king of defenders

Chapter 55 Unpredictable Prophet
"Coach." Meng Yun got up and shouted, "Something is wrong."

"Coach Carl." Danny Klemans also said: "The opponent seems to be able to predict the future, and always walks ahead of us. This is too strange. Should we call a timeout first?"

Mason Carr thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Don't call a timeout first, although I know that something is wrong, but we still don't know why it happened. If you want to know what's going on, you need to continue reading. No Figuring out what the problem is, even calling a timeout, won't change anything."

This is a fact.

Meng Yun smiled helplessly and sat back in his seat.

Danny Klemans sighed and said no more, just looked at the field with a frown.

The game continues.

Topher Smith made an additional free throw, the score became 5:0, and the ball returned to the Wildcats. Evan, Andy, Ronald, Patrick, and John looked at each other with serious hearts.

"Wait a little bit more steadily, be careful, and don't make mistakes." Evan said.

The four of Andy nodded and began to attack.

The ball came to the frontcourt, Andy looked at Evan, and Evan shook his head at him, meaning not to give it to himself.

Both of these attacks were directed to Evan first, and both resulted in mistakes. Obviously this tactic would not work. If the opponent can force them to make two mistakes in a row, then it may cause their third mistake, and they cannot take risks.

Andy slowed down and observed the situation on the field while dribbling. The defense of the Duke team was nothing special, and it didn't have any terrible pressure. It was obviously not at the same level as the defense of the Louisiana State University Tigers, but What happened to those two balls just now?
Andy couldn't figure it out, shook his head and didn't think about it, and gestured to Patrick: "Pick and roll."

Patrick understood, came up to the pick-and-roll, and using this pick-and-roll, Andy threw off the defender and accelerated the breakthrough, but he was surrounded by the opponent as soon as he acted. The opponent seemed to know what he would do, arranged in advance, and waited for him Get in.

"Damn, what the hell is going on?" Andy was annoyed, and retreated in time to pass the ball to John.

John passed to Ronald again, and Ronald tried a post-up single, but the opponent stuck very close to him and didn't give him any chance to shoot, making it clear that he would rather let him break through than give him a shot.

But what Ronald is good at is shooting. He turned around and shot a jumper after throwing his back. This is his specialty, but he can't use it now.

"Is this a coincidence?" Meng Yun frowned suspiciously.

Mason Carr also frowned, staring at the field, saw that Ronald had no choice but to divide the ball, passed the ball to Patrick, and pulled the man away. The opponent let Patrick play in the low post, and did not come to help defend at all. Or the meaning of double-teaming.The center of the Dukes, Marshall Nicholas, had a sneer at the corner of his mouth. He put his body against Patrick, waving his arms, and constantly interfered with Patrick. Patrick was not good at handling the ball and was almost cut off. Time was running out, so he could only grit his teeth, hold the ball halfway around, and made a hook.

boom!
This is not Patrick's style of play. He hit the ball decisively, was rebounded by Marshall Nicholas, and threw it directly to the frontcourt without handing it over to the point guard.

"what?"

"This"

People were surprised. They followed the basketball and realized that at some point, Joe Francis went to the Wildcats' half, received a pass from Marshall Nicholas, and made another fast-break dunk.

The score became 7:0!

"What exactly is going on?"

"When did that guy make a fast break? How could he dare to make a fast break so decisively? He trusts his teammates so much, knowing that he will be able to defend?"

"7:0, I was beaten 7:0 at the beginning, what a hell!"

In the auditorium, some fans were annoyed, some fans were confused, and didn't know what was going on.

Jimmy beat his feet and chest, but Derek had already sensed something was wrong, his brows were wrinkled, his heart was full of doubts, but he didn't know what was going on.

There were thousands of people in the audience, and perhaps only Kenny Jefferson understood what happened: "The Dukes have always been able to predict the enemy's opportunities, and they don't stop there. Their defensive formation is very ordinary, but one-on-one. The defense is very targeted, and it seems that the Wildcats players can always find their own shortcomings. Although there are materials to check, for some old players, there are some videos from last season that can be studied, but can this be achieved by relying on these alone?"

"Impossible, there is a problem here." Kenny Jefferson said, and suddenly laughed, "Hehe, it's really interesting. Counting this time, I only watched two Wildcats games. There are always surprises.”

He is not a fan of the Wildcats, and he doesn't really care much about the Wildcats falling behind. He just feels strange, and he is looking forward to this game more and more.

In a blink of an eye, more than four minutes were played in the first half.

After being beaten 7:0 at the beginning, the Wildcats finally scored two points with Andy's mid-range shot, but then they fell into a disadvantage again. In more than four minutes, they were completely defeated. The opponent suppressed, and the score has become 15:4, and the Duke team has scored 15 points in just over three minutes.

"beep"

Mason Carr called a timeout.

Evan and Andy walked off the field, all of them with livid faces and extremely depressed expressions.

It took only four minutes for others to score 15 points, while their own side only scored 4 points, and they were 11 points behind. This is unbelievable, and they never expected this to happen.

Mason Carr clapped his hands, and when Evan and the others looked over, he said, "It's not your fault. The opponent's strength is actually not that terrible, but it's just too targeted. Whether it's our defense, or The offensive tactics that our defense used, they were very targeted, like they knew what we were going to do."

"That's impossible," Evan yelled.

"It's not impossible." Mason Carr shook his head, and said, "To do this, either the opponent has a master, has a vicious vision, has studied us carefully, and knows everything about us. Or..." Mason Carr did not Said, the tone changed, "Okay, wait for the substitution, Evan, John, you come down and have a rest. Smith (Justin Smith), Meng Yun, you two go up."

Afterwards, Mason Carr spread out the tactical board and began to arrange tactics.
After a while, the timeout ended, and Mason Carr waved his hand: "Come on, play according to the tactics I arranged."

"Ah."

"Yes." Several people replied.

Watching Meng Yun and the others walk onto the court, Danny Klemans approached Mason Carr and asked in a low voice, "Coach, why do you still let them play according to tactics?"

"I know." Mason Carr nodded and said, "As I said just now, there are only two reasons why the opponent knows us so well, and we are not sure which one it is. Therefore, we still have to fight according to tactics. This tactic is something that the previous Wildcats did not have, if the opponent can still predict it."

Danny Klemans raised his brows, he already understood.

(End of this chapter)