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Yang Tian is a reporter for the Youth Basketball Newspaper and was assigned by the editor-in-chief to follow up on several games in Group A of the South Division of the National High School Basketball League. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info So since the opening game of Group A in the South Region, Hong Cheng vs. the God Destroyer, he has been following the report.

At that time, he was also more optimistic about the God Destroyer team, and in the end, it was indeed the God Destroyer team that won the game.

What surprised Yang Tian was Hong Cheng's performance, although Hong Cheng's performance in the first half was very bad, but he played well in the second half. To be exact, at the beginning of the second half of the third quarter, a counterattack frenzy was set off, and the God Exterminator Team was almost killed.

It was also because of that game that Yang Tian began to pay attention to Hong Cheng.

And Hong Cheng did not disappoint him, and defeated the Ma Tian team by 15 points today, showing the style of a strong team.

When the game was over, Yang Tian stepped forward to interview, and the result was beyond his expectations, Hongcheng coach Tao Ran was very enthusiastic about him, and immediately agreed to give him an interview. For this reason, Tao Ran even rejected several other media, which can be said to be full of sincerity.

Sitting in the taxi, holding today's interview materials in his hands, Yang Tian couldn't help laughing, "With this unique interview information, our Youth Basketball Newspaper will be the leader this time." "Being able to have an exclusive interview with Hong Cheng, he has already overfulfilled the task, and he can't help but be excited at this time, he just wants to hurry up and return to the company, so that the editor-in-chief can ask for credit.

The next day, Yang Tian arrived at the newspaper office early and went directly to the editor-in-chief's office.

"Oh, it's Yang Tian, come and sit." The editor-in-chief waved at Yang Tian and asked with a smile, "I heard that Hongcheng won yesterday?" ”

"Yes." Yang Tian nodded hurriedly, "Won the Ma Tian team by 15 points." ”

"Hehe, it's good that our report was more pertinent last time, otherwise it would be a shame this time." The editor-in-chief smiled and asked, "By the way, how was your interview?" ”

As soon as he heard the editor-in-chief ask about this, Yang Tian was shocked, took out the exclusive interview materials that he had sorted out overnight yesterday from his bag and handed them to the editor-in-chief, and said with a smile: "Editor-in-chief, please see, this is an exclusive interview I did for Hongcheng yesterday, and we are the only one." ”

"Oh?" The editor-in-chief raised his head, browsed through the materials, raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Your interview information is very detailed, very good." ”

"Hehe...... Yang Tian scratched the back of his head and laughed.

The editor-in-chief said: "Although Hongcheng's team is a newcomer to the national divisional competition, I am very optimistic about them, although they are a young team, they are full of potential, and every player is very good, especially Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, who are very good." ”

"I found a friend of mine yesterday, and I found out that Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji have both participated in Liu Weiping's training camp, Kobe training camp, and have also won the MVP of Kobe training camp 17-year-old and 18-year-old age group respectively, which shows that these two young men are by no means in the pool. I have a feeling that the future of these two people will definitely shock us, and maybe they will be the ones who will change the basketball landscape in our country. ”

"Ahh Yang Tianliu opened his mouth, his face could not hide his surprise, and said with a wry smile: "Editor-in-chief, will your words be too exaggerated?" ”

The editor-in-chief of "Hehe......" was also a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "This is actually not what I said, it was my friend who said it, he is the coach of Guangxi East China Economic Company, and he has brought out many excellent players, and I still believe in his vision." ”

"So in the future, we will pay more attention to Hongcheng, pay attention to Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, and I will leave this matter to you." The editor-in-chief advised, "You must do it for me." ”

In fact, Yang Tian was also very optimistic about Hong Cheng, and the editor-in-chief's thoughts were the same, and when he heard the editor-in-chief say this, he was very relieved, and said with a smile: "You can rest assured about this matter, I have already told Coach Lu of Hongcheng that in the future, they Hongcheng will only accept interviews from our Youth Basketball News." ”

"Oh?" The editor-in-chief couldn't help but be pleasantly surprised, to do their job, you have to press the right treasure first, and secondly, people have to be willing to let you interview.

Anyway, Bao is going to press on Hong Cheng, but whether people are willing to let you interview, or whether they will give you first-hand information, is a question. He was still having a headache, how could he be unhappy when he heard Yang Tian say this.

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At this time, a report was sent out from the Youth Basketball News, which was an exclusive interview with Hong Cheng.

Through this report, everyone has a detailed understanding of Hongcheng, knowing that Hongcheng almost won the Guangxi championship last year, and their team members Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji participated in Liu Weiping's training camp and Kobe training camp.

In addition, the two also won MVPs in their respective age groups in Kobe Bryant's training camp.

If Liu Weiping's training camp is not convincing enough, then Kobe Bryant's training camp can definitely tell the story, you can get the MVP of Kobe Bryant's training camp, can you say that people are weak? With such two players here, can you say that Hong Cheng is a fish belly team?

What's more, the Youth Basketball News also made a detailed analysis of Hongcheng's games against the God Destroyer Team and the Ma Tian team, so that the public finally knew that the original God Destroyer Team did occupy the advantage of the home court, and it turned out that Hong Cheng's defeat of the Ma Tian team was indeed not by luck.

Data doesn't lie, and as soon as these things are taken out, everyone knows who is right and who is wrong.

The media no longer dared to doubt Hongcheng's strength, they just thought it was strange, such detailed data, especially the fact that Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji had participated in Kobe Bryant's training camp, they didn't know about it, so where did the Youth Basketball News know about it?

In fact, if these people knew that Hong Cheng had promised to only accept interviews with the Youth Basketball News, they would probably guess one or two.

That's right, these materials were all revealed by Tao Ran to the Youth Basketball News.

In addition, the fame of Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji also rose rapidly. Because the report of the Youth Basketball News let people know that it turned out that Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji had actually participated in Kobe Bryant's training camp and won the MVP of their respective age groups. It was Kobe Bryant's training camp, and it wasn't easy to get the MVP.

You must know that Kobe Bryant's training camp is full of talents, and if you can get the MVP of Kobe Bryant's training camp, the future will be limitless.

Therefore, many media began to contact Hong Cheng and wanted to interview Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, but they were all rejected by Hong Cheng.

Although Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji could not be interviewed, the interest of the major media in the two did not decrease at all, and they used their brains to dig out the past of the two from various channels, so that the names of Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji suddenly became frequent visitors in these media reports, and their fame also rose rapidly.

This, however, surprised Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji.

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Three days later, the third game of the group stage of Hongcheng arrived, against Chongqing Jialing Live Fish.

In this game, Hongcheng is playing away, but with the experience of the last time against the God Destroyer team, everyone in Hong City has adapted to the atmosphere of the away team, and there is no problem when they played against the God Destroyer team last time, and they have played steadily from the beginning of the game.

At the end of the first quarter, Hongcheng and Jialing Live Fish were tied.

From the second quarter, Hong Cheng began to exert his might, Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji began to bomb the basket of the Jialing Live Fish Team frantically, setting off a 12:0 shock wave, which made the Jialing Live Fish Team unable to raise its head, and the score difference was suddenly stretched to more than ten points.

In the second half, the Jialing Live Fish Team launched a counterattack, but unfortunately it did not work, under the leadership of Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, Hongcheng's morale was high, blocking the counterattack of the Jialing Live Fish Team.

In the end, Hongcheng defeated the Jialing Live Fish Team 99-88.

In this game, Hongcheng played well, Li Changgeng scored 29 points, 5 rebounds, and 10 assists; Sima Shenji scored 27 points, 6 rebounds, and 1 assist; Nongguang had 12 points and 17 rebounds, and the three of them alone scored 68 points, accounting for more than half of the team's scores.

For the powerful firepower of the trident composed of Li Changgeng, Sima Shenji, and Nongguang, the major media were also surprised and sighed.

For Hongcheng itself, defeating the Jialing Live Fish team, they got another 1 point, with a record of two wins in three games, they are currently tied for second place in Group A in the South District with the Gangbei Luocun team in Guizhou, only 1 point behind the first-place God Exterminator team.

Now that most of the group stage has passed, each team has played three games, only the last one remains, and the God Destroyer team will face the Ma Tian team in the next game, with the strength of the God Destroyer team, most of them can defeat Huayin Middle School, and rank first in the group with a record of four wins, and the first group will qualify. Then the other qualifying place can only be one of the teams of Hongcheng and Gangbei Luocun.

Therefore, the battle between Hongcheng and Gangbei Luocun team is also a battle of life and death, whoever wins will be able to qualify from the group, and whoever loses will have to get out.

For such a game, whether it is Hongcheng or Gangbei Luocun team, they can only win and cannot lose, and there is a lot of pressure.

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Two days later, Hongcheng rushed to Guizhou and played away against the Guizhou Gangbei Luocun team.

In order to cheer for Hongcheng, Luo Jinnan and Xiaoli rushed over with their assistants; Liao Ming and Tyumen also asked for leave; The director of the Hongcheng Bureau did not hesitate to charter a car and rushed to the scene with the cheerleaders to cheer for the Hongcheng players who were fighting away.

"Toot ......"

When the whistle blew and the game began, the confrontation between the players on both sides instantly entered a white-hot state, which was very intense.

This game is too important, and it is about whether or not they can qualify from the group, so whether it is Hongcheng or Gangbei Luocun team, they are all fighting.

"Huh!"

Li Changgeng found an open opportunity, shot outside the three-point line, and the ball obediently drilled into the hoop, a beautiful three-point shot.

Sima Shenji not only did not behave abnormally, but performed exceptionally well, breaking through, jumping baskets, and dunking...... All kinds of means emerge in an endless stream, it is like entering a no-man's land, and getting points is as easy as chopping melons and vegetables.

Sima Shenji scored 15 points in the first quarter alone, and the Gangbei Luocun team, which was almost beaten by one person, had no power to fight back, and its performance was staggering.

However, the Gangbei Luocun team is not a low hand.

In the second half of the second quarter, Tao Ran replaced Sima Shenji and Li Changgeng, as well as Nongguang, and the Gangbei Luocun team also replaced core players. However, their rotation lineup turned out to be excessively strong, not much worse than the starting lineup, and soon tied the score and overtook it.

This surprised Tao Ran, and he had to send Li Changgeng up, which curbed the momentum of the Gangbei Luocun team.

Until the end of the first half, Hongcheng and Gangbei Luocun team drawn, which made everyone sigh that it was a draw.

At the beginning of the second half, the two teams went back and forth, and the score also rose alternately.

Hong Cheng outperformed the Gangbei Luocun team in the starting lineup, but lost to the Gangbei Luocun team in the rotation lineup, so the score has not been able to pull away, maintaining the situation that you are leading for a while, and I am leading for a while, and it has been stalemate until the second half of the fourth quarter.

At this time, Hongcheng's advantages of having two super cores were revealed, Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji began to take over the game, and the two took turns to exert their strength, slashing points crazily, fighting against the Gangbei Luocun team with the strength of the two, and also steadily suppressed the Gangbei Luocun team.

In the second half of the fourth quarter alone, Li Changgeng scored 11 points, and Sima Shenji also scored 10 points.

It was also with the power of Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji at the last moment that Hongcheng finally defeated the Gangbei Luocun team 108:102 and won this crucial battle.

At the end of the game, Luo Jinnan, Xiaoli and others who supported Hongcheng, Liao Ming, Qiuming and other Hongcheng students, as well as Hongcheng Bureau Chief, and all the cheerleaders were very happy and cheered loudly for Hongcheng to celebrate Hongcheng's qualification.

Hongcheng and the team members also gathered together, extremely excited. They really did it, except for the first game of the group stage, they won all three of their next three games, swept all their opponents, ranked second in the group in terms of overall points, and qualified for the group.

Of course, there must be a few happy families, and the Gangbei Luocun team, which was robbed of the qualification for the group, was extremely disappointed.

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At the same time, Zhejiang, the Provincial Sports Center, and the God Destroying Team defeated the Sichuan Ma Tian team, winning all 4 games in the group stage, ranking first in the total points, and also qualified for the group.

As a result, the game of Group A in the South Region of this National High School Basketball League has basically come to an end, with the God Destroyer team ranking first with a total score of 4 points, and Hongcheng ranking second with a total score of 3 points, and these two teams have qualified as the top two teams in the group.

And the next thing they are going to usher in is the cross-elimination tournament in the South Zone, the top two teams in Group A and Group B, a total of four teams, will play each other cross-match, one will be a life-and-death battle, and the two winning teams will fight again to determine the champion of the South Zone. The two losing teams will also play a game to determine the third or fourth place.

At this time, Hunan Province, Donglin team.

Although it was already eight o'clock in the evening at this time, in the school's basketball hall, Xu Anya and her teammates were still sweating and training hard.

A mobile phone rang, Xu Anya stopped, walked to the sidelines, picked up the phone, and pressed the answer button: "Xiaobai, how is it ......?"

After saying a few words to the person on the other end of the phone, Xu Anya hung up the phone, looked up, and saw that the captain Marseille didn't know when he came over and was standing in front of him.

"How's it going, Hongcheng won?" Marseille asked.

"Hmm." Xu Anya nodded, and said with some complications, "They won, second in the group, and this time they are really going to meet us." ”

Marseille nodded, his expression was a little solemn, their South Zone Group B game ended yesterday, and the Donglin team won all four games and qualified first in the group. According to the rules of the next cross-elimination round, the second place in Group A will face the first place in Group B, and Hong Cheng will meet their Donglin team.

If it was before, Marseille didn't think it was anything, because he didn't think that there was anything great about Hongcheng that Xu Anya had been talking about.

But now it's different, thanks to Xu Anya's attention to Hongcheng, Marseille also has a lot of understanding of Hongcheng.

Especially in the group stage this time, he was pulled by Xu Anya to watch the live TV broadcast of the two Hongcheng games, and knew that Hongcheng's strength should not be underestimated.

Therefore, seeing that he was about to meet Hong Cheng next, he couldn't help but be a little nervous.

"Captain." Seeing that the captain looked solemn and seemed to be thinking about something, Xu Anya shouted.

"Oh." Marseille came back to his senses and said with a wry smile: "To be honest, I didn't pay attention to this Hongcheng at all. But after watching the two games in Hongcheng, I knew that this was definitely a strong team, and I would rather meet the God Destroyer team. ”

"yes." Xu Anya also said, "Although the God Exterminator Team is powerful, there are no too perverted guys, our Donglin Team is good at defense, I believe that if we encounter them, we will definitely be able to prevent them, so that they can't open no matter what point they are." ”

"But Hongcheng ......" Xu Anya shook her head, a little helpless, "Others are easy to say, but Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, I'm afraid no one on our side can prevent it." ”

"That's why I said I'd rather run into the God Exterminator than fight Hongcheng." Marseille spread his hands, the core of their team is him, and his defense is also his strongest, but he plays as a center forward, do you still expect a center forward to defend other people's defenders?

"Forget it, let's take it one step at a time." Xu Anya said.

Marseille didn't have much to do, so he could only nod and say: "Let's go, continue to train, although Hongcheng is very strong, but we are not weak, and we are the first in Group B, we have a home advantage, and when the time comes, we will be in our territory, and there is a way to clean them up." ”

The game was won, and Hong Cheng also successfully qualified for the group, and the director was happy, so he invited everyone in the city team to eat that night and treat everyone.

After a long time of turmoil, when everyone was full of food and drink, they went back to their rooms, and after a night's rest, they would board the car early tomorrow morning and rush back to the city.

Sima Shenji suddenly grabbed Li Changgeng and said, "Come with me." ”

"Huh?" Li Changgeng looked at Sima Shenji, and his heart suddenly moved, so he nodded and said, "It's okay, walking will help digestion, let's go." ”

Sima Shenji didn't say much, walked ahead in a muffled voice, and left the hotel with Li Changgeng one after the other.

The neon flickering outside, a bustling scene, Li Changgeng followed behind, seeing that Sima Shenji didn't speak, he didn't ask much, just followed Sima Shenji.

After a few minutes, Sima Shenji stopped, pointed to a food stall and said, "Let's go, go in and have two drinks." After speaking, he couldn't help but say, when he walked in first, Li Changgeng had no choice but to follow up.

This food stall is a common barbecue stand on the street at night, and the two of them sat down, ordered some barbecue, and asked for a case of beer. After a while, the barbecue came up, and the beer was also brought over, Sima Shenji opened two bottles of beer, got himself a glass, and then gave Li Changgeng a cup, picked up the cup and said, "Come, toast to our victory today." After saying that, he dried himself first.

"Alas......" Li Changgeng smiled bitterly and did it too.

Sima Shenji filled another cup and said, "Thank you for accompanying me out, I respect you for this cup." ”

In this way, Sima Shenji went from celebrating that he had won the game today, to thanking Li Changgeng for accompanying him out, and then to congratulating the country on its prosperity and strength...... After a few glasses of wine, his reasons became more and more nonsense, and he didn't say anything else, anyway, he just looked like he was begging to get drunk, which made Li Changgeng unable to hold back anymore.

"Alright." Holding down the cup, Li Changgeng frowned and said, "If you want to drink, you can drink it, I will accompany you to drink, but say everything you need to say, holding it in your heart is not a way." ”

"You know?" Sima Shenji suddenly raised his head.

"Of course I do." Li Changgeng nodded and sighed: "Say whatever you want, even if you want to cry, I won't laugh at you, as long as you don't hold back." It's right to get drunk to relieve a thousand sorrows, but you don't say anything, and if you get drunk like this, can you use it? ”

"Don't worry, no matter how long it has been, no matter what happens, I won't change, we're still good brothers."

"Thank you." Sima Shenji smiled, continued to drink, and did not speak.

An hour later, Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji were both drunk.

A case of beer was drunk by most of the two of them, that is, both of them played basketball, tall and strong, if it was an ordinary person, I am afraid that they would have fallen down long ago.

Seeing that Sima Shenji was already a little delirious and babbling nonsense, Li Changgeng shook his head and got up to go to the counter to settle the bill. I can't drink anymore, Sima Shenji is fine when he's drunk, but the question is how can he go back to the hotel tonight if he is drunk?

"Boss, check out."

"Okay."

A few days have passed in a blink of an eye, and Hongcheng finally ushered in their next opponent, the Donglin team, which is the first in Group B.

This time it's a cross-knockout match, a do-or-die match, and the winning team is able to move on to the next stage of the national divisional competition, the Challenger. As for the losing team, it means that it will stop at this National High School Basketball League, and at most it can only be a consolation prize and a ranking.

Therefore, this game is very important for Hongcheng and Donglin team, and it is a necessary step to enter the national challenge and hit the national championship.

Moreover, this time the home stadium of the Donglin team will be a severe test for Hongcheng.

Hunan Province, Provincial Sports Center.

In the locker room, everyone in Hongcheng began to change clothes.

"Xu Anya called me yesterday." Sima Shenji said to Li Changgeng while tying his shoelaces.

"Oh?" Li Changgeng raised his head and smiled slightly, "What did he say?" ”

"What else can you say, declare war on us?" Sima Shenji shrugged his shoulders and said, "That guy is still like that, he stinks very much, and he swears that he will defeat us." Saying that this year's goal is to win the national championship, and although we are all friends, he will not show mercy. ”

"Yarn." Li Changgeng sneered, "Be merciful to your subordinates, what he said is too big, and he is not afraid of blowing the cowhide out." ”

"Hehe, I think so too, anyway, this time we have to win, it's a big deal to invite Xu Anya to have a meal to comfort after the game." Sima Shenji said.

"This can be there." Li Changgeng nodded.