Joey. Graham and Steve. Graham is a pair of twin brothers who served as small forward and shooting guard for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Graham's slightly mediocre physicality is different, Joey. Graham is called the "poor version of the little emperor" by many draft experts, although it is a poor version, but it can be called a pirated James, and his physical fitness can be seen.

Joey. Graham has an enviable physical quality, whether it is instantaneous speed, absolute speed or bounce, touch height is the top, and Joey is still an excellent pitcher, in the case of most of the offensive way is based on shooting, he has a shooting rate of nearly 5 percent and a free throw shooting rate of 8 to 2, which is enough to reflect his shooting skills. Although his offensive skills and basketball IQ are not high, with his top physical talent, he is still considered by most media to be a lottery show.

George. Lucas III dribbled and tried to break through Sun Yue's defense, but found that the Chinese in front of him was really tightly defended, so he gave up the idea of individual singles. According to the team tactics passed to the pocket out of Joey. Graham. Joey. Graham received the basketball on the wing to face Claude, who was defending him, and just when he was about to break through, Sun Yue immediately stepped forward to open up a package with Claude.

"It's too hesitant to get out of the ball, and it looks like the defense is aimed at Joey. Graham was right in his thinking. Coach Tom on the bench thought to himself, "Compared to point guard George. Lucas III, Joey. Graham took on more of the playmaking offense, and strangling him certainly limited most of the Cowboys' offense. ”

Compared to his excellent physicality and consistent shooting ability in open positions, Joey. Graham's vision and ball speed are very mediocre, and Sun Yue is very decisive in his sandwiching. By the time Graham reacted, he had been caught between the two.

There is Sun Gao's raised hands to block the passing vision, and there is Claude eyeing the basketball in his hand at any time. Graham had to risk throwing the basketball to the weak side, only for Henderson to leap hard down the middle and reach for the basketball.

In the face of the Wolverine's bag defense, if you want to pass the ball, there are only two results, either it is broken like now, or it is passed too high, and the basketball flies directly out of the court. Only a handful of elite ball handlers can capture the slightest gap in defense and get the ball out of the way.

The basketball that Henderson just grabbed was not hot, and quickly passed to Sun Yue, who had turned back and began to accelerate to the opponent's half, Sun Yue received the ball and quickly attacked the frontcourt, but he didn't expect that Mark who was ready to make up for the bag at the top of the arc at any time to make up for the leak of Sun Yue, Sun Yue had just dribbled to the midcourt, and Mark had already run to the Cowboys' three-point line. Seeing this, Sun Yue directly found Mark with a long pass, 4:0, and the Wolverines opened with two violent dunks to take the lead.

Seeing this, some readers must have questioned why the Wolverine's bag and clamp tactics worked, and the Cowboys' bag not only failed, but also allowed Sun Yue to pass the ball directly to Taft for a dunk. The reason is that on the ball carrier, Sun Yue, who is two meters and three meters tall and has an arm span of nearly two meters, faces George, who is one meter eight. Lucas III and 1.98 meters Steve. Graham's bag can take advantage of his height and reach to calmly play the ball, and he can also rely on his excellent basketball vision and excellent passing skills to pass the ball to teammates in open positions.

And Joey. Graham usually focuses on small forwards, and usually organizes offenses more rely on their excellent physical fitness to break through the pass, and their own passing skills are not solid, and they can't calmly play the ball in the face of the Wolverine's bag defense. Moreover, the Wolverine's bag and trap tactics are more mature than those of the Cowboys, and the players rotate more quickly, with Mark at the top of the arc and Henderson in the middle ready to make up for it at any time. Even if Joey. Graham's pass to the ball was not a direct attacking threat.

The core of the attack of these two teams is also facing the bag and clamp tactics, and Sun Yue's ball speed and passing options are significantly better than Joey's. Graham is more than a step higher, don't underestimate this more than a notch, and it will soon be directly reflected on the basketball court.

On the offensive end, Sun Yue rushed left and right on the court under the solid cover of Taft, and the Cowboys faced the dexterous Sun Yue and continued to gather heavy troops in the middle, except for the opposing George. Lucas III, Joey. Graham and Steve. Graham came over at any time to make up for the defense to ensure that Sun Yue did not find a shooting opportunity, but the Cowboys' defense under the basket and on the outside wing was relatively weak.

The Cowboys had problems on both the offensive and defensive ends, unable to defend themselves against the active Sun Yue and at a loss for the Wolverines' pack-and-clamp tactics.

?Joey. Graham was always a little slower to play the ball under the bag, let alone organize the attack with ease under the bag. And the other two members of the Cowboys' outside line, George. Lucas III is a point guard who focuses entirely on individual offense. Graham is also a "3-and-D" type player like Mark, who can't rely on his offense to create opportunities for his teammates, and for a while, the Cowboys' offense is in a dilemma of no tactical coordination and various individual singles.

While speaking, Sun Yue easily broke through to the free throw line with the help of Taft's blocking, and a freehand "crossover" shook off Joey. Graham is different from Sun Yue, who likes to rely on defensive skills and defensive footsteps to defend. After four years at Oklahoma State University, which advocates muscle defense, Joey. Graham's basketball defensive concept has long been trained to use close body collisions to stop opponents, and it is no longer known how many times this game has been shaken off by Sun Yue.

Shake off the defense Joey. After Graham, Sun Yue made another shooting action, which caused the two interior lines of the Cowboys to quickly pounce, and then immediately flicked his wrist and passed the basketball to Tuft, who was empty under the basket, and Taft received this "pie-feeding" pass and easily dunked the basketball into the basket.

Coach Tom off the court is also in a good mood, before the game started, he was still worried that Sun Yue would affect his performance on the court because of off-court factors, now it is seen that Sun Yue will turn the criticism and doubts of the outside world into his own motivation on the basketball court, and deal with every offense with a calm head, which makes Coach Tom, who has been coaching for many years, can't help but start to imagine the record of this season.

In Coach Tom's imagination, at the end of the first half, relying on Sun Yue's comprehensive performance of 7 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists in the first half, the Wolverines led the Cowboys by 12 points with a score of 46:34 into the second half. Although the score lead is not much, the Cowboys have completely fallen into the bottom of the game.