4. Omen of defeat
I'm familiar with the basketball court, but I haven't played much since college. Even if I go to the gym every week, but it's just running on the treadmill for half an hour, and then doing some equipment to work out my muscles, or just going to the yoga studio to peek at the beautiful women or something, I haven't touched basketball in a long time.
To see how it feels, I grabbed a basketball from the courtkeeper and tried a few shots, and then tried tricks like dribbling under my crotch.
Although the speed of action felt a lot slower than when I was in school, the direction of the ball was still under my control, and I guess I could still complete the movements I wanted to make.
I tried the dribble and tried a few more shots from the distance that I do best, and none of those three shots went in.
The side effect of hemophilia is that I have more strength, which does not affect my daily life, but it is difficult for me to control this degree when I need to exert energy. On the first attempt, I deliberately used a little bit of effort, and I ended up shooting a three-shot, and the last two times I pushed a little harder, and the basketball flew straight over the rebound.
My funny shooting was exchanged for all kinds of ridicule from the Mohican Steel Cannon and the followers around him, especially the Moxican Steel Cannon, he pouted and smiled: "You can't ask anything about this ability." ”
With that, he stood a step or so away from the three-point line and waved at my henchman, who immediately threw the basketball at him. The little steel cannon didn't make any extra preparations, and raised his hand to throw the ball. The basketball draws a perfect parabola in the air and then goes into the net.
I was really surprised by this shot, the position of the little cannon shot is similar to the NBA's three-point line, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to shoot the ball to the basket in that position, let alone shoot accurately, and judging from his confident appearance, this shot is definitely not a chance.
He's very strong, and it's going to be difficult to win him in a fair game, so I'm going to have to play dirty.
"If you vote, you may not win, there can't be no one in front of you in the real game, I will prevent you from dying." I let go of the little steel cannon, and then took off my coat and stood in the jumping area.
"You want to serve first? Okay, give you a start. ”
Moxican Steel Cannon randomly selected a person of the same height as me from his follower to form a two-person team, and then he came to defend me, and his follower went to defend Qiao Wei, and the two-on-two half-time game began, and there was no referee or anything, everything came according to the wild way, which was also exactly what I wanted.
"Give it to me as soon as you get the ball, and then you go to the basket!"
I didn't care if they knew my tactics and I passed the ball to Qiao Wei after shouting at him.
Qiao Wei received the ball very steadily, and immediately after receiving the ball, he was ready to pass it back to me, but at the moment when the ball was about to be shot, the person in charge of defending Qiao Wei slipped out from behind Qiao Wei and reached out to hit the ball.
The ball was not intercepted, but the direction of the flight was biased to the sidecourt, I didn't wait to make the next reaction, the kid who copied the ball swooped like a ground mouse to catch up with the ball, and then jumped up directly in the air to pass the ball to the basket, just standing near the three-point line ready to defend my Moxican steel cannon at this time has also been killed under the basket, after receiving the ball, he also jumped lightly and easily sent the ball to the basket.
I just kicked off and didn't react yet, but I already had a lightning attack.
"It's one to zero, you have to be careful, I'm not going to let the water out just because you're not wearing tracksuits, cop buddy." The little cannon continued his disdainful face before throwing the basketball back into the jump zone.
Damn it!
I cursed in my heart.
I haven't even stepped out of the jump zone yet, they've already scored, it's an insult to me, and I have to fight back right away. I also quickly asked Qiao Wei to come to my position to serve, so that at least I could prevent the ball from being broken as soon as it was released.
This time the ball was sent to me smoothly, and my previous three unreliable long-range shots clearly left a very strong impression on the Mohican Cannon, who stood one step inside the three-point line when he defended me, and put me at least three meters away.
His strategy is really right, even when I was in middle school, my long-range shooting rate was about 30%, and now it is estimated that it is a miracle to be able to score one out of 10 shots, and if you want to win, you can only fight under the basket, and I think my advantage in this regard is still very obvious.
Once I knew what I was trying to do, I also dribbled quickly to the three-point line, then turned around and leaned my back against the Mohican cannon, and used the center's movement to dribble and squeeze under the basket.
As I expected, although the Moxican Steel Cannon looked quite strong, he was clearly no match for me when it came to Liliang, and I easily squeezed around the three-second zone by playing.
I felt the distance, so I dribbled and turned, and when I was halfway there, I suddenly turned to the left, then jumped up and leaned back slightly to complete a jumper close to the basket.
The Mohican Cannon jumped up and tried to block me, but I was taller than him and jumped much higher than him, and the tips of his fingers reached my elbows at all, which didn't affect my shooting at all.
Very good!
I cheered to myself, but I also focused on the basket and then pressed down on my wrist to throw the ball when my body started to fall.
Syllable~! Clang~!
The basketball hit the rebound as I thought it would be, and then it bounced towards the basket, but instead of going straight into the net, it hit the front of the basket and bounced out!
"Rebound!!" I hurriedly shouted.
"Leave it to me!"
Qiao Wei also responded loudly to me, and at the same time jumped high and grabbed the basketball in the air with both hands with a bang.
Qiao Wei is the tallest of all the people on the entire basketball court, and his bounce is far beyond my expectations, and his hands are even higher than the basket when he grabs rebounds! At this moment, I seemed to see the hope of winning, but unfortunately this hope lasted for less than half a second.
As soon as Qiao Wei's feet hit the ground, the ground mouse that had been following him reached out from behind and flicked it gently, and suddenly stabbed the basketball in Qiao Wei's hand.
Qiao Wei exclaimed in surprise and quickly reached out to snatch the ball back, but the mouse had already rushed over and slapped the ball further out of the court.
I hurried in the direction of the ball, but the Mohican Cannon ran to the basketball before me, his wide and fat body completely blocked my way, and he didn't seem to be much slower than mine, and before I could get around him, he was already rushing beyond the three-point line and holding the ball tightly in his hands.
"Defend Qiao Wei, you keep an eye on your person." I hurriedly reminded Qiao Wei loudly, but before my words fell, the Moxican steel cannon had already turned around and jumped to shoot.
According to the rules of offense and defense in the half, the side that grabs the defensive rebound only needs to hit the ball outside the three-point line to attack, and the ball just now has indeed gone out of the three-point line. I jumped up the block, but it was still half a beat slower, and the basketball almost flew over my head with the tips of my fingers.
"Huh!" The Mohican cannon grinned at me, and then added a sound effect to the goal himself.
What's infuriating is that the Nets also quickly responded with a "swish", and Moxican shot a hollow three-pointer in front of me!
"According to the half-time rules, a three-point shot should be counted as two points, but we didn't explain this before, so this ball should be counted as two points, we are 2-0, you have to work harder police buddy, I shaved my head and it will be boring! You go on to serve. ”
Although I didn't want to say anything discouraged, when I took the basketball thrown from the Mohican Steel Cannon again, I no longer saw any hope of winning in my eyes, and I was even thinking about what method I was going to use to get this Mohican to cooperate after losing the fight, and if it was really a force, how Qiao Wei and I should deal with them.
"Tee off, I don't have that much spare time to spend here with you!" The Moxican cannon began to urge me impatiently.
I ignored him and stood a little in front of the three-point line, and Qiao Wei also went to the midline jump ball area to catch the ball, and then sent the blue ball to my hand.