At this moment, Bogut, who was almost driven to explode by Qin Yue’s taunt, looked like an enraged bull, "I swear I’ll personally break your shackles and strangle you to death with them, you bastard."
On the side, seeing that the game hadn’t even started and both cores were already in fight mode, the referee hurriedly stepped forward to pull the two apart.
But before the referee could pull them apart, Qin Yue won this trash talk battle, "I hope there’s more to your body than just a hard mouth... After all, I’m not interested in losers who can’t get it up."
On the court, recognizing the implication in Qin Yue’s words, Bogut was thoroughly enraged.
Next, during the jump ball, instead of saying Bogut was jumping with Qin Yue, it was more like the two were wrestling each other.
Unfortunately, in this wrestling match that the referee couldn’t stop in time, Bogut failed to save face.
Because when Qin Yue exerted his force, he flipped Bogut onto the ground.
Before entering the NBA, Bogut weighed around 120 kilograms.
With shoes, he stood 7 feet tall.
But compared to Qin Yue, who was also around 120 kilograms, Bogut was clearly at a disadvantage in terms of strength and muscle in this wrestling match.
"So soft, maybe you should cut that thing off and go play women’s basketball?" Qin Yue said mockingly, looking down at the sprawled Bogut.
After getting up from the floor, Bogut wanted to regain some ground but was promptly warned by the referee.
"He was the one who threw me first!" Bogut growled at the referee, confused.
"But you were the one who grabbed him first..." the referee replied, looking at Bogut.
Then, after pausing for a moment, the referee said to Bogut, "Once the game starts, you can clash all you want, but if you grab someone’s hair like that again, I won’t just warn you."
As a league that has always encouraged physical confrontation, the NCAA in this era never frowned upon so-called toughness and brutality.
Bogut’s move to pull Qin Yue’s hair during the jump ball was clearly unacceptable.
"Only likes to pull hair even in wrestling... could he really be a eunuch?" Evans, now starting at center because of Qin Yue, seized the chance to add fuel to the fire.
Seeing this, an embarrassed and furious Bogut temporarily suppressed the fire in his chest.
In the center of the court, after the jump ball, Wake Forest took the first attack.
In this jump ball battle, where things had already gone too far...
Qin Yue’s elbow, which even Karl Malone would have admired, successfully subdued Bogut.
Bogut was angry, but helpless.
Because his jumping speed couldn’t compare to Qin Yue’s.
However, no matter how anxious Bogut was at the moment...
In the next offensive round for Wake Forest, Qin Yue would use his performance on the court to show him:
At the top of the arc, facing Markson, who was guarding him, Qin Yue proactively used a screen to switch Bogut in front of him.
Thanks to Qin Yue’s explosiveness and power, which were overwhelmingly superior in college basketball, Bogut had to switch defense with his teammate even though Reeve’s screen wasn’t that great.
After all, Qin Yue’s staggering 40.8% three-point shooting percentage this season was no joke.
On the court, watching the ready Bogut, Qin Yue quickly initiated his attack.
After displaying impressive flexibility and coordination, Qin Yue broke past Bogut with a wide-angle crossover.
This would be the signature move of future Kevin Durant.
But at the moment, it bore the name "Qin-style Direction Change."
On the court, after bypassing Bogut, Qin Yue quickly headed to the University of Utah’s basket, then with a domineering aura, slammed a powerful dunk over University of Utah’s forward Markson’s head, crashing onto the rim.
In the stands, Kupchek, witnessing the scene firsthand, almost immediately understood why Vaccaro had said only watching Qin Yue’s game live could one truly feel his talent.
"Lamar may be one of the few big men in the NBA who can match Qin in terms of agility, but..."
After swallowing hard, Kupchek continued his thoughts: "But Lamar doesn’t have Qin’s impact."
On the return, University of Utah’s offense.
Amidst the piercing boos all around, Bogut sat vengefully in the low post, determined to regain face from Qin Yue with a post-up.
On the side, the referee made no call on Bogut’s pushing during positioning.
It was obvious that tonight’s three referees adhered to their pregame promise to allow Qin Yue and Bogut’s clashes.
However, once he received the ball, when Bogut tried to continue pushing in, he encountered the same awkwardness he would remember from future one-on-one matchups with Yao...
That is, when he couldn’t muscle his way into position, Bogut’s so-called fundamentals, purported to be on par with Duncan’s, immediately showed their seams.
Fans familiar with Bogut in the NBA wouldn’t find this scene unfamiliar.
Because the fundamentals Bogut displayed in college basketball were always built on his physical superiority over peers.