The first round of the USC and Washington State University tournaments is scheduled for the afternoon of March 3, with the first battle taking place and the second on the evening of March 5.

The captain of WSU is Aaron Baines from the Australian men's basketball team, a strong interior with a strong physique, good at rushing for offensive rebounds, highly motivated defensively, but mediocre athleticism, no low-post offensive ability, and a blue-collar interior player who picks up leaks and scores in the restricted area.

Floyd turned his attention to Washington State University after the regular season.

In the two days before the game, the University of Southern California specially added the breakthrough after the block and the wing + bottom corner cut training, and Wu Huang felt some strategic intentions of his coach, which was obviously aimed at the two white outside lines of Washington State.

Washington State doesn't technically have a shooting guard, Klay Thompson and Daven Harmanlin are both tall white shooters, both 201cm tall, and the former weighs 205 pounds, and the latter, who is already a senior and weighs 225 pounds.

Both of these players should be No. 3 players, and playing No. 2 with such a stature will make them look slow on their feet, coupled with their already mediocre athleticism, they often have little energy to switch defenses after blocking and pick-and-roll. Wu Huanghe's DeRozan's pick-and-roll offense is best suited against these two players, and in the two meetings in the regular season, USC used the pick-and-roll offense to easily win.

Floyd watched Wu Huang on the training ground easily pass Bart Bligh in an early change of direction, and the excitement in his heart was not known to outsiders, and the next regional championship actually did not carry much weight in his heart, and the national championship on March 18 was the stage for the team's official performance.

The Los Angeles Times made a comprehensive prediction for the June draft after the Pacific 10 Conference regular season.

Da Bundan wrote: "'09 is another draft year, and there is no shortage of dominant players in this draft, which is the consensus of most people from all walks of life in the NBA, and it also makes the ownership of the top pick confusing. Although Blake Griffin from the University of Oklahoma has always been in the No. 1 spot in the mock drafts of DraftExpress and ESPN, Griffin's top spot is not so secure in other media predictions, especially since there are still concerns about his knee injury.

The NBA's regular season is drawing to a close, and according to the current rankings, the team with the best chance of getting the top pick is the Los Angeles Clippers, followed by the Kings and Grizzlies, and the Knicks, Timberwolves and Warriors also have a theoretical chance of picking the top pick, although they are more likely to get the top five picks.

If the Clippers pick the No. 1 pick, they can certainly choose Blake Griffin, but they may also make a trade with another team and transfer the No. 1 pick.

Recently, there have been many such rumors in the league, and even if the top pick is retained, the Clippers' current selection is not confirmed to be Griffin, including Hashem Thabit of the University of Connecticut and Wu Huang of the University of Southern California.

The Los Angeles Times' opinion is not a one-sided one, and in the eyes of the mainstream American media, Griffin and Thabit will inevitably occupy two of the top three spots in the draft, leaving one spot in the league, and there is a good chance that they will be born from European golden boy Rubio, Chinese rising star Wu Huang and Tyrek Evans of the University of Memphis. Originally, Stephen Curry and James Harden also had this qualification, but one of these two was in the league with insufficient exposure, and the other lost to Wu Huang in two direct conversations, and the reality is so cruel.

Wu Huang's current opponents are basically Rubio, the golden boy who has been portrayed by the European media as a superstar of the future emperor, and Evans, who has an unusually mature style of play.

But these two are not without weaknesses, after all, Rubio has not proven himself in the American basketball world, and who knows what his quality is?

As for Evans, Wu Huang will soon have the opportunity to meet the opponent in the National Championship, if he wins this battle, then Wu Huang has a much better chance of being selected by the top three, and he is not without a chance to hit the top spot, because the National Championship is also the ultimate test for Griffin and Tabitt.

Overall, even if Wu Huang didn't perform well in the national championships, his overall performance this season was enough to earn himself a top-10 draft spot.

The teams in the NBA that didn't have a draft pick in front of them want Wu Huang to behave out of style in the national tournament so they have a chance.

On March 3, today is the first round of the Pacific Ten Conference Regional Championship, which will be played by the University of Southern California against the University of Washington State.

According to the rules of the regional tournament, the team with the better regular season record plays home first, so today's game will be played at Memorial Coliseum, the home of USC.

Due to the big difference in the strength of the two teams, today's game was not broadcast live on TV, and the Memorial Stadium was not even full, and only about 30,000 fans attended the game.

Wu Huang didn't know that the NBA scouts who came to watch the game today, if not 30, at least 29, the one who didn't come is estimated to be the Rockets who don't have first-round draft picks, or they are thin.

The NBA's fish belly teams have long focused on this year's draft, and Wu Huang's performance has attracted the attention of all NBA teams, including the Clippers, who are most likely to get the top pick, and their head coach and manager Dunleavy Sr. are also hesitating, whether they choose the interior or the point guard?

Of course, the final decision is not in his hands, and the Clippers' door-picking boss is the final word.

The Los Angeles Times gave a preview before the game, and they believe that there is only one reason why USC must win, and it only needs one, and that is that they have an unstoppable key player, Wu Huang.

WSU doesn't have a player who can limit Wu's scoring or passing, and the latter has 55 points and 19 assists against WSU this season.

In the penultimate game of the regular season against Washington State University, Wu Huang played with the University of Washington with clever assists. And once USC's offense is blocked at some point in the game, Wu Huang is bound to activate the assist teammate scoring mode or switch to individual scoring mode, and the University of Washington has nothing to do about Wu Huang.

That's the way the NCAA game is, if you don't have anything to do with the enemy's core, then the only way to win the game is to see how your own core plays.

Tragically, however, Washington State University did not have a player to match Wu Huang this year.

Sigmund Freud stressed to the players before the game: "The opponent's lack of outside movement leads to limited ability to make mistakes, so we have to break through more; They have too many fouls on their post players to limit their opponents' free throws, so we need to step up our breakouts; In the end, they don't protect the backcourt rebounds well, so we still have to ......."

"Breakthrough!" The Southern California players didn't need the head coach to open their mouths this time, and all the players spontaneously shouted.

"Calm down, you're getting too excited." Floyd stretched out his hand and pressed down, signaling that there was no need to scream in this small scene, and continued: "Aaron Baines is the opponent's core inside, passionate but reckless, easy to foul, hit him down first, and the inside line is ours." Thompson on the outside is a scorer, can control the ball but is not fast, accurate enough to shoot but not good at confrontation, his three-point shot accounts for half of the shots, long-distance jumpers are also deadly, the disadvantage is the lack of aggression and free throw ability, can let him break through, dead defensive shooting. ”

Floyd arranged the team's defense, and he didn't bother to say anything on the offensive end, it was so easy to have a Wu Huang in his hand, and he only needed to call a timeout on the offensive end, and leave the rest to Wu Huang to play by himself.

"Fight hard, we haven't produced a champion yet." Before Floyd took the team on the court, he deliberately patted Wu Huang on the shoulder and said.

Wu Huang smiled in his heart, he really wanted to be the champion, but most of the top three teams in this year's draft did not lack point guards, and he couldn't change that.

In today's game, there is a certain gap in the strength of the two teams, USC entered the tournament as the first in the league, and Washington State University managed to squeeze into the tournament, especially their poor defense made it difficult for them to form a strong cohesion, so it was difficult to go far in any tournament.

However, the USC generals will not dare to underestimate the opponent, after all, this is a home-and-away competition, once the opponent cannot be defeated at home, or the advantage is not big enough, going to the away side will add a lot of unnecessary suspense to the game.

USC missed the jump ball again, and the home fans were relieved that the pace of the game was in their hands from the start.

Wu Huang didn't feel that today's game was any different from the regular season, after three minutes of trial before the game, Wu Huang continued to break through according to the script to create kills, and Washington State University didn't know if there was a plan to deal with Wu Huang's breakthrough, and Wu Huang scored 6 points in two minutes?

The state of Washington called a timeout, but when the game resumed, they still didn't seem to be able to do much.

It can be seen that Washington State University is not prepared to defend Wu Huang's plan, but their double bag is not executed enough, the speed of the second and third positions is too slow, and the oppression of the point guard is not enough.

Wu Huang completely turned on the scoring mode in the first half, constantly breaking through, constantly throwing and distributing the ball outside, and the score of the two teams was quickly stretched to double digits.

In the last five minutes of the first half, by the time USC finally replaced Wu Huang, the score had become 38:16, and it was a game without the slightest suspense.

It's not just Wu Huang who can't be restrained in this game, USC captain Gibson also managed to defend Washington State captain Aaron Baines.

The two men have similar characteristics, both are defensively aggressive, physically strong, and not very offensive blue-collar workers, but Gibson is much more physical than Aaron Baines, and he is best at dealing with players of his kind like Aaron Baines.

DeRozan, the second-in-command, also broke Klay Thompson on the offensive end, and the latter's hurried pace couldn't keep up with him at all, and the defensive awareness was not too prominent, and USC's off-ball cover allowed DeRozan to easily run out of open shots.

However, the University of Washington could no longer devote their energy to defending DeRozan, and they could not concentrate on defending Wu Huang, and USC blossomed in this game, with three players scoring in double figures after halftime.

At the end of the first half, the score was 45:20, Wu Huang had 14 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, DeRozan 10 points, Gibson 10 points, and Bart 6 points.

Washington State University played the first half and basically gave up the game.

Scouts at the game were able to see what was wrong, and the University of Washington players were unable to break through USC's defense, which was the key to such a disparity in scores. If you just can't prevent it, at least you won't lose so ugly, and the University of Washington is obviously unable to attack and defend now, which is fatal, and you can't do it with dignity if you want to lose.

Wu Huang's excellent offense overshadowed his equally good defense, and Tyler Rochester, a 185cm tall point guard at the University of Washington, had a mid-stream breakthrough ability in the NCAA, but today under Wu Huang's pair of ape arms, he managed to break through only a handful of times in the first half.

Tyler Rochester is the main breakthrough force of Washington State University, but he was completely limited by Wu Huang's one-on-one, and Washington State University, which already lacks the ability to hold the ball, has no bargaining chips for counterattack at all.

Scouts on the scene could easily see Wu Huang's characteristics on the defensive end, his defense mainly relies on his feet and long arms, as well as excellent positioning selection, and he rarely fouls.

Defensive position is a very important step in defense, Wu Huang's position selection is very smart, many scouts have not only watched Wu Huang a game, they can find a phenomenon, Wu Huang will change his defensive position according to the characteristics of each opponent, this is a very important point, indicating that he is using his brain in defense.

For example, when encountering a small and agile opponent like Isaiah Thomas, he will give full play to the advantages of height and reach, and put it a little farther to prevent the opponent from breaking through; When encountering a power-type opponent, Wu Huang will stick to it instead, giving full play to his footstep advantage so that the opponent cannot rush up; In the face of those opponents with relatively average ability, Wu Huang will also consider whether to prevent breakthroughs, anti-shots, or both according to the state of the opponent.

Wu Huang doesn't seem to have encountered a player who makes him completely unable to defend this season, even if DeRozan in the second position is blown up many times, Wu Huang can suppress the opponent a little after being misplaced. These scouts also rated Wu Huang very highly on the defensive end, and many media used Nash as a template for him at the beginning of the season, but now it seems obviously inappropriate, Nash does not have such a defense, Wu Huang is very similar to Kidd.

Nash on the offensive end + Kidd on the defensive end?

Many scouts are excited when they think of this, and they subconsciously don't want to have such a high opinion of a Chinese player, but their professionalism makes it necessary for them to make an objective and correct assessment.