Section 24 The whole audience is pressing
Si Yuan since the establishment of the school to enter the city's high school league final semi-finals for the first time, the first two rounds with one win and one loss and Guangming tied for second, the last round of the face has won the city's championship for several years, to participate in the national competition of the Nanyang High School team, while Guangming faced the opponent of the two battles of the Whaley Middle School team. With a minute left in the first half, Si Yuan temporarily led the opponent with an excellent performance, but under the leadership of the opponent's ace player Zhang Qiyi, the King's Division began to counterattack, and Si Yuan's advantage was only 3 points.
"Don't be discouraged, just get one more goal back."
"Equalize the score in the first half!" Supporters of both teams have also been in love with their own teams.
"Fight back!"
Han Chongyu's rapid advance with the ball made Nanyang's full-court pressing tactics useless. Han Chongyu's height is only 1.80 meters, while Zhang Qiyi is 1.85 meters, which is 5 centimeters taller and weighs 6 kilograms. Not only that, but in other positions, Nanyang Jun Zhan has a clear height advantage. Scoring guard Xia Jun VS Mo Wenke, height 1.79 meters to 1.87 meters, small forward Yang Jinglong VS Xu Zhenyu, height 1.84 meters vs. 1.92 meters, big forward Zhuo Yifan VS Ye Zongtian, height 1.89 meters to 1.90 meters, basically half a catty, and in the position of the top pillar center of the inner line, Nanyang's Long Yinjie is 1.98 meters taller than Siyuan's Peng Chenzhi, and he occupies an absolute advantage only from the figure.
Nanyang has a considerable advantage in terms of stature, while Siyuan maintained the lead over Nanyang until the end of the first half with his unremitting efforts, which has to be sincerely admired.
In the last 30 seconds of the first half, Si Yuan just sent the ball from the bottom line and was forced to defend by the whole court like water in Nanyang, and the two defenders on the other side were firmly sandwiched by Han Chongyu, who controlled the ball.
"That's the only way to break through on my own." Han Chongyu's head sank, and he didn't shy away at all, and only rushed out into the gap between the two defenders on the other side.
"Oops!" Zhang Qiyi didn't dare to slack off, quickly returned to the defense, and came to Han again, and couldn't help but be stunned in his heart: "It's really not to be underestimated, I have to admit that this kid's speed is really first-class." ”
After the rush just now, Han has successfully reached the midfield, and the receiving positions of other teammates are also much closer, and the position of Mo Wenke on the left side of Han Chao leaned slightly, shook it slightly, and passed the ball to Xia Jun, who had just gotten rid of the defense and had a slight respite.
Xia Jun held the ball and strode outside the three-point line, but there was no chance to make a move, the opponent's small forward Xu Zhenyu stared at him firmly, and Zhuo Yifan nearby, and Peng Chenzhi on the other side were also taken care of by Ye Zongtian and Long Yinjie respectively, so only Yang Jinglong had no personnel to defend, but his position was separated by several opposing players, and if he passed the ball, he would be stealed, and there was no chance at all. And this is Nanyang's defense, even if it is a bag, there will never be a chance to pass the ball to an unguarded teammate. Nanyang cleverly used the positional arrangement, and when focusing on the opponent's arrows, he would not let the vacated opponent get the ball.
Xia Jun pondered for a while, wandering on the outside and had no chance, so he had to pass the ball back to Han Chongyu, Han Chongyu held the ball firmly with both hands, he knew that as long as there was a slight mistake, the ball in his hand would inevitably be tackled by the opponent's two defenders. However, even if he was so careful, it was still difficult to escape the siege of the two Zhang Qiyi and Mo Wenke pressed deeper and further, gradually eating away at the defensive area that Han had, Han was in a predicament, only to feel that it was pitch black around him, all of which were the sound of the opponent's breathing, but there was no sound of assistance from his teammates, and the wolf-like opponent had only one purpose, to snatch the ball in his hand.
In the end, Han didn't stand the opponent's pinch, and was picked up from the bottom to the top by Zhang Jiang without paying attention......
"Attack!!" Zhang was frightened, Nanyang's other teammates were like arrows from the string only piercing the opponent's hinterland, Zhang's right arm suddenly flung forward, the ball caught up with his teammates at ten times the speed of the player's running, and jumped up and shot without adjusting the ball, Xu Zhenyu completed the fast attack, and all this from breaking the ball to scoring, the time that passed did not even exceed 5 seconds, Nanyang's counterattack speed can only be described by the word horror.
There are still 10 seconds left, Xia Jun quickly sent out the ball, rushed to the feather and quickly broke through the front court, ate a trench, and grew a wisdom, this time there was no chance for the opponent to be trapped, the last offensive in the first half!
"9,8,7" the opponent's defense is watertight.
"6,5,4" Han Chongyu broke through to the three-point line, but there was no chance.
"3" Peng Chenzhi came over to dismantle the file for him, and Nanyang quickly had a person come to block the passing line between the two.
"2" The person is Mo Wenke who defends Xia Jun, and Han Chongyu instinctively knows that Xia Jun has no one to defend and distribute the ball to Xia Jun.
"1" Xia Jun received the ball, jumped directly, and shot at the whistle in the last second.
The "0" bell rang, the ball was shot, Xia Jun's hand clenched into a fist, and the ball was still gliding in the air.
......At the end of the first half, Xia Jun completed a beautiful whistle shot, although it was not the final victory, but it also gave Siyuan great encouragement, 45:41 Siyuan led by four points into the second half.
At halftime, Li Xiaolong spoke highly of the players, and the fact is that it is not easy for a team to reach the semi-finals of the Shanghai division for the first time in the face of the Shanghai championship for several consecutive years.
"Here, everybody, wipe your sweat." Xiaoxue and Fang Wenxin started the team's logistics again at this moment, and when the players were listening attentively to the coach's guidance, they suddenly handed over a hot towel with a pair of delicate hands, which really made the hearts of the players feel warm.
Having Zhang Xiaoxue and Fang Wenxin is really a blessing for the Siyuan basketball team!
With five minutes left in the second half, the players came out of the break room in quick succession, ready for the half-time ball that would decide whether they would go home or qualify for the national competition for the first time.
Zhuo Yifan walked into the venue, and suddenly felt that the audience behind him was a little strange, and when he looked back, it turned out to be Zhang Jinfeng, Ling Junxiao, and Li Tianfang, the three seniors who graduated this year, came to the stadium to watch and cheer like the second game, and Zhou Junyi was accompanied by him, as if he had contacted them.
The four people on the stage stretched out their hands and waved to Si Yuanzhong, and Zhou Junyi extended his thumbs to Zhuo and Xia Jun to express their approval of their performance in the first half of the game.
"Come on! Must qualify! Li Tianfang clasped his hands into a bowl shape to cheer up the Siyuan team.
The generals of Siyuan made V-shaped gestures one after another, full of spirit and confidence.
At the beginning of the second half of the game, Long Yinjie, the opponent's center with an advantage in size, had the advantage in the jump ball, and Nanyang was the first to attack.
Zhang Qiyi controlled the ball with his right hand, and stretched out three fingers with his left hand, which was obviously a signal of their tactics, and then made several hearty passes, which made Siyuan's defense lose sight of one or the other, and finally Xu Zhenyu shot a ball near the left bottom line, and the score on the court became 43:45. Siyuan's advantage is only two points.
Compared with Nanyang's easier scoring this time, Siyuan's offense began to be frustrated, Nanyang's full-court tight defense that achieved quite good results in the second half of the first half continued to surround and block Siyuan at the beginning of the second half, Han Chongyu and the rest of the team faced considerable pressure, this pressure will turn into a mistake if it can't be met, and one more mistake means giving the opponent one more chance to attack. This is quite dangerous on the basketball court, especially when the scores are staggered.
Han Chongyu failed to pass the half, passed the ball to Yang Jinglong, obviously Yang Jinglong was not ready, Xu Zhenyu who was quickly killed behind him plucked the ball, the ball was separated from his hands, Xu Zhenyu, who was extremely fast, took a big step, got the ball, patted a little adjustment and found Zhang Qiyi who had come to the opponent's hinterland, a direct pass to his hands, there is no doubt that he wants to shoot, Han Chongyu stretched out his hand to defend, Zhang stepped to the right, and changed the ball to the right side with the basket on his back to hit the board, The action was done in one go, and Han Chongyu didn't even have any way to prevent the ball. At 44:44, Nanyang equalized the score for the first time since the first 10 minutes of the game.
It was just over halftime, and there were only two passes, and the ball passed to Zhuo Yifan was broken again, and Siyuan's frontcourt players had no time to return to defense, Siyuan's half showed a situation of Nanyang four to two, which was really a familiar score for Nanyang, Mo Wenke easily shot two points, and Nanyang began to lead.
Nanyang's defensive offensive wave after wave, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is offensive, its team's defense is pressing step by step, not giving the opponent any respite, extremely aggressive, defending as the offense, with well-trained running and cooperation, can make any opponent breathless under its defense. Si Yuan is by no means the army of kings, and the defense of Nanyang also makes Si Yuan difficult to parry.
"The extremely fast Nanyang trident Zhang Qiyi, Mo Wenke, and Xu Zhenyu carried out the tight defense of the opponent's half, focusing on the opponent's team handler, and then sent a player in the midfielder to cut off the contact between the opponent's backcourt players and the frontcourt players, and finally placed a defender under the basket to prevent the opponent from throwing the ball high to the players under the basket to get an easy chance to score. In this way, the opponent has no chance to get the opportunity to pass to the front court, which is the defense that Nanyang is famous for, and it is also the fundamental difference from opponents such as Guangming and Hyeri. Nanyang's head coach Mo Zhongyan crossed his arms in front of his chest, and his eyes were full of smugness.
In the first 5 minutes of the second half of the game, Siyuan only got three shooting opportunities, but did not score a single point, and made as many as seven mistakes, directly giving the opponent 12 points. From the original 4-point lead to an 8-point deficit, the situation on the field took a sharp turn for the worse.
Li Xiaolong reluctantly asked for one of the only three timeouts left.