Chapter 72: Substitute Battle!
Zhou Yang was also a little surprised to look at all this that was happening in front of him! In the more than 20 days that he has been on leave, the team seems to have changed! The players have become more motivated!
Colin was still quite happy about Zhou Yang's sudden leave at that time. Because this season, he took over the Nitani Lions, and the good thing he gained was the successful launch of the 2003 Pennsylvania Basketball Man of the Year, Zhou Yang!
But another problem also arises, that is, the players of the team love to pass the ball to Zhou Yang when they have nothing to do...... The result of this is that the opponent's defensive pressure is suddenly less.
Because at the beginning of the season, even if Zhou Yang passed the ball to his teammates, his teammates may not be able to score, which is inefficient, and sometimes he even breaks into the opponent's defense. As a result, in this somewhat flustered and disorderly state, the opponent can quickly counterattack them!
So Colin started to emphasize the offensive awareness of other players during this time! The substitutes are miserable, they have been doing crazy physical training and high-intensity obstacle training for more than 20 days!
In this kind of training, the outside world may think that some of their players will leave the school team. But the truth is that not a single person left the team! Because they already know that the manager is not joking around with their group of substitutes.
Their manager really wants them to be on the pitch more! The whole training time was not very long, but these substitutes felt that it was unusually long...... Colin supervised the whole process during the training!
This is why Duke University can still overtake them after seeing Zhou Yang go down today! Barlow, Zhou Yang's first substitute, is much stronger than him.
But the speed of foot movement, passing and receiving, defense and other aspects is not as fast as Zhou Yang! He also knows that he is a big gap to the Asian player who was reactivated this season, but he wants to rely on some of his physical strengths to attract the attention of scouts.
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The Blue Devils saw that the main players may not have played very well today, so after a few minutes of play, they also replaced some of the main players. Now their lineup is Ben, Karl, Gna, Dennis, Kyrie.
The Nitany Lions are Andre, Barlow, Frank, Elton and Eden! The coach at Duke looked at this with a strange expression. He didn't understand what Penn State was doing tonight.
Now they have three players on the pitch, right? Are they so arrogant now?!
Penn State has indeed brought up a three-lineup player right now, and he's the team's two-way forward Frank!
21:24! The Blue Devils are still behind. Small forward Gerner came to the frontcourt after taking the basketball, and hit a long-range jumper after shaking off Frank!
Eden and Elton, who had already rushed quickly with the ball, were almost at the same speed across the half, Eden got a pass from point guard Elton and threw the ball high to Andre, who forced a dunk in front of Ban and scored 2 points!
Williams and Redick watched the game quietly. They are still more confident for today's game. The team is now on some substitutes. As long as you don't have a good score difference and the opponent is too big.
With Redick on the side, the fans here tonight were basically convinced that their Blues would win the final game!
Both the fans at the scene and the commentators who were broadcasting live today were a little surprised. At the moment, the Nitany Lions are playing against the Blue Devils with two and three substitutes, and they are still leading!
This Colin is really not easy! He used Zhou Yang as a player well, and he didn't rely on him!
After receiving the basketball, Gerner's jump shot was directly blocked by the opponent! Dennis just picked up the basketball, but Elton immediately took it away! Eden jumped up and hit a three-pointer after receiving a pass from Elton in the frontcourt!
The players at Duke University seemed to be stimulated. They don't have the same slack as before. Kyrie dribbled the ball through the half of the court alone, and after denying the ball from two teammates, he faced Eden and scored three points!
Frank then passed the ball to Barlow, who tried to dunk but Ben was stiffly defended!! The fans at Duke University's home stadium are already shouting at this point! After Carey got the basketball again, he still chose to shoot three points in the front court, and the basketball went into the net! 29:29!
The first half was played until the end, and there were no substitutions on either side! 39:37! The main players at both ends watched the game from the sidelines. Zhou Yang and Benedict and David, they exchanged ideas from time to time.
Williams and Redick on the Blue Devils' side are two big scoring weapons! The opponent's head coach replaced several of their main players to make them change from the idea that "the main team and the opponent's substitute can only play a tie" to "the original team's substitute and theirs play the same game".
With such a change, the psychological pressure on their players is obviously much less. And Williams and Redick are the two main players he thinks are the best of the season!
The head coach of Duke University felt that even if he was 10 points behind, as long as their Redick came on the court in the last 5 minutes or so, it would be basically no problem to win the game!
Reddick was definitely a super pitcher on the team when he was in college!! The three points of the throat sealing, all kinds of sudden three-point pressure made the opponents very unhappy!
Coming back from the second quarter, the players on both ends did not change. After entering the second half, the temperature of this game gradually rose! Eden dribbled past half court, and immediately after the breakthrough was covered by Karl, Frank got the basketball and went to the basket for a layup, and Ben directly dunked the ball away!
The second half of the Blue Devils showed their ferocious side at the beginning! The players on the bench at the Nitany Lions were watching the game with bated breath.
Dennis took over the basketball and hit a difficult three-pointer in front of Frank and Elton! 42:37!
Colin was shocked. Now there are a lot of substitutes on both sides, and it will be dangerous if the opponent takes a big lead! But he wants to wait and see, and the timeout he wants may immediately make the other party more vigilant and replace the main forces!
Although Duke University can see from the video that their current opponent has been losing, the opponent has played quite well since the beginning of this season! And one of the reasons why they lost consecutive games can also be said to be the more important reason is that Zhou Yang took a leave of absence.
The players of the Netani Lions can now feel a strong sense of oppression! The Blue Devils are serious about them! When the live camera got to Colin, it was found that he had simply walked a few steps and then continued to watch the game.
Eventually, he gave up on the idea of a pause. Although I have trained frantically with the players in the second and third teams, judging from their performance on the field now, they are still not on the fire. One of his tactics has gone down the drain.