I’m Really Playing Basketball

This year's NCAA finals are between Marquette University and the University of Kansas.

When Chen Xiao came to New Orleans, the NCAA atmosphere here was already very lively.

Although the NBA has become the most popular basketball game in the United States over the years, the NCAA's share has actually not changed much.

In other words, the NBA has become the number one basketball competition in the United States not because the NCAA is too bad, but because the NBA is too strong.

Therefore, it is not that the NCAA is not popular, but that the NBA is too popular.

After all, the current era of the NBA is definitely the greatest era in NBA history. Let alone the NCAA, in the entire American sports world, except for the NFL, no league can stop the rise of the NBA.

Otherwise, Chen Xiao would not have gained such great influence in the United States and the world.

Compared with previous years' NCAA finals, this year's NCAA has attracted more attention.

Why do you say that?

Because the two teams that reached the finals, Marquette University and the University of Kansas, are dark horses in a certain sense.

These two teams are actually giants.

But for this year, both teams are considered dark horses.

Why do you say that?

Let’s start with the University of Kansas.

No player on the University of Kansas team ranked among the top 20 in the country when they graduated from high school.

In other words, in fact, no player on this team was recognized as a five-star high school student in the United States in high school.

The highest-ranked player in the nation among high school players is their inside core David McCormack.

David McCormack was the 30th-ranked high school student in the United States in 2018 and graduated from Oak Hill High School.

As a talented graduate from Oak Hill High School, perhaps the most well-known high school in the nation's basketball world, his ranking is not in the top 20. That is definitely not a problem with the school and attention. The only problem may be his own.

In fact, this is true. After McCormack came to college, he averaged 3.9 points and 3.1 rebounds per game in his first year, 6.9 points and 4.1 rebounds in his second year, and as a senior this year, he averaged 10.6 points and 7 rebounds per game.

From a data point of view, this does not look like a proud man.

From the data point of view, he is just an ordinary genius who improves step by step, rather than the likes of Wade, Anthony, Durant, and Beasley who can kill everyone even in their freshman year. That kind of proud man.

And he is the 30th-ranked high school student in the United States and a graduate of Oak Hill University. He is already considered the most talented among the students at the University of Kansas.

In the NCAA quarterfinals, he made 10 of 12 shots, scored 25 points and 9 rebounds, and led the team to sweep Villanova University.

In the final against the University of North Carolina, he made 7 of 15, scoring a team and game-high 15 points and 10 rebounds. He was one of the biggest contributors to the team's ability to reverse the University of North Carolina and advance to the finals.

And in the semifinals when the University of Kansas reversed North Carolina, what did the team's other major contributors look like?

Jaylen Wilson, who also scored 15 points, was the 51st high school student in the country in 2019, averaging 11.1 points and 7.4 rebounds per game this year.

Christian Brown, a white guard who scored 12 points, is a junior this year and only became the main force this year. When he graduated from high school, he was not even ranked in the United States. He was just an ordinary student with no reputation. Naturally, he was not a genius. However, as an ordinary person, in three years, he has now become an excellent shooter who can average 14.1 points per game.

Guard Ochai Agbaji, who also scored 12 points, is the head player of this team and the player who averages the most points per game. He averaged 18.8 points per game this season, which is not even in the NCAA. It's a low score, but he is also one of the best three-point shooters in the NCAA, averaging 2.6 three-pointers at a shooting rate of over 40% per game.

But similarly, regardless of the outstanding performance of Abaji, who is now a senior, when he graduated from high school, he also did not have a national ranking and was an ordinary basketball boy who was unknown to everyone.

And substitute guard Remy Martin, who came off the bench in the game against North Carolina and scored 14 points, also did not rank nationally when he graduated from high school.

However, this little senior guard is a little more interesting and unusual than the others because he is a fifth-year player.

Yes, he is a very rare fifth-year player in the NCAA.

He spent the first four years at Arizona State University, and was also Arizona State's leading guard. He averaged 19.1 points per game as a senior.

The Arizona State University he led last season performed poorly in the NCAA. After completing his studies this season, he transferred to the University of Kansas through promotion.

His physical fitness was very average, and no one thought he had NBA prospects, so he left the NCAA without playing for four years, either to enter the NBA or because he was obsessed with winning the NCAA championship.

After coming to the University of Kansas, he became a substitute, but by the NCAA national championship, his performance became even better.

Especially in the round of 16 match against Providence University, the team's head player Abaji performed poorly. It was he, the substitute, who scored 23 points and led the team to defeat the opponent with difficulty and advance to the quarterfinals. , finally started the madness at the University of Kansas.

This is this Kansas team.

Their head coach, Bill Self, is a well-known coach in the United States. He was elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame in 2017. This is a team with mediocre talent led by a famous coach, which can be similar to the Spurs in history. Bobo led a group of civilian players to kill everyone in the NBA.

Let's go back to the other team in this year's NCAA finals, Marquette University.

The 56-year-old Tom Crean is a more well-known coach and the teacher of well-known NBA stars such as Chen Xiao, Wade, Ron Howard, Durant, Curry, Jimmy Butler, and Beasley.

However, this year's Marquette is even more civilian than Kansas.

This is not because Marquette University is not attractive enough.

But there are special circumstances.

Last season, Marquette University's star player, sophomore guard DJ Carton, inexplicably declared for the draft just after his sophomore year.

Immediately afterwards, Dawson Garcia, the team's leading big man and a talented first-year big man, announced his transfer to the University of North Carolina.

He was able to start at Marquette University as a freshman and averaged 13 points per game. He didn't want to be a core inside player at Marquette University and had to go to the University of North Carolina to play as a substitute.

The team's two former core talents suddenly left. What can Tom Crean do?

The reason why these two guys ran away was mainly because Xiao Chen announced that he would join Marquette University.

As the son of Chen Xiao and one of the top three talents in the United States, Chen Xiao went to Marquette University. This was the return of the Holy Son Jesus to his loyal Israel.

As the team's top two leaders, Dawson Garcia and DJ Caton either play supporting roles, or they can only imitate Judah and run away with backstabs.

Obviously, neither DJ Caton nor Garcia want to be supporting roles.

As for forming the Marquette Three Eagles together, don’t be ridiculous.

Have you ever seen a junior player and a freshman player form a Triple Eagle?

Are there three eagles like this in Marquette's history?

Wade, Chen Xiao, Ron Howard.

The first generation of Mitaka, they were players of the same generation and had a close personal relationship.

Durant, Curry, DeAndre Jordan.

Beasley, Curry Jr., Jimmy Butler.

The second and third generation Mitakas knew each other before they went to college.

Especially in the second generation, Durant is Jordan's apprentice, Jordan is the head coach of the Bobcats, Curry is the son of Bobcats assistant coach Curry Sr., and Jordan is the son of Bobcats head coach Jordan.

Let's put it this way, the people behind Caton and Garcia told the two years that you are not worthy of forming the Three Eagles with the Son.

You are only allowed to serve the Holy Son tea and water. From now on at Marquette University, it will be your turn to eat the leftovers from the Holy Son.

As the apparent only son of the God of Basketball, the Son came to Marquette University to improve his statistics and qualifications and enter the NBA.

From now on, Marquette University's style of play will definitely not be for performance. For the sake of the NCAA championship, the team's only way of playing is to make Son feel comfortable. Maybe the team will often change their style of play in the future, and how to play how comfortable Son is.

Those of you who serve tea and water don’t even have exclusive tactics.

To be fair, it makes perfect sense for the people behind them to say this to them.

If Xiao Chen was not a well-known genius in the United States, maybe they could still form Mitaka, and even Xiao Chen could help them.

But Xiao Chen is ranked third in the United States.

And they are just among the top 30 in the country.

They are all well-known talents in the United States, but they are also different in level.

So, why do you think of him as Mitaka?

You have a father who is God.

Or are you also among the top ten or even the top five talents in the United States?

What's more important is that Caton and Xiao Chen are teammates, one is a junior and the other is a freshman. Xiao Chen has four years of trial and error time, and he only needs to play as a senior.

But Caton is about to face the problem of the draft, and it is simply impossible to accompany Xiao Chen to try and make mistakes.

Under such circumstances, it is understandable that when Xiao Chen announced that he would join Marquette University, Caton directly announced his participation in the draft.

At the same time, Garcia announced his transfer, which is also understandable.

If you don't have your own exclusive tactics in the NCAA, then you will take the lead and enter the NBA?

When the Son came to Marquette University, except for the Son, everyone around him was a fool.

Do you want to be the protagonist?

dream!

Although he started playing as a substitute at the University of North Carolina, he can still become a protagonist as a substitute.

The chance of going to North Carolina is much greater than staying with Xiao Chen.

That's what's going to be really interesting about Marquette this season.

Because of Xiao Chen's arrival, the team's two top talents have left.

Then it is difficult for Marquette University to recruit the top talents in the United States.

Even if a genius has the dream of being a protagonist, he will not go to Marquette University to be teammates with Xiao Chen.

If Xiao Chen is not at Marquette University, but at a school such as North Carolina Duke where Chen Xiao's influence is not that great, they are willing to be teammates with Xiao Chen and use Xiao Chen's influence to improve themselves worth.

But at Marquette University, even if you perform better than Xiao Chen, you can only play basketball with the Son. At Marquette University, Xiao Chen is the real god.

Under such circumstances, any genius who has a pursuit will avoid Xiao Chen.

Of course, you can't say that Xiao Chen is a star black hole. Xiao Chen's identity is still attractive to some special talents.

For example, Marquette University's current second-in-command, fifth-year player Darryl Morsell, a former Marquette University main player, is very willing to serve as a tea and water server next to Xiao Chen. A second-hand player.

At the University of Maryland, Darryl Moser was also a role player. Although he won the best defensive player in an NCAA major league like the Big Ten as a senior, it was obvious that such an honor was not worthy of entering the NBA.

For him who is obsessed with entering the NBA, isn't Xiao Chen the best backdoor?

Being a dog to Xiao Chen makes Xiao Chen happy and makes Xiao Chen happy. How can Xiao Chen not support him?

How did Chen Xiao, who was Xiao Chen’s father back then, support Matt Barnes?

Therefore, Xiao Chen is attractive to many people in the NCAA who are strong but have no hope of entering the NBA and are extremely ambitious and eager to enter the NBA.

Darryl Moser has been working hard next to Xiao Chen this season. His scoring average has increased from 9 points per game at the University of Maryland to 14 points per game this season.

In addition to scoring, rebounds, assists, steals, shooting percentage, and three-point shooting percentage, they have all been improved across the board.

The Marquette University outfield combination formed by him and Xiao Chen is also the strongest defensive and strongest offensive combination in the NCAA.

At the same time, Justin Lewis, a 2020 All-American high school player ranked 89, who played as a substitute at Marquette University last year, led by Xiao Chen, averaged 17 points and 8 rebounds per game this season.

This power forward who is only 2.01 meters tall has a wingspan of 2.19 meters. He is very strong and shoots well. He can shoot beyond the three-point line. He can average 2 three-pointers per game and can also play in low post. It can attack and defend, and is very comprehensive, but its speed is a bit slow.

But in the NCAA, being slower is not a disadvantage.

He played as a substitute for Garcia last season. After Garcia left, next to Xiao Chen, he performed well enough to enter the NBA.

These two people, plus Xiao Chen, are the key to Marquette University's ability to reach the finals this season.

By the way, Xiao Chen's NCAA data this season is 24.5 points, 8.5 rebounds, 7.5 assists, 1.2 steals and 1.5 blocks per game, including a shooting percentage of 55% and a three-point shooting percentage of 45%.

Xiao Chen's performance in the NCAA this season has been horrific.

Before the start of the national competition, because Marquette University's record was not that good, many people said that Xiao Chen was studying with the Holy Son at Marquette University and his data was fake.

But after the NCAA national competition, everyone was shocked when they saw Xiao Chen scoring 30 points in almost every game like his father.

Xiao Chen really has the ability to hit this data!

Even before the national competition, Xiao Chen still stopped playing.

As a result, many experts now say that as long as Xiao Chen can lead Marquette University to win the championship, he will surpass his father and become the strongest freshman player in NCAA history.

After all, for a team like Marquette University, which has become a rotten team after Caton and Garcia left, even if freshman Chen Xiao comes to lead it, it won't win the championship, right?

The little stone Buddha on the back line is so terrifying!

Chen Xiao had already predicted that his son's first season in the NCAA would be so terrible.

By the time the 2021 Olympics are over, Xiao Chen has been promoted from B+ to A-.

You know, Wade only improved his strength to A- when he left college.

And Xiao Chen's playing style is more suitable for the NCAA than Wade's playing style.

Xiao Chen's shooting is accurate, he is over 2 meters tall at the guard position, his wingspan is also very high, and he can also pass the ball.

This makes him almost indiscriminate in the NCAA.

Every year, the NCAA has many players who can be killed in the NCAA but cannot even be selected in the second round of the NBA draft.

And Xiao Chen's style of play is the epitome of this type of player who is suitable for playing in the NCAA.

Therefore, when Xiao Chen entered the NCAA, when the media talked about him, they said he was the son of basketball god Chen Xiao.

And now...

When Chen Xiao appeared on the scene of the game, Pierce, who was the commentator of the game, looked at the big screen and said with a smile: "The person the camera is facing now is Marquette University player Moon- chen)’s father, a mediocre NBA star.”

After Pippi retired, he was always so talkative and endless.

He always likes to avenge his personal vengeance by dissing his opponents as players.

But this time, Chen Xiao will definitely be very happy to hear it.

This shows that Xiao Xiao Chen really counterattacked!