Xu Yong stood up from the ground, and the pain finally passed.
The other members of the Devils team quickly gathered around him at this time, their eyes becoming more concerned.
Especially Harden, his body was still shaking a little at this time.
This was the first time he had punched someone on the court. While he was nervous, he was also annoyed about why he didn't punch Green more just now.
"Are you okay?" DeRozan said. He also punched just now. He is much more professional than Harden when it comes to fighting.
It's a pity that Green's kid reacted quickly and dodged after receiving a few punches. He must have been beaten many times before.
Xu Yong did not answer them, but pushed them away and walked straight towards Green.
The scene was filled with cheers from Arizona fans.
How could you be okay even after being raped like that?
Xu Yong is too tough!
But when they saw the eye-catching number 23 on his back, they seemed to understand completely.
The Pistons' "Bad Boys" failed to destroy Michael Jordan in the end, and Michigan also couldn't destroy their No. 23!
But soon, the cheers turned into agitation.
Because Xu Yong's posture was to beat Green!
Green was a little confused at this time. He thought about many possibilities, but nothing would happen without Xu Yong.
He remembered Xu Yong’s nickname, Satan.
Isn't this guy really a devil from hell? !
So when Xu Yong walked towards him with a cold face, his pores exploded and he got goosebumps all over his body.
The reaction at the scene made the referees off the line finally react and quickly went up to hold Xu Yong.
Xu Yong was pulled by several referees. He pointed directly at Green and said, "Wait for me."
The game entered a technical timeout, and players on both sides were persuaded to return to the bench.
Sandek then called Pella over to check if Xu Yong was injured.
If the future star he worked so hard to bring from Seattle is wasted, he will go to the locker room after the game and fuck Green directly.
After a while, the referees' penalty came out.
Green was called for a flagrant foul and was not ejected.
Arizona fans booed.
On the Devils bench, the players were also cursing.
But at this moment, Xu Yong laughed.
"Are you okay?" Harden asked, and Xu Yong's smile made people panic.
Xu Yong shook his head.
Originally, he was still worried because there was still a final to play. After all, if he couldn't play in the final because of beating Green, it would be more than worth the loss.
So he originally wanted to bring someone to trouble Green after the game, or at least beat him up with his own hands.
However, the referee's decision saved so many troubles.
Just after the penalty was made, the referee went to the two teams for some communication and reminded both sides of their actions in the next game.
The reason why they made this penalty was not only the standard of whistleblowing in this era, but more importantly, because Xu Yong was not injured.
The referee's call is about fair law enforcement, but people are not machines. Being human, there will be subjective factors in it.
Similar situations are not uncommon in basketball games. Jordan alone can be pulled out to make a highlight.
The reminder is because the Palace of Auburn Hills happened in Detroit that year, and they don't want the same thing to happen again.
After that, the game continued.
Players from both sides returned to the court again.
In order to avoid conflicts, the head coaches of both sides temporarily placed Xu Yong and Green on the bench.
During this period, the whistle on the field was blown very tightly and the game was relatively fragmented, but the situation was obviously stabilized.
At this time, Xu Yong and Green were replaced one after another.
Green has obviously calmed down at this time. Although the referee's decision is in his favor, he really can't laugh now.
DeRozan is right, he has indeed received a lot of beatings in the past. When he was a child, he was often beaten by those who occupied the court in order to compete for the court, and he was also thrown into the trash can many times.
It is precisely because of those experiences that he has an accurate sense of the scale of harm.
Xu Yong was raped like this and still looked like a normal person. He was really scared.
In the Devils' offensive round, Xu Yong asked for the ball and singled out Green. He passed Green with a falling step and went inside for a dunk.
After landing, Xu Yong looked back at Green and said lightly: "Are you afraid?"
This sentence directly hit Green's nerves, and his face instantly rose.
If it weren't for his dark face, he would be a pig liver now.
Xu Yong smiled.
That's it. After Green came on the court, he looked like he had no balls. It was not easy for him to start.
The game continued. After being provoked by Xu Yong, Green showed his due defensive intensity.
It was another offensive round for the Devils. Xu Yong took advantage of the screen and rushed inside to prepare for a dunk.
At this time, Green bypassed the screen and shrank to the basket, reaching out directly to pull Xu Yong.
But at this time, he didn't notice the raised corners of Xu Yong's mouth at all.
At the moment of contact with Green in the air, Xu Yong directly showed his knee.
A classic move from the CBA version of Marbury—flying knee.jpg!
When he was explaining CBA back then, he didn't see this action too much.
As soon as Green stretched out his hand, he felt a black shadow rushing towards his door at lightning speed.
"boom!"
He had no time to dodge, and came into direct contact. Then he felt as if his face had been hit by a car. His whole body fell backwards completely uncontrollably, and then he fell heavily to the ground.
The referee's whistle sounded immediately, and he rushed into the field to stop the players from both sides.
Green was groaning in pain on the ground at this time.
He was sweating profusely from the pain now, and the pain was not in one place.
His face was now covered in blood, and he didn't know if his nose was broken directly by Xu Yong's kick.
And because he was unconscious after being kicked, he took no protective action at all when he landed, which resulted in his back landing directly.
So he really couldn't do anything but moan at the moment.
"Are you okay?" Izzo also arrived on the court at this time and asked Green.
Green's reaction was to move his mouth, and then blood came out of his mouth.
This scene made the referee gasp.
I thought Green was a ruthless person, but I didn't expect Xu Yong to be a wolf killer...
After a few minutes, the staff found a stretcher and carried Green directly off the field.
There were bloodstains on the ground, and staff were still wiping them there.
The scene was extremely agitated, a scene that no one in Michigan had ever seen before.
The referee also quickly found Xu Yong to communicate.
"He pulled me first. I didn't want to be fouled again. It was my instinctive protective action." Xu Yong's explanation left the referee speechless.
Because that's the fact. If Xu Yong didn't show that flying knee, he might be pulled out of the air by Green again.
There is a "non-compromise law" in American law. To put it bluntly, it is self-defense. There is nothing wrong with Xu Yong's behavior.
Therefore, after the technical timeout, the referees issued a penalty, and Xu Yong was only whistled for a technical foul.
Such a penalty naturally led to boos from Michigan fans.
He understands the truth, but Green was abolished, and it was terrible!
But their voices soon disappeared.
Because as the game continued, they found that Arizona State University was starting to get tough.
Originally, MSU was already lagging behind by a big score before Green came up. If they were beaten like this again, there would be no fighting spirit left.
But Arizona State University was very motivated after being made such a fuss about, and it had no intention of showing any mercy on other people's territory.
You play so dirty with me, but I still have a fucking hand!
25 points, 30 points, 40 points, 45 points...
The referee was afraid of any further conflicts between the two sides, and the whistle was blown very tightly. The Michigan State University team that dared to cause trouble was ejected two more times.
At the end of the game, the score on the court was fixed at 108-50.
Arizona State University ended up beating Michigan State University by 58 points!
This point difference directly broke the NCAA Final Four record!
And after the game, Michigan fans didn't bother the Arizona State players.
There was no way, it was Green who made the first move, which was too unreasonable.
…
"Xu, are you really okay?" The game was over. When he returned to the hotel, Harden couldn't help but ask.
He watched Xu Yong fall, and based on his understanding of Xu Yong, he could not rule out the possibility of Xu Yong fighting with injuries for the sake of team morale.
Xu Yong smiled and shook his head, and he had already thought of his words in advance: "James, this is why I do high-intensity training. It helps me have more physical energy, lower body fat rate, and stronger bones." and muscles, which prevents me from getting injured.”
Harden was stunned for a moment after hearing this. Forget about physical fitness and body fat percentage, his bones are just like shrimp?
But he finally nodded because Xu Yong told him that his idol was Jordan.
Jordan, isn't that what it is?
He also suffered serious injuries early in his career. After his comeback, he developed his physical fitness under the training of Tim Grover, and has rarely been injured since then.
So is this weird for Xu Yong?
No, this is normal.
…
After a two-hour break, the Devils team members went to the hotel conference room together.
The semifinals of the Final Four are all held on the same day. Almost three hours after their game, the game between North Carolina and Villanova will be played.
There was no room for them at the scene, so Sandek arranged for them to watch the live broadcast in the hotel.
"Xu, who do you think we will play in the finals?" DeRozan asked after sitting down.
"No need to guess, North Carolina." Xu Yong's answer was firm.
Although he didn't pay much attention to the NCAA before his rebirth, Tyler Hansbrough insisted on realizing his dream of winning the championship in four years of college, which was featured in "Sports Weekly" that year.
And you don’t need to be blind to this. North Carolina has been playing all the way, averaging 20+ points per game. The smallest point difference was in the conference finals against the Oklahoma Sooners, Griffin’s team, which won by 12 points. point.
North Carolina has been ranked first in the survey this year, and it feels like it is on a hiatus when it reaches the championship.
The core players all have NBA prospects. They all played three or four years in college. They have talent, chemistry, and lineup depth. If they hadn't met Kansas last year, they would have been champions.
This year, Duke is the only one that is close on paper, but Duke has so many four- and five-star high school students that no one is convinced. It has been eliminated by Villanova when the 16 advanced to 8.
While talking, the game between North Carolina and Villanova has begun.
Villanova's experience this year is very similar to that of Michigan State. As the third seed in the conference, it successively defeated the first and second seeds in the same conference to reach the semifinals.
However, just as Xu Yong expected, not long after the game started, the situation became one-sided.
North Carolina's outside shooting is so accurate.
Wayne Ellington, Danny Green, and Ty Lawson, these three people give people the impression that they are available on the outside.
A quick aside here is that the NCAA's three-point line is the same as the three-point line in international competitions, and is half a meter shorter than the NBA's.
Therefore, even Xu Yong cannot use their NBA outside shooting percentage to match their three-point confidence in the NCAA.
Likewise, the NBA's achievements cannot be used to measure North Carolina core Tyler Hansbrough's dominance in the NCAA.
As North Carolina's school history scoring leader, Hansbrough's influence on the game is real.
As a center, he is 2.06 meters tall and weighs 113 kilograms. In terms of size, he is only slightly smaller than Love.
Moreover, he also has power forward skills such as turning over and making jump shots. He is not a rough guy like Thabeet, which makes it difficult for the NCAA to have insiders to really restrict him.
So North Carolina's style of play is actually more one-star and four-star.
At the end of the game, North Carolina defeated Villanova 83-69 and successfully joined Arizona State University in the finals.
According to team statistics, North Carolina made 11 of 22 three-pointers, which can only be described as "terrifying" in a 40-minute NCAA game.
Personal statistics showed that Ellington had 20 points, Lawson had 22 points, Hansbrough had 18 points, 11 rebounds and 4 steals, and Green had 12 points. There were many and stable scoring points.
After watching the game, the conference room was extremely quiet.
Originally, except for that guy Albert who shouted twice, the others didn't think much about the championship. Reaching the semi-finals was considered a perfect ending.
As a result, Green came for a while, and then met an opponent who happened to have a restrained style, and he entered the finals.
Once you reach the finals, if you say you have no idea about the championship anymore, that's purely goat behavior.
But after watching the game, I felt like North Carolina really couldn't win.
