Chapter 20: The Three Musketeers of the Whirlwind
Although Anjie's on-court organization is not as good as Mike Taylor's sophistication, it can barely help the Whirlwind team open up the situation. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoNo one on the field can defend against anyone, which also presents a wonderful offensive battle for the audience. Until the end of the first half, the audience was still unsatisfied. At 38-43, the University of Texas Longhorns still had a slight advantage, leading by five points.
An Jie scored 8 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds in the first half of the "alternative" data, in the previous games An Jie was used as the end point to hold the ball, but today his role is completely reversed, so the 7 assists in the half is already his new high in a single game this season. D.J. Augustin, on the other hand, relied on his overall strength advantage to score 13 points and add six assists. This stat would have been even better if it hadn't been for a couple of clever passes where teammates didn't take their chances.
The strengths and weaknesses of the first half of the pitch were obvious, so the coaches of both sides were ready to talk to their players.
"Offensively, we have to defend well while the situation opens up! We won't have much chance of winning just by Anjie and D.J. Augustine!" The only sound in the dressing room was the sound of the air conditioner and the sound of Riccard branding his marker.
Mike Taylor faced an NCAA star-caliber guy and showed a lot of his shortcomings. Aside from his height, he is almost completely behind. Ricard knows that the team's big brother is already in a situation where D.J. Augustin's offensive firepower is in a difficult position, so he won't let Mike Taylor defend Augustine alone, and he will need to use a series of efforts to limit the guy who is in the NBA draft lottery zone.
In the mouths of fans, when the "Three Musketeers of the Whirlwind" is mentioned, no one does not know who they are. It is precisely because of the tacit and excellent performance of Mike Taylor, Andrew Morris and Anjie that has created the Whirlwind team that has changed the trend today. While the other players were part of the Whirlwinds' success, the performance of the three of them was undoubtedly the most eye-catching. Now, in Ricard's mind, the defensive burden of the second half really has to fall on these three. Although Anthony Ben defends well, if he switches to the No. 1 position, who will defend the opposing small forward?
"Taylor, Morris, Angel, I want you to defend in the second half!" Ricard quickly went through the tactical feasibility in his mind, called the names of the three men, and began to pick up the tactical board and prepare for the assignment.
"How can you tolerate that skinny guy doing whatever he wants on the court!DeAndre Jordan lost to him because Jordan Jr. has developed limbs and is simple-minded, are you too!? When we are in the ascendancy, just because he has a center change to revitalize the opposing team's offense, this is not to laugh at other people's big teeth!?" On the other side, in the locker room of the Longhorns, the head coach of the University of Texas Roman Harding, is expressing his dissatisfaction with his interior players.
And the center and power forward of the Long Horns can only helplessly let Harding reprimand, and they have done everything in the confrontation with Anjie on the inside. But that seemingly thin Chinese actually contained a power in his body that did not match his size at all, maybe that kid's bones were full of meat.
'Augustin did a good job in the first half, but I want you to be more aggressive in the second half. Break through to the inside line more and try to create fouls on the two big men of the Whirlwinds. ”
"Hmm. Augustine only nodded lightly when he heard the coach's arrangement. He was very confident in Mike Taylor's words, but when he was asked to face the yellow-skinned center, Augustin felt a little bottomless. If it was last season, most of this kind of thing would have been left to Durant, and now that it is his turn to finish the game, he is still a little lacking in confidence.
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Between intermissions, most of the audience leaves their seats. Some go to the toilet, others buy drinks or food. And at this moment, the bearded man and Catherine are lining up in front of a popcorn machine.
"How about Catherine, do you feel the charm of basketball?" The offensive battle in the first half made the bearded man look very addicted.
"It's just ..... barbaric. Catherine replied earnestly to her father. In the first half, she saw An Jie and her opponent have physical contact more than once, especially when she was back, as if she could hear the muffled sound of muscles colliding violently in this noisy crowd. Every time she sees this, Catherine's heart will rise to her throat, for fear that the emaciated An Jie will be injured and fall to the ground.
"This ......," the bearded man didn't expect his daughter to answer him like that. Sure enough, women's focus on things is still very different from men's.
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In the second half, the two sides changed sides and fought again. In the first few rounds, the Whirlwinds didn't see any changes, and it was still Taylor's one-on-one defense against Augustin. But the changes on the side of the Long Horns are more obvious. Augustine is a calm player, most of the time he will look for passing opportunities on the outside, and he will choose to attack on his own when he can't organize him. And now Augustin's desire to attack has become extremely strong, and he has broken through to the interior attack many times. He didn't split the ball when he broke through, but ran straight to the basket. Although Augustin is only 1.83 meters tall, it is not easy to block his layup. Augustine's European step is so good that it's hard to judge where he can shoot. Because of this, Anjie and Morris have already committed one foul each on him.
"Good, wait!" said his side had a poor start to the second half, but Ricard seemed satisfied. He pressed down hard with his hands on the sidelines to remind his players to take their breath. The reason why he is still using Taylor to defend Augustine alone is to induce the opponent to increase the breakthrough. He also expected that Harding, in order to deal with Anjie and Morris, would definitely arrange for Augustin to play more inside. Now it seems that everything is going in the direction he envisioned.
After Augustine made another series of breakaways, Ricard began to make an "ok" gesture. He didn't call a timeout, he had already set it up at halftime, and Rickard was going to take the longhorns by surprise.
Augustin dribbled through the half court again, and the defender in front of him was still the same Mike Taylor who was blown up by himself today. To say that the only difference between the Whirlwind team this time is that An Jie actually defended the opponent's center forward in front of him, and he was still one step away from the opponent's center. Is it really okay to empty the basket like this?, but looking at Anjie's height and reach, Augustin still gave up on the plan to hoist the ball directly into the restricted area.
Augustin was still dribbling quickly, and he knew that the panting Mike Taylor in front of him had lost a lot of defensive energy. Anyway, in the second half, the coach gave him the task of breaking through the attack, so it was better to implement the strategy honestly.
Augustine bowed his head and the fancy and complicated dribble made it impossible for Taylor to tell the real from the fake. Augustine seized a shake in Mike Taylor's center of gravity and kicked hard with his right foot, sinking his shoulder to break through Taylor's defence once again.
"It's getting easier and easier. Augustine was secretly happy in his heart, and suddenly, his eyes were dark! Augustine slammed into a "wall", he didn't expect such a figure to suddenly appear behind Taylor.
"Bump someone with the ball, foul offense!" the referee immediately blew the whistle. Augustine didn't know what was going on, but he saw An Jie's evil smile.
"It turned out that he was so far away from our team's center forward just to be able to pick up in time when I broke through. Hmph, this kind of cleverness can only be used by you once. Augustin took his teammate's outstretched hand and stood up.
In the next attack of the Longhorns, Augustine did not care about Taylor in front of him, but first observed Anjie's position. is still defending around the front, still one step away from his team's center, and is not entangled.
"Do you want to do it again!?" Augustine knew that the last time he was just careless, he would not fall in the same place twice.
D.J. Augustin used a couple of fast-paced crotch dribbles to open up Mike Taylor and himself, and then he brushed past Taylor. This time, though, he didn't accelerate with all his might, and he knew what was waiting for him behind him.
Sure enough, after breaking through Taylor, An Jie, who stood firmly on his heels, still appeared in front of Augustine. Augustine was not fooled and stopped his steps. Just as he slowed down, Taylor from behind him had already surrounded him. Anjie and Taylor raised their hands around the undersized Augustin, who tried to pass the ball to an unmarked teammate on the inside, only to find that Morris was actually standing in just the right position, blocking his path to the inside. As a result, his space became smaller and smaller, and before Augustin could pass backwards, Taylor held the ball with both hands and struggled to fight with Augustin.
"Toot toot!" the whistle blew again, but this time it wasn't because Anjie and Morris were fouled, but the referee awarded a scrum.
Taylor relied on his height advantage to win the ball, D.J. Augustine did not have a height advantage, not to mention that he had always played as a defender, and he did not know how to jump at all.
After that, the Longhorns' offense was completely mired, and Augustine's breakthrough was limited by Anjie. The three of the Whirlwind team can always complete the defense very tacitly, Anjie blocked, Taylor packed, Morris blocked the passing route, and the three were in place. Augustine had no choice but to give the ball to his teammates who were not in good positions again and again, but the effect of the attack was known. As in the first half of the Whirlwinds, the Horns' offensive playmaker Augustin is now limited to death, so how can their offensive quality improve?
"These three boys didn't disappoint me!" Riccard waved his arm vigorously as he watched his three men break up Augustine's attack for the fifth time in a row.
"I was amazed at how well the three of them read the game. Divac looked at the tacit understanding between Anjie and the other two, and nodded to Ricard with satisfaction.
"Of course, they're the Whirlwind Tribune. Riccard was equally full of pride.