Chapter 480: Can You Still Get the Best Month?
In the end, the Lakers still lost the final battle in March, and lost very embarrassed, Ye Xuan played 31 minutes, although he got a triple-double of 29 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, but it was also because Ye Xuan was too obsessed with brushing data at the beginning of the game, so the team fell behind the opponent by a large score at the beginning, and in the end, although the Lakers woke up and wanted to catch up, it was too late. In the end, they could only lose to the Heat team that lost their main force by a huge margin of 19 points.
At the end of this game, the Lakers once again ushered in a super long vacation, not because the league took care of the Lakers, so the Lakers were always given a long rest time when arranging the schedule, but because the NBA wanted to give concessions to the NCAA Finals, so there were two days in between when all the teams did not play, Ye Xuan and Lao Ke and others also liked to join in the fun and went to watch the NCAA Finals this year.
Speaking of the NCAA, in fact, there are a lot of people in the United States who love the NCAA more than the NBA, and we can talk about the "why do Americans love Crazy March so much?" that people ask every day. "IF YOU LIKE SLAM DUNK, YOU CAN PROBABLY UNDERSTAND THE CHARM OF THE NCAA: AMATEURISM.
Because of amateurism, North Carolina, Duke, and Connectn, these basketball giants are simply intellectually pedantic and independent of the NBA. College basketball is all about rules, unlike the NBA. For example, UCLA University has John Wooden, a historical champion in North America, and has followed his UCLA offensive system for half a century. Coach Roy Williams, who is now North Carolina, was the one who talked and laughed with Jordan back then. Giant universities have traditions and systems, unlike lame pheasant universities, which are designed to train an NBA player, and he can be allowed to do whatever he wants.
Because it is amateur, the NCAA can be experimental. The Princeton system, the Memphis DDM system, and the second-break fast break were all formed in college basketball and then used in the NBA. College basketball and the NBA, in a way, are another world. For example, a teenager who made a name for himself in the NBA Draft may not be able to make a name for himself in the NCAA. Conversely, NCAA superstars such as Hansbro may be in bad luck in the NBA. It's closer to the FIBA style: less star treatment, less player overpowering coaches, more passing and interaction.
Because of the amateur, there is a sea of smoke, and only 60 people are drafted into the NBA every year. If so, every year in the NBA draft, no matter how much you talk about the people in the last seat, as long as you don't fall behind Sun Shan, you will always be among the people in college. And these young people who dream of basketball, after March Madness every year, have to face the choice of fate: some people may go to the NBA, some may go to other basketball leagues, and some people really "finish the last game and never play basketball again." ”
The Round of 64 tournament is a first-of-its-one elimination, unlike the NBA, where a series is played. There are scouts on the sidelines, and fate is on the line, even if you play four years in college, you only have four tournament chances. A young man in his early twenties, in the academy, died early like river sand, washed by the river of time. That's the NCAA. Cruelty, grassroots, accidental, exciting, the instability of young people, there are the most real tears, remorse, ecstasy and blood. That's where the NCAA comes in.
Therefore, Rao is Ye Xuan and Lao Ke, who are famous stars in the NBA, did not receive any special treatment after coming to the scene, after all, there were more big-name stars watching the game, including Old Man Qiao, who also came to the scene to cheer for his parent team. The game was soon underway, and on the highly anticipated final stage, the coaches of both teams, who had just won Naismith's Coach of the Year this season, Jay White of Villanova University, and Roy Williams of North Carolina, made no changes to their starting lineups, with North Carolina wearing a white light jersey while Villanova University wore a traditional navy blue jersey.
After the two sides kicked off, Villanova University got first, and Joel Barry II of North Carolina opened the scoring with a three-point tar heel, while Chris Jenkins, a junior star here, scored for the Wildcats, and then Villanova University began to exert its strength, first by senior core point guard Rennes Alicardno scored a three-point and two points successively, and North Carolina University tied the score after returning a three-point by former McDonald's MVP and sophomore forward Justin Jackson to enter the official timeout.
In the first five minutes, the two sides tested each other, but Villanova still showed his strong offensive strength and super high offensive efficiency, and North Carolina's frontcourt rebounding advantage gradually improved. After returning, Villanova's star Josh Hart and North Carolina's Justin Jackson had a small friction, and the atmosphere of the sabre-rattling final could be seen. At this moment, Villanova University took advantage of the hot hand, Josh Hart and Phil Bush each scored three points to continue the offensive momentum, and the tar heels of the white jerseys could only press the opponent from the inside to bite the score, and in just 3 minutes, North Carolina received three whistles and fouls, so that Roy's team suddenly had three points to inspire, Jackson, Peggy, and Joel Barry each hit a three-pointer to regain the lead for North Carolina.
The two sides hit over 60 percent shooting in 10 minutes, and Jenkins made two consecutive jumpers to tie Villanova's 27-27 lead. Since shooting 0/10 from three-point range in the first half against Syracuse in their last game, the University of North Carolina has shot 7/9 at the top of the half. And Joel Barry, the winner of the ACC Tournament MVP, contributed three of them. Both sides shot over 50 percent from the field in the first half, while North Carolina shot 77.8 percent from three-point range, leading the locker room 39:34 at halftime. Villanova had five players who shot more than 50 percent from the field in the first half. Among them, Chris Jenkins and Rennes Alicardeno each contributed 7 points, while on the North Carolina side, Joel Barry scored 15 points on 6-of-7 shooting in the half, 3-of-3 from three-point range, and Justin Jackson also contributed 9 points.
In the second half, Britz Johnson first took advantage of the opponent's missed shot to score a jumper for NC University, while Gallon Paulson on the Wildcats continued Villanova's strong three-point touch, and Meeks on the North Carolina side fouled continuously and went off the bench early. The Wildcats' fourth-year interior lineman Ochev frequently squeezed North Carolina to score inside to chase the score to 40:43 into the first official timeout of the second half. Seven minutes into the second half, the Wildcats hit a wave of 10:3 attacks to equalize the score, and then, on the side of the tar heel, Marcus Page made a layup to stop the bleeding, but he was rested because he received three fouls early, and Phil Bush hit another three-pointer to help Villanova regain the lead, and the two sides then did not score in a whistle and went into a timeout.
While North Carolina only had a 20% shooting rate in the second half, Villanova continued to maintain a high shooting rate, reaching around 8 points, playing a powerful 19-5 offensive and leading by 5 points. Then North Carolina began to chase points after a little touch, and Villanova University returned to its previous form of winning over the University of Kansas, with three points unstoppable, and even Chris Jenkins on the inside had something to gain from beyond the three-point line. With Villanova leading by 10 points with five minutes remaining, Jae White once again called a timeout after four points from Marcus Page and Britz Johnson's block to close the gap to six points.
After coming back, North Carolina completed a block and Joel Barry's three-point shot narrowed the gap to 3 points, and then Villanova sophomore guard Phil Bush played the role of a surprise soldier again, hitting a difficult jump shot, and the difference continued to return to 5 points, and then with Rennes Alicardno's pass error, North Carolina relied on Britz Johnson's jumper to chase the difference to 1 point, and then came back to North Carolina to attack, with a whistle, North Carolina fouled, Villanova made two free throws, and the difference widened to 3 points. At the moment of counting, the magic came, Marcus Page came back to attack and shot a three-pointer when his body was extremely out of focus, hitting a three-pointer, and North Carolina tied the !! However, something even more miraculous came, and at 4.7 seconds, after Villanova University quickly advanced to the frontcourt, Rennes Alicardeno passed the ball to Chris Jenkins, who did not hesitate to score a three-pointer to beat North Carolina!!
Chris Jenkins, Villanova University, and the greater Philadelphia area, as well as the entire history and present Great East Alliance, have achieved supreme glory. After losing to the University of Oklahoma and the University of Virginia at the beginning of the season, which led to an underrated season, in the crucial March, he adjusted to his best form, beating the University of Miami, the University of Kansas, the University of Oklahoma, etc. This championship is also the victory of the Great Eastern League, after the disintegration of the glorious old Dadong in 2013, the heroes have left, Villanova University carried the banner of ZTE Dadong, and won the first championship for the new Dadong in just three years, which is enough to go down in history.
The Villanova University Wildcats defeated the University of North Carolina Tar Heels 77-74 to claim their second championship in franchise history and the team's first national run under Jay White. The 70,000-seat Houston NRG Center was packed, and Michael Jordan, the "God of Basketball", also appeared in the stands, watching North Carolina core guard Marcus Page lose his balance with a three-point equalizer 4.7 seconds before the end of the game, and also watched Villanova University forward Chris Jenkins smash the three-point game.
Villanova University, which once walked out of All-Star Kyle Lowry, continues the tradition of overall basketball, and the team may be a rare NCAA champion with "no NBA-level talent" in history. The two teams have met six times in the history of the NCAA Tournament, with the University of North Carolina Tar Heels holding a 5-1 lead, most recently in the first round in 2013, with the University of North Carolina winning 78-71, while the Villanova Wildcats' only victory came in the 1985 semifinals against the University of North Carolina 56-44 to win the NCAA Tournament that year. The two teams combined for 202 points in 10 games on their way to the NCAA tournament, arguably the most dominant final matchup in history.
In terms of statistics, Villanova University only had 6 assists in the whole game, but still maintained a high shooting rate of 58.3%: Chris Jenkins, who shot the killer shot, scored 14 points in the game; The number one star, junior guard Josh Hart, who is likely to participate in this year's draft, had 12 points and eight rebounds; White shooter and "Coach of the Field" Rennes Alicadeno scored 16 points on 6-of-9 shooting; Off the bench, Phil Bush scored a career-high 20 points; Daniel Ochev, a senior center wearing the No. 23 jersey, had nine points, seven rebounds and two blocks. On the North Carolina side, senior leader and core guard Marcus scored 21 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, although the draft pick slipped year by year, he almost ended his outstanding college career; Sophomore point guard Joel Barry II had 20 points and four assists; Britz Johnson, a fourth-year interior player with this year's lottery prospects (21st pick in Tiger Fight prediction), scored 14 points and eight rebounds; The other two interior stalwarts Kennedy Meeks and Isaiah Hicks were average, scoring just four points each.
In fact, Ye Xuan was a little dizzy in this game, because the NCAA emphasizes more team basketball, although the NBA also has this kind of team basketball team that plays very well, but without the leadership of a famous star, it is too difficult to gain a foothold in the NBA. This made Ye Xuan, who has always been used to playing in the NBA, a little uncomfortable, but fortunately, Ye Xuan actually came to play soy sauce, so it doesn't matter if he understands it or not, but Lao Ke next to him is very excited.
However, what interests Ye Xuan the most is actually the expression of Old Man Qiao after he finally saw North Carolina being killed, Ye Xuan can foresee that this photo will be an excellent material for everyone to spoof for a period of time in the future. And the person who went with Ye Xuan thought of was Shaq O'Neal, the next day's TNT Shaq Five Embarrassments, Michael - everywhere I - Jordan finally appeared in the video of the Five Embarrassments, and this time O'Neal not only P a lot of spoof pictures by himself, but also with a lot of spoof text, and even used Jordan's own classic expression "Crying face" P on the old man Joe who had already made a fortune, and then P on the text "North Carolina was killed, I am so sad." The words also provided a lot of laughter for everyone after dinner.
After the NCAA Finals, Ye Xuan and the others also returned to the Lakers and began to prepare for their next game, and tomorrow, they will welcome their rivals on their home court, the Green Shirts Celtics. However, it seems that Ye Xuan's status in Xiao Hua's mind is still very high, and soon after returning to Los Angeles, news came from the league headquarters that Ye Xuan was elected the Western Conference Player of the Month in March. This is something Ye Xuan didn't expect, after all, he still missed two games in early March, and if you want to talk about the record, the Warriors' record is better than that of the Lakers, and it makes sense that the best of the month should be given to Curry.