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Chapter 21 Arriving in Charlotte

After the Devil Deacon team entered the Sweet Sixteen, the school immediately held a celebration party for the Devil Deacon team.

This celebration can be regarded as an incentive to reward the Devil Deacon team for initially achieving their goals.

In addition, at the party, the principal also gave a speech in person, asking the Devil Deacon team to make persistent efforts to enter the quarter-finals, semi-finals, and even win the championship.

Since the establishment of the Devil Deacon team, they have never won the NCAA championship, so they hope to break the zero record this year and achieve a qualitative leap.

And with the championship, next year even if the current core three members of the Devil's Deacon team are gone, they can still recruit star players with the title of champion.

In this way, compared with before, the strength has also improved, and it will be able to enter March Madness again, forming a virtuous circle!
At the same time, the other two ACC teams that entered March Madness, North Carolina and Duke, both advanced to the top 16 with their heads held high.

In other words, three of the 16 team spots this year belong to the ACC league.

This can't help but make ACC fans proud.

However, the next opponent of the Devil Deacon team is the University of Washington, a traditional strong team in the NCAA.

UW has had a big season this season, entering the national championship first as the No. [-] seed in the Pac-[-].

Secondly, the University of Washington's previous two rounds were easily defeated by opponents.

There is no possibility of a dark horse at all.

In fact, the teams that entered the Sweet Sixteen are all teams with a balanced offense and defense.

And each team has its own star players.

Like Jiang Yan of the Devil's Deacons, UW's centerpiece is their swingman Terrence Ross.

In the draft predictions of ESPN and TNT, he is higher than Jiang Yan.

And as the core of the team, he was also selected to the best team of the Pac-[-] league this year, and he has a strong dominance on the court
In other words, in the NCAA league, he is a superstar!
Moreover, there is another presence of the University of Washington that cannot be ignored is their ball-handling post-Tony Roten.

In the Pacific-12 school league, he ranked fifth in points per game with 16.0, eighth in assists with 3.7 and second in steals with 1.9 per game.

Elected as the Rookie of the Year in the Pacific-12 School League and one of five candidates for the Wayman-Tisdale Award for Rookie of the Year.

The media’s evaluation of him is that he has excellent ability to attack the basket with the ball, has strength, bounce and height; has the ability to walk to the free throw line with high frequency, stable ball control, excellent overall view, and has an NBA-based body condition.

Therefore, whether the Devil Deacon team can enter the quarter-finals is to solve the backcourt double guns that the University of Washington relies on to win!

Jeff watched the media's evaluation of Ross and Luo Teng, and couldn't help taking a breath.

Because the opponent has two guns, and the team starts with only one shield!
this is a big problem!

Jeff is troubled here. If someone who can defend goes up, he can only replace one of Javi or Williams!

Jeff's heart is inclined to replace Javi. After all, Williams and Javi's defense is not up to standard, but Javi's offense needs the ball, and Williams' offense is just running to catch the ball and shoot.

It's just that he has such an idea, but it's not easy to tell Jia Wei. After all, now that he has entered the Sweet Sixteen, Jia Wei is also a hero!
In the end, Jeff thought about it, and let Jiang Yan talk to Jia Wei about it, after all, Jiang Yan is a player.

Early the next morning, Jeff came to the arena and called Jiang Yan to his office when there was only Jiang Yan in the arena and no one else came.

"Yan, I want to talk to you today!" Jeff took a sip of his coffee and said to Jiang Yan while enjoying the bitter taste.

Jiang Yan's mind is full of fog, is there anything else he needs to do?
"Coach, tell me!"

"Yan, do you know that our next game is against the University of Washington?"

"Ok!"

"Then do you know their double guns in the backcourt?"

"gun?"

I'm still pissed off!

Jiang Yan shook her head, expressing that she didn't know.

Also, many teams have never faced each other in the national championship, so how can they know the opponent's situation!

"It's normal if you don't know!" Jeff shook his head, knowing that his disciple has always been a monster who doesn't pay attention to these things and only knows about training.

Then, he took out a stack of newspapers from the drawer, which were all news about the University of Washington.

Jiang Yan took it and looked at Jeff suspiciously, wondering why Jeff would give this to him!
"These newspapers are all about our next opponent, the University of Washington. Take a look!"

"Oh!" After Jiang Yan responded, she flipped through the newspaper and read it.

'Ross dominated the game again, scored 30 points, and at the same time brutally abused Stanford, is this the next Jordan? '

'Roton dominated the game!He let USC's 40 minutes of hard work be reduced to ashes under his one pass and one shot. Is he the next Stokes? '

'...'

There are a lot of news like this, but among the news about the University of Washington, only two people will be praised, namely Rogers and Roten.

These are two 'Roche Brothers'!
"Coach, what do you mean?" Jiang Yan took a rough look, closed the newspaper in her hand, and asked suspiciously.

"What I mean is, you go and talk to Jarvie, next game, he will be a substitute, Sol will be the starting guard!"

"Sol is going to guard this Rose?" Jiang Yan thought for a while, and knew the coach's plan.

And Jiang Yan also probably knew the tactical arrangement for the next game.

Isn't it just why the opponent plays defense?
After all, the opponent has two good passers, playing a fast break with the opponent, isn't this courting death?

Obviously, Jeff couldn't be so confused!

"Yes, I can see Sol's improvement on the defensive end. Since the game against North Carolina a month ago, in training, Sol's defense has given me too many surprises!
And this Rose is the opponent's strongest offensive player. He was originally assigned to you to defend, but Roten also needs someone to defend. After much deliberation, Sol is the most suitable starter! "Jeff said his thoughts in one go.

What else can Jiang Yan say, even if the coach's status is not the highest in the team, there is nothing to say about replacing Jia Wei!

Nodding her head, Jiang Yan immediately walked out of the office, ready to continue the previous training.

As for talking to Jia Wei, there is no rush. After all, it is the Sweet [-] round, so we should give them five days to rest.

At around nine o'clock in the morning, everyone on the team came to the arena for training.

But at this time, there is no lineup confrontation training, but each practice their own.

The training is just to maintain their respective states, so as not to have no touch with basketball for several days, resulting in no shooting touch on the court.

Time flew by, and the day's training time passed like this.

The members of the Devil Deacon team were preparing to go home one after another, and Jia Wei was naturally one of them.

Jiang Yan stopped the shot, and then shouted at Jia Wei: "Jia Wei, wait a minute, I have something to tell you!"

Jia Wei was taken aback when he heard the words, then nodded, and came to Jiang Yan to see what he had to say.

"Jia Wei, you will probably be a substitute!"

"Substitute?" Jia Wei was very surprised. After all, he was the starter, and suddenly told him that he was required to be a substitute, which made him a little unacceptable, so he was a little suspicious.

"Well! The opponent's shooting guard in the next game is Terrence Ross of the Pacific [-] League. In order to win, the coach has to wrong you!

Play with a substitute lineup! "Jiang Yan said it clearly, there is no need to hide this matter at all.

And it's better to say it!
"Oh, that's it! Then I have no objection, after all, it's for winning!" After receiving the explanation, Jia Wei didn't feel anything. After all, he still has the ball after he is on the bench. He can play as he wants.

.........

On March 3th, the Devil Deacon team was ready to go to Charlotte.

After all, the Sweet Sixteen will already be broadcast live across the United States, and the audience will not be able to accommodate so many teams in home and away games.

Therefore, in order to accommodate more fans and sell more tickets, games after the top [-] will be held in various NBA arenas.

As soon as the Devil Deacon team arrived at the Hilton Hotel in Charlotte on the bus, Jiang Yan met a girl he had met before, Jennifer Lawrence, who was the eldest cousin, but he didn't know that he had met the first cousin.

Now her reputation is not small, especially after she played "X-Men: First Station" last year, she has attracted more attention.

But the big cousin didn't forget that Jiang Yan who once 'shot' her in the face.

Although no one knew about this embarrassing incident, she firmly remembered it.

The eldest cousin looked at the members of the Devil's Deacon team who entered the hotel one after another and wore ball uniforms. When she turned her head, she knew that Jiang Yan and the others were here to participate in the Sweet [-] match.

Thinking that she was going to meet the director of the movie "The Hunger Games" later, but thinking of the way Jiang Yan 'shot' her back then, she gritted her teeth and took out the tight Apple Five.

This is a prototype that Apple has yet to release.

"Hey, Lily, is Charlotte going to a basketball game?"

"Yes!"

"Give me those two tickets in the front row!" After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

"Hello..." Little did they know that Lily over there wanted to say that there was no way to buy tickets now.

After Jiang Yan and the others put their things in the room, they prepared to go to the Time Warner Arena to practice.

After all, this is an unfamiliar environment and needs to be familiarized with.

But when they came to Warner, the University of Washington players were already training there in full swing.

I guess I arrived in Charlotte yesterday.

This time, the two sides kept to themselves and occupied half of the field for training without any conflicts.

After practice, Jeff took the players to the Michelin restaurant opposite the Hilton Hotel to have a big meal.

But the money is reimbursed by the school!
This time the school was very happy that the Devil Deacon team was able to break into the Sweet Sixteen. When celebrating that day, the principal waved his hand and directly tripled the funding for Jeff.

That's why Jeff had the courage to bring Jiang Yan and the others to have a big meal!

(End of this chapter)