Chapter 25: Doubting Life
At this time, the second half of the game was only half of the time, and the red team's 22-point lead had been erased by the white team!
Yi Feng played 10 minutes in the second half and scored 16 points, three assists, and one block! It was thanks to his excellent performance that the white team was able to quickly equalize the 22-point deficit in 10 minutes.
The highlight of the Chicago Draft joint tryout, the 5-on-5 matchup, went into the second half, and with 10 minutes left in the game, the red and white teams finally tied again after the start of 0:0.
It's not that the two teams are close in strength and the score is anxious; Instead, the red team took the lead, and after a big lead of more than 20 points, the follow-up was weak, and the white team stubbornly equalized the score.
Of the more than 60 rookies in the entire training camp, no more than half can really get a chance to perform on the field. The remaining half of the rookie players were not able to show their faces on the court because of the drama of this matchup.
On the side of the red team, some people who have never been given the opportunity to play are happy at this time.
In the first half, the RED team was able to play with some of the more big-name rookies. The strength is very strong, it is normal for the white team to lead by a large score, and the white team has also had infighting, and the strongest Yi Feng was actually targeted, so the score difference came to more than 20 points.
In this case, the red team, which wins the game, will get all the players up and go through the motions in the second half. But unexpectedly, in the second half, Yi Feng seized control of the white team through violent means, and only took 4 players who didn't look very good, and quickly wiped out the 22-point difference in ten minutes.
No matter how much the red team struggled during this period, it was to no avail, and they could only watch the score almost disappear little by little......
The players of the red team who failed to maintain their lead on the field were like being pressed to the ground by Yi Feng and other 5 people and slapped in the face! That one after another jerked mercilessly, making their faces ache hot.
The red team, which is mostly composed of quasi-first-round shows, will be counterattacked by the white team composed of quasi-second-round shows, and they can't do anything about it. This kind of embarrassment is even worse than the humiliation of slapping your face in the face.
Those on the red team who didn't play were glad they didn't play, otherwise they would have to endure such humiliation.
The red team again requests a timeout.
It's come to this, and it's useless to think about it. Something that makes them feel humiliated has happened, and no amount of chagrin can be done now. All they can do now is hold on to the last bit of dignity and win this game no matter what.
Otherwise, if the situation continues to deteriorate like this, they will not even have the underwear to cover their shame.
Russell's self-regulation ability is not bad, and after a period of adjustment, he recovered. Of course, the trauma of the soul is not so easy to heal, but if you can defeat Yi Feng in person, then the so-called trauma will be healed without medicine.
So he forcefully pressed Payne, who had eaten a big blood cap, to the bench and took his place on the court. This time he is in the second position, and he will face Yi Feng directly!
This is his last chance!
Desperately trying to make that damn little white face look good!
Other than that, there are no personnel changes in the red team. During the timeout, no one on the red bench spoke, and it was lifeless. Russell was full of thoughts about revenge and trying to prove himself in front of Yi Feng, so he didn't arrange any tactics.
The timeout ends and the game continues.
The white team is still the same five, and it seems that they are going to play the second half without substitutions.
On the red team's No. 1 position was Moodier, and when he broke through with the ball, Russell took the initiative to make a block for him.
Russell is about the same size as Booker, and although Booker is one line taller, he is still delayed by Russell.
Yi Feng hurriedly switched defenses with Booker to block Moodier's breakthrough. Yi Feng's height and reach are much better than Moodier's, and even when placed at the small forward position, his conditions are extremely good. So Moodier covered it all at once.
This time, Moodier was very quick to get the ball out, and it may have been a lesson for him to learn a lesson from the mistakes he made in the handling of the ball in the bag a few times before.
Moodier passes the ball back to Russell.
Russell pulled out of the three-point line after the pick-and-roll. After receiving the ball, he made a shooting feint, shook Booker, and broke through from the left side.
Russell is a left-hander, and breaking down the left is what he does best. So he pushed his speed to the extreme, and Booker was left behind by him.
At this time, the white team is no longer like in the first half, and after a simple breakthrough, it can go straight to the basket. While Nance and Porzingis aren't known for their defensive strength, they won't let Russell get a layup easily.
Nance stepped forward quickly to delay, but the action was clean and did not allow Russell to get a chance to make a foul.
Russell relied on Nance to get up, but he was not strong and explosive, and he didn't get much room to shoot after the confrontation, and after a pull, he stuffed the ball to Caulistan under the basket through a very small passing space.
Cauleystan couldn't shake Porzingis off with a feint, and he had to rely on his strength to make a layup. It's a pity that he was highly disturbed by Porzingis, and he rolled out after a lap in the hoop.
Cauleystan made up for it, grabbed a rebound from consecutive jump points, and then passed to Russell, who ran outside the three-point line in the bottom corner.
Booker's failure to chase down in time gave Russell room to shoot. After adjusting his breathing, Russell jumped out of his hand.
Unfortunately, the basketball collapsed out of the basket again, and Kaminsky, who was walking on the periphery of the three-second zone, was lucky to pick it up. He jumped straight to the shot, but luckily didn't accompany him again, and the basketball continued to collapse out of the basket.
This time, the rebound was snatched by Yi Fengchong.
Twice in a row the red team grabbed the rebound in the front court, plus the previous offense, the red team did not take advantage of the three offensive opportunities. And when the red team attacked in the last two times, it can be said that they were all shots in the open position, and they didn't score once.
It's no longer about the white team's defense, it's about the red team's own problems.
Why is this happening?
They asked themselves in their hearts.
However, Yi Feng didn't give them time to think, and after winning the rebound, he quickly went down.
At this time, his speed is undoubtedly displayed!
Russell ran without the ball, and was actually thrown away by Yi Feng, who was advancing with the ball, two or three meters away! Although Moodier is trying his best to catch up, the gap is also widening little by little!
He is like the Thunder in the NBA, Russell Westbrook, grabbing rebounds in the backcourt, driving full horsepower, and moving forward! This kind of single-rider fast attack, few teams in the league can defend against it. Because there are very few players who can keep up with Wei Shao's sprint speed.
Yi Feng dunked again, and the score was overtaken!!
61:63, the white team leads for the first time in the game!!
As soon as the score was overtaken, most of the RED team's spirit was drained, and it was obvious that they were gradually losing their concentration. Although there were occasional struggles in the following games, they were fiercely contained under the high pressure of Yi Feng.
The red team struggled to score in the second half, and it was not until the end of the game that they could not score more than 10 points in the second half.
At 66:81, the white team won the 5-on-5 match with a 15-point advantage.
Yi Feng played 20 minutes in the second half, shooting 13-of-18, 3-of-5 three-pointers, and 5-of-5 free throws, scoring 34 points on 72% shooting, in addition to 6 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals, 2 blocks, and no fouls. And, of course, the two mistakes that were pitted in the first half.
After he led the white team to overtake the score, he gradually pulled the score away. In order to maintain their dignity, the red team defended desperately, and the action became bigger and bigger. Yi Feng's shooting rate gradually declined, and he didn't have the 100% shooting rate that he started in the second half.
It can be said that Yi Feng scored 34 points directly, 4 assists teammates scored at least 8 points, and of the 46 points scored by the white team in the second half, at least 42 points were directly related to Yi Feng!
This can be called a victory for Yi Feng alone!
When the whistle blew at the end of the game, neither the RED bench nor the WHITE bench made any sound. Even in the entire stadium, the cheers only came from the overseas media area and the five members of the white team who won the game on the field.
The rookie on the red team on the field had a lost soul on his face.
Why would they lose?
Aren't they geniuses who have always been surrounded by flowers and applause?
Why is there a guy today who can't beat a group of their geniuses together?
Who the hell is this guy sacred?
A group of geniuses is defeated by one person, is such a genius still qualified to be called a genius?
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Yi Feng hit them so hard that they all began to doubt their lives one by one.
The most confused is Russell. As one of the protagonists of this confrontation, he is the loser, and he becomes a stepping stone to Yi Feng's success.
On his home turf, with the support of thousands of American imperialist people, he actually lost to the other side. Why is that?
Is it really that I am too far apart? Am I so poor?
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The red team bench, whether they play or not, but they have been engraved with the humiliation of the loser at the moment.
No one cares who doesn't play and doesn't play to their strength.
Losing is losing, that's a fact.
It's brutal, but you have to accept it.
People who were glad they didn't get a chance to play before can't laugh now. Because from the moment they came out of the group, the entire red team was already tied together.
If you lose this time, everyone's draft market will be affected.
As the winner, the white team really benefited only 5 people: Yi Feng, Booker, Brown, Nance and Porzingis, of which Yi Feng naturally benefited the most.
And the other twenty or thirty people on the white team can't enjoy any kind of respect and treatment that a winner should have.
Because they are responsible for their stupidity.
No one can pay for them.
So they can't be happy, for them, this game is better than just losing. Because people thought that the white team could not win. So even if the white team loses, they won't lose anything, and the draft market will be how it should be.
And now it's different, the white team has obvious crowding out teammates in the first half, and there were even fights at halftime! This directly casts a thick shadow over the future of many in the white team.
If we had known that the Chinese rookie was so powerful, would we still not hold on to this thigh?
A little-known guy like Nance can actually follow others to eat and drink spicy food! If I had stood up and fought alongside that Chinese, would I have received such treatment?
Where is the gap between me and the 4 people who can stand up bravely in the face of adversity and not admit defeat? Am I a coward at heart?
Why can a Chinese live to such a point? Is it really that my efforts are not enough?
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After this ball, there are many doubts about life.