The Sun Devils' second game is an away game against the University of Washington.

Despite its name, this university is not in Washington, but in Seattle. Its full name is University of Washington-Seattle.

This school is stronger than Stanford University. They have Quincy Pondexter, who is famous on the draft boards of major websites, and is predicted to be drafted in the first round.

Although the ranking is a bit low.

There are only 30 places in the first round every year. Even if the predictions for the last few positions of major websites are different, there are at most 35 to 40 first-round newcomers.

To be one of them, Quincy Ponderster's strength is self-evident.

Moreover, this guy is still a junior and has played in the NCAA for three years. His experience is also one of his advantages.

But Sandek is not worried about not being able to beat this team.

Of course, if he did not play away against Pittsburgh in the warm-up match, he might be a little worried about whether the away game would have an impact on Lin Ri, resulting in his poor performance.

But after playing the warm-up match against Pittsburgh, he no longer worried about this problem at all.

That game was enough to show that Lin Ri's performance will not be bad in away games or at home. His mentality is very mature and he is a player who will not be disturbed by external factors.

At his age of eighteen, this is really rare.

But Sandek didn't want to praise him specifically for this.

Judging from his usual performance, it is natural for him to be mentally mature. Sandeck really can't see any impetuousness in him.

Sandek believed that Lin Ri could perform as well as he did in the away game against Washington, and Lin Ri did not disappoint him. As soon as the "gunshot" sounded in the second game of the regular season, this guy immediately

Washington's inside attack was overwhelming. Just 11 minutes into the first half, this guy scored 11 points.

The speed of scoring is like racing against the game time.

His active performance also allowed the Sun Devils to open up the game from the beginning. At the end of the first half, they did not trail even a single possession.

Leading all the way until the first half whistle sounded!

Done!

Sandek stood on the sidelines and felt like dozing off again.

But back in the second half, Pondexter began to exert his strength. He first relied on his personal ability to continuously attack the basket and succeeded. Lin Ri's ability to protect the frame was very strong. In the battle against Wake Forest, Jeff Teague and Aminu

The two took turns attacking the basket but ultimately failed to take advantage. Neither of them shot more than 45%, and Aminu didn't even reach 40%. This is Lin Ri's ability to protect the frame.

But in these rounds, Pondexter used his experience accumulated in the NCAA over the past three years to put the ball into the basket again and again.

The Sun Devils missed basket after basket.

Washington breathed a sigh of relief.

Sandeck looked at the unexpected situation and did not dare to think about taking a nap anymore. He began to focus on using the candy wheel tactic against the outstanding Ponderst. Of course, he could not let Harden use this tactic.

He uses players in positions 1 and 3. Players in these two positions are "tool men" on the offensive end. Only a few opportunities to "eat the pie" will be their turn. Guys like this are present.

If they don't use it to "exchange money", how will they use up their physical energy?

Two Tool Man:???

Is this human language?

Pondexter is a second- and third-position swingman with very good physical fitness. His playing style is somewhat similar to that of Cleveland's King. He can be called the "poor man's version of LeBron James." If he were not experienced, he would not have been able to

He was able to get through Lin Ri's interference with his rampage.

Of course, it's definitely impossible to get through now.

After the Sun Devils' players at position 1 and position 3 helped "unload", Pondexter, who rushed in front of Lin Ri this time, obviously lost the momentum he just had and was easily entangled by Lin Ri.

However, Pondexter's performance was not over. After being entangled by Lin Ri, the guy did not panic. He once again showed his rich experience and passed the ball from a small angle to his teammates inside, leaning on Lin Ri.

, helped the latter complete the scoring.

This "magic move" caused all the University of Washington fans to burst into loud cheers.

During his three years at the University of Washington, Pondexter also made his alumni become his fans.

You underestimated this guy!

At this time, Sandek officially changed his view on Pondexter. This guy's immediate combat ability and judgment of the situation are both NBA-level.

However, he did not change his formation again.

The information he collected told him that Pondexter was not the kind of player who could always pass the ball, which meant that this time it was probably an accident.

It was also for this reason that he chose to wait and see.

Sure enough, Pondexter, who was about to do it again on the next attack, made a mistake. James Harden seized the opportunity to complete the "ghost break", and then Lin "soared to the sky", and the sound of dunks turned the audience into a ball.

Cambridge in Xu Zhimo's poems.

Damn, this feels so good!

Lin Ri muttered something softly.

In the last away game against Pittsburgh, he also silenced the entire audience with a rim dunk. At that time, a strange sense of joy surged out of his heart. This kind of joy was different from the beautiful goal he scored at his home court.

Afterwards, the fans in the stadium became excited when they screamed. This was a somewhat "morbid" feeling of exhilaration, and he felt as if "this arena was conquered by him."

A man's nature is to conquer!

No matter what you conquer!

They can all get pleasure out of it!

In Lin Ri's opinion, the pleasure of conquering an away stadium is not much less than the pleasure of conquering a woman.

He didn't know if he was abnormal, but he loved this feeling.

Especially at this moment, when this feeling emerged again, he really felt an inexplicable power springing out of his body, which made him eager to do something to vent this power.

At this moment, Washington's No. 2 successfully slid down the baseline and ran out of space. The ball was also passed to his hands in time, and he was about to go for a layup!

"Unlucky child" has been locked!

Lin Ri focused his attention on him while he was getting the ball, but after getting the ball, this guy could only focus on the basket and had no idea that "disaster was coming."

"Boom!"

The moment this guy put the ball up for a layup and the ball just left his hand, Lin Ri's slap followed closely and nailed the racket to the backboard.

There were some low voices in the audience, which had become very quiet because of Lin Ri's dunk:

"Fake, right?"

"This guy..."

"Is this a joke?"

Lin's big hat shot refreshed the University of Washington fans' perception of the "Beast."

The entire Sun Devils bench erupted.

Lin Ri, who was starting to land, grabbed the ball in his arms, then accurately saw James Harden, who was already starting to get off the ball, and passed the ball over.

When this guy saw Lin Ri chasing Washington's second position, he immediately started to move quickly.

He believed that Lin Ri could definitely block shots and grab rebounds.

As for the reason... there is no reason, it is trust!

"Boom!"

James Harden held the ball firmly and made an easy layup.

Two consecutive waves of goals were scored with such momentum. This made Washington suddenly lose its momentum due to Ponderster's explosive performance just now.

The Sun Devils regained control.

1 minute and 35 seconds before the end, Pondexter took the ball and played the team's most critical attack. The goal was scored, and they recovered the point difference to only 6 points. If the goal was not scored, the point difference would remain at 8 points.

In terms of points, with the NCAA's 35-second attack time per round and only more than 1 minute left, it would be difficult to catch up with the point difference.

This attack was crucial, and Ponder was also very cautious in his attack. However, the timing of his carefully chosen breakthrough was accurately predicted by Lin Ri. The latter got stuck on the route of his breakthrough, forcing him to stop his breakthrough, and then there was a sudden attack.

He slapped away the ball he was trying to force.

When the ball fell into the hands of Steve Jones on the outside and quickly connected with James Harden to score, it was declared that there was no suspense in this game.

The University of Washington gave up its struggle and waited for the game time to end. In the end, the Sun Devils defeated Washington 78-68, winning two consecutive games to start the regular season.

James Harden once again scored more than 25 points in this game, becoming the highest scorer between the two teams.

Lin Ri's performance was also very good, with 20 points and 14 rebounds. Today he also combined shooting with attacking at the basket. Both methods had their effects, giving the opponent a headache.

Of course, what he really used to change the situation today was his ability on the defensive end!

A player who can invest more on the defensive end at critical moments is a player who can use defense to change the situation of the game...

This is the new evaluation written by the scouts who were interested in Lin Ri in the scouting report about Lin Ri during this game.

Lin Ri brought them a new surprise in this game - his defensive ability at critical moments is becoming more and more obvious!

In the warm-up game against Pittsburgh, the image of Lin Ri blocking Blair at the last moment of the game still appeared in front of their eyes. Unexpectedly, in this game, Lin Ri made a wonderful block at the most critical moment.

Although the Sun Devils led by 8 points at 1 minute and 35 seconds, even if Pondexter scored that layup, the Sun Devils would not necessarily lose, but the importance of this block is not low, at least it allows this

The last 1 minute and 35 seconds of the game became meaningless.

In addition, Lin Ri's key block was not just this one. His nail-biting block that made the whole audience roar could also be called "a block that changed the situation" because of the Sun Devils' momentum during that period.

It started from that ball.

He has only played 3 warm-up games and 2 regular season games, but he has changed the situation of the game through defense one after another. It is really not an exaggeration to say that "he is a player who can use defense to change the situation of the game."
Chapter completed!