Chapter Thirty-Three—Cracking the Crowd?
"Wow, hey, Lee, it seems that this is going to be full fire" Kenny who saw Li Yao deduct again. Smith couldn't help but admire.
"Hey, Kenny, do you see? Isn't this move the Flash's signature? Thinking about the previous 'this is my house', I can't think of anyone other than the Flash who can perform the pretend to be so extreme. Barkley looked at Li Yao, who was pretending to be forced, and he found that he liked it more and more, just like in the 03 generation of the current league, he admires "The Flash" Wade more than "Little Emperor" James and "Melon" Anthony, which is an appreciation of their temperament.
"Lee, this guy is really pretending to be limitless, and he must learn more from him in private." Jackson off the court was envious when he saw a series of smooth pretending actions after Li Yao finished dunking the basket.
"Ahem, this guy Li Yao really doesn't give any face!" Joe sitting on the West Virginia bench. Alexander looked at Li Yao, who was pretending to be forced on the field, and was also quite helpless.
And the head coach of West Virginia watched the spirit of his substitutes on the court be blinded by Stanford University's three-board axe after the opening, and couldn't hold back anymore and called a timeout directly.
"See what you've done since you got on the field?" The head coach of West Virginia yelled at his substitutes on the sidelines, and although he knew that he couldn't blame them for this kind of incident, he had to put pressure on them not to be knocked down by their opponents all at once.
But the coach of West Virginia may not know how to be a wonderful thing, the substitutes were originally on the court to support the situation after the main force got off the court, but who knew that Stanford University was so shameless, let the starting core point guard Li Yao bring a group of substitutes to compete with them, and now they have to be scolded by their own coach, and the substitutes are also suddenly dissatisfied, why can't you think of a way?
"Coach, I really can't guard against that Chinese Lee." The backup point guard, who was beaten by Stanford University's full-court tight defense, said to his coach very shamelessly, since he has lost people on the court, do you still care about the off-court?
"If one person can't prevent it, give me two people, and if two people can't prevent it, three people! Lock up China Lee for me, you don't have to worry about the other players, let them attack. Although the head coach of West Virginia was dissatisfied with his remarks that his backup point guard was ambitious, he also knew that this was true, so he had to order to prevent Li Yao from giving up others.
All the players in West Virginia were scared by their coach's words, Excuse me? Two people defend Li Yao, can't they still have three? Oh my god, I might have played a fake NCAA game today.
Although they were very surprised by the coach's words, the substitutes said that it seemed that they really had no other way to restrict Li Yao except for this method.
"Well, Coach, what if they continue to press the defense all over the court?" Although he didn't want to attract everyone's attention, the backup point guard felt desperate at the thought that he still had to face the terrible defensive pressure just now, and could only open his mouth to ask.
The head coach first glared at him, and said in his heart, what an eyeless guy, looking at the substitutes who finally lifted their spirits, and after being a little deflated by the words of the substitute point guard, he didn't think much about it and said: "They can't always maintain the defensive intensity of the full-court pressing, if they still press the full-court after the timeout, you will give me 4 people to alternate and let him pass the frontcourt." ”
"I have only one request for you, don't let the score be too big during your time on the pitch." When the players of both sides were about to come on the pitch after the timeout, the head coach of West Virginia couldn't help but say to his substitutes, after all, the opponent has a starting core of Li Yao, and he no longer expects the substitutes to close the score.
Li Yao felt funny when he saw that the opponent's substitutes were obviously much more relaxed than before the game.
Today, Li Yao didn't plan to let go of West Virginia at all, and continued to press all over the court after the opening.
But what Li Yao didn't expect was that the other four West Virginia actually began to alternately cover for the opposing point guard, so that he could smoothly dribble the ball to the frontcourt.
Li Yao was stunned by this scene in front of him, no wonder they looked relaxed after they came on the field, it turned out that they had come up with such a strange way.
Li Yao wanted to teach them a lesson again, but when he thought that since everyone could only do this, there was no need to waste physical strength on his side, so it was better to save a little face for others, Li Yao waved his hand to his teammates, and the full-court pressing suddenly turned into a half-court man-to-man defense.
Seeing Stanford withdraw the full-court pressing defense, the opposing point guard was obviously relieved.
"Poof, who came up with this idea of breaking the whole court and pressing the defense? Come out, I promise not to kill you. "Kenny. Smith was also stunned by the series of offensive and defensive changes between the two sides in front of him, as a point guard, he never imagined that someone would use this method to break the full-court pressing, this Nima is not ruthless on the side of Stanford University, if they directly strengthen the defensive intensity again, not to mention that your point guard in West Virginia can't get through the half, and even the five of you can't get through. This way of compressing the space of their own team, someone actually uses it to break the full-court pressing defense?
Coach Trent Johnson off the field was also stunned by the scene in front of him, this Nima is his opponent? Is it just this IQ or a head coach? He even began to complain about Duke University, and actually lost to this kind of head coach-led team.
Now the head coach of West Virginia, who has calmed down, was also shocked when he looked at the situation on the court, he was just angry that his backup point guard said something bad about the atmosphere, and said casually, he was just thinking about how to limit Li Yao during the pause, and he didn't think about how to break the opponent's full-court pressing, and was asked by his own backup point guard, and the words didn't come out of his brain at all, but when he saw Li Yao waving his hand to cancel the full-court pressing defense, he couldn't help wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, and said in his heart: Fortunately, China Lee didn't see it.
He didn't know that the reason why Li Yao withdrew the full-court pressing was not only because he was made laughing and crying by his play, but on the other hand, Li Yao was thinking about his own attack, after all, this method not only limited West Virginia's offensive space, but also limited their fast offensive space.
Are you saying the ball isn't in West Virginia's hands? Li Yao said that it will not be soon.
"But why did Lee undo the full press?" Of course, Barkley also saw the disadvantages of West Virginia's approach, and thought that Li Yao would seize this point to teach West Virginia a lesson, but he didn't expect Li Yao to withdraw the defense beyond everyone's expectations, giving the opposing point guard enough space to advance.
After all, Lee is still a college student who hasn't experienced many competitions, so he can't necessarily see the key to this. Wait, isn't it? "Kenny. Smith also thinks that maybe they are overestimating Lee's ability to read the game, but Kenny. Smith found that as Stanford everyone withdrew the full-court press, the remaining four West Virginia also rushed to the frontcourt, and at this time, only Li Yao and the opposing team's backup point guard were left near the halfway, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.
Li Yao also relaxed his body slowly backwards as his teammates retreated, just at the moment when the opponent's substitute point guard dribbled and wanted to break through, Li Yao was instantly exerted force at his feet, and only one step approached his side, a little with his right hand, the basketball in his hand was already gone, and when he came back to his senses and turned his head to look back, he only saw Li Yao's running back.
This time, Li Yao didn't continue to dunk, just gently put the basketball into the basket, not to mention the celebration, and he didn't have that desire at all.
"I knew that Lee's game reading ability was still very strong, and we were always focusing on Lee's assist ability and his scoring ability that he suddenly showed today, but we all forgot that Lee was the steal leader of the NCAA this season." Kenny. Smith finally caught the glimmer of inspiration in his mind the first time he saw Li Yao's steal.
"Kenny, are you a slap in the face?" Barkley doesn't care about anything else, after all, Li Yao's goal is not exciting, although the defensive end is good, but where to look at Kenny. What about Smith's own slap in the face?
"Well, Lee's defense is really good." Kenny. Smith also knew that what he said just now was completely a slap in the face, but the words had already been spoken, what else could he do, so he had to quickly change the topic.
"Huh." For Kenny. Smith's forced change of subject, Barkley said that the thief was not technical at all, and he was afraid that he forgot that his ability to change the subject when he was out of trouble was not much better than Kenny's.
Coach Trent Johnson also smiled after seeing Li Yao's steal, he also frowned when Li Yao withdrew the full-court pressing, he didn't believe that his disciple couldn't see the disadvantages of the other party's way, but he didn't command on the sidelines, but chose to believe in his disciple, the fact was as he thought, fortunately Li Yao did not disappoint him, although the way he chose was not perfect, but it was the easiest and most direct way.
On the other hand, the head coach of West Virginia gritted his teeth, it turned out that the Chinese point guard did not fail to see his own shortcomings, but for a better offense in the future, and then looked back at his own starting point guard, he could only sigh that God was unfair, why did this Chinese point guard go to Stanford University. If your own team has the brain of Li Yao, plus Joe. Alexander, the core of the offensive and defensive ability, may be able to touch the NCAA championship trophy this year.
But the truth is so unfair, Li Yao not only failed to become a general under his command, but also became his opponent.
Although the coach of West Virginia was eager to call another timeout to replace all the starting main players so as not to completely pull the score apart, considering that the main players had only rested for less than 2 minutes, he finally held back, hoping that the score would not be opened to a point where it was impossible to catch up.