Rick Barry's evaluation of Wu Huang is not fair, the Pacific Ten League is the strongest college league in the United States, and Wu Huang's opponents are not good stubble, so the problem of the strength of the competition is no longer a problem.

The head coach of Arizona State is Scott Pera, the head coach of Harden in high school, and the bearded chose Arizona State to defect to him.

As soon as Wu Huang appeared, he saw the conspicuous beard opposite, and Harden in college had already grown a thick beard, but it was not as exaggerated as in the future, but among the most eighteen or nineteen-year-old college players, his style was still very unusual.

According to USC's scouting report, James Harden is an excellent shooter, a scorer that no one can guard in college, he has the height, he shoots in a variety of ways, is proficient in European step breaking, can score in physical confrontations, and is especially good at making fouls.

Rick Barry is clearly more optimistic about Harden, commenting: "Harden is a typical leader-type player, as an offensive guard, he has a strong body, scoring ability and passing ability, strong court prediction, not only can control the game on his own, but also can send assists to revitalize the team, good team awareness." In addition, Harden, who has a very long range and a wide range of strikes that can often overwhelm opponents, is one of the five best rookies of next summer. ”

This old man with the best free throw posture in the world obviously has a deep prejudice against Wu Huang, but the focus of today's game is the duel between Wu Huang and Harden, and the potential highlight is the confrontation between DeRozan and Harden, but the former's performance after entering college is really difficult to match the word "genius", DeRozan can contribute 16 points, 4 rebounds and 1 assist per game in three games, such a performance is a level different from Wu Huang and Harden.

DeRozan no longer intends to compete with Wu Huang for the core position of the team, after three games, he has met opponents who are not too different in athleticism than him, but the experience and technology are much stronger than him NCAA players, in the past, in high school only by relying on the body to win the style of play, now to the NCAA has begun to work, so what he needs now is not to grab the boss, but to improve his skills as soon as possible.

USC starting lineup: Wu Huang, DeRozan, Bart, Gibson, Barnard.

Arizona big starting lineup: Derek Glasser 183cm, James Harden 196cm, Richards Kucasca 198cm, Eric Boateng 208cm, Jeff Ayers 206cm.

"I heard it's your birthday?" When Harden greeted Wu Huang before the game, he asked softly.

"That's right, do you want to say, give me a failure tonight as a gift?" Wu Huang and Harden met twice at the California All-Star Game, when he was only a junior in high school, and Harden was already a senior in high school.

"You guessed it, in addition to preparing to give you a gift, I want you to go back with a crying nose tonight." Harden chuckled, his smile full of mockery.

"If you look ugly, don't keep leaking out your jagged and messy teeth, your beard should grow longer, so that everyone can't see what you have grown." Emperor Wu didn't know that his words almost made a bearded man become a mustache from then on.

Before the game started, the core of the two teams was-for-tat, Wu Huang is also a person who holds grudges, he wants to see who is crying back in this game?

Speaking of which, Wu Huang has participated in many all-star events in his junior and senior years, but some of the geniuses he met in it were not very friendly to him, and they were the most famous.

Emperor Wu has always been very strange, he has not offended these people, why do these guys who are more famous than him always like to take the initiative to provoke him?

James Harden is a typical example of this, this bearded man himself doesn't know why he doesn't like Wu Huang, in short, as soon as he sees this Chinese, he has a feeling that all his things have been taken away by the other party.

"These bastards, I haven't eliminated them in the finals every year, one or two seem to have a grudge against me, is it because of my Chinese identity?" Emperor Wu also wondered, why did these guys who were more famous than him look at him unpleasantly? Is it jealousy that they are more handsome than them?

Just when Wu Huang was wondering in his heart, the substitutes of the two teams began to leave, and the game was about to start.

This season, USC has not won the opening jump ball, Barnard does not have a bounce of more than 50cm at all, let alone the speed of the bounce, and what USC has to do now is to retreat directly from the defense to avoid being beaten out of the fast break.

Wu Huang's opponent today has the same name as last year's champion, but this Derrick is just a fixed-point three-point shooter and a good defender, and his real height is only 180cm, so he is not a big threat.

USC dropped back quickly, opening the day with a 122 formation with two players in the middle playing a limited team, but the position looked a lot like man-marking.

After Harden landed in the position, he thought that the opposite side was a man-to-man defense, and quickly beckoned for the ball, and then posed on the outside for a long time, and when his teammates were pulled to the weak side, before he began to break through, Harden saw the USC defense line slamming towards him, and instantly trapped him in three layers and three percent outside.

"Is this a joint defense?" After Harden woke up to the joint defense, 20 seconds of offensive time had been used, and he quickly dribbled to retreat outside the three-point line and commanded the team to change formations.

USC naturally won't give him a chance to reorganize, Wu Huang and DeRozan are sandwiched up left and right, Harden looked around and found that there was no passing space at all, so he could only jump up and forcibly throw the basketball to the bottom corner of the far end, but this time the pass was thrown directly into the stands in order to avoid the interception of USC.

The cheers of the fans at the scene dropped suddenly, as if someone had choked their necks, and it was a bit embarrassing to have such a mistake at the beginning of the game!

Bill Wharton laughed: "When the 122 defensive position is read by the attacker, because the formation looks very man-to-man, when the attacker has not yet woken up, it will often set up the wrong offensive tactics. And when a lot of offensive time has run out, they finally find out that this is a joint defense, and the defender has usually completed the package of the ball, so they can only rush to shoot or pass the ball again and again, which is also the reason why the joint defense has led to a decrease in scoring and shooting percentages and an increase in turnovers. ”

USC only used one defense to make the morale of the University of Arizona players drop a lot, Wu Huang observed the opponent's defense when attacking, a typical three-two joint defense position, the main defense is their outside offense, he and DeRozan have been famous recently, and it is not difficult to understand that the opponent will choose so much.

Wu Huang made a gesture in his hand, and USC immediately interspersed runs on the baseline according to the usual tactics, while Gibson and Barnard covered in two waist positions, and USC's running position dazzled the opponent for a while.

"It's now!" After Wu Huang saw that the defensive formation of the University of Arizona was disrupted by his own side's running, he saw the opportunity and quickly dribbled to break through to the inside.

Derek hurriedly retreated, and Gibson quietly moved to the horn position at some point, just blocking Derek.

Wu Huang used the cover of his teammates to easily burst to the basket and scored two points on a layup before the defense.

Floyd applauded the team's offense from the sidelines, USC has been able to play a fluid offensive routine lately, and the details are much better than in the preseason, Wu Huang really has a great talent for commanding the team, what tactics to use when the team is attacking, what positions to execute when defending, he is sometimes clearer than his own coach's thinking.

USC continued to defend, and Wu Huang gestured to his teammates, instructing the team to use a three-two formation this time as well. He had a hunch that the University of Arizona was hit twice by them in the opening game, and Harden, this kid, must want to attack a wave, and this time they will defend this bearded man with heavy troops.

James Harden's face was solemn, although it was only the opening offense and defense, he already knew that today's game would not be easy.

The weakness of USC's three-two defensive formation lies in the two low posts and the bottom corner, but unfortunately the low post offense of these two universities is not very good, and there is no interior line that can output steadily in the low post or near the free throw line.

Harden dribbles himself this time to attack, and his role at the University of Arizona is like that of Kobe Bryant of the Lakers and James of the Cavaliers, and the team's No. 1 position is more often playing the role of positioning pitcher, and he is the playmaking core of this team.

Wu Huang's pressure was light today, DeRozan was the opposite, he felt that he should stick to the defense, but the coach told him to keep his distance, which made him a little confused.

USC defensively played a misplaced defense, with Gibson marking nimble Jeff Ayres and center Barnard defending inside the box.

Harden and the team's center Jeff Ayers used a pick-and-roll to break through, and after the two broke up, Jeff pulled outside and Harden broke through to the basket.

After DeRozan bypassed Jeff Ayers, he was already thrown away by Harden.

USC knew that DeRozan was unreliable, and Bart and Wu Huang immediately rushed back to the basket to make up for the defense, and the two were very fast, obviously prepared for this.

Harden's passing vision was as good as Barry Sr. said, the bearded man who rushed to the perimeter before USC closed and Kukaszka hit a three-pointer from the bottom corner.

"Attack!" After Wu Huang saw Harden assisting his teammates, he slowly raised his hand and put on the pose, deliberately screaming, so frightened that the bearded man quickly turned back to defense.

Wu Huang actually didn't speed up at all, this was purely unpleasant to look at Harden's beard.

The two teams went back and forth, and the game went to 12 minutes and 30 seconds of the first half, with the score 16:12, and USC led by 4 points.

Fans who often watch the game have already seen the difference between the two teams, Arizona mainly relies on Harden's individual ability to complete the offense, and the cooperation played is mainly blocking and breaking through the ball, and the tactical initiators are basically James Harden without exception.

USC is also controlled by Wu Huang in a large number of balls, but they play routines both offensively and defensively, and the execution is quite high, and the whole team is under the command of the Chinese point guard, both offense and defense are well-eyed.

There are both positive and negative meanings, Rick Barry has a lot of prejudices against the Chinese, and is very stubborn, once there is a prejudice will not change easily, so after Arizona called a timeout, he said: "USC's tactics have changed more, they play a lot of offensive and defensive routines, but we can also see that their tactics are very rigid, Hugo does not know how to be flexible, especially their defense, this rigid defense is full of holes." ”

Bill Wharton smiled: "That's right, but most of the students on the court are less than twenty years old at the moment, and we are judging them with more than ten years of NBA career and decades of commentary experience, so what these little guys play is naturally full of holes in our eyes, but the boys at the University of Arizona, they are obviously stumped by these rigid routines." ”