Chapter 15 NCAA Preseason
After Emperor Wu left, a small head suddenly stretched out from Christine's room and smiled in a standard British accent: "Christine, you tear off my poster just for this kid?"
Christine coughed lightly, reached forward and patted the blonde beauty's forehead, and said, "I just like to talk to him, don't talk nonsense." Then she remembered the panda sister in the previous game and smiled: "I met a girl with the same name as you today, but why do I hate her so much?"
Emma Watson, wearing soft pajamas, opened the door and walked to the living room, and said angrily: "You unscrupulous guy, aren't you scolding me?"
Christine shook her head, went back to her room and put on her bathrobe, and said indifferently: "If you don't believe it, I'm too lazy to mention that person again." Then she showed a look of alertness to Emma Watson, "I'll go take a shower, don't come and peek."
Emma Watson smiled and said, "Do I understand this sentence as, are you inviting me?"
If Emperor Wu saw this girl in pajamas, he would definitely recognize her at a glance. This is exactly one of his favorite female stars, Emma Watson, who played Hermione in "Harry Potter". This British girl is much more famous than Christine. The complete set of novels and genuine movies of "Harry Potter" are available in Wu Huang's room, but he doesn't know Christine.
On the other end of the city, Emma Roberts yawned in his apartment, then stretched out his little hand and slapped hard at the sofa, shouting unwillingly: "I'm not convinced...I want an audition...I want a replacement!"
Taylor Swift lives in an apartment with his sister Panda and laughed at him: "There are no more girls playing games, and even less if you play well, unless you recruit boys to join the team."
Emma Roberts pouted, his face even more unwilling. He slapped at the sofa twice and said loudly: "My team is a women's team, don't have boys. I'm going to expand the recruitment range. Girls outside the United States can do it, Canada, South America, and Europe... I don't believe that I can't find several female players with excellent skills."
Taylor Swift picked up the guitar and was too lazy to deal with the newly lost Emma Roberts.
"By the way, when I was just playing, I seemed to see you having a lot of fun chatting with an Asian. Is that your friend?" Emma Roberts suddenly thought of the Emperor Wu just now.
Taylor Swift heard this, playing the guitar finger and then replied: "Yes, he may be my old classmate or something." Then he played the guitar again and sang: "When you are still in the competition, you still have time to stare at me, no wonder you lose the competition."
Emma Roberts snorted: "I don't sing at all, I'll go take a shower."
On August 25, 2008, the University of Southern California officially started. The Trojans have conducted half a month of summer training, and the players' bodies have returned to the game state.
After training in the past half month, Wu Huang's muscles became stronger, but his weight did not increase much. He was still in the final stage of growing taller and not at the time of gaining weight.
Floyd is preparing to change his strength training four times a week to three times a week in September, and then strengthen the proportion of technical training.
Wu Huang's physical fitness can be described as excellent in the point guard. His speed, explosive power and agility are among the best in the university. Others, such as waist and abdomen, flexibility and bounce, are also first-class. At this stage, only the strength is slightly worse.
But in fact, even with relatively weak power, Emperor Wu did not hold back. It can be said that his physical fitness can completely rely on his athletic ability to attack cities and villages in college. But in this way, Emperor Wu is no different from many black geniuses.
The athletic ability of yellow people declines faster. If they rely solely on their physical talents, they will disappear in a few years.
Floyd has always wanted to train him in the direction of Jason Kidd, Deron Williams, Nash and others, not relying on his body but on his brain to play, but he is really not inferior to anyone. This is to train him in the All-Star path. Wu Huang himself would never have imagined that his coach would have such high expectations for him.
After half a month of training, DeRozan's attitude towards Emperor Wu was still cold. Who told Floyd to give Wu Huang a small meal every day? The coaching staff also focused most of his energy on Emperor Wu. DeRozan has been a core figure in the team since he was a child. When was he so neglected?
This cannot be blamed on the coaching staff of the Trojans. DeRozan is completely opposite to Wu Huang. When he plays, everyone notices his outstanding athletic ability, but he can't see how outstanding his skills are. This is also a common problem for most black players. If they are in good health, they will inevitably prefer to use their bodies to play. The energy they invest in basic skills will be much smaller.
Wu Huang is different. Seeing him playing basketball, he often ignores his athletic ability. What impressed him the most was the wisdom he showed when playing basketball.
Wu Huang's basic skills also made Floyd very satisfied. Before the ball sense was improved, Wu Huang relied on hard training to improve his ball skills bit by bit. However, due to the limitations of talent, his efforts were not effective, but as long as he worked hard, he would always gain something.
Moreover, his efforts did not turn into useless efforts. After Wu Huang's sense of football improved, his efforts became a late harvest.
In just half a month, Wu Huang's basketball skills have improved with the naked eye. The biggest change is that his ability to dribble through balls has improved a lot compared to when he first joined the team. The improvement of ball protection ability is even more obvious. Muga Jintou can occasionally break the ball a few times in the team's training match in a week, but now it is difficult for him to grab the basketball from Wu Huang.
"These two days are the day when school starts. I know you have a lot of things to deal with, so I stopped training in the past two days. Everyone arranged the dormitory and other issues before starting training." Floyd knew that the freshmen had a lot of trouble in the past two days after school started, so he suspended training for two days, but he still emphasized to the players: "Remember, one month later, the NCAA preseason will begin. I hope you will remember this time, this is the first step in our journey."
What Floyd mentioned in the NCAA preseason is similar to the NBA preseason, but it is more important. The results of the game at this stage will not be included in the subsequent league results. The main purpose is to run-in the team, check the training effect, and inspect new players.
The NCAA preseason has no impact on the league's ranking, but it plays a crucial role in whether you can enter the top 64 in the country in the end, so you cannot be taken lightly.
Both sides against the preseason are not college teams in the same competition area, and they generally use home and away games or match-based games. However, when they enter the top 64 in the country, the preseason teams may meet each other again. Therefore, it is to run-in, test the team, and to investigate each other's reconnaissance and survey. The importance of the game is no less than that of the official stage games.
NCAA has 308 basketball A-level teams, which are divided into 32 independent divisions.
The University of Southern California belongs to the "Pacific Ten Schools League". This league will not start until November, and will continue until March 1, with about 30 games during this period. During this period, the Trojans must play against all teams in the same division, and the game will be based on a home and away system.
The regular season ends in early March. Only by winning the first place in the league can you automatically become the top 64 in the country and advance to the knockout stage.
Here we need to mention that there are only two ways to participate in the NCAA Top 64 league: one is to automatically obtain the qualification to participate, that is, to win the championship in the league held in the league, and this team can automatically obtain the qualification to participate in the top 64 leagues.
The NCAA Basketball League Class A is divided into 33 leagues, with about 8-10 teams in one league. Therefore, 33 teams can participate in the top 64 games every year as automatic bidding.
The second way to participate, that is, the quota of the other 31 teams, will be fully and freely decided by the selection committee based on the team's performance. Therefore, this is also the most controversial part. Later, in 1981, the CAA specially developed a program to calculate the strength of the team using a computer, mainly to quantify the performance of 308 Class A teams, allocate relative scores according to the team's performance, and then arrange the order according to the scores.
This set of calculation standards is divided into three aspects: First, a team's winning rate against a Class A team is 25%, and the results of a Class B team and a Class C team are not counted regardless of the winning rate. Second, a team's total winning rate accounts for 50% of the total score, which is called the intensity of the schedule by the National College Students' Sports Association. Third, a team's opponent's winning rate, that is, the intensity of the opponent's schedule, accounts for 25% of the total score. In short, the ranking index not only measures the overall winning rate conditions of a team, but also attaches importance to the team's arrangements and winning rate in matches other than the league. The latter has a lot to do with squeezing into the top 64 games.
The performance ranking index of a team is closely related to the strength of the opponents in the league and the strength of the opponents outside the league. If the opponents who are fighting are weak, the winning rate is high and it is difficult to win the favor of the selection committee. In 1999, the Iowa University basketball team was too weak because the schedule outside the league was too weak. Although there were more than 20 games in the league, they could only play in the NIT invitational tournament. On the contrary, Florida State University only had 17 wins and 13 losses in the division, but because most of the opponents outside the division were strong teams, they could catch the last bus of the top 64 in the country.
Chapter completed!