God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 80
Smith has coached North Carolina for many years, and has a lot of on-the-spot command experience. How can he not see Carter's dilemma on the court?Although Smith hadn't seen much of the front guard's defense, he quickly came up with a solution, which was to turn Shamond into a three-point shooter, with Carter holding the ball and Jamison playing the pick-and-roll.

Once Jamison can be pulled out to cover Carter, then Celestand's circle around will be self-defeating.In this way, what Carter has to face is McGrady's defense. In Smith's view, McGrady's defense is very average, at least it won't work when facing Carter, and with his personality, he will not use the forward circle to be so disgusting. tactics.

Besides, what if McGrady defends Carter?Carter can pass the ball to Jamison, who either pops up to shoot or rolls down to attack the basket. Facing Celestand's defense is simply easy and enjoyable.Of course, North Carolina trailing by 7 points is also the root cause of Smith's eagerness to make changes.

This time Smith didn't call a timeout, he just called Shamond to the sidelines for a lecture while the Villanova players made free throws.He believes in the tactical understanding of the players under his command, as long as he mentions it, these guys can implement their own tactics.

Shamond has no objection to Smith's arrangement, even if he changes from an offensive organizer to a weak-side three-point shooter, that's okay.Shamond does not have the strong desire to perform like Jamison and Carter. In his opinion, as long as he can help the team win, it doesn't matter what he does.

After Brand made two free throws, the point difference between the two sides widened to 9 points, and other North Carolina players looked very frustrated.But Shamond, who was given the opportunity by the head coach, began to yell and cheer for his teammates, and told Carter and Jamison about the coach's arrangement.Carter was naturally overjoyed. He was really a little annoyed by Celestand's going forward, and Jamison couldn't help himself. His character determined that he would not make any rebuttals to the coach's arrangement.

North Carolina kicked off, Haywood sent the ball to Shamond, who took the ball straight to Villanova's half court.However, unlike before, he did not come to the top of the arc to direct his teammates to run tactics, but handed the ball directly to Carter who was pulled outside the three-point line.Celestand didn't choose to go forward. Those who choose to go forward when the opponent's range of activities is so wide are due to arrears of IQ. He can get the ball outside the three-point line with just a quick acceleration.

Despite this, Celestand still did not give up. As soon as Carter got the ball, he rushed up, staring at Carter's toes to prevent him from suddenly starting to go straight inside.This is the first time that Carter has gotten the ball so comfortably in this game. Although he is still two steps away from the three-point line, with his character, this ball must be directly holding the ball to singles Celestand, but Thinking of the head coach's arrangement, Carter became silent and signaled Jamison to come up for the pick-and-roll.

Facing Celestand's defense, Carter changed hands and dribbled twice in a row, and cut directly to the right.Celestand took a step back. He was about to turn around when he bumped into someone and nearly knocked him to the ground.Of course, even if he fell to the ground now, the referee would not blow his whistle. After all, the guy who was hit was firmly nailed to the spot like a root under his feet, without any extra movements, and he couldn't find any chance to flop.

It was Jamison who pulled up to cover Carter, but he also brought McGrady out by the way.When he blocked Celestand, the situation on the court became a one-on-one battle between Carter and McGrady near the free throw line, which was something Carter had been thinking about before the game started.

Looking at this familiar face, Carter involuntarily resorted to the routine of playing bullfights in the past.Shaking his shoulders, changing hands, taking a tentative step, and pretending to shoot, he firmly believes that this series of fake moves can completely set McGrady on, so that he can easily and freely go directly to Villanova's basket, and then randomly select from his arsenal. Choose a way to score.

But just when he was confidently preparing to break through directly, he was surprised to find that McGrady was still standing there calmly, his defensive posture was not messed up at all, and his eyes were full of disdain and pity.Indeed, before joining Villanova, McGrady was likely to be confused by Carter's fake moves. After all, he is a player who is more inclined to attack. Although he has top-notch movement speed and agility, defense is not his main focus. Industry.

However, after becoming the core of the team, McGrady put forward higher requirements for himself. He hopes that he can become an all-round forward who can make achievements on both offense and defense. This is also the goal Chang Wei set for him.Although Rappers did not deliberately ask him to practice defense, Chang Wei gave him a lot of training to strengthen defense. After a season of tempering, McGrady has already been reborn. He is no longer the defensive black hole he was before, but Carter has everything. I don't know.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when Carter was stunned, McGrady slapped the basketball off his hand, then quickly bent down to pick it up, and rushed towards North Carolina's half court.His dribbling sprint was really fast, and the North Carolina players had already passed the center line before reacting, one by one hurriedly rushed to their own basket, but it was too late.

As soon as McGrady's left toe stepped on the free throw line, the whole body had already jumped up, passing through the air like a roc spreading its wings, and slammed the basketball into the basket with a "boom".After landing lightly, McGrady ran back to his own half and gave high-fives to his teammates, but Carter still stood there blankly, as if he couldn't believe what happened in front of him.

Smith also frowned on the sidelines. He didn't expect McGrady to defend Carter. Does it mean that his defensive ability has reached a very high level, or that he is too familiar with Carter?No one doesn't know, but Smith knows that if McGrady continues to show such defensive ability, it means that his pick-and-roll tactics will go bankrupt.

Maybe get the two bigs out for the pick-and-roll?As soon as this idea appeared, it was denied by Smith himself.Okuraja and Heywood's offensive methods are too simple, let them do the screen, everyone knows what they are going to do next, so it is too easy to defend, and Battier and Brand are not good at the defensive end Vegetarian.

Smith shook his head bitterly. Villanova's lineup gave him a headache. Now North Carolina can only rely on Carter and Jamison, or Shamond, to see if the three of them can win. Play a giant planet, otherwise North Carolina will basically go far in this game.

(End of this chapter)