Chapter 187: Talent is Cashed in by Training
An attack played with the opponent's two interior lines, and Downs couldn't be happier. McCaw anxiously urged on the side: "Boss, you should also exert your strength, right?" The limelight has been stolen by Downs! And the score is still ahead of the opponent! ”
"I've scored both times, how can I play? And it's only 1 point behind! What are you anxious about? There's still that long time left in the second half! Hoggist said calmly.
"My pot, it's me who failed to prevent Downs, it seems that I still underestimate him!" Turner took the initiative to step up and take responsibility.
"I can't blame you entirely, your ball style is different, it's my negligence, Downs' dexterous interior player is really difficult to deal with, you can beat him with one force, but he beats you but it's four or two thousand pounds. But we don't have players who are fast and defensive! I can't do it, but I can only defend him! Hougist mused.
"You. No kidding, you're so much shorter than him, he can shoot right in your face! McCaw shook his head.
Turner also stood up and said: "Boss, I can defend him, but I have to use all my physical strength and energy, and I can't help much on the offensive end." ”
"Also, if you hit him in the back on the offensive end, it should be very advantageous, but that will really cost you physical strength and energy, and if you block and go down, you can save some energy, but his help defense is enough for you to drink. It seems that only I can control the timing and angle of the pass again, and try to give you more opportunities to take advantage of the situation, so that it may not be so easy to be interfered with by Downs! Hoggist patted Turner on the back and comforted.
The Kentucky team, led by Downs, was highly motivated, and they were ready to seriously defend against the Raiders' attack. Hoggist dribbled past half court, shook Booker with a half-turn at the top of the arc, and shot a three-pointer directly the moment he shook out of space. Needless to say, the ball simply hit the basket.
"Downs is really physical, and UNLV that Turner has played very strongly this year, and I always thought he had surpassed Downs and Okafor to become the number one man on the inside! I didn't expect his body to be as good as Downs! Downs led the team to completely suppress the momentum of UNLV, and the two players who played the UNLV interior line couldn't raise their heads at all! A spectator on the sidelines said.
But this view was quickly refuted by the surrounding audience, "Are we watching the same game?" Downs hit a few balls in a row, but UNLV's momentum was not suppressed at all! On the contrary, I think the momentum of UNLV is terrifying! You see Downs' goals Hougist gave anserball, the one that shot is called a resolute, that is called a precision, I don't know which of the two of them will be powered off first. ”
"Didn't they bet in the first half? We can also bet that I will lose Hoggist first! Bet...... Bet $1! ”
"Who's betting on you for $1! I'm sure it must have been Downs who cut off the power first, and I bet $2! ”
Andrew of the University of Kentucky advanced with the ball, and played with Downs at the top of the arc, although Downs blocked Vaughn, but Turner's main task was to defend Downs, so he followed Downs and did not change the defense at all, Andrew wanted to use the cover to pass the ball to Downs, but found that the Raiders' inside door was open, so he seized the opportunity to kill the basket.
But Towns' defense can cover up Turner's dunk basket, so how can the Raiders not be able to make up for it in time? Andrew confidently jumped up and lowered his hand to the basket, only to hear his brother Aaron shout, "Watch the back!" ”
Before Andrew could figure out the situation, the ball in his hand was taken down, and when Andrew looked back, McCaw had already dribbled away, it turned out that McCaw saw that Turner was obsessed with Downs, and Andrew went straight to the basket, so he decisively gave up his defense Aaron and turned back to make up for the defense.
McCaw's physical fitness is also at the level of a dunk, and he easily completed a steal block on Andrew in the air, and after landing, McCaw naturally decided to liberate his nature, and he rode to the backcourt of the Kentucky team, but the praying mantis catches cicadas, the yellow finch is behind, Downs also threw off the step and followed behind McCaw, when McCaw jumped up with the ball in one hand and was ready to dunk, Downs's giant palm also fanned from behind.
At the last moment, McCaw forced the ball in the air and tried to change hands to make a layup from the other side of the basket. Downs' other hand slapped over the other side of McCaw's body and slammed the ball on the rebound.
Downs had just landed and was about to take off the rebound for the second time, but he didn't expect a black shadow to fly out of his head, pressing him to be unable to jump. It turns out that Andrew is a cicada, McCaw is a praying mantis, and Downs is a yellow finch, but he doesn't want Hoggist to be the one who takes a slingshot and aims at the yellow finch. Horgist was behind Downs when McCaw was about to fall, and Towns slapped the ball on the rebound, but it was just right for Horgist to jump up and ride Downs to dunk the ball into the basket.
The audience cheered, and many fans who were familiar with him felt that time seemed to have returned to the McDonald's All-Star Game a year ago, and fans across the country were familiar with the basketball emperor of the small division for the first time, and he played Downs and Okafor, who were known as the strongest high school students in the 14th class, in the palm of his hand. Sometimes sitting in a well and watching the sky is not just the preserve of small places, Hoggist has made those fans of basketball big state schools become frogs at the bottom of the well for the first time.
Hougist jumped off Downs, pulled up McCaw, who was covered to the ground, and walked back, McCaw rubbed his sore shoulders and said angrily: "This Downs is really good, I pulled the rod and hid to the other side to go to the basket, but I was still capped by him." ”
"It's your own cooking!" Hougist patted McCaw's ass and laughed.
"Don't talk about it, if I hadn't been the bait in front, would you have a chance to ride him?" McCaw said proudly.
Downs stared at the distant Haugist, his eyes shining with anger, although he had just ridden his opponent, and he was still riding happily, but he could not tolerate being ridden by others, thinking that it was a humiliation for him, and he was angry but did not think about the state of mind of Witherspoon who was ridden by him.
When he came to the frontcourt, Downs wanted to find Hoggist to vent, so he took the initiative to cover Booker and let him run without the ball. Booker borrowed Downs' cover to move to the top of the arc, and Downs held back to deal with Hogist, so he tried his best to block Hoggist, for which there was even a small step of lateral movement, and there was still a hugging action in his hand, but the referee didn't know whether he saw it and deliberately tolerated it, and did not blow the whistle.
Hogist was "caught" by Downs and couldn't move on, so he had to push Turner to signal for a change of defense. Of course, what Towns wanted was a chance to play Haugist alone, so even if Booker ran out of the open space with cover, Andrew didn't dare to pass the ball to Booker. Downs began to go inside with Hougist after switching guards with Turner, and in his idea, it was better to push Hougist to the basket and dunk him, and if not, he would retreat and score a shot above his head.
However, Downs found that his strength was still not as good as that of Hoggist, although his main energy this year was spent on studying the supergod state, but his daily training was not pulled down, and his physical talent was already excellent, and he basically crushed all the way in strength when playing against the interior players of each team in the regular season. He thought that his strength had grown so high that he could bully Hougist, and he couldn't beat Turner before, and he thought that Turner was a heavy center, and he was supposed to rely on strength to eat, but now he found that he was ridiculously wrong, Hougist's strength is still strong and terrifying, maybe because of his short and low center of gravity, Downs can't shake Hougist no matter how hard he exerts.
"That's why I've said it, the strength growth brought by the super god mode is too illusory, and it's not the right way after all!" Hogist said with a smile, and judging by the weighty expression on his face, it seemed that dissolving the power of Downs was not a difficult task for him.
"What is the right way?" Downs asked.
"If there is love in the sky, the sky is also old, and the right way in the world is the vicissitudes of life!" Haugist replied in Chinese.
"What the hell? Are you speaking Chinese? I don't understand! "Downs really couldn't stand up to Haugist, so he asked for the ball and prepared to shoot.
"That's just a joke, didn't I tell you before, only down-to-earth and serious training is the only way to become stronger, and you will eventually find that those seemingly shortcut roads are actually dead ends!" Hougist said.
Hougist's words seemed to make sense, so that Downs couldn't help but want to stop and think about life, but the timer on the field would not slow down for him, and Downs had to shake his head vigorously to shake Hoggist's magical and seductive words out of his head.
"You are like that snake who is confusing me with words and distracting my thoughts!" Downs said as he leaned on his back against Hogist, and since his strength was not good, he used his feet to fight.
"You are not the ignorant Adam and Eve, and you can tell whether what I say makes sense or not." Hougist pressed his strength against Downs's waist, sensing the change in his strength, so that he wouldn't be thrown away by Downs's swift turn like Turner.
"But thinking about your words will distract me and force me to fall from my supergod state!" Downs turned over to the left and prepared to hook with his right hand, but Hougist sensed the change in strength from his waist, and also followed the sideways step and jumped up and reached out to interfere, not to mention, although Haugist was short of Downs, but jumped up and raised his long arms and big hands, it really seemed that he could cover the ball.
But Downs forced the ball back, and while Hougist was still in the air, he turned in the opposite direction and went around the other side of Hougist to make a low-handed layup. When Downs's ball flew out of his palm and climbed up, Downs's anger brought by the dunk also subsided a lot, although he didn't use a dunk to color, but to be honest, this layup that used his feet to shake off Hoggist was also quite exciting, and it is estimated that he could score today's top 10 goals, right?
Downs' question was quickly answered, and the ball was sure to be in today's top 10, as Hougist jumped up again at a faster pace than Downs after being shaken to the ground, and fanned the ball away before Downs' low hand layup was beyond the height of the basket. Such a big hat is naturally a top 10 ball level performance.
The fan who gambled $2 on the sidelines jumped up excitedly, stretched out his hand to the other fan and said, "Dig for it!" Two dollars, I'll say Downs cut off the power first! ”
The guy who bet $1 reluctantly pulled out a handful of coins and handed them to the fan who bet $2, "Take it, don't look for it!" ”
The fan who bet on 2 dollars turned out to be a coin case, counted it for a long time, and said angrily: "Phew, you are embarrassed to say that you don't need to look for it, your big sum is only 1 dollar 74 cents, and you are still 26 cents short of me!" ”
"You know what! I'm the dealer to rake! The guy who bet $1 shamelessly argued.
The ball was fanned off the sideline, still in possession of the Kentucky team, but there were only three seconds left in the offensive time. Hoggist rubbed his hands together and said to Downs with a smile: "You better be realistic, obediently go and fight Ryan or Miles!" I advise you not to try to get back on me. ”
The provocation of the seemingly admonitive advice made Downs even more angry, but the cruel truth also made him regain a trace of his sanity in addition to his anger, his strength and sensitivity were obviously not as good as Hogist, and if he wanted to save some face, he could only rely on his height! Booker has already stood on the sidelines and is ready to serve, while Hoggist is still standing in front of him, Downs hurriedly reached out to ask for the ball, Booker gave the ball to Downs in time, Downs received the ball with a Nowitzki-style golden rooster independent backward jumper in front of Hougist and quickly threw the ball in front of Hougist, and the ball went into the net. Downs felt better on face at this time.
The guy who bet $1 saw Downs score a goal, and excitedly pulled the $2 fan and shouted, "Give me back the money, you see Downs' hand hasn't broken yet!" ”
"You're so embarrassed to say, who was the one who was capped just now?"
"It doesn't count if you were hatted, and you didn't throw it yourself, and you see that Downs ended up scoring in the same round, so it's not a power outage!"
"Aren't you arguing with words!"
"I'll go, boss, Downs has already forced a shot on your head, this is the next battle book! You don't hurry up and return the color! McCaw, who had been expecting Hoggist's crazy performance, pouted on the side.
Hogist didn't bother to take care of McCaw, so he took the ball from his teammate and dribbled straight to the frontcourt. Although he didn't want to talk nonsense with McCordo, he was also thinking about it, saying that he wanted to show the true strength he had gained through hard training, but the opponent only sent Devin. Booker defends himself alone, and his tactical containment power can't be brought into play at all, and he can't contain the opponent's defensive strength, so how can he lead his teammates? Is it too light to do it yourself?
Thinking of this, Haugist shook off Booker with a big change of direction and continued to shoot outside the three-point line, as stable as the death tax and the Spurs' 50-win line.
Hoggist's calm and calm made all the fans present admire, let you Downs be full of tricks, Hoggist's return is a three-point slap in the face, it seems that Hoggist really didn't treat the whole Kentucky team as a dish!