Volume 1 Western Cowboy Chapter 25: Russian and European Twins
After the first game of the regular season, the Cowboys' performance did not disappoint the fans.
Including the previous four warm-up games, this is the Cowboys' fifth big win this season.
Before the game against Buffalo, people were still a little worried that Tony Allen and Wayne's data would decline due to the increase in the intensity of the game.
But the result is that their data was hardly affected at all!
Tony Allen's score once again broke the 30 mark. If he continues to perform like this, he will likely become the first player in Oklahoma State University history to score over 1,000 points in just two seasons.
Although this best junior college-to-undergraduate player is already a senior, his ranking in draft predictions is still improving by leaps and bounds.
Of course, the most surprising thing for the fans in this game was not Tony Allen, but Wayne who achieved all-around data!
24 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 blocks. In the NCAA, such comprehensive data is quite difficult to obtain.
The NCAA game time is shorter than the NBA, and the offensive time for one round is 35 seconds.
Therefore, the number of rounds in a game is much less than that in the NBA.
With a limited number of possessions, college players' statistics often don't look as exaggerated as NBA players'.
But even under these extremely harsh conditions, Wayne managed to achieve close to a triple-double.
This is undoubtedly a remarkable achievement.
The day after the game, when Wayne woke up early in the morning and went to the dormitory door to get the newspaper, he just stayed there.
Because the front-page headline of the Oklahoma Post was a photo of Wayne and Tony Allen having a pleasant conversation on the bench yesterday.
Above the photo, the headline had these words written in eye-catching bold font.
"A 23-point win! The two young players from Russia and China won consecutive games. Will the Big 12 be dominated soon?"
The Oklahoma Post is the best-selling newspaper in Ohio. In this era when the Internet is not well developed and mobile phones cannot be used to read news at will, Ohio residents buy a copy of The Oklahoma Post almost every day to keep up with the news.
In other words, at this moment, at least half of the people in Oklahoma were like Wayne, holding newspapers and recognizing the two basketball stars in the photos.
Oklahoma State University is a traditional powerhouse, so college basketball is very popular in this state.
This means that Wayne and Tony Allen, who have performed well, have now become basketball stars known to everyone in Oklahoma.
When Wayne first saw this report, he was surprised for a moment, but he quickly came to his senses.
After all, this is not the first time he has been in the newspaper here, it’s just the first time he has been on the front page.
But when Wayne went to training in the afternoon, he found that things were far from as simple as he had imagined.
"This..." Wayne was stunned when he walked to the entrance of the Gallagher Eibar Arena.
Wrong way?
No, this is indeed the place where I sweat every day.
So who can explain why so many people gathered at the entrance of the stadium today?
"It's Wei, he's here!"
"Oh my god, it's really him, he's taller than he looks in the newspaper!"
"He's like the Yao Ming of Oklahoma!"
"No, the students here call him the Rain Man of Oklahoma."
Before Wayne could react, he saw a group of enthusiastic fans rushing towards him.
What is certain is that most of these people are not current students at the University of Oklahoma, and many of them appear to be in their thirties or even older.
But they still gathered on campus just to see the two Russian basketball stars that appeared in the newspapers.
After being surrounded by a group of people, Wayne was a little overwhelmed.
In this life... no, I have never encountered such a situation in these two lives.
Some fans held up OSU commemorative T-shirts for Wayne to sign, while others came up to take photos with Wayne.
There were even a few Chinese students who frantically called out "Brother Wei" in Chinese, using such affectionate names.
But to Wayne, this name sounds... a bit strange.
Does this mean that you can last long on the basketball court?
Surrounded by the crowd, for a moment, Wayne even felt like he was an NBA star.
Wayne finally breathed a sigh of relief after he finally got rid of the fans and walked into the stadium.
He looked back at the fans outside the stadium; they were still reluctant to leave.
So…this is my earliest fan base?
In fact, since there are indeed a lot of people with college education in the United States, and there is a high population mobility between cities, most people feel a sense of belonging to the university that even surpasses their sense of belonging to the city.
This is completely different from China.
Because of this, NCAA has extremely high popularity comparable to professional leagues.
Anyone who graduates from this school will always be a fan of his alma mater's basketball team, no matter which city he works or settles down in.
Wayne waved to the fans and prepared to go to the locker room. At this time, he happened to meet Tony Allen who walked in from the other end.
"Wei, you are also blocked?"
"Yeah, otherwise do you think you're the only one so popular?"
"It's crazy, nothing like this happened last season."
"Because last season we weren't strong enough to make the headlines of the best-selling newspaper in the state. Did you see what the newspaper said about the two of us?" Wayne looked at Tony Allen and raised his fist.
"Russia and Europe! I like this name."
Tony understood and lightly bumped fists with Wayne, then they walked towards the locker room side by side.
Eddie Sutton stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window in his office, looking at the crowds of fans outside the stadium and smiling with satisfaction.
Old Sutton is not surprised at the extremely high popularity of Wayne and Tony Allen .
Because right now Russia really needs one or two basketball heroes to liven up the bleak basketball atmosphere of the past few years.
All of this originated from an accident in 2001.
In January 2001, the Cowboys were returning to Stillwater after an away game when one of their three chartered planes crashed in a snowstorm.
The accident directly resulted in the deaths of 10 people including players, trainers, commentators, team managers, and student assistants!
This incident dealt a heavy blow to the entire school and even the entire state, and the entire basketball atmosphere was immersed in sadness.
However, since OSU did not produce any basketball stars in the following years, the morale of the fans was as low as the team.
It was not until this year that the emergence of Wayne and Tony Allen gave the city new hope and new role models.
Russia needs basketball stars now, more than ever.
After that incident, fans across Russia were eager for a new spiritual pillar to emerge.
After waiting for two and a half years, they finally waited for Wayne and Tony.
So, when they saw these two basketball stars in the newspaper, all the Russian fans near Jingshui City gathered together.
Because their appearance means that the history of basketball at OSU is about to open a brilliant new chapter.
The darkest and saddest page has passed.
Wayne and Tony not only brought victory to the fans, but also brought hope to this city and the entire state .
Moreover, the experiences of Wayne and Tony Allen are the most favorite "loser counterattack" dramas of Americans.
One is a player who has been promoted from a junior college to an undergraduate program, and the other is a former substitute.
These two little people persevered step by step and became big stars. What a perfect Hollywood script.
This really hits the Americans' G-spot.
They deserve to be so popular now.
Thinking of this, Sutton sat back in his office chair and leaned back in relaxation.
This season, everything has been going well.
In this special context, if Wayne and Tony Allen can lead the team to a breakthrough performance...
So no matter how they develop in the NBA in the future, their historical status in OSU is unshakable!
Sutton realized that he was coaching two of the greatest players in Ohio State history.
Of course, Sutton will also do his best to lay a solid foundation for Wayne and Tony Allen to enter the NBA.
As a college basketball coach, in addition to leading the team to win, the most important thing is to know how to cultivate young players.
Old Sutton couldn't help but clench his fists.
He felt like he had found the feeling he had in 1995 again.
No, maybe this time they can go further than they did in 1995!
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Rasheed Wallace was very depressed because before the game started today, a damn reporter asked him: "What do you think of Wayne's super performance in the first game of the Big 12 regular season?"
Rashid was furious at the time, thinking that the reporter was making irrelevant remarks.
All the players on the Trail Blazers know that the name "Wayne" is taboo in front of .
Tianzun replied unhappily, "I don't care," and threw himself into the game.
What’s even more depressing is that we lost the game.
Because rumors of the Trail Blazers' rebuilding have been rife this season, everyone has the possibility of being traded. In addition, the two hard-working veterans and locker room stabilizers, Pippen and Sabonis, left this summer, so the Trail Blazers' record this season is not outstanding.
Losing the game was not a big deal, but what made Wallace even more disgusted was that at the post-game press conference, another reporter deliberately found fault with him.
"If Wayne is eventually selected, will you feel pressure when playing against him?"
Looking at the Russian reporter who asked the question, Tianzun's mouth twitched twice.
Am I crazy or are you crazy? Why are you all talking about Wayne?
To be exact, why do you want to talk about Wayne as soon as you see me?
No one really thinks I can't beat him, right? No way, no way?
So after "getting off work", Wallace specifically asked scout Perkins for Wayne's report on the previous game. He wanted to see what Wayne was capable of.
When I looked at the stats, it was 24+7+8+4 in a single game.
"Wow, you're really good... But it was just a college game. Um... That doesn't mean anything!"
Wallace returned home, turned on the TV, and prepared to relax and forget about this fucked up day.
As a result, the NCAA's Top Ten of yesterday was being broadcast on TV.
First, the scene of Wayne chasing and catching Carter was replayed over and over again five times!
"What the hell!"
Tianzun turned off the TV angrily, feeling that his mind was filled with the Asian man's face.
Unconsciously, Wayne, who was still working hard in college, had become an indelible nightmare in Tianzun's heart...
