Wisconsin native.

Generally, the top 50 high school students are not looking down on Marquette University......

People are really angry with people than people.

Not to mention that the five-star high school students are willing to come to play as a substitute, after knowing that Diner chose to join Marquette University, another local talent, Devin Harris, directly rejected the invitation of Marquette University and chose to join another local university, the University of Wisconsin.

With Diener in the mix, Marquette already has three full-scholarship players on the perimeter, and Devin Harris doesn't want to be on the bench.

Devin Harris is the Wisconsin Basketball Man of the Year this year, but he is not in the top 100 in the national rankings.

An average talent who hasn't made it to the top 100 in the U.S. is reluctant to come to Marquette University to play as a substitute, and that's the attraction of Marquette University.

Compared to North Caradouk, apart from being both NCAA champions, the rest is very different.

North Carduk wants Harris and Dina to have both, easily.

But Marquette University can only choose one of the two.

In the end, Crane chose Diner.

After all, Dina's three-point shooting and shooting are really good, and that's what the team needs right now.

And Harris has it, and the mentally retarded genius on the team has it......

It is precisely because of this that Marquette University needs to live a life with a lot of money, and the team's combat strength needs the support of these ordinary students.

North Carolik doesn't care about the recruitment of ordinary students at all, and the team doesn't need the blood of ordinary students to support it, but Marquette University can't.

"This year, there are still more people watching the excitement, and there are fewer people joining."

Tim Barkley looked around at the bustling crowd and then at the people who had joined in......

It's simply disproportionate in terms of the size of the population.

However, this is also normal.

American universities are typically easy to get in and difficult to get out, and Marquette University is also a prestigious school, and the standards are not low.

Basketball enthusiasts who don't have a certain level of talent and ability really don't need to waste time getting involved in person.

Last season's player at the end of the bench, Pat Dufy, who played for two years with 12 players, asked head coach Crane to leave the team at the end of last season.

In two years, Duffy played a total of 20 games, averaging 0.3 points, 0.3 rebounds and 0.1 assists per game.

Statistically, the average playing time and average stats per game are miserable, right?

It's really miserable.

But Duffy is already a very good player among ordinary people.

As far as Marquette University as a whole is concerned, tens of thousands of students, basketball will not be more than 20 stronger than Duffy.

And that's counting the Marquette University players.

Duffy is a minion with no presence in the NCAA, but at Marquette University, that's the king of passers-by.

I really don't have the strength, but I can't make the 12-man list of Marquette University.

As the king of passers-by, Du Fei plays NCAA games with such results, and others need to think about their choices.

Fortunately, although there are more people watching the excitement and less participation, there are still some very good seedlings this year.

"Todd Townsend, 2.01m tall, looks quite well-rounded and can do anything."

"And the physical talent looks pretty good, just a little bit thinner, but there's nothing wrong with being a backup rotation player in the NCAA."

"And Kevin Maynard, 1.98, 95 kilograms, doesn't seem to be able to shoot three, and he doesn't shoot well, but he is quite burly, and his strength doesn't seem to be much worse than that of Duffy, who left."

Tim Barkley's eyes kept sparkling with joy and excitement.

Especially when I saw the unruly figure that caused a burst of exclamations, was a little emaciated, and had an unruly figure on his face that did not match his emaciated figure at all.

After an aura dunk from this unruly teenager, the audience was boiling!

"This bounce, this dunk!"

"This is a genius who can go to an NBA tryout!"

Not to mention the ordinary audience boiling next to him, even Tim Barkley, who is used to watching NCAA talents, applauded with the surrounding audience.

"It's amazing, it's really NCAA champion Marquette University, even if there are no main players involved in today's training, it's quite exciting!"

"The substitutes of these competing teams are all so good, how strong should the main players of those teams be?"

"Kaudle Henry, Scott Merritt, Oroma Ennamarca, these main players of the team are all star players in the C-USA league, but unfortunately, the team's number one star Brian Waddell has graduated from his senior year and is now busy with the draft, so he can't see his style up close, Waddell is the star player of the entire NCAA, and there is a legend of C-USA outside double wall in the NCAA!"

"Waddell and Bobby Simmons are truly one of the few NCAA-caliber outside players in the C-USA league who can get their hands on it, and both of them now seem to have a chance to make it to the NBA."

"The NBA, that's amazing, but maybe we'll see another player on the team this year who has the potential to make it to the NBA."

"You mean Tenavis-Diner, right? He is a four-star high school student ranked in the top 40 in the United States, and his potential is higher than that of Waddell, you know, this year's Wisconsin basketball Mr. Devin Harris didn't even make it to the top 100, and Diner is arguably one of the highest-ranked talents in the history of Marquette University! ”

"After seeing how these newcomers are performing this year, I can't wait to see Travis Diner perform next season!"

Travis Diner?

Hum!

Ron Howard, who came down from the basket, snorted coldly.

This is who will compete with him for the leadership of the team next season!

Ever since the media made a national ranking of high school students, Dina is one of the highest-ranked talents recruited by Marquette University.

Ron Howard's eyes were a little heavy.

Why did he turn down so many regular university scholarships to come to Marquette University?

It was because Marquette University's number one star Waddell graduated in his senior year and the leadership of the team was vacant.

And the rest of the players, whether it is the second Henry or the mentally retarded genius who didn't play for a year, are not taken into account by him.

Henry is mediocre in talent, and that mentally retarded ......

That guy was still able to compete with him last year.

The mentally retarded man also did not make it into the top 100 in the United States, and like him, the two were equally talented.

It's just that he's on the rise now, and the mentally retarded one hasn't played for a whole year.

It can be said that he came to Marquette University to prepare to take the opportunity to get the boss position and seek NBA opportunities with the help of the platform of the famous school.

But what I never expected was that Diner, one of the top 40 high school students in the United States, would accept the invitation of Marquette University.

The previous Marquette University was indeed qualified to be worthy of such a level of genius, but now Marquette University, where does it have such an attraction?

The top 40 in the United States.

Such a ranking may be enough to go to North Carolik, but UCLA, Kentucky, Kansas, Connectn, isn't it fragrant?

No matter how bad it is, Illinois State and even the University of Washington are better than Marquette University.

When he came to Marquette University, he didn't know what to say when he got the news.

So, in the end, Dina is also mentally retarded?

Or Marquette University's head coach, that rookie head coach, Tom Creon's recruitment ability is too strong?

Anyway, now that the wood is in the boat, he can't do anything about it.

And, what if it's the 40th National Congress?

He's not afraid of any challenge!

After Waddell's graduation, there was no player in the whole of Marquette except for Diner.

Marquard's main force is not to be looked upon, let alone the same freshmen who are on the pitch with him now.

He casually showed his hands, and all the focus of the court was stolen by him, and everyone else seemed to have become minions.

In the face of these envy, jealousy, worship or overtures, Ron Howard treated it as if he did not see it, and regarded it as nothing.

"What a proud boy!"

Seeing Ron Howard's eyes unruly, Tim Barkley had a slight headache.

Ron Howard, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is 1.96,83 kilograms, an all-round guard, except for being a little lighter, both in terms of basketball talent and technique.

And compared to his basketball ability and talent, his IQ is also quite high.

He graduated from Wynette Young High School in Chicago, the fifth highest in Chicago and one of the best public high schools in the nation.

You must know that the strongest public high schools in the United States, except for the first one, which is the strongest high school built by the United States, is too buggy, and the other second and third best public high schools are in Chicago.

Fifth in Chicago, which is basically the fifth in the United States.

It's fair to say that Ron Howard's learning ability and talent are stronger than his basketball talent.

Although his basketball talent was not invited to North Carolina for a scholarship, his grades were no problem in getting into North Carolina for a scholarship.

Although Marquette University is also a famous school in the United States, academically, to be honest, it is a younger brother in the United States, and there is no attraction at all.

Ron Howard's grades gave up a school like North Carolina Duke that wanted basketball, basketball, academics, and academics to come to Marquette University, since it was not because of the academic appeal of Marquette University, it must be Marquard's basketball attraction.

But Marquette's achievements over the years are not attractive, and the coach is still a rookie and not attractive.

The attraction of the entire Marquette University basketball team is only the past history, and the vacant boss status of this historical team.

"Not only proud, but also smart!"

Ron Howard, who is here for the boss status and core position of Marquette University!

Thinking of this, Tim Barkley's head didn't hurt that much anymore.

If you want to get the position of the boss and core of the team, strength is the foundation.

has the strength, has a good relationship with everyone, and can naturally ascend to the top.

This way is too slow, if you want to be a good person, you have to stay qualified, after all, even if he is the strongest in the team, Diner and the other core are not much worse than him.

There is no overwhelming advantage, and there is no reason for others to abdicate and make way for Xian, and he is a freshman, when will he be the boss?

In addition, another way to ascend to the throne is to conquer everyone as a great villain.

This kind of need to be a big villain as soon as it comes up, although this seems annoying, but ...... Straight.

In fact, in the American basketball world, this way of being on top is the mainstream, even in the NBA, this way is the mainstream.

Isn't there always a certain star on the news who is unruly and stupid and is taught a lesson by the team boss?

Some of these people are stupid, but some are not......

In American basketball, there is no need to be so gentle and frugal.

In Tim Barkley's view, Ron Howard's choice of top position may also be a good thing for the team, the boss position is vacant, and it is better for everyone to make the conflict public than hide it underneath.

Several core players of the team can quickly distinguish the high and low, determine the ranking, and they can move forward better.

"Todd Townsend, Kevin Maynard, Ron Howard, this year's recruitment is really full of surprises."

The look on Tim Barkley's face now is very satisfied.

Marquette University's squad last year included four players leaving within the boss Waddell, plus the 'mentally retarded talent' who had already passed the exam and the new talent Diner, Marquette University has 10 players to play in the squad and needs two fresh blood.

The addition of these three freshmen can not only make up the 12-person roster of Marquette University, but also have a surplus, and even create competition.

All three have NCAA-level appearances, meaning Marquette has 13 NCAA-caliber players available next season.

The thickness of this lineup is really not low.

"Maybe we can expect something next season!"

Tim Barkley's eyes have all been on Ron Howard, Kevin Maynard and Todd Townsend, three of the most glittering players in the gym.

Ron Howard sucked most of his gaze away.

The rest of the eyes are on Kevin Maynard and Todd Townsend.

As for the other newcomers at the training ground, no one paid attention at all.

After all, not at all a level.

This atmosphere on the pitch made the other players on the pitch who came for the trial very frustrated and frustrated.

Since it's on the field, who doesn't want to be glorious?

However, there are exceptions.

For Chen Xiao, he likes this atmosphere very much.

Especially those players who were originally gearing up to show off their hands saw the performance of these three people, and stood there with a basketball like him and 'watched coldly' the performance of these three people, which made Chen Xiao even breathe a sigh of relief.

If it weren't for the brilliance of these three people, he would probably have become an outlier on the court.

In the end, I'm afraid the mission is about to fail, right?

"I thought everyone was a fan, but I didn't expect that there would be three geniuses this year, but I didn't have much hope, and I wouldn't be too disappointed, so I came to the basketball team to participate in a six-month training camp to feel the atmosphere of the NCAA up close."

"That said, at least until the team's official training camp in October, we were still Marquette players.

"What's more, if it weren't for these three super talents, we would have to go through the team test and compete with each other, and we don't need to use this competition test, we can join the team directly."

"There's no way, these three people are really strong, and they can't be convinced."

Listening to the admiration around him, Chen Xiao couldn't help nodding, looking like he was 'tricked' with the surrounding audience.

Now if he appears in a martial arts novel, he is a minion with an exclamation expression next to the protagonist.

But...... Is this basketball?

Is this the genius of basketball?

For the first time, Chen Xiao felt the impact of this sport up close.

Even a person like him who doesn't understand basketball at all can feel the impact of the three.

That body, that skill, that oppression, that speeding change, it's really powerful!

What's even more powerful is that Marquette University has even more powerful geniuses than them!

And what kind of horror are those more powerful talents in the NCAA?

And what do those top talents in the NBA look like?!

"The basketball world is powerful, terrifying!"

Chen Xiao withdrew his gaze from the 'bling' trio and looked down at the basketball in his hand.

"And I'm actually really playing basketball......"