King of shooting guards

Chapter 138 The First National Competition

Everyone was silent. Yan Kuan hadn't appeared since the last final. The official answer was indeed consistent with what Tao Ran said, but everyone who knew it knew that it was because his family didn't allow it.Therefore, Sima Shenji asked with a fluke mentality.

Seeing everyone's low spirits, Coach Tao Ran let out a big sigh.

"Continue to arrange, don't be downcast, we will bring back a champion to show them!"

"Yes!" Everyone echoed.

Then, Coach Tao Ran continued to arrange.

"In addition, if you have a chance at the basket, you must play, be firm."

"It's not just you." As he spoke, Tao Ran glanced at Aaron, Sima Shenji, and said, "Aaron, Sima Shenji, you two should also pay attention, be firm, and fight if you have the opportunity. The game restricted the opponent to only 89 points, which shows that the defense is definitely very strong, we can't hesitate, if we hesitate, we may miss the opportunity."

"Yes." Nong Guang, Aaron, and Sima Shenji nodded.

After giving these instructions, Tao Ran's expression did not relax, he was still serious, and said: "The opponent's defense is very strong, and the offense is also very strong."

"So, we must not only play our own style on offense, but also try our best to restrain the opponent on defense. Give me a little more positive later, especially Sima Shenji and Li Changgeng, and Nong Guang, you three One has to pay special attention, the people who are fighting against you are very aggressive."

The three nodded silently, and Tao Ran stopped talking, and encouraged everyone to relax and ignore the audience, so he gave up.

After a while, members of Mie Shen team also came down from the field and gathered around coach Song Zhezong one by one.

Song Zhezong looked relaxed, because his players were too good, and it was the home court, the right time, place and people were all on his side, so there was nothing to worry about.

Seeing that all the players under him had gathered, he clapped his hands, and he didn't even bother to take the tactical board, so he said: "I won't say much, and we will follow our usual style of play in a while. Hit when you get the chance, understand?"

"clear."

"Hey, coach, don't worry, it's easy to catch."

A group of young people said with a smile, they were very relaxed. After all, this is a home game, and the mentality is completely different from playing an away game.

"Yeah." Song Zhezong nodded with a smile, glanced at Hongcheng, and his eyes fell on Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji. He frowned slightly, but still told him, "Liu Qinhao, Chiang Kai-shek, you two later Be careful with the people who oppose you. Everyone else in Hongcheng is fine, but that Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji are indeed capable, so don't let these two open it."

"Ah."

"I know." Liu Qinhao and Chiang Kai-shek replied in unison. The coach had explained Hongcheng to them, so they naturally didn't know anything about Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji.On the contrary, they attached great importance to Li Changgeng and Sima Shenji, even if the coach didn't tell them, they would be careful.

Glancing at the time, it was about to start. Song Zhezong patted the shoulders of his players and shouted, "Okay, get ready to play and kill Hongcheng."

"Get rid of Hongcheng! Mie Shen Wu Di!" A group of people shouted.

"Snapped!"

The basketball thrown up by the referee was caught by Nong Guang and fell into the hands of Sima Shenji. He slowed down and then steadily controlled the ball and advanced.After passing the front court, a figure flashed in front of Sima Shenji's eyes, and Liu Qinhui, the point guard of the Mie Shen team, quickly rushed forward with a contemptuous smile on his face.

Liu Qinhui is characterized by fast speed. Sima Shenji tried twice but failed to shake him off, so he had no choice but to shake his hands and pass the ball.

Li Changgeng took the ball, facing Liu Qinhao's defensive toes, Liu Qinhao raised his center of gravity slightly, the next moment Li Changgeng kicked his left foot on the ground, and quickly killed him.

"Damn, this guy is so fast!" Liu Qinhao's face changed slightly, and he even turned around to pursue.

At the same time, Mie Shen team power forward Wang Tianyi rushed forward and stood in front of Li Changgeng, wanting to delay him a bit.

After taking a look at Wang Tianyi, Li Changgeng suddenly sped up and made a gesture to go to the basket, which startled Wang Tianyi, and he didn't care about Aaron, so he even moved over to block Li Changgeng's route.

"Snapped!"

Seeing that Wang Tianyi's attention had been attracted, Li Changgeng hit the ground and passed the ball, and quickly handed the ball to Aaron on the right.Aaron took the ball, secretly praised "Good pass", pulled up and shot, but at the moment the ball was released, he found that his eyes blurred, and he couldn't help being surprised, "Isn't it? This guy is not going to defend Li Is Chang Geng already? Why did he come over so quickly?"

Even Li Changgeng was taken aback. Wang Tianyi had been attracted by him just now, but he didn't expect Wang Tianyi's speed to be astonishingly fast, and he retreated in a blink of an eye.Although Aaron had jumped up when he passed by, he still touched the ball.

"Rebound!" Aaron yelled.

"Drink." Nong Guang tried his best to jump up, but he was stuck by Zhang Sanfeng. Zhang Sanfeng was 120 meters tall and weighed [-] kilograms. , but still can't reach the basketball.

Putting the rebound into his arms, Zhang Sanfeng yelled "Fast Break", threw the ball outside, and started running along with him.

"Damn it, stop them." Seeing Liu Qinhui get the ball, Li Changgeng yelled, and quickly ran to the backcourt.

Liu Qinhui was very fast, and in a blink of an eye, he threw away Sima Shenji's two figures, and rushed towards the Hongcheng half like a wild horse that had run loose.While dribbling, he was also paying attention to the situation behind him. Seeing Li Changgeng chasing him quickly, he grinned, braked suddenly, and stood outside the three-point line as if to shoot.

"What?" The audience was stunned.

"It turned out to be three points?" Li Changgeng was also shocked, before he had time to think about it, he quickly jumped up and jumped up from the side.

He was in the air, stretching his hand towards the basketball, but Li Changgeng felt that he had missed the opportunity, only to see Liu Qinhui with a playful smile on his face, took the ball back and smashed it to the ground.

The ball bounced on the ground and flew to the inside of the three-point line. Unknowingly, Zhang Sanfeng, who had already followed up quickly, grabbed the ball, shouted "Strike", and jumped up in three big steps, grabbing it with one hand The ball hit the basket hard.

With a bang, the ball went in.

The audience started yelling and cheering like thunder. The sound of thousands of people was so loud that it seemed to collapse the arena.

Near the auditorium of the stadium, two girls waved small flags and shouted loudly: "Zhang Sanfeng is the most handsome, Zhang Sanfeng, I love you."

Hearing the sound, Zhang Sanfeng smiled even more, and blew a kiss to the two girls. The coach Song Zhezong, who was watching the sound, twitched his eyes and shouted at Zhang Sanfeng: "Zhang Sanfeng, what are you doing? You have to Shit, don't hurry back to defense."

"Oh." Zhang Sanfeng shrunk his neck.

Seeing Zhang Sanfeng being scolded, Liu Qinhao laughed, hehe said: "I told you to pretend to be aggressive, let's just compete in the competition, and you still have to call two girls. Don't tell me, those two girls are your girlfriends? "

"Let me tell you, those two girls are still my girlfriends." Zhang Sanfeng stared, and laughed while running, "You kid is just jealous, I know. It's not that my brother said you, you can't come here because of jealousy , who made you look like a bear."

"I forked!" Liu Qinhao was furious. He and his elder brother Liu Qinhui said that they had no game skills, but it was shameful. They really didn't feel good about the audience.

Sima Shenji pushed forward and passed the ball to Li Changgeng. Li Changgeng took the ball and tapped it in front of him, but this time Liu Qinhao was not fooled.Li Changgeng didn't care, he gestured to his teammates to pull away, and then made a continuous cross step, suddenly changed direction, and opened up at full speed.

Whoosh!
Liu Qinhao only felt a gust of wind blowing by, he stretched out his hand to grab it, but only touched the corner of Li Changgeng's clothes, he couldn't help being terrified, he still underestimated Li Changgeng too much.

With one kick, he passed Liu Qinhao by half a body. Li Changgeng went inside with two steps and jumped up facing the defender. However, it was not a shot, but a clever behind-the-back pass, and the ball was handed over to Sima Shen In Ji's hand, Sima Shenji took the ball and immediately jumped up to shoot.

"boom!"

The ball didn't go in.

"Return to defense." Li Changgeng shouted repeatedly, turning around and running towards the backcourt first.

Nong Guang, Aaron, and Sima Shenji also quickly returned to defense, but Sima Shenji was a beat slower, and seemed a little dazed.

The Miershen team counterattacked very quickly. Because Sima Shenji retreated a little slower, the Miershen team took the opportunity to easily score one, and the score became 4:0.

On the sidelines, Tao Ran frowned, and thought to himself, "There is something wrong with Sima Shenji, could it be that he was influenced by the crazy audience?"

Li Changgeng also noticed that something was wrong with Sima Shenji. It is reasonable to say that Sima Shenji should not have missed the ball earlier, and the back defense was so slow, he simply lost his mind.After thinking about it, he walked up to Sima Shenji and asked, "Sima Shenji, are you alright?"

"I'm fine." Sima Shenji shook his head, but his eyes fell on the audience, feeling a little disappointed. Jiang Ting didn't come, did he not know, or didn't want to come?

Hongcheng attacked.

Sima Shenji took the ball and advanced to the frontcourt. Li Changgeng, Sima Shenji and the others started to run, pick and roll, and after several rounds of running, Li Changgeng finally found a space. He pointed at Sima Shenji and said, "The ball."

Sima Shenji passed the ball one after another. Li Changgeng took the ball and suddenly found another person in front of him. He couldn't help being surprised, "The Mie Shen team changed defenses so quickly."

The Mie Shen team switched defenses very quickly. As soon as Li Changgeng got rid of Liu Qinhao, Chiang Kai-shek quickly stepped up the defense, not giving him an open shot.

"Hmph, if you don't give me a chance to make a mobile phone call, do I have to have an empty seat to make a hit?" Li Changgeng didn't hesitate at all, he tiptoed, and then pulled horizontally to the side, creating a distance from Chiang Kai-shek. Outside the three-point line, pull up and shoot.

"What a quick shot!" Chiang Kai-shek was startled, and even looked back.

Swish!
The goal was scored and the score became 4:3.

Li Changgeng's three-pointer brought the score closer, but in a blink of an eye the Mie Shen team returned a three-pointer, rewriting the score to 7:3, and Hongcheng was still behind by 4 points.

And this is not the most troublesome thing, the most troublesome thing is that the next few attacks on Hongcheng failed, Li Changgeng missed a shot, Sima Shenji missed an open shot, Nong Guang made a mistake at the basket, Sima Shen The plane cut into the inside line and ate a hot pot
In a few minutes, Hong Cheng didn't make a single score. Instead, the Mie Shen team seized the opportunity to score 8 points in a row, widening the point difference to 12 points.

Seeing that the first quarter had only been played for more than four minutes, and the point difference was stretched to 12 points, Tao Ran's face was so gloomy that dripping water dripped out, and he even called a timeout.

After a few people came down from the court, Tao Ran pointed at them and scolded them, "What are you doing these few minutes? Are you still playing? You have no momentum on offense, and you don't even make open shots. Is it at this level?"

Sima Shenji's face turned pale, he lowered his head and didn't dare to lift it up, he didn't have a chance to make an open space near the free throw line, so he really had nothing to say.

Seeing Sima Shenji's appearance, Tao Ran was even more angry, but he couldn't continue to attack Amu, and instead pointed at Amu and growled: "The opportunity to cut the layup, can you make a good layup? If you have to play the drawbar, you Do you know that you are superfluous? You deserve to be blocked, hum!"

Amu muttered: "I don't want to either." He really didn't want to, but he was a little guilty and worried about being hated, so he pulled the lever, but it turned out to be a waste of time, and being chased by someone would be a big hat blowing away.

After scolding Sima Shenji and A Mu, Tao Ran looked at Li Changgeng, making Li Changgeng tremble in fright.

However, Tao Ran did not scold him. Instead, he said in a soft tone, "Li Changgeng, you played well. Although you missed one shot, it doesn't matter. People miss and horses stumble. You have to increase your offensive strength later. Since no one else wants to fight, then you might as well come alone."

Isn't that an insinuation?Li Changgeng thought to himself, it's hard to say yes, and it's hard to say no, so he can only keep his head depressed and say nothing.

Sima Shenji, Amu, Nong Guang, and Aaron also heard the coach's insinuation, but they really had nothing to refute.

They did play poorly in this quarter, several of them were out of form, they were not decisive on offense, they were not decisive, and their minds were always distracted on defense. It would be strange not to be scolded for such a performance.

After giving the order, Tao Ran's anger was still hard to dissipate, he waved his hand impatiently, and said to a few people: "Don't stick around, go on stage."

The game continues.

This time Li Changgeng deliberately strengthened his offense, and Sima Shenji also consciously gave Li Changgeng more balls. Relying on Li Changgeng's personal ability to score a few consecutive goals, the point difference was once narrowed to 3 points.

Unfortunately, the opponent adopted double-team tactics in the last 3 minutes of the first quarter. Li Changgeng could only score more goals, but Sima Shenji missed a few shots and wasted several opportunities.

As a result, the point difference was widened again. By the end of the first quarter, the score became 28:15, and Hongcheng fell behind by 13 points.

In the first quarter, they trailed the opponent by 13 points. This was something that Hongcheng had never encountered from the city league to the provincial league this year, and it made Tao Ranqi's nose crooked.

Looking at the few people who came down from the field, he had a gloomy face, and he scolded them so badly that they couldn't lift their heads.

Several people didn't dare to speak, and all of them were silent, even Li Changgeng was the same, he felt that the fight in this section was too fucking hot.The Mie Shen team is very strong, he admits this, but the key is that his performance here is really bad. Like paper.

That's it, it's no wonder you don't get blown up by others!
"Okay, since none of you want to fight, then come down to me." Tao Ran said harshly, ignoring them.

In fact, Li Changgeng played well in this quarter, but at this time Tao Ran was so angry that he couldn't speak clearly. When he calmed down, he felt that Li Changgeng should not be blamed, but he definitely couldn't apologize to Li Changgeng. Yes, we will have to wait for a while.

Soon, at the beginning of the second quarter, Tao Ran put Sima Shenji, Nong Guang, Aaron, and Sima Shenji on the bench with a dark face, and only said to Li Changgeng: "Li Changgeng, keep going, fight hard, You performed well just now, but you have to be more determined later."

"Yeah." Li Changgeng nodded, knowing what the coach meant to tell him not to pass the ball when his teammates were not strong enough, and to do it alone without double-teaming.

In addition, Tao Ran quickly ordered a few people, center Lu Feng, power forward Luo Tian, ​​small forward Nong Guang, and point guard Long Xiaotian, and said to them: "Give me a good fight, don't be like those few, who If you lose the chain again, don’t blame me for being rude. I’ll give you another chance, Nong Guang, if you don’t fight well, go down.”

Several people shrank their necks, looked at each other and smiled wryly.

Guangxi, East China Economic Company.

Looking at the score on TV, Luo Jinnan shook his head and said worriedly: "Hongcheng played really badly in the first quarter, it didn't perform to the level it should have at all, and they led by 13 points in the first quarter. The hole dug is not too small.”

"Yeah." Xiaoli was also very helpless, and smiled wryly, "This pit is neither too big nor too small. It doesn't matter if it is normal, but Hongcheng's away game today, the score fell behind at the beginning, and the next game will only get worse. It's getting harder."

Luo Jinnan nodded and said, "So, Coach Hongcheng simply replaced all the main players except Li Changgeng. I hope this will be useful."

"Let's watch the game." Xiaoli said.

ZJ Provincial Sports Center.

A cheer rang out from the basketball hall, but it was a low-post single from the Mie Shen team. Center Zhang Sanfeng used his physical advantage to squeeze away Lu Feng, turned around and dunked, and scored two more points for the Mie Shen team, which also excited the audience Unceasingly, the roar shook the sky.

"attack!"

Li Changgeng yelled, made a free throw from the bottom line, and then quickly ran forward.

Long Xiaotian pushed forward with the ball, and just after passing the frontcourt, Liu Qinhui forced him up, and there was a huge booing sound from the audience, which made him feel restless, a negligence in his mind, and he was almost stunned by Liu Qinhui stealing the ball In a cold sweat, he even passed the ball to Li Changgeng.

"Teaming!"

Seeing Li Changgeng taking the ball, Liu Qinhao, who was in charge of defending him, yelled, and Liu Qinhui immediately rushed over to double-team Li Changgeng with him.Li Changgeng dribbled twice, seeing that the two were about to finish double-teaming, he shook his hand and passed the ball to Long Xiaotian who had already vacated his position.

The Mie Shen team switched defenses very quickly. Before Long Xiaotian had time to do anything, Wang Tianyi pounced on him. Long Xiaotian even passed the ball inside and gave it to Luo Tian.

At this time, Luo Tian dribbled the ball into the penalty area and jumped up.

"Snapped!"

The ball was blown away, but fortunately the referee's whistle blew, giving Mie Shen team center Zhang Sanfeng a defensive foul, and Luo Tian went to the free throw line.

Seeing Luo Tian go to the free throw line, the audience immediately became excited again. There were boos and curses all over the place, which disturbed Luo Tian.

He frowned, took a deep breath, and started making free throws.

"boom!"

The first free throw missed, Luo Tian hammered himself, and couldn't help feeling annoyed, Li Changgeng, Lu Feng and others came up to give him high fives and cheer him up.

"I must score this goal." Luo Tian thought to himself.

It's a pity that the booing was too loud, the abuse was too harsh, and a group of male students behind the basketball hoop lifted up their shirts and kept shaking their shirtless shirts. After all, it still affected Luo Tian. The team got the rebound.

Seeing this, Tao Ran's face turned even darker.

Originally, he was hoping to change a few people up to make a difference, but the result was still the same as before. Seeing the Mie Shen team launch a counterattack and score another goal, he shook his head helplessly. He didn't know whether to blame the fans for being too crazy, or The blame is that the players are too disappointing.

Fortunately, Li Changgeng's performance was not bad, but because his teammates were not good enough, he faced great defensive pressure, and his shooting percentage was naturally not high, and he couldn't make the most intimidating three-pointer. A few, but it is just a drop in the bucket for Hongcheng.

By the end of the first half, the score had become 58:36, and Hongcheng had fallen behind by as much as 22 points before he knew it.

"It's over!"

In front of the TV, the mood of many Hongcheng fans sank to the bottom. They felt that the game was getting colder and colder. They were 22 points behind in the first half, and it seemed that they were doomed.

In the director's office, the director slapped the table with a slap, his brows were twisted into Sichuan characters, he stood up from his seat angrily, and roared: "This damn home field!" After cursing, he also calmed down and saw With the glaring score on the TV screen, he sighed helplessly, "Well, after all, we still don't have enough background. It's the first time we entered the national divisional competition, and we couldn't adapt to the atmosphere of the competition."

Guangxi, East China Economic Company.

Luo Jinnan couldn't help sighing, "It's still inexperienced. It's the first time I entered the national divisional competition, and I haven't experienced this kind of battle."

"Ah." Xiaoli also sighed, took a deep puff of the cigarette, pinched the end of the cigarette, and said with some disappointment, "I thought that even if it was the first time experiencing this kind of battle, Hongcheng should be able to adapt quickly, no matter how bad it is for Li Changgeng There should be no problem with Sima Shenji, but now." Having said that, he paused for a moment, and said in confusion, "What are you talking about Sima Shenji, it shouldn't be."

"It shouldn't be." Luo Jinnan nodded, "Sima Shenji has also seen big scenes. In the past, he supported a team by himself in the Yellow River. With his ability and mentality, logically speaking, it shouldn't be like this, but It just happened to be like this, I don’t understand.”

Like them, there are still many people who can't figure it out. Countless fans who follow Hongcheng feel extremely disappointed. Their original expectations and longings have all turned into helplessness at this moment.That's it, what else is there to watch in the second half?
(End of this chapter)