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Chapter 20 Sweet Honey (Thanks to Xia Gege for the reward, adding a new chapter for the first fan)
The arrival of Paul and Duncan was just an episode for Wake Forest. Although it caused an internal sensation, the outside media did not get the news.

So in the past few days, the training progress of the Devil Deacon team is still going on in an orderly manner.

Finally, two days later, the Veterans Memorial Stadium played a 32-to-16 game.

This game is a contest between the Devil's Deacon and Marquette.

After the friendly handshake and national anthem ceremony before the game, the game will officially begin.

The commentators of this game are the legendary Rodney Rogers of the Devil Deacon team and the current NBA player Josh Howard, plus the famous Maurice Lucas of Marquette University (actually passed away in 2010).

"Hey, Lucas, which team do you think will win this game?" Rogers asked provocatively.

As for Josh, he sat there with a calm expression on his face. He was a young man, but he had already decided to stay for a while, as long as it had nothing to do with the game, he would be proud of it.

After all, in the eyes of the media, if he confronts Lucas, a living antique, he will definitely suffer!
"Hehe, I'm sure that Marquette University will win this game!" Lucas first looked at the Wake Forest fans who were paying attention here, and said firmly.

"Oh, then why are you so sure that Marquette will win?" Rogers continued to ask.

"Just because of the name of Marquette University, because Marquette University has entered the elite semi-finals, and because of Marquette's tenacious fighting spirit!"

"Hehe..." Rogers just sneered when he heard the words.

Damn, the Devil Deacon team has never made it to the Elite Four, and the Devil Deacon team has no tenacity and fighting spirit?

"Okay, two seniors, the game has officially started!" Josh Howard said suddenly, pointing to the field just as Rogers was about to speak.

The two old men stopped arguing, and then looked towards the field.

I saw just under the referee's throw, the centers of the two sides had an opening scrimmage.

"I think the center of the Devil Deacon team is undoubtedly better than the center of Marquette University!" Rogers glanced at it, and then said slowly.

"Nonsense, Marquette's center is stronger, okay?
You see, how standard Marquette's center defensive posture is and how perfect his position is, this is a very good center player! "Lucas immediately retorted when he heard the words.

But in fact, the offense on the field has nothing to do with these two centers. Jiang Yan is cruising outside the three-point line at this time, not playing fast offense with Marquette University like the previous game.

This time, on the contrary, the Devil's Deacon team will have a handover with Marquette and directly engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Use defense against defense!
So the Devil Deacon team's offense once again returned to the appearance at the beginning of the season. Jiang Yan stood outside the three-point line, observed the running position of his teammates, and drove the offense through a pass.

As he was speaking, relying on Tracy's cover, Williams temporarily got rid of the opponent's defensive champion Jae Crowder's defense and came to Jiang Yan's left three-point line.

With a flick of Jiang Yan's wrist, the ball came to Williams' hands in the blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Lucas III, who was defending Jiang Yan, resolutely gave up Jiang Yan in front of him and rushed towards Williams.

Seeing this, Williams immediately passed the ball back to Jiang Yan.

There is no one in front of Jiang Yan at this moment, if he does not shoot at this moment, when will he wait?

Immediately stood on tiptoe, did not take off much, and threw the ball.

After a second.

"brush!"

This voice is very sweet, for the fans of the Devil's Deacon team.

It is also good news for those teams that have always wanted to select Jiang Yan in the draft in June.

Jiang Yan's three-point shot undoubtedly shows that Jiang Yan has the ability to attack, but she lacks the desire to attack!

This is very different from before!

Not to mention scouts, even Rogers said with admiration: "This three-pointer is very accurate, which shows that Jiang Yan usually has the ability to shoot and attack, but he didn't show it. This is a real team player. ah!"

As for Lucas, he pursed his lips and did not speak. In fact, he also understood Jiang Yan's situation very well, and despite his respective positions, he still admired Jiang Yan very much.

After Jiang Yan hit the ball, she returned to the defense with a blank face, and at the same time, her teammates shouted: "Defense!"

This time, instead of defending the opposing point guard, Jiang Yan defended the opposing starting shooting guard Darius Johnson-Odom.

This is also Jeff's arrangement before the game. He really has nothing to say about Javi's defense. In order to curb the offensive arrows of the opponent's lineup, he can only let Jiang Yan defend Odom.

Jiang Yan stood in front of Odom, not far away, probably only half an arm long!

Jiang Yan knew that Odom in front of him was actually very comprehensive in offensive capabilities.

There are both shots and breakthroughs.

The only disadvantage is that after getting the ball, he can only attack and not pass.

It's about the same Dolby in Los Angeles.

And Odom's strength did not disappoint Marquette's coaches and teammates.

As long as the rest of them defend well and attack him, the team will win!
Odom looked at Jiang Yan casually. He looked down on Jiang Yan very much. He didn't think Jiang Yan could defend him because he was very confident in his attack.

In the blink of an eye, Odom moved.

He dribbled the ball with his left hand and took a big step forward with his right leg, intending to break through to Jiang Yan's left.

Jiang Yan easily reacted to such a breakthrough, and as soon as her body moved sideways, she blocked Odom's breakthrough route.

But, good guy, Odom's obvious breakthrough turned out to be just a lie to Jiang Yan, and his real breakthrough direction was actually Jiang Yan's right.

And Jiang Yan could only watch Odom break through and score.

When it was the turn of the Devil Deacon team to attack, it was still the same set of running tactics, still Jiang Yan's pass and Williams' running.

But this time Lucas III didn't go to defend Williams, so Williams directly shot a three-pointer.

6: 2.

The home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

In the next few rounds, Jiang Yan failed to defend Odom, and every time Odom was able to break through Jiang Yan, thus making an emergency stop and scoring a jumper.

But Marquette couldn't defend against the Devil's Deacon's attack, nor could he defend against Jiang Yan's pass.

So in 5 minutes, the two teams were tied.

16: 16.

Jeff called a timeout because he saw that Jiang Yan's physical exertion was serious.

"Yan, do you need someone else to guard the opposing shooting guard?"

"No, I can hold on now!" Jiang Yan didn't want to admit defeat, and Odom has made five of six shots against him, scoring ten points.

And that missed shot was because Tracy came to help defend a bit, which made the opponent hit the iron.

However, after 5 minutes of fighting, Jiang Yan has figured out the opponent's attack method.

After 1 minute, players from both sides play here.

"Rodgers, do you know how many points Odom has scored now? Ten, this is a score in just 5 minutes!" Lucas proudly said to Rogers.

"Then look at how many assists Yan has now! 6, which means that 16 of the team's [-] points are due to him! The other three points were scored by himself!" Rogers retorted not to be outdone.

"Seniors, the game has started again!" Josh Howard said again.

"Humph!"

"Humph!"

……

Jiang Yan went on the field and passed the ball directly to Jia Wei, who scored two points.

18: 16.

Marquette attacks.

The basketball passed to Odom again.

Jiang Yan faced Odom again. He had failed to defend Odom for seven rounds. He secretly made up his mind that he must defend Odom this time.

I saw Odom once again proficiently broke through Jiang Yan's left side, but this time Jiang Yan did not move her body sideways, but took a small step back.

Seeing Jiang Yan take a step back, Odom decisively withdrew his right foot, ready to make a jumper.

But what he never expected was that although Jiang Yan took a step back, with his 211cm wingspan, he still blocked Odom when he took off!

"Good shot!" Seeing this scene, Rogers directly took off the microphone that was attached to his ear, stood up and shouted loudly.

Even Josh Howard, who had been asking himself to be quiet, stood up and shouted hello.

After all, both of them went out of Wake Forest.

Lucas, on the other hand, was livid. Just now he belittled Jiang Yan's defense and praised Odom's offense.

Unexpectedly, this face was slapped so quickly!
It swelled immediately!
And the next game will be no problem at all.

Because Marquette University really couldn't guard against Jiang Yan's unpretentious but elusive pass.

Even if the coach of Marquette University arranged their defensive shield Jae Crowder to defend Jiang Yan, there was no way.

As a defender, you can defend other people's shots, defend other people's dribbles, and defend other people's breakthroughs.

But you can't defend the opponent's pass.

Because the passing route is 360 degrees without dead ends, even a defensive champion can only defend 180 degrees, so what about the other 180 degrees?
After halftime, the score came to 43:35.

The home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

Although there are only 8 points, in this kind of defensive battle, each round will take 35 seconds, so the 8-point difference can be imagined!

Jeff highly praised the team's defense in the locker room, but he has been tight and all players must not relax their vigilance.

He predicted that the opponent will have a wave of offensive frenzy at the beginning of the game. As long as they defend this wave, the team will be able to enter the Sweet Sixteen and be able to play at the Time Warner Center Arena in Charlotte!
Jiang Yan and the others naturally took Jeff's entrustment to heart.

At the start of the second half, the Devil Deacon team has been playing steadily, trying to increase the success rate of each round of attack and keep the number of rounds down.

At the same time, every player on the field tries to defend the opposing player.

Sure enough, after 10 minutes of Marquette University's violent attack in the second half, Odom, who had no physical strength, had a cramp in his foot and was carried off the court.

This directly broke down the players of Marquette University

I was holding my breath, but now that the core of the offense is gone, let's take a look at the scores of the two teams.

52: 40.

The home team is at the front and the visiting team is at the back.

Subsequently, Marquette University raised its surrender amid Lucas's indisputable lament, and sent the drinking fountain players in the team to the field.

And Odom, who was sitting on the bench, even cried directly!

In the end, the game ended, and the Devil Deacon team advanced to the Sweet Sixteen after defeating Marquette University.

(End of this chapter)