Basketball Myth: Super Guard

Near the end of February, the ncaa game became tense.

In addition to the Ivy League, the team with the first regular season record automatically wins the league championship, other leagues will also play playoffs after the regular season ends.

Because the playoffs are a single-elimination system, the schedule is very compact, from 8 to 4, to 4 to 2, and then to the championship. There are three rounds in total, which will end in 3-5 days.

On this day, Syracuse University ushered in the first round of the playoffs against the University of Louisville.

This season, the University of Louisville ranked sixth in the Big East. In the previous regular season, Syracuse University played against the University of Louisville twice. The first match was when Syracuse University defeated the University of Louisville and won seven streak.

After the second fight, Syracuse University lost to the University of Louisville.

However, at that time, Syracuse University changed to the "run-and-gun tactics" not long ago, and the tactics were not proficient enough. Now, Syracuse University is stronger than that time.

Before the game, the head coach of the University of Louisville, Dawn, called the players together and ordered: "We will attack the inside line more and make Jefferson's foul later."

"Yes." Several players agreed.

The previous game between Syracuse University and Marquette University was a battle of the spotlight, and many people paid attention to this game, including some team coaches.

Coach Dawn is one of them.

From this game, he learned a way to deal with Syracuse University's "run-and-gun tactics", which is to target Jefferson and make him a foul. "I can't fight anymore.

So today Coach Dawn is going to prescribe medicine and use this trick to deal with Syracuse University.

Unfortunately, he thought too simply.

The two ace of the University of Louisville, Landers on the inside and Todd on the outside, are the backbone of the team. Todd has a sharp breakthrough and a strong scoring ability. All want to foul Jefferson.

But what makes them a little depressed is that Jefferson is very cunning, and he is not fooled at all. Sometimes he would rather get out of the way and let them score, that is, not foul.

So much so that when Landers was pressed to the basket, he was not in a hurry to shoot in the face of the basket, and he was not fooled by crazy temptations to tempt Jefferson to foul. On the contrary, Landers wasted the best shot opportunity, and Syracuse University immediately launched. The containment caused his mistake.

This is kind of annoying.

After a few minutes, Jefferson didn't get a foul.

Of course, in order to avoid fouls, Jefferson let Louisville get a lot of points in the paint, but whenever they score, Syracuse will immediately fight back.

Qin Hao, Holbert, and Felton made three-pointers successively, plus Butler's strong play, how many points were lost on the defensive end, Syracuse University recovered more points on the offensive end.

So after more than four minutes in the first half, Syracuse University led the University of Louisville by 4 points with 11:7.

"beep......"

Coach Dawn frowned and called a timeout.

When the players came down, he began to emphasize defense. He felt that the players' defense was not in place, especially the defense from beyond the three-point line. Syracuse University scored three three-pointers, which was too bad.

It's only a few minutes?

If it goes on like this, won't Syracuse University vote crazy?

"Defend well, especially the three-point shot." Coach Dawn repeatedly urged.

However, to no avail.

After the suspension ended, the two sides returned to the court, and Syracuse University's offense was still unstoppable.

Their counterattack was too fast, and they didn't wait for the University of Louisville to settle down. In order to limit the three-point shot of Syracuse University, several University of Louisville players had no time to think and rushed to the three-point line for the first time.

However, Landers and power forward Charlie were too slow, they hadn't finished retreating, and the inside line was empty. When they rushed to the three-point line, Qin Hao, or Butler or Holbert, immediately broke through.

Once breached, you can only watch them score.

In the next few minutes, Syracuse University's three-point shooting was indeed limited. The three-point shooting decreased a lot, but it made more breakthroughs and scored more points in the basket.

"Snapped!"

"beep!"

The thugs, the whistle blows.

The referee pointed to Jefferson and gave him a foul.

At this time, eight minutes have passed in the first half, and Coach Dwayne's face is dark. It took only eight minutes to cause a foul on Jefferson, which is useless.

Looking at the score again, the difference between the two sides has not been narrowed, but it has become larger.

"Why can Marquette win if we use it, but we can't?" Coach Dawn exclaimed, feeling misled by Marquette.

Pit father!

Here, Qin Hao and his teammates gave a high five to celebrate, returned to the sidelines and sat down. After 8 minutes of play in the first half, the team led by 7 points, and the players were in a good mood.

"Haha, the other party is studying Marquette University, and they want to target Jefferson. Unfortunately, they are too naive." Brother Flathead laughed.

"Hmph." Jefferson snorted coldly and said nonchalantly, "They think I'm a fool, if I suffer a loss, will I suffer a second time?"

"Ha ha......"

The crowd laughed.

After the loss to Marquette University, Coach Fox specially arranged to deal with this mistake. First, Jefferson had to control the foul.

Sometimes it is better to let the opponent score than to foul, and let the opponent score nothing, as long as the "run and fire" plays smoothly, the lost points can be quickly regained.

Secondly, Coach Fox arranged a backup plan and prepared another lineup consisting of Butler, Kerr, Qin Hao, Holbert, and Felton. There was no real insider, and the four players were all one meter tall. Nine or more, but less than two meters, is a "small lineup".

This is the suggestion given by Qin Hao, referring to the Warriors during the "Splash Brothers" period.

Because there are many people who can shoot three-pointers at Syracuse University, after changing to this "want and lineup", all five players can shoot three-pointers. Although there is a little difference in height, Qin Hao and Kerr are both 197cm. Butler is 196cm, Holbert is 194cm, and Felton is 191cm. Only by actively fighting, it's not that they can't get rebounds.

The biggest advantage of this is that it retains many of the characteristics of the "run-and-gun" strategy. Although the lineup has been changed, it is not difficult to adapt.

It's not like when he played against Marquette University before, Jefferson went down and replaced Kent, the rhythm suddenly dropped, and the players were difficult to adapt.

So Coach Dawn wants to prescribe medicine and beat Syracuse University the same way Marquette University did against Syracuse University, which is impossible.

Even if he succeeded, and Jefferson fouled three or four times early, Syracuse University still has a backup plan.