Chapter Thirty-Seven - Fairy Ball?
With Li Yao's move, North Carolina's defense was also mobilized in an instant, and the rotation was orderly.
If it had been before, Li Yao might have been anxious, but after the enlightenment of Coach Trent Johnson, Li Yao's mentality has completely changed, constantly blocking and dismantling, waiting for opportunities to find loopholes in North Carolina's defense.
When the offensive time was about 31 seconds, North Carolina's defense finally revealed a hole under the unremitting efforts of Stanford, and Li Yao also seized this fleeting opportunity, a shot through the crotch ball instantly passed, and the air cut to Jackson under the basket, facing the players who made up the defense, Jackson easily scored the ball with a backhand pull-up layup.
"Sir Charles, did you find that Stamford today was completely different from the previous game?" There were still two familiar figures on the commentary seat.
"Kenny, as a superstar, of course I can see it, Stanford has been relying on team basketball to suppress the opponent's single-core team, but now he has met the University of North Carolina with four players with excellent offensive and defensive abilities like them, the game is difficult to solve, very anxious, and look at Lee before the timeout, he has completely lost his previous composure, and both offensive and defensive ends seem so anxious, as a team brain, Lee's performance is a little unqualified." Barkley said.
"But after the timeout, we could all see that Lee was once again calm, and the offensive end was no longer anxious, but began to press the time to attack, which was difficult for us to see before. It seems that at the timeout, Coach Trent Johnson enlightened Lee. "Kenny. Smith found that the Lee Ya before and after the timeout was simply a two-person change, and had to sigh at Coach Trent Johnson's ability to control.
"While Lee's change is inseparable from Coach Trent Johnson's mentorship, Kenny, it's a testament to Lee's potential to be a superstar."
"How?"
"It's important to be mentored, but as a core, being able to reflect on yourself and make changes in such a quick amount of time is the most important thing, and Lee has really grown."
Not to mention that this TNT cross talk duo praised Li Yao's growth here, but the University of North Carolina's attack failed this time.
Facing a team with outstanding group strength like the University of North Carolina, Li Yao did not self-righteously continue the full-court pressing defense that Stanford is famous for, but instead used a shrinking defense. Greene, Wayne. Ellington is a musketeer on the outside, but Stanford's outside line also has a defensive guard like Jackson, and Henry, a shooting guard, is also good at defense, so the other three Li Yao decided to use compression defense.
As for Tylawson? This player is similar to Li Yao, and his projection ability is far less than that of the breakthrough, so when Li Yao gave way to the defensive position, Tylawson did not choose to shoot at the first time, but rushed to the basket more firmly, but did not want to be cut off by Li Yao near the free throw line.
Li Yao threw the basketball to the front court the moment he cut off the ball, and he believed that Jackson, the vinegar monk, would never miss this good opportunity.
As Li Yao thought, Jackson started the moment he saw Li Yao break the ball, he was already defending outside the three-point line, and he accelerated to the opponent's free throw line in a few steps, and Jackson, who was watching the basketball flying in front of him slowly descending, suddenly had a flash of inspiration, his speed soared, and he jumped one and a half steps from the free throw line, grabbed the basketball in mid-air, and opened his arm was a violent windmill dunk, and his palm was loose at the touch of the basket, and the strong impact made the basket seem to be shaking.
Jackson stretched out his right hand after landing on the ground, and looked at it suspiciously, good guy, this guy actually imitated the action of forcing the king, it seems that he is deeply affected by himself, Li Yao thought.
"Unbelievable, Kenny, looking at Lee's all-court pass, I feel like Lee is going to be a superstar even if he doesn't play basketball and plays football." Barkley slapped the commentary table excitedly, the previous game was too dull, it was rare to have such a wonderful goal, how not to make him excited?
"Sir Charles, I'm looking forward to Lee's performance in the NBA." Kenny. Smith was also shocked by the scene in front of him, is this still an NCAA game?
As well-known football stars, they are already like this, not to mention the fans in the stadium, and the screams and screams have already told everyone how excited they are.
Li Yao also understood this, he didn't expect Jackson and himself to play the wonderful Jawe air connection of the Heat in the future, you must know that the Jawe connection is very eye-catching even in the NBA in the future, as long as there is a Jenway connection, the top ten balls can't run, and the visual impact is definitely an artifact that stimulates adrenaline hormones.
Just look at the faces of these towel-waving substitutes on the bench at Stanford University and the incredulous expressions on the faces of the North Carolina crowd, and you can see the impact of the goal.
The head coach of the University of North Carolina called a timeout at the first time, and Stanford scored such a morale-boosting goal, and he had to stop Stanford's high spirits.
"Jackson, why did you come up with such a dunk?" When he got off the field, Li Yao couldn't help but ask, you must know that they didn't discuss this cooperation at all, and it was completely a cooperation on the spot.
"Lee, you may not believe it, I was completely inspired just now, and I can't believe that we have completed such a perfect cooperation, it seems that we must have more such cooperation in the future." Jackson suddenly became more excited when he spoke, and looking at the screaming fans in the stands, Jackson felt very happy.
"Let's talk about it when we have a chance." Li Yao said that he was very helpless, how many times does this guy Jackson want to come again? This kind of opportunity is hard to come by.
At the end of the timeout, Stanford's high momentum was not interrupted by this timeout, and after that, both the offensive and defensive ends showed a more dominant performance than before.
Although the University of North Carolina is still stubbornly maintaining a scorching score difference under the leadership of the new four young people, the situation has changed, and Stanford, who was completely trapped in the rhythm of the University of North Carolina, has not only mastered its own rhythm from the beginning, but also brought North Carolina into its own rhythm, and the offensive and defensive time of the two sides has obviously accelerated a lot.
Looking at this situation, a flash of realization flashed in Li Yao's heart, but he didn't catch it.
Although the University of North Carolina once wanted to slow down the pace of the game, the Stanford crowd did not let them do so, and the defense did their best, and the offensive end played you unstable.
In this way, the scorching score actually had a hint of wanting to pull away.
"Hey, Kenny, did you see that? Stanford, who found his own rhythm, not only saved the situation, but also brought North Carolina into a stalemate for a while. Ross Barkley looked at the sudden change of situation on the pitch because of a goal, and was obviously a little unexpected.
"Sir Charles, you must know that the Stanford Four are stronger than the North Carolina Four in my opinion, and the reason why Stanford fell into the disadvantage before was completely because North Carolina took the lead in dragging them into their rhythm, and the momentum has been suppressed by North Carolina. Now that Lee and Jackson have regained their momentum, with this momentum, the Stanford people have once again found their own rhythm, and it is very dangerous for North Carolina to go on like this. "Kenny. Smith didn't expect that because of a goal, the suppressive relationship between the two sides would actually change.
Now Stanford, who has found its own rhythm, is playing more and more smoothly, but the University of North Carolina is unable to overtake the score, and the anxious mood permeates the four cores, and the offensive end does not have the previous smooth cooperation, and even the defensive end is affected, full of loopholes.
In the face of such an opportunity, how could the people of Stanford let it go, and no one knows better than Li Yao the truth of taking advantage of your illness to kill you.
A wave of offense is high. The tide is finally in Brooke. Lopez scored a strong basket to stretch the score to 10 points.
The University of North Carolina called a timeout again.
The clock was exactly 14 minutes, and when it was time to come off the bench, the University of North Carolina was just in time to replace the bench, hoping to take advantage of the fact that their side of the bench was stronger than Stanford's to close the score.
Although the strength of Stanford's benches is inferior to that of the University of North Carolina, they also know that they can't let the advantages that the starters have fought hard to bury in their own hands, so not only do their best on the defensive end, but also do not waste opportunities at all on the offensive end, and they will never shoot if they don't drag the time to more than 30 seconds.
The University of North Carolina, which is eager to chase points, has been speeding up the pace of attack, while Stanford University, which is intent on sticking to the point difference, is desperately slowing down, and the benches on both sides actually form a stark contrast with the starters.
Thanks to the desperate efforts of Stanford's substitutes, the difference was not only not narrowed, but led by two points again, and the difference came to 12 points, which neither side expected.
At halftime, looking at the substitutes who were already sweating after only playing 6 minutes, they have been wasting time on the offensive end, so you can imagine how desperate they are on the defensive end. Li Yao's heart was full of emotion, they may not be as strong as their own starters, but their spirit of swearing to defend the superior achievements moved Stanford's starting five.
"Thank you, brothers, don't worry, we will definitely win this game." Lee assured his benches that he could not let their efforts go up for waste.
"Hey, Lee, Stanford has more than your starting five, although we have been criticized for dragging down the overall strength of Stanford, but we are also a member of the Stanford basketball team, of course we have a part of the responsibility to protect the fruits of victory, but unfortunately we are only two points ahead, and it is up to you in the second half." Substitute small forward Landry. Fields gasped and said word for word.
"No, Landry, you've done a good job, leave it to us in the second half." Brooke. Lopez also stood up here for the second core in addition to Li Yao, although he sometimes secretly complained that the gap between the strength of his substitutes and other teams was a bit big, and he relied on his own starters to get to where he is today, but the performance of the substitutes today made him regret his original idea.
"No brothers, no basketball." Li Yao looked at the loving atmosphere of everyone in the locker room, smiled and took the lead in stretching out his right hand.