NBA: Start the water cooler and reach the Hall of Fame

Today's Lucas Oil Stadium was full of seats, but unlike the previous few times, more than 80.00% of the audience at the scene today were either wearing dark blue Butler University short sleeves, or holding signs cheering for Butler University , Looking around, among the crowds, there are only a few Memphis fans here and there. If you don't squint and look carefully, you can't find anyone there!

Before the start of the game, around the first half of Memphis' warm-up, the fans had already booed the Memphis players, especially Li Kaiming.

If his ball goes in, the spectators at the basket will yell, "Shoot quickly, you won't make it when the game starts!" followed by uniform boos!

If he doesn't make a shot, the fans will yell, "No shot now, and I won't make a shot when I play later!" Then there will be a tsunami of boos.

Li Kaiming was amused by these cute fans, so his way of dealing with it was, once a ball was missed, he would immediately rush into the penalty area, pick up the missed basketball, and then make a shocking dunk!

Listening to the wailing from the rim and hoop of the court, the fans on this side of the court are obviously not so active.

This guy is so violent!

Many fans began to whisper in their hearts, this Chinese boy is so fierce, can his own players stand up to it?

The game started immediately, Pastner called all the Memphis players over, and then said to the players in a circle, "Remember what I said, don't be reckless, follow our pre-match strategy, if all If you can't play any tactics, then give the ball to Lee and Elliott!"

Everyone nodded solemnly.

Seeing the players walking onto the court, Pastner watched their backs and slowly clenched his hands.

You guys always say I'm going to get slapped by Stevens, let's see...

To prove himself, it has never been just Li Kaiming or Memphis players. Pastner also needs a hearty victory.

Under the signal of the referee, the players from both sides gathered in the middle circle, and the rest stood outside the circle evenly. Li Kaiming and Butler's center Andrew Smith stood inside the circle, ready to jump the ball.

The referee glanced at the positions of the players on both sides, then signaled to the technical table, ready to start timing, then walked to the middle of the field, held the ball above his head with one hand, and then blew the whistle, throwing the ball vertically into the sky!

The ncaa crazy March semi-finals officially start!

Li Kaiming and Andrew Smith took off almost at the same time, but Li Kaiming's explosive power gave him the upper hand again. When the ball flew to the highest point, he flicked it lightly, and the ball was in the hands of Memphis!

The Butler University players immediately returned to their backcourt and began to lay out the defense.

Stevens on the sidelines nodded slightly. This guy was fast, as expected in the video of the game.

Kemp unhurriedly dribbled the ball to the frontcourt amidst the boos of the audience, and then began to direct his teammates to run.

Butler University adopted a conventional 2-3 defensive formation today. This defensive formation is most restrained by breakthrough players, but it will be defeated by inside players with range.

It seems that Stevens' research on Li Kaiming is also very in-depth. Although Li Kaiming averaged high points per game after starting, the distribution of points is basically inside the penalty area, and there are only a few sporadic attempts outside the penalty area in each game.

As for the three-point lore, Stevens, who believes in mathematics, still classified it as luck.

So, today's defensive tone is so simply set.

But Butler's 2-3 zone defense is different from other teams' zone defenses. In addition to being restrained by the inside line with a range, players with strong passing ability can also cause a devastating blow to the zone defense.

Therefore, in order to make up for this defect, it is necessary to have two extremely fast forwards on the flanks to act as "free men" in the zone defense formation, that is, where supplementary defense is needed, these two people will be close to the corresponding area.

Coincidentally, Butler University happens to have such a configuration.

The striker configuration of Gordon Haywood and Matt Howard is considered luxurious in the entire ncaa!

In addition, these two guys are not fuel-efficient on the offensive end, so the previous teams all died under the rotation of these two guys, and then they were repelled by their stern offense.

Therefore, the key to cracking Butler's defensive strategy is to break down the double rotation of Hayward and Howard.

Li Kaiming discovered this when he received the ball in the first round.

As usual, he received the ball at the waist position. When he looked up, it seemed that there was only his opponent Andrew Smith in front of him, but Hayward and Howard at the top of the arc and the bottom corner on the same side were all staring at him. Once he made a breakthrough with the ball, What awaits him is a pocket array!

Naturally, he would not drill in foolishly, but returned the ball to Kemp, allowing him to organize the attack again.

The attack time is as much as 35 seconds, so there is no rush.

Of course, Pastner's four or five days of closed-door research was not without effect, and he formulated countermeasures before the game.

Kemp handed the ball to Williams, and then ran to the bottom corner on the right, ready to catch the ball with open hands, and the rest of the people except Li Kaiming also pulled from the three-point line on the other side Open, Williams holds the ball, and Li Kaiming goes up to pick and roll.

If Butler still adopts zone defense, then Memphis has three options to deal with it.

If the zone defense chooses to surround Li Kaiming, then Williams will kill in or shoot directly. If he chooses to defend Williams, then three people will be attracted by Li Kaiming to the line, and there are only two people in the remaining three points. Anti-, there will inevitably be a vacancy!

Double the poison to choose a cup!

Although Memphis's substitutes are stretching their hips, their starters are definitely at the level of a strong team. Any one of them has the ability to punish opponents from the outside!

Stevens deserves to be a Hall of Fame-level coach. He trained the team's defense to the point of proficiency. The moment Li Kaiming and Williams formed a pick-and-roll, the defensive formation became man-to-man defense, and Smith, who was defending Li Kaiming, It sinks instantly, allowing shooting guard Grant Leendecker to chase Williams.

This transformation is simply a work of art!

But Pastner is not a vegetarian. Since you have become man-to-man, then I will play a one-on-one advantage. Williams directly passed the ball to Li Kaiming on the edge of the penalty area.

At this time, Li Kaiming got the ball again and faced Smith's defense, but this time, the latter did not have the rotation of his teammates to defend, so he had to face Li Kaiming's impact alone!

Li Kaiming didn't hesitate, and took three steps to catch the ball. His speed advantage can only be brought into play when he rushes. If he plays positional warfare slowly, it will be a waste of martial arts.

Andrew Smith is a typical white center. The advantages of this kind of player are superb skills, good awareness, strong lower body strength, suitable for top defense and frame protection. Such players have strong team attributes.

But the shortcomings are also obvious. Physical talent, especially running and jumping ability, is far inferior to a black center of the same height, so he is strong in protecting the frame on the defensive end, but his lateral movement is slow.

Li Kaiming's speed is one of the best among NBA centers, let alone Smith, a white center, although he consciously took a step, Li Kaiming still charged up, and then lightly picked the basket on the right side of the basket.

scored! 2:0 start!

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