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At the end of the game, the 1w9,000 live spectators stood up and applauded fiercely for the two teams that staged a wonderful game, they had reason to be happy and reason to be excited, one was naturally the state team Kentucky Wildcats won, they qualified for the semifinals, to put it bluntly: they advanced! The second is that this game is really exciting, the fast and smooth offensive tide of the Wildcats, the steady positional battle in North Carolina, the key is that this is not an ugly positional battle like the Pistons, but a bit of Salt Lake City's jazzy kind, Rashid. Wallace's high-post jumper after a pick-and-roll, Jerry. Stackhouse borrowed the break after the pick-and-roll or went straight to the basket, and Eric went straight to the basket. Montrose's half-volley, coupled with the vacant shots of two third-year veterans on both sides of the ribs, these constitute a relatively three-dimensional positional battle routine in North Carolina, this lineup may have the defect of Eric moving slowly, but this is also a good positional battle configuration, of course, no three-point shot is a hard injury, which can be seen from their average three-point shot per game less than 8 times, and most of these eight three-pointers are strong three-point shots that use Wallace to cover Starker House's sideways move and shake off a gap. It can be seen that they lack three-point shooting.

The Kentucky Wildcats, on the other hand, do not have a hard enough center but they have a rare mobility in other teams, and they have a high speed while maintaining a high altitude. Pitino does have a hand in small-ball tactics, or maybe they are feeling hot today, they are actually more stable than the position, the success rate of North Carolina is not much different, plus North Carolina is indeed short of a three-point player this year, in the second half to further guard against Stackhouse's cold three points, the situation gradually deflected to the Wildcats, although this deflection is small, but maybe the home advantage began to exert force, almost all of the stadium cheered for the Wildcats. This indirectly caused Stackhouse to be in the mood after being guarded by the mood also had mixed thoughts, after two consecutive three-point misses, the difference between the two teams was widened to 5 points in one fell swoop, although the next time Stackhouse regained the previous shooting feeling, but the 5-point gap is really not easy to chase, especially at the key point where there are only more than 2 minutes left in this game.

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When Walter. McCarty, Anthony. Walker, Ron. Mercer, Derek. Anderson and Tony. Derk, the five-man group who played almost the full 40 minutes, jumped around the court. Montrose, Jerry. Stackhouse, Rashid. When the three Wallace and the two third-year seniors were full of nostalgia and somewhat reluctantly walked away, Rick. Pitino walked towards Dean. Smith and stretched out his right hand as the old-timer Dean of the Smith. Smith held out his right hand.

Dean. Smith & Rick. After shaking hands with each other, Pitino did not mean to speak first, and seeing this, Pitino did not reluctantly speak first.

"It was a bit of a thrilling game, but it turned out exactly as I expected."

"Rick, the next game will be tougher, don't be complacent."

To Dean. Smith's argument is a bit old-fashioned, and Pitino, who has already entered the semi-finals, wanted to refute it, but when he noticed the former's half-white hair, he paused, and then the words came to Pitino's mouth and changed his mind.

"I'm going to treat the next two opponents like I did today."

Smith looked seriously at the rising star in front of him, who was two rounds younger than him, nodded with satisfaction when he saw that his expression was not perfunctory, shook the hands of the two again and shook them vigorously, and then turned to comfort his player.

"Remember what you said," he said, turning around, he also floated the commandment.

Looking at the back of a certain senior, a touch suddenly appeared in Pitino's heart that he had never felt before, but this mood came and went quickly, and in the blink of an eye, he suppressed this strangeness, and also turned back and smiled to welcome the return of the heroes of his team.

Mike who has returned home. Shashewski also saw the interaction between the two in the West Stadium in the study, and then he turned down the sound of the TV to the lowest, and the study fell silent for a while, and his mood was a little complicated at this time.

Although he does outperform the latter in terms of age (Dean. Smith is much younger, but the two are indeed a generation, college basketball coaches of the same era, and they are still the top two. Dean. Smith only began his career as head coach in North Carolina in 1961, after spending several years at Frank Brown. McGuire worked as an assistant under him, and after five or six years of hard work, he finally paid off, winning the championship in his division in 1967, 1968 and 1969, and winning the final four finals of the tournament. Wooden and his UCLA Bruins. Lost to UCLA, won 10 NCAA championships in 27 years, and had a wave of seven consecutive championships (1967-1973), the first person in the NCAA at that time was John. Wooden.

And his first championship was a long time before that, in 1982, in the hands of Michael. Jordan, James. Worthy, Sam. Under the leadership of Perkins, the final was fought until the last 17 seconds, and Jordan scored a goal (63-62, 61-62) to win the championship.

And last year, the weathered NCAA veteran might have won his second national title, but unfortunately in the Final Four, Donald Brown. Williams, George. The trio of Lynch and Eric Montrose lost to Mike's Kena. John, Grant. Hill, Bobby. The Hurley trio unfortunately stopped in the semi-finals. In fact, neither of them knew that this year's champion should have been Smith's, it may be that in the summer of 92, a strong organization forward experienced setbacks and shame, and then became more and more powerful, which led to last year's NCAA championship falling to his family. Mike values this old man so much, one is because North Carolina was really not weak last year, and there are not many loopholes in each position, and another Smith is indeed the number one person, although he is the old school of the old school, he is not pedantic in coaching the team, and he is very strong on the spot, maybe his energy has decreased due to age in recent years, or maybe he is gradually sluggish in his on-the-spot reaction, but his experience should not be underestimated.

Last year's semifinals confirmed his prediction, but at that time Hill broke out, or broke out, he crushed George with his excellent performance, in all aspects, and that game he was Duke's Jordan. In the case of Xiao Qian being crushed, Smith also had to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall, even if this was the way to die, he had to do it, and then Mike, the famous head of the same grade, exerted his strength, and broke the strong defense line directly commanded by Smith based on Xiao Qian. What should have been a game of dragon and tiger is even more exciting with the transformation of a certain organizer, which is of course exciting in the eyes of ordinary viewers and many NBA scouts, but not necessarily in the eyes of many college coaches.

And today, when he just returned home after losing the game, he saw the exit of his old rival Smith again, and he couldn't help but think of himself if he was as tenacious as he was.