After a loud roar, Lu Yu saw the basketball in the air being flicked by a big hand and flying towards him, while several of his other teammates were already falling.
I'm really becoming more and more confident in Casey Green's jump ball.
We can't blame them for this. Casey Green has been really lucky this year and has never lost a jump ball.
Originally, Lu Yu thought that Casey Greene's bounce was not very good, and he was really not very good, but the anti-bone boy's bounce...well, not very good either.
The anti-bone boy naturally refers to Carlos Boozer.
In the summer of 2004, Boozer had the last year of his rookie contract left, and the Cavaliers had a team option. Boozer took the initiative to find the Cavaliers management in the hope of ending his rookie contract early. Boozer hoped to sign a six-year, 40 million contract.
He signed a long-term contract and stated that he was optimistic about the future of the Cavaliers and was willing to assist James in leading the team forward.
Faced with a deeply affectionate young and outstanding young man, the Cavaliers management agreed to Boozer's request after some consideration. The Cavaliers immediately chose to exercise the team option and Boozer became a free agent.
Not long after Boozer became a free agent, the Jazz immediately offered Boozer a six-year, $68 million contract. Boozer turned around and ran to Salt Lake City, leaving behind a dull-looking Cavaliers management.
It is the most famous "anti-bone boy" incident in NBA history.
However, Carlos Boozer is still very young now. He is just a sophomore this year and is slightly older than Jay Williams. He is still an honest person in the team.
After the jump ball failed, he didn't say a word and ran directly back to the backcourt.
Lu Yu handed the ball to Dan Dickau and ran across the half court without any haste. When he passed the half court, he saw that his defender was indeed Sean Battier.
Battier pressed his elbow against Lu Yu's waist, preventing Lu Yu from getting a chance to move.
The tactics that Duke University head coach Lao K and Shefsky deployed before the game were to prevent Gonzaga from using a zipper tactic to prevent Lu Yu from getting rid of Battier.
Lu Yu mentioned the top arc and received the basketball handed over by Dan Dickau.
All the Gonzaga fans in the stands were shouting: "Lu, pass him" and "Lu, beat him hard." Lu Yu just smiled and lowered his center of gravity.
Battier also lowered his center of gravity and said, "It's not that easy to break through me..."
Before he finished speaking, Lu Yu started. After two steps of breakthrough, his left shoulder collided with Battier's chest. Lu Yu turned sideways and slowed down to suppress the rhythm, using his whole body to protect the basketball.
"The defense is really good." Lu Yu sighed.
At this moment, Lu Yu turned around before changing hands and turned to the other side to break through. Battier was about to move sideways, but found himself blocked by Casey Green.
Boozer quickly filled in.
The moment he rushed forward, Lu Yu used the time difference to break through the gap between Boozer and Battier like a butterfly piercing a flower.
Then he made an emergency stop and hit a jump shot from the elbow area.
There were two black men sitting in an inconspicuous corner of the stand. One had bright eyes and the other was as lazy as if he was asleep. He asked lazily, "How is it? Is his breakthrough very sharp?"
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The lazy black man glanced sideways at him: "Not bad, worse than me."
"Pull him down. Just make your first step faster. Can you do such a concussive dribble?"
"Who are you looking down on?"
The argument between the two in the stands did not attract the attention of others, but the concussive dribbling they argued was indeed the key to Lu Yu's breakthrough.
Especially when passing between two defenders after this kind of pick-and-roll, shock dribbling is an essential basic skill.
It was Duke's turn to attack. Jay Williams took the ball and prepared to attack. His eyes were fixed on Lu Yu who was guarding him. Lu Yu curled his lips and said: "If you want to fight, then fight. Why are you staring at me? It's hard."
Don’t you think you have a crush on me?”
Who knew that Jay Williams did not choose to break through, but passed the ball from the top arc to Shane Battier who came out from a 45-degree angle.
Blake Stepp did not follow. This area was Dan Dickau's defensive area. However, despite his short stature, Dan Dickau still tried his best to interfere with Battier and prevent him from making sudden cold arrows.
Lu Yu frowned slightly, something seemed wrong?
Battier did not break through, but followed up and passed the ball to Boozer, who was stuck at the elbow.
Strong play inside?
At this time, Gonzaga is in a second and third position, while Duke is in a third and second position, and the two teams happen to be reversed.
At this time, Jay Williams went up to prepare a pick-and-roll for Carlos Boozer. Lu Yu could only shrink. Suddenly Jay Williams turned back and blocked Dan Dickau's right side. Battier
Dunleavy ran to the baseline and made a crossover.
Defending Dunleavy is Zach Goode.
He was in a bit of a dilemma. At this time, he had two players in the corner, Shane Battier and Dunleavy, and it was difficult for him to defend either one.
"Change positions."
Lu Yu quickly made up for the area where Battier was standing, but Dan Dickau obviously didn't react and was passed down by Jay Williams. Boozer directly handed the ball to Jay Williams.
, easy layup.
"It was actually a four-on-four fake screen from the strong side to break the zone defense."
Lu Yu couldn't help but sigh, Coach K's genius.
Ordinary coaches would choose to use the shots of the team's accurate shooters to force the defensive formation to expand when trying to break the zone defense. When the opponent's zone defense expands, the zone defense will have no appearance.
But Lao K did the opposite and compressed the strong side very tightly, leaving only one player in the bottom corner on the weak side.
Because he knew that the two perimeter players on their team were too short.
Jay Williams is 188 cm.
Chris Duhon is even shorter, only 185 centimeters.
These two people wanted to use shooting to force Gonzaga's formation to expand, but the possibility was extremely low, so he simply gave up on this idea and used four players to compress the strong side formation.
When Jay Williams blocks Battier with a fake screen, there will be two shooters, Battier and Dunleavy, in the bottom corner at a 45-degree angle.
The only defender is Zach Goode in the corner.
If Lu Yu chooses to follow Battier, the zone defense formation will be broken, and Jay Williams can go directly down.
At this time, it doesn't matter whether Casey Green makes up for it or not.
Without any help, Jay Williams made an easy layup.
To make up for it, Jay Williams can also score by passing to the empty Boozer.
The key lies in how Lu Yu chooses after Dan Dickau is blocked.
If Lu Yu doesn't keep up, one of Battier and Dunleavy can easily catch the ball and shoot.
Gonzaga and Duke are in completely opposite directions.
Gonzaga strives to make the tactics simpler in this game, allowing Lu Yu to have more physical strength to continue the firepower on both ends of the offense and defense.
Duke's tactics are very complicated. They need to use complex tactics to break the opponent's zone defense tactics.
Lu Yu didn't have time to think about how to defend this attack, because it was already Gonzaga's attack time, and Mark Foyo had to worry about the tactics. He only had to do what he should do.
The basketball in his hand was like a butterfly passing through a flower, and Battier, who was guarding him, was keeping a close eye on him.
Battier bent down and guarded Lu Yu seriously. When Lu Yu took a step forward, he took a step back.
When Lu Yu came to the top arc, just when he thought Lu Yu was about to break through, he suddenly found Lu Yu taking a small step laterally, using the cover of his teammates to pull up and shoot a three-pointer.
He quickly rushed to interfere, then returned to look at the basket.
