Ninety-six, forcing the palace

After the halftime performance of "~~~~~~~~~~ Drop", the game started again.

O'Neal was the first to notice the Lions' lineup change: "The Lions actually pushed Lee to the No. 3 position? Let him play against Lyles? Is Smith crazy? Aligning a 187cm player against a 208 player? If I were Lyles, I would always ask for singles against this little guy. ”

"I think it's a good idea, Lee's power and bounce are actually good, considering Lyles' poor shooting ability, as long as you prevent his breakthrough, I'm more worried about Booker's position, without Lee's restrictions, Booker may turn on the scoring mode." Barkley said.

The University of Kentucky kicked off first at halftime, and their guard Andrew pushed the ball into the Lions' half and chose to pass it to Lyles on the wing.

Facing Li Wu, Lyles moved his mind to fight alone, no matter his height, arm span, or tonnage were above Li Wu, he decided to use his physical advantage to force Li Wu.

So in the face of Li Wu's defense, he directly chose to dribble and cut into the three-point line from the right, and at the same time, he used his left arm that did not dribble to block Li Wu who was defending him, and he was confident that with his strength and shoulder width, he could completely hang Li Wu for a layup.

But when his left body made contact with Li Wu, he found that he was wrong, Li Wu, who was guarding himself, was surprisingly strong, he had no way to cut diagonally to the basket, he could only walk all the way down the edge of the paint area to the bottom line.

"Oh! What do I see? Lyles was actually pushed to the bottom line by Lee? O'Neill said in surprise.

"Man, it's not surprising at all, in the previous game, Li also used to defend some centers with relatively large tonnage, and in terms of lower body strength, he doesn't seem to suffer." Barkley said with a smile.

"Just like you?" O'Neill asked with a smile.

"Of course! If it were me, Lyles would have been pushed off the elbow zone. Barkley said confidently.

Lyles couldn't dribble faster than Li Wu's movement speed, and he couldn't push the opponent away with his body, so he could only choose to hold the ball back, pause in the short corner, and then hand the ball to Booker, who ran over from the wing.

Booker, who didn't have Li Wu's top defense, used his off-ball running ability to shake off half of the backup point guard Kyle, and immediately after receiving the ball, he made a jump shot a little lower in the corner area, and the basketball asked to swipe the net.

Helped Kentucky take a 55-44 lead to double digits.

When it was the Lions' turn to attack, point guard Franksky dribbled the ball to the halfcourt and immediately handed it to Li Wu, who held the ball and faced Lyles, forming a small hitting advantage.

After a cross-dribble in front of the body, Li Wu cut to the left to cut into the three-point line, and the power forward Cauley Stein, who was standing on the sideline to defend the No. 4 position, immediately chose to come up to make up for the defense, blocking Li Wu's path, and Li Wu immediately passed the ball to the substitute power forward Chris standing in the bottom corner.

Chris faced with a three-point open at this time, but he didn't dare to shoot, but stood in the bottom corner with the ball, Kentucky's big forward Cauley Stein did not rush back at the first time, but slowly walked to the bottom corner, obviously he was going to let Chris shoot.

After all, a power forward who shoots less than 30 percent from three-point range is no threat at all.

But at this time, Li Wu had quickly run back to the outside line, Chris immediately passed the ball back to Li Wu as soon as possible, although Lyles was trying to follow up, but his speed was indeed much worse than Li Wu, and he still gave Li Wu space to shoot outside the three-point line.

"Brush!" After Li Wu's three-point shot, the Lions trailed by seven points at 47-55.

In the next five minutes, as Barkley said, Booker turned on his scoring mode, using his running ability and physicality to crush Kyle's out-of-the-box shots, scoring in each of the six rounds, and three three-pointers, scoring 15 points in one go, plus the previous six points, he has scored more than 21 points.

On the other hand, Li Wu, after playing Lyles once, he was caught by Booker every time he got the ball, and Kyle also got a shooting opportunity, but his shooting percentage was far inferior to Booker, and because of Towns and Cauley Stein, he didn't dare to hit the inside, so he could only make three-point shots or two-part jump shots, and only scored 4 points in six offensive rounds, and the score was pulled to 70-51, and the Lions fell directly behind by 15 points.

This made Kentucky's Coach Calipari so excited that he kept shouting on the field: "Three minutes to go!" Keep the offensive intensifying! ”

At this point, Coach Smith called a timeout.

As soon as the Lions returned to the bench, Smith immediately roared at Li Wu: "Lee! Booker doesn't seem to be as bad as you say! Kyle can't restrain him at all, and now he's constantly scoring points! And Kyle's open shot is a pitiful 2-of-6! Do you think you can continue to play with the bench? ”

In the face of the head coach's anger, all the players did not dare to speak, and the backup point guard Kyle lowered his head in shame, he really couldn't prevent Devin Booker, this 198-year-old white man has too strong physical fitness and running ability, whether it is holding the ball alone or running, he can always play himself in the palm of his hand, and when he is in front of Booker, he can realize how great Li Wu's defensive intensity is, because in the entire first half, Booker can only score 6 points under Li Wu's pressure, and the same person scored 15 points in five minutes in front of him.

"Sir, I'm going to make a quicker run in the next attack and then find an opportunity to finish the attack. Kyle actually did a good job, and Booker scored points every time, but it cost him just as much, and I think he had to go down with five minutes left. Li Wu said calmly.

"You're going to keep playing with a sub?" Coach Smith looked at Li Wu incredulously.

"Yes, sir, they are crucial to the victory of this game, please trust my judgment, if you don't trust me, please put me back to the bench while you change the starter." Li Wu still replied calmly, as if he was talking about something that had nothing to do with him.

But when he said this, the coaching staff and players of the Lions were shocked, and Li Wu's words were tantamount to threatening Coach Smith: If you don't listen to me, I won't play!

All the bench players of the Lions looked at Li Wu with respect, which came from Li Wu's trust in him, because Li Wu did not hesitate to force the coach to the palace for them.

Coach Smith was short of breath, and after a while, he sat back in his chair and waved his hand, "Whatever you want!" Anyway, you're out of the game, and it's the last game. ”