At this time, on the bench of the Lions, Coach Smith said to Li Wu: "If I guessed correctly, from now on, Duke University will adopt the tactics of high post and trap for you, in addition to Winslow, maybe Cook in the No. 2 position will also come to help defend you, so next, you have two options, one is to give the ball to Maodore and let him finish, and the other is that you pass the ball to Maodore, and then start to run infinitely, and everyone will pass to you as long as they see that you have space." ”

Li Wu said: "Sir, Coach K won't use Cook to pinch me, he won't give a person with a three-point shooting rate as high as 43% to shoot in the open position." If I'm not mistaken, he'll use power forward Amir to wrap me up and leave Luke empty. ”

"If that's the case, we can use Luke's movement speed to hit the basket, which is more certain than shooting a three-pointer." Coach Smith said.

"There's Okafor under the basket, sir, and while he's not as good as Downs, he's still able to stop most of us with his rim protection." Li Wu told the truth, he was not afraid of offending people at this time, after all, he was going to the championship now.

"Are you planning to use your position to run out of gear and finish yourself?" Coach Smith asked.

"No, sir, I want Luke to be in the short corner and finish the offense with a mid-range shot." Li Wu said.

"Me? But I—" Luke was a little at a loss.

"Luke, you're shooting more than 50 percent in the short corner, and I'm sure you can shoot when you're open, so they're going to defend you in the short corner, which will help me get out of space for the rest of the day." Li Wu said.

"Good! I will do my best. Luke replied firmly.

The ~~~~~~~~~~~whistle blew and the game continued.

As Li Wu thought, when the Lions attacked for the first time after the timeout, the Blue Devils adopted a high-post trap tactic against Li Wu, and when Li Wu got the ball at the top of the arc, Winslow and Amir immediately wrapped it up, and Li Wu also passed the ball to Luke standing in the short corner area for the first time, and Luke jumped directly to shoot.

"Kuang!" The basketball hit the iron, popped out of the frame, Okafor easily got the rebound and passed the ball to Cook, Cook quickly advanced and handed the ball to the point guard Jones, Jones did not choose to finish in the face of small forward Cohen's defense, but handed the ball to Okafor who ran to the low post, Okafor faced Osetkovski, and used his skillful back-to-back single skills to score two points.

The Blues pushed the score to 27-28.

And this time, Li Wu, who faced the bag, passed the ball to Luke again, and Luke threw the ball in this time, and the difference returned to three points again.

The Blues then secured a three-point gap with Cook and Okafor and point guard Jones using outside pick-and-rolls to get a three-point gap, which Cook scored to level the score.

Subsequently, the Blue Devils' Okafor and Cook still showed their talent on the offensive end, while the Lions' Luke shot more and more accurately, and the score kept alternating upwards, and the Lions still led by one point at 41-40 with two minutes left in the first half.

"Luke Petrasek is definitely the Lions' hero today! He hit a lot of open shots to keep the Lions leading until the end of the first half. In the commentary room, O'Neill said.

"Yes, it seems that Coach K's plan for Lee's high post package was not successful, I think he should still use Cohen's opponent player Jones to cover Lee, Luke's hand is too hot today." Kenneth Smith said.

However, Coach K did not change his strategy, he still chose to let power forward Amir wrap Li Wu, and Li Wu still worked tirelessly to play the ball for Luke, so that the score between the Lions and the Blue Devils was fixed at 49-48 at the end of the first half, and the Lions had a one-point lead.

Luke Petrasek scored 18 points in the first half, Li Wu scored 21 points, and the remaining 10 points were scored by Maodore, Cohen and Osetkovski.

On the Blues' side, Cook scored 19 points, Okafor scored 11, Jones scored eight, Winslow scored seven, and power forward Amir scored only three points.

"I really don't understand, the Lions' No. 4 position is obviously very hot, but Coach K has been letting him shoot." Davis said as he watched the half-time show.

"Maybe Coach K just wants to cool down Lee's hand and not let him shoot, after all, no one in the Lions team can keep their hot hand until the end of the game except Lee." Cousins is a big believer in the "feel theory", and he has to look at the feel of his own three-point shooting.

"If that's the case, the Blues are going to lose, Lee's hand has never been cold, I've watched him play, he's been passing the ball to his teammates throughout the first half, but in the second half, he still turned on the scoring mode, Kenben doesn't need a hot hand and the shooting percentage is frighteningly high." Davis said.

"Oh! Haha, my man, are you better than Coach K? He's a world champion coach. We'll see what he's going to do in the second half! ”

Not only Davis and Cousins, but also experts like James and Paul who read the game don't know what the old K is up to: "Lee is not the kind of person who relies on his touch, in fact, he is an extremely consistent scorer, he hasn't missed a single shot in the open position, and his shooting percentage has broken the NCAA record." Paul said.

"yes, so not letting him shoot doesn't make him feel cold, and I don't believe Coach K can't see this problem." James also said.

"All the Blue Devils starters played a full 20 minutes, Okafor and Winslow's physical strength could only support ten minutes, and then it was time for Lee to harvest the game, I don't know what Coach K was thinking." So said so.

In fact, it's not just them, even Li Wu and Coach Smith don't quite understand the reason why Old K let Luke shoot, Luke performed exceptionally well today, so good that it exceeded expectations, but Old K Coach still didn't defend him, which didn't make sense, and now Li Wu has seen that Winslow's footsteps are not as agile as before, Okafor's movements are also a little sluggish, and their physical fitness has declined.

For another seven or eight minutes, Winslow would never be able to keep up with his own run, and that was when he took the game, but Coach K was indifferent to his team falling behind by one point.

It's weird.

"What the hell is he trying to do?" Li Wu glanced at the old coach K with a calm expression on the other side, and asked himself silently in his heart.