40. Only when you have the ball in your hand can you feel safe (ask for recommendation votes)
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At three o'clock in the afternoon, when Zhang Hao and Bibby, who had finished warming up, walked into the stadium behind Garnett, they were surprised by the enthusiastic cheers of the fans at the scene.
Take a closer look...... At least a third of the fans are the same color as him!
Coupled with the fact that this is a California city, some of the students support other high school students, but most of them support "their own people".
It's just that Corey Benjamin is obviously his own person, but he is ignored......
This scene still startled Zhang Hao, he didn't expect the fans to be so enthusiastic about him.
He also pays attention to the news, but mainly to the national media, because his goal is to get into the NCAA, and every day on his break, he will look at the national sports news to see if there is a report of his own, and occasionally see one.
He didn't notice that he already had a lot of popularity in California, even more so than Pierce.
And this is related to Adidas's strategy, there are too many Chinese, Chinese, Asians, and Asians here in California, which can be used to expand the market, and they just praise Zhang Hao, mainly because they feel that Zhang Hao is worth praise, which is the conclusion drawn through the observation of the training camp, and then it is implemented without hesitation.
Listening to these cheers, Zhang Hao felt his heart beat faster - he liked this feeling so much!
The scene became Zhang Hao's home field, and the high school students had different ideas.
There are those who are envious, those who are jealous, and there are those who know the reason very well like Garnett, that is, they know that this is actually the home of California high school students.
The most peculiar is a certain maternity genius who does not want to be named.
"That bastard is even more popular than me!"
Kobe Bryant's thinking is particularly strange, he always likes to compare his weakest aspects with others, for example, he has such comprehensive skills, but he likes to compare with Zhang Hao and Hamilton, and the middle pitcher finally caught up with Hamilton, and there was a super mid-pitcher like Zhang Hao who opened a qualitative gap with all other high school students in the mid-pitch, so he felt that his mid-pitch was garbage and needed to work harder.
Originally, he didn't care about popularity or anything, but now seeing that Zhang Hao, who is also a high school student, actually enjoying the cheers of thousands of people, he began to envy and hate again.
Bryant's idea was very simple – "I'm going to win!" These cheers will be mine! ”
Although some of the high school students who participated in the Adidas training camp this time had participated in the McDonald's High School All-Star, only 18 people who passed the tryouts participated in the game, and the three-point contest and the slam dunk contest added up to only a dozen people, most of whom had been eliminated during the training of the Adidas training camp, like Bibby was eliminated in the McDonald's All-Star Game trials before.
After envy and jealousy of the cheers Zhang Hao received, the players were even more excited!
Playing in front of so many fans, it feels so different.
It's that there are players who like to play in the limelight, such as the future Wizards champion John Wall, who has no motivation to play without a national live broadcast.
Before the start of the game, the host introduced the 18 participating players and gave a detailed introduction to their achievements in high school, mainly in the 94-95 season.
As Zhang Hao expected, although they didn't compare each other's high school performance before, and no one would be stupid enough to perform better than the school team in the same group of talented high school students, but all the genius high school students present either have good data or good grades, and there are many cases of good grades + good data, even if it is Corey Benjamin, his high school performance is so good that he exploded, and when he was 15 years old, he also represented the United States in the under-19 Youth Basketball World Championships, and he was the youngest player on the American team.
After the players appeared one by one, the players of the two teams gathered around for a final discussion before the game.
In the game of a group of players from various teams, the role of the coach is more to provide solutions to the problems for the players during team training and help the players run in better, when it comes to the game stage, the role of the coach is far less than the role of the school team coach, even if the players under him are stronger, but the coach of such a game actually has little understanding of how the players play on the field, or even no understanding at all.
Bibby and Garnett are very aware of this, so Garnett, the team leader with high ball intelligence and strong offensive organization, led the teammates to have a final discussion.
The specifications of this game are quite professional, there is a technical table, there are several cameras, there are three referees, the rules are the rules of the NCAA, and the configuration is the same.
At 3:28 p.m., both teams started their game!
Team B, Bibby, Corey Benjamin, Zhang Hao, Raheem, Garnett's starting lineup debuted.
Team A, Marbury, Hamilton, Kobe, Jamison, Odom started the lineup.
Zhang Hao came to the side of the halfway line and stood with Kobe, and he felt that his excitement level was no less than that of the McDonald's slam dunk contest against Carter before.
At half past three in the afternoon, the referee blew the whistle at the beginning of the game and threw the ball into the air, Garnett won the jump ball from Odom's head with a super bounce, and the game began, and Team B attacked first!
At the start of the 35-second offensive time, Bibby pressed the tempo and passed the half before the 10-second violation, which was their strategy, keeping the pace down and playing slowly.
Bibby went to the frontcourt, Kobe Bryant defended, and he wanted to go head-to-head with Bibby! Of all the outside lines on the opposite side, the strongest is Bibi.
But Bibi is much calmer than Kobe, he doesn't plan to fight in regular time and Kobe at all in this game, choosing to protect the ball, waiting for the guy to run, and waiting for his own timing at the same time, with two options.
On the other side, Zhang Hao was chased very closely by Hamilton, and he ran like a headless fly......
Although Zhang Hao has practiced running in the three and senior years of high school, he mainly practiced how to use his explosive speed and excellent physical strength to forcibly get rid of the opponent, and when he met Hamilton, who was stronger than him in this aspect, Zhang Hao had no way, and there was a difference between training and competition, and he had only practiced for more than two days, and when he encountered this situation on the field, Zhang Hao really couldn't get rid of Hamilton.
However, Garnett, who was originally waiting for the answer, seized the opportunity after judging Zhang Hao's running route, and took the initiative to help Zhang Hao block Hamilton.
Bibby, who has been observing the situation on the court, keenly judged Garnett's intentions and the movement of the players on the court next, and used skillful ball control to accelerate the breakthrough to the left side, so that Kobe Bryant moved, and then seized the opportunity to play the ball.
Zhang Hao, who was panicked because of his unfavorable running position, suddenly returned to his sense of security after receiving the ball, received the ball, and threw the ball without hesitation when Jamison pounced.
Hit!
The first attack at the beginning of the game made those scouts shine!
Zhang Haoben was also one of the subjects of their observations, and many college and NBA teams became interested in the Chinese high school students who suddenly appeared in the United States in the past three weeks and gained a certain degree of popularity in the United States.
But Zhang Hao's running position after coming on the court disappointed those scouts - as a pitcher, the running position was so poor.
But Garnett's timing of blocking without the ball and the solid blocking strength that his physique can't see are very good.
Bibby's offense was average, but when Garnett sorted out the offense with a no-ball block, Bibby seized the opportunity well.
There's also Corey Benjamin's weak-side run, Raheem's well-timed cut-in...... It's all good.
And in the end, Zhang Hao's shooting made the scouts understand why this guy is called the "undefeated shooting king in the high school world", which is really amazing!