you are all star

Chapter 77
Time flicked, and Neil and his teammates unknowingly walked past their busyness during their hard work, practice and running.

It’s the second day of junior high school this year, and Neil and his teammates obviously feel that they have grown a lot taller, and their skills have improved rapidly. Sometimes they even dare to form a team to challenge the third-year junior high school students. Whether it is 3V3, 4V4 or 5V5, they can compete with them Yes, in many cases, it is the elite of the boys in the third grade of junior high school.

Therefore, Marcus, Neil and their teammates also firmly believe that if they play well this year to welcome the New Cup, they will definitely win the championship and then participate in the National Youth Basketball Competition.

So, as soon as he stepped into the campus on the second day of junior high school, after registering, Neil found his teammates, picked out a group of ten people, and practiced 5V5 in the whole field, because they didn't want to lose because of the weak overall strength like last year. They won the championship, so they decided to play more cooperatively and have a tacit understanding this year, but they have to practice passing, pick-and-roll and air cuts with a sense of tacit understanding. Neal and his teammates are also very clear that after a year of hard work and dedication, their skills have improved Naturally, there is nothing to say, but the tacit understanding between the players needs to be practiced. Sometimes, thinking that school has started now, and the school has started, it means that a week later, it will be the welcome cup game that has been waiting for a year.

They also know very well in their hearts that they are not the only ones who are growing taller, nor are they the only ones who are improving. Physical strength, however, after last year's failure, Neil and his teammates, who were only eleven or twelve years old, had tasted the taste of failure. They firmly believed that they would definitely think of other ways to contain their opponents today.

In a blink of an eye, the annual welcome cup game is here again. The same teams and people from last year gathered in the Edward Stadium for the game.

This year, Neil and his teammates are quite brave and confident on the field after last year's experience. Today, I don't know whether it was deliberately arranged by the sports team or for other reasons. Let them challenge the four teams in the quarterfinals of last year. In one game, they played against Huo Sen Secondary School, which took the championship from them last year.

Many things are strange to say, they have always been a little afraid in their hearts, maybe their opponents will be more difficult to deal with than last year, but when the starters from Huo Sen Middle School last year came on the field, they found that although they had grown taller, they were seriously overweight I don't know if life is so good during the holidays, or if I want to crush them by relying on my weight.

But when Neil saw that they were all fat like a two hundred and five, Neil said to his teammates: "Have you seen that one year has passed, and this year will really change some people and things. Last year's The players of the championship team have become little fat guys now, only a few are better, and the rest are the same. Remember, after a while, we will compete with them in speed and breakthrough. They must not be able to keep up Come up to us, there is no power to parry."

Because Neil has grasped the weakness of the opposing team, as the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy wins every battle, after he and his teammates played, they stretched the score to [-] points in the first quarter. He actively made adjustments, but no matter how much he changed, his athletic ability and speed still couldn't keep up. In the middle of the second quarter, the point difference was already close to [-] points. Huo Sen Middle School had no choice but to turn off the bench The lineup, the opponent made such a statement, which means that they have given up the game. Neil and the starters also asked for a rest, and let the substitute players play, just to feel the atmosphere and to train.

The first game was against last year's championship team, and it was an easy win, which caused an uproar in the middle schools in Alexandria. All the middle schools were discussing what the boys from Edward Middle School did. Every player's skills have improved so much They are so big that ordinary people can't stop them alone, and everyone can shoot, dribble, and break through, and they are very stable and can score.

Outsiders also speculated decisively and without any hesitation that it was possible that they would sweep all the middle schools this year and advance to the quarter-finals with the top score in the city's middle school standings. It's just more losses and less losses, because according to their style of play against Huo Sen Middle School, there is simply no team that can stop them.

In the end, as predicted by the outside world, in the second game, Neil led his teammates against Miller Middle School led by Reddy, who had been his rival since junior high school. It's just that Miller Middle School was more difficult to deal with than Huo Sen Middle School today, but The tactics arranged by Reddy's coaches are problematic. Their tactical arrangement is to double-team Neil and let the other players beat them. As a result, once the double-teams, Neil quickly divides the ball and relies on various tacit cooperation to overwhelm the opponent. I shook my head.

In desperation, he had to ask Reddy to play singles, which stabilized the situation a little.

But since they want to play singles, Marcus also gave instructions to his players to let them take turns to play singles, pass them, and break through for layups. Based on the fact that everyone can shoot, score, and dribble forward, They can even play random opponents. Miller Middle School did not dare to double-team or assist them, so they had to defend one-on-one. Each player had to do his best to interfere with Neil and his teammates for layups. They were flexible and had many tricks. However, it was impossible to take them directly. In the end, they lost the game by six points. After the game, Reddy was still unconvinced and refused to admit defeat. He left without hugging Neil or his teammates.

In the third game, Neil led his brothers against Peel, who had been his nemesis since he was a child. As soon as they came up, the two of them attacked each other like a nail and an eye. Neil, he won't go on like this with Pierre. After all, his body is sore from the three consecutive days of competition. He also wanted to get off the court early, so he started to have a sense of tacit understanding with his teammates and played team basketball. Peale came to defend Neil, Neal quickly transferred the ball, Peale went to defend his teammate, the teammate quickly transferred the ball, and kept rotating, directly playing him so hard that he couldn't stand it, as if he was one-on-one in the game, he also Let the other teammates actively defend themselves, but they were discouraged and lost their fighting spirit after being hit by layups again and again. And they all messed up one by one.

In the end, he made such a decision in his heart, deciding to block Neil's layup once, so as to avenge last year and inspire the army.

With such a decision idea, he always pays attention to Neil holding the ball. Whenever Neil holds the ball to organize an attack, he always chases after him and defends all the way. Neil sees that the point difference is still large, so he decides to Playing one single, there is intention to play with Pierre in the push picture, Pierre's eyes are like sand, and his heart is also like being attacked by wild sand, very uncomfortable. The teammates on the bench off the court watched this scene, and they couldn't be happier. Seeing that Peel wanted to draw the ball but couldn't, he was almost knocked down near the midfield.

Neal wanted to shake him away with a feint and a fadeaway jumper, but Pierre didn't want to take this trick and couldn't jump. When he saw that Neal was about to make a shot, he jumped up and it would be a big hit.

Immediately, the coaches, substitute players and relevant leaders of DePauw Middle School gave thunderous applause.

Hearing the "slap..." block, harsh applause, and various slanderous and insulting remarks, Neil decided to give a positive response.

Peel's block restored morale, and they launched a fierce momentum of chasing points.

But Neil, who has always been strong and unwilling to show weakness, how could he make Pierre so arrogant today, so he now caps whoever holds the ball.

Now that the Pierre hat was still echoing in his mind, he stared at him with disdainful eyes: "You black trash from the slums, this big hot pot is delicious!"

At this moment, Neal didn't want to make fun of them any more. He kept the team together as a whole. The teammates also felt that the boss was too humiliated by the block just now, and wanted to avenge him.

In the end, the members of DePauw Middle School were frightened by their active jumping and blocking shots, and they were a little afraid to make a layup. They all thought it was Peel's fault, so none of them shot, and distributed the ball to Peel. He would be blocked by no less than three people for a layup, and he trembled every time he made a layup, because he had already been blocked by Neal twice, and he was also blocked by two other Neals.

In the end, he hit the iron every time, failed to make a layup, the time was up, the game was over, Neil left the field with a blood cap, and Peele left the field with four blocks.

In the end, the Wolves still had the last laugh, defeating DePauw Middle School again with 4 points, winning three consecutive victories at the beginning, and all of them played against the teams in the quarterfinals of last year.

When they swept last year's very strong teams at the beginning of the season, and they all made it to the quarter-finals last year, other middle schools were a little scared, but it is impossible to let them lose the championship just like this, can you? You won't know until you beat them, so the other middle schools are all staring at them under tremendous pressure.

However, in the end, none of the middle schools could end their winning streak. With his undefeated record, he advanced to the final again after a year. The next final will be against Beiyang Middle School, which was born this year and was only defeated by Neil and his team.

Although the outside world is very optimistic that Edward Middle School will win the championship, and they all agree that the championship is none other than them, but Marcus always tells Neil and the team members that no one can relax their vigilance until the whistle sounds for the game, and they cannot be let down by some outsiders. If you are disturbed by public opinion, you must deal with it with a positive and serious attitude, because no one in this world will feel that the trophy is nowhere to be placed, and it is handed over to others. No one should underestimate the heart of a champion, and don’t be lost by the undefeated record Eyes, always do not be arrogant in victory, not discouraged in defeat.

Neil and his teammates also felt that what Marcus said was right. New challenges and even greater challenges were still waiting for them. Even if they got their wish this time and won the Welcome Cup championship, this was just a new continuation and a new beginning. start.

(End of this chapter)