Dreams start with basketball

Chapter 109

"Let's go? Xia Tian, ​​it's nine o'clock." Zhao Hailong followed Xia Tian off the stage. Before he finished speaking, he heard the host on the stage continue: "Today all the top sixteen will end, that is, the top eight will be produced. Strong, the quarter-finals will officially start tomorrow, and they will be divided into four groups again. After one match, the final semi-final will start the day after tomorrow."

"Let's go, it should be fine." Xia Tian and others picked up the bag and went back to school.

"Let's go, let's go, school will be over later" Chen Jiang shouted.

"Let's go, brothers, gather at six o'clock tomorrow night"

"OK"

Bringing An Jing to buy some snacks at the school gate, and when they returned home, the two parted reluctantly. Xia Tian hugged An Jing vigorously before parting, and finally, as expected, An Jing beat him violently again.

On Thursday night, several people in Xia Tian came to the basketball court before six o'clock, waiting for the arrival of the game time.

"Let me say, everyone, the organizer's operation is six. Tomorrow Friday night, everyone is on holiday, and it's the semi-finals again. There must be a lot of people watching." Zhao Hailong said as if he had thought of something.

"Of course," Chen Jiang said as a matter of course.

"It's Nike. It's a business. How can it not be counted on this point. No matter what kind of competition it is, as long as it reaches the final stage, it will definitely look good, let alone a basketball game." Zhang Yang said.

"Don't tell me, with our Xia thighs, it's strange that there are not many people watching," Zhao Hailong added.

"No, no, but we will definitely win." After Xia Tian said these words, several people burst out laughing, causing the surrounding crowd to stare at this side all the time.

Xia Xia and the others were still the same as the previous few days. They bought some hamburgers and chicken wings, even if they had finished their meal.

As time gets closer, there are also more and more people on and off the field. This is a bit beyond Zhao Hailong's expectation. He originally thought that with the reduction of the competition team, there should be fewer people on the field. Yes, but I didn't expect that many people who knew the players were also practicing shooting on the court, which made Xia Tian frowned.

He doesn't like the game environment being disturbed by other irrelevant people, maybe a small mistake will ruin the whole game.

At about seven o'clock sharp, the host had already stood on the stage, first sorted out the manuscript in his hand, then picked up the microphone and said directly: "After two days of fierce competition, there have been eight finalists. There are four halves, and eight games can be played at the same time, mainly to save everyone’s energy to face the next semi-finals and finals.”

"Next, please invite all the game players to warm up. The game will officially start in 10 minutes."

They took a look at their opponents in this match in Xia Tian. The opponent's team name was very good, very poetic. It was called "Chrysanthemum Picking Team under the Eastern Fence". In Jiang's eyes, there was always something weird, probably because there was a word "chrysanthemum" in it.

Afterwards, the host reported the names and heights of the participants of each team one by one. They listened carefully in Xia Tian, ​​who exactly were this group called "Chrysanthemum Picking Team under the Eastern Fence".

After reading a long list, I finally heard the names of the members of the "Juju Dongli Xia Team". The first player is Zheng Cai, who is 1.8 meters tall. The second player is Ma Dong, who is not tall, about 1.7 meters. Not at all, but since he can win two games in a row, it means that the opponent, Ma Dong, must have a skill. The third Cai Li is 1.9 meters tall. Xia Tian looked at the opponent's height and guessed that the opponent should play as a center. Subconsciously He glanced at Zhang Yang, and Zhang Yang just happened to see Xia Tian's eyes, and nodded his head directly, indicating that he was fine.

There are only three people on the other side, but Xia Tian and they said that they have nothing to do with it, anyway, they will definitely win.

"The names of the three people are really like picking chrysanthemums, haha, each of them has a word in their names"

"Hahaha, these old brothers are a bit level"

In this game, several of them discussed it and decided that Zhao Hailong would rest first and let Chen Jiang start, preparing to show his skills in the next semi-finals and finals.

During the warm-up process, Xia Tian took a special look at the opponent's warm-up level and found that it was pretty good. All three of them could run and jump. The 1.9-meter-zero guy named Cai Li should be able to dunk. Look at his layups every time. They all jumped very easily, and reached the top of the basket without much effort.

As for the other two people, Xia Tian didn't see any tricks. From the point of view of the two people's shots, they were relatively standard, and their shots had a good hit rate.

There were more referees this time, as many as five came, and there was only one referee in each court.

Only on Xia Tian's side, the national first-level referee is still the head referee, and the other referee is the deputy referee.

The "Chrysanthemum Picking Team under the Dongli" won the coin guessing victory, and they were the first to attack.

The opponent's No. [-] player, Ma Dong, dribbles the ball at the top of the arc outside the three-point line. Judging from that posture, he is a trainer. You can see whether the opponent's basic skills are good or bad by looking at the speed and range of dribbling. It's just a matter of footsteps.

Ma Dong was mainly defended by Chen Jiang, but because of Chen Jiang's injury, he was not completely injured, so when defending Ma Dong, he put Ma Dong at a distance of about one meter to prevent Ma Dong from breaking through.

The opponent's No. [-] Cai Li stood at the bottom corner on the right side of the three-point line, and pulled Zhang Yang out by the way, but it was said that he pulled Zhang Yang, but in fact Zhang Yang also let Cai Li a distance of nearly one meter. He is not afraid that the opponent can shoot. For him, a distance of one meter is a step forward. He can get stuck in front of the opponent when the opponent does not receive the ball.

As for the remaining Zheng Cai, Xia Tian is the only one left to defend. Everyone has not seen Zheng Cai's characteristics. Judging from the warm-up situation, Xia Tian found that the opponent's shooting and athletic ability are good. Yes, so he kept a neutral distance, about three steps away, although this was a bit tiring to defend, but it was not a problem at all for Xia Tian whose body was full now.

At the beginning of the opening game, the tactical purpose of "Team Picking Chrysanthemums under the Eastern Fence" was very clear. All three of them stood outside the three-point line, expanding the scope of the game very quickly. The defensive area of ​​the "Fried Basketball Team" is too large, especially Zhang Yang, who occupies half of the inside position. If someone really breaks in, then Zhang Yang will definitely make up for it in time.

As for the others, the height of Xia Tian and Chen Jiang is completely enough to defend.

(End of this chapter)