Chapter 19 Against Harlan Gaudí
Seeing Notre Dame's new fat little boy Harlan Gaudi ravaging the basket, the Bulldogs' head coach Matthew finally couldn't bear it anymore and called a timeout decisively.
Dennis didn't say a word when he left the court. He knew that the coach was not satisfied with his defense, but he promised that he had tried his best to defend his opponent, but the opponent's No. 44 little fat man was too difficult to deal with.
Those who have played basketball understand that the most annoying opponent on the court is this kind of flexible fat man. You see that he is not tall, but his strength is still low in the center of gravity. When he is stuck with you, he is like a pair of sandbags tied to your lower limbs, which makes you unable to use even if you are strong.
Dennis felt this way. He remembered Chuck Hayes, who was only 1.98 meters tall in an NBA game he watched not long ago, and Howard was very uncomfortable. He is now exactly the same as Howard's dilemma at that time.
Matthew decisively replaced Dennis with last season's starting power forward Brandon Carlo. In his opinion, Brandon is about the same height as Harlan Gaudi, and his defensive effect should be a little better than Dennis.
Then he turned his attention to Li Rong on the bench: "Li, you are playing together, we need to score now. Don't hesitate if you have a chance on the outside, and be decisive when you take action."
Li Rong jumped up from the bench and nodded, then took off his training suit and prepared to go on stage.
The boss of the Bulldogs team, Mike Green, didn't feel very good today. He only made one shot and scored only 3 points with free throws.
However, point guard Anthony frequently broke through the inside and scored 8 points.
When sitting off the court just now, Li Rong had already seen the problem on the offensive end of the ball. The opponent's outside defense was very tight. Notre Dame University adopted a strategy similar to joint defense to limit the Bulldogs' outside shooting.
Relatively speaking, the opponent's defense against the inside is a bit stretched.
Notre Dame's starting center is also a white man. Although he has done a good job in defending his own center Julian, he lacks protection for the basket.
Although the opponent's power forward Luke Harlangauddi has excellent offensive ability and fierce rebounds, he has no ability to protect the penalty area due to his height.
Notre Dame's defensive weakness is actually the inside rig protection. Matthew, as the team's head coach, also saw this problem, so during the timeout, he emphasized to Anthony that he should break through and attack the opponent's basket more.
Anthony remembered the coach's words in mind, and after the timeout, he hugged the ball into the basket.
However, Notre Dame University seems to have made some arrangements during the timeout. As soon as Anthony broke through the opponent's point guard's defense, he ran into Harlan Gaudi, who was making up for defense.
Harlan Gaudi's height does not have the advantage of the inside, which is for other insiders, but it is still more than enough to use him to defend Anthony, who is only 1.8 meters tall.
Anthony did not choose to force himself, but instead assigned the ball to Brandon, who was in the open position.
Brandon stood one step inside the bottom corner three-point line, and this point was not within his range.
He is very embarrassed now, obviously he was let go by the opponent. Others from Notre Dame University had no intention of coming up to make up for defense, so they bet that he would not score this goal.
Brandon didn't hesitate for too long and finally made up his mind to shoot this ball. If this ball could be shot, his opponent would definitely not dare to let it go next round.
Unfortunately, the ball was very skewed and the rebound was taken away by Harlan Gaudi.
The Madame did not rush to attack, but ran the tactics in a straightforward manner and finally handed the ball to Harlan Gaudi in the inside.
Harlan Godi hit the back twice in the low post, and suddenly he hooked his hand sideways, and the ball bounced on the basket, and finally fell into the basket.
26 to 16, the Bulldogs fell by a full tenth behind.
If this continues, the Bulldogs will probably have to explain this game. All the fans at the scene are anxious and hope that the home team can quickly get out of the quagmire.
Looking back, Anthony broke through to the inside again, but this time he distributed the ball to Li Rong on the outside.
Li Rong used a realistic shooting fake action to point the defender, held the ball into the inside, and scored the ball against Harlan Gaudi's backup defense.
"Dou!" The referee blew the whistle and gave Harlan Gaudi a defensive foul.
Li Rong made a free throw, helping the team narrow the gap to 7 points.
But looking back, Harlan Gaudi scored another back against Brandon, which also caused a foul, making a 21-pointer, and the difference between the two sides returned to 10 points again.
Seeing that Li Rong succeeded in the last time, Anthony used the same trick again this time, and after breaking through, he distributed the ball to Li Rong on the outside again.
Li Rong was scattered outside the three-point line, but this time the opponent did not take a fake move, but straightened his arm and tried to interfere as much as possible.
Li Rong took a step and widened the gap with the defender, and his body suddenly paused.
The defender thought he was going to shoot, so he jumped up to interfere.
Li Rong dribbled the ball again and bypassed his body and killed the inside line, hitting a board and throwing a shot.
In the next round, Harlan Gaudi succeeded in the inside again. This time he used his strong body to push Brandon away. After the goal was scored, he complained to the referee about the foul.
The difference is still ten.
Li Rong sighed, Brandon's defense of Harlan Gaudi was not as effective as Dennis.
At least Dennis is still tall and can occasionally interfere with Harlan Gaudi's shooting. Brandon is just giving away the head when he comes up, and there is no threat to the offensive end.
Head coach Matthew obviously noticed this, but he was hesitant to change to Dennis again, which seemed to be suspected of slapping himself in the face.
Stevens next to him couldn't sit still, so he stood up and walked to Matthew and whispered, "Switch people."
Is face important or win or lose important?
Matthew asked the referee for a timeout again without hesitating for too long.
At this time, the score difference was 9 points. Li Rong scored a very long three-pointer in the last round, and he had already scored 7 points in a row after he came on the court.
However, Harlan Gaudi then returned with a color and hit a mid-range shot near the free throw line.
Putting aside the scores of both sides, the two's scoring battle during this period made the fans on the scene feel so happy.
"Supply Julian, he's too much to the attack space," Stevens said. "He has the range to go to Miles."
This is the way of playing against attack. Since you can't defend your opponent, you might as well send your strongest lineup to fight against the opponent.
Matthew nodded and then patted his palm: "Young guys, we need to break through and pass the ball, we need to pass the ball more patiently until we find the best outside line to get out of the phone. This is the best way to crack the joint defense."
"Come on!" the five team members folded their palms together and shouted.
Chapter completed!