The yellow storm in the NBA

On April 1, 2007, the Georgia Dome in Atlanta will host the 2007 NCAA men's basketball semifinals. The teams they will face are the University of Texas (Southern Division) VS Georgetown University (Eastern Division) and the defending champions.

Champion University of Florida (Midwest) VS UCLA (Western Division).

Four days ago, after stepping on the corpse of Ohio State to reach the Final Four, coach Barnes finally issued a championship declaration, and the players no longer thought it was strange.

After experiencing the baptism of the national competition, they have a new understanding of their own strength. Especially Durant, after this war, he has a deeper understanding of the game, and his natural strength has also been improved.

As for today's opponent, Georgetown University, actually has a very similar structure to Ohio State.

And Georgetown's overall strength is not better than that of Ohio State, but experience is their greatest asset. The five starters only have one freshman and one sophomore. The other three players are all juniors, and two of them are juniors.

The core players of the famous team are all third-year students.

Last year, Georgetown lost to eventual champion Florida in the conference semifinals. In that game, Georgetown held on until the last minute and was eventually defeated by Brewer's fatal three-pointer. This year, Georgetown learned from last year.

learned their lesson, picked up their weapons again and entered the semi-finals.

In fact, the reason why Georgetown can appear in the semi-finals is largely due to their calmness. In the conference semifinals against Vanderbilt, Georgetown was still one point behind in the last 3 seconds, but Green finally hit the decisive shot.

A negative goal.

Two days later, they trailed North Carolina by 11 points, but in the end they won.

As the team's key player and the anchor of the penalty area, Hibbert, a junior, averaged 12.7 points, 6.9 rebounds and 2.5 blocks per game. From a data perspective, Texas' insiders are obviously unmatched.

However, compared to Oden, Hibbert is still much weaker, and Texas, which has crossed Oden, will not be afraid of him.

In addition to Hibbert, Jeff Green in their lineup is another player worthy of attention. As the Big East Conference Player of the Year, Jeff Green averaged 1.0 points per game during the championship.

With 5.8 points, he is the team's leading scorer, and his strength should not be underestimated.

At 6:07 on April 1, 2007, Beijing time, this much-anticipated semifinal started on time. There was no doubt that Texas lost again due to the jump ball, but no one cared about it.

Georgetown took the lead in attacking from college, and the first ball was handed over to their center. Facing Pittman's defense, the 7-foot-2 Hibbert scored two points with a small hook under the basket.

Quan Xiao still has a certain understanding of Hibbert. This big man who was once called the "Black Yao Ming" later joined the NBA Pacers and caused a lot of trouble for the Heat, which formed the Big Three.

Defeating the Heat's weak inside line became one of the few highlight moments in his career.

He has good skills at the basket, plays very hard, is calm, and has certain passing abilities. However, Hibbert's shortcomings are also obvious, the most important one is that he often gets into foul trouble.

Moreover, his mid-range shooting is not stable enough, his athletic ability is limited, and he lacks speed and explosive power. He will have trouble against tall and athletic centers, and it will also affect the speed of the team during transitions between offense and defense.

In response to his weaknesses, Quan Xiao greeted Durant and Augustin and adopted a strategy of attacking the inside and drawing fouls. With the three people taking turns to attack, the game was successfully defeated in less than 5 minutes.

Hibbert received 3 fouls. This forced Georgetown University to temporarily replace Hibbert.

With Hibbert's dismissal, Georgetown's inside strength declined significantly. So Texas also switched its style of play. Durant and Quan Xiao began to use shooting to score points, and in conjunction with Augustin's breakthrough, only

Within 5 minutes, the score difference between the two teams increased to more than 10 points.

At 11 minutes and 35 seconds into the first half, the score between the two teams was 33:21, with Texas leading by 12 points.

Originally, it seemed that the strength of the two teams was about the same, or that Texas was slightly stronger, but only to a limited extent. However, after the game started, it was discovered that Texas was at least one level stronger than Georgetown.

Grade. This was especially evident after Hibbert left the game.

Speaking of which, Georgetown is better because of its overall balance. There is no particular strength or weakness. Whether it is Hibbert on the inside or outside.

Jeff Green, both are considered stars, but they are not superstars.

On the other hand, Durant and Quan Xiao from Texas are definitely superstars in college. Let me ask you, when two superstar-level players show off their power together in a game, how many teams

Can it be stopped?

Therefore, when Durant and Quan Xiao showed off their power, the game immediately deviated from Georgetown's predetermined vision and completely got out of control.

And after suffering from foul problems, which forced its core to take a rest, it was even more difficult for Jeff Green to support himself. Therefore, it seemed that Georgetown was destined to fail in this game.

Neither the commentators on the sidelines nor the audience expected that this semi-final would be one-sided. The teams that can reach the final four are naturally not weak, and it seems that the situation should be evenly matched. But why?

Will it be one-sided?

In the last game against Ohio, although Texas won the game in the end, they fell behind in the first half? And Georgetown's strength is not far different from Ohio's. Logically speaking, it should be as good as Dirk's.

It's only right that Sass is on par with him.

The main reason why this game is one-sided is that there is no Oden in the opponent. Another reason is that Durant has been sublimated and his strength has increased after the last game. Therefore, what is reflected in this game is

He united with his teammates and defeated his opponent in an instant.

Even if Hibbert was replaced later, he couldn't stop Texas. Because Durant and Quan Xiao, who had opened up their hands, extinguished the last trace of Georgetown University's illusions with a rain of three-pointers. In the first half,

At the end of the game, Texas had led Texas by 18 points, 55:37. At this point, the game had basically lost its suspense.

In the second half, Durant and Quan Xiao only played for 5 minutes. In the end, Texas defeated Georgetown University with a score of 87:73 and advanced to the finals.

In the next semi-final, the defending champion Florida won UCLA without any blood with a score of 76:66, meeting Texas in the finals and continuing its journey to defend the title.

Will Texas win the championship in history or will Florida successfully defend the title? All the suspense will be revealed in two days.