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Chapter 16 The Hand Under the Basket
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With a clear whistle, Lin Yi leaped high, and when the basketball reached the highest point, he stretched his long arms and lightly moved the ball to his side.

Captain McNeese firmly controlled the basketball, dribbling the ball steadily and rhythmically with his right hand, and raised the index finger of his left hand high, signaling for everyone to quickly settle down.

The opponent's center pushed hard on Lin Yi who was trying to enter the penalty area. No one wanted such a tall guy to enter the basket smoothly. It is the responsibility of every center to guard the penalty area.

When Lin Yi was still colliding with the opponent to compete for position at the basket, McNeese's opponent also began to interfere with his dribbling rhythm.

McNeese is too familiar with the guy in front of him who is slightly shorter than him. He was against him on this court last year, the Washington State Cougars' head guard Buttery.

The confrontation between the two is just a continuation of the old grudge from last year. In the first 5 minutes of the game last year, McNeese lost his rhythm in a panic under his marking.If Lewis hadn't adjusted him later, he might have been the one who experienced a nightmare ending last year.

After that adjustment, McNeese's mentality tended to be stable, and he used his height advantage to beat Battery.It was the last 10 minutes of the game that transformed him from a freshman rookie to a guard who has a reputation in the NCAA college league.

McNeese noticed Battery's pace and started to speed up his dribbling on purpose.

Buttery looked at the guy in front of him, that last year's game that he won first and then lost had become a shame that he couldn't erase.A high-school star in Arizona, who had attracted much attention, was completely defeated by an unknown guy. Many guys who were not as good as him at the beginning had already regarded this game as a laughing stock.

"Today, I'm here to return this shame to you!" Batterui roared in his heart.

He understands that McNeese is the soul guard of this team, and he controls the operation of this team.So from the beginning of the warm-up, his eyes never left McNeese's figure.

The left and right hands are constantly changing the rhythm and dribbling the ball. When McNeese is guarding against Buttery coming up to steal the ball, his eyes are also constantly observing the movement of the players on the court.

According to Lewis' pre-match instructions, Lin Yi tried to use as little offensive power as possible in this game, so he didn't try his best to compete for the space to enter the penalty area.

Seeing that McNeese was having difficulty getting rid of the opponent, Lin Yi winked at McNeese, and suddenly threw off the center forward who was marking him and ran to the top of the arc.

The opponent's center was still trying to squeeze Lin Yi with force to prevent him from entering the three-second zone.As a result, Lin Yi's sudden exertion made him startled, and when he realized Lin Yi had already gotten rid of his entanglement.

Buttery only saw the figure of McNeese in front of him who kept trying to break through him, and he didn't notice what happened behind him at all.

Of course, McNeese understood what Lin Yi's signal look meant, he suddenly accelerated, shoulders dropped, and he took a long stride to the left.

"Breakthrough, don't think about it!" Batterui is not tall, but he thinks that he will never lose half a point to McNeese in his footsteps, and quickly moves laterally to try to block the opponent's route into the penalty area.

"Bang" a tall black shadow blocked Batterui's way of chasing McNeese, and a huge rebound made him lose his balance and also lost the chance to catch up with McNeese.

Buttery, who was barely standing still, noticed that the tall man he had never seen before, the guy who walked very close to McNeese during the warm-up.

"High pick-and-roll! Damn it, shit!" Buttery looked angrily at the tall center in front of him, as well as McNeese who broke into the penalty area and made a jump shot.

"Stay with that big guy, don't let him be a wall for McNeese again!" Bartry yelled fiercely at the center forward on his side.Who let him be the boss of the team, the center of the Cougars could only nod, and rushed to the half where the Oregon team was preparing to attack.

Buttery received the ball from the bottom line, quickly dribbled the ball through the center circle, and he stared closely at McNeese who was also defending him.

Battery has always been the two most confident weapons in his speed and jumping ability. Last year's surprise attack in the first 5 minutes made the guy in front of him very embarrassed.However, his birth defect, height, became his fatal injury.However, he firmly believes that Allen Iverson can win his own honor in the NBA's long-standing pile, and so can Bartry.

Over the past year, Batterui has practiced harder and harder, and he has been able to fully utilize his advantage in speed.What he was waiting for was today's first game, and McNeese would be his first offering to the NCAA 64 finals.

McNeice also clearly remembered how embarrassed he was when he was tormented by the wind-like speed of the guy in front of him in the first few minutes of the game last year.He carefully put some distance between him and Battery, with his right hand stretched out in front of him to prevent the opponent from making a sudden outside shot.

One step away from the three-point line, Buttery stopped his progress and beckoned to his center forward to cooperate with him in the pick-and-roll.Buttery knew very well that although McNeese's movement was not as fast as his own, it was impossible for his own breakthrough to leave him too much behind. What he wanted was the advantage of the first step.Let your own center make a wall for yourself, one is to get rid of McNeice's footsteps around him, and the other is to move the damn big man out of the penalty area.The big man's movement speed is relatively low, and his height alone cannot restrain Batterui's breakthrough.

Seeing the opponent's center move forward, Lin Yi also followed. After all, the captain cannot face the opponent's two pick-and-roll alone.

"Opportunity!" Batterui saw Lin Yi followed his team's center just as he left the penalty area, and suddenly changed the basketball to the left, lowered his body and began to accelerate.

"The first step is to speed up!" McNeese found that his opponent's speed was much faster than last year, and he had already missed the first opportunity to move and defend by retreating.Moreover, the center forward who came up from behind also delayed his return to defense, and could only watch helplessly as Buttery rushed to the basket.

"Passed!" Buttery knew that his speed had finally exerted its due power, and now his eyes were only on the basket that belonged to Oregon, speeding up, vacating, and he would use a powerful dunk to cleanse the year humiliation.

Buttery was infinitely approaching the basket, his body after vacating was like a black lightning bolt, and his right hand holding the ball condensed his angry strength.

At this time, Bartry only had eyes on the basket that was close at hand, and could not see the expressions of his teammates at all.If he could see it, he would definitely read the ending from those surprised eyes.

The moment Buttery's hand was about to touch the basket, a big white hand appeared between the basketball and the basket like a magician's transformation into a living person.

"Slap!" This crisp and loud voice echoed over the entire field, and that slap seemed to have won the hearts of all the Washington State college students who were watching the game on the field.

Buttery, who lost his balance in the air, flew out of the baseline sideways and slammed into the basketball hoop. Before he landed, he saw a yellow-skinned guy fall in the air behind him.The right hand still maintains the posture when he slapped Butterui and Koolan.

That white hand seemed to be a ghostly hand in Batterui's eyes at the moment.

(End of this chapter)