Chapter 28 The Beginning of March Crazy

Because of this, Kupad became so happy that he couldn't stop talking about his ears every day. He used his meager savings to buy a lot of sports newspapers and magazines related to him. When he was fine, he would read it. When he was with Stephen and the others, he kept describing to them what he would do after he became a professional player, and made many wishes.

Stephen scoffed at this, beat him up and took him to the training ground, telling him that if you want to become a professional player, you must train well and perform well. There are many games in the future. Once you perform poorly, the media can directly pull you down from the cloud, without a continuous good performance, and you will also have the first round pick and lottery zone. Don't even think about it. In a game, the media praised you for a few words, but you don't know who you are. You actually remember to buy a watch, a necklace, a car, and borrow money from Stephen. He also promised to return Stephen twice after becoming a professional player.

After Stephen taught him a lesson, Coupard was a little restrained. He had no idea of ​​resisting Stephen at all. When he was disobedient at first, Stephen directly carried him and beat him up. It was only after repeated attempts that Coupard became honest. So although he was a little dissatisfied, he still began to train very obediently. After Benjamin heard about this, he felt very happy and Stephen was there, otherwise no one could control his character.

Coupard didn't listen to Stephen's lessons, but Nick Young and Gabu Pruitt listened to it. The two who were a little impetuous also sank and joined Coupard's training team. Stephen had his own training progress and could not train with them. He was still training step by step according to the training outline formulated by Punikatu for him. After returning home, he still had to shoot 200 goals.

I felt that my shooting had improved, but Stephen still had no confidence in taking action, because this was in a state of no defense. If someone defended himself, he could still guarantee his current shooting rate. This is difficult to grasp, because once someone defended, in order to break through the opponent's defense, Stephen would involuntarily increase his strength, so there would always be too much strength.

The old year passed and the new year began. The University of Southern California ushered in a row of road trips, first going to Pullman, Washington, to challenge Washington State, and then going to Seattle to fight against Washington, to avenge the last loss, and then back to Los Angeles to face the only opponent UCLA that he had not met, and then back to home and continue to play against UCLA.

The away trip went very smoothly. First, he won Washington State University without any blood, and then when he was against Washington University, although Brandon Roy caused great trouble to the University of Southern California again, because Stephen has been conducting detailed research on him recently, the defense is also very targeted, so Brandon Roy's performance is not as outstanding as last time, and it gives Stephen the feeling that this guy is not as difficult as last time.

After the game, Brandon Roy took the initiative to come to Stephen and asked Stephen very admirably, "What did you do? The defense of me is so good, it feels like two people are always conducting offensive and defensive training. Stephen is naturally embarrassed to say that he has been analyzing his offensive movements, and even saw his last game against UC Lockley, so he had to say that after the last defeat, he kept thinking about how to change and improve himself, so this game can achieve such good results.

Brandon Roy didn't think much about it. He just made his mark this season. Naturally, he wouldn't think that Stephen, who is far away in Los Angeles, would attach so much importance to himself and be obsessed with him. After hearing Stephen said that, he felt that Stephen was very similar to his personality. Once he failed, he had to work hard to improve himself and then defeat the other party.

After returning to Los Angeles from Seattle, the team was temporarily disbanded because the next away game is different from other away games and is still in Los Angeles. It is said that it is away games, but it is actually just a game changer. When I came to the home court of the UCLA, the Poly Sports Center. Compared with the home court of the unknown Trojans, the Garen Center is a place that is not comparable to that of the University of Southern California.

In the glorious history of basketball, whether it is the famous UCL tactics, the John Wooden Award, or the recognition of the status of UCLA, at the same time, although the performance of UCLA in the past 100 to 20 years has not been worthy of their title of king, especially the previous year, which has not even entered the semi-finals of 64.

After learning from his mistakes, the school invited Ben Holland, who is famous for tuning weak teams. With his strict military ruling, the team improved to a certain extent last season. In this season, the team regained its true nature as a strong team. Although it was not as eye-catching as the University of Southern California, it was not as good as that of the University of Southern California. It was not as good as that of their usual basketball atmosphere. The entire gymnasium was full of supporters wearing them. Although it was still in Los Angeles, it was no different from away games in other places.

However, at the beginning of the game, the strength of the two teams clearly showed a difference in quality. Although the opponent's Jordan Famal and Dion Thompson performed well, Ryan Hollins and Michael Fei from the inside were not the opponents of Cooperd alone.

Due to the outstanding strength of the opponent's outside group, Benjamin officially launched a lineup of one, one, four, and Stephen's opponent Aaron Aflaro was shot by Stephen's defense, so Ben Holland had to replace him, but Josh Ship, who was replaced, did not hit him, and was firmly clamped by Stephen. He only scored three-pointers through free throws in the half game. Aflaro, who was back on the court, still had no good way to face Stephen's defense, so he had to try his best to shoot outside the three-point line. The shooting percentage can be imagined.

Although the Southern California Trojans did not perform well on the outside, Cooperd played in the inside and was full of news. In addition, Stephen's defense against the opponent's outside was combined with one mile and one outside, and finally won the game without any danger.

Back at home, the Southern California Lotte Yiren is even more likely to let go of their opponents. Since the two teams are old enemies, although the main grudge is in rugby, as long as they can defeat those guys, no matter what ball they are, the basketball team was very popular after returning to home. The entire Galen Sports Center was full of seats and there was no empty seat.

Amid the warm shouts and screams of the whole audience, the basketball team happily defeated the opponent. The entire game did not allow the opponent to close the score to within five points, let alone lead. Seeing that the team of his school kept pressing against the team of his old rivals, more and more spectators stood up and shouted loudly.

But the players at UCLA have been reluctant to give up the enemy. For this side, they are old enemies, and for them, they are naturally old enemies, not to mention that they have always been high-ranking, but now they have suddenly changed. The loss of honor makes them unwilling to accept the fate of failure. Unfortunately, the gap between the strength of the two sides is obviously too large, and no matter how they burn their fighting spirit, it will be useless, because the opponents are also full of fighting spirit.

After the game, the team once again received support from the senior management of the school. In addition to allocating a reward fund, they also made a batch of training equipment for the basketball team. Of course, these are what the basketball team deserves, and college basketball games also have commercial income such as broadcasting rights. As the team's performance gets better and better, various incomes are also increasing. Although they are not as good as football and baseball, the income of the basketball team this year has exceeded the income of the whole year last year.

The regular match has only been more than half of the game, and the divisional championship has not been played yet. Although the divisional championship was eliminated after only two games last year, the two games accounted for half of the total revenue. Now the regular match has only been played half of it, which is more than last year. It can be imagined how popular the Trojans basketball team in the Southern California are now.

After losing to the University of Washington last time, the University of Southern California achieved eight consecutive victories, and the eight consecutive victories included the current strong team of the University of Arizona, as well as veteran strong teams such as the University of Washington and the University of California, Los Angeles. It can be said that the value of this consecutive victories is beyond doubt.

However, the winning streak was not stopped. After eight consecutive games, the Southern California Trojans all won against Oregon State University, Oregon University and Stanford University, which was the eleventh consecutive victory. There were only two away games left in the entire routine.

The opponents of the University of Southern California now hope that in the last game, the University of Arizona, who plays at home, can cause some trouble for the University of Southern California. After all, there was an accident last time, and the Southern California Trojans won the game, otherwise it would be hard to say who wins and loses.

Unfortunately, it disappointed everyone. The University of Arizona Wildcats did not cause any trouble for the Southern California Trojans. Although they were trying their best to resist, they still swallowed the fruits of failure in the face of the Southern California Trojans, which were blooming inside and outside. The routine game ended here. The Southern California Trojans had a high score of 17 wins and one defeat, and became the No. 1 seed of the division championship.

Like the semifinals of 64, the divisional championship is a single-game elimination system. As the No. 1 seed, the USC Trojans played against the No. 8 seed in the first round, and now it seems that it may be Arizona State University.

After a week's rest, the war rekindled, and easily won the opponent in the first round. In the second round, the process was a bit tortuous, but there was not much danger, and the result was still beautiful.

In the divisional semi-finals, against the University of Arizona, which had just defeated UCLA, although he was led by the opponent in the first half and entered the half-time break, in the second half, Nick Young and Gabu Pruitt suddenly burst out, making three-pointers outside frequently, quickly reversed the score and maintained it to the end.

The latest decisive battle was against his old rival Washington University at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. What surprised Stephen was that when facing his own defense, Brandon Roy suddenly changed his offensive methods, and his breakthrough direction and cutting methods changed drastically. At the same time, there were more pick-and-rolls, which was very different from their last game. It seems that this guy has been improving himself. However, although he performed well in his personal performance, the team's strength has been nowhere to go to the Southern California Trojans, which has been constantly evolving and improving. Finally, he failed to end the Pacific Ten-College League Division Championship. After twelve years, Southern California entered the 64th ranks of the entire league.
Chapter completed!