Now that Colorado's big three-point shots have been shot, naturally the 2-3 joint defense can't continue to be maintained, otherwise they can only wait to be shot to death. Although some coaches may bet that Colorado's big three-point shot is just a flash in the pan, with the cautious character of the old K, it is better to change the formation in time, and if the opponent scores another three-pointer, it will be a devastating blow to Duke's morale, and the risk of losing this game will become quite huge.

He has always been confident in his players, believing that his players are the strongest in any way, but after meeting Colorado State, he began to doubt the fitness of his players. If someone had told him that Colorado players dope before every game, he would have believed it.

After the timeout, Duke didn't blindly compete with Colorado State, and Old K also knew that Duke would definitely be dragged to death in terms of physical fitness and endurance alone, so his strategy was to keep the pace down and not let Colorado State successfully enter their fast-paced offense and defense, so that the team could grind the opponent to death with slow-paced offense and defense.

Fortunately, Colorado has not practiced positional warfare, and they have at least one Ford on the court lineup that is very suitable for positional warfare offense, such as using him or Goodwin as a wall to block and dismantle something. Although blocking and dismantling seems to be the simplest tactical coordination in basketball, it has always had a very tenacious vitality since the emergence of this tactic.

Colorado's blocking and pick-and-roll are basically initiated by Palesio and Goodwin, after all, they are the two strongest players on the whole team, as for Ford, the center, just do a good job of grabbing rebounds. Coupled with the three-pointers of Svensay and Patick on the outside, Colorado still has capital to fight positional battles.

At this time, Chang Wei was very glad that he forced Goodwin to complete the passing training, and the high position strategy of the inside line in the positional battle was a very useful little routine, hmm...... Even though this interior line is only the height of the wing, that's almost enough. When Palesio bursts in and distributes the ball to Goodwin, the latter can shoot the ball himself from the middle distance or distribute it to the shooters on the perimeter, and of course it is a good option to play high and low with Ford.

Lao K didn't expect that Colorado's big landing position would also play decently, but it was really the impression that this team would only play small ball tactics with fast offense and defense, so he subconsciously thought that if he reduced his speed, he should be able to limit the opponent's offense. But even so, Lao K is still full of confidence in his team, in a sense, this is a must for any giant head coach, tactical emphasis is still secondary, and strategically it must despise the opponent.

In terms of overall strength, Colorado and Duke are simply not on the same level, and now they are only relying on the small universe explosion to withstand the opponent's attack. Fortunately, Duke's lineup is not as perverted as in his previous life, thinking of this, Chang Wei admires himself very much, and it is still very exciting to dig Duke's corner in advance.

If it was Duke, who added Battier and Brand on this basis in the previous life, Colorado would have been beaten all over the ground a long time ago. Palesio simply couldn't get out of Battier's perimeter defense, and Ford and Goodwin couldn't please under Brand, and while they're strong now, they're still much easier to deal with.

However, the Colorado State players don't know this, they are under a lot of pressure on the court, if it weren't for Pallesio having found his form and forcing the opponent to change the 2-3 lineup with consecutive three-pointers, now Colorado State has no capital to fight with Duke at all. Duke's defense is still very good, and every offense from Colorado takes almost 35 seconds, which also shows that they are struggling to find the right shots.

So now Colorado is playing a big game is the success rate, don't ask for a few more steals and counterattack opportunities, just grasp every offensive round, anyway, the difference between the two sides is not big now, if you bite hard, you may not be able to complete the turnaround at the last moment. And after the shooting rate improved, Ford didn't have so much pressure when he grabbed the frontcourt rebound under the basket, after all, he was completely blown up by Potsby regardless of height and size, and it was still difficult to get the bullet back.

The two sides were locked in this way until the final minute, and Duke temporarily led by two points at 72-70. It stands to reason that both teams are not bad at firepower, but so far they have only scored in their early 70s, and the only reason is that the pace is too slow. Coupled with the fact that the players were very cautious and reduced their mistakes, there were not many attacking rounds on both sides.

Despite the two-point difference, McKay was still frowning and struggling, because the ball was still in Duke's hands at this time, and under normal circumstances, they would definitely press the clock and try to score the ball in the last 0.1 seconds of the round. It would be nice to have a steal, but Duke's turnovers have only been five times so far in the game, and it's relatively difficult to force them to make turnovers, so the best thing for Colorado is to defend against this offense.

As the team's leading scorer, Langton will undoubtedly execute this crucial shot, and although the old K has no specific instructions, Langton thinks he should shoot a three-pointer so that he can kill the game completely. So after he dribbled the ball around the baseline, he took advantage of Margety's cover to go around the bottom corner, and Shi Shiran raised his hand to shoot, but he didn't expect Colorado's number one outside gate Patik to come out from the other side and jump high to interfere with Langton's shot.

By this time, it was too late to pass, there were only two or three seconds left in the offensive round, and Pathik had inadvertently blocked all of Langton's passing lanes, and now he could only grit his teeth and throw the ball, at least fight for a frontcourt rebound. The basketball smashed on the basket very shamelessly, and suddenly several long arms stretched out in mid-air to reach the ball, and finally a big white hand took the lead and smashed the ball into the basket fiercely, which was Purzbilla's supplementary dunk.

The old K has nothing to complain about, and now Duke has a four-point lead, giving Colorado 31.6 seconds left. As long as the players on his side don't do anything stupid, Duke will win this game.