NBA: This Center Is So Stable

The first time, the last time.

Chapter 30 The frustrated Longhorn coach

TJ Ford played well in the national semi-finals today.

Facing the unknown North Carolina Wolfpack guard, he broke through and passed the ball, showing his star guard qualities.

In the first half of the game, he scored 12 points and 5 assists.

Helped the University of Texas Longhorns to get a slight advantage.

The North Carolina outside line group did not complete the task assigned by Herb Sendek before the game.

To deal with such a flexible guard.

The North Carolina Wolfpack’s stretched outside line group is difficult to play a strong interference effect.

Even Julius Hodge, the team’s outside line leader, is a classic player with strong offense and weak defense.

Therefore, it is difficult for North Carolina’s outside line group to block the Longhorn star guard whose template is Allen Iverson.

So starting from the second half of the game.

The North Carolina coaching staff began to change their thinking and no longer obsessed with targeted defense on the outside.

Instead, they put the focus of the game on offense.

After observing the half-time, Herb Sendek found that there were obvious problems with the opponent’s restricted area defense.

Their restricted area height is not enough!

The average height of the inside duo of the University of Texas Longhorns is less than 205, which is a unique advantage for North Carolina.

Whenever the North Carolina Wolf Pack team moves the ball to the weak side.

Just give the ball to Wang Song in the low position, and you can always form a visual difference that looks “misplaced”.

After opening up the inside line, North Carolina’s outside line was also released.

With multiple offensive rebounding opportunities, even if their touch was bad, they could score the damn ball after receiving the pass.

As for the defense against TJ Ford.

Herb Sendek’s arrangement was also very targeted. Starting from the second half, he let the North Carolina outside line group launch an infinite contraction strategy against TJ Ford.

Tighten the defense line and sacrifice a little defensive space to limit the opponent’s breakthrough.

This way of letting the shoot but not the breakthrough is equivalent to fatal damage to this breakthrough guard.

Although TJ Ford’s three-point shooting rate has improved compared with last season this season.

But it is difficult to expect to win the game with his unstable three-point shooting rate of 27%.

After adjusting the game strategy.

The North Carolina Wolf Pack, who realized that offense is the best defense, began to take the initiative in the second half.

Wang Song scored in succession in the low post, and James Thomas and Brian Bodick of the Longhorns once double-teamed him.

But Wang Song’s vision on the court was so broad that it really shocked the Longhorn duo.

Even TJ Ford on the outside was a little surprised.

This Asian center seemed to have eyes behind his head, and he could always pass the ball to the right place at the first time.

There was no need for his teammates to pass the ball again, and his teammates who received the pass from him could complete the shot well.

Moreover, he could always seize the opportunity to complete the counter-positioning.

It is hard to imagine how a player of this physique has such a solid lower body strength.

What’s more exaggerated is that the inside double towers of the Longhorns are not as long as Wang Song.

Sometimes even if the position is well blocked, it can always be rebounded by others.

There are 10 minutes left in the second half.

The coaching staff of the University of Texas Longhorns can’t hold back.

Seeing the team’s momentum decline, they called a timeout and replaced the players on the court.

The original Longhorns starting inside duo can be said to be invincible in the Southern Qualifiers.

But in today’s game, they were like little sheep tied up with their hands tied.

Their height shortcoming was completely exposed to the opponent!

The Longhorn coach was very troubled.

If this situation continues, the draft prospects of the two young players in the team will become extremely difficult after the game.

In this game, James Thomas Jr. and Brian Bodick were completely surrounded by Wang Song on the court.

Especially the problem exposed by the height of the two, I believe that many scouts on the scene have already recorded it in the report.

In the NCAA itself, the height of the inside line of about 205 is definitely not a big disadvantage.

As long as you can brush up the data well, you can still participate in the draft.

For example, the famous right-hand man of Jordan in history, “The Worm” Dennis Rodman, is only a little over 2 meters tall.

There is also “Flying Pig” Charles Barkley, whose height of 198cm is even more flying in the NBA.

Height has never been a problem, the main problem is

It is a comparison. He was exposed for his shortcomings when he was at a height disadvantage.

That would make him look very incompetent.

Thinking of this, the coach of the Longhorns became extremely distressed.

What made him even more uncomfortable was that.

Although the inside rim protection lineup on the court was adjusted, a taller substitute inside player was replaced to replace James Thomas.

But the lateral speed also showed an exponential decline, especially when Wang Song attracted a double team on the weak side and passed the ball to his teammates on the outside.

The pace of the substitute center could not keep up with the rhythm of Wang Song’s passing.

And if he gambled to defend the outside, Wang Song would get a good rebounding position in the restricted area one-on-one.

So the final situation became that Wang Song held the ball in the low post, and two people doubled and increased the intensity.

And the teammates on the outside were like doing shooting training.

The opportunity of four against three can always pass the ball to the open teammates to complete the end.

At the end of the game, the initiative was completely controlled by the North Carolina Wolf Pack.

The Longhorn coach was also furious.

At the last moment of the game, he was determined to teach this Asian center who had made his beloved disciple lose a lesson.

No matter how open the outside line was, Wang Song must be strictly guarded.

Wang Song must not be allowed to get good data in this game!

But what he didn’t know was that his decision was simply a top enjoyment for Wang Song.

Every time he passed the ball at the right time, assisted teammates, and took offensive rebounds…

they were all helping him to brush up the steady experience points, and the prompt sound in his mind never stopped.

Although he hadn’t clicked on the post-match statistics, it was foreseeable that the experience points gained in this game would be the highest in his NCAA career.

In the end, the whistle sounded, announcing the end of the game.

The North Carolina Wolfpack won the game with an absolute advantage of 96:78, and also scored the highest score since the elimination game.

All this was thanks to the arrangement of the head coach of the University of Texas Longhorns, and the outside line got a lot of good shooting opportunities.

The highest score of the game was scored by the star guard of the University of Texas Longhorns, TJ Ford scored 28 points alone but could not turn the tide.

Julius Hodge of the North Carolina Wolfpack scored the highest score of the team with 21 points.

As for Wang Song!

Targeted by the Longhorns coach, Wang Song scored 15 points with a total of 10 shots, tied with another starting teammate of the Wolfpack for the second highest score in the team.

It is worth mentioning his other data.

In addition to 15 points, he also scored 8 assists and 10 rebounds, a near triple-double, and sent 4 hot blocks.

Facing the short inside group of the Longhorns, he seemed to be at ease in the restricted area.

(End of this chapter)