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Chapter 134 Is double-teaming useful?
Taking advantage of the dead ball, Bennett called a timeout. He said to the players very seriously: "Although this is their home court, this is by no means the reason for your poor performance! Keep up your spirits, boys, take Use your strength to end their winning streak! If you continue to play soy sauce on the court, I will let more energetic people play."

Bennett didn't arrange any new tactics for the team. In his opinion, his starting five were completely stunned by the opponent's dismount. many.

Sure enough, after the game restarted, the Puma players returned to normal and played their skillful tactical coordination on the court.Baynes' singles under the basket, Thompson's catch and shot around the screen, Rochester's one-on-one breakthrough layup, coupled with the full cooperation of the other two people beside them, the Cougars fully demonstrated their powerful strength on the offensive end.

Of course, it's just the offensive end.When defending, they put all their energy into Xu Hao without hesitation. Everyone knew that as long as Xu Hao was killed, winning the game would be a matter of course.

But is Xu Hao so easy to guard against?He wouldn't be considered a top guard if he was easily guarded.

The Cougars did not choose the zone defense. They knew that Xu Hao had a precise three-point shot, and the three-pointer was the best weapon to break the zone defense.So now any team facing the Sun Devils will rarely resort to zone defense, unless they are willing to bet that Xu Hao can't make a three-pointer, but look at Xu Hao's three-pointers so far this season. Nearly 48% rate, that is obviously impossible.

Bennett confessed that the players adopt man-to-man defense, and as long as Xu Hao holds the ball, it will be double-teamed. The defenders in charge of defending him are shooting guard Thompson and small forward Koprevica. Rochester is too short, so he can only defend him. was beaten into a sieve.

Koprevica and Thompson are Bennett's most proud perimeter defenders. They are two tall, strong, and fast enough to keep up with the opponent's smaller players.At least in the Pacific Ten Schools League, no guard can enjoy their double-team treatment. They didn't use this weapon in the game against the Sun Devils in the first half of the season.

Xu Hao was not intimidated. Ever since the Cougars' players returned to normal, the Sun Devils have been struggling to catch up.The ball-holding ability of other teammates on the offensive end is almost negligible. If even you retreat in front of the opponent's targeted defense, no one else on the team can score, so how can you hold on to the score?
Now the Sun Devils' routine is very simple. McMillan dribbles the ball after halftime and hands it to Xu Hao, letting Xu Hao direct others to move to create space, and then he attacks with the ball, and occasionally feeds his teammates. .

The puma duo is not slow in terms of speed, but every time Xu Hao can break out of the encirclement before their encirclement, making their defense return to nothing, and even have time to play some coquettish shots. operate.This made Bennett very puzzled. When did his two perimeter gates become so useless?Double teams can't even look at the opposite person?

In fact, what everyone does not know is that Xu Hao has been simulating the game against Washington State University in the system for the past few nights. He has seen tactics such as Thompson and Koprevica double-teaming countless times. With extremely keen observation skills, he naturally knows what can be used in this seemingly tight encirclement, and it is only natural that he cannot be surrounded.

Even so, Xu Hao is not able to send the ball to the basket smoothly every round.He is not an idiot. He knows that the opponent has deployed heavy troops under the basket and forcibly attacks the basket. The thick body of Baines, the big white bear, is like a wall in front of the basket. The only way is to find a gap in the opponent's defense and pass the ball to the teammate.

It's a pity that except for McMillan's reliable shooting, it is difficult for others to provide too much help to Xu Hao. Generally, the ball he passes will come back to him after a circle, and occasionally a few times The shot will also become the opponent's backcourt rebound.

If it was any other player, they might break the pot in such a situation, but Xu Hao didn't even change his expression. He just yelled for his teammates to do a good job of defending, move actively, and don't give the opponent any opportunity to take advantage of it.His generosity also made his teammates feel ashamed, and the speed under his feet abruptly increased a bit, just thinking about giving Xu Hao more support.

Although the other players of the Sun Devils were not good at attacking, the Pumas also failed to open the score.The reason is simple, whenever they want to hit a small climax, Xu Hao will suddenly make an unreasonable long shot from outside the three-point line, sometimes accompanied by the referee's whistle and the ball entering the basket. The sentence "Scoring in, adding punishment" stopped their climax before it even started.

Xu Hao's outstanding performance caused the audience to cheer again and again, but it made the Puma players feel ashamed.Half of the first half has been played, and now the score between the two sides is still 35 to 32, and they are only leading by 2 points.You must know that this time they are facing a Sun Devil who has lost many main players. How can they meet Jiangdong's elders after playing like this?
When Xu Hao stood on the free throw line again, Rochester gritted his teeth and said to Thompson: "We can't go on like this. What will others think of us when we can't even beat such a broken team? Let alone the coaches before the game." I have already said that I will beat them beautifully, I don't want the whole team to become a laughing stock in the eyes of the fans and the media..."

Thompson frowned and asked: "Then what are you going to do? Are you going to use destructive tactics? In that case, no matter whether we win in the end or not, we will be criticized completely, which will cause greater damage to the team's image!"

Rochester said angrily: "Doesn't he like to score? Then let's let him score! As long as we guard other people and force him to keep playing singles with the ball, there will always be times when we are exhausted. Here comes the opportunity!"

Thompson still hesitated: "Is this method effective? I heard that this Chinese man's strength is unfathomable, and he doesn't look like a yellow race at all. What if he can last until the end of the game? Then don't we bring ourselves to the pit?" inside?"

Rochester smiled meaningfully: "Isn't there still you and Nicholas?"

(End of this chapter)