Versatile Point Forward

Chapter 76 Don't let you enter the final
Being able to meet the former University of Memphis in the semifinals, UCLA has joys and sorrows.The joy is that I got a good opportunity for revenge, but the worry is that I don't know if I can defeat my opponent and enter the final.You must know that the University of Memphis is not an ordinary person. Their team's lineup is quite good. Plus Rose, who is vaguely known as the No. [-] point guard in the NCAA, do you believe that they are not aiming at the championship?The most critical issue is that the backcourt combination of Rose + Roberts is not inferior to Westbrook + Ye Feng. Dorsey is much stronger.

For the University of Memphis Tigers, even Ye Feng, who is as calm as Ye Feng, was suffocating anger. During the regular season, Rose's eyes after the 0.2-second alley-oop lore hurt him deeply.Ye Feng has always been not a person who easily admits his failure, but that time Rose's performance made him feel powerless, which is also the real reason why he restrained all his arrogance after that and trained hard.But this time, Ross may still be the original Ross, and he is no longer the original him.Under the guidance of the famous NBA pitcher Jeff Hornacek, Ye Feng's quick shooting has made great progress. Before that, he just hid his weapon and didn't want to expose himself prematurely. But facing Rose again, and It was still the crucial semi-final match, and he no longer planned to hide his clumsiness.

There are still six days before the semi-finals, and Holland has arranged it well: one day of training and one day of rest.It's not bad for young guys to practice, but we must also pay attention to the combination of work and rest, so as not to practice too hard in one breath and be directly abolished during the competition.In addition to Holland, the team doctor Marshall may be the busiest on the team. Even though there are not many NCAA games in a season, the players are not professional, especially the first-year rookies who have just entered college. Most of them have never tried a game of this intensity and density before, and it takes an adaptation period, during which time injuries are prone to occur.What Marshall has to do is to use various methods to relieve the fatigue of the players after training, and strive to keep everyone in a good state before the game.

This time Holland didn't intend to be tough. The guard didn't say no to the guard, but it couldn't give full play to the team's inside advantage.The most basic strategy is to give the ball to the inside line first, and let the inside line open the situation.As for the guards, it is still necessary to move more, and then tighten the fence on the defensive end, relying on physical fitness to limit the backcourt combination of the University of Memphis.After the inside line gains an advantage, it is bound to attract the opponent's defense, so that the outside line can also get an easy shot.Therefore, in the training session, Holland obviously strengthened the training of the inside line, allowing the outside line to take away the defenders through interspersed running positions, and then let the inside line work in the three-second zone.

Excluding Mbah a Moute who completely uses himself as a defensive engineer, his scoring ability from the outside is far better than that from the inside. Holland has always had great confidence in the offensive capabilities of Westbrook and Ye Feng, two beasts. Love is also very relieved, after all, he has long been famous for his footsteps at the basket and long-range shots.Only Shipp is relatively sad. If you want to talk about his singles, it is okay, but not to the extent that he can handle most insiders; the mid-range shot is not bad, but it needs absolute space. If someone interferes in front of him, he will Basically rely on blind.To put it bluntly, since Love joined the team, Shipp's most frequent job is to help him resist firepower. As a veteran, he still has this awareness. After all, it is for the team to win a championship!

But Holland wants to develop Shipp's offensive ability this time. The University of Memphis has weak inside defense and strong offense. It is unreasonable not to seize the opportunity!He schemingly asked Love and Shipp to do more high-low coordination within the three-point line. Of course, most of the time it was Love who attracted the defense, and then passed the ball depending on where Shipp was.If both of them are double-teamed, that would be even better. Is your ace in the backcourt looking good outside the three-point line?Those three-pointers are already hungry and thirsty!It's just to use the later tactics in advance, what's the big deal?
Ye Feng didn't mind, but Westbrook was a little upset. According to his thinking, it must be a one-on-one fight with Rose. If he can't win, then Ye Feng will go up. What's the matter with playing inside first?However, Ye Feng persuaded him: "Russell, I want to kill Ross more than you, because I gave him an opportunity to take advantage of the ball to be honest because I didn't defend well. But now it's the semi-finals, the so-called gentleman It’s not too late to take revenge for ten years, not to mention that we don’t have to play inside the entire game, and the team’s victory is the most important thing at this time. As for revenge, even if it doesn’t work this time, is it possible that we won’t have a chance when we enter the NBA?”

Westbrook muttered, "But I just see him upset..." At this time, Ye Feng looked more like a senior, and he said with a smile: "As a player, it is impossible for us to be without anger and fighting spirit in the mall, let alone Not to mention against guys who have beaten us before. But one thing, what if we beat Ross statistically? If we lose, our statistics are a joke. Think about it, beat him If that's the case, what's better than stopping him from making it to the final? Who cares about stats then?"

Westbrook's eyes lit up: It makes sense!Why didn't I think of it?He couldn't help laughing "evilly": "That's right, that's right, we're going to make him unable to even make it to the final. Who told him to kill us at that time? Let him watch us make it to the final!" Hearing Westbrook's rhetoric, Ye Feng's brow was sweating: Is it really okay for me to teach him like this?Why do you feel a little dark?Forget it, he's a teammate anyway, let him go, it's good to be able to set the team's victory as the goal, so as not to go directly to Rose on the court, no amount of lead is enough for him to squander.

After Ye Feng's guidance, Westbrook basically didn't contradict the coach's tactical arrangements, but every time he trained, it was as if he had been given blood.But the weird thing is that Westbrook would sit on the sidelines and giggle alone during training intervals, and no one could shout at him. If he hadn't worked so hard during training, everyone would have thought that this guy had been bewitched and was still sick. It's not easy.Ye Feng was the only one beside him snickering to himself: Does this count as saving Westbrook's career?You must know that a player's character has a lot to do with his achievements.

Soon to April 4th, the UCLA game against the University of Memphis was scheduled for the second game. The first start was the strong showdown between North Carolina VS Kansas.I have to say that North Carolina is Jordan's alma mater after all, and its attraction to outstanding high school players is unparalleled. In their starting lineup alone, there are four future NBA players, Wayne Ellington, Ty Lawson, Danny Green and Tyler Hansbrough.But the University of Kansas is not weak, and their roster also has players who later entered the NBA: Cole Aldridge, Darrell Arthur, Mario Chalmers and Brandon Rush .

Before the game, many people thought that this strong matchup would be entangled until the last moment, but the final result blinded everyone's eyes: Kansas easily defeated North Carolina 84-66 to advance to the final.Although North Carolina's Hansbrough's performance at the basket is quite strong, he is hard to beat with two fists and four hands, and several other star players are strangely poor, which makes the team's efforts throughout the season come to naught.As the second team participating in the game, UCLA and the University of Memphis team witnessed this game from the stands. In fact, many players firmly supported North Carolina. Anyway, they are not their opponents. Let’s support it a little It doesn't matter either.But North Carolina has no power to fight back, which makes people a little incomprehensible: Is Kansas really so against the sky?

Ye Feng didn't know if he was against the sky or not, but judging from everyone's expressions, he was the calmest one.The victory or defeat on the basketball court has never been based on the comparison of strengths on paper, otherwise how would those grassroots teams play?There are many aspects related to a game, not only the strength of the players themselves, but also the state of the game day, the referee's penalty scale, the coach's tactical arrangement, and the stage at which players rotate will affect the result of the game to a certain extent, even The floor and air conditioning of the venue will also be a factor that cannot be ignored.It is rumored that every Celtics player knows which part of the North Shore Garden Arena has a problematic floor, which can easily kill opponents.Whether this rumor is true is unknown, but it can also be seen from the importance of the game environment.

The so-called right time and place are also valid theories for basketball games, and they also really affect the process of the game.Because of this, Ye Feng was not very surprised by the big victory of the University of Kansas, anyway, he is not a fan of North Carolina.As a die-hard fan of "Magic" Johnson, he will only support Michigan State University if he wants to support it.As for North Carolina, it is true that it is famous, but no one stipulates that it must be touted if it is famous, right?What's more, in his opinion, Kansas may be relatively easy to play if they enter the finals. Love has no pressure to bully Aldridge in the interior, but it is difficult to meet a muscular man like Hansbrough who can run and jump. It will be very difficult.

The players of the two teams shook hands and hugged each other, and the head coaches of UCLA and the University of Memphis also began to call their players to leave the stands and go to the locker room to change into warm-up sportswear.Fortunately, the positions of the two teams are completely opposite, otherwise there must be a strong smell of gunpowder.Who will win the other final spot?The battle between the two sides is imminent!
(End of this chapter)