Chapter 021: Indiscriminate Singles
“Defense! Defense! Defense! ”
The UCLA fans at the scene began to cheer for their home team, and when it came to the top 4, there were many supporters of UCLA, and the atmosphere of the famous basketball school was absolutely in place.
Li Ze observed Ohrahhoma's first attack on the court, still blocking and dismantling, and then gave it to Griffin, who went down, and directly pushed the ball up against the defender.
"It's really simple and crude, but it really works..."Li Ze vomited in his heart.
Coach Ben shouted from the sidelines, "Good defense, no problem, hold on!" He knew that the team inside would definitely not be able to stop Griffin's attack, but he believed that Griffin could not beat the team.
Collison dribbled past half the court, and after Holiday received the ball with his hand, his teammates had all pulled to the line, and when he saw Li Ze who came out without the ball, he immediately passed the ball.
Li Ze saw the defender in front of him, he did not call for blocking, but directly began to dribble under his crotch after releasing the ball.
"Huh...", 2 points from the middle distance, hit steadily.
After this ball was shot, Li Ze knew that the ball would definitely go in, and this kind of shooting felt great!
The combined badge of [Ankle Finisher] + [Rhythm Shooter] + [Hot Zone Hunter] allows him to shoot nearly 65% from mid-range near the free throw line.
"Beautiful middle distance, it seems that Li Ze continues his hot form!" Reggie Miller sent his own compliments.
Ochrahhoma University's offense was still a pick-and-roll, and due to being too jealous of Griffin, he grabbed too much, resulting in a defensive misposition, and after the opponent's continuous passing of the ball, there was a 3-pointer opportunity.
"Whew..."Hit an open 3-pointer.
Li Ze's interior teammates signaled that this ball was his problem, and this is the containment of excellent interior players, and in 2009, big men were the trend of the league and the cornerstone of the team.
However, UCLA's side did not panic, continued the previous tactics, all up, opened up the space, Li Ze received the ball directly and crossed the step, accelerated the breakthrough with his left hand, faced the help defense, and then threw it to Collison on the outside.
The latter received the ball first and then scored again from the middle distance.
UCLA's breakthrough is not easy to defend, Collisson, Holiday and Li Ze are all able to make sudden passes, as long as they don't hit the iron, the team's offense will not have a problem.
In this way, the two sides went back and forth, and at the end of the first half, the two teams were still tied, 20-20, and UCLA asked for a timeout.
"Well done, but for the rest of the first half we have to give them more physicality and Griffin can defend more when he catches the ball, but you have to be mindful of the rebound."
"Kayce, fight a dozen more griffins on offense, we're going to wear him down on both ends of the floor, and you're going to get the offense, right?"
"No problem, they can't stop me." Li Ze replied calmly.
"Come on, boys, show your strength, we're going to build the lead in the first half!" Coach Ben loudly motivates the players.
UCLA's offense was not too simple, and Li Ze shouted to his teammates, "Patience, we have time!" ”
After failing to have a good chance after consecutive breakthroughs, Li Ze directly reached out for the ball in the low position.
Collison hoisted high to Li Ze, and in the face of the defender Li Ze first made a triple threat, mobilized the opponent's center of gravity, and then directly relied on two hits to turn over and shake, this shooting action directly clicked the defender.
A nice up and down step, licking the basket successfully.
"Wow!!" This beautiful step directly caused the fans to let out a loud shout.
"Beautiful footwork, Kayce is very mature in the use of technical movements now, and his talent is so good!" Kenny Smith also started to blow when he saw Li Ze's ball.
The University of Ohrahhoma ball-handler clearly felt the pressure from UCLA, and this physical confrontation made his ball less quality, and after a series of passes, Griffin did not get the ball in his offensive area.
I had no choice but to squeeze in two steps by myself, but the people who assisted in the defense were immediately in place, and finally threw the iron.
Li Ze protected the rebound ball and began to accelerate directly, killing the opponent's basket, taking advantage of Griffin's slow defense, carrying the defender, and scoring a layup.
"Beep...", whistle plus penalty, my bowl.
"I think you almost got me covered." Li Ze was at the free throw line, pretending to shrug helplessly, and then put the ball in.
"Hey, boy, don't get too complacent!" The tool man at Ohrahhoma University was suddenly not happy.
Li Ze heard the other party's words and retreated, spreading his hands, saying that the tool man was not qualified to let him speak.
"It looks like Kayce said something on the free throw, and there was a bit of a spat on both sides, but I liked it."
Kenny Smith doesn't think it's a big deal to see the excitement, and if he fights, maybe he can still shout cheers.
The mentality of the tool people at Ohla Homea University has obviously changed, they take turns to defend Li Ze, which is basically useless, and the only thing worthy of praise is to control Li Ze's three-point shot.
At present, Li Ze is 7 out of 9, basically all of which are mid-shot and breakthroughs.
The performance of the mentality change on the offensive end is that he is a little anxious, and when the opportunity is not too good, the tool man makes a three-point shot from the outside.
"Bang...", UCLA has been stuck in the position, but Griffin picked melons in his brain, relied on excellent bounces, grabbed the rebound, and got up directly!
"Bang dang...", the violent deduction was successful, and there was an additional penalty.
"Don't rush, get moving." Immediately after scoring the goal, Griffin motioned to his teammates to be patient.
"Ah!!h The fans at the scene of Ohrahhoma University screamed wow, this dunk is too fierce.
"It's really an excellent physical quality, and the explosive power of the second jump is too strong." Reggie Miller also lamented that Griffin's body is simply beast-level.
UCLA's side didn't care, they knew before the game that this would definitely happen, and Collison still dribbled through the half court unhurriedly and played tactics.
When Li Ze bounced the ball outside, he immediately signaled his teammates to come over and block him, and he wanted to play Griffin with the ball.
When switching to Griffin's defense, Li Ze first slowly dribbled to 45 degrees to the three-point line, and after switching to his right hand, he directly began to speed up the rhythm of the dribble, and after continuous crotch dribbling, he suddenly accelerated with his left hand to break through.
Griffin immediately clinged to Li Ze's body, and at this time, Li Ze directly pulled back and stepped back to the three-point line, and leaned back slightly with his strength.
"Huh..."Hollow into the net, Li Ze raised his hands and motioned for the fans to cheer.
"Oh... Yes!!! "The UCLA fans were completely out of the way, it was so cool.
Griffin looked at the scene and was jubilant, and his inner feeling was: "Can this also be entered?" At the same time, he was also angry, and he was specially chosen to fight, this surface brother is too faceless.
Ohla Homea University attacked, Griffin received the ball in a good position after the block, but as soon as he released the ball, Collison directly gave up the opposing player and went up to cut the ball.
A long throw to Holiday and a quick break to score 2 points, Griffin began to complain to the referee about the foul.
"They hit me in the arm!" But the referee signaled the game to continue.
Li Ze knew at a glance that the opponent had begun to lose his mentality, and immediately clapped his hands and beckoned his teammates to increase their efforts.
With two minutes left in the first half, the physical confrontation between the two sides became more and more frequent, and the number of free throws arrived.
After Griffin received the ball, he turned and hooked directly with a gyroscope, but was fouled by Li Ze from behind.
"Bro, you can't get in, like you can't stop me." Li Ze started babbling loudly when Griffin made a free throw.
As a result, Griffin was angry, and sure enough, he missed the free throw, Li Ze accepted the rebound, and the last attack in the first half, he wanted to press the time.
With 10 seconds left, Li Ze once again signaled his teammates to come over and block the dismantling, or hit Griffin.
Outside the three-point line, there was a continuous change of direction in front of the body, and there was a sudden pause, a worship, Griffin was directly shaken away, Li Ze immediately accelerated to the basket, and took off directly against the defenders who came over to make up for the defense.
The body was straightened, the arm was pulled back, and a powerful one-armed tomahawk buckled.
The ball smashed straight into the basket.
Li Ze flexes his muscles to UCLA fans.
"Ah!!h The fans at the scene were completely boiling and shouting wildly.
The first half ended after a dunk by Li Ze, 38-30, and UCLA led by eight points.