Chapter 8 Strength out of the ozone layer
On October 2, the opening game of the Greater Northeast Athletic League men’s basketball is about to begin.
The reason why this game is designated as the opening game is not because there is anything special about Butler College or St. Joseph's College, but simply because Stephen Jackson, the former favorite of heaven, will play.
As the most decorated player in the history of the Northeastern Athletic Conference, Jackson has enjoyed considerable attention.
The home field is the gymnasium of Butler College. Half an hour before the game, the gymnasium was already filled with thousands of spectators.
The coaches and players of both sides sat on both sides of the court. The Grizzlies team was a little shabby, with only one coach, Jiang Dongbing, and ten players. The Monk team was actually not much better.
"Stephen, although the standards of this game are very low, it is still an NCAA game."
"As your NCAA debut, I hope you will be full of firepower and must score forty points, no, more than fifty points!"
"In addition, as the captain of the team, you must also lead the team to defend well. We must not only win the opponent, but also beat the opponent by a big margin!"
Jiang Dongbing was mobilizing his ace player Jackson before the game. David Taillon was of course his ace player, but no matter what Jiang Dongbing said, he couldn't get any response from David, so he simply stopped talking to David.
Communicate thoughts.
Anyway, Robin was also at the scene and was communicating with David at the moment.
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With the referee's whistle, the starting players from both sides began to take the field.
David Taillon walked to the midfield line with the opponent's center player, preparing to execute the opening jump ball.
The opponent's center's eyes were full of despair. He was less than 1.9 meters tall. Facing the figure of a prehistoric mammoth like David Taillon, how could he win the jump ball?
Sure enough, David didn't even lift his toes, directly passed the ball to his teammates, and then rushed towards the front basket.
The teammate who caught the ball didn't dare to hesitate and transferred the ball directly to Jackson's hands.
Except for David Taillon, Jackson should be the tallest player on the court, but with a speed that did not match his height, he passed the defensive players in front of him one after another and rushed all the way to the basket.
Only a bang was heard, and Jackson completed a two-handed dunk in a moment, which attracted loud cheers from the audience.
Because players are generally shorter in height, in previous third-tier league games, one division might not be able to produce many dunks throughout the season.
Now Jackson comes up and throws a powerful dunk, which is extremely pleasing to the eye.
This dunk may be the most explosive dunk in the history of the Northeast Athletic Conference...
Enjoying the cheers of the audience, Jackson seemed to have regained the feeling of dominating the court in high school, and he began to let himself go.
In the opponent's offensive round, Jackson used his long arms to directly steal the ball, and then counterattacked alone with the ball, once again delivering a wonderful dunk.
It was the opponent's round again. Although Jackson failed to steal the ball this time, after the opponent made a mid-range shot, Jackson flew to grab the rebound, twisted around and passed several defenders, and successfully scored two more points!
In just the first minute or so of the game, Jackson had already demonstrated his god-like strength.
It's not that Jackson is as strong as a god, but that his opponent is too weak, and the gap between him and Jackson is simply indescribable.
According to Jiang Dongbing's estimation, the strength of the Monk team in front of him may not be as good as the level of domestic CUBA in his previous life, which is the Chinese University Student League.
And what about Jackson’s current strength? He’s almost at the level of an NBA chief substitute!
Imagine letting an NBA chief bench player play in CUBA. What would it be like? It would be an absolute one-sided massacre.
It was indeed a one-sided massacre on the field. Jackson slaughtered the entire opponent's team by himself.
Jiang Dongbing's mood at this moment was indescribable. He was originally trying to hold back a big move today, but his opponent was too weak, so the big move didn't look scary enough.
David Taillon is completely running back and forth on the court. Jackson's shooting percentage is too high. There are no offensive rebounds to grab at all. Jackson also grabs a lot of backcourt rebounds, resulting in David's statistics being very poor.
Eye-catching.
The NCAA competition system has two halves of twenty minutes each. After thirteen minutes of play in the first half, the game was completely over with no suspense.
The Grizzlies scored 38 points in 13 minutes, 34 of which all came from Jackson!
In just 13 minutes, Jackson scored 34 points on 17-for-18 shooting, which was jaw-dropping.
On the other hand, the Monk team only scored 5 points, and the super score difference of 38:5 was enough to show the huge gap in strength between the two sides.
Jackson on the court not only dominated the offensive end, but also made it difficult for the opponent to breathe on the defensive end.
The overwhelming height and wingspan of the opponent makes Jackson's defensive range extremely wide. The opponent's half-hearted players are very slow to transfer the ball, which gives Jackson great defensive convenience.
With such a terrifying score difference, Jiang Dongbing was too embarrassed to keep Jackson on the court. After calling a timeout, he replaced Jackson.
"Let's take a rest first and let the opponent chase points. Don't beat them to death with a stick."
"Wait until the second half." Jiang Dongbing said to Jackson who was coming off the field.
Jackson laughed naively, he enjoyed the hearty feeling of beating his opponent.
What Jiang Dongbing never expected was that he originally replaced Jackson with the intention of allowing the opponent to make up for the shortcomings. Not to mention completely filling such a huge point difference, at least get it back to within 20 points.
As a result, after Jackson came off the court, the point difference widened at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The four scumbag players on the court were like killers, shooting every shot accurately...
Jiang Dongbing didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He invited these scumbag players to practice shooting with David Taillon for a month. When his own team was completely full of momentum and the opponent had lost their fighting spirit, their combat effectiveness was extremely astonishing.
When the referee blew the whistle to end the first half, the score difference between the two sides had reached 56:16. The Grizzlies beat their opponents by 40 points at halftime!
The game has already been played like this. There is no need to continue playing. The strength of both teams is not at the same level.
The Monks are on the horizon, and the Grizzlies have already broken out of the ozone layer.
Jiang Dongbing simply kept doing nothing. Since the situation was already like this, he simply let Jackson play and rack up points.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, the Jackson Tigers came down the mountain and played for a full 20 minutes, scoring another explosive 41 points.
With 75 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists, 6 steals and 4 blocks, Jackson gave the audience a game they will never forget.
This is because Jackson's enthusiasm waned in the second half and he did not go all out to score. If he was at full strength, his score tonight would definitely exceed the 80 mark.
At first glance, such a score seems incredible, but in Jiang Dongbing's view, with Jackson's ability, even scoring 100 points in a game is not an exaggeration.
The current NCAA single-game scoring record is 100 points, which was set by Frank Selvey in a game in 1954.
Frank's single-game record of 100 points is completely different from the game Jackson played, and the opponent's strength gap is not at the same level.
Jiang Dongbing remembers that in 2012, a player named Jack Taylor scored horrific records of 138 points and 109 points in a single season.
Taylor's experience is somewhat similar to that of Jackson. He was originally able to join a first-tier league team, but due to injuries he could only join a third-tier league team, crushing the strength of the third-tier league and leaving Taylor behind.
The scores in each game are astounding.
Speaking of which, Jackson's standard is actually much higher than that of Taylor. Although Taylor was somewhat famous in high school, his popularity could not match Jackson's level.
So when Jackson scored 75 points in this game, Jiang Dongbing didn't think it was a big deal.
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David Taillon, another ace player in Jiang Dongbing's hands, was almost invisible tonight. He only got 10 rebounds, 3 turnovers and 3 fouls in 30 minutes of appearance, and no other data was recorded.
Although the number of rebounds was in double figures, in a game of this level, David's rebounding ability is as high as 80 points, and only ten rebounds are definitely not up to standard.
Chapter completed!