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Chapter 48 Tactician?

Starting 9-0, the Sequoias caught the Wildcats by surprise.

The complex tactics and tactics designed by Coach Sean, like a paper tiger, look menacing, but they can't scare people at all, and they have no effect.

At this moment, Coach Sean was sitting on the sidelines, watching the crushing situation on the court, and felt a deep sense of powerlessness welling up in his heart and covering his whole body.

He is also very helpless. The Wildcats do not have players who are as tall, fast and strong as Jordan Bell, so they must use defense tactics to limit Tianyang.

However, assisted defense has extremely high requirements for running positions, and it is very error-prone to execute.

He had planned everything yesterday, and felt that even if Tianyang couldn't be completely restricted due to a wrong movement, it would at least have a 50% effect.

Plus the previous experience against the Sequoia, how can there be 60%
However, the facts in front of him told him that in less than two weeks, Tianyang had evolved to another level.

But now in this Wildcat team, there is no player who can match Tianyang.

Even if there is one, he can design better tactics.

Fortunately, as a coach who has experienced various big and small competitions, after a brief loss, he quickly adjusted and began to rethink how to limit Tianyang.

The two teams played five more rounds and entered the first televised timeout, with the Sequoia leading 15-5.

It wasn't until he walked to the bench to sit down that Tianyang took a long breath, took the towel handed over by the staff, wiped off the sweat on his face, and finally relaxed.

Seeing this, Coach Johnny patted him on the shoulder, "It's risky, but you're right!".

"What's the bet?" Shelfield opened his eyes wide and full of curiosity.

Both Johnny and Tianyang smiled and did not answer, but Blount took over the topic, "Tianyang had better shot options for the first four 4-pointers, but he just wanted to use 3-pointers to force the Wildcats to adjust their defensive strategy. , now it seems that it has achieved the effect."

"How would they adjust?" Shelfield continued.

"Most likely I'm going to double-team me, you guys get ready." Tianyang put down the towel.

Sure enough, after returning from the timeout, the Sequoia team attacked first, and the Wildcat team's power forward slowly leaned towards Tianyang.

Ryan has a large body, chest muscles, back muscles, arms, and thigh muscles are all bulging in lumps. At first glance, he looks like a football player.

Although Ryan's defense didn't have any technical content, it just stuck tightly, but Tianyang didn't feel very comfortable.

It really feels like there is a wall in front of me, and I feel a little bounced off when I turn around and dribble.

Tianyang chose to retreat first, to a position two steps outside the three-point line.

I wanted to speed up the breakthrough, but saw Tim and Trier staring at him eagerly not far away.

After thinking about it, Tianyang can fight hard, but it's not worth it.

This game must be won, but at the same time, it is necessary to conserve energy and avoid injury.

After all, the opponent in the finals is an extremely difficult bone.

He faked a breakthrough to attract the attention of the defense, and then passed the ball to Grant under the basket.

Grant caught the ball and hit Caleb hard.For 3 consecutive times, he easily pushed directly under the hoop, and directly slammed into a one-handed dunk.

Caleb blushes, so embarrassed that it makes him defenseless.

Easy side Wildcats attack, Gabe passes Tim at the top of the arc.Tim sprinted with the ball at high speed, brought Tianyang to the left baseline, and then used Ryan to cover and slipped to the basket.Travis, who was in charge of the defense, didn't change, and Tim got the board and got 2 points.

The Sequoia team attacked again, and Marcus and Tianyang passed the ball from outside the 3-point line to form a cover.Tianyang dribbled the ball to the right, and Grant mentioned the position on the right wing for a pick-and-roll.

With the help of a screen, Tianyang took off and made a false shot, and passed the ball down to Travis, who took advantage of the opportunity and scored a layup.

The Wildcats attacked again, Trier received the ball from the left wing, tricked Rothko with a feint, and went straight to the short corner on the left.Grant stepped forward to defend, and Trier hit the board and passed the ball.

Caleb holds the ball with both hands under the basket. If it is someone else, there is a high probability of dunking directly, but he is not used to it and his explosive power is not enough, so he subconsciously pats the ball on the ground to borrow strength.

In just one movement, Grant turned around and returned to defense, grabbing the ball alive in his hands.

Can't defend and can't defend, hit and can't score, Caleb's disaster-like performance made the University of Arizona delegation shake their heads frequently.

Seeing this, the Stanford University delegation took the opportunity to boo them.

The other fans at the scene followed suit, and the MGM sports tube was instantly filled with boos to Caleb.

Caleb's face turned from red to white, and then pale again. Even his appearance was no longer better than Grant's.

Coach Sean on the sidelines was also uncomfortable. Before the timeout, he specially arranged double-team tactics against Tianyang.

But it never occurred to him that Tianyang suddenly turned into a super assist player, completely ignoring his players.

The double-teaming tactics had nowhere to play, and the two teams faced off normally. Although the Wildcats scored consecutively because of this, the Sequoias' scores only continued to increase.

The point difference between the two teams could not be further narrowed and remained at around 10 points.

The worst part is, if you can't guard Tianyang, you can't guard the other players of the Sequoia team, and the players of the Wildcats seem to be unable to play all of a sudden.

According to his experience, this kind of situation can only occur when the strength gap between the two teams is too large.

Just like in MOBA games, Yupond players encounter super masters, and they are hit with inaccurate make-ups, empty team battles, and various misjudgments, as if they have never played a game before.

During a timeout at halftime, Coach Sean scratched his head and came up with an ingenious tactic to prevent Tianyang from assisting.

He excitedly arranged it, and the Wildcat players also thought it was feasible.

But none of them expected that after the second half of the game, Tianyang would not play directly!

The Sequoia team, with Shelfield and Marcus as the core, played a run-and-gun tactic.

Between high-speed transitions, center Caleb and the very strong but slow-moving Ryan couldn't keep up.

When Coach Sean realized something was wrong, the difference between the two teams widened to 15 points.

After that, the Wildcats never caught up again, even without Tianyang.

In the end, the Sequoias won the game 75 to 58 and advanced to the final of the Pac-[-] Conference Championship.

Tianyang scored 18 points and 14 assists and was elected the best player of the game.

In the handshake session after the game, coach Sean was uncharacteristically, and left the seat directly in disregard of etiquette.

With such behavior, the fans watching the scene shook their heads and sighed, feeling unhappy and regretful. ,

"At least go to congratulate the opponent's promotion, the team in the same division, don't be ashamed."

"If you are known as a tactical master, and in the end of a game, all the tactics are useless, and you lose a lot of points because of it, what would you think?"

"Too……"

Although they won the game, the entire Sequoia team was not too excited.Because their opponent in the finals is the University of Utah, and according to the predictions of various media this year, the other party will at least reach the quarterfinals of March Madness Elite.

The center of the University of Utah, Jakob Poeltl, has just won the best center of the national university award. He is 2.16 tall and has strong athletic ability. He averages 3.2 blocks per game and can be called a defensive champion.

The Sequoias, from coach to player, feel that Jakob Poeltl is their worst enemy.

But Tianyang doesn't think so. He believes that the strongest player at the University of Utah,

It's Kyle Kuzma.

(End of this chapter)