The next morning, the school leaders came to the school to reassure McCarthy regardless of their honorable figures, and in the afternoon they came to the basketball team to report, and of course they were warmly welcomed by everyone.

And then, of course, it's time to see the true strength of this teenager.

How to test it? Li Xiaolong threw the question to the players on the field.

"How do you think you can test the strength of the new Michael?"

"Heads-up! Singled out! "Guys, you look at me, I'll look at you, and finally they unanimously expressed their demand.

"So who is it going to go with Michael?"

"Zhuo Yifan! Zhuo Yifan! Everyone asked Zhuo Yifan and Michael to fight each other. Li Xiaolong looked at Zhuo Yifan and said:

"Zhuo, then you can go up!"

"Huh? I? Looking at the black boy on the field who was about 10cm taller than himself, he kept beating the drum in his heart.

"This ...... I...... I'll go to No. 1 first, and let Michael practice it himself. After Zhuo finished speaking, he rushed to the door.

"Hahahahaha

"Michael, then you can practice it yourself." Li Xiaolong raised his hand to Michael.

Michael was stunned, it seemed that he didn't understand Li Xiaolong's request. Seeing this, Zhang Xiaoxue immediately walked to Michael's side, stood on tiptoe and raised her hand to beckon to the black boy, and the black boy squatted down obediently. Xiaoxue repeated Li Xiaolong's request in English just now.

Michael, who understood the request, picked up a basketball and walked to the court, and began to dribble the ball, first changing from side to side.

After that, Michael made two forward shots, twice with his arms around his back and stepped down to shoot the ball, and the speed became faster and more dazzling. There was a round of applause from the sidelines.

In the end, of course, a beautiful slam dunk is indispensable. Michael retreated to the outside of the three-point line, threw the ball off the basket, and at the same time quickly started, the ball hit the rebound and bounced back, Michael had also jumped, caught the ball with both hands in the air, and continued to rise rapidly, and his body began to rotate, after lifting to a certain height, he changed the ball to one hand, and sent it backwards violently, "bang" made a loud noise, and beautifully completed an aerial relay and then turned around 180 degrees for one-handed slam dunk.

Thunderous applause was given to the black teenager on the field. His strength has been unanimously recognized by everyone.

Li Xiaolong beckoned to Michael again, and Michael came to the coach.

“Ok,Yourperformanceiswonderful.Pleaseintroduceyourselftoeveryone.”

As soon as fluent English was spoken, Li Xin was very surprised: I didn't think that my father's English level was not bad.

“I’mMichaelMcCarthy. IfromTexas.I’m6feet7incheshigh,AndIweight210pounds.MypositionisForward.”

It turns out that Michael's height is 6 feet 7 inches, which is about 200-201cm, and his weight is 210 pounds, which is 95 kilograms, and he is a striker on the field.

Lee told Michael that he would be playing as a center forward here, and asked if he could do it.

Michael's answer was also very simple, saying that he can play any position on the court.

Li Xiaolong clapped his hands, the whole team gathered, the training began, and after a simple warm-up, the coach divided the team into two groups, the main team and the substitute team, this time it was no longer 4 to 5, Michael and Li Xin were divided into the substitute team, and five to five challenged the main team.

The result of the competition was both unexpected and reasonable. It is reasonable to say that Michael's performance did not disappoint everyone, and together with Li Xin, he led the substitute team to defeat the main team in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, the bench team beat the main team by 25 points, and Michael scored 35 points and 25 rebounds, which was an eye-catching performance.

Especially in the competition for rebounds, Zhuo Yifan and Peng Chenzhi of the main team are not the opponents of Michael, who has an advantage in height and bounce, and the control under the basket is so strong that it completely exceeds the level of high school students.

Li Xiaolong was overjoyed, the center problem that was still struggling yesterday could not be solved in just one day, and Michael's arrival was as incredible as a cake falling from the sky.

The next day, the second game against the original Jiaotong team started. Li Xiaolong did not send Michael on the field at the beginning, and basically retained the lineup of the previous game, the difference is that Li Xin also sat on the bench, replaced by Yang Jinglong, which is the most commonly used lineup of Siyuan in the Shanghai division.

The performance of this lineup on the court was not much different from the game the day before, and even slightly faster than the previous game, and it was still 18 points behind in the first half.

In the second half, Li Xiaolong replaced Peng Chenzhi and Yang Jinglong with Michael and Li Xin. In terms of height, the overall height is not much different from that of the opponent.

"Michael, behave well!" Teammates have high expectations for new teammates.

Compared with Michael, who has a height of 200cm and excellent bounce power, the opponent's Cao Zhixiang's slightly fat body is far from being an opponent, and Michael fights for the ball with an advantage of more than half an arm of the opponent.

And the nimble and swift speed immediately left the opponent's center behind and ran at the front. Li Xin, who has a wide field of vision, noticed Michael's direction early, a long pass to the basket, Michael happened to catch the ball, no one defended, and immediately filled the frame with one arm and scored two points first.

"Where did this black boy come from? Didn't you see it the day before yesterday? ”

"It's a good game, and it looks like the second half of the game is going to get more and more interesting."

Michael and Li Xin high-fived, celebrating such a tacit understanding for the first time they cooperated.

"Go, go, go, don't lose to this group of little brothers." Wang Junxiao encouraged his teammates as he walked.

"Ah Xiang catches the ball." Wang Junxiao passed the ball to Mu Xiang, and Mu Xiang dribbled twice to the left, but he was always firmly targeted by Han Chongyu and had no chance to shoot.

Siyuan's guard speed is not slow, in fact, in the backfield position, the original Jiaotong team does not take any advantage, the biggest advantage is the attack of the inside line, and now there is a 200CM center on the inside, and the movement is extremely flexible, the original advantage seems to have disappeared suddenly.

The ball was in Cao Zhixiang's hand again, and he squeezed two steps inward, relying on Michael behind him, although his height was not as good as his own, but the unique arm length advantage of black players was fully extended and stretched in mid-air, and there was still a lot of pressure on himself.

If you don't have a chance to make a shot, you can pass it back, and as soon as the ball leaves your hand, a black shadow will come out, steal the pass, and rush forward.

The person who came was Han Chongyu, a defender who not only had a super scoring accident, but also had a good hand to break the ball.

A defender with a speed of 10 seconds and 500 meters, Han Chongyu's speed is incomparable to anyone. An easy layup to score and pull back two more points.

And to be able to break this ball, Michael's pulling role is undoubted, if it is replaced by Da Peng, the 113 kg, 203CM height center is simply a nightmare for high school players, shooting does not even need to estimate the opponent more, Si Yuan's basket was easily ravaged by him in the first half.

After all, Jiang is old and spicy, and the strong attack under the basket cannot be achieved, and the original Jiaotong team immediately changed its offensive routine. The offensive routine adopted this time was to use Shangguan Yun and Mu Xiang as the main scoring points, and temporarily abandon the inside attack.

And the original short pass cooperation has also become a pass with a large range of transfers, which makes Siyuan tired.

Han Chongyu stared at Mu Xiang very tightly, but it didn't mean that he couldn't get rid of it. Mu Xiang and Liu Yongtao made a no-ball cover, and ran to the left bottom line alone, Wang Junxiao, who was on the three-point line on the right, immediately transferred the ball to the ball, and the person just arrived, and they didn't know how many times they practiced this cooperation before. Dribble the ball and face the basket. Michael hurriedly came up to make up for the defense, but it was too late, Mu Xiang skillfully switched hands in the air and made a reverse layup, as his name suggests, flying in the sky, and the ball obediently fell into the basket.

Without the attack power of the inside, although it is not enough to lose the advantage on the field, the attack power is indeed significantly reduced. The score margin hovered at 14-12 points. It seems that it will not be so easy to defeat a former college powerhouse.

"Coach Li, time is running out, it's time to test the results of the training." Assistant coach Tian Jianzhong, who was making notes on the sidelines, reminded Li Xiaolong.

"Hmm!" Li Xiaolong nodded and whistled. Li Xin looked back and knew that her father was calling for her. Li Xiaolong made a gesture, and Li Xin nodded understandingly.

Li Xin learned her father's gesture just now and gestured to her teammates on the field. It was the opponent's attack that Si Yuan suddenly started to press the whole court. The two guards look at the opposing point guard, the fastest small forward Han Chongyu swims between the opposing point guard and the small forward, and the center and power forward each watch their opponents. Isn't this the full-court pressing tactic used by Wusheng Middle School at the beginning of the second half of the semi-finals in the North China Division? Si Yuan actually learned it in such a short time?

The defensive strategy was very effective, the opponent didn't react at all, only passed the ball a few times in the backcourt, and finally was cut off by Xia Jun and distributed it to Li Xin, who was moving forward quickly, in the face of the opposing defender who quickly returned to defense, Li Xin gave it to Han Chongyu, Han Chongyu passed back to Li Xin again, Li Xin scored an easy layup, and the opponent's guard was suddenly played around by the "younger brothers" who were much younger than him.

After two such back-and-forths, Siyuan has narrowed the gap to within 10 points. Of course, the original Jiaotong team is not a vegetarian team, suffered two losses, and the third time naturally saw the opponent's defensive strategy: the point guard deliberately attracted the opponent's two guards to attack, let the quarterback get close to him and immediately pass the ball, the defensive guard turned to defend the scoring guard, and he took the opportunity to quickly go to the frontcourt, and the quarterback immediately divided the ball to himself, getting rid of the opponent's full-court pressing tactics. And this set of cooperation is exactly the same as the defensive tactics of the High School Affiliated to Beijing Sports University to finally get rid of Wusheng, the difference is that Beijing Sports University spent nearly half a time, while the original Jiaotong Brigade only spent two offensive and defensive time.

If you just copy other people's tactics, of course, there will be no breakthrough, Li Xiaolong has changed and modified this set of tactics, because Michael, a center forward who is not at a disadvantage in speed, can enrich this set of tactics even more.

Looking at the five people on the Siyuan field, Xia Jun was the slowest in 100 meters, only about 13'5 in the first year of high school, followed by Li Xin. But after a year of tuning, both of them have made great strides in their speeds, Xia Jun ran under 13 seconds, and Li Xin reached 12'5. Zhuo's speed is 11'9, Han Chongyu is a quasi-professional sprinter at 10'5, and Michael has just tested him in the morning with a score of 11'2. Only in this way can a team that has been extremely fast implement this set of tactics.

This set of tactics and the previous changes are made by the big forward Zhuo Yifan wandering between the opponent's small forward and the big forward, the two guards are still guarding against the opponent's point guard, and the scoring guard is firmly targeted by Han Chongyu, who is a guest small forward, and the point guard's passing line is only two forwards, even if Zhuo misses someone and is got the ball by the opponent's forward, as long as the ball holder is immediately attached, the opponent's two guards are still firmly watched by their own small forwards and two guards, then his passing line is only another forward and center, Michael, who is also very fast, only needs to judge one of the two passing lanes to break the ball and successfully complete the defense. Compared with the original tactic, the broken ball line with one choice on one layer has become two or even three layers, the insurance coefficient is greater, and it is more difficult for the opponent to break through.

Si Yuan successfully implemented this defensive strategy, scoring 10 points in a row to overtake the score in just 2 minutes.

Zhou Junyi couldn't stand it anymore and called the first timeout of the game. Unexpectedly, the opponent used this defensive strategy, and it must be difficult to come up with a crack in a short two-minute pause, and the only way to do it is to let the frontcourt players slow down the pace of advancement and do more in the backcourt, although it is possible to slow down the speed of the attack and reduce the success rate, but this is only a stopgap measure.

When he returned to the court, Zhou Junyi's arrangement had some effect, but it took nearly 8 seconds to get to the front court every time, and the quality of the attack was much lower. Although the advantage became smaller, Siyuan controlled the situation on the field. Siyuan's lead is slowly expanding, and the original Jiaotong team obviously has no more ways, and because of the long-term lack of systematic training, their physical strength has long been inferior to when they were in college, the final score: 88:81, Siyuan won the final victory with a 7-point advantage.

"Wow, we're victorious! Victory over the college team! "After the game, the players cheered and jumped and hugged each other. For them, a win over a university team is a huge boost to build their self-confidence, and they will no longer be afraid of any team on the way to the national league.

The two queues shook hands one by one.

"Little brothers, work hard and get good results in the national league, don't lose our face!"

"Of course, thank you for your advice."

The first game they will be a guest in Chongqing to challenge the runner-up of the southwest division, Chongqing Yubei Middle School, the first three rounds of the tournament will take a home and away match, with a total score to determine which team wins, and the final will use two of three games, and the team with the advantage of last year's results will get one more home. With seven more matches taking place across the country, which eight teams will qualify for the round of 16?