Chapter Seventy-Five: Personal Grudges

The Twin Towers scored two points on the offensive end thanks to another dunk by Anderson. Hogist came back and still didn't tire of calling for a pick-and-roll at the top of the arc.

Switch guards or continue to go around? Booker was also hesitating. Suddenly he thought of Hoggist, Booker admitted that Hoggist is a player one level higher than him, but Booker refuses to admit defeat, he also wants to be a player like Hoggist, and Booker believes that in order to go to the next level, in addition to the polishing of skills, there is also one thing that is also very important, that is, creativity on the court! Hoggist's strength is not only in technology, but also in creativity.

So Booker decided to tap into his creativity, neither choosing to go around the back nor switching defenses, but choosing to carve out what he thought was a new path - to get ahead.

While it's not uncommon to grab a screen, a little bit of quality can easily lead to a chase foul. Sure enough, Hougist clinged to Desmond and passed, and Booker only inserted one leg in the middle, and his body collided with both Haugist and Desmond at the same time. Referee Bonner blew Booker for a foul.

"Well, it didn't work," Booker shook his head.

The GDP team restarted, Haugist continued to block at the top of the arc, Booker finally compromised and chose to change defense, Sabonis reached the three-point line and stretched out his long arm to interfere with Hougist's shot, Haugist came to the wing by cover, and when he saw the opponent change defense, he broke through directly against Sabonis, suddenly to the paint area and directly made an emergency stop, and he was about to shoot after receiving the ball, Sabonis also paused and flew up to block Haugist's shot, but Haugist didn't jump up, and he stopped as soon as his heel left the ground. Seeing that Sabonis had jumped, he calmly jumped up and crashed into Sabonis.

"Beep~" With a whistle from Bonner, Hougist fell to the ground, and Bonner decisively blew for a foul on Sabonis. Hougist made two free throws. Sabonis had already committed four fouls at the beginning of the third quarter, and Budenholzer had no choice but to replace Sabonis. And Hougist also glanced at Budenholzer defiantly, since you think that making fouls can't decide the game, I'll make a few fouls for you to see!

After Sabonis went off the court, the bigger Desmond began to change Anderson, anyway, Anderson's speed was slow, and it was not a loss to change Desmond's speed, and Desmond's defensive area was larger, coupled with Nogueila's assistance defense, Anderson was already difficult to support on the inside.

Budenholzer can only change tactics and let Booker, Whitehead, and Ullis play breakthrough points, but fortunately, although Anderson can no longer play a role on the inside, the quality of covering and blocking is very high, and the outside three of the Twin Towers team used Anderson's blocking and dismantling and their own off-ball running to hit some balls in the middle and long distance, but the shooting rate was far less stable than the previous attack basket.

And without Sabonis on the defensive end of Anderson even harder, the GDP team's outside three used Desmond's cover to frequently break through the bench center, and past the substitute center who switched defenses, the three of Hougist easily got the opportunity to shoot in the open space under the basket. Anderson can only watch the three Hougist go to the basket without making up the defense, and the defense will miss his own defense of Nogueira, and he can choose between two bottles of poison. In the second half of the third quarter, Anderson also suffered two fouls, and also had four fouls on his back, but fortunately, it was time to make substitutions, and it was time for the normal rotation of the main team to rest.

It wasn't until the bench lineup was replaced that the Twin Towers stopped the widening point difference, and the margin was forced to close to 10 points at the end of the third quarter, and the Twin Towers fell behind 65-75. Although the score seems to be chasing, the players of the Twin Towers are not in high mood, the two most advantageous inside lines on their side have four fouls, and the outside line has no advantage at all, and the most annoying thing is that the strongest player on the other side did not use all his strength at all. The more I tried to chase the points, the more desperate I felt.

Coach Budenholzer also felt a deep sense of helplessness, but what could he do? It is true that he is a professional coach and is familiar with many tactics. But there is a way to crack any tactic, and all tactics are in vain under the suppression of Haugist's absolute strength. What's more, Hoggist is not using his strength to crush his tactics, but is really using the corresponding cracking method to break his tactics, the combination of strength and skill, and the tactics of breaking him are even more like solving the ox, and he is at ease.

Budenholzer gave a symbolic word of encouragement to the bench to continue playing the fourth quarter. Unexpectedly, several substitutes played bloodily and tied the score difference within 5 minutes. Originally, the score difference was close to 5 points, and Focier wanted to change to the main force, but Coach Budenholzer did not mean to change the main force, and he was embarrassed to change first, after all, Coach Budenholzer is the chief assistant coach, and Focier is just an ordinary assistant coach responsible for the development league and rookie tryouts, and he does not dare to show too strong desire to win in the face of his own leadership.

There was another reason why Coach Fusier was not in a hurry to ask for a timeout, and Coach Fogir, who was sitting next to Coach Fogiel, quietly poked him and gave him a slightly calmer look.

After the Twin Towers' backup center hit a two-point hook shot to take the lead, Coach Faucier received a hint from Hougist and got up to call a timeout.

"Now that they are ahead, at this time you will take the lead in changing the main force and go up Budenholzer, and you have nothing to say!" Hoggist asked.

"You know what I'm thinking?" Coach Faucier looked at Haugist in surprise.

"You invite Henry to a few more drinks and you'll understand!" Hogist replied mysteriously, then glanced at the bench on the other side of the field, "Anyway, the next thing is a personal feud between me and Budenholzer!" ”

"What are you going to do?" Coach Faucier was taken aback when he heard Haugist's unkind tone.

"It's nothing, I'm going to make more fouls next, that's fine, right?" Hoggist asked.

"Uh...... There should be no problem! As long as you have that ability. Coach Fogier thought about it and approved Haugist's plan.

Coach Fogier changed the main team back to the field, and Coach Budenholzer also sent the starting five tigers, repeatedly emphasizing that they must be democratic, civilized, harmonious, equal, dedicated and friendly on the field. Just hold on to the advantage and play the remaining 6 minutes.

Hougist returned to the court and began to play blocking and dismantling with the inside Hum Ha two generals, and this time the degree of metamorphosis has been upgraded, Desmond and Nogueira are promoted together to carry out high double cover for Haugist, and the two are sandwiched in the middle by a ninety-degree angle, and Booker doesn't even have a chance to grab the front to block and dismantle.

In line with the principle of defending three points and putting two points, Booker had to let the interior duo switch to Hougist after blocking and dismantling. Haugist broke through to the inside line from Desmond's side with a cover, Sabonis retreated from the right side against Haugis, and Haugist could obviously rely on Sabonis to force up and throw with his left hand to avoid the block - after all, his weak side hand is also very flexible, but he wanted to force the other side of the basket to pull the lever to rebound, and others pulled the lever to avoid the block, and he pulled the lever specifically to find Sabonis's hand to make contact.

Sabonis originally raised his hands in the air and only intended to interfere with Haugist's shot, but how could he bear it when he saw that Haugist's ball had already been delivered to him! But just as Sabonis's arm pressed down to cover the ball, Haugist's hand instantly stretched out again, and Sabonis's hand fell down and slapped it firmly on Haugist's arm.

The slap was also hard enough to pull Haugist directly to the ground, and Hougist couldn't even throw the ball to the basket before hitting the ground.

This goal is refereed by Danny. Green saw it clearly and blew for a foul on Sabonis, who had already committed five fouls.

Hougist rubbed his red arm that was slapped by Sabonis's big hand, and muttered, "I didn't expect you to be quite ruthless!" ”

"Coach Budenholzer told us to be ruthless when we had to foul you, pull you down, and try not to give you a chance to play 2+1."

"You're quite sincere!" Hogist sighed. Standing at the free-throw line, Hougist easily hit two free throws to tie the score. Although Sabonis has been fouled five times, Budenholzer can only continue to use it, and once the inside twin towers are off the court, the offensive and defensive ends will no longer be able to compete with the GDP team!

The Twin Towers still insist on playing inside on the offensive end, and they still have to squeeze out all of Sabonis's remaining value. Sabonis received a pass from Booker and forced Desmond to make a successful layup, and also caused Desmond's foul, Sabonis, as an Eastern European player, made free throws that were quite soft, and easily hit the free throws, and the lead of the Twin Towers increased to 3 points.

Haugist was not in a hurry, dribbled to the opponent's half and continued to be a high double cover, continued to walk on Desmond's side, Sabonis stood in advance, one step away from Haugist to prevent him from breaking through, Haugist directly a pretended shot, Sabonis was cautious and did not pounce with all his strength, but just jumped forward a small step. Haugist dribbled from Sabonis' side to the inside before touching the ball with both hands, but Haugist could have completely avoided Sabonis's rush inside, but he reduced the change of direction and let his shoulder hit the side of Sabonis's body.

After the physical contact, Hougist exaggerated the effect of the reaction force and spun backwards for half a circle and fell to the ground. The fake fall was a bit obvious, but the physical contact was definitely there, and the whistle was a few seconds late, but eventually Bonner blew the whistle and awarded Sabonis a foul.

Sabonis left the court with six fouls, and Coach Budenholzer jumped straight to his feet angrily on the sidelines, "This is a fake fall!" ”

Bonner explained: "The fall was a bit exaggerated, and at most he was given a technical foul, but Sabonis's blocking foul was obvious! ”

In order to accommodate Coach Budenholzer's emotions, Bonner added another technical foul to Haugist and warned him not to fake any more falls. Booker made a technical foul to give the Twin Towers a four-point lead, and since the Twin Towers didn't commit four fouls, blocking the foul could not make the free throw, and the Twin Towers restarted the game with 14 seconds left on the table. Haugist received the ball and broke through to the basket from the right side with Nogueira cover, Anderson deliberately stepped back to avoid physical contact with Hoggist, and Hoggist saw that he was prepared, so he threw directly to score.

After scoring the goal, Haugist smiled at Anderson, "Don't think you can escape, I'm targeting Budenholzer today, not Sabonis and you," Haugist glanced up at the timer, there were five minutes left in the game, "Time is enough, Booker, even Whitehead and Ulys, all have to be punished!" ”

"Hmm. I, know, Tao, go. Anderson still spoke so slowly and coherently.

Looking back, the Twin Towers could only play a burst again, with Ullis bursting inside but being surrounded by a bunch of big tall men who had no chance to shoot, and in the afterglow he seemed to see Booker having an open spot at the top of the arc. Uulis Fee tried his best to throw the ball to the top of the arc, LaVine quickly intercepted the ball halfway, the ball changed course and fell into the hands of Hougist, Hougist dribbled quickly and counterattacked, Booker was able to retreat in time because he was standing at the top of the arc, leading Hoggist to retreat to the basket.

Hougist seemed to ignore Booker and still dribble to the basket. Between the lightning and fire, Booker remembered the spirit of the bright sword, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and they want to show their swords knowing that they are invincible, so Booker decided to block Haugist head-on, Haugist took three steps to collect the ball, and saw that Booker did not dodge or dodge, and was eager to try, Hougist knew that Booker planned to be tough. So Haugist decided to respond in a tougher way.

Hougist stepped and twisted his waist at the moment when he jumped at the same time as Booker, turned 180 degrees to dunk with his back. Booker raised his hands high to block, but Horgist pulled the ball to his chest and held it firmly with both hands to prevent it from coming out of his hands when he made contact. Horgist and Booker eventually met in the air, because Horgist was rushing forward and jumping, but Booker was jumping vertically, so Booker was pushed away by Horgist in the air, and Horgist used his back to push Booker and then lifted the ball back dunk.

Booker was pushed away in the air, his hands unconsciously leaned forward, and inadvertently hit Hoggist's arm, although the strength was not great, but Hoggist was also the end of the crossbow in the air, and was lightly touched by Booker and Hoggist knocked the ball away.

At this time Danny. Green blew for Booker's foul, Haugist got two free throws, and Booker had already been fouled four times.

Hougist hit both free throws to tie the score again. He glanced at Budenholzer, intentionally or unintentionally, and saw that Budenholzer's face was pale, as if he had eaten walnut skin. Hoggist was very comfortable in his heart, and said that the good show was still to come!