To be honest, Chang Wei is very curious about the Wisconsin team. If you just look at their roster, this is a grassroots team through and through, with only one player averaging a double-double per game and a measly 11.8 points this season, which is rare among the 64 teams that have reached the national championship.

But their fighting power is very strong, not to mention the defeat of Fresno State University in the first round, everyone is an 8th seed and a 9th seed, at least in the eyes of the selection committee, the strength is almost the same. However, it was not easy to defeat top seed University of Arizona 66-59 in the second round and knock out No. 4 seed Louisiana University 61-48 in the semifinals.

For this reason, Chang Wei deliberately went to find the video of the Wisconsin vs Arizona game, wanting to see what this grassroots team was doing. Looking at it, his expression became grim, Arizona is a very good offensive team, don't look at their regular season scoring efficiency of only 104.4, ranked 72nd out of 301 teams, but it is also rare for the team to score five double-doubles, not to mention the team has Arenas and Jefferson who are often familiar stars.

However, against Wisconsin, only three players scored in double figures, Arenas' 21 points, Gardner's 10 and Anderson's 12 off the bench, shooting just 39.2 percent overall. Of course, in Chang Wei's view, the head coach of the University of Arizona, Orson, is still a little conservative, he only used a total of seven people in the whole game, five starters and two substitutes, and the head coach of Wisconsin, Bennett, used ten players in one go, four of whom scored double-doubles.

As you can imagine, Wisconsin is a team that is excellent on both ends of the floor, and is good at catching the big and letting the small go and force your top scorer to let the others attack. While Arenas' 21 points were a game-high in that game, he was actually only the second-leading scorer at the University of Arizona, and their leading scorer, Vought, who averaged 15.5 points per game, was prevented from shooting just 1-of-4 in 37 minutes to finish with two points and nine rebounds.

Chang Wei smiled and shook his head, it seems that the team's hottest West during this time is going to be targeted by Wisconsin, although their team's tallest Colshaw is only 2.06 meters, but as the team's number one star, he should have to fight West with the help of his teammates. Otherwise, Wisconsin has countless center backs and wings, and their starting lineup is actually a three-back and two-forward configuration, and the outside line of Colorado may also be affected.

However, Colorado State has its own killer feature, and that is the team's captain, Palesio. Throughout the regular season, including the first three tournaments, Palesio gave the limelight to the youngsters on his team, and although he also averaged 11.5 points and 5.3 assists per game, everyone knows that this is not his real strength.

Of course, this is also what McKay specially told him before the start of the season, try to give the freshman rookies as many opportunities as possible, after all, there is no such star in the Colorado team who can make a final decision, and the most important thing is to play the overall strength. Palesio is a very dedicated and team-minded player, otherwise he would not have asked to stay for another year, and the reason why he agreed to the manager's request was to see where the team could go.

For a player like him, there's no such thing as a hand-playing thing, and if he wants to, he can take over the team's offense right away and play well. Chang Wei told McKay about his thoughts, and McKay also agreed very much, but he looked at the problem from a different angle than Chang Wei, and just wanted Palesio to have more opportunities to show himself.

So fans at the scene and in front of the TV saw a strange but familiar Colorado team. It's strange because they have been insisting on team offense this season, and occasionally players play alone with the ball, which is also aimed at the opponent's weaknesses; By familiarity, that's because they played like that for a long time last season, letting Palesio break through with the ball and then get off the three-point line, or give the big man a pick-and-roll, which is a big part of their playboard.

In the face of Wisconsin, which is strong in overall offense and defense, Colorado State seems to have returned to last season, of course, this time it is not Goodwin who is playing with Palesio, but the more capable West. In fact, West is a bit more effective at blocking and pick-and-roll, and he has now developed his three-point shooting ability, and it will be difficult for Wisconsin to stop him after he has done covering, whether it is down the frame or pulling to the outside to catch the ball.

At one point, Orson wanted to speed up the pace of the game to bring down the fitness of the big Colorado players, which is why he likes to rotate many players in every game. But with the last 2 minutes and 31 seconds left in the first half, he felt like he was shooting himself in the foot, and before the Colorado players could react, he had to change to the bench to replace the main players, for the simple reason that his starting five were almost tired and crying.

What makes Orson feel even more helpless is that Palesio, who supported almost all the offense in the first half of Colorado State, also showed no signs of physical collapse, you must know that most of their offense in the first half was started by Pallesio, he either relied on his personal ability to complete a one-on-one breakthrough, or summoned a block and then hit the inside, although he didn't score much, but he had already sent 7 assists, and Colorado State was well organized by him on the offensive end.

Orson had long heard that Palesio was Colorado's leading scorer last season, but he didn't expect that this season he had been transformed into a playmaker and that his scoring ability was still at a high level. As an experienced head coach, Orson turned a blind eye to Palesio's declining points per game, only knowing that this guy's shooting percentage had increased by 2.3 percentage points, which was not easy for him, who was already accurate.

In fact, Palesio himself originally planned to continue to organize the offense like in the previous games, and then shoot three-pointers in the open space to help the team develop young people. But when he encountered Wisconsin, a team with no characteristics and quite average, he could only stand up and break the game according to the wishes of Mackay and Chang Wei. At least from the current scoreline, it paid off, with the Colorado State leading 38-30 to end the first half.