Chapter 264: Days in Princeton (2)
Although basketball is just a kind of adjustment in Junxin's life during his study at Princeton University, it can also be regarded as a way to allow himself to go to other universities for free for certain academic exchanges, so Junxin himself is also a little surprised that the team has achieved such a record.
However, now that it has entered the playoffs, even if Junxin doesn't want to worry too much about the team's affairs, but in March of the playoffs, Junxin is still not immune to the influence of the team and deepens his investment in the team's games.
The NCAA playoffs are a single-game elimination system, which simply means that in the next game, losing one game is a failure, and you have to go back and forth. This places high demands on the management and regulation of the team.
Fortunately, the players from Princeton are born to belong to the kind of people who are not very talented but have absolutely good IQ and EQ, and they naturally began to regulate their emotions independently, which also saved Junxin, as the actual controller of this team, a lot of trouble. At least he doesn't have to worry about the players losing their normal heart due to the different game environments, which will lead to a change in the gap in the game state, and finally lead to a change in the strength of the team.
There are a total of 64 teams in the NCAA playoffs, in addition to Duke University, which has met Junxin, there are also traditional NCAA powerhouses such as North Carolina, Kentucky, Maryland and UCLA, and the rest of the teams Junxin is not very familiar. However, after reading the newspaper clip sent by Coach Pique, Junxin still has a general understanding of the situation in this year's NCAA.
Undoubtedly, Princeton University, which is known for its academic reputation and has very little investment in sports, is recognized as a dark horse by most media this year, and various media newspapers in the market are frantically reporting on Princeton's entry into the playoffs. In New Jersey, where Princeton is located, and New York, HSD, Philadelphia, and other big cities close to Princeton, the basketball pages of the media are frantically reporting on Princeton University's entry into the round of 64 playoffs.
This may be an extremely abnormal thing in the eyes of many Chinese, after all, in the eyes of Chinese, the NBA represents American basketball. Few people have even heard of the NCAA as a basketball league. However, in fact, in the United States, the influence of the NCAA league is much higher than that of the NBA, and even because Larry Bird and Magic Johnson entered the NBA, bringing a large number of fans to the NBA, it caused the first real leap in the NBA.
So in contrast, the NCAA has more influence, and naturally those newspapers and magazines will report on the NCAA playoffs with greater intensity. At this time, Princeton, who was recognized as not making the playoffs at the beginning of the season, unexpectedly entered the playoffs with a very high score, which is indeed a miracle thing. So at this time, most of the media began to report on this matter, so that before the start of the game, the Princeton University Tigers, which were actually very weak, received great attention. Even Coach Pirel, who had left Princeton University to enter the NBA, came to Princeton University to watch the game at the beginning of this round.
However, the biggest gain of this round of the game is that Junxin found that he was a big heart, the bigger the scene, the more stable he was able to stabilize, and the more critical the situation, the calmer Junxin was. For a researcher like him, it is indeed a very useful skill. In many cases, during scientific research experiments, there are often various accidents, and it is a necessary skill for every successful scientific researcher to calmly deal with every mutation and withstand various possible scenarios.
With this kind of thinking, Junxin took every game more seriously. From the first game against Temple University, Junxin completely replaced the position of head coach of Coach Pique and took over the right to command on the spot. It was not until this time that the media found out that the coach who had been commanding this dark horse team turned out to be a young Chinese, and suddenly, after qualifying for the top 32 with Temple University 88-82, Junxin, a newcomer in the basketball world, began to be dug up by those reporters bit by bit.
What kind of rumors are in the outside world, Junxin didn't pay too much attention to it at all, but began to prepare for the next game after blocking the information interference from the outside world, that is, the University of California, Los Angeles, which Junxin has been mistakenly mistaking with the University of Southern California.
However, although Junxin strives to be pragmatic, for reporters from the outside world, especially in places close to metropolises like New York and Philadelphia, reporters from major newspapers and magazines with strong backgrounds quickly dug up Junxin's identity. The first to break the news was naturally the newspaper "HSD Post", which is the mouthpiece of the United States, and when Junxin got the newspaper sent by Coach Pique, he couldn't cry or laugh after reading it.
“…… It's incredible to be a team that has pioneered a new tactic to protect their team's actual tactical pioneers so well. Since the University of Pennsylvania was challenged by fellow Ivy League Princeton University last year, the No. 5 tactic has been called the most classic multiplayer dynamic tactic in human history, and even professional coaches of many professional teams have begun to copy this tactic. However, the creator of this tactic has been a secret to us, and now this secret has finally been known, but, please forgive me for being rude, but I really want to say, oh God, are you sure that this student from China is not your godson? ”
"Let's take a look at his resume, God, my academic editor Paul told me that he is the founder of one of the hottest theories in physics at the moment - superstring theory, which Einstein did not do, and he is the discoverer of quasicrystals, the most cutting-edge research in chemistry, especially crystallography, which is an achievement worthy of winning the Nobel Prize. However, as far as I know, this is actually a mathematics student at Princeton University. He even solved the modle conjecture in mathematics and proposed the inference named after himself, which is recognized by the mathematical community as the closest to the legendary Fermat's theorem, and he also solved the four-dimensional Poincaré conjecture. ”
"God, are you sure I'm not writing about basketball but academics?"
"Trouble is coming...... Seeing this, Jun Xin put down the newspaper in his hand with a wry smile, and said with a wry smile to Coach Pique sitting next to him.