Chapter 131: The End of the Road

Looking back now, Roy did make detailed and thorough preparations for this match.

In this final with Justin Sina High School, there are actually two very big difficulties, the first difficulty is how to overcome the gap in strength, how to destroy the cooperation of Lonzo Ball and Josh Jackson to win the game? The second difficulty is how to comprehensively suppress Lonzo Ball in terms of data to complete the task of "fateful duel", you know, even if Roy can control the four active statistics of scoring, rebounding, steals, and blocks, but assists are the link where he is not sure of winning.

That's why he devised such a strategy to kill two birds with one stone - to provoke Lonzo Ball, which could not only dismantle Justin Sina High School's established tactics, but also effectively control Lonzo Ball's assist statistics.

That's Roy's strategy, and it's probably another sign of Roy's high ball quotient.

When dealing with Lonzo Ball, Roy adopted the method of "boiling frogs in warm water", which is manifested in the fact that although Roy has the absolute strength to overpower his opponent, he is not in a hurry to release this strength all at once, he wants to make Lonzo Ball feel that he has a glimmer of hope of winning, and then insist on singles, he wants Lonzo Ball to persevere.

Roy's approach was quite clever, and after the first successful shot from Lonzo, Roy immediately responded with a three-pointer, 3:2.

In the second round, Lonzo made another strong take, and Roy also hit a jumper, 5:4.

In the third round, Lonzo's shot was slightly off, but due to the first two easy scoring cases, Lonzo Ball just put the lack of scoring to "bad luck", and Roy hit a three-pointer in this round, 8-4.

In the fourth round, Lonzo made a layup, and Roy returned the layup, 10:6......

So, the two scored each other, and under Roy's slow encroachment, the first quarter of the game ended, and Chino Gang High School led by 8 points at 24:16, and interestingly, the scores of both teams were all covered by Roy and Lonzo Ball.

With a two-minute break, Van Wilk was on the move, and he couldn't afford to wait.

He secretly told Patterson, Madsen and Calipari that not every ball had to go to Lonzo Ball, and that Josh Jackson was also a reliable ball handler, and the three Justin Sina High School veterans immediately understood.

At the start of the second quarter, Josh Jackson's chance came.

Against Josh Jackson, Roy is not as merciful as he is against Lonzo Ball, he will almost always help Liangelo Ball to cover the defense, or block, or break the ball, or interfere with the shot, he is not worried that Josh Jackson will pass the ball, at least he will certainly not pass to Lonzo Ball.

That's right, if it were you, in the face of a person who dominated all the ball on the team and made you, an "All-Star", play a soy sauce, you would still pass the ball to him? The ghost will pass him the ball again.

Josh Jackson is all about scoring right now.

Due to the mutual distrust of Lonzo Ball and Josh Jackson, Justin Sina's offense and defense became a mess.

And because of Roy's favoritism, releasing Lonzo Ball and suppressing Josh Jackson gave Lonzo Ball a more reason to dominate the ball, isn't this nonsense? Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Josh Jackson is being pressed to the ground by Roy, and Lonzo Ball can still occasionally score two goals, so who do you choose?

Van Wilk has completely lost control of the team and the only thing he can do now is replace Lonzo Power, but does he dare? Even if today's annoying "ball daddy" is not on the scene, he still does not dare to easily replace the absolute core of the team.

Immediately, the second quarter of the game ended again, 47:31, the score gap was widened to 16 points, it was just too much, could it be that you have to lose so embarrassingly today?

Van Wilk was still making his last effort, and his lecture could even be heard clearly from the Chino Gang High School bench, which was more than ten meters away.

"Lonzo, why don't you pass the ball to your teammates? Do you really think you can win the game on your own? You've gone too far today! Van Wilk's lecture was not angry, he tried to wake up Lonzo, but Lonzo's response was even more choking.

"Mark [Van Wilk], before you reprimand me, you'd better look at the technical stats of the first half, if these guys can play a little more efficiently, they won't leave me alone."

As soon as Lonzo's words came out, the entire Justin Sina High School bench was furious, especially Josh Jackson, his whole face was green, and he was also looking at the technical statistics table for the first half, and the numbers on it were really ugly:

Lonzo Ball: Played 16 minutes, shot 9-of-20, 1-of-4 from three-point range, 2-of-2 from the free-throw line, scored 21, rebounded 8, assisted 0, steals 2, blocked 1, turnover 5, foul 3.

Josh Jackson: Played 16 minutes, shot 2-of-10 from the field, 0-of-3 from three-point range, 2-of-2 from the free-throw line, scored 6, rebounded 3, assisted 1, steal 1, blocked 0, turnover 5, foul 1.

When it comes to statistics, Josh is really not qualified to criticize Lonzo Ball, but he doesn't understand why such a tough Roy would have a target for Lonzo Ball, who is not much different from himself.

Kobe Bryant also didn't understand, as a master of the house, he knew very well that Roy had reservations about Lonzo Ball, what was this kid thinking?

Kobe Bryant glanced at the real-time stats, Roy played 16 minutes in the first half, shooting 14-of-24 from the field, 5-of-8 from three-point range, 4-of-4 from the free throw line, 37 points, 10 rebounds, 0 assists, 4 steals, 5 blocks, 3 turnovers, and 1 foul.

Considering the mess of tactics and coordination on the opposite side today, Roy could have played more monster-level stats in the first half if he wanted to, and he must be messing with something.

Roy is indeed in the next game.

In the first half, his layout was completed, and the second half was the moment when he used his strength to cut off the dragon.

At the start of the second half, Roy's outburst came without warning.

On the first shot, he won the power with a close-up layup that Lonzo Ball is best at.

Back on the defensive end, he made another jump shot from Lonzo Ball and won the bounce.

Roy, who picked up the rebound, took advantage of the situation and counterattacked, and he strode away from everyone to split the dunk with one hand and win the speed.

In just three goals, Lonzo Ball was powerless.

Accustomed to Roy's rhythm, Lonzo Ball was completely unprepared, was blocked and dunked, and for three consecutive rounds, Roy won with moves that were enough to give Lonzo Ball nightmares.

Roy was too strong, was the first half of the game an illusion? Lonzo Bauer was sullen, his self-confidence slowly crumbling.

Lonzo Power's nightmare wasn't over yet, and after Roy scored another six points in a row, he couldn't take it anymore.

In the sixth round, Lonzo Ball's shot was again fruitless, and Roy grabbed the rebound and chased the ass to fight back.

Lonzo Ball, who was chasing all the way, completely lost his cool at this point, and he took advantage of Roy's jump and hit Roy in the back of the head with an iron elbow from behind.

The whistle blew, and there was no doubt about a malicious foul.

Van Wilk couldn't take it anymore and immediately asked for a substitution, Lonzo Bauer was gone, and his show was over......