Chapter 172: Second Battle
Two days have passed in a blink of an eye, and Hongcheng finally ushered in their second game of the group stage, against Sichuan Gaoyang Matian team. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Gaoyang Matian Team is the champion of Sichuan and a very strong team, which has reached the national division competition three times in history, and can be said to be an old strong team.
However, the home and away allocation in the group stage is determined by drawing, although the Ma Tian team is an old strong team, much older than Hongcheng, but they were unlucky and did not draw the home draw, so the location of this game is Guangxi, Hongcheng's home stadium.
The provincial gymnasium, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people, sat in more than half of the seats, almost all of which were fans who came to support Hongcheng.
Of course, because Sichuan and Guangxi are relatively close, there are also some die-hard fans of the Ma Tian team who rushed over from Sichuan to cheer for the Ma Tian team. It's just that there are too few people, and the people who support Hongcheng can't be compared with Ben, and they are completely submerged.
Coming out of the locker room, the players of the Ma Tian team immediately felt what Hong Cheng had suffered in Zhejiang last time, and the stadium was full of boos and deafening.
Fortunately, this is not the first time that the Ma Tian team has reached the national divisional competition, and they have already had experience, and their performance is much better than Hong Cheng, at least on the surface.
After a while, the Hongcheng players also came out of the players' tunnel.
In an instant, the audience stood up, cheered, and shouted throughout the stadium, and countless people shouted the names of the players one by one, and the atmosphere was warm and shocking.
Hearing the cheers of the whole stadium, Hongcheng and the players almost burst into tears. After experiencing the devil's away game in Zhejiang last time, they returned to the home stadium and heard the voices of the home audience, they felt in their hearts, and they couldn't stop waving to the fans in the audience one by one to show their gratitude.
Luo Jinnan, Xiaoli, and the assistant also arrived at the scene, seeing the warm atmosphere of the scene, Luo Jinnan laughed and couldn't help but sigh: "It's still the home field!" ”
"That's for sure." Xiao Li nodded and looked at the players in Hong Cheng, "I hope they don't have any problems this time." ”
Not far away, Liao Ming, Ma Ze, and Tyumen also arrived.
I didn't go to Zhejiang last time to cheer for Li Changgeng and them, and in the end, Hongcheng lost, which made Liao Ming and the others feel very depressed. This time it was in Guangxi, their home field, and they naturally couldn't be absent, so they simply skipped class and rushed to the provincial capital early.
Seeing Li Changgeng and others coming out, several people suddenly came to their senses, shouting at the top of their voices, "Come on Hongcheng, Hongcheng will win", cheer for the city team!
Near the stadium, Director Hongcheng led the cheerleaders, waving banners and cheering for Hongcheng.
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At 5:50 p.m., seeing that the game was about to start, the coach of the Martin team called the players to him and began to arrange tactics.
On Hongcheng's side, Tao Ran also called the team members over and said, "The first section is still Li Changgeng, Sima Shenji, Sima Shenji, Ah Long, Nongguang, a few of you." He looked serious, his face was murderous, and he said in a non-negotiable tone: "I just need to win, not lose." ”
"Victory!" Li Changgeng and several people shouted in unison.
Tao Ran nodded and began to arrange tactics. In fact, there is not much arrangement, the game has not started yet, and they can only play according to their usual tactics, and if it is necessary to make tactical adjustments according to the situation on the field.
After giving the order, Tao Ran stopped being verbose, raised his fist, and cheered everyone up: "Fight hard, don't forget, we have to defend the glory and dignity of Hongcheng!" ”
Several people nodded, and their fighting spirit soared.
"Toot ......"
When the whistle sounded, the players on both sides came on the field, Li Changgeng and several people held their heads high, their momentum was like a rainbow, and everyone's eyes were full of fighting spirit, like flames.
This match is not just a group stage for them, it is a game to defend glory and dignity, and they must win!
Therefore, they all have only one thought in their hearts, to win this game and let those who dare to underestimate Hongcheng take a good look.
"Hey, Hongcheng is so strong!" Sensing Hong Cheng's momentum, Martin team point guard Huang Yuyuan frowned and said.
The starting line-ups for the Martin team are center Xu Zhiguang, power forward Ambassador Yang, small forward Li Zhifeng, scoring guard Huang Yuyuan, and point guard Malloy. Among them, the big forward Ambassador Yang is the captain, the small forward Li Zhifeng is the core of the team, and the strength of the others is also very good.
Hearing the words of the Imperial Garden, Li Zhifeng snorted disapplausively: "I think they are just strong outsiders and middle-class cadres, and they look like rainbows, but in fact they are just local chickens and dogs." ”
"Can't be careless." Ambassador Yang, who is still the captain, glared at Li Zhifeng, and told several teammates: "No matter what the strength of the other party is, we must go all out, if anyone breaks things because of carelessness, don't blame me for turning his face." ”
"Yes." Several people even said.
Ma Tian team center Xu Zhiguang is only two meters and one, and the bounce is average, so there is no suspense that the jump ball is won by Nongguang and gives the ball to Sima Shenji.
Sima Shenji advanced with the ball, Li Changgeng and a few people quickly ran to the frontcourt, and the people of the Ma Tian team also quickly fell into position and waited for it.
He is one meter eight or nine tall, six centimeters taller than Li Changgeng, his speed is also very fast, his physical condition is excellent, and defense is his strength, so he is not stunned at all in the face of Li Changgeng, he only stared at Li Changgeng coldly, and said secretly: "Come on, see how I can prevent you!" ”
Seeing that Sima Shenji had passed half the time, Li Changgeng glanced at the Imperial Garden, and suddenly shook twice under his feet, and the whole person was like a butterfly, fluttering as if he was about to fly away.
"This ......" Huang Yuyuan was taken aback, and stepped forward, wanting to cling to Li Changgeng.
But when he stepped forward, he felt a flower in front of him, and Li Changgeng suddenly turned around and slipped past him, and the other accelerated to throw him away.
Huang Yuyuan secretly screamed that it was not good, and hurriedly pursued, only two steps before he crashed into a human wall, and he was blocked by Sima Shenji who came to cover.
At this time, Li Changgeng had already reached the three-point line on the other side, and Sima Shenji's ball happened to pass, he received the ball, jumped, and shook his wrist......
"Huh!"
Hollow hit!
"Good shot!"
"Li Changgeng is mighty!"
In the audience, thousands of spectators began to cheer loudly.
The score became 3:0, although Hong Cheng took the lead, but the game had just begun, and the Ma Tian team didn't care too much, and the baseline penalty shot quickly launched an attack.
The same team in Group A of the South Zone, the Ma Tian team is still very concerned about Hong Cheng, although some specific things are not necessarily understood thoroughly, but the report on Hong Cheng's last game against the God Destroyer team, the Ma Tian team has read it.
Through the biased newspapers, Hong Cheng gave the impression of the Martin team as a fish belly team that had gone through shit luck to reach the national divisional competition.
Therefore, although the coach repeatedly emphasized that he should not take it lightly, in his heart, except for the captain Ambassador Yang, no one else took Hong Cheng seriously.
But when the Ma Tian team began to attack, they suddenly realized that they had a misunderstanding, not to mention anything else, Hongcheng's defense alone is by no means something that ordinary fish belly teams can have. Everyone in Hongcheng is very active, the guard change is fast, the card position is accurate, not flustered at all, and very rigorous.
Seeing that a full 20 seconds of offensive time had passed, the Martin team was so late that they couldn't find any good opportunities to shoot.
"It can't go on like this, it's almost 24 seconds." Ambassador Yang secretly said in his heart, while jamming Aaron, he asked for the ball from his teammates.
At this time, the others didn't have a chance, and when they saw Ambassador Yang asking for the ball, they immediately passed it. Ambassador Yang took the ball, singled with his back, squeezed twice into the line, and then turned around suddenly, pulled up and shot. The ball was a bit rushed, but he couldn't help it, and the attacking time was running out.
With a "bang", the ball popped out of the frame, Nongguang pressed Xu Shaoqing, took the basketball into his arms, and quickly passed it to Li Changgeng, "Attack!" ”
Take the ball, start the ......
With Li Changgeng's speed now infinitely close to the B rank, once it is activated at his age, few people can keep up with him.
What's more, this time he was outside the three-point line, and after taking the ball, he turned around and threw off the Imperial Garden, and there was already a smooth road in front of him.
He's not welcome, it's a violent buckle to the front!
"Roaring ......"
This dunk excited the audience, and they began to roar loudly, roar, and cheer for Hong Cheng!
"Damn, we underestimated Hongcheng too much, we didn't expect them to be so strong." Ambassador Yang secretly said in his heart, clenched his fists, and shouted at his teammates: "The opponent is very strong, give me a little caution and cheer up." ”
"Yes." A few members of the Martin team replied.
As the saying goes, experts know if there is a shot as soon as they make a move, although the game has just begun, the Ma Tian team has already felt the strength of Hong Cheng, and they are all serious.
The Ma Tian team attacked, the ball was passed quickly among several people, and finally handed over to the core player Li Zhifeng, who hit a step back and scored two points.
The score became 5:2.
However, when he turned around, Hongcheng returned the color, this time it was not Li Changgeng, but Sima Shenji.
After Sima Shenji advanced to the front court, he handed the ball to Li Changgeng, Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji made a block, and handed the ball to Sima Shenji. Sima Shenji took the ball, first in a continuous disguise, and then suddenly stepped back, copying Li Zhifeng's action just now in front of Li Zhifeng, but Li Zhifeng was a mid-range shot, but Sima Shenji withdrew outside the three-point line this time and hit a three-point shot.
This ball can be said to be a powerful response to Li Zhifeng who just took the ball, the same action, Li Zhifeng is two points, but Sima Shenji is three points.
Obviously, Sima Shenji's ball is more difficult and more beautiful.
"This guy ......" Li Zhifeng looked at Sima Shenji's back and narrowed his eyes, "Copy my movements, hum, we'll see." ”
Ma Tian's team attacked, the ball once again reached Li Zhifeng's hands, he did not shoot this time, but used a very fancy crotch to turn his back in disguise, shook off Sima Shenji, and then took a big step, stepped into the penalty area and rose into the air, and came to a one-handed violent dunk.
Falling from the basket, he threw Sima Shenji a contemptuous look and said in a low voice, "If you have the ability, you can use the same moves as me." ”
"Hehe...... Sima Shenji touched his nose, smiled indifferently, and did not respond.
Although there was no response, Sima Shenji gave the answer with actions, and in the next few minutes, he almost swept all of Hong Cheng's scores.
In the face of Li Zhifeng's defense, he either turned and leaned back, or scored three points from the outside, or flew to dunk, and in a few minutes, he scored 9 points alone.
This made Li Zhifeng's face turn blue for a while, although he also scored 7 points, but compared with Sima Shenji, he was inferior after all.
"Huh!"
With a crisp sound, Sima Shenji hit another dry pull jumper, and the score became 20:13, Hong Cheng led by 7 points, and there were two minutes left before the end of the first quarter.
Tian Gang, the coach of the Ma Tian team, finally couldn't help but call a timeout, originally he thought that it would be his side that suppressed Hong Cheng, but it turned out to be pressed and beaten by Hong Cheng. The score is already 7 points behind, and if he doesn't call a timeout, I'm afraid that at the end of the first quarter, the difference will be stretched to double digits, which will be troublesome.
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When the players came down, Tian Gang called people to his side, first admitted that his assessment of Hong Cheng was wrong, and then comforted everyone, telling everyone that they were only 7 points behind, and it didn't matter. In the end, he adjusted his tactics and told everyone: "In any case, this score difference cannot be widened, and Hong Cheng must not be allowed to stretch the score difference to double digits, understand?" ”
"Understood."
"Yes." Several of his players agreed.
Hongcheng's side.
Tao Ran encouraged several players under him, and then ordered: "Sima Shenji performed very well in the few minutes just now, and they will definitely focus on guarding against you later, you have to take advantage of this to attract the attention of the other party and create opportunities for your teammates." ”
"Li Changgeng, Sima Shenji, Ah Long, Nongguang, after Sima Shenji attracts the opponent's defense, you will definitely have a chance, you must be resolute, you know?"
"Yes." Several people nodded, and they all understood that the coach wanted them to bloom more, so as to completely defeat the Martin team.
The whistle blew and he got back on the field.
Ma Tian's offense was ferocious, scoring one when they came up, but on the defensive end they got bogged down and were dizzy by Hong Cheng's multi-point flowering. They can't let go of Sima Shenji's defense of Sima Shenji, but if they prevent Sima Shenji, they will definitely miss others.
In this way, Hongcheng saw the opportunity and began to bombard indiscriminately, Li Changgeng's three points, Ah Long's cut layup, and Nongguang's empty dunk......
After such a round of back and forth, although the Ma Tian team was extremely unwilling, the score difference was quietly further widened.
By the end of the first quarter, the score had become 26:17, and Hong Cheng led by 11 points.
"Alas......" Tian Gang, the coach of the Ma Tian team, shook his head helplessly and sighed: "It still hasn't been pulled to double digits, this game is not easy to play!" ”
For the Ma Tian team, this game was really not easy to play, and the strength of Hongcheng made them from the city league to the provincial league and then to the national divisional competition, and the undefeated belief that they had been accumulating began to waver.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Tian Gang rearranged and strengthened the offense, and at the same time increased the defense on the outside line in defense, targeting Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji.
After the first quarter of the game, he finally saw the reality of Hongcheng, no longer limited to some information obtained from the organizing committee, or some biased reports.
Of course, there is one thing that the data and newspaper reports given by the organizing committee did not deceive him, that is, the core of Hongcheng is Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji.
Therefore, Tian Gang plans to target these two people to death, if he can prevent Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, then it will be easy to defeat Hong Cheng.
It's a pity that he underestimated Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji too much, and also underestimated the others in Hongcheng.
In the second quarter, the Ma Tian team did strengthen the defense of Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, and even did not hesitate to use the trap tactic, but the result did not meet Tian Gang's expectations. Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji's personal abilities are too strong, and it is difficult to prevent the two of them from killing even if they are in the bag.
What's more, Nongguang, Sima Shenji, and Ah Long are not decorations, Sima Shenji's outside three-pointer, Ah Long's mid-range shooting, and Nongguang's empty catch...... These caught the Martin team off guard, just like a small blade scratching on the Martin team, the wound is not big, and it is not fatal to look at, but it can't stand much, and the accumulation is enough to kill.
Especially Nongguang, the center of the Ma Tian team, Xu Zhiguang, is only two meters and one, and the bounce and explosiveness are not as good as Nongguang, although Nongguang's technique is rough, but with a huge advantage in physical fitness, he still easily beat Xu Zhiguang under the basket and scored points again and again.
As a result, the Ma Tian team not only failed to prevent Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, but allowed the three of Nongguang to play in a state, resulting in a further widening of the score gap.
Seeing that the score difference was getting bigger and bigger, Tian Gang was extremely anxious, and called two timeouts in a row, but the effect was not ideal, and he still couldn't stop the bleeding, and the score difference was still expanding.
By the end of the first half, the score had become 52:35, and Hong Cheng led the Ma Tian team by 17 points.
This is still because Tao Ran replaced Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji in the second quarter for half a quarter, leaving only Nongguang's three starters on the court, otherwise the score difference would be even greater.
At halftime, Hong Cheng was relaxed and happy, but the Ma Tian team was sad and the atmosphere was depressed.
"Damn, how can this be?" Li Zhifeng punched hard, his heart was depressed, obviously he and the others had done their best, but why were they still so far behind?
Ambassador Yang was covered in sweat, his eyes were a little distracted, and he came back to his senses when he heard Li Zhifeng's words, sighed and said: "We were wrong, those newspapers were also wrong, Hongcheng is not a fish belly team at all, but an out-and-out super strong team!" ”
Hearing this, the players of the Martin team were a little unconvinced, but when they remembered the game in the first half, they had to bow their heads and shut up, and they had no way to refute it.
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Hongcheng attacked.
Li Changgeng took the ball, shook twice in the face of the defense of the Imperial Garden, and made a gesture to break through, making the Imperial Garden subconsciously take half a step back, and a little space was opened between the two, Li Changgeng suddenly jumped up, and the speed of the shot was extremely fast, and the Imperial Garden did not allow any reaction at all.
"Huh!"
Hollow hit, three points!
Seeing this ball thrown, Tian Gang on the sidelines sighed weakly, this is already the third three-point shot after Li Changgeng came up, the kind of 100-step quasi-head that pierces Yang, so that the people of the Ma Tian team can only sigh with joy, and he Tian Gang has nothing to do.
With Li Changgeng's three-point shot, the third quarter of the game was also over, and the score became 78:57, and the Ma Tian team fell behind by 21 points.
In this quarter, Hongcheng's starters only played a small half quarter, but the morale of the Ma Tian team had already been defeated, even if Hongcheng rotated the lineup to suppress them.
Therefore, although Hongcheng, the white bull, only played a small half, the score difference was further widened.
With a 21-point difference, only the last quarter remains, and if nothing else, Hong Cheng will win the game.
Before the fourth quarter even began, thousands of spectators in the audience were already cheering, because the fourth quarter was going to be mostly reduced to garbage time.
In the audience, Liao Ming's face flushed with excitement, he waved his fist fiercely, and roared: "Made, it's finally time to raise your eyebrows." ”
On the side, Ma Ze and Tyumen nodded several times.
Last time they lost to the God Destroying Team, Hong Cheng was extremely aggrieved in his heart, and today's game can be regarded as making them comfortable.
Not far away, Luo Jinnan also laughed and said: "Hongcheng played really well in today's game, everyone's performance is very good, better than in the provincial league." Glancing at the scoreboard, he smiled: "It's a pity that the fourth quarter is not watching." ”
"Toot ......"
When the final whistle blew, the result didn't change much, and Hong Cheng won the match with a huge 105-90 victory over the Ma Tian team.
In the fourth quarter, the Ma Tian team also launched a counterattack and wanted to reverse, but today Hong Cheng's morale was too strong, and the players felt too good, Tao Ran didn't even send a starter, just rotated the lineup to block the Ma Tian team's counterattack and won the game.
Of course, the Ma Tian team's counterattack was not without effect, at least the difference was narrowed to 15 points, and it was not too miserable.
This may be the only thing that the Martin team can comfort themselves.
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Hong Cheng played very beautifully in this game, and some reporters also rushed to the court after the game to interview Hong Cheng.
On the bus rushing back to the city from the provincial capital, the members of the Hongcheng team were very excited.
Winning today's game not only means that they won a group stage and got 1 point, but more importantly, they successfully defended the glory and dignity of Hongcheng, so that those who dare to underestimate Hongcheng can see the strength of Hongcheng.
This last point is what everyone cares about the most!
"A few days ago they said we were fish belly, predicted that we wouldn't win a game in the group stage, and now we're going to kill Martin." Lu Feng smiled strangely: "Don't say it, I'm a little impatient, I don't know how those newspapers will report?" ”
"It must be a good thing!
A group of people were talking, all looking forward to it, and they wanted to see how the newspapers justified themselves this time. ”
Listening to the discussion of a group of players under him, Tao Ran couldn't help laughing: "I hope you evaluate fairly, otherwise ......"
It turned out that in the first game, they were hacked very badly, just because they were so led in front of them, so many basketball newspapers were not optimistic about them, but it is difficult to say now. (To be continued.) )