God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 73 Small Ball Showdown
Last year, after Arizona defeated Villanova to advance to the national finals, it lost to the University of Kentucky by one point. This is also the fundamental reason why all the main players stayed in school.

Chang Wei still remembers the scene of Thomas kneeling on the ground and crying bitterly after losing to Arizona and missing the final, and he also promised them to help Villanova win a championship.While the game against Arizona wasn't the national finals, it was the beginning of a farewell for Villanova, and the win was crucial for everyone.

Bibby and Terry have become more mature, the latter is still Arizona's super sixth man, averaging 10.6 points and team's second-highest 4.3 assists.Compared with last year, Arizona's roster has not changed much. At least their main lineup remains intact. In other words, they can still play small ball tactics that are beyond this era. Last season they relied on this Moved the sword to go slanted and defeated Villanova, who was very popular for the championship.

If they only did it occasionally last season, then the small ball tactic has become Arizona's regular tactic this season. According to Chang Wei's private statistics, Arizona has used it in at least two-thirds of the games this season. The lineup of three defenders and two forwards is quite effective. Almost every time they will hit a wave of scoring climaxes when the opponent is caught off guard, thus directly taking the game away.

But this time Chang Wei was not too worried. Now Villanova has the capital to play small ball tactics, as long as Allen is removed and Celestand is replaced.In this way, Brown and Celestand sit in the backcourt, McGrady plays the real point forward, Battier plays the [-]th position, and Brand sits at the basket. Such a small-ball lineup at least does not seem to be at a disadvantage.

Chang Wei is not worried that Brand can't keep up with the speed of his teammates. He has been using the system to help Brand improve his speed and agility throughout the season in order to adapt to small ball tactics. Now it seems that it is time to take Here comes the secret weapon.

His only concern is that the backcourt combination of Brown and Celestand is still a little worse than Bibby Gatley, no, it should be said that it is a lot worse. After all, Bibby and Terry were illustrious in the NBA Famous players, as for Brown and Celestand...Chang Wei can only say embarrassedly that he has never heard of these two names.

Obviously, this game should be a confrontational battle. Villanova's advantage is on the flanks and inside, while Arizona's advantage is in the backcourt. Don't you want to fight against each other?But what is said now is false, and we will not know whose small ball tactics are stronger until the official game.

It is obvious that Orson is full of confidence in his team. He does not believe that Villanova can also play small ball tactics. In his opinion, such advanced tactics must go through a long period of training before they can be used in games. Constantly experimenting and then improving, instead of releasing a plausible lineup with a slap in the head, this is just a poor imitation in his eyes.

Besides, Arizona defeated Villanova with small ball tactics last season. Although the opponent's roster was almost completely changed, and the main players were replaced by three freshmen, Orson firmly believed that the opponent still couldn't defend against Arizona. With his small ball tactics, he can already start thinking about his opponents in the semi-finals ahead of time.

But he didn't expect that Villanova sent out a starting lineup they had never used before at the beginning of the game, and there was no center in this lineup!As the fifth position, the player who jumped the ball with University of Arizona's center Bram Wright was the opponent's previous unshakable starting power forward Brand!
Orson couldn't help frowning. As the head coach, the most fearful thing is that the opponent doesn't play the cards according to the rules, because it means that all the arrangements before the game will be in vain.What's even more painful is that Villanova has not used this lineup at all this season. What do they mean by releasing it now?Looking down on Arizona?

But soon Orson discovered the magic of this lineup. Although Villanova has strong firepower this season, and because of the existence of McGrady and Battier, they have become very fond of switching offenses, but in fact they prefer It is better to score through positional warfare, otherwise McGrady would not be used to play point forward tactics.

But at the beginning of the game, the five starting players of Villanova started to speed up like lunatics. When everyone received the ball, it was like holding a hot yam, and they passed the ball quickly in the second second. out.Of course, they wouldn't just stand there, instead, they spared no effort to run in Arizona's half, taking decisive shots whenever they got the chance.

What if you miss it?That's okay. Although Brand, who has been playing the [-]th position, is not tall enough, his sense of smell and judgment of rebounds are simply BUG-level, and he has a body that can fight hard at the basket. , It is completely possible to fight for offensive rebounds with opponents under the basket, and then pass them out after grabbing them, allowing teammates to reorganize the offense.

On the defensive end, Villanova began to save energy. Rappers gave them instructions to defend in a 2-3 zone, so that each player would not waste too much energy in defense, and the effect was not bad.If Arizona players want to shoot three-pointers from the outside, Brown and Celestand can step forward to interfere. With the strength of McGrady and Battier, it is too simple to plug the loopholes in the team's defensive system through movement.

Less than 4 minutes into the game, Villanova scored 14 points in an indiscriminate bombardment, of which Tracy McGrady and Battier each contributed 5 points, and the other 4 points came from Brand's second attack and Selay Stander's mid-range shot.Except that Brown hasn't scored yet, Villanova is in full bloom. The key is that they don't seem to feel tired at all.

In contrast, Arizona, they only got a poor 2 points, which was obtained through free throws after Bibby was fouled for a breakthrough layup.Obviously, Villanova is forcing Arizona to play small ball, and for the latter, this is indeed the easiest and most effective way.

Chang Wei sat on the bench and smiled. Villanova's small ball at the beginning was entirely the result of his persuasion to Rappers. He told Rappers that the team must be the first to seize the initiative in the game. It is undoubtedly the best choice to directly hit the opponent with a stick and play a small ball at the beginning.

But now, his deceit has completely become a reality!
(End of this chapter)