Chapter 138: Battle against Duke (1)
The NCAA Finals have received a lot of attention from the American sports community every year, such as this year's Kansas vs. Duke, which can be called a strong confrontation, and the day of the game, and even the entire NBA have a day off for this. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
To put it mildly, in order to promote college basketball, to put it bluntly, the ratings of the day were dominated by this game, and for a commercial league, it would never make this kind of marketing mistake.
As a result, NBA stars from all walks of life began to announce their predictions for the championship of this year's NCAA Finals.
Surprisingly, even though the University of Kansas is undefeated this season, the stars are more bullish on Duke. For example, people like Kobe, James, Paul and others were asked to choose a choice question, and they all chose Duke University without exception, and only Paul Pierce may have taken a fancy to a little love affair with the University of Kansas and publicly supported his alma mater in the media.
There are also non-basketball professionals who have joined in the fun, such as US President Barack Obama, who guessed 25 of the 32 games in the first round of the NCAA, which can be called a superstar who is better than the experts. However, after entering the second round, the basketball president was quite anticlimactic, and failed to predict one after another, such as the University of Kansas and the University of Kentucky, which he was optimistic about, suffered Waterloo one after another, and there was no Wisconsin in the final four predictions, which made them all wiped out, ranking outside one million on ESPN's NCAA knockout prediction list, which won the joy of all fans.
In the history of so many years, the Duke University Blue Devils have accumulated an unknown number of fans, chasing its history, and it can be called a century-old famous school.
The team's head coach, "Coach K" Mike Shashzewski, is the current head coach of the U.S. men's national basketball team, and this year marks his 30th anniversary as a coach at Duke University. Therefore, it is not surprising that current U.S. team players like Kobe Bryant and James support "Coach K".
As for the University of Kansas, when it comes to fame and heritage, it is really not as good as Duke.
"So, the Duke players in this game will definitely give their all in order to give the best gift to the team's head coach for his 30th anniversary." Before the game, the CBS host who broadcast the game said.
Duke University is indeed full of talent, a few days ago in the semifinals, Li Dong watched the entire game of Duke vs. Tennessee, like their star guard Tyles Jones is an extremely difficult opponent, although the physical condition is average, but the offensive decision-making ability is strong, He averaged 11.8 points, 5.6 assists and 1.5 steals per game this season, and star center like Duke University, Jahir Okafor, who is 2.11 meters tall and weighs nearly 125 kilograms, has excellent basket skills, which is also a big challenge for Jamari, who is only about 2.08 meters.
There are also starters such as Quinn Cook, Jestis Winslow and Matt Jones, and Grayson Allen, a promising sixth man on the bench.
Li Dong carefully listed the comparison of combat power between the two sides, and found with a wry smile that Duke University can be called the strongest opponent that the University of Kansas has encountered since the season.
After a few simple performances, the two teams began to walk onto the basketball court for the pre-game process.
In the pre-match ceremony, the players of both teams shake hands with each other to sign that they will abide by the principle of friendly play.
Jestis Winslow shook Li Dong's hand, lowered his voice and said, "You will reap the first and most important defeat of the season. ”
Li Dong raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect this guy to dare to provoke him first, and he sneered at him without showing weakness at the moment: "No matter how powerful your mouth is, it's useless." ”
"Hey, just wait and cry." Winslow sneered, then turned to leave.
Li Dong looked at Jones's back, almost not angry, he has seen countless trash talk players since he entered the college game, but he has never seen such an arrogant player, which is also an eye-opener.
"Didn't you say that the players who came out of Duke were polite?" Kelly Oubre walked over, this guy couldn't get used to Winslow's arrogance, and then hooked Li Dong's shoulder, and said in a big way: "Don't worry, labor and management will kill him later." ”
Li Dong glanced at him, but he didn't refute it.
After all, among the players produced by Duke University, Grant Hill and Sean Battier are two well-known humble gentlemen in the NBA, which even pseudo-fans like Li Dong know.
The players of the two teams shook hands in a "friendly" manner in the invisible smoke of gunpowder, and then returned to their respective halves to prepare for the jump ball.
The referee walked into the center of the court with the orange basketball, and the players of the two teams skillfully found their positions, and Li Dong stood at the top of the three-point arc.
Jamari and Jahir Okafor raised their hands at the same time, then half-crouched and crossed over each other.
Li Dong looked at the posture of the two jumping balls, and for some reason, he suddenly remembered that he had watched martial arts action movies when he was a child, and the starting style of the two jumping balls was like Huang Feihong......
"Toot ~"
A whistle blew, the audience cheered, the basketball flew into the air, and the game officially began!
Okafor, who has a certain advantage in height and arm length, beat Jamari with the jump ball and slapped it back into his own half court with a palm-high advantage, and point guard Tyles Jones picked up the ball and pushed it forward.
Tyles Jones, a first-year student with the Duke Blues, has a maturity beyond his peers and has a lethal jump shot. After Coach K added Quinn Cook to the starting lineup this season, Tyles Jones and Jon took turns attacking with the ball, a typical two-point guard lineup.
However, Tails-Jones is obviously one size smaller in front of Li Dong with open arms.
"Didn't you say that there was only one meter ninety-three, how could it be like two meters?" Tyers Jones looked at Li Dong, who was shrouded in the air around him, and his heart was filled with the common feeling of all the point guards that Li Dong had played against this season - a scout for his father.
Coach K has shifted the focus of Duke's offensive offense to the outside in recent seasons, such as Tyles Jones, who averaged 11.8 points per game this season, and Quinn Cook, who plays point guard, also scored 18.2 points, and became the second trio in Duke University history to score more than 600 points in a single season.
Before them, only Jay Williams, Carlos Boozer and Mike Dunleavy Jr. had done it in '01-02.
What is surprising is that the firepower of the outside trio at the University of Kansas is not weak, Li Dong averages 13.8 points per game, Kelly Oubre averages 20.3 points per game, and Ryo Adams averages 15.9 points per game, so this game is also called a game between outside media and outsiders.
At the beginning, Tyers Jones immediately showed his mature side, beckoning to the big forward Matt Jones who went down after the block, and the mobile forward immediately held the ball and dynamite bag to the layup, and actually played successfully and got a full game.
Suddenly, there was a blue wave of people floating in the stadium, and Duke University supporters cheered loudly, and the number of people accounted for nearly half of them.
Li Dong felt a pang in his heart, there were really a lot of fans who came to cheer for the enemy today.
He controlled the ball under his crotch and switched back to his right hand to control the ball, and then dribbled steadily through the half, defending him by Quinn Cook, who has a net height of 1.96 meters and looks not far from Li Dong.
How many disciples has Coach K taught off the field, he only estimated it slightly, and knew that Li Dong's height was definitely more than 1.93 meters, he glanced at Coach Jim, who was like an old monk, and secretly scolded the old fox in his heart.
"Pick-and-roll!" Li Dong beckoned Jamari to come out and deliberately said it out loud.
Quinn Cook immediately raised his vigilance, and then looked out of his eyes to see if there was a dark shadow on either side.
At this moment, Li Dong suddenly jumped sideways, his head was tilted to the right, and the whole person had a starting action of rushing to the right, which was extremely realistic.
Cook was startled, and shouted in his heart that Li Dong was cunning, so he subconsciously shifted his center of gravity to the right.
But he didn't expect this to be Li Dong's feint, Li Dong, who controlled the ball, immediately made a simple change of direction in front of his body, and after twisting his knee, he broke through to Cook's left side, at this time Cook's center of gravity could not be adjusted at all, and he stretched out his arm to block Li Dong.
Li Dong, who was speeding, ignored his arm block, slammed into it and immediately rushed to the vicinity of the paint area.
The 2.11-meter-tall Okafor saw this scene, and then ran in front of Li Dong in advance and raised his terrifying long arm, like a giant spirit god.
A hint of sarcasm flashed in the corner of Li Dong's eyes, he grabbed the basketball with one hand and threw it at the basket!
"Off!" Okafor looked at the trajectory of the basketball that crossed him, and his heart was overjoyed.
He turned around, and suddenly saw a pair of big black hands suddenly appear near the basketball that deviated to the right side of the basket, and the owner of the big hand pulled the basketball that had fallen up again with the elevation of his body, and then shouted and smashed into the basket!
"Bang!"
Jamari hung heavily on the basket, and the entire basket was visibly deformed because of his weight of more than 200 pounds...... (To be continued.) )