Chapter Ninety-Four: The Unexpected
Devon listened to Carrick's words, smiled and shook his head, "Hoggist is not only superior in strength, but also very flexible in tactical thinking, I played with him for a year, no matter how strong the opponent's lineup is, how restrained we are, Haugist's tactics can always turn decay into magic." With him this time, it's really hard to say whether he wins or loses! ”
"I don't believe it! Was he a prophet or sage? No last resort, any tactic can be found by him to crack it? Carrick still scoffed at Hoogist.
"Maybe his tactics are deficient, but he still has his own strength as a guarantee, and if his tactics can't solve the problem, he uses his personal attack power to solve it. In other words, his tactics always work, all because his personal tactical containment is too strong! Devon said.
"No matter how strong a high school student is, what can he do?" Perhaps Devin was blowing too much, and De Shawn joined the question.
"Okay, okay, whether he's great or not, there's nothing wrong with us being careful!" Dinwiddie made peace on both sides.
"Okay, okay, I'll defend him, now you can rest assured!" Carrick, who is defensive and his home to his business, assured, "Besides, we still have Anthony!" As long as he exerts a little bit of force, he can hit them in the opening minutes, right, Anthony? ”
Carrick turned to Bennett for approval, only to see Bennett, who had lost twice to Hoggist, look embarrassed.
"Anthony, don't you think Hogist is easy to deal with?" Carrick asked, surprised.
Bennett didn't say much, Devin knew the inside story, but now he and Bennett were teammates who worked together seamlessly, but it was not easy for him to lose face, so he didn't make a sound, just secretly laughed in his heart.
Bennett finally spoke, and he said with a blushing face: "Spencer is right, you can't take any opponent lightly!" ”
"Okay, why are you all so serious all of a sudden? Just let me, the best defensive defender in the West Hills Division, freeze him! Carrick said impatiently.
"That Hougist dribbled very well, just one step past me, although I didn't defend seriously, but it is enough to show that he has a certain level, you still need to be careful to deal with it, but his shooting is really ridiculously poor, I see that he shot for nearly 1 hour, the shooting rate is less than 20%, this can be assured." Dinwiddie shared his experience with Carrick, hoping it would help him.
Carrick nodded, "Don't worry! With your information, I'm more sure! ”
Devin heard it but felt strange, how could Hoggist, a player who is known for projection, have a shooting rate of less than 20 percent? Was it to deliberately confuse Dinwiddie? Devin carefully recalled the picture of Hougist and Dinwiddie practicing shooting after reconciling, as if they had indeed been striking iron, why? Why, exactly? Devin struggled to recall every detail, Haugist lifted the ball, shot, and the action was not done in one go, and the shot was awkward, because ...... Because...... Because he's using his left hand!
Devin suddenly recalled Hougist's shooting action, Hougist usually shoots with his right hand, but he has been using his left hand when shooting today, I don't know if he is on a whim or really wants to develop his left hand, but Dinwiddie really misunderstood Hoggist!
Devin thought about it, but in the end he didn't tell Carrick, so he should have taught him a lesson.
And Bennett, who knew that Hougist's shooting was accurate, didn't say much, because he didn't hear what Dinwiddie said later. Bennett's mind right now is all about Hougist's coming to college training.
Hougist was already on par with himself when he was a freshman in high school, and now he is in college, and he is already a first-class player in the West Hill Division, and Hoggist is now in his third year of high school, which is his own age when the two fought bulls for the first time, and I am still competing with other elite high school students in the country in my senior year. Just let me see how you grow! Bennett thought.
Everyone walked on the court to start the game, Witherspoon and Devon jumped the ball together, although the two were the same height, but Witherspoon has no neck, and the shoulder position is naturally higher without a neck, so Witherspoon naturally has a slight advantage in touching height.
Coach Odom tossed the ball high and Witherspoon gave the ball to Hoggist, who took the ball in the backcourt and dribbled it directly across the halfcourt.
"Why is he in possession?" Carrick screamed and pounced, expecting the bench to let the shortest Sonny control the ball, but after the jump ball was completed, he was back inside the three-point line, and Hoggist was very surprised.
Hougist faced Carrick's defense at the top of the arc, Carrick is already a 22-year-old adult after all, and in the face of Hoggist, the mentality is still very relaxed, in his opinion, a child who has not yet fully developed in adolescence can be compared to him as an adult quasi-professional player?
Hoggist's mentality is even more relaxed, after all, he is only 16 years old, and it is completely understandable that he does not play well in the face of an adult's defense.
Carrick is about the same height as Hougist, his body is not much stronger than Hoogist, and his arm span is not as good as Hoggist, which has a significant physical advantage in high school, but it can only be regarded as average in the NCAA, and there is no advantage at all. It seems that Carrick's ability to defend should be based on experience rather than physicality.
The more experienced you are, the less likely it is to take feints! It's hard to do. Hoggist thought to himself. However, no matter how difficult it is, it has to be done, and Haugist intends to test Carrick's defense with the strongest scoring means.
Hougist accelerated with his right hand dribble at the top of the arc and broke inside, and Carrick thought of what Dinwiddie said that Hoggist had a bad shot and a good breakthrough, so he slid back, ready to see the right time to wait for Hoggist to collect the ball and start to cut the ball.
Hoggist burst to the free throw line, decisively pulled the ball back to his left hand with a crotch dribble, and at the same time stepped back to shoot a jumper.
The step-back pull-up jump shot is what Hoggist is known for, and he basically hits every shot when no one is defending. After hitting this mid-range shot, Hoggist breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that the level of this defensive second formation is not very good!
Things in the world are so wonderful, Carrick mistakenly thought that Haugist's shooting level was very poor, so he didn't seriously prevent him from shooting; And Hougist easily shook out the shooting space, which made him mistakenly think that Carrick's defensive level was average.
Carrick glared at Dinwiddie, "Didn't you say he had a terrible projection?" ”
"How do I know? This ball could be luck, right? Dinwiddie spread his hands in frustration.
Devin interrupted their petty altercation and drove the ball to De Shoan, beckoning everyone to get ready to attack. Because it is mainly an interior offense, the pace of the main lineup is not very fast, Devin and Witherspoon compete for position under the basket, and Bennett, who has the ability to break through, stands in the high position to take the ball.
The joint defense tactics required by Hougist made the main lineup very uncomfortable for a while, and the joint defense, the defender did not violate the rules for 3 seconds, allowing handcheck, and all these rules were effectively used by Hoggist.
In the high post, Jackson defended Bennett, who was holding the ball with his back, with his hand on his waist to feel when he was exerting his strength, and Sonny next to him came up from time to time to scratch a handful or two.
Bennett's impatient personality quickly caused him to lose patience to test and wait for his teammates to run. With 20 seconds left in the offensive round, Bennett turned sharply and wiped inside, Devin saw this and withdrew from the basket to take Witherspoon away, Witherspoon and Devin fought for a long time, and his blood was a little up, and he planned to follow Devin out.
Hoggist was afraid of Witherspoon's head, and kept an eye on the basket in the bottom corner. Seeing that Witherspoon was hot-headed and about to make a mistake, and Devon was pulling at the bottom corner of Howgist's side, Witherspoon followed Devin to face Howgist, and Whistest yelled directly at him: "Protect the basket!" Basket protection! ”
Witherspoon listened to it as if he had been enlightened, and he was so excited that he gave himself a big mouth, and then stayed under the basket. This behavior scared Haugist a lot, and he said that this guy is really his iron blood! So yourself!
Bennett wiped into the inside, Jackson did not block, but always stuck to him on the side, Bennett received the ball and was ready to get up for the layup, Jackson smacked the ball hard, but did not cut it, Bennett raised the ball in his hand to attack the basket, he was going to make a strong and heavy two-handed dunk, but the ball was cut by Jackson and was a little unstable in his hand, he threw the ball to the basket before the ball was about to get out of his hand.
Witherspoon returned to the basket just in time for Bennett to rush over and jump straight up to get the ball out of the air. For the first time, Witherspoon was so successful in defending against the attack of the main lineup, holding the ball and screaming excitedly. Jackson was speechless and snatched the basketball from Witherspoon's hand and passed it to Howgist, kicking Witherspoon's ass by the way, "What's the call?" Why don't you fight back quickly with such a good opportunity to take off your hat? Is so hot-blooded that he even forgot common sense? ”
Hougist dribbled and quickly advanced to the frontcourt, but Carrick defended quickly, Hoggist saw that he had no chance, looked around at the other teammates on the court, and saw that the big white soft was unguarded at the top of the arc, Hoggist decisively distributed the ball to him and shouted: "Shoot!" ”
Then he got inside and was ready to grab the board. Da Bai Soft received the ball and shot decisively, and the ball hit the front board and bounced into the basket.
“Yeah!” Big White Soft Hands Raised in the Air, Mimicking Nowitzki's celebratory gesture.
"I'll go! What's going on today? Our substitutes actually lead the main team 5:0? Are we crazy or are the main forces crazy? Hoop Eye said in surprise off the court.
"The three points of the big white soft are blind, it's only two rounds, don't be too happy! Who knows what kind of abuse will be made of in the future! "The hat-trick was more calm.
Bennett and Devin had just run past the midfield, and the big white soft made a resolute move at the top of the arc, and the two wasted their energy to make a switchback run.
Bennett saw Da Bai Soft's celebration getting carried away, and his mood was a little unbeautiful, and he planned to beat Da Bai Soft to teach him a lesson.
De Shawan dribbled over half the court, Bennett ran to the bottom corner of the big white soft to ask for the ball, but the big white soft refused to turn his back to him, but a strong defense around Bennett to catch the ball, Bennett and the big white soft two turned around like a waltz, never grabbed the position of the back, Bennett had to let the big white soft stick in front of him, let De Shawan hang the ball to him.
Who knew that Bennett took a step back, and Da Bai Soft took a step back against him, and when De Shawn saw the opportunity to hoist the ball into the inside line, Bennett had already retreated to the paint area, and the ball was directly knocked off by Witherspoon behind him when it was hoisted into his hand, and it was falling into Da Bai Soft's arms.
The feeling of receiving the ball from the sky was really joyful, overjoyed, and passed the ball directly to Sonny at the top of the arc, Sonny received the ball and went directly to the fast attack, Jackson followed closely behind the side, and Dinwiddie retreated from the middle, staring at the two of them at the same time.
Sonny said that my shooting is slow, and I can't go to the basket? He turned his heart to Jackson and made a fake pass to try to deceive Dinwiddie, but he had already reached the paint area, and Jackson and Sonny were not far from each other, although Dinwiddie was deceived into losing his center of gravity when he retreated, but he quickly twisted back and jumped in the air to easily cover Sonny's layup, after all, Dinwiddie was a full 5 feet taller than Sonny.
Jackson picked up the ball that was fanned down by Dinwiddie and planned to make a strong rebound, but the opponents who followed the defense had returned to the half court one after another, Bennett and Devon had returned to the inside, and Jackson still chose to admit it and dribbled out of the three-point line.
Hoggist asks for the ball at the top of the arc and Jackson gives it back to Hoggist. The main squad has fallen into a defensive formation, and Carrick is already in front of Hoggist.
Hoggist had easily shaken off Carrick before, so he didn't take him seriously, and he didn't call for pick-and-roll, intending to continue to rely on his personal ability to single out Carrick.
Hougist kept changing hands under his crotch and dribbling, looking for opportunities to break through, Carrick's center of gravity was very low, staring carefully at Hougist's shoulder, trying to predict Hougist's true intentions, Hougist saw that Carrick did not show any flaws, and directly collected the ball and raised his hand to prepare to force a shot, but Carrick did not get up and interfere with the shooting, Hoggist was shocked, his worship action was actually seen through?
But this shock is only a flash, Hougist's routine is more, he made up his mind in an instant, what if you see through my feints, my movements are all feints, and they are all real moves, the truth or falsehood is completely in my needs, since you think I worship Buddha is real and shoot is fake, then I will make the shot real!
The thought in his head was electric and Haugist directly collected the ball and grabbed a three-point shot, Hougist both feet were off the ground before Carrick reacted, and when Carrick jumped up, Haugist had already thrown the ball out!