Chapter 16: The Age of the Dark Horse
The 2010 NCAA tournament made many people think that miracles can happen.
Because more than one dark horse team has been born this year, and some teams are simply unimaginable that they can rush to the Sweet Top 16.
For example, the University of Pennsylvania.
Of course, there are still old strong teams, but the two strong teams of North Carolina and Kansas have been eliminated by the weak teams, can you believe it?
Even Duke of the Blue Devils barely won in the end.
Some media said that at least 4 teams in this year's Sweet Top 16 are recognized as dark horses by the outside world, and this year's NCAA is the era of dark horses!
In this year's Sweet 16, Kentucky is still favored, Wall and Cousins led the team to play well, plus the other favorites have been out of the tournament, and now Kentucky's call to win the championship is even higher.
As for the dark horses, Pennsylvania is undoubtedly the team that can attract everyone's attention the most, especially Han Miao, who pays more attention to his scouts, and even William and David have been noticed by many scouts!
This time, everyone finally stopped treating them as 10,000-year-old fish belly.
And Han Miao's performance surprised many scouts.
I thought that this guy could play at such a good level just because the division where the team was too weak, but I didn't expect that he really had two brushes!
That passing sense and grasp of the correct way of the ball is simply not lost to any of the top point guards in the NBA!
What's even more terrifying is that when the scouts called up all the video footage of this guy's games this year, they were surprised to find that Han Miao has been improving with a terrifying efficiency, and it seems that every few games he plays, he will become a little stronger.
This Chinese, the talent is terrible!
Even if his physical fitness is just passing now, what team wouldn't want a point guard with excellent passing awareness and passing ability?
Who wouldn't want to play an easy game but win easily?
Think about the Suns' Nash, why can he MVP two consecutive Zhuang, is because under his leadership, the Suns' offense is very smooth, as long as everyone does their own thing and runs out of their own position, they don't have to worry about not having the ball, just the little Stoudemire guy, if it weren't for Nash, he could have scored 30+ on the Spurs' head so easily? Impossible!
Moreover, Han Miao has mid-range and layup ability, although he is not particularly top-notch, but it is enough for a point guard, with him, it is not nonsense for a team's combat effectiveness to increase by 20%.
Not to mention anything else, let's just say that Pennsylvania's fish belly team, compared with last year, there is one more Han Miao, and it actually reached the top 16 of Sweet, which shows how strong Han Miao's ability is.
However, because there is a monster of Wall on the point guard this year, even if Han Miao performs well in two consecutive games, few people think that he surpasses Wall.
It can be ranked second among point guards, and if it is drafted, it should barely make it to the lottery.
This is the final conclusion of most scouts, and everyone is inclined to Han Miao to be selected in the middle of the first round, that is, about 14-20, and the top ten should not be him.
"Well, yes, it's a few more."
After Han Miao saw the news, he was still quite satisfied, not bad, much better than half a year ago, at least now someone will definitely want him, the only question is where to go.
If you can play the main team, everyone is naturally reluctant to play on the bench, and Han Miao doesn't want to be selected by the Suns and Hornets or the like, because in that case, I'm afraid that I will have to play a long bench for the top point guards such as Nash Paul.
Maybe God must carry out the dark horse to the end this year, after the sweet round of 16, the opponent of the Pennsylvania elite top 8 battle is Kentucky led by Wall!
After hearing the news, everyone in Pennsylvania felt bad.
Your sister, first Louisville, then Purdue, and now Kentucky, does this year's event schedule have a grudge against Pennsylvania?
This is the rhythm that will make people go black to the end!
"Wall? Looks like this is a good opportunity for me to move up the ranks. ”
After Han Miao knew that he was going to fight Wall, he was actually relatively calm, wasn't it Wall? It's not that you can't fight, it's just that it's more troublesome.
Even in his heart, he already regarded this game as the king of Xiangbei Mountain back then.
A Wall, a Cousins, and a bunch of powerful players, a big giant like Kentucky, if you want to win them, you have no other way but to fight them.
Moreover, through this game, I can most likely test what the level of the NBA rookie team is, which is very important for measuring my current specific level.
And the media are even more happy, Han Miao against Wall, the matchup between the first and second point guards in this year's rookies, is also a direct dialogue between scoring point guards and traditional point guards, although everyone is generally more optimistic about Wall, but if Han Miao wins, it will be a more popular story of "defeating the strong with the weak"!
Even, this game is likely to affect the order of these two people in the draft!
"Han Miao?"
In the training hall at the University of Kentucky, Wall chatted with Cousins while shooting.
"Yes, a Chinese, I heard that he is quite capable, averaging 10+ assists per game, moreover, Louisville and Purdue have been killed by him, and is known as the second point guard this year."
"The second person?" Wall was also surprised, it turned out that the rumors he heard before were true, and the second point guard under him was really that Chinese.
"Yes, I watched the video of his game, very strong, John, maybe you are not as good as him in passing."
Cousins, although Wall is now his boss, but this civet's brain sometimes suddenly short-circuits, and he speaks too bluntly.
"If you can say that you pass the ball well, then it seems that this guy is really not ordinary."
Fortunately, Wall has long been accustomed to Cousins's state of not being big or small, so he is not angry.
"However, his offense can't compare to yours, and I don't think he even has a way to get past you."
Cousins may also feel that what he just said is not very appropriate, so he quickly made up for it, but anyone who listens to it feels that this is a bit excessive.
After all, on the video, there are many people who are shaken away by Han Miao, even if it is Wall, there is no way to shake a person to the ground almost every scene like Han Miao.
"Whether it's genuine or imaginary, don't you know if you fight."
Wall slammed in for a dunk and then tugged the basket before jumping off.
"The era of dark horses? You'll have to ask us if Kentucky agrees! ”