Chapter 42: A Powerful Confrontation
Looking at the disgusted eyes of his teammates, Ye Feng snorted angrily: "Why are you looking at me with such eyes one by one? You can do it! I'm less than 2 meters, so I have to defend against a 2.06-meter pervert, and I'm also a victim, okay? Also look! Look at me like this again...... I'll directly enlarge the vacancy to him, and I can't prevent it anyway, who do you love! ”
Westbrook coughed dryly and said "seriously": "We're not blaming you for not guarding Anderson, it's just that it's the first time we've seen you scored straight from the outside, and it doesn't look like you have a good way yet, so ...... Hahaha! He couldn't help but laugh, and the others couldn't help but laugh. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
I went, fell into the well one by one, and saw my brother eating deflated, and his face smiled like a flower. However, Ye Feng has nothing to refute, after all, he did let Anderson shoot a three-pointer in front of him just now, and it is his own problem to get this matter anywhere. He sighed deliberately and said, "Then there's no way, I can't prevent it, Russell can't prevent it, let's just bet on other people's luck is not so easy to calculate." ”
Hearing this sentence that seemed to be about to pick a pick, Shipp hurriedly stepped forward and smiled honestly: "Ye, don't say that, when it comes to outside defense, you and Russell are the ones to do, we promise to work hard to guard the inside line, and the outside line depends on you." ”
That's pretty much it. Ye Feng instantly "turned his anger into joy", he patted Shipp's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Then I'll change it with you later, okay?" I'll go in and play inside, and you come out to defend Anderson. ”
"Huh?" Shipp's mouth opened wide and was about to say something more when a roar came from the bench: "What are you bastards still talking about?" Everyone is in a defensive position, and you still can't kick off? I don't want to fight and get off early! Everyone turned their heads to see Holland staring at them viciously from the sidelines, and the anger on his body seemed to burn through the roof. The players smiled awkwardly and quickly sent the baseline ball, and Westbrook dribbled the ball across the half court in three steps and two steps.
He was about to hand the ball to Ye Feng, Ye Feng raised his eyebrows, and suddenly said, "Don't you think we should also consume other people's energy on the offensive end?" You must know that defense is always passive, and much more energy is consumed on the defensive end than on the offensive end. Westbrook nodded confusedly and asked, "I know all this, what do you want to say?" ”
Ye Feng almost spit out a mouthful of blood: I said it in such detail, you don't know what it means? It's really sad for us to be the captain of the team with your intelligence! But he didn't dare to be mad, but gritted his teeth and said word by word: "I mean, we give priority to playing inside, more precisely, Anderson defends whoever we defend, we give the ball to whomever he defends." Of course, if he's guarding against Richard, forget it. ”
Bamot, who was not far away, burst into tears when he heard this: I know my offense is poor, but I don't need to say it so bluntly, right? How am I going to mix up like this? Westbrook didn't care about his thoughts at all, and said with a serious face: "That's right, it's a waste to give the ball to Richard, so let's pass the ball to the inside first, although that guy likes to float outside and shoot three-pointers, but he is also a big forward." ”
"Goodjob, teachable!" Ye Feng gave him a thumbs up. Westbrook smiled, saw Loew stuck Anderson behind him in the elbow area, quickly got rid of Randle's entanglement, and passed the ball directly into Loew's hands.
Loew didn't hear the conversation between the two, but let him catch the ball, and there was a good chance that he would go straight to the back single. As expected, Loew, who received the ball, roared as if he had taken a doping, and leaned back sharply. This is a bitter Anderson, although he is tall and big, but his strength is insufficient, especially in the face of a master like Loew who relies on footsteps and weight to kill all sides on the inside, he has no power to fight back.
With Anderson's body as the axis, Loew easily completed a half-turn and landed an easy hook shot. Anderson still maintained his hands raised, but it looked more like surrender. No way, he himself is also a player who is strong in attack and weak in defense, it is very simple to make him desperately cut points, but it is even more difficult to make him defend well, not to mention that he is a "beast" like Loew who is opposite him in this round. After being hit by Loew like this, Anderson felt a little stuffy in his chest, which is the consequence of being too thin!
However, he did not hang his head, after all, everyone plays in the same division, and they are almost completely transparent to each other, Loew knows it as a pillar of the UCLA line, and he also thinks that although Loew's skills are not fancy, he is strong in practicality, and at the same time, that body is not something that ordinary people can shake. This time he was expected to be scored a goal by Loew on the inside.
And in this attack of CAL, Anderson was even more arrogant than the first goal, at least in Ye Feng's opinion, and the other players in UCLA seemed to have flames in their eyes. He had no idea of getting inside at all, and completely used himself as a pure three-point battery, just waiting directly at the 45-degree angle on the flank. Shipp's face changed drastically, and he had to hesitantly follow out, blocking Anderson.
This is a big problem. Randle didn't mean to give the ball to Anderson alone, he let his small forward Perkin pull high and use the cover to kill directly inside. At this time, Shipp had no time to return to defense, and Loew was the only one on the inside, and Randle formed a small and big dislocation. I saw him jump up lightly in one step inside the free throw line, a small throw, and the basketball slammed into the basket.
All five of the UCLA had ugly faces, and the CAL guards had shown their scoring skills, which meant they had to make a choice: Should they let Shipra out to defend Anderson or assist Loew on the inside? If he doesn't defend it, it will be difficult for Ye Feng and Westbrook and even Bamot to block Anderson's shot, but if he doesn't defend it, the empty interior line is simply heaven for CAL's backcourt combination.
The rest of the game also proved that their troubles were not unfounded. CAL seized Anderson's advantage point to play crazy singles, whether it was outside projection or opening up space, they seemed to be familiar with it, and obviously did not run around Anderson less tactics. And UCLA had no choice but to give up targeting Anderson after a series of deflated, of course, the task of outside defense was still handed over to Ye Feng and Westbrook, but once Anderson jumped and shot in front of one of them, they could only stretch out their hands to make a show, and the block was absolutely impossible.
In this way, the game is much better, and no one on either side can prevent anyone anyway. However, CAL couldn't prevent it because UCLA's overall strength surpassed them by a lot, and UCLA watched Anderson desperately score points, but there was no way to stop the other party. This also led to a high score between the two sides at the end of the first half, UCLA temporarily led 60-55, you must know that in the NCAA, it is quite good to be able to score 70 or 80 points per game, and 60 points in the first half fully illustrate UCLA's strong offensive power.
CAL, on the other hand, relied entirely on Anderson's scoring, scoring 25 points on 5-of-7 three-pointers in the half, accounting for almost half of the team's scores. And the backcourt combination of Christopher and Randle contributed a total of 20 points, which is equivalent to Anderson's light. It is because of this big man's ability to open up space that they can provide some help to the team when UCLA's interior line is empty.
In the UCLA lounge, everyone's face was solemn. The opponent's 55 points were completely unexpected, but the players were ashamed to see Anderson score 25 points alone, after all, the enemy's success meant their own incompetence. Westbrook even sat in his place and said as if venting: "It's really embarrassing, not only aggrieved, but also losing face!" ”
Someone immediately chimed in: "That's it, with our offensive ability, we only led by 5 points at halftime, and let Anderson score 25 points alone, this guy is aiming for 50+, right?" He's going to take 50+, how can we win? ”
As a result, Westbrook didn't catch the stubble, and Westbrook glared, gritted his teeth and said, "Oh? Do you think we can't beat the CLA? Only then did the guy react, he was very suspicious of his ambition to destroy his prestige, so he hid in the corner and didn't speak.
Westbrook snorted, turned to look at Ye Feng, and asked, "Ye, do you have any good ideas?" It's not a matter of fighting like this! It looks like they've basically given up on defense and just want to fight us offensively, and we can't wear down Anderson's energy on the offensive end, you can see he's made five three-pointers......"
Ye Feng was dizzy by his quarrel, and helplessly supported his forehead and said, "If you ask me, you might as well ask the coach." I can't do anything about it anyway, so it seems like it's not bad to play against each other like this, at least we didn't fall behind in terms of the game and the score. ”
Westbrook was anxious and said loudly, "How can that be done?" If he brushes up for a season's NCAA personal high and we won't be honorable to win, doesn't that mean that we are strong but still helpless against him? I can't take it! ”
Suddenly, a voice came from behind him: "Then how about you go to guard against him?" ”
Westbrook snorted and said, "How can I ...... this?" Ha...... Ha...... Hello coach...... It's a nice day......" It turned out that he found the coach standing behind him in the middle of his speech, and the rest of the grumbling had to be swallowed by himself.
Holland slapped him on the shoulder: "You kid is still here as the captain, be careful I really let you defend Anderson, when the time comes, he will cut a high score, do you think what the fans will say?" Westbrook blushed, swallowed, and obediently sat back in his place.
Seeing everyone's dejected appearance, Holland laughed and said, "I have come up with a way to restrict Anderson, but whether it can be implemented in place depends on your performance." ”