Chapter 42: The Debut! NCAA regular season

Because it was the first game of the new season at the Lahaina Civic Center, after the referee's opening whistle blew, the audience erupted into excited shouts. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Feeling the momentum of the mountain roaring and the tsunami, Yang Long's blood boiled again, and he could even hear the sound of his heart pounding.

Sibu center Manger is a 208 cm tall muscular man, who has a physical advantage over Boozer, and when the two jump at the same time, Boozer's absolute height is a full palm behind, and the ball is flicked towards Sibb University's backcourt.

Yang Long is no longer surprised, and Boozer has never even won a jump ball under Duke backup center Casey in the same jump, which is a hard gap in physical talent.

However, there is a sudden change on the field!

Just when Yang Long thought that Sibu University Dividing Darus was going to control the first offensive ball, Williams bypassed the card position and galloped out, and the basketball was pointed out towards the backcourt of Sibu University!

Caught off guard, Daurus reacted extremely quickly and pulled his leg to chase in the direction of the ball.

However, even though Daurus reacted very quickly, he was still slow to beat Williams, the initiator of the destruction of the ball.

Williams used his powerful crotch diagonally in front of Daurus during the run, and the ball was in his hands!

At this time, the other players on the field also reacted and followed the ball to run and settle into position, but how could Williams give the defender a chance to replay? He had no intention of slowing down to control the tempo, and used his 90kg weight to lean on Daurus and go straight to the basket!

Seeing this, Daurus jumped hard, but under Williams's fat hips, he couldn't exert his strength, so he could only watch Williams make a layup and win the first two points of the new season!

"Jay! Williams! 2 points! The DJ made a melodious and tactful broadcast sound.

The crowd began to shout William-William regularly, and it was the Williams fans cheering on.

The ball was converted, Sibu point guard Andre advanced with the ball, Dujon kept his distance, and followed the defense all over the court.

Don't look at Andre's height is only 178 cm, but when he runs on the field with the ball, he has a galloping style on the court. Du Hong was desperately defensive, but he was almost broken through several times.

After several unsuccessful attempts to break through, Andre raised his right hand and raised five fingers before center Manger lifted the three-point line to complete a pick-and-roll.

After getting rid of the blocking and dismantling cover, Du Hong was more than half a position behind, and Andre was unceremonious when he saw this, and he opened his hand to shoot!

Swish! Three points of hollow into the net, the scene is boiling again.

"Defend, don't let them make easy three-point shots!" Coach K shouted at Du Hong on the sidelines, obviously not very satisfied with Du Hong's defense.

Dujon nodded, advanced with the ball, and after coming to the top of the arc, he commanded Williams to complete the block with him, and the ball was handed to Williams.

Compared with Andre, Williams's figure has reached a crushing state, and Williams is also unceremonious, after a few advances, he came to the top right corner of the free throw line, turned over and hit his back, poor Andre was weakened, and was bounced away 1 foot under Williams's fat buttocks, and he had no temper at all.

Collect the ball, exert force with both feet, turn around right back, jump shot, Williams's back shot in one go, the ball spins in the air and outlines a perfect arc, and it goes into the basket!

The time that followed turned into a star moment for Williams and Andre.

After Andre broke through, the ball was transferred to the right corner, and Daurus made a three-point shot, and the ball hit!

Williams ate in a low position, turned over and jumped into the basket!

Sibb University's offensive was a bit unexpected, and it seemed that a matchup with a huge disparity in strength was currently in a stalemate, and after 7 minutes and 35 seconds of the game, Coach K called the first timeout. Williams scored 8 points steadily, but the opponent Andre felt hot, shot three three-pointers, plus a breakthrough throw, and scored 11 points, at this time Duke was still 18:21 behind the opponent by three points.

Coach K gathered the five starters together and drew on the tactical board with a signature pen, and Yang Long surrounded him and listened to Coach K lay out the offensive and defensive strategies on the field.

Let me play! Yang Long shouted silently in his heart!

But Coach K disappointed Yang Long, the timeout ended, Coach K had no intention of substitution, and the starting five returned to the field again.

Tonight, Sibb University's outside hand is hot, and Coach K has adjusted his defensive strategy, as long as the opponent's outside line holds the ball outside the three-point line, there must be a defender to keep a block distance from it. On the offensive end, Boozer, who has a stable half-volley with one hand, has a large area of activity, and Coach K emphasized that he should use this more to open up the offensive space.

The adjustment of the strategy was successful, and in the case of strict defense of the opponent's outside line, the shortcomings of the West Bu center without low post skills and the lack of stable mid-distance were undoubtedly exposed, and the attack of West Bu University was blocked. On the offensive end, with the help of Boozer to open up the interior space, Williams, who had a body advantage, killed all sides, broke through to the layup, singled with his back, and broke through the ball, under his leadership, Duke moved forward steadily, and in a blink of an eye, the score had come to 41:34, leading by 7 points.

In desperation, Coach Sib called a timeout, and the game had 16 minutes and 25 seconds to go, with only 3 minutes and 35 seconds left before the end of the first half. (In the U.S. college basketball league, there are only two halves of 20 minutes each, and there are no four-quarter divisions.) )

The team has made rounds of substitutions, but Yang Long still hasn't got a chance to play. The fierce confrontation on the court once overwhelmed his desire to play, but when the timeout time came, Yang Long was a little hungry and thirsty. He swayed left and right in front of Lao K, wanting to attract the attention of Coach K, and muttered quietly in his heart, Coach, change me, change me!

Huang Tian lived up to his wishes, and Coach K finally waved his hand at Yang Long, signaling that Yang Long would come out next.

Yang Long happily removed the tracksuit he was still wearing, and the jersey of Duke University No. 7 was exposed in the air. He chose the number 7 as his number because he wanted to do 007 from China.

When it came to the moment when he actually stepped on the arena, Yang Long was still a little excited and a little nervous, he rubbed his hands and kicked his calves to relieve this mood.

"Come on! Yang, you can! Du Hong, who was replaced by Yang Long, struck him in the chest with a fist to cheer him up.

Joining Yang Long at this time were Williams, Casey, Dunleavy and Jones.

Casey served from the baseline, and Yang Long received the ball and slapped it heavily a few times and advanced towards the frontcourt.

Because Casey is a rough guy with no status skills, Sibb University has adopted a defensive expansion to guard the perimeter.

Coming to the top of the arc, Yang Long first changed hands under his crotch several times to dribble, trying to find opportunities to change direction, but Yang Long was a full 15 centimeters taller than Andre, and Andre used his speed and agility to firmly block in front of him.

Casey was outside the box at this point, Williams was taking advantage of Jones' cover run to try to get out of the defense, and Dunleavy was ambushed in the bottom right corner. Yang Long raised his right hand to ask for a block, Casey responded to the call, a block, Yang Long broke through on the left side with the ball, and Andre used his body to chase after him.

"Pass!" Yang Long heard the shouting of the old coach K off the field, and looked up to see that most of the attack time had passed.

Yang Long hasn't been lucky a few times, and time is too fast!

Williams used the cover to get to my left three-point line, and Yang rushed to hand over the ball.

"5 seconds!" The voice of the old coach K counting the seconds from the field came.

Williams first feigned a three-point shot, the defender jumped up, Williams seized the opportunity, hit the ball twice, and made a quick stop!

"Bang!" With a muffled sound of basketball and hoops, score two more points!

"Next time you're going to have to pass the ball early!" Shooting a whistle in the middle of the shot, Williams smiled at Yang Long with a little pride, and at the same time, as a big brother, he also pointed out Yang Long's excessive behavior with the ball.

For the first time, Yang Long seemed a little nervous, he didn't care too much about the time, he originally thought that 24 seconds could be longer!

Having learned a lesson, when organizing the attack for the second time, Yang Long did not try to break through Andre's follow-up defense, after a block, he saw Dunleavy in ambush in the bottom corner with a gap, and without hesitation, he flicked his right wrist and sent the ball out!

As a white shooter, Dunleavy did not hesitate, made a decisive shot, got up and down, and scored another three points!

"Good pass!" Dunleavy high-fived Yang Long as he ran past him. Compared with the offensive treatment just now, Yang Long has made a little progress, and sure enough, the game is the best way to increase basketball awareness.

The score on the court came to 46:34, and the margin reached double digits, and if no one from Sibu University stepped up, the score was bound to widen further. And as the pioneer of Sibu University, André stood up.

Andre first raised his right palm and waved it forward, and the afterglow of Yang Long's perspective told him that Andre's teammates had opened up space for him to attack, and this time Andre chose to single Yang Long!

The time has come to test Yang Long's single defense ability, Andre can suddenly throw, and Yang Long does not dare to take it lightly.

However, Andre's speed is too fast, and for his height to establish himself on the court, speed and agility must be his strengths, and Yang Long has tried to keep his center of gravity low, but always half a step slower than him.

Another big change of direction to the right, Andre broke through with the ball, and Yang Long took a step back, trying to block his forward path.

But it was a wrong defensive judgment!

Andre didn't choose to kill the basket, and when Yang Long stepped back, he made a left-moving pull-up jumper!

Yang Long hurriedly jumped up and tried to block it, but he stumbled under his feet and almost fell, because his right foot, which had already retreated, had no time to react!

Yang Long propped up his body with his arms and watched the shot enter the basket.

“OH!” There was a burst of exclamation from the audience.

This exclamation made Yang Long a little red-faced, and he was so tricked by this little man's ruthless breakthrough that he almost fell.

"A tooth for a tooth, give him some color!" Yang Long had this idea in his heart.

In this round, Casey took the initiative to cover Yang Long in a high position, but he waved his hand and refused.

A change of direction to the right, using the pace amplitude to lead by half a body, followed by a change of direction to the left, after two consecutive changes of direction, Yang Long directly pulled out the jump shot!

However, Yang Long's idea was too simple, Andre was not broken by his two changes of direction, he jumped at the same time as himself!

Yang Long, the highest point of the shooting that was stagnant in the air, had already begun to exert force in his wrist, but at this time, he saw a black hand attacking his face, covering his shooting vision.

The ball still shot! Then came the sound of 'pound', and the iron struck.

Knowing that he was at a height disadvantage, Andre made an excellent defensive choice, not trying to block Yang Long's shot, but choosing to block his sight of the shot!

Yang Long didn't have time to reminisce about this shot, only to see Andre had already rushed out of him like lightning, Yang Long saw that after the opponent's center grabbed the rebound, he threw his right hand towards the backcourt!

The basketball crossed an arc that spanned most of the court, and finally came to Andre's hands with precision, and the player who returned to defend was also 3 meters away from Andre's nearest Jones, and Andre easily made a layup.

The score came to 46:38, and the difference returned to within 10 points.

"Yang, what are you doing?" Jones questioned Yang Long about the time of the backcourt baseline serve.

Recalling that the two successful attacks of Xibu University just now were directly related to Yang Long.

"Beep!" When Yang Long came to the front court with the ball, Coach K asked for a timeout.

Yang Long glanced up at the chronograph, and there was 1 minute and 46 seconds left before the end of the first half.