Chapter 19: Alone

At the beginning of the second half of the game between the two teams, the lagging belligerents played in no hurry, after all, they often completed the reversal in the second half with a balanced and strong lineup, and sure enough, in the 4 minutes and 30 seconds of the second half, with Di Bron's breakthrough layup score, the belligerents overtook the score 41-42. The warmongers have been steadily playing under DeLong's leadership, showing the demeanor of the top NCAA team.

The home team overtook the score, the crowd at the Memorial Stadium became more and more boiling, and the Wolverines played a little impatiently to the boos of the fans, and the overly simple handling of the ball led to an increase in errors, making it impossible for the Wolverines to regain the lead.

The leading team is most likely to affect the player's confidence to win, and the player loses confidence, and the performance on the basketball court will become more and more impatient, which is the time when the opponent is most likely to open up the score gap. A stable and mature team should choose to slow down and play positional offense at this time, allowing players to play success through running tactics. But the Wolverines are a young team and lack such experience.

However, the house leak happened to rain overnight, Gomez, who played well in the first half, played excitedly, and when he broke through to the opponent's basket, he saw the opposite center James. Augustin came to make up for it, and Gomez also wanted to perform well in front of NBA scouts on the sidelines to win a good pick, and took off to prepare for a dunk in front of Augustin, completely ignoring the defensive ability brought by Augustin's height of 2.08 meters.

Augustin, as the defensive core of the warmongers, of course will not tolerate others to make a violent dunk on his head, the two are in the air to confront, Augustin firmly covered Gomez's dunk, because of the collision in the air, Gomez completely lost his balance and fell heavily, fell to the ground for a long time and couldn't stand up, and was directly carried back to the locker room by the team staff, and everyone didn't know what Gomez's injury was?

Gomez's injury directly led to Sun Yue's lack of outside firepower support, and the coach of the warmongers, Browns Webber, keenly captured the opportunity of the Wolverine's lack of outside firepower, and sent the team's outside defense expert Booker on the defensive end to mark Sun Yue one-on-one, while others cut off Sun Yue's pass to the inside.

Such a defensive strategy quickly worked, Sun Yue lost the hot hand of the first half in the second half, Booker who defended him was experienced in defense, and from time to time Sun Yue used a variety of pushing, pulling, and pulling small actions against Sun Yue, and Claude, who replaced Gomez, was not good at shooting, mainly breaking through, and now the entire warmongers are shrinking the defense, and the interior players of the Wolverines team have no good opportunities, not to mention what opportunities the outside players can make a shot when they break into the basket.

For a while, the Wolverines fell into an offensive drought, and the veteran warmongers took advantage of this time to frequently play beautiful offensive cooperation under the drive of the "Illinois Sanjie", and suddenly the score gap between the two teams widened, and at 9 minutes and 45 seconds of the second half, the Wolverines fell behind by 10 points at 47:57.

Coach Tom saw that the situation was not good, and quickly called a long timeout to let his disciples come down and calm down, Coach Tom did not scold these players as before, he knew that his disciples were now on the verge of collapse, if he still scolded them, the whole team might collapse.

Sun Yue sat on the bench in annoyance, in the past few minutes, not only did he not score, but also made two mistakes, and Taft, who passed the ball to the inside many times in the case of his poor outside hand, was stealed by the premeditated belligerents in a row, not only did his team lose the opportunity to attack, but also gave the belligerents the opportunity to play a quick counterattack, which is also a big reason why the belligerents can quickly open up the score gap.

Coach Tom next to him is still talking about tactics: "Everyone stay calm, now is our most difficult period, it is a bright road to get through, on the offensive end, everyone should not dare to go in to create damage because of Gomez's injury, the defensive core of the opposite side Augustin has committed 3 crimes, and on the defensive end we have changed from regional joint defense to man marking." "Trying to calm down my players.

Claude's effect on Di Brown is very bad, Claude has a height advantage of nearly 20 centimeters, the offensive end lacks back body skills to single Di Blanc, and the defensive end can't keep up with Di Blanc at all, and is basically burst into a sieve.

Coach Tom looked around the bench of the Wolverine, not knowing who to arrange to replace Claude, who was not playing well, and suddenly saw the eager eyes of the backup point guard Lance, and Coach Tom made an inspiration to arrange: "Lance goes up to replace Claude, Lance marks Delon, Sun Yue defends Hyde, and DeBron is defended by Mark." ”

I have to say that Coach Tom's whim-struck arrangement is very thoughtful. Reims has the weight and strength, and defending Delon will not suffer too much; As a 3-and-D player, Mark has a mediocre defensive effect on a catch-and-jump shooter like Hyde, and he has more experience with a breakthrough expert like Di Bron, who has explosive physical fitness.

And letting Sun Yue defend Hyde not only strangled the outside sniper rifle of the militant with his superior basketball IQ, but also allowed Sun Yue to reduce the physical confrontation with the strong Delong, and save physical strength to better engage in the offense.

After the timeout, Coach Tom's arrangement immediately showed results, the belligerent used a classic center baseline to the pitcher without the ball to cover the tactic, Sun Yue predicted in advance that DeLong at the top of the arc would pass to the covered Hyde, with his long arms and superior basketball IQ directly cut off the ball.

Sun Yue accelerated all the way from the back to the half of the warmongers, I have to say that the players of the warmongers returned to defense really fast, Delong, who lost the goal, has kept up with Sun Yue, and Augustin on the inside has retreated to the penalty area of his own half.

At this time, Lance and Mark also plugged in from both sides, Delon and Augustin quickly made a decision in the face of the Wolverine's three-line fast attack, DeLong went to follow Mark on the right side, who had entered the three-second zone, leaving Augustin alone to deal with Sun Yue.

Sun Yue took advantage of the hesitation of the two, held the basketball high with both hands, took the initiative to make physical contact with Augustine, and used his elbow to open Augustin, who was not standing firmly, and the moment the referee blew the whistle, the basketball was put into the basket by Sun Yue with the tips of his fingers.

Although the physical contact occurred in the reasonable collision zone, Augustin did not stand still, and the textbook blocking foul made a perfect two-and-one as Sun Yue hit the penalty shot.

Augustin, the core of the warmongers' defense, has four fouls, and the NCAA's rules are different from the NBA's, which requires five fouls to be completed and the belligerents only use backup centers to replace Augustin.

Taking advantage of the gap between the opponent's substitutions, Sun Yue called all his team members together: "Brothers, I remember that we are wolverines, and wolverines are born to fight, now let's go and bite the opponent." All his teammates responded to Sun Yue's words in unison, and even Lance, who had a gap with Sun Yue, put down the gap between the two to fight for victory.