God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 127 Overtime
Although the offenses of both sides were very difficult, each had only scored two points in overtime, but Old K did not call a timeout.Chang Wei understands his behavior. This is an old man with a somewhat stubborn personality. He is full of confidence in the players under his command. He even thinks that the victory of this game is already guaranteed, and it is normal not to call a timeout.

But what Chang Wei didn't expect was that McKay didn't even plan to call a timeout. Could it be that this guy already planned to give up the game?But it doesn't look like it either. McKay's face was flushed, and because he was too nervous, he had to unbutton the top button of his shirt, and from time to time he grabbed a sports drink and took a sip. How could he give up? What about the game?
McKay is also suffering. He has nothing to do now. The team's offensive and defensive speed has been restricted. The defensive counterattack just now relied entirely on Patrick's personal ability on the defensive end, and it cannot be regarded as a team. Victory, if you want to beat Duke, you can't do it piecemeal, but he is already a stud, and the success or failure can only be left to God.

Almost every fan who is watching this game is holding their breath, and the players on the field are still fighting hard for the victory of the game.They have completely ignored the numbers on the scoreboard, and just want to do their best in every offensive and defensive contest. Now the competition is who makes fewer mistakes and who has a higher success rate.

The ball is now back to Duke. Although Colorado State just tied the score with a steal and fast break counterattack, they still started to attack slowly.But this time Langton didn't stop the ball on the outside, but directly stuffed it to Przybilla in the low post. It seemed that he wanted to use his height to score a goal under the basket.

With Pulzbilla's height, which dominates the audience, playing high and high at the basket can definitely guarantee efficiency, but unfortunately Duke still hopes to minimize the speed, turning around jump shots and half-turning hooks are all out of consideration. Facing an opponent who was not as tall as him, Pulzbilla patiently played post-up singles.

In Chang Wei's view, there is no offense on the court that is more slow than this kind of offense. Watching the slow-footed big center slowly dig inside, it always makes people feel painful.But this is also a characteristic of this era. How about there being Ewing, Olajuwon, Robinson and O'Neal, the four major centers of the 90s?Now is not 20 years later!

The height is not enough to make up the number of people. Facing Pulzbila, who is 2 meters tall, the Colorado State players hurried forward to double-team. It would be even better if they could directly snatch the ball from him.But Przybilla passed the ball smoothly. After receiving the ball, Avery continued to break through and pass the ball to Ellington, who added another two points with a beautiful mid-range shot.This is Duke's current strategy, don't compete with you, just hit the success rate.

The Colorado State players want to tie or even overtake the score as soon as possible. If the three-pointer is accurate enough, they don't mind raising their hand and shooting a three-pointer after dribbling to the frontcourt.It's a pity that such a mindless offense is explicitly prohibited by the head coach. In their offensive system, there are very few scenes of strong shots against the defense, let alone direct dribble shots.

They still adopt the simplest pick-and-roll tactic, but this time the people who execute it are McCance and Ford. After all, Palesio and Goodwin both have good shots, and it seems more appropriate to let them serve as the end point.McCance's breakthrough was pretty good, and he passed the ball to Palesio who was beyond the three-point line in the crack, but because there was no room for a shot, he distributed the ball to the bottom corner of the weak side. Ke steadily hit a three-pointer.

In fact, the American basketball world doesn't pay much attention to three-pointers now. Take the NBA's 97-98 season as an example. The league's three-pointer is the Cavaliers' Person. The total number of three-pointers in the stage is less than 2.3. In the future, it will make the fans laugh out loud, but now it is already an extraordinary three-point shooter.

As for the entire NCAA, it is estimated that only Colorado State will pay so much attention to three-point shooting. Maybe Villanova in the first two seasons is also considered one, but now they have returned to the embrace of old-fashioned basketball. I am not as enthusiastic as before, and it is not a problem to say that Colorado State is the only seedling in the league.

However, just after Patrick hit this three-pointer, Duke suddenly started the full-court pressing tactics like crazy, completely ignoring his impending physical collapse.Colorado State University was caught off guard and was intercepted by the opponent for two consecutive rounds. The original lead by 1 point became 3 points behind.After Colorado State finally broke through the resistance and brought the ball across the half court, they retreated to their positions like a tide, played man-to-man defensive tactics, and actively sought physical confrontation.

It has to be said that it is difficult for Colorado State players to compete with Duke in terms of height and weight, especially in the interior, so when they shoot, they are always slightly deformed due to the opponent's physical confrontation. It is undoubtedly fatal for a team that uses shooting as its main scoring method.

Seeing that the opponent scored consecutively, but he kept hitting the iron, the Colorado State players also became anxious, constantly trying to shoot three-pointers from the outside.But their shooting did not achieve any effect, especially Duke's inside line suddenly became stronger and grabbed defensive rebounds in a row, making them even have no chance to get the ball back and reorganize the offense.

The overtime game soon entered the last minute, and the two sides scored in the overtime game, Duke led 1 to 12. It seems that the gap is not very big, but it is enough to determine the outcome of a game.During this process, McKay also called a timeout, but it didn't seem to be of any use. When he came back from the timeout, Colorado State University just used a breakthrough to make a foul and forcibly scored 7 points. When he turned around, his opponent hit a small hook. gone back.

The most important thing is that now that the ball is still in Duke's hands, they are likely to take this opportunity to further expand the point difference, so with the current state of the Colorado State players, they are basically about to die without a place to die.Moreover, at this time, Old K actually called a timeout to arrange tactics, which obviously put more pressure on Colorado State University. After all, his on-the-spot command has been verified in countless games, and no one knows that he will play a whole game. Some special tactics come.

Most of the time, the unknown is the most frightening.

(End of this chapter)