On March 13, Hecheng University will face Syracuse University at home in the third qualifier.

Syracuse University is a team with a glorious history, reaching the national semifinals in its heyday, but it fell quickly due to various reasons.

In last year's qualifiers, they lost to the weak Jiacheng University and Lindu University, which participated in the competition for less than two years, which made them ranked first from the bottom of the province in shame.

At the beginning of this year, the team learned from the pain, and after the head coach Zhou Ming persuaded the school leaders to offer generous conditions, they finally lobbied for Zhang Jiapeng, a substitute small forward from Bingcheng University.

For today's game, Zhou Ming has been looking forward to it for a long time. They are now a team that has won all 2 games, as long as they beat Hecheng University and win the University of Petroleum, they will be able to advance, as for the other teams are not a threat at all.

In the Hecheng Gymnasium, because an ice hockey match was just held yesterday, the staff is stepping up to dismantle the relevant equipment and lay the parquet floor, so the players of both teams have to play later.

In the home team's locker room, Coach Zhang Tiejun held a tactical board with key points drawn and assigned defensive tasks to the players.

"Zhang Jiapeng, Chen Shuai, these two names must be familiar to you, especially this Zhang Jiapeng, Qian Ning, you have to stare at him to death for me, in the middle and long distances he is good at, don't leave him any vacant opportunities!"

Zhang Tiejun is very aware of Zhang Jiapeng's offensive ability, although he can't start at Bingcheng University, it is also because of Du Weibin's demonic existence.

If it is changed to another team, if you get this kind of player with strength and experience, you will be the team's starter or leader, and the current record of Syracuse University shows that he is excellent.

"Liu Mu, Chen Shuai will be handed over to you, Zhu Ziming should also pay attention to helping the defense, as long as we can suppress him, we will have a decisive advantage in the inner line!"

Zhang Tiejun is not worried about Chen Shuai on the inside, what really worries him is Zhang Jiapeng, that is the real sword of Syracuse University, and Qian Ning, who defends him, is not good at defense.

What if Liu Xiaodong is put in the position of a little pioneer? Zhang Tiejun looked at the calm and slightly immature face, and couldn't help but have this bold idea.

Liu Xiaodong's defensive success against Wang Zekai at the last moment of the last game is obvious to all, and with these days of projection training, his mid-range has been on target.

Although outside the three-point line, it still can't bring effective help to the team. But Zhang Tiejun believes that as Liu Xiaodong's shooting posture becomes more and more correct, the shooting rate will slowly increase.

"Xiaodong, you'll be there for a while... You're still the sixth person. Zhang Tiejun still decided to let Liu Xiaodong come off the bench, and now changing Qian Ning's starting position is a psychological blow to the old players, or it is safer to look at the situation on the field for a while, and then make some adjustments.

"Yes, Coach!" Liu Xiaodong did not have any dissatisfaction with coming off the bench, he didn't think that he who let Wang Zekai score 48 points would be qualified to be the starter.

After Zhang Tiejun arranged all the tasks, it was time to appear.

In the stands, the students of Hecheng University still shouted the slogan of cheering for Hecheng as always, cheering for the players of the home team!

When Liu Xiaodong rushed out of the players' tunnel, there were cheers. Compared with the first appearance, not only did the cheers get louder, but there were also a lot of voices of recognition on both sides of the aisle.

"Liu Xiaodong, come on!"

"You are the man who defeated Wang Zekai, you have to teach the quarterback on the opposite side a hard lesson!"

"A few more handsome dunks, like the one that changed hands last time, and the gliding flying dunk!"

Listening to some funny shouts, Liu Xiaodong, who was originally calm, also showed a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Good morning, friends in front of the TV! Welcome to the University League (Qualifiers) broadcast live on Hecheng TV. I am the host Wang Yiming, and I am the commentator Liu Qiliang. ”

"Let me introduce you to the starters of the two teams, first of all, the home team list: point guard Guo Cheng, scoring guard Hou Wei, small forward Qian Ning, big forward Zhu Zihua, and our provincial No. 1 center Liu Mu."

"Away team list: point guard Yang Yong, point guard Li Jian, small forward Zhang Jiapeng, power forward Tang Hao, center Chen Shuai"

After the on-site host also introduced the players, the referee blew the whistle and the game officially began.

Chen Shuai, who was full of strength, won Liu Mu, who was three centimeters taller than him, in the scramble, which surprised Liu Xiaodong off the field.

On the field, Syracuse University's offense played very patiently, and the new captain Zhang Jiapeng did not rush to attack, but interspersed with counterruns to attract defense and create opportunities for teammates.

Yang Yongxue is directing his teammates to look for opportunities, and the point guard, who is 1.82 meters tall, did not have any panic because of Guo Cheng's defense. His mentality and ability have improved a lot compared to last season, all thanks to Zhang Jiapeng, a third-year small forward, who not only brought his own offense, but also transmitted experience and confidence to his teammates!

Yang Yong, who has confidence, is terrifying, he will not be as timid as before, but use Chen Shuai's blocking and dismantling to get rid of Guo Cheng's entanglement. If it weren't for Yanagi's timely defense, he would have already made a shot.

Yang Yong, who was stopped, was not discouraged, he knew that with a strong backing, he would definitely appear where it should be. Sure enough, Zhang Jiapeng ran back and got rid of Qian Ning, took the basketball in the bottom corner, and he never disappointed his teammates, and threw the ball into the basket steadily.

In the first leg, Tsurujo University was defeated. Zhang Tiejun off the field couldn't help frowning, the opponent just had such a simple blocking and dismantling and anti-running tactics, which made the team look flawed.

Liu Mu did a good job of supplementing the defense, so that Yang Yong, who was in the vacant position, did not get a chance to make a shot, but after Zhang Jiapeng ran back, Qian Ning did not see through the opponent's true intentions, which made the defense have a loophole.

He also knows that even without Qian Ning's misjudgment, Zhang Jiapeng will be difficult to be restrained with his super singles ability.

The next situation also happened according to Zhang Tiejun's expectation. Compared with Liu Mu's leisurely stroll defending Chen Shuai under the basket, Qian Ning looked a little embarrassed, and he was successfully singled by Zhang Jiapeng.

With 5 minutes and 21 seconds left in the first quarter, Hecheng University was 9-15, 6 points behind Syracuse University.

This made Zhang Tiejun, who has always had a mild personality, very annoyed. It's not a big deal to fall behind a few points, but the backcourt players are like they have sleepwalking, especially Hou Wei's 4 shots and 0 hits, which makes Zhang Tiejun seriously doubt that Li Jian, who is opposite him, is not Wang Zekai pretending!

"Hou Wei, have you forgotten last year's game? We are the ones who win! Zhang Tiejun's loud roar was to stimulate his fighting spirit.

"Don't care about the hit rate, let me go! Especially you, Guo Cheng, pass the ball to my teammates who have a chance, and if they don't have a chance, you go and create a chance for me! If you let me see you doing nothing on the field again, you can give me a good rest! ”