On April 4th, the first match of the NCAA "Final Four" will be the University of Memphis Tigers VS USC Trojans, which is a strong conversation, especially the battle between the core of the two teams will be the biggest highlight of this game.

The University of Memphis reached the finals last year, and whether it can win the championship this year is one of the hotly debated topics in the United States.

USC has won their 39th straight game of the season, and whether they can become the first team in NCAA history to win 40+ games in a single season, and whether they can become the first team to win 40+ consecutive games, this game will provide an answer.

Both of these are team-level highlights, and in terms of the contest between players that fans are paying more attention to, today's game is also very interesting.

When ESPN introduced the two teams before the game, it wrote-

One player who dominated the regular season this year, who had more than one triple-double, hit 194 three-pointers and firmly held the top spot in the mock draft, was Hugo.

There's another player who, who only made occasional appearances in the regular season, looks like a perfect team player, has maturity beyond his years, and is always behind Hugo in the mock draft, and he's Tyrek. Evans.

The two players have one thing in common, their team has been on the verge of going from strength to strength, and their performances have gone from strength to strength until they meet in the 'Final Four', and they are destined to leave the stage tonight.

ESPN has shown the video of last year's University of Memphis falling in the finals twice in the past two days. Rose's University of Memphis ultimately lost to the University of Kansas after a free throw.

Interestingly. Each game is broadcast to the end. The last shot on TV shows Rose missing a free throw in overtime. Waves of red heat rolled behind his depressed face, almost rushing out of the television.

Last year's finals, Derek. Rose came close to becoming a hero, a free throw, and he dashed the University of Memphis' dream of winning the championship.

This year, the Tigers are back in the Final Four, this time by Tyreco. Evans led the team, but it also turned out to be an even stronger team in front of them - USC, who have not tasted defeat this year.

The current Trojan team. Considered an invincible team, the Memphis Tigers are not weak, but they are still difficult to get past this hurdle.

After coming to Detroit on the day of the game, Wu Huang gave a brief interview to the CCTV film crew. Moretz chatted with an official of the Chinese Basketball Association on his behalf, and the core content of this discussion was naturally about naturalization.

The Chinese men's basketball team has produced a lot of good big men over the years, but guards are always the weakness of Chinese basketball.

Actually, as early as more than a month ago. There are frequent rumors in China that the Basketball Association seems to have a new move. According to some industry insiders, the basketball association seems to have taken a fancy to some Chinese guard players who play college basketball in the United States. For example, Jeremy Lin, a Chinese-American point guard at Harvard University.

Of course, everyone knows that Jeremy Lin is just a candidate for their first target, and their first target must be the hot Emperor Wu.

After all, in the history of Chinese sports, there is no precedent for relying on the "Overseas Corps" to fight the world for the national team. However, to join the Chinese men's basketball team, you first need Chinese nationality, and China's nationality law does not recognize dual nationality, and it is still questionable whether these Chinese players can be willing to give up their American citizenship.

At the same time, it takes up to eight years for foreigners to obtain Chinese citizenship in China, and these Chinese teenagers who grew up in the United States clearly do not meet this requirement.

Wu Huang is reluctant to talk about this matter now, he is about to participate in the draft, and with sensitive issues such as sneaker contracts, it is not suitable for him to get involved in these things at this time. What's more, Wu Huang now thinks very clearly that as long as he can play in the NBA, whether he joins the Chinese team or not, he is winning glory for Chinese people around the world.

At 19:30 in the evening, there was still an hour and a half before the start of the "Final Four" match. The USC bus has driven to the street where the Ford Arena is located, there is about a row of military police in front and behind to clear the way for them, the road is full of USC fans on both sides, tens of thousands of fans wearing white home team jerseys as soon as they see the team bus, immediately burst into huge cheers, for a time countless posters were raised, all the fans are waving to them, making victory gestures.

Wu Huang saw it very clearly, most of the posters held by these fans were portraits of him, and then recalled the first game at the beginning of the season, when he entered the stadium, there were still fans booing him, and Wu Huang was also emotional.

Although the two teams in today's game have achieved good results in the past two years, they are not traditional powerhouses in the NCAA, let alone giants.

These two universities have not produced many famous superstars for the NBA in history, and the more famous in the history of the University of Memphis is "Penny" Hardaway, and Larry, who is known as the "defensive genius". Kennon, the active player has veteran Lorenzen. Wright, and Rodney. Carney, Sean. Williams and Derek. Ross and other players.

USC is even worse, if you don't count antiquity, the number of players after the 70s is only Gais. Williams, Nick? Young and O.J. Mayo are still a bit famous, and this year's Wu Huang has a chance to become the biggest star in the team's history.

At the pre-game press conference, there were more reporters present today than the NBA Finals, Wu Huang wittily attended the press conference with sunglasses, and easily flashed the blind attack at the beginning, and DeRozan, the little, was convinced again.

The players and coaches of both teams then expressed their confidence in winning the game, complimenting each other in passing, and there was not much gunpowder in the press conference.

After the press conference, Wu Huang used his mobile phone in the locker room to say hello to the relatives and friends who came to watch his game!

With such an important game today, his parents naturally came to watch the game. However, it was the girl who made it difficult for him, fortunately this big arena can accommodate 80,000 people, so he got 10 tickets for the front row this time, and Brandon got the tickets for his brothers, and his 10 tickets were barely enough for his huge support group to divide.

"It's all here today, am I dying?" Wu Huang is extra careful when texting, in case he gets something wrong, it will be very bad!

Returning to the game, the Tigers' performance on the offensive end is not monolithic, scoring 108 points per 100 possessions is certainly in the top half of the league, but considering that this is a team with no low-post ability at all, this statistic is rare and seems to have no small weaknesses.

The University of Memphis has a shabby statistic that only 5 percent of their offense comes from the low post, which is at the bottom of the league and shows that they don't have any players on their roster who are skinny players on the inside, and their low scoring is the third-lowest of the 68 teams in the knockout stages.

The Tigers' capital is the large number of outside ball carriers, and Evans has been given unlimited singles rights, and their outside singles percentage ranks in the top five of 68 teams.

Before the game, Freud listed the characteristics of his opponent in a complete battle memorandum and handed out a copy to each player.

USC hasn't trained much these days, mainly light training to recover physical strength, but everyone has watched the game video.

"They're a bit like us, they both like to play pick-and-roll, and there are a lot of players on the outside who can hold the ball through pick-and-roll, but they have a relatively small number of interior players to work with, so just be careful about their interior long-term running and jumping ability and don't let them easily catch the ball, which should greatly reduce the threat."

Floyd's reminder to be careful is this simple pick-and-roll that the Tigers shoot 35% of their shots from under the basket, and are also good at making free throws and offensive rebounds, so to speak, in the absence of a low post, they play the inside deterrent, which is also a kind of ability.

"We've talked a few days ago that the Tigers' unbalanced shooting options are our main target, and they're going to swarm them inside, and as long as we guard the box, we're going to be able to keep them coming and going." Floyd set up a two-three defense today, and once again put three players inside, and today's defensive tactics are - strictly guard the paint area, protect the defensive rebound, and cut off the opponent's inside and outside connection after the breakthrough.

Floyd re-emphasized the details of today's game in the dressing room before the game, which he has said many times since advancing to the final four, but before the game, any coach has to re-emphasize these details.

The NCAA Final Four ceremony was more formal than previous tournaments, with both teams given enough time to enter the ceremony, followed by a dedicated individual entrance ceremony for each player.

USC was placed in the order of entry to the University of Memphis, and Wu Huang was placed last of all the players.

This is not contempt, on the contrary, the official arrangement is actually more important to the University of Southern California and Wu Huang.

"Hey, see you again." Wu Huang and Evans said hello, the tone was very casual, and a little arrogant, there was no longer the previous humility.

Emperor Wu's current status is already higher than these geniuses of the same level, if it was half a year ago, he would not have spoken to others in such a sharp tone. However, people are inflated, and his attitude and tone will change with his status, which is a natural change.

Tyrek. Evans didn't have much thought when he heard this, and said politely: "I've been seeing your feat on the news lately, and I hope tonight's game is enjoyable." ”

The two said hello so simply before the game, in fact, as early as 2008, Wu Huang and Terek. Evans participated in the Jordan Classic together, but at that time, he was just an inconspicuous small role, and he only played ten minutes in that game, Evans spoke to him in such a tone at the time, and Wu Huang didn't think there was anything wrong. (To be continued.) )