pinnacle of basketball

Chapter 347
UCLA fell behind in the opening stage. Marquette University's performance on both offense and defense exceeded UCLA's expectations, especially the performance of role players.

"What are the UCLA players doing? It's so ugly." The passive situation made the audience a little restless. They didn't come to the scene to watch UCLA being abused, but obviously Marquette University entered the state of the game faster, and they are also the side that is more worthy of victory.

At least, that's how the game is played so far.

William suppressed Oscar from the very beginning and cut off UCLA's engine. Although Mu Chenfeng was also organizing, his effect was obviously not as good as Oscar's. The team's offense was unable to operate, and was suppressed by Marquette University, leading by 7 points.

Such an opening is not normal for UCLA. After all, the audience is used to the leading UCLA and rarely sees the passive UCLA.

Oscar is adapting to the matchup with William as soon as possible.

"Don't try to get rid of me." In order to increase his speed, Oscar played off the ball and increased his speed to the maximum, but he still couldn't get rid of William. His speed was no worse than Oscar's.

In the past year, William has been improving. He imagines the entire NCAA as his enemy, and he only wants to be the strongest one.

With the help of old K, William also reached the strongest strength this year. His skills have become the most comprehensive small forward. However, what allows him to gain a firm foothold among many strong players is his extremely dominant defense. His defensive awareness has always been the opponent's biggest nightmare.

In the past season, he has blocked every opponent's top card, sent a total of 82 steals, with an average of more than 3 steals in a game, and his steals are extremely intensive, taking an average of less than 10 minutes, and they all happen at critical moments of the game.

There is a very bizarre law on the basketball court, that is, when a team has a player with a strong defensive ability, then the overall defensive ability of the team will not be too bad.

William is getting stronger with his teammates while he is strong, which is probably the case for the leader of a team.

Oscar still didn't find a chance to get rid of William. In addition, his movement speed and awareness had dropped significantly compared to the beginning. After all, the game against North Carolina consumed Oscar's too much physical energy, and Marquette University easily defeated Stanford University and advanced to the finals without wasting any physical energy. Therefore, there was an obvious gap between the two teams in terms of physical fitness.

The upper half is simply the "half of death", almost all the strength that can be played is concentrated here.

However, the overall path to promotion in the lower half is relatively easy. Compared with the subsequent knockout rounds, the group stage seems to be more difficult to play.

"What's wrong with Oscar? His footsteps look very heavy, not light at all." Su Mengyao said slowly, this is only the first quarter of the game, his state is not very affected.

"Has the impact of the previous games finally appeared?" Barton looked at the situation on the court with a worried face. Compared with Marquette University, UCLA's schedule is called a devil's schedule, and its physical consumption is obviously much greater than that of its opponents. Therefore, it is normal for players to show fatigue on the court.

"It's no wonder that Marquette University raised the intensity so high. It turned out that they saw UCLA's physical problems. The purpose of increasing the tempo at the beginning was to wear them down and accelerate their exhaustion." Louis couldn't help but admire the old K coach's witty calculations. As long as UCLA's physical fitness has problems, the game will be much easier.

Barton walked into the bench and called all the players sitting on the bench together for a temporary arrangement, completely ignoring the players on the field, and the score was further expanded. Marquette established a very large lead, so that even if UCLA counterattacked in the following games, they could still deal with it calmly.

"It's too risky to do this." After hearing Barton's decision, Su Mengyao responded immediately, and the other team members also had the same expression as her, shocked by Barton's decision.

"This is the only way. If you want to win, you can only do this." Barton was also forced to do so. If there is a problem with the core of a team, it will be difficult for the team to win. Therefore, he must try his best to keep Oscar, even if it is a certain price.

"But, can we really do it?" The team members began to doubt their abilities. After all, even players like Oscar and Mu Chenfeng couldn't do anything against Marquette University. These substitute players with limited playing time were even less confident. After all, none of them had experienced such an intense game as a "core".

With one minute left in the first quarter, Marquette University has already led by 1 points, while UCLA's score in the first quarter was still in single digits.

奥斯卡受到了格外的照顾，拿到了2分1篮板1助攻的数据，平平无奇的数据，表现却仅次于拿到4分2篮板2助攻的穆辰风。

The lowest score in a single quarter in UCLA history is 10 points. If they still fail to score in the last minute, they will break the lowest scoring record in team history.

It's not a stellar record.

"Hey, congratulations, you are about to break the record." After learning that UCLA is about to break the record in team history, the players of Marquette University made mocking voices.

This aroused the anger of the UCLA players. Damian forced his opponent to complete a layup. Due to his excessive strength, the opponent was knocked out several meters.

"Damn it!" Damian desperately wanted to get points, he didn't want to break such a "disgraceful" record in his last game.

However, he was so anxious that he lost control of his actions. Not only did he fail to score, but he also paid for a foul.

The more anxious the opponent is, the easier it is for Marquette University. They have no pressure to "break the record" at all, so they firmly control the ball in the midfield position and are not in a hurry to attack.

"They are wasting time!" The UCLA players knew what they were thinking when they saw the behavior of the Marquette players. The opponent was determined to "help" UCLA break the lowest scoring record, so they had to use up as much time as possible. As long as they used up all 24 seconds, UCLA would only have 6 seconds of attack time to "rewrite history."

beep~
Marquette University abruptly used up 24 seconds, and the final buzzer shot was also ruled invalid due to timeout. UCLA had the ball and served in the backcourt.

"Substitution!" During the dead ball stage, UCLA applied for a substitution adjustment, and Barton crossed his fingers on his chest to inform the players of the substitution.

"What?" The team members thought they were delusional after seeing Barton's substitution adjustment. In UCLA's gestures, each finger represents a player, and "ten fingers crossed" means "five up and five down". Five substitute players will replace all five starters.

(End of this chapter)