Chapter 15: Encountering the Five Tigers of Kentucky
That night, Summer brought his teammates and coaches out for a big meal to celebrate their entry into the quarterfinals, and the school also publicized it after learning the news.
After all, since Harden left, the school didn't expect to score March Madness in basketball, but I didn't expect to make more than just March Crazy this year! It also made it to the quarterfinals!
Harden only brought the team to the second round of the round of 32 and was eliminated! So why can't the school celebrate! Even schools are thinking about whether to retire their summer jerseys.
But it didn't take long for a bad news to arrive, the next opponent of the Wildcats came out! The University of Kentucky is the favorite to win the championship! Speaking of the University of Kentucky, many people should have heard of the Kentucky Five Tigers.
The starting lineup consists of Wall, Cousins, Patterson, Bledsoe and Orton, but it's not the scariest, the scariest thing is that the Kentucky Five Tigers have made history!
All five were selected in the first round, although Patterson and Orton didn't mix very well later, but Wall, Cousins, and Bledsoe didn't mix well!
All three are All-Star level players, so they have a hard time this summer! Especially Cousins and Wall, the Wildcats' point guards and centers are not good defensive players.
Cousins, in particular, has a body that is a few blocks away from their Wildcats center, and Summer also deeply understands that he may have to fight with his life in this game.
Although the quarterfinals are good, how can there be a top four, and the top three are tempting! And it's a bit awkward, the University of Arizon's team is called the Wildcats.
And the Kentucky team is also called the Wildcats! If he can lead the team to defeat the University of Kentucky in the summer, then the name may become a disgrace for Kentucky!
After all, the Wildcats were defeated by other Wildcats, and maybe the University of Kentucky would change the name of the team because of this, so Summer came to the day of the game with excitement.
It's still an away game, and the summer and others also came to the stadium early to start resting, after all, it's very tiring to travel long distances.
Before the game, both teams started practice, and the spectators entered the stadium, but the spectators weren't interested in Arizone! Even many people will scream when they see the University of Kentucky dunk on the court.
"Kentucky, you guys are the best! Arizo's impostor Wildcats are vulnerable to you! Beat them up! ”
"Wall, I love you! You'll have to beat the fake Wildcats! ”
"Qu Qu fake Wildcats can actually enter the quarterfinals! You're here because you're stained with the light of our genuine Wildcats! Hahaha. ”
All kinds of taunts resounded in their ears in the summer, and all the team members were affected by this! Just look at their shooting practice, and the shooting percentage was pretty good at first.
But after the audience's ridicule, he actually struck iron continuously, and even in the summer, he struck several irons.
"Whew." Summer took a deep breath and gathered everyone together.
"Listen, everyone, although this is not our venue, but someone is shouting at us like this, can you bear it?"
"Can't!"
"Since you can't bear it, you should know what I'm trying to say!"
"Fuck them!" Everyone answered Summer's questions in Chinese, and yes, this Chinese was also taught to them in Summer.
"Well done! Let's kick them in the ass when we get on the field! Summer smiled evilly, and the murderous aura of the sky went straight to the Kentucky team.
And Wall, who was practicing shooting, also suddenly shivered, and the shot went out of the basket.
"Hey, Cousins, do you feel a sudden cold?"
"Eh, yes? I didn't feel it. Cousins put the ball in the basket and compared his muscles with a smile.
"There's always a sense of foreboding." Wall shook his head.
"Hey, Wall, you're thinking too much, this Wildcats are just fakes, and you'll see what I do with them." Bledsoe on the side walked over and smiled.
Wall shook his head, hoping that his feelings were wrong, after all, Arizon only had one summer to threaten, and the rest of the people were not worth mentioning.
The "drop" contest begins.
The centers on both sides began to jump the ball, and of course the ball was unsurprisingly picked up by Kentucky, and Wall took the ball and slowly retreated to the frontcourt.
At this time, Summer has switched positions with his own point guard, and he comes to defend Wall, although Summer knows that his defense is not too good, but it is much better than the point guard from home.
Wall didn't speak, beckoned Cousins to come over to block the pick-and-roll, and with the help of the pick-and-roll, Wall scored two points for Kentucky with an easy layup.
And by the time they had the ball in the summer, the defender was no longer Wall, it was Kentucky's small front Patterson, who was 206 tall and had a great body.
This is also a challenge for the offense of the summer, who first found that Patterson was one of the five Kentucky tigers after a string of fancy dribbles and found that Patterson was not moving.
Summer thought that this was not fancy, a simple breakthrough and then changed direction to open the position with Patterson, but even if Summer opened the position with Patterson, it was useless.
Just when he got to the free-throw line in the summer, Cousins had already come to his side with a defensive defense, and Cousins had the potential to be a super center in addition to his bad temper.
Especially in the later era when the center withered, not many people could resist Cousins in terms of confrontation, but Yao Ming is still there in this life, and I believe that Cousins will be beaten up in the face of Yao Ming.
After all, Yao Ming likes the kind of person who likes to play under the basket, especially Cousins prefers to go to the basket than dunk, especially Yao Ming has begun to lose weight after recovering from injury.
In the summer, he told Yao Ming about the playing style of Boshen in the future, and I believe that Yao Ming will definitely do better than Boshen compared to Boshen, and the shark is about to retire, even if Yao Ming loses weight and fights under the basket, he will not be worse than the rest of the center.
Summer had no choice but to pass the ball to the center who was already empty, and the center got the ball and threw it quickly, but it may have been affected by the audience, and the ball was deflected and Cousins got the rebound.
Summer also shook his head helplessly and defended himself, but Kentucky relied on Cousins to hit a solid goal even if he didn't play fast break and fell into a positional battle.
Just after Cousins hit, Arizo's center slapped the basketball in frustration, and Summer hurriedly went up to comfort him, although it may not work, but Summer must do what he should do as a star.
Dribbling the ball to the front court again, Summer had five fingers deep, meaning he was going to single, and everyone quickly opened up space for Summer to single.
Patterson's continuous crotch dribbling in the summer made Patterson take a few steps back, but Summer suddenly took a step back to open the distance, and it was three points away!
"Huh"
The basketball obediently fell into the net, there was no celebration in the summer, and the eyes retreated coldly, and Kentucky did not push the fast break, but still played a steady position and Cousins put the ball into the net.
Arizo's center glanced at Cousins in dismay, and of course he saw the godless eyes of his center in the summer, and it seemed that he had to rely on himself.
In the summer, the first quarter was no longer passing, and all the balls had their own offense, and the first quarter ended in a sloppy manner, with Arizan trailing by seven points with a score of 20-27.
The first quarter of the summer also inherited the Mamba spirit, 15-6 with 16 points, including a steal and three rebounds, as for the assist? I'm sorry, but the luck of the Arizans is really bad.
After a pass out after the summer managed to attract two people to the basket, the Arizonians didn't take the opportunity to put the ball in the basket, and not just once, the second half of the first quarter was almost opposite to the other side of the wrap-up summer.
Summer also made a number of good passes, but none of them scored, and the only four of them were due to a foul on the opposite side that allowed Arizo's other players to score.
At the end of the first quarter, Pera looked at Summer with concern and motioned to him if he wanted to rest for a while, but Summer shook his head and didn't speak, because now Summer had to maintain his strength to complete the remaining three quarters.
From the very beginning, this game was destined to be impossible to rest in the summer, because the strength of the Kentucky Five Tigers was too much for Arizona, and the summer seemed to understand Kobe's thoughts at this moment.
What is the Mamba spirit! The spirit of the mamba is completely forced out! Don't admit defeat! Even if you fight to the last of your strength, you have to stand on the field! Keep scoring!
PS: Chapter 1, Chapter 2 before 8 o'clock