Chapter 10: Counterpoint Curry
The young players of the U.S. team have a projection-biased style, they have the best shooting star in the NCAA on the outside, Curry, and they are all unorthodox insiders with three-point shooting ability. In the control position and small forward position, he can also shoot from long distance. How to defend against the opponent's projection has become the first consideration of the Chinese team.
At the beginning of the game, the five starters of the U.S. team were: point guard Jonny Flynn, scoring guard Stephen Curry, small forward Michael Beasley, power forward Patrick Patterson, and center Cole Aldridge
Bai Ade and Su Wei jumped the ball, and there was no doubt that Su Wei was defeated again!
Although Bai Ade was later in the NBA, he only mixed the role of the patron saint of the water cooler. But in the NCAA, he was also a dominant star player. With a height of 2.11cm and an astonishing arm span of 228cm, there is no suspense in Su Wei's head to dial the basketball.
Stephen Curry got the basketball and dribbled it across the midcourt, and Zhang Yu had already posted it.
Curry watched the footage of China's first game yesterday and knew that the Chinese on the opposite side was strong and defensively excellent. The game had just begun, and in order to be stable, Curry did not dribble and attack by himself, passing the ball to Flynn.
Flynn's athleticism is very strong, his ball control ability is excellent, and in the face of Yang Kan, who even Stefan can break through at will, he didn't even bother to make feints, and accelerated past Yang Kan.
Li Xiaoxu was already in position under the basket and raised his hands to meet Flynn.
Flynn didn't hit hard, and cleverly stuffed the ball from Li Xiaoxu's armpit, and before Li Xiaoxu landed, he heard a loud bang from the basket behind him!
Turning around, Beasley, who looked like a ruffian, fell from the basket with a loud roar.
The big screen played back this wonderful two-handed dunk, Xu Yong, who was supposed to resist Beasley, completely lost the upper hand in strength this time, and was forcibly squeezed away by Beasley under the basket, so he had this slam dunk.
In his first contest with the NCAA college star Beasley, Xu Yong was defeated.
Xu Yong was bullied by Beasley, and Zhang Yu's cousin had just begun.
The Chinese team serves, and Zhang Yu dribbles to attack.
In the past, the Chinese team was always pressed by the opponent in the backfield, which is a very shameful thing. However, this time Curry did not step forward to press, and returned to the defensive position early to wait. Don't look at such a small detail, but it embodies a lot of things.
The first ball, as the boss of the team, Zhang Yu decided to play alone.
Remembering the information I got before the game, the opponent's No. 2 Curry is 191cm tall and weighs 170 pounds.
"It's another little skinny monkey, if it weren't for the white spots, I would have thought it was Mla Deng's makeup."
Zhang Yu looked at Curry's weak body, secretly happy in his heart, and thought of it with some malice.
I have to say that in this World Youth Championships, Zhang Yu's luck is really good, the strength of the opposing players he meets is not good, and he can look down on others with his small body. In fact, there is a reason for this phenomenon, young players with good physique are often rough in technique. When they get their skills right, it's time to get on the senior team. On the other hand, those with good skills are naturally flexible and agile like Zhang Yu and Curry. Even Beasley is not a pure power type, his speed is even faster than Zhang Yu, and he also has a certain projection ability.
Curry, the best position for him, should be the No. 1 position. Playing the second position, his small body is too bad.
Zhang Yu faced Curry, didn't do too many tricks, and directly forced a breakthrough and used his body to eat the other party.
As soon as the two made physical contact, Curry immediately couldn't hold his strength, and the part where he was hit by Zhang Yu felt a pain in his heart. Although Curry still gritted his teeth and followed, he was not completely thrown away, but he has lost his best defensive position.
Don't look at Zhang Yu's meat, the bones in that body are amazing, and it hurts for at least half a day if you hit it.
In fact, don't look at O'Neill's horizontal flesh and crown in the world, just ask Yao Ming to know that although the impact of being hit by O'Neill is large, it really doesn't hurt. On the contrary, Garnett is like that, it is really easy to get hurt if he hits you, and it definitely hurts!
Zhang Yu, this kid is not a good bird, he started to practice in a sports school at the age of seven, he doesn't have Yao Ming's conspicuous height talent, he can be mixed up to this point in that kind of mixed place, and his heart is not black and spicy. Usually for the stunts of heroes from all walks of life, Zhang Yu has studied them. Like iron elbows, top knees, black feet, and throat locks, the top of the head and shoulders are all easy to carry. If it weren't for the fact that those butts weren't big enough to practice Barkley's pouting, he would even want to learn this trick.
Zhang Yu pushed Curry away, but the American team was obviously not so easy to deal with, and Patterson blocked Zhang Yu's breakthrough route early.
Patterson is slightly shorter at 205cm, but he is physically strong and has a certain amount of mobility, strong defensive ability, and a certain level of fighting for rebounds and blocks. From the steps of his defense, it can be seen that his defensive ability is better than that of Serbia's captain Makwan.
When it comes to helping defence, the best option is passing. However, the opposing center White has already filled in Patterson's position, and there may not be a chance to pass to the inside. Moreover, against the American team, which is a head above the level, the opponent's first goal has already played with momentum, and the first attack on his side cannot be too inferior. If you can't earn this breath, you won't be able to play in the future.
The brave wins when they meet on the narrow road, and Zhang Yu faces Patterson, who is in place to make up the defense, but he still ignores it and rises into the air. The two made physical contact in the air, and Zhang Yu naturally couldn't crash into Patterson, who was several levels larger than him, but after the body contact, he floated diagonally behind with the impact of the other party, and a backward jumper avoided Patterson's block.
"Brush!" The basketball hollow hit, and the Chinese fans at the scene suddenly burst into enthusiastic shouts.
Zhang Yu secretly shouted luck in his heart, after the ball made contact with Patterson's body in the air, the basketball thrown was completely unable to control the power, purely relying on his instinctive wrist feeling, and it was pure blindness to be able to score. But in the eyes of the two guides in the live broadcast room, it's not the same thing, yes and no
I only heard Director Sun shout as if he had won a five-million lottery: "Good ball!" This ball is so beautiful! Especially in the air, the action of leaning back has the charm of eight or nine Kobe. ”
Zhang Li is not as explicit as him, a little more subtle, emphasized: "The difficulty of this ball is in Zhang Yu's ability to stay in the air, Patterson, a player with strong strength, after confronting him, he can still have a backward air movement, and the completion of the shot stretch, which is very remarkable." Of course, there is a lot of luck in it, but it can also be seen that Zhang Yu's shooting feeling is very good. ”
Curry saw the ball most clearly, he came up from behind Zhang Yu to intercept, knowing the difficulty of the opponent's ball, and he would never be able to do it if he was replaced. Probably in the U19 of the United States, only Beasley's physique zhì has hope of doing it.
Curry took a deep look at Zhang Yu, and then looked at his small body, and his confidence in defending against the other party wavered.
"We should play the number one position......
Curry muttered to the sidelines.
The first point of the U.S. team's offense was Beasley, Flynn held the ball, and although he wanted to hit the basket directly, the boss couldn't help but give the ball.
Bisley is a few centimeters taller than Xu Yong, and his strength is much stronger, and what is even more terrifying is that his speed and explosiveness are far superior to Xu Yong, and he completely explodes Xu Yong physically.
Beasley held the ball on the flank, and after a two-step break, Xu Yong was already left behind. Except for fouls, Xu Yong has been completely unable to stop Beasley.
Su Wei and Li Xiaoxu, who were supposed to guard the inside, had already been pulled outside by the two interior players of the American team with outside shooting ability, and in the face of the empty basket, Beasley had already considered whether to fill the blue or go to the basket.
The attention of playing the United States may be higher in China than in the final, how could Zhang Yu let him be in the limelight so easily?
Seeing that Beasley was going to beat Xu Yong strongly, he immediately let go of Curry on the weak side and made up for it inside, just in time.
Out of the corner of his eye, Beasley saw Zhang Yu rushing over, and at this time he pulled up a slam dunk to consider whether he would be blocked by Zhang Yu who rushed over.
Beasley later entered the NBA, although he was known as a ball quotient with a low quotient, completely lost the superstar style of the NCAA and gradually became a substitute. But before he entered the NBA, his performance was indeed very good.
In this ball, Beasley did not choose to force the blue, but passed the ball to the outside in the air and passed it to Curry, who was let go by Zhang Yu.
Curry was unguarded outside the three-point line, with his arms stretched out, and he shot the basketball steadily.
"Brush ......"
The basketball made a graceful arc and hollowed into the net, and the few American fans began to cheer.
Beasley, a player who was already well-known in American college basketball before joining the U.S. Under-19s, is the favorite to be the top pick in next year's NBA draft. Xu Yong still does not have an advantage in the face of Beasley, and most of the reason for Zhang Yu's leakage is to make up for Beasley, but the other players of the Chinese team did not change Curry in time, and the awareness of rotation is not strong. ”
Weiping Bryant hurriedly exonerated his own family, but this time no one in the country scolded him for being an old dog.