Chapter 23: The Battle of the Final Four (2)
Qingyang No. 1 Middle School, which has always been unconcerned in previous years, has almost caused a sensation in the entire Nanyun Division this year, and now the Winter City League semi-finals have officially begun, Deyu High School hosts Qingyang No. 1 Middle School, and the screens on the court show the list of starters of both sides:
Qingyang No. 1 Middle School: No. 23 Ouyang Hao (182cm) - point guard, No. 11 Shen Zedong (186cm) - scoring guard, No. 8 Zhang Qingxin (192cm) - small forward, No. 17 Wang Yang (196cm) - power forward, No. 4 Meng Yu (2.02cm) - center.
Coach - Cheng Jun, team leader - An Qing.
Moral Education High School: No. 15 Jiang Yishan (180cm) - point guard, No. 24 Wei Tao (179cm) - scoring guard, No. 23 Luo Kui (190cm) - small forward, No. 10 Xiang Tao (196cm) - power forward, No. 12 Pang Xiong (2.04cm) - center.
Coach - Sun Wei, team leader - Xu Qinhu.
"Boys, go up and shake hands with Moral Education." Cheng Jun looked at Xiao Fei and others who were resting in the substitute area
The leaders of the two teams of the first middle school came to the middle line and shook hands face to face.
Moral education feels that the first middle school is very dish, and the first middle school also thinks that moral education dishes, the so-called rookie looks at the rookie is like this.
"Newcomer, you should be in the finals for the first time, and I will give you a good lesson as a newcomer." Wei Tao stared playfully at Shen Zedong in front of him
"I also wanted to ravage what it was like to be a rookie, but unfortunately I didn't have a chance." Shen Zedong replied with a sneer.
"Newcomer, what do you mean by this, are you afraid of me, and you are ready to go back to the substitute area to stay."
"What I mean is that you're not qualified to be my opponent."
"Zhang Qingxin, let's teach him how to play later." Shen Zedong ignored Wei Tao and said to Zhang Qingxin
"A rookie who is chirping, hanging every minute." Zhang Qingxin said
"Well, Captain, there's nothing wrong with my ears!" Ouyang Hao asked
"I thought I was wrong, but the reality is." Meng Yu just smiled happily and looked confused.
"Hey, surnamed Shen, don't embarrass my little forward, or I'll kill you."
"Zhang Lengxue, if you dare to give me 10 points for facing this rookie, Lao Tzu will definitely destroy you."
"Captain, it looks like the two of us are thinking too much."
"yes, I think too much."
After the team shook hands and saluted each other, the starters stood in a good position, jumped the ball in the middle circle, the referee threw the basketball into the air, and the center Meng Yu and Pang Xiong jumped at the same time, although the two of them touched the basketball in the air at the same time, but the ball still fell into the hands of Xiang Tao of Moral Education High School.
The basketball flew into the hands of Xiang Tao, Luo Kui, Wei Tao, and Pang Xiong quickly ran to the half court of the first squadron.
Xiang Tao gave the ball to the hands of point guard Jiang Yishan, and passed the basketball to Wei Tao, who cut the ball to the basket with the ball, and Wei Tao took the ball directly to the basket.
Wang Yang under the basket hurriedly jumped up to defend, Wei Tao suddenly turned to the right, and threw the basketball to the basket with his left hook.
"Bang!" The ball hit the board and fell into the basket, 2:0.
"Wei Tao, Wei Tao......" The audience erupted in cheers, and the entire gymnasium echoed with Wei Tao's name.
"Damn, what are these guys doing? How can you let someone shoot the first goal, and how did Shen Zedong and Zhang Qingxin change positions, what the hell! Xiao Fei was very dissatisfied
The first squadron attacked, Ouyang Hao easily carried the ball across the front court, Zhang Qingxin ran on the three-point line, and signaled to ask for the ball, Ouyang Hao passed the ball to him without saying a word.
Wei Tao stood in front of him with open hands, Zhang Qingxin dribbled left and right three times, and took a step back to shoot.
"Huh!" The basketball drew a high arc in the air and entered the basket steadily, 2:3.
"Hao, why did you give the ball to this guy." Shen Zedong asked when he returned to defense
"Hey, Shen Zedong, Ouyang Hao, what are you doing, hurry back to defense." Before Ouyang Hao could reply, an eye-catching voice came.
Shen Zedong looked at it, when the opponent was about to attack the backcourt, Wei Tao had already passed the ball to Pang Xiong, and Pang Xiong was facing Meng Yu with his back in the three-second zone at this moment.
"Toot, No. 4 shot foul, No. 12 gets two free throws."
It turned out that after Meng Yu collected the ball from Pang Xiong, who was defending and attacking, Meng Yu accidentally grabbed Pang Xiong's right arm, and Pang Xiong didn't score the goal, so he made two free throws.
Pang Xiong walked to the free throw line, and he easily threw two free throws, 4:3.
"Hey, Hao, here!" Ouyang Hao controlled the ball to the front court, and heard Shen Zedong shouting for the ball.
After Shen Zedong got the ball, he dribbled three steps forward, and then stood at the free throw line and threw the ball.
"Huh!" No. 1 scored another two-point, and the score came to 4:5.
Moral education attacked, Jiang Yishan advanced to the front court with the ball, glanced at his teammates, and found that the players of No. 1 Middle School were very tight and did not have a good position to receive the ball.
Jiang Yishan was ready to fight alone with Ouyang Hao, but Ouyang Hao stuck up, and Jiang Yishan quickly turned around to get rid of Ouyang Hao's defense, and jumped outside the penalty area, his series of movements were as smooth as water.
"Smack!" There was a crisp sound, and Jiang Yishan stood dumbfounded.
Zhang Qingxin successfully blocked, and the ball flew to Ouyang Hao at the three-point line, Ouyang Hao didn't say a word, rushed to his own half with the ball, and scored a simple layup, 4:7.
"That kid was deliberately swept over by a mountain." Luo Kui looked at Zhang Qingxin's back and said
Moral Education High School offense, point guard Jiang Yishan took the ball just past the half-court position, he slammed the ball to the basket with one hand, and Pang Xiong under the basket jumped up, grabbed the pass with both hands, and prepared to put the basketball into the basket.
As soon as the basketball flew out of his hand, Meng Yu nailed the ball to the rebound with his palm.
"Damn, the captain is domineering."
"Well done......"
"Captain, here." Shen Zedong didn't know when to run back to his own half.
Undefended, Shen Zedong dribbled to the penalty area and took off, slamming the ball into the basket, 4:9.
This time, the fast break completed a wonderful back dunk, and the entire court let out an exclamation almost at the same time.
", Shen Zedong will also dunk." Xiao Fei said in surprise that he had never seen Shen Zedong dunk.
"Well done, Shen Zedong." An Jing also shouted excitedly.
"Ruoxue, this ball buckle is so powerful, it's the first time I've seen a back buckle."
"yes, it's the first time I've seen such a back buckle on the spot."
"How could Shen Zedong be so powerful before, he was so strong after three years in the United States." Shen Zixi thought in his heart, in the past three years, Shen Zedong came back once for the Chinese New Year, and then stayed in the United States to study.
Shen Zedong's simple back buckle, the morale of moral education weakened a lot at once.
Yude attacked, Jiang Yishan just dribbled to the front court, Ouyang Hao came to force it, Jiang Yishan made a mistake in passing, and the ball went to Shen Zedong's hands.
"Shen Zedong, pass quickly, pass quickly."
"Hmph, pass it to this guy,......" Shen Zedong didn't want to pass the hundred in his heart, but in order to continue to show on the field, he had to reluctantly pass the ball once.
Zhang Qingxin was already in the middle circle at this time, Shen Zedong was under the threat of An Jing, and was passed to Zhang Qingxin, Zhang Qingxin caught the ball in front, immediately took the ball to the penalty area, and carried out a fast attack, it can be said that there is no one to defend in front, and the snail-like speed of Wei Tao in the back can't keep up with Zhang Qingxin's long legs, a tomahawk split, ignited the whole field again, 4:11.
Moral education attacked, Jiang Yishan controlled the ball and advanced to the frontcourt, and immediately passed to Luo Kui, who was running inside.
Luo Kui faced Shen Zedong's defense, dribbled twice, faked a shake, and forced to kill the basket, and when Shen Zedong was about to keep up, Xiang Tao stuck him.
Because Meng Yu was also stopped by the opposite center Pang Xiong, Luo Kui came to the basket with the ball in an instant and sent the ball directly to the basket, 6:11.
Ouyang Hao controlled the ball, Zhang Qingxin asked for the ball, Wei Tao defended Zhang Qingxin, Zhang Qingxin made a three-point jumper, the ball hit the board and went into the basket, and the score came to 6:14.
Moral education attacked, and Jiang Yishan's ball passed to Luo Kui again was directly cut off by Shen Zedong.
"What, such a fast speed." Luo Kui was shocked, Shen Zedong was too fast, and he was thrown a few steps away by himself just now.
Moral education everyone quickly rushed to the first half of the court to defend, and Shen Zedong did not give the ball to point guard Ouyang Hao, but slowly advanced with the ball alone.
"What's the matter, why are the people in No. 1 Middle School still in the half of our moral education." Xiang Tao was puzzled, except for Shen Zedong who came to the front court, the other four people did not come.
"Joke, does the 11th want to do five." Wei Tao said unpleasantly
"What the hell is he trying to do?" Luo Kui felt a little nervous in his heart.
Shen Zedong was two to three minutes and two meters away, his hand was up and down, and his hand was three points.
Shen Zedong's series of movements were as smooth as water, and the basketball drew a high arc in the air, 4:17.
"Huh!" The basketball went into the hoop safely.
"What, in." The moral education players and students were taken aback.
"It's amazing, it turns out that Shen Zedong said that his ace player really didn't blow it before." Shen Zixi couldn't believe his eyes.
"It's amazing, it's definitely not Meng." Luo Kui's heart became excited.
"How many threes do you have to shoot to get to this point." Xu Qinhu said
"Qinhu, what you mean by this, No. 11's three-point shot is very accurate." Sun Wei asked
"Yes, coach, although he only played five minutes in the first few games, he made less than three three-pointers per game, and he used to play shooting guard, and today I don't know what happened, he suddenly came to play small forward." Xu Qinhu said
"I see, Kui, your challenge is coming." Sun Wei looked at Luo Kui on the field and muttered
"Coach, do you need to call a timeout? I'm afraid that the difference in points will be too much and I won't be able to catch up. β
"No, the first quarter is almost over."
The next 4 minutes became Zhang Qingxin's performance moment, he scored 9 points in a row with internal and external shots, and led the first squadron to a 9:2 climax, and the score came to 10:26.
In the last attack, Zhang Qingxin held the ball in the bottom corner of the right side, faced Wei Tao, who was defending himself, dribbled under his hip continuously, suddenly changed speed, and made a shake, Wei Tao fell down, Zhang Qingxin retreated and stepped back, and hit it steadily, the score was 10:28.
"You're not arrogant, saying that newcomers are in class!" After scoring the goal, Zhang Qingxin looked at Wei Tao, who had not yet gotten up, contemptuously, and stepped directly over the opponent's body.
"Damn, how can Zhang Qingxin humiliate his opponent so much? It's so rude. Xiao Fei's voice was so loud, as if he deliberately said it to An Jing.
"It's really young and frivolous." Cheng Jun said with a smile
"Brother Shen, don't you think this scene is so familiar."
"This is not a classic moment in the history of the Aaron Iverson Finals." Shen Zedong said with a smile
"Bastard, you're looking for death." In this section of the game, he was played by Zhang Qingxin like a fool.
Wei Tao was furious, stood up and clenched his fist to smash Zhang Qingxin's head.
"Ahh Wei Tao hadn't hit Zhang Qingxin yet, and Shen Zedong smashed it over.
"Although I hate this guy very much, I look down on you guys who lose and lose." Shen Zedong pointed at Zhang Qingxin and said
Wei Tao was not convinced, and was about to face Shen Zedong's opponent, Pang Xiong grabbed Wei Tao and said, "Do you know what you are doing, go back and sit down." β
Pang Xiong's lesson was like a basin of cold water poured on Wei Tao's head, and he returned to his place.
Wei Tao finally calmed down, raised his head and looked around the entire bench area, and then said, "I'm sorry, it's my skills that are not as good as others." β
"Coach, what are we going to do?" Luo Kui came to Liu Wei and asked, and the other team members also came over to surround him.
"You're better at playing tailwind, and in adversity, you lack the ability to attack a little bit, and even some players are a little bit disunited." Although Liu Wei did not name him, everyone knew it.
"No. 11 and No. 8 are very single-handed, one of them takes the ball to attack, you have to wrap up, and on our side, the offensive power is given to Roque, you all have to actively cooperate with him, and play like this in the second quarter." As he spoke, his eyes looked over to the bench area of No. 1 Middle School.
"Coach, what's next?" Shen Zedong held the mineral water bottle in one hand and raised his head to drink water.
"Meng Yu for Zheng Dahu, Zhang Qingxin for Chen Liang, Wang Yang for Chen Liang, of course, Shen Zedong continues to play your small forward, Ouyang Hao, you stay on the court to control the ball." Cheng Jun said
"Coach, what about me?" Xiao Fei grabbed Cheng Jun's arm and almost burst into tears.
"Xiao Fei, don't worry, the third quarter of the game is your time." Cheng Jun said with a smile
βYesγβ Xiao Fei's eyes lit up, very excited.
"Toot!" The second quarter begins.
The moral education team quickly adjusted their form, and they were inseparable from the first center in the second quarter of the game.
A throw-in, Shen Zedong won the ball at a position of 45 degrees on the left wing, Shen Zedong is not only strong at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, but also proficient in various means of feeding the ball to the inside.
At this time in the left penalty area, Zheng Dahu has firmly bitten the position, Shen Zedong passed the ball over with a hit, Zheng Dahu did not hesitate after receiving the ball, dribbled with his left hand on his back, and successfully attracted the bag of the moral education team, only to see him suddenly turn around to the bottom line, facing Pang Xiong, who was 5 cm taller than himself, a landmark wipe board goal, and the score came to 27:34.
"It's the first time I've felt so powerless." Luo Kui dribbled and said to Shen Zedong
"But it doesn't also bring new opportunities and challenges." Shen Zedong wiped the sweat on his face with his jersey and said
Luo Kui dribbled twice, one back to avoid Shen Zedong's block, and the ball flew out of an arc and landed steadily into the basket, 29:34.
Shen Zedong gave Luo Kui a thumbs up again and said, "This ball is good, but the next shot should be fast, if I don't have it, I will block it." β
"Well, I'm going to guard you off the next ball." Luo Kui said to Shen Zedong
", Shen Zedong, how can you talk and laugh with your opponent."
"Coach, I want to report Shen Zedong, he is collaborating with the enemy!"
"It's just that the number 23 on the opposite side has scored several goals on him in a row."
"Shen Zedong will affect the overall situation like this, and I will be replaced."
"Damn, Wang Hai, it should be me, I'm better than you."
"Phew, Xiao Fei, can you have a little face, you just rely on your speed, don't you count how many dishes you have in other aspects?"
"You don't have to fight, I'll go up and fight steadily to ensure that I won't be chased by moral education."
"Chen Liang, shut up, you just stay on the bench today and cheer me on, you know no."
"Oh, Xiao Fei, your kid is really getting more and more inflated, brothers, cut him."
"Hey, pay attention to whether the image is good or not, don't do anything to Lao Tzu."
"Coach, Sister Anjing, help, they're going to murder this ace."
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In the first attack, Shen Zedong broke through with the ball, causing a foul on Luo Kui on the inside line and two free throws!
Shen Zedong stood at the free throw line and hit both free throws, 27:36.
At this time, for Luo Kui, the game is no longer a game about winning or losing, and he often learns some technical questions from Shen Zedong.
"Control the rhythm of your body, you need to keep your balance when you are in the air, and you need to stand on your feet when you land, because if you are not careful, you will fall and even twist your ankles." Shen Zedong said to Luo Kui
"Because of my excellent jumping, my height of 1.86 meters is in the lower middle of the guard position, but my body is stronger than the average defender, so I score by playing backwards and mid-range shots."
Luo Kui hit Shen Zedong twice, then suddenly turned around and threw the ball to the basket, his trademark back-to-back single.
"Huh." The ball went into the basket steadily, and the score came to 29:36.
In the first attack, Ouyang Hao held the ball and pushed it on the three-point line, and the ball hit the basket, but it rebounded into the basket, and the score came to 29:39.
"Hao, can you kid pitch steadily, it scares me to death." Shen Zedong came over and high-fived Ouyang Hao
"It's all settled." Ouyang Hao expressed helplessness, and the three points he voted for were not hollow.
Moral education ball, Jiang Yishan controlled the ball to the front court and passed the ball to Luo Kui, Luo Kui couldn't get rid of Shen Zedong, Pang Xiong received the ball and immediately made a hook, and the score came to 31:39.
At this moment, it seems that time has passed, and Shen Zedong and Luo Kui have unconsciously become entangled again.
Shen Zedong dribbled the ball high, Luo Kui came up to defend, he opened his slender arms and lowered his center of gravity, as if facing a big enemy.
Shen Zedong made a right dangling feint, then pulled the ball to the left side and made a jump shot; Luo Kui swayed with Shen Zedong's movements, was not fooled, interfered with Shen Zedong, and the ball did not score.
Then Roquay got a fast-break opportunity, he went down to the front court like the wind, and dunked in the air, and the score came to 33:39.
"Roqua, well done, haha."
"Roqua, good ball."
"Come on, Luo Kui, moral education will win......" The audience in the audience shouted loudly
Then Shen Zedong ignored Luo Kui's defense and scored with a textbook step-back jumper from the Qiao gang leader, 33:41.
"It's so powerful, he can't prevent it, his physical strength is like he can't run out." Luo Kui was already out of breath at this moment, and although Shen Zedong was also sweating profusely, he was not like Luo Kui.
Luo Kui wanted to return Shen Zedong a three-pointer, but he hit the iron, and then Pang Xiong grabbed the rebound and made a foul with Zheng Dahu, Pang Xiong successfully walked to the free throw line and hit a free throw, and the score came to 36:41.
At the end of 20 seconds left in the second quarter of the game, Shen Zedong held the ball outside the three-point line, borrowed Ouyang Hao's blocking, accelerated to break through Luo Kui's defense, between Jiang Yishan's supplementary defense and Luo Kui's pursuit, Shen Zedong shook left and right, stepped forward and changed direction, and then jumped high, turned in the air, and smashed the ball into the basket with his back, the whole action was smooth and in one go, of course, the premise was that the opponent's center Pang Xiong was not under the basket, otherwise Shen Zedong would have the courage to dunk, and the score came to 39:44.
(End of chapter)