You should cross the mountains like a brave man

Chapter 17 The Child Named Wish

The altitude advantage of Chester High allows them to dominate the paint, but it is not impossible.

Even if there are two tall people over two meters, Lower Merion High School has countermeasures.First of all, these two big men are not exceptionally talented. Height is indeed a talent that cannot be taught, but besides height, there are many equally important talents on the basketball court.If just being tall could dominate the game, the Chinese team would have already become a world powerhouse.

Wei Xia played the first quarter and didn't score many points. He grabbed more rebounds and sent 4 assists.

Entering the second quarter, Chester High still led by 4 points.

Greg Donner turned to let Wechat's good buddy Dick Long play.

Placing a 185-foot-[-] man in shoes at power forward against two of Chester High's giants sounded like the worst idea possible.

"The Aces' interiors were short enough. Coach Downer waved his hand. He decided to make them even shorter."

It was difficult for the Park Gym commentator to use his perception to interpret Downer's actions.

Eric Snow looked at Dalong from a distance, and he found that the kid was short, but his figure was extremely thick, and the dimensions of his upper and lower limbs did not seem to be what a high school player should have.

Compare the two elders at Chester High School, their lower limbs are as slender as bamboo poles.

The game restarted. Dalong's offense was not good, his defensive skills were rough, his consciousness and tactical quality, and his tacit understanding with Wei Xia was very good, but it was not enough to smooth the talent gap between him and his opponent.

Chester High hit the ball inside again.

"You can't win without Kobe!" Swan Pierce yelled at Wesha, "Call and ask Kobe to come back and play for you. I don't want you to lose your love for basketball!"

At this time, Steve Thompson, a tenth-grade power forward from Chester High School, who was [-] meters tall, was about to hit Dalong with his back.

Wei Xia first leaned against Pierce with his body, firmly occupying the front position.Seeing that he was not willing to help, but also put on a posture of waiting for the defense to succeed and counterattack, Pierce laughed unceasingly. He thought Wei Xia was crazy, just like everyone else thought, how could a 201 cm tall man fail to hit a 185 cm short insider with his back?
As a result, the moment Thompson pushed Dalong with all his strength, the scene of the latter defending against an avalanche of overturning did not happen as expected.

what happened?Thompson's back hit didn't even take a step back.

"Hard up Steve!"

"continue!"

"Take it with all your strength!"

"You're two meters tall, buddy!"

The mentality of student players is often fragile, and the noise of the audience will make them collapse in minutes. Thompson has not yet reached the point of collapse. He just feels that he will lose face if he can't hit Dalong with his back, so he loses his composure and hits hard.

That look tends to be on the faces of his supporters.

boom!
Thompson missed a strong hit, four of Raul Merion protected the rebound, and Wei Xia made a fast break.

The momentum of the game.It's changed from that moment on.

Wei Xia did not provide too much help to his teammates on the defensive end, he just used his athletic ability to improve the rhythm as much as possible.

The two insiders of Chester High School are both junior players, with decent basic skills, but weak confrontation ability, lack of physical strength, thin lower limbs, and the shortcomings of big men.

In the opening game, he was able to teach Raul Merion with a high advantage. As the game progressed, Raul Merion, who adopted the correct strategy, began to control the overall situation.

Halfway through the second quarter, Wei Xia's frantic running caused Pierce to lose his position frequently.

11 seconds before the end of the first half, Weixia, who played the whole half, held the ball from the outside. Pierce in front of him was as tired as a dog without water. He didn't stick out his tongue to dispel heat.

"At your level, you still want to challenge our school's legend?" Wei Xia took the ball and spat out the only trash talk today, "Kobe has no time to talk to you."

After all, Wei Xia held the ball strong for a long time.

Everything he learned from Havlicek in the old days, when applied to him now, has produced some mutations.

Havlicek in the same age group is a perpetual motion machine that can run the entire court and basically does not hold the ball.

And Wei Xia is a point guard, he will hold the ball properly, but under the influence of Havlicek, he will inevitably become an off-ball attacker who is good at walking and running. For him, holding the ball has become a skill for him at critical moments, not a routine method.

Pierce was out of breath from his torment, and now he almost fainted when he heard the trash talking. He was trying to muster up his last strength to defend, but Wei Xiasheng vigorously broke through the defense with a stride.

"Wish looks like the game just started!"

Wei Xia broke through the first hurdle of the outside line and rushed into the inside line. Two elders from Chester High School teamed up to set up a defensive tower, but he dodged it with a retro-style two-handed throw that didn't belong to the 90s, and scored with cricket.

Just at the buzzer.

The moment the goal was scored, Wei Xia's teammates rushed over.

That ball gave Lower Merion an 11-point lead.

Although there is still the entire second half, as long as the current style of play is maintained, it is only a matter of time before they win the city championship.

"That kid named Wish will become a very good player in the future." The commentator at the scene said, suddenly thinking that six years ago, he used the same words to evaluate a kid named Kobe.

In the second half, Lower Merion High School was full of fighting spirit. Weixia continued to run, and he continued to play the entire second half after playing the first half.

Until the final possession of the fourth quarter, he was still running, even though his breathing rate was out of order.

He is not an iron man who will not feel tired. He just reminds himself repeatedly that he cannot stop when he is tired. Once he stops, he may no longer be able to concentrate.

Swan Pierce had already collapsed. Chester High School had replaced three people to defend him, and even the ninth-grade substitutes were used later.

He didn't show mercy at all. When he saw the opponent on the bench, he went straight to his body and beat him.

The game lasted until the end, Weixia played the whole game, scored a game-high 24 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, led the Aces to dominate Philadelphia for two consecutive years, and won Philadelphia's only ticket to the Pennsylvania 4A basketball championship.

At the end of the game, they splashed mineral water on each other and held the trophy together. The breath of youth and the joy of winning the championship rippling in the park gymnasium. Of course, this joy did not belong to Chester High School.

They tasted the bitter fruit of failure and learned that height is not everything.

(End of this chapter)