Chapter 236: Great Eastern Alliance
It was the first home game of the regular season for the Marvel Team in '00 at Verizon Center Arena.
Previously, it was good to have an attendance rate of 50% in the arena; And the tickets are cheap; But today everything has changed, not to mention that the price has tripled, and it is difficult to find a ticket.
Those who have internal relationships have long been entrusted with the door, and those who have no internal relationships should quickly find scalpers; If you are really poor, you can save a little, and the big square outside the stadium can be lively, watch the live broadcast of the big screen in the square for free, and it is relatively free, you can eat if you want, drink when you want, and you can also carnival with strange fans.
At 5:00 p.m., the stadium opened to the public, and the fans who had purchased tickets rushed into the stadium in a hurry, waiting impatiently.
Verizon Center is home to both NBA team Wizards and NCAA team Marvels, but attendance has been fluctuating and speechless.
Washington, as the capital of the United States and the political center, has never lacked a fan market, but the owner of the Wizards is an ultra-conservative old guy, and the harsh financial management restrictions make the Wizards always dare not open a big contract to cause superstars to join.
The Wizards are suffering like this, with low input costs and low income, but after the balance, they will make a certain amount of money.
The Marvel team is a college team, the players are all students, and they only need a cheap scholarship, and they also enjoy the preferential treatment of 0 taxes, so naturally there is not much financial pressure.
After more than 20 years of coaching by John Thompson Jr., the Marvel Team has established the policy of center as the first training goal and point guard as the second training goal.
Look. "Gorilla" Patri Ewing, "Barrel Boss" Dibaken-Mutombo, "Iron Man" Alonzo Mourning, the NBA's six centers occupy three of them; Floyd won't talk about it, but Iverson's streetball storm should not be ignored by any team!
This time, the exclamation team seems to have welcomed a fourth super-genius, a cold, taciturn, and incomprehensible white man, Ursiris Frederick from Berlin, Germany.
Usilis' basketball IQ seems to have surpassed the limits of human beings. Whether it's recreating George Gervin's stunt fingertip plucked layups and fancy pick-and-rolls, replicating Michael Jordan's massive step-back jumper, or recreating Magic's no-look passes, it's incredible.
Recently, the video of Ussy's game has been overwhelming on the Internet, not to mention the amazing moves again and again, and the speculation that the Doudou Marvel team won this year's NCAA championship has appeared in some newspapers.
In the stadium, the fans were talking and discussing.
The NCAA schedule is more interesting. Because students need enough time to rest and complete their schoolwork, and they are still in the stage of puberty and their bodies are not yet fully grown into adulthood, the distance between college teams must be considered.
It is a patchwork of college teams from multiple neighboring cities to form a divisional event.
The Great Eastern Conference was established in 1979 and initially had 7 teams, ending in '00. It grew into 12 teams.
As follows: University of Notre Dame belligerent Irish, Rutgers University Cardinals. West Virginia University Mountain People, Georgetown University Marvel Team, St. John's University Red Storms, Syracuse University Orange People, University of Miami Florida Hurricanes, University of Connecticut Huskies. Villanova University Wildcats, Boston College Eagles, Providence College Friars, Seton Hall University Buccaneers.
For either team, two games will be played against the other teams in the division. one home and one away, for 22 games; Then there are invitational tournaments with some teams in other divisions, and the events are more or less fixed, and they are also one home and one away, with about 6 to 16 games; Together, these two events are the regular season.
Tonight's game is Georgetown University Marvel Team VS Syracuse University Orange People, and the Marvel Team is at home.
In fact, the early arrangement of the regular season has always been that the team with a poor record sits at home against the team with a better record, which is to create suspense and win over fans.
Think about it, in the first game of the home game, don't you go to cheer? If you win at home, okay, as soon as you are happy, you will buy a set of tickets. On the contrary, if you lose, don't say anything, just keep going! gave you a chance, you don't work hard, and you're still playing a fart!
For those with a better record, it doesn't matter if they lose away, it doesn't matter if they return to their home stadium and win back face, where is the strength, fans will naturally not blame the team for one or two defeats.
This is the wisdom of Tian Ji horse racing, dismount to horse, horse to horse, horse to horse, strength advantage, home and away mediation, there is suspense!
In the home team's training hall, all the players of the Marvel team are conducting intra-team tactical drills; Of course, this is also the first official meeting.
Prior to this, two teammates were placed on the injury list due to personal reasons, and only returned to the team yesterday at noon.
Last night, although Usy met with his teammates at the school bar and had a night together, the black rumbling and the roar of the DJ at that time were not the right time to get to know each other at all.
Before that, most of the teammates had played together and met each other; Blake and William were left without a face-to-face meeting.
Usiris was no longer as cold as he was today, and took the initiative to greet his teammates, and got to know each other with two strange teammates; Looking at the posture, it seems that he has opened his mind, and he has begun to consciously establish the authority of the team boss.
Reg Esric was pleased with this, saying: "Boys, our tactics today are very simple, the offensive end is a W run, Usi goes into the middle and is free to launch the first attack; Two big men walk to the side, opening up space; The two guards kept their tempo down and followed closely with Ussy, as long as they passed the ball to Usy safely and waited for the opportunity to receive the ball outside the three-point line! The defensive end is an M run, Uxi takes the middle into the inside, and the other two big men go hand in hand with Uxi, guarding the paint area, and the opponent is definitely not allowed to break into the penalty area! Do you understand everything? Of course, this is also our regular tactics in the future, yesterday with Montas as the core has been practiced for a day, I believe everyone should be very familiar with it! ”
In the last intra-team drill, Ussi was also restricted from possession, and this time he has been explicitly given unlimited fire.
This set of tactics has established the tactical core of Usilis as the offensive and defensive ends, and no one can shake the captain's position. (To be continued.) )