Chapter 22: Speak with strength
As the defending champions, the Orange People team members are still relatively united, but for the question of who is the boss, it is not a matter of unity. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
McNamara and Varrick both mean this, they are not Anthony, and no one can convince everyone, and besides, there is still a little difference between whether the boss is a white brother or a black brother.
Li Hai, a yellow-skinned brother, had almost no one to take care of him off the field at this time, and on the field, the two were so noisy that he was more embarrassed to run tactics.
He was a little worried when it came to the game, so he took the initiative to find Bai Yihan, "Coach, how about assigning me to the sparring side, I want to play a few games with the main team." ”
Coach Boihan immediately understood what Lehi meant, he originally wanted to save until the regular season and then twist McNamara and Varick into a rope, and he would be happy if he could solve it in advance.
However, he is really not so optimistic about Lehi, the main team is a member of the championship eight-man rotation, and he has experienced ups and downs, even without Anthony, he will not be so easily defeated by the sparring team.
Lehi picks his own people, the center and point guard are black and hard, that is, he fights with McNamara and Firth, constantly fighting for the body, the position of the big forward is more difficult, Varik can only defend Lehi himself, and the scoring guard and small forward are all pitchers.
The offensive rhythm is controlled by Lehi, there is no excessive tactics, and he wants to show those boys what is called professional-level targeted arrangement and what is called uncomfortable.
When Coach Boihan announced that Li Hai would take the sparring team to play against the main team, McNamara and the others didn't have any ideas, and Li Hai also spent a lot of time in the sparring team last year, and they all thought it was ordinary training arranged by the coach.
Varik's jump ball was a suspenseful victory, and his bounce speed had no rival in the team.
McNamara took the ball and immediately noticed something different about the defenders, and first-year student Louis McCroskey almost stuck to him, desperately.
Before the game, Li Hai fooled the people in the team, and in the name of the coach, he said that only players who are desperate and strict in defense will have a chance to play in this year's NCAA.
The first-year freshmen were stunned, but the veteran players knew that Lehi was not exactly fooled, and Coach Boihan liked to play against players who always performed well in the game.
McNamara's body is his weak point, and the intensity of rushing up is so great, and he is a little uncomfortable for a while.
He passed the ball to Firth, but Lehi didn't know when he rushed over, and cut the ball off like a gust of wind, adding a dragon and a violent buckle, which instantly ignited the fighting spirit of the sparring team.
McNamara's weaknesses are very clear to him, his body is weak and his vision is not wide enough, otherwise he would not have been forced to look like that by Hinrich in the finals.
Li Haicheng started as a sparring partner, and later became a substitute for the main team, he knows the characteristics of everyone in the team very well, but his characteristics, the teammates around him only know part of it.
He spent most of his time playing in the core before he was reborn, and now he is more comprehensive, and he also needs to be in the core position to play 100% strength, with Anthony in the past, he can only perform what the team needs, and now he can play with the sparring team, of course, he can have no scruples.
"Well done, keep defending well." Immediately after the goal, Lehi encouraged his teammates.
Without the coach's command, coupled with the small gap in the fight for the boss, the tactics of the main team could not be fully brought into play, McNamara came to a three-point stop after halftime, which was also his characteristic, but he missed the shot under the whole physical confrontation.
Under the rebound, Lehi was entangled with Varick with all his might, and McNeil squeezed Firth behind him, and there was no space, and it was useless for Varik to jump high and fast.
McNeil grabbed the rebound and handed it to Lehi as fast as he could, and Lehi took the ball and pushed it forward quickly.
The opponent's retreat is not slow, but Josh Pace can't resist the rushing in Lehi at all, and being pushed in by Lehi is a jump basket.
At this time, the main team knew that Lehi was real, and McNamara became more cautious, although McCroskey was desperate, but he was a rookie in the end and couldn't do it to the extent of Hinrich.
McNamara made a feint and handed the ball to Adeline, who quickly redirected the ball to Varik, who was a few centimeters taller than Lehi and immediately unleashed his absolute, mid-range turnover jumper.
With Varik's height and bounce, almost no one could block this move, and Lehi naturally couldn't do it, but he pushed Varik out a little in the previous physical confrontation.
Varik's move is not very consistent, he actually needs a teammate who passes the ball well, so that he can be more comfortable receiving the ball, so he will be more threatening, but unfortunately the guards of Syracuse University are more attacking, so he is a bit of a tragedy under Lehi's defense.
The shot was a little shorter, and Lehi turned around to get the rebound and it was a quick rush.
He had completely attracted the attention of the opposing player with the previous two balls, and this time he rushed over, and the two fastest defenders of the opponent all pounced on him.
Lehi sent the basketball to the left-hand side, and his teammate made an easy layup.
The timing and placement of the pass was impeccable, and the main team could only watch as Demetris Nichols, the most famous freshman in the first grade, put the ball in the basket.
It's not just Lehi who doesn't come well.
The main team did not dare to slack off, as Coach Boihan said, those were the main rotations who played NCAA before, and they were very familiar with each other, and after being surprised, they gradually became normal.
However, Lehi's tactics are very correct, without Anthony's Orange People, in terms of player characteristics, Lehi must be in control of the offense, if Lehi is not there, the tactics should run around Varik, McNamara is a nerve knife, is the end point of tactics, if the tactics revolve around him, the team will be unstable.
McNamara also realized this, and planned to let Varik get the ball more and teach Lehi, the guy who suddenly got nervous, first.
But under Lehi's defense, Varik's erratic mid-range shot was infinitely magnified, and McNamara couldn't pass the kind of brilliant ball, and the main team's offense completely fell into inefficient individual solitude.
And defensively, the main team found that no one could defend Lehi alone, and if he was to strike, Lehi would be able to pass a good ball, and he actually had a more comprehensive feeling than Anthony.
At the end of the first confrontation game, the main team lost by 20 points, and everyone looked wrong.