Chapter 48 Nash + Kidd?
The first round of the U.S. and Washington State University are scheduled for the afternoon of March 3, with the first game being held and the second game being held on the evening of March 5.
The captain of Washington State University is Aaron Baynes from the Australian Men's Basketball Team. He is a strong and tough inside player who is good at rushing offensive rebounds. He has high defensive enthusiasm, but his athletic ability is mediocre and has no low-post offensive ability. He is also a blue-collar inside player who relies on picking up bargains and scoring in the penalty area.
After the regular season, Floyd turned his energy to Washington State University.
Two days before the game, USC specially added a breakthrough after pick-and-roll and wing bottom corner cutting training. Wu Huang felt some of his coach's strategic intentions, which were obviously aimed at two white people from Washington State University.
Strictly speaking, there are no shooting guards in Washington State. Klay Thompson and Devinn Harmanlin are tall white shooters, both of which are tall. The former weighs 205 pounds, while the latter is already a senior and weighs 225 pounds.
Both of these should be third-place players. Such figure will make them look slow when playing in the second position. Coupled with their already mediocre athletic ability, they often lack the energy to switch defenses after pick-and-roll. Wu Huang and DeRozan's pick-and-roll offense are most suitable for dealing with these two players. In the two regular season matches, USC uses pick-and-roll offenses to easily win.
Floyd watched Wu Huang change direction and easily pass Bart Blay on the training ground. The excitement in his heart was unknown to outsiders. The next district championship actually didn't have much weight in his heart. The National Championship on March 18 was the stage for the team's official performance.
After the Pacific 10th regular season, the Los Angeles Times made a relatively comprehensive prediction for the June draft.
Da Bendan wrote: 2009 is another year of draft picks, and there are many dominant players in this draft. This is the consensus of most people from all walks of life in the NBA, and it also makes the ownership of the No. 1 pick a lot. Although Blake Griffin from the University of Oklahoma always occupies the first place in the XPress and ESPN mock draft, Blake Griffin from the University of Oklahoma has always occupied the first place, but in the relevant predictions of other media, Griffin's No. 1 pick is not so stable, especially everyone still has doubts about his knee injury.
The NBA's regular season is coming to an end. According to the current ranking, the team with the most chance to win the No. 1 pick are the Los Angeles Clippers, followed by the Kings, the Grizzlies, the Knicks, the Timberwolves and the Warriors also have theoretical opportunities to choose the No. 1 pick, but they are more likely to get the top five picks.
If the Clippers draw the No. 1 pick, they can certainly choose Blake Griffin, but they may also make a deal with other teams and transfer the No. 1 pick.
There have been many such rumors in the league recently. Even if the number one pick is left, the current candidate for the Clippers is not confirmed, including Hashem Tabitt of the University of Connecticut and Wu Huang from the University of Southern California, who may become the number one pick.
The Los Angeles Times' view is not a one-on-one opinion. In the eyes of mainstream American media, Griffin and Tabit will inevitably occupy two of the top three in the draft, with one place left. There is a high probability that they will be born from European golden boy Rubio, Chinese star Wu Huang, and Tyrek Evans of the University of Memphis. Originally, Stephen Curry and James Harden also had this qualification, but one of the two is in a league with insufficient exposure, and the other lost to Wu Huang in two direct conversations. The reality is so cruel.
Wu Huang's current opponent is basically the Golden Boy Rubio, who has been portrayed by European media as a future emperor superstar, and Evans, who has an extremely mature style of play.
But these two people are not without weaknesses. Rubio has not proved himself in the American basketball world. Who knows how good he is?
As for Evans, Wu Huang will soon have the chance to meet the opponent in the National Championships. If he wins this battle, Wu Huang will have a much greater chance of being selected by the top three, and he will not have the chance to hit the No. 1 pick, because the National Championships are also an ultimate test for Griffin and Tabit.
In general, even if Wu Huang performed poorly in the national championship, his comprehensive performance this season is enough to win the top 10 draft rankings for himself.
The teams in the NBA league that do not have the top draft picks are hoped that Wu Huang will perform abnormally in the national championship so that they will have a chance.
On March 3, today is the first round of the Pacific Tenth League Championship, with the University of Southern California against Washington State.
According to the district tournament rules, teams with better regular season record play home first, so today's game will be held at the Memorial Stadium, the home court of the University of Southern California.
Due to the considerable gap in strength between the two teams, there was no live broadcast of the TV station today's game, and the memorial stadium was not even full, with only about 30,000 fans coming to watch the game.
But Wu Huang didn't know that even if there weren't 30 NBA scouts who came to watch the game today, there were at least 29. The Rockets who didn't come were probably still without a first-round draft pick, or they would have diarrhea.
The NBA's bottom teams have long focused on this year's draft. Wu Huang's performance has attracted the attention of all NBA teams, including the Clippers, who are most likely to win the No. 1 pick. Their head coach and the old Dunlivi, who serves as manager, are also hesitating whether they choose the inside or the point guard?
Of course, the final decision is not in his hands, and the stingy boss of the Clippers is the final decision.
The Los Angeles Times made a preview before the game. They believed that the University of Southern California had only one reason to win, and that was that they had an unstoppable key player - Wu Huang.
Washington State University does not have a player who can limit Wu’s scoring or passing. The latter has scored a total of 55 points and 19 assists against Washington State University this season.
In the third-last game against Washington State University in the regular season, Wu Huang used his clever assists to lead the needle and played with Washington University in the applause. Once at certain moments of the game, the USC's offense was blocked, Wu Huang would inevitably start the assist teammate scoring mode or switch to the personal scoring mode. Washington University had no choice but to do anything about Wu Huang.
This is the case with ncaa's game. If you have no way to the enemy's core, then the only possibility of winning the game depends on how your core performance is?
However, the tragic thing is that Washington State University has no player who can be compared with Emperor Wu this year.
Floyd emphasized to the players before the game: "The opponent's lack of sportsmanship on the outside has limited ability to make mistakes, so we need to make more breakthroughs; their inside players make too many fouls and cannot limit their opponent's free throws, so we need to strengthen breakthroughs; in the end, they have poor protection of the backcourt rebounds, so we still have to..."
"Breakthrough!" Southern California players did not need the head coach to speak this time, and all the players shouted spontaneously.
"Calm down, you're too excited." Floyd reached out and pressed down, indicating this small scene, without yelling, and continued: "Aron Baynes is the opponent's core inside line, passionate but reckless, easy to foul. Smash him first, and the inside line is ours. Thompson on the outside is a scorer. He can control the ball but not fast, shoot accurately but not good at the shooting. His three-point shots account for half of the number of shots, and long-distance jump shots are also fatal. The disadvantage is that he is aggressive and has insufficient free throw ability. He can let him break through and defend his shots to the death."
Floyd has set up the team's defense, and he is too lazy to say more on the offensive end. It's so easy to have a Wu Emperor on his hand. He only needs to call a timeout on the offensive end, and leave the rest to Wu Emperor on his own.
"Fight well, we haven't produced a No. 1 pick yet." Before Floyd took the team to play, he patted Wu Huang on the shoulder and said.
Emperor Wu smiled in his heart. He wanted to become the No. 1 pick, but most of the top three teams in the draft this year do not lack point guards, and he couldn't change this.
In today's game, the two teams had a certain gap in strength. USC entered the championship as the league's number one, while Washington State University finally squeezed into the championship. Especially their poor defense made it difficult for them to form strong cohesion, so it was difficult to go far in any championship.
However, the UC players dare not underestimate their opponents. After all, this is a home and away game competition. Once they cannot defeat their opponents at home or the advantage they have not gained is large enough, they will add a lot of unnecessary suspense to the game when they go to the away game.
The University of Southern California missed another jump ball, and the home fans were relieved all of a sudden, and the rhythm of the game was in their hands from the beginning.
Wu Huang did not feel that today's game was different from the regular season. After the three minutes of the game, Wu Huang broke through continuously according to the script to create damage. Washington State University didn't know if there was any plan to deal with Wu Huang's breakthrough, but he actually scored 6 points in two minutes?
Washington State shouted a timeout, but after the game started again, they still seemed to have no choice.
This shows that Washington State University is not preparing to defend Wu Huang, but their double-teaming execution is not enough, the clamping speed of the second and third positions is too slow, and the oppressiveness of the point guard is not enough, which does not cause much trouble to Wu Huang now, but instead makes more loopholes in its defense line.
Emperor Wu completely started the scoring mode in the first half, constantly breaking through, constantly throwing and passing out the ball, and the scores of the two teams were quickly widened to double digits.
In the last five minutes of the first half, when USC finally replaced Wu Huang, the score had already become 38:16, which was a game without any suspense.
This game is not just that Emperor Wu cannot limit it. USC captain Gibson also successfully defended Washington State captain Aaron Baynes.
The two of them have similar characteristics, both are blue-collar workers with active defense, strong physical fitness and weak offensive ability, but Gibson's physical fitness is much better than Aaron Baynes. The one he is best at dealing with is similar players like Aaron Baynes.
The second in commander DeRozan also beat Klay Thompson on the offensive end. The latter's anxious steps could not keep up with him at all, and his defensive awareness was not too prominent. The unball cover of the University of Southern California could allow DeRozan to easily run out of an open shot.
However, Washington State University can no longer spend its energy to assist DeRozan. They are concentrating on defending Wu Huang and cannot complete the task. The University of Southern California has blossomed in multiple points in this game, and after the half-time, three players scored in double digits.
At the end of the first half, the score was 45:20, Wu Huang scored 14 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, DeRozan scored 10 points, Gibson scored 10 points, and Bart scored 6 points.
Washington State University has basically given up on this game after the first half.
The scouts at the game could see the problem. The players at the University of Washington cannot break through the defense line of the University of Southern California, which is the key to such a huge gap in the score. If you just can't defend it, at least you won't lose so ugly. The University of Washington is obviously unable to attack or prevent it. This is a fatal thing, and you can't even lose the decent point.
Wu Huang's outstanding offense covered his equally good defense. Washington University's tall point guard Taylor Rochester has a mid-range breakthrough ability at the NCAA, but today, under Wu Huang's pair of ape arms, he successfully broke through in the first half at a handful of times.
Taylor Rochester is the main breakthrough force of Washington State, but he was completely restricted by Wu Huang's one-on-one. Washington State, which already lacks the ability to hold the ball, has completely lost the bargaining chips to counterattack.
The scouts on the scene could easily see Wu Huang's characteristics on the defensive end. His defense mainly relies on footsteps and long arms, as well as excellent positioning choices, and he rarely fouls.
Defensive positioning is a very important step in defense. Wu Huang's position selection is very smart. Many scouts have watched Wu Huang's game, and they can discover a phenomenon that Wu Huang will change his defensive position according to the characteristics of each opponent. This is a very important point, which shows that he is using his brain to defend.
For example, when encountering a small and fast opponent like Isaiya Thomas, he will give full play to his height and arm span, and let him go a little further to prevent the opponent from breaking through; when encountering a power-based opponent, Wu Huang will stick it up and give full play to his footwork advantages so that the opponent cannot rush up; and when facing opponents with relatively average abilities, Wu Huang will also consider whether to prevent breakthroughs, shooting, or both based on the opponent's status.
This season, Wu Huang has not encountered a player that makes him completely unable to defend. Even if DeRozan in the second position is often beaten, Wu Huang can slightly suppress his opponent after being misplaced. These scouts also have a very high evaluation of Wu Huang on the defensive end. At the beginning of the season, many media used Nash as his template. Now it seems obviously inappropriate. Nash does not have such a defense. Wu Huang is very similar to Kidd.
At the offensive end, Nash defensive end, Kidd?
Many scouts were excited when they thought about this. They subconsciously did not want to have such a high evaluation of a Chinese player, but their professional qualities made them have to make objective and correct evaluations.
Chapter completed!