Xu Yong stood up from the ground, and the pain finally passed.

The other members of the Devil Team quickly gathered around him, each with a look of greater concern than the last.

Especially Harden, his body was still shaking at this time.

This was the first time he beat someone on the court. Besides being nervous, he was also regretting why he didn't punch Green a few more times.

"Are you okay?" DeRozan asked. He also threw a punch just now. He was much more professional than Harden in fighting.

Unfortunately, after getting hit by a few punches, Green reacted quickly and dodged them. He must have been beaten many times before.

Xu Yong did not answer them, but pushed them aside and walked straight towards Green.

At this time, cheers from Arizona fans rang out.

How come nothing happened after being punished so badly?

Xu Yong is too hard!

But when they saw the eye-catching number 23 on his back, they seemed to fully understand.

The Pistons' "Bad Boys" ultimately failed to destroy Michael Jordan, and the Michigan natives were also unable to destroy their No. 23!

But soon, the cheers turned into agitation.

Because Xu Yong looked like he was going to beat Green!

Green was a little confused at this time. He thought of many possibilities, but the only possibility was that nothing would happen to Xu Yong.

He remembered Xu Yong's nickname, Satan.

Could this guy really be a devil from hell?!

So when Xu Yong walked towards him with a cold face, his pores exploded instantly and he got goose bumps all over his body.

The reaction on the scene finally made the referees off the line react, and they quickly went up and grabbed Xu Yong.

Xu Yong was pulled together by several referees. He pointed at Green and said, "You, wait."

The game entered a technical timeout and players on both sides were advised to return to the bench.

At this time, Sandek called Pera over to check if Xu Yong was injured.

If the future star he brought from Seattle with great difficulty was wasted, he would go to the locker room after the game and beat Green directly.

After a while, the referees made their decisions.

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 started laughing.

"Are you okay?" Harden asked. Xu Yong's smile was creepy.

Xu Yong shook his head.

Originally, he had some concerns because there was still a final to play. After all, if he really couldn't play in the final because of beating Green, it would be a loss.

So he originally wanted to bring people to cause trouble for Green after the game, or at least beat Green up personally.

However, the referee's decision saved us a lot of trouble.

Just after the penalty was made, the referee had a conversation with the two teams and reminded both sides of their actions in the next game.

The reason they made this judgment, in addition to the refereeing standards of that era, was more importantly because Xu Yong was not injured.

What the referee requires is fair enforcement of the law, but humans are not machines, and as humans there will be subjective factors involved.

Similar situations are not uncommon in basketball games. Jordan alone can be pulled out to make a highlight collection.

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 conflict, the head coaches of both teams temporarily placed Xu Yong and Green on the bench.

During this period, the whistles on the field were blown very frequently and the game was relatively fragmented, but the situation was obviously stabilized.

It was at this time that Xu Yong and Green were substituted back on the court.

Green obviously calmed down at this time. Although the referee's decision was in his favor, he really couldn't laugh now.

DeRozan was right. He had indeed been beaten a lot in the past. When he was a child, he was often beaten by those who occupied the court in order to fight for the court. He was also thrown into the trash can many times.

It is also because of those experiences that he has a very accurate sense of the scale of harm.

Xu Yong looked like nothing happened despite being severely punished by him, which really scared him.

In the Devil's offensive round, Xu Yong asked for the ball to play against Green, then he took a step past Green and went into the paint to dunk and score.

After landing, Xu Yong looked back at Green and said calmly: "Are you scared?"

This sentence directly touched Green's nerves, and his face suddenly turned red.

If it weren't for his dark face, he would have been a pig liver by now.

Xu Yong smiled.

That's it. After Green came on the court, he felt like he had no balls, and it was difficult for him to attack him.

The game continued, and after being stimulated by Xu Yong, Green showed his due defensive intensity.

It was another offensive round for the Devil's team. Xu Yong took advantage of the screen and rushed into the inside to prepare for a dunk.

At this time, Green bypassed the screen and retreated to the basket, reaching out to pull Xu Yong directly.

But at this moment, he didn't notice the corners of Xu Yong's mouth turning up.

At the moment of contact with Green in the air, Xu Yong directly showed his knee.

Classic move from the CBA version of Marbury—flying knee.jpg!

He saw this action many times when he was commentating on CBA.

As soon as Green stretched out his hand, he felt a black shadow rushing towards his door at lightning speed.

"Bang!"

He had no time to dodge and was hit head-on. He felt as if his face was hit by a car. His whole body fell backwards completely uncontrollably and fell heavily to the ground.

The referee's whistle sounded immediately, and he rushed into the field in an instant to stop the players from both sides.

At this time, Green was groaning in pain on the ground.

He was sweating profusely from the pain, and the pain was not in the same place.

His face was now covered in blood, and he didn't know if his nose was directly broken by Xu Yong's kick.

Moreover, because he was confused after being kicked, he did not take any protective action the moment he landed, which caused him to land directly on his back.

So he really couldn't do anything except moan at this moment.

"Are you okay?" Izzo also came to the court and asked Green.

Green's reaction was to move his mouth, and then blood came out of his mouth.

The referee gasped at the sight.

I thought Green was a ruthless person, but I didn't expect Xu Yong to be a wolf destroyer...

After a few minutes, the staff found a stretcher and carried Green directly off the field.

There was blood all over the floor and the staff were still wiping it up.

The scene was in turmoil, a scene that even Michigan people had never seen before.

The referee also quickly found Xu Yong to communicate.

"He pulled me first. I didn't want to be fouled maliciously again. It was my instinctive protective action." Xu Yong's explanation left the referee speechless.

Because that is the fact. If Xu Yong hadn't used that flying knee, he might have been pulled down from the air by Green again.

There is also a "Stand Still Law" in American law, which simply means self-defense. There is nothing wrong with what Xu Yong did.

So, after the technical timeout, the referees made a decision and Xu Yong was only called for a technical foul.

Such a penalty naturally drew boos from Michigan fans.

He understood the logic, but Green was ruined, and it was a terrible sight!

However, their voices soon disappeared.

Because as the game went on, they found that Arizona State University was starting to use force.

Before Green came on, Michigan State University was already trailing by a large margin. After being tossed around like that, how could they have any fighting spirit left?

But Arizona State University was in high spirits after this incident, and had no intention of showing mercy or retreating since it was someone else's territory.

You play such dirty games with me, why would I keep my hands to myself?

25 points, 30 points, 40 points, 45 points...

The referee was afraid of any further conflict between the two sides, so he blew the whistle very quickly, and two players from Michigan State University who dared to cause trouble were sent off.

At the end of the game, the score was 108 to 50.

Arizona State University finally beat Michigan State University by 58 points!

This score difference directly broke the record of the NCAA Final Four!

And after the game, Michigan fans did not cause trouble for Arizona State University players.

There's nothing we can do. It was because Green did that first, and he was really in the wrong.

…

"Xu, are you really okay?" The game was over, and when they returned to the hotel, Harden couldn't help but ask.

He watched Xu Yong fall, and based on his understanding of Xu Yong, he did not rule out the possibility that Xu Yong fought with an injury for the sake of the team's morale.

Xu Yong smiled and shook his head. He had already thought of an answer in advance: "James, this is why I do high-intensity training. It helps me have more physical strength, lower body fat percentage, harder bones and muscles, which can prevent me from getting injured."

Harden was stunned when he heard this. Physical fitness and body fat percentage are okay, but what are bones?

But he nodded in the end, because Xu Yong told him that his idol was Jordan.

Jordan, isn't that the case?

He also suffered a serious injury in the early stage of his career. After his comeback, he trained himself to have a strong physique under Tim Grover's training, and he has rarely been injured since then.

So is this weird, Xu Yong?

No, this is normal.

…

After resting for two hours, the members of the Devil Team went to the hotel's conference room together.

The semifinals of the Final Four were all held on the same day, and almost three hours after their game, the game between North Carolina and Villanova would begin.

There was no place for them at the scene, so Sandek arranged for them to watch the live broadcast at the hotel.

"Xu, who do you think we will play against in the finals?" DeRozan asked after sitting down.

"No need to guess, North Carolina." Xu Yong answered with certainty.

Although he didn't pay much attention to the NCAA before his rebirth, Tyler Hansbrough persevered for four years in college to realize his dream of winning the championship, which was reported in Sports Weekly that year.

And there's no need to use your clairvoyance to do this. North Carolina's average net score was 20+ points per game throughout the entire game, and the smallest score difference was in the divisional final against the Oklahoma Sooners, which was Griffin's team, and they won by 12 points.

North Carolina has been ranked first in the survey this year, but it felt like a gap when it came to the championship.

Several core players all have NBA prospects. They have all played in college for three or four years. With talent, tacit understanding, and lineup depth, if they hadn't met Kansas last year, they would have already won the championship.

This year, Duke was the only one that was close on paper, but Duke had too many four- and five-star high school students and no one was willing to give in to the other. They were eliminated by Villanova in the round of 16.

As we were talking, the game between North Carolina and Villanova had already started.

Villanova's experience this year is very similar to Michigan State's. As the No. 3 seed in the conference, it defeated the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the same conference and reached the semi-finals.

However, just as Xu Yong expected, the situation became one-sided not long after the game started.

North Carolina's outside shooting is really accurate.

Wayne Ellington, Danny Green, and Ty Lawson, these three people give people the feeling that they can shoot from the outside.

Let me add here that the NCAA's three-point line is the same as that used in international competitions, and is half a meter shorter than that of the NBA.

Therefore, even Xu Yong cannot use their outside shooting accuracy in the NBA to match their three-point shooting accuracy in the NCAA.

Similarly, the dominance of North Carolina core player Tyler Hansbrough in the NCAA cannot be measured by his NBA achievements.

As North Carolina's all-time leading scorer and the longest player in the league, Hansbrough's influence on the game is real.

As a center, he is 2.06 meters tall and weighs 113 kilograms, only slightly smaller than Love.

Moreover, he also has power forward skills such as turnaround jump shot, and he is not a rough guy like Thabeet, which makes it difficult for the NCAA to really restrict him in the interior.

Therefore, North Carolina's style of play is actually more inclined to one star and four stars.

At the end of the game, North Carolina defeated Villanova 83-69 and successfully met 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: Ellington scored 20 points, Lawson scored 22 points, Hansbrough scored 18 points, 11 rebounds and 4 steals, and Green scored 12 points. The scoring points were numerous and stable.

After watching the game, the conference room was exceptionally quiet.

Originally, apart from Albert who shouted a few words, no one else thought much about the championship. Reaching the semi-finals was already a perfect ending.

As a result, Green made a comeback and then met an opponent with a style that was restrained by his, and thus they entered the finals.

Once you really make it to the finals, if you say you have no thoughts about winning the championship, that's pure goat behavior.

But after watching the game, it feels like North Carolina really can't win.