Fifty-two, tug-of-war

Cohen still chose to wait for the pass to Li Wu, because although Kennedy now left the paint area and ran towards the bottom corner, he only ran to the short corner area and stopped, obviously did not completely give up control of the paint area, with Kennedy's athleticism, he can return to the basket when Cohen makes a layup to interfere, Cohen does not want to take this risk, and he needs to implement Coach Smith's tactics.

Li Wu has just run in front of Osettkowski, the big man is standing on the right 45-degree wing ready to cover Li Wu, while power forward Luke is standing in the bottom corner on the right and the three-point line in the middle of the wing, ready to make a second cover.

When Li Wu ran in front of Ossetkovsky, his ankle turned, circled around Osettekowski's broad body for a half, and changed direction to run towards the top of the arc without slowing down at all, giving up the idea of running to the bottom right corner, at this time the 45-degree angle of the top of the arc and the left wing are empty, because now the North Carolina small forward has rushed into the three-point line to chase Cohen, and the guard Marcus who pursued Li Wu was blocked by Ossetkovsky and delayed the pursuit speed, two positions behind Li Wu.

"Nice change of direction!" Murphy in the commentary seat immediately shouted.

"Cunning disguised positioning!" Wallace also spoke, but he was on North Carolina's side, so the words were not friendly.

"I have to admit that Lee played the boys in North Carolina again!" Jamison said dejectedly.

As soon as he finished speaking, Cohen had already passed the ball to Li Wu who ran to the top of the arc, Li Wu made a jump shot directly, and the ball went into the net again, 9-6, and North Carolina only had a three-point lead.

These 6 points were all scored by Li Wu! But North Carolina's Hall of Fame coach Roy obviously didn't have any good way to restrain Li Wu, but just told the players to consume Li Wu and let him run as much as possible, causing his physical fitness to decline.

After Li Wu scored, North Carolina took advantage of Kennedy's inside advantage to score two more points, and the score returned to five points.

Then Li Wu held the ball over the half, passed the ball to Cohen again in the face of the bag, and then started the running tactics again, but Coach Roy, who had originally assigned the players to consume Li Wu, suddenly shouted: "Let go of Ma Odo!" Chase me Lee! Delay him! Influence him! Disrupt his shooting rhythm! ”

As soon as the words fell, Tuoketo, who was keeping an eye on Maodore, immediately let go of Maodore, standing in the horn area, preparing to pursue Li Wu for the third time. Basketball is a sport of five people, if there are three people on the other side for one person to make up the defense, then the person's running space will be compressed to a minimum, even if you use the blocking tactics, it is impossible to completely get rid of the chasing person, after all, basketball is not football, there is such a large field for galloping.

Marcus, Justin, and Tokto are all defensive players with good mobility, and the three of them come to chase Li Wu, even if Li Wu's running ability is strong, he can't completely get rid of these three, so he got Cohen's pass and gave it to Maodore who was in the empty corner for the first time, and Maodore immediately shot a three-point shot.

"Kuang!" The basketball popped out of the frame, and Maodore's three-point shooting rate was obviously not as perverted as Li Wu.

North Carolina power forward Brice grabbed the rebound and passed to point guard Marcus, Marcus advanced with the ball, and transferred the ball to Kennedy on the inside, power forward Luke knew that Osette Kowski could not hold the center of North Carolina, so he could only run into the paint area to cover the opponent, but Kennedy passed the ball to the empty Briss, Bliss held the ball again and hit the basket, although Luke made up for the defense, but the defensive action was not done well, violated Bliss's cylinder, and sent the opponent to the free throw line.

NCAA's free throw rules are different from the NBA, the person who makes free throws must score the first free throw to execute the second time, which is a rule to encourage young players to practice free throws, basically players who have played in the NCAA for more than three years, even if they are inside, the free throw shooting rate is also very impressive, and many players who have not played NCAA or players who have only played for a year are not good after entering the NBA.

Although Brice couldn't shoot three-pointers, he made good free throws, and after hitting both free throws, the difference was once again stretched to seven points, and after that, the game entered a tug-of-war.

Because Li Wu adjusted his tactics after Coach Roy, he had to face the pursuit of three people all the time when he ran on the outside, so when Cohen gave him the ball, he could only give the ball to Maodore, and today's shooting rate of Maodore was worse than usual, wasting a lot of empty opportunities, although he shot a few three-pointers, but the success rate of Kennedy and Bliss in North Carolina will be higher, so in the case of Li Wu's lack of finishing opportunities, North Carolina has maintained a lead of more than 7 points, at some point, It even led by 10 points.

At halftime, North Carolina led by seven points, 45-38.

At the end of the entire half, Li Wu rarely got the opportunity to shoot three points except for two three-pointers in the opening game, but only used two pull-up jump shots to make a jump shot in the horn area, and only scored 10 points in the whole half, which is a little different from his usual half-court score.

Maodore got a lot of open shots because of Tokto's pursuit of Li Wu, although the shooting rate was not high, but he still scored 15 points with many shots, and the remaining 13 points were scored by Luke and Cohen, while the Lions' interior Osetkowski didn't score a single point, but let Kennedy score 16 points on his head, which has exceeded Kennedy's average points per game.

Although Coach Smith knew in his heart that there was a huge problem in his team's Nexian, he did not dare to replace Ossetkowski, because the tonnage of Voss was not as good as Osettkowski, and he could only be beaten worse in the face of Kennedy.

Fortunately, Li Wu's continuous running in the first half drove the pursuit of the opponent's three wing players, so that North Carolina's main point guard Marcus, Split Tokto, and small forward Justin are tired enough, Roy will definitely let them rest for a while, and he may be able to capture the opportunity to chase points by replacing the backup point guard Kyle, after all, as a freshman rookie, Kyle has shown a good scoring ability.

Now in the team, Li Wu's average points per game is the first, Maodore is the second, and the third is Kyle, his average points per game is close to 10 points, as a substitute, this data is very good.

"Using the three main forces to chase Lee in this way will cause problems in North Carolina's rotation, because the three of them consume the same physical strength as Lee, and Lee is just one person." Murphy points out the hidden dangers of North Carolina.

"I don't think that's a problem, because Lee's consumption is just as big, if North Carolina's three main players are going to go to rest, then Lee is going to be out of the game, and the Lions have a serious problem, how long can the big man Osette Kowski last on the inside? He's the Lions' best center! By the time he gets off the court, Kennedy will dominate the game! Wallace retorted.