I really play basketball

Chapter 55
As soon as he entered the locker room, Penny came to the technical statistics of this half of the game.

他直接看向了写着自己名字的那一栏，半场10投4中，11分3个篮板5个助攻1个抢断。

With this data, except for the low hit rate, there is nothing wrong with it.

But look at his opponent, Lin Xing's half-time statistics——

8投5中，拿下14分2个篮板5个助攻2个抢断。

Except for rebounds, Lin Xing has already suppressed Penny in other statistics, and his shooting percentage is even more crushed.

Looking at this technical statistic, Penny was in a bad mood.

He still doesn't think that Lin Xing is better than him. Judging from the statistics, Lin Xing is indeed much more efficient than him.

But Penny believes that Lin Xing is far less versatile than him, and is technically flawed.

The reason why halftime games are played more efficiently is because one's teammates are not strong enough.

If the Tigers can have a big center, can Lin Xing's efficiency be so high?
In fact, it's okay for Penny to think so.

In this game, Lin Xing played really easily. Although the opponent's 2-meter-high center can jump, his strength is not strong enough.

He couldn't withstand Lin Xing's impact, so he changed to a big center and defended close to the frame. Lin Xing's efficiency was indeed much lower.

But the problem is that after the Sharks and Mourning left, the entire NCAA couldn't find a strong enough big center.

Being behind by 8 points at halftime made Penny feel that the game had gone too far.

But in the locker room, the head coach of the University of Memphis, Larry Finch, was still chattering about adjusting the Tigers' style of play, saying that trailing by 8 points at halftime was not the end, and they still had a chance.

"In the second half, we directly increased the speed and defeated the opponent with speed!"

As soon as these words came out, Penny's eyes lit up.

Speed ​​up is good, speed up will avoid their shortcomings of not having a big center.

And Penny's style of play is, to put it bluntly, no different from that of Lin Xing.

He also likes to play fast whirlwinds, giving full play to his speed advantage in fast offensive and defensive transitions.

Penny stroked his chin, and suddenly felt that the second half of the game was saved.

But he didn't expect that the hole card that the Long Beach branch had been holding was speeding up.

In this wave, the prediction of the University of Memphis was predicted by the Long Beach branch.

The game started quickly in the second half, starting with the Long Beach offense.

Although Seth Greenberg emphasized the need to speed up in the second half, the first attack at the beginning could not be speeded up.

Lin Xing could only proceed step by step, making a breakthrough first, passing Penny, and then another tank hit, pushing away Anthony Douglas who was defending.

In the end, a successful layup opened the gap to 10 points.

"The University of Memphis still can't stop Stalin. After scoring this goal, Stalin has made 9 of 6 shots. The efficiency is terrible!"

"With a 10-point lead, Long Beach is close to winning the game."

The commentary seat became Lin Chui's stage, but when he was blowing Lin Xing wildly, the stage——

The University of Memphis made a quick move in the backcourt, and Pence rushed forward after receiving the ball, directly revealing his intention to speed up.

Off the court, Seth Greenberg was taken aback when he saw the University of Memphis speeding up, and then grinned.

"Did Larry Finch have a twitch? Or did he never watch our games?"

This game is stable!
Penny accelerated to the frontcourt, which was still a cover.

After passing the screen, he made a direct mid-range shot.

but……

The basket is not very face-saving, and rejected this undisturbed mid-range shot.

Clang!
Just as everyone on the court was chanting "rebound, rebound," Chris Tavor turned around and jammed Kevin Allen, standing still without moving.

Everyone is stunned, just get stuck but not grab boards?
In the next second, a pair of rough yellow hands caught the basketball!
"Stalin, he grabbed the rebound, switched offense and defense..."

What Memphis didn't realize was that the second half of the game was about to turn into a fast-playing whirlwind lesson.

Why is Seth Greenberg so confident that the game is stable when he sees the speed of the University of Memphis?

Because he knew that the Long Beach branch had long been prepared for speeding up.

But the University of Memphis must have improvised, just look at Penny's first down.

How can there be a speed increase without concealment?It's just plain funny.

On the court, Lin Xing, who grabbed the rebound, did not speed up immediately, but slowly controlled the ball in the backcourt.

That gave Memphis the illusion that Long Beach wanted to control the tempo, they didn't want to play fast.

Just like this, after half of the court was controlled, Lin Xing suddenly increased his speed, sprinting like lightning, and passed several people.

He just stopped pretending and had a showdown, and the Long Beach branch was also speeding up.

At the basket, even though Kevin Allen has returned to defense, facing a Lin Xing who is driving at full speed, he can only raise his hand to show off.

Then he watched Lin Xing succeed in smashing the buckle.

"Sudden acceleration, sudden drive straight to the basket, Stalin scored 2 more points, 10 of 7 shots, he was unstoppable!"

"Long Beach's lead has been further extended to 12 points!"

The University of Memphis still had no chance to grab a rebound and counterattack. They still had to face a fast retreat and a half-court defensive formation from Long Beach.

Penny also knew that his hard speed increase in the previous offensive round was ridiculous.

Facing the widening score gap, the University of Memphis also needs a goal that can score steadily.

So Penny slowed down.

Screening is still indispensable, and Anthony Douglas stepped forward to give a single block.

He didn't know that Penny was going to slow down, and he thought it was a fast-paced pick-and-roll cover, and he rolled it straight away on the first block.

The quality of the cover turned out to be so bad that it exploded.

In almost a second, Lin Xing bypassed the cover.

Penny noticed this, but he couldn't stop the car with the ball, so he could only bite the bullet and take three steps.

He thought that a European step could solve Lin Xing's defense against him, but he didn't expect that Lin Xing, who rushed up, was unreasonable.

Aiming directly at the basketball with both hands, he yanked the basketball off.

With this wave of operations, the commentary booth was in chaos.

Henry Abbott shouted: "It's a foul, it's a foul, why didn't the referee blow it?"

Stephen Smith shouted at the same time: "This steal, it's a steal, it doesn't give Penny face at all!"

The referee didn't blow, because from the corner referee's point of view, Lin Xing's hands didn't touch Pence's at all.

This record is broken, and it can't be more clean.

Lin Xing, who had completed the steal, naturally couldn't miss this opportunity to counterattack fast.

This time, he didn't even put on any pretense, he just increased his speed, and rushed to the frontcourt single-handedly.

Penny interfered, and Lin Xing finally ended the counterattack with a layup.

Swish-!
53 to 39, the lead of Long Beach further extended to 14 points.

Off the court, Larry Finch was stunned.

Obviously they were the ones who made the speed-up adjustments in the midfield, but it was the opponent who played faster and faster.

A wave of 6-0, Lin Xing scored 6 points, the situation has shown a trend of collapse.

Although facing the crisis of collapse, Larry Finch still did not call a timeout.

The main reason is that a timeout was called, and he didn't know how to adjust it.

As a result, Penny was in a hurry for the University of Memphis' offense.

He rushed a step without cover, and scored two long points.

Clang!
Blacksmithing must be done, but the problem is rebounding.

Chris Tavor stuck in place and jumped involuntarily.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Lin Xing rushing to the basket at high speed, and he immediately withdrew his hands. Lin Xing just like this, and took another rebound!
Off the court, Seth Greenberg shook his head: "This handicap is still not very proficient. After this game, let Chris practice more..."

After grabbing the rebound, Lin Xing turned around to speed up, another wave of unpretentious backcourt sprints, one-stop to the frontcourt, and a successful layup with a pull bar.

"It was another wave of counterattack to win, the score jumped to 55 to 39, and the lead of the Long Beach branch was further extended to 16 points."

"The suspense of the game seems to have gone far!"

The suspense is definitely gone. There are only about 17 minutes left, and the University of Memphis is 16 points behind. For the NCAA, whose offensive time limit is as high as 45 seconds, this score gap is equivalent to the gap of 20 points in the NBA.

Chase?Unless the next game, Long Beach's offense misfires.

The question is, will Long Beach misfire?

Just look at Lin Xing's performance. After scoring 8 points in a row, he is still flying up and down the court.

Offensively, Penny can't stop him at all.

On the defensive end, he also forced Penny to find cover.

From the start of the second half, it was useless for Penny to find quality cover.

Because Seth Greenberg discovered that there are only two players in the entire University of Memphis who can create threats on the offensive end, one Penny and the other Billy Smith.

The defense was immediately simple. He changed Byron Russell's defensive positioning to a free agent, responsible for assisting defense in the middle.

Russell, who was strong and fast, immediately cooperated with Lin Xing to lock up Penny.

The game is not over yet, Lin Chui in the commentary can't wait to comment:

"Just at the beginning of the second half, Stalin played a solo show with 8 points in a row."

"In the next game, he continued to output and led the Long Beach branch to maintain the lead."

"If in the first half, Penny's performance was barely comparable to Stalin's, then in the second half, he was completely suppressed by Stalin."

"Even Stalin had a counterpoint performance."

"Judging from the second half of the game, Penny and Stalin are no longer on the same level..."

Lin Hei explained Wu FK, who made Penny's performance plummet in the second half?
Henry Abbott knew that the Limbe Controversy was never contentious.

Originally, before this game, Penny's momentum was not as good as Lin Xing.

This head-to-head confrontation was originally Penny's best chance to get back the criticism, but in the end, he was blasted.

That's right, it exploded.

Since Lin Xing scored 8 points in the second half, Penny has been in a state of being blown out.

Lin Xing's various statistics have grown steadily, but Penny has completely misfired, and even his assists have disappeared.

In the first half, they showed off a few mid-range shots, which were regarded as a match for Lin Xing's three-pointer, which made the sharks and John Gabriel in the stands think that both Lin Xing and Penny had mid-range shots.

But in the second half, his mid-range shot was bang bang bang bang, but it was Lin Xing who made a counterattack and scored another three-pointer.

"What now, Shaq?"

"Uh, I don't know, John, I've got Mother-Fk's Choice Difficulty, you know that?"

"What's the optional difficulty here? Stalin obviously suppressed Penny..."

"But Penny's passing is better. You should understand how important the point guard's passing is for a center player."

"But Stalin's explosive power is more powerful, more like an outside hot spot. You are an inside hot spot, he is an outside hot spot, blooming inside and outside, our offense will be invincible."

Shark shook his head, but he recognized John Gabriel.

Perhaps the Sharks are still more inclined to Penny, but his general manager, John Gabriel, has turned to Stalin.

With the score completely stretched, this game is not much to watch.

The University of Memphis has not replaced the bench, they want a dignity.

Long Beach didn't get used to them either, stretching the lead to 27 points all the way.

In the end, with a score of 95 to 68, the California State University Long Beach 49ers beat the University of Memphis Tigers to get close to the Sweet Sixteen!
"An easy victory, as the No. [-] seed in the Midwest Division, Long Beach has successfully entered the Sweet Sixteen!"

"No matter how hot the Stalin vs. Penny duel was before the game, it is now in the past tense."

"In the next game, Long Beach's opponent will be the No. [-] seeded Florida State University Minorians who have made their way from the other half of the bottom half!"

At the end of the game, Tony Gay took control of the field and directly skipped the topic of Lin Xing vs. Penny.

But on the court, although the game is over, Lin Xing vs Penny is still playing.

At the moment when the game ended, Lin Xing was celebrating the victory with his teammates, but Penny unexpectedly intervened.

He stretched out his not-so-friendly hand and handed it to Lin Xing.

Lin Xing froze for a moment, although he felt strange, he still shook hands with Penny.

Then I heard: "This is by no means the last fight between you and me. In the NBA, I will win it back!"

Lin Xing has a question mark face, and you came to him after a fiasco, just to say something cruel, don't you think it's embarrassing?

Anyway, Lin Xing was so embarrassed that he had goosebumps all over his body...

He let go of his hand and told Penny: "Don't think about it, you have no chance."

Penny didn't get entangled with Lin Xing either, he took a deep look at Lin Xing, turned and left.

"NBA..."

Seeing the sound of Penny going away, Lin Xing thought about it instead.

If the battlefield is really going to be changed to the NBA, it is not so absolute to say that Penny has no chance at all.

"If he is still in the Magic and has sharks to help him like in his previous life, his grades should be better than mine."

Thinking of the shark, Lin Xing immediately turned his head, and sure enough, he found the shark and John Gabriel in a familiar position.

Immediately, he leaned over without any hesitation.

"Wow, Shaq, you actually came to watch this game!"

Walking closer, Lin Xing's expression was exaggeratedly surprised.

It was as if he had met some lifelong idol.

As an NBA courtesan with social arrogance, Lin Xing pretended to be surprised, but the sharks saw through him.

He smiled: "That's not true, such a wonderful game, I will never miss it."

"Great, Shaq, you know what, I have always been your fan, in my opinion, you will be the greatest center in NBA history!"

"Haha, thank you for the compliment, Mr. Tyrant, one more thing, I am also your fan."

"Don't call me Mr. Tyrant, call me Star."

"Ok, Sta..."

"Can I have an autograph, Shaq?"

"No problem at all!"

"..."

When Lin Xing left this area, his jersey was signed by a baby shark.

Behind him, John Gabriel watched him go: "Shaq, to ​​be honest, if I were you, I would definitely choose Stalin.

Because he is your fan, there is nothing better than having your own fans help you become a championship. "

"You don't really think he's a fan of mine, John?"

"Why, isn't he?"

Shark shook his head, just as John Gabriel was playing dumb.

So exaggerated surprise expression, can you take it seriously?
……

After dealing with Penny, and having some courtesies with the Sharks, Lin Xing turned around and entered the player tunnel.

At this time, he remembered: "By the way, who is our opponent in the next round?"

"Florida State University Minoans!"

Lucios told Lin Xing accurately, and then told Lin Xing:
"They have a very luxurious guard line consisting of Bob Sura and Sam Cassell, plus small forward Doug Edwards. They also have a trident on the offensive end, and their strength cannot be underestimated."

Lin Xing only heard——

"Bob Sura?"

"Sam Cassell?"

"Two future NBA point guards on the same team?"

"It's interesting to play two top NCAA point guards in one round!"

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(End of this chapter)