Chapter Ninety-Three: A Bitter Battle
"Okay, you Gu Yan, even the jersey is ready!" In the locker room of the city gymnasium, Chen Yizhi was changing his clothes while praising Gu Yan for thinking things through.
"Hurry up and change your clothes, the game is about to start, the quarterfinals, if you win this again, you can enter the finals, I have already sweated so much."
Chen Yizhi nodded heavily, the stage of the city finals was what he dreamed of.
By the time the two arrived on the pitch, the game had three minutes to go.
Seeing Gu Yan and the two of them, the stone that had been hanging in Wang Bing's heart finally fell, and said: "You two have finally rushed back, if you two are not the first to start, we may have to stop at the top four."
Cheng Yiwei, Zhou Dachuan and others stepped forward one after another to high-five Gu Yan.
"You two are really chic, you just went to travel outside the province for a weekend!"
When high-fived Chen Yizhi, Cheng Yiwei quipped.
The two substitutes who were ready to play were relieved, but luckily they didn't have to play.
The school team of Qiaozhong High School is very famous.
The game begins.
Chen Yizhi jumped the ball on the side of No. 1 Middle School, and it was worthy of being an overseas Chinese middle school, Chen Yizhi failed to grab the starting ball.
Seeing that it was Qiaozhong who grabbed the ball, Wang Bing and others quickly returned to defense.
However, the composition of the school team of Qiaozhong High School is all old members, almost all of them are juniors in high school, and they are all serious basketball sports students.
They don't want to take the college entrance examination to go to college, basketball is their way into college.
They have been on the varsity team since high school, training together, participating in competitions together, and the tacit understanding has long been run-in.
With five starts, this is their three municipal races, the first two of which were provincial and one victory, and last year's defeat to the dark horse experiment was runner-up.
On the other hand, Wang Bing and them in No. 1 Middle School, each of them participated in the city competition for the first time, and they had no experience at all.
After grabbing the ball first in Qiaozhong, with his excellent tacit understanding, he used clever passes to avoid Gu Cheng's successive defenses.
He made a layup and scored his first two points.
After scoring the goal, the overseas Chinese player who made a successful layup walked up to Wang Bing and provoked: "They all say that you are a dark horse in the first few years, but now you look at it like this, it's just a group of rookies."
In the face of such a provocation, Wang Bing, who focuses on the overall situation, can certainly bear it.
However, Chen Yizhi and Cheng Yiwei, two good buddies, have a lot of nerves, and they have to punch them no matter the occasion.
Seeing this, Gu Yan hurriedly stopped them and said, "Big brother, this game has just begun, what are you doing!" Calm down, calm down. ”
Of course, Gu Yan alone couldn't stop the two of them, and Wang Bing also hurriedly ran over to help.
"What are you two doing today? Got dynamite? It's so easy to get provoked?! The referee is watching! Wang Bing whispered in the ears of the two of them.
As he spoke, Gu Yan and Wang Bing worked together to pull him back, wanting to distance himself from the provocative Qiaozhong players.
"I lied to them!" After pulling away from him, Chen Yizhi said.
Cheng Yiwei also smiled and nodded.
Only Wang Bing and Gu Yan were stunned, not knowing what this meant.
"Hahaha, after playing for so long, I have long seen that they did it on purpose and wanted to provoke us, so we both pretended to be provoked."
"If we fulfill their wishes, they will look down on us, and it will naturally react on them." Chen Yizhi said with a smile.
Wang Bing and Gu Yan looked at each other, and then they suddenly realized, Wang Bing said with a smile: "You two are smart this time!"
However, they still underestimated Qiaozhong, and it was true that Qiaozhong deliberately provoked them with words in the past, but they did not despise their opponents because of Chen Yizhi and Cheng Yiwei's reactions.
The rest of the game was played very seriously.
With five seconds left in the first quarter, the ball was in the hands of Zhou Dachuan.
Zhou Dachuan stood at the three-point line and wanted to shoot a three-point shot, but the big center of Qiaozhong did not give him this opportunity.
ran in front of Zhou Dachuan and gave him a hot pot cap.
The whistle blew and the first quarter of the game ended.
The score was 19:11, and Yizhong scored only 11 points in the first quarter, eight points behind Qiaozhong.
In the rest area, although the first quarter of the game was only played, because Qiaozhong brought the pace of the game too fast, the five of them were already sweating profusely, and the sweat on their clothes was dripping like water droplets.
"What to do, if we continue to play like this, we will be broken by Qiaozhong, and their benches are not weak, they can rotate the substitutes, and in the final quarter, they can ensure that the starting players are in the best condition." Zhou Dachuan analyzed.
The tragic personal experience made Zhou Dachuan form a calm and thoughtful character, even if he had just been covered with such a big hot pot, he could still keep a cool head to analyze.
Wang Bing is also in a difficult situation now.
For this city competition, each of them has paid too much, and they are definitely not willing to stop there.
After pondering for a long time, Wang Bing made a difficult decision in his heart, and he decided to give it a go.
Looking at his teammates, Wang Bing said, "You all know the story of Tian Ji horse racing, right?"
All nodded.
Wang Bing continued: "We will follow this line of thought to fight with Qiaozhong, and if the main force is on the bridge, we will go to the substitute."
"On the contrary, if Qiaozhong comes on the bench, the five of us go up together, score as many points as we can, and then in the last game, the five of us fight hard."
"I've fought hard, no matter if I win or lose, I won't regret it!"
Everyone nodded, expressing their approval of Wang Bing's method.
Including the substitutes, looking at the high-spirited appearance of Wang Bing, the main force with their hands, the blood in their hearts was also ignited, and they planned to fight for honor.
In the second quarter, Qiaozhong really came on the bench, it seems that it was because they already had a bottom of the strength of the first middle school in the first quarter.
Then they can put the substitutes up to practice their hands, after all, their substitutes are not because they are weaker than the starters, but the starters are all juniors in high school, and they are about to graduate in the third year of high school, so their coach wants to let them play on the court as much as possible.
The substitutes are the first and second years of high school, they are the new force of the basketball team of Qiao Middle School, and they will be the main force of the school team next year.
It seems that Qiaozhong is using No. 1 Middle School as a whetstone on their way forward, and a monster to gain experience.
As arranged, they replaced all three substitutes to give the main team a good rest.
In the matter of substitutions, it also reflects the gap between them and overseas Chinese.
There are plenty of substitutes in the country, with at least one substitute in almost every position.
On the other hand, on the side of No. 1 Middle School, they only have three substitutes, and they can't completely replace the main force.
According to what was just said, use the idea of Tian Ji horse racing to play, and when the overseas Chinese are all substitutes, their main force is all up.
If Wang Bing's strength of the five of them is evenly matched with Qiaozhong, they will be crushed with substitutes.
With more than five of them, they not only quickly tied the score with their fast offensive tempo, but also led by two points at the end of the second quarter.
However, the overseas Chinese did not become nervous because of this, and they also had their own ideas.
Besides, they still have a leading teacher, how can they have no tactics at all.
Their leading teacher has long seen the weakness of the lack of substitutes in the first middle school. Therefore, I plan to rotate the substitutes, and in order to open up the score, I will not dare to change the substitutes.
In the third quarter, they played two starters with three substitutes, and their team leader thought that the first middle school would still be all the main players.
But he was wrong.
Wang Bing really dared to come on the bench.
Wang Bing originally wanted to bring Cheng Yiwei as a combination with three substitutes on the field.
However, Chen Yizhi stood up and proposed that he and Gu Yan take the substitutes on the field.
The reason is that the combination of him and Gu Yan is more tacit, and in the last quarter, they also need to be commanded by Wang Bing, the captain of the team, so Wang Bing can't overwork in the last quarter.
Chen Yizhi really played like a chicken blood in the third quarter.
In order to give Zhou Dachuan the anger of being blocked, he also specially fought back with a big hot pot at the opposite center.
After landing, Chen Yizhi gasped for breath and was very tired.
Gu Yan walked up to him, patted him gently, and asked, "Are you okay?"
Chen Yizhi didn't speak, just nodded.
"You take it easy, don't be too tired, we have to go to the last quarter!"
Looking at Chen Yizhi's current tired state, Gu Yan was very worried about whether he could still play in the fourth quarter, and they only had a center like Chen Yizhi.
After Gu Yan reminded him, Chen Yizhi restrained a lot and stopped being tough.
Surprisingly, their bench also exerted a lot of power, and they played exceptionally, both on the defensive end and offensively.
Therefore, at the end of the third quarter, Qiaozhong was two points ahead.
Entering the final quarter with a two-point difference, Wang Bing and their pressure was much less.
And after taking advantage of the third quarter to get plenty of rest, they have recovered a lot.
After the game, Wang Bing asked Gu Yan and Chen Yizhi to sit down quickly, and then handed them water.
The two of them have been playing three consecutive high-intensity games, and they will continue to play the fourth quarter for a while, to restore Gu Yan and Chen Yizhi as much as possible.
Looking at the people with heavy faces, Wang Bing said: "We have all paid a lot along the way, the school doesn't pay attention to us, and even if we ask for leave to play the game, we will be disdainful of the teacher."
"My classmates also think that we are beyond our strength and question us, but we have relied on our own efforts and sweat to get to where we are now, and we have reached the quarterfinals, and I really thank you for accompanying me."
Wang Bing said very sensationally, and his eyes began to be a little rosy.
Zhou Dachuan, who has always talked little, also felt at this time, and said: "Less smelly and beautiful, we are not just for you, this is also the dream that we all love."
"Hey, hey, what are we all doing, we haven't lost yet, we can't stop at the semi-finals, okay, we'll reach the finals, and we'll lift the trophy." In order to alleviate the current heavy atmosphere, Cheng Yiwei said.
"That's right! We're going to win and we're going to lift the trophy together. ”
After speaking, Wang Bing stretched out his hand.
Of course, everyone understood Wang Bing's meaning, and put their hands on Wang Bing's hand.
shouted: "One hit!"