UCLA relies heavily on off-ball cover, and Wu Huang feels that for this kind of team that keeps blocking and dismantling and covering, there should be no joint defense, and playing joint defense without a strong interior line will not only consume physical strength, but may not be effective.

At 6 minutes and 20 seconds of the first half, Wu Huang returned to the court.

USC has been playing man marking, and it really can't prevent the opponent's cover and blocking, so you don't have to limit the opponent, drilling the horns is the worst option, and if you can't prevent it, you will play back on the offensive end, any level of competition, this is a very common situation.

After Wu Huang returned, he strengthened his personal attack, and most of the targets were the opponent's interior line.

Today, facing UCLA, which doesn't even have an interior line of Gibson's level, Wu Huang dared to blatantly create a kill under the basket.

Collisson's defense is not bad, he is good at following defense, his feet are fast, but unfortunately his explosiveness is average, and he has a height disadvantage, and this one weighs less than 170 pounds, which makes him unable to dominate in the confrontation.

In the last attack of the first half, Wu Huang used his body to change direction outside the three-point line to break through Collison, using his body to force it inside, and then faced Dragovic's supplementary defense, Wu Huang raised his ultra-long American vulture-like arms to avoid the block, causing the white man's third foul inside.

The Poly Arena has been quiet for a while, and in the last six minutes of the first half, Wu Huang scored eight points in a row, six of which were scored by free throws.

UCLA's interior line was more than one beat slower than his speed, and Collison could barely keep up, but every time he was knocked away by Wu Huang with his shoulder, the referee did not award Collison a foul for the sake of the home court, otherwise Wu Huang's free throws were more than that.

Wu Huang hit the next two free throws, and got a full 10 free throws in the first half.

"Whew" "Whew"!

With the sound of two pleasant basketball brushes, Wu Huang hit both free throws, and his personal score rose to 17 points, and there is no suspense about getting 20+ again today.

With the score at 40:27, USC ended the first half with a 13-point lead.

At halftime, Floyd re-emphasised how to defend pick-and-rolls and cover off the ball.

"When you grab the cover person, you have to be fast and ruthless, and if you can't grab it, you can change the defense decisively, but you must not change the defense passively, who is seen by me not to put any pressure on the other party after the change of defense, then this person will not want to play again. Also, after changing defenses, you must quickly block the opponent's forward route, and at the same time, the players who defend the screen must also quickly change their defensive positions and block them from cutting into the inside line to prevent them from playing a pass and cut in the penalty area. ”

UCLA relied on off-ball coverage in the first half to avoid being defeated by them, and if they could have prevented this kind of cooperation a few more times, USC would have led by 20 points in the first half.

"In the national championships, we will definitely meet a lot of teams who are good at blocking and covering off the ball, so we have to do the blocking and defending without the ball so that we can go further." Floyd is increasingly satisfied with the team's attacking aspects, but there is still a lot to be improved defensively, and when their defense is as good as their offense, then they will be the real champions.

UCLA also made a targeted arrangement for Wu Huang at halftime, in view of the threat of this guy after holding the ball, Ben Holland felt that the easiest and best way was of course not to let him get the ball, as long as he used a small guard with a similar speed to Wu Huang, he could try to press him, prevent and interfere with his ball control.

Collison can do that, and he did keep Wu Huang without scoring and assists for minutes in the second half.

Wu Huang has a plan to deal with this kind of defense, but he doesn't want to always be a shooting guard to solve the problem, what if someone forces the second ball point again?

DeRozan's breakthrough with the ball is good, but letting him control the ball to organize the team is more likely to make mistakes when he encounters opponents with excellent defense, so once this method is thoroughly studied, it will still run into trouble.

Since Wu Huang is a point guard, he must use the method of point guard to solve the problem.

There are many options in front of him, but most of them are difficult to use with his current ball control skills, so he still has to think of some clever solutions, such as - back play!

At 16 minutes and 50 seconds of the second half, the University of Southern California attacked, and Wu Huang finally got rid of Collisson's entanglement and received the basketball.

Ben Holland asked Collison to stick to Wu Huang like kraft candy, so after Wu Huang got the ball, Collison stuck up like a, constantly waving his arms to interfere with Wu Huang's attack, and at the same time, UCLA's defense line was also moving closer to him, even if he broke through Collisson, he was greeted by a pocket formation.

"Kraft candy style defense + chain formation, I want to see how powerful it is." Wu Huang held the ball outside the three-point line on the wing, turned his back to Collison, beckoned his teammates to disperse, and at the same time used his power to hit inside little by little, bullying Collison who was only 183cm tall.

"Do you really have 183CM? How do you feel so much shorter than me? "Emperor Wu chiseled in, and used trash talk to interfere with his opponent.

Collison didn't have time to talk at all, he wanted to reach out and break the ball, but Wu Huang's arm was too long, coupled with the partition of his body, it was really difficult to start.

The UCLA players are embarrassed at the moment, the USC players are scattered in all directions, their current position is already dangerous, if they get close to Wu Huang, a pass is an empty shot. But if he didn't help, Collison obviously couldn't resist this Chinese American.

Charles Barkley laughed out loud and said, "Clever choice, Hugo's muscles aren't strong enough, but he's definitely a tall point guard, and that's the best way to break down a close-quarters defense." ”

Kenny Smith also laughed, "It's a pity he doesn't have a big ass, and he has to be careful of carrying his back for five seconds." ”

Wu Huang had been silently counting the time in his heart, and the UCLA players did not dare to come up to cover the clamp, so he chiseled back to about 18 feet from the basket, and immediately turned around and broke through.

This action immediately attracted the attention of all the players in UCLA, and players immediately came up to help the defense.

Bart quickly moved to the far end, Wu Huang threw the basketball to the former, and USC made another open shot, but Bart missed the three-pointer this time.

Gibson squeezed away from the basket to grab the rebound, and the rebound caused a UCLA player to foul, which was USC's seventh frontcourt rebound of the game.

Charles Barkley commented on Gibson: "The USC captain has always been a bit underrated, he's a guy who can grab 10+ rebounds at will, and he's also a double-digit scorer. Anytime someone can contribute two pairs, he's a solid exporter, but it could be a matter of height, and his draft market isn't favored. ”

Kenny Smith nodded: "Fans measure the performance of players with their eyes, and NBA teams rely on rulers, so an interior player with a height defect like Gibson is usually not favored by NBA teams unless he has a historic big ass." ”

USC is still unstoppable on the offensive end, and Wu Huang can use his physical advantage to force Collison, although his back-to-back singles are only two kinds of turn-around and turn-around jumpers, but they are enough to deal with such a scene.

UCLA didn't dare to easily trap Wu Huang, one was that his passing threat was too high, and Gibson's frontcourt rebounding threat was too great.

Collison has rarely been suppressed like this in the past two years, Wu Huang is the player he has ever seen who can use his physical advantages, obviously all the skills are not top-notch, but he can use it at the right time. And once he finds a weakness, he will use his strengths to attack repeatedly.

Collison felt extremely uncomfortable throughout the game, as did the USC players, and the rhythm of the game was out of their hands for most of the time, and Wu Huang constantly instructed his teammates on how to position on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, using his reading of the game to increase the success rate of offense and defense, which always made it difficult for UCLA players.

In the 12th minute of the second half, UCLA's players felt less comfortable, and USC immediately used a three-two position to defend.

It stands to reason that at this time, the defense of the interior should be strengthened, but Wu Huang's real purpose is not to defend, but to grab the backcourt rebound and launch a fast attack as soon as possible. At this point, their 32 positions will turn into three sharp arrows that shoot quickly, and the impact of USC will be fully unleashed in this offensive formation.

USC used a quick offense for three minutes to hit a 13-3 spurt.

Wu Huang's on-the-spot decision this time defeated UCLA in one fell swoop and won this city derby, which should have been evenly matched.