Chapter 288: Air Team!

When Michaels read out all five players of the American team one by one with extreme surprise and curiosity, the magic Johnson next to him directly snatched the list in his hand, obviously the first point guard in history does not believe it very much, he is also a person who has seen the world very much, he also knows that Zhuang Fei has been obsessed with the so-called no-point guard formation in Wake Forest, but even so, he has never had a head coach who will put a center in his team's lineup, three big forwards and a small forward, Even in Wake Forest, nothing like that happened. In fact, the Magician is not unaware of the idea of the all-forward lineup, Pat Riley used to preach it a lot, but how to pinch all these forward players, and at that time Pat Riley advocated five all-round small forwards, rather than a formation like Zhuang Fei's basically big forward.

"Erwin, what do you think" Michaels asked after looking at the frowning Magic Johnson on the side, it was obvious that Zhuang Fei had aroused everyone's interest as soon as the game began, not to mention the semi-professionals of his two commentators, even the professionals who watched the game in front of the TV such as Phil Jackson, Nelson Sr. and Vicky were also pensive, and in the eyes of Pat Riley in Miami, it was a burst of madness.

"I don't know, maybe he has a special strategy, like the inverted triangle he did with the Timberwolves this season, but obviously there are four interior players now, and although the NBA players are significantly higher than the NCAA players, if the team is messed up, it can still make the team dysfunction. If there is no special arrangement, then it can only be that Coach Z thinks that his team can crush the opponent in any formation. It's a great contempt for the opponent," said Magic Johnson after a second thought, not believing that there is a game in the world that can accommodate four interior players at once. It's more of Zhuang Fei's indiscriminate behavior, the magician also knows that Zhuang Fei is a coach with an extremely out-of-the-box thinking, and when everyone discusses it together in Larry Bird's house, Zhuang Fei's whimsy is also the most, this is a coach who likes Hu Lai, although the magician basically set a character for Zhuang Fei's action in his heart, but there is still a trace of incomprehension.

"I see. That's right, because of Kidd's exit, the U.S. team lacks a point guard, and it's clear that these five players on the court are also the five biggest players on the U.S. team, and there's nothing wrong with putting the five biggest players on the court at the same time. And the strength of these five people may not be how bad they are. Michaels also made a sudden realization expression after listening to the magician's explanation, which was the answer in his heart.

Maybe for the fans they think this lineup is a little strange, but there is nothing wrong with it, these five people are the top superstars of the American team, and for professional coaches, they naturally don't think so, such as Michigan State University United head coach Tom Izo, he thinks this is Zhuang Fei's contempt for him.

"Although the strength of the U.S. team is really strong, the strength of our team will definitely not be bad, since you gave me a chance, then I will definitely not let it go" Tom Izzo looked at Zhuang Fei on the side and then his eyes were cold. I silently thought in my heart that he was an extremely conceited person, he didn't like to be compared with Zhuang Fei, but because Zhuang Fei's achievements were too dazzling, there was no way, and now he needed to get rid of the framework that Zhuang Fei set for him, how to get rid of this framework? Winning more NCAA championships than Zhuang Fei, and beating Zhuang Fei directly, he will not go to the NBA to coach. Never, and he also knew that Zhuang Fei would not return to the NCAA, so this game was the only chance, so in order to prepare for this game, the NCAA coach even resigned as an assistant coach of the dream team, and worked tirelessly all over the world to find NCAA players who echoed his requirements, he had the most difficult preparation for this game, he thought that many difficult things would happen, but he didn't consider that Zhuang Fei would be so arrogant as soon as he came up. …,

Zhuang Fei and he are both representatives of the academy coaches, Zhuang Fei is now getting more and more famous because of his own fame, so his status in the academy is getting higher and higher, Tom Izzo clearly remembers the theory that Zhuang Fei put forward at the national coaching gathering in the first year of winning the championship in Wake Forest. At that time, Zhuang Fei won the championship undefeated for the first time, and he was in the limelight in the United States for a while, but in fact, there were still many voices questioning this young coach in the United States, such as Zhuang Fei's unconventional non-point guard, which was unimaginable back then. Destroy the essence and original intention of basketball', although Zhuang Fei's reputation was big at that time, but his authority was not enough, after all, he was just a stunned young man, and in that case, Zhuang Fei naturally broke out, and Tom Izzo remembered Zhuang Fei's words very clearly.

"In the future of basketball games, the sense of position will become more and more blurred, the point guard does not necessarily need the point guard to complete, the responsibility of the scoring guard does not necessarily need the scoring guard to complete, the same is true for small forwards, big forwards, centers, maybe when everyone advocates offensive speed rather than offensive height, the center may disappear directly from the map of the court, if every forward has the speed and ability of a guard, then the guard can also disappear, Basketball isn't a one-size-fits-all offense and defense, and my team doesn't have a point guard but does it better than a team with a point guard, and that's enough."

Tom Izzo was just listening to Zhuang Fei's unashamed and deviant words at that time, and he was not qualified to participate in the discussion at that time. But as a person, he doesn't quite agree with Zhuang Fei's theory, will the center disappear in the future? It's just that Tom Izzo doesn't believe it, and the others don't need to care, in his opinion, Zhuang Fei is a little too frivolous, and he is also a little too victorious, and now Tom Izzo thinks that Zhuang Fei is using the American team to realize his so-called theories, the players of the American team are very qualified, but they definitely can't afford Zhuang Fei to do this.

Four inside teams? Tom Izzo snorted again in his heart, which would cause a wide range of overlap in the positions of the American team. When there is a wide overlap of players on the pitch, how can the team open up space and cooperate with each other to show their tactics? Even a bad Duncan might bump into the same position as Garnett Webb, and the most important thing is that three of the five positions on the court will be misplaced. And the NCAA is all about small and big misalignments.

Tom Izzo was thinking about all sorts of his strengths and weaknesses for the U.S. team, and it was as it should have been. Zhuang Fei is a self-defeating martial arts, so at the beginning, the NCAA played very fiercely under the command of Tom Izuo, the offensive speed was extremely fast, and the game was also very orderly, after all, he is the NCAA championship coach, and he does not lose to the NBA championship coach in terms of ability. He also knew clearly where the weaknesses of the American team were, and he also knew how to attack, and even played less than 3 minutes in the first quarter, in order to speed up the team's speed and misplaced playing ability, he also replaced the team's backup guard Arenas and took the team's small forward Battier down.

Tom Izzo's vision is that the U.S. team will be caught off guard by NCAA teams. How NCAA greatly opened the score, the American team made a lot of mistakes, a lot of coordination errors, how Zhuang Fei had to call a timeout, pay for his mistakes, how to rearrange the lineup and tactics, and finally return to the right track, at this time the NCAA team has opened, and then in the face of the American team's counterattack still persevered, and finally defeated the American team. And because of this, he himself got rid of the title of 'Zhuang Fei II' and became a coach who could keep pace with Zhuang Fei.

This was Tom Izzo's thoughts, and in his opinion things should be like this, but what pained him was that the American team did not collapse as he expected, and the five forwards and four interior lines on the court performed extremely perfectly, and there was no way to see that there was a group of overlapping players standing on the court. And it wasn't the U.S. team that was defeated at the beginning, but his own team, which was defeated from the first quarter. …,

"Hehe, Erwin. I really don't have anything to say now, what about you? Michaels looked at a group of American team players slaughtering Michigan United on the court, sighed bitterly and said, just now the two of them were Zhuang Fei This is Hu Lai, from now it seems that Zhuang Fei is not Hu Lai.

"When Carter is more like a point guard than a point guard, Webb is more like a shooting guard than a point guard, and Garnett is more like a small forward than a small forward, there is really no suspense in this game, and when Duncan can actually come out to control the ball, the five players on the court have no sense of so-called positional presence" Magic Johnson also smiled wryly. It's a great feat, and it's like this for Magic, and almost every five players on the U.S. court can go from 1 to 5, and they're all doing that, and the U.S. is playing several roles personally, which makes the NCAA stunned bunch completely unsure of what to do.

"This is a new way of thinking about basketball," Magic Johnson said with a final sigh, Zhuang Fei actually pinched these five players together. Haven't they only been training for a week?

Tom Izzo is very painful now, originally he wanted to use his players to play the American team in a misplaced position, but he finally found that Arenas not to mention the misplaced punch card, that is, even Duncan and Garnett can't play, there is no so-called mismatch advantage at all, but the American team is misplaced to beat them one by one, and even in the back, Carter went directly to play the No. 5 position, sat under the basket and ate Martin and Randolph, completely killing Martin and Randolph.

The most unacceptable thing for Tom Izzo is that Zhuang Fei did not make any substitutions on the court, just these five people played the first half, and then at the end of the first half, the United States team led 70-24 46, which is almost a shameful point difference, the NCAA players on the court are difficult to score, but the United States team can continue to score easily, and after the second half, when Tom Izzo looked at the five players of the American team on the court, he almost fainted.

"Iverson, Kobe, Pierce, Maddie, Szzebiak? Is it an all-swingman lineup this time? Michaels has a lot of resistance now, Zhuang Fei tried five forwards in the first half, and now he has to try five full-backs.

Magic Johnson seemed to be a little surprised like Michaels, and then relieved, since Zhuang Fei had already tried the forward line before, then now he was naturally ready to try the guard. The Magic is curious to know what this group of defenders will look like, and the group of forwards in front of them is extremely impressive.

Tom Izzo now feels a little numb after the extreme stunned, he doesn't have too much arrangement for this game, if he is ready to use speed to play height in the first half, then now in the second half he can't use the so-called height to play speed, his team does not have Carter, Duncan, Garnett and other 'positionless' players who can't see what their position is at all, so Tom Izzo is now a complete regular lineup to deal with these defenders of the American team.

Compared to the frontline that dominated both offensively and defensively in the first half, the lineup of guards in the second half was a little less effective on the defensive end, and the NCAA scoring was no longer as difficult as in the first half, and they were able to use the interior to score, but on the defensive end they looked more embarrassed than in the first half.

This team is just too fast. Tom Izzo watched Martin score a goal, the U.S. team Pierce directly sent the baseline ball, and Iverson, Kobe, and Maddie were already past halftime, and the NCAA players were all left behind. Even the team's relatively fast Arenas was thrown by Iverson, who was at the forefront of the American team, and finally the American team's attack ended with Iverson's dunk, a small guard of 1.8 meters actually ended up with a fast-break dunk, which also shows how excited the guard is now. It was clear that the USA defender liked the pace of the game. …,

"Erwin, I don't think the second half of this game will turn into a race," Michaels said with a smile as he looked at Iverson at a galloping speed. Coach Z's game was so interesting, it reminded him of the round of playoff battles between the Timberwolves and the Spurs a year ago, when Coach Z almost broke Vicky with all kinds of interesting tactics, and now it seems that Mr. Tom Izzo is also very devastated, thinking of this, Michaels even looked at Tom Izzo standing in front of the NCAA United bench, the white coach is now pale.

"I think that's the case, it's Coach Z's style, he likes speed and he admires speed, the current U.S. team is like sitting on an airplane, they are flying and playing with other teams, maybe we can call this U.S. team 'airteam', a team that flies in the air."

“airteam? A team flying in the air? Michaels looked at the stern-looking magician beside him, still chewing on the new word, and suddenly he felt a little enlightened.

"Maybe this is a team that can create a dream team legend," Michaels looked at the Chinese on the sidelines. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )