Chapter 22: Battle against UCLA

Today, Huang Weiwei felt that the atmosphere of the whole school was a little different from the beginning of entering the school, although it was still the usual environment, but Huang Weiwei always felt that under this calm lake, there was a surging undercurrent.

Even if I know that it is because of the long-time rival UCLA of USC today, I have heard of all kinds of long-standing grudges between them. But if you really don't have any position or identity, you really can't experience that inexplicable sense of hatred.

USC once stole the UCLA-emblem's Victory Bell and hid it for more than a year; Not to be outdone, UCLA spray-painted the bronze statue of the Trojan with the USC logo.

In the NCAA basketball world, UCLA is the equivalent of the NBA's Celtics, no, arguably superior. Since the beginning of the 212th century, the most famous universities in the NCAA have been the alma mater of the "basketball god" Jordan, the Blue Devils Duke led by the "old K coach", and Kentucky, Connecticut, Florida, but in fact, the NCAA has been sleeping in Los Angeles for many years, that is, UCLA. If we talk about UCLA, we have to mention the legendary American coach John Wooden.

From 1964 to 1975, UCLA dominated the NCAA under the leadership of John Wooden, and in this crazy 12 years, UCLA won 10 championships, including a great 7 consecutive championships, and an incredible 88 consecutive wins. "Coach K Sr" once said, "Anytime, anywhere, when you talk about John Wooden, he's a level above everyone." Or you could say it's modest, but there's no denying that since John Wooden retired, UCLA began to sink, only to recover briefly in '95 and win that year.

"Victor, today's opponent is UCLA, we need a big win!" This was the first thing captain Ty Gibson said to Huang after Huang entered the training gym today.

"Understood, I must have tortured that stupid bear to death." Huang replied decisively, he knew that Gibson, who had been a member of the Trojans for four years, needed a victory over UCLA too much. From '06 to '08, UCLA was at its peak in recent years, reaching the final four of the NCAA Tournament in a row, and the team has always been led by star players. Relying on the strength of their strength, they have been firmly pressing Nanjia down, but unfortunately their championship luck is almost there, and they stop in the top four every time, maybe it is God's punishment for them who were too strong back then.

For the USC team members, they are firmly suppressed by their mortal enemies, so that they can often not hold their heads up in school. Now the opportunity for revenge has finally come, this year's UCLA first went to the draft with star players, and this year there are no particularly powerful freshmen to join, and the strength is far inferior than in previous years. And this year's USC has integrated the strength of the team due to the addition of Huang Wei, making the Trojans at their peak in recent years.

Even if the captain doesn't say it, Huang Wei is ready to do this, the peak Trojans against the declining UCLA, if you don't carry out some inhumane abuse, how can you be a member of the Trojan team, not to mention that if you win a big victory in such a city derby, it will greatly increase Huang Wei's popularity, why not.

"Trojan boys, do you know who your opponent is today?"

"I don't need you to spare any strength today, run as much as you want, attack with all your might, and the whole school hopes that UCLA will leave in despair and despair."

"Their core is senior Darren Collison, and this year's Ju Holiday and Victor, you're going to crush them with your strong body."

Before the game, Coach Floyd gave a routine lecture and reminded the team that today's opponent is a long-time rival UCLA, and they need to go all out to annihilate them.

NCAA teams do a lot of preparation before the game, mainly for the upcoming opponent team, will find out the strength and characteristics of the opposing team's main teammates, and will also find out their weaknesses so that the coaching staff can target the weaknesses and arrange targeted tactics, which is almost the same as a professional team.

Especially if you want to focus on key teams at UCLA, the coaching staff will start using game footage to study a week or even half a month in advance. Three to four days before the game, start to analyze the characteristics of the opponent and the tactics that the players of the team are good at, so that the players of the team can have a general idea of what kind of opponent they will face before the matchup.

Today's game is scheduled at USC's home stadium, Los Angeles Athletic Stadium, because it is a home game, so USC players can wait for work, tonight at 20:00 The game will officially begin, and the arena has already been occupied by burgundy before the start, of course, it is far from reaching the point of full capacity (Los Angeles Athletic Stadium can seat more than 90,000 people).

Both teams began to enter the stadium, with UCLA leading the way with their captain and core, senior point guard Darren Collison. Collison has witnessed the prosperity of UCLA, and he has experienced countless big scenes himself. He's the kind of all-around player who can play well in college and professionally, but he doesn't have any strong points, and he has all the qualities that a point guard needs, but he's not very good. Clear-headed on the court, calm and selfless in any situation, always able to pass the ball to the player who should pass the ball to the most, and a good outside shooter, good at shooting after dribbling; On the defensive end, he is short and lacks backcourt rebounding protection, and he is basically qualified for the duties of a point guard. In short, his technical perfection is limited by physical talent, which has already doomed him to the ceiling.

USC is still the starters, Huang Weiwei, DeRozan, Christian, Gibson, Jerome.

UCLA starters are as follows: PG Darren Collison 183cm, SG Zhu Holiday 193cm, SF Nathan Angel 198cm, PF Andrew Barth 203cm, C John Diamond 208cm.

Huang Wei routinely greeted Darren Collison, who was opposite him, before the start of the game, and did not communicate anything, after all, their current identities represent the core of their respective teams, and the two teams are long-time enemies, but there is nothing to talk about.

Huang Weiwei attaches great importance to Darren Collison, after all, this is a tried and tested core player, whether it is in honor or technical comprehensiveness, Huang Weiwei can only look up to it for the time being.

The thoughts in the heart of Corrison on the other side are similar to Huang Weiwei, maybe he has experienced a hundred battles, but he really doesn't dare to underestimate Huang Weiwei, who has been famous for a while. The more I experienced, the more I realized that a freshman who can become the core of the first team and also lead the team to set off a "burgundy storm", averaging luxurious statistics of 15.8 points and 12 assists per game.

Leading the team to win all the games, even Derrick Rose, the top pick in last year's draft, can't do it, after all, this is a powerful Pacific School District, and now there is a voice in the Pacific School District, and Huang is the only "enhanced version of Kidd". You must know that it is Kidd, a destined Hall of Famer, and you can imagine how famous Huang is now.