basketball hero

Chapter 124 Difficult Defensive Choices
At the beginning of the second quarter, the second team led by Ying Xiong and Rodney White appeared. For the XJ team, Battelle is still on the court, and his partner inside is Alan Maji, a big foreign aid.

Jin Lipeng came over with a dribble and was about to drop the ball to Battelle, but found that Yu Liang of the Guangsha team was desperately circling forward to defend.Alan Maji received a pass from Jin Lipeng, singled White with the ball, and missed a mid-range jumper.

Ying Xiong grabbed the rebound, advanced quickly with the ball, and made a one-stop layup that caused a foul by Xu Guochong.

Ying Xiong stepped up to the free throw and made two free throws with ease!

Here Battelle caused a defensive foul in front of the beam. The XJ team went on the offensive.Battelle received a sling pass from Mulati and easily scored 2 points at the basket.

Tied again.

The Guangsha team almost never double-teamed Battelle, and let him fight one by one, and let the inside players in the team fight against him.Try to consume his physical energy and prevent him from driving the shooters.

Ying Xiong controlled the ball for half the court, faced Mulati's defense, and made a pick-and-roll with Yu Liang at the top of the arc.Battelle stayed at the bottom of the basket, and Alan Maji followed up to delay.White kept wandering around with cover, and as soon as he was open, Ying Xiong's pass was in place.

White's mid-range shots are very accurate, and this kind of open shots hardly misses in this game.

As for the XJ team, they mainly played against Yu Liang under Battelle's basket and Alan Maji's strong attack under the basket, playing very hard.Of course, it was not without effect. Yu Liang was soon beaten down for too many fouls.After Yu Liang went down, Yao Peng came up, and then the wheel battle consumed Battelle.

Both sides come and go, leading the score alternately.But it looks like a war of attrition, but the consumption of the two leaders is not in the same order of magnitude.The older and heavier Battelle was very exhausted, and he was out of breath before half the game.And the young Ying Xiong seemed to be very physically fit, with a calm expression on his face.

Director Jiang Xingquan on the sidelines had a sad face.The situation on the field is not what he wants to see.If you want to use Battelle's personal low-post attack to drive the shooters, the opponents will not be fooled by this routine.Opponents would rather lose points in the paint than double-team Battelle.But Battelle didn't drive the shooters, not to mention, but was consumed too much energy by the opponent's blue-collar insiders.

——In the final analysis, the Guangsha team has a strong strength. If they can't score points, they will naturally not dare to let Battelle eat hard at the basket.

Jiang Xingquan requested a timeout and took this opportunity to replace Battelle with Xue Yuyang.Battelle is his biggest advantage against Guangsha. If he is "exchanged" by the opponent, the second half of the game will be very difficult.

After Battelle left the field, the Guangsha team quickly took the initiative on the field. Under the leadership of Ying Xiong, they widened the point difference to 6 points at the end of halftime.

The game in the third quarter is like a replica of the first quarter.Zhang Shu went on the field to try to consume Ying Xiong, but was overwhelmed by Ying Xiong's low position again, and soon committed 3 fouls.So far, Jiang Xingquan's plan to make Zhang Shu a surprise soldier has completely failed.

As for Guangsha, when the XJ team used double-team tactics to deal with Ying Xiong, the loss of Yu Junkai and Zhang Nan made the XJ team double-team even more recklessly.

The two sides fell into hand-to-hand combat, because they couldn't open the outside line and had no touch, so they could only fight the inside line and the mid-range.Battelle was in the low post and successfully played Li Meng to the bench, but he also paid a physical price.There were a lot of fouls on both sides, and the game was cut to pieces by the referee's whistle.Although the spectacle is a bit worse, the intensity of the confrontation is obviously at the playoff level.

With 3 minutes and 3 seconds left in the third quarter, the two teams once again tied at 30.Guangsha team coach Wang Fei requested a timeout.

After the timeout, Ying Xiong was not replaced, White replaced Thompson, and Yu Liang replaced Yao Peng. For the XJ team, Battelle still didn't end, and Allen Maji replaced David Jackson.

Ying Xiong came over with a dribble, and Yu Liang made a high pick-and-roll. Alan Maji and Jin Lipeng of the XJ team ignored Yu Liang and quickly flanked him.

Ying Xiong quickly sent the ball to Yu Liang, at this time Yu Liang got a wide open opportunity outside the 3-point line. The XJ team bet that Liang would not dare to make a shot, and even if he did, he would not be able to make it.Because Yu Liang hadn't shot even once in this game.

Yu Liang was in a wide open position at this time, and there was no one who could pass the ball, so he felt embarrassed not to shoot, so he directly shot a 3-pointer from the outside—the ball was flying in the air—and made a direct hit!
Battelle and White at the basket are already planning to fight for rebounds, and they don't think Yu Liang can score 3 points in this kind of game.

But the fact is, Yu Liang hit the target!Ying Xiong trusted his teammates and got rewarded!

For the XJ team, Jin Lipeng shot a 3-pointer from the outside, but was interfered by Ying Xiong. The ball missed the basket and went straight out of the baseline.

Ying Xiong came over with the dribble, but it was still because of Liang Ti's pick-and-roll. The XJ team still chose to double-team him.

Ying Xiong continued to pass the ball to Yu Liang, and the latter continued to try to shoot 3 points-continue to hit!
"Yu Liang Brand" has been raining for three minutes! ——The point difference instantly widened to 6 points!
Jiang Xingquan didn't call a timeout, and he didn't believe that Yu Liang's blue-collar inside touch could last.

The game continued. The XJ team's offense was a little impatient, and Battelle missed a layup under the basket.The rebound was grabbed by Yu Liang and handed over to Ying Xiong to advance.

Ying Xiong is still in the high position and Yu Liang picks and rolls.This time, Alan Maji of the XJ team kept an eye out.Although it was still pinching Ying Xiong, the moment Ying Xiong hit the ball, he turned around and chased after Yu Liang.

Yu Lianggang was about to shoot a 3-pointer, but found that a big black guy from the opponent rushed over, made a fake shot, tricked Alan Maji into flying, and then drove to the basket with the ball, causing Battelle's foul!
With Yu Liang's two free throws, the point difference was widened to 8 points.At this time, there are 1 minute and 03 seconds left before the end of the third quarter.

Jiang Xingquan could no longer calm down, frowning and asked for a timeout!In his opinion, the team can lose, to the opponent's Ying Xiong and the double foreign players, or to be killed by Yu Junkai and Zhang Nan, but it must not be killed by blue-collar insiders such as Yu Liang and Yao Peng.This way of losing is absolutely not allowed by him.Under his defensive strategy, double-team Yingxiong, give the opponent an open space outside, and bet on the feel of Zhang Nan and others.Yu Junkai and Zhang Nan feel cold, which proves that there is no problem with the strategy of this game, but at this time there is actually Yu Liang, like a catfish, which puts his plan at risk of failure.

Back from the timeout, Alan Maji made a strong attack inside, giving the team some breathing room.

Here Yingxiong came over with a dribble and picked and rolled with Yu Liang again.This time the opponent didn't dare to put Yu Liang any more and switched defenses directly.

Ying Xiong singled out Allen Maji with the ball, and the latter was afraid of his breakthrough and gave him a certain amount of shooting space.Ying Xiong kept cross dribbling, challenging the opponent's defensive nerves.

Allen Maji didn't dare to draw the ball, and he didn't dare to get too close.

Ying Xiong was dribbling the ball in a high position, suddenly his center of gravity dropped, and he made a fake move of changing directions.Alan Maji withdrew his center of gravity slightly, intending to prevent his breakthrough.

At this moment, Ying Xiong suddenly pulled up from the spot and made a quick 3-pointer—the ball drew a perfect arc in the air and fell into the net accurately.

Ying Xiong's 3-point shooting speed is much faster than before, but his shooting rate is not affected at all.The 3-pointer hit like a punch, and the XJ team didn't know what to do.

(End of this chapter)