Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Semifinals of the New and Old Point Guards
The short timeout soon passed, and the game resumed, and Zuo Ming controlled the ball and steadily advanced to the frontcourt. There were more than forty seconds left in the pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info time, and Zuo Ming wisely chose to press the time.
After a while, Zuo Ming started, he tried to break through twice, but the 21st Zhong obviously strengthened the outside defense, Rao is Zuo Ming can not break through this layer of defense no matter how much he can collide.
In desperation, Zuo Ming transferred the ball, and Yan Junhong, the second middle school, stepped forward to respond. After Zuo Ming came out of the ball, the whole person was like a wild horse that had escaped from the reins, and quickly cut into it from the right side, Chen Fan followed Zuo Ming closely, and just took two steps, but he felt that it was dark in front of him, and the whole person seemed to hit a high wall, and immediately stopped castration.
"Pick-and-Roll !!!" Chen Fan was shocked, as if his blood was about to coagulate, he knew what it would mean if Zuo Ming was vacant!!
"Make it up!" Chen Fan was shocked, but the ball was obviously faster than the person, Zuo Ming ran out of the vacant position and folded sideways, slipped directly to the bottom line, and the basketball in Yan Junhong's hand was transferred by Gao Hongwei and passed to his hand in time.
At this moment, Zuo Ming's surroundings were empty, and looking at Chen Fan who was frantically trying to pounce on him, the corners of his mouth hooked up contemptuously.
This scene is very similar to the three-point shot that Du Yu scored just now, they are all the same empty shots, they are all the same critical moments, the difference is that one of the ball holders is only the best second team, and the other is the defending MVP.
Zuo Ming calmly threw the ball, the feeling in his hand made his confidence stronger than ever, and he could even hear the pleasant crisp sound of the ball scraping the net before the ball hit the net.
However, an emaciated figure jumped hysterically at a distance of about two meters from him, his body was long and his arm span was excellent, who else could it be if it wasn't Chen Fan!
"I can't cover it! It's too far away! Meng Yiliang exclaimed on the sidelines.
However, in the incredulous gaze of thousands of people in the audience, the figure that leaped up was getting higher and higher, faster and faster, which actually gave people the illusion that he was taller than the ball.
"Ah!!h Chen Fan exhaled in grief, and struggled to grab it when his body jumped to the highest point...
However... All he could touch was soft air...
His body was no longer able to climb, and he could only fall reluctantly—just like his heart... Sink suddenly...
"Bang!!"
A burst of eardrums sounded from behind Chen Fan without warning, and Chen Fan turned around, his face stunned, and suddenly burst into tears.
Behind him, the tall and burly Zhuo Jiarui jumped up and grabbed the ball hard, and the basketball was pressed heavily on his other hand, bursting out with the most wonderful plosive sound in the audience!!
Zuo Ming and the others looked eagerly at the referee, and the referee shook his head, indicating that there was no suspicion of interfering with the ball, so the audience was suddenly drowned out by cheers!
"Attack!" Qiu Wenjianqiang, who was on the sidelines, suppressed his tears and shouted loudly, Zhuo Jiarui and Chen Fan woke up like a dream, and started a fast attack without stopping.
However, Zuo Ming was noticeably faster, and his sturdy body blocked Chen Fan's fast passage, buying time for the second middle school's return defense.
Seeing that the fast attack couldn't be done, Chen Fan suppressed the rhythm, he looked at the time, there were still 27 seconds left, but there were still two points behind in the twenty-first middle.
There was no time to hesitate, and there was no time to wait for all his teammates to be in place, he reached out to He Lianshu to ask for a block and twisted his waist, and ran directly to the inside.
Zuo Ming was blocked behind He Lianshu, and Wenbo and Gao Hongwei on the inside line hurriedly came over to make up for it when they saw this.
Chen Fan was calm and composed, he rushed to the bottom line like a flying arrow that broke through the air, and in the high-speed movement, he actually forcibly changed his hand and changed direction, and stepped vigorously on the bottom line, and at the same time stopped the inertia strongly, he actually took the axis as the axis, and turned around when his body was not stable!
Gao Hongwei was caught off guard, and could only watch Chen Fan slip in from the bottom line like a gust of wind, forcibly twisting the inertia and causing his body to stagger, but he controlled his center of gravity without danger, and the dribble was as steady as Mount Tai.
"Look for death!!"
Chen Lin on the inside line pressed over like a mountain, Chen Fan looked around, but found that he was in a lonely place with nowhere to communicate, and he couldn't help but feel down. He was undaunted to accelerate again, kicking his thighs and leaping up like a rocket.
Chen Lin's hands were raised high, almost blocking all of Chen Fan's offensive routes, and Chen Fan, who was desperate, could only reluctantly meet it, and the basketball he was holding high rose higher and higher, but he never had a chance to throw.
"Bang!"
The two bodies, one large and one small, finally collided together in the air, Chen Fan's body was shocked, he could no longer control his center of gravity, and his body was like a kite with a broken string and nowhere to focus.
But his hands were still as steady as rocks, his eyes were staring at Chen Lin's big hands, and suddenly his eyes flashed, and his hands actually rose upside down and stretched out directly towards Chen Lin!
"Smack~"
With a crisp clapping sound, Chen Fan's purpose of making a foul has obviously been achieved, and the bench in the 21st Middle School also applauded!
But Chen Fan was obviously not satisfied, the strength of the out-of-control body squeezed out of nowhere, he pulled his thumb hard, and the basketball was forcibly pulled out by him, cutting a beautiful arc in the air.
"Huh!"
A beautiful net flower splashed!
The audience is boiling!! Two plus one!! Two plus one!!
However...
Immediately afterwards, the audience was shocked again, only to see Chen Fan stumble two steps after landing on the ground, and he actually fell heavily on the floor, holding his ankle and looking painful.
"Chen Fan!"
"Chen Fan!!"
"Ah Fan!!"
Everyone stood up, and all the members of the 21st Middle School nervously surrounded him, looking at him with worried expressions.
Ye Baiming's face turned pale, he got up and ran to the staircase, Gu Jing's face also changed greatly, and he immediately got up and went down the stairs from the side to the court.
"He stepped on my foot." Wenbo said apologetically, "When he fell, he subconsciously stepped backwards, and as a result, he stepped on my foot..."
Qiu Wenjian was anxious, checked Chen Fan's injury, his face gloomy, and shouted to the members of the 21st Middle School. Soon, a stretcher was carried up, and Ye Baiming and Gu Jing, who had caught up, also took a hand, and everyone hurriedly carried Chen Fan onto the stretcher.
"Hey..."Lu Ning and Meng Yiliang both sighed regretfully, plus the punishment, Chen Fan was actually injured when the situation was good......
…
On the swaying stretcher, Chen Fan raised his head with great difficulty, looking at the court with a lonely face.
Seeing his reluctant look, Ye Baiming on the side persuaded: "Ah Fan... Don't look at it..."
Gu Jing was holding a cold analgesic spray in his hand and giving him a cold compress, he glanced at Chen Fan and complained, "Look at how you compare with me now..."
Chen Fan's face was gloomy, and he leaned on the stretcher as if resigned to his fate, he silently stared at the snow-white dome of the basketball hall, and after a long time, he sighed leisurely.
Suddenly, there was a loud cheer from behind him, and a small man in the uniform of the 21st Squadron ran over with a smile: "It's overtaken!" It's overtaking! Zhuo Jiarui senior punished on behalf of him, in it!! It's a point ahead!! ”
Chen Fan also smiled when he heard this, and the twenty-first middle school finally overtook him!
Although, this was at the cost of his injury and retirement...
However, as soon as they carried the stretcher into the players' tunnel, there was an even louder cheer in the stadium. Ye Baiming was shocked, pulled his legs and ran out, and after a while, he walked back with a gloomy expression.
"Did you lose?" Chen Fan was lying on a stretcher, with a calm smile on his face.
Ye Baiming glanced at Chen Fan, then at Gu Jing, and nodded: "In the last ten seconds, Zuo Mingzhun is over..."
Chen Fan seemed to have expected it and was not surprised, he nodded calmly...
Tiredly closing his eyes, two lines of tears slid down the corners of his eyes.
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"Tut-" The final whistle finally sounded, and the players of the second squadron in white jerseys happily hugged each other, shouting and laughing, celebrating this hard-won victory!
The audience also fell into a frantic cheer, and the students of the second middle school blushed one by one, and the neat slogans were shouted by them, venting their excitement to the fullest, which was in stark contrast to the gloomy silence of the 21st middle school.
"Still lost..."Zhuo Jiarui smiled bitterly and muttered, his eyes immediately turned red, Du Yu walked to his side and silently grabbed his shoulder, and patted him gently: "We tried our best..."
Zhuo Jiarui hung his head, whimpered and agreed, and suddenly tears rained down...
Their final year of high school league... It's over...
Su Hanping looked at the two camps in the field, one happy and one sad, and sighed for a while. In Zhuo Jiarui's tears of regret, he saw the hope for the future of campus basketball. If there were no sincere dreamers like Chen Fan Zhuo Jiarui, and without their tenacious struggle and hard work, campus basketball would only get narrower and narrower, and finally become a childish game for self-entertainment in a small area.
Fortunately, our students are not short of ideals and passion, they just need a platform, a platform that can give full play to their own strengths - can give them the opportunity to write their own glory and glory, instead of watching the anime of the island country with envy, to worship virtual idols of different cultures from us!
(That's what I wrote this book for, to promote our school basketball, to promote our high school league, CHBL — a league that's still far from mature like a kid, even though it doesn't reach as much as the league described in the book, and even though only a handful of schools can participate in this league right now, so what?) What league wasn't built from scratch? When the NBA was first founded, there were only 11 amateur teams! I believe that one day, campus basketball will become the second most popular league in China after the highest professional basketball! )
Thinking of this, Su Hanping couldn't help but stand up, facing the youthful young faces in front of him, he said in high spirits: "The top four is definitely not our end!" Definitely not!! Do you have any confidence in tomorrow's game!? ”
"There is !!" The sound of Qiguang resounded in the clouds.
"Let's go!" Su Hanping shook his hand, "Have a good rest when you go back!" Give me a good game tomorrow! ”
"Yes!!"
With the end of the game, everyone also said goodbye to each other and went home, and in the eyes of everyone (obscene) and pity, Wei Yi took his new "gossip girlfriend" on the bus.
"How?!" Guo Xuerao asked with a smile while holding on to the handle.
"How's that?"
"Chen Fan! Haven't you been following him today? Obviously, he was full of fighting spirit just now..."Guo Xuerao blinked, saw that Wei Yi was silent, and said with a smile: "What? Feeling stressed? ”
thought that Wei Yi would deny it, but he nodded silently, which made Guo Xuerao stunned.
It seems that it was Zuo Ming or Chen Fan's domineering spirit that shook this little rookie - Guo Xuerao said in her heart - Well, when the protagonist is so confused and distressed, if I can serve a bowl of chicken soup for the soul that is full of sincerity and touching and infiltrates the soul and tears in my heart, can I add chicken legs?
(I have to say, this new actress is very good at finding a balance between stealing the show and benefiting herself!) )
In fact, for Wei Yi, today is the first time he has seen the performance of a high-level point guard - at least in the entire Yunhe City and even Jiangsu Province, Zuo Ming and Chen Fan can be regarded as excellent point guards - the impact on him is huge, and he begins to realize the energy and responsibility of a strong point guard.
Seeing that both teams had offensive chaos because the main point guard went off the court, and seeing the two point guards control the rhythm at critical moments, break through the defensive line, and stubbornly continue the life of their respective teams, he suddenly had a deeper understanding of the position of point guard.
Compared with him going off the court to play in person, sitting on the sidelines can rely on the advantage of being a spectator to observe the changes brought to the team by the two main point guards, which is more vivid than countless theory lessons.
If Fang Cai Wei Yi was infected by the fierce competition and looked high-spirited, then Wei Yi, who has calmed down now, has begun to re-examine himself and his opponent.
He saw Chen Fan's strength, he was very strong, worthy of the title of the uncrowned king, and he could compete with Zuo Ming, who had been famous for a long time, and he didn't know if he would surpass Zuo Ming after two years.
What about Gu Jing? What about Gu Jing, who has always overpowered Chen Fan and swept away all the honors since junior high school? Facing a point guard who is even stronger than Chen Fan, can he really win?
"I guess you're thinking, how could you be Gu Jing's opponent, am I right?" Guo Xuerao's voice was very soft, but listening to Wei Yi's ears made him feel shocked.
"It's normal for you to have this kind of thought, it's human instinct. Everyone has their own opponents, whether they are athletes or ordinary people, they are always happy to set up opponents for themselves..."
She seemed to think of the slender figure who walked side by side with Luo Honghui, the person she thought was her opponent.
Guo Xuerao's eyes darkened, and her words were cut off unconsciously...
couldn't wait for a long time, Wei Yi couldn't help but turn his head to look at Guo Xuerao, only to see that her willow eyebrows were frowning, her face was related, and her transparent eyes, which always had a bright smile, were also dulled, which made people feel distressed.
Feeling Wei Yi's eyes, Guo Xuerao hurriedly restrained her sadness, smiled casually, and continued: "Everyone will more or less, subconsciously set an opponent for themselves, and then paranoidly, crazy to defeat him, defeat him, and then set up another opponent, and so on. I've seen or heard of a lot of talented athletes who have relied on this to motivate themselves, or rather, they've all fallen into this cycle. ”
Guo Xuelian stretched out her white little finger and hooked the green silk on her cheeks behind her ear, and said with a smile: "You must be very strange, why do I call it a strange circle... In fact, there is a very big mindset, or misunderstanding, in this seemingly reasonable mental activity—that is, this kind of psychology often believes that people are isolated. But this is not the case in reality, where we usually have far more friends than our opponents, and these are often overlooked. ”
"Gu Jing is powerful, if you go head-to-head with him now, I dare to guarantee that you will lose to the point of kneeling and singing conquest..."
"......" A drop of cold sweat dripped helplessly from Wei Yi's forehead - although I understand the truth, I have to use so... Belch... Vivid... The metaphor!? Are you here to comfort me?
Guo Xuerao ignored Wei Yi's black lines, and said word by word: "However, I said that your opponent is not actually him!" ”
Wei Yi was stunned...
"I want you to figure out what a team is and what a point guard is!" She stared at Wei Yi's eyes and said solemnly: "As a member of Qiguang's team, your opponent is not Gu Jing, but the entire Qiao Middle School Colonel team, you don't understand this!" As a point guard, your role is to organize and coordinate your teammates, not to compete with the opponent in the same position, and you still don't understand this! ”
Guo Xuerao's voice gradually increased, and in the noisy carriage, there were still some curious people who turned their eyes over, but Wei Yi and Guo Xuerao were unaware.
Guo Xuerao's words were like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which made Wei Yi sober up all of a sudden. Indeed, I am confined to the misunderstanding of thinking! Fighting bravely is what people other than point guards should do, and point guards should try their best to avoid this, especially when their strength is weaker than the other side, it is wise to play to their strengths and avoid weaknesses.
Translated to put it bluntly, let's be a priest quietly, let's be a little assistant quietly, throwing two kicks and throwing away the monkey god horse, that's the work of mages and warriors, we don't need to put on a bunch of buffs and carry a magic wand to send people's heads.
Seeing that Wei Yi seemed to be greatly touched, Guo Xuerao's tone eased, and she hit the railroad while it was hot: "The tactics of modern basketball have been very perfect, especially for the point guards who control the rhythm of the game. ”
"If the point guard is the engine of tactics, then the pick-and-roll is the most important gear in that engine. Pick-and-roll is the mother of tactics, and it can be said that the vast majority of tactics are achieved through pick-and-roll. If you want to play to your strengths and avoid your weaknesses, pick-and-roll is the most effective way to do it. ”
Speaking of this, Guo Xuerao smiled mischievously: "This is a must-have skill for point guards, no cooldown, no debuff debuff, rich moves, powerful, and most importantly, it is also an active skill!" ”
Indeed, blocking and dismantling is really a skill that the attacker actively defends and has no solution, and when encountering blocking and dismantling, the only thing the defense can do is to make up the defense as soon as possible. There's no way, the ball is in someone's hands, and people want to run to their own side, what can you do!?
"So you're saying that tomorrow's game, we're going to play pick-and-roll?" Wei Yi frowned and said, "No, if Coach Su had such a plan, he should have arranged for us to practice a long time ago..."
Guo Xuerao curled the ends of her hair and said with a smile: "No accident, Coach Su will still use running and bombing tomorrow, but it will dilute your role, that is, you may no longer be the initiator of tomorrow's running and bombing." ”
"How is it possible, without a point guard, run or run and bomb!?" Wei Yi had a horrified expression of "don't you scare this baby"...
After being taught by Su Hanping personally, Wei Yi already has a good understanding of some tactical theories, especially Qiguang's main run-and-bomber tactics, he is almost familiar with them. This strategy of emphasizing fast break and running the ball relies heavily on passing, and it is almost unthinkable to do without a core point guard.
The first team in NBA history to use the concept of run-and-gun tactics was the first dynasty of the Celtics in the sixties (although there was no name for run-and-gun at that time), in addition, the Lakers during the showtime period, the Nuggets in the 90s, the Warriors and Mavericks when Nelson Sr. was coached, and the Suns coached by D'Antoni were all relatively famous run-and-gun teams, especially the Suns team led by Nash, which left a deep impression because of its recent age, extreme tactical use, and smooth and gorgeous offense.
It is necessary to say here that the Warriors, who have shone in the past two years, are a team that mainly plays small ball, there is no doubt about it. However, many people have debated whether the Warriors are playing running and shooting, and I personally think that the Warriors' offensive system has running and shooting, but it is not only running and shooting, and it is even an upgraded version of running and shooting, which has more changes than the traditional running and shooting. For example, the routine of the half-court position has been increased, the speed of advancement has been reduced, and the offense of the point guard has been strengthened, but in essence, the running and bombing characteristics of advocating multi-point flowering and fast offense and defense are in the same vein.
Back to the topic, on the whole, no matter which of the above teams, they have only tried to strengthen the role of point guard, and they have never seen a weakening. Like Bob Cousy in the glory days of the Celtics (known as the originator of point guards), Johnson the Magic in the Showtime period, Hardaway in the Warriors during the Nelson Sr. period, and Nash who received bento in the Mavericks of the old Nelson and D'Antoni in the Suns, they are all point guards who can go down in history, and if the point guard in the run-and-gun strategy is insignificant, then they can't make their own achievements with the run-and-gun.
However, Guo Xuerao corrected: "It's not to downplay the role of the point guard, but to downplay your role!" Still don't get it? ”
Wei Yi pondered for a moment, and said with a hammer in his palm: "You mean double point guards?" ”
"It's finally enlightened..."Guo Xuerao sighed tiredly, "If my guess is correct, Coach Su should let the delicate Lu Ning come to the point guard to share your pressure...... Feed! Let's put away the smile that you can't hide!! Do you think two point guards are really good for you?!! ”