Chapter 37: Confrontation

It's unrealistic to completely prevent a future MVP-level player, let alone Curry, even if Wang Xiao asked Prian to target Beasley like that in the last game, the latter still cut a double-double, Beasley, a parallel commodity who hasn't played seriously in the NBA for a few seasons, let alone Curry?

Although Beasley is much more famous than Curry now, and he is still the favorite this year, in Wang Xiao's heart, even Curry, who has not grown up now, should be more threatening than Beasley.

Defending in such a situation is obviously not a perfect tactic, and he has to think about what to do if Curry feels hot and can't be stopped.

The answer is yes.

Since I can't defend you, let's have a big fight!

Wang Xiao's team is not a team known for its offense, and from the moment he drew Kidd and Battier's growth cards, he set the tone of the whole team as a defensive powerhouse.

But that doesn't mean Harvard's offense is a weakness.

It is true that among the players at Harvard, except for Jeremy Lin, there are almost no points where they can attack with the ball, but just Jeremy Lin alone is enough!

Kidd Growth Template Cards aren't meant to be watched and played! The all-time second-ranked legend in assists is an absolute master when it comes to controlling the tempo.

Jeremy Lin is certainly not at the peak of Kidd's level, but he can't be beaten by using his passes to speed up the team.

Picking up rebounds and making long passes to teammates on fast breaks is Kidd's forte, and his shoulder passes are even more brilliant and accurate.

How could Wang Xiao not exercise Jeremy Lin's ability in his daily training?

In the Ivy League, Harvard's most common way of scoring is to defend and counterattack.

Whether it's stealing and blocking opponents and then breaking fast, or getting rebounds and quickly counterattacking, with Jeremy Lin's passes, Harvard's players can always get closer to the basket before opposing defenders.

It's just that this kind of fast break is also accompanied by a certain risk, once the fast break fails, is stealed or defended by the opponent, and the opponent follows back a fast break, the players have not returned to their respective positions, and the defense that Harvard relies on cannot be launched, after all, Harvard's players are not full defensive giants, and without Jeremy Lin and Plain's position to assist in defense, other players still have a certain gap compared to the players trained in other NCAA leagues.

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Curry's hand gradually became hot in the resolute shooting, but the gap between Davidson College and Harvard University did not shorten but widened!

Each of Harvard's fast-break breaks was a scramble for Davidson College, and they tried to cut off Lin's passing path, but that proved to be useless, and even though he was almost half a court away, Lin was always able to find a suitable spot for his teammates to catch the ball.

In desperation, Davidson College can only keep an eye on those Harvard players who are ready to go down at any time.

But as a result, there are very few players who can assist Curry on the offensive end, and many times Curry can only face Jeremy Lin's defense alone.

Throughout the first half, the game was like a battle between two people.

Harvard University scored 42 points in the first half, while Davidson College scored 27 points, and the two sides maintained a difference of nearly 15 points, and as the team's main point of attack, Davidson College's Curry hit 4 three-pointers in the first half, Davidson College scored a total of 27 points, and Curry scored 19 points alone.

Curry's firepower surprised scouts and reporters alike, and they could see how hard Jeremy Lin had defended Curry, who could still score 19 points in such a situation, and they had to reevaluate the emaciated guy.

But what surprised them even more was the performance of Jeremy Lin at Harvard.

Jeremy Lin scored less in the half than Curry, but even so, he scored 12 points, which corresponded to his seven assists and zero turnovers in the half!

Unlike the NBA, the NCAA not only has 8 minutes less time than the NBA, but also has a longer round than the NBA.

The NBA's round is 24 seconds and the NCAA's is 35 seconds, a full 11 seconds more than the NBA.

This rule also makes the pace of the NCAA much slower than that of the NBA, and the average point guard is already quite a good passer with 7 to 8 assists in the whole game, but Jeremy Lin delivered 7 assists in the half and did not even make a single turnover, which is a bit too exaggerated.

They all watched the game just now, most of the assists sent by Jeremy Lin were long-distance fast-break passes, from the backcourt directly across half the court to the frontcourt, mistakes, the possibility of being tackled is extremely high, but Jeremy Lin maintained an amazing success rate, which can't help but they don't think about Jeremy Lin's passing ability from scratch.

After returning from the second half, Davidson College, led by Curry, launched another fierce attack, while Jeremy Lin led the Harvard players to defend to the 15-point lead.

Curry kept hitting three-pointers, closing the score again and again, and even narrowing the score gap to less than 10 points at one point.

However, Jeremy Lin was also not to be outdone, and while he broke through Curry's defense in a row to cause huge damage to the inside, he even threw two three-pointers from the outside.

The 20 minutes of play were fleeting, and when the whistle blew at full-time, the score was fixed at 87:76.

Harvard won the game by 11 points.

Jeremy Lin scored 27 points, 12 assists and six steals, while Curry, who was opposite him, scored 42 points and shot 8-of-17 from three-point range.

The two of them staged an offensive feast in different ways.

After the game, Jeremy Lin, who was off the court, looked at Curry and said to Wang Xiao from the bottom of his heart.

"Coach, this guy is exactly what you say...... It's hard to wrap around. ”

Jeremy Lin has always been confident in his defense, even if Plain is not as good as him defensively.

But in the face of his strict defense, this guy who looked very thin actually scored 42 points! And he made 8 three-pointers on 47% shooting! That's a higher shooting percentage than many defenders.

"This time you won." Wang Xiao smiled and said: "But don't be complacent, soon you will meet again in the NBA, if you don't want to lose to him, train hard." ”

Harvard's upset victory over Davidson College once again shocked the media.

No one could have imagined that Davidson College, which ranked 10th in the United States and defeated the 7th university in the United States in the round of 64, would lose to a team from the Ivy League!

Tenth vs. forty-seventh, this should have been a game without suspense!

Many people can't help but think of what Wang Xiao said when he was interviewed by reporters not long ago.

"Harvard University is far more than 47th in the country, and we have to be in the top 10 in the country."