Chapter 74 Elevator Tactics
Edgar Sousa and Terrence Williams returned to defense in time, but Emperor Wu still had a speed. He rushed all the way to the basket and suddenly turned around and threw the ball.
Bart stopped at the 45-degree three-point line to receive the ball, Zhang's hand made a three-pointer...
This kind of fast break at USC is rare on weekdays. Usually, they choose to shoot three-pointers in fast breaks when they are excited. However, when Wu, who was prepared, quickly blocked Edgar behind him, everyone understood the reason why USC chose this way. They have a triple-double point guard who averaged more than 10 rebounds per game in the National Championships.
Bart's three-pointer missed, and Wu Huang relied on his wingspan and bounce at the basket to successfully grab the rebound and make up the basketball. This is why USC dared to shoot three-pointers in a fast break. Their core averaged 34 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in the National Championships, an incredible triple-double average.
Of course, Wu Huang has only played three games now, but it is amazing enough to be able to hand over such data.
Wu Huang's rebounding is the latest discovery of scouts. In the past, they only gave Wu Huang's rebounding a good review, but now this review has risen to excellent. At the same time, everyone also found that Wu Huang's template is becoming increasingly difficult to find. Now many media have upgraded his template to Elvin Johnson, also known as the famous Magician.
Today, the University of Southern California's offensive strategy is not to fight back. High pick-and-roll and relying on covers to keep running and cutting are still their priority. Unless University of Louisville has excellent responses to these two offensive methods, they will not be so stupid that they will take the initiative to give up their most comfortable offensive method.
Louisville's pick-and-roll offense against USC is indeed more prepared than the previous three teams that were eliminated.
First, their strength and confrontational abilities are outstanding, allowing them to squeeze through the screen players during the USC pick-and-roll.
Secondly, these guys have outstanding explosive power. This allows them to bypass the cover player in time and pounce back in front of the offensive player.
Finally, Louisville University is an experienced team. They have made a very tacit understanding in their defense switching and assisting defense. If the outside players are really blocked by the cover, the inside players will also be timely to switch defense.
Wu Huang faced Louisville University's defense and did not get a good scoring opportunity through pick-and-rolls several times. In the end, he ended with passing the ball to his teammates. Fortunately, DeRozan and Gibson hit his two passes at the beginning, but the pick-and-roll offense that the University of Southern California is good at has become no longer invincible today.
"It's really prepared!" Emperor Wu knew that they could not always beat the world with pick-and-roll. He began to instruct his teammates to increase the interlude after being covered without the ball. DeRozan and Bart should increase the number of times of slipping, cutting, and counter-running. This will make his passes and breakthroughs more threatening.
However, soon, Wu Huang found that this move was no longer as useful as before, and the same problem was still the same. The players at the University of Louisville have good physical fitness, fast pace, and rich game experience. They pay great attention to their own back roads when defending. Wu Huang has few deadly passes.
After playing for seven or eight minutes in the first half, the shooting percentage of the two teams, except for the few goals at the beginning, was then in a dilemma of continuous blackshots. The scores rose a little after half a day, but the rebounds of the players of the two teams rose rapidly!
After a while, Wu Huang has grabbed 4 rebounds. Another one is the frontcourt rebound. However, it is not worth mentioning that USC has an absolute advantage in rebounding. The average height of the University of Louisville is a little higher than theirs, and its bounce and wingspan are not bad. The protection of the backcourt rebounds is still very good. USC cannot take much advantage.
At 12:42 in the first half, the score was 11:9, and USC temporarily led by 2 points, and both teams scored not high.
Floyd called a pause first, and this time they should come up with something new.
The live broadcast gave the close-up to Emperor Wu. They found that during this suspension, the Chinese genius had a smile on his face and was still smiling brightly.
Of course, Wu Huang smiled. The coaching staff specially prepared several killer moves for this national championship, one of which was a "elevator tactic" tailored for him. Simply put, this tactic is that the pitcher drilled through the two big players of the team, and then the two big men blocked the gap in the middle to block the defensive players, creating an opportunity for open three-pointers for him.
Today, Louisville University was very determined to double-team Wu Huang. As soon as he approached the three-point line, he would double-team, and two more steps forward were double-teams. In addition, these black and hard athletic abilities were excellent, he had not gotten a few decent shooting opportunities so far.
Now the score is in stalemate, Floyd obviously wants him to take the lead in firing an attack wave, and for this, he will expose his own killer weapon.
"Tactics are all about it, and you can't get a cub." Wu Huang has always liked this tactic very much. He originally planned to rely on this tactic to hit the three-point record, but unfortunately Floyd has never allowed the team to use it too early.
The game started again, and Wu Huang received the ball under the pressure of the defenders and passed the basketball to Gibson, who was mentioned to the online reception.
The Louisville player knew that Gibson did not have the ability to shoot at mid-range and long distances, so he let him go far and focused on Wu Huang and other USC players running without the ball to prevent them from inserting into the basket.
After Wu Huang passed the ball, he indeed cut from the middle, which immediately attracted all the attention of Louisville University.
However, he was only halfway through, and suddenly he stopped and ran backwards.
No one noticed at this time that there were two big men from the University of Southern California in the online area. The two quickly closed the door and blocked Wu Huang's followers.
Wu Huang ran to the top of the arc to catch the ball, and there was no defensive player around him, and he easily made three-pointers at the open space. This is the "elevator tactic" tailored for him by the University of Southern California.
"Haha, this tactic is interesting, but it seems to easily cause an offensive foul." Barkley was amused by the tactic of USC. Barnard and Gibson just closed the door and directly hit two defenders from the University of Louisville. If they hadn't stood in advance, they would have been called to cover the foul.
"Did you find out that when Hugo just shot, when he was shooting, USC included the two players who closed the goal to block the defensive players for him. A total of four players rushed to the basket to compete for rebounds. Even if they didn't make the shot this time, they had a high chance of getting a second offensive opportunity, so this tactic is indeed very interesting. But if the opponent is prepared, the success rate is not high, right?" Kenny Smith also analyzed.
If Emperor Wu heard this, he would sneer. Although their tactics are closely linked, the inside line must have a good sense of blocking people and grasping them, the shooter must have a very high shooting rate, and the passer must also have a good passing opportunity, but the most impact on the success rate is still the shooting ability of the shooter.
The University of Southern California has more than one ending plan. As long as Wu Huang’s running ability is high enough, this tactic can have many changes and will naturally become difficult to prevent. At least today, the University of Louisville will not easily crack the elevator that blocks people for him.
The head coach of the University of Louisville, Rick Pitino, is better than Floyd in terms of qualifications and status, but the latter has a player like Wu Huang, and the former can't even fly.
As soon as the "elevator tactic" of the University of Southern California was released, the situation in the first half suddenly changed. Wu Huang quickly obtained two three-pointers with this tactic of blocking the door. He also hit all of them, widening the gap to 8 points in a blink of an eye.
Rick Pitino had to ask for a timeout, but he asked him to quickly think of a perfect solution for the "elevator tactics" of USC. This seemed unrealistic. Coach Rick could only instruct his players in the end that when Wu Huang walked into the crowd of insiders, the defensive players should not follow too closely, and observe whether an elevator suddenly stood somewhere on the line at any time.
In fact, this kind of "elevator tactic" has appeared in the history of NBA, but it is true that no one has carried it forward.
Don't think that this tactic seems very simple. Emperor Wu just ran into the crowd and drilled out. His teammates helped him block the people in time.
But in fact, this set of tactics has high requirements for the executor. At the beginning of an elevator tactic, it must eventually evolve into multiple results. This will cause a real threat. Otherwise, the elevator door is standing there, and everyone is deceived for the first time. Perhaps it is because it is fresh, but if you come twice, you will be deceived again, which means that you have an IQ problem.
After the game restarted, the University of Louisville added observations and guard against the elevator door of the University of Southern California.
Emperor Wu's defenders did not dare to focus on him alone, and they also had to pay attention to whether anyone put an elevator door to trick him. But in this way, Emperor Wu did not necessarily have to implement this "elevator tactic". His strange running ability has more than one route and plan to choose from.
The United Center Arena soon cheered again from fans. Wu Huang changed his running route this time. The elevator door set up by the team had obviously appeared, but he ran in the opposite direction and went around to the weak side to receive the basketball.
This change caused the entire defensive formation of Louisville University to be in chaos. They had to fill up and switch positions on a large scale to ensure that no one was missing. As a result, there was only one person in front of Emperor Wu who was defending, and the misplaced small forward Earl Clark.
Their height difference is 15m. Wu Huang has an absolute advantage in footsteps 1-on-1. He changed directions and rushed outside the penalty area, attracting the opponent's three double-teams in an instant.
Louisville University's defense was completely messed up, and Wu Huang easily assisted and cut into Bart made a close shot.
Charles Barkley whispered: "This guy is too fast and very cunning to defend him. The defender needs to use a rearview mirror to lock his position."
Kenny Smith smiled: "I think the only reason why Louisville University is falling behind is that the core players do not perform their abilities better. Terrence Williams must perform like Hugo, but we can see that when he holds the ball, not only does not drive his teammates to play, but often makes his team's operation stop."
Chapter completed!