Chapter Seventy-Six: Organizing the Forward

After Henderson went down, Sun Yue began to play the small forward position, and the stronger Gomez naturally went to play the power forward position. It's not so easy for Scott to play Gomez, the two are similar in height, weight and other physical qualities, but Gomez's technique and basketball IQ are better than Scott's.

So facing their own enhanced version of Gomez, Melvin. Scott played unusually hard and was completely locked up by Gomez, but the depth of the squad with a tar heel didn't need Melvin. Scott took on too many offensive tasks, and Raymond. Felton was entangled by Lance, Marvin. Williams needs to focus on defending Sun Yue, who has switched to a small forward position, and the Tar Heels need Rassad. McCantz stepped up to take on more offensive firepower.

This is Rassad. McCantz is in his third season at the University of North Carolina, where he averaged 17.5 points per game in his rookie season and 20 points per game in his second season. However, in the first two seasons, despite the dazzling statistics of McCantz in the past two years, the University of North Carolina was eliminated in the third and second rounds of the national championship.

But this year is different, with Sean. Mei's maturity as well as super newcomer Marvin. Williams' entry into the team, Rassad. McCantz also began to change his style of play to become more team, while also conceding a lot of possession, although McCantz's scoring average dropped to 16.4 points per game.

But McCantz's sacrifice was not worthless, as the more team-strong Tar Heel team went 33-4 to become the fourth seed in the NCAA and made it all the way to the finals of the National Championship.

Rassad. McCantz is a typical North Carolina-style scoring guard, with a height of 1.93 meters, he has good explosive breakthroughs, a variety of offensive means, omnipotent breakthrough jumpers, and a singles stunt with a back basket.

Rassad. McCantz quickly proved that his scoring decline this season was not due to a drop in level, but to sacrifice for the sake of the team. Rassad. McCantz tricked Mark in front of him with his three-threat footwork and landed the ball with ease.

Returning to his team's offense, Lance first passed the ball to Mark, who was standing on the outermost side with him, and then began to cut in from the edge of the left three-second zone with the help of Taft's off-ball cover at the top of the arc. Felton hurried to follow.

At the same time, Mark, who received the ball, handed the ball to Sun Yue on the free throw line, and also cut diagonally from the right side with the help of Taft's off-ball cover at the top of the arc and went straight to the bottom right corner.

The last time he attacked, Mark took advantage of such an opportunity to hit a completely unguarded three-pointer, and this time the Tar Heels had experience. McCantz immediately greeted him.

Still being Marvin. Williams' entangled Sun Yue shook out of space with a feint, and a hit to the ball passed the basketball to Gomez at 45 degrees on the right, first because of Lance's cut on the right side, taking away the defender, and then Mark's outside cut, which completely disrupted the defensive position of the Tar Heel team, making Gomez vacate the position at 45 degrees on the right side.

Gomez shot straight from silky mid-range and hit it without anyone coming forward.

This tactic of using Sun Yue as the playmaker is the secret weapon specially prepared by the Wolverine's coaching staff for the team's finals, attracting the opponent's defense through cover and running, then pulling the opponent's defense by cutting in and out of the cut, and finally Sun Yue passing the ball to the opponent in the open position.

This can avoid Sun Yue from consuming too much physical strength when getting rid of the opponent's entanglement during the dribbling process, and it can also enhance Sun Yue's lethality and threat.

This set of tactics is somewhat similar to the Princeton tactic, because according to the information provided by the Wolverine's scouts, the most common tactic used by the University of North Carolina in the defensive segment is the 1-2-2 zone defense, which is a variant of the 2-3 zone defense, this defensive tactic can be changed with the opponent's different offensive methods, if the opponent is mainly shooting from the outside, it can be quickly changed to a 3-2 joint defense that interferes with the opponent's transmission of the ball, and if the opponent is mainly attacking from the inside, it can be changed to a 2-3 joint defense to suppress the opponent's interior attack.

The Wolverines are now using a very targeted set of offensive tactics, taking advantage of the Tar Heels team's observation on the defensive end, and tearing a hole in the Tar Heels defense with a cover plus cut and an outside cut.

In the stands of the Phoenix University gymnasium, in the front row of the cheering camp of the University of North Carolina, a gray-haired old man was talking to Michael. Jordan said something: "Michael, isn't this Wolverine No. 8 a bit like that teammate you did in Chicago. ”

The old man who talked to Jordan was the former coach of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels and Jordan's mentor, Dean. Smith, today he also came to his former assistant - Roy. Williams cheered.

Jordan chewed gum in his mouth and replied, "Are you talking about Scottie (Pippen)?" This Chinese kid is not as good as him, he is too immature, and his physical fitness is much worse than Scotty. And crucially, even though he plays the small forward position, it doesn't change his essence as a point guard. ”

Jordan and his apprentices chatted easily in the stands, although the Wolverine's offense played smoothly, and they didn't worry about North Carolina at all, because they also knew this tar heel team very well, and if the small difficulties they faced now couldn't be solved, this tar heel team would not be called the strongest tar heel team in the past decade.

Roy. Williams also sat firmly on the bench, and there was no intention of calling a timeout to rearrange the defensive tactics, and he believed that his disciples would be able to adjust immediately.

Sure enough, although the Tar Heels on the offensive end were in vain, on the defensive end, in Raymond. Under Felton's command, the Wolverines began to defend against man to man, while pressing at the same time.

Soon the Wolverines felt uncomfortable, and in the face of physical confrontation from the Tar Heel team, it became difficult to even dribble and catch the ball, let alone transfer the ball and run tactics.

Finally Gomez ran out of position, Sun Yue quickly transferred the ball to him, Gomez broke through with the ball, and saw that it was Raymond who was a head shorter than himself who turned around. Felton forced a layup directly against Felton.

Felton didn't mean to block at all, first, he knew that he couldn't cover his opponent, and second, he saw that his teammates had already rushed over.