pinnacle swinger

Chapter 36 Against Duke ([-])

The NCAA finals over the years will receive great attention from the American sports world. For example, Syracuse's match against Duke this year can be called a strong confrontation. On the day of the game, even the entire NBA has a truce for a day.

To put it bluntly, it is to promote college basketball. To put it bluntly, the ratings of the day were dominated by this game. For a commercial league, this kind of marketing mistake will never be made.

As a result, the various NBA stars who were idle began to express their predictions for the championship of this year's NCAA Finals.

Surprisingly, even though Syracuse University has not lost a game this season, the stars are still more optimistic about Duke University.For example, Kobe, James, Paul, etc., were asked the multiple-choice question that they chose Duke University without exception. Only Carmelo Anthony might have taken a fancy to his relationship with Syracuse University. Publicly support his alma mater in the media.

In addition, non-basketball people also came to join in the fun, such as the President of the United States ***, who guessed correctly in 32 of the 25 games in the first round of the NCAA, which can be called a super magic stick that is better than experts.However, after entering the second round, the basketball president was rather anticlimactic, and repeatedly failed his predictions. For example, Kansas State University and the University of Kentucky, which he was optimistic about, encountered Waterloo one after another, and there was no Syracuse among the top four predictions, and the entire army was wiped out. In ESPN's NCAA playoff prediction list, it ranked outside 100 million, which won the fans a lot of fun.

The Duke University Blue Devils have accumulated an unknown number of fans in so many years of history. Tracing its history, it can be called a century-old famous school.

The head coach of the team, "Coach K" Mike Krzyzewski is the current head coach of the US National Men's Basketball Team. This year happens to be the 30th anniversary of his coaching at Duke University.Therefore, it is not surprising that current US team players like Kobe and James support "Old Coach K".

As for Syracuse University, it is not as good as Duke when it comes to fame and background.

"So, the Duke University players in this game will definitely go all out in order to give the best gift to the team's head coach No. 30th anniversary." Before the game, the CBS host who broadcast the game said so.

Duke University is indeed full of talents. In the semifinals a few days ago, Tang Wenlong watched the entire game between Duke and Tennessee. For example, their star small forward Kyle Singler was an extremely difficult opponent. Average, but excellent shooting ability, averaged 19 points per game this season; there is also Duke University center Brian Zoebeck who is 2 meters tall and weighs nearly 16 kilograms. Both left and right hands can make small hooks in the penalty area. For Black, who is only about 120 meters, it is also a big challenge.

There are also starting champions such as Nolan Smith, Lance Thomas, and Jon Sayer, and Mason Plumlee and Miles Plumlee, two potential players with unlimited potential, sit on the bench. twin brothers.

Tang Wenlong carefully listed the comparison of combat power between the two sides, and found with a wry smile that Duke University is the strongest opponent that Syracuse University has encountered since the season.

After some simple performances, the two teams began to walk on the basketball court to carry out the process before the start of the game.

In the pre-match ceremony, the players of the two teams shook hands to express their observance of the principles of friendly competition.

Kyle Singler shook Tang Wenlong's hand, lowered his voice and said, "You will have your first loss of the season, and it is also the most important loss."

Tang Wenlong raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that this white-skinned vampire-like fellow would dare to provoke him first, and immediately retorted without showing any weakness: "It doesn't matter how powerful you say it."

"Hey, just wait and cry." Singler sneered, then turned and left.

Tang Wenlong looked at Singler's back and almost died of anger. He had seen countless trash-talking players since he entered college games, but he hadn't seen such an arrogant player. It was also an eye-opener.

"Didn't you say that all the players from Duke University are polite?" Wesley Johnson walked over. This guy also couldn't understand Singler's arrogance, and then he grabbed Tang Wenlong's shoulders, with a big bag He said broadly, "Don't worry, labor will kill him later."

Tang Wenlong rolled his eyes at him, but did not refute.

After all, among the players produced by Duke University, Grant Hill and Sean Battier are well-known gentlemen in the NBA. Even fake fans like Tang Wenlong know this.

The players of the two teams shook hands "friendly" in the invisible smoke, and then returned to their respective halfs to prepare for the jump ball.

The referee walked into the center of the field with an orange basketball in hand. The players of the two teams found their positions skillfully. Tang Wenlong stood at the top of the three-point arc.

Blake and Brian Zobek raised their arms at the same time, then squatted down and crossed each other.

Tang Wenlong looked at the posture of the two jumping the ball, and for some reason, he suddenly remembered watching martial arts action movies when he was a child. The jumping posture of the two of them was like Huang Feihong.
"duo~"

A whistle sounded, the audience cheered, the basketball flew into the air, and the game officially began!
Zobeck, who has a certain advantage in height and length, overwhelmed Blake with a jump ball and returned the ball to his own half with a palm-high advantage. Point guard Nolan-Smith received the ball and pushed it forward.

Nolan-Smith is a junior student of the Blue Devils of Duke University. He was already the starting point guard of Duke University in his sophomore year. He has rich experience and outstanding combat power.After the old coach K mentioned Jon Sayer to the starting lineup this season, Nolan Smith and Jon took turns to attack the ball, which is a typical double point guard lineup.

But Nolan-Smith was obviously one size smaller in front of Tang Wenlong who opened his arms.

"Didn't you say it's only 1.9 meters three? Why does it seem to be two meters?" Nolan-Smith looked at Tang Wenlong, who covered his whole body impenetrably, and thought of all the point guards Tang Wenlong had played against this season. The common feeling - cheating scouts.

The old coach K has shifted the focus of Duke University's tactical offense to the outside in recent seasons. Nolan Smith averaged 17.4 points per game this season, and Jon Sayer, who played shooting guard, also scored 18.2 points. Together, Kyle Singler became just the second duo in Duke history to score 600 or more points in a single season.

Before them, only Jay Williams, Carlos Boozer and Mike Dunleavy Jr. did it in the 01-02 season.

What is amazing is that the firepower of Syracuse University's outside trio is not weak. Tang Wenlong averaged 13.8 points per game, Wesley Johnson averaged 20.3 points per game, and Andy Laustin averaged 15.9 points per game. This game is also called by the outside media as a match between outside lines.

In the opening game, Nolan Smith immediately showed his mature side. He greeted the power forward Lance Thomas who rolled down after the pick-and-roll. Got the first blood of the whole game.

Immediately, a blue wave of people floated in the stadium, and the fans of Duke University cheered loudly, accounting for nearly half of the people.

Tang Wenlong's heart trembled, there were quite a few fans who came to cheer for the enemy today.

He controlled the ball for one crotch, then switched back to right-handed control, and then dribbled steadily across the half court. He was defended by Jon Shayer. The latter has a net height of 1.9 meters [-] and looks like Tang Wenlong. Not far behind.

He only estimated how many disciples the old coach K had taught off the field, and he knew that Tang Wenlong's height was definitely more than 1.9 meters.

"Pick and roll!" Tang Wenlong called out Black to come out and said loudly on purpose.

Jon Shayer immediately raised his vigilance, and then looked out of the corner of his eye to see if there were dark shadows on both sides.

At this moment, Tang Wenlong suddenly moved sideways with one step and one small jump, his head turned to the right, and the whole body made an initial movement of rushing to the right, which was extremely realistic.

Sha Yeer was startled, and shouted in his heart that Tang Wenlong was cunning, so he subconsciously shifted his center of gravity to the right.

Unexpectedly, this was a fake move by Tang Wenlong. Tang Wenlong, who was in control of the ball, immediately made a simple change of direction in front of his body. After twisting his knee, he broke through to Sayer's left side. At this time, Sayer's center of gravity could not be adjusted at all, and he could barely stretch The arm wanted to block Tang Wenlong.

Tang Wenlong, who started at a high speed, ignored the obstruction of his arm, smashed away with a "bang", then rushed inside, and immediately rushed to the vicinity of the paint area.

The 2-meter super big Zobek saw this scene, and then ran to Tang Wenlong ahead of time, and raised his terrifying long arms like a giant spirit god.

A hint of sarcasm flashed in the corner of Tang Wenlong's eyes, he grabbed the basketball with one hand and threw it to the basket!
"It's off!" Zobek was overjoyed as he watched the trajectory of the basketball passing over him.

He turned around and suddenly saw a pair of big black hands appearing near the basketball that deviated to the right side of the basket. Smashed into the basket!
"boom!"

Blake was hanging heavily on the rim, and the entire rim was deformed visible to the naked eye due to his weight of more than 200 kilograms
(End of this chapter)