Chapter 50: Three Pairs in Hand
Seeing Sun Yue pass such a beautiful ball, Joey, who was not to be outdone. Graham also wants to respond on the offensive end. Attacking with the ball again, at this time, under the command of Sun Yue on the field, the Wolverines made a small change on the defensive end, replacing Claude with Mark to defend Joey. Graham, compared to Claude, Mark is slightly inferior in defensive experience. But his physicality makes up for his lack of defensive experience, and Mark is playing with his life's worth of energy, and he wants to defend Joey, who has a lot of popularity in the defensive lotto. Graham came to prove himself.
At present, in the draft predictions of major sports media, except for a few media that predict that Mark can be selected at the end of the second round, Mark is not on the list of draft predictions in most sports media. But Mark is not discouraged, he knows that the NCAA National Championship is much more focused than the regular season, and as long as he performs well in the tournament, he believes that an NBA team will definitely pick him.
Although the second-round pick signed a non-guaranteed contract or a base salary contract with an NBA team, for Mark's family, the hundreds of thousands of dollars per year of the base salary contract can already represent a lot.
In the face of Mark's defense, Joey. Graham immediately felt uncomfortable, and finally barely broke through Mark, and there was no energy left to deal with Taft who came from the basket, and Mark's defense played an immediate role.
Although Joey. Graham is physically strong, runs and jumps well, and has a solid mid-to-long range shot, but he lacks one-on-one ability from the outside and has a lot of turnovers. The style of play is stiff, the speed of the first step is slow, and the technical movements in the running are very rough, and it is inevitable that the performance will be more difficult in the face of an elite defensive player like Mark.
Unwilling Joey. Graham tried to play singles several times in a row, not only did he not get anything on the offensive end, but he was also seen by Sun Yue, who had been planning for a long time, to take an opportunity to split his head and cover his face, and then on the defensive end, Sun Yue sent an aerial relay above his head, which made Taft perform a two-handed dunk in the Cowboys' restricted area, and the morale of the Cowboys dropped again!
This kind of ball is the most demoralizing one, the Cowboys have been demoralized because of Sun Yue's comical pass, and now the players have been hit hard again, and the mood on the defensive end is even more depressed, and there is no defensive motivation at all.
There was a gap in the defensive line of the cowboys who lacked morale, and Sun Yue, who was a chicken thief, saw the opportunity, and suddenly raised his hand and shot coldly. Lucas III hit the three-pointer right in front of his eyes.
Joey. Graham attacked Mark again with the ball on the offensive end, and today the two of them are on the bar. Graham finally squeezed Mark away with his strong body this time and caused a foul on Taft under the basket, but Taft slapped Joey viciously. Graham's ball handler slapped the basketball and didn't give his opponent a chance to play "two plus one" at all.
Since the start of the national championship, Coach Tom has explained to every player on the Wolverine team that if they are passed or shaken up, they must foul fiercely, and the batter will hit the opponent's ball carrier, and the opponent will never be allowed to play "two plus one" opportunities. If anyone is beaten by the opponent "two plus one", the next day's training will run 20 laps more.
Taft's foul was worth it, too, and Joey. Graham hit the first free throw, the second free throw was missed, Sun Yue grabbed the rebound, quickly launched a counterattack, and assisted Ryan, who came off the bench. Gomez hit a layup to easily grab his ninth basket and 11th assist, and now he has 13 points, 11 assists and 9 rebounds, just one step away from his first triple-double.
At this time, the cowboys were powerless to stop Sun Yue from getting a triple-double, and there were still more than ten minutes left in the game, coupled with the "card front" tactics sacrificed by the Wolverine team, and now for Sun Yue, the triple-double is already in the bag.
At this time, the shooting rates of both teams improved, and Sun Yue had no rebounds to grab at all.
Finally, at the 9th minute and 25 seconds of the second half, Steve . Graham missed the ball and shot, and the Wolverine's interior players quickly helped the team boss get in position, blocked the opposing player, and allowed their core to grab their tenth rebound and get their first triple-double.
Sun Yue didn't care, and continued to perform on the court, and soon the Wolverines pulled the gap in the score to more than fifteen points. Coach Sutton also knew that this year's journey was over, and he took the lead in replacing all the main lineup.
The Wolverine team was not too much, and also replaced their main force, Sun Yue sat on the bench, and the person in charge of statistics handed over a data table and pointed to his data to him.
Sun Yue scored 17 points, 13 assists and 11 rebounds in this game, in addition to three steals and two blocks, a comprehensive and perfect triple-double data.
In the interview after the game, the first question was asked by a Yahoo Sports reporter who has always had a prejudice against Sun Yue: "Skipper, is the accusation made against you by Beijing Chaoshen Sports Club at the press conference true, and have you violated the team rules such as beating the team owner, often absent from training, and contacting other teams without permission?" What do you have to explain. ”
Sun Yue lowered his head and couldn't see his expression: "These accusations against me are all false, and I will use my own behavior to explain the best." ”
The Yahoo Sports reporter was about to continue the questioning, and the Wolverine's accompanying staff motioned for other reporters to ask questions.
A reporter from Sports Illustrated asked Sun Yue how he managed to get a triple-double.
Sun Yue said that he was executed according to the tactics prescribed by the head coach, and what kind of data he could obtain depends on the coach's arrangement for himself, and he can only say that he has successfully completed the task delivered by the coach, and at the same time, he must thank his teammates for their help, so the data of the individual is not important, and the collective performance and victory are the most important. Giving credit to the collective, to the coaching staff, this is Sun Yue's response.
Sun Yue's outstanding performance has made the American sports media update his draft prediction ranking of the power rankings, and the American sports media does not care about Sun Yue's so-called "off-court factors", you must know that nine of the ten talented players in the United States have "off-court factors", they only care about the potential and strength of this player, and the rest is not important.
Whether it's ESPN or DraftExpress, or even Yahoo Sports, which has a preconception, ranks Sun Yue in the top 10 predicted draft picks.