Chapter 51: A Match that Cannot Be Lost
The NCAA National Championships, as a big party for all people in the United States, will have a theme every year.
A theme that has captured the attention of the nation.
There is no doubt that the theme of this year's NCAA is University of Washington and Duke University, who is the protagonist!
The stormy journey of the University of Washington.
Duke University's long journey of revenge after knowing its shame.
All the way to the crushing trip, enjoying the glamorous praise from all over the United States.
In the long journey of revenge, all he got was endless ridicule and contempt.
Is this year's NCAA a glorious ending or a long and humiliating rise?
No one wants to live in the humbleness of ridicule and contempt all the time, and everyone is willing to stand in the center of the glamorous stage.
However, there is only one protagonist in the center of the stage!
Duke University and the University of Washington in the finals of the Atlanta War Zone decided a place to enter the final four.
It also determines who is the protagonist of the NCAA this year!
Facing overwhelming pressure from all sides in the United States, even the University of Washington, which wanted to slaughter Duke earlier, is now in extreme anxiety.
There are winners and losers in competitive games, and no one will naively think that he will always be the winner.
What is the price of failure, everyone will think about it.
Take this game against Duke University as an example.
If you win, it's heaven, if you lose, it's hell.
This is not an exaggeration at all.
Now the University of Washington is in heaven, they don't want to be dragged to hell by Duke University.
Life in heaven is so wonderful.
Even a team substitute like Justin Dentmont can be sought after by the media, and the draft picks are also bullish all the way.
No one wants to lose these.
This sense of loss is now flooding the University of Washington.
This kind of strong sense of gain and loss, even the veteran players in the NBA may not be able to bear it, let alone the young men in their 19 and 20s at the University of Washington.
"Yes, have you never known what stress is? I swear, I will lose sleep today!"
pressure? Of course he knows!
He wants the No. 1 pick, he wants to enter the NBA and become a superstar, he needs to win this game, he has more pressure than others not to lose!
He has obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is more prone to stress than others, and he also knows better than others that it is useless to face stress, tension, anger, anxiety, and restlessness.
There is only one way to overcome this pressure, make yourself stronger!
He's strong right now, so the tension, anger, restlessness, and restlessness that comes from the stress will only turn him on!
Trembling with excitement!
Excited to go to the game right away!
"Can't sleep, just go out for a run with me"
"Run?!"
"Run, two hours"
"Two hours again?!"
"Um"
He needs to use up the excess energy now, otherwise he will be too excited to fall asleep!
Taking off his coat, Ye Si trotted out of the hotel.
Roy, Conroy, Washington, and Simmons followed without any hesitation.
Justin Dentmont, Ryan Appleby, Bobby Jones, Brockman and others followed after a little hesitation.
There are a lot of people in Atlanta Georgia now.
This year's game between Duke and University of Washington has more attention than the NCAA finals!
There are tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of fans from all over the United States who want to witness this amazing battle!
"That's Yes and the players from the University of Washington, right? There's a game tomorrow, and instead of staying in the hotel to recharge their batteries, they actually came out for a run? Is this the evening training of the University of Washington?"
"Have you ever seen an NBA team have a night practice like this?"
"never seen it!"
The hotel where the University of Washington is located is very close to the hotel where Duke University is located.
The University of Washington players were jogging through the night in Georgia, led by Yees, and Duke certainly noticed.
There was such a big commotion that thousands or even tens of thousands of fans in the city followed.
Media vans and cameras followed.
It's hard not to pay attention.
Coach K is the most famous coach in the NCAA, and he has participated in many NCAA quarter-finals.
He'd never seen a team so nervous, doing something like this the night before a game.
"The University of Washington is going to collapse!"
Coach K has seen too many hot teams collapse in the NCAA.
The attention of the NCAA is too great, and the pressure is so great that it is unimaginable.
Moreover, the NCAA competition system is still a cruel single-game elimination system, and ordinary young people can't stand it at all.
What's more, the game between Duke and the University of Washington far exceeds any finals in previous years!
I am afraid that only the matchup between the Magician and Larry Bird in the NCAA back then can be compared!
"Washington University's success is Yes, and its failure is Yes. Duke University's opportunity has really come!"
The humiliation of being massacred by the University of Washington five months ago has now become Duke University's advantage!
Duke now has nothing it can't lose!
Dignity, respect, future, glory, they have long lost!
Now they are in hell, even if they lose, they are still in hell.
But if they win, they will return to heaven!
Tomorrow, let's end everything this year!
On the evening of March 25, 2006, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta.
"Hopefully this time, the lads can withstand the pressure"
The old Gates, who is 81 years old this year, has followed the University of Washington for a season this year.
Since the University of Washington slaughtered Duke University in an away game, he has been following the University of Washington to compete across the country.
When he came to the national championship, he also had his son and his family by his side.
Although the old Gates's body is still strong, but this kind of running around still makes Bill Gates next to him a little worried.
Four years ago, Dad was one of the Seattle fans who followed Garfield High School around.
So, my father felt more for these UW guys than a lot of other UW fans.
"Li, brother Li, this, there will be no problems in this game, right?"
In the past two days, CCTV intern reporter Wang Han has seen how powerful the power of public opinion in the most capitalist developed countries is!
It turns out that the influence of the United States to focus on one thing will be so great!
She was just an ordinary fan who wished Ye Si well, and now she couldn't stand it anymore.
What about Ye Si, who is at the center of this storm of public opinion?
what will happen to him
Can you stand it?
Looking at it, the two teams have finished warming up, and the head coaches of the two teams are making the final arrangements.
"Look lads, I'm not going to say this game is an insignificant game for us, I'm not going to lie and give you false relief, I know my lads ain't chumps or idiots! "
"This game against Duke University is the most important game of our season!"
University of Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar has seldom had such a long pregame speech since the start of the season.
"In the past two days, the public opinion about this game has been bothering us. I suffered from insomnia last night. I was afraid that after I fell asleep, I would have the dream that we lost the game. I was afraid of seeing such a dream. I I believe all of us will be afraid, this is the most terrible dream!"
"I will not cheat my heart to let me relax, and I will not lie to your heart to let you not be stressed. We can't control other people's affairs. We can't control the media, fans, family voices, attention and expectations. .”
"These things will always come when they should come. We have no way to control, and we don't need to control. As long as we can control ourselves and focus on our strength, everyone only needs to use their best strength. We can win this game!"
"I'm afraid of everything that comes with losing this game, so let's win this game!"
"We will definitely be able to win this game, because our strength is the strongest one!"
"Guys, please tell me if you can win this game!"
"can!"
"why!"
"Because we are the strongest!"
Coach Romar, who has always been complained by Ye Si for his lack of passion, is now agitated by the encouragement that Ye Si has in his heart.
Although Ye Si's face was still paralyzed, he followed the University of Washington players around him, pumped his fists and yelled.
Um?
The property panel has changed? !
In addition to weightlessness, there is another state in the physical state? !
Physical state: Encouragement from Coach Romar (strength attribute increased by 5%, explosive attribute increased by 5%, speed attribute increased by 5%, agility attribute increased by 5%, lateral movement attribute increased by 5%, bounce attribute increased by 5%, balance attribute increased 5%, the stamina attribute is reduced by 5%)
Encouraged by Coach Romar, all physical attributes except endurance are increased by 5%, while endurance is reduced by 5%!
Is this the aeration in the game?
Disintegration of Heavenly Demon in martial arts novels?
"It's useless, under such pressure, it's useless to say more!"
Coach K, who was the first to end the training, glanced at the University of Washington next to him.
Although he didn't know what Romar said that made these players so excited.
However, he knew that this would only make things worse!
The tense heartstrings will only become tighter and more likely to break!
This game, Duke, is guaranteed!
The storm of Yes started with him, and it should end with him!