Jojo Watkins He shouted.
She carried her right knee with both hands, pressed her eyes closed, and she screamed.
School, city and sports screaming with it.
In the history of basketball in Los Angeles, it will forever be known as the night when everything changed.
In the court where it flies, USC’s Juju Watkins It collapsed. In a sport in which its millionaires were magic, she was wearing a ball. In a school led by thousands, she found herself alone, an open mouth, chest promotion, crying and screaming over and over again.
On the sorrow of Monday, The best basketball player in the Ladies College in America He suffered from a knee injury at the end of the season, which could change a profession, program, life.
With 4:43 left in the first quarter of the NCAA tournament in the second round of USC Against Mississippi At the Galen Center, Watskins became intertwined while driving his car strongly against Chandler Baraner. Watkins was shocked, then fell on the solid wood in the torment that was clear even before hitting the ground.
Its right knee seemed not touching, but it nevertheless, causing Waterbake’s cry immediately because the enthusiastic crowd that was silent around it was silent.
Wattings lie down on the floor for several minutes while moving Coach Lindsay Gottlieb And three other employees. It became clear that she could not press the knee when two employees picked it and carried it directly to the treasury room without even overcoming a Trojan seat.
Once Watercins left, her colleagues directed their shock and grief to An impressive victory 96-59. The score was 13-2 when Watercins was wounded, Trojan’s horses surpassed 83-57 for the rest of the game.
Meanwhile, the fans were more evident in their pain. They started screaming the Bardag immediately after the injury and vibrated for the rest of the night.
Do not blame Mississippi. It was physical, but Watsenz was not injured in a cheap shot. It does not seem to be a snapshot at all, and it appears to be simply one of the strange basketball knee injuries that occur.
Gottlieb put a brave face, and she trained Hikova’s game as she led her team to Sweet 16 at the weekend next weekend in Spokan, Wash. But it is sweet 16 that lost its flavor. After that, the USC coach’s voice grew and her eyes soften when talking about her fallen star.
She said, “I mean, I will lie if I told you that I was not wearing a Jojo seeing on the ground and crying.” “I mean, this is a human game. Therefore, I have tried clearly the best I need for the team, but in internal a lot.”
The USC Juju Watkins star was transferred outside the field after suffering a knee injury in a season against Mississippi on Monday.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
Externally, it’s more. What is happening now will not be beautiful because this charming talent and talent and the wealth of its team.
The first anxiety is, of course, Lukez. The great players have serious knee injuries every season, which is only 19 years old, which means that this will be just a break in what is still distanced to be a long and wonderful profession.
But what time to interruption. It is also clear from its last multi -year deal with fanatics in sports companies – she is the first athlete in the college that receives such a royal treatment – Watskins is the most famous sports player.
She bounces under the cake of her brand, moving without trouble yet through the court so far as it reminds people Kobe BryantSolid Watercins Ketlin Clark He also directed the total basketball of women.
It can be seen in inspiring commercial ads, in murals in the city center, on high -price shirts, and on the appearance of thousands of people of all two sexes who wear their shirt.
It ranks second in the country with an average of 25 points with the leadership of Trojan horses in passes, theft and simple cold.
No less than Lakes She shook the coach about her, JJ Redick He recently recognized awe after he witnessed its greatness.
“Juju Watkins is one of one, it’s incredible,” Redk told reporters after attending the USC-UCLA game. “The first time you see her playing personally … She lived to the noise level.”
What is less than Giden Daniels was stuck with her, Washington leaders of Corterbok celebrated sitting next to her stadium at the Galen Center on Saturday afternoon before his famous protective mother sat between them.
It can be said that she is indeed one of the most famous university basketball players who grew up in Los Angeles and remained in Los Angeles, and she became the character of her beloved hometown as attractive like her game, and it is extremely sad that she should all comment on this type of physical surgical injury.
As for the impact of her loss on her team? Regardless of the quality of their playing together on Monday against excessive Badaga, they do not make mistakes, the Trojan horses have been destroyed.
Once they are considered competing for the national championship, they will be lucky to defeat the Kansas State state in the Sweet 16 match, and if they survive, the vulnerable people will be determined against Contect in The Elite Eight.
Just as the Trojan horses were exhausted, Uconn became healthy, following a victory from 69 points over Arkansas State, winning 34 points over 30 wins in Dakota.
It does not seem likely to stay alive for a long time without Watckens. She not only runs her crime, but is their crime. It not only raises the big numbers, but it also makes everyone around it better, as it links Trojan horses on several shots wide open Monday night in plays prepared by the double Watskins.
They will miss it strongly regardless of their inspiration on Monday night. Gottlieb said that the game was basically a greeting to Lakkins, but one wonders about the time when this feeling could continue.
The USC Juju Watkins star passes around the Mississippi state defender in the first quarter of Monday.
(Robert Gotier / Los Angeles Times)
“You cannot tell me that the energy of this crowd, their anger with the other team, and the extent of the shooting of our team, revolves around what Juju presented this square, for this program, to this city.” “You just want to return everything. You want to restore everything and support it, but we can.”
Unfortunately, there is only much that they can offer. Unfortunately, there is no team in the country that can escape this type of loss.
With the end of the match on Monday, the horses of Trojan, embracing Gallin Cent Cort, left for the last time this season, to a long applause and estimated from the crowd filling the gym with chants and chants.
But at night everything changed, nothing is more than screaming.
