14. Routine Operations
"As I said before, Princeton has a lot more points than Columbia, and a simple pick-and-roll screen can be a good opportunity for the Princeton lads to score, and while Lee's athleticism and defensive awareness have improved the quality of the Columbia Lions' defense, even if he has the same mobility as a soccer goalkeeper, he can only defend one side of the paint area, and he can't stop Princeton from scoring on the other side of the paint area." Barry said.
"I don't agree with you, Barry. With Lee on the court, the rest of the Columbia Lions could have focused more on the other side of the paint, especially Luke on the inside, and I don't think the Princeton lads would dare to easily pass the ball to the inside from the short corner where Lee was standing. Murphy immediately retorted.
At this time, Kyle received the serve and advanced the ball to Princeton's half, and Luke, who played inside, immediately came to the top of the three-point arc to respond, and Barassur, who was defending him, also came out.
When Luke receives the ball, Kyle immediately descends towards the paint area, and Kyle's local defense smartly bypasses Luke and follows Kyle to the paint area. Balasser stepped on the three-point line and spread his arms to defend Luke, who was holding the ball with his back.
Li Wu knew that it was his performance time, standing on the bottom line, he started quickly, running along the three-point line from the bottom corner to the top of the arc, Korey, who was defending him, was originally engrossed in staring at Li Wu, and he almost immediately stepped to keep up at the same time as the opponent started, but Li Wu's first step started unbelievably fast, causing Korey to slow Li Wu by one position.
Li Wu quickly ran to Luke, Luke lightly held the ball in front of Li Wu with one hand, and after Li Wu reached out to take it, Luke immediately stood up straight and blocked Korey, who was following Li Wu.
The 208CM, 97kg Luke easily blocked the 190cm tall and 77kg Korey, for Luke, the body of Korey-Wilson was too thin.
Balasseur realized that Luke's high block was not to help point guard Kyle go down, but to help Li Wu complete a hand-to-hand block and pick-and-roll coordination, and immediately yelled to pounce, but it was too late, Li Wu had already jumped high at this time and completed the jump shot at the top of the arc.
"Brush!" The ball goes into the net.
40 to 44. The Columbia Lions chased a four-point deficit, with Coach Smith and head assistant coach Derrick shouting on the sidelines, defensive coach Adam shouting for his players to return to defense, and the Columbia University students on the sidelines were already cheering like a tsunami.
In less than two minutes of the second half, Li Wu had already scored 6 points, 2 steals, and 1 assist, narrowing the 12-point split to 4 points.
Because of the social media bombardment of Chinese students on the sidelines, many of their friends found out that there was a Chinese student playing in the NCAA, and he was also an Ivy League student. Chinese who are able to do so have tuned their TV channels to ESPN3 and started watching the game, which includes an anchor on a live streaming platform.
The unpopular anchor realized that it was a good live broadcast gimmick at this time, so he decisively turned the camera to his TV, changed the name of the anchor's room to "Chinese students ravaging the NCAA", and began to broadcast it live.
Li Wu was completely ignorant of these situations, and still worked the field to defend. But Korey, who was on the opposite side, didn't get the ball, and apparently because of the first two tackles, the Princeton players were no longer afraid to try to pass the ball on Li Wu's side, but handed the ball to the other side.
This time, it was still power forward Cook to finish, but this time Cohen did not let him succeed, and interfered with Cook's jumper, causing Cook to shoot in the short corner, and Luke relied on his arm to bounce to protect the defensive rebound, and immediately handed it over to Kyle to organize the offense.
This time Kyle dribbled the ball past half court and handed the ball to Cohen, who was standing in the corner area, Cohen steadily dribbled to the wing of the three-point line, Maodore ran to the other wing of the three-point line, Kyle ran unhurriedly in the three-point line, and took Ben off the top of the arc, Luke stood in the paint area to grab the position with Balasseur, and Li Wu was still standing in the bottom corner of the same side as Maodore.
Seeing this, Barry said: "It looks like the Colombian Lions are going to hand over Cohen to singles. Cohen has shot more than 65% of his two-pointers this season, 90% of which are under the basket, and he does have the ability to break through Cook after opening up space, Cook's height and weight are not dominant, and he may be forcibly eaten. ”
Murphy shook his head: "Barasser won't let him succeed, Cohen's height of 193cm can't cross Barasser's frame-protecting talent, and your Luke's space under the basket now has been squeezed very narrow by Barasser." ”
While the two were talking, Li Wu, who was standing in the bottom corner, started again, and rushed towards the opposite corner against the bottom line, and poor Kore was thrown out of a position again. Barasseur, who was squeezing Luke under the basket to get most of the space, found that Li Wu was coming towards him, and immediately thought that this Chinese kid was going to rush to the bottom corner behind him, which was another 52 baseline block, but using the outside singles at the No. 4 position as a cover.
After seeing Li Wu's three-point shot, Balasseur definitely couldn't let Li Wu make another shot, and when Li Wu came to him, he immediately shouted: "Change the defense!" Then decisively gave up the squeeze of Luke under the basket, and followed Li Wu towards the opposite Di Qiao, he wanted to defend Li Wu personally. At the same time, Korey, who was chasing Li Wu, took advantage of the situation to withstand Luke under the basket and defended him in front of him.
"Perfect change!" Barry praised.
Balasseur strode closely to the outside of Li Wu, and only Cohen passed the ball to Li Wu, and he could directly block the passing path with his body. Cohen also spotted the situation, and while dribbling the ball, he considered whether to switch tactics.
At this moment, Li Wu made a sudden stop, and the momentum of the forward rush suddenly stopped, and he stopped steadily in the short corner area within the bottom corner three-point line.
"Damn it!" Barasseur yelled as he watched as Li Wu took Cohen's base pass and hit a jumper in the short corner.
At 42-44, Columbia University trailed by only two points.
"Barasseur was teased by Lee. What a beautiful emergency stop. Murphy couldn't help but pat the table in praise.
Barry, who has always been optimistic about Princeton, also shook his head and said: "Lee's shooting and running ability without the ball is too strong, his physical coordination is also very good, and the most lethal thing is that he also has a strong sense of defense, if Coach Mitch can't come up with a way to deal with him, this game will be over for the Princeton Tigers....."
Li Wu calmly high-fived Cohen amid the cheers of the audience, and for him, who was calm and calm, the emergency stop during the run was just a routine operation.
Just then, Princeton Tigers head coach Mitch Henderson asked for another timeout.