professional shooting guard

Chapter 34
Time is tight, and there is not much time for the players to get used to the new tactics. It takes five days for the players to roughly remember the basic situation of the tactics, and just remember their respective running positions.

On February 2014, 02, the Duke University Blue Devils will sit at home to face the University of Michigan Wolverines.

Founded in 1817, the University of Michigan is located in Michigan, USA. It is one of the oldest public universities in the United States. It is known as "Public Ivy" and "Model of Public Universities". Together with other universities, it represents the highest level of public universities in the United States and enjoys a high reputation worldwide.

As a top comprehensive research university in the world, the University of Michigan ranks 2014th in the world in the 14 US News World University Rankings.

In addition to being famous academically, the University of Michigan Wolverines are also a traditional NCAA team and belong to the Big Ten.

The Wolverines are not just the name of the basketball team. It is the collective name of 27 men's and women's teams in different sports at the University of Michigan. Among them, the men's basketball and rugby teams are the most famous.

The University of Michigan is the only American university that has won the NCAA Four-ball Grand Slam (that is, the national championships of basketball, baseball, ice hockey, and rugby). Among them, there are 2 baseball championships, 11 rugby championships, 1 men's basketball, and 9 men's ice hockey. .

In 1989, the University of Michigan Wolverines defeated the Pirates of Seton Hall University in Seattle to win the NCAA basketball national championship.

The most famous basketball player trained by the Wolverines is former Rockets coach Rudy Tomjanovich, the famous NCAA basketball team Michigan Five Tigers (Chris Webber, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Ray Jackson and Jamie King).

In the 91 NCAA Finals, the Michigan Five Tigers lost to Duke University led by Laettner and Grant Hill, and lost the championship.

Duke's most hostile enemy is North Carolina, but Duke is regarded as the biggest competitor besides North Carolina, which is the University of Michigan.

After the live DJ introduced the players from the University of Michigan amid boos, it was the turn of the players from Duke University to play.

Wearing the No. 14 jersey, Zhang Zifeng stood in the corridor with his eyes closed.

He was the first to play today.

Following the roar of the DJ at the scene, as soon as he ran out of the player tunnel, Zhang Zifeng was greeted by huge cheers from Duke Blue Devils fans.

Thinking of the dispensable applause in the first game, and listening to the deafening cheers now, Zhang Zifeng felt a burst of emotion.

For this treatment, how much sweat did I pay.

10 minutes on stage, ten years off stage.

Don't deceive me!

Today's game started, and I entered a new starting point.

Now that it has come up, I will absolutely not allow anyone to step on it.

Not even if Parker is back from injury.

Zhang Zifeng clapped hands with the fans on the left and ran into the field with a resolute expression.

Standing on the court, looking up at the nearly ten thousand fans, Zhang Zifeng, who has been in the field for a long time, was a little nervous.

Duke players ran to the field one by one, Parker was injured, and Captain Jefferson was the last to play.

Looking at Zhang Zifeng's tense body, Jefferson smiled as he passed by and clapped his hands, "Jack, take it easy, it's just a game, don't be nervous!"

Hearing Captain Jefferson say Zhang Zifeng, Cook and Plumlee laughed and joked about Zhang Zifeng, only that bastard Hood was full of ridicule.

Loser is not lost!
Who is Lao Tzu?I am Zhang Zifeng!
Zhang Zifeng worked hard to adjust his breathing, relax his body, and said: "I'm not nervous, but I'm very excited to start today!"

Jefferson heard it and said understandingly, "Then work harder today and score more points!"

Zhang Zifeng nodded.

The game is about to start, and the referee is standing on the halfway line with the ball.

Seeing that Zhang Zifeng started the game today, many people focused their attention on Zhang Zifeng, especially those scouts. They wanted to know whether Zhang Zifeng could continue his outstanding performance as the starter.

After all, the starting lineup is different from the substitute, and the pressure on the substitute is much less. Even if you lose, no one will blame the substitute.

But the main force is different. In addition to the fact that the opponent will pay more attention to it and face a tighter defense, they will also bear the responsibility for the loss after losing.

If Zhang Zifeng still performs well in the starting lineup, they will all raise their evaluation of Zhang Zifeng.

With his current performance, the first round of this year's NBA draft is difficult to say, but the second round is appropriate. After all, the Chinese market behind him is too eye-catching.

In this game against the University of Michigan, old K wanted to know how effective the tactics with Hood as the core were. The main tactics at the beginning were around Hood.

Although Zhang Zifeng was dissatisfied, he still didn't dare to challenge the old K, so he could only say silently in his heart, Zhang Zifeng, you have to fight!

With the whistle of the referee, the game between the University of Michigan Wolverines and the Duke University Blue Devils officially started.

The visiting team’s starting lineup for Duke University: Point guard 1.88 meters Cook, shooting guard Zhang Zifeng 1.97 meters, small forward 2.03 meters Hood, power forward 2.08 meters Jefferson, center 2.13 meters Plumlee;

Parker was injured, and the old K felt that the firepower of the outside line had dropped, so he decided to let the 2-meter Plumlee start in the hope of controlling the rebound.

Michigan starting lineup: 1.85-foot-1.98 Aplin at point guard, 1.98-meter Nick Stauskas at shooting guard, 2.08-meter Glenn Robinson III at small forward, 2.09-meter power forward Mitch McGarry, center [-] meters Penny.

With a jump ball in the middle circle, Duke University rarely grabbed the ball, and Plumlee patted the ball into Hood's hands.

Zhang Zifeng hurriedly ran towards the frontcourt. As soon as he ran to the frontcourt, he saw Hood easily breaking into the inside and making a layup.

Before Zhang Zifeng could stop, the opponent had already served the ball, and then ran towards Duke University's half court at full speed.

Speaking of which, the University of Michigan's offense is very fast this season, a bit of the bombardment style of the Suns where Nash was.
Except for the center, the players at the other four positions are guys who can shoot suddenly.

Their tactics are simple, run and shoot.

With a bang, he ran to the frontcourt, taking advantage of the fact that the opponent's defense line was not properly arranged, whoever controlled the ball would shoot if he could, and if he couldn't, he would shoot.

It's such a simple and rough style of play, but the effect is very good. So far this season, he has achieved a record of 18 wins and 4 losses, ranking No. 2 in the top ten leagues.

Zhang Zifeng turned around and hurriedly ran back to the half court to find his defensive target.

He just ran a few steps when he heard the cheers of the audience. Zhang Zifeng raised his head and saw that the ball had already fallen into the net.

What else can Zhang Zifeng say, he can only turn around and run towards the frontcourt.

The offense and defense are switched, and the guy facing Zhang Zifeng is Glenn Robinson III.

He is not famous, but he has a very famous father - the big dog Glenn Robinson, a famous former NBA star, a natural super scorer.

Glenn Robinson III inherited his father's excellent physical fitness and strong athletic ability.But it's a pity that he doesn't have his father's offensive methods. He has average mid-range and long-range shots, and his scoring mainly depends on breaking through the penalty area.

Aside from his athleticism, Glenn Robinson III inherited his father's dislike for defense.

Seeing Zhang Zifeng running, Glenn Robinson III followed lazily.

A lot of open space, if Parker has not been injured, the ball has been passed to Zhang Zifeng's hands, he can easily shoot.

It's a pity that Parker was injured, and Hood is now in control of the ball.

Hood received the ball in the frontcourt, and he found that Nick Stauskas, who was defending him, had many defensive loopholes, and he didn't even sink his waist.

Hood made a tentative breakthrough, but he easily got rid of the opponent.

Break through, layup, score, simple and easy.

The University of Michigan didn't care much about this fumble.

Their strategy is simple, score, score, score.

Attack against offense, don't care how many points you lose, as long as you score more than you.

Before the Duke players could run back, they were running towards the front, ready to attack.

Seeing the opponent run again, the Duke players can only follow suit.

In five or six seconds, the University of Michigan rushed to the frontcourt, taking advantage of the fact that the Duke University team had not yet settled down.

Stauskas used two back-to-back crossovers, followed by a stride, got rid of Hood, quickly slammed inside and then hit a pull-up jumper and retreated.

The shooting percentages of the two teams were very high at the beginning of the game. The two sides launched a confrontational battle. After a few minutes, the score increased sharply.

After only 6 minutes and 23 seconds, the score of the two teams became 28 to 21.

So far, following Hood running back and forth, Zhang Zifeng ran for five or six minutes, taking advantage of the chaos to get an opportunity and hit 6 points.

Hood performed very well, scoring 14 points alone, accounting for more than half of the team's points.Relying on his goal, Duke University has been biting the score.

Although the score is only 7 points away, and the time is only one-eighth, there is still a lot of time.

But old K kept frowning.

The pace of the game was too fast, and the University of Michigan brought the rhythm of the game up. As the core of the team, Hood did not control the rhythm well, but followed the opponent too far.

That's the pace of play Michigan likes, but not Duke.

Duke University also requires fast speed. It requires fast ball transfer, not blindly pursuing fast speed.

In addition, Plumlee was put in the starting lineup today in order to take advantage of the insider's height advantage.

If you run like this, you will waste the advantage of the inside line in vain.

What's more important is that other Duke players are not used to running back and forth like this.

The game went on for almost 6 minutes, and running back and forth consumed a lot of energy, but the number of times the ball was touched was very few.

Except for Hood, who has always controlled the ball, the other players gradually became less active in defense and less active in offense.

Old K decisively called a short timeout.

　Thanks to "King Invincible SYJ" and "An Ran Xiaojian" for their support!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)