Volume 1: The Twin Towers Chapter 41: Advance to the Finals
Because of the problem of time, this competition from beginning to end is a single elimination system, today is the first day of the competition, and not many parents of students came to watch, so in addition to some high school students in the playground, there are only high school juniors cheering for their respective classes.
There are a total of 16 classes in the third grade, divided into eight groups to compete, and today the competition is really held in the open concrete field, so several groups are playing at the same time.
Among them, there are not many people who watch the games of the first class of high school and the thirty-second class of high school, except for some fans of Han Dong, that is, the classmates of the two classes, but everyone is generally optimistic about the twelve classes with more neat personnel, thinking that they will eliminate the first class of high school, even if they have Han Dong, the captain of the school team with superb football skills.
But what everyone didn't expect was that the first class of the third year of high school actually washed the thirty-second class of high school with a big score under the heroic performance of Han Dong and the extraordinary performance of the other four, and the score was finally fixed at 45 to 21.
And with the arrival of the second day of the competition, what people didn't expect was that the opponent of the second theory, the fifth class of the third year of high school, also did not bring them much trouble, so the first class of the third year of high school stood out among the sixteen classes of the whole grade and advanced to the semi-finals.
In these two games, the main five-person group played the whole game like chicken blood, and Lu Yao and Yu Fei didn't have a chance to play at all.
But the next opponent they encountered was the thirty-fifth class of high school, speaking of this class, all the teachers in the third year of high school will feel a headache, because this is a special class of high-tuition transfer students specially opened by the school, many of them are young master-style students with poor academic performance but wealthy families.
The reason why the school recruits them is entirely to use their high tuition fees to subsidize those students who are from difficult families but have excellent character and learning, even if they don't take learning as a thing on weekdays, but as long as you don't violate several prohibitions of the school, just skipping classes to surf the Internet, partying, playing basketball, etc., the school will not interfere too much, so many people in the class have very good sports results.
When it was learned that the opponent in the semi-finals was the 35th class of high school, everyone's originally high enthusiasm was extinguished a lot, and even the likes of Ma Xiaolin were constantly rumored.
After school that day, the sky was clear and cloudless, and the semi-finals went on as scheduled.
After the game officially began, there were still some rules between the offensive and defensive transitions of the two sides, although in addition to Han Dong in the first class of high school, the momentum of the others was a little inferior to the first two games, but they were able to barely maintain the offensive and defensive formation.
Until the end of the first half, the score of the two sides was still relatively stale, and the fifteenth class temporarily led the senior class by two points.
Before the second half of the game, Lu Yao and everyone gathered together as usual to discuss countermeasures, and when cheering up, he noticed that a tall guy who had been standing next to Chu Minghui ran to the fifteenth class and pointed fingers for a while.
Speaking of this person, others may not know him, but Lu Yao does, because in the summer vacation of his sophomore year of high school, he followed Chu Minghui to go out to dinner with him, and Chu Minghui introduced him, so Lu Yao remembers it very clearly.
This tall guy is called Tang Fa, he is Chu Minghui's distant cousin, it is said that he has been training in a sports school in Xindu before, and there seems to be some professional basketball background, but what Lu Yao doesn't understand is why this guy is here, and looking at his posture, the players of the fifteenth class opposite seem to know him, and they listen to him very much, and they don't refute when they are reprimanded.
Lu Yao felt that Chu Minghui, who had been silent for a long time, began to make small moves again, although he didn't know what it would be, but it was definitely related to this basketball game.
"Han Dong, be careful in the second half, I think the other party may make a bad move, pay more attention to everything!" When Han Dong was about to play, Lu Yao came over and grabbed him and reminded him.
"Well, don't worry, I know!" Han Dong saw Lu Yao's serious appearance and nodded.
Sure enough, as soon as you get on the court in the second half, the opponent makes frequent small movements, either poking the player's lower abdomen with your finger when you shoot, or hitting the player next to you with his elbow very vaguely when grabbing the rebound.
Under such harassment, Han Dong's shooting rate has also decreased significantly, and he has been counterattacked by the counterattack after failing to shoot in several rounds.
Except for Han Dong, the others on the court were obviously impatient, their movements were a little stiff, and the defense was caused by the opponent several times to cause two plus one unnecessary fouls.
"Everyone cheered up, although the opponent is still ahead, but the score has not been pulled to a great extent, then everyone passes the ball more, runs more......" Han Dong saw the situation on the field, and called a timeout in time.
After playing again, the situation eased a little, and Han Dong scored points on several shots, and the game began to slowly develop in a good direction.
Just when everyone thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly one of the other team's team members made a dangerous move, pushing a member of the senior class named Jia Hui to the ground from the air, and pretending to unintentionally step on the position of his ankle after Jia Hui fell to the ground.
Although the opponent was whistled for a malicious foul because of this rude action, Jia Hui could not continue the game on the court because of an ankle injury.
"Lu Yao, you are Jia Hui!" Seeing such a situation, Han Dong was also helpless, so he could only arrange for Lu Yao to replace Jia Hui.
"Well, I'm mainly responsible for defense, I'll try to shoot if I get the chance, and you're still playing according to the plan!" Lu Yao saw the sinister smile looming on Chu Minghui's face, and said to Han Dong and the other team members.
After Lu Yao came on the court, although everyone didn't find out, Tang Fa found that the defensive quality of the senior class improved a lot.
Although Lu Yao has deliberately disguised his performance to ordinary, many instinctive reactions are still much faster than others, the opponent wants to break through, just a small look or action will be captured by Lu Yao, and he will respond quickly, and several times the opponent's seemingly hidden passing line has been destroyed by Lu Yao's "mistake".
There is a player who is about the same height as Lu Yao and looks relatively strong, and he wants to push Lu Yao away from the basket step by step with the solid T-shaped cross step that the center is used to, creating some shooting space for himself, but every time he knocks Lu Yao out of a small space, Lu Yao will soon pounce in front of him, and he really has no choice but to pass the ball.
Gradually, everyone on and off the field discovered Lu Yao's strangeness, but no one thought about anything else, but thought that it might be because Lu Yao was tall and strong.
"I didn't expect the senior class to be so tolerant, and only now did they replace this kind of master on the field, isn't it?" Someone was whispering.
"What's the matter, you see that he has never shot once since he came on the field, although he broke the opponent's pass a few times, but obviously he stepped on the shit luck, and he dared to hit by mistake, you see that he was easily pushed away, if it weren't for his tall and large defensive area, it is estimated that the opponent would have beaten him up!" A classmate next to him who seemed to know a lot about football immediately retorted.
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"Cousin, you're a bit of a classmate!" After Tang Fa looked at it for a long time, he said to Chu Minghui.
"What do you mean?" Although Chu Minghui's ball skills are also good, he is still not as knowledgeable as his cousin with a professional basketball background, so he didn't react to the true meaning of what Tang Fa said for a while.
"Didn't you notice that he was very accurate every time he broke the ball, and it seemed that he was easily pushed away by the opponent every time, but he could always pounce again when the opponent was ready to jump, and he could do it without fouling, which is really interesting!" Tang Fa explained to Chu Minghui.
"What do you mean?" Chu Minghui looked at Tang Fadao in surprise as if he understood.
Tang Fa didn't say anything, just looked at Chu Minghui and nodded with a smile.
Chu Minghui is not stupid, Tang Fa said this, it is nothing more than telling himself - Lu Yao is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.
"Let's go, cousin, the previous plan has been completed, tomorrow will depend on your performance, I hope you can vent your evil anger for me, even if you can't cripple him, you have to make him uncomfortable!" After looking at it for a while, Chu Minghui saw that because of Lu Yao's "mistake", the whole situation had tilted towards a situation that was more favorable to the first class of the third year of high school, he knew that the fish had been hooked, and the rest was just waiting for him, the pole bearer, to decide when to close the rod to see if he was in a good mood, and turned around and left with Tang Fa.
When leaving, he didn't forget to look at Lin Jiayi, and when he saw Lin Jiayi smiling at Lu Yao on the field from time to time, Chu Minghui scolded secretly: "The grasshopper shakes the tree, how can the fireflies compete with the bright moon!" ”
"Don't worry, cousin, don't dare to say anything else, in terms of basketball, even if you are a dragon in this small Twin Towers City No. 1, you have to give me an obedient plate." Tang Fa said confidently: "You will watch me tomorrow!" ”
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"The senior class will win, and the senior class will be the champion!"
As the whistle blew at the end of the game, the senior class defeated the opponent by a narrow margin of five points and qualified for the finals.
Han Dong's several key breakthroughs and mid-range shots at the last moment completely killed the suspense of the game, so in the eyes of everyone, he was a well-deserved MVP in this game, so as soon as he got off the court, many classmates came to lift him high and greeted him like a hero.
Lu Yao and Lin Jiayi stood at the back of the crowd, and after Lu Yao left the scene, Lin Jiayi still handed him a bottle of mineral water that had been prepared a long time ago.
"Here you go, you're really amazing!" Lin Jiayi said.
"Hehe, it's all because of Han Dong's outstanding performance that we can turn defeat into victory, I'm just running blind!" After Lu Yao took a sip of water, he said casually.
"Successfully made 8 steals, successfully protected the three-second zone for ten minutes, and let the opponent not score a point in this area, although you didn't make a single shot, but this can't hide your credit, Lu Yao, am I right?" Lin Jiayi glanced at Lu Yao and said with a smile.
"I can't hide anything from you!" Lu Yao pretended to be helpless, spread his hand, and said with a smile at Lin Jiayi.
After yesterday's incident, Lu Yao knew that Lin Jiayi had been silently recording her performance in her heart off the field, so there was nothing to hide from this smart and clever girl, so she simply didn't make excuses to prevaricate.