God's hand behind the scenes

Chapter 148 The Grassroots Team
To be honest, Chang Wei is very curious about the Wisconsin team.If you only look at their roster, this is a completely grassroots team. This season, only one player averaged double figures per game, and it was only 11.8 points, which is among the 64 teams that entered the national championship. Both are rare.

But their combat effectiveness is very strong. Not to mention defeating Fresno State University in the first round. Everyone has a No. 8 seed and a No. 9 seed. At least in the eyes of the selection committee, their strengths are almost the same.However, they defeated the top-seeded University of Arizona 66-59 in the second round, and eliminated the No. 61-seeded LSU 48-4 in the semifinals. This is not easy.

For this reason, Chang Wei deliberately found the Wisconsin VS Arizona game video, wanting to see what the hell this grassroots team is doing.Looking at it, his expression became serious. Arizona is a very good offensive team. Don't look at their scoring efficiency in the regular season is only 104.4, ranking 301 out of 72 teams, but the team has five players It is rare to score in double figures, not to mention there are such well-known stars as Arenas and Jefferson in the team.

However, against Wisconsin, only three of the team scored in double figures, namely Arenas' 21 points, Gardner's 10 points and Anderson's 12 points off the bench. The overall shooting percentage was only 39.2%.Of course, in Chang Wei's view, University of Arizona head coach Orson's troops were still a little conservative. He only used seven players in the game, five starters and two substitutes. players, four of whom scored in double figures.

As you can imagine, this Wisconsin team is very good on both ends of the floor, and is good at catching the big and letting go of the small, forcing your top scorer and letting others attack.Although Arenas's 21 points in that game were the highest in the game, he was actually only the second scorer at the University of Arizona. Their top scorer, Walter, who averaged 15.5 points per game, was defended to 37 points. He only made 4 of 1 shots in 2 minutes, scored 9 points and [-] rebounds.

Chang Wei smiled and shook his head. It seems that West, who is the most popular in the team, will be targeted by Wisconsin. Although the tallest of their team, Kershaw is only 2 meters, but as the team's number one star, he He should have to fight West with the help of his teammates.In other respects, Wisconsin has countless center backs and wings. Their starting lineup is actually a configuration of three guards and two forwards. Maybe Colorado State's outside line will also be affected to a certain extent.

However, Colorado State University still has its own trump card, and that is team captain Palesio.During the entire regular season, including the first three tournaments, Palesio gave up the opportunity to show off to the youngsters in the team. Although he averaged 11.5 points and 5.3 assists per game, everyone knows that this is not his true identity. Strength.

Of course, this is what McKay specifically told him before the start of the season to give the freshman rookies as many opportunities to exercise as possible. After all, there is no star in the Colorado State team who can make the final decision. The most important thing is to play the overall strength.And Palesio is a player with great dedication and team awareness, otherwise he would not ask to stay and play for another year. The reason why he readily agreed to the request of the head coach is because he wanted to see the team Where can I go.

For a player like him, such a thing does not exist. As long as he wants to, he can immediately take over the team's offense and play a good performance.Chang Wei told McKay what he thought, and McKay agreed very much, but he looked at the problem from a different angle from Chang Wei. He just wanted Palesio to have more opportunities to express himself. Captain, it is really unreasonable to make wedding dresses for teammates every game.

So the fans at the scene and in front of the TV saw a strange but familiar Colorado State University.They are unfamiliar because they have been insisting on team offense this season. Occasionally, some players play singles with the ball and that is aimed at the opponent's weakness; they are familiar because they played like this for a long time last season. Let Palesio break through with the ball, and then get out of the three-point line, or give the big man who rolls down the pick-and-roll, this is a very important content on their tactical board.

Facing Wisconsin, which has a strong overall offense and defense, Colorado State seems to have returned to last season. Of course, this time it is not Goodwin who plays the pick-and-roll with Palesio, but Wes, who is more capable. special.In fact, West's pick-and-roll effect is better. He has now developed the ability to shoot three-pointers. After the screen, whether it is going down to the frame or pulling the ball outside to catch the ball, it is difficult for Wisconsin to stop him. .

At one point, Orson wanted to speed up the game to wear down the physical strength of Colorado State players, which is why he likes to rotate many players every game.But when there were 2 minutes and 31 seconds left in the first half, he felt that he had shot himself in the foot. Before the Colorado State players responded, he had to replace the main team with a substitute lineup. They played, the reason is very simple, his starting five tigers almost cried from exhaustion.

What makes Orson even more helpless is that Palessio, who supported almost all of Colorado State's offenses in the first half, showed no signs of physical collapse. You must know that most of their offenses in the first half were started by Palesio. Hands-on, he either uses his personal ability to complete a one-on-one breakthrough, or calls the pick-and-roll and then enters the inside. Although he doesn't score many points, he has already sent 7 assists. Colorado State is well organized by him on the offensive end. .

Orson has long heard that Palesio was Colorado State's leading scorer last season, but he did not expect that this season he has been transformed into an organizer, and his scoring ability still retains a high level.As a seasoned head coach, Orson turned a blind eye to Palessio's declining scoring average. He only knew that the guy's shooting percentage increased by 2.3 percentage points. Not easy.

In fact, Palesio himself originally planned to continue to organize the offense like the previous game, and then shoot three-pointers in the open to help the team train young people.But when he encountered Wisconsin's featureless and fairly average team, he could only stand up according to McKay and Chang Wei's intentions to break the game.At least from the current score, this arrangement is still fruitful, Colorado State ended the first half with a 38-30 lead.

(End of this chapter)