Haugest nodded, unable to speak, and Joseph peeled a banana and handed it to him. Haugist took the bananas, and it took a long time to eat them all, and then he smoothed it down with Gatorade, and then he was relieved.

"How? Is it better? Coach Dick asked.

Hoggist picked up 3 energy bars and stuffed them into his mouth, chewed them again and again, and said indistinctly: "It's hard, look at me in the second half!" The man, Joseph, brought me bean juice. ”

Joseph took out a thermos flask from Haugist's closet. Randolph asked curiously: "This is your secret weapon to recover after training these days?" ”

Hougist took the thermos flask and saw everyone's eager expressions and a mischievous smile on his face. Haugist opened the thermos cap, and a rancid smell filled the locker room.

"Vomit~" Everyone turned around and vomited.

"Do you force yourself to cheer yourself up in this stimulating way?" Randolph asked.

"Hehe, this is a mysterious force from the ancient East, and you can't understand it with your realm." Hoggist smiled and drank it down.

Randolph poked Joseph with his elbow: "You are also Chinese, do you know this thing?" ”

"This is a snack unique to Beijing, the capital of China, I have only heard the name, and today is the first time I have seen the real thing."

As he spoke, Haugist stood up energetically, waved his big hand and said to everyone: "I'm fully charged, let's play with them in the second half and get back the victory that should belong to us!" ”

Everyone walked out of the locker room in high spirits, and the audience saw that their players were like a group of new people, and they didn't see the decadence of the first half at all, and the audience couldn't help but send warm applause and cheers.

The Austin Academy players were also coming out of the aisle, and they couldn't help but be stunned when they saw their opponent's new state, especially when they saw Hoggist return to full energy.

"Yang, look at that Hurley, it seems to be back to his best again." Blair, who defended Hoggist throughout the first half, was puzzled.

"It's okay, if you're tired I'll defend him in the second half, you defended very well in the first half, and his shooting rate is less than forty percent." Point guard Allen said.

"Okay, he'll hand it over to you in the third quarter, I'll delay a section, and I'll defend him in the fourth quarter." Blair said.

However, the situation did not continue to follow the trajectory of the first half, and the Spartans changed to a new tactic that caught Austin Academy off guard.

In the third quarter, the Spartans took the lead in attacking, Hougist slipped from the half court to the low post, and point guard Allen naively thought that he was just running and kept seriously following Hougist, but Hoggist stood still in the low post and directly opened his hand to ask for the ball. Joseph hoisted the ball to him, and Haugist began to push Aaron with his back.

Allen and Blair are both excellent perimeter defenders, with agile pace and good at blocking and disrupting shots, but there is only so much they can do in the low post, especially against Hoggist, who is taller and heavier than them.

Hougist pushed to the basket with two backs, turned and scored with a hook hand. And Aaron could only look up at the ball and sigh.

"They changed to play one big and four small, Haugist is playing the fourth position, you have to change the defense, you can't let him beat Aaron in the low position, Arun can't stand it!" Joseph. Yang saw the clue.

Power forward Graham Potter nodded. Allen dribbled to the front court and distributed the ball to Young, who saw that the defender had replaced him with Justin, ignoring him and preparing to break inside. Justin spotted Yang's breakthrough route and moved to Yang's right front in advance, Yang was secretly proud, but this blocked the foul, and Yang bumped his head into it.

Justin looked at Young's shoulders and sent his chest up, and the two collided solidly, Justin fell straight to the ground on his back, and the sideline referee blew the whistle to signal, Joseph. Yang bumps into someone for a foul.

"I hit someone? How could it be, he moved sideways! "Joseph. Yang felt incredible about the referee's blowing, and came directly to the referee's theory.

"When you broke through, you hit people with heavy shoulders, I advise you to calm down, you don't need to guide me on the issue of punishment, that's my area of expertise, not yours." The linesman whitened Joseph. Yang glanced at it.

The ball was given to the Spartans, Joseph dribbled to the halfcourt, and Hougist fell to the low post again, this time Potter came to the top defense, and Porter's nearly 6-foot-6 inches covered Haugist tightly. As soon as Hougist saw that the opponent had changed defenses, he decisively pulled it out to the flank, and Porter didn't dare to let Hoggist shoot three points, so he had to follow the defense. Hoggist received the ball and made a Shammgod move, dribbled forward with his right hand, and when the ball bounced up, he suddenly pulled the ball to the left side with his left hand to change direction, this action directly shook the tall Porter to his head, and Porter fell to the ground with his feet mixed with garlic.

Seeing this, Hoggist stepped back directly to pull out a three-point shot, and when he recovered his full state, he easily shot the ball. Allen and Blair hurried up to pull Potter up.

Austin served off, and this time Young hit the ball in the corner, but Hougist still didn't plan to defend him. Yang understands that Hougist is going to concentrate on attacking like him, and the two sides are attacking each other, depending on who has the stronger attack power.

The two sides went back and forth for half a quarter, and Hoggist's watching people put down dishes was a headache for several of Austin's defensive giants. Hougist is taller than Austin's two outside lines, and it is really unbearable to play two backcourt players in the back; Although Hoggist is much shorter than Austin's two interior players, he is also much more flexible, and he can easily hit the basket when the two interior players put him to shoot, and he is easy to pass by him when he comes out; The only Joseph who can match the height and weight of the flexibility of Hoogist. Young, who was a big colander on the defensive end, struggled to defend Justin in the first half, let alone defend Hoggist.

Halfway through the third quarter, Haugist had scored 17 points and dished out two assists to lead the team to tie the score, and now the score is tied at 63.

After Hoggist broke through Porter and broke inside to clear Austin's Korean center Kim Joo-yong with a one-arm dunk to tie the score, Joseph Brown. Yang and the others began to discuss defensive strategies.

"The little one can't prevent his inside back hit, and the big one can't prevent his three outside threats, what can I do?" Aaron asked.

"Yes! He has given up consuming himself on the defensive end and concentrating on attacking, his aggression is not below me, one person will definitely not be able to defend him, should he be caught in the box or changed to joint defense? Yang couldn't make up his mind at this time. Seeing that the situation on the court was not right, the coach of Austin Academy decisively called a timeout and called the players back to rearrange defensive tactics.

Hoggist also gathered his teammates and analyzed in a low voice: "They must change their defensive strategy, but whether they cover me or change the joint defense, we will have vacant positions, you must be ready to catch the ball and shoot!" Our advantage is that the four of you attack better than the other four, and I'll be in a more flexible position later, and I'll try to choose Joseph. Yang's nearby catch the ball, let Yang be the person who covers me to help defend me, so that the person who is opposite Yang should have a better chance of shooting, get the ball and shoot resolutely, it doesn't matter if you can't shoot, just come back and defend it. If Yang can help defend more and more packs, it will consume more of his physical strength, and he should soon struggle on the offensive end. ”

"Hougist is right, as long as we hold on until the fourth quarter, our chance will come." Coach Dick added.

The timeout ended, Joseph. Yang Yun forced a shot for a long time and hit another one, the Spartans didn't care, and soon put into the attack, came to the front court, Joseph saw that the opponent was still marking the defense, and understood that the opponent should be planning to wrap up Haugist, he saw Haugist come to the side of the wing Justin with Allen, who was marking him, and immediately distributed the ball to Haugist.

As soon as Hougist got the ball, he was really caught by Allen and Young's double bag, Hougist dribbled and retreated to the top of the arc, Yang was still sandwiching Haugist, Allen was about to successfully break the ball, Hougist smiled at Yang, said "Badtiming" and jumped up to distribute the ball to the unmarked Justin, Justin got up and dropped his hand, and threw three points.

When Hoggist saw Justin shoot a three-pointer, he deliberately mocked: "Young, you're really not a good defender, your choice of timing is terrible, I'll be around you a lot in the future, you can practice how to wrap up." ”

"You ......" Yang was not angry yet, Aaron was in a hurry, he felt that he had a lot of responsibility for the failure of the pack, because he thought that he could easily break the ball of Hougist under the double pack.

Young persuaded Allen to signal Porter to serve for the next wave of attacks, and in this way, under Austin's failed wrap-and-hold strategy and the Spartans' resigned defense, both sides were attacking vigorously and vigorously.

By the end of the third quarter, although the Spartans took the lead, the difference was not widened, and the Spartans only led by 3 points at 76:73. But the difference is that Haugist is still very energetic because he played well in the third quarter, while Joseph. Young always had to go back and forth between the defenders who were guarding and going back to defend himself, and instead consumed more physical strength. Young was as awkward as Haugist was at the end of the first half.

Haugerst sat in his chair and wiped his sweat with a towel and glanced at Joseph from afar. Yang picked up another glass of Gatorade and said, "I look at Joseph. Yang's physical strength is almost exhausted, and I will defend him in the fourth quarter. You can also take turns playing him on the offensive end, he is now the opponent's biggest shortcoming! ”

"I'm so happy to play with you." Justin said.

"Everyone work hard, win the opponent in the last quarter, and I invite Emperor Zhan to watch the final!" Hoggist encourages everyone.

The Spartans bench erupted in cheers.

Seeing the momentum of the Spartan team, the morale of Austin's side was even lower, and sure enough, Joseph Young, who was exhausted in the fourth quarter, had no achievements, and was successfully cut off by Hougist many times when attacking, and it also became an ATM machine when defending, and was scored by Hoggist, Joseph, Justin, and Blanton, and it was already behind by more than 15 points in less than half a quarter.

Austin's coach had no choice but to replace Joseph. Young, and Coach Dick also replaced Haugist, replaced Harris, and the game officially went into garbage time. In the second half of the quarter, there was no star in charge, the two teams played lifeless, the spectators watched drowsy, and with the beeping of the timer, the game ended, and the Spartans finally won the game 97-85.

"It's the final!" The whole school cheered and reached the final in the first year of the state league after returning to the state league, a feat that made the whole school boil.

The Spartans players returned to the locker room to shower and change their clothes, changed into clean clothes, and returned to the court. Half an hour after the end of the game, the teachers and students of the Cimaren Memorial Hall Middle School not only did not disperse, but gathered more and more, and nearly 2,000 teachers and students surrounded the stadium.

Hoggist came to the center circle, took the microphone and began to speak: "First of all, we want to thank all the teachers and students of the school! It was each of you who gave us the warmest cheers, cheers, cheers, and cheers from all of us, we couldn't have returned to the first division without you, and we wouldn't have been able to reach the semi-finals without you, and I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you on behalf of the team! Secondly, for the sake of you, for the honor of the school, we will continue to win and win the state championships, not one, two, three, we will win the state championships many times! Simalon will always strive for the first! Finally, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and don't forget to watch the finals after the holidays! ”

There was another cheer from the audience. Hogist and others looked at these lovely fans, and they were also moved with tears in their eyes. Hoggist saw Qiu Jingli winking at him playfully in the crowd, remembering his disdain and Qiu Jingli's many admonitions when he was lying on the sofa and talking to Qiu Jingli about the semifinals, although he won 12 points in the end, but the process was thrilling, and he really almost overturned in the gutter. Thinking of this, Hougist couldn't help but blush.