Chapter 15

In the blink of an eye, it's January 10th!

This day is the start of regular season in major leagues!

Like NBA games, the division game is divided into regular season and knockout (playoffs), and the knockout match is determined according to the ranking of regular season.

It's said that NCAA's attention in America is higher than NBA's. In fact, it's true!

The first reason is that the history of NCAA is much longer than that of NBA. For example, the history of Purdue University school team is much longer than that of any NBA team!

The second is coverage. NCAA has nearly a thousand teams, even in the first tier League, there are about 300 teams, basically covering all big and small cities in the United States. What about NBA? There are only 20 or 30 teams, more than 50 states in Laos and the United States. On average, one team in one state can't be covered. Naturally, fans are more inclined to watch their city teams.

The third is the cruelty of the schedule. Although NBA is a professional league, the cruelty of their schedule is far less than that of NCAA's black March. One game is bound to win, one game is bound to die!

In this case, NCAA's attention is higher than that of NBA, which is not hard to understand.

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The boiler team is now in full swing, with countless eyes on this team that has not yet lost. In order to improve the attention of the opening game of the regular season, the Management Committee of the big ten league has directly come to a confrontation with the enemy!

Although it is a famous basketball school, but in Indiana, in terms of team honor, in fact, the boiler team is not as good as its rival team, Indiana University mountain team, mainly the mountain team has won the championship of five national competitions, comparable to Jordan's alma mater, North Carolina, but the boiler team is only once!

But what makes the boiler workers proud is that the historical results of the two teams are better than those of the boiler workers. At present, they are 104 wins and 86 losses, leading a lot of wins of the mountain people.

These two teams are well-known rivals in NCAA!

All parties concerned about the confrontation between the old enemies, but Richard did not pay attention to the mountain people at all.

In December, he sent three letters of invitation to the mountain people in succession, but the other side refused to fight behind closed doors. I'm afraid they are also very clear that their strength will not be the opponent of the boiler workers at present. If they fight so early, losing really affects morale!

In fact, there are now 14 teams in the top 10 league, four of which can be called famous basketball schools. In addition to mountain people and boiler workers, Michigan State University Spartans and University of Michigan Wolverines are also well-known!

The former out of Magic Johnson, the superstar!

The latter is more terrifying. The five tigers of Michigan, which ravaged NCAA two years ago, said that they

From this, we can see how terrible the power of the big ten alliance is

Of course, the three strongest competitors, the boiler workers, are the team's main players in the draft this season, or they don't recruit any decent players, which leads to their strength decline in varying degrees.

It's not the three teams that are worthy of Richard's attention, but the University of Wisconsin, which is not the top of the League

The main reason is that they have a player Richard is very familiar with, known as "poor Jordan" Michael Finley!

As long as the nickname can touch Jordan, the strength must not be underestimated. In the future, all star players Finley and Richard still need to pay attention to it.

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The opening battle of the old enemy, the boiler workers won in a crisp manner, which was not beyond the expectation of Indiana fans!

The main reason is that the state of the boiler workers is too hot. The two core players in the team are big Ben and Iverson. Although the mountain people have a good background, they can't find the same players in the team.

After winning the mountain man, Richard's name has become unknown in Indiana.

If Big Ben and Iverson are both old players, some people may think that this is Richard's light with his former manager, just good luck

But at present, Big Ben and Iverson are both pure rookies. In this case, Richard's fierce eyes for selecting people are particularly attractive!

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After the opening match, the boiler team continued the previous warm-up, winning in a row, including Spartans and Wolverines.

As Richard predicted, under Finley's leadership, the University of Wisconsin also achieved a brilliant record. So far, it has only lost to Wolverines

On February 10, the last game of the division regular season of the boiler workers was against the black horse Wisconsin!

However, the night before the game, Richard received a message that made him a little confused. Tianjing sent a basketball research team to Purdue University in two daysRichard could guess why the research group chose Purdue University.

The first reason is that there are many good relations between Purdue University and China. There are many well-known scientists from this university in China. According to Richard, besides Deng Jiaxian and sun Liren, there are at least two or three academicians.

With this kind of good fortune, it will be convenient to go to Purdue University for research

As for the second reason, it must be Richard, the Chinese coach, whether Chinese or overseas Chinese, who is a compatriot, naturally close

For these two reasons, there is no doubt that the destination of the research group is Purdue University.

But what Richard didn't understand was, did China pay so much attention to basketball in this era? It is Richard's memory, as if the domestic acceptance of basketball in the past nine years was not high, or even very low

"Come on, let's talk about it later. It's really weird!" Richard shook his head and stopped thinking about it.

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McGee Center arena, the game has entered the intermission time!

After the first half of the match, the 14000 fans at the scene were surprised that, although Wisconsin was in a backward situation, but it did not collapse, they still had the power of the first World War!

They were only seven points behind in half-time!

Finley's first half was full of fire, whether it was against Brent Barry, or Jerome green, they all had a big advantage. They made 9 of 14 shots and made four free throws. In the first half alone, they scored 24 points!

"Ben, in the second half I sent you a tough task, that is to lock Finley. I don't care what you do, but I don't want to see him score more than 10 points in the second half!" Said Richard angrily.

Jerome green is an old player, but his talent is there. He is not good enough in attack or defense

And Brent Barry, with plenty of offensive firepower, is the main output point of the outside line of the boiler team at present, but his defense is not very strong, at least in front of the so-called poor Jordan's Finley, it doesn't play a great role.

In this case, Richard had to send out a big killing weapon, Big Ben!

Wisconsin team is also a threat point Finley, Richard is confident to strangle Finley after the threat point, easily win the opponent!

"Don't worry, coach, just leave it to me. I'll make him regret being born in this world!" Big Ben didn't say a word and accepted it!

In the second half of the game, Big Ben left the biggest impression on the fans all the time, which was the strong inside defense, but in fact, Big Ben's strong physical talent, the same effect of defending outside players!

At least now Finley is extremely uncomfortable by the Big Ben defence, unable to play the efficient performance in the first half.