The Way of the Center

"Huh? We saw that Ricard made some adjustments to the lineup on the field, which is... five up and five down!? This is really a bold attempt. Coach Ricard put all his starting players in one go. If he picked it up, wouldn't he worry about his starting players running out of energy in the second half? The remaining time of the game is not two minutes, but a full five minutes! But this may be the only way to recover the decline now." Philips paused His mouth never stopped.

"Remember, double-team, show him to death!" After the timeout ended, when the players of the Wildcats entered the field, Chris yelled from below, reminding the players of the tactics he had just arranged.

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In the first attack after returning from a timeout, An Jie received the ball again in the interior, and the person behind him was still Martins, who was specially switched back to defend An Jie.

When An Jie was about to go to the basket, he found that in addition to the center behind him, there was an extra defensive player in front of him. The Wildcats actually double-teamed themselves!

"Before the game, no one knew who this Asian big man was, but now he has become the offensive strength of the Cyclones. See, Chris used a double-team tactic against this little-known guy. Everyone on the field now Everyone knows that the high center forward named An Jie is not easy to mess with!" The commentator continued to tease.

An Jie didn't panic in the face of double-teaming, he calmly passed the ball to Anthony Ben. After An Jie passed the ball, the small forward who was double-teamed by the opponent immediately returned to his position, completely denying Ben a chance to break through. Ben didn't let the basketball stay in his hands, he decisively passed the ball back to Taylor, allowing him to reorganize the offense.

After Taylor took the ball, he raised his hand to signal his teammates to run quickly, and the others followed Ricard's words and accelerated the rhythm and speed of running. The Wildcats' tired players felt a bit overwhelmed, and the holes in the defense were getting bigger and bigger.

After playing an off-the-ball pick-and-roll, Cyclones shooting guard Cruz ran 45 degrees to the right of the three-point line and got an open shot. Cruz's ball-handling ability and athletic ability are not good. The reason why he can win the position of starting shooting guard is to rely on his precise shooting. Tony Cruz, a standard mobile turret.

Taylor has quick eyes and quick hands. After seeing the open space, he sent the ball to Cruz in time. Facing the defender who was still three steps away from him, Cruz made a decisive three-pointer without hesitation. The basketball fell into the basket gracefully, with only a burst of white waves.

Three points hit! The Cyclones instantly narrowed the point difference to only five points!

"Another damn off-ball pick-and-roll!" Chris was furious watching from below. The Cyclones' off-ball pick-and-rolls are too frequent and ingenious. They have lost points more than once because of the success of the opponent's off-ball pick-and-roll.

While the defensive loopholes are getting bigger and bigger, the offensive quality of the Wildcats without Beasley is also terrible. Either the shot knocked out of the frame, or was blocked by Anjie or Morris after a breakthrough. Beasley has been playing alone the entire game so far, and without him, the rest of the Wildcats have forgotten how to attack.

"Maya, Maya, Maya! Physical confrontation, physical confrontation!" Rickard shouted the codes that only the Cyclones players could understand. He was not afraid that the players would forget their arrangements, but wanted to use continuous big Shout to stimulate the nerves of the players on the field and keep them in a state of high tension at any time.

Starting from the bottom line, the Cyclones players used the full-court press. They are constantly entangled with their opponents, just to drain your already depleted stamina.

Anjie and Martins began to compete near the middle circle. They kept colliding and pushing each other. Martins just wanted to run across halftime to get a position, and Anjie didn't let him relax.

"Damn it!" Martins, who was irritated by harassment, became annoyed.

He directly pushed An Jie down to the ground.

An Jie accepted this "gift" unceremoniously. He fell backwards in a slightly exaggerated manner, and then opened his hands and looked at the referee innocently.

"Offensive foul, exchange the ball!" This is the referee's final penalty.

"What!" Martins went forward to argue with the referee, but what's the use? Just now he was the one who pushed the person first, although An Jie himself added some acting elements when he fell to the ground.

"If the opponent pushes you too hard in the inside melee, you can find a way to amplify his pushing you appropriately. Anyway, he really pushed you, and you just add some material to the basis of his pushing you. If You can make an offensive foul and get the ball for the team, so there is no shame in that. To me, this is also part of the defense!" This is what Morris taught An Jie when he was chatting with An Jie before. Jie's "unique skill". I didn't expect that An Jie would learn to use it so quickly.

"Haha, this kid, I don't think he's a bit bad." In the audience, a middle-aged bearded man praised An Jie's performance just now.

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In the subsequent offense, Anjie was still double-teamed by the Wildcats in the paint. But it doesn't make much sense to do so anymore, because apart from Anjie, the Cyclones can be said to be blooming more now. Facing the whirlwind-like fast movement of the Cyclones, the Wildcats' defensive players have begun to struggle.

Mike Taylor made an emergency stop jumper after dribbling past the matchup.

Morris forced the inside line, easily pushed through the exhausted matchup, and scored with a hook.

Cruz fired again from outside the three-point line, and the basketball spun three times on the hoop and still fell into the net.

Anthony Ben completed a wonderful dunk as he wished, and his counterpoint double-teamed An Jie. He couldn't let An Jie sacrifice in vain. The audience cheered for this defensive outside line who has been paying silently.

An Jie easily completed a turnaround shot before the opponent's small forward double-teamed. Martins behind An Jie had nothing to do about it, he could only symbolically jump up to interfere. However, that still couldn't stop the Cyclones from hitting their fifth consecutive field goal.

"Blow him up!"

"Are you scared! Wildcats!"

"Martins! Ann will beat you out of the way!"

The Cyclones played an 11-0 offensive climax, which completely ignited the enthusiasm of the fans. There were endless shouts on the court, either cheering for the Cyclones or putting pressure on the Wildcats.

Now there is still one and a half minutes before the end of the halftime game, and the score on the court has become 40 to 43, and the Cyclones lead by three points.

"I want to play!" Beasley couldn't bear it long ago on the bench.

"We still have 20 minutes to play in the second half. I hope to have you with plenty of energy to end the game!" Chris rejected Beasley's request to play.

"The integrity of the Cyclones team is too strong. The players on the field are always willing to share the ball with each other, and they cooperate very well. After all, there are no stars in this team. If they want to win, they have to rely on five people on the field. Work together. On the other hand, the Wildcats, without Beasley, they are two different teams. It seems that without Beasley, the remaining 14 players of the Wildcats don’t know how to play.” Philips said to his hometown The team is full of praise.

"But Paul, Coach Ricard's move is also very risky. He fought against others like this in the first half, can his starting players still play in the second half?" Bill responded to Ricard's frequent substitutions and The pressing tactics used early on were questioned.

"Coach Ricard is young, but as far as the current situation is concerned, he is a coach with a clear mind and creativity. I don't think you need to worry about this issue at all. Coach Ricard must have made a calculation in his heart, maybe We're going to see some crazier things in the second half."

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Martins kept beckoning for the ball in the interior. He kept saying from the beginning that he would take care of this yellow-skinned kid, but he has been the one who has been humiliated so far.

The Wildcats point guard didn't have a playmaker in mind, and his only job in previous games was to pass the ball to Beasley and step aside, and sometimes even Beasley dribbled the ball himself. It's halftime, and he will even save the step of passing the ball to Beasley. Now, when he sees someone asking for the ball, he passes it without thinking. He is used to this kind of game rhythm.

After Martins got the ball, he wanted to score impatiently, but he didn't have any superb skills at all. The only thing he could do was push back hard. The frizzy Martins pushed back twice symbolically, then turned around and wanted to force a layup.

Anjie did not miss the second "gift" Martins gave him. He calmly observed Martins' actions to prevent himself from fouling. Then, when Martins thought he pushed off the skinny Anjie and started laying up, Anjie slapped the ball out of Martins' hands out of the baseline with a light leap.

There was really no difficulty in blocking the ball, and An Jie felt that he couldn't get excited. But Martins on the side completely collapsed, he was given no chance by this unheard of Chinese today.

How can a player perform well if he has lost confidence in himself?

With Taylor hitting another half-block, the referee finally blew the whistle for halftime.

The players of the Wildcats walked towards the player channel with their heads down one by one. They were favored before the game, but now they are five points behind, and they were beaten by their opponents in the last five minutes to a 13-0 climax. They felt so ashamed that they did not dare to look up for fear of being photographed by media reporters.

On the other side, the Cyclone team did not relax because of the score lead, and the players walked back to the locker room one by one with serious expressions. After all like Chris Beasley said. They still have a full twenty minutes to fight in the second half. It's too early to be happy now, I'm afraid that in the second half of the game, extreme joy will turn into sadness.

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