In order not to be late, Emperor Wu speeded for the first time in his life, but he still failed to arrive at the training hall before 8 o'clock.

The NCAA League has explicit regulations that all university teams are not allowed to train in advance during the holidays, just like the country is not allowed to make up for classes without authorization. But then again, if you don’t make up for classes or train in advance, you will not be someone else’s opponent in the regular season, so no one really pays attention to this regulation.

The University of Southern California officially started school on August 25, and the basketball team trained 20 days in advance. The members include veteran players in grades 2, 3 and 4, as well as two first-year players who received full scholarships.

The university campus in the United States is huge, and walking with your legs can easily cause your dog legs to be exhausted. You need to take a school bus to your destination within the school. The school has not started yet, and the number of school buses is very small. It takes half a day to come. When Wu Huang arrived at the basketball hall, it was already 8:10, and he was really late.

The basketball team of the University of Southern California is called the "Trojans", which belongs to the first category of NCAA and is a member of the Pacific Ten University Federation. Their old rival is the University of California, Los Angeles, the famous UCLA. The confrontation between these two universities is extremely famous and crazy, like a mortal enemy in the city.

Tim Floyd is the head coach of the USC basketball team, but his situation has not been very good recently. The media recently revealed that he had paid $1,000 to prompt OJ Mayo to enter the USC. And the $1,000 is just a small amount of money. Mayo received a total of about $30,000 in cash and gifts worth about $30,000 in four years in high school and college, including rent in the apartment outside Mayo University, as well as mobile phones, hotel rooms, clothes, catering and air tickets for Mayo's friends and relatives.

After the "black gold scandal" was exposed, Floyd almost lost his job. Fortunately, he had a good qualification. In the end, the school allowed him to resist the black gold storm on the grounds that there was insufficient evidence.

Floyd had coached the Trojans for three years before the scandal, with a record of 70 wins and 40 losses, leading the Trojans to the NCAA Championship three times and entered the Sweet 16 in 2007. His good record was the reason why the school protected him.

As early as 1999-2002, Floyd coached the Chicago Bulls and also led the New Orleans Hornets in 2004. He is a well-known coach with dual coaching experience in the NBA and NCAA. This is one of the reasons why he withstands this scandal and did not get dismissed.

Emperor Wu himself may not know that he is a high school player Floyd focused on in the past year, including UCLA, a arch-rival at the University of Southern California.

"Walnut High School" is not far from the University of Southern California, and Wu Huang is a native of Los Angeles. It can be said that it is the best recruitment target for these two schools. If Wu Huang's father was a policeman and his family was from a good place, Floyd might have given Wu Huang some gifts or something.

This kind of bribery is a common practice adopted by coaches from most NCAA prestigious schools, otherwise how can they compete with other prestigious schools? In fact, as long as the amount given is not excessive, this is actually the unspoken rule in the industry, and all industries have similar unspoken rules.

Floyd stood in the training hall, first glanced at the door, then looked at the time. There were 12 players participating in the training camp this time, only two of whom were first-year students, and the rest were seniors. The two players who were late today were exactly two first-year students he was optimistic about - Wu Huang and Demar DeRozan.

When Wu Huang arrived at the training hall, he found that the team coach who had seen twice before was standing on the sidelines. He immediately knew that he had caused trouble on the first day of training!

The players of the Trojans have already changed into training suits. Wu Huang found that the team is basically black players, with only two white players out of 10 people. It is undeniable that blacks do have unique talents in basketball. In the NBA, black players account for more than 70%, and at the highest level in the 1990s it reached 80%.

But what's interesting is that the ratio of coaches and referees in the NBA is just the opposite of that of the players. Most of the coaches and referees in the league are white, and black coaches have only been a little more in the past decade, but they are still very rare. If it were in the 1980s and 1990s, there were often no black head coach or referee in the league.

"Coach, sorry, I'm late."

Emperor Wu stood next to Floyd, not even half a tattoo on his body. This humble and polite temperament is also very contrasted with black athletes.

All coaches like this kind of player. Floyd has a deep understanding of Wu Huang and has met Wu Huang's parents. He knows that this is a wealthy family with good tutoring. Wu Huang himself has good grades in school. If he doesn't play basketball, he will probably go to famous schools like Stanford University and Haval University.

Floyd's reaction was beyond Wu Huang's expectations. The slightly fat white coach did not get angry, but nodded and asked calmly: "Wu, why are you late?"

Emperor Wu knew that if he told the coach the truth, he would probably not believe it. Then he thought of an excuse, and did not even blink his eyelids, and said, "Coach, today is the beginning of my college career. I thought too much last night and got up late in the morning."

Floyd said "um" softly. He didn't want to punish Emperor Wu, so he didn't even have any doubts at the moment. He waved his hand and ordered Emperor Wu to change his clothes.

"It's so easy to pass the test?" Emperor Wu himself did not expect that he would be so easy to get through the test. He quickly got his wardrobe key from the assistant coach and ran to the locker room to change the training suit.

The Trojans' training hall has complete supporting facilities and a dressing room is specially designed for players to bathe. Players can wash away their stinky sweat at any time after training.

Wu Huang’s wardrobe is No. 11, which means there are at least 11 people in the team.

There seems to be a little less than 11 players in a team, but thinking of the students who graduated last year and Mayo who participated in the draft, this number is normal. After the start of school, the team will definitely add some first-year players.

Emperor Wu quickly changed into his training suit. The number he chose was No. 14. He has been wearing this number since the first grade of high school.

The University of Southern California specially left No. 14 for Wu Huang six months ago. After all, he is also a player that the team focuses on. Wu Huang has already gained a lot of fame when he was in his senior year.

When Floyd saw Wu Huang changing his clothes, he nodded in his heart. No matter how good the Asian player is, he is definitely the most beautiful in their team, regardless of his skills.

"Everyone come here, I'll introduce you to new teammates." Floyd clapped his palms and called all the players who were warming up on the court, preparing to introduce Wu Huang to them.

The players of the Trojans gathered immediately, and Wu Huang was also secretly looking at his new teammates, who were also staring at him. Many well-informed players had known some information about Wu Huang, and these players had been discussing him for a while.

Floyd was about to introduce him when another figure ran into the door, which was a tall black man. After seeing the crowd gathered here, the black man shouted: "Sorry, I'm Demar DeRozan, I'm lost in school." As soon as the black man finished speaking, eleven players laughed.

Emperor Wu knew DeRozan. They were teammates for half a month in the "Nike Peak Tournament" not long ago. DeRozan was the player with the highest score in that game and finally got the MVP.

This lost guy is one of the most famous geniuses in the American high school basketball world. Demar DeRozan and Wu Huang are both first-year students, but in terms of fame, he is even bigger than Wu Huang. It can be said that this is the core of Floyd's mind. Their team has the best talent this year.

But genius is genius, Floyd was not so polite to DeRozan. He looked angry and pointed at the court. He said in a very stern tone: "Remember the rules of the Trojans. The first time he is late, one hundred push-ups; the second time he is late, one hundred more; the third time he is late, another more."

Although DeRozan is a genius high school student, he still can't be too arrogant when he comes to college. There were countless high school geniuses who felt that they were extremely talented. After coming to college, they could not be the case and did not obey the team management. In the end, they sat on the bench and their ranking in the draft fell sharply. There are too many lessons like this.

These stupid guys don’t know that NCAA is not the NBA. Here, talented players are not the biggest cards in the team, and coaches are the biggest cards.

"Let's continue!" Freud ignored DeRozan after saying that, and signaled that Emperor Wu would continue to introduce himself.

"I'm from Walnut High School, you can call me 'Hugo' or 'Wu'."

Of course, Emperor Wu would not tell them the Chinese name. It was too confusing for Americans. His English name was Hugo, which is "Hugo", which is Latin and has the meaning of "soul".

The Trojans players also introduced themselves one by one. Wu Huang noticed that the team's captain, Tay Gibson, is a senior. He will definitely participate in the draft this summer. The media predicts that he will be selected in the first round.

When Wu Huang chose the University of Southern California, it was because the team had several fourth-grade players. He knew that in the NCAA, students in the third and fourth grades and young geniuses in the first and second grades were the main factors for the team to achieve results.

Ty Gibson is undoubtedly the representative of it. He now has the ability to play in the NBA and is a player with extremely strong combat power.

Wu Huang's four years in high school were all driven by his own strength, and that feeling was absolutely unhappy. Now that he is in college, he doesn't want to be so tired anymore. Moreover, college is different from high school. NCAA can no longer lead the entire team by just one person. He must have excellent teammates to achieve results.

Demar DeRozan quickly finished a hundred push-ups there, and Floyd waved to him to change his clothes.

DeRozan said hello to Emperor Wu first, and then ran to the locker room.

The main players of the Trojans are all here now. Except for Wu Huang and DeRozan, first-year players who only join the team after school starts, they will not be the choice of Floyd. These ordinary players will have to go through at least one year of training before they can participate in the game. After all, geniuses are only a few.

So this year the Trojans' full combat power is the 12 players on the court.

Floyd looked at the three absolute main players of his team, Ty Gibson, Demar DeRozan and Wu Huang. These three were the best in their respective competition areas in high school, but in college, they had to face geniuses from all over the country and even the world, so who is the real genius? Now we have to ask a question mark first, so that the value of these geniuses can be tested on the court in the future.

Not to mention the three of them, this year's OJ Mayo is the NBA's Tanhua Show. He can be said to be one of the top real geniuses in the NCAA. But in his first season in the NBA, he couldn't say that he was very successful, and the prospects are now blurred.

It can be seen that even a true genius who has been tested in college may not be able to play in the NBA. There are many such examples. Michael Beasley is also an example of the second place this year, and there are many top picks in history.

Emperor Wu and De Ronaldo agree to be California geniuses, but the two belong to different competition areas and have never competed with each other.

DeRozan averaged 26.1 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in his first year of high school, 22.6 points and 8.4 rebounds per game in his second year of high school, 22.3 points, 7.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 3.2 steals per game in his third year of high school, and 29.2 points, 7.9 rebounds, 3.9 assists and 3.0 steals per game in his fourth year of high school, and led Compton High School to win the Moore League championship for two consecutive years.

DeRozan's high school report card is much more amazing than Wu Huang. He has also been selected as the Best Team in California and the Most Valuable Player in the Moore League, selected as the First Team of the All-American Team of the Best Team of the West Coast by Parade Magazine, selected as the All-American High School Star Team of McDonald's and won the Dunk Contest, and selected as the Second Team of the All-American Team of the Best Team of the United States today. He was invited to participate in the "Jordan Classic" and "Nike Peak Tournament", and scored the highest 17 points in the Nike Peak Tournament.

Compared with DeRozan's resume, the value of Wu Huang is reduced by one level. If the other party is a genius, then he can only be regarded as a little genius.

Floyd now wants to see the strength of Wu Huang and DeRozan. After a while, he is preparing to let the team play a 5V5 training match to examine the status of the two new players and old players. If Wu Huang and DeRozan can meet his psychological expectations, then the University of Southern California has great potential this year, and is afraid that these two high school stars will not be able to adapt to the college game, so it will be unfavorable to go out.

DeRozan quickly changed into training uniforms. He was wearing a No. 10 jersey. He was very warm-up on the court, and he was eager to try it out with a look of leaping. He was obviously full of confidence.

The old players at the University of Southern California are obviously more enthusiastic about DeRozan. On the one hand, their skin color is the same, and on the other hand, DeRozan is much more famous than Emperor Wu.

Everyone knows that Gibson is the undisputed leader of the team, and DeRozan is the core of the team. This yellow man is at best a main force, and even the third child may not be ranked. There are four fourth-year students at USC, and they are also the team's main combat power.

"Hey, I didn't expect that we would become college teammates. I have watched the dunks you made on McDonald's star stuffing many times. They are so beautiful." Wu Huang's polite words made DeRozan very happy. Many black guys do not have the same scheming as yellow people and white people, but they are easier to get along with.

"Man, I have always envied your three-pointers. In the Nike Peak Game, your key three-pointers kept us ahead. I'm very happy to be teammates with you." DeRozan was praised and hurriedly returned.

Wu Hao nodded in his heart. His new teammates didn't seem to be that kind of arrogant guy. Joni Flynn, who he met in the "McDonald's Star Game" and the "Nike Peak Tournament", is such a person. He looks arrogant all day long and invincible.

The two of them chatted together. They had been teammates for half a month in Nike's peak game. At this time, they were in an unfamiliar environment and naturally subconsciously gathered together to prevent these senior students from bullying them.

The "Nike Peak Tournament" is a competition between high school graduates across the United States and basketball elites under the age of 19 around the world. It is basically equivalent to the American high school genius fighting against elites of the same age around the world. Such a game has always been very interesting.

Generally, before the game, the organizer will specially invite some basketball celebrities to train these young players for a period of time before the game will be held. The North American side naturally invites NBA celebrities to be responsible for inheritance, while the international team invites former internationally renowned stars to teach.

Wu Huang trained with talented high school students in the United States for more than ten days. In addition to his current college teammate DeRozan, he also had the best players of his age, such as Blake Griffin, Tyrek Evans, and James Harden.

These are all geniuses from other states and other leagues he met during more than ten days of training. At that time, he was covered up by these people because as the No. 1 position, his dribbling and breakthrough ability were not outstanding. His best skills were shooting and overall situations, as well as running and receiving and shooting skills that were not very important to the point guard.

As you can see from the templates selected by the talent show website before, his best template is JJ Redick, and the worst template is Luther Hyde. It can be seen that although he is a little genius, in the eyes of media people and experts, he is actually just a small role.

This is also impossible. Hyde and Hayes, who are familiar to the Rockets Chinese fans, were also the best players in their respective divisions in high school. Therefore, if they could not win the best player in their division in high school, they would not have the qualification to enter the NBA at all. There are hundreds of high school divisions like the United States, and hundreds of MVPs will be born every year. How many new players are entering the NBA every year?

The players of the Trojans communicated and warmed up. Although Wu Huang did not receive the attention of the whole team like DeRozan, his humble personality and elegant conversation at least made his new teammates have a good impression of him. At any time, people who are humble will not be rejected, even if they are pretending.

After a while, assistant coach Andy brought two players to bring twelve red and blue vests and piled them on the sidelines.

The players who were warming up on the court immediately knew that this was a team training match, otherwise they would not have used such vests.
Chapter completed!