Chapter Thirty-Eight: Falling is to Hold On

In the fourth quarter, the Baxia team used Sun Ce and Tai Shici to contain Shi Nan and Chen Dao, and then added Gan Ning's individual singles to make Huang Zhong tired of coping. When defending, Lu Meng was as fiercely entangled as ever, making Huang Zhong tired. Soon Huang Zhong was sweating profusely, panting from exhaustion, out of breath, beads of sweat the size of beans kept dripping down his cheeks, his physical strength was overdrawn, and he felt that he couldn't hold on anymore.

"Am I wrong? Will Huang Zhong be able to make it to the end? Guan Lao was a little flustered, holding on to the tactical board tightly.

"There is no way, if the combination of Tai Shici and Sun Ce is fully played, the game will end early in the third quarter. However, it seems that it is difficult to say whether Huang Zhong can hold on to the end. Xi Zhicai also had a sad face.

"Can't you replace Huang Zhong and rest for a while?" Shangguan Hong asked.

"Can't!" Xi Zhicai and Guan Ning retorted at the same time, looking at each other melancholy, only a helpless wry smile trembled at the corners of their mouths. Xi Zhicai saw that Guan Ning was not in the mood to continue, so he could only tell Shangguan Hong the reason: "The team has been able to hold out until now, completely because of Huang Zhong's defensive output and offensive containment." If Huang Zhong goes down, Gan Ning will completely break out, Jiaolong will get water, and the entire Baxia team will be completely revitalized; And if we want to pull back the 8-point gap, we can only rely on Huang Zhong's three-point shot; The most important thing is that he is the spiritual core of the field, and taking a step back at this moment is an abyss, and I think he understands that. ”

Gan Ning changed direction and dribbled, Huang Zhong's body reflected that he couldn't keep up with his consciousness, staggered to the ground, watched Gan Ning gallop away, and scored a jump shot under the basket.

Huang Zhong felt that he was top-heavy, his legs were fluttering, and the soles of his feet were like stepping on cotton, running in the front court with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"You just give up, you can't score goals in this state, you can only drag your teammates on the field." Lu Meng said sarcastically, at this time, he was also sweating, and his clothes were all wet, but he still stubbornly squeezed Huang Zhong's space, "I will never lose, you don't have to struggle!" But your tenacity has earned my respect, and I think your teammates and family will understand you now. ”

"My family!" Huang Zhong turned his head to the side with difficulty, looking for the familiar figure in the audience, as if he vaguely heard his voice yesterday, "Dad, tomorrow my aunt said to take me out of the hospital and take me to watch your game." It's my first time watching you play, and I'll be rooting you on! ”

"Isn't Dad useless?" Huang Zhong muttered, even Lu Meng, who was close at hand, couldn't understand what he was saying, "Are you cheering for me?" ”

"Come on, Dad!" When the little boy saw Huang Zhong looking at him, he shouted loudly in a childish voice while raising his small fist. The sound was drowned out by the noisy noise of the court, but Huang Zhong seemed to understand the child's thoughts, and at this moment he felt a warm current suddenly crossing his body, which was very comfortable.

Huang Zhong struggled to get rid of Lu Meng's entanglement, and from the beginning of the third quarter to the present, he took the initiative to ask for the first time. Yan Xing's ball flew over immediately. Huang Zhong directly pressed Lu Meng to jump, and hit a three-point shot on Lu Meng's head. At 104:109, the Dragons and Elephants were still five points behind, with only 3 minutes and 12 seconds left.

Huang Zhong staggered back to the backcourt. But the enemy will never sympathize with you, Gan Ning crosses and changes direction to break through, and after a breakthrough, he hits a jump shot directly. 104:111, the difference widened to 7 points.

Huang Zhong dragged a tired body to the front court, after receiving the ball, he broke through a step on the left, cut in with a feint, dribbled behind his back, and after receiving the ball with his right hand, he stepped back to shoot, Lu Meng jumped up and blocked it on his arm, Huang Zhong's body completely lost his balance and smashed directly to the ground. The referee's whistle blew and he hit a three-point shot and added a free throw. Huang Zhong felt that his lower body was already unconscious, sat up, and squeezed his thighs vigorously, hoping to regain some consciousness with pain.

Shi Nan and Ju Yi pulled Huang Zhong up, and Shi Nan said a little choked: "Is it okay?" ”

"It's okay, I'll take a few steps," Huang Zhong staggered a few steps and returned to the free throw line to hit the free throw steadily. At 108:111, the difference was suddenly reduced to 3 minutes, and there were only 2 minutes and 36 seconds left.

Yan Xing fouled Tai Shici, stopping the opponent's fast attack and buying time for Huang Zhong to retreat. Huang Zhong limped back to the backcourt, and the team still played Gan Ning. After Gan Ning received the ball, he continued to cross the ball under his crotch, but found that Huang Zhong couldn't even bend his waist, so he jumped directly, but Huang Zhong suddenly stood on tiptoe and barely stretched his arms to pounce. Gan Ning was directly knocked back three steps, but Huang Zhong faced the loess straight and lay motionless on the ground. The referee awarded a defensive foul and made two free throws.

"How are you?" Yan Xing couldn't cry anymore.

"Not dead yet!" Huang Zhong moved his body and turned over with difficulty. "Pull me up and tell me the direction of the other team's basket." Huang Zhong walked through the middle circle like this, came to the opponent's three-point line, and turned his head to the side with great difficulty, looking for the familiar figure in the audience. "Now I can only see the basket and you, let's fight together, shall we?" After muttering, he slowly turned his head back. A figure twitched slightly, but stood stubbornly, with only the basket left in his eyes.

When Gan Ning made a free throw, he kept replaying in his mind the man who could only stand on tiptoe desperately, pounced, and fell heavily to the ground. The 92 per cent free throw percentage was just one goal this time. 108:112, the difference is still 4 points, and the time is 2 minutes and 20 seconds.

Yan Xing dribbled to the outside of the three-point line, Lu Meng always defended Huang Zhong in front of him, Ju Yi stepped forward to make a no-ball block for Huang Zhong, Lu Meng squeezed through the wall, and always stared at Huang Zhong. Chen Zhi covered Yan Xing, Yan Xing got rid of Tai Shici's entanglement, dribbled to Huang Zhong's side, and with a hand-to-hand pass, the other players quickly pulled away. Huang Zhong protected the ball with his left hand, lowered his head and broke through with the ball with his right hand to the bottom line, and made a quick stop and jumped back, in fact, it was not a backward jumper, without any jumping height, in order to avoid Lu Meng's block, he directly lay down and pushed the ball out. After shooting, the person completely lost his balance, and his feet could no longer support the weight of his body at all, and he fell directly to the ground. But three points went in. At 111:112, the Dragons trailed by only one point, with 2 minutes and 1 second left on the clock.

"How are you? Wake up, you open your eyes and see the ball is in. Yan Xing was already in tears, and the others were also in tears. The audience was silent, and everyone held their breath at this moment, and occasionally sobbing sounded. Suddenly, I don't know who cried softly, "Come on, Dragon Elephant Team!" Suddenly, it was like a flame falling into the sea of oil, and it immediately caused the audience to cry out "Come on, Dragon Elephant Team!" Come on, Dragon Elephants! The audience used this to express their shock and emotion.

"How?" Shangguan Hong stared at the team doctor and asked in horror.

"Excessive fatigue, which caused temporary fainting, lifted him to the aisle ventilation, and then raised both lower limbs to ensure that the brain tissue had as much blood supply as possible." After the team doctor finished speaking, the substitute team members didn't have time to wait for the stretcher to enter the field, and a few people directly carried Huang Zhong carefully to the vent.

"Huang Zhong will leave the rest to us! The dragon elephant is out, and the heroes are avoided! Shi Nan stood up, his trembling voice with a hint of crying.

"Dragon-elephant-out, group-male-avoid!" The dragon elephant team is like a group of crazy hungry wolves, one stretches out his neck and roars loudly, which is the momentum of people blocking and killing Buddhas.

On the other side, Coach Zhou Yu was also roaring loudly: "Give up that trace of sympathy in our hearts, we are wolves, no matter how they call them, they are still a group of sheep, and it is natural for wolves to eat sheep." The other party fell at our feet because we were stronger than them. Brothers, show our real fangs and crush them completely! ”

"The ambition of hegemony, dominate the world" Lu Meng took the lead in shouting, his voice as firm and domineering as ever.

In the final two minutes, both teams charged with bayonets and fought for victory in a white-knuckle battle. Spare no effort in defense, desperate steals, ruthless cold arrows, ferocious dunks, and imposing blocks...... It is constantly bloody on the field.

Shi Nan finally burst into his athletic talent and grabbed rebounds many times. 117:116, 11 seconds before the end of the game, the Dragons took the lead for the first time in the game and dominated the team's possession. The Baxia team asked for a long tentative and arranged the last attack.

"I think the opponent should arrange for the inside to score two points, and there is a chance that this ball will be handed over to Sun Ce to attack the inside in the end. Today, Sun Ce made 11 of 15 shots and 7 of 8 free throws, with a very high shooting rate, and if he played this, the opponent would win 70% of the game. Xi Zhicai analyzed.

"Yes, I agree with you, but after all, there is only 1 point missing, and other personnel also have to defend, especially Gan Ning, with his scoring ability, it is easy to break through and attack the basket directly, after Shi Nan defends Sun Ce, there is no barrier under our basket. Ju Yi, you have a very heavy task, you have to make up for Gan Ning's breakthrough, and at the same time, you must also pay attention to Gan Ning's direct pass to Zhou Tai, if you give up the basket, Zhou Tai will be unstoppable, so Yan Xing and Wang Ping must shrink to the free throw line attachment, always ready to pack the ball holder. Guan Ning pointed out another option for the other party.

"I want to ask, what you think of, will the other coach think of it?" Shangguan Hong remembered another picture at this time, "It was completely dark, and a man was at a 60-degree angle on the left side, with his eyes closed, completely relying on his body memory, and scored fifteen three-pointers in a row."

"The other party can definitely think of it, but it is only one point, he has two options, and the success rate is above 70%, we can only bet." Xi Zhicai's voice was slightly tight.

"We shrink our defense to prevent the opponent from shooting and penetrating, but what if the opponent releases a cold arrow from beyond the three-point line?" Shangguan Hong asked.

"No, even if the opponent's three-point shooting rate is high, it is difficult to reach a shooting rate of more than 52%, and Tai Shici, who has the highest shooting rate today, is only 5 of 11 today." Xi Zhicai said firmly.

"That's what you all think!" Shangguan Hong asked, but Xi Zhicai and the other players nodded.

"Then I know who the last shot was!" Shangguan Hong asked Guan Ning to rearrange his defensive tactics according to his own judgment.

Lu Meng served, after Gan Ning received the ball, Wang Ping and Yan Xing were sandwiched, Gan Ning passed the ball to Sun Ce near the free throw line, Yan Xing decisively gave up the defense of Gan Ning, and moved to the left. Sun Ce burst into the interior with the ball, attracting the defense of Chen Zhi and Shi Nan, with a weird smile on the corner of his mouth, and directly passed the ball back to Tai Shici at a 60-degree angle on the left. But Yan Xing jumped out, his fingers touched the basketball, and the basketball was picked up by Chen Zhi, and passed the ball to Yan Xing, who was about to go down, before Sun Ce fouled. Tai Shi Ci and Lu Meng chased Yan Xing straight away, but the referee blew the final whistle.