Chapter 4: Frustration

North Carolina went all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Because Ye Lunyu announced that he would participate in the draft, the media also began to publish news about Ye Lunyu, and many NBA teams began to extend olive branches to him. For a time, he was pushed to the forefront.

But Ye Lunyu can't think much about it, he has to win this game, he wants to win the NCAA Eastern Conference.

Not surprisingly, the opponent is still North Carolina's last defeat, the second seed North Carolina State.

North Carolina State didn't worry too much before the game, and North Carolina State is a team that relies heavily on the team's top scorer, Jeton Lady, who averages 79 points and Radius averages 27 points per game, accounting for a third of the team's total points. As long as North Carolina guards against Radius, it won't be a big deal to win. Moreover, in the last game, North Carolina used Radius as a defensive tactic, and fully contained Radius in the second half, thus defeating North Carolina State.

The finals were held at the Time Warner Center in North Carolina, the exclusive arena for the NBA team Charlotte Hornets.

The audience attendance was as high as 75 percent.

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Ye Lunyu came out of the players' tunnel with tsunami-like applause and cheers, and many of the audience members were Chinese compatriots. Since Yao Ming's season reimbursement in '09, the Chinese have never seen a shining Chinese player in the NBA. As for Zhou Qi, who entered the NBA in the draft last year, his performance was also unconvincing. And Ye Lunyu let them see the hope of Chinese players gaining a foothold in the NBA in the future.

While warming up, Ye Lunyu glanced at the North Carolina state players. I found that they were calm, talking and laughing, and they had no fear of being defeated last time.

Ye Lunyu was very surprised: they were ready to go home? Ye Lunyu thought about it casually and didn't take it to heart.

"Just play well. Ye Lunyu thought.

After a short pre-match warm-up, the game began. Tammer got the ball, and Ye Lunyu controlled the ball.

In this game, the opponent obviously defended very tightly, which made North Carolina, which is good at positional warfare, not suitable for a while.

After smashing the ball several times but failing to find an open space, Fries had to shoot it in the last second of attacking time, and the ball bounced out of the frame.

NC State offense, Radius dribbles. It's still the old routine, bag clip, as soon as Radius breaks through to the penalty area, someone immediately comes to pack the clip. But this time, Roddy, who has always been hard, took advantage of the fact that the bag clamp players were not in place, passed the ball to the empty corner of the corner, and "swished" the basketball hollow into the net, and the North Carolina State scored three points first.

North Carolina continued the positional battle, and Ye Lunyu fed the ball to Nara Kawa Jie, who had already carried the position on the inside. North Carolina State seems to have learned the secret of North Carolina defense, and someone immediately went to the bottom line and stole the ball from behind.

A defensive counterattack, NC State scored two more points.

Ye Lunyu saw that the situation was not good, and motioned to his teammates to pull away from the singles.

Seeing this, the audience shouted "attack" like a spectator in the Colosseum watching a fighting animal.

Ye Lunyu was ignited by this coaxing: change of direction, change of direction again, the degree of his change of direction can't help but remind people of the champion AI of the 96 golden generation.

The two changed directions, and Radius was completely stunned. Ye Lunyu entered the interior line and won a foul.

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The game began to heat up in the first quarter, and both sides were you in, I would score, and if you didn't score, I wouldn't score. The maximum margin was just five points at the beginning, and at the end of the first quarter, North Carolina trailed North Carolina State 22-24.

Back on the court, the North Carolina coach summed up the players based on the performance on the field just now: "It's clear that the opponent has learned the lesson and changed the style of play. Then we also have to be flexible, you can try to play fast break and singles, Freese you have to pick up Ye Lunyu more, Nara Kawa Jie and Tamaier have to stay under the basket to protect the rebound. And you, Spinson (the team's point guard), get back to defense quickly after every offense......"

A passage of words that refreshed the tactical thinking of the entire North Carolina.

In the second quarter, North Carolina, which had changed its style of play, did improve its offensive efficiency, but after all, it was a new tactic, and the trouble of mistakes also followed. In just a few minutes, there were 5 mistakes.

On the North Carolina side, the North Carolina State quickly took advantage of the frequent mistakes of North Carolina and played the run-and-bomb tactics that they were good at, scoring again and again.

With two minutes left in the second quarter, North Carolina trailed by 10 points at 36-46 with a layup from Roddy.

It was the only double-digit margin of the match so far and the biggest so far.

The balance of victory gradually tilted to the side of North Carolina State, and Ye Lunyu was a little anxious, and he wanted to break the balance back.

He tried two singles in a row.

The balls are all in.

After scoring a goal and two points on the NC State side, there were 4 seconds left to end the half.

Nara Kawa serves, and he passes the ball to Ye Lunyu.

Ye Lunyu ran quickly and threw the ball two steps before the halfway.

The ball hits the board and the whistle goes into the net.

At halftime, with Ye Lunyu's 7 points scored at the end, North Carolina trailed by 5 points 43-48.

Maybe Ye Lunyu himself can't imagine that he actually scored 26 points in the half! What kind of concept is this for a point guard who averages 18 points per game. That's what it was for the team to score 43 points at halftime. He shot 8-of-9 and 7-of-7 from the free-throw line, what is that concept.

And Radius won't believe it, he only scored 8 points in the half, and he averaged only 3.6 assists per game, and he had 6 assists in the half.

Half game, two different players, two different miracles.

Back in the locker room, the North Carolina coach didn't have any cumbersome language, just said lightly: "In the second half, all the players took Ye Lunyu as the core and fed him the ball for singles!"

As soon as the second half came up, Ye Lunyu's desire to attack was very strong. He had a very good hand today and came up and scored two goals in a row.

With 2 minutes left in the third quarter, Ye Lunyu came off the game and so far, he has scored 41 points in the game. When he came off the court, the North Carolina team scored only 20 points in the third quarter.

But there are pros and cons, as he is clearly unable to keep up when defending Radius due to the physical exertion on the offensive end. The coach had to let Spinson defend, but Spinson was not as fast as Roddy, so Radius was far better offensively than in the first two quarters, and turned back into the well-known scoring machine.

At the end of the third quarter, Radius scored 13 points in a single quarter.

North Carolina trailed NC State by six points 66-72 heading into the fourth quarter.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the North Carolina State was missing Eddy's figure. Radius played the entire third quarter, and he had to rest well and prepare for the final minutes.

Without Ledy's defensive pressure, Ye Lunyu played more easily. The player opposite him now is a short white player who is only about 1.8 meters, and Ye Lunyu makes full use of his height advantage to score points with a breakthrough. Soon, North Carolina, which was full of fighting spirit and fought to the death, played a wave of 9-0 offensive climax, successfully overtaking the score to 77-74, and North Carolina State was forced to call a timeout.

At the end of the timeout, Radius returned to the court.

North Carolina has not changed its style of play, and still relies on Ye Lunyu's singles or sudden points to get points.

But the North Carolina state side used the same method that North Carolina used to deal with them last time, and as soon as Ye Lunyu approached the restricted area, he used the strategy of double packing.

This tactic quickly worked. Ye Lunyu couldn't adapt to the opponent's defensive routine for a while, and made two mistakes. NC State took advantage of those two mistakes to regain the score.

North Carolina called a timeout.

The coach asked Ye Lunyu to adopt the North Carolina State pack-and-pass method to deal with the current opponent's defensive tactics.

Back on the court, Ye Lunyu immediately adopted this method.

But it seems that the North Carolina state already knows North Carolina's intentions, and does not contain it outside the restricted area, so Ye Lunyu can vote. The idea of North Carolina State is: let you vote, and sooner or later you won't get in.

As soon as Ye Lunyu entered the forbidden area, someone immediately came over to wrap him. In the narrow range of the penalty area, it is inevitable that there will be mistakes in passing, and North Carolina State took advantage of this characteristic to completely suppress North Carolina defensively.

In just a few minutes, NC State re-established its edge.

In the last minute, North Carolina trailed by seven points. Ye Lunyu controls the ball.

was really at the end of the road, Ye Lunyu hurriedly shot and threw three points.

Didn't hit.

There was no way, North Carolina had to use slashing tactics.

But all was to no avail, and with a three-pointer from Ye Lunyu in the last second, NC State ended the battle 91-83.

They got their revenge on North Carolina and held the NCAA Eastern Conference title with their heads held high, earning a chance to compete for the All-American title.

North Carolina lost, and Ye Lunyu's face was full of dissatisfaction.

He scored a NCAA-high 55 points, five assists and seven rebounds.

He left the NCAA and headed for the NBA with a staggering stats.

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After the game, Radius spoke to reporters.

The reporter asked, "Why were you able to lead a team to defeat the mighty North Carolina State University?"

"Let me use a quote from Ye Lunyu, he said, 'On the basketball court, you have to see the moves, we just used the right tactics at the right time and opportunity. Radius said.

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