super heavy artillery

Chapter 144: A Bad Start
The NCAA National Championship schedule is very dense. UCLA will prepare for the second round immediately after the first round.Fortunately, it is still the home game, so there is no need to travel.In the Southern Division, UCLA has no home court advantage unless it is against the University of Kansas.

Don't underestimate this home field advantage.After Connecticut finished the game on the 19th, it felt like Los Angeles was coming, and after a short rest, the game was about to start.And UCLA sits at home and waits for work.The physical strength and energy of the players are at their best.

But from another point of view, there are also some advantages.UCLA, who took an extra day off, is definitely not as good as the opponent in terms of playing conditions.After all, Connecticut came back to win, and the players were on the momentum.

If An Luo were to watch it, he still preferred that he could get enough rest.As for the state of the game, of course it is also very important.However, An Luo felt that as long as he rested well, his condition would naturally improve.

March 3, UCLA, Parley Field.

Today's audience is bigger than the previous one, so that the aisles are full of people.The entire Parley Stadium is completely a blue ocean.With that posture, even if the Parley Stadium is twice as large, it can still be filled.

But amidst this blue, there is a red.It's not the Connecticut fans who come from afar, but China Red.In the current Parley Stadium, the American flag does not appear as many times as the Chinese flag.

This is all because of An Luo.

An Luo heard the shouts from the stadium in the locker room.It seems that the atmosphere today is quite intense!

"Guys, we are about to enter the Sweet 1, how do you feel?" An Luo tied his shoelaces seriously. He is wearing the red AJ-[-] that Fu Yao bought for him today.Later, Fu Yao bought him many sneakers, but he still loves this pair the most.

Wearing this pair of sneakers, he has won the national high school league championship and won the MVP.

So every time he plays a game, he will wear a pair of sneakers.Of course, it is only worn during the game, and other sneakers are worn during training.

"Ann! I'm not as confident as you!" It was Holiday who answered him. This guy just got out of the bath, and he takes a bath before every game.An Luo didn't understand, if he played a round of golf, he would still be covered in sweat!
"No, Aaron! I'm not confident. I believe in you, just like you believe in me!" An Luo looked at Holiday, then turned his head to look at the others, and said, "Alex , Prince, Tony, Jock... We can win with us! Can't we? Guys! We can win!"

"Yes, Ann, we can win!"

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An Luo now likes to cheer these guys up more and more.He always feels that in a game, the confidence of the players is no worse than the impact of ability.You must have confidence in yourself at all times in order to give confidence to others.

"The last one to play is our super scorer, An~ Luo from China!"

After high-fiving his teammates one by one, An Luo stood in the center of the court and waved his hand towards the dotted red.Shouts of "U~C~L~A~" echoed throughout the stadium, and the air waves blew the eleven flags above the stadium, and the few light blue jerseys , is also floating.

I'm definitely going to add another flag, and the jersey!

An Luo thought silently in his heart.So, let's start with this game.

Still, Connecticut doesn't want to be a stepping stone for UCLA.

So in the game, they continued their state in the second half of the previous game and caught UCLA by surprise.

At the start of the game, Connecticut guard Rodney Purvis scored first with a powerful slam dunk for the Connecticut Huskies.Subsequently, An Luo missed a three-pointer from the right corner, and Connecticut grabbed a backcourt rebound and made a fast break, scoring another 2 points.

In a wave of 5:0, Alford yelled twice on the sidelines. He was very dissatisfied with the state of the UCLA players, as if he had forgotten how to play after a long rest.Especially on the defensive end, it didn't put enough pressure on the opponent.

In the next round, An Luo burst into the paint and made a fadeaway jumper to break the scoring drought for UCLA.But turned around and got a 2+1 in the paint.Alford took advantage of the gap between free throws and severely scolded Holiday and Jock Goloman.Because Holiday lost someone, Jock's defense was obviously too slow, and finally caused a foul.

The ball was steadily scored and the score became 8:2.Connecticut is off to a very good start at UCLA's home court.

Next, UCLA's defense focused a lot, but it still failed to change the situation of the game.Although An Luo has been working very hard to score, and his efficiency is not bad.But the opponent's offense is also very smooth, three-pointers, breakthroughs, no matter how they play.

Blessings are unparalleled, and misfortunes do not come singly.

Although UCLA's defense started to get in shape, their offense also had problems.

When the game progressed to the 8th minute, the score became 22:13.These 13 points all came from An Luo.It's not that other people didn't participate in the offense. Holiday made 3 of 0 shots, Alex made 3 of 0 shots, Jock made 2 of 0 shots, Tony didn't take a shot, but he kept up with 2 of 0 free throws. The pace of teammates.

Alford couldn't take it anymore, and he called a timeout.

"Guys! Don't you want to win?" Alford stared coldly at Holiday and asked with a livid face, "What I see now is that no one wants to win except Ann. It's like going shopping on the court, others can score those balls without any effort!"

He just looked at the players in front of him like this, and said fiercely after about a minute: "Is our defense like this? If you still want to play, then give me a little bit more! If I see Whoever walks the court, he'll never play at UCLA! You know I'm not scaring you."

It could be seen that Alford was really angry!Also, the UCLA players did perform poorly today, and they have not found the state of the game.

Fortunately, this timeout was called in a timely manner.

After returning from the timeout, UCLA finally found some form.An Luo was still very stable. He controlled the ball at the top of the arc, and then suddenly stepped back and hit a three-pointer, closing the score for UCLA.Then, Alex chased the opponent, Holiday launched a fast break, and a long pass assisted An Luo to make a layup.

Seeing that UCLA was about to gain momentum, the head coach of Connecticut decisively called a timeout.In fact, he has nothing to arrange, mainly to interrupt the rhythm of UCLA.After all, for a team like UCLA, if they go together, it is likely to be overwhelming, and it is easy to open the score in one fell swoop.

(End of this chapter)