Chapter Seventy-Four: Elevator Tactics
Edgar. Sousa and Terrence. Williams returned to the defense in time, Wu Huang's speed was still unabated, all the way to the basket, and suddenly turned around and threw the ball.
Bart stopped at 45 degrees outside the three-point line to catch the ball and opened his hand to shoot a three-pointer......
This kind of fast break at USC is rare on weekdays, and it is usually when you are high that you choose to shoot three points on the fast break, but when Wu Huang, who was prepared, quickly blocked Edgar behind him, everyone understood the reason why USC chose this way, they have a triple-double point guard who averaged more than 10 rebounds per game in the national championship.
Bart's three-pointer was missed, and Wu Huang managed to grab the rebound and add the basketball under the basket with his reach and bounce, which is why USC dared to shoot three-pointers on the fast break, and their core averaged 34 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists per game in the national championship, an incredible triple-double per game.
Of course, Wu Huang has only played three games now, but it is amazing enough to be able to hand over such a statistic.
Wu Huang's rebounding is the latest discovery of various scouts, who used to give Wu Huang only a good rating for rebounding, but now this evaluation has risen to excellent. At the same time, everyone also found that Wu Huang's template is becoming more and more difficult to find, and now many media have upgraded his template to Erwin. Johnson, that is, the famous magician.
Today, USC's offensive strategy is not to play counterattacks, and high blocking and relying on cover to constantly run back and cut in are still their first choice, unless the University of Louisville has an excellent response to these two offensive styles, they will not be stupid enough to voluntarily give up their most convenient offensive methods.
The University of Louisville's pick-and-roll attack against USC was indeed better prepared than the previous three eliminated teams.
First of all. Their strength and ability to fight are outstanding. This allows them to squeeze past the covering players when USC blocks pick-and-rolls.
Secondly. The guys are explosive, which allows them to get around the screeners in time to get back in front of the attackers.
Finally, the University of Louisville is an experienced team, and they do a very good job of switching defenses, and if the outside players are really blocked by the screen, the inside changes are more timely.
Wu Huang faced the University of Louisville's defense, and several times through blocking and pick-and-roll did not get too good scoring opportunities. It ended with a pass to a teammate, but DeRozan and Gibson hit two of his passes in the opening game, but USC's pick-and-roll offense became less invincible today.
"Sure enough, I was prepared!" Wu Huang knew that they couldn't always play the world with pick-and-rolls, and he began to instruct his teammates to increase the interspersed runs after covering without the ball, and DeRozan and Bart had to increase the number of sliding lines, cuttings, and counterruns to make his passes and breakthroughs more threatening.
However, Wu Huang soon found that this trick was no longer as good as it used to be, and it was the same problem, the players at the University of Louisville were in good physical condition. Fast movement and a lot of experience in the game. When defending, he pays attention to the defense of his own back, and Wu Huang does not have many lethal passing opportunities.
After seven or eight minutes of playing in the first half, the shooting rates of the two teams were in addition to a few goals at the beginning, and then they fell into the dilemma of continuous iron, and the score only rose a little in half a year, but the rebounds of the players of the two teams "poofed" up!
In such a short time, Wu Huang has grabbed 4 rebounds, including one rebound in the front court. But to say that USC has the absolute upper hand in rebounding is not to say. The average height of the University of Louisville is a little taller than them, their bounce and arm span are not bad, and the protection of backcourt rebounds is still very good, and USC can't take much advantage.
At 12 minutes and 42 seconds of the first half, the score was 11:9, and USC temporarily led by 2 points, and both teams did not score high.
Floyd called a timeout first, and this time it was time for them to come up with something new.
The live broadcast gave a close-up to Wu Huang, and they found that during this pause, the Chinese genius had a smile on his face all the time, and he was smiling brightly.
Of course, Wu Huang was smiling, and the coaching staff specially prepared several killer features for this national championship, one of which was the "elevator tactics" tailored for him. To put it simply, this tactic is for the pitcher to drill between the two big men on his team, and then the two big men plug the gap in the middle to block the defender and create open three-point opportunities.
Today, the University of Louisville is very resolute against Wu Huang's bag, as soon as he gets close to the three-point line, it is a double bag, and two steps further is a double press, plus this gang of black and hard athleticism is excellent, so he has not gotten a few decent shooting opportunities until now.
Now that the score is deadlocked, Floyd clearly wants him to take the lead in an attack wave, and he does not hesitate to expose one of his killer features for this.
"Tactics are meant to be used, and you can't keep them and don't give them down." Wu Huang has always liked this tactic, and he originally planned to rely on this tactic to hit the three-point shooting record, but unfortunately Floyd has not let the team use it too early.
The game restarted, Wu Huang received the ball and passed the basketball to Gibson, who was on the line to answer the ball, under the pressure of the defenders.
The University of Louisville players knew that Gibson didn't have mid-to-long-range shooting, so they let him go far and focused on Wu Huang and the other USC players who were running off the ball to prevent them from penetrating into the basket.
Wu Huang's pass cut in from the middle and immediately attracted the full attention of the University of Louisville.
However, he was only halfway through, and suddenly he stopped and ran back, and turned back the way he came.
At this time, no one noticed that there were already two big men from the University of Southern California standing in the online area, and these two quickly closed the door to block Wu Huang's follow-up players.
Wu Huang ran to the top of the arc to catch the ball, there was no defender around him, and he easily hit the empty three-point shot, which was the "elevator tactic" tailored for him by the University of Southern California.
"Haha, it's an interesting tactic, but it looks like it's easy to get an offensive foul." Barkley was amused by USC's tactic, as Barnard and Gibson had just closed the door and knocked two of Louisville's defenders straight on the head. If it weren't for the position in advance. I'm afraid I'll really be blown for a cover foul.
"You find no. When Hugo first shot, USC counted the two defenders who blocked the door for him, and a total of four players rushed to the basket to compete for rebounds, and even if they didn't score this time, they had a good chance of grabbing a second offense, so this set of tactics is really interesting, but if the opponent is prepared, the success rate is not great, right? "Kenny. Smith also analyzed.
If Emperor Wu heard such words. will definitely scoff at it, although their tactics are interlocking, the inside line must have a good sense of blocking and grasping, the shooter must have a very high hit rate, and the passer must also have a good passing time, but the link that has the highest impact on the success rate is the shooting person's running ability.
USC's "elevator tactics" have more than one finishing scheme, as long as Wu Huang's running ability is high enough, this set of tactics can have a variety of variations, and it will naturally become difficult to guard. At least for today. The University of Louisville doesn't want to easily crack the elevator that stands in his way.
University of Louisville head coach Rick. Pitino, in terms of seniority and status, is better than Freud. However, the latter has a player like Wu Huang in his hands, and the former is okay even if he can fly.
As soon as the "elevator tactic" of the University of Southern California came out, the situation in the first half changed abruptly, and Wu Huang quickly got two three-point shots with this double-ghost blocking tactic, and hit all of them, and the difference was widened to 8 points in a blink of an eye.
Rick. Pitino had to ask for a timeout, but it didn't seem realistic for him to quickly come up with a foolproof solution to USC's "elevator tactics." In the end, Coach Rick could only instruct his players that when Wu Huang walked into the pile of insiders, the defenders should not follow too closely, and observe at any time if there is an elevator suddenly standing somewhere on the line.
In fact, this kind of "elevator tactic" has not appeared in the history of the NBA, but it is true that no one has carried it forward.
Don't look at this set of tactics seems to be very simple, Wu Huang just runs into the crowd, and then drills out, and his teammates help him block people in time.
But in fact, this set of tactics is very demanding on the executor, and the beginning of an elevator tactic must eventually evolve into multiple outcomes in order for there to be a real threat. Otherwise, just like that, an elevator door is erected there, and everyone is fooled for the first time, maybe because it is fresh, but if you come twice more, you will be fooled again because of the IQ problem.
The University of Louisville has increased its observation and vigilance of the USC elevator door after the game restarted.
Emperor Wu's defenders didn't dare to focus on him alone, and they had to pay attention to whether someone put an elevator door to trap him. But in this way, Wu Huang does not necessarily have to carry out this "elevator tactic", and his strange running ability has more than one route and plan to choose from.
The United Center Arena soon resounded with a burst of cheers from the fans, Wu Huang changed the running route this time, and the elevator door set up by the team had obviously appeared, but he ran in the opposite direction and went around to the weak side to catch the basketball.
This change caused the entire defensive formation of the University of Louisville to be in chaos, and they had to make a wide range of fills and changes to ensure that no one was missed, and the result was that there was only one person defending in front of Wu Huang, or the misplaced small forward Earl. Clarke.
The height difference between the two of them is 15cm, Wu Huang has an absolute step advantage 1 to 1, and the two change directions are outside the penalty area, which instantly attracts the opponent's full three people.
The University of Louisville's defense was completely messed up, and Wu Huang easily assisted the cut-in Bart to hit a close-range shot.
Charles. Barkley exclaimed: "This guy is too fast and very cunning to defend against him, and defenders need to use the rearview mirror to lock on to his position. ”
Kenny. Smith laughed: "I think the only reason the University of Louisville is falling behind is that the core players are not playing their best roles, Terrence . Williams has to behave like Hugo, but we can see that instead of driving his teammates on the ball, he often brings his team's movement to a standstill. ”
Hearing this, the big ass didn't care how cruel his words were to a college player, and said straightforwardly: "So I said, they are not a level player, Terrence doesn't actively guide his teammates to run when he is in possession, he is waiting for his teammates to run before reacting, which is completely different from Hugo." Or rather, Terrence is not a Commander's material at all, but he is carrying out the Commander's mission. (To be continued.) )