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Chapter 18 Core

The Trojans' home stadium is the "Los Angeles Memorial Stadium", a large outdoor stadium located in University Park of Los Angeles. It is the only venue in the world that serves as two Olympic Games. After renovation in 2006, the stadium can accommodate 65,000 spectators, and can accommodate up to 18,000 people-42,000 people when holding basketball events, making it one of the largest stadiums in the world.

On October 1, the Trojans will face the University of Connecticut here. The game tickets have been booked online. The poor-positioned rear tickets are priced at $5-10, the average seats are priced at $15-40, and the front seats are as high as $80-150.

The University of Southern California will sell a batch of cheap tickets at around 50% off internally, mainly for students of the school, but they are all ordinary seats, and front-row tickets will not be sold at discounts on campus.

Trojans players can receive two free front-row tickets per game, and it will not be a problem for the team's core to ask for more tickets from the team.

Many black players will come to watch the game on site during the game, and often ask the team for more than a dozen or even more tickets at a time, and the team can only pinch their noses and give them the tickets.

The NCAA has fraud cases related to tickets every year. In fact, only a small part of the discount tickets within many schools can be circulated to the students of their schools, and most of them are used by the school as black market tickets. Sometimes, these schools will also tamper with the discount intensity. The tickets that should be 50% off, but the school sells them at 70% to 80% off. It is common for the difference to be paid.

Many fans will feel that the NBA's playing venues can only accommodate about 20,000 people at most, and they are often unhappy. The NCAA's playing venues can accommodate 30,000 to 40,000 people at any time. If so many tickets are sold in one game, can they be sold in the end?

The answer is of course to be sold. The average attendance rate of USC last season reached 20,000, and the number of viewers in two games with UCLA exceeded 40,000.

NCAA’s basketball stadiums are generally much larger than NBA’s. These schools will look for stadiums that can accommodate more than 30,000 people as much as possible.

Worldwide, the NBA is more well-known than football, baseball, and NCAA, and its global influence is second only to football. However, in North America, this ranking needs to be adjusted. Rugby, baseball, and NCAA all have higher ratings than the NBA. Football, the world's number one sport, is actually the sport with the smallest audience.

The NBA will make way for him on the day of the NCAA Finals. There was a saying that the NBA did this out of respect and gratitude for the NCAA, because the NCAA has trained a large number of NBA stars. However, in fact, this is not the case. The NBA's move is actually a helpless move and a tactful choice. Even if the NBA keeps broadcasting, no one will come to watch the game this day.

After the afternoon training, Wu Huang hesitated whether to call Taylor Swift, but he was worried that the other party would reject him again and it would be difficult for him to meet in the future.

"Forget it, whoever invites you twice a day? If you are rejected, wouldn't it be ugly?" Emperor Wu hesitated for a long time and finally prepared to go back to the apartment to rest.

Wu Huang's apartment is not far from the school, with an area of ​​600 square feet, one bedroom, one living room and one bathroom, and a standard single apartment. The most important thing is that the school will pay for his rent. So with such benefits, if Wu Huang still chooses to live in a school apartment with two people, it would be really a treacherous.

"Hi, Demar." When Wu Huang got off the car, he happened to see DeRozan. Their apartments were in the same building, but not on the same floor.

DeRozan has been more diligent than Emperor Wu recently. This guy doesn't attend any party and practices more in the training hall at night. This spirit makes Emperor Wu secretly admire him.

"Hi!" DeRozan responded expressionlessly, walked into the apartment with several supermarket packaging bags, but was still unwilling to say something to Emperor Wu.

Emperor Wu shook his head. This kid is really revenge and still hates him.

"Dingling!" Emperor Wu was also about to go upstairs, and his cell phone rang again. He picked it up and saw that it was called by Christine...

Taylor Swift is still holding his cell phone, waiting for Emperor Wu’s phone call.

In the afternoon at the library, she had already reminded the guy, but it was almost six o'clock now, and the expected call had not yet arrived.

"Dingling!" Taylor Swift's cell phone finally rang. When he heard it, Emma Roberts' voice came from the cell phone: "Sister Taylor, where will we eat tonight?"

Taylor Swift couldn't calm down and said angrily: "Go to the zoo to eat bamboo!"

Time comes September 30th, the day of training ends, and tomorrow is the day to compete with Kangda.

Wu Huang stood on the precise electronic scale, the number displayed on it was 174. After one and a half months of training, his weight gained 2 pounds?

"The body fat rate is 8.6%, which is maintained well." Freud wrote down Wu Huang's latest weight and body fat rate.

For the past month and a half, Emperor Wu has been sweating profusely in the strength training room every day. Now the 60-minute strength training has made him no longer feel overwhelmed. Emperor Wu has adapted to this intensity of training.

The trainer then measured his height, and Floyd stood aside and said, "After the preseason starts, your strength training will be reduced, so you will retain your energy to deal with the game."

Emperor Wu nodded. From tomorrow on, there will be more and more competitions. He cannot continue to conduct strength training without restraint. He is most likely to be injured when he is insufficient. Once he is seriously injured at this age, his entire career will be affected and he must be treated with caution.

"Height is 188.5cm, 0.3cm taller than a month and a half ago. His bone age is not large, and it is expected to grow to 190cm-192cm." After measuring Wu Huang's height, the trainer estimated that his height would exceed 190cm.

Floyd attaches great importance to Wu Huang's height and wingspan. He plays No. 1 and 190cm-193cm in height. If he is taller, he will affect flexibility and speed. If he is lower, he will affect defense and confrontation.

Wu Huang's height is measured by naked feet. According to the unwritten regulations of the NBA, his height will increase by 3cm, which means that the official height of the player is all the height after wearing shoes. Wu Huang's current official height is 191cm.

Last year's core OJ Mayo, who was actually only 192cm tall in his naked feet, but the Draft Times was 196cm. This 4cm moisture casts a shadow on Mayo's future in the NBA.

This year's No. 1 pick Delhi Cross, the draft time, is 191cm tall. In fact, his naked feet are only 188cm tall, which is about the same height as the current Wu Huang, but the two are a lot different in arm spans. Wu Huang's arm span is a little taller than that of a player with the same height. He touches the height on the spot and is a little taller than DeRozan.

During this period of time, Wu Huang often grabbed double-digit rebounds in the team training. His wingspan advantage is too great, his steps are flexible, and he also bounces, so he often grabs rebounds from inside players.

Floyd predicts that Wu Huang will have more than 5 rebounds this season.

"When you go back, you should pay attention to your diet. You know what you can't eat. It's perfect if your body fat rate drops below 8%. "Freud did not forget to give some advice before Emperor Wu left.

What Floyd is most worried about now is that Wu Huang is involved in cigarettes, alcohol, or dama. This disciple can be said to be the best talented and upright university player he has seen in his coaching career for so many years. As long as he does not go the wrong path, he will definitely become an amazing NBA star in the future.

During this period, Emperor Wu is simply a perfect teammate and disciple in front of his coach and teammates. However, it is very tiring to continue acting like this. Emperor Wu also feels a bit of abusive. How can there be such a perfect person in this world?

That's what DeRozan thought. He always thought that Emperor Wu was a hypocritical villain, and he must be a despicable and shameless bastard in his heart.

Emperor Wu knew very well that DeRozan had always been unhappy with him, but he needed such an opponent, otherwise how could those teammates who flattered him have excuses to flatter him?

DeRozan and Mugakin don’t know that the biggest reason why they are isolated by other teammates is actually that they are not dealing with Wu Huang, who is the core of the team, so you can imagine how others will take the team.

Wu Huang and his teammates separated in the parking lot and declined the invitation to the team leader Gibson. He had his own event tonight, and he finally made an appointment with Taylor Swift to have a meal together.

Since the last time he was rejected for invitation to Taylor Swift, Emperor Wu has not dared to act rashly. Even if he often met in the library, he did not dare to ask for an invitation like a drink. This time, Taylor Swift took the initiative to invite him to a meal, so Emperor Wu was very happy all afternoon.

This was the first time the two of them had a meal together. Wu Huang and Taylor Swift were the same age. After chatting, he realized that when they were young, they lived very close to each other and even lived in the same building, but they had never met in an apartment. However, when they were in the fifth grade of the same junior high school, they had met in the corridor, but they didn't have much impression.

"How come we only met a few times in the same middle school?" Wu Huang always felt that it was unscientific.

"Because I transferred, I started studying at home in my sophomore year of high school, and took 18 months to complete the remaining three years of courses, and then officially started my career as a singer," Taylor Swift said.

The two of them chatted until midnight, and Emperor Wu felt that the topics of them seemed endless.

Taylor Swift also found that she and Wu Huang had many things in common. Since that game, the two of them were like two parallel lines and finally had an intersection again.

Emperor Wu did not send Taylor Swift back to the apartment until midnight, but she was not sleepy at all. She pestered Emma Roberts, who was sleepy and talked about the date.

"You know, our childhood memories, the familiar places we are, and even many common friends, overlap. Moreover, I found him very interesting and smart, and even overjoyed when he was amusing, but I would find it more interesting."

Emma Roberts had already finished the shower and was about to go to bed, but was forced to pull out of bed by Taylor Swift. At this moment, the little radish's head couldn't help but fall, and he couldn't help but close his eyelids, and said weakly: "Damn, I have a game tomorrow. You don't let me sleep. If I lose the game, you will ask."

Taylor Swift heard this and smiled, "Idiot, isn't your game delayed for a day?"

Emma Roberts woke up a little a little: "Yes, then I'm going to sleep too, you can let me go."

The next day, Emperor Wu was indeed getting up late. By the time he arrived at the school, it was already 9:30.

"Hugo is miserable, this time it's an hour and a half late." Bart and other teammates have finished warming up, and the team has started training, so Wu Huang is late.

Floyd's face was not very good. Tonight's game is very important. It's not good to see when Wu Huang is late, so he insisted on going late today.

"You should know the rules of the Trojans." Floyd looked at his proud disciple and was in a bad mood.

"200 push-ups." Wu Huang didn't explain why he was late, nor did he attempt to get through the 100 push-ups. This was the second time he was late.

After Wu Huang finished 200 push-ups, Floyd gathered the team and began to explain the evening game to the players.

In recent days, the Trojans have been practicing "pick-roll tactics" and "outside three-point tactics", with the purpose of dealing with Kangda's high center forward Tabitt through pick-roll and positioning cover.

Floyd watched a lot of videos of Kangda's game last year. If nothing unexpected happens, this team will definitely achieve good results.

USC now has some clues. The National Championships may come in handy. At that time, it will be a final victory and they must have a thorough understanding of all potential opponents.

Tabit is a popular candidate for the No. 1 pick next year, and is much more famous than Wu Huang and DeRozan. Unless he doesn't perform well in the national championship, he will definitely be selected in the top five.

Not to mention whether such players can be played in the NBA, anyway, the NCAA will definitely have strong dominance. Just like Howard of the Magic now, you can change the overall strength of a team by one person.

Floyd knew very well that just by relying on his team's two centers who are less than 205cm tall, they could not withstand this level of inside. Since they could not compete in the inside, they would simply play a small lineup, double-team Tabit on the defensive end, and make a quick attack on the offensive end, and fight back if they have the chance. In short, it's just one word - "Quick!"

To exert such tactics, in addition to point guards and insiders like Wu Huang and Gibson, there are also excellent backcourt players, and DeRozan must also come in handy. However, Floyd does not intend to let DeRozan play in this game, and the edges of this genius need to be polished carefully.
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