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No difference.

He just felt that saying 100% might be too absolute, so he lowered it by a few percentage points to leave himself some room for improvement!

But that was showing off!

Cahoon smiled as he looked at Tang Tian. He suddenly felt that Tang Tian was even more interesting than he had thought.

Only after seeing everyone else's reactions did Tang Tian realize that he might have shown off without meaning to.

But what was done was done. Explaining it now would only make it seem fake.

After the press conference, Tang Tian and Walker headed toward the locker room.

When they reached the door, they found it closed, with an unusual silence inside.

"Did those guys leave so early today?" Tang Tian was puzzled. From what he knew, after winning such a crucial game, that group would definitely go wild for a long time.

"Maybe they're too tired." As Walker spoke, he crouched down. His shoelaces seemed to have come undone.

Tang Tian nodded after hearing that.

That made sense. Although the team had been on a winning streak, many of those games had been tough games. And while tonight had been a big victory, the game itself had actually been difficult. Monroe's advantage in the paint in particular had been obvious. After getting rammed twice, Tang Tian's chest still hurt a little.

He pushed open the door.

"Champagne!"

Before he could react, two bottles of champagne were thrust right into his face.

He was sprayed from head to toe in an instant.

"Whoa! Whoa!"

Before he could make another move, his teammates had already rushed over and hoisted him up.

"Haha~"

Walker quickly stood up at that moment, laughing as he slammed the locker room door shut.

He had not been tying his shoelaces at all. He had been helping the others put on an act!

"Tang! Tang!"

Tang Tian was lifted by his teammates and tossed straight into the air.

The locker room ceiling was not very high. As he watched the ceiling draw near and recede, he was genuinely afraid those guys would use too much force and give him some intimate contact with it.

Fortunately, his teammates put him down after a short while.

These guys.

After landing, Tang Tian wiped his face, and a smile unconsciously spread across his face along with his teammates'.

He had been sprayed and tossed around, but he knew they were celebrating for him.

Twenty-one points. His first 20-plus game in the NCAA. For a role player, that was already a Career Night.

"Where did this champagne come from?" After the celebration ended, he wiped his face with a towel and could not help asking Napier beside him.

The game had only just ended. The players still needed to shower and all that, so there definitely had not been enough time to buy champagne and make all these preparations.

Besides, Walker had been in on it. Walker had gone to the press conference with him.

"I don't know. It was already in the locker room earlier." Napier looked toward Walker as he spoke. He had been with the team the longest.

"Huh?" Tang Tian had not expected that answer.

"This was prepared for a celebration two years ago," Walker said.

"Wait, champagne from two years ago?" Tang Tian suddenly stood up.

"Yeah. The team made the Elite Eight back then, but unfortunately we didn't win the championship, so this champagne was stored here." Walker smiled as he explained, his words carrying a hint of nostalgia.

He had only been a freshman then. That team had Hasheem Thabeet, the second overall pick in that year's draft, and its paper strength had been far greater than this team's.

"No, I need to shower right now." Tang Tian grabbed a towel and hurried into the shower room.

No wonder the champagne had smelled strange after he got sprayed.

Watching Tang Tian rush into the shower room, Walker suddenly remembered something. He turned to Napier and asked, "Was it vintage champagne or non-vintage champagne?"

"Vintage, I think." Napier had not paid much attention. He picked up one of the empty bottles and checked it, then froze. "Non-vintage."

"Haha..."

The two of them burst out laughing at once.

Non-vintage champagne generally only lasted two to three years. It had already been sitting around for some time before it was bought, so it had probably expired.

After playing Georgetown, the team had five days of rest.

After a string of high intensity games, combined with the grueling previous game against Georgetown, Cahoon rare gave the players a day off.

On the night before the break, Tang Tian returned to his dorm after extra practice and immediately opened his laptop.

He had bought the computer when he went to buy his new phone. In his previous life, he had basically operated everything on a computer as a coach, and suddenly being without one had felt uncomfortable.

It was not expensive either, only a little over six hundred dollars. After receiving a full Scholarship, he could afford it.

After turning on the computer, he began searching for ways to make money in Connecticut.

Cahoon had put him at starting Power Forward, and it had worked well against Georgetown. It seemed that would become the norm from now on.

That role actually suited him quite well. Compared with the average NCAA Power Forward, his Movement speed was an advantage.

But physicality would become a new problem. Georgetown's Power Forward had not been particularly heavy, so Tang Tian could still hold his ground. But if he faced an interior player like Tristan Thompson or Markieff Morris, he would definitely struggle.

He still needed to keep training his stamina, but that alone would definitely not be enough. He had to find a way to exchange for some useful new skills.

For example, the flopper (Varejao) he had thought of after Monroe knocked him over.

Varejao's Drawing Offensive Fouls ability was among the very best even in the NBA. It would be more than enough in the NCAA.

Just imagine it: if Monroe had been called for two Offensive Fouls by Tang Tian in the first half against Georgetown, UConn would have won that game easily long ago.

However, earning another fifty thousand dollars would not be so easy. Although he was a transmigrator and had forty to fifty thousand in cash, the system required it to be related to basketball.

Under NCAA rules, schools could not pay players salaries, and players could not accept endorsements or even participate in amateur games run for profit.

Those rules were outrageous and unreasonable, but they had been left behind by historical circumstances. Though they were constantly criticized, there was still no sign of change.

If he could not make money as an NCAA player, then he could only find another way.

Rules were dead, but people were alive. No one said he could not use a player's abilities to make money!

For example, he had just found one: one-on-one games on a streetball court.

Streetball courts had all kinds of games, including one-on-one matches. Winning a round could earn ten or twenty dollars, while higher-level games could pay a hundred dollars.

But Tang Tian temporarily passed on that. The money came too slowly, and playing on outdoor courts carried a certain risk of injury.

He continued searching, and then something interesting suddenly caught his attention.

Adult entertainment city.

Entertainment cities existed all over the world, but most were designed for children, with things like shooting games, claw machines, and motorcycle simulators.

But with the word "adult" in front of it, the activities in this entertainment city were far more varied, including large attractions like roller coasters and courage challenges.

However, those were not what attracted Tang Tian. It was an activity called the shooting game.