Chapter 108: The Gibbon's Abilities
California High School Basketball Big Three? Roy doesn't care, anyway, he has already defeated one, forced back one, and then gets Ikai Anibogu done, then wouldn't he be the No. 1 high school student in California?
Unbeknownst to Roy, Ikai Anibogu is not a fuel-efficient lamp, having led Lowell High School to a 32-minute battle against Lonzo Ball's Chino Gang High School in the California Championship finals last year.
Who is Ikai Anibogu? He is a senior this year, standing at 6 feet 10 inches (208 cm), weighing 230 pounds (104 kg), with an astonishing 229 cm reach, and can play three positions from three to five, and is known as the new Tristan Thompson.
Not only is he physical, but he also has a terrifying defensive hand, averaging 19 points, 11 rebounds, five steals and six blocks per game at last year's California Championship, and in the finals, he defended Lonzo Ball by scoring in the single digits.
It can be seen that he is not talking nonsense about Roy's boasting of Haikou.
"It's said he's already scheduled to go to UCLA next year to be teammates with Lonzo." Hopkins did not forget to add one more sentence.
It seems that whether I succeed tonight will depend on how I deal with this gibbon, and Roy silently made a plan of battle, defeated Ikai Anibogu, and won the match.
The warm-up time was over, and before the game, Roy gathered everyone together to cheer him on.
"I've heard that there is an Ikai Anibogu on the opposite team who is very good, but who is the winner tonight?"
"Chino Hills!"
Sigh...... The audience booed even louder.
The game begins.
In the jump ball session, Anibogu showed off his superhuman bounce and reach, playing the same way as pulling the ball off the head of the 203-centimeter Hopkins, and not forgetting to glare at Roy.
The first attack was launched by Lowell High School, and the atmosphere of the audience immediately became enthusiastic, with small horns, inflatable sticks, and marching drums that I don't know where to get them.
Led by the fans, the starting five of Lowell High School rushed to the penalty area of Chino High School as if they were doping.
"Bang." Before the Chinogang High School players could settle down, Anibogu received a pass from his teammate and completed an alley-oop (aerial relay) two-handed slam to make it 2-0.
"Ahh As soon as the goal was scored, the whole field exploded instantly, and the vigorous momentum and piercing high decibels reverberated through the four walls, becoming more magnificent.
This gibbon is quite powerful, Roy saw the ball just now, from the scrum to the completion of the dunk in just two or three seconds, Anibogu showed amazing jumping, speed, and power, and his template positioning "TT" (Tristan Thompson) underestimated him, at least at the high school level, he is definitely at the level of Kevin Garnett.
Anibogu is not easy to deal with, immediately on the offensive end, Roy also felt it, Anibogu's terrifying arms were spread, and at once it enveloped Roy's entire forward route.
He really resembles a gibbon, Roy complains secretly, although his own arm span is not much worse.
With his current role type of "pitcher-type scoring guard", the chance of breaking through is definitely slim, Roy had to pass the ball, but this hit Anibogu's arms, "snap", Anibogu cut off Roy's cross, only to see him take to the restricted area one by one, and once again contribute a one-handed dunk, 0:4.
No, Roy was very dissatisfied with his mistake just now, he didn't expect the gibbon's reaction to be not slow, maybe Roy now regrets why he didn't improve his "ball control" and "passing" ability a little bit before.
Speaking of which, Roy did strengthen his "defensive ability" and "organizational ability" yesterday, but because he couldn't switch the role type for the time being, he distributed the attribute points equally, in order to make up for his weakness and make up for the shortest piece of wood in the bucket, but he didn't expect to be caught by Anibogu today.
It seems that today we have to rely on the strength of the team, "Fagan, you have to control the ball. ”
Roy handed the ball to Fagan Davis, a freshman off point guard.
It didn't turn out to be a good decision, and even though Fagan Davis was much better than Kim Se-hoon, the water cooler caretaker, he was still embarrassed.
Davis's nervousness was immediately noticed by the seasoned Anibogu, who quickly stole the ball before the panicked Davis could pass it.
At this time, Roy had just run out of the vacancy and had no time to return to defense, so he could only watch Anibogu score another 2 points, 0:6.
"Shit, how do you hit this ball?" Roy couldn't help but be anxious......
At halftime, Chino High School trailed Lowell High School by a full 26 points at 24:50, in other words, the opponent scored more than twice as many as himself.
Roy scored just seven points on 3-of-12 shooting in the first half, and his 25 percent shooting percentage was simply miserable.
At this moment, he was sitting quietly on the bench, thinking about countermeasures.
On the other side, the Lowwell High School bench was already boiling, and with the enthusiastic audience, they were jumping and jumping and the whole stadium was non-stop.
Truth be told, today was probably the day when the substitutes threw towels the most in their high school careers.
It was 26 points ahead of the defending champions at half-time and 26 points ahead of Chino Gang High School, who had won by 92 points in their last game.
Anibogu must have been the center of attention, as he had a double-double of 22 points, 10 rebounds, four steals, and five blocks in the first half, and now the entire Lowell High School bench is his boasting voice.
"That Roy, he's weaker than Lonzo Ball, his strength, speed, bounce, it's not worth mentioning in front of me, if I'm LeBron James, then he's poor Jason Terry (who was once ridden by James), just watch me play in the second half, I'll blow him up to slag." Anibogu brandished his long pair of hands and pounded desperately in the chest, damn gibbon......
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"Hahaha, this stupid Roy has really been blown into scum." After half-time, Ball Sr. was laughing wildly at the television as he and his three sons watched the California Championship on live television.
Obviously, Roy's ugliness made them very satisfied.
But even so, the mood of the three brothers is quite different, Lonzo has the strongest sense of honor, although he wants Roy to make a fool of himself, but he can't bear to let his alma mater lose so embarrassingly; Lian Gilo is an honest and serious person, and this time he was involved in the rights and wrongs of the eldest brother, and he couldn't go to the game and couldn't get the performance, which was very unhappy; Only LaMelo was the most cheerful of the three, and he should have applauded "Ball Daddy" again and again, with a cool and crooked expression on his face.
Old Ball knew what his three sons were thinking, he touched his shiny face, and proudly issued a victory declaration: "Don't worry, tomorrow that old fellow Steve will call me and beg me, 'Hey, Laval, my old fellow, please hurry up and find a way to get your three precious sons well quickly', hahahaha." ”
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Back on the scene, five minutes had passed since halftime, and the Chino Gang High School bench was still a pool of stagnant water.
Roy wanted to say something, but he didn't know how to adjust, how to adjust his tactics like a coach.
Roy won't, not Steve Barker, and at this time, it's Lonzo Ball who is responsible for boosting morale and setting up tactics, and he just needs to add two nonsense sentences.
It's really embarrassing, Buck feels embarrassed, Su Dong feels even more embarrassed, there are two VIPs at the scene today. In order not to disturb Roy's game, he didn't tell him that the two coaches of the national youth team came to the scene to inspect Roy, and today was a great opportunity for Roy to make a name for himself, but he didn't expect Roy to be so ineffective, I really don't know what kind of comments they will write.
Equally embarrassing is Shirley, who had prepared a press release before the live broadcast of Chino Gang High School's big win and Roy's big show, and it seems that she has to tear it up and rewrite it as it is now.
It was embarrassing, and Roy felt it, the terrible silence of the bench was in stark contrast to the frenzy of the audience, and no one even wanted to lift their heads.
What to do? Roy scratched his scalp and looked down in thought.
All he had in his eyes was the shiny floor and the dripping sweat.
Suddenly, a note appeared in his field of vision, it was Steve Barker, and he slipped a note over.
"Someone just asked me to hand it to you." Buck pursed his lips and nodded.
Someone? Give me a note?
Roy cautiously opened the note, which contained only a few words: "Now find a basketball......