ATPnovel Chapter 31 Phoenix's Invitation (3500 words, please collect and recommend tickets!)
Chapter 31 Phoenix's Invitation (3500 words, please collect and recommend tickets!)
Chapter 31 Phoenix's Invitation (3500 words, please collect and recommend tickets!)
The game between the two sides continued.
Blake Griffin once again circled high to catch the ball and faced Lovedale head-on.
The other players are standing on the outside.
He began to organize with the ball and direct his teammates to move.
The roster's running positions and off-ball screens are dizzying. Although Su Yi is a defensive champion, he has to work very hard to adapt to the opponent's offensive rhythm.
Shooting guard Willie Warren is quick and ready to roll when he gets a chance.
Griffin also has a certain shooting ability.
Both Su Yi and Curry must guard against these two guys, and they must not be given a chance.
Shooting guard Willie Warren used a screen to run open on the perimeter, and Curry just caught up.
Only to find that he wiped the basketball inside, and Blake Griffin had gone down to the baseline to catch the ball.
Now that the inside line has been completely emptied, Su Yi has no way to come in to help defend, and can only let Lovedale and Blake Griffin perform solo.
Lovedale, who was isolated and helpless, resisted Griffin's foot. However, Griffin, who had the advantage of height, took the basketball twice with an easy hook.
The Wildcats' touch has entered a low period. Curry missed a three-pointer and the rebound was confiscated by Griffin.
Looking back, the roster team is pretty much the same play again.
The ball goes to Blake Griffin for ball-handling playmaking.
Others ran outside looking for opportunities to empty the space inside.
As long as he finds an opportunity, Blake Griffin immediately falls to the bottom line and beats Lovedale hard, with almost no restrictions.
After the fiery touch in the first game, the feeling began to decline in the second game.
Because if they fail to make a shot in the middle and long distances of the defense, the rebounds will be confiscated by the big and small Griffin brothers, which invisibly increases the pressure on Su Yi and Curry to shoot.
In contrast, the interior offense of the roster team seems simple and effective.
Blake Griffin can break through, play strong, and organize, and whoever defends alone is a misplacement.
McKillop watched all this on the field with deep eyes, thinking about the solution.
The Wildcats lost Game 13 with a score of 18:[-].
The two sides continued to rest and discuss.
Coach McKillop called everyone together.
"The opponent is actually using a simple Princeton style of play." McKillop drew a tactical board.
"Princeton?" Su Yi recalled for a moment, no wonder he felt that the opponent's tactics were a bit familiar.
The Rockets where Dayao belongs use this tactical system.
"Princeton's characteristic is that the organizational center falls to the high position, and the forwards and guards make empty cuts and reverse runs."
"The core of his tactics is to create space through frequent screen changes and a large number of ball transfers."
Then coach McKillop gestured to the opposite routine on the tactical board, explained frantically, and arranged for the players of the Wildcats to switch defenses.
"The 2nd position should be here, the 3rd position should be here, if the opponent wants the ball on the weak side, the 4th position should be here"
He drew the tactical board as messy as a geometry problem in advanced mathematics.
The players on the field were even more confused.
Su Yi seldom memorizes those obscure tactical methods. He prefers to explore in actual combat to form a fixed muscle memory.
This is more impressive than simply remembering the theory.
After all, he often watched Dayao's games, combined with McKillop's simple explanation and recalled the opponent's routine just now, Su Yi quickly understood the basic principle of the roster team's offense.
Because Blake Griffin's speed is relatively fast, his coping ability and passing awareness are also very good, he can almost play from the first position to the fifth position in the NCAA arena.
So he is more suitable for this Princeton system than Dayao.
Dayao's incomprehensible low-post offense and height advantage are handy in Van Gundy's half-court offense and star tactics.
The high-post support ability and pass-catching ability required by Princeton are not Yao's strong points.
The third game begins.
After a timeout adjustment, the Wildcats found a little bit of a touch.
At the beginning, Curry took the lead with a throw against Griffin.
It's the turn of the roster team to attack.
Blake Griffin himself organized the ball on the perimeter, and Willie Warren used the screen to run back and receive the ball.
Then he directly crossed the basketball, and Su Yi flew out.
It's almost a gambling grab.
After all, he is the main defensive man, so Su Yi's prediction was quite accurate.
Snapped!
Sure enough, he was one step ahead of Willie Warren, slammed the basketball and rushed forward.
Looking at Su Yi's desperate rush, Willie Warren could only be messed up in the wind.
This super sense of position and prediction
This defense speed
This is not stealing, this is simply robbery!
Su Yi and Curry formed a 2-on-1 against Griffin in the previous scene.
The two passed the ball to each other, and they cooperated exquisitely to turn the big Griffin around, and Su Yi easily scored the basketball.
The Wildcats took a 4-0 lead at the start of Game [-].
The roster team, which was intercepted by Su Yi just now, became vigilant.
It's clear Blake Griffin is getting serious.
Breaking the Princeton system requires a very good team defense, which means that the entire team cannot have a defensive colander.
No matter how strong Su Yi's single defense ability is, he will feel powerless against the opponent's style of play.
Sure enough, after taking precautions against Su Yi, Blake Griffin's terrifying personal ability was once again displayed.
Neither Ben Arison nor Andrew Lovedale can restrain Blake Griffin at all.
Just get in the post and get the ball back to Blake Griffin, and that's pretty much a solid two-pointer.
With the roster team's tight defense inside, the Wildcats basically rely on Curry and Su Yi's mid-range and long-range shots for their shots.
Offensive shooting percentage and rebounding have suffered compared to the roster team.
In the end, with a 4-point lead at the start, they still lost the third game 15:18.
After playing three quarters of 10 minutes, it was getting late, and the two sides shook hands with each other to end today's training.
In the end, the Wildcats won 1 game and the roster team won 2 games.
Today, the tactics of the roster team have been implemented a bit.
The two teams have played before, and this is the second time they have met.
Big Griffin patted Curry on the back, and it could be seen that he played quite happily today.
Teammates from both sides greeted each other friendly, and the atmosphere was very good.
"I hope we can meet again in the final four." Su Yi also shook hands with Blake Griffin and said with a smile.
"I hope we can get through North Carolina, and I also wish you well." Blake Griffin smiled.
Su Yi, who returned to the dormitory, began to think about today's game.
In fact, he is not in a very good mood today.
The roster team used a classic Princeton tactic, which fully exposed the Wildcats' defensive shortcomings inside.
If the roster team played well in Princeton today, the Jayhawks they will face soon are experts in executing tactics!
Basketball at the University of Kansas has a very long history.
It can even be said that the history of the University of Kansas is the history of world basketball.
Their first coach was Dr. Naismith who invented basketball.
Various tactics have been studied in the Jayhawks for decades, during which time they have been continuously optimized and perfected to form the current tactical system, which cannot be said to be profound.
The tactical manual in their team is thicker than a dictionary. As for the players, they are tool men and screws.
As long as you practice running a lot, you can form muscle memory.
It doesn't even take Coach Bill Self to set things up.
In the NCAA competition, the real scariest thing is this strict and well-trained team, which is even more important than one or two superstars.
In the past, almost all superstars in the NCAA were NCAA champions or entered at least the semi-finals.
Since the mid-to-late 90s, even Shaquille O'Neal, who has overwhelmed the world in the NBA, has only reached the top sixteen in the NCAA.
Similarly, Iverson's results are also in the top sixteen.
After entering the 21st century, the influence of superstars on the team is gradually declining, and the NCAA has started the super coaching mode.
In the NCAA championship team for more than ten years, apart from Carmelo Anthony, there are almost no other superstars. (Social me, Gua, was still a freshman and led the team to win the championship)
This also reflects the importance of team culture and coaches.
In fact, to some extent, NCAA teams implement tactics more thoroughly than NBA teams.
Why do you say that?
NCAA teams spend about eight to nine months of training each year, just for the short two or three months of the game, and they can't finalize their opponents until the day before the game.
Therefore, the practice of the tactical system is basically in place, and the 35-second attack time also encourages college students to rely more on tactics and less on personal talent.
In NBA games, personnel turnover is high (whether it is players or coaches), video analysis is more detailed, the schedule is longer, and tactics are more targeted.
This directly leads to the fact that half of the NBA's game tactics can be played on the spot.
In fact, in the vast majority of rounds in the NBA, they rely on the advantage of switching defenses in local areas to find offensive breakthroughs.
For example, the dislocation caused by the change of defense, the direct violence of the inside card position, etc.
Moreover, the NCAA is the tactical testing ground of the NBA. Every year in the NCAA game, some previously unheard of tactics will appear.
Many NBA tactics are born out of NCAA games
For example, the famous triangle offense of the Bulls was invented by Sam Barry of the University of Southern California, perfected by Tex Winter, and finally became famous all over the world in the hands of Zen Master.
There is also the Princeton system just mentioned, which, as the name suggests, originated from Princeton University and was finally carried forward by Adelman when he was coaching the Kings.
Including the "small ball tactics" of Su Yi's previous life, they are actually not new.
"Small Steel Cannon" Kyle Lowry was arranged by the coach to play the fourth position when he was in college. His Villanova University used this ultra-small lineup tactic to get No.3 that year.
Especially in the decisive stage, each team will come up with its own trump card.
For these classic systems, the research of the Jayhawks has reached a very high level.
This is why they were able to win the championship last year.
This kind of team that can enter the Crazy Three is completely different from the big teams I played in the regular season.
Those who can get Indiana tickets are the kings of each competition area, and all of them have unique skills.
Although his defensive ability value has reached more than 80, it is really not easy to defend well in this kind of game.
What's more, the opponent is likely to be the Jayhawks.
The rich tactical system on the opposite side can easily be misplaced.
With his current strength, how can he defeat this defending champion team?
Su Yibai was puzzled.
My own defensive ability is about to increase to the limit, and I still can't break the opponent's attack.
I don't know if Corvo can do anything.
Boom boom boom boom boom.
The familiar knock on the door, first twice, then three times.
According to this habit, Su Yi had a premonition that it would be Curry, so he went to open the door.
Sure enough, it was an elementary school student standing at the door in pajamas.
"Hi, Stephen!" Su Yi greeted, he knew that Curry came so late to discuss the daytime game.
It's just that Su Yi couldn't think of any tactics to use to compete with the Jayhawks.
"Su, I want you to go to Phoenix with me." Curry said directly.
(End of this chapter)