This striker is a bit of a monster

Chapter 127 vs UCLA

The evening of March 2006, 4.

The NCAA Finals are about to start at the Indianapolis Dome.

3 spectators gathered in the dome, just to witness the champion of the new NCAA championship.

Even the audience in the last row couldn't even see the big screen clearly, but it felt good for them to be able to come in and watch it.

This is a sports carnival day for the entire United States. Watching the game is second, and the most important thing is to feel the strong basketball atmosphere.

For this reason, the TV station's prime-time American dramas were suspended, and even the professional league NBA, which is also a basketball game, was suspended for one day, just to make way for the NCAA finals.

Many popular TV stations have already put on the screen of the NCAA finals early.

Of course, some important events or news will still be broadcast in a small corner of the screen. As for whether the audience can see it, it is not the TV station's concern.

The attention of the NCAA finals every year even exceeds that of many NBA playoffs, even the NBA finals in unpopular years.

Not only ordinary basketball fans, but also many NBA players watched the game on TV at the scene or at home.

Although the George Mason University Patriots did not have seniors with NBA resumes, they also invited many seniors of the Patriots to witness this history. Even the president of George Mason University was sitting in the training uniform of the Patriots. The front row of the auditorium.

And the parents and friends of the players.

The slogans displayed in the auditorium of George Mason University's Wei camp were 'We are making history' and 'We are all legends'.

On the UCLA side, there are many seniors who help out.

NBA legend, historical scoring champion, winner of six championships, legendary star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who came out of UCLA.

Just retired from the NBA, he is also the legendary star of the NBA Indiana Pacers and UCLA star Reggie Miller, and the first-generation leader of the Golden State Gang, Baron Davis.

In addition, there are Pacers star Jermaine O'Neal, Magic Johnson who came to watch Zhou Lin... and other stars were present.

In the commentary seat of TNT TV station is their fat and thin combination, Wang Zha in the commentary world, 'American Yang Yi' A. Smith and 'Jazz' Charles Barkley.

As for the domestic live broadcast room, it was already overcrowded. This kind of game was also broadcast live by X Wave Sports, which was relatively popular at the time. At this moment, many domestic fans are constantly refreshing the upper limit of the number of people watching in the live broadcast room.

At the same time, there will be a lot of computer terminals with average computer configuration or insufficient network level, which will keep disconnecting, and then they will not be able to squeeze in. Some people even have to constantly refresh the text page and watch in the no-screen viewing mode.

The server provided by Wave X is already on the verge of collapse.

After all, China has a population of more than one billion. Even if the love for sports is not as strong as that of the Yankees, the base is too large. The domestic viewing data has reached tens of millions, which is already comparable to the peak ratings of the United States. Rate up.

X Wave's background engineers are also constantly repairing the crashed server to maintain the stability of the live broadcast room.

This game was still co-hosted by Su Qun and Ma Jian.

Ma Jian, who came down from the basketball court, signed with X Wave a few years ago and served as a commentator.

Different from other commentaries at this stage, Ma Jian is not only a basketball player, but also has the experience of studying in the United States, which is one of the few Chinese. He even played NCAA at Utah Community College in the United States. The dream of the NBA is broken, but he can be regarded as one of the pioneers of the Chinese people for the revival of basketball sports.

It can be said that Ma Jian's rather tortuous basketball resume is the only one among domestic basketball pioneers.

And having NCAA experience is also the biggest reason why he was chosen to explain this NCAA finals.

Interestingly, Ma Jianben went to one of the two finalists today, UCLA.

However, Ma Jian's NCAA resume is far inferior to that of Zhou Lin.

With insufficient academic qualifications and unreasonable predictions, he was recommended to Utah Community College, where he learned languages ​​and played basketball at the same time.

Firstly, Zhou Lin's status in the team. Ma Jian played well at Utah Community College, but he was far inferior to Zhou Lin's team's core status. Secondly, he stayed for two years. Utah Community College is a team in the NCAA Division III league. It was not promoted to Utah University until its junior year, and it began to compete in the NCAA Division I league. Most of the time in the team was a bench player.

"To be able to sit here today, I am really happy and proud of Zhou Lin."

Ma Jian, who is nearly forty years old and hastily retired, looked at the green Zhou Lin in the broadcast screen at the moment, and still couldn't help but said with emotion: "Zhou Lin has been to the United States since he was 14 years old. In the four years of high school, there will not be too many problems in terms of prophecy and cultural differences. This is one of the reasons why I think Zhou Lin will develop very well in the future. If I had studied in the United States during high school, it might be possible. I followed Zhou Lin's path a few years ago."

The reason why Ma Jian was given up by UCLA was because he graduated from a sports school, and the language was also a problem, and these problems did not exist in Zhou Lin.

Su Qun nodded and said: "China's basketball will definitely get better and better, and there will be more and more attempts. I believe that with Zhou Linzhuyu in front, China's basketball circle will also be touched. In the future, there will definitely be more players." The basketball training program will be rooted earlier, such as sending children to the United States for training in junior high school and high school, and bringing good training habits and skills back to China."

Ma Jian nodded and said: "Okay, let's turn our attention back to the game and talk about the two teams. Let's talk about the George Mason University Patriots where Zhou Lin is. This university is located in Virginia, USA. , the regional league CAA it belongs to is not particularly strong, and the Patriots themselves have never won the NCAA National Championship, and the number of times they have entered the NCAA National Championship is also one of the few, only 4 times, interested friends can go to see At first glance, as for UCLA, it is a well-known university team in the United States. It has trained famous basketball players such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, and Reggie Miller, as well as their head coach John Wooden. He is a famous coach in history, and the John Wooden Award, which is the best male athlete award in college, is named after him."

Su Qun raised his glasses and said: "Since Mr. Ma Jian mentioned John Wooden, I will derive it. During his time as the coach of UCLA, John Wooden once led the unprecedented seven consecutive NCAA championships, and UCLA currently has more championships. There are only 11 times, and there is another statistic that can be said, UCLA’s winning rate in the finals is over 90%, 12 of them entered 11 and won the championship, and only entered the finals in 1980 and lost the championship.”

(End of this chapter)