Chapter 35: Advance to the Final Four

In fact, the NBA draft network will also look at many people, and a group of people who were unknown before have become famous and entered the list after nearly half a month of tournaments.

This makes these players who are facing the pressure of finding a job after graduating from college ecstatic, knowing that even the 30th pick in the second round is signed a guaranteed contract, and compared to the rest of the social work, this job is obviously more lucrative.

However, the NBA Draft.com's evaluation of rookies will not be judged from just one game, more often than not, they will consider the potential of the players. They have a demand for instant power, but it only accounts for a small fraction of the players, and usually this part of the player ranks are not too high. The remaining players are non-NCAA international players who have their own international draft rankings and are judged differently.

Tang Wenlong, as an authentic Chinese, entered the top ten of the draft prediction network in one go, which is undoubtedly an extremely sensational thing, his rise is unstoppable, and his name, avatar and news are constantly scrolling on major domestic portals, and his popularity is getting deeper and deeper.

And Tang Wenlong's hometown TV station like Jiangsu TV saw at a glance Tang Wenlong's incomparable weight in the hearts of Jiangsu fans, and a plane flew to the United States and urgently won the NCAA semifinals, including the finals

Just one day before the Final Four began, the Associated Press voted the NCAA Player of the Year, and unfortunately, Wesley Johnson was only in third place, followed by the previously vocal John Wall in second and Evan Turner of Ohio State University in first place. There's a good reason why Turner won the NCAA Player of the Year award, averaging 20.3 points, 9.2 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 1.7 steals per game and almost single-handedly taking the Ohio Buckeyes to the Sweet 16.

Wesley Johnson is first of all inferior in statistics, and secondly, when it comes to the ability to lead the team, Tang Wenlong's strength has been recognized, not to mention that there are giants like Andy Rustin, in comparison, it is not as amazing as Turner.

However, the NCAA Coach of the Year was won by Coach Jim, and the old man smiled all day long, and seemed quite satisfied with the award. The reason for his selection is even more convincing, after Jonny Flynn and others participated in the NBA draft, an underdog's team actually played the best record in school history, so it is reasonable to give him this award.

Tang Wenlong didn't mix anything, but was ranked in the NCAA All-American Team that year, and was also voted Rookie of the Year by the contender website. is the best newcomer on Yahoo website, and the selection is also freshman John Wall, who averaged 16.6 points, 6.5 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game in the regular season, and Tang Wenlong, who averaged only 13.8 points, 5.7 assists and 3.2 rebounds per game, was blown up in statistics.

As soon as the time turned, it was April 4th, and the two semi-finals started one after another!

Tang Wenlong's Syracuse University and West Virginia University were going to take the lead in the competition, and after the players of the two teams were gearing up, they opened up their positions on this field of less than 500 square meters

West Virginia University is the No. 2 seed in the division and the closest team to normal strength Syracuse has faced so far.

They have two players on their team that are worth noting, one is the star of the house, Darcian Butler who plays as a small forward, who averages 17.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per game, and the other is Devin Ebanks, who is tall and has long arms and is nicknamed "General Flying"!

There is no doubt about the quality of the two men, especially Ibanks, who just cut down 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds on the head of the favorite Kentucky, leaving DeMarcus Cousins disgraced.

Facing a favorite like Syracuse University this time, West Virginia's mentality is surprisingly stable.

"Beware of the No. 9 player on the opposite side, he is the starting point of Syracuse University's tactics!" Before the game, the head coach of West Virginia University repeatedly stressed this point to Wellington Smith, and from their professional point of view, Tang Wenlong is now a greater threat than Wesley Johnson, who can score a lot of points in a game.

"Don't worry, Coach!" Wellington-Smith smiled happily and looked confident.

As a result, only four minutes into the game, Tang Wenlong burst into three of them, and every breakthrough caused West Virginia University's defense to be out of position, although Syracuse University failed to grasp the opportunity of the vacant position, but it really made the head coach break out in a cold sweat.

As a result, his Diaoyutai immediately couldn't sit still, ran over to call a timeout, and turned back to set up the team's 1-3-1 joint defense strategy.

"Defend against Wall's breakthrough joint defense!" Tang Wenlong's eyes lit up again, and the changes in West Virginia University's defensive tactics were clear in his eyes, and several players were standing very delicately in the horn area, looking at his side from time to time, with a malicious look in his eyes.

"I'm not that stupid." After Tang Wenlong muttered, he handed the ball to the Wesley Johnson organization who was mentioned on the line, opened up the space himself, and ran to the baseline.

He is well aware that he is ready to run to the bottom corner and use the baseline to break through against the West Virginia University defense.

As a result, he looked back and almost didn't jump up, Wesley Johnson, who received the ball, didn't pay attention to him at all, followed by a fake pass, broke through the defender's backhand, and then broke through to the elbow area and found too many enemies in front of him, a dashing mid-range jumper.

"Damn, I actually entered, count you up!" Tang Wenlong just wanted to scold, but found that the basketball fell into the basket steadily, and immediately held back the words in his stomach.

Wesley Johnson reached out to high-five Tang Wenlong when he returned to defense, but Tang Wenlong glared at him and slapped his palm reluctantly.

"The opposite side is playing joint defense, I don't know what joint defense tactics will be in the next round, try to listen to my command." Tang Wenlong said unceremoniously.

"Okay, okay, understand." Wesley Johnson nodded his head and looked like he had humbly admitted his mistake.

Tang Wenlong is simply speechless, he is simply Alexander as a point guard. Many of these black basketball players are still willing to rely on simple and crude offense to solve the game, and many times they are unreasonable to advance.

For example, after coming back, the attacking side of West Virginia University's Ibanks, the offense is simply not good, after receiving the ball, a stuffy head breaks through on the spot, and then hits a basket on the board against Anderson, and also hits.

In fact, Tang Wenlong himself didn't find out that in the year of college, many of his technical moves were selectively forgotten, and in such a basketball cultural atmosphere, he sometimes had too much adrenaline secretion, and would choose some seemingly irrational offensive methods, such as riding Matt Howard before, such as hitting Hayward before and knocking him to pieces. And the effect achieved is not only to get two points, but also to skyrocket the morale of the players on the field!

Tang Wenlong didn't know morale, but he knew that these blacks sometimes quickly entered a violent state because they completed a dunk, and their strength was several times stronger than in the previous ordinary state. In college competitions, many times because of a sudden outbreak, you lose the lead, or even fall into a desperate situation.

So how to motivate his teammates to fight, he knows it all in his mind, and this is also the basketball philosophy he realized after becoming the team commander.

After halftime, the two teams were evenly matched, with Syracuse leading by just three points.

West Virginia University is also not good at hanging the ground, although there are no complicated tactics, but it can grasp many opportunities on the field, in the first half of the 8 conversion attacks, West Virginia played 7 times, the only time was because Tang Wenlong was back.

The real showdown was in the second half.

Tang Wenlong didn't dare to hide his secrets, and when he saw that Andy Rustin was difficult to get outstanding opportunities, he decisively occupied his share of the right to shoot and attacked with the ball himself.

The two teams were still anxiously tied at 58 until the final five minutes.

After the game, Ibanks said unconvinced: "Syracuse University just made a ball at a crucial time, it wasn't a big deal, we didn't score a few goals, so we lost the game." "What this means is that Syracuse didn't obviously overpower them, but we didn't shoot at the end of the day and lost the opportunity to play.

Wesley Johnson sneered after hearing this: "I laughed, isn't this kind of grasp of the key ball a reflection of the team's strength?" Our Super Don is an invincible big heart, you look at his two shots at the last moment, so hot-blooded, so calm, like a snow wolf with fangs exposed! “

Coach Jim had a headache with Wesley Johnson, and after the Final Four, the NCAA arranged a simple press conference for both teams.

Look at Tang Wenlong, how quiet it was during the media conference.

Tang Wenlong was drunk: "Actually, these two are too fast to speak, and they haven't practiced labor English to the level of rapping, how can you let me interject?" “