Chapter 17 1984_2

Beelman chose a foggy morning to start the day's training but was still unable to evade the keen noses of the reporters, who infiltrated like paparazzi.

Although they caught a reporter, Beelman had no authority to confiscate his camera. Other than cursing him out and driving him away, there was nothing else he could do.

The coaching staff strove to provide the Gonzaga Bulldogs with a stable and peaceful environment to prepare for the full onslaught of the national games.

As the No. 2 seed in the west, they could be eliminated in the first match, and it had nothing to do with ability because the cruelty of the single-elimination NCAA national games meant anything could happen.

The clamor of public opinion amplifies everything, victory, defeat, happiness, loss, joy, pain. Emotions that originally belonged only to you and your teammates would bloat like a tumor under the influence of the outside world, staying in your body forever, tormenting you until you die.