In order not to be late, Wu Huang drove speeding for the first time in his life, but he still failed to reach the training hall before eight o'clock.

The NCAA league has a clear rule that all college teams are not allowed to start training early during the holidays, just as schools are now not allowed to make up classes without permission in China. But then again, if you don't make up for classes, if you don't train in advance, you're no match for someone else's regular season, so no one really cares about that.

The University of Southern California officially opened on August 25, and the basketball team trained 20 days in advance, including second, third and fourth year veterans, as well as two first-year players who received full scholarships.

University campuses in the United States are huge, and it is easy to break a dog's leg by walking on your legs, and you need to take a school bus to get to your destination inside the school. It hasn't started yet, the number of school buses is very small, and it only takes half a day to come, and when Wu Huang arrived at the basketball hall, the time has come to 8:10, and he is really late.

The USC basketball team is called the "Trojans", which belongs to the NCAA Division I group, a member of the Pacific Ten University Association, and the rival is the University of California, Los Angeles, which is also known as UCLA. The confrontation between these two universities is extremely famous and insane, like the existence of sworn enemies in the same city.

Tim Floyd is the head coach of USC's varsity basketball team, but he hasn't been in a good position lately, and the media recently revealed that he paid $1,000 to get OJ Mayo into USC. And the $1,000 is just a small amount of money, and during his four years of high school and college, Mayo received about $30,000 in cash and gifts from Floyd, including rent for an off-campus apartment at Mayo, as well as cell phones, hotel rooms, clothes, meals, and airline tickets for Mayo's friends and relatives.

After the "black gold scandal" was exposed, Freud almost lost his job, but fortunately, he had good qualifications, and in the end, the school let him resist the black gold storm on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

Floyd had coached the Trojans for three years before the scandal, with a 70-40 record, leading the Trojans to the NCAA Championship three times, and reaching the Sweet 16 round in 2007.

As early as 1999-2002, Floyd also coached the Chicago Bulls, and also led the New Orleans Hornets in 2004.

Wu himself may not know that he was one of Floyd's high-school players in the last year, including USC's sworn rival UCLA, who also had a full scholarship for him.

Walnut High School is not far from the University of Southern California, and Wu Huang is a native of Los Angeles, so it can be said that these two schools are the best recruits. If it weren't for Wu Huang's father being a policeman and his family was good, Freud might have given Wu Huangzeng some gifts or something.

This kind of bribery is a common practice adopted by coaches of most NCAA elite schools, otherwise how can they compete with other elite schools? In fact, as long as the amount of gift is not excessive, this is actually the unspoken rule in the industry, and all industries have similar unspoken rules.

Floyd stood in the training hall, first looked at the door, and then looked at the time, there were a total of 12 players participating in the training camp this time, of which only two were first-year students, and the rest were senior students. The two players who were late today were two of his favourite first-year students, Wu Huang and DeMar DeRozan.

When Wu Huang rushed to the training hall, he found that the head coach of the team he had met twice before was standing on the sidelines, and he immediately knew that he had caused trouble on the first day of training!

The Trojans had already changed into training uniforms, and Wu Huang found that the team was basically black, with only two white players out of 10. There's no denying that black people do have a natural talent for basketball, with more than 70 percent of the NBA players being black, up from 80 percent in the 90s.

But interestingly, the ratio of coaches to referees in the NBA is exactly the opposite of that of players, most of the coaches and referees in the league are white, and there are only a few more black coaches in the last decade, but they are still very few. In the eighties and nineties, it was common to see a league without a single black head coach or referee.

"Coach, sorry, I'm late."

Wu Huang stood next to Freud without even half a tattoo on his body, and this humble and polite temperament was also in great contrast to that of black athletes.

All coaches liked such players, and Freud had a deep understanding of Wu Huang, and had also met Wu Huang's parents, knowing that it was a wealthy family with a good family education. Wu Huang himself has very good grades in school, and if he doesn't play basketball, he must be able to go to prestigious schools like Stanford University and Harvard University.

Floyd's reaction was beyond Wu Huang's expectations, and instead of being furious, the slightly blessed white coach nodded and asked calmly, "Wu, why are you late?" ”

Wu Huang knew that if he told the coach the truth, he was afraid that the other party would never believe it, so he immediately thought of an excuse, didn't even blink his eyelids, and said: "Coach, today is the beginning of my college career, I thought too much last night, and I got up late in the morning." ”

Freud said "um" lightly, he didn't want to punish Emperor Wu, he didn't even have the slightest suspicion at the moment, waved his hand, and told Emperor Wu to change his clothes.

"So easy to pass?" Wu Huang himself didn't expect that he would be fooled so easily, so he hurriedly got his wardrobe key from the assistant coach and ran to the locker room to change his training clothes.

In the training hall of the Trojans, there are complete supporting facilities, and there is a special place for players to bathe in the locker room, and players can wash off their stinky sweat at any time after training.

Wu Huang's wardrobe is number 11, which means that there are at least 11 people in the team now.

It seems like a little less for a team to have 11 players, but when you think of last year's graduating students and Mayo who participated in the draft, that number is normal, and the team will definitely be replenished with some first-year players when school starts.

Wu Huang quickly changed into his training clothes, and the number he chose was 14, which he had worn since his first year of high school.

The University of Southern California deliberately set aside No. 14 for Wu Huang half a year ago, how to say that he is also a player that the team focuses on, and Wu Huang has become quite famous in his senior year of high school.

When Floyd saw Wu Huang who had changed his clothes, he nodded secretly in his heart, this Asian player must be the most beautiful in their team regardless of his football skills.

"Everybody, come here, I'll introduce you to your new teammates." Floyd clapped his palms and called all the warm-up players on the field, ready to introduce Wu Huang to them.

The Trojans players immediately gathered, and Wu Huang was secretly looking at his new teammates, who were also staring at him. Many well-informed players have long known some information about Wu Huang, and these players have been discussing him for a while.

Floyd was about to make an introduction, when another figure ran in the doorway, a tall black young man. After seeing the crowd gathered here, the black guy shouted, "I'm sorry, I'm DeMar DeRozan, I'm lost at school." As soon as the black guy's voice fell, all the eleven players laughed.

Wu Huang knows this DeRozan, not long ago at the "Nike Peak", they also did teammates for half a month, DeRozan was the player with the highest score in that game, and finally won the MVP.

This lost guy is one of the most famous talents in American high school basketball, DeMar DeRozan and Wu Huang are both first-year students, but in terms of fame he is greater than Wu Huang, it can be said that this is the core of Floyd's mind, their team's most talented player this year.

But genius is genius, Floyd was not so polite to DeRozan, his face was full of anger, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the court, and said in a very stern tone: "Remember the rules of the Trojans, the first time you are late, a hundred push-ups; If you are late for the second time, add another hundred; Late for the third time, plus more. ”

Although DeRozan has the aura of a genius high school student, he still can't be too arrogant when he comes to college, there have been countless high school geniuses who feel that they are extremely talented, and after coming to college, they are lawless, disobey the team management, and finally sit on the bench, and their ranking in the draft plummets, there are too many such lessons.

These stupid guys don't know that the NCAA is not the NBA, where the talented players are not the biggest names on the team, but the coaches are the biggest cards.

"Let's move on!" After Floyd finished speaking, he ignored DeRozan and motioned for Emperor Wu to continue to introduce himself.

"I'm from Walnut High School, so you can call me 'Hugo' or 'Wu.'"

Wu Huang certainly did not tell them his Chinese name, which was too tongue-twisting for Americans, and his English name was Hugo, which means "Hugo", which is Latin and has the meaning of "soul".

The Trojans players also introduced themselves one by one, noting that the team's captain, Ty Gibson, is a senior who will definitely participate in the draft this summer, and the media predicts that he will be drafted in the first round.

Wu Huang chose USC because the team had several fourth-year players, and he knew that in the NCAA, third- and fourth-year students and first- and second-year young talents were the main factors in the team's success.

Ty Gibson is undoubtedly one of them, and he already has the quality to play in the NBA, and he is a very strong player.

In the four years of Wuhuang High School, he led the team forward on his own, and it was definitely not a good feeling. Now that he is in college, he doesn't want to be so tired anymore, and college is different from high school, in the NCAA, one person can no longer lead the whole team, he must have good teammates to make results.

DeMar DeRozan quickly finished a hundred push-ups over there, and Floyd waved him to change his clothes.

DeRozan said hello to Emperor Wu before running to the locker room.

The main force of the Trojans is now all here, except for Wu Huang and DeRozan, first-year players who only joined the team after the start of school, they will not be the object of Floyd's selection, these ordinary players will have to go through at least a year of training before they can play, and geniuses are only a few after all.

So the entire strength of the Trojans this year is these 12 players on the field.

Floyd looked at the three absolute mainstays of his team, Ty Gibson, DeMar DeRozan and Wu Huang, all three of whom were at the top of their respective divisions in high school, but in college, they had to face geniuses from all over the country and the world, so who are the real geniuses is a question mark now, and the gold content of these geniuses can be tested on the court in the future.

Not to mention the three of them, this year's OJ Mayo is the NBA's scout show, and it can be said that he is one of the best real talents in the NCAA. But in his first season in the NBA, he was hardly successful, and the outlook is now clouded.

It can be seen that even if you are a real genius who has been tested in college, you may not be able to play in the NBA, there are many such examples, this year's list, Michael Beasley is also an example, and there are many parallel goods in history.

Wu Huang and Delo agree to be California talents, but the two belong to different divisions and have never competed against each other.

DeRozan averaged 26.1 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in his freshman year, 22.6 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in his sophomore year, 22.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.2 steals per game in his junior year, 29.2 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 3.0 steals per game in his senior year, and led Compton High School to the Moore League championship for the second year in a row.

DeRozan's high school report card is much more impressive than Wu Huang, and he has also been selected to the California All-America Team and the Moore League Most Valuable Player, selected to Parade magazine's All-America First Team and West Coast All-America First Team, selected to McDonald's All-American High School Star Team and won the Slam Dunk Contest, and was named to USA Today's All-American Second Team. He was invited to participate in the "Jordan Classic" and the "Nike Pinnacle" and scored a team-high 17 points at the Nike Pinnacle.

Compared with DeRozan's resume, the gold content will drop by one level, if the other party is a genius, then he can only be regarded as a small genius.

Floyd is now keen to see what Wu Huang and DeRozan are capable of, and after a warm up, he is ready to let the team play a 5v5 training match to check the status of the two new and veteran players. If Wu Huang and DeRozan can meet his psychological expectations, then USC will have a lot to do this year, and I am afraid that these two high school stars will not be able to adapt to the college competition, and it will be a disadvantage.

DeRozan quickly changed into his training uniform, he was wearing a No. 10 jersey, and he warmed up on the court very much, and his face was eager to try, obviously full of confidence.

The veteran USC players are obviously more enthusiastic about DeRozan, on the one hand, they have the same skin color, and on the other hand, DeRozan is also much more famous than Wu Huang.

Everyone knows that Gibson is the undisputed leader of the team, and DeRozan is the core of the team, this yellow man is at best a main player, and he may not even be able to rank third, and USC has four fourth-year students, who are also the main force of the team.

"Hey, I didn't expect us to be college teammates, I've watched your dunk on the McDonald's star plug many times, it's so beautiful." Wu Huang's kind words made DeRozan very happy, and many black young men did not have the same scheming as yellows and whites, but they were easy to get along with.

"Man, I've always envied your three-point shot, and at the Nike Summit, your few key three-pointers kept us in the lead, and it's a pleasure to be teammates with you." DeRozan was praised and hurriedly returned.

Wu Hao nodded secretly in his heart, his new teammate didn't seem to be that kind of arrogant guy, Jonny Flynn he met in the "McDonald's Star Game" and "Nike Summit Game" was such a person, all day long putting on a look of no one in his eyes, Lao Tzu was invincible in the world.

The two chatted together, they had been teammates for half a month in the Nike Summit Competition, and at this time they were in an unfamiliar environment, so they naturally subconsciously hugged together to prevent these seniors from bullying them.

The "Nike Summit" is a contest between high school graduates in the United States and basketball elites under the age of 19 around the world, which is basically equivalent to the high school genius of the United States single-handedly facing the world's elites of the same age, and this kind of game has always been full of highlights.

Generally, before the game, the organizer will also invite some basketball celebrities to train these young players for a period of time before playing. Naturally, the North American side invited NBA celebrities to take charge of the inheritance, and the international teams invited former internationally renowned stars to teach.

Wu Huang trained with talented high school students across the United States for more than ten days, and he was most impressed by not only his current college teammate DeRozan, but also Blake Griffin, Tyrek Evans, James Harden and other leaders of the same age.

These were the geniuses of other states and other leagues that he had known in more than ten days of practice, and he was overshadowed by these people at the time, because as the No. 1 position, his dribbling and breakthrough ability were not outstanding, and the only thing he was best at was shooting and seeing the big picture, as well as the ability to run and catch the ball that was not very important to point guards.

It can be seen from the template selected for him by the previous draft website that his best template is JJ Reddick, and the worst template is Luthor Hyde, which shows that although he is a small genius, in the eyes of media people and experts, he is actually just a small role.

This is also something that can't be helped, Hyde and Hayes, who are familiar to Rockets fans in China, are also the best players in their respective divisions in high school, so if you can't get the best player in your region in high school, you won't be eligible to enter the NBA at all, there are hundreds of high school divisions like the United States, and hundreds of MVPs in high school divisions will be born every year, and how many rookies enter the NBA every year?

The players of the Trojans team warmed up while communicating, although Wu Huang was not valued by the whole team like DeRozan, but his humble personality and elegant conversation at least made his new teammates have a good impression of him, and a humble person will not be rejected at any time, even if he pretends to be.

After a while, assistant coach Andy took two players and brought twelve red and blue vests and stacked them on the sidelines.

The players who were warming up on the field immediately knew that this was going to be an intra-squad training match, otherwise they wouldn't have used this kind of vest.

Wu Huang, as a student of "Walnut High School", knows better that this is the moment when the coach tests them, especially the two of them first-year students, the first impression is too important, Wu Huang's heart instantly rose with a strong fighting spirit, his ball sense defect was made up in last night's dream, and he desperately wanted to know how much his strength had improved.