Chapter 103: Blocking Roy's Plan
The next day was the opening ceremony of the California High School Basketball Championship, which featured last year's champions, Chino Gang High School, taking on Justin Sina High School at home.
Like yesterday's Golden State Warriors, Chino Gang High School is the defending champion, so this game has received a different kind of attention from the outside world.
An hour before the start of the game, the media in California and Chinogang City set up long guns and short guns early, and the players' families and friends took the front row to occupy the vantage point, and a few scout-like people in suits roamed the crowd to observe.
Everyone's goal is the same, which is the treasure trove of talent at Chinogang High School.
Lonzo Ball is no longer the only superstar at Chino Gang High School, and after a heads-up incident a week ago and a back-to-the-sky performance at Oracle Stadium yesterday, Roy's name has been widely circulated.
This can be seen from Lonzo Power's depressed expression at the scene.
He still vividly remembers what Roy said in an interview with the TNT TV host last night.
Reporter: Congratulations, young man, you are the first person to succeed in our midfield shooting challenge in the past two years, what do you call it?
Roy: Hi everyone, my name is Roy.
Reporter: Oh, it's Mr. Roy, what is your profession for the audience in front of the TV?
Roy: Hi, I'm a senior from Chinogang High School.
Reporter: Oh, Chino High School, the winning team of last year's California Championship, the high school where Lonzo Ball was located?
Roy: Yes, Lonzo Ball is my teammate on the basketball team, I hope my friends in California can pay more attention to my performance, my name is Roy, my wish is to join the NBA, play against big stars like Curry, Thompson, Green, thank you.
Shit, thinking of this, Lonzo's teeth clenched tighter, and Roy made a big splash again, which is clearly challenging my status, and I definitely want him to look good today.
Roy did ruin Lonzo's good deeds, and today's game would have been a big one, as Justin Sina High School was the team that reached the semifinals of last year's California Championship with another high school star, Josh Jackson, in charge.
The tone of the game was supposed to be Lonzo Ball vs. Josh Jackson, which was supposed to be the battle that would determine the best high school player in California.
But now there is an extra Roy, how could this guy become famous without warning? Or choose at this juncture? I should have insisted on not letting him into the team if I knew it.
Lonzo kept his face blue, and he saw the Chinese slogan in the audience, which deeply stimulated his nerves.
I will never pass the ball to Roy in the game, Lonzo's jealousy is escalating, he is determined not to give Roy any chance to perform, including the other team members, he has also taken care of all of them before, and would rather have one less person on the field to suppress Roy's limelight.
Roy also came to the court early, he occupied a corner alone, quickly completed the warm-up, with yesterday's blockbuster, the number of Chinese spectators at the scene today has surged a lot, he saw Chinese cheering slogans, and even a lot of dark-skinned and white-skinned spectators are waving to him.
It turned out that yesterday's incident was very big, Roy snickered, for today's game, he prepared early, according to his current ability, at least he won't lose too much to Lonzo.
Five minutes before the start of the game, Ball Sr. also came, his face was also bad, it is said that several local newspapers reported Roy's speech yesterday in the morning, and a reporter with good things even wrote that Chino Gang High School will welcome a new core manager this year.
Just outside the door, the elder Ball has been angry with reporters on this issue, he has repeatedly insisted that Lonzo is a unique existence, no one, no one in the United States, no one in the world can replace his talent, Lonzo will become a Jordan-level superstar, and Roy is just a foreign student who can play tricks.
But just when the elder Ball was furious and wanted to lash out at Roy further, the reporters suddenly abandoned him, and it turned out to be a bigger big name-Abdul-Jabbar appeared.
Contrary to Ball Sr.'s opinion, Abdul-Jabbar thinks that today's game will be Roy's fame fight, of course, he doesn't have as much saliva as Ball Sr., leaving only a sentence to wait and see.
The old Bauer, who was robbed of the limelight and the microphone, entered the gymnasium with a straight face and found a position in the front row and sat down.
At this time, everyone had already warmed up, and when they returned to the home team's bench, Coach Barker coughed a few times, he wanted to arrange a few sentences, but found that he really couldn't think of what to say, and finally simply dropped the sentence "Lonzo's command shall prevail on the field", and ended his speech.
Is this a good tactic? With Lonzo's command, this coach is too good to be a coach.
Roy couldn't help but complain, the starters on the court now are point guard No. 2 Lonzo Ball, scoring guard No. 0 LaMelo Ball, forward No. 3 Leangelo Ball and No. 1 Roy (No. 1 was snatched from Lamelo), center No. 7 Shaun Hopkins, a typical Ball family team.
Ball Sr. sat in the first row, he glanced at Lonzo and roared: "Lonzo, let them see who is the number one high school student in the United States!" ”
Lonzo understood.
At the beginning of the game, Lonzo was like a tiger down the mountain, dribbling the ball straight into the box of Justin Sina High School, and scored a quick and simple breakthrough layup.
Lonzo was a bit of an anomaly, Josh Jackson had never seen such a selfish and fierce Lonzo, and he barely looked at the movement of his teammates just now, and went straight into the box.
What stimulated him?
Lonzo was greatly stimulated, and in the first 5 minutes, Lonzo must be a desperate singles as long as he gets the ball, one-on-one, one-on-two, he is not afraid.
With Angelo and Hopkins blocking for him, LaMelo interspersed for him, Lonzo's offense was booming, and what about Roy? Except for running for 5 minutes, he didn't even touch the ball.
Lonzo really played like that, Roy had thought of this situation beforehand, but he didn't expect it to happen.
Looking at the listless Chinese fans in the audience, Roy decided to change his strategy.
If it was Kobe Bryant, what would he do?
There is no doubt that Bryant will go for every possession.
Roy thought so and did so, and the next goal, Josh Jackson dribbled just past halftime, Roy suddenly came out of the side, he left his own defender, and went straight to Josh Jackson, who was defending by Lonzo.
Josh Jackson didn't expect Roy's speed to be so amazing, he didn't have time to react, the ball was already in Roy's hand, Roy who touched the ball was shocked, he took a big stride, shook off everyone, and completed a two-handed heavy buckle right under the nose of Ball Sr.
"Oh." Those Roy fans who looked through the autumn water just now swooped to their senses.
Lonzo wiped his face, he didn't expect Roy to take the initiative.
However, even if Roy can score points with a steal, it doesn't matter, the other three people on the court are their own.
Only at this point, Lonzo also confirmed that it was only himself who would shine in this match, and this was the battle for the gods that he regained the media spotlight.
But he was completely wrong......