Chapter 64: The Counterattack Begins
"There are still six minutes to go, everyone follow me to charge, let's go and win this game together!" Sun Yue's voice was not loud, but there was a power that convinced everyone, he looked at everyone on the Wolverine team with his own determined eyes, Coach Tom, Mark, Lance, Henderson, Claude, Tuft, Gomez, everyone's eyes slowly changed from confusion to determination.
Coach Tom finally cleared his mind and began to lay out offensive and defensive tactics for the players in a race against time.
?“ Backbite! "The referee blew the whistle for the game to continue. Sun Yue walked towards the court, followed by Lance, Mark, Gomez, and Taft.
Coach Tom still sent his team's strongest offensive lineup at the critical moment of the game, after all, in such a short period of time to catch up with the score gap of 13 points, the importance of offensive firepower is self-evident.
The last six minutes of the game between the University of Michigan Wolverines and Georgia Institute of Technology for tickets to the NCAA semifinals continued, and the Wolverines had the ball, what the Hornets didn't expect was that it was Lance who went to pick up Taft's serve. Jack is the master.
This time, after Sun Yue handed over the ball, he quickly circled along the bottom line and came out to catch the ball again. This time he was holding the ball further out, already a little closer to the halfway line, and he didn't believe the Hornets would come and wrap him up.
The Hornets did not go over to wrap up again, if the defense line was pressed so far, the loopholes vacated in the rear were too large, and under the disjointed front and back, it was easy to be fatal by Sun Yue's pass, and it was not easy to prevent other people's cutting and running without the ball.
Taft and Gomez pulled a step outside the three-point line this time to cover Sun Yue, and it was a double screen, and this solid double screen put Jarrett . Jack and Will next to him. Bynum completely blocked it, leaving Sun Yue with room to break through.
In the face of this hard-won opportunity, Sun Yue naturally will not let this rare opportunity slip past his hand, the players of the Hornets can not judge his breakthrough route, a little hesitation, Sun Yue used the cover of his teammates to accelerate over, and then he did not go deep into the basket to impact the basket, found an opportunity at a step from the free throw line, directly pulled up the mid-range shot, the basketball drew a beautiful arc, straight into the basket! The score was rewritten to 70:59.
Before the Wolverines players were in position, the opposing team's Will . Bynum accelerated from the midfield, first accelerated and changed direction to break through Sun Yue, then accelerated again outside the three-point line, and forced Gomez to overtake the defender, and finally hit the basket, jumped into the air to dodge Taft's block and scored the ball.
This one round, Will. Bynum got past three people in a row and made a layup, playing the entire Wolverines defense. Showing his strong breakthrough ability, he and Jarrett . Jack is different, Will. Bynum's mid-to-long-range shooting is slightly inferior and has a stronger ability to break through.
Will. Bynum's "answer ball" lowered the morale of the Wolverine team that had just risen because of Sun Yue's score, Sun Yue clapped his hands at his teammates and encouraged: "Everyone cheer up, we are now like a lonely boat in a storm, as long as we work together and fight the storm together, we will definitely win in the end." ”
It is useless to rely on verbal encouragement alone, competitive sports still speak with strength, and Sun Yue urgently needs to score to boost the morale of the team.
He dribbled the ball to the top of the arc and handed it to Lance to control the ball, running off the ball himself and pulling it to the wing. Mark from outside the three-point line immediately made a positional off-ball cover for him, and Sun Yue received the basketball smoothly. Through Sun Yue's pull, the Hornets' defense line is no longer airtight, and some gaps have appeared.
Now Sun Yue has two choices, one is to directly break through to the basket and attack the basket, and the second is to continue to move in the direction of the bottom corner to get a chance to shoot in the bottom corner for himself.
The Hornets are a tactically rigorous, well-trained team with players who rotate very quickly on the defensive end. If Sun Yue chooses the first method, he will fall into the trap of the Hornets in the three-second zone; If he chooses the second option, the players who help the defense on the bottom line will catch up immediately, and it will be difficult to have an opportunity to shoot in the open space.
However, Sun Yue's basketball IQ is enough for him to analyze the defensive operation mode of the Hornets, in this offense, so he did not directly insert it into the back attack basket like the most conventional tactical deployment, or continue to move to the bottom corner, but chose a reverse run that surprised the Hornets, and directly handed the ball to Mark who was responsible for covering, and after bypassing it empty-handed, he withdrew to the top of the three-point line arc to receive the ball and shoot.
It was precisely because of such an unconventional run that the Hornets defense was completely disrupted, allowing Sun Yue to have an easy opportunity to shoot three points in the open position.
From the perspective of the audience in front of the TV, Sun Yue created an open shooting opportunity through two simple runs, which seemed to be easy. But in the eyes of NBA management on the sidelines, it is not so simple, which is called basketball IQ and spirituality.
Sun Yue likes to make some subtle changes in the ordinary tactical deployment to achieve the purpose of confusing the opponent, he doesn't know how many feints he made in this move to mislead the defensive judgment of the Hornets, and his head is also analyzing how the opponent will react to his actions, etc., this seemingly simple no-ball running + positioning cover tactics reflects Sun Yue's basketball IQ.
The score was 72:62, and the Wolverine team chased the score to 10 points under Sun Yue's play. Coach Tom breathed a sigh of relief from the sidelines, Sun Yue's performance was exactly what the Wolverines desperately needed right now.
The Hornets continued to attack, Coach Tom waved his hand from the sidelines, and the Wolverines pressed the defense all over the court. Jarrett. Jack was entangled by Lance and couldn't catch the ball. Bynum was too short to break through the defense with a long pass in the face of this kind of intensity.
He directly chose to break through, but was forced to near the sideline by Sun Yue, who had already premeditated, and Mark on one side hurriedly came up to wrap up, and the two joined forces to put Will . Bynum was caught on the sideline and couldn't move, and Bynum, who had no choice, was already dead, so he could only smash the basketball to the two people in the bag. Unfortunately, his luck was not good, the basketball smashed Mark and bounced back to himself, and finally out of bounds, and the ball was once again in the hands of the Wolverines.