Chapter Fifty-Three: Clip TM's!

Reggie Miller explains: "The high press tactic is usually used by teams that don't have a tall center but are good on the outside. According to the regular defensive position, no tall center will allow the opponent to score easily in the restricted area, so it is better to gather heavy defense on the line and not let you hit the basketball to my interior. It's a Loftus-Cheek tactic that requires explosiveness and defensive aggression from outside players, as well as a rotation of explosive short interior players on the inside, and USC is a great fit for it. ”

The University of Arizona apparently didn't expect USC to use high post pressing against them, and Scott Pera saw that Derrick was cut off twice in less than two minutes, so he could only ask for a timeout, and ordered the team to strengthen the response to the point guard and leave the basketball to James Harden to organize.

With a score of 6:2, USC scored four points in the opening game through two broken ball counterattacks, and Gibson received an aerial relay from Wu Huang on the offensive end, and USC led by 4 points at the beginning.

Wu Huang's performance once again caught everyone's attention, although he did not score, he contributed a steal and an assist, and he showed his dominance on the defensive end, and he couldn't even dribble the ball in the opening two minutes.

After a timeout, Mav Albert said: "Hugo's official height is 193cm, he has an extraordinarily long arm span of 208cm, and he weighs 178 pounds, a California Condor-style player whose arms are spread out will make his opponent look like a rabbit locked by a vulture. ”

Reggie Miller nodded: "Hugo does have excellent physical talents, but he still needs to improve his strength and increase his physical confrontation ability, I hope he won't be as thin as me." ”

After returning from the game, the University of Arizona stepped up the speed of the outside shot, and the inside players pulled to the line early to cover.

However, after the USC timeout, they stopped using high-post pressing tactics and switched to man-to-man defense, and the University of Arizona suddenly felt like punching cotton.

Jeff Ayers scored four straight points from mid-range with a pick-and-roll, which shows that the University of Arizona wanted to open up their interior first, and didn't focus on James Harden at first.

Wu Huang was pressed by the University of Arizona, Scott Pera wanted to use his own way to treat others, but this trick did not work for Wu Huang, Derek did not put enough pressure on him on the defensive end, Wu Huang instead used the opponent's bag to assist DeRozan and Bart to throw into the middle distance, this kind of pressing tactic is not available to everyone.

In the 14th minute of the first half, Wu Huang misplaced James Harden for the first time, and immediately used his body to break through to the basket, but was stopped by the latter.

"The bearded man still has research on me?" Wu Huang was slightly surprised, and Harden seemed to have studied his breakthrough and reacted particularly quickly.

Wu Huang's breakthrough method is mainly a simple change of direction after a tentative step or three threats, often a forward step or cross step can pass the opponent, then directly dribble to the inside line. If he can't get past the opponent, he pulls the basketball back to see if there is a chance for a mid-range pullup jumper. If there is still no chance to shoot, it means that he encounters hard stubble, Wu Huang will not be strong, he will immediately pass the basketball out, and use the off-ball run to try to get rid of the opposing player.

These breakthrough moves of his belong to the category of basic skills, but Wu Huang insists that the so-called superstar is a person who can use these basic skills to become a martial arts master, like a butterfly wearing flowers, a snake breaking through, and a lost step...... These martial arts masters were still far away, and he was not particularly interested.

In fact, those continuous cross-step, back hand-changing, crotch hand-changing, emergency stop and turn and other high-end combination skills, Wu Huang is not not useless, on weekdays, he can play it out, but if you want to use it in the game, it is reluctant, the probability of being broken by mistake is too high, and the meal still has to be eaten one bite at a time.

Harden apparently had some research on Wu Huang's breakthrough and made a move one step ahead.

Wu Huang was not fully prepared, had a reasonable physical contact with the opponent, and immediately suffered a big loss, unable to control his balance and fell to the ground, Harden took the opportunity to grab the basketball and quickly counterattacked to score two points.

"Interesting." Wu Huang has been becoming more and more confident in his breakthrough recently, and although his movements are not fancy, with his excellent explosiveness and speed, few people can keep up with him. However, it seems that his skills still have a lot to be desired, otherwise Harden would not have broken the ball so easily to counterattack.

"Well, I said I would make you cry and go back?" After Harden scored, he launched a taunt in Wu Huang's ear.

"Did you say that?" Wu Huang smiled lightly, he would not start the personal singles mode just because he lost some face, and if there was a chance for revenge, he would not be angry.

USC attacked, Wu Huang still dribbled steadily across the front court, stopped at the top of the arc to observe the opponent's position, and directed his teammates to run.

Harden looked like a thief not far away, and at a glance, he knew that he didn't think about anything good in his heart, and he probably wanted to break Wu Huang's pass.

Gibson pulled out from the inside to cover, and Wu Huang used the pick-and-roll to break through this time, and then jumped up to transfer the basketball to the weak side widely.

USC's tactics are only now starting out, and Wu Huang took advantage of his teammate's off-ball cover after the ball and suddenly accelerated to get rid of Derek. The basketball on the other side turned three times and two times, and it returned to Wu Huang's hands, but the player next to him had become Kucaska in the third position, and the defense of the University of Arizona was completely messed up.

"It's a little worse, it's not the best result!" Wu Huang implemented a misplaced offensive tactic this time, using the whole team's cover and running to disrupt the opponent's defensive formation, creating opportunities for misplaced attacks. If there was an inside player in front of him at the moment, this ball would be easy to play, but now in the face of the defense of the No. 3 position, Wu Huang was not ready to attack by himself, and the basketball was re-sent to the inside by him.

Gibson was facing Derek Glasser at the moment, one was the No. 4 and the other was the No. 1, and the USC captain didn't even think about it, so he immediately forced his way into the box and threw the basketball in.

Even if USC's tactics are successfully executed this time, all offensive tactics on the basketball court, no matter how complex they are executed, are basically aimed at achieving three goals.

The first is to cause the opposing player's defense to be misaligned, such as this USC offense, forming a small fight against big or big against small, strong against thin or fast and slow. Second, in the local formation, more fights are few, and the offensive is completed by taking advantage of the superiority in numbers. Third, create open shots for players, which is also the most common offensive tactic.

USC's tactics have always been very purposeful, which is always their characteristic, and you may not know how they execute these tactics, but when USC finally manages to score, you can see what they have accomplished.

The University of Arizona is very different, Harden doesn't have the observation and command skills of Wu Huang, so they can't play this textbook routine offense, but the bearded man has a stronger body, and he can use his individual threat to lead the team's overall offense.

There is no saying that the style of play between the two is higher or lower, and Jordan was the same back then, he can lead the Bulls to create two dynasties, and Kobe Bryant is about to lead the Lakers to impact his second dynasty.

However, Stockton, Kidd and Nash are all good enough to play, but these three have not won a single championship.

So, sometimes it's not necessarily a good thing for a point guard to be too smart and the team has too many offensive routines.

Wu Huang likes the feeling of having the team firmly in his hands, he wants his teammates to run exactly according to his ideas, it sounds a bit like a ball bully, but he is a level higher than the average ball bully, he does not want to control the basketball all the time in his own hands, but to control the whole team in his hands.

USC is working according to Wu Huang's idea at the moment, his gestures represent every offensive tactic, and if his teammates don't follow his will, they will definitely not get the basketball in the end.

The first half of the game was fierce, and the University of Arizona faced Wu Huang's organization and tandem, although they could also score, but they always felt that the momentum was on the side of USC.

Scott Pera tried to double trap Wu Huang, but Gibson's cover outside the three-point line always made this trap unsuccessful, and Wu Huang took the opportunity to break into the heart of the University of Arizona twice in a row and take the opportunity to widen the difference.

At 8:25 of the first half, the score was 27:23, and USC led by 4 points.

Wu Huang has 7 points, 2 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals, USC has a firm upper hand on the court, ordinary fans may not feel how powerful their tactics are, but they can feel that USC obviously has a tactical cooperation than the opponent.

The offense at the University of Arizona is relatively chaotic, basically starting from Harden, and the players on the weak side generally stand outside the three-point line to watch the play, and the offensive viewing is not as good as that of the University of Southern California.

Floyd quietly made a gesture off the court, signaling that the team was starting to wrap up Harden and use high post pressing tactics.

Three of USC's absolute main players did not rest today, and Floyd did not plan to let them go today, and all three of them had enough physical strength to play for 40 minutes.

In this kind of one-game match, the core of both teams will generally not be easy to play.

Wu Huang nodded secretly at Freud, he had been waiting for this signal for a long time, and now he could finally clean up this dead fat man.