The Way of the Center

Chapter 20 : Whirlwind 3 Swordsman

Although Anjie’s organization on the court is not as good as Mike Taylor’s veteran, but it can barely help the Tornado team open the situation. The two sides can’t guard against anyone on the field, which also presented a wonderful battle for the audience. Until the end of the first half, the audience was still unfulfilled. 38 to 43, the University of Texas Longhorns still have a slight advantage, leading by five points.

An Jie scored 8 points, 7 assists and 5 rebounds in the first half of the game. In the previous games, An Jie used to hold the ball as an end point, but today his role is completely changed, so 7 in the half. Assists have been his highest number of assists in a single game this season. And D.J. Augustine relied on the overall strength of the advantage to score 13 points, in addition to 6 assists. If it hadn’t been for a few pass teammates who failed to grasp the opportunity, this data would have been better.

The advantages and disadvantages of both sides in the first half of the game are very obvious, so the coaches of both sides are ready to talk to their players.

“We must defend well while the situation opens up on offense! Just relying on Anjie and DJ Augustin to attack, our chances of winning will not be too great!” Apart from the sound of the air conditioner in the entire locker room, only Ricard was waving Mark. The roar of the pen.

Mike Taylor faced an NCAA star-level guy and showed a lot of his own shortcomings. Except for his height, he is almost completely behind. Ricard knew that the big brother of this team was already in a state of turmoil in the face of DJ Augustine’s powerful offensive firepower, so he would no longer let Mike Taylor defend Augustine alone. He needed a series of efforts. To limit the opponent who is in the NBA draft lottery zone.

In the mouth of the fans, when the “Tornado Three Musketeers” are mentioned, no one doesn’t know who they are. It is precisely because of the tacit and excellent performance of Mike Taylor, Andrew Morris and Anjie that the Tornado team that has changed its decline has been created. Although other players are also part of the success of the Tornado, the performance of the three of them is undoubtedly the most eye-catching. Now in Ricard’s mind, the defensive task of the second half must indeed fall on these three people. Although Anthony Ben is good defensively, if he switches to the first position, who will defend the opposing small forward?

“Taylor, Morris, Anjie! I want you to defend together in the second half!” Ricard quickly passed through the feasibility of tactics in his mind, so he called the names of the three and started to pick up the tactical board to prepare for the task. Up.

“How can you tolerate that skinny guy doing whatever he wants on the court! DeAndre Jordan lost to him because the little Jordan guy has strong limbs and simple mind. Are you too!? When we are in the advantage, just because he is a center forward. The change will revitalize the opponent’s entire team’s offense. If you say it, you can’t laugh at others!” On the other hand, the head coach of the University of Texas, Roman Harding, was facing his inside player in the locker room of the Longhorns. Expressing dissatisfaction.

The center and power forwards of the Longhorns can only help Harding reprimand. They are already doing everything in the interior against Anjie. But the seemingly thin Chinese man actually contained power in his body that was completely incompatible with his size. Maybe that kid’s bones were all meat.

“Augustine did a good job in the first half, but I want you to increase your offensiveness in the second half. Break through to the inside and try to create fouls by the two big men in the Tornado team.”

“Hmm.” After hearing the coach’s arrangement, Augustine nodded slightly. Facing Mike Taylor, he was very confident, but if he was asked to face the yellow-skinned center forward, Augustine felt a little hopeless in his heart. If it were last season, most of these things would be left to Durant, and now he has to end the game by himself, he still lacks confidence.

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During the intermission, most spectators leave their seats. Some go to the toilet, while others buy some drinks or food. At this moment, Beard and Catherine were lining up in front of a popcorn machine.

“How about Catherine, did you feel the charm of basketball?” The first half of the matchup made the bearded beard very addicted.

“It’s just… too barbaric.” Catherine answered her father seriously. In the first half, she saw An Jie make physical contact with her opponent more than once, especially when she hit the back, as if she could hear the violent collision of muscles in this noisy crowd. Every time she saw these, Catherine’s heart would mention her throat, for fear that the thin Anjie would be injured and fall to the ground.

“This…” The bearded man didn’t expect his daughter to answer him like that. Sure enough, women’s focus on things is still very different from that of men.

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In the second half, the two sides changed sides to fight again. In the first few rounds, the Tornado team did not see any changes. Taylor still defended Augustine one-on-one. But the changes on the Long Horns team are more obvious. Augustine is a calm player. Most of the time, he will look for passing opportunities on the outside. It is impossible to organize him before he chooses to attack. And now Augustine’s offensive desire has become extremely strong, he has broken through to the inside offensive many times. After breaking through, he didn’t divide the ball, but ran straight to the basket. Although Augustine is only 1.83 meters tall, it is not easy to block his layup. Augustine’s European steps are very good, making it difficult to judge his shooting point. Because of this, Anjie and Morris have each fouled him once.

“Very good, wait a minute!” His team had a bad start to the second half, but Ricard seemed very satisfied. He pressed hard with both hands on the sidelines to remind the players to keep their breath. The reason why he is still using Taylor to defend Augustine alone is to induce the opponent to increase breakthroughs. He also expected that Harding would arrange for Augustine to play more inside in order to deal with Anjie and Morris. It now appears that everything is moving in the direction he expected.

After Augustine made continuous selection breakthroughs, Ricard began to make an “OK” gesture. He didn’t call a timeout. He had already arranged it during the intermission. Ricard was about to play the Longhorns by surprise.

Augustine once again dribbled the ball through the half, and the defender in front of him was the same Mike Taylor who was beaten by himself today. To say that the only difference between the Tornado team is that Anjie actually went around to defend the opponent’s center, and he was still a step away from the opponent’s center. Is it really okay to just empty the basket like this? However, looking at Anjie’s height and wingspan, Augustine gave up his plan to hang the ball directly into the penalty area.

Augustine is still dribbling the ball quickly. He knows that Mike Taylor, who is panting in front of him, has lost a lot of defensive energy. Anyway, the coach’s task for himself in the second half is to break through the offense, so it’s better to execute the strategy honestly.

Augustine bowed his head, and Taylor couldn’t tell the truth from the fancy dribble. Augustine seized an opportunity for Mike Taylor to shake his weight, kicked his right foot hard, and his shoulder sank, breaking through Taylor’s defense once again.

“It’s getting easier.” Augustine was secretly happy, but suddenly, his eyes went dark! Augustine slammed into a “wall” abruptly, and he did not expect that such a figure would suddenly emerge from behind Tyler.

“Driving the ball into someone, an offensive foul!” The referee immediately blew his whistle. Augustine didn’t know what was going on, but saw An Jie’s smirk.

“It turns out that he is so far away from the center of our team, so that he can be brought up in time when I break through. Humph, this kind of cleverness can only be used once.” Augustin took his teammate’s outstretched hand and stood up.

The next Longhorns offense, Augustine did not care about Taylor in front of him, but first observed Anjie’s position. Still defending around the front, still a step away from the center of his team, and not entangled.

“Do you want to repeat the trick!?” Augustine knew that the last time he was just too careless, he would not fall twice in the same place.

Continue to hit the inside line! D.J. Augustine used a few fast-paced crotch dribbles to open the distance between Mike Taylor and himself, and then he wiped it away from Taylor. But this time he didn’t accelerate with all his might, he knew what was waiting for him.

Sure enough, after breaking through Taylor, An Jie, who stood firm on his heels, still appeared in front of Augustine. Augustine was not fooled and stopped directly. As he slowed down, Taylor behind had already surrounded him. Anjie and Taylor both raised their hands and surrounded the under-tall Augustine Augustine wanted to pass the ball to an unmarked teammate on the inside, but found that Morris actually stood in the right position and blocked it. The route he passed the ball in. As a result, his room for activity is getting smaller and smaller. Before Augustine had time to pass back, Taylor hugged the ball with both hands and fought hard to compete with Augustine.

“Beep beep!” The whistle sounded again, but this time it was not because Anjie and Morris were fouled, but because the referee awarded a face-off.

Taylor relied on his height advantage to win the ball. D.J. Augustine was originally not the advantage in height, not to mention the fact that he had been playing as a defender and he did not know how to jump the ball.

After 　　, the offense of the Long Horns was completely plunged into a quagmire, and Augustine’s breakthrough pace was restricted by An Jie. The three of the Cyclone team can always complete the defense tacitly. An Jie blocked, Taylor doubled, Morris blocked the pass, and the three were in place. Augustine had no choice but to hand the ball to his teammates who were not in a good position again and again, but the offensive effect was known. Like the Tornadoes in the first half, Augustine, the offensive organizer of the Longhorns, is now restricted to death. So how can their offensive quality be better?

“These three boys really didn’t let me down!” Seeing his three men disintegrating Augustine’s attack for the fifth time in a row, Ricard waved his arm vigorously.

“The ability of the three of them to read the game surprised me.” Divac looked at the tacit performance of Anjie and the other two and nodded with satisfaction to Ricard.

“Of course, they are the three whirlwind swordsmen.” Ricard’s heart is also full of pride Book friends are welcome to visit and read. The latest, fastest and hottest serial works are all at www. For mobile phone users, please go to read.