Chapter 42: Point guards need intelligence
Before the start of the "Let's-show-them-who-we-are" match, Wu Huang and his teammates formed a circle in their own half and shouted loudly.
UCLA fans scolded one after another, which translated: "Show your uncle!" ”
Before every USC game, Wu Huang gathers his teammates together to boost the team's morale.
Wu Huang's morale-boosting method is simple, with only two signature lines, one is "Who-We-Are" shouted at home, and the other is "Show them who we are!" that can be used anywhere. (Let‘s-show-them-who-we-are)”
UCLA players have been looking at this side for a while, there are really not many teams in the NCAA with a fixed slogan, and the official website of the University of Southern California also spoils the battle song that Taylor Swift is composing, which seems to be called Who-We-Are?
The UCLA players thought it was cool to make such a connection, and I wonder if their battle song was sung by Taylor Swift himself?
T-N-T streamed the game live today, with Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith in charge.
Originally, T-N-T was going to send Marf Albert and Reggie Miller to explain the game, but Big Ass took the initiative to grab the task.
As both sides prepared to jump the ball, Charles Buck said in his deep voice: "Hugo is definitely a talented point guard, I've been watching him for a long time, although he is relatively thin, he uses his athleticism to make up for it, and his excellent bounce is very useful on both offensive and defensive sides." What's more important is his ** degree, he is hungry for competition, hungry for victory, this kid has all the ingredients to become a star, athleticism, long arms, and college shooting percentage. ”
Kenny Smith agrees: "He does have great flexibility, but the most important thing is that he has a dexterous hand, which cannot be trained in the future, and a pair of big hands can make him very tight on the ball, even if he doesn't have outstanding ball control, but he rarely misses the ball. Those who question his skills on the ball should see this, technique can be practiced slowly, but talent is innate, as long as the sense of the ball is not bad, the technique will not fail, he has a great talent to be a good ball handler. ”
Wu Huang didn't know that the two commentators were so flattering him, the game had already begun, and USC had lost the opening jump ball again, but the Southern California fans in front of the TV cheered because they thought that if their team couldn't win the jump ball, they would definitely win the game.
Darren Collison pushed in a very good rhythm, dribbled to the front court without sticking to the ball, and quickly distributed the basketball to Lewis, who ran from the left baseline, who ignored DeRozan, and immediately jumped up to hit the first goal of the game.
Wu Huang secretly scolded a fool, before each game, the team will conduct simulation training according to the characteristics of the opponent, UCLA is good at using this kind of off-ball running and off-ball cover this season, USC has long conducted defensive drills for such a combination in training, but DeRozan is still easily got rid of the opposing player, except for saying that he has a problem with his attitude, it will not be this guy named Lewis, whose athleticism is better than him, right?
USC attacked, and Wu Huang secretly made a gesture, which was for DeRozan and Gibson to have a waist cut to cooperate.
Although Emperor Wu slandered DeRozan in his heart, he couldn't let him lose face.
Besides, this is not DeRozan's face alone, but the face of the whole team, especially in the derby, they must earn face back.
DeRozan didn't have the intention of competing with Emperor Wu for a long time, and when he saw Emperor Wu's gesture at this moment, his eyes lit up, and he knew that this set of tactics was to create an opportunity for him to dunk, so he immediately prepared to go.
USC attacked, and Wu Huang stopped two steps outside the top of the arc and feigned observation.
DeRozan suddenly accelerated to the counter-run, and Gibson and Barnard made two walls at the same time on the right wing in a double-cover air cut.
Wu Huang threw the basketball to the basket in front of Collisson, and DeRozan just used the double cover to get rid of the opponent, and in two steps he got to the basket, jumped up and caught the basketball and smashed it against the basket, and a wonderful aerial relay was completed.
The UCLA players clapped their hands in anger, they had tried their best to chase back, but DeRozan's explosiveness was too strong, and he didn't give them time to fill in at all, and he got rid of them in the blink of an eye, which was a crushing of pure athletic talent.
Kenny Smith exclaimed: "This is DeMar DeRozan, a first-year USC freshman, who was considered one of the top 10 best high school students in the nation this year before the season began, with super bounce and explosiveness, and great scoring ability, he is a typical scorer, how do you think he fits into the team?"
Charles Barkley replied: "I think he's a good fit for the USC, he's got such a classic size and athleticism, he can go anywhere and he doesn't have to worry about being too thin to rush inside, that's a valuable resource for the team."
Wu Huang and DeRozan slapped each other, and this ball must have made the opposite guy carefully defend his basket, so it was time to execute a few peripheral shooting tactics.
In the next few offenses, USC still cooperated with the air cut or inside cut, but this time it became Wu Huang and Bart who were responsible for the shot, and DeRozan and Gibson became the front to cooperate with them.
The University of Southern California was able to win eight consecutive victories, not relying on Wu Huang's "blind shots" on the outside or DeRozan's "blind shots", every time the team attacked, Wu Huang had to analyze the opponent's defensive formation, choose offensive tactics according to the opponent's position, and also consider the state of his teammates, the score of the game, the speed of the rhythm, etc......
In short, there are too many things to consider as a point guard every round, and an excellent point guard is really not capable of a player with an average IQ.
After UCLA was attacked by DeRozan, they paid more attention to the defense of the restricted area.
Wu Huang first handed the basketball to Gibson, who was standing at the free throw line, and ran to the opponent's basket for a spin without doing his job, and after coming out to re-receive the basket, DeRozan began to cut to the basket again.
The attention of the UCLA players was suddenly focused on Wu Huang and DeRozan, but Wu Huang threw the basketball into the right corner, and Bart caught the ball and hit a three-point shot.
Wu Huang got two assists in the opening game, and a small number of USC fans mixed in at the scene, as well as many UCLA Chinese fans, thousands of people waved their cheerleading sticks and supported Wu Huang's portrait, and he now has a lot of supporters on the road.
Taylor Swift and Emma Roberts were among the fans, and the two girls raised their big sticks to cheer for Wu Huang and successfully grabbed the close-up.
USC already has two top offensive players with the ball, and if they are allowed to play a dazzling array of offensive tactics, then the first eight games have proven that there is hardly any team that can defend against the top stars in their respective positions, such as Wu Huang and DeRozan.
The two of them are in the NCAA, just like Arenas and Wade in the NBA are similar in the same team, so you can imagine what kind of power they will play.
At the beginning of the game, Wu Huang continued to provide assists for his teammates, and USC focused on air cuts today, UCLA called two timeouts in five minutes, and finally barely blocked USC's offense with two or three joint defenses.
"What I'm waiting for is for you to change formations!" Emperor Wu's heart is happy, what does it mean to be high once, and the magic is one foot higher?
You can really keep the interior with three players in the bottom three, but I'm the NCAA's No. 1 marksman, what are you going to do?
Wu Huang saw that the team led 11:4 at the beginning, and his heart was a little inflated, and his proud and arrogant side began to gain the upper hand again, and he actually called himself the NCAA's No. 1 marksman, which was not something he could do before.
His current thinking is - not now, but when?