Chapter Seventy-Six: Not Letting You Into the Finals

Being able to meet the University of Memphis, a former bitter opponent in the semifinals, UCLA has mixed feelings from top to bottom. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info is happy to get a good chance to get revenge, worried is that I don't know if I can defeat my opponent and advance to the finals. You must know that the University of Memphis is not an ordinary person, their team has a pretty good lineup, plus a faintly known as the NCAA's No. 1 point guard, do you believe that they are not aiming for the championship? The key problem is that the backcourt combination of Rose + Roberts is not inferior to Westbrook + Ye Feng, this is a matchup between top defenders, and the only thing to be thankful for UCLA is that Loew is much better than Dorsey on the opposite side.

For the Memphis University Tigers, even Ye Feng, who was as calm as Ye Feng, was holding back a breath of anger in his heart, and his eyes after Rose's 0.2-second air kill in the regular season stung him deeply. Ye Feng has always been not a person who easily admits his failure, but that time Rose's performance gave him a sense of powerlessness, which is the real reason why he restrained all his arrogance and trained hard after this. But this time, maybe Rose is still the same Rose, and he is no longer the same person. Under the guidance of the famous NBA shooter Jeff Hornacek, Ye Feng's fast shooting has made great progress, before he just hid and didn't want to expose his weapons too early, but once again facing Rose, and it was a key Final Four game, he no longer planned to hide.

With six days to go until the Final Four, Holland has a good schedule: one day of training and one day of rest. It's not bad for young men to practice, but you should also pay attention to the combination of work and rest, so as not to practice too hard in one breath and directly scrap it when the game is played. In addition to Holland, the busiest player on the team may be the team doctor Marshall, even if there are not many games in the NCAA season, but the players are not professional, especially the first-year rookies who have just entered college, most of them have not tried this kind of intensity and density of games before, and they need an adaptation period, which is prone to injuries at this time. What Marshall has to do is use a variety of methods to relieve the fatigue of the players after training and try to keep everyone in good shape before the game.

This time Holland is not going to be tough, and the defender is not saying no to the defender, but this will not be able to play the team's interior advantage. The most basic strategy is to give the ball to the inside first, and let the inside open up the situation. As for the defenders, it's still better to run more, then tighten the fence on the defensive end, and rely on physicality to limit the Memphis backcourt combination. When the inside line has an advantage, it will inevitably attract the opponent's defense, so that the outside line can also get an easy shot. Therefore, in the training session, Holland obviously strengthened the training of the interior line, allowing the outside line to take away defenders by interspersing the runs, and then allowing the interior line to operate in the three-second zone.

Except for Bamot, who completely uses himself as a defensive sapper, the scoring ability of the outside line is far greater than that of the inside, and Holland has always had great confidence in the offensive ability of Westbrook and Ye Feng, and Loew is also very relieved, after all, his basket footsteps and mid-range shooting have long been famous. Only Shipp is relatively sad, to say that his singles are okay, but not to the extent that he can carry most of the inside lines; It's not bad to pitch, but it needs an absolute vacancy, and if someone interferes in front of you, it's basically blind. To put it mildly, since Loew joined the team, Shipp's most frequent job is to help him resist firepower, as a veteran, he still has this awareness, how to say it, it is also to let the team win a championship!

But Holland wants to develop Shipp's offensive ability this time, and the University of Memphis has a strong interior defense and weak offense, and it is simply unreasonable not to seize the opportunity! He was very scheming to ask Loew and Shipp to do more high-low coordination inside the three-point line, of course, most of the time it was Loew who attracted the defense and then passed the ball depending on where Shipp was. If both of them are caught in the bag, it would be better, is their trump card backcourt placed outside the three-point line to look good? That three-point shot has long been hungry! It's just to take out the later tactics and use them in advance, how big is it?

Ye Feng didn't mind, but Westbrook was a little unhappy, according to his thoughts, it must be a one-on-one fight with Rose, if he can't pick and then change Ye Feng, what's the matter with playing the inside line first? However, Ye Feng persuaded him: "Russell, I want to kill Rose more than you, because to be honest, I didn't defend well at the beginning to give him a chance to take advantage of." But now it's the semi-finals, and it's not too late for the so-called gentleman to take revenge for ten years, not to mention that we don't have to play the inside line for the whole game, and the team's victory at this time is the most important. As for revenge, even if it doesn't work this time, are you afraid that you won't have a chance to enter the NBA in the future? ”

Westbrook muttered: "But I just don't think he's happy......" At this time, Ye Feng looked more like a senior, and he said with a smile: "As a player, it is impossible for us to have no fire and no fighting spirit when we are in the mall, not to mention facing people who have defeated us before." But one thing, even if we beat Rose statistically, what can we do? If we lose, then our stats are a joke. Think about it, what could be better than stopping him from reaching the final? In that case, who cares about data? ”

Westbrook's eyes lit up: it makes sense! I didn't think of it because of Mao? He couldn't help but laugh "evilly": "That's right, that's right, we're going to make him can't even make it to the finals, who told him to kill us at that time?" Let him watch us reach the finals! Listening to Westbrook's bold words, Ye Feng sweated: Is it really good for me to teach him like this? Why do you feel a little black? Forget it, it's a teammate anyway, let him go, it's good to be able to take the team's victory as the goal, so as not to go directly to Rose on the field to fight alone, no amount of lead is enough for him to squander.

After Ye Feng's guidance, Westbrook basically did not resist the coach's tactical arrangement, but every training was like chicken blood. But it's weird that Westbrook will sit on the sidelines alone and giggle between trainings, and whoever shouts at him can't shout, if he hadn't worked hard during training, everyone would have thought that this guy had fallen into an evil spirit, and he was not lightly ill. Only Ye Feng was alone and snickered to himself: Did he save Westbrook's career? You know, the character of a player has a lot to do with his achievements.

Soon it was April 5th, and the UCLA vs. University of Memphis game was scheduled for the second game, starting with the North Carolina vs. Kansas matchup. It has to be said that North Carolina is Jordan's alma mater after all, and its attraction to outstanding high school players is also unparalleled, with four future NBA players in their starting lineup alone, Wayne Ellington, Ty Lawson, Danny Green and Tyler Hansbrough. But the University of Kansas isn't a weaker player, and their roster also includes players who went on to make it to the NBA: Cole Aldridge, Darrell Arthur, Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush.

Before the game, many expected that the matchup would be entangled until the very end, but the final result blinded everyone's eyes: Kansas comfortably defeated North Carolina 84-66 to advance to the finals. While North Carolina's Hansbrough was pretty tough under the basket, his two-fisted four-handed game and a few other star players were weirdly underwhelming, which made an entire season's efforts come to naught. As the participating teams in the second game, the UCLA and Memphis teams witnessed this game from the stands, in fact, many players are firmly in favor of North Carolina, anyway, it is not their opponents, it doesn't matter if they support it a little. But North Carolina has no power to fight back, which makes people a little incomprehensible: Is Kansas really so rebellious?

Ye Feng didn't know if he was against Tian, but judging from everyone's expressions, he was the most calm one. Victory and defeat on the basketball court can never be seen on the strength comparison on paper, otherwise how can those grassroots teams play? There are many aspects related to a game, not only the strength of the players themselves, including the state of the day of the game, the referee's penalty scale, the coach's tactical arrangement and the stage at which the players rotate will affect the outcome of the game to a certain extent, and even the floor and air conditioning of the field will also be a factor that cannot be ignored. Rumor has it that every Celtics player knows where the North Shore Garden arena has a problem with the floor, which makes it easy to trap opponents. Whether this rumor is true or not is not yet known, but it shows the importance of the playing environment.

The so-called right time and place are also valid theories for the game of basketball, and they also have a real impact on the course of the game. Because of this, Ye Feng was not very surprised by the big victory at the University of Kansas, and he was not a fan of North Carolina anyway. As a die-hard fan of "Magic" Johnson, he wants to support and will only support the University of Michigan. As for North Carolina, it's true that it's famous, but no one says that if you're famous, you have to be touted, right? What's more, in his opinion, if he enters the finals, Kansas may still be relatively easy to play, and Loew has no pressure to bully Aldridge on the inside, but it will be difficult to meet a muscular man like Hansbrough who can run and jump.

Players from both teams shook hands and hugged each other, and the head coaches of UCLA and the University of Memphis began beckoning their players to leave the stands and head to the locker room to change into warm-up jerseys. Fortunately, the two teams sat in completely opposite positions, otherwise there would have been a strong smell of gunpowder. Who will be awarded the other place in the finals? The big war between the two sides is about to break out!