John? Wooden has been following the performance of the Bruins, and he didn't expect that the team's results would not be able to catch up with last year's results after Liu Han joined. In John? In Wooden's vision, Liu Han can be used as a sharp blade for the team, and in positional warfare, Liu Han's role will be greatly prominent. John? Wooden knows that basketball in this era has changed dramatically from thirty years ago, but the center is still regarded as the basis for winning the championship, and the strong center will play an extremely important role in the game related to the championship, because once the game is important, then the intensity of defense will increase sharply, and at this time, the mutual cooperation between the inside and outside will be particularly important, and Liu Han's role now is to directly improve the deterrence of the outside line to the point that the opponent can not ignore, so that it can cause direct damage to the opponent on the inside. So in the current NBA, Big Dream Olajuwon, Admiral Robinson, Gorilla Patrick? Ewing, the big shark O'Neal's four centers are rampant, and the favorites in the annual draft are also strong centers. Eighty-year-old John? Wooden is not behind the times, and he is still keeping an eye on the changes in the basketball system.

When Liu Han came to John? When Wooden was at home, the Bruins' assistant coach George? Krent had already had a cordial conversation with Mr. Wooden, and he described to Mr. Wooden in detail his tactical arrangements for Liu Han and explained directly to Mr. Wooden that the head coach Jim? Harrick's stubbornness is self-serving.

"Mr. Wooddon, Coach George, hello, I ......" Liu Han was a little hesitant from the beginning, he couldn't tell others his purpose too directly, which may have something to do with the education he received since childhood and the nature of the Oriental.

"Young man, I know the purpose of your coming today, you don't need to say it, George has explained everything to me." Mr. Wooden saw Liu Han's embarrassment.

"Uh, thank you, Mr. Wooddon, but I think it's better for me to say it, I want to play, I feel like I can score a lot of goals, and the feeling of sitting and watching from the sidelines makes me uncomfortable." After receiving encouragement from Safina and encouragement from Mr. LaBeouf at LaBeouf's home, Liu Han plucked up the courage to state his purpose.

"Well, good, lad, it's good that you can tell. I've been reading a lot of books about your Oriental culture lately, and it's made me interested in your culture. In your Eastern culture, advocating a spirit of doing first rather than advocating verbal expression is contrary to the spirit of the United States, and it is contrary to the spirit of cooperation in group sports, where you have to be brave enough to say your thoughts and goals, and only by letting others feel your strong fighting spirit and spirit will others pay attention to you. But boy, you're making the wrong statement today, it's not me who you should be looking for, you should go straight to your manager, only he has the right to let you play, understand? ”

"Mr. Wooden, I told you just now, I think Jim? Harrick is no longer fit to coach the Bruins, and he doesn't want to get carried away by something. "To Jim? Harrick said angrily George.

"Yes, George, you said that, but I didn't say that Ham's head coach must be Jim? Harrick, isn't it? Haha, go back and wait, George, train and prepare with Liu Han, it shouldn't be too long, I hope you won't let me down and many others at that time. ”

"Mr. Wooddon, do you mean......" George Crent, who was a little agitated, thought he had misheard.

"I didn't say anything, George? Coach Krent, haha. ”

Liu Han and George, who was still a little apprehensive, went back, Liu Han was still a little puzzled by the conversation between George and Mr. Wooden, and he wondered if he was really going to Jim for time? Coach Harrick has a good talk.

The Bruins' first opponent in the championship game was Stanford University, which had beaten them twice in the regular season, and the game will be played on the home of Stanford University, which outperformed the Bruins in the regular season.

Liu Han had been thinking about whether to go to Jim in the pre-game warm-up? Coach Harrick talks.

At the beginning of the game, Liu Han was still sitting on the bench, and next to him sat Thomson, a backup center with whom he had a good relationship. Thomson in the main center George? Zidik got a lot of playing opportunities during the time he was resting from injury, but George? Zidik was in stable condition after returning from injury, and he had to guard the water cooler with Liu Han.

"Han, I don't understand why Coach Jim didn't let you play, I think you're definitely going to be much more useful than Sam on the court, Sam's shooting is not as good as mine." Thomson admires Liu Han as a relatively slow-moving center but has a good mid-range shot.

"I don't know why the coach didn't let me play...... "Liu Han, who couldn't play, felt very depressed, "Maybe I should find Jim?" Mr. Harrick to talk. ”

At the beginning of the game, the Bruins, who won the jump ball, attacked first. Point guard Tejus dribbled past half court and hoisted the ball to center George, who was in a key position on his back? Zidike, the first wave of the Bruins' offense generally starts with a center.

George? Zidik received the ball and dribbled back, he tried to use his strength to squeeze directly through the defense of the opponent's center, but what he didn't expect was that the opponent's center was very good and resisted George. Finding that he couldn't squeeze his opponent out, George leaned directly on his opponent and turned to the left side of his body, hitting with a half-hook in his right hand, and the Czech, who had undergone four years of university training, had a solid foundation.

The Stanford players quickly served after the Bruins' offensive hit, and they took advantage of the opponent's lack of concentration to launch a counterattack, and they noticed the Bruins' weakness. The Bruins have two players on the field who are more than two meters and one zero, namely center George? Zidike and power forward James? Karl, this means that the Bruins are slower in terms of speed, and they have studied the performance of the Bruins in detail when they lose strength in the regular season, so they changed the norm and started with a speed increase.

The Bruins' defense was counter-attacked by the opponent before it could settle down, and it was a 2-2 draw.

The game started at such a pace, with the Bruins holding the pace ready to clash with their opponents, while the Stanford players prepared to turn the game into a sprint race.

The Bruins slowly began to be messed up by their opponents, because after all, they were all young people in their early twenties, and they had gradually matured after several years of college training, but watching the opponents show off dunks in the counterattack again and again, the Bruins players also began to get enthusiastic.

Stanford's tactics were extreme, trying to avoid positional battles with the Bruins in the middle of the offense, and their attacks often ended in less than fifteen seconds each, compared to the 35-second time limit for each offense in American college games. If Stanford University didn't hit the offense, he didn't want to grab the frontcourt rebound, and directly returned to the defense collectively to prevent the Bruins from counterattacking.

The Bruins can only let the center play because of the lack of more stable shooting points in the offense, or take turns to break through, and Stanford's defensive tactics are to prevent breakouts and not prevent shooting, as long as the Bruins break through, they have to face the opponent's bag, which makes the Bruins quickly pull away from the score.

Less than five minutes into the game, the Bruins trailed by eight points.

Jim? Faced with such an unfavorable situation, Harrick had to choose a timeout to adjust.

"Boys, good job, but you have to be careful not to be disturbed by the opponent's style of play, you have to play according to our pre-game arrangement, wait for Hudson you to play, replace James, try not to shoot indiscriminately, to play the success rate, you know? I'm sure you won't let me down. "Jim? Harrick knew that choosing to reprimand the young men now would not work, and might have the opposite effect, so he tried to make his expression look lighter, trying to motivate the young men he had been with for four years with encouragement.

"Coach Harrick, I don't think we should arrange for Han to play, if he is on the field, our breakthrough success rate may increase." The team's captain, Teus, chose to suggest to the head coach that Liu Han be on the pitch, but he found that the manager's face gradually changed when he mentioned Liu Han.

"I know what I'm supposed to do, Teus? Edney, you just have to do what you have to do on the field, it's not your turn to do things off the field. "Jim, upset? Harrick spoke rather unrelentingly.

The Bruins who came back from the timeout still did not improve, but the opponent's counterattack was extremely sharp, and the Bruins head coach's arrangement at the timeout was replaced by Hudson, who had just come on the court? White was messed up, originally Jim? Harrick's goal was to get Hudson on the court to ensure his team's speed on defense, but Hudson, who didn't want to rush to perform, went straight to the field as soon as he came on the court, and the result was that the Bruins' mistakes began to increase, and Stanford's counterattack came more resolutely.

The Bruins, who were falling behind, began to get more and more impatient, and the movement in defense and offense became more and more big. Several of the Bruins are in their senior year, and they could have chosen to enter the NBA in their sophomore or junior year, but the NCAA championship goal in their hearts made them choose to stay and fight, but they didn't expect it to fall to such a point now, which made their beliefs begin to lose balance.

As the Bruins moved bigger and bigger, the Stanford players also began to fight back, and they began to do everything to stop every attack of the Bruins, and the action on the field became bigger and bigger, and even chaos occurred.

In the last offensive of the Bruins, which was about to end in the first half, Hudson? White broke through to the layup and was directly knocked to the ground by the Stanford University player's head and face cap, Hudson, who was already out of balance, punched the opponent after getting up, and the Stanford University player also pounced on Hudson when he saw this? White, the Bruins players also began to rush to the site of the conflict, many players from both sides were entangled, and the referee's whistle could not organize this group of young people who were already enthusiastic.

Jim on the sidelines? Harrick's mind went blank when he looked at everything that was happening on the field, he couldn't figure out what was going on, everything had started to go wrong with him since Liu Han arrived, and it seemed that his position as head coach would not last long, and he felt that the Bruins had little hope for the future.