you are all star

Chapter 67 Victory in the First Battle
Lavender went back to the dormitory and told her roommates about the details. Her roommates also thought it was a good answer from Neil. , it was also difficult to win, so in the end Lavender convinced her roommates, and her dormmates also agreed to find all the girls they knew for Lavender, and Lavender selected 20 beautiful girls from them. , form a cheerleading team in good shape, and let them cheer for the Wolves for the rest.

Lavender finished everything at about eight o'clock in the evening. After finishing, she ran to tell Neil the news. After Neil got it, he was very happy and said thank you several times, but Lavender just blushed. The thick neck shook his head and said no.

Before Lavender returned to the dormitory, she also reminded her to care about Neil and get him ready for the competition. She will always support him and cheer for her.

This moved Nierte. With a smile on his face, he told Lavender in a friendly tone that he will, and he will definitely work hard, because that is his dream, and it is because of basketball, because of this dream, that he has been in critical situations many times. He was rescued at the critical moment, giving him the opportunity to enter the campus and to a very high platform.

Lavender and Neil talked to each other for a long time downstairs in Neil's dormitory that night, sometimes they looked at each other, and sometimes avoided each other. Lavender told her childhood stories, and Neil also told him interesting stories about his own childhood in response to him. And how he fell in love with the sport of basketball.

In the end, Lavender was moved by what he said, with tears in her eyes, but in order not to let Neil see her gaffe, she hurriedly stood up from the chair downstairs in the dormitory, holding back the tears Spilled, said goodbye to Neal and ran away.

Tears overflowed when she turned around, covered her mouth to keep her from crying, and ran towards her dormitory without looking back. What Neil said to himself, compared with Neil, he is much happier. He has a parent who loves him since he was a child. Resigned to fate, but I don't need to think about these issues. I always reach out for clothes and open my mouth for food. He has always wanted to make money to cure his mother's illness since he was a child, but I have never thought about these issues. I haven't thought about it, no wonder many face-to-face, he is more sensible than me, maybe it's all experience telling him that he should do that, he should stick to his dream, even if he is tired, he must stick to it, no reason, just for what he said, the ball If he plays well, he will be famous, and he will realize his basketball dream since he was a child. More importantly, basketball will allow him to earn money, so that his family can live a good life.

When Lavender thought of this, she unknowingly went to the downstairs of the dormitory. She hurriedly wiped away the tears on her cheeks, and walked in. Occasionally, some female classmates walked past her by her side. She didn't speak, but responded to them with a smile. hello.

After returning to the dormitory, Lavender was lying on the bed after washing, and suddenly wanted to watch Neil play. Every wonderful goal that Neil had made in Wentz Elementary School, as well as every beautiful and standard shooting posture of Neil, appeared in his mind. There are also dazzling moments when the 1V2 is wonderful and the opponent is stunned and knocked to the ground.

It has been so long, but Lavender still remembers it fresh, just like what happened just now, Lavender especially wants to watch Neil replay those moments alone at the moment, but since he is busy with the competition these days, there is no Time, lack of energy, and it’s hard to force him, so I have to hold back this anticipation for the time being, and wait until the afternoon of the day after tomorrow for the Welcome Cup competition, which is also his first competition since he was promoted to junior high school, and it is also the first time since I was promoted to junior high school Watch him play.

In the rush of time, in the anticipation of Lavender and Neil's hard training, it will soon be the afternoon of the game.

After all of Lavender's classes were over, she arrived at the gym with twenty cheerleaders and the other girls she was cheering on.

Neil, Marcus and the team members were very happy to see Lavender coming with the cheerleaders and a group of girls. They surrounded them and saw that they were all very beautiful.

Marcus and the team members are very satisfied, smiling all the time, especially admiring them.

Except for the cheerleaders, the rest of the girls sat down in the auditorium.

Marcus glanced at the people in the gymnasium at this moment, with a smile on his face, and said in a very friendly, loud and magnetic tone: "Students, it's five o'clock now, and we'll be there in 10 minutes." The first group of the Kawa Middle School team that will be playing against today will enter the field. Please keep quiet, and relevant school leaders will also enter the field. Our game will be held from 05:30 to 06:30, please everyone The students actively cheered for their school."

As soon as Marcus finished speaking, there was thunderous applause in the arena.

After Marcus revealed the information of the game to everyone present, he waved to his team members and the cheerleaders formed by Lavender, meaning to let them come over and have something to say to them, when they all gathered around , Marcus looked at them and whispered: "Remember, try to play steadily on the court for a while, try to be active off the court, and enliven the atmosphere in the stadium. When the opponent organizes an attack, you keep shouting , keep cheering for our team. When we organize an offense, we only applaud when we score a goal. Don’t yell during the advancement process, so that the players on the court will be nervous. When you are on the court, try to play collective basketball and mark everyone. Missing players, especially the starting players sent by the opponent to play against us, Kawa Middle School is also very strong, so don’t underestimate the enemy, that’s all I’m going to say.”

"Teacher, remember!"

Then Marcus also specifically told the starting players of this afternoon's game, let them discuss how to organize each attack for a while.

Let Lavender take the cheerleaders to reorganize the seats of the leaders on the sidelines to see if they are arranged properly and reasonably.

After 10 minutes, I went back in a blink of an eye. At this point, under the introduction of the school leaders, the relevant leaders of Kawa Middle School, the participating players, and the cheerleaders entered the arena in turn. Marcus led everyone in the gymnasium to cheer for them. applaud.

After the relevant leaders of the school led the relevant leaders of Kawa Middle School to take their seats, the host began to introduce the relevant leaders of the two schools who arrived today, the players from both sides, a referee sent by each side, and the time when the game started.

The host introduced that inspirational music sounded on the radio, and the time jumped happily in the music. The host also introduced loudly in the music: "The first team of Edward Middle School, which has never been favored by the outside world, this year How do they perform? We will wait and see and look forward to them bringing them a different visual experience."

Following the broadcast introduction, some teachers and students of the school came to watch the jokes, and some came to really cheer. They squeezed into the gymnasium one by one when there were 5 minutes before the start of the game.

When the inspirational music ended and the time was just at 05:30, the host announced that the competition had really started, and there was thunderous applause in the field.

After a round of applause, the two sides sent out the starters introduced earlier.

Marcus gathered Neil and the other four starters to remind them in a low voice, and cheered for them: "Hurry up, don't be nervous, they are also freshmen, you are also freshmen, many of them have not played as well as you, hurry up Don't take it lightly, keep a good eye on your own people, that's all, I will make adjustments from time to time, come on!"

"Come on..." each of them put their hands on Marcus's and said loudly in unison.

Neil was afraid that they would be nervous, so he glanced at Lavender, patted the shoulders of the other four teammates, nodded, walked in the front, and led them into the arena.

They also nodded to Neil, took a deep breath, and followed onto the field.

The game officially started, and the midfielder jumped the ball to compete for the ball. Neil and the center forward of the Kawa Middle School team jumped the ball. It turned out that Neil, who had participated in many games since elementary school, took the top spot and gave the ball to a team member. After the players borrowed the ball from Neil, they gestured to the players to spread out. They quickly spread out one by one and ran to the open space. Staring at the defense holding the ball, whoever holds the ball, just two or three to help defend and double-team him, and the smart Neil told his teammates before this situation, let them not hesitate, and decisively pass the ball at this time Passing to the open man, they were also very obedient and understood. When the teammate saw the center man marking Neal come out for a pick-and-roll, he decisively passed the ball to Neal in the penalty area. Neal scored the first two points with an easy layup.

The two-point goal was scored, and the cheerleaders on the court burst into screams and applause. Many people commented that this year's junior school team can do it!

After the ball was easily won by Neil, the coach of Kava Middle School became restless, stood up from his seat and shouted at his players: "Don't double-team, mark your own people."

When the teammates heard what the coach said, they were no longer double-teaming. Instead, everyone kept a close eye on their own people, so that the two teams could improve alternately in the game, and they were evenly matched.

Marcus looked at the clock in his hand and it was almost 33:32. It seemed that the game time was getting closer, and the team he led was still one point behind. Kava Middle School temporarily led by one point at [-]:[-]. Had to check the timer and had to call a timeout.

He looked at the timer, and there were still 2 minutes before the countdown to the end of the game, and the wave of offensive balls returned from the timeout belonged to Kava Middle School, so he hurriedly requested a timeout.

When the referee's rapid whistle sounds, there is a 30-second timeout.

Marcus looked at the sweaty five, said hard work, and then gathered around and whispered to them: "There are still 2 minutes before the end of the game, and after the timeout, the ball belongs to the opponent. If the opponent is attacking One goal and I'm hanging."

"Teacher, we are shaking all over at this time." The other four team members except Neil said this.

"You don't have to be nervous, you just need to cooperate with my tactics. The only one of you who can play alone is Neil. Therefore, my next tactic is: You mark the players without the ball and try to bring them out of the penalty area. , let Neal defend the man with the ball, pick and roll for him, delay the opponent, try to play one-on-one as much as possible, and finally end, you understand?"

"Understood!"

"Remember, it's more important to come back from a timeout."

"Yes……"

"come on!"

As soon as Marcus cheered, the referee whistled and the two players returned to the field.

Neil followed the teacher's tactics, because he hadn't played a single ball today.

Kava Middle School served the ball, and the opposing point guard received the ball. He and his teammates switched defenses. The opposing guard didn't dribble much when he saw him, and he was also a center forward. The dribble shows Neil, but Neil still clings to him, and occasionally stretches out a hand to interfere with him. He wants to turn around and pass the ball, but Neil stretches out his long left hand, steals it, and feints Add a turn around with the ball, one-stop fast break, because all the players of Kawa Middle School have returned to their half, their defenders lost the ball, and hurried to catch up, but the speed is not as fast as Neal, and they have not caught up with Neil Well, the ball has been layup, and the ball is firmly in the basket.

Under the leadership of Lavender off the field, applause and screams abounded.

The guard from Kawa Middle School was so angry that he thumped the backboard hard.

There is one minute and 40 seconds left in the game, and it's time for Kava Middle School to serve again.

This time the defender passed the ball directly to the backcourt. Due to the excessive force, the ball went out of the sideline.

Coach Kava was really dissatisfied with his handling of these two goals, and directly angrily replaced him.

The Wolves, on the other hand, always acted according to the tactics arranged by the coach. Their guards received the serve and handed it over to Neal to delay the time. The player looked directly at the basket, made a three-point shot, the ball drew a beautiful arc in the air, and the ball went hollow into the basket.

All the people in the field applauded repeatedly and gave a loud applause.

Seeing this scene, the relevant leaders and coaches of Kawa Middle School were a little bit lost and disheartened, but the game was not over yet, and they desperately hoped that the players could bring them hope, because there was not enough time.

But the player pushed the ball forward, and this time he did not lose the ball, but he missed the shot, and there were only a few tens of seconds left.

Neal didn't play singles this time because the opposing coach ordered him to double-team and defend him. He decisively passed the ball to his teammate. The teammate listened to what he said before and made a decisive shot.

With only the last 16 seconds left, Kava Middle School organized an offense. They followed the coach's instructions and shot a three-pointer. However, the ball was hit and the ball was still missed. There were still three seconds left in the game, and the opponent surrendered directly and stopped playing.

When the referee’s whistle blew, the game ended. In the end, the first team of Edward Middle School defeated the first team of Kawa Middle School 37:33. Neil scored 15 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, the highest among the ten players.

(End of this chapter)