Chapter 66 The Wonder Boy and the Wolf King Cult

On March 21, 2002, after a four-day break, the second stage of the NCAA National Championship was about to start.

After the elimination of the first stage, there are only 16 teams left in the entire NCAA.

Therefore, at this time, the teams remaining in the NCAA National Championships are either super powerful or super dark horses.

Like the Eastern Theater, the remaining four teams are the University of Maryland, the University of Kentucky, the University of Connecticut and Southern Illinois University Carbondale. As can be seen from the name of the last school, this is a super dark horse.

The fact is indeed the case. This team with an elongated name has eliminated two traditional NCAA powerhouses in the first two rounds. This year, the No. 6 seed Texas Tech University in the Eastern Theater and the NCAA giants in the Western Theater No. 3 seed University of Georgia.

And this team's power forward Jermaine Dillman has also become the focus of heated discussions in the United States because of his outstanding performance in these two games.

In the first round of the tournament against Texas Tech, he came off the bench and scored 17 key points. He started the second game and scored a team-high 25 points to lead the team to victory.

This is the standard ugly duckling turned into a swan, a famous story.

Jermaine Dillman isn't the only person or team that exploded in this year's NCAA tournament.

Take, for example, Steve Logan of the University of Cincinnati in the Central Theater.

27 points and 8 assists in the first game, 39 points and 7 assists in the second game, although the shooting percentage in the second game was a little lower, only 44%.

But a player who is less than 1.8 meters, against the defense of NCAA super perimeter defender Roy Ivey, threw 12 three-pointers in one game and hit 5 of them. 12 free throws, and single-handedly led the team to defeat the University of Texas led by the two stars TJ Ford and Roy Ivey in the backcourt.

This performance is quite shocking.

So much so that even NBA star Allen Iverson said repeatedly in an interview: "Like me, like me, like me!"

There is also Kent State University in the Southern Theater. This is the third time in the history of this veteran underdog who only participated in the 90th NCAA game to enter the NCAA National Championship.

However, this team shocked the United States by defeating the No. 7 seed Oklahoma State University in the Southern Theater and the No. 2 seed University of Alabama in the Southern Theater.

After all, the history of this team is worse than that of Boston University.

But they can defend these two powerful teams in the United States to only score 61 points and 58 points respectively.

This team's team defense is unbelievably strong.

If you don't have talent to attack, you can play defense.

This team also played the civilian basketball defense to the extreme.

Another example is the western theater where Chen Xiao and Marquette University are located, the University of Missouri Tigers guard Rich Poulding, Karim Rush and Clarence Gilbert guard trio.

In the previous two games, the three led the University of Missouri to defeat the fifth-seeded University of Miami and the No. 4 seed Ohio State University in the Western Theater, becoming one of the three dark polo teams in this ncaa national championship in one fell swoop.

And the guard trio who led the team forward all averaged more than 20 points per game.

Among them, Clarence Gilbert's 23 points, 0 assists and 0 rebounds in 36 minutes in the second round shocked the entire United States.

This is the first player in NCAA history to play more than 30 minutes without a single rebound or assist.

This statistic is even worse than Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao didn't even dare to say 'I can only score' in front of him.

What does it mean to only score?

This is called only scoring!

For a while, under the huge heat, the name of the Missouri Three Tigers began to become popular all over the United States.

NCAA's March Madness is a huge flower bed.

In this flower bed, surprises and sorrows of flowers blooming and falling are staged all the time.

Everyone here may become famous because of the spotlight of public opinion in the United States.

Perhaps for NBA professionals, whether it is Jermaine Dillman or Steve Logan or the Kent State team or the Missouri Three Tigers, their talents are limited, and no one may enter the NBA.

But getting into the NBA wasn't on the minds of March Madness media reporters and viewers.

Here, everyone is enjoying the happiness and joy of the moment.

As for what happens after enjoying it?

This is the business of players and scouts and NBA teams, and has nothing to do with them.

Speaking of it, this is actually cruel.

The audience and media reporters of NCAA March Madness like to portray grassroots heroes like Chen Xiao.

Their bodies are full of the taste of dreams.

Encouraging grassroots and dreams is very good, but their efforts are too great.

So much so that it becomes just digging but not burying.

During March Madness, each of them was the focus of the entire United States, grassroots heroes who were more popular than Hollywood superstars and NBA superstars, representatives of their dreams.

But March Madness always comes to an end.

When the public opinion dissipated and the light faded, they still did not have the favor of the NBA and still lacked a way to continue their prospects.

They got nothing but chicken feathers all over the place.

In the end, even the charming grass roots in them will be lost.

Players who have been baptized by the American media in this way, will they still be grassroots players?

Are they still willing to be grassroots players?

Most of these dreamers eventually turned into the most annoying people they ever were.

Heroes, eventually turned into dragons by those who tout them.

Of course, the audience doesn't care about the hero's ending, they just want to see the bright moments when the grassroots become heroes.

So, for audiences, March Madness is comedy.

But for many players who participated in March Madness, this is actually a tragedy.

Most of them are dreaming dreams that are destined to have no ending.

They burned their dreams like a flash in the pan, embellishing the dreams of audiences across the United States.

Not many people in this world are real idiots.

In this world, there are not many people who want to be short-lived, burning their bodies to embellish the spirits of others.

Everyone wants to move forward, even if it is struggling to crawl forward!

March 21, SAP Center, San Jose, California.

As the No. 1 seed in the Western Theater, Marquette University will face the University of Missouri, one of the three dark horses of this conference, in the semifinals of the Western Theater.

The expected opponent did not appear, the giants retreated, and only the dark horse remained.

In the end, the semi-finals of the Western Theater became the "Three Eagles" vs. "Three Tigers".

The Missouri Three Tigers have been quite popular in the public opinion in the United States recently.

The momentum is also quite astonishing.

The trio was the only group in the NCAA National Tournament in which each averaged 20 points per game.

Even for the most popular Marquette Mihawks this season, in the first two games of the national competition, only Chen Xiao and Wade averaged more than 20 points per game.

Ron Howard averaged only 14 points per game.

Although Chen Xiao played poorly in the last game against UCLA.

But with 12 out of 12 in the first game, Chen Xiao's current overall statistics are pretty good.

16 of 36 in the two games, with a shooting percentage of 44.4%.

He averaged 20 points per game with a shooting percentage of 44.4%, which is absolutely outstanding in the NCAA National Competition.

Only, it's the whole thing.

In the last game, Chen Xiao's performance against UCLA was really bad.

Maybe the audience and the media don't care, as long as they are happy.

But it's impossible for basketball professionals not to care.

Many people who were optimistic about Chen Xiao after the first game at Marquette University have already begun to feel drummed in their hearts.

After all, no one in this world would think that he would not be mistaken.

Unless it's someone who keeps looking away.

Ahem, there is no other meaning, don't think about it.

"Kevin, this kid who claims to be your most loyal fan, he's been in a bad situation recently."

Although the outside is still full of flowers, those who know the inside story understand how much the match between Chen Xiao and UCLA hurt him.

Why was Wade so angry after that game?

Because he is one of the few players in the NCAA who knows the inside story of the NBA.

There is a team that is ready to give everything for him.

Wade is well aware of the changes in the popularity of the three of them in the NBA team.

Because of the strength of Duke University, the popularity of all three of them has declined.

But because of the game against UCLA, Chen Xiao, who was 'pretending to be smart', caused his own prospects to fall off a cliff.

The damage in this game is even irreversible.

Wade knew this kind of thing, how could Garnett not know.

After the game against UCLA, the Timberwolves no longer had any interest in chasing Chen Xiao.

In this regard, Garnett's heart is very complicated.

Just as complicated as his feelings for Chen Xiao.

It has been less than half a month since Chen Xiao broke into his world.

But these half a month is enough to change his world, even him!

This little guy who claimed to be his fanatic, threw those inexplicable characters that he didn't know about, and threw them at him like he didn't want money.

What is the true meaning of the wolf king, the spirit of war wolf, the spiritual mentor for rookies, the guiding light for beginners and so on.

During this time, Garnett has been standing in front of the mirror and asking himself.

"Am I still me?"

Recently, he was almost turned into a philosopher!

In recent years, he has gradually cultivated the pleasure of bullying rookies. In yesterday's game, he met another rookie.

Very easy to bully, and a rookie that everyone wants to bully.

In this game, Garnett wanted to bully this high-ranking rookie to change his mood. He had just prepared himself for a long time, and he finished throwing fragrant trash talk at the rookie.

Something magical happened.

bang bang bang!

Aww~!

The familiar chest beating, the familiar howling of wolves.

After the rookie finished pounding and howling, he looked at him in shock.

"You really can help me light up the dark night, burn my fragility, and guide me to move forward in the dark night under the claws of the devil?!"

Looking at the shocked eyes of the No. 1 pick who was about to lose all his beliefs to continue to support him because of the collapse of faith, Garnett felt his soul was touched at that moment.

Light up the night...

Burn fragile...

True Wolf Warrior King...

This familiar smell.

It's all that kid's middle school style!

What touched his soul, of course, wasn't the faulty and shame-filled character designs that the kid made for him.

Recently, he was so set up by these secondary characters that he didn't dare to beat his chest and feet, and his mouth was full of fragrance. You can imagine how 'terrible' the kid's personal settings are.

And what's even more terrifying!

He actually met a "wolf" in the NBA who believed in that kid 100% and even regarded himself as a spiritual pillar...

The look on Kwame Brown's face of crumbling faith when he looked at him really shocked him.

How badly did this No. 1 pick suffer, that he was so overwhelmed that he wanted to join his "Wolf King Sect" and become that kid's "wolf friend".

Don't these guys really know that I, Kevin Garnett, the real Kevin Garnett, is famous in the NBA?

This little guy doesn't even inquire?

It's so easy to believe the 'secondary character set' that the kid made for me? '.

Garnett didn't understand what was going on in the world.

However, in that game, facing Kwame Brown, such a delicious rookie, he let it go.

He didn't continue to greet his family, nor did he destroy his spirit. He even exchanged jerseys with him after the game. Although he didn't want to, he still encouraged him.

The teammates were stunned, and even the opponents were stunned.

At this point, Garnett also got out of the recent discomfort and began to accept his new changes.

He may never be able to clean up again, and he has never thought about cleaning up.

But if there are still some people in this world who believe that he is white, let them continue to believe.

He can be the villain of the whole world, and he can also be the angel of these sick teenagers.

If the entire league is full of these sick teenagers, can I become an angel of the whole world?

Don't want to whitewash, and finally passively whitewash?

Garnett shook his head one last time.

What are you thinking about.

If it wasn't for March Madness, this kid wouldn't have had the slightest impact on the NBA or the world.

When March Madness ends, the 'Wolf King Cult' that believes in him will disappear.

In the end, his world was still the blackness of 'stinking'.

In the end I lit you up?

Or did you light me up?

Garnett felt that he was really going to be turned into a philosopher by this kid.

but……

"If you can enter the NBA, I am willing to give you the last spot that I bully rookies, boy, don't let me down, if you really believe in that 'Wolf King', such a predicament will not defeat you!"

Garnett said silently in his heart.

He didn't want this magical boy to disappear from his world...

At this moment, he didn't know that his hands had already clenched into fists due to tension.

Garnett didn't know, but the teammates around Garnett could see it clearly!

"KG has become more and more strange recently!"

A rookie destroyer is about to become a rookie guardian.

Is this still the KG they are familiar with?

Chen Xiao, who was in the SAP center at this time, naturally didn't know that anyone cared about him.

Amidst the cheers of the fans, Chen Xiao and players from Marquette University walked into the field.

Chen Xiao's popularity was still as high as at its peak.

Of course, if there is not enough strength to support it, such popularity will only last for one month, one year, or at most four years.

But this does not prevent the fact that Chen Xiao is still the focus of the world at this moment.

Even though many teams and people were completely disappointed with Chen Xiao because of the last game, there are still a lot of big shots watching in this game.

It is precisely because of this that the three players of the "Missouri Three Tigers" who have been following the trend of Marquette's three eagles have recently exploded, looking at Chen Xiao with longing.

"As long as you step on them, everything they have now is ours!"

Just beat them, they're fleeting, and we can move on!

Beating them is easy, and UCLA has made a masterclass.

Just need to beat that wonder boy!

And it's even easier to beat Wonder Boy!

Ps: This chapter is very important to the NBA structure in the future of this novel!

ps: Continuing with the big chapter, I’m afraid that the public chapter will probably have more than 400,000 words when it’s on the shelves, I’m afraid, afraid, please recommend, the comfort of bookmarking! ! !

Tips: Jermaine Dillman, power forward, 2.03 meters, 99 kg, did not enter the NBA after graduating from college in 2003, and finally participated in the CBA foreign aid draft in 2006. bit selected.