Junior Basketball Dream Prequel: The Birth of the Big Three (1)
In the first quarter, I met Zheng Pengfei for the first time
"82:55" full-time whistle remembers,
Zhou Junyi, from No. 54 Middle School, an ordinary high school, although he lost in the game just now, this is already the best result in the history of No. 54 Middle School. Nanyang High School, the champion team of the Shanghai High School League that has been defeated for many years, still feels honored by No. 54 Middle School. I scored 27 points in the game, half of the team's scores, and became the top scorer in the tournament with an average of 29.3 points per game after all the games in the city. But I still missed out on a championship and ended my high school basketball career with regrets.
Although the defeat was expected, after all, the opponent was Nanyang Middle School, which had won 6 consecutive championships, and Nanyang said that Shanghai High School basketball was second, and no one dared to call it first. It's just that the loss is still a little frustrating, and this is the end of the high school basketball career. The school gave me a place for a basketball student, which I could use to get extra points in the college entrance examination, and if the university needed a basketball student, it could directly recruit me, or even admit him directly.
I was fortunate that three universities soon threw olive branches, and I chose Shanghai Jiaotong University after careful consideration. First, this is a traditional strong team in Shanghai University basketball, which has entered CUBA nationwide competitions many times. There are also very good facilities and coaching staff. The second is that the name of Coach Zhao Wenyin has long been heard, and he is one of my most respected head coaches, 6 years ago, Jiaotong University was still an ordinary team that could not enter the top 32 in East China, and since Coach Zhao Wenyin came, he has brought all the way to the top four in East China and has become a frequent visitor to the CUBA National Competition. It is from his name that he comes. The third reason is simpler, that is, I am close to home, I am a lazy person, I can go to school every day without living on campus.
On the first day of school, my teacher told me to report to the team. When I came to the team, I was greeted by a skinny man with glasses, who was said to be the team's assistant.
"Hello, you are Zhou Junyi! My name is Janett! The skinny man said.
"Garnett!?" Immediately, my mind flashed the appearance of the wolf king Kevin Garnett's teeth and claws, the 213cm octopus and the 170cm skinny man in front of me, there was really no connection.
The thin man smiled bitterly: "No, no, I am Jia Baoyu's Jia, Wu Naiqun's Nai, special special." My dad gave me this name because he wanted me to be someone special. ”
"Yo, I still know Wu Naiqun, the main forward of the Liaoning men's basketball team." I muttered.
"According to the latest news, Wu Naiqun has just transferred back to the Zhejiang Wanma team!" Jarnet straightened his glasses and silently defended his profession.
"What about the team members, why am I alone?" I looked around, and there was no third person in the gym except the two of us.
"Today has just started school, and the team training has not yet started, so today I am responsible for registering your personal information and reporting it to the CUBA Shanghai Organizing Committee. Here's a form for you to fill out. Jarnet reached a form.
I took the form and looked at it, "Height, weight, date of birth, position on the field, characteristics, graduation school, personal experience, etc., are as detailed as a resume." ”
I took the pen, found a chair next to me, and began to write. Halfway through writing, the door of the gymnasium was opened again, and a tall man walked in. I'm 191cm tall, this guy looks a little taller than him, and he's big, so I'm probably the player who came to report on the team.
"Hello, I am a freshman who came to report to the team, my name is Zheng Pengfei!" The boy saw Jarnet speak loudly in a loud voice.
"Hello, Zheng Pengfei, I'm Team Assistant Janet! This is the player registration form, you can fill it out. ”
The guy named Zheng Pengfei walked up to me, found a chair, and filled in the information. I peeked a few times and saw: "Name: Zheng Pengfei, Height: 195cm, Weight: 105KG, Position on the court: power forward, center!" ”
He seemed to sense that I was peeking at him, glanced at me, and said, "Dude, are you on the basketball team too?" ”
I smiled: "Yes, I am also a freshman this year, my name is Zhou Junyi." Small forward, nice to meet you! I held out my hand to shake his hand, but he got up and handed the completed form to Janette.
"My name is Zheng Pengfei! See you at training! He dropped it, turned and left the gym.
"This guy is so rude!" looked at his back as he left, and muttered: What is this guy's strength?
Two weeks later, the new team was formed and began formal training, and head coach Zhao Wenyin usually arranged daily group confrontation training after regular practice.
On the first day of the group match, I was placed in the red group, and the same group was made up of senior players. And the guy named Zheng Pengfei was placed in the blue group, and there was only one junior player, and the others were all freshmen and sophomores.
Zhou Junyi was placed as a power forward in the red group, which happened to be opposite Zheng Pengfei in the blue group. Our group's attack was quite good under the organization of Wang Xiaojun, the main point guard of the junior, and once led 12:4 at the beginning. On the other hand, most of the teammates in the blue group are novices, and the offense is not smooth, and they mostly rely on individual singles, without a clear division of labor. I received Wang Xiaojun's second-to-ground pass, and I scored directly on the basket in the basket, 14:4.
Peng Fei took the basketball, slammed it to the ground, and shouted: "Pass me more balls!" ”
Offensive and defensive conversion, I fell under the basket to defend Zheng Pengfei, the blue team a high hanging pass, sent to Zheng Pengfei's hand, as soon as he received the ball, he relied on the advantage of weight to rely on me, and stepped forward to make up for the defense again, he had already gotten up to shoot, and the ball wiped the board into the basket.
"This guy has a lot of power!" I clutched my chest, and there was a dull ache.
Seeing that the strong attack under the basket was effective, the teammates of the blue team passed the ball to Zheng Pengfei's hands more. Relying on the advantage of height and weight, I could barely limit him under the basket. Soon he scored six points in a row to catch up with the score.
I was reluctant, but I didn't think of a way to restrict him for a while. I suddenly felt someone pat me on the shoulder, and when I looked back, it was Wang Xiaojun: "Your height and weight are not as good as him, and when you defend, you can resist his waist and make him unable to exert his strength." When he wants to get up, pay attention to cutting his ball, and in short, don't let him get up easily. ”
I nodded, and Wang Xiaojun continued: "You have the ability to shoot from a distance, don't get entangled with him under the basket when you attack, pull away and play, let him follow, and shoot from the outside when you have a chance." When the inside line has a chance, he cuts the basket empty. ”
As the captain of the red team, Wang Xiaojun is true. I followed his instructions, and when I attacked, I pulled out more to the basket, and Zheng Pengfei followed, so our team relied on more flexible transmission of the ball to create opportunities under the basket. If he hadn't followed, I'd have shot from the outside, and I had good luck today, with a high shooting percentage.
Defensively, I also listened to Wang Xiaojun's advice. Although his strength was not as good as Zheng Pengfei's, he resisted his back when defending, as if he was choking his throat, making him unable to exert his strength. Coupled with his nimble pace, he had no chance to attack left and right, and ended up either rushing to make a shot or distributing the ball to his teammates. And his teammates didn't have a few consistent scoring points, and their shooting percentage dropped dramatically. The score that had just been chased was pulled away again.
"Boy, yes, there are two brushes!" Peng Fei missed another basket and shouted unconvinced.
"Is that all you have to do with these two hits? If you have any other skills, take them all! I replied without flinching.
Our team has scored two more points, and the gap has been stretched to 15 points. The blue team launched another attack, and Peng Fei, who had failed to attack several times, seemed to have lost the trust of his teammates, and no one passed the ball to him anymore, no matter how he reached for the ball. Didn't pass the ball to him again.
"Give me the ball!" Peng Fei shouted! There was still no one to pass the ball to him, but kept passing the ball on the periphery, seemingly looking for opportunities, but in fact, he was forced by the red team to have no offensive method, until the final offensive time was about to come, Peng Fei couldn't help it anymore, and shouted: "What are you passing on blindly?" Hurry up and give me the ball! This sound stirred up echoes in the arena, making Pengfei's roar even louder. The teammates were stunned and obediently sent the ball to Peng Fei. He had his back against me, and I was still firmly on his waist, making it impossible for him to get up easily. I saw him take a step back, turn sideways, raise his right hand, hold the ball to the highest point, and flick his wrist to flick the ball towards the basket, which is a standard hook shot. The ball went over my head and into the net.
Peng Fei finally scored his first point after several failed attacks. This goal also won the trust of teammates again, and after the previous ineffective hasty attack, there was finally some tacit understanding between teammates, and the sharing of responsibilities was clearer. Although the scoring ability of the two guards is not outstanding, they have a good passing and ball control ability, and they also have a certain tactical literacy. And in the end, it was more about sending the ball to the most stable scoring point: Zheng Pengfei's hands. One-on-one under the basket again, he turned over and jumped, no longer relying on his weight to try to crush the inside, threw the basketball with one hand, and the ball hit the rebound and bounced into the net, scoring two more points.
Turning to face me, he stretched out his hand to look like a gun, blew his mouth into the muzzle of the middle and index fingers, and then made a motion to insert the gun clip under his thigh, and ran to the front court with a smug face.
"This guy is a naked provocation!" I gritted my teeth and quickly followed him, Wang Xiaojun had already noticed my running line, which was in a straight line with my line.
I looked back at him, he comprehended a hit pass, I ran to catch the ball, directly turned to face the basket, when Zheng Pengfei was not stable, jumped high, held the ball with one arm, flew higher and higher, until the entire ball holder all overtook the basket, and then violently pressed down, pressing the ball into the basket, the basket was shaken by my slam dunk. This loud bang is a powerful response to Pengfei's provocation just now.
The teammates on the field exploded the pot with a "bang", jumping and jumping, so excited that they almost didn't come up to pick me up.
Zheng Pengfei and Zhou Junyi are incompatible with each other, you come and go, and you don't take half a step back. But in the end, our red team, which has more main seniors, still won the game. The two sides lined up and shook hands one by one.
"Good fight, boy!" Peng Fei's mouth was still unforgiving, but his hand stretched out.
"Each other, you're also amazing!" I smiled and reached out to shake him tightly.
"Bang Bang Bang~!" A burst of applause came from behind him, and it was head coach Zhao Wenyin who applauded: "You two are playing well!" Very potential! Hehe~! ”
Janette sent the technical statistics table of the game just now, and Zhao Wenyin glanced at it: "Zheng Pengfei has 28 points, 12 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 blocks and 1 steal. Zhou Junyi had 32 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 steals. The two of you scored the highest points on the red team and the blue team, respectively, and even surpassed your seniors. This time the school scouts really didn't look away, they didn't look away! Zhao Wenyin narrowed his eyes and left only one line when he laughed.
Wang Xiaojun, the main point guard, came up and put his arm on my shoulder and said, "Xiao Zhou, you played really well, it seems that you are very promising to become the team's starting small forward, Coach Zhao admires you very much!" "The words of Coach Zhao and Wang Xiaojun greatly encouraged me
The next morning, at eight o'clock in the morning, I came to the arena at half past six to practice, and as soon as I opened the door of the gymnasium, a familiar figure was already shooting basketballs on the court.
"Isn't this Pengfei! This guy is more diligent than me! ”
Peng Fei hit a mid-range shot, the ball just went into the basket, and another ball followed into the basket. Zheng Pengfei was startled, turned around, saw me standing outside the three-point line, and said, "Yo, you came early!" ”
"I really didn't expect that there were people who came before me, how long have you been here?"
"It won't take long, just ten minutes!"
"So diligent, were you inspired by Coach Zhao's words?"
"I'm not playing to be looked down upon by anyone, players must at least be worthy of themselves on the court, if you just train perfunctory, what's the difference between it and salted fish, it's better to sleep at home." I only play to be worthy of myself! As he spoke, he picked up the basketball again and shot directly outside the three-point line, and the ball actually drew a high arc and went into the net.
"Well said! Pengfei! "I also picked up a basketball and threw it to the basket.
After throwing for a while, Peng Fei stopped and said, "How about it, do you dare to play a game one-on-one?" ”
"What, I wasn't convinced yesterday and came back?"
"Hehe, don't you dare?"
"Come on, who's afraid of whom!?" I picked up the basketball, handed it to him, and said, "Tee off, come on!" ”