Chapter 136: The Olive Branch (I)

In the dimly lit locker room, Hassan Whiteside sat alone on a wooden chair, bare with large muscles and well-defined arms, with a white towel behind him, and the whole person was stuffy alone, without saying a word.

He's thinking about the game that just ended!

It was a game that he still remembers vividly, as they were defeated by a double-digit margin of 73:62 to Syracuse University.

Marshall University is not a well-known university in the United States, and in the annual high school graduation season, it cannot recruit those well-known star high school students in the United States, but this year's Marshall University is not willing to be ordinary.

They don't have star players on their roster, and there's no way a player like Wesley Johnson who is at the top of the collegiate scene will join Marshall.

In terms of team strength, Marshall University and Syracuse University are not comparable at all, the strength of the two teams is too different, and the only thing that can occupy some advantages is probably the inside line.

Hassan Whiteside is a new freshman at Marshall University this season, and this seemingly physical player is their killer feature.

Hassan's figure is not rough, his body measurement data will not appear explosive and staggering, and the seemingly ordinary muscle lines are destined to make him not that kind of muscular man, if he is stuffed into the NBA's super-talented interior group, I am afraid that he will be submerged in an instant.

He is too ordinary, his tonnage has reached the average level of an interior player, and he has only reached the average line, his strength is not amazing, and he does not have a ******, he can't use his ****** to squeeze the opponent away when he is playing under the basket alone, and his offensive means are not excellent, and his mid-range shooting crosshairs are also poor. Most offense is solved by dunks, and the template ceiling of Hassan Whiteside in this form is probably blue-collar players like Ben Wallace and Chuck Hayes.

Such players are the least appreciated group in the annual draft!

The talented son of heaven can sit in the small green room and quietly wait for the 30 teams in the league to pick him, without any worries; Those players who hovered between the end of the first round and the second round also have strong personalities and have their own clear favorite teams. For such a cheap rookie player, the major teams are not refusal, as long as it suits their team's lineup, there is no difficulty in giving a contract that seems cheap and excessive.

They are the only ones who received very little attention when they signed up for the draft, and bought a dress that looked decent and glamorous at the draft meeting, even if it was a rented price. But it's still so expensive that it hurts to make my flesh hurt. After waiting for a long time at the scene, when the people in the entire venue began to leave, he could only stare there stupidly.

No team chooses itself, that's the fate of the blue-collar players at the bottom!

Hassan Whiteside is tall and muscular, but he's not stupid, he's smart, and he understands that he needs more amazing performances to get him more attention.

Is Syracuse University strong? Powerful. After the departure of Chinese kid Bruce Lee this season, the team still has Wesley Johnson in charge. This guy's strength is not bad at all, and the strength of the Orange People team led by him is definitely higher than them.

But Hassan still came with the mentality of fighting bravely, if he can use his strong performance to help the team defeat the strong and beat Syracuse University in an upset, it will definitely win him more exposure.

He doesn't have the physicality, but he has a sharp nose on the defensive end. It's something he's proud of, he's smart and knows how to play, when to block, when to defend. These are as deeply imprinted in his mind as 500 switchbacks a day, and they are extremely familiar.

He's only a freshman, but the head coach of Marshall's varsity team has a big eye on him, and his excellent defensive ability makes him the most important part of the defensive system.

In today's game, Coach Marshall was determined to use Hassan Whiteside's defensive ability to surprisingly win, and he did not put Hassan in the team's starting lineup, but hid him on the bench.

Waiting for Wesley Johnson to play and start to hold the ball firmly in his hands, he replaced Hassan on the court, used Hassan, who had excellent defense, to guard the basket, let him give Wesley Johnson some color to see, and use a ruthless hot pot block to shock Wesley.

As long as Wesley's form is lost, Marshall's chances of winning this game are greatly improved.

Everything went very smoothly, just as Coach Marshall had expected.

Wesley Johnson did start to occupy the ball a lot after he started playing well, frequently starting to play with the ball and breaking into the paint area more often.

The closer you get to the basket, the higher the scoring efficiency, this truth Wesley will not understand, since today's game against Marshall University has been smooth, why not take advantage of a lot of ball possession and brush up on the data, after all, such opportunities are still quite rare in the NCAA.

The NCAA is not a commercial league like the NBA, it is a college arena, and the essence of basketball is more pure and strong. Unlike the NBA, in order to increase the value of players, they even do not hesitate to let players do things that frequently brush data in garbage time.

Coach Marshall's vision was very poisonous, and he found an opportunity to replace Hassan to guard the inside.

When Wesley watched the opponent replace a substitute insider, he did relax his vigilance from the bottom of his heart, and his action of breaking through with the ball became bold.

When he went to the basket and tried to score a layup, he was met by Hassan's big hat hot pot that covered his head and face, making him dizzy and unable to find his direction.

Receiving such a merciless iron cap undoubtedly made Wesley feel disgraced, he is the core of the team at Syracuse University, and his call to be selected in the lottery this year is getting louder, but he has been planted in the hands of a small team like Marshall University, and it is rumored that his draft market will undoubtedly decline a lot.

Wesley, who was furious in his heart, naturally began to occupy a lot of possession, holding the ball alone, trying to regain face on the offensive end.

In this way, the rhythm of Syracuse University was instantly disrupted, and several offenses ended in Wesley's iron or mistakes, and the offensive end could not score, on the other hand, the opponent Marshall University was steady, although there was no outstanding scorer in the team, but under the steady offensive tactical arrangement, the offensive efficiency was not ordinarily high.

When the score was overtaken by six minutes in the third quarter, Syracuse University trailed by three points, a situation that undoubtedly upset the Syracuse fans who were watching the game at home, who were not here to watch the home team suffer a heavy defeat.

For this, the irrational Wesley suffered most of the boos from the fans at the scene, which undoubtedly hurt the underperforming Wesley. (To be continued.) )