Chapter 139: All Against Me?
"Born in Louisville, Kentucky, from Montverde College, Florida, 6'5", Player 0, point guard D'Angelo Russell!"
"Born in Mosport, Mississippi, from Mosporum High School, 6'6" tall, No. 1 player, guard Devin Booker!"
"Born in Connecticut, from Mansfield High School, 6'8" 1, No. 5, small forward Daniel Hamilton!"
"Born in Fort Smith, Arkansas, from Whitney Youth High School, 6'11" tall, power forward Jahill - Okafor!"
"Born in Piscataway, New Jersey, from St. Joseph's High School, 7 feet tall, center Carl Anthony Downs!"
The cheers that Downs received were much louder than Okafor's, which once again made Okafor's heart unnameless, and he was completely determined to fight Downs to the end.
The Western High School Stars team is full of talent on the outside, in addition to the three strongest starters, there are also outside players such as Payne, McCaw, and Oubre; In addition to Downs and Okafor, the Eastern High School Stars team has many excellent interior players. Even though the two teams with such different styles have invariably discharged two regular lineups of similar height, it seems that the coaches who have been temporarily deployed twice are more conservative.
Russell, the most playmaking guard in the East, is not a big star, and he can only wait for the interim coach to deploy, but the situation of the Western High School Star team is very different! In order to facilitate the implementation of the plan, Haugist took over the command of the team on the spot, which made the interim coach very embarrassed.
The tactical requirements were repeated several times according to the established policy, and then everyone formed up on the field and waited for the jump ball.
Originally Miles. Turner patted his chest and assured that he would definitely win against Downs with the jump ball, but Hougist had his own calculations, and he had to do a full set of tricks, and the win or loss of the jump ball could not determine the trend of the game, so there was no need to expose Turner's strength too early here, so Hougist still let Poeltl go to jump the ball.
Downs and Poeltl stood on either side of the midline, both of the same height, but Poeltl's arms were shorter than Downs, which shows that Downs's talent is indeed amazing. Downs took advantage of his reach and speed to get the ball easily, Russell organized in the frontcourt, Downs was ready to receive the ball in the high post, and Okafor had sunk to the low post, leaning on Turner's back to ask for the ball.
Russell knows that he has a good relationship with Karl Anthony, and if he gives the ball to Karl Anthony at this time, Jahir will definitely think that he is uniting with Karl Anthony to exclude him, which is very detrimental to unity, so let's feed Jahir happy first! Thinking of this, Russell gave Downs a look and hoisted the ball to Okafor, who was in the basket position.
As the starting point guard for the Western High School Stars, Haugist kept his eyes on the ball in Russell's hand, just waiting for him to pass it to Okafor. Russell had too many flaws in weighing the pros and cons, and if he did pass the ball to Downs, the ball should have been cut off by Haugist.
Okafor received the ball under the basket, leaned on Turner with his back, and actually tried to force his arm to block Turner. Turner thought that Okafor would shake himself with his footsteps, but he didn't expect that no one in Okafor's eyes had reached this point, and he dared to directly block himself, since he had already boasted in front of Haugist, how could he retreat at this time? Turner similarly jumped high with his long arms outstretched and slapped the ball in Okafor's hand.
The two wrestled in the air, and they couldn't tell the winner for a while, but the gravitational potential energy has been pulling them back to the ground, Okafor's ball has been dunked hopelessly, and it will become a scrum when it lands, Okafor has not had time to use the back hand, but Turner has already taken the lead, Turner's withdrawal made Okafor's power suddenly have the upper hand, but the two have been farther and farther away from the basket, closer and closer to the ground, at this time Okafor, who has the upper hand in power, was unable to retract and directly racked the ball out of bounds.
Okafor's first attack was easily defused, and Turner smiled at him and picked up the ball from outside the baseline for kick-off. At this time, silence is better than sound, although no one taunted Okafor, but several opponents looked like nothing. The smile was indeed a more merciless mockery in his heart.
Okafor shook his head violently, trying to get rid of these negative emotions, he was a little careless just now! He made up his mind to defend one first, and then go back to the offensive end to teach this guy some lessons!
Okafor threw himself into the defense with full enthusiasm, but unfortunately the Western high school star did not intend to make a fuss on the inside, Haugist dribbled to the three-point line, in the face of Russell's defense, Haugist directly accelerated a step past him, but retreated and retreated, the rapid change of center of gravity brought by this in and out made Russell mix garlic under his feet, and directly tripped himself and sat on the ground. Hougist made an easy jumper and hit a three-pointer.
Hoggist's open three-point shooting percentage was witnessed by everyone last night, and the three-pointer went into the basket with precision. Horgist threw in a three-pointer and was not in a hurry to return to the defense, but stepped forward and extended a hand of friendship to Russell, who was sitting on the ground, trying to pull him up, "Your fake fall is too exaggerated, right?" The audience thought it was a good show! ”
"Don't be funny, you don't want to be cheap and behave, I just accidentally fell, next time you won't be so lucky!" Russell opened Haugist's hand, grabbed Downs' hand and stood up.
"I'm still stubborn, so I'll try a few more times later to see if I can keep getting lucky." Haugist shrugged helplessly, turned and ran back.
Russell dribbled to the frontcourt, Okafor ran to the basket and competed with Turner for position, already determined to play one, Russell was helpless and could only pass the ball to him again. This time, Okafor was very serious and did not dare to be careless, and began to use his back to shake his feet. But Turner wasn't a fuel-efficient lamp, and he saw the opportunity to cut Okafor's ball directly.
Stanley, who has been cruising outside Okafor. Johnson picked up the ball and passed it to Moodier at the top of the arc, Moodier received the ball and started to go fast, accelerated across the halfcourt, and went to the three-point line to collect the ball directly for a three-step layup. But to Moodier's surprise, he was shrouded in darkness.
Moodier knew that someone was behind him and was about to block him, so he pretended to pick up the basket with his right hand, and when he saw that the big black hand behind him was about to arrive, Moodier pulled the ball back to his chest with his right hand, handed the ball to his left hand, and planned to wipe the board from the other side for a layup, but he didn't expect another black hand to force the ball on the rebound before it touched the rebound, and also accepted the ball easily.
Moodier didn't have time to look back to see what was happening behind him before he was thrown off the line by inertia, but the audience saw it clearly, it was Towns who chased back, blocked with a right hand in the air and forced Moodier to change the bar to a layup, and then sent a pegboard cap with his left hand in the air. This series of wonderful performances fascinated the audience, but poor Moodier became the background.
Downs grabbed the rebound and didn't go directly to Russell, but held the ball himself and pushed the counterattack, easily passed Poeltl on the three-point line, and scored an inside dunk. In the opening three rounds, both sides staged wonderful offense and defense, and the audience was hooked, feeling that today's match would definitely be worth the ticket price.
Okafor's heart is not a taste, how can Downs so easily pick up such an opportunity to block and break fast in a chaotic battle, can be in the limelight in front of the audience, he took the ball twice, but ate a block and a steal, you know, Downs's chasing hat is to help wipe his ass for offensive mistakes, so that his performance and Downs's performance are in stark contrast, isn't it more solid The information that he is slightly inferior to Downs in the media's mouth?
Okafor was even more anxious to score the next goal to turn things around. Anyway, the Western High School Stars team is full of outside masters, and this time the offense is solving the battle on the outside, so I just need to concentrate on grabbing rebounds.
The Western High School star made a comeback, Hoggist calmly dribbled at the top of the arc and waited for everyone to run, and Turner was not in a hurry to grab a position inside, but distanced himself from Okafor and stood in the high post ready to cover Hoggist.
Okafor knew that Russell would never be able to deal with the blocking of Haugist and Turner, so he stepped forward to prepare to switch defenses with Russell, but Russell did not see Okafor's movements behind him, but chose to go around the back to defend Haugist to break through. Haugist was such a meticulous man that he keenly spotted holes in Okafor and Russell's defense, bypassing the cover of Turner and breaking through to the inside, while Russell collided with Okafor, and although neither of them fell, it seriously delayed their defense.
Haugist was going to pull out the jump shot directly, but when he bent his knees and was about to jump, Okafor directly pushed Russell in his arms to Hougist, Russell used his strength to provoke and interfere with Haugist's shot, but Hougist directly distributed the ball to Turner who was standing in the high post, Okafor looked at Turner's five big and three thick appearance, and decided that he couldn't shoot, and would definitely return the ball to Hougistt to reorganize, so he only took half a step forward and symbolically raised his long arm to interfere.
Turner saw that Okafor was giving face so much, and he couldn't miss this good opportunity, so he jumped up and shot. Okafor didn't expect Turner to really shoot, and it was too late to pounce on it, so he could only watch Turner make an easy shot, and then turn around to grab the board, but Turner also had a smooth hand, and the ball also hit the basket easily.
On the way back, Haugist and Turner high-fived each other, and Turner deliberately said loudly: "This Okafor is nothing more than that!" It's not much better than me! Otherwise, I'd better defend the Downs! It's too unchallenging to defend him! ”
Hoggist was very appreciative of Turner's forced design of the dialogue and replied: "You are quite self-motivated, you are willing to play against stronger opponents, if I were you, I would make good use of Okafor's defense to score more points!" ”
Okafor was also a little puzzled, why did it seem that everyone and everything was aimed at me today? Am I really inferior to Downs?
And Downs was very happy to see this situation, today the opponent is making a fuss on the head of Jahir's idiot, his opposing defender is as slow as a snail, and his front is simply full of opportunities, it seems that God favors me, allowing me to surpass Jahir in such a major game to become the undisputed first person in the class of 2014!
The more Downs thought about it, the more beautiful he became, and asked Russell directly for the ball in the high post, and Russell had already passed Okafor twice to Okafor, both times when Okafor himself didn't take advantage of the opportunity under the basket. In this case, if you give Okafor again, even if Downs agrees, the other team members will not agree!
Russell passed the ball to Downs, who broke through the free throw line and passed Poeltl with a turn, scoring two points on a throw-up. Okafor had the upper hand in the basket this time in the scramble for position, I thought that he got such an excellent position that Downs should pass the ball to himself, or he didn't pass the ball and shoot outside, and if he couldn't shoot, he could grab the board and make up for the dunk, but he never thought that the opposite center defense was like paper paste, and he actually let Downs burst in and score easily.
"Damn!" Okafor scolded under his breath.
"It's weird, it's the first time I've seen someone who doesn't want to see their team score!" Turner pretended to talk to himself next to Okafor.
Okafor ignored him, turned back to defense, and Turner followed to the frontcourt, still stopping in the high post.
Do you want to block and dismantle again? Okafor and Russell, who looked back from time to time, were aware of the problem, and this time there was no way to make another defensive mistake from the previous time. The two made eye contact and decided to change their guard in time.
When Haugist used Turner's cover to get inside again, Okafor was directly in front of him, Haugist was the best at dealing with tall insiders, and he had hundreds of ways to get past Okafor in his head, and he used the most humiliating one without even thinking about it.
Marbury, the son of New York, has been playing in the CBA since the prodigal son went back to China, and led the Beijing Shougang men's basketball team to win the second championship in three years this spring, which made Hoggist, the prospective son-in-law of Beijing who is overseas and cares about the motherland, very excited, and since then he has been a fan of half of the Ma political commissar, and the shot that Marbury played with Divac was the wildest performance in the NBA that Haugist had ever seen, and he used it today without thinking.
Hougist stopped the ball and passed it under Okafor's armpit with one hand with his left hand, creating the illusion of passing the ball to Poeltl under the basket, and just before Okafor turned back, Hoggist tossed the ball high, and when throwing the ball, his fingers flicked nimbly, allowing the ball to spin backwards.
When Okafor turned around, the ball had flown over his head, the parabola had reached the top and was about to start falling, and Okafor looked back only to see the mocking expressions of the high school students of the Western team, while his teammates were anxiously urging him to turn back.
Okafor secretly said in his heart that it was not good, and when he turned back, Haugist had already jumped in the air to catch the ball, Okafor hurriedly stretched out his hand to interfere, but he fell into Haugist's trick again!