Chapter Ninety-Nine: Kyrie Owen
Kangda's tenacity exceeded the expectations of most people on the floor.
Kangda switched back to man-marking, Curry didn't have a good chance, but Smith and Singler played a block again, Singler scored 4 points in a row, and after Tang Tian switched to Singler, Kelly received Smith's pass and shot a three-pointer from the outside.
The point difference that was just approaching was suddenly stretched to 13 points.
Coach K is more capable than Cajon and adjusts always one step ahead of his opponent.
The crisis came again, but Kangda also continued to show their tenacious side, this time it was Lamb, he finally found a touch on the outside and hit a three-pointer, Tang Tian returned to the defensive end to force Curry to succeed, Walker's fast break hit 2+1, and Kangda once again narrowed the gap to 7 points.
Twice in a row, when the situation was about to collapse, Kangda always had someone who could step up and save the situation for the team to continue scoring.
This Kangda team can reach the semifinals, and their strength on paper may really not be as good as Duke's, but they really don't lose at all in terms of mental, or even better.
The game played about 13 minutes into the first half, and the score on the court was 30-23, and although Duke was ahead, he still couldn't pull away.
Coach K's expression at this time was not as relaxed as it was at the beginning.
Kangda is now like a difficult bone to gnaw, like a fish in the throat, if he can't get the advantage early, he will never be able to ensure the victory, but he knows that the city's rival North Carolina was dragged to the end by this team and killed.
"Carey." He turned and called Owen up again.
"You went up and let go of the attack, and made more kills, their internal strength is average." Before going on the court, he pulled Owen and admonished.
Owen nodded, his expression slightly excited.
He is very talented, but he is not very suitable for the basketball atmosphere of college, and he still prefers to let go of his hands and feet to play alone.
Now Coach K asked him to let go of the attack, and he couldn't ask for it.
The game went into a dead ball, and both sides switched back to the main force one after another.
The 7-point difference was stalemate for four or five minutes, and it was up to who could pull the difference away.
Duke's possession came up, and after Irving held the ball at the top of the circle, his teammates pulled them all away.
It was more thorough than the opening game, and Plumlee didn't even mention it to block it.
One-on-one between Owen and Walker.
Dribbling, crotch, body change of direction, Irving's crossover skills are really outstanding.
Walker struggled to keep up with Irving's pace.
But at this moment, Owen suddenly took a step forward, leaned on Walker's body and turned around, and when Walker pounced, he took another change of direction and passed Walker directly!
There was an exclamation from the scene.
The ball seemed to be really stuck in Owen's hand!
Owen passed Walker and went inside, Oriache was worried that Owen's pass did not dare to go out of the penalty area, but Owen did not shoot in the middle distance, and when he reached the penalty area, he saw Oreyache pounce, an acceleration jump, and a big lever in the air directly scored a backhand layup.
This series of dribbles and pull rods, the visual effect is simply explosive, and the Duke fans on the scene climaxed one after another.
Tang Tian saw a pain in his ankle, Irving's dribbling skills didn't have to be said, the best guard after Iverson, but it was really good to play like this just after returning from injury.
On Cancer's offense, Lamb broke through to the basket and shot wide, and Plumlee grabbed the defensive rebound.
Duke pushed to the frontcourt and let Irving hold the ball and single.
This time Walker pressed harder, and Irving's successive changes of direction before the crotch and body did not pass.
But at that moment, Plumlee went from the inside to the high pick-and-roll, and Walker squeezed through.
After seeing it, Owen dribbled with his left hand, leaned his whole body to the left, and broke through from the left side, but the next second he suddenly switched to his right hand, pulled the ball back to the right side, and then turned his body right.
Shammgod!
Top-notch dribbling techniques that are usually only found on street courts.
Tang Tian has seen this technique before on the New York Street Court, but compared to those people's fancy, the star of Irving is more practical.
Both Walker and Oriache were completely deceived, and Irving accelerated straight into the box.
Tang Tian was forced to come over to help defend, and Owen saw a through ball to Singel, who received the ball and scored a layup without defense.
"Oh my God! His dribbling really got out of the water! "Barkley was a little bit wet by Irving's ball-handling skills.
"I've never seen anyone in college basketball control the ball so well since Aaron Iverson, and Irving is really extraordinary!" Miller also exclaimed.
Even Kenny Smith applauded Irving at this time, although he supported UConn, but Irving's dribble was really beautiful.
Kangda's offense, Walker had a gap after the breakthrough, but his shot was directly a three-no-touch.
After being teased by Owen one after another, his mentality also fluctuated.
Duke's offense is still Irving, and this time the defender is Lamb.
Continuous body forward change of direction, Lamb's focused defense followed, but in the next second, Irving's right hand dribble pulled to the left side and then dribbled to the right sharply, and an inside and outside dribble directly gave Lamb a clean pass.
In the next second, he accelerated into the inside line, and in the gap between the defense of Oriage and Tang Tian, he pulled the lever and scored the ball again.
The score difference was reopened to 13 points in an instant.
Owen was simply unstoppable.
Cajon hurriedly called a timeout, this time pulling away was different from the previous one, it was completely forced by Owen with his personal ability.
"Coach, I'm going to defend Owen." Tang Tian opened his mouth and introduced himself to Cahon.
"No, you're in the fourth position, and you're too bad in terms of speed." Cajon rejected Tang Tian's proposal this time.
Kangda's previous opponents were all strong forwards, and he would use Tang Tian to defend them at the beginning, which also allowed Kangda to have the upper hand every time in the opening, but this time it was different, Irving was the point guard, Tang Tian was the No. 4 position, and the difference between the two positions was too far.
"I can try." Tang Tian wasn't absolutely sure, but he still wanted to try.
"No, Singler was in good form in the first half, you still have to defend him." Cajon spoke.
Cajon was right, Irving scored six points and one assist in a row, but Singler also scored 10 points in the first half.
Let Tang Tian defend against Owen, which means that Singler will be liberated to a greater extent, and Kang Da will not be able to stand it, not to mention that Tang Tian will probably not be able to prevent it.
"We switched to a 2-3 defence, limited Owen into the box, tried to open up on the offensive end, like I said at the beginning, they won't always be so good, we try to keep the difference to within 10 points, don't worry, the game is not over at halftime." Cajon encouraged the team.
After a timeout, Lamb's breakaway caused a foul on Plumlee, and after hitting both free throws, it finally helped Kangda stabilize the situation.
But in the end, Irving was another Shammgod who shook Walker and broke into the box and gave the ball to Smith on the outside, who took the ball and made a decisive three-point shot.