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Chapter 161

Faced with the Sun Devils' complicated movement and patient conduct, Williams felt so powerless for the first time that he could only order the physical trainer and team doctor to try to restore more physical strength to the players during the intermission. At the same time, I did not forget to pour a large bowl of chicken soup for everyone, hoping that the team members can relieve physical fatigue through mental toughness.

But the problem has to be solved anyway, Williams pressed his eyebrows a little irritably, thinking about any possible effective solutions in his mind.However, he found helplessly in the end that it seemed that there would be no effective solution for a while. Would the team still have to switch defenses like before in the second half, and then pray for the opponent to shoot?

In order to give more rest time to the starters who consumed too much in the first half, Williams decided to use the substitutes to top at the beginning of the second half. The only starter who did not withdraw, Hansbrough, will lead the substitutes A few minutes before.Anyway, North Carolina has a large number of inside rotations, and players such as Davis and Zeller are also trustworthy. It is no problem for Hans Bruhl to play for a while.

Moreover, Williams is not at ease to use a pure substitute lineup, so as not to be directly beaten by the opponent at the beginning of the second half.

However, when Williams saw the starting lineup of the Sun Devils in the second half, the whole person was stunned.Before, he always insisted that the opponent's players also consumed a lot of physical strength in the confrontation, and there was no reason to stay on the court at the beginning of the second half, but obviously the opponent's head coach didn't think so.The two main players, Xu Hao and Hayward, took off their training clothes and put them aside. Judging from their posture, they must be going to play. Williams can only pray that they are not in good condition after the intermission.

In fact, Evans originally wanted to play with all his main players, but Xu Hao persuaded him not to do so.According to Xu Hao, not all of the opponent's main players will be present. When they take the field, the Sun Devils will have enough freshmen to compete. It is enough to leave Harden, who has the strongest scoring ability, to deal with them. As long as it has its own organization, is the team still afraid of not being able to score points?

Although North Carolina played their main center, Hansbrough, Xu Hao showed no fear. He even planned to continue to expand the score before North Carolina's main players all appeared on the field. It would be good to force them to rest for a few minutes of.

Xu Hao did what he said. At the beginning of the second half, he teamed up with Hayward to play a 6-0 spurt. After that, Hansbrough struggled to score 2 points in the interior by relying on his height advantage.Williams' face was as black as the bottom of the pot. Arizona State University did not send their starting center who seemed to be useful, but for Hansbrough, who was hard on the bridge and hard horse, they adopted a more shameless and incomprehensible approach. The defense around the front, without an excellent point guard on the court, the ball can't pass to the basket at all.

Williams was sitting on pins and needles on the sidelines. From time to time, he looked at the numbers on the timer and at the players such as Lawson, Green and Ellington next to him, as if he was weighing when it would be better to let them play.According to his previous plan, the main players can rest for about 5 minutes more, but now it seems that they may have to make an early appearance, and the momentum of the opponent is quite strong.

At 3 minutes and 47 seconds into the second half, Williams asked for a substitution, and he didn't hide it. He directly put the team's main lineup on the field and wanted to compete with Arizona State University.In fact, he didn't have to be so anxious at first, but now the opponent has faintly controlled the situation on the field, if he doesn't become the main force, it will be too late to regret it.

Seeing that North Carolina has replaced the main force, Evans smiled slightly, and then replaced Harden, Ayers and Cooks. Although they are right now taking the lead, they also need to Only by dispatching the main force can we hold this advantage.

Both sides sent their main lineups one after another, and the scene began to transform into the first half.North Carolina could only choose to attack after being completely unable to solve the physical problem of switching defenses, and this happened to be the rhythm that Arizona State liked.Especially Xu Hao and Harden, what they are least afraid of is confrontation, because this can give full play to their advantages, and the opponent's defense will not be too tight.

In fact, Williams also felt that he could not solve the physical problem, so when the main players came on the stage, he asked them to put more experience into the offense, trying to use the players' own talents to create strong offensive firepower.In Williams' view, the Sun Devils only rely on Xu Hao and Harden to score points. Why don't they be killed by themselves?

But Williams overlooked a problem, that is, the hit rate of both sides, and Xu Hao's ability to organize and connect.Driven by him, the entire Sun Devils team became active, whether it was an open shot or a fast-break counterattack. North Carolina could only rely on Lawson's breakthrough and Hansbrough's singles to score. Ellington And Green occasionally took the opportunity to throw a three-pointer.

Judging from real-time statistics, North Carolina's shooting percentage has just exceeded 40%, but Arizona State has exceeded 45%, which is a fairly obvious gap.The reason is very simple. North Carolina's main players have not fully recovered. Let alone the shooting touch, it is difficult to get rid of the opponent's defense every time. The combination of the two factors makes it reasonable to keep hitting the iron.

Williams' continuous changes in tactics and even substitutions failed to save North Carolina's decline. The main players were listless on the court, and the substitutes they replaced were not as good as the opponent in terms of hard power. They could only watch helplessly. .

With more than four minutes left in the second half, North Carolina, unwilling to fail, plucked up the courage to attack, but every time they hit a goal, Xu Hao would always find a gap on the outside and hit a three-pointer, allowing them to just get up The momentum disappeared into the invisible.After withstood this wave of counterattacks, Xu Hao and Harden led the team to open the point difference to 12 points in one go, completely establishing the victory.

When the number on the timer reached zero, Harden, who was still dribbling the ball, let out a wolf howl and threw the basketball into the air. Crazy celebration of this hard-won victory.

In the other half, the North Carolina players seemed to be petrified, staring blankly at the cheering opponents, their faces were sad, and many of them even shed painful tears.Originally, they thought that the Southern District Championship and the semi-finals would be at their fingertips, but Arizona State told them with their irrefutable performance that the semi-finals are not just a stage for rich teams!

(End of this chapter)