Chapter 27: Miracles and the Great Wall's Strange First Acquaintance (Ask for Recommendation!!) )
After playing the NCAA 'non-league' against Duke University, the University of Washington's next game is at home against Western Kentucky University.
The NCAA's 'non-league' can be compared to the NBA's preseason game, the difference is that the NCAA's 'non-league' is an official game, and the statistics are valid.
At the same time, the NCAA 'non-league' opponents, the venue is decided by the team itself.
Generally speaking, the strong team plays a game against the weak team, and the weak team will go to the home of the strong team to challenge.
The University of Washington and Duke University played a 'non-league game', with the University of Washington as the guest and the University of North Carolina at home.
The reason why there is such a rule is not to discriminate against weak teams, but that many weak teams are willing to be invited by strong teams, because invitations have an appearance fee!
And the appearance fee is not low.
Many of the NCAA's underdogs take these appearance fees very seriously.
Moreover, even if the strong team wants to play at the home of the weak team, the weak team cannot afford to pay for it.
Therefore, during the two-month 'non-league' phase of the NCAA, the weak teams like to send them to the door to challenge the strong teams, which can make money and win attention.
Most of this year's 'non-league' schedule at the University of Washington was decided the year before and last year.
At that time, the University of Washington still had Nate Robinson, so it was an absolute powerhouse.
The first away game against Duke was a master's move to find the team's problems.
The next step is to pay the underdogs to fix the problem.
This was what the University of Washington had in mind when it was arranging the schedule.
After defeating Duke, today is different.
There are no special issues that need to be corrected after the University of Washington played.
And, because of the victory over Duke University, the University of Washington is now in front of these weak teams that have been invited over, which is really sweet.
The University of Washington slaughtered Duke University, making the University of Washington rich overnight and enviable.
Now everyone wants to be the second University of Washington!
Beat the University of Washington and you can get the biggest attention in the country!
The University of Washington played the second game against the University of Western Kentucky.
A standard NCAA belly team.
If it was placed in previous years, Western Kentucky University would have gone through a passing motion, and after making money, it would go to the home court of the next strong team to continue to make money.
"Mr. Romar, Western Kentucky University is playing a bit fiercely and pressing the Yes and Blanton defenses a lot"
"It's also a better game like this, and Washington and Simmons are better than Bobby-Jones and Brockman in this situation."
After the game against Duke turned out, Romar knew that Yes would be taken care of, and the intention of this game in West Kentucky was very obvious.
Whether it's beating the University of Washington or defending against Yees and Roy, they'll put them in the national spotlight.
In this game, West Kentucky's strength in defending Yes is not the same as Redick's strength in defending Yes.
Fortunately, the bench thickness at the University of Washington is good enough.
Romar could see that Bobby Jones and Brockman were mediocre in their attacking power.
Not enough to share the defensive pressure for Yesroy, he decisively turned on Simmons and Washington, who can shoot, but are shorter, slower, and fat.
The West Kentucky decision gave the Washington Five more time to play together.
This made the Seattle fans at the scene burst into the greatest enthusiasm.
With the frantic shouts and cheers of the Seattle fans, the University of Washington defeated Western Kentucky University 87-70.
In this game, Western Kentucky University had a lot of defensive intensity against Yes, and Yes's feel tonight was also average, with the highest touch value of only 67.
But under the tacit cover of Washington and Simmons' two big door boards and the selfless support of Roy Conroy, Yes still shot 9 of 19 in this game, 7 of 15 three-pointers and 5 of 7 free throws, and cut down 30 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
In this game, Yes's stats are far from what they were when they played Duke.
But for the NBA scouts who came to watch the game, they were still satisfied.
"It's a high-intensity game, West Kentucky has limited strength, but it's tenacious, Ye Si is very experienced in handling the ball, he doesn't blindly force his shots when the opportunity is bad, his maturity is shocking!"
"Yes is not like an 18-year-old player, he is more like a veteran who has played professional basketball for many years in terms of the rationality of using various techniques!"
"However, some of his game habits are still young, he has a lot of jumping and passing in this game, and he doesn't like more physical confrontations, and some waste of his physical talent, with Yes's speed, against a team like West Kentucky, Yes can tear them apart!"
"These are all small problems, he is different from Redick, Redick's talent can see the future at a glance, Yes's future is not in the NCAA, his problems can be handed over to the NBA coaches to slowly carve, maybe those NBA coaches will prefer Yes with shortcomings!"
"After this game, Yes's NBA draft prospect list remains unchanged, with five stars of attention and four and a half stars of potential!"
"Seconded!"
"Agreed!"
"Yes!"
Since the start of this season's NCAA, University of Washington head coach Romar has been feeling very lucky.
Thankfully, the team has Yes, so that the University of Washington, and so that he, who is an ordinary NCAA head coach, can become the focus of the nation.
Now in the University of Washington game, the most anticipated part of the game by TV viewers and fans is Yes's various fancy shooting warm-up before the game.
and every time before halftime, Yess's final shot from the center circle.
Although none of these mid-circle shots were made, it did not prevent the fans and TV viewers from exclaiming.
Yes's style of play is too fresh!
In addition to being fortunate to have Yes, Romar is also grateful that as the other two members of the Seattle Five, Anthony Washington and Dean Simmons, have been training for the past two years after being dropped by him.
Otherwise, in the face of Roy and Yes's focused defense, he may really have no one available to resolve such difficulties.
Nor will it be like now, leading the University of Washington to a seven-game winning streak throughout November.
The University of Washington beat Duke to win six more games in a row.
In these six games, in the face of stronger defensive intensity, Yes's performance is still remarkable.
In seven games throughout November, Yes averaged 34 points, 5.1 rebounds and 4.3 assists per game.
His 34 points per game also put him in the first place on the NCAA scoring list for the time being, two points higher than Adam Morris, who is second in second place, and is known as Bird Jr.
Adam Morris is a five-star player with a five-star attention, a potential five-star player, and the top talent in the eyes of NBA scouts!
It's not that easy to get a five-star potential rating from scouts.
Ye Si's performance throughout November has been perfect, but his potential has not been touched, and he is still four and a half stars.
With the potential of four and a half stars, the predicted order is seventh, in fact, there is no guarantee that he will be seventh or lottery.
The lotto team needs a player of his type and will give preference to him.
But if a lotto team doesn't have a demand for a player like him, he can fall out of the lotto.
The potential of five stars is different, the potential of five stars means that the team will be selected if they don't need it, and such players can support the rebuilding of an NBA team.
To become a rookie with five-star potential, Ye Si needs more than just stats, but also a higher level of talent.
Now that's not enough!
On December 3, 2005, Washington University hosted Santa Barbara, also known as the University of California, Santa Barbara, UCSB.
UCSB and UCLA are sister schools, UCLA is strong, and UCSB is not NCAA strong, but it is not considered a fish belly.
However, in addition to the various shooting exercises before the game, the focus on the court in this game was also a highlight on the sidelines.
"That's Yao and TMC of the Houston Rockets, right?!"
"Tomorrow Seattle will play the Pacers at home, and Yao and TMC are here specifically for Yes!"
Yao Ming and Maddie came, and Ye Si naturally noticed it.
There are two people in the front row, and he is not blind.
Moreover, Yao Ming is still his idol, he is from the Demon Capital!
"Yao, that compatriot of yours seems to be very arrogant, and he didn't even come to say hello when he saw us."
Seeing the idol, Ye Si was very entangled.
He had wanted to see Yao Ming for a long time, but when he really saw Yao Ming, he didn't know how to say hello.
The way of friends?
He didn't have many friends, and the way he and Roy Webster met them couldn't be replicated.
And with their status, wouldn't it be too big or small to greet them in the way of friends?
In the way of fans to idols?
How do fans greet their idols?
Also, if I haven't said hello for so long, will it make Yao Ming unhappy?
Yao Ming is definitely not happy with me now, if I go over to say hello again, will I be disgusted by him?
I'm going to be disgusted by Yao Ming in the future?!
What can I do about this?!
What to do?
It's annoying!
"Oh, Yao, that compatriot of yours is really interesting, he didn't hit the circle and went for a run instead"
"It's very interesting."
Yao Ming smiled a little awkwardly.
I can't be a fellow with a social disability, right?
It reminded him of the UAE, no, he was probably worse than the UAE.
Because I was very special since I was a child, I didn't communicate much with my peers, and I had social difficulties when I grew up?
Ye Si is very annoyed now, UCSB said that he is very innocent, they really didn't think they provoked Ye Si, but they were still beaten by Ye Si!
Ye Si vented all the entanglements and the annoyance that Yao Ming might dislike on UCSB.
91-72, the University of Washington defeated UCSB at home.
Ye Si shot 10-of-20 from the field, 8-of-17 from three-point range, and 7-of-8 from the free-throw line, scoring 35 points in the game!
Ye Si's performance in this game, Yao Ming on the side of the watch is also brilliant!
He has been in the United States for so long, and of course he knows that UCSB is not a strong team, but it is not a fish belly either.
Ye Si's strength in this game is already stronger than his old national team partner Liu Wei!
And it's a lot stronger!
Yes, national team, defender!
These words are linked together, which makes Yao Ming's heart extremely hot!
"TMC, I'd better go over and say hello"