NBA’s aging star system

After Su Tian hit a three-pointer, the two sides tied at 41. Napier received the ball and advanced to the frontcourt with the ball.

As expected, Su Tian still defended Napier alone. Napier no longer attacked Su Tian alone. He knew that Su Tian was not easy to mess with and no longer forced himself on him.

Napier called his teammates to pick and roll, and was easily bypassed by Su Tian. However, when Su Tian followed up, he found that the ball was not in Napier's hands. It turned out that it was a handoff just now with the help of the screen, and Stern was inside. The attention is all on Napier, and the outside line is empty!

Swish - the goal was scored, and Napier received an assist.

Switching to Kentucky's offense, Su Tian advanced and still gave the ball to Randall. Randall attracted a double-team and passed the ball. Su Tian received the ball and threw it towards the basket without stopping. Bang - Stern Successful alley catch. Su Tian also received an assist.

In the next few rounds, the two sides went back and forth. Su Tian and Napier were like tit-for-tat. You shot, I made a breakthrough, you made an assist, and I shot. However, the point difference between the two sides never widened, and they alternated repeatedly. Taking the lead seems to be treating every ball as a buzzer beater.

With one minute left in the game, the two sides were tied at 59. UConn has the ball, and Napier wants to steal one, so as to give UConn the last offensive opportunity.

Napier pushed Su Tian to break through to the inside. When he reached the basket, Su Tian saw Napier trying to turn his back and pass him. Su Tian clung to Napier, but Napier didn't know that Napier turned his back and passed him. Turn around, follow up with a very confusing shoulder shake, and shoot a fadeaway jumper.

Bang——shua——

The basketball was lucky enough to hit the board into the net. UConn led Kentucky 61 to 59. Coach Calipari quickly called a timeout and quickly arranged tactics. UConn was celebrating wildly as if it had won the game.

The timeout ended, the two sides took the field, and there were 45 seconds left. Kentucky ran the tactics according to the coach's arrangement. Su Tian received the serve and gave the ball to Randall. Coach Calipari wanted to use Randall's singles to attract Defend and try to get a three-point opportunity when passing the ball out.

But UConn seems to have changed its defensive strategy. Even though Randall has started to play in the back, he still defends alone.

Randall saw that his teammates couldn't get out of the open space, and no one came to double-team him, so he also became ruthless, pushing the defender all the way to the basket.

In fact, there is no problem with UConn's defensive strategy. After a whole game of double-teaming, Randall's overall performance was sluggish. He only scored 9 points so far. At the critical moment, Randall's sluggish state is really not worthy of trust. The strategy of letting him play in singles is completely fine in theory.

However, theory is theory and reality is reality. The uncertainty of competitive sports is its greatest charm.

Randall was double-teamed for the whole game and was depressed for the whole game. After all, as Kentucky's star player, he did not perform as he should. Randall was also afraid that his draft would be affected by this.

So Randall struggled with the opponent under the basket as if desperately trying, turned around with difficulty, put his shoulder against the opponent, raised the ball with his other hand, and made a hook, and the basketball stumbled into the net.

"Ah——!" Randall beat his chest passionately after scoring, venting his emotions.

The two sides were tied again, and Kang called a timeout. Kentucky is also arranging its defense urgently. There are 11 seconds left on the clock, and the opponent has enough time to run a tactic.

At the beginning of the game, UConn's center served the ball from the sidelines. Napier ran around the screen wildly, and Su Tian followed closely.

Just when the service time was about to time out, Napier ran out of a short opportunity at the top of the arc. The UConn center quickly passed it, but I don’t know if the center was nervous or had a slippery hand, and gave a ground pass. And the position is relatively low, Napier can only bend down to reach the ball.

Just when Napier bent down to reach the ball, Su Tian had already arrived and attacked instantly. The ball stealer's badge lit up and Su Tian successfully stole the ball!

Su Tian grabbed the ball and started to rush forward. The UConn team had no time to be sad and hurriedly pursued the defense. Napier was the first to react and chased after Su Tian.

Su Tian suddenly stopped when he ran to the three-point line, looked up at the frame, and slightly gathered his hands to get the ball together. Napier was chasing closely, but when Su Tian made an emergency stop, Napier failed to stop the car in time and took two more steps.

Napier saw that Su Tian was trying to combine the ball with something wrong, and they played for a whole game. Napier also knew how accurate Su Tian's three-pointers were, so naturally he didn't dare to defend against the air, and immediately pounced on it.

Su Tian saw Napier rushing forward again, smiled slightly and rushed towards the basket again.

"Blessed to Buddha?!" Napier couldn't help shouting.

Su Tian rushed to the basket, originally preparing for a handsome dunk, but due to his lack of dunking ability and excessive physical exertion, he had to change the dunk into a layup, and the ball successfully entered the net.

Su Tian exhaled. Fortunately, he didn't force a dunk. It would have been so embarrassing if he got caught in the basket.

UConn called another timeout with 2 seconds left on the clock. Kentucky only led 63 to 61 by two points. They still had a chance!

After a tense arrangement, the two sides took the field again. This time UConn switched to a small forward to serve. The center who made a mistake in serving in the previous round was already sitting on the bench with his head lowered. It seemed that he was scolded by the coach.

Napier was still running wildly, and Su Tian was chasing after him. This time, Su Tian didn't give him another chance. Napier still couldn't find a chance to catch the ball. Just when time was about to time out, Cornell's Porter Wright ran Come out, receive the ball from outside the three-point line, don't dare to stop after receiving the ball, and shoot directly from the three-point line.

Bang-dang——drip——

Basketball strikes, the game is over. Stern grabbed the dropped basketball, hugged it tightly, roared crazily, and vented his emotions.

Randall also shouted and celebrated wildly. Although the game itself performed poorly, scoring the key goal in the end and winning the game were also bonus points for the draft.

Next, as usual, we cut off the net and took photos.

"I announce that the MOP of this year's Final Four is—from the University of Kentucky, Su Tian!"

Su Tian took the mop trophy, kissed it and took photos. Su Tian was very excited for his first championship in his life. He thanked the coach for his training and Randall for his help.

Finally, in an interview with reporters, Su Tian said, "Yes, I will participate in this year's draft."

But the result was a bit beyond Su Tian's expectation. Su Tian's declaration did not attract many scouts. Only three or four chatted with him, and only two gave him business cards, and they were all polite.

Su Tian watched these scouts gather around Randall, Napier, and even James Young. There were five or six smiling scouts.

Su Tian once again felt the sadness of being in a foreign land. It was also difficult for yellow people in America.

Su Tian looked at the ribbons flying around him and the trophy in his arms, and said silently in his heart, "NBA, here I come!!"