zero second lore

Chapter 239 The Worries of Number Four
Xuhui Model Middle School is a famous school with a history of 40 years, and basketball activities have been carried out for more than [-] years. It is a strong traditional Chinese basketball school.

As a school in Shanghai, Xuhui Model Middle School has the advantages in foreign exchanges, so that it can always get in touch with foreign advanced basketball concepts and training models. They are also one of the few schools in China that can send students to the United States for training.

Therefore, Xuhui Model has always had a strong competitiveness in the NHBA competition and the National Challenge, but it has not formed a real dominance, let alone in the whole country, in East China they have always been a strong competition, not a ruler .

The reason is very simple, because Xuhui's model coaches change too frequently, and the team's construction has never formed a stable system.

In high school teams, players change frequently. The core element of a team's competitiveness is often not the players but the coaches. In the 20-year history of the NHBA, the coaches of many top teams have changed at most two or three times, and some have not been in the past 20 years. Change.

A good and stable coach can provide the team with a good player training system and continuous combat effectiveness. Some excellent and well-known coaches can even attract talented players to join.

The decline of many strong teams is not unrelated to the departure of the coach, and the Ninth Middle School is a typical representative.

One of the biggest problems of Xuhui Model is that there has never been a strong coach. They even tried to invite foreign coaches in the past, but the effect was not good.

Wang Jian is another attempt by the school. This is his second season of coaching the team, and he has more controversy and attention from his three sons, especially the eldest son Wang Yao.

Many people rumored that the reason why Wang Jian became the coach of Xuhui Mofan was because it allowed his son to play in Xuhui Mofan.

After Wang Jian's arrival, Wang Yao, a super insider who beat all Shanghai's invincible opponents in junior high school, was indeed included in the bag. This year, Wang Jian's other son, Wang Shun, was also brought in.

The combination of twin towers is exciting, no matter how the game of basketball develops, the tall giants are always an important reason to attract the audience, let alone the same team has two, they are still brothers.

This game has attracted a lot of media attention. Lu Yuan has already seen that there are already reporters carrying cameras coming in from the sidelines, and their previous games did not have such treatment.

Wang Yao scored the first goal and got a rebound. It was Huifu Middle School's turn to attack.

Contrary to Xu Hui's model, Huifu's coach Wang Minqi has coached the team for 22 years. Before the NHBA league started, he was already the coach of Huifu Middle School, and he has been in this position until now.

He was a thin, somewhat bald, white-haired old man with dark eyes and was often called "the vulture" because of his harsh manner.

Under the leadership of Wang Minqi, Huifu Middle School has been playing consistently for 20 years, with smooth offensive coordination, a team atmosphere willing to share, and offensive methods based on jump shots. Of course, the most important point is that the center is the core. Team building ideas.

Wang Minqi loves those centers who are tall, dexterous, outstanding in defense, and selfless in offense. His favorite student is Mao Zhiyuan, who once led Huifu Middle School to set off a red whirlwind across the country. That year they won the "Five Flags Championship", the NHBA's highest honor, It is also the only team in East China to have this honor.

That year the NHBA was called the Year of Huifu. Many years later, Huifu got Xie Gezhi, a precocious boy who also had great potential. In his first year of high school, he was as famous as Gan Zhizhi and An Runzhou. But injuries changed his trajectory.

Seeing Wang Yao score the first goal, Xie Gezhi noticed his knee pads. He also wore this knee pads two years ago. It was a product of the same sporting goods company. After the injury, he never came to him for it. advertise.

This season, his injuries have been repeated, with ups and downs, tremendous pressure and frustration, which made Xie Gezhi's already deep forehead wrinkles a little deeper.

Offense is not Xie Gezhi's forte. His specialty is strong defense, as well as outstanding screen and pick-and-roll basic skills. From this point of view, he can be regarded as an enhanced version of nine center Xiao Yun.

After the injury, his mobility has been affected compared to the past. Just now he should have followed up and directly blocked Wang Yu's ball, instead of not blocking the shot and failing to get stuck so that Wang Yao grabbed the rebound. .

He ran back cautiously, made a block for the team's point guard Sun Li at a high position, then moved down, Sun Li passed the ball, and he passed the ball to the outside power forward Chen Li. The baseline jumper shot and hit.

In the days when Xie Gezhi was away, Chen Li and Sun Li supported Huifu Middle School. They were called "Shuangli people". They were both masters of jump shots, one inside and one outside.

In the opening game, both sides scored a goal in their own way. Xuhui Fanfan was simple and rude, and Huifu Middle School was exquisite and smooth. Obviously, this was a tit-for-tat duel.

As time passed, the confrontation between the two sides became more and more intense, especially the Xuhui Model Middle School. Being able to shoot from the outside, but also to attack from the inside, the two took turns attacking the three-second zone of Huifu, Xie Gezhi gradually felt a little overwhelmed.

It's not his body that can't bear it, but his confidence. Injuries affect not only his body, but also his spirit.

For a player who has suffered serious injuries, how to overcome psychological problems is more difficult than overcoming physical injuries.Especially for a high school student, serious injuries are not common. Their bodies are often healthy and easy to recover, but their hearts are particularly fragile.

The first half lasted nearly 10 minutes. During a rebound scramble, Wang Shun went to the inside without any scruples and took the ball off. When he was about to make a strong move, Xie Gezhi fouled. He chose to use Foul to block Wang Shun.

But Wang Shun's free throws are very good, and Xie Gezhi has already committed three fouls, three times, and only halfway through the first half, which is really a bit much.

During the two fouls, Wang Minqi still wanted to keep Xie Gezhi on the field and let him control the foul. Otherwise, with Xuhui Twin Towers on the field, Xie Gezhi would really be unable to play.

Unexpectedly, Xie Gezhi sent another foul soon, making the vulture spin around on the sidelines in anger, but seeing Xie Gezhi's depressed face, Wang Minqi couldn't bear to scold him, so he could only wave to him and let him sit on the bench. I'm waiting.

Confidence, as a super insider's confidence, Xie Gezhi has undoubtedly been worn down a lot. He is always worried about his ankle, that fragile Achilles heel, and the pain and fear are still fresh in his memory.The pain of not being able to play or even being unable to play makes him cautious every time he takes off and lands.

He is a right-handed player, with his left foot as the driving force, but now he seldom uses his left foot to take off with one foot, but uses both feet more, which affects his speed.

Especially on the defensive end, when he struggles to use his feet to take off, the opponent often has already jumped up and shot.

Lu Yuan was the first to discover this phenomenon among a group of players in Lizhong. He pointed to Xie Gezhi who was on the court and said, "This uncle is so hesitant to play. It feels like he is always half a beat slower, but he is not really slow."

Gao Jing stood in the front row and said: "His ankle was seriously injured, he must have a psychological barrier, and he is afraid that he will be injured if he exerts force, poor guy."

Lu Yuan has not suffered any injuries so far, so he has no idea about it. Veteran players like Zhang Fan, Zou Zhou, and Wu Peng can understand it better.

A player, from the moment he steps into the basketball court, injuries will follow him everywhere. It’s just that some people have better control or a stronger body, and some people are unfortunately hit. It may be for a while, or for a lifetime.

Of course, these children who are still in the enlightenment stage of their basketball career don't quite understand this, and their attention is quickly attracted by the game on the court.

Xuhui Mofan played extremely vigorously in the first half. Their tactics were very simple, rush-point-grab, which was basically the whole content of their tactics.

Wang Yao and Wang Shun basically didn't waste their physical strength to cover the outside line for pick-and-roll, but went all out to attack the inside line, or occasionally showed off their mid-range.

It can be seen that Wang Jian completely focuses on the two insiders and does not allow them to do auxiliary work.And the two also have the ability to overwhelm the inside, dunk, draw fouls, hit three-pointers, and play with enthusiasm.

As a rare Twin Towers team, there is a reason why it is popular in Shanghai. Wang Jian did not make the Twin Towers a tedious low-post pick-and-roll, but used the two towers' quickness, flexibility, and wide attack range. , Played "Twin Towers Running and Bombing".

At the end of the first half, the score between the two sides came to 57:45, with Xuhui Mofan leading by 12 points.Although Huifu High School has a higher shooting percentage, Xu Hui's offensive rebounds are far ahead and he has more offensive opportunities.

"Hey, Danai, can you handle these two people?" Lu Yuan asked Wang Yourong who was behind him during the intermission, only to find that Wang Yourong's face was very ugly.

It seemed that this guy got nervous and wanted to vomit again after seeing the performance of Wang Yao and Wang Shun in the first half.

"Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, our last match is against Xuhui Mofan, don't be nervous."

Lu Yuan hurriedly comforted Wang Yourong, Wang Yourong let out a sigh of relief, his face brightened a little, and he said with a bitter face, "I feel...I can't handle any of them."

Wang Yourong's mood is quite broken now. Looking at the performance of Wang Yao and Wang Shun in the first half, that kind of impact, that kind of technique, won't he be overwhelmed in the game?
Lu Yuan patted Wang Yourong's arm vigorously, and said, "Don't be afraid, you're not alone in the paint. When the time comes, let Ye Zi play power forward and help you out."

Bai Ye gave Lu Yuan a supercilious look. This guy has evolved really fast, he already knows how to deploy troops, and he doesn't spare the team's offensive core, let himself go inside to be a coolie, this coaching level is simply explosive.

Of course Lu Yuan was joking, but how to deal with Xuhui's exemplary twin towers is indeed a big problem that bothers Gao Jing, not only Gao Jing is troubled, but other teams in East China are also troubled.

Gao Jing thought, it would be great if the team had an outstanding defensive No. [-] position. Although Zou Zhou is comprehensive, his overall level, especially his defense, is not up to the national level. There is no one in the middle and inside, and it is still unknown who will win the game in the end.

Besides Xuhui's model, Huifu's insiders are also difficult to deal with. That Chen Li, who scored 15 points with a jumper in the first half without making a sound, is not so easy to deal with.

Before coming to Shanghai, Gao Jing just thought that she had already made it to the East China competition, and no matter whether she won or lost, it was already a victory for the team.

But when it came to the competition, she realized that no one wanted to lose.

(End of this chapter)