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Chapter 16 Winning the Double Crown (for further reading)

3 month 11 day.

At the Philips Arena, the final battle of the 2011-2012 ACC season will be staged soon.

Duke takes on Florida State, which has beaten North Carolina back-to-back.

Florida State University is not a star-studded team. Their team lineup is unpretentious. Only Bernard James, a 85-year-old forward veteran who was born in February 2, has a second-round market.

In the latest issue of the NBADraft website, Bernard James is projected to be selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the No. 3 pick in the second round.

Before the game, the North Carolina locker room.

The battle is about to break out, and the Duke players are listening to the old coach K making the final deployment before the final.

"Bernard James is 6 feet 10 inches tall, and he has no offensive ability at a distance of 15 feet. Chen, you just need to stay in the penalty area in this game." The old coach K instructed Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao nodded, expressing his understanding.

"Miles, you go to defend Xavier Gibson, although he is an inch taller and heavier than James, but he will only float outside the penalty area and put his hand on him."

After talking about the inside line, Old K instructed Curry and Rivers one by one how to defend the opposing team's scoring leader Michael Snell and several other outside lines.

After simply arranging the defensive strategy, Old K left more space on the team's offense.

It is still the dynamic offensive tactics he often talks about, keep running, look for open spaces, pass patiently, and make full use of the 35 seconds of each attack.

The key to this game will be how Duke opens up against Florida State's heavy-handed defense.

Florida State does not have an absolute star player. The secret to their ability to beat North Carolina to the finals is that they have the best defense in the ACC league.

This season, they've been able to hold opponents to 38.1 percent shooting, fifth-best among 300-plus NCAA teams.

In addition to defense, their three-point ability is good.The outside core Michael Snell has a three-point shooting rate of more than 4%, and several players have a three-point shooting rate of about 35%.

Among the main players, Bernard James does not shoot 3-pointers, to be precise, he does not shoot mid-range shots.

However, Florida State, which has an overall three-point shooting rate of more than 35%, does not produce a lot of three-pointers, and their three-pointers are almost all open shots.

Florida State, whose COSCO shooting output cannot support the entire team's offense, relies heavily on breaking through to score inside.

This is also the reason why the old coach K made full use of the NCAA's lack of defense for three seconds and arranged for Chen Xiao to sit at the basket.

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With Chen Xiao easily picking up the ball, the first round of the game officially began.

As soon as the game started, Chen Xiao had a first-hand experience of how good Florida State's defense is.

The perimeter defense is aggressive and rarely loses position.

Faced with such a suffocating defense, Rivers relied on his skilled ball-handling skills to deal with the defenders, and it was difficult to easily break through the opponent for a while.

While Rivers was facing the perimeter defense, Chen Xiao also met his opponent. This Bernard James was simply a muscular stick, and Chen Xiao seemed to be carrying a weight when he moved.

The originally short height brought help instead. James, who is denser and has a lower center of gravity, firmly resisted Chen Xiao's lower body, making it difficult for Chen Xiao to move smoothly.

Chen Xiao, who was obsessed with James' difficult activities, understood how this veteran player with no shooting ability had an NBA draft prospect.

On the perimeter, Rivers, who was gradually irritated by the opponent's aggressive defense, became hot-headed. Originally, his style of play was more inclined to shooting guards. Compared with traditional point guards, he had a narrower vision. He could no longer see Chen Xiao and other teammates under the heat of his brain.

Continuously dribbling the ball under the crotch before making a sharp change of direction, Rivers turned into Iverson and passed the opponent beautifully, but he seemed to be weak in his hands when he broke into the penalty area and threw the ball across the bridge.

After feinting and turning around quickly, Rivers made another wonderful breakthrough move, but facing the players who came to supplement the defense, Rivers, who could easily score the ball, chose to counter the layup, and the basketball fell out of the basket after lightly hitting the edge of the basket.

Seeing that the defensive player was not so tight against his own breakthrough, Rivers chose to make an emergency stop and make a three-pointer, and there was another crisp iron strike.

Of course, Rivers is not completely without contributions. In the first half, he made 7 of 1 breaks into the interior and made 4 free throws. He also made [-] shots from outside the three-point line and hit an NBA-range three-pointer.

Scored a full 7 points at halftime, leading the Duke Blue Devils to lead their rival Florida State by as much as 3 points!
Chen Xiao looked at the statistics table in the halftime, and wanted to buckle a wave of "7777777" to Master Rivers.

"Are you blind? Austin Rivers, you only have the basket in your eyes? Is it because I am too gentle with you? In the second half, Quinn, you go." Ignoring Rivers with a livid face, the old Coach K roared and gave the latest instructions.

"You did a good job in the first half, keep it up." Turning his head, facing Chen Xiao, who had scored 8 points, 9 rebounds and 8 blocks in the half, and had a quasi-triple-double, Old K praised him softly.

The 15-minute break was fleeting, and when he played again, the situation that Chen Xiao tried his best to support in the first half had changed.

It is not only because the "iron scales", who had tried their best, declined in physical fitness after the fierce confrontation at halftime, but also because the two Curry brothers Cook and Curry stood up.

Less than 10 minutes into the second half, the situation was irreversible.

At the end of the game, Duke fans shouted loudly, celebrating the 11th time in team history that they won both the regular season and the playoffs of the ACC league.

In the second half, Chen Xiao didn't make much effort. In the end, Chen Xiao, who scored a triple-double of 17 points, 13 rebounds and 11 blocks, accepted ESPN's post-match interview.

"First of all, congratulations on winning the 2011-2012 ACC playoffs championship, and congratulations on breaking the single-season ACC freshman block record." The female reporter with a graceful figure and a decent lady's suit smiled and congratulated Chen Xiao.

Chen Xiao actually didn't know that there was such a thing as a freshman single-season block record. It was just a single freshman record in the ACC league. He felt that there was no gold content, so he simply and politely replied: "Thank you, this is the result of the hard work of all our Blue Devils. I just play hard."

"At present, you have 166 blocks, which is 41 short of David Robinson's NCAA single-season block record. Are you confident to complete this feat in March Madness?" The reporter continued to ask.

Chen Xiao silently calculated that Duke, as the champion of the ACC league, naturally does not need to participate in the play-offs, and if March Madness can reach the finals, there will be a total of 6 games, 41 blocks divided by 6, which is about 7 blocks per game.I currently average less than 5 blocks per game, right?

Moreover, March Madness is also facing strong enemies, and the more difficult it is to get to the back. If you only reach the top 16, you will need an average of 13.67 blocks per game, which is obviously impossible to complete.

The top 8 and top 4 need to average 10.25 and 8.2 per game respectively.

"David, as a great center, is our predecessor, and I am his fan. I saw a fan compare me to him on social media before, and I am very honored. I just play, and my primary goal is to bring victory to Duke. Statistics are not my concern. I don't play for statistics." Chen Xiao opened his mouth to the camera while thinking.

(End of this chapter)