no shortcuts in basketball

Chapter 13 Translation Translation
In the afternoon of the second day, the team members took the school bus to Tucson, where the University of Arizona is located.

Tucson is the second largest city in Arizona after Phoenix, more than 100 kilometers away from Phoenix, an hour and a half by car.

The bus stopped directly on the campus, and they got off and went to the McKell Center, the main stadium of the University of Arizona.

The match was at seven o'clock in the evening, and there were still about four hours before the start.

When Xu Yong got out of the car, he saw that there were already many fans at the entrance of the arena, most of them were students, and there were also many social personnel.

And after entering the arena, they can still hear the cheers of the fans.

Following the sound, they walked to the entrance of the main stadium, only to find that the Wildcats were training inside, and there were already many fans sitting in the stands on both sides.

The University of Arizona is already a wealthy family. In addition, there is no NBA team in Tucson. The Wildcats are almost the only home team for local basketball fans, and their popularity is quite high.

At this moment, Pera came over to greet a few people. Their training venue is in the training hall.

When they arrived at the training hall, they found that the door was still locked, and it took half an hour before someone came to open the door for them.

Moreover, the training hall is also messy, and they can only clean it up by themselves.

Arizona is giving them the little rival treatment.

However, this kind of encounter did not discourage the members of the Devils, but further inspired the players' fighting spirit.

After being scolded by Sandek yesterday, they all held back their energy.

That night, the arena, which can accommodate nearly 4000 people, was packed, and even the aisles and entrances were packed with fans.

Their excitement was completely overflowing on their faces, and they held various noise-making tools such as air sticks and whistles in their hands.

The atmosphere of the NCAA is much stronger than that of the NBA, especially after the game has come to the critical regular season stage.

However, when the members of the Devils came out of the player tunnel, including Xu Yong, they were stunned for a moment.

They saw a large number of spectators wearing Arizona State University color scheme (wine red and yellow) T-shirts, or waving team flags, or holding up the team logo, nearly one-third of the audience!

The results of the invitational tournament not only built up the confidence of the members of the Devils, but also made the fans of the Devils look forward to it.

When they saw this, the members of the devil team were overjoyed and eager to try.

At the same time, on the other end of the team, players from the Wildcats have also come out of the player tunnel.

"Guys, let's make a big news, shall we?" Bayless glanced at Harden and Xu Yong on the opposite side, and then said.

They're going to recover from the humiliation they suffered that day in Tempe, the kind that won by 30 but never 28.

Hill and Budinger nodded at the same time. In two months, they have held back long enough!

After the warm-up, the scene entered the opening ceremony.

The opening ceremony of the NCAA is introduced by all members.

魔鬼队14人，首发五人最后登场，分别是13号哈登、3号艾尔斯、12号德里克·格拉瑟、44号杰伦·希普，以及23号徐永。

野猫队14人，首发五人分别是：13号1米78的控卫尼克·怀斯、0号杰里·贝勒斯、5号1米93的小前锋贾万·麦克莱伦、34号2米01的蔡斯·巴丁格，以及43号乔丹·希尔。

After the opening ceremony, the game is about to start.

Accompanied by the debut of both sides' starters, the cheers on the scene also reached a peak.

The opening game of the regular season, the derby, is a game that cannot be lost for both sides.

Hill and Ayres' jump ball in the center circle.

With a whistle, Hill used his wingspan advantage to turn the ball back to the Wildcats' half, and the game officially kicked off!

Wise holds the ball and advances to the frontcourt.

"Come on! Wildcats!"

Tucson fans show their enthusiasm.

During the sound of cheering, Hill mentioned a high position to cover, and Wise got in directly.

With a height of 1 meters, he can start in a wealthy team, and his speed is his biggest advantage.

The Devils shrunk their defense, and after Wise broke into the penalty area, he didn't look at it and threw the ball directly to the top of the arc.

Budinger ran to the top of the arc with continuous screens and made a three-pointer after receiving the ball.

"Shh!"

Hand up and down!
The cheers at the scene turned into cheers in an instant.

It was neither Bayless nor Hill that the Wildcats took the lead, but Budinger, who had no sense of presence in the field game that day.

They gave the Devils a surprise at the beginning!
After Budinger scored a goal, he looked at Xu Yong triumphantly, trying to find a trace of surprise on the opponent's face, but he soon found that Xu Yong's face was calm.

This made him feel nothing but surprise at the same time.

You must know that he didn't perform well that day, Xu Yong should at least be surprised to see such a silky three-pointer.

Of course Xu Yong would not be surprised, but Budinger is a veteran of the Rockets, how could he not know about such things as three-pointers.

In the Devils' round, there were all kinds of disturbances immediately, and the whistle was very harsh, which was much worse than the away games they played in the invitational game.

Glasser took the ball to the frontcourt and organized the offense.

Harden used Xu Yong's cover to catch the ball, but Budinger immediately switched to Harden, and directly blocked Harden's left breakthrough route.

The decisiveness of switching defenses and the defensive style of the card left, the Wildcats did a good job of targeting before the game.

Seeing this, Harden broke through directly from the right, and went to the basket against Hill's strong rise, causing the latter's defensive foul.

The Wildcats were very targeted, but they still missed Harden's ability to draw fouls.

The ability to make fouls here is not the "touching porcelain" in the future, but the ability to actually create damage, which is commonly known as destructive power.

Harden's weight plus his breakthrough speed is an absolute "human bomb".

There was a commotion at the scene, and the five NCAA fouls left the field. It was not a good thing for the Wildcats that Hill received a foul so early.

Because it was a shooting foul, Harden went straight to the free throw line.

Facing the huge interference from the scene, he made the first free throw to help the Devils score their first point.

He also had a second free throw, which was equal to a goal.

Looking back, the Wildcats repeated the same trick, Wise turned backwards and broke into the basket and then distributed the ball, but this time Budinger's shot after receiving the ball...

"boom!"

It was directly blocked by Xu Yong!

And the ball went out of bounds on the Wildcats, and the ball was exchanged to the Devils!

The scene was full of turmoil. Why did the opening rhythm of the game feel a little wrong?
The look in Budinger's eyes was even more unbelievable. He shot so high, how did Xu Yong cover it? !

Then he looked at Xu Yongshi, and found that the latter still had that calm expression.

This look really... made him inexplicably flustered.

The camera was shown to Xu Yong at this time, and Xu Yong's expression was calm, as if the block just now was so insignificant.

It's really not worth mentioning, because the Wildcats played the same tactic twice in a row, either they were stupid or they thought they were stupid.

With Wise's height, under normal circumstances, he has no vision to pass the ball to Budinger, which is why he failed to defend Budinger in the first round.

Since there is no vision, it is obviously a fixed tactic.

After realizing this level, it will be much easier to defend.

As long as you go around the pick-and-roll in advance, get in a position to catch you by surprise, isn't it covered?

But fortunately, Xu Yong was only thinking about it, otherwise Budinger would have to vomit blood.

As for college students like them, who can read the tactics so quickly and make the best response in the second round?

You are reborn, you are noble, you are amazing!
But this does have something to do with Xu Yong's rebirth.

Xu Yongzhong was a basketball commentator before his death, which greatly improved his ability to read the game. In addition, he has been playing in the United States after his rebirth, allowing him to put those understandings into practice. Now his reading, judgment, experience, and reaction have been raised to a very high level.

In other words, he hasn't deliberately trained defense, but his defense has reached a pretty good level.

Budinger's hat was not wronged.

The game continued, Glasser advanced to the front court with the ball, this time directly handing the ball to Harden, and then signaled to open up space for singles.

At this time, it was McClellan who defended Harden. He was the defensive leader of the Wildcats and also blocked Harden's route to the left.

Harden broke through decisively to the right this time, but at the moment McClellan followed, he suddenly changed direction and pulled back and left.

McClellan was knocked down!

Compared with speed, Harden's real killer move is rhythm!
There was a commotion at the scene.

Harden has gone straight to the basket.

Seeing this, Hill came up again, but he was not stupid. He didn't make another move this time, but raised his long arms high to interfere with Harden's shooting sight.

Harden jumped up to face Hill, but instead of a layup, he turned sideways and directly pulled the ball up with his left hand...

"Oh!"

Smash the ball into the basket through Hill!
At halftime for the Wildcats, head coach Kevin O'Neill was stunned.

Although Bayless brought him back a lot of information about Harden two months ago, and he paid enough attention to it, it is obvious that he still underestimated Harden's ability.

Harden's ability to read the game is not like a rookie at all. It is very difficult to defend such a talented and intelligent player.

Moreover, there is Xu Yong.

Just as he was dazed, Xu Yong completed another steal.

Harden kills all sides on the offensive end, while Xu Yong is everywhere on the defensive end.

Harden threw the ball to Xu Yong in the fast break, Xu Yong caught the ball in the air and scored a dunk, which also caused a foul by Wise!

Harden and Xu Yong teamed up to play a 6-0 offensive, giving the Wildcats an even bigger surprise.

The boy from the same state who was randomly pushed to the ground and bullied by them is about to rise up!
(End of this chapter)