A day later, USC returned to Los Angeles with another defeat.

Wu Huang soon heard a large number of American trolls scolding the Trojans on campus, especially many people threw the blame for the loss to him, believing that he was a data brush and could not bring victory to the team. Others in the team also heard similar remarks, except for DeRozan who did not play and Bart who was injured, almost everyone was affected.

The next day, the team's atmosphere became solemn, and it was difficult to see smiles on the players' faces.

The successive failures in the preseason began to affect the players' self-confidence. Once they lose confidence, it will be difficult for players to display their technical and tactical abilities. In the end, there will be more than 1 win and 3 losses, but 1 win and 4 losses, 1 win and 5 losses...

Professional players are under great psychological pressure on both sides and off the court. How to adjust the players' emotions and mentality is a course that any excellent coach must master. Regardless of winning or losing the game, you must have a purpose after the game, consciously exert influence on the players' psychology, and minimize their negative emotions.

However, some players do not need such trouble. They have strong self-regulation ability, and such players are often the most valuable. For example, Wu Huang, who has been criticized the most, can calm down and continue to train his ball control skills, and begin to ask his teammates to double-team him in training matches to simulate the difficulties encountered in formal games.

However, players like Wu Huang are very rare, and most players must provide psychological counseling for them. For example, Nathan Bowch and Edmund Tamar, who performed poorly in the first four games, also assumed the main goal of fans venting their disappointment, so their psychology and emotions have big problems. If one is not handled well, these two players cannot stand the keyboard and saliva of the trolls, and it is not impossible to suddenly submit their application for leaving the team.

Floyd is now in a state of turmoil, and DeRozan is still being simmered by him on low heat, but the team is about to starve to death. Whether to eat it raw or not, Floyd began to struggle.

While the coaching staff at the University of Southern California are providing psychological counseling to the players to relieve the players' knots and negative emotions after losing, they are studying their opponents in the fifth game. They can no longer lose in this game.

"Breaking double-teams" has now become a problem that Wu Huang and the team must solve. Wu Huang would always be defended by double-teams in high school, but at that time the opponent was too poor and his defense was not fierce enough. He could break through with his flexible footsteps and keen insight, and he could also pass the basketball out before the opponent completed double-teams.

However, the university team has strong defensive oppressiveness and fast double-teaming speed. Not only can he defend the ball holder, but he can also defend his passing route.

Wu Huang's ability to pass and control is still insufficient. Facing the defense of the two, he cannot enter and pass the ball is always intercepted. The most important thing is that his teammates have problems with movement. When he is double-teamed, he cannot respond immediately.

The cooperation between Bartbrey and Wu Huang was originally good, but the rich second generation was injured in the first game and would not come back at least a month later. Except for Gibson, there were no teammates who could form good support with him, so this was not a problem for Wu Huang alone.

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In the fifth game, after Wu Huang encountered double-teams, he began to frequently use the ball to run and look for opportunities. This style of play is a classic shooting guard style, and he uses the cover of his teammates to find out the mobile phone. But the problem is that this style of play requires higher overall tactical execution of the team, and Wu Huang, the point guard, ran to do the shooting guard task, who will organize the team?

Therefore, this method of breaking double-teaming is just a bad strategy, and the game is also stumbling and the team makes continuous mistakes. Fortunately, Wu Huang felt very good in this game and completed the task of a shooting guard well. He scored 32 points and 4 assists by himself, helping the team win forcibly.

Wu Huang played this game without reason, but he won the game after all. Through five games, he has proved his ability with outstanding performance.

In the last three games of the preseason, Floyd finally sent DeRozan to the court. This high school genius who had both dropped out of the top 50 in ESPN100 and Yahoo's top 150 had fallen out of the top 50. After sitting on the bench for five consecutive games, the edges and corners were finally smoothed a lot.

The NCAA is actually very cruel. DeRozan did not appear in the game for half a month and immediately fell sharply in these two important rankings. However, Wu Huang rose from more than 100 to the top 30. Although he has been double-teamed in the last two games and has fallen to the top 30, this ranking has already allowed him to get a second-round pick.

USC has been trapped in the double-team tactics in the first five games. In fact, the problem is not difficult to solve. As long as DeRozan is allowed to play, Wu Huang's double-team problem can be solved at least half of it.

In the sixth game, Wu Huang was indeed half of the double-teaming times, and his defensive intensity was much smaller than the previous two games. With his passing and control ability, he could completely break through such a double-player defense. If he chose a more secure plan, he could also pass the basketball to DeRozan.

As long as Emperor Wu is double-teamed, even if DeRozan is not in an open position, he will definitely have a good offensive space. With his personal ability, it is not difficult to break through the defense.

What Floyd is most satisfied with is that Wu Huang did not pass the ball to the opponent because of his bad relationship with DeRozan. Once he was double-teamed, Wu Huang's pass would find DeRozan as soon as possible. When DeRozan had an empty space or cut, Wu Huang would be happy to pass the basketball to his hands.

In the sixth game, Wu Huang gave 14 assists, and he finally cracked the double team in the form of a serious point guard.

This game was DeRozan's first college appearance. He was originally worried that Wu Huang would not pass the ball to him, but obviously he was overthinking. Half of Wu Huang's 14 assists were obtained from him, and DeRozan also scored 25 points and 7 rebounds under Wu Huang's feeding.

After this game, DeRozan's impression of Wu Huang improved a lot, at least they had no conflicts in the game.

In the next two games, USC won both games and finally won five of the eight games, which was a good start for the subsequent regular season.

Throughout October, USC played a total of 8 preseason games, four home and away games, with a total of 6 teams facing each other, with a record of 5 wins and 3 losses. These six teams are all old NCAA teams. USC achieved such results, which generally makes fans feel satisfied.

Wu Huang was the biggest discovery of the University of Southern California during the preseason. He started every game in 8 games, averaged 18.9 points, 5.2 rebounds, 8.1 assists and 1.2 steals per game, shooting percentage of 46.9%, three-point shooting percentage of 43.6%, and free throw shooting percentage of 83.3%.

This freshman Chinese point guard at USC received more cheers in each game. After playing eight games, at least at home, there were not many fans who would attack him as a Chinese.

It is worth mentioning that after the preseason, Wu Huang ranked 14th in ESPN's NCAATOP100. Yahoo's NCAATOP150 ranked him 20th. The American professional draft website DraftExpress also updated the 2009 NBA mock draft list at the end of October. Wu Huang jumped from 98th at the beginning to 25th, predicting that he will be selected by the Thunder in the 25th place in the first round.

DeRozan only played three games in the preseason, averaging 23 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and his performance was very stable. ESPN's NCAATOP100 raised it back to 16th place, and Yahoo's TOP150 rose directly to 11th place. DraftExpress predicted that he would be selected by the New Jersey Nets in the first round.

In general, the two first-year geniuses at the University of Southern California were both favored by the media and were selected in the first round, but Wu Huang's market is not as optimistic as DeRozan. The influence he has on the game is mostly on the level of consciousness, and athletic ability and technology can only be considered a mid-range level in the eyes of the public.

DeRozan is different. Look at this kid's powerful dunk, his wind-like fast break speed and amazing bounce ability, these are the most intuitive performances that reflect a player's physical talent.

But what about Emperor Wu?

It seems that he hasn't dunked once in eight games?

Sometimes, the prejudice of Europeans and Americans is so unreasonable. Yahoo Sports has the strongest prejudice against Wu Huang. They completely ignore the speed displayed in fast attacks and the footsteps shown in defense. They just keep focusing their picky eyes on Wu Huang's thin body and soft style of play. They directly classify Wu Huang's style of shooting as weak!

But not all American media are like this. The Los Angeles Times' report on Wu Huang is completely opposite to Yahoo Sports. Da Bendan, a well-known local columnist, began to pay attention to Wu Huang in high school. It may be for the purpose of protecting his city players, or it may be because he likes Wu Huang. Da Bendan focused on his page on his page to introduce Wu Huang's excellent shooting percentage in eight games, of which 55 shots made 24 three-point shooting percentages were repeatedly mentioned.

——Los Angeles Times

"NCAA has given birth to a red three-point killer. In the eyes of this Chinese, the arc 6.3 meters away from the basket is worth nothing. If he wants, he can shoot two or even three steps away from the three-point line, and the shooting rate is amazingly high. I even doubt whether this guy will start shooting from his half. When he hits long-range strikes again and again, this 1.88cm guard becomes the most terrifying killer on the court."

New York Times columnist Da Sabi is also very interested in Emperor Wu. There is no reason, but he likes the eyes. He also gave a very high evaluation of the first-year Chinese point guard.

——New York Times
Chapter completed!