Chapter 19: Neglect
There was still an hour before the start of the game, and Wu Huang was nervous, but he still had some doubts in his heart, why did Christine ask him for two tickets today?
Coincidentally, Taylor Swift also asked him for two tickets, which made him suspicious again, and he was worried that the two girls would meet.
"Probably not, the tickets I gave them were 108,000 miles away, and it was difficult to find them with a telescope." Wu Huang gave the two girls tickets, two on the east side of the stadium and two on the west side of the court, and besides, they shouldn't know each other, so don't worry.
The match was played at the Los Angeles Memorial Stadium, home of the University of Southern California, which can accommodate up to 42,000 people, and only 25,000 seats were open today because only so many tickets were sold.
The NCAA preseason is certainly not as well attended as it was the regular season, and it's nice to have so many people watching today.
"Pay attention to the card position inside, Bart and Hugo have to rush to grab rebounds, even if they give up some fast-break opportunities, we have to protect the rebounds first." Floyd was worried that Tabit would get too many frontcourt rebounds, and his height of 221cm was terrible in the NCAA, and Wu Huang's rebounding ability surpassed that of most defenders, allowing him to participate in the scramble for rebounds.
"The outside line uses a blocking defense, and you must block the pass to Thabit and block the passing route." Floyd didn't know much about Tabit's offensive ability, but the scouting report stated that Tabit had greatly improved his interior shooting ability this season, so he made a gesture to his players and said, "When you see this gesture, you guys will press the opposing center in the penalty area." ”
The USC players shouted their heads as they nervously awaited Floyd's announcement of tonight's starting lineup.
Floyd swept his gaze to the players in front of him, only Gibson and Wu Huang had the calmest expressions, without the slightest nervousness before the big game. Looking at DeRozan again, the kid was visibly nervous. Floyd knew that he was not nervous about the upcoming game, but about whether he would start.
"Today's starting lineup, point guard: Hugo, shooting guard ......" Floyd said this, and sure enough, seeing DeRozan's expectant face, he smiled secretly in his heart: "Scoring guard: Nathan Booch, small forward: Bart Bligh, power forward: Ty Gibson, center: Barnard Benham."
DeRozan didn't hear his name, his head lowered suddenly, his heart was frustrated and angry, he didn't think Nathan Booch had anything to compare to himself, why could he replace him as the starter?
"I'm the top scorer in the Nike Pinnacle and the slam dunk king in the McDonald's Slam Dunk Contest, who is more famous here than me?" DeRozan still doesn't understand the team's intentions, and if he continues to play with that idea, he won't want to play in the preseason.
In the locker room at UConn, 64-year-old coach Jim Cajon, like Floyd, focused on the opponent's most famous player.
Who is the most famous at USC? DeMar DeRozan, of course.
As for Wu Huang, even many USC students don't know that they still have such a number one person on their team, let alone these teams from other leagues.
"Look out for their first-year debutant DeMar DeRozan, a talented defender who we just have to keep an eye on and this team can't afford to make waves." Jim Cajon has called for a wrap-and-fare defense against DeRozan to block their biggest threat once and for all.
At 19:50, 10 minutes before the start of the game, the memorial stadium was already full of people, more than 20,000 fans were waving flags and cheering for the home team, and the sexy and hot cheerleaders on the field were using hot dances to drive the atmosphere of the scene.
A small college league, but the atmosphere is no less than the NBA, this is the charm of the NCAA.
The on-site commentator of the Trojan team suddenly shouted in a passionate voice: "The boys of the Trojans have entered, let's welcome the heroes into the field!" ”
The lights in the memorial stadium dimmed, and the passionate voice of the live commentary made the whole stadium boil!
However, when they saw a yellow-haired and yellow-skinned yellow man, the first to walk out of the player's tunnel, the original deafening cheers suddenly stopped, and the racism that had already penetrated into the bone marrow made them subconsciously unwilling to send such enthusiastic cheers to a yellow person.
Emperor Wu's face did not move, but he felt deeply hummed mentally, because he heard someone in the crowd shouting "The Chinese guys go back to China", although there were not many of them, he also felt that he had suffered a great insult.
Gibson saw that the situation was not right, and hurriedly asked Bart to hurry in.
The white-skinned Bart hurriedly ran out of the players' tunnel, and the entire stadium resounded with a tsunami-like cheer......
Taylor Swift and Emma Roberts, who was holding a PSP3000, were sitting in the west stands, and when they saw Wu Huang being the first to play, Taylor Swift was cheering, but the fans around her suddenly became dumb, which made her very dissatisfied.
Of course, she was even more dissatisfied with Emma Roberts playing games over there, snatched the PSP3000 from the little girl's hand, and said angrily: "I asked you to watch the game, can you be serious?" ”
Emma Roberts pouted: "I don't like basketball again, who told you to force me here." After speaking, he looked lazily at the court and muttered, "Why is it dark, when does the game start?" ”
In the front row of the stadium's east stand, Christine and Emma Watson, who wore sunglasses, also came to the stadium to watch the game.
"Is this your good-looking? I didn't see his appearance clearly last time, but he was very handsome, but he didn't seem to be very popular. Emma Watson whispered, she was not a strong man forcibly pulled by Christine, the British girl has always liked basketball, and now she has a free ticket, of course she has to follow Christine to watch the game.
"He's a freshman and the fans are going to like him very quickly." Christine looked at the big screen on the court, Wu Huang stood on the field expressionless, and I didn't know if he was angry.
Of course Emperor Wu was angry, and he was about to explode!
He heard clearly just now, a front-row fan shouted at him again: "Chink, gobacktoChina." This is already a blatant insult, and Chink has the same meaning as white people insulting black people as "niggers", which is an insulting term for Chinese people in the West.
As the captain of the team, Ty Gibson was the last to walk out of the tunnel and received the biggest cheers in the stadium, and Gibson had the most posters in the arena.
"I'll be treated like this soon!" Wu Huang looked at the only few Asians in the stadium holding his pictorials, knowing that these must be local Chinese, he secretly set a goal for himself, and when the time came for the national championships, his posters must be the most in the stadium.
"Look, that guy is so tall!" Bart shouted from the side.
After all the Trojan players entered the field, the lights in the stadium were turned on again, and Wu Huang followed his gaze, and a conspicuous black big man came out of the tunnel of the away team's players, who was a head taller than all the players in Kangda.
"He's Tabit, and he's really tall." Wu Huang had never met Yao Ming, and this Thabit was the tallest basketball player he had ever seen. "At such a height, just standing under the basket has unimaginable deterrence." Emperor Wu thought secretly in his heart.
Gibson was beside the two and said, "Everybody be careful, this Thabit is not very athletic, it's not very clumsy, if he's in the box, you have to be careful when you shoot." ”
Wu Huang and Bart nodded hurriedly, they didn't want to be bloodied by this guy.
When the home fans saw Tabit who was on the field, they were also attracted by his height for a while, and many fans began to worry that the nickname of Uncle Mu's successor was too heavy, and it would be difficult for this big man to really look like Uncle Mu back then.
After the players of the two teams entered the field, they began to warm up on the field and greet each other by the way.
Unlike the NCAA, which often involves violent conflicts, college players are mentally mature, strictly speaking, they are semi-professional players, and the league's penalties for on-court violence are extremely severe, so the number of on-court violence in college is very small.
Wu also found a familiar face at the University of Connecticut, where he met with Kenba Walker, a first-year point guard across from him, at the McDonald's All-Star Game.
"Hi, Hugo." Kemba Walker also recognized Wu Huang, and the two had no personal contact, but the players who participated in the "McDonald's Star Game" and the "Nike Summit Game" together left contact numbers with each other.
Wu Huang naturally has Kemba Walker's phone number, and their relationship belongs to the level of sending group text messages greetings to each other during the holidays.
The two briefly chatted about their respective college experiences, and Kemba Walker knew that Wu Huang was already the team's starter, and he was now suppressed by Jerome Dawson, a senior, and was only the team's backup point guard for the time being.
Ten minutes later, the three referees communicated the scale of today's penalty and told the substitutes of the two teams to be off the field, and the game was about to start.
"Hey, what's wrong with our talented defenders?" Many USC fans were puzzled when they saw DeRozan walk off the court.
"yes, he's a genius we recruited in a summer, why don't you let him start?" Some fans obviously know DeRozan very well and can't figure out why Nathan Booch, who has no three-point ability and is very poor at breaking through with the ball, will start.
"O.J. Mayo started the first game, DeRozan is no worse than Mayo, what the hell is Floyd doing?" There are also fans who vent their frustration on the manager.
UConn's head coach, Jim Cajon also looked at Floyd suspiciously, wondering what the hell this guy was doing on the other side, could it be that Rozan was injured?
USC starting lineup: Huang Wu, Nathan Bauch, Bart Bligh, Ty Gibson, Barnard Benham.
UConn starting lineup: Jerome Dawson (185cm), AJ Price (188cm), Nate Myers (198cm), Jeff Adrien (200cm), Thabit (221cm).