Chapter 29: Fitness Crisis
In the last few minutes of the first half, the situation on the field changed, Sun Yue led the Wolverines without a center to play a mercury-like run-and-bomb attack, and the Wolverines had chased the score to only two points in the final moments of the first half, which was very satisfying for the Wolverines without Taft.
At this time, there are still twenty seconds before the end of the first half, and the Wolverine's possession, if this goal is scored, the Wolverine team can tie the score difference, and if they shoot three points, they can also overtake the score.
But at this time, Sun Yue's sweat kept falling, and he wiped the sweat on his face with his jersey, and let out a few heavy breaths of turbidity. At this time, he encountered the most common difficulty of many young players in the game: a physical crisis!
Throughout the first half, Sun Yue did not take a break, most of the Wolverine's offense was initiated by him, as a point guard, the run-and-bomb tactics had consumed a large part of his physical strength. Moreover, Felton was extremely strong and explosive defensively, and it consumed the little fuel left in his already depleted tank.
In the previous games, Sun Yue and Lance could be replaced, and the physical problems were not exposed. Now Lance needs to come up to the bench with Ryan. Gomez will not be able to return for another month, and Sun Yue not only has to be the father of the Blue Devils' outside players on the defensive end, so that they dare not make mistakes, but also has to be the mother of his teammates on the offensive end, delivering them "milk," which is really difficult for Sun Yue's physical fitness.
After all, Sun Yue is only a rookie in the NCAA league, and has not yet learned how to reasonably distribute his physical strength in such a high-intensity competition. Although the Wolverine team intends to conduct targeted training for Sun Yue's physical fitness, he has participated in this kind of professional and systematic training for a short time. Although Sun Yue's basketball talent is outstanding, he is still growing and has not yet reached his maturity.
On the other hand, Felton on the other side was alive and energetic. Although he barely rested in the first half, he played with a very low-effort style, and the strength of his teammates allowed him to be invisible for most of the first half, just passing the ball and shooting. And the spicy Felton has already learned how to deal with the distribution of physical strength in the game, and he will save his energy for the more important second half.
Match experience and teammate strength, this is the gap between Sun Yue and Felton.
The last attack of the first half of the Wolverine, Willis served the baseline to Sun Yue, just after half, Marvin. Williams immediately came up to Sun Yue to defend closely.
Sun Yue turned his back to Marven. Williams dribbles, consuming time to the last seconds, 10 seconds, 9 seconds, 8 seconds......
The other four Wolverines kept running to get out of the space, but they couldn't get out of the Blue Devils' maggot-like marking.
7 seconds, 6 seconds, 5 seconds, time is getting less and less, teammates still have no chance to run, Sun Yue can only create opportunities by himself, he burns his last bit of physical strength, and directly accelerates to break through to the penalty area.
On explosiveness, Marvin. Williams is no worse than Sun Yue at all, he clings to Sun Yue tightly, knowing that Sun Yue, who has little time left, to the free throw line one step forward, suddenly makes a sharp stop, and raises his hand to shoot.
Tightly clinging to Marvin. Williams struggled to cover Sun Yue's last shot in the first half, but he didn't expect this to be Sun Yue's feint!
2 seconds, 1 second, completely shook off Marven. Williams' Sun Yue didn't have time to make any adjustments, rose from the ground, and shot.
At the moment when the basketball was thrown, the lights on the court turned red, and the sound of the end of the first half rang for a long time!
The basketball spun strangely in the air, slowly crossing an arc in slow motion in the eyes of everyone on the basketball court......
"Bang" The basketball bounced high... Sun Yue's basketball shot was in the right direction, but due to physical strength, the force of the shot was a little small, and he bounced high in front of the basket.
The Wolverines players and fans on the basketball court did not dare to speak out, for fear that their voices would disturb the basketball into the basket, and everyone's hearts seemed to be raised to their throats, staring at the ball that was still falling.
"Bang", the basketball bounced to the back of the basket again, and turned a few times along the hoop, and the basket at Memorial Stadium seemed to have a spirit at this moment, helping their team to get the ball into the basket.
Hit the whistle! Sun Yue still showed his big heart despite his physical exhaustion.
At this moment, he seemed to forget the barrenness of physical strength, forget the plight of the team, just to shoot this ball.
But this goal became the return of the Wolverines in this game, in the second half, Sun Yue did not have the chic nature of the first half. Williams set up the experienced Felton and the athletic Marvin in the second half. Williams wraps up Sun Yue.
Sun Yue, who was physically exhausted, was difficult to be caught between the two, not only did he not have a chance to shoot on the outside, but it became extremely difficult to organize an attack. Breaking through and not breaking through, the Blue Devils' defense is layered on top of each other, and there is no chance to attack the basket at all.
However, the Wolverines did not have outside firepower, Mark had a bad hand, Claude used up his touch in the first half, and the Blue Devils' Sean . May and Javad. Williams was completely stationed in the three-second zone and did not go out, and Sun Yue could burst to the basket and had no chance to shoot.
Moreover, Sun Yue's ball control skills have not yet reached the point where he can calmly handle the ball in the face of a double bag.
Sun Yue became more and more depressed in the second half, and after being caught by the Blue Devils, he suddenly found that he did not have a few reliable helpers, and he could only rely on himself.
Mark is very athletic, but he is good at defense and catch-and-shoot, and he does not have many offensive means to create offense on his own, and he is completely a strong defensive and weak offensive player, an out-and-out "3D player".
Claude's breakthrough is okay, the shooting looks at the sky, Taft does not dare to make a move with three fouls on his back, and Sun Yue, who has no helper and is physically exhausted, can only watch the team's score get bigger and bigger.
At the end of the first half, the Wolverine team tied the analogy, which was also the last time the Wolverine team tied the analogy, during the period when Sun Yue had been surrounded by the Blue Devils, the gap between the two teams was getting bigger and bigger, and slowly the Wolverines could no longer recover the score.
With a score of 67:82, the University of Michigan Wolverines only scored half of the first half in the second half under the extremely targeted pressure defense of the University of North Carolina Blue Devils, and finally had no choice but to get the first defeat of the season.
The NBA scouts who came to watch the scene were impressed by Sun Yue and updated their scouting report on Sun Yue, but Sun Yue's slightly mediocre performance in the second half made the scouts not have a bright performance in the first half for his performance, Sun Yue only got 7 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist, shot 2 of 6, and made three mistakes in the situation of two people, so Sun Yue tasted defeat for the first time in the NCAA.