zero second lore

Chapter 299 Meeting
The game between Los Angeles Wilson High School and Long Beach Wilson High School officially started on the court at [-]:[-] a.m. Lu Yuan played as the team's starting shooting guard.

This was Lu Yuan's second game in the United States. The 29-point defeat in the first game could not help but not dampen Lu Yuan's self-confidence. On the contrary, it greatly increased his confidence, because with him in the second half, the team had an advantage.

However, after the start of this competition, Lu Yuan soon had two feelings: first, after coming to the United States, after a week of training by Teresa, his body speed has improved; second, in the real competition, when When the opponent is going all out, his own confrontation is still somewhat unable to keep up.

Long Beach Wilson High School has been one of the top basketball schools in California for the past ten years. Their characteristic is that they do not have superstars, but rely purely on the overall style of play. All this is due to their head coach, Harris Middleton , a no-nonsense, old-school academic coach.

No matter what kind of player Long Beach Wilson High welcomes, as long as he is not a pig, Middleton can develop him into a qualified American high school basketball player.

This is a coach who loves defense, pays attention to discipline, and emphasizes teamwork, so Long Beach Wilson High School can always remain competitive.

In the game, Lu Yuan quickly felt the energy of Long Beach Wilson's defensive end, his superior movement, defensive speed, fierce confrontation, and the strong defensive ability of inside players.

Each of their positions is very balanced, and the players are extremely strong. Lu Yuan doubts that if Luciano is allowed to play, he will be squeezed into meatloaf by these players.

The game was very tough. For the first time, Lu Yuan felt that everyone was playing in the same world as him - on Chinese courts, he was often a person from another world.

Of course, Lu Yuan still had the advantage in speed, his fast break quickly made the opponent start to fear, and Middleton also quickly discovered that this yellow-skinned kid was actually the core of Los Angeles Wilson High School's offense.

Originally, Middleton didn't pay attention to Los Angeles Wilson High School at all. In the past two years, everyone has seen what kind of bird Los Angeles Wilson has been. Originally, he didn't even want the team to play this game.

Unexpectedly, Los Angeles Wilson High School played brilliantly in the first half. Their free and open offense was simple and clear, and their counterattack was very sharp. Lu Yuan was like a rocket. Whenever there was a chance, he would launch a fast break with a high success rate. .

Middleton then resorted to a rarely used defensive formation—box and one, that is, one-man marking and four-man zone defense. Curb the speed of Lu Yuan.

This kind of defense has high requirements for the team's rotation, and at the same time, it must hope that the opponent's baseline three-pointers are bad. In general high-level games, no team will adopt this risky defensive strategy.

But Middleton still boldly used this strategy. At the same time, the two teams just met such conditions-Long Beach has a good perimeter defensive rotation ability, while Los Angeles Wilson does not have a reliable corner three-pointer at all. Los Angeles Wilson High School has a simple offense. It was quickly locked up.

At the same time, Long Beach Wilson has a large number of generals, and Middleton dispatched troops on the field. The entire team played smoothly, with clear and clear offensive and defensive thinking. The players' execution ability was very strong, and the point difference was quickly opened.

However, Los Angeles Wilson High School is like a stubborn donkey, no matter how difficult the situation on the field and how tight the opponent's defense is, it always faces difficulties.

The defense of box and one has a major flaw, that is, its resistance to air cuts is very poor. Lu Yuan began to give full play to his air cutting ability, and cooperated with Pan Sen to attack the basket.

The point difference was always maintained at around 10 points. At the last moment of the first half, Lu Yuan went inside and won two free throws. After making all of them, the point difference was reduced to 9 points. Hart was very satisfied within 10 points.

Throughout the first half, Lu Yuan didn't take a minute's rest. He was sweating profusely, as if he had played a whole game. The intensity of the game was indeed very high.

Not only is the intensity high, but the rhythm is super fast. Although the attack time is 30 seconds, most of the time players will choose to shoot around 10 seconds.

After halftime, Lu Yuan's arm was covered with fine wounds, all of which were scratched by the opponent during the game. The number of these wounds may be more than Lu Yuan accumulated in a semester in China.

In the second half, Lu Yuan still persisted, and his teammates did not give up either. The score was approaching a little bit. Compared with the past, Lu Yuan was more comfortable in attacking options. He began to hold the ball on the outside and cooperate with his teammates to perform feints. Helps teammates attract defenses, can shoot from mid-range, and even occasionally tries three-pointers.

Because Hart continues to not teach the players tactics in daily training, all the coordination depends on the players to explore and get used to it. Hart will not arrange tactics.

Lu Yuan is learning to play like a normal player - Lu Yuan in the past was actually abnormal, his skills had obvious flaws, he often made frustrating mistakes like a fool, but the domestic environment has room for mistakes, and at the same time There is Bai Ye in the team to carry him around.

Now, no one is supporting him, instead he wants to support others, a group of unreliable teammates, plus an unreliable coach, but Lu Yuan can still be with them, playing back and forth with Long Beach Wilson High School , Even forcing Middleton to constantly change his moves.

In the second half, Lu Yuan became more and more courageous. Although the competition was very fierce and physically exhausting, but during this period of training plus Teresa's training, Lu Yuan's physical fitness has already improved amazingly.

He can still run through the court at full speed, rush to the basket with a single screen, and grab offensive rebounds.

The solid defense of Long Beach Wilson High School is gradually showing signs of loosening under his impact, and the point difference is shrinking in the direction of less than 5 points.

As for the fans in Long Beach, they didn't seem to be completely on their team's side. After all, this game was just an ordinary friendly match. After the game, the audience began to become "I will support whoever plays well".

In terms of good-looking basketball, Lu Yuan is still good at dunks—although the dunks flew by, the fadeaway jumper—one missed, and the three-pointer—the shooting rate was mediocre, but he couldn’t stand him. His posture is really standard and good-looking. After a few rounds After a while, he can be clearly identified among the ten people, not to mention that he is the most unique Chinese face.

When Lu Yuan made another fast break for a flying dunk, there were huge cheers on the scene. His lightning-like speed and swift dunk dunk showed his original strength.

The playing style of the Long Beach Wilson High School basketball team has always been tepid, rigorous and orderly. No player can play like Lu Yuan, and can dunk like he is stepping on hot wheels.

This way of playing can infect anyone, whether they are hostile or not.

Of course, Middleton can't watch Lu Yuan continue to wreak havoc in their penalty area like this, eroding their advantage a little bit, and even making the fans turn against him. Their defense against Lu Yuan is getting tighter and tighter.

With 5 minutes before the end of the game, Lu Yuan went inside again, this time he failed, but was knocked down by two opponents, and then fell heavily on the ground.

This time the fall was not light, and when the back landed on the ground, Lu Yuan felt as if his right shoulder blade had hit the ground. After standing up, he felt a dull pain in his right back.

Hart rushed onto the court, asked about Lu Yuan's situation, and then unceremoniously pointed at the two Long Beach players and scolded Middleton.

Hart was originally an oily middle-aged man, and he was shameless when he scolded others. High school students couldn't stand him scolding, and Middleton was of high quality, but whoever was involved in sports didn't have a temper. The two coaches scolded each other on the sidelines.

The two coaches were scolding each other, but the players from Long Beach stepped forward to ask about Lu Yuan's situation, and their teammates also came to comfort him, and then everyone watched the two coaches quarrel, seeing that the referee couldn't break it apart, and if they quarreled again, they would start fighting. The players went up and pulled the two coaches away.

This little episode brought a little joy to the game, against the fierce players and friendly spirit, but the coach who couldn't meet him got angry. In the end, Hart still called Middleton a "pig with a quill on his ass"— — Hart called Middleton's head a pig's ass because of his gray hair.And Middleton has been cursing "son of bitch", and there is still a gap between Hart and Hart in cursing skills.

Of course, the result was to make the fans laugh at the audience. Middleton was so angry that he spun around on the bench, not knowing how to direct the game.

However, Middleton had nothing to command, because Hart directly asked Lu Yuan to leave the court, and followed the school doctor back to the locker room.

Although Lu Yuan felt that he was fine and could continue the game, Hart did not allow the players to have any physical problems. American coaches were very cautious in dealing with injuries.

Sitting in the locker room, the school doctor did a basic check on Lu Yuan and did a few movements. Lu Yuan said that there was no problem, but the school doctor still told Lu Yuan to rest.

Lu Yuan sat on the stool, the sweat steamed off his head, and Lu Yuan gulped water, his body sweated profusely, which was unprecedented in domestic competitions, at least in regional competitions.

Lu Yuan was still a little frustrated, not because he thought his teammates were weak, but because he found that American teams were very strong.Moreover, according to Hart, neither of the two opponents he has played against is considered the strongest, and none of them can make it to the NBA. Lu Yuan really doesn't know what kind of level the high school players who can make it to the NBA are. .

Lu Yuan was thinking in his mind, when he heard the door of the locker room opened, he thought it was the school doctor, so he didn't care.

"Lu Yuan."

Lu Yuan heard the person coming in calling him, the girl's voice was in Chinese.

As soon as Lu Yuan looked up, he saw Zhou Junlu standing in front of him wearing the uniform of Long Beach Wilson High School.

(End of this chapter)