Chapter Forty-Six: Advance to the Final Four

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Coach K decisively called a timeout after seeing that the situation on the field was wrong, and he had to solve the situation that the team's substitute faced Liu Han without a solution.

"Soldier, are you scared of each other? Or do you need me to give you a boost after the game? Don't be stunned on the court, run up, move, quickly keep up with the opponent's attack, as for the opponent's oriental, he will cover him as long as he catches the ball, foul him when necessary, as long as he stops him from shooting, do not limit your means. "Coach K, who came from West Point, has always demanded his players as soldiers.

Thirteen minutes into the first half, the Duke players who came back from the pause wrapped Liu Han, and Liu Han did not do anything in the face of the opponent's bagging, he was very smart to pass the ball to his teammates in the empty space.

The Bruins' main offensive tactic this season is to shoot from the outside, so all the players of the Bruins must have projection ability, and Duke will always leak people on the court after he begins to contain Liu Han, which gives the other players of the Bruins a chance, and when Duke's main force begins to be replaced, the Bruins widen the gap in the score to 15 points.

George, the head coach of the Bruins, replaced the team's backup point guard Stephen Anderson on the court after seeing Liu Han caught in the opponent's bag on the court.

Stephen Anderson, who just came to the team this year, was not convinced by Liu Han at first, but after he stayed with the Bruins for a while, he completely admired Liu Han, and he had never seen such an accurate three-point shooter. Stephen, who is 1.83 meters tall, has good ball control and passing ability, but his body is not very good, and his speed is too slow for the average defender, but now Stephen can handle the situation on the court.

With the point guard handling the ball, Liu Han began to run like last season, and Duke's players could not wrap up the running Liu Han like Liu Han with the ball, so they only arranged the energetic Chris Collins to be responsible for chasing Liu Han under the instructions of the head coach.

Bruins backup point guard Stephen was a little nervous as soon as he got on the court, dribbling the ball to his feet on his first offense, and Duke's players took advantage of Stephen's mistake to quickly counterattack and score two points, bringing the deficit to 13 points.

The Bruins also replaced the main players on the court one after another, and the captain Thomson patted Stephen, who was still a little frustrated by the mistake just now, to comfort him, the newcomers always need the drive and help of the old players, and the rookies will be nervous in the face of tens of thousands of spectators in large stadiums.

Stephen, who recovered a little, handed the ball to Thomson in the corner position on the right side of the court after dribbling past half court, Liu Han ran to Thomson, he rubbed Thomson's body around the outside line, Thomson passed the ball to Liu Han very smoothly, Liu Han made a shooting action after receiving the ball, the opponent's Chris flew up at once, Liu Han retracted the shooting hand and dribbled the ball from the right side. Facing the opponent's defensive power forward Liu Han made another behind-the-back pass to Thomson in the horn position, who received the ball and hit two points, 31-16, and the gap in the score returned to 15 points.

The Duke Blues started to pick up on offense after the return of their main players, and they relied on a team effort by point guard Chris to hit a three-pointer to make it 31-19.

The Bruins then responded with a three-pointer from Liu Han after receiving a pass from Stephen, 34-19.

After about fifteen minutes into the first half, the two teams were in a stalemate, and Duke didn't have a good way to attack the Bruins, and the Bruins were not able to defend against the opposing team's offense.

At the end of the first half, Duke Blues shooting guard Jeff Kabor hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner to meet Liu's defense, and after hitting the three-pointer, Jeff raised his fist to Liu.

The Bruins' last attack of the first half, Liu Han dribbled the ball across the half court and stopped at the top of the arc, hoping to run out of time in this attack and not leave Duke a chance to play the last attack.

With 6 seconds left, Liu Han accelerated the pace of the dribble, Thomson first raised it to cover Liu Han, Liu Han made a breakthrough move, and the Blue Devils player Chris who defended him immediately chose to bypass Thomson to chase Liu Han, but Liu Han pulled the ball back to step back and jump, and the basketball crossed a beautiful arc with the whistle at the end of the first half and fell into the net, 41-29, the Bruins led Duke by 12 points at the end of the first half.

At halftime, Coach K gave another military mobilization speech to his players, hoping that the team could pick themselves up and fight back to win the game in the second half.

Bruins' head coach George praised the player's performance in the first half, and the team still showed great strength in the absence of a main scorer.

The Bruins' players started the second half with a little bit of contempt for their opposing players, they were confused by their own first-half lead, and felt that their defending champions were better than their opponents, and this game should be won, but Duke has always been a strong team in the NCAA, and they may not be too famous stars, but their sense of team is definitely the best.

At the beginning of the second half, Duke gave the Bruins a head start, Duke's center Dimon Donszski slapped Stephen's layup with a big hat, and Jeff Kabor, who grabbed the ball, ended the counterattack with a violent dunk, and the score of the two teams came to 10.

The Bruins' players seemed to be swept away by the hat, and the team's offense began to stagnate, and the players' feel began to decline.

Duke continued to rely on his excellent team basketball to launch a fierce counterattack against the Bruins, and the Bruins began to fall into passivity, relying only on Liu Han's shooting to score three points in the space of six minutes, while the opponent played a 14-3 surge in that time, and the score was overtaken. 44 to 45.

The head coach of the Bruins called a timeout, hoping that his players would calm down and let go of the burden of wanting to win and losing.

"Hey, guys, don't think we're going to get to the last four by winning this game, we're behind now, the team needs us to pick ourselves up, Liu, tell us, what do we need to do now?" Captain Thomson showed his leadership qualities.

'We need to score, we need to prevent them from scoring, it's as simple as that. Liu Han has always been able to make complex things simple.

"Yes, that's right, the thing now is very simple, is to score, and then prevent the opponent from scoring, let's play, boys, show the courage to fight and prove your strength." Head coach George concludes by summing it up.

After the timeout, the Bruins finally recovered, and they played a smooth coordination in the offense, and finally Liu Han received a pass from Thomson on the outside to score three points, 47-45.

Back defensively, Duke was also very well coordinated, and their center Dimon was experienced, relying on the Bruins' rookie center Kevin Horford to score two points and make free throws, 47-48.

The game was once again deadlocked around eight minutes into the second half, with Duke putting their team basketball on full display and the Bruins showing off their offensive prowess as they recovered.

At the 13-minute mark of the second half, the score was 64-66, with Duke leading by two points.

Liu Han, who has played all the time, did not show too much fatigue, the training camp he participated in during the summer vacation made his physical strength better than that of ordinary players, and the opponent Duke, who was responsible for defending Liu Han, began to be unable to keep up with Liu Han at this time, at the beginning of the game, Liu Han was in the point guard position, Chris could still guarantee to follow Liu Han, but later when Liu Han began to play the position of scoring guard, he began to run with all his might, Chris could still keep up at first, but then he basically couldn't keep up.

Liu Han shook off Chris and received a pass from his teammates at the fourteenth minute of the second half, hitting two three-pointers in a row to open the score, 72-67.

Duke's coach, Lao K, switched to the team's backup point guard after seeing that Chris was starting to lose track of Liu Han, and then asked Jeff Kabor to defend Liu Han.

The state of the Bruins was completely brought up by Liu Han's two three-pointers, and the Bruins who regained their momentum showed their shooting ability, and in the face of this kind of team where almost the whole team has three-point ability and the feeling is beginning to burst, Duke basically has nothing to do.

The Bruins first hit two shots in succession by captain Thomson and point guard Stephen in the offense, and then hit two three-pointers again by Liu Han with the cooperation of the whole team, and in the 17th minute of the second half, the score of the two teams came to 82-71, with three minutes left in the game, the Bruins led by 11 points, and Duke was gone.

The final score was 89-79, and the Bruins defeated their rival Duke University Blue Devils to advance to the final four.

Liu Han didn't get a double-double in this game, but his 32 points were still the highest among all players on both sides, Thomson scored 18 points and 12 rebounds, and rookie Stephen scored 6 points, 7 assists and 3 steals.

The UCLA Bruins reached the final four of the NCAA tournament once again, and the results were not unexpected, as the Bruins have shown their quality this season, and now they have won an impressive 33 straight games. The Bruins' call to win this year is the highest of any team.

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