On March 27, the USC Trojans played against the Michigan State University Spartans.
The opening ceremony ended, and the two teams started to play one after another.
The starting lineup sent by Southern California is: Daniel Hackett, DeMar, Dwight, Lian Dao, Gibson.
Michigan State's starting lineup: Carlin Lucas, Chris Allen, Durelle Summers, Rema Morgan, Goran Sutton
Goran Sutton and Lian Dao jump ball in midfield.
When the referee's whistle sounded, the ball was thrown into the air.
Lian Dao leaped forward and slid the basketball towards USC's half court at a palm height.
Daniel Hackett took control of the ball and pushed it steadily into half-court.
Lian Dao leaned against Rema Morgan on the inside and asked for the ball from Daniel, and Daniel passed the ball into Lian Dao's hands with a high profile.
Lian Dao leaned against Rema Morgan with his back and found a resistance. At the same time, Rema Morgan kept interfering with Lian Dao's dribble with his hands.
The position of the footsteps also made Lian Dao very uncomfortable.
Lian Dao probably knew Rema Morgan's strength through previous trials, so he turned his back hard, turned around, and dunked directly facing the frame.
At this time Golan Sutton gave up the defense and Gibson stepped forward to make up the defense.
Lian Dao took it back directly, and then passed it to Gibson through Golan Sutton's armpit.
After receiving the ball, Gibson dunked aggressively across Goran Sutton.
"Don't let him have a chance at the basket, Rema gets tough, don't be like a softie, back away at the slightest touch."
Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo was very dissatisfied with Rema Morgan's defense just now. He yelled at Rema Morgan from the sidelines.
Rema Morgan also had a hard time. He had defended well just now, but the opponent's strength was too great.
But Rema Morgan didn't dare to explain, and could only nod silently.
In turn, Carlin Lucas scored a layup with the help of his teammates.
The positions of Rema Morgan and Golan Sutton made Lian Dao and DeRozan feel very uncomfortable.
Lian Dao originally wanted to defend, but unexpectedly turned and bumped into Golan Sutton.
This time Lian Dao still wanted the ball inside, and Rema Morgan saw Lian Dao's intention and wanted to step forward to steal it.
But fortunately, Lian Dao took a step forward and controlled the ball. Lian Dao originally wanted to break through like before this time.
But Rema Morgan had been prepared for a long time, directly blocked Lian Dao's offensive line, and kept using his body to squeeze Lian Dao's dribbling space.
Lian Dao saw that there was no chance inside, so he dribbled the ball directly beyond the three-point line.
At this time, Rema Morgan didn't get too close to Lian Dao, because Tom Izzo had warned him to be careful when defending Lian Dao's three-pointer.
But Tom Izzo still underestimated the three-point ability.
Lian Dao saw that Rema Morgan did not stick to the defense, so he jumped directly from the outside and made a three-pointer.
When Rema Morgan saw Lian Dao's shooting posture, he immediately jumped up, but it was still a step too late, because Lian Dao shot too fast.
Rema Morgan rushed to the basket. He didn't believe that the basketball could be shot with such a quick shot.
But in fact, as soon as he got to the inside, he heard a "swipe", and the basketball passed through the basket and across the net, causing a circle of white waves.
USC started 5:2.
Great momentum!
At this time, Rema Morgan looked towards the head coach, meaning: whether to get close to the defense.
Head coach Tom Izzo pondered for a moment, but still shook his head. He thought his man-to-man tactics were fine.
And he didn't believe that Lian Dao's three-pointers could always be so accurate!
"Increase physical confrontation and consume the opponent's physical energy. As long as his physical energy decreases, his three-point shooting rate will also decrease!" Tom Izzo shouted to his disciple.
Rema Morgan nodded.
Durrell Summers makes a turnaround jumper on a lob by Carlin Lucas.
in turn.
At this time, Rema Morgan followed Lian Dao all the time, surrounded Lian Dao all the time, preventing him from having the slightest chance to catch the ball.
No matter how Lian Dao turned back, Rema Morgan could always follow him like a fly.
Daniel Hackett saw that Lian Dao had no chance and passed the ball to DeMar.
But unexpectedly, Chris Allen saw the intention and shot the basketball before DeMar.
Carlin Lucas took control of the ball and sprinted straight away, then scored a dunk.
Tim shook his head when he saw it.
Michigan State University's defense is very strong, and there are too few opportunities for USC.
Fortunately, in the next round, Lian Dao hit a three-pointer after receiving the ball through his teammates to cover the perimeter.
In fact, Lian Dao has a natural advantage in the third and fourth positions.
Lian Dao's defender, Rema Morgan, is very similar to Lian Dao. His height and weight are not much different from Lian Dao's, but his wingspan is not as long as Lian Dao's, and his jumping speed is not as good as Lian Dao's.
Seeing that Lian Dao made another three-pointer from the outside, Tim waved his hand fiercely.
Your defense is strong, but we still have Lian Dao.
"Defend, defend!"
Tim yelled at the players!
Carlin Lucas continued to hold the ball to the frontcourt, Rema Mo also cut inward, and Lian Dao hurriedly chased after him.
But was blocked by Goran Sutton.
Lian Dao turned around and bypassed Golan Sutton's pick-and-roll.
At this time, Rema Mo also received a lob from Carlin Lucas for a layup.
But Lian Dao who arrived later jumped up.
"Don't think about it!"
After Lian Dao jumped up, he stretched out his hand and slapped Rema Moye's layup on the backboard.
Then he jumped up and took control of the basketball.
This was followed by a long pass to DeMar.
Then it's a quick run toward the Michigan half.
However, Michigan State's return to defense was too fast, and they didn't give DeMar a chance to play a fast break at all.
Carlin Lucas, Chris Allen, one left and one right, are neck and neck with DeMar.
Demar was double-teamed from both sides.
DeMar rushed to the penalty area and took off directly. At this time, Carlin Lucas and Chris Allen also jumped up to prevent DeMar from dunking.
But DeMar just tossed the ball behind his head.
I saw that after Lian Dao flew to catch the ball, directly across Carlin Lucas, Chris Allen dunked the basketball into the basket.
The huge body impact hit Carlin Lucas, and Chris Allen staggered and fell to the floor!
This is the first time all fans have seen DeMar assist Lian Dao for an alley-oop dunk.
The audience did not expect Lian Dao's dunk to be so domineering!
I saw the fans instantly boiled up, especially the audience shouted Lian Dao's name, and some fans shouted "MVP", and then all the fans shouted "MVP" together!
At this moment, Lian Dao completely became the owner of the Hubert Humphrey Arena.
10:6.
At this time, Tom Izzo hurriedly called a timeout.
If this timeout is not called, the University of Southern California is likely to start from here, and the score will be widened by a wave of flow.
After returning from the timeout, Carlin Lucas was still holding the ball.
This time he directly dragged and broke through Daniel Hackett in a disguised form, UU Reading www.uukanshu. Com Carlin Lucas directly accelerated towards the penalty area for the second time after breaking through.
Lian Dao rushed to defend, and Carlin Lucas passed the ball directly behind Rema Morgan.
Rema Morgan catches the ball for a layup!
This time it was Lian Dao's inexperience, he didn't notice Carlin Lucas' real intention.
Here, Rema Morgan still followed Lian Dao in the audience, constantly using his body to fight against Lian Dao's physical energy.
Now Lian Dao is slightly out of breath.
Lian Dao called his teammates for a pick-and-roll, and then caught the ball from the outside, but missed a three-pointer.
And in the next few rounds, Lian Dao kept missing three-pointers.
10:12
And the score has been overtaken.
At this time, he is no longer obsessed with three-pointers, but constantly breaks through dunks, breaks through points and assists.
In this way, you come and go, and the scores of the two teams continue to rise alternately.
The entire first half ended in this rhythm.
At halftime, the score is 43:42.
Only one point difference.
Back on the bench, the panting sounds of all the main players meant that the team was exhausted.
Of course, Michigan State is the same as USC, and all players are panting.
This defensive style has always been a lose-lose situation.
But Michigan State has a better bench than USC.
The second half begins.
Both sides put on substitute players.
USC did not dare to be the main member.
Once the physical strength is less than the last ten minutes, the University of Southern California can basically declare its surrender.
They have to save energy until the last ten minutes, because that is the decisive moment!