Chapter 263: Days in Princeton (1)

Hanging up the phone, Jun sighed confidently. Those words just now mean that the day when he will leave Princeton and return home is not far off.

The dream starting point of the past and present life is Princeton University, for this university, Junxin has a deeper emotion than other universities, this is not because of how great Princeton University is, you must know that even if Princeton University is very powerful, it has never been able to enter the top five or even the top ten in the world's university rankings all year round. It's because of the Princeton-style way of thinking rooted in his heart that he has an inexplicable feeling for Princeton University.

Junxin, who has a detailed plan for his future, knows that he will face various problems after returning to China this time, and I am afraid that he will stay in China for most of the future, and it is rare to come to Princeton again. Therefore, for the next days at Princeton University, Junxin obviously cherishes it very much.

Speaking of which, Junxin is not a good basketball coach, because the essential reason for him to join the basketball team is that he wants to get a free opportunity to go to other universities and communicate with some professors or front-line workers in various academic fields and top industry scholars. Therefore, in almost all Princeton home games, Junxin refers to his own time arrangement, and once there is a little conflict, Junxin resigns from his coaching job under the pretext of work. In fact, in the entire 16 games of Princeton University, the number of appearances after Junxin actually officially joined the basketball team was only two.

The first time was against Duke University two weeks ago, when Junxin gave up the work at hand for the first time and came to the basketball arena at the strong request of Coach Pique.

Duke University is a traditional powerhouse in the ACC league, the strongest league in the NCAA league, and can be regarded as a giant team in the NCAA league. The team's head coach, John Šazewski, who is known to most of us as Coach K of the American Dream 10, is a rising star in the American School of Basketball Coaching.

The basketball coaching community in the United States is divided into traditional collegiate and commercial coaches, and most, if not all, of the NCAA league coaches are collegiate coaches. The head of the academy coach is John Wooden, one of the greatest head coaches of all time. He was the head coach of UCLA in the NCAA league and produced a large number of players under his hands. Such as Tiangou Jabbar and so on. Coupled with the old man's theoretical research and tactical application, he was elected by many academic coaches as the head of academic coaching. As one of the top coaches under John Udeen, Coach Pique didn't think he had a chance to beat him in terms of tactical command.

So when he played against Duke University, Junxin took over the on-site command of the team under the default of Coach Pique, and played against the world's top head coach (although he has not yet fully grown).

Coach K has a very good grasp of the rhythm of the court, and at the beginning, he took advantage of the fact that Princeton University does not have a strong point guard to arrange a highly offensive and urgent defense, and in the first six minutes, Princeton University only scored nine points under such an urgent defense. On the offensive end, Coach K was able to fully develop the talent of the players, attacking the inside, and when the timeout was six minutes later, the score on the spot had come to 15-9, and Princeton was six points behind.

In terms of the absolute strength of the team and the thickness of the team's lineup, the Princeton University Tigers, as a "civilian" school, are not the opponents of Duke University at all. However, there is a natural defect in the urgency of defense, under the urgency defense, the actual activity area of the stadium and the competition area of the offensive and defensive sides will be expanded, as long as the breakthrough is entered, then a 5-on-4 situation can be instantly formed, which is also the best way to crack the urgency defense.

After seeing this, Junxin began to implement it according to his own ideas, took the original team's No. 4 position, and added a speed-type guard, although the height of the whole court was reduced, but the speed was increased, in a large and four small formation, although the defensive end paid a greater price, but it also caused pressure on Duke University on the offensive end, and by the end of the first quarter, the score had reached 25-23, and Princeton University was 2 points behind.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Coach K changed his pressing defensive approach and began to enter a positional battle. Junxin obviously felt that the offensive efficiency between the two teams had been reduced a lot. This is the characteristic of positional warfare, and it is the two teams that compete against each other's respective backgrounds and tactics.

For Princeton University, which has the No. 5 tactic that combines Princeton and triangle offensive tactics, although it is weaker than its opponent in terms of the thickness of its own team, the tactics that the team has been running in for nearly half a year are not easy for Duke University to crack.

At the heart of the No.5 tactic is the creative formulation of a tactic known as the playmaking center concept, handing the ball to the No. 5 position. Due to the natural height advantage of the center forward, the vision of passing is also very advantageous, so in the positional battle, the two teams fight well. At least Princeton didn't lag behind Duke after the second quarter.

The difference between the two teams was evident in the third quarter of the game, and Duke University relied on the advantage of the bench players to instantly pull away the advantage that was hard to pull in the first two quarters again. By the end of the third quarter, the scores were 55-62, with Princeton trailing by seven points, with Princeton still having a chance in the final quarter.

After the start of the fourth quarter of the game, Junxin came on the court with a full lineup and began to play a full version of the No. 5 tactic. At the same time, mixed with Princeton tactics, using the strange backdoor method of Princeton tactics, he began to chase hard. On the defensive end, Junxin adopted the method of dislocation defense, letting go of the opponent's center, and defending the opponent's players with the advantage of height, and on the issue of the center, Junxin adopted the most effective tactic of defending the center in the future, the center went around the front tactics, cut off the connection between the center and other players, and completely isolated the opponent's center.

In this way, the opponent's scoring methods become relatively simple, although they are still scoring, and then the efficiency of scoring begins to gradually decline. And Princeton University, under the command of Junxin, began to run the No. 5 tactic at full strength, gradually pulling the score back.

In the final moments, Duke missed the final shot and the final shot was unsuccessful, and Princeton won a game at home.

The second opponent is UConn, which is not much different from Duke University, although this time it is also commanded by Junxin himself, and then in the end, the whole court is not good, losing to UConn by 3 points, and after the season, with a record of 28-4, it ranks first in the Ivy League and successfully enters the playoffs.