Chapter 7: Five Up and Five Down

The Pirates attacked, and Carl dribbled across the halfcourt, trying to do the same and give Scott to play one on the inside. Scott was in position under the basket again, and his back began to force Randolph again, at which time Joseph quickly contracted to the basket and cut the ball off, relying on his short size to quickly lower down and grab the floor ball.

Seeing this, Hoggist ran forward to receive the ball from Joseph, who scrambled to flick the ball to Hoggist before Scott could scramble for the ball. The remaining four members of the pirate team have begun to retreat when they see that the situation is not good. Hoggist dribbled quickly, and saw that the opponent's center was not in place, and Randolph was already shooting to the opponent's basket without being marked, so he threw the ball hard near the opponent's basket. Randolph jumped high, received the ball with ease, pushed the ball on the rebound with both hands, and hit the ball into the basket.

The score on the field is 5:2 for the Spartans.

"Big brother, why don't you dunk? How beautiful the empty connection is to buckle! Justin asked.

"You think that a black man can be as physical as Hougist, and he can dunk easily! Don't look at me growing so tall, I jump up without anyone interfering and just buckle with one hand, I don't dare to hold this kind of air relay. It's just not good for me to score like this, that's a real two points! If I forcibly dunk, I will not only lose points when I am covered by the basket, but also be embarrassed! Randolph gave Justin a blank look.

Just as he was talking, the Buccaneers made a direct long pass from the bottom line to find Scott, who failed to come back in time for the previous ball, and Scott was still standing under the Spartans basket, and no one was marking at all. He received the ball and jumped on the spot with a violent dunk, and after the dunk, he defiantly pulled the basket. Then he jumped down and pushed Randolph, who came back to serve, and ran towards the Pirates halfcourt.

The score on the court is 5:4 for the Spartans.

Coach Dick stood on the sidelines and roared, "Are you sleepwalking? On the field, you can patronize and chat until you forget about defense? ”

Randolph was also angry when he was pushed away by Scott, and was about to serve and then take revenge on the offensive end, but Coach Dick didn't seem to have scolded enough, and directly signaled to the referee for a timeout.

"You five come down and calm down for me, and think about what you should do on the court!" Coach Dick walked to the bench and began to choose a substitute, "Brother Williams, James, Brandon, Dan, you five up!" ”

Coach Dick randomly selected five 10,000-year substitute water cooler administrators, all of whom were 11th and 12th grade veterans, and had not played a few games in the team for three or four years. Unexpectedly, the new team members were more powerful than one another, and they suddenly returned to the end of the bench.

They were ecstatic with Coach Dick's substitution, which was the first time they played in the normal rotation during non-garbage time. One by one, they are ready to do a good job and prove to the audience and the coach that they are also the main players.

Five up and five down? The audience on the sidelines were stunned, especially the teachers, students and parents of Cimaren, who couldn't understand why Coach Dick switched to this garbage time lineup when he only played 1 minute in the first quarter.

"Could it be that Coach Dick has already conceded defeat?" Mr. Bi asked Old Helian in Chinese with a blank face: "Why did you just fight two times and replace them all, didn't he say that your son is a future NBA star?" ”

Old Helian smiled faintly: "Mr. Dick is teaching these young people, and they will remember this lesson for a lifetime." ”

Mr. Bi did not understand what old Helian meant. At this time, on the Spartan bench, Coach Dick was still chattering and reprimanding the five starters.

"Do you know what concentration is, you can communicate on the field, but the content is limited to the game itself, you don't pay attention to the opponent, the opponent will seize the opportunity to teach you to be a man, you just sit and watch in the first half today, let the veteran players teach you what is focus!"

"What, make no mistake, coach, isn't it just a leak-proof person? As for letting me sit on the cold bench? Randolph complained to Coach Dick in confusion, looked at the scoreboard, and shouted anxiously: "It's already 10 points behind in just two sentences, and they don't get a point!" What's the use of just focusing on the game and not scoring points! If they play the first half, they won't lose 30 points? ”

"What about losing by 30 points? People who don't appreciate their chances are not qualified to stay on the field, and in my team, only those who can stay focused on the field are eligible to play! Coach Dick turned around and continued to direct the game, ignoring the five of them.

Randolph looked at each other, but Hogist nodded understandingly. When Joseph saw this, he asked curiously, "Are you crazy?" Why are you nodding your head there? ”

"I seem to understand the coach's intentions, in fact, I was secretly determined before the game to get rid of all distractions and focus on winning, but after playing one or two rounds, EasyBall will unconsciously relax. I think if we get frustrated two or three rounds in a row, the coach wants us to learn to stay focused on the court, so that the mood is not affected by the trend of the game, I think only in this way we will not be overturned because of arrogance when we are ahead, and we will not give up chasing points because of frustration when we are behind. ”

"It's worthy of being a casino star, and his talent is much higher than ours, and he can come up with so many truths! I don't understand what you're talking about, but it feels so profound! Harris listened to the clouds and mountains.

And Coach Dick heard Haugist's speech on the bench behind him, and showed a smile of relief, but it turned into a wry smile in an instant. These people on the court are really rookies, the first quarter is over, and the score is behind the opponent at 11:30. Although they are very serious about playing every ball at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, but the difference in strength is huge, especially on the inside, the Williams brothers in the No. 4 and No. 5 positions are more than a head shorter than the opponent, and they have tried their best to raise their hands high to interfere with the opponent, but the opposite inside twin towers can still easily score on their heads.

In the second quarter, the score difference continued to widen, the Pirates played easily on the inside, and the Spartans had no choice but to shrink the defense, so that the Pirates could easily shoot on the outside, and before the end of the second quarter, the Buccaneers' No. 20 Nance scored three 3-pointers in a row to rewrite the score to 20:69. The teachers and students of Cimaren, who did not know what was going on, were dissatisfied with Coach Dick's hiding of the team's main team, and booed Coach Dick for an entire section. The Spartans struggled as if they were playing away from home in Salt Lake City.

A few people on the bench as if they had been sitting for a century, looking at the scoreboard and shaking their heads, close to the 50-point difference, if it weren't for the fact that Hoggist told everyone that they couldn't be frustrated and discouraged because they were too far behind, they would have packed up and gone home.

In the locker room, Coach Dick was in high spirits and spoke generously to the five starters: "I guess you also understand my intentions, now your chance is here, 49 points in the half of the shocking reversal, the miracle in the history of American high school basketball, will be created by your own hands, do you have confidence?" ”

"Coach, don't be kidding, if we want to win, we have to play a wave of 50:0, and we can play 2K, but in reality......" Randolph shook his head.

"It's not that hard to score 25 more points per quarter than your opponent in the second half, right?" Coach Dick looked at Haugist.

Hougist straightened his headband and said solemnly, "I can't guarantee it, but I'll do my best to make it happen." Brothers, follow me with the ball in hand, chase the points with me in the second half, and I will take you off! ”

"Fearless!" The crowd shouted in unison.

Hoggist and the others walked out of the locker room and returned to the court, waiting for the start of the third quarter. Hoggist gathered everyone and said in a low voice: "This quarter, we change the marker defense, Randolph Harris, you two work hard to go around the front defense to catch the ball inside, I will do my best to lock the opponent's point guard, so that he can't pass the ball, everyone pay attention to it, if you see that I break the ball successfully, I will go down desperately, I guarantee that the ball arrives!" ”

Everyone nodded, and stood in formation for the pirates to kick off. In the third quarter, the Pirates kicked off first, and just after Karl dribbled the ball, Hougist came up to defend with high pressure, and he hurriedly signaled the center to come up and block the dismantle. He wanted to use the block to delay Hoggist's defense, but when Karl dribbled past the center, Hougist neither grabbed nor went around, but directly used his long-arm hand to poke the ball off in the process of Karl's dribbling, and directly took the ball quickly, and the rest of the people reacted and followed quickly, but they hadn't run past the halfcourt line, and Hougist had already dunked and scored.

"He also said let's seize the opportunity to go down quickly, the ball arrives, you run so fast, we have to finish the defense." Joseph sneered, but he didn't dare to say it, for fear that Coach Dick would hear and push it back to the bench.

Finally seeing the demeanor of the Stars of Las Vegas, the Cimaron fan zone erupted in enthusiastic cheers, as if the Spartans were leading at this moment.

Hoggist quickly retreated back to his own half, clapping his hands to cheer everyone on.

Karl dribbled across the half court again, and was once again defended by Hoggist at the top of the arc, whose height and reach far exceeded Karl's, covering him like a big net. Karl was forced to stop the ball, trying to pass the ball but found that all the routes were blocked, and when Karl was hesitating to stop the ball, Hougist snatched the ball from his hand, and the other four hurriedly flew down.

As soon as Haugist dribbled to the midfield, he saw that Joseph was about to run to the unmarked left bottom corner, and hurriedly threw the ball over, and Joseph just ran to the bottom corner when the ball fell into his hands, he did not hesitate, jumped up and shot an empty 3-pointer.

"Everyone, hurry back to defense!" Hougist commanded his teammates loudly on the field.

In this round, Karl dribbled through the half, but Hougist did not come up to press. Karl was relieved and quickly hoisted the ball to the low post center, Scott leaned on Randolph and was a first-level hook, but the ball brushed out of the basket, Randolph and Harris struggled to get stuck in position, Horgist shrank back to the basket to grab the rebound, dribbled to the Pirates halfcourt, and when everyone was in a good position, he called the high double cover again, and dribbled directly to Harris's side on the left. This time, Carl grabbed in front of the screener in time and did not lose position, but Harris covered very well, the space between him and Hougist was very small, Karl was sandwiched between Hougist and Harris and his body was tightly together, Hougist took advantage of the situation to shoot directly, and deliberately hit Carl's body when he raised his hand.

With a whistle of "beep", the referee raised his hand to signal that Karl violated the cylinder and fouled, and the Spartans made three free throws at No. 0. Hogist stepped to the free-throw line and hit three free throws steadily.

In this way, you played back and forth for half a quarter, and the Spartans played a wave of 20:5, chasing the score to 40:74, with 34 points left. Cimarun's teachers, students and parents saw the hope of a reversal, and they shouted and cheered harder.

The Pirates' coach called a timeout and rearranged his defensive tactics. Hougist's offensive firepower on the outside is too strong, and his steal ability is also perverted, whether it is a positional battle or a quick counterattack, the Pirates are very headaches, the coach of the Pirates requires that Haugist be wrapped in half time, and the blocking and dismantling inside line called by Hoggist must be followed by a big delay in defense, as long as Hoggist is locked on the defensive end, the Spartans will become a headless fly, and they can't play an attack with rules and routines.

After the timeout, the Pirates replaced the tall and strong Bernard at the power forward position and replaced him with Bibiid, who wore the No. 8 jersey, he was about the same height as Harris and a lap thinner than Harris. Looks like it's supposed to be a flexible 4.

The Pirates attacked, Bibiid blocked Carl at the top of the arc, Hougist was blocked by Bibiid, Harris came out to change Carl, Karl hit the ground through the crotch pass, passed the ball from Harris's crotch to Bibiid, Bibide received the ball and made a layup. Hoggist chased after him after switching defenses, and saw Bibide get up and make a layup and send a pegboard hat directly from behind.

The ball bounced back and landed in Joseph's hand, Joseph took the ball and pushed it forward, the Pirates only No. 20 Nance grabbed in front of Joseph in time to retreat, Joseph dribbled to the Pirates near the half-court free throw line and saw that his teammates failed to follow up in time, so he directly made a strong layup, causing a foul on the opposite Nance pull, and Joseph struggled to throw the ball to the basket when he lost his balance.