Chapter 48: Deceleration Techniques
Joseph passed the ball to Haugist, "Big brother, you just say play slower and press the rhythm and don't be led by the opponent, won't it be over!" What a waste of time! Looking at the watch, there are only 10 seconds left in this wave of attacks. ”
Hoggist received the ball and allowed Larry to continue to pick up the pick-and-roll, using the cover to break inside. This time, Grant and Thompson were both left behind. Griffin turned to make up for the defense, Horgist got up and prepared for a layup, Griffin jumped up with a straight arm to interfere, Hugist made a backhead pass to Randolph who Griffin let go, Randolph jumped up and wiped the board and shot.
The Tornado team didn't care, and once again made a quick push, and Liciad dribbled to the midfield and played a long ball directly to Alain in the bottom corner. Stone, Alain. Stone raised his hand to fake a shot to pick up James, plunged into the interior with a short body, and made a three-step low layup, and Larry hurried to finally come back, pinning the ball to the rebound with his big hand.
"Whew~ This time it's time to catch up!" Larry grabbed the ball and hugged it on the spot, gasping for breath.
Joseph leaned over to catch the ball and slowly pushed forward, and Hoggist patted Larry in the back to signal that he was doing a good job. Coming to the frontcourt, Joseph was organized at the top of the arc, Larry and Randolph were on either side of the high post, and Horgist and James were on either flank. In this way, the Spartans No. 2, 3, 4, and 5 stood in a row on the free-throw line extension.
Joseph dribbled to the right side, Hougist on the same side moved to the bottom corner to take away his defender, Larry on the strong side moved to the middle with his back to the basket to cover Randolph, Randolph bypassed Larry on the left side and cut to the basket, Griffin who defended Randolph was blocked by Larry's cover, Larry's defender Grant was stuck on the inside to defend Randolph, Randolph opened his hand to ask for the ball while moving outside the three-second zone on the right side, and took Grant away from the basket.
Larry's back basket cover put Griffinka on the outside, and suddenly turned to the basket to cut into the air, at this time the Tornado team opened the hole in the middle, Joseph made a through pass to Larry who cut to the basket, and Larry received the ball and licked the basket directly to score.
Larry scored and quickly returned to the defense, running to his own basket with all his might. Joseph also taped Lisiades in an attempt to slow down his advance. Lichiad himself could not advance quickly, and was afraid of Hougist's defensive ability, so he had to pass the ball to Alan who had already run to the halfway line. Stone. Allan shook James off with a change of direction on the dribble and came to the top of the arc to shoot an open three-pointer. The ball bounces into the basket head-on.
Hoggist hurriedly ran over to comfort James, "It's okay, it's okay, it's all three points on the front!" ”
But James still shook his head in frustration. Harris also said frustrating words off the court, "He can't do it!" With his ability, he can't prevent the opponent's main force at all! ”
Hougist ignored Harris and patted James on the chest, "Don't think about it so much, we're still ahead!" Later, you can attack a few and adjust the state! ”
James nodded and ran to the frontcourt. Haugist asked Joseph for the ball, and Joseph gave the ball to Haugist and passed half the court himself. Hoggist dribbled to the top of the arc, dribbled with his right hand, raised his left hand for 4 and 5, and then waved his left arm from left to right. The teammates understood, Joseph moved from the right wing to the top of the arc, Larry came to the left low post Randolph to set up a double screen, and James made full efforts to use the cover from the left wing to slip to the bottom line and cut to the basket.
Haugist passed the ball to Joseph, who jumped up and threw the ball across Lisiad to James, who received the ball and hit a backhand layup. Grant, who was defending Larry from the basket, reached out from the other side of the basket to interfere with James' layup and hit James on the arm, and the ball scored two points and added free throws.
“Yeah!” Everyone stepped forward to high-five James, and Hougist put his arm around James' neck and whispered, "How is it!" The opponent is nothing powerful! You can't stop them, and they can't stop you! The first priority on the pitch is to be confident! Either believe that there is no opponent you can't defeat and then go on the court to try to beat him, or admit that the opponent is stronger than you and cannot be defeated, and then admit defeat and simply don't play. ”
"Got it!" James nodded happily and swept away the decadence just now. Hougist sent Larry and Joseph back to the backcourt to defend the opponent, and he and Randolph were ready to grab the board in the frontcourt.
James walked to the free-throw line, repeatedly said "I'm confident, I'm accurate, I'm confident, I'm accurate," and threw the free throw.
However, this time the objective thing did not shift to the subjective initiative of people, and the free throw was outrageously off, smashing on the left edge of the basket and bouncing to the right. Randolph was stuck behind Griffin and Stone when James made the free throw, and the ball bounced high past Griffin and Stone, who luckily fell into Randolph's arms.
Hoggist hurried to the top of the arc to answer, Randolph managed to pass the ball under the two, Hoggist received the ball and did not rush to play, but waited for Larry and Joseph in the backcourt to return.
After the two had passed half, Haugist gave the ball to Joseph and raised his left hand into a fist in a hammer gesture. Joseph nodded, Hoogist meant that he still had to set up offensive tactics for James! Joseph held the ball at the top of the arc, Haugist and Randolph played in both elbows, James was on standby on the wing opposite Randolph, and Larry sank into the low post.
After the tactical position was completed, Randolph on the right side sideways to James on the wing to make a lateral cover, James came to the left elbow area to cover again for Haugist, Haugist ran back to the right 45 degrees outside the three-point line with the cover, Joseph distributed the ball to Haugist.
At this time Alain. Stone switched to Hoggist, Hougist broke through to the basket from the baseline side with the ball, and Larry in the low post on the opposite side covered James again, James ran without the ball to the bottom corner of the weak side through the cover, and Hoggist burst to the basket and was caught by Stone, Griffin and Grant.
Just when the three of the Tornado team thought that Hoggist was at the end of his rope, Hougist passed the ball out with difficulty and threw it to James, who happened to run to the bottom corner of the weak side and was unguarded, James did not hesitate, and made a three-point jump shot, it seems that James is still too nervous, the ball is deflected again, and it smashed on the front of the basket, but fortunately the ball rebounded on the rebound and finally fell back into the basket.
James was overjoyed, but he didn't dare to celebrate, but turned around and stepped back. Hoggist played a little trick when he received the ball under the basket, and he saw his teammates drop back into the half court before throwing the ball to the referee, directly delaying the Tornado's quick kick-off.
The Tornado team had to settle into a half-court position, Lisiard observed the running position of his teammates at the top of the arc, waiting for a suitable time, Joseph's eyes were like torches, he saw the opportunity, took advantage of Liciade's distraction, cut the ball with a knife, broke the ball and rushed to the court, Horgist followed from the other side, the front court formed a 2-on-1 situation, Lisiard couldn't take care of the beginning and the end, Joseph directly shook off Lisiard with a fake pass, and scored on his own empty basket.
"Good boy! Now you dare to shake me! Hougist grunted on the top of Joseph's head, then turned back to defensively.
In this way, you played back and forth for most of the quarter, and the score difference was forced to close to 5 points, but Larry's physical strength was gradually exhausted, and he could no longer keep up with the opponent's speed.
Hoggist was forced to ask for another timeout, and Larry slumped on the bench, gasping for air, beads of sweat sliding down his cheeks.
"Larry is no longer good, there is still almost a quarter and a half of games, and if you want to win, you have to play on your own in the end!" Harris muttered from the side.
Hoggist ignored Harris and said to the Williams brothers: "Larry, you rest first, Devin, you go on the court for a while, we play inside, break through to make kills, we are far from the number of fouls in this quarter, you can foul in advance when defending fast breaks, and try to slow down their rhythm!" We played very well up front and they didn't close the gap. ”
On the other side of the court, Coach Simmons was also encouraging the players, "If you work harder, their interior line has no stamina!" We're going to be dragged down soon! ”
"But their high school striker sat on a bench, and his physical strength is still very strong!" Lisiad questioned.
"That big man is not fast in itself, and no matter how strong he is, he can't catch up with you! What is there to be afraid of? "Coach Simmons didn't take Devin to heart.
At the end of the timeout, the Spartans replaced Devon. Williams, kick-off offense, Devin hit Grant under the basket effortlessly, and easily scored through Grant's basket. The Tornado kicked off quickly and wanted to beat the Spartans to gain a foothold, but they didn't expect the team to advance past the half court to form a 5-on-3 trend, and James rushed out directly from the diagonal spur to hug the dribbling Lichiad.
The referee blew the whistle and awarded James for an offensive foul, and Coach Simmons was stunned from the sidelines, wondering what was going on? Shark slashing tactics? But none of my players on the court missed free throws, huh? What's the point?
Just when Coach Simmons was confused, Devin and Randolph, who had not had time to return to the front court of the Spartans, had already run back to their own half and stood in a defensive position. Coach Simmons reacted at this time, this is trying to use fouls to delay our fast offensive rhythm! Coach Simmons is not worried, after all, when the number of fouls reaches a certain level, his players should make free throws, and they can't use this little trick a few times.
However, the on-court players of the Tornado team are very uncomfortable to play, the positional offense is the disadvantage of this lineup, and the opposing team also has a center with a large defensive area, and the offense is now more laborious. Sure enough, the attack ran out of time and the Tornado team didn't find a suitable shot. Before overtime, Stone grabbed a corner three-pointer, but the shot was out of sight and he threw a hollow shot outside the basket. The buzzer sounded at the same time as the ball fell into Devin's hands under the basket, and the referee signaled that the attack was a timeout violation for the Tornadoes, and the Spartans served the ball from the sideline.
In this way, the third quarter ended with the Spartans scoring easily on the offensive end, and the defensive end fouling early and delaying the fast break to force the opponent to play the position, and the Tornado not only did not close the point difference, but was stretched to 15 points.
At the break, Coach Simmons could only comfort everyone that the opponent had a limited number of fouls, and as long as he survived the opponent's first few fouls in the fourth quarter.
However, in the fourth quarter, Hoggist had an idea, and even the foul delay was saved, every time he attacked, he would get to the basket to grab rebounds, and he scored the ball, every time he grabbed the ball, he had to hold it in his hand and wait for his teammates to kick off the game when it was almost halftime, and after this method was used several times, Hoggist was warned by the referee and scolded all over the court. But he didn't blush either, and still came to grab rebounds every time he attacked, but instead of grabbing the ball he threw in, he pretended to touch it unintentionally and let the ball roll towards his own half, so that the time for the Tornado team to pick up the ball was enough for the Spartans to return to the half-court position. And there is no obvious violation of this method, and the referee is not good to say anything.
It's just that this relatively rogue method has caused a collective condemnation from the fans in the stadium. There was even a fan shouting that Hougist would not be able to return to Las Vegas after the game, but the fan was asked out of the stadium by security guards on the spot.
Hougist cheekily did this for half a quarter, and Coach Simmons finally couldn't stand it anymore and had to be replaced by Richard. Parker and David. Finch continued to engage the Spartans in hand-to-hand combat on the inside. However, Hougist activated James's state through the efforts of the third quarter and the whole quarter, making the Spartans really blossom in the fourth quarter. When the final whistle blew, the score was fixed at 90:77, and the final score difference did not return to within 10 points. After the game, many angry fans continued to throw debris into the stadium, and the Spartans players were escorted back to the locker room by security personnel, who told them to wait in the locker room and wait for the angry fans to disperse before getting on the bus and leaving.
The atmosphere in the dressing room was relaxed, and the crowd was not disturbed by the out-of-the-way fans, and the topic of discussion was still on the game.
"Boss, you played too obscene in the fourth quarter, I blushed for you, you obviously have the strength to defeat them easily." Joseph said.
"I didn't foul or violated, everything is within the scope of the rules, they can't beat us in positional battles, and they can't grab the ball to push the fast attack, it's the same performance that is not as good as ours, why do you say I'm obscene?" Hoggist argued.
"Gotta gotcha, don't quarrel with you, look at these complaining fans, I guess someone is going to spray you on Twitter tonight! Hahaha! Joseph laughed from the side.
"In short, I led the team to win the game without turning on the personal matchless mode, someone's poisonous chicken soup is still for myself!" Hougist gave Harris a smug look.