Vol 2 Chapter 18: All-round combat

　　 The sun sinks at the beginning of the cloud, and the mountains and rain are about to come and the wind is full.
　　 From the 13th, it began to become different. The game against USC seemed to have become the center of the whole overnight. Whether it is the Bruins players or other students, they are actively preparing for this big battle.
　　On the way to Pali Stadium, there are banners raised by students everywhere, slogans and slightly offensive pictorials. This is a routine operation and is a fixed annual arrangement. It is said that when USC enters the arena, these guys also arranged a special "performance". Look at that, they will never let each other into the court easily.
　　 In comparison, the quietest players are An Luo. As the protagonists of the competition, they spent a whole day in the training hall to prepare for the competition.
　　 Alford is very cautious. He will study his opponent carefully before every game. This game will naturally be no exception. Alford was not going to toss his weird rotations and tactics. He knew very well in his heart that this game is very important and must be played steadily. Winning is the top priority.
　　Actually, for the whole person, no matter whether it is the basketball team up and down, or the audience, no one will despise each other. After all, the two schools have been able to hold each other for nearly a hundred years, and no one is a fuel-efficient lamp. To despise your opponent is equivalent to despising yourself.
　　 In fact, USC's basketball level is worse than that. Although there has been considerable progress after these years of development, it still cannot be compared. Since February 2013, the two teams have played a total of 6 times, winning 0 losses, occupying an absolute advantage.
　　 But judging from the recent games, USC has performed very strongly. They just finished playing with the same opponents, two teams in Washington State and two teams in Arizona, with four wins and three wins, only losing to the University of Washington.
　　 Therefore, this game is facing a USC that is on the rise. There is no doubt that this must be an uphill battle.
　　 At 9 o'clock in the morning on January 14th, Pali Stadium.
　　 Most of the audience has come, and they are still coming in one after another. In fact, they don't need to be so early, after all, there are still three hours before the start of the game. But for these spectators, this is not just a battle for the players who are fighting on the court, but also a battle of their own!
　　 They changed into blue clothes specially today, which is the theme color. What's more, some people directly put on the commemorative shirt they collected when they won the championship, and the entire auditorium became a blue ocean.
　　 However, there is still a cluster of brilliant red, which grows tenaciously in the auditorium at Pali Stadium. In the blue wave, it is particularly eye-catching.
　　 That's from USC! They carried huge posters and slogans to cheer their players.
　　 Under the hustle and bustle of the sky, the people at USC seem very quiet at the moment. Watching a game away is a great physical drain. In the face of pressure from home fans, if you want to not lose in momentum, the disadvantage of numbers requires you to shout harder than watching the game at home. So they have to save energy and wait until the game to let their players hear the voice from USC.
　　The first confrontation between the two sides occurred when the players entered the field. As their players rushed into the court one after another, the atmosphere in the auditorium was mobilized by them.
　　 When the home team played, the fans began to cheer and shout. There were so many people, the voices seemed very noisy, but the momentum was great. Especially when DJ chanted familiar names one by one, the atmosphere reached its peak.
　　 An Luo was the first to appear.
　　 "The first appearance is our super scorer, a great guy from China: An... Luo!"
　　With the long tone of the DJ, everyone shouted An Luo's name in unison. At that moment, it seemed that the ceiling of the arena was about to be lifted by a huge sound.
　　 When the USC players entered the field, the originally quiet red zone began to clap and shout very regularly. They are very organized and disciplined, with simple slogans, but very neat. The voices of these people are concentrated, and they feel no worse than the home fans.
　　 This makes USC players on the court very excited. It's not easy to play away games. You can hear their own voices. There are such a group of people who have been cheering for them. How can they not be excited!
　　 An Luo stood at the top of the arc, making a serious shot. He can feel the difference between today's game and the usual ones. Now, he could finally feel a little bit of excitement in the hearts of Alex, Holiday and Prince. What could be more exciting than leading the team to defeat their rivals at such a highly anticipated moment?
　　 Which boy does not have a heroic dream in his heart yet! For people like Anluo who love basketball, the court is where they become heroes.
　　 After Alex finished his warm-up exercise ~EbookFREE.me~, he started to show dunks. Don't look at this guy as tall as two meters, but his movements are no more flexible than those smaller players. Such a flexible big man, who loves to offer and act, caused cheers on the scene.
　　 Holiday and Prince, who are also freshmen, soon completed the warm-up exercise and then joined the dunk team. As a defender, their movements are more elegant and agile than Alex.
　　 An Luo also tried to buckle a few, which felt pretty good. Thanks to the physical changes made by his abilities, he can now easily complete many routine dunks.
　　 Other players are actively preparing for the game. They are constantly adjusting their state. Perhaps many of them can only play for a few minutes in a game, but many of them play from the first few minutes. As a player, you must take every second of your time on the court seriously.
　　Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared.
　　 Compared with the extremely active people, the USC on the other side of the court will look a little darker. After all, it's not at home, so it's better to keep it until the game.
　　 At this time, Alford was still talking with his assistant coaches on the bench. What they have to do is not only study their opponents in advance, and then arrange troops; they must also carefully observe the state of themselves and the opponent's players, and then see if they need to make some temporary adjustments. Because he knows that the opponent's coach must be doing the same thing.
　　 The stadium is the battlefield of players, the auditorium is the battlefield of fans, and here is their battlefield.