Chapter 31: I like to run away
Ten minutes into the first half, Wu Huang's physical strength began to enter a period of accumulation, and he would not consume his physical strength uncontrollably, otherwise he would collapse in the second half due to physical problems.
Wu Huang's physical fitness is one of the best in the team, but it is still impossible for him to complete a high-intensity 40-minute game at his age, and he must allocate his physical strength reasonably.
Isaiah Thomas was replaced by the University of Washington, and Wu Huang's opponent was Voinois Overton, another short point guard who is less than 180cm tall.
Emperor Wu was about to slow down the rhythm one second, but the next moment he changed his attention!
Although this Vaunoy is fast, he is not as good as Isiah in all skills, and now he feels much more relaxed in both offense and defense, and if he doesn't take the opportunity to score points at this time, when will he wait?
In three minutes, the University of Washington was cut down by Wu Huang using his personal ability to shoot 7 points, and Vainois was completely unable to stop Wu Huang's attack.
USC, led by Wu Huang, launched a wave of offensive and quickly overtook the score.
The University of Washington has seen a significant drop in strength after half of the main players have been discontinued, and their bench lineup is far inferior to the five main players, except for Justin Holliday.
Justin Holiday and Jrue Holiday are two talented basketball brothers in Los Angeles, one chose the University of Washington and the other chose UCLA.
DeRozan was replaced to rest first, Holiday broke through Nathan Bouch twice, USC didn't make a big deal to widen the score gap, and there are always people at the University of Washington who stand up when Wu Huang plays, and no matter how big or small the fame is, these guys are always very confident and dare to fight.
This is obviously the confidence that the manager brings to the players, no matter how talented the players are, Romaar is always very confident when he plays, he seems to have an ability to turn decay into magic, even if the talent of the players, Romal can also discover their talents, and inject confidence and interest in playing these mediocre players.
At 7 minutes 05 seconds of the first half, Wu Huang, who had been playing for 13 minutes, was finally a little tired, and the defensive end was a little careless, and the little-known Vaunoy in front of him actually dared to break through with the ball, not only passed Wu Huang but also scored a goal in the layup, and more than 30,000 home fans on the scene were stupid.
The score was 26:27, and Emperor Wu scored 19 points in the first half, but was overtaken by the University of Washington?
Floyd reluctantly called a timeout, replaced Wu Huang for a while, and replaced DeRozan on the court again.
Wu Huang glanced at the University of Washington opposite, where he was celebrating Vaunoy's breakthrough layup, Isaiah Thomas and the latter jumped up and hit his chest, and the other players came up to pat Vaunoir's shoulder and head, and the atmosphere of the whole team was extremely harmonious, which was in stark contrast to this side.
"Cheer up, we're only one point behind, this is our home stadium, we're going to defend our honour, the Trojans will win!" Gibson, as the captain of the team, must step up and boost the team's morale at this time. But he is a person who is not good at words, many times he does not know how to express his thoughts, his tone and words are too rigid, and these morale-boosting words are not very contagious.
"I scored 19 points, DeMar, what do you think?" Emperor Wu can say that it is fantastic, but he doesn't think it is useful to say those beautiful words at this time, he glanced at DeRozan and directly gave him a radical method.
"I know what to do, I don't need to be reminded." DeRozan snorted coldly, but didn't say much, his performance in the first half was really bad.
Floyd glanced at DeRozan, and suddenly had an idea in his heart, why not let Wu Huang and DeRozan switch guards?
DeRozan's body is a little thin and he doesn't like physical confrontation, but his defensive skills and awareness are not enough for him to defend well on the premise of avoiding physical confrontation, so why not let him defend Isiah Thomas?
Wu Huang is misplaced to defend Deng Temeng, in fact, this is not a mismatch at all, and his height and arm span still have an absolute advantage.
Floyd still remembers that Wu Huang's bench press performance was better than DeRozan's at the beginning of school, don't look at his body is as thin as DeRozan, but his physical confrontation ability is not bad, and Wu Huang will use his body more, and there should be no problem defending Duntmont.
Floyd's change of formation worked when the game restarted, with DeRozan's footwork being very nimble in the number two position, and even after being deceived by Isiah Thomas's feints, he was able to quickly return to his defensive position.
Isaiah faced DeRozan's defense and did not dare to shoot easily, and even if he succeeded in passing the opponent, he was likely to be blocked by DeRozan behind him.
It's a bit like Kobe Bryant's defense of Iverson, and of course, with the help of his teammates, Isaiah Thomas was finally contained.
Wu Huang rested off the court, and it was Nathan Booch who was defending Duntmont on the court at the moment, and what embarrassed DeRozan was that this mediocre defender who couldn't even compare to half his power on the offensive end was very good at defending Duntmont. Nathan was not afraid of physical confrontation at all, and used his height advantage to suppress Duntmon's breakthrough as well.
This is often the case in basketball games, where a team of more than a dozen players can sometimes do what the main team can't do, but the unknown substitutes can do it. So both the NBA and the NCAA have a lot of coaches who have a good eye for talent on the bench, and there are many fairy tales like Ben Wallace and Bruce Bowen.
DeRozan was secretly slapped in the face by Nathan on the defensive end, but this time on the court, his hand began to recover, two consecutive breakthroughs with the ball on the outside, a mid-range emergency stop shot, and a shot under the basket to score a goal, scoring four points in a row made the home fans cheer again, and USC also overtook the score again.
"DeMar is good at running but doesn't like confrontation, what do you think?" Floyd saw DeRozan pass by Isiah every time, but he was able to reposition behind him every time, which made Isiah Thomas always feel cold and didn't dare to shoot easily.
"Hugo and DeMar are very nimble on their feet, we can drive the opponent where they are uncomfortable and then shrink the defence to create more chances for less." Assistant coach Andy spoke his mind, and the two agreed on the same page.
During this time, the USC coaching staff discovered that Wu Huang's defense relied on awareness and footwork plus arm span, and Demar's defense relied on obscenity and footwork, but at least the two were similar, their feet were fast, their athleticism was excellent, and they could quickly return to the defensive position even if they were broken through, but they didn't like to confront the enemy head-on.
DeRozan didn't know that his coach had given him a "like to run away" evaluation, but he was really not good at frontal defense, and his one-on-one performance was not tough enough, but he was not as good as Wu Huang's awareness and arm span, so he often faced opponents with tough playing styles and formed a mutual explosion situation, but Wu Huang can use his arm span and awareness to prevent those strong guys.
That's the way it was in this game, but Nathan Booch kept Holiday for him, and DeRozan was able to play his talents on the offensive end.
Holiday was already very athletic, but he was still a lot worse than DeRozan, and he was soon defeated by the latter's onslaught.
Gibson knew that DeRozan's previous consecutive missed shots were caused by Brockman's help to defend him, so he used his strength and explosiveness on the offensive end to help DeRozan block Brockman and prevent him from helping to defend in time.
The University of Washington's 208cm starting center Matthew Bryan Amaning and 210cm tall backup center Joe Wolfger were both underathletic, tall and slow white centers who couldn't help DeRozan's breakthrough in time, and the talented USC defender quickly led the team to the lead.
At 3:05 of the first half, Floyd replaced Wu Huang after a timeout, and the score was 35:31, and USC overtook the score again.
When the home fans saw Wu Huang back on the field, they immediately gave warm cheers!
DeRozan's heart darkened, he burst into a plug in the past few minutes, and scored 6 points for the team in a short period of time, but Wu Huang seemed to steal his limelight just by standing on the sidelines.