Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 40
Just as everyone was booing loudly for Ye Feng's fancy dunk, Holland walked into the training ground with his hands behind his back.Seeing everyone's commotion, he frowned and cleared his throat heavily.Immediately, the players gathered around Ye Feng dispersed one after another, and hurriedly lined up one by one, waiting anxiously for the head coach to deal with him.Seeing that the others had become obedient babies, Ye Feng smiled helplessly, and followed him to stand at the back of the line.

Holland smiled at Ye Feng, and then his face became serious: "In the next game, the opponent will still be in the same division as us, and we will play away." Before Holland finished speaking, the players immediately below buzzing" chattered.It's not that they are afraid of the fatigue of the journey, after all, everyone is in the same competition area, no matter how far they are, they can't go anywhere, they are just afraid of another accident like Ye Feng.The last time Iowa State lost at home, everyone was aggrieved.

Everyone's bitter faces couldn't hide Hollander, he guessed the players' inner thoughts after a little thought.But he did not appease everyone's thoughts, but continued: "This time our opponent is our brother school, the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears, so basically what you worry about will not happen." Their expressions turned from cloudy to sunny, and Holland's next sentence brought them back to their original form: "But in my opinion, this game will be very difficult."

Someone raised his hand and asked weakly: "Coach, is it more difficult than the last game against Iowa State University?" Holland snorted and said, "At least it's not worse than that game, because this time Their strengths are our weaknesses!" He suddenly turned to Shipp: "Josh, tell everyone, where are your strengths and where are your weaknesses?"

Ship froze for a moment, then blushed and said, "Coach, my advantage lies in my ability to open up space by the mid-range, and my weakness lies in my poor ability to protect rebounds." Holland shook his head and said, "Why did I say that this game The opponent's advantage is our weakness? This weakness lies with you!" Hipp was taken aback, and asked dully, "Then why does the coach think that this game is the team's weakness?"

Holland said with a serious expression: "Because the opponent's ace is a space-type four." Shipp couldn't understand what a space-type four was, and still looked at the coach with puzzled eyes.Holland saw that most people were bewildered, and said slowly: "What is a space-type four? As we all know, most of the power forwards were first developed to escort the center. The main responsibilities are defense and defense. Grabbing rebounds. Later, a power forward with scoring ability not inferior to that of a center forward was developed, and a power forward with stronger mobility was developed. The space-type four position is a big player who can shoot far beyond the three-point line and can open up space to put tremendous pressure on the opponent. Forward. Josh is indeed a very good power forward, but he can't mention the perimeter to defend the opponent's power forward. And this time we have to face a super high fort!"

He motioned to the assistant coach to bring his notebook over. On the screen was a rather handsome Caucasian young man with short hair that looked very capable.Holland coughed lightly and introduced: "Ryan Anderson, a sophomore in CAL (acronym for the University of California at Berkeley), is 2.06 meters tall and the team's starting power forward. He averaged 1.8 three-pointers per game last season. The shooting percentage reached 38.2%..."

Hearing this number, there was an uproar below.For a power forward, such a three-point shooting rate is simply terrifying, and even if they are placed on their own team, few people can do better.Hipp's face was even more ashen. He had roughly guessed what Holland was going to say.

Sure enough, Holland went on to say: "This player has such a beautiful three-pointer, which means that he is an absolute threat from the outside, but unfortunately, Josh can't defend it, and he can't defend it. Their last season Backup guard Christopher has emerged and is currently the team's second-leading scorer. If Josh moves outside to defend Anderson, we will face big trouble inside."

After hearing what the coach said, the players looked at each other in blank dismay.They always thought that CAL was not strong enough. After all, they are currently ranked second to last in the entire division, but they did not expect that their strength is such an outside artillery. Given the team's staffing, it seems that it is really difficult to target Anderson.Could it be that this guy with more than 2 meters is allowed to shoot wildly from the outside while we watch from the inside?

Ye Feng was also thinking hard about countermeasures.Under such circumstances, it is obvious that Shipp cannot be allowed to defend, but Anderson's height is simply dominant from beyond the three-point line. He opens up too much space for the team on the outside. Get blown up by the opponent.But now any perimeter defender in UCLA can't cross the height gap of at least ten centimeters, which means that every interference has to do its best to take off.It's okay for the opponent to shoot the ball, but I'm afraid it's a fake shot, and my side will fly in a flash, so what can I do to stop it?

Before Ye Feng could think of a good way, Holland blew the whistle to start training.However, Ye Feng was not discouraged, he was still thinking hard while training, and was almost hit on the head by the ball passed by Westbrook.

Seeing Ye Feng's preoccupied appearance, Westbrook didn't "concern" about the mistake in cooperation just now.Taking advantage of everyone's short rest time, he sneaked to Ye Feng's side and asked in a low voice, "You're not in the right shape for training today. Could it be that your illness hasn't been cured yet?" Ye Feng gave him an annoyed look, "Will you Can you talk? Don’t ask such stupid questions just because you’re the captain of the team. You’re not cured, I’m just thinking about how to deal with CAL.”

Westbrook said indifferently: "Why do you think so much? Then you can fight as you like. At most, you can defend the other four and let Anderson go solo. Can't we fight against him?" Ye Feng Eyes shine: let go of the strongest singles?This idea is not bad, no matter how strong a player is, he will have physical exertion, which means that his strength will go with time. If his teammates are isolated, then he will have to do more things in the same time, and the loss of physical strength will be even greater. serious.So generally speaking, a single-core NBA team cannot win a championship. This is the biggest drawback of this kind of team.

And judging from the team's firepower, it is absolutely worthwhile even if they play against each other. Some militants in the team even prefer to fight against their opponents. Can also attract a few female fans.

After figuring it out, Ye Feng seemed to have dropped a big rock suddenly.He breathed a sigh of relief and laughed secretly that he was worrying too much, not to mention that he was playing a shooting guard, at most he was a swingman at the most, so why should he worry about the team's tactics?This kind of overall planning problem should be handed over to Coach Holland.

However, the hardest one in the whole training process was Xipu, his training intensity was even worse than that of Ye Feng who needed a lot of training to recover.Although Holland hasn't figured out how to deal with Anderson's outside shooting for a while, as the team's starting power forward, Shipp still needs to be familiar with high-post defense and retreat to protect the basket.He has hardly encountered such a strange opponent before, and he is quite uncomfortable with such training content. He has repeatedly made the assistant coach stop the tactical movement and explain some precautions to him alone.Seeing the faces of his teammates wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh, Hipp, as one of the oldest players in the starting five, could only pretend not to see it, and continued to practice hard in silence.

Black couldn't bear to whisper to Holland: "Ben, is it really okay for him to practice like this? He may not be able to stop it at the time of the official competition!" Holland shook his head slightly, and said with a wry smile: "Make some preparations in advance It's also good, Josh is really good, and he is also a power forward who is very suitable for Kevin, but Anderson is a star player after all, and his technical characteristics have also restrained Josh. If he always pulls to the high position to shoot, I will I haven't figured out how to crack it. Now I can only take one step at a time, let's practice what needs to be practiced first!"

After the two hours of training, everyone was so exhausted that they collapsed on the ground and gasped for breath.Of course, this is not to say that today's training content is so hard. The main problem lies with Shipp.As long as he didn't run a play well, Black would blow the whistle to pause, and then let the team run the play again.At the beginning, everyone murmured a few words, and by the way despised him fiercely with their eyes.But gradually everyone didn’t even have the strength to mutter, and they just ran tactics mechanically again and again, and their eyes gradually became numb, as if they were saying: "Please, can you stop making mistakes? We are also working hard. okay?"

During the whole training process, Shipp was under a lot of pressure. He didn't know if he could defend against Anderson, and now he has caused his teammates to overtrain so much.Seeing that there was a difference in Ship's expression, Ye Feng and Westbrook looked at each other, walked forward and hugged Ship's shoulders from left to right.Ye Feng said with a smile: "Don't be so nervous, man, isn't he just a three-point shooter? No matter how tall he is, he's just one person. If we work together, we're afraid we won't be able to win?"

Westbrook also added fuel and jealousy from the side: "That's right, what Ye said is right, we will play according to our own tactics, you just do your own thing, there are two of us on the outside. If you want to shoot from the outside, you have to Ask me and Ye's defense first!"

Shipp smiled, looked at the two juniors beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Yes, I admit that he is very strong, but he is still a little too young to pass our UCLA test. We are not letting him Destroyed weak chicken!"

(End of this chapter)