Chapter 34: A ball of revenge
"Beautiful, Lin, no matter what, from now on, you are my idol." There is no difference between senior, junior, and freshman in Wisconsin now, and no difference between core and ordinary starter.
Kaminsky and Decker two team leaders came over to Lalinson in person, with five words written on his face - Brother Sen drank Coke.
Now the whole audience is shouting "Lin". Perhaps at the beginning, there were many Wisconsin fans who didn't know this new center who had only played in the team for less than three months. Now, they have been conquered by Lin Sen's three-pointer just now.
After these two successful defenses, John Calipari decisively handed over Kentucky's second-last timeout. He needs to calm down. Towns is now disrupted by his two successful defenses. After all, he is a first-year novice. His talent and skills are both quasi-no-no. However, his mentality is completely different. He has almost never lost much in his basketball career. Even if he loses the game, Towns will not lose.
And now it may become a game he lost with the team. He has a strong desire to show himself on the stage of the NCAA Final Four, so he often asks for balls when his offense is frustrated. But in the eyes of John Calipari, this is undoubtedly the move to push the team into the abyss.
"KAT, don't take root in the inside from the beginning. You have to use your strengths. Being able to be inside and outside is your strengths, and you can play out your strengths."
Back on the court, Towns began to find a way to attack from the outside, but he found something very uncomfortable. When he started to attack with the ball from the outside, he felt even more uncomfortable. The frontal breakthrough was very tough. He wanted to lean on Lin Sen's body and directly complete the breakthrough layup.
Lin Sen is now extremely rich in defensive experience. He knows that Towns’ idea is to jamm his body and use the inertia of breakthrough to complete the hook score. Lin Sen knows that his confrontation is not enough when facing Towns, so he has no idea how to limit Towns to the outside.
As Towns broke through, Lin Sen only drove Towns to the bottom line of the zero-degree angle, that position was undoubtedly a blind spot for Towns. Judging from the videos a few days ago, he did not take many shots in that position. His hooking needs to be strengthened. Without the help of erasing the board, he would be very awkward in this position. Unconsciously, under the interference of Lin Sen's long arm and intentional or unintentional interference, Towns was forced to take action at the zero-degree angle, and the basketball bounced out of the frame.
Lin Sen once again protected the rebound, and Wisconsin's outside three-pointer hit another, and Corning scored. This was his first move in the second half. When Kentucky over-ampled the two outside shooting abilities of Wisconsin infinitely, their real outside killers stood up.
Koning, a white defender in the fourth year of college, cannot run fast and jump high. There is a huge physical gap between him and Aaron Harrison on the opposite side, but this does not prevent Koning from having a killer heart.
This key three-pointer made Wisconsin draw at a draw near 20 points behind the highest, but Kentucky could no longer pause, and their last pause must be kept until the critical moment. At this time, John Calipari could only believe in the ability of the talented players on the court to adjust themselves in form.
Towns began to stop sticking to the ball. He and Booker began to look for opportunities in the outside pick-and-roll. When the game was related to the NCAA championship, Towns, who was already tied, felt threatened by the score, finally no longer insisted on facing Lin Sen, who had defeated him for three consecutive rounds. He wanted to misplace the pick-and-roll. Unfortunately, even so, he still did not escape Lin Sen's clutches.
The excellent cover forced Towns to face Lin Sen, whom he didn't want to face the most. Booker did not choose to pass the ball this time, but used the cover to force a breakthrough to score. Even if Lin Sen was playing with Olajuwon's black hole in the court, his black hole was not infinitely large. Facing Booker's breakthrough, he was powerless, and Kaminsky, who was in the inside, was just a decoration.
He was powerless on the defensive end and showed his strength on the offensive end. Kaminsky once again scored a single against Caulisten on the offensive end. He did come for revenge tonight. He scored continuously and raised his score to 20 points.
The scores on both sides began to rise at this time. Although the pick-and-roll cooperation between Towns and Booker could not give him any chance, it benefited the whole team.
Booker is a defender with a good vision. After Towns' pick-and-roll, even if Linson chooses to switch defenses, Towns will directly bomb Wisconsin's basket like a beast out of the cage. Moreover, he will not only pass the ball to Towns, Trey Lyles on the outside, and Caulisten, who is ready to cut at any time. These are all fatal threats to Wisconsin's defense.
Both sides made extremely smooth 5 minutes in a row, and the score had reached 80:82. Few NCAA's semi-finals could score such a high score. Kentucky was forced to attack under the 5-pointer tactics of Wisconsin, and was only two points behind with his beyond imagination talent.
The game has reached the most critical last minute. Kentucky's ball rights are still using their most efficient offensive methods in the second half. The pick-and-roll of Booker and Towns on the top of the arc seems to have become a familiar landscape in the Kentucky offense.
Logically speaking, Wisconsin is also familiar with the defense change, but this time, Lin Sen directly met.
Double-teaming, Booker was stunned by Lin Sen's double-teaming at this moment. This was also his carelessness after the pick-and-roll this time. The goal was not fast. In his impression, Wisconsin had never chosen double-teamed, and this only double-teaming made him come back at a heavy price. He, who was not strong in physical confrontation, was inevitably conceding the ball when facing such double-teaming.
Lin Sen got the ball and launched a fast attack. A big center took the ball and headed straight to the opponent's basket. Towns's return to defense was also very fast. Lin Sen had been defending him for several rounds in a row. Now he was going to return it, so he ran to Lin Sen's right side and blocked all Lin Sen's breakthrough routes.
Chapter completed!