I really don't want to win the MVP

Chapter 31 Aurora Team VS Boiler Workers Team (1)

The members of the Aurora team have already learned about the Boiler Workers' style of play in advance. As the No. 2 seed, the Boiler Workers actually have 4 senior players. They did not participate in the draft before, which in itself explains one thing.

That is, their four senior players are not good enough.

In the NBA in recent years, there are really not many players who can persist in 4 years of college before entering the NBA.

If he is good enough, he will even enter the draft as a freshman and get a good pick.

For example, Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose, both of which are at the MVP level in the NBA.

Another example is the later Fultz and Zion Williams, who are also talented players with future superstar appearances.

In recent years, the younger players entering the NBA have also become a trend. The phenomenon of Duncan and Nash insisting on entering the NBA after graduating from college was rare in 2015.

Especially Tim --- Duncan.

After entering the NBA, Duncan still insists on "honest kids" who have obtained a master's degree, and indeed there are fewer and fewer.

There are at least two reasons for this phenomenon. The first is that these players are eager to enter the NBA to prove their value. Favor, also more easily seen as a lack of talent.

If you finish college honestly, but are eventually labeled as a lack of talent, this may not be acceptable to most young players.

After all, there are indeed too few players like Duncan who must be the No. [-] pick at any time.

Therefore, the Purdue University Boilermakers with 4 senior players must play team basketball. Even if Old Terry did not get the analysis information of the Boilermakers before the game, it seems that it is not difficult to guess.

No. 2 Wood, as the team's point guard, is known for his steady style of play. Although he doesn't average nearly 10 assists per game like other talented point guards, he still needs five or six assists.

Wood's dribbling is not fancy at all, and once his teammates have a good position, he can send the ball to his teammates as soon as possible. In the case of extremely high tactical literacy, the opportunity to get an open shot.

The Boilermakers' first ball went to the open No. 91 power forward Kelvin Reiner after several hand-offs.

Reinayan hit a shot in his hand and took the lead in scoring two points for the Boiler Workers.

"Mr. Bill, the Boilermakers are still very stable, and according to data analysis, the Boilermakers scored 69% of the time in the first round, which is a very high number."

"Indeed! That's the tradition of the Boilermakers. It's entirely the coaching style of their head coach Pierman. Goals in the first leg are easy to take the lead, especially for these college teams."

After Jiang Mu received the serve from Moody's bottom line, he started his small motor without saying a word, and saw a white figure "swish" from the backcourt to near the three-point line in the frontcourt.

But Jiang Mu still didn't slow down, but turned around and passed Boiler Workers' point guard Wood to the three-second zone.

At this time, center Dunn and power forward Reina have not returned to the defense due to their slow movement speed.

After Jiang Mu jumped up, he made a back pass, and the ball was instantly in the hands of Richardson who followed up from the left.

Richardson answered with two points on an easy master pick.

Jiang Mu: Aren't you stable?Then I prefer to break you quickly. You must have never heard of an old Chinese saying--the world's martial arts, only fast can't break it, right?

"Is this the Broken Zuizi No. 8 from the beginning?"

"The advancing speed is so fast? Sure enough, it is the team that the coach analyzed to be good at counterattacking. It seems that these two defenders are both speedy."

"The number 0 who scored the goal is Josh Richardson, the top scorer of the Aurora team, averaging 18 points per game."

"It's okay, Wood and Hanny are not slow, they should be able to limit them, and our team is a systematic team, just add more defense."

Wood took the ball again, stretched out his hand and asked for a pick-and-roll. Kelvin Renner came out from the inside and came to Jiang Mu. Jiang Mu stretched out a leg in front of Renner in advance. Not so high anymore.

Wood broke through with a dribble from the right, but Jiang Mu still defended.

The two were in physical contact, and Wood found that he could not lead Jiang Mu's body position, knowing that the ball would not go in, so he turned around and changed the ball to his left hand.

Reina failed the pick-and-roll and returned to the three-second zone. Wood, who dribbled the ball with his left hand, deliberately took two steps to the left.

Wood's goal was to lure Richardson, who was defending Boilermakers shooting guard Turdy Haney, to his side so that he could pass the ball to Haney, even if Haney didn't have much of a problem. The shooting space can't be used as an open three-pointer, at least it can be used to break in after Richardson returns to the defensive position without a stable foothold.

Once it breaks in, it will either cause the Aurora team's inside defense to have a teammate's vacancy, or they can get an emergency stop jump shot or a direct layup.

But Woody found that Richardson didn't mean to deflect the defense at all.

Richardson: Little one!Give you my speed, can you catch this broken mouth?

Jiang Mu: Small sample!Give you the speed of my little fan, can you beat my Aurora little Kobe?
Wood: Small!Sure enough, he is the core scorer of the Aurora team, and he actually saw my routine?

In this way, the opportunity was gone, and Wood had to take two steps back to reorganize.

After Wood moved on the left side, leaning against Richardson, he still handed the ball to Hanni. After Hanni received the ball, he made a fake shot in an instant.

Jiang Mu: "Don't shake it, there is still more than one meter away from the three-point line, it's redundant. Do you think you are Curry or Lillard?"

Hanny: "."

Hanny, who broke through from the right, dribbled the ball twice and passed the ball directly to Connor's defender, Ephias Dudley. Dudley swayed left and cut right and got in from Connor's right baseline.

Moody had no choice but to step forward to defend, stepping on the bottom line with his left foot, blocking Hanni's bottom line breakthrough route in advance, forcing him to go up.

Hanny made a right turn and came to the middle three-second zone, but just after he turned right and put the ball, he found that he almost hit someone.

When Jiang Mu saw Moody's left foot stepping on the bottom line, he guessed that Hanni would definitely go up. He took two steps back and shrank into the free throw line, and then chose the moment when Hanni turned around and couldn't see the situation behind him. At the right time, he reached out and broke Hanny's ball.

When Jiang Mu shrank, Richardson knew that this kid must have found the right time to steal the ball, so he took two steps outside, which made it easier to run a fast break.

"Run - little fan!"

Richardson scolded as he ran:

"shut up!"

When the ball arrives, the fast break is completed.

But Hanny and Richardson basically started at the same time, but they were one position behind in the end.

After two fast breaks in a row, center Dunn and power forward Reina of the Boilermakers found that what they said before was wrong.

The speed of Wood and Hanny seems to be unable to keep up with Richardson of the Aurora team.

(End of this chapter)