The NCAA Finals have received a lot of attention from the American sports community every year, such as this year's Syracuse vs. Duke, which can be called a strong confrontation, and on the day of the game, and even the entire NBA has a day off for this.

To put it mildly, in order to promote college basketball, to put it bluntly, the ratings of the day were dominated by this game, and for a commercial league, it would never make this kind of marketing mistake.

As a result, NBA stars from all walks of life began to announce their predictions for the championship of this year's NCAA Finals.

Surprisingly, even though Syracuse is unbeaten this season, the stars are more bullish on Duke. For example, people like Kobe, James, Paul and others were asked to choose a choice question, and they all chose Duke University without exception, only Carmelo Anthony may have taken a fancy to a little love affair with Syracuse University and publicly supported his alma mater in the media.

There are also non-basketball professionals who have joined in the fun, such as US President Barack Obama, who guessed 25 of the 32 games in the first round of the NCAA, which can be called a superstar who is better than the experts. However, after entering the second round, the basketball president was a bit anticlimactic, and failed to predict one after another, such as the University of Kansas and the University of Kentucky, which he was optimistic about, suffered Waterloo, and there was no Syracuse among the top four predictions, which made them all wiped out, ranking outside one million on ESPN's NCAA knockout prediction list, which won the joy of many fans.

In the history of so many years, the Duke University Blue Devils have accumulated an unknown number of fans, chasing its history, and it can be called a century-old famous school.

The team's head coach, "Coach K" Mike Shhashevsky, is the current head coach of the U.S. men's national basketball team, and this year marks his 30th anniversary as a coach at Duke University. Therefore, it is not surprising that current U.S. team players like Kobe Bryant and James support "Coach K".

As for Syracuse University, when it comes to fame and heritage, it is really inferior to Duke.

"So, the Duke players in this game will definitely give their all in order to give the best gift to the team's head coach for his 30th anniversary." Before the game, the CBS host who broadcast the game said.

Duke University is indeed full of talent, a few days ago in the semifinals, Tang Wenlong watched the entire game of Duke vs. Tennessee, like their star small forward Kyle Singler is an extremely difficult opponent, although the defense is average, but the projection ability is extremely outstanding, averaging 19 points per game in the season; There are also centers like Duke University, Brian Zoebeck, who is 2.16 meters tall and weighs nearly 120 kilograms, and can make small hooks in the penalty area with both left and right hands, which is also a big challenge for Blake, who is only about 2.10 meters.

There are also starters such as Nolan Smith, Lance Thomas, Jon Shayer, and two twin brothers with unlimited potential sitting on the bench.

Tang Wenlong carefully listed the comparison of combat power between the two sides, and found with a wry smile that Duke University could be said to be the strongest opponent that Syracuse University had encountered since the season.

After a few simple performances, the two teams began to walk onto the basketball court for the pre-game process.

In the pre-match ceremony, the players of both teams shake hands with each other to sign that they will abide by the principle of friendly play.

Kyle Singler shook Tang Wenlong's hand, lowered his voice and said, "You will get the first and most important defeat of the season. ”

Tang Wenlong raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect that this white-skinned vampire-like guy would dare to provoke him first, and he sneered at each other without showing weakness at the moment: "No matter how powerful your mouth is, it's useless." ”

"Hey, just wait and cry." Singler sneered, then turned to leave.

Tang Wenlong looked at Xingler's back, he was almost angry, he has seen countless trash talk players since he entered the college competition, but he has never seen such an arrogant player, which is also an eye-opener.

"Didn't you say that the players who came out of Duke were polite?" Wesley Johnson walked over, this guy couldn't get used to Singeler's arrogance, and then hooked Tang Wenlong's shoulders and said in a big way: "Don't worry, labor and management will kill him later." ”

Tang Wenlong glanced at him, but he didn't refute it.

After all, among the players produced by Duke University, Grant Hill and Sean Battier are two of the NBA's well-known humble gentlemen, which even pseudo-fans like Tang Wenlong know.

The players of the two teams shook hands in a "friendly" manner in the invisible smoke of gunpowder, and then returned to their respective halves to prepare for the jump ball.

The referee walked into the center of the court with the orange basketball, and the players of the two teams skillfully found their positions, and Tang Wenlong stood at the top of the three-point arc.

Blake and Brian-Zobek both raised their hands at the same time, then half-crouched and crossed over each other.

Tang Wenlong looked at the posture of the two jumping balls, and for some reason, he suddenly remembered that he watched martial arts action movies when he was a child, and the starting style of the two jumping balls was like Huang Feihong

"Toot ~"

A whistle blew, the audience cheered, the basketball flew into the air, and the game officially began!

Zobeck, who has a certain advantage in height and arm length, beat Blake with a jump ball that was a palm higher and racked the ball back into his own half, and point guard Nolan Smith received the ball and advanced.

Nolan Smith is a junior with the Blue Devils at Duke University, and was already the starting point guard at Duke University in his sophomore year. After Coach K added Jon Shayer to the starting lineup this season, Nolan Smith and Jon took turns attacking with the ball, which is a typical two-point guard lineup.

However, Nolan Smith is obviously one size smaller in front of Tang Wenlong, who has opened his arms.

"Didn't you say that there was only one meter ninety-three, how could it be like two meters?" Nolan Smith looked at Tang Wenlong, who was shrouded in the air around him, and his heart was filled with the common feeling of all the point guards Tang Wenlong had played against this season - a scout for his father.

Coach K has shifted the focus of Duke's offensive offense to the outside in recent seasons, such as Nolan Smith averaging 17.4 points per game this season, and Jon Shayer, who plays point guard, also scoring 18.2 points, and Kyle Singler became the second trio in Duke history to score more than 600 points in a single season.

Before them, only Jay Williams, Carlos Boozer and Mike Dunleavy Jr. from the 01-02 season had done it.

And what is amazing is that the firepower of the outside trio of Syracuse University is not weak, Tang Wenlong averages 13.8 points per game, Wesley Johnson averages 20.3 points per game, and Andy Hasteen averages 15.9 points per game, so this game is also called a game between outside media and outsiders.

At the beginning, Nolan Smith immediately showed his mature side, calling for Lance Thomas, a power forward who went down after the block, and the mobile forward immediately held the ball and dynamite to the basket, and actually played it successfully and got a whole game.

Suddenly, there was a blue wave of people floating in the stadium, and Duke University supporters cheered loudly, and the number of people accounted for nearly half of them.

Tang Wenlong felt a pang in his heart, there were really a lot of fans who came to cheer for the enemy today.

He controlled the ball under his crotch and switched back to his right hand to control the ball, and then dribbled steadily through the half, defending him by Jon Shayer, who has a net height of 1.96 meters, and looks not far from Tang Wenlong.

How many disciples has Coach K taught off the field, he only estimated it slightly, and knew that Tang Wenlong's height was definitely more than 1.93 meters, he glanced at Coach Jim, who was like an old monk, and secretly cursed the old fox in his heart.

"Pick-and-roll!" Tang Wenlong beckoned Blake to come out and deliberately said it out loud.

Jon Shayer immediately stood on guard, and then looked out of his eyes to see if there was a dark shadow on either side.

At this moment, Tang Wenlong suddenly jumped sideways, his head was tilted to the right, and the whole person had a starting action of rushing to the right, which was extremely realistic.

Shaye was startled, and shouted in his heart that Tang Wenlong was cunning, so he subconsciously shifted his center of gravity to the right.

But he didn't expect this to be Tang Wenlong's feint, Tang Wenlong, who was in control of the ball, immediately made a simple change of direction in front of his body, twisted his knee and then broke through to the left side of Shayer, at this time, Shayer's center of gravity could not be adjusted at all, and he stretched out his arm to block Tang Wenlong.

Tang Wenlong, who was starting at speed, ignored his arm block, "banged" and smashed inside, and immediately rushed to the vicinity of the paint area.

The 2.16-meter-tall Zobeek saw this scene, and then ran in front of Tang Wenlong in advance and raised his terrifying long arm, like a giant spirit god.

A hint of sarcasm flashed in the corner of Tang Wenlong's eyes, and he grabbed the basketball with one hand and threw it at the basket!

"Off!" Zobeck looked at the trajectory of the basketball above him, and his heart was overjoyed.

He turned around, and suddenly saw a pair of big black hands suddenly appear near the basketball that deviated to the right side of the basket, and the owner of the big hand pulled the basketball that had fallen up again with the elevation of his body, and then shouted and smashed into the basket!

"Bang!"

Blake hung heavily on the basket, and the entire basket was visibly deformed because of his weight of more than 200 catties