Chapter 43: Rise to Fame!

"Chen, your running position in this game, the ability to shoot and get rid of it is impressive, as a beginner, your progress is incredible, I hope you can still maintain a curious enough heart for basketball in the future, that is the most noble quality of a basketball player, this quality makes you different, we old men like the curiosity and love in your eyes the most, this will make us feel nostalgic for the past, become young, and also make you stand out on the court."

"Dwyan, you're great, very, very good, maybe you're the strongest player the Golden Eagles have ever been with the Golden Eagles, you've got an incredible hunger for the game game, for the stats, for winning, your talent, your all-round, enough to sustain you on the basketball road, and now, you need to use your strength to make greatness, and keep up your hunger for everything, and you can become a great player beyond Butch."

"Ron, I can't put into words how good you are, you're a perfect player, you can do everything on the court, but you're willing to sacrifice for the team, for your teammates, you're the kind of player that all managers love, whether it's in the NCAA or the NBA, you're going to be successful."

Seeing the old man who left surrounded by school leaders and team celebrities, Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard still had quite excited expressions on their faces.

And the other Marquette University players around Chen Xiao are envious.

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

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

McGuire resigned as head coach after a miraculous win at Marquette University in 1977.

Not only did he resign as the team's head coach, but he also never coached in the NCAA again.

It's just a real retreat.

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

His all-American prestige at the time of his miracle in 1977 allowed him to coach on any team in the nation if he wanted to.

But he still rejected them all.

The godfather of Marquette University was such headstrong and special.

At the same time, it is precisely because of this special that he also seems more legendary.

Of course, Chen Xiao has heard of the godfather of this team, but he didn't expect that this legendary godfather who didn't appear for a long time was shocked by them like this.

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 against their backs.

What is a board, this is a board!

And the other Marquette University players next to him looked at these two guys like this, and they couldn't complain for a while.

"Little one, you've changed, you've learned badly from Dwyan."

"Really?"

"It's you, when am I a bad person?!"

The originally resentful atmosphere, because of the fight between Wade and Chen Xiao, laughter broke out again.

"Mr. McGuire, thank you very much for recommending me 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 the compliment."

"It's not a compliment, it's a fact, you're a very meticulous head coach, you did a great job in this game, in the NCAA, you can meet unexpected teams at any time, some teams are unexpectedly weak, some teams will be unexpectedly strong, a team has no ability to deal with accidents, no matter how strong you are, you can't win the NCAA championship, Tom, I like your ambition very much, I hope you and the Golden Eagles can give me a huge surprise this season in the NCAA."

Seeing Al McGuire leave, Tom Crane 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 see so many things.

The careful planning of the two of them in this game was broken in one sentence......

This strength ......

Neither Tom Crane nor Tim Barkley have said anything to the team's players about their goals this season.

Now is not the time to say this.

But there is no doubt that the championship is what Tom Crane is looking for 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 temperament than to always emphasize the championship in the team.

But his mind was exposed here in McGuire in such a game.

"He is the best head coach in NCAA history at creating accidents!"

Tim Barkley exclaimed heartily.

Tom Creon nodded, convinced!

The second day of the Marquette and Chicago State University competition.

Marquette University's 58-point home win over Chicago State University quickly became a hot topic in American basketball.

In the United States, the media's preference for the NCAA is greater than that of the NBA, and a NCAA win close to 60 points can definitely become a hot topic in the United States.

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

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

Especially Chen Xiao.

Because he was a little skinny when he was interviewed yesterday, he thought it was nothing, but he didn't expect O'Neill, who was skinned by him, to respond!

"Wonder Boy says Dwyane Wade can teach me to pitch? It's great, and if that's the case, of course I'd like to be teammates with him, Dwyane Wade can teach me how to shoot, I can teach him how to win NBA championships. ”

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

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

"Hahahaha, the previous words are all jokes, Dwyane is a human being, not a dog, and the NBA does not allow pets to play, hahahaha......"

"But I'm not kidding Dwyann about teaching him how to win NBA championships, I like them, they're a fun bunch of kids."

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

I don't know why, Chen Xiao always felt that next to O'Neal, who was laughing, his idol, Kobe Bryant's face was very, very ugly.

Did I help my idol take revenge on Pionill, and got into trouble?

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

It's not just Chen Xiao.

Wade, Ron Howard, and the rest of the Marquette University players were all surprised.

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

In a casual interview after the game, it can alarm the NBA's No. 1 bowl like O'Neal, and this influence is definitely beyond the scope of Milwaukee and Wisconsin!

Compared to the other players at Marquette University, Tom Creane, a former Michigan State assistant coach, has no surprises.

Because what happened to Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard now, he didn't see each other once.

Eight years ago, when the Michigan Five Tigers were ravaging the nation, he happened to be a young assistant coach at Michigan State University.

Michigan happened to be at the center of that storm, and he witnessed the whole process of this storm from its rise to glory and finally to its regretful end.

"How similar is the rise of the Marquette Tritaka today to the rise of the Michigan Five Tigers."

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

This is the luck and misfortune of these young heroes.

As a close witness to the era of the Michigan Five Tigers, it is difficult to say whether the ending of the Five Tigers would have been better if it had not been for the hype of public opinion in the United States that year.

But there is one thing he can be sure of, the young 'heroes' of the Michigan Five Tigers were not able to resist the huge pressure from public opinion in the United States, and they collapsed first...... When I tried to get up again, I was still unable to get up.

Now, 8 years later, he will witness the rise of a new group of heroes.

This time, he will no longer be a close-up onlooker.

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

"Tim, we must end differently this time!"

"I hope so."

Since Marquette Mihawks has continued to heat up public opinion in the United States, Chen Xiao has found that there are some differences between him, Wade and Ron Howard.

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

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

This is one of the official NCAA promotions this year.

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

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

In terms of market development, the NCAA has been even more aggressive.

Directly move their official games outside of their home country, and send all of them to strong teams, don't play false, and directly talk to each other, so that people here can see what the NCAA's highest-level competition is like.

Because of the Alaska Challenge, Chen Xiao's popularity in Fairbanks is still very high, but in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska, there should not be much popularity.

But this time when I returned to Anchorage again, Chen Xiao felt that this was not the case at all.

Sullivan Arena, evening of November 21, 2001.

Before the match between Marquette University and the University of Tennessee, the Sullivan Arena, which should be considered a neutral court, chanted the names of Marquette University, Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard.

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

The University of Tennessee is also a giant!

Even, the University of Tennessee's performance over the years has been above Marquette University.

The current leader of the University of Tennessee is the 11th high school student in the United States in 1998, 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 other four-star talents, guard, Jon Higgins, the 1999 All-American No. 82 talent, center, Brandon Crumple, the 2000 All-American No. 86, power forward Ron Slan, 1999 No. 51 high school student, small forward, and Drake Streber, who is the No. 89 talent in the class of 2001 this year.

Five-star talent plus the team's star inside lineman Marcus Hayslip.

Although the University of Tennessee is not seeded in this year's NCAA, it is generally believed that the strength is above Marquard's.

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.

Looking at Chen Xiao, Wade and Ron Howard were frantically asked for autographs by the fans at the scene, but no one cared about them, and they felt uncomfortable.

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

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

This is the reality, if you don't accept it, O'Neal and Duncan can't sell sneakers!

"We don't want popularity, we just want to win!"

When Haslip shouted these words, there was always a sense that although I was ugly, I was more powerful.

It doesn't matter if he is sluggish or not, anyway, my brother is jealous.

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

The University of Tennessee is a very strong team.

And it's a strong team in the exact opposite style of Marquette University.

Marquette University is strong on the outside.

The University of Tennessee is strong on the inside.

Marquette Universitate's 1-3 is strong.

The University of Tennessee was strong 3-5.

With two teams with very different styles like this, this game is naturally played by Mars hitting the Earth.

Anyway, Marquette University's inside line is here in Tennessee.

And the big guys in Tennessee can't keep up with the footsteps of the small guys like Marquette, shoot casually outside, just don't come in.

The styles are very different, and they don't match each other, so both sides can't defend each other.

In the end, the game was a battle between the inside and outside teams.

When the game is played to the last moment.

In response to this unusually scorching situation, Marquette University's head coach Tom Crane was calm after laying out the final tactics.

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

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

In the shouts of Buth Peterson, the inner and outer cores of the University of Tennessee, Haeslip and Yarborough, did not dare to slack off in the slightest.

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

Especially in the NCAA, Yarborough, who is known as little Pippen, did not dare to slack off, and the defense of Wade failed in this game, and finally the defense of this Chinese kid can no longer fail.

"Boy, it's me who is defending you now, and under my defense, you can't have any chance to score!"

"Really?"

What the?!

The game resumes.

Wade, who dribbled 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 has all been suffocated.

"Wade didn't even think about attacking on his own, so he passed it like this?!"

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

How could a player as good as Wade pass such an unreliable pass.

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

There can be no chance of such a pass!

Soon, not long, just a moment.

Buzz-Peterson felt that the person who went crazy in the end must not be Wade, but himself.

Because on the court, a sudden burst of shadows evaded all the defenders, ran an incredible running route, and finally received this pass from Wade, completing an even more incredible layup.

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

How did he get here?!

How is this possible?!

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

That sunny smile.

That cheerful voice.

Those big bright eyes.

"Under my eyes, God can also kill!"

The Sullivan Arena, which suddenly exploded after a moment of silence, looked at the smile on Chen Xiao's face and the big bright eyes, and Yarborough and Haesley were generally cold.

85 to 84!

Marquette University defeated the University of Tennessee.

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