This striker is a bit of a monster

Chapter 99 The First Half of 13 Assists
The six-foot-nine Mike Johnson was replaced by the six-foot-six Jamal Williams. The tallest player in the game became the six-foot-nine Zhou Lin, and the inside height dropped to six feet seven.

It can be said that the air defense capabilities of both sides have dropped to the same level.

Attacking the inside may become the next important part of the game.

As the team's 2/3 starter, transfer student Jamal Williams was able to score the team's second-highest 13.8 points. By switching him to the field, the Huskies also gained a reliable scoring point .

According to the plan, he should have replaced Joan Brockman instead of Mike Jansen.

Joan Brockman used his excellent performance in the first few minutes to keep him on the court. Tonight, Brandon Roy's offensive touch is not online, and the team must increase basket attackers.

Of course, Joan Brockman, who reached the fifth position, even had a little miraculous effect.

The Huskies began to play a pick-and-roll between Roy and Brockman, the two offensive strengths. In the first round after the timeout ended, Brockman scored the 8th point of the game with a pick-and-roll. , Brockman's ability to finish eating cakes is still remarkable.

上半时13′19，13-12，爱斯基摩犬队领先1分。

However, facing Zhou Lin, who has been replaced with a relatively short lineup and has entered the scoring mode, it is not as easy to deal with as Lorenzo can think of.

Zhou Lin frequently started pick-and-rolls with his teammates on the outside, and began to dismember the Huskies' defense. While dismantling the opponent's inside defense, he was also constantly sending shells to his teammates on both sides!
After the last loss to the Huskies, Zhou Lin and his teammates regarded the University of Washington as their imaginary enemy for a long time, and they also studied the opponent's defense before the game.

Area double-teaming, which requires the defender to double-team in the most suitable position at the most appropriate time, so that the attacker loses the best offensive option, and other defensive players need to cut off the attacker's passing route.

This is a more difficult defensive method than zone defense. It needs to test the tacit understanding of the coordination between the defenders. Once the timing is not accurate, it is easy for the opponent to shoot open.

However, Zhou Lin's breakthrough did not take away the bottom line position that is easy to encounter double-teaming, and almost did not cut into the absolute hinterland. No, in the next first half, Zhou Lin and his Patriots teammates used various methods to break the double-team area.

At 12′49 in the first half, Zhou Lin took a half step from the waist and made a shooting action, attracting two players from the opponent to double-team, a reverse ball was passed to the open Will Thomas, and Will Thomas did it An inside pass assists Jay Lewis to score.

At 11′09 in the first half, Tony Skinn was dealt a card at the top of the arc. Zhou Lin used a back run to get rid of Bobby Jones who was defending, and faced Brandon Roy, who was half a head shorter than himself, and hit a three-pointer.

At 9′25 in the first half, Jay Lewis and Tony Skinner went down the pick-and-roll, Zhou Lin received Tony Skinner’s breakthrough point from the free throw line, and made a shooting action, which attracted Jamal Williams’ grab. Will Thomas at the basket was missed, Zhou Lin passed the ball in place, although Thomas' shooting was affected by Brandon Roy who was defending, but Jay Lewis protected the rebound and passed the ball to the outside line Mar Butler, the latter raised his hand and hit the second three-pointer of the game.

At 7′35 in the first half, Tony Skinn used Zhou Lin’s pick-and-roll breakthrough to attract defenders. Facing the defense, Zhou Lin, who completed the pick-and-roll, used Will Thomas’ off-ball blocker, and at the same time cut inside, using the height, Zhou Lin Completed a stunning alley-oop dunk with Tony Skin.

At 3′22 in the first half, Zhou Lin held the ball at the waist, Tony Skin went through the back door and scored a layup, completing a Princeton-style score.

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Although Lorenzo, the coach of the Huskies at the University of Washington, also called two timeouts to emphasize tactics, the Patriots' offense has already started. On the defensive end, the Huskies did poorly. The ball and all kinds of running, constantly tearing apart the defense of the Huskies, is completely a feeling of neglecting the other.

Of course, the Huskies team, which emphasizes positional warfare and pick-and-roll coordination, also has two eyes on the defensive end. Joan Brockman can still hit the mid-range and eat cakes at the basket, and the team's second scorer Jamal was replaced. .Williams also added a good outside scoring energy, personally hit two three-pointers, but unfortunately, Brandon Roy's touch has not been opened for a long time.

In the half game, he made 9 of 2 shots and only scored 5 points.

Because of this, the Patriots led the Huskies by 52 points 43-9 in the first half.

On the Patriots side, as long as the players on the field scored.

周林半场得到13分4助攻，拉马尔.巴特勒10分3助攻，托尼.斯金8分3助攻，杰.刘易斯8分4篮板，威尔.托马斯6分2篮板，替补加布.诺伍德2分，弗拉林.坎贝尔5分。

For the Huskies, Joan Brockman scored the highest 12 points, and none of the other players scored in double figures. In addition, Lamar Williams scored 8 points and Brandon Roy scored 5 points.

"George Mason University is full of strength tonight. What is called team basketball? In the half game, the team scored 20 times in sports games, but the team had 13 assists. This is an excellent statistic. In comparison, the University of Washington team And only seven assists."

"This is one of the problems. The second problem is that their star player, Brandon Roy, has not found the offensive touch for a long time. If this kind of touch continues into the second half, I am afraid that Brandon Roy's college basketball career , it will be the end of this game.”

"Although the Patriots are short in stature, they do better in coordinated defense. The 2-1-2 zone defense that has continued is obviously aimed at Brandon Roy."

"Moreover, the main player cannot score, which will make other players very uncomfortable."

Bob Cousy and Irvin Johnson have also been exchanging views on the game.

In their view, although the point difference is only 9 points, and other players from the University of Washington can also score, it is piecemeal after all, and it does not make a difference.

On the broadcast screen of the game, the camera was constantly cut to Brandon Roy. The latter buried his head deep in a towel, so that no one could see his face, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

It is estimated that he is also recalling the pictures of the first half and making some deep thoughts.

As a player in the final year, whether he wants to or not, he will leave his beloved college basketball, and in this battle, how could he easily let the victory of the game slip away from his hands.

(End of this chapter)