This striker is a bit of a monster

Chapter 96 The Eve of the Three-Point Blowout
Brockman's ball, vaguely, has the demeanor of what he asked for in the high school league, and the offensive and defensive ends are full of killer moves.

And Brockman's performance is not a flash in the pan.

When returning to the offensive round of the Patriots, Will Thomas wanted to forcefully break through the encirclement of Joan Brockman, but because of the interference of his long arms, he made a mistake and went out of bounds.

Joan Brockman, who once again helped the Huskies get the ball, strode toward the frontcourt. Facing Will Thomas' defense, a small forward step-back jumper made another He scored two points.

At 17'23 in the first half, he gave the UW Huskies a 6-3 lead over the George Mason Patriots.

Joan Brockman vented his excitement by roaring and patting his chest.

After all, Brockman was ranked 2005th in the 100 TOP17, and his ranking was even higher than that of Zhou Lin, which was only eight or nine months ago.

But now the situation of the two is very different. One has become a core player and historically brought an ordinary school team to the NCAA Sweet 16, while the other has become a blue-collar, and even performed in the most important March Madness. dispensable.

The big waves wash away the sand, sieving one layer at a time.

Nothing wrong with that.

It's just that when faced with competitors who were also gifted high school students at the time and stood taller than me, I felt somewhat impulsive in my heart, and often driven by this impulsiveness, I would explode with unprecedented enthusiasm.

Players will show two sides, either play crazy performances, or be completely lying on the ground.

Play with emotion.

Just like the later Gouqi brother, every time he met Lao Zhan, he dropped the thermos repeatedly and performed amazingly.

Brockman, on the other hand, is more inclined to the former.

In fact, most players will face great discomfort when entering the college league from the high school league. After all, the higher the level, the stronger the competition. In order to gain playing time, most players will start to deliberately strengthen their physical strength training, and they will also face the transformation of their playing style.

The same is true for Brockman. The current Brockman seems to have gained a lot of weight, at least 255 pounds by visual inspection. This is also a transformation made to gain a foothold in the paint.

And this change made Brockman the team's No. 0 rebounder. Apart from the two zero-point games in March Madness, his performance in the Pacific Ten League was still remarkable, and he was also selected as the The 2005-2006 Pacific Ten best freshman team.

It's just that Brockman, under the guidance of Len Rozo, gradually became blue-collar and moved away from the core style of play, but the potential star memory engraved in his bones has not gone away.

In fact, Brockman is an inside player with both skills and strength. The disadvantage is that he is a little short at the 4th position and not fast enough to play the [-]rd position.

But in the NCAA team, after all, not every team will have a big four. There are six-foot-seven and six-foot-eight players everywhere. Even George Mason, who is six feet seven, can play five. The number is up.

If you look at it from a technical point of view.

And this season, the [-]-foot-[-] Brockman's performance at the [-]th position is not useless. When he encounters a short insider, his technical skills, which are not at a disadvantage or even have the upper hand, are also displayed.

The shooting, the footwork, it's all elite.

Will Thomas, who performed extremely well on the court, could easily suffer a disadvantage against this type of player who is extremely good at playing misplaced players.

Back at the Patriots, Zhou Lin faced Bobby Jones' defense, took a cross step, and entered the inside line. When he encountered a double-team, he gave the ball to Jay Lewis in advance, and the latter easily Got two points.

6-5.

On the premise of shrinking the inside line, Brandon Roy's second mid-range shot still missed. The core of the Huskies team didn't feel good in this game.

Looking back, Lamar Butler hit the first three-pointer of the field from the left corner of his sweet spot, and it was Zhou Lin who assisted.

At 16'29 in the first half, the Patriots took the lead 8-6.

"Although the Patriots lineup is short in stature, they have a high shooting percentage from outside. Lamar Butler, Tony Skin, Zhou Lin, and the Patriots' three outside shots all have a good three-point range. In the first game against the University of Connecticut, the Patriots made 10 three-pointers, and Lamar Butler made 4 three-pointers alone. The Huskies still need to pay attention to this little guy pitcher."

"Mr. Bob, in the era when you played, the three-point shot was not a prescribed means of scoring, but now more and more players can shoot more than 22% of their shots from 23 feet or even [-] feet."

"Three-pointers are more cost-effective than two-pointers. The times are improving, and I am happy to see this."

Bob Cousy smiled. In his era, the rhythm was slow, and the scoring basically came from the basket, and the concept of the three-pointer was just emerging in another professional league called the ABA outside the NBA. , and was not immediately introduced to the NBA.

At that time, people thought that three-pointers were nothing more than juggling, useless, and even grandstanding. No one thought that anyone could use a shot from 22 feet away from the basket as a conventional weapon.

It was not introduced into NBA rules until 1979.

In 1994, the league shortened the three-point line to 6.7 meters in order to promote the concept of the three-point shot, which led to the arrival of the three-point shot boom.

You must know that a player who can take 200 shots from beyond the three-point line in the previous season is already in the top three in the league. Converted to an average of 3 shots per game.

Not long after, the NBA in 1997 felt that the space within the three-point line was crowded due to the shortening of the three-point line, which in turn led to a lack of viewing, and adjusted the three-point line back to 7.25 meters.

However, in the league at that time, three-pointers had begun to become the main offensive method until the advent of the small ball era.

The technique of mid-range shooting is also known as one of the few classical styles of play.

The atmosphere of American basketball in 2006 was still on the eve of the blowout period for the number of three-pointers in the NBA.

At this time, NBA players could not have imagined that the future NBA would become a situation in which the three-pointers won the world, and they could not imagine that there would be players who could make more than 400 three-pointers in just one season.

The Patriots are also a team that shoots more three-pointers in the NCAA, because even with Zhou Lin joining, the Patriots did not have enough breakthrough players and stable mid-range killers. A few years before Zhou Lin came to George Mason Here, in the past, the Patriots won the game, all relying on the touch outside the three-point line and the hand-to-hand combat inside.

Of course, in the eyes of Zhou Lin, who has the memory of the future, the technology of the three-pointer is indeed to improve the efficiency and enjoyment of the game. operate.

(End of this chapter)