It's normal for Duke to advance, after all, as the top seed in the Eastern Conference, if he is eliminated in the second round, it can only be said that he will be disgraced. But the way they qualified was very abnormal, a traditional powerhouse was forced into extra time by a team who didn't know which mountain to pop up, and in the end only won by 2 points, which itself was the focus.

In fact, Colorado State can't be regarded as an obscure small team, after all, they only had a draft prospect a few years ago, Chauncey Billups, which can be regarded as showing his face in front of fans across the United States. It's a pity that Billups hasn't played yet, and if he leads the Pistons to defeat the F4-led Lakers in the future, Colorado's reputation may increase.

And this season, Colorado State is a complete dick team, and their victory over Charleston College in the first round did not attract widespread attention, after all, there are no players on either side, and everyone still prefers to watch the top NCAA stars perform on the court. But now that they have become completely popular, even other NCAA giants dare not say that they can force Duke into overtime, but Colorado State has done it, and a strong contrast has suddenly formed.

Not only the local media in Colorado, but also other influential newspapers and magazines in the United States have made the sports headlines of Colorado's big regret to Duke. After all, the game of beating the strong by the weak is something that everyone likes to see, and although Colorado State did not win, in the eyes of fans, these players have already made Duke disgraced.

As the hosts, Charlotte's local media reported first, and the reporters wrote in a very frenzied tone: "No one believes that Duke, who is aiming to win the championship, almost capsized in the gutter against a small team from Colorado." My God! I saw them running around the pitch as if everyone had gas and gears in their bodies, and although they lost the game in the end, I believe it was just because they weren't lucky enough......"

Chang Wei almost laughed out loud when he saw this report, he remembered that the first person to be described as "full of steel and gears" should be James, and now Charlotte's media actually used a similar rhetorical device to describe the players of Colorado State, and I don't know if the guy who described James like this in his previous life was affected by this report.

However, to Chang Wei's surprise, it was not the media in the two big cities of New York and Los Angeles that jumped out, but reporters from Duke's North Carolina. North Carolina has a large number of NCAA teams, and even the basketball atmosphere in the entire state is quite hot, and basketball professionals naturally mix like fish in water in this territory.

Duke certainly has a lot of fans on his own turf, but there are also fans who don't like them, such as North Carolina. But this time, no matter which school the media supported, they all wrote articles affirming the fighting spirit of Colorado State and criticizing Duke's performance, the only difference is that the media that support North Carolina scolded more harshly, and the media that supported Duke hated iron and steel, after all, they didn't feel much better when they saw Duke almost eliminated.

Of course, it's not that the national media doesn't report on the game, and people take the in-depth route. Reporters from the headquarters of the major newspapers were already on their way to Fort Collins, intending to conduct on-the-ground interviews, dig deeper into the material, and then tell everyone why Colorado was such a small team that nearly toppled the mighty Duke.

What made Chang Wei laugh the most was the Missouri media, who shouted wildly from their positions: "Duke University looks strong, but in fact there is a chance to be pulled down by a small team." We recognize the strength of Colorado State, but we believe that Southwest Missouri is stronger and has every opportunity to accomplish unfinished business that has been done before us. Let's beat Duke and show off in the divisional finals and even the finals of the national championships! ”

In fact, at the same time that Duke defeated Colorado State, the No. 12 seed in the East Southwest Missouri State University once again completed the next step, following the elimination of No. 5 seed Wisconsin in the first round, and then the No. 4 seed Tennessee, which has shown the potential of a dark horse, and it is indeed normal for the local media to jump out and blow a wave at this time.

But in Chang Wei's view, the Missouri media is so brain-dead. If the players in Southwest Missouri are determined, it's okay to say, if you change to a few players who are not determined, and they all think that they can easily win Duke, then they are basically not far from going home. In the history of the NBA and the NCAA, countless super strong teams have died of arrogance, and Southwest Missouri is not a strong team.

However, the media coverage has made the Colorado players feel a lot better, and they have embarrassed Duke, which is not worth the trip. Although Chang Wei doesn't like this mentality, he also has to admit that it is still very helpful for the player's psychological recovery, and it can further brush up on the presence of fans across the United States, maybe after the end of the season, there will be a famous high school star who will come to the door himself.

Although the mainstream idea of NCAA players now is to help the team win a championship and retire from the draft, Chang Wei knows that after ten or twenty years, a large number of high school stars will regard the NCAA as their own gilded place.

As a result, fewer and fewer players have been announced for the draft until their senior year, and all of the young and famous stars can't wait to announce their participation in the draft after only one season in the NCAA, and then be selected by the team with a high pick. Chang Wei did not comment on this phenomenon, after all, everyone has their own ideas, and it is a good choice to join the NBA as soon as possible, but the stars who continue to stay in school and choose to help the team win the NCAA championship seem to be more noble.

However, it also has something to do with the general environment of the NBA, where the general managers of 30 teams are increasingly preferring to choose young potential rookies, who are not yet fully established and can be cultivated according to their own ideas. And those players who are announced to participate in the draft in their juniors and seniors are either mediocre in talent, or their technical moves and style of play have been set, and they are only suitable for specific role players, and they tend to be lower in the pick, which stimulates a large number of young talents to rush to the NBA early.

Fortunately, Chang Wei is not the head coach, there is no need to care about these things, he just needs to start training the players as soon as possible, and as for which players to recruit, he will give his own suggestions.