Chapter 61: Not being tall enough is a hard injury

Salt Lake City, the largest city in Utah, is named after its proximity to the Great Salt Lake and is the third largest western inland city in the United States, behind Denver and Phoenix.

Residents of Salt Lake City, which has just hosted the Winter Olympics, have welcomed the NCAA round of 64 and the city has always had some of the craziest basketball fans because of an NBA powerhouse, the Utah Jazz.

This season is John Stockton's 19th season, becoming the seventh player in history to be over 41 years old. At this time, Karl Malone was also 39 years old, and the dying Yuta Shuangsha led the second-year student Andrei Kirilenko to struggle in the west.

The University of Washington and the University of Vermont played a game in Salt Lake City, and Salt Lake City fans, as a neutral side, finally had to stop worrying about winning or losing, just come to Jon Huntsman Center Arena to enjoy the basketball game.

It happened that the Utah Jazz didn't play on this day, and John Stockton and Karl Malone also came to the game and murdered a lot of film from the media on the spot.

Smith, the on-site commentator, said with a smile: "The Utah Jazz are definitely a torturous season this season, and it is foreseeable that their record will not be too good, and it is very likely to get a high pick, but I don't know if the Utah Shuangsha came to the scene this time for the Chinese killer Lu Fei of the Huskies." ”

The game was about to begin, and the players from both teams were warming up, and the huge arena was packed with fans, not only from Seattle, but also from the University of Vermont.

Compared to the distance from Seattle to Utah Salt Lake City, the University of Vermont is almost twice that distance. Vermont, located in the northeast corner of the United States, is almost in Quebec, Canada, so it was clear that there were more fans at the University of Washington than there were Vermont fans.

And, of course, there are plenty of local neutral fans in Salt Lake City.

Although the University of Washington is only a new army in the top sixty-four, the University of Vermont on the other side is also of average level, although it is selected every year, but only because of its remote location and the weak alliance it belongs to.

So the whole body of the University of Washington is excited to meet such an opponent.

The University of Vermont is even more fortunate to meet a rookie team like the University of Washington, and it is not easy to meet a strong team every year, and this year the University of Vermont vowed to win a blood on the University of Washington.

The game, which commentator Smith called "rookie pecking at each other", began with cheers from the fans at the scene.

"Let's take a look at the starting line-ups for both sides."

Smith glanced at the roster in his hand at the camera, "The starting backcourt sent by the University of Vermont is No. 24 David Hearn and No. 21 Mike Goya, this pair of backcourt is very tall, both of them are 6 feet 6 inches tall, I wonder if such a height backcourt will cause problems for the Eskimo Dogs defenders on the offensive end?" ”

6 feet 6 inches, about 198 centimeters tall, and looking at the trident on the Eskimo Dogs lineback, the tallest is Lu Fei, who is now 190.

The Wilcon Roy 188 can still be so-so, and Nate Robinson 175 centimeters can't bear to look at it directly.

Lu Fei knew that the 175 cm was still measured on tiptoe, and the moisture should not be too large.

"The University of Vermont's forward line is No. 42 Grant Anderson and their ace player No. 22 power forward Tyler Cobenlas, who averaged 20.1 points and 6.2 rebounds per game in previous games, which can be called the offensive knife of the University of Vermont, and it just so happens that he and his opponent are Bobby Jones of the Husky Dogs, the weakest link of the Huskies." Smith gave a serious analysis, and then introduced Vermont's center No. 52 Matt Sheftic, a non-characteristic player.

And the starting lineup of the Huskies is their regular starter, playmaking guard Will Conroy, shooting guard Lu Fei, small forward Brandon Roy, power forward Bobby Jones, and center Anthony Washington.

Nate Robinson has been a substitute for Lu Fei since he was drunk in the bar and injured himself in a fall.

However, because Lu Fei often plays a cameo role in the second team to organize defenders, although Nate Robinson only comes off the bench, he sometimes plays no less time than Wilcon Roy in the starter, and his statistics have not declined.

Poor Lu Fei is both a father and a mother.

Anthony Washington glanced at the arena excitedly, and then turned back in frustration and complained: "Lu Fei, the fans at the scene are all wearing your jerseys, and I can't even fucking find where my fans are, it's not fair." ”

LU FEI LOOKED AT IT, AND SURE ENOUGH, THE WASHINGTON FANS IN THE AUDIENCE WERE BASICALLY WEARING LU FEI'S NO. 10 JERSEY, AND A FEW WERE WEARING BRANDON ROY'S JERSEYS, AND HE ALSO SAW VERMONT FANS PULL OUT A BANNER WITH THREE WORDS WRITTEN ON IT: WHO IS LU?

Lu Fei smiled dumbly.

Players from both sides came on, the referee threw the ball into the air, and Anthony Washington jumped high and shouted, "My Land Rover!" ”

The opponent's center forward was stunned, this thing recognized the wrong ball, right?

The basketball was given to Lu Fei by Anthony Washington, who handed the ball to Wilcon Roy and ran to the bottom corner of the front court.

Lorenzo Roma demanded that Anthony Washington be the tactical core of the opening game, and Wilcon Roy faced a defender who was almost 10 centimeters taller than him, and smashed the ball to Anthony Washington, who was stuck in the opponent's center position in the elbow zone.

Lu Fei started from the bottom angle and moved to a forty-five degree angle.

University of Vermont guard Mike Goa prevented Lu Fei from receiving the ball, also moved to a 45-degree angle, and when he passed by Anthony Washington's position, he also used his hand to interfere with Anthony Washington, who was holding the ball.

At the moment when he stretched out his hand, Lu Fei moved, a reverse run went straight to the basket, Anthony Washington threw the ball over with one hand, Lu Fei arrived at the ball, grabbed the basketball and made a backhand layup from the other side of the basket, and the basketball wiped the board and fell into the basket.

The fans at the University of Washington erupted in applause.

Commentator Smith praised: "The Huskies are obviously better in terms of tactical literacy, and from the backrun of this ball and Anthony Washington's pass, it can be seen that they are well-trained, and the University of Vermont obviously did not expect such a sharp attack...... Vermont's Cobenlas made a hook shot, missed the basket, and the rebound was ...... Oh my God, the rebound was taken off by Lu Fei from the Vermont center who was more than ten centimeters taller than him, Brandon Roy had already run to the frontcourt, no one was defending him, Lu Fei's long pass sent the basketball to Roy's hands like a navigation, and Roy dunked and scored......"

The University of Washington took advantage of the opponent's missed shot in the opening game and has scored 10 points in a row.

The score was just a few minutes and had come to 10:3

However, starting with the first three-pointer at the University of Vermont, it seemed to have found a shooting touch, and the opposing players used their height to shoot and score on the heads of Lu Fei and Wilcon Roy one after another.

Lu Fei and Wilconroy sometimes know that the other party wants to shoot, but the position of the opponent to receive the ball is close to the basket, and the disadvantage of not being tall enough at this time is fully reflected, although the defense is in place, but the effect of interference is not good.

This is also the first time Lu Fei has faced this kind of guard who is close to two meters tall, his defense is not the same as when he first entered the NCAA, whether it is physical confrontation or defensive awareness, he can do a good defense, but his height is a hard injury, and being used to beat him with height makes him depressed.

The University of Washington missed two consecutive shots, and Lorenzo Roma quickly called a timeout.