Chapter 19: Two kinds of point guards
Point guards, the number one position on the basketball court, are traditionally made for assists and control, and scoring is not their first priority.
However, as basketball has evolved, more and more point guards today are leaning towards scoring or versatility rather than assists.
Especially in the future (compared to the current time in the book 10 years), after Stephen Curry created the point guard three-point stream, the point guards were even more reluctant to assist, Westbrook even opened up the point guard "triple-double board" stream, in order to get a triple-double for himself, you can use the team's main center as the legendary "card forward", although he later averaged a triple-double per game for two consecutive seasons is really great, but I always feel that this is a little bit bad.
But fortunately, it's 10 years now, although the traditional point guard who focuses on assists has declined, but fortunately, he hasn't completely lost the market, Nash is still a very strong point guard, and Paul's passing ability is also his peak, and the assist stream is still very comfortable in the league.
However, John Wall, he is obviously not a traditional point guard, he prefers scoring to assists, although if he assists with his heart, his assist data will not be bad, but the battle that can be solved with scoring, why assist?
So, after 10 minutes of play, Wall scored 16 points and led the team to 30 points.
However, that didn't make him happy, as Penn also scored 27 points, just three points off them.
This is something that everyone didn't expect before the game.
And what allowed Penn to achieve this result in the first 10 minutes was naturally their main point guard Han Miao, although he only has 4 points in the account so far, he has 7 assists! Perfectly revitalized the rest of the team!
"Pause!"
Kentucky called a timeout, and although they still maintained their lead, the feeling of being chased by others made people feel very unpleasant.
"John, pass the ball more, don't play alone, if you have a chance, let DeMarcus block for you, and then go down, Eric is always ready to answer, shoot three-pointers when you have the chance, and others protect the rebound! Especially you, Daniel! You've given the opposite side too many rebounding opportunities! ”
The head coach of Kentucky's side yelled at the Kentucky Five Tigers, and was beaten like this by Penn, which he couldn't tolerate, although the team was still ahead, but he still expressed his dissatisfaction.
Of course, because Wall is a great disciple he has brought out so far, so although he is yelling at them, he is not really angry, he just wants to make these guys serious.
Penn is different, the whole team is in a more joyful atmosphere, after all, they only lost 3 points in 10 minutes with the giant Kentucky, which they couldn't have imagined before.
"Han, you're really amazing."
David, who scored 6 points, was very excited, all his 6 points were dunk points, and it was a very happy thing to be able to score consecutive dunks on the head of Cousins, Kentucky's No. 1 interior liner, and he could blow it for half a year in the future.
"It's true that I've never felt so comfortable shooting threes."
William, who hit 3 of 4 outside three-point shots and scored 9 points, was also very excited, especially after each shot, looking at the opponent's powerless expression, William suddenly had a feeling that he was Reggie Miller or Ray Allen.
"Don't be careless, their defensive intensity will definitely come up in a while, and no matter who goes up, we have to block and dismantle the pass more and then find the open space."
Han Miao was draped in a big towel, and then held the tactical board to discuss with everyone, of course, Coach D is not a dry meal, at least he is also listening carefully on the side, and he is also responsible for handing over water and towels......
At the end of the timeout, both sides came back, although Wall on the Kentucky side got the instructions from the coach to connect the whole team more, but I don't know why, as soon as he got on the court and saw Han Miao's face, Wall inexplicably had a desire to score more points to beat him.
"John, call me one."
Cousins was on the inside, keeping David tightly behind him, and then rushing at Wall for the ball.
Wall was originally going to break through directly, but when he saw that Cousins wanted the ball, he was embarrassed not to give it, so he handed the ball in with a high hang.
"Not good, David! Others are always ready to help him! ”
Han Miao is not afraid that Wall will be one-on-one with him, because even if he can't beat him now, at least he won't let Wall lead the whole Kentucky team, and it is possible that Kentucky, who depends on Wall, will be defeated.
However, if Wall doesn't just change the assist and let his teammates play, then Penn is really hopeless, Bi Beng's manpower is limited, and it's okay to defend one person collectively, and if you defend a few more, you'll have to be finished.
Cousins catches the ball, then turns his back and leans heavily on David!
"Bang!"
Huge strength, Cousins's strength is infinite, but it is at the gold level, which is better than David, coupled with the size advantage, David was hit by this, and immediately took several steps back.
However, after David retreated, he immediately posted it again! And didn't throw in the towel to Cousins!
"Oh, interesting fellow!"
Cousins was deducted by this guy three times before, and he was very unhappy in his heart, so this time he had the opportunity, of course, he chose to continue to beat him with his back, and it seemed that he was ready to dunk David before he stopped.
"Bang! Boom! Boom! Rumble! ”
Cousins hit three times in a row, then pushed David away, and the basket was double-handed with both hands!
"Beautiful! John, pass me two more in a moment! ”
Cousins high-fived Wall as he stepped back to defend.
"Damn...... As strong as an ox......"
David was a little stuffy in his chest by Cousins, this was the first time he had encountered such a violent guy in the game, it seemed that he was able to dunk those three just now, purely because the point guard on the opposite side didn't give him the ball, and at the same time he had a point guard who could pass the ball.
"It's normal to not move, didn't Han say it, the strongest one among all the newcomers this year."
William came over to comfort David, Cousins is thicker than David in terms of size! It's too normal for David to be unbearable.
"Jesse remembers to help David, this guy Cousins is not O'Neal, if two big men surround him, he should be able to stop him for a while."
Han Miao said to his own power forward that Penn's power forward is a standard blue-collar worker, low-key and unassuming, but he is still very qualified to be a meat shield or something.
"Don't mess around, run, hit them again!"
Han Miao continued to control the ball, he couldn't let Wall continue to mobilize the whole team, so he had to let Wall focus on himself.
The standard shaking left and right, all the badges on Han Miao's body that have an effect on the offense are fully opened at this moment! This time, he actually passed Wall half a body, and kept pressing him to rush into the inside, and when everyone didn't react, he hit a layup!
"Hey John, let's go head-to-head, you can't escape!"
For the sake of victory, Wall, you better go head-to-head with me! Tandem or something, forget about this one!
"Oh?"
Wall raised his eyebrows and didn't respond to anything, but, obviously, he listened to Han Miao's words.
Let's prove what kind of point guard is more helpful to victory!