Chapter 238: Worries in the Fourth Position
Xuhui Model High School is a famous school with a history of 100 years, and has been carrying out basketball activities for more than 40 years, making it a strong traditional basketball school in China. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As a Shanghai school, Xuhui Model High School has always been exposed to foreign advanced basketball concepts and training models, and they are also one of the few schools in China that can send students to the United States for training.
Therefore, Xuhui Model has always had a strong competitiveness in the NHBA competition and the National Challenge, but it has not formed a real dominance, not to mention that in the whole country, in East China, they have always been a strong competition, not a ruler.
The reason is very simple, because the coach of Xuhui model changes too frequently, and the construction of the team has never formed a stable system.
In the 20-year history of the NHBA, the coaches of many top teams have changed at most two or three times, and some have not changed for 20 years.
A good and stable coach can provide the team with a good player training system and continuous combat effectiveness, and some excellent, well-known coaches can even attract talented players to join.
The decline of many strong teams is not unrelated to the departure of the coach, and Jiuzhong is a typical representative.
One of the biggest problems with Xuhui Model is that there is never a strong coach, and they have even tried to invite foreign coaches in the past, but the results have not been good.
Wang Jian is another attempt by the school, this is his second season in charge of the team, and more of his controversy and concern comes from his three sons, especially the eldest son Wang Yao.
Many people rumored that the reason why Wang Jian was able to become the coach of Xuhui Model was because he could let his son play in Xuhui Model.
After Wang Jian arrived, he did pocket Wang Yao, a super inside line who was invincible all over Shanghai in junior high school, and this year, Wang Jian's other son Wang Shun was also pulled in.
The combination of twin towers is exciting, and no matter how the sport of basketball develops, the tall giants always attract spectators, not to mention that the same team has two, they are still brothers.
This game has attracted a lot of media attention, and Lu Yuan has seen that there are already reporters with cameras on the sidelines coming in, and their previous games have not had such treatment.
Wang Yao scored the first in, and swiped a rebound, and it was the turn of Huifu Middle School to attack.
Contrary to Xuhui Models, Huifu's coach Wang Minqi has been coaching the team for 22 years, and was already the coach of Huifu Middle School before the NHBA league even started, and then sat in this position until now.
He was a thin, somewhat balding white-haired old man with a pair of gloomy eyes, and was often called a "vulture" because of his harsh style.
Under the leadership of Wang Minqi, Huifu Middle School has been playing for 20 years, with smooth offensive coordination, a team atmosphere willing to share, an offensive method based on jump shots, and of course, the most important point, the idea of building a team with the center as the core.
Wang Minqi loves those tall, dexterous, defensive, offensive and selfless centers, and his favorite disciple is Mao Zhiyuan, who once led Huifu Middle School to set off a red whirlwind in the country, and that year they won the "Five Flags Championship", the highest honor of the NHBA, and the only team in East China to have this honor.
That year the NHBA was called the year of Huifu, and many years later, Huifu got Xie Gezhi, a precocious-looking boy who also contained great potential, and he was as famous as Gan Zhi and An Runzhou in his freshman year of high school, but injuries changed his trajectory.
Seeing Wang Yao score the first goal, Xie Gezhi noticed his knee pads, which he also wore two years ago, a product of the same sporting goods company, and never came to advertise against him after the injury.
This season, his injuries have been repeated, good and bad, and the pressure and frustration have made Shege's already deep forehead wrinkles a little deeper.
Offense is not Xie Gezhi's forte, his specialty is strong defense, as well as outstanding basic skills of covering and blocking, in this regard, he can be regarded as a strengthened version of Xiao Yun, the center of the nine.
After the injury, his ability to move was affected compared to the past, and just now he should have followed and directly capped Wang Yu's ball, instead of neither blocking nor being able to jam the position to let Wang Yao grab the rebound.
He cautiously ran back, made a block for the team's point guard Sun Li in the high post, and then went down, Sun Li passed, and then he distributed the ball to the outside forward Chen Li, Chen Li received the ball and made a jump shot at the baseline and hit.
In the days of Xie Gezhi's absence, Chen Li and Sun Li supported Huifu Middle School, known as "Zwilling people", both of them are jump shooting masters.
In the opening game, the two sides each scored a goal in a good way, Xuhui model was simple and rough, and Huifu Middle School was delicate and smooth, obviously this was a-for-tat duel.
With the passage of time, the confrontation between the two sides has become more and more intense, especially Xuhui Model Middle School, their style of play is originally on the inside, and they pay great attention to the impact on the inside line and the rush of rebounds in the front court.
It's not his body that's unbearable, it's his confidence, and injuries affect not only his body, but also his spirit.
For a player who has suffered a serious injury, it is more difficult to overcome a psychological problem than a physical one. Especially for a high school student, serious injuries are not common, their bodies are often healthy and easy to recover, but their minds are particularly fragile.
The first half lasted nearly 10 minutes, in a rebounding scramble, Wang Shun had no scruples to kill the inside line, took the ball off, and when he was about to be strong, Xie Ge fouled, and he chose to use the foul to block Wang Shun.
But Wang Shun's free throws were very good, and Xie Gezhi had already committed three fouls, three times, and only halfway through the first half, which was a bit much.
When committing two fouls, Wang Minqi also wanted to keep Xie Gezhi on the court and let him control the foul, otherwise Xuhui Shuangta was present, and Xie Gezhi would really be unable to play.
Unexpectedly, Xie Gezhi quickly sent another foul, which made the vulture so angry that he spun around on the sidelines, but seeing Xie Gezhi's depressed end, Wang Minqi couldn't bear to scold him, so he could only wave at him and let him stay on the bench.
Confidence, as a super inside confidence, has undoubtedly been worn away a lot, he is always worried about his ankle, that fragile Achilles heel, that pain and fear that he still remembers vividly. The pain of not being able to play or even being able to play makes him cautious every time he jumps and falls.
He's a right-handed player with his left foot, but he's rarely jumping on one foot with his left foot and more with both feet, which has affected his speed.
Especially on the defensive end, when he struggles to jump with his feet, opponents are often already jumping up and shooting.
Lu Yuan was the first to discover this phenomenon in a group of players in Lizhong, and he pointed to Xie Gezhi who was off the court and said: "This uncle is so hesitant to play, I feel that he is always half a beat slower, and it is not really slow." ”
Gao Jing stood in the front row and said, "He has a serious ankle injury, he must have a psychological disorder, and he is afraid of causing injury due to force, poor guy." ”
Lu Yuan has not suffered any injuries so far, and he has no concept of this, and old players like Zhang Fan, Zou Zhou, and Wu Peng can understand it better.
A player, from the moment he steps on the basketball court, injuries will follow, but some people control it well or have a stronger body, and some people are unfortunate and get hit, maybe for a while, it may be for a lifetime.
Of course, these children who are still in the early stages of their basketball careers do not understand this, and their attention is quickly drawn to the game on the court.
Xuhui Model played extremely vigorously in the first half, and their tactics were very simple, rush-point-grab, which was basically the whole content of their tactics.
Wang Yao and Wang Shun basically did not waste their physical strength to block and dismantle the outside line, but went all out to attack the inside line, or occasionally show off their mid-range.
It can be seen that Wang Jian is completely centered on the two inner lines and does not let them do auxiliary work. And the two also have such an ability, turning over the river and the sea on the inside, dunking, making fouls, playing three-pointers, and playing enthusiastically.
As a rare twin-tower team, there is a reason why it can be so popular in Shanghai, Wang Jian did not let the twin-towers become boring low-post rotation chisels, but took advantage of the speed and flexibility of the two, as well as the wide range of attack, to play the "twin-tower run".
At the end of the first half, the score between the two sides came to 57:45, and Xuhui Model led by 12 points. Although in terms of shooting percentage, Huifu Middle School is higher, but Xuhui is far ahead in frontcourt rebounds and has more offensive opportunities.
"Hey, Danai, can you bear these two people?" Lu Yuan asked Wang Yourong behind him during the intermission, and found that Wang Yourong's face was ugly.
It seems that this guy saw the performance of Wang Yao and Wang Shun in the first half, and he was nervous and wanted to vomit.
"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, we only fought with Xuhui Model in the last game, don't be nervous. ”
Lu Yuan hurriedly comforted Wang Yourong, Wang Yourong exhaled, his face looked a little better, and said with a bitter face: "I feel... I can't carry any of them. ”
Wang Yourong's mood is relatively collapsed now, looking at the performance of Wang Yao and Wang Shun in the first half, that kind of impact, that kind of technology, didn't he break him down in the game?
Lu Yuan patted Wang Yourong's arm vigorously and said, "Don't be afraid, you are not alone on the inside, let Ye Zi play the big forward and help you top one when the time comes." ”
Bai Ye gave Lu Yuan a roll of the eyes, this guy has evolved so fast, he can already arrange troops, and he does not hesitate to be the offensive core of the team, let himself go to the inside line as a coolie top man, this coaching level is simply explosive.
Of course, Lu Yuan was joking, but how to deal with the twin towers of Xuhui's model is indeed a big problem that plagues Gao Jing, not only Gao Jing, but also other teams in East China.
Gao Jing thought to herself, it would be nice if the team had a No. 4 position with outstanding defense, although Zou Zhou was comprehensive, but the comprehensive level, especially the defense, could not reach the national level.
And in addition to Xuhui model, the group is also difficult to deal with with Huifu's inside line, that Chen Li, who scored 15 points with a jumper in the first half, is not so easy to deal with.
Before coming to Shanghai, Gao Jing just thought that she had already entered the East China Competition, and no matter whether she won or lost, it was already a victory for the team.
But when it came to the competition, she realized that no one wanted to lose.