The days of waiting are eager and boring, and the same is true for Yang Long. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

November 23, 2002 was an unusual day for Yang Long.

On this day, the Duke Blue Devils will host their first opponent in 02-03 at the Cameron Indoor Basketball Arena. Although it is only a cross-regional league that has nothing to do with rankings, Yang Long is already eager to try.

After a season of accumulation, Yang Long has a considerable number of fans in Duke, and as for Duke's Chinese alumni, they have long been included in Yang Long's command, and the most loyal one among them is Wu Shuang.

On the day of the game, Wu Shuang wore Yang Long's No. 7 Blue Devils jersey and came to the scene, along with her Chinese fan team dominated by Chen Hao and others. All this made Yang Long extremely pleased.

But at this time, the number of Yang Long's fans is far less than that of one person, that is JJ Reddick, although this gentleman has only been in Duke for two months, but with his handsome face and chic and elegant shots, he quickly captured the hearts of a large number of female fans......

Yang Long didn't mind, after all, he only took one scoop of weak water for three thousand, and he was satisfied with Wu Shuang!

Today, Yang Long will compete in the NCAA arena for the first time as a starter!

Before the game, Yang Long and his teammates warmed up step by step, he sometimes forgot to look at Wu Shuang's location, his heart was full of happiness, there was no distance of tens of thousands of kilometers, Yang Long and Wu Shuang's relationship heated up rapidly, and now it has reached the point of kissing and hugging, thinking of Wu Shuang's shy appearance in his arms, Yang Long couldn't help but smirk.

"Oops!" Yang Long, who was giggling, felt a blow to the head, judging by the touch from his head, the unknown flying object was undoubtedly a basketball, and Yang Long suffered 'retribution' when he was distracted during training......

The opponent of the game was the Army Academy Black Knights of the Patriot League.

The feeling that this name brought to Yang Long was extremely stylish, but when Yang Long studied some of the opponent's situations as usual, he couldn't help but be surprised.

The Black Knights of the Army Academy, which sounds like a bull X, is just a Patriot League fish belly team, and Yang Long didn't even find a record for the Army Academy to reach the playoffs. This fighting power is directly reflected in the player's statistics. In the previous 01-02 season, the core of the Army Academy was a point guard named Charles Sportla, even in his senior season, he averaged only 16.5 points, 2.2 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game, and 2.1 assists can be ranked among the starting point guards in the entire league, but it is only the bottom. What's more, Charles has never achieved a positive score in four years in terms of player efficiency, which means that the team will be behind for most of the time Charles has been on the pitch.

How many of a team's signature players are like that, let alone others?

Yang Long's opponent for this game is a 183-centimeter white guard named Mike Kanter, who averaged just 2.1 points per game last season......

To add insult to injury, Charles has finished his final season of college and is leaving......

The Black Knights don't have the high-end atmosphere that matches the team's name at all, and even if there is, it's a horse riding a man, not a man riding a horse.

In the face of such a weak team, even if Duke lost Williams and other three main forces, Coach K was completely true, and he didn't even make a special tactical analysis of the Black Knights. Duke's players are also quite relaxed.

During the break when the game was about to start, Yang Long went to the stands to do a short warm deposit with Wu Shuang.

"Come on, Brother Long, this is the first game I have seen you, I hope you win!" Wu Shuang obviously didn't know the strength of Duke's opponent, the Black Knights.

"That's for sure, but I'm feeling a little sleepy." Yang Long made a sleepy expression, in fact, he was not sleepy at all, he did this, he said this for his own purpose......

"Huh? So what to do? Wu Shuang, who was fooled by Yang Long, took the bait at this time, and his face was full of concern.

Seeing Wu Shuang's appearance, Yang Long's desired effect was achieved, "Why don't you kiss me, so that I will have energy!" ”

"You! Rogue! ”

Although Wu Shuang's mouth was coquettish, he still gave Yang Long a kiss.

"What a rascal!" Chen Hao, who was beside him, secretly despised in his heart.

Because of the departure of the team's three bigwigs, the current Duke does not have a real leader.

Looking for a tall man among the shorties, Jones began to temporarily take on the responsibility of boosting the team's morale, because Jones was in his fourth year of college, and even if his basketball prowess was not convincing, the qualifications were there.

Beep! With the referee's whistle, the first game of the 02-03 season officially began!

Duke Blue Devils starters:

Point Guard: Yang Long; Quartile: JJ-Reddick; Small forward: Dundee Jones; Power forward: Sheldon Williams; Center: Casey Saunders;

Army Cadet Starters:

Point guards: Mike Kanter; Quartile: Andy Smith; Small Front: Sean Okafor; Omae: Bill Maha; Centre-forward: Eric Instham;

Black Knight center Eric is a mini center with a height of only 203 cm, not only long and short, but also not high jump, empty body fat, it can be seen that the Army Academy is really unavailable, there is no doubt that this jump ball was easily won by Casey.

Yang Long controlled the ball, although Yang Long warned himself countless times not to underestimate the enemy, but he almost laughed out loud when he saw the starters of the Black Knights.

I saw that the height of the Black Knights' No. 1, 2, and 3 positions was about 185 cm, and the front and center were all about 203 cm, which also meant that the average height of the players on the field of the Army Academy was only about 190 cm. On Duke's side, the shortest is Reddick, but Reddick is also 193 cm......

Yang Long advanced to the front court and poured the ball to Jones at a 45-degree angle to the three-point line, Jones shook left and right to no avail, and transmitted the ball back.

Always paying attention to the running position of his teammates on the court, Yang Long found that Redick got rid of the defense directly after Casey's cover and came to the three-point line, and Yang Long passed the ball over without hesitation, "Three points!" He yelled at Reddick.

Although Redick felt that Yang Long's shout was nonsense, because the opposing player left him 2.5 meters of shooting space, he was not polite with his hand, and sent the basketball out with a standard shooting posture.

"Huh!" Hollow into the net, Redick scored Duke's first three points, and Yang Long also received an assist.

"J~J~ Reddick! Three points! "The Cameron arena remembered the melodious shouting of the announcer.

"Ah~!" Reddick's female fans were ecstatic and screamed loudly......

The disparity in strength between the enemy and us, coupled with the away battle, the Army cadet Black Knights were treated as a blow as soon as they came up, and in 3 minutes, Duke played a wave of 14-2 small climax.

However, the Black Cavaliers deserved to be the team of the Army Academy, and although the score was more and more open, they still showed only order on the field, showing good team discipline.

Seeing that the Black Knights had no power to fight back, in this attack, Yang Long decided to fight alone, because in the previous time, he was busy delivering ammunition to his teammates, and he hadn't scored yet, and Wu Shuang also came to the scene today, and it was the first time to watch him play an official game, and he couldn't let Redick steal the limelight.

Yang Long held the ball at the top of the arc and motioned to his teammates to create a singles opportunity for him.

The opponent's point guard Mike's defensive attitude is meticulous, closely following Yang Long's footsteps, thanks to his flexibility and agility advantage obtained by being 10 cm shorter than Yang Long, Yang Long has not found too good opportunities several times.

Yang first stabilized the ball, then motioned for Casey to lift up to make a pick-and-roll, and under the block of Casey's huge body, Mike was freed.

At this time, it was the opponent's center Eric who came to Yang Long, Yang Long first pretended to project, although Eric did not jump, but also took a step up with his left foot to interfere.

Opportunity! At the moment when Eric was raised, Yang Long retracted the projection momentum and broke through quickly!

After drinking a cup and a cup, after one person appeared again, the opponent's big front bill killed the penalty area to assist in defense!

Yang Long's killing intent has been decided, but it is obviously not a good choice to collide with Bill, he collects the ball with both hands and pushes to the right!

Bill thought that Yang Long was going to pass the ball to his opponent Shelton, stop the pace of the defense, and intended to return to the defense!

Bill was wrong, Yang Long just pretended to pass the ball, but in fact he made a layup, no one blocked, Yang Long made a light pick with his right hand, and the ball went into the basket!

"Yang ~ Dragon! Two points! ”

At this time, the fan team composed of Wu Shuang and Chen Hao finally had a chance to open their voices and shout: "Yang Long! Come on! Come on! Yang Long! "Because it's Chinese, these bursts of sound are unique at Cameron Arena. Infected, even some native American fans imitated the Chinese accent and began to shout, although they did not know what the shout of "come on" meant.

The form on the court fell into a one-sided situation, and Duke's players began to relax.

"Yang, throw me a few shots!" Redick asked Yang Long that he wanted to perform more in the first game.

"Yang, I'm going to hit my back!" Casey, a center who has always been known for his defense and rebounding, has also thought about a single game when he saw that no one on the inside of the Black Cavaliers......

At halftime, the score was 61-27 and Duke had built a 34-point lead.

The players arranged by the coach of the Black Knights are already the best players in the academy, and the so-called Qiao Woman is difficult to cook without rice, so he can only eat Coptis dumbly, and he wants to cry without tears......

After the end of the first half, Yang Long and Yigan started and did not play again.

At the end of the game, Duke won 101-53 over the Army Academy, and the difference was not small.

Yang Long, who started for the first time, only played half the court, shooting 5-of-9 from two-pointers and 2-of-5 from three-pointers, scoring 16 points, 4 rebounds and 6 assists. As a freshman, Redick was not frightened at all, throwing eight three-pointers in his debut, hitting five of them, and also shooting 2 of 4 two-pointers, scoring 19 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist. Duke got the season off to a great start with a big win.