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Chapter 19 Knockout

John Wooden has been paying attention to the performance of the Bruins. He didn't expect that after Liu Han joined, the team's performance could not keep up with last year's performance.In John Wooden's vision, Liu Han can be used as a sharp edge for the team. In positional warfare, Liu Han's role will be extremely prominent.John Wooden knows that the basketball of this era has undergone tremendous changes from 30 years ago, but the center is still regarded as the basis for winning the championship. A strong center will play an extremely important role in games related to the championship, because once the The game is very important, so the intensity of the defense will increase sharply. At this time, the cooperation between the inside and outside lines will be particularly important, and Liu Han's current role is to directly increase the deterrence of the outside line to the point where the opponent cannot ignore it. Can cause direct damage to opponents inside.So in the current NBA, the four major centers of Olajuwon, Admiral Robinson, Patrick Ewing, and Shaquille O'Neal are rampant, and the favorites in the draft every year are also powerful centers.Eighty-year-old John Wooden is not behind the times, he is still concerned about the changes in the basketball system all the time.

When Liu Han came to John Wooden's home, the assistant coach of the Bruins, George Clent, had already had a sincere conversation with Mr. Wooden, and he described to Mr. Wooden in detail his tactics against Liu Han. The arrangement on the Internet and directly explained to Mr. Wooden the head coach Jim Harrick's self-willedness.

"Mr. Wooden, Coach George, hello, I..." Liu Han was a little hesitant from the very beginning. He still couldn't tell others his purpose directly. It's about nature.

"Young man, I know the purpose of your coming today. You don't need to say it. George has already explained everything to me." Mr. Wooden saw Liu Han's embarrassment.

"Uh, thank you, Mr. Wooden, but I think it's better for me to say it. I want to play. I think I can score a lot of goals. The feeling of sitting and watching the game makes me very uncomfortable." After LaBeouf's family was encouraged by Safina and stimulated by Mr. LaBeouf, Liu Han plucked up the courage to speak out his purpose.

"Well, very good, young man, it's good that you can say that. I have read a lot of books introducing your oriental culture recently, which made me a little interested in your culture. In your oriental culture, advocate a It is contrary to the spirit of the United States, and even more contrary to the cooperative spirit of team sports. Here you have to bravely speak out your ideas and goals, Only by letting others feel your strong fighting spirit and spirit will others value you. But boy, you are wrong today, the person you should be looking for is not me, you should go directly to your head coach, only he has The right to let you play, understand?"

"Mr. Wooden, I just told you that I don't think Jim Harrick's current state is suitable to be the coach of the Bruins. He has lost his mind with some things." To Jim Harrick said an exasperated George.

"Yes, George, you said it just now, but I didn't say that Han's head coach must be Jim Harrick, right? Haha, go back and wait, George, and train and prepare with Liu Han , it shouldn’t be too long, I hope you won’t let me and many people down by then.”

"Mr. Wooden, you mean..." George Clent, who was a little excited, thought he had heard it wrong.

"I didn't say anything, Coach George Crent, lol."

Liu Han and George, who was still in a nervous mood, went back. Liu Han was still a little puzzled by the conversation between George and Mr. Wooden. He wondered if he should find time to really have a good talk with Coach Jim Harrick.

The first opponent of the Bruins in the championship game is Stanford University, which double-killed them in the regular season.

During the warm-up before the game, Liu Han has been considering whether to talk to Coach Jim Harrick.

At the beginning of the game, Liu Han was still sitting on the bench, and next to him was the backup center Thomson who had a good relationship with him.Thomson got a lot of opportunities to play during the period when the main center George Zidek was injured and rested, but George Zidek was in a stable state after returning from injury, so he had to guard the drinking fountains with Liu Han.

"Han, I don't understand why Coach Jim doesn't let you play. I think you will definitely be more useful than Sam on the court. Sam's shooting is not as good as mine." Thomson admires Liu Han very much. He is a mobile player. Relatively slow center, but has a good mid-range shot.

"I don't know why the coach didn't let me play..." Liu Han, who couldn't play, felt very depressed. "Maybe I should talk to Mr. Jim Harrick."

At the beginning of the game, the Bruins, who won the jump ball, attacked first.After the point guard Teus dribbled the ball for half court, he lobbed the ball to center George Zidek, who was on the back.

George Zidek dribbled the ball and leaned back after receiving the ball. He tried to use his strength to directly squeeze the defense of the opponent's center, but what he didn't expect was that the opponent's center was very strong, and he firmly resisted George.George, who found that he couldn't squeeze his opponent away, leaned directly on his opponent and turned to the left side of his body. He hit a half-hook with his right hand. The Czech has a solid foundation after four years of college training.

The players from Stanford University quickly served the ball after the Bruins made an offensive hit, and took advantage of the opponent's lack of concentration at the beginning of the game to directly launch a counterattack. They noticed the Bruins' weakness.The Bruins have two players taller than [-] meters. They are center George Zidek and power forward James Carr. This means that the Bruins are relatively slow in speed. The performance of the Bruins when they lost power in the regular season, so they changed their normality and increased their speed at the beginning of the game.

The Bruins' defense was counterattacked by the opponent before it was in position, and it was tied two to two.

The game has entered such a rhythm from the very beginning. The Bruins pressed the rhythm and prepared to fight head-to-head with their opponents, while the Stanford players prepared to turn the game into a sprint.

The Bruins slowly began to be disrupted by their opponents, because after all, they are all young people in their early twenties. After several years of training in college, they have gradually matured, but they watched their opponents counterattack again and again. Zhongxiu dunked, and the players of the Bruins team also began to get excited.

Stanford University's tactics are very extreme. They try to avoid positional battles with the Bruins in the offense as much as possible. Each of their offenses is often over in less than 15 seconds, while the American college game stipulates that the time limit for each offense is 35 seconds.Stanford University didn't want to grab offensive rebounds if they didn't make a hit in the offense, and went back to the defense collectively to prevent the Bruins from counterattacking.

Because the Bruins lack a relatively stable shooting point in the offense, they can only let the center play, or take turns to break through, and Stanford's defensive tactics are to prevent breakthroughs and not prevent shots. As long as the Bruins break through, they will face the opponent's double-team. This allowed the Bruins to quickly open the score.

In less than 5 minutes of the game, the Bruins were eight points behind their opponents.

Facing such an unfavorable situation, Jim Harrick had to choose to pause to make adjustments.

"Guys, you did a good job, but you have to be careful not to be disturbed by your opponent's style of play. You have to play according to our pre-game arrangement. After Hudson, you come on the court and replace James. Try not to shoot indiscriminately. Do you know the success rate? I believe you will not let me down." Jim Harrick knew that it would be useless to reprimand these young people now, and it might have the opposite effect, so he tried his best to Let his expression look a little more relaxed, trying to motivate the young man who has helped him for four years with encouragement.

"Coach Harrick, I think we should arrange Han to play. If he is on the court, our breakthrough success rate may increase." The team's captain Teuss chose to suggest to the head coach to arrange Liu Han to play, but he found that The face of the head coach gradually changed when he mentioned Liu Han.

"I know what I should do, Tejus Edney, you just need to do what you have to do on the court, and it's not your turn to do things off the court." Jim Harry, who was very upset Ke became quite merciless when he spoke.

The Bruins returned from the timeout, but their opponents counterattacked extremely sharply. The head coach of the Bruins was disrupted by Hudson White, who had just played. Originally, Jim Harrick’s goal was to Let Hudson play to ensure the speed of his team's defense, but Hudson, who didn't want to rush to perform, started to go it alone as soon as he came on the court. As a result, the Bruins began to make more mistakes, and Stanford University's counterattack came even more. It's resolute.

The Bruins, who fell behind, became more and more impatient, and their defensive and offensive actions became more and more serious.Several players on the Bruins team are already seniors. They could have chosen to enter the NBA in their sophomore or junior years, but the goal of the NCAA championship in their hearts made them choose to stay and fight hard. Unexpectedly Now it has fallen to such a point that the belief in their hearts has begun to lose balance.

As the Bruins moved more and more, the Stanford players also began to counterattack. They began to do everything possible to stop every attack of the Bruins. The movements on the field became more and more serious, and even chaos occurred.

In the last attack of the Bruins at the end of the first half, Hudson White broke through for a layup and was directly knocked down to the ground by a block shot by a Stanford player. Hudson, whose mentality was already out of balance, was getting up Afterwards, he punched his opponent. The Stanford players rushed towards Hudson White. The Bruins players also rushed to the place where the conflict occurred. Many players from both sides got entangled together. The referee's whistle It is impossible to organize this group of young people who are already passionate.

Jim Harrick, who was on the sidelines, looked at everything that happened on the field, and his mind went blank. He couldn't figure out what happened. Since Liu Han arrived, everything began to go wrong for him. It seems that his head coach's position is also He can't sit for long, and he feels that the Bruins have little hope for the future.

(End of this chapter)