Jamie Dixon, head coach of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, anxiously rushes to the players to speak.

He took over the Panthers in 2003, when the team had dominated the Big East League for two consecutive years. The pressure can be imagined. If the Panthers' consecutive championship record was cut in his hands, fans would only think that he was incompetent rather than the team's lineup had changed.

Fortunately, the Panthers completed the three-game winning streak in the Big East under his leadership.

Connecticut's recruitment remained strong this year. Emecca Okafor, who joined Kangda only ranked 99th in the United States, completed the reversal of the Joker Duck turning into a Swan. Not only did he become the hottest inside player in college basketball, but he also had the opportunity to beat the stars in the draft in June this year and enter the league as the No. 1 pick.

In addition to Okafor, Kangda also has many new stars with NBA prospects.

Their lineup depth and talent reserves are not only the best in the East China League, but even if they search for NCAA, there are few teams that can compare with.

Due to Connecticut's rise, it is indeed difficult for the Panthers to achieve four consecutive dominances in the Big East Championship this year, but they did not expect that before they could challenge Conda, Villanueva, who was beaten so hard that it was impossible to find North during the regular season, brought the most direct challenge.

Ask Trutmann, he can't handle Wei Xia, but his mentality exploded.

Dixon immediately made a response, allowing substitute power forward Mark McCroll to replace Trutman, and at the same time, the offensive core Carl Crowther and Chris Tuft, who was determined to win, cheered up, devoted all his energy to the game, and played the Wildcats as those pure Huskys with royal blood.

Crowther's sense of crisis was awakened by Dickson.

He is the core of Pittsburgh's offensive, but he will not be in the NBA in the future. He will be remembered by Europeans, but for Americans, European basketball will always be lower.

Only 400 people can fight NBA every year, and Crowther is not among them.

Not having the NBA prospect does not mean that he has no strength. Even those American foreign players who have been to the CBA in the future, as long as they open their resumes, they will find that they have all had glorious college careers.

Clauser's amazing three-point range scared Villanova into a cold sweat.

Tuft is a senior supporter around Crowther. He has no strong offensive ability. In terms of talent, he is not as good as Jason Fraser. He has a good physique and top-notch defensive awareness. In addition, he can average 8 rebounds per game with one hand. He doesn't attack much but has irreplaceable value and role.

Wei Xia and the newly replaced power forward McCroll spent several rounds.

His height is taller than Trutman, his figure is inferior to his skills, and he can be said to be inferior to his height in all aspects.

Including his mentality, he does not have the mentality of Trutman that he wants to eat people.

The advantage of Buddhism is that it is difficult for the opponent to affect him, and he will only do what he should do.

After several minutes of dull confrontation with him, Wei Xia finally gave up the effect of playing Trutman on him. He gave up the ball attack, ran more and walked more. Tuft was thinking about the title of Rookie of the Year and always paid attention to Wei Xia's movements.

The distracted Tuft allowed Villanueva to find an opportunity, and Allen Ray rushed to the penalty area with a bomb.

Randy Fery shot accurately.

Costy Sampter's underrated ball-holding attacks were shown.

The Wildcats showed strength no less than the Panthers. The two sides fought against the entire first half. Villanova maintained his lead until the end of the half with the advantage established at the beginning.

39 to 35

"The 4-point lead is not much. Villanova has not reached the safety line yet. If you want to win, you have to do better."

In the first half, Wei Xia scored 8 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists.

In addition to playing the whole half habitually, no one found it strange, Wright asked for the second half: "There is only one Big East Rookie of the Year in Villanueva's history, and he is Tim Thomas in the 1996-97 season. Yes, it is the genius who entered the league with the seventh pick in the first round. I think this is a kind of inheritance. In my eyes, Chris Tuft's talent is not comparable to you. You must not lose to him in the competition for the Rookie of the Year."

Wei Xia did not think this was a sufficient and necessary thing.

If Wright really thought so, he would work harder in the second half.

As soon as Wright said that, Wei Xia's teammates began to cheer.

They seemed to be talking about a very easy thing, as if Wei Xia could easily compete with Taft.

Moreover, the reasons are clear and justified.

Wei Xia is the 15th high school in the United States in 2003. What about Tuft? It is just a "small" high school student in the United States.

Judging from the data, Wei Xia, who has played as a substitute for most of the season, is no worse than Taft.

As long as Wei Xia can play better than the opponent tonight, there is no reason not to be elected as the Big East League's Rookie of the Year.

After a long time of coaxing in the locker room, Wright only took a few minutes to formulate the strategy for the second half.

The gap between Pittsburgh and Villanueva lies in its core talent.

Villanueva's lineup is younger and more dynamic, while Pittsburgh has more firepower points, but its core talent is not very good.

At the beginning of the second half, Pittsburgh's changes were amazing.

Pittsburgh has two future NBA players, one is Tuft and the other is future NBA second round pick Aaron Gray.

It happened that both of them were insiders.

The University of Pittsburgh was accurate in Villanueva's four-guard lineup, and the depth of the inside line was not good, so he replaced two talented inside players to try to play height suppression.

Seeing their second half start, Gray was at the center and Tuft was at the power forward, and he happened to face Wei Xia.

"There was no chance to fight the superior wish and Chris magically against the superior in this game. We will use their match to judge who is the Big East Rookie of the Year."

You know, this comparison is not good for Wei Xia.

They are not full-time power forwards, but just to cater to the team system. When they face centers like Tuft who come to play power forwards, the gap in physical confrontation is no longer in the same dimension.

Tuft looked at Wei Xia, a 210-cm long man faced a 196-cm double-energy guard in the penalty area.

The height and arm length, weight and strength... the difference between the two sides as inside is simply obvious.

"You'd better apply for an end before I smash you to pieces." Tuft smiled confidently, "When the game starts, I won't show mercy just because you look as weak as an ant!"
Chapter completed!