Hougist hit Thompson to the inside, Thompson defended very tightly and did not lose position, but this was in the arms of Hougist, Hougist burst into the low post, hit Thompson's chest hard while receiving the ball, and used the reaction force to bounce off his body and jump back to shoot, and the referee whistled at the same time to signal Thompson to block the foul.

Hougist threw the ball firmly in the air, and the whistle blew as the ball went into the basket. The referee stretched out the index finger and middle finger of his right hand and pressed down on his arm, indicating that the two points were valid and that a penalty would be added.

Hoggist walked to the free-throw line and boos erupted from the sidelines, and Hoggist closed his eyes with a look of enjoyment, as if he were listening to a classical concert at Carnegie Hall in New York.

"Perverted!" Thompson cursed secretly.

As if hearing Thompson's curse, Hoggist suddenly opened his eyes and smiled back at him, which startled Thompson. I thought to myself, am I scolding? I remember that I was scolding in my heart?

While Thompson was thinking, Hougist hit the free throw with ease, giving the Spartans an 11-8 lead.

The Tornado's offense here began to be frustrated, Richard's back play will be steal by Hougist from the upper line to help defend it, and Thompson's shot will still be covered by Hougist's defense, and although Richard's blocking quality is very high, thanks to Devin's defensive area, the big defense is not a loss.

On the other hand, the Spartans' offense, Hougist gave full play to his offensive creativity on the outside, and his choice of sudden passes was treacherous and changeable, which was unguardable, and Devin turned over the river on the inside, even though David had rich defensive experience, but his body was not as good as Devon, and after all, Devin won repeatedly. The worst case scenario is that the two strong points, one inside and one outside, are always connected to each other, which multiplies the power, and the Tornado team has no power to fight back.

At halftime, the Spartans were already leading 50-39, and the boos on the court were no longer as confident as they were at the beginning. The Spartans have even begun to discuss in the locker room where to go for dinner after the game. The crowd chatted enthusiastically, with only Hoggist pondering over the tactical board and half-time stats.

"What do you think?" Coach Dick asked, handing him a glass of Gatorade.

"How good do you think I'm playing this time?" Hougist took the water and asked rhetorically.

"It's a little better than last season's average, but since you've trained on vacation, your ability should be more than that, right?" Coach Dick's judgment was accurate.

"Why do I think the first half was so much easier than the last final? Needless to say, with an 11-point lead at half-time, it feels like the opponent is not our opponent at all on both ends of the floor, is there some conspiracy in this? ”

"You think too much, the other party's inside line is not as good as Devon, and the outside line is not as good as you, it's normal that you can't beat us!" Coach Dick shook his head with a smile, adolescent children, sometimes think the problem is too simple, but sometimes look at the problem extremely complicated, "Anyway, you are super strong, even if the other party has any conspiracy in the second half, can't you solve them alone?" Worry so much! ”

"The coach said this badly, although we have the advantage of strength, but we must know that the arrogant soldiers will lose, we can't be arrogant because of the lead in the half, we should be careful in the second half, Devin defense is good, but if the opponent plays the small ball, it still can't keep up with the rhythm, the other party played so well last semester, this game is suddenly not used, I guess it's because of Richard. Parker's holiday boost made them mistakenly think they could take advantage of the interior, so they sent such a lineup to play us inside in the first half. In the second half, they woke up and had to switch back to the small-ball lineup and use the speed advantage against us! "The head of Haugist's analysis is the Tao.

Coach Dick suddenly came to his senses and slapped his thigh fiercely and shouted, "That makes sense! I forgot that we played so well in the first half that our team was the one with fatal flaws, the opponent was able to attack the position quickly, like walking on two legs; We folded Justin, and now we don't have a skilled small lineup, and now we can only play positional offense, like a leg jump. If the opponent plays small ball in the second half and fights with us for speed, we are really bound to suffer! ”

The noise in the locker room stopped abruptly, and everyone fell silent when they heard Coach Dick's roar, but no one could come up with a response for a while.

Randolph said suddenly: "At the beginning of the last game, we played high and they played fast, the offensive end and the two sides were blown up on each other, and the defensive end was blown up on both sides. The strength of Devin during the holiday has also been greatly improved, and now we still have an 11-point lead in our hands, even if we use the height to fight their speed, we will not suffer a loss, at most I will beat mine, he will beat his, and after the game, you can still have a lead of about 10 points! ”

"You're too naïve, Devin has become stronger during the holidays, the defensive area has expanded to the three-point line, and he has the ability to attack independently, but these don't help him defend the fast break! Eventually, the physical strength will be dragged down, and now we are a three-on-two line-up, and the opponent is likely to encounter a 2-on-3 or even 2-on-4 defensive dilemma in the backcourt. Joseph, who trained with Devin during the holidays, said.

"What then?" Randolph asked.

"No, the only way to do it is to let Hoggist turn on the Musou mode again." Harris said.

"That's not going to work! We can't be so unmotivated, as soon as we encounter difficulties, we will hand them over to Hogist to solve, and who can we hand over the problems in life to in the future? Joseph disagrees with Harris.

"But our lineup is flawed, and we can't beat it!" Harris argued.

"How can you judge that you can't beat it before you even fight it?" Joseph asked Harris, and the two seemed to be on a bar.

"Yes! Sometimes you don't work hard and never know what despair is! Harris also retorted.

"Shut up both of you!" Hougist interrupted the argument between the two, "The opponent hasn't changed formation yet, are we going to be knocked down by the infighting first?" Harris, don't pour poisonous chicken soup on everyone, be sunny inside! ”

Joseph waved his hand and stopped talking, but Harris still relented, "Don't just say it nicely, if you have the ability, don't fight alone and lead everyone to team basketball to win!" ”

"Shut up!" Coach Dick stepped in to stop Harris, "Hoggist saw that you and Joseph had a dispute and came out to mediate, and both sides gave steps, why don't you still give up and destroy the unity of the team?" You don't play in the second half, calm down on the bench, reflect on it, and see how other teammates are actively fighting on the field! ”

"Got it!" Harris replied dissatisfied.

"Let's not change the lineup first, James, you will replace Harris as a small forward, if the opponent really uses a small lineup to make a conversion, we will change the first dead ball, Larry, you are ready to play center instead of your brother. Let's go and win the game! ”

"Understood!" The crowd chanted, but Harris was the only one who hung his head.

The Tornado locker room was not idle at halftime, Coach Simmons paced back and forth, patted his forehead with the tactical board after a while, and said decisively: "We have to change the formation in the second half!" ”

"Change formation?" Everyone looked at Coach Simmons in confusion.

"In the second half, play five small, David and Richard, you rest first, Roger, Jerome, you two, we play the transition and shoot quickly, push the speed to the limit, don't rebound in the front court, quickly switch and quickly return to defense, and bring up the opponent's rhythm!" Coach Simmons said as he drew the tactics board.

"We played five small games in the last final! Isn't it not particularly good for the two sides to explode each other on the field? Lichiades asked.

"This time is different, the opponent's main small forward is out due to injury, their bench small forward level is not worth mentioning, they can't keep up with the big ones who play fastball, and the small ones can't keep up, and the effect will definitely be much better than last time." Simmons said.

"It's no wonder their big lineup today is so tall even for small forwards." Alan. It dawned on Stone.

"Hollis, adjust your mentality, shoot more three-pointers, those three-pointers you shot in the first half are outrageous!" Coach Simmons reminded Hollis individually. Thompson.

"Got it, I'll pay attention to it in the second half." Hollis nodded.

"Remember, be quick!" Coach Simmons repeatedly emphasized.

"Yes!" The crowd replied in unison.

When everyone returned to the court in the second half, Hoggist saw that the opponent had indeed changed formations and replaced two short insiders. Coach Dick and Hougist looked at each other and nodded to each other, and Coach Dick walked over to the technical table to request a substitution. The first goal was the Tornadoes' first kick-off, and Lichiad called a block at the top of the arc. Griffin put up a screen and blocked Joseph, Lishyade broke through with the screen, met Randolph's change of defense, Joseph bypassed Griffin and came up to wrap it, and Lichia returned the ball to Roger. Griffin, Griffin hit a two-point jumper from an open straight arm jumper in the elbow area.

The opponent is playing really fast, a simple combination will shoot directly, and we have to change the formation quickly, I have to find a way to make them a foul or a dead ball out of bounds to make a substitution. Haugist thought to himself.

Joseph dribbled across the half court and handed the ball to Hougist, who moved from the wing to the top of the arc and called for a pick-and-roll, Devin came out to cover, Hougist kept alternating hand dribbles under the crotch at the top of the arc, shaking his shoulders to try to shake off Thompson's center of gravity, and Thompson stuck in front of Devin one step ahead to prevent himself from being blocked by Devin's cover.

Hougist dribbled the ball to his left hand with a crotch, and then dribbled the ball to the right side of his body with his left hand, pretending to break through from the right side, Thompson's center of gravity shifted to the left to block Hougist's breakthrough, but Hougist waited for the ball to bounce off the ground and then pulled the ball back to the left front with his left hand, and shook Thompson with a shammgod to break through from his left side with German cover.

Thompson pauses with a slam brake and reflexively tries to snatch past Devin. A Thompson was inserted between Hoggist and Devon, and Hoggist and Devon made physical contact with Thompson, each bounced in the opposite direction with the help of their strength. The referee blew the whistle for Thompson to block the foul.

At this point, the technical desk motioned for the Spartans to make a substitution, replacing Devin with his younger brother Larry. Williams. Larry. Williams played in the last game, and Simmons had an impression of him, and the last game Larry. Williams, as cannon fodder for shark slashing tactics, came up and did nothing but foul, what was the intention of replacing him?

Coach Simmons was a little confused, but after thinking about it, the opponent's small forward position was also the cannon fodder player James in the last game. Jones, no threat at all. Although the person who was replaced in the center forward position is shorter than Devon, he is also taller than Jerome, and the speed should not be able to keep up with our interior line, so there should be nothing to worry me about, let's see first!

Coach Simmons didn't say anything, and the crowd followed the established tactics to implement the defensive strategy. The Spartans restarted the game, and Hoggist called for a pick-and-roll at the top of the arc again, and Larry came up to cover. Hoggist didn't have more fancy moves this time, and rushed directly to the inside, Jerome defended Hoggist in front, and Thompson formed a trap behind him. Larry went straight to the basket without defense, and Horgist threw the ball to the basket from the gap, and Larry received the ball with an easy empty dunk.

The Spartans players tried their best to quickly return to the defense, the Tornado kicked off quickly, and after three seconds of halftime, Lichiad hoisted the ball directly to the basket, and Griffin grabbed the ball in front of Randolph to complete the layup directly.

Harris sat on the sidelines and said to himself decadently: "Look, it's not that you can't stop the opponent's fast attack." ”

Hoggist kept clapping his hands on the field to encourage everyone: "Come on, come on, it's just a little bit, the next ball will definitely be defended!" ”

Randolph kicked the ball to Joseph, Joseph quickly advanced to the frontcourt, but Hougist came to the front court slowly and leisurely, commanded everyone to settle down, and said to Joseph: "The opposite side plays fast attack and catches the transition, what are you doing so fast?" ”

Joseph scratched his head and blushed, "I don't know why, but before I knew it, it accelerated." ”

"You're still too_young, you know what I mean, right? I'm telling you, I've been through a lot of battles, and I've seen a lot! What tactics haven't I seen on a high school team? You know, Jeremy Lin in Golden State, that ball control level is higher than you don't know how high, and I talked and laughed with him. So you still have to improve your ball control, do you know it? Alas, I'm anxious for you, really. You have a good team, and you can run faster than the opponent's point guard. But speed still has to be combined with tactics and game rhythm! It's really too_simple to be fast, sometimes_naive. ”