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Chapter 20 Varsity Substitutes
Xu Hao obviously had no impression of the strength of Class 29. Although his performance in the group stage was considered very good, but in terms of making friends, Cheng Siyu was clearly more than one grade above him.In order to let the good brother understand how difficult the next opponent is, Cheng Siyu introduced him to him while eating during dinner time.

"Although they were squeezed into second place in Group D, the strength of Class 29 cannot be underestimated, especially their center Wan Zicheng. We must be careful. Since entering Gangcheng No. [-] Middle School, he has been recruited into the school team as the fifth position And Zhengyin center Shen Qi will graduate and leave next year, according to gossip, Wan Zicheng has already booked this starting position."

Xu Hao yawned: "Please, wouldn't it be Mu Zhuang's job to be an insider? I won't get involved."

Cheng Siyu shook his head and said: "That's because you haven't played against him. Wan Zicheng is not a traditional center. Of course, he is very intimidating both offensively and defensively at the basket, but his biggest threat lies in the pole position." Large defensive range. With his moving speed and agility, he can quickly get close to the three-point line when defending, which has a great impact on us."

Hearing what Cheng Siyu said, Xu Hao couldn't help but sit upright. He thought for a while and asked, "Listen to you, you should have fought against him before, right? He's really strong enough to go outside to defend smaller players shot? Impossible?"

"What's the problem? I lied to you to get money?" Cheng Siyu rolled his eyes at him and continued, "Although it was just a three-on-three game in private, he played it as a regular game. My three-pointer He blocked shots a couple of times."

Although Cheng Siyu spoke calmly, Xu Hao could still see a trace of shame and helplessness from his expression.Indeed, for a person like Cheng Siyu who is full of confidence in himself, being blocked by his opponents is obviously not something that can be laughed at.But this also shows from the side that Wan Zicheng is difficult to deal with. His existence is not a small threat to the inside and outside players of Class 2.

During the self-study that night, Xu Hao kept thinking about how to avoid Wan Zicheng from disrupting his shooting rhythm.Relying on height is simply looking for death. The only thing you can do is to increase the running distance, increase the shooting speed, and throw the ball before the opponent takes off and blocks.Or shake it up with a fake move, and then shoot a shot, or even choose to draw a foul.

With his current level of dribbling, fake moves are undoubtedly a problem. When Xu Hao usually encounters the opponent's defense, most of the time he chooses to rely on his physical strength to force a breakthrough. It is naturally even more difficult to point Wan Zicheng, and It is too late to start practicing now.Therefore, for him, improving the speed of his shots is the only option at present.

It is reasonable to improve the shooting speed is only one aspect of shooting training, but the system is very magical, completely customized a set of training content based on Xu Hao's ideas and Sakura's supplementary perfection.Xu Hao's idea is very simple. Since Wan Zicheng can expand the defense line to the three-point line, then I can also set up a defender of similar height and quick movement during training, so that I can maximize the recovery of my upcoming defense. The situation encountered during the competition is equivalent to an actual combat exercise.

Xu Hao felt a lot of pressure from the beginning. All his first five shots were blocked, and he barely escaped the opponent's defense until the sixth time. Unfortunately, the basketball didn't even touch the basket.Such a result obviously wouldn't satisfy him, so he simply held his breath and practiced his shooting speed crazily throughout the night, taking every ten shots as a stage, the shooting rate was getting higher and higher.

But later, Xu Hao found that his hit rate could only reach about 40%, no matter how high it was, there was nothing he could do.After Sakura's explanation, he suddenly realized that with his current strength, this has reached a bottleneck. If he wants to continue to improve his shooting percentage against defenders, he can only further improve his shooting ability, because this is the foundation .

Xu Hao felt a bit of a headache for Sakura's explanation. During this period of time, he found that the rate of increase in his shooting score was extremely slow, and it was undoubtedly difficult to continue to break through.Originally, he thought about whether he could improve his shooting skills in other ways, but he didn't expect that it was because of the limitation of his current overall strength. It seemed that it was time to improve his other abilities.

In order not to affect everyone's study time, the grade league schedule is very tight this time, and there is hardly enough rest time for each team. I think the grade director thinks that they just played a game and don't need time to recover. .

The match between Class 2 and Class 29 was scheduled on the first day of the knockout round, but Xu Hao didn't care too much. After all, he hadn't yet entered the starting lineup, and his playing time in each game was less than that of the starting five. Naturally, it is not that big.However, before the game started, Cheng Siyu approached him and said without a doubt: "You will play the starting shooting guard in this game."

Xu Hao was taken aback. He frowned and asked in a low voice: "What's the situation? You're not going to trick me again, are you? Let me play the sixth man. I don't know that I can play against the opposing starting lineup. What does it look like!"

Cheng Siyu grabbed his shoulders and said with a sad face: "That kid Zhao Qi has something to do at home, so he slipped away as soon as school is over. You know the strength of our team as a substitute. Instead of letting them top you, why don't I swing up and play small forward?" , you will replace me, so that at least we can still compete with Class 29 in terms of the overall strength of the starting lineup."

This reason was so powerful that even if Xu Hao didn't want to, he could only hold his nose and continue.However, he still felt a little secretly happy. After all, this was his first start.

In any case, the knockout match is more interesting than the group match, and the appeal of a life-and-death match is naturally much stronger than scoring points.This afternoon was four of the 16-to-8 matches in the grade league. By the time Xu Hao and the others rushed to the basketball court, there were already crowds of people on the sidelines. Xu Hao even saw a few familiar faces. They were all in the group from Class 2. The defeat of the game.

Xue Yubing also appeared on the sidelines as a matter of course. Xu Hao found that this girl has made no secret of her interest in basketball. Every game, she can always be seen on the sidelines. Although she is not like other girls screaming for a goal , but her eyes can't deceive anyone, Xu Hao can vaguely see the blush behind her ears after every game.But when he mentioned this in private, Xue Yubing only said that he came to watch the game because he was afraid that he would embarrass his teacher.

(End of this chapter)