Chapter 268: The Final Four

Chung Kook hopes that the basketball team will beat the other two teams in the same group cleanly and make it to the quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals, Zhongguo Hope School drew the basketball team of Chengguan Middle School in Wuzhen County, which was also one of the top eight in the previous two years. And Zhongguo Hope School, which is also a dark horse, has also made many coaches and teachers look sideways, and they want to know how far this dark horse can go?

After the start of the game, Wuzhen County Chengguan Middle School adopted the "double center offensive method", using the "1-2-2" placement formation, with two taller center players as the main attack, driving the rhythm of the whole court, once suppressed the Zhongguo Hope School basketball team, at the end of the first quarter, the Wuzhen County Chengguan Middle School basketball team suppressed the Zhongguo Hope School basketball team with a score of 17-9.

However, during the break in the first quarter, Zhang Yipeng immediately carried out psychological guidance and tactical cooperation with the five players, forming a style of play with small forward Liu Xiangdong as the main offensive force and Liu Ganglai as the big forward to assist Liu Xiangdong, using "2-1-2" and defensive fast attack tactics to play a perfect reversal.

By the end of the second quarter, the two teams had tied the score.

Next, in the third quarter, Zhang Yipeng let Wang Yige play as a scoring guard, and used the rest of the "three-point" play to create scoring space for Wang Yige as the tactical core, and Wang Yige did not live up to the expectations of Zhang Yipeng and other team members, scoring 12 points with three-point shooting in seven shots, leading the team to achieve a big overtake in the score of Chengguan Middle School in Wuzhen County.

In the fourth quarter, Zhang Yipeng replaced Wang Yige again, and continued to use the second quarter of the play, Wuzhen County Chengguan Middle School had established the tactics of defending Wang Yige, but Zhang Yipeng replaced Wang Yige, who had a good feel, and used the play style of breaking through the inside line to score small points, and hit Wuzhen County Chengguan Middle School by surprise.

In the end, Zhongguo Hope School won the quarterfinals with a score of 58:52, which made it possible for itself to advance to the semifinals, and also gave Wuzhen County Chengguan Middle School the tragic achievement of stopping in the quarterfinals for three consecutive years.

After Chung Kook Hope School reached the semi-finals, more people began to pay attention to this school basketball team that only came out of Kushan Mountain Hope School, they gave people a very different feeling than other school teams, they looked more determined and resilient.

After the quarterfinals, the winning four teams were drawn, in addition to the dark horse of the Chungkook Hope School basketball team, the other three teams are all schools with heads and faces, and they are also campus basketball teams with excellent historical records, and everyone is paying attention to the other three basketball teams at the same time, they are full of expectations and curiosity about the new faces of Chungkook Hope School, everyone is waiting for the lottery of Chungkook Hope School to see who it will draw?

The results of the draw for the semifinals were released, and Zhongguo Hope School was drawn to Linxi Experimental Middle School.

Linxi Experimental Middle School is a veteran junior high school in Linxi City, ranking among the top three in junior high school education and teaching in the whole Linxi City, and Linxi Experimental Middle School is also the city's first primary and secondary school quality education reform experimental unit and Linxi City Quality Education Reform Advanced Unit. In recent years, the quality education reform of Linxi Experimental Middle School has achieved good results, and on the basis of ensuring the academic performance of the students, the comprehensive quality of the students in other aspects has been well grown, especially in sports.

And Linxi Experimental Middle School is also the runner-up in the junior high school group of the Linxi City Primary and Secondary School Sports League Basketball Tournament last year, and almost won the championship, but unfortunately the basketball team of Linxi Sports School is more powerful, after all, people are more professional. This year, three main players of the basketball team of Linxi Experimental Middle School have not been replaced, and they were promoted to the third year of junior high school this year, and their physical fitness and basketball skills have improved a lot.

Linxi Experimental Middle School is still the favorite to win the basketball game, and when the draw results came out, everyone was celebrating Linxi Experimental Middle School, in the eyes of most people, Linxi Experimental Middle School is basically stable, after all, Zhongguo Hope School is the weakest team in the top four.

Of course, there are also many people who are looking forward to Chungkook's hope that the school can be black to the end, achieve a dark horse miracle and advance to the finals, or even win the championship.

The game with Linxi Experimental Middle School began soon, Zhongguo Hope School continued to have a sluggish phenomenon in the first quarter like the quarterfinals, Linxi Experimental Middle School adopted a long-pass fast-attacking style of play, they served as small forwards The players were very fierce, the dribble was steady and fast, with the cooperation of other players, he scored 19 points alone in the first quarter, and finally at the end of the first quarter, the score was 24-9 The score greatly opened the gap with Zhongguo Hope School.

In the first quarter, several players of Zhongguo Hope School were almost broken, Zhang Yipeng hurriedly did all kinds of psychological counseling and comfort work, and then ordered the players to use "2-3" zone defense in the second quarter of the game, strengthen the basket and baseline defense, and use a conservative offensive approach.

Zhang Yipeng does not expect a few players to be able to overtake in the second quarter of the game, he only expects a few players to stabilize their mentality in the second quarter, and then restore their self-confidence and resist the opponent's offensive momentum, only in this way there is still hope of being able to turn the tables in the third and fourth quarters.

In the second quarter, the players of Zhongguo Hope School listened to the teaching of Mr. Zhang Yipeng, played steadily and steadily, focusing on defense, although the last quarter of the game was still behind the opponent with a score of 22-32, but the narrowing of the score made the players recover a certain confidence, and the players of Zhongguo Hope School did a good job of defense in this game, so that the main offensive Lin Xi City Experimental Middle School played quite aggrieved, Liu Hesheng's two blocks and Liu Gang's two steals made the main players of Lin Xi City Experimental Middle School The small forward once fell into an autistic stateใ€‚

At halftime, Zhang Yipeng encouraged the players again, then formulated tactics, and said before going on the court: "Yes, play well, don't worry, the second quarter is better than the first quarter, and the third quarter will definitely be better than the second quarter." โ€

At the beginning of the third quarter of the game, after halftime, not only the physical strength and self-confidence of the players of Zhongguo Hope School were restored, but also the same was true of Linxi Experimental Middle School, and the recovery was even better than that of the players of Zhongguo Hope School.

Then, just five minutes into the last five minutes of the game, Chungkook Hope School's dwarf, nicknamed "Monkey" Liu Xiangdong suddenly achieved an explosion, may also serve as a small forward position, Lin Xi City Experimental Middle School's small forward frequently pretended to make Liu Xiangdong feel very unhappy, and this unhappiness finally turned into an outbreak of power, Liu Xiangdong four consecutive successful breakthrough layups, cut 8 points in a row, once momentum like a rainbow, and the players of Lin Xi City Experimental Middle School saw that Liu Xiangdong's momentum and feel were so good, and they did not hesitate to foul at the cost of preventing Liu Xiangdong's fifth breakthrough layup.

Liu Xiangdong made free throws, made two shots and two hits, and scored two points again, but the foul tactics of Lin Xi Experimental Middle School were very successful, and in the next time, Liu Xiangdong failed to shoot two consecutive shots, and his hand was gone.