whirlwind basketball

Chapter 221 Youth Competition (38)

Controlling the ball with one hand, Li Yifan yelled orders and raised his hands to direct the other players to move. The atmosphere on the court was intense and tense, but Li Yifan's brain was very clear-headed.The excitement and excitement rose to the highest point in an instant.

The youth training team was about to attack, and as Li Yifan's dribbling speed suddenly accelerated, everyone understood this.Fatty Zhang moved back and forth on the inside, Zhang Shaolong was desperately mobilizing his opponent, and Jiangdong Yulong Xun on the outside easily adjusted his position.Losing two of their top teammates, the remaining three members of the US team have no chance of resisting our team's attack, especially in terms of numbers, the US team is still one behind.

It was time to pass the ball. Li Yifan, who was in control of the ball, turned his body suddenly, and the basketball disappeared in an instant. Amidst the cheers of the crowd, Fatty Zhang shook off his opponent and smashed the basketball into the basket! A simple pass is much simpler than a breakthrough.

Score! 55:65.

Surrounded by two people and still be able to pass exquisite strikes? !The members of the American team looked at each other in disbelief.

That's it. It is said that regional triangle attack is a double-edged sword.If the flank attack has no effect on a certain person, then the remaining three players will be at a loss when facing the attack of the other four players!Team USA, don't you think of this?

Since then, the momentum of the stadium has completely turned to the Huaxia Youth Training Team. Under the leadership of Li Yifan, the US team's defense has been torn apart time and time again.Fatty Zhang, Zhang Shaolong, and Jiang Dongyu played very well. Even Long Xun, who had never had a chance to score, scored for the first time in a layup.The American team, on the other hand, concentrated the ball on the outside three-pointers. No matter how good a three-point shooter is, it is impossible to hit every goal. After gradually losing its absolute advantage in the competition for interior rebounds, the American team's scoring went from bad to worse.

Finally, the coach of the U.S. team called a timeout again. At the seventh minute of the second half, the score was 7:70, and the lead of the U.S. team almost disappeared.

"If Team USA had no other strategy, the game would have been lost! What would you do instead?"

"There is no doubt that I will send two players to pinch Li Yifan. At this stage, if Li Yifan is not suppressed, it is almost certain that the game has been lost based on his three-pointers alone. It does not matter if he breaks through , Multiple breakthroughs, his physical strength will be consumed in a short period of time."

During the conversation, the timeout was over, and the two teams played again.After the U.S. team kicked the ball, the Huaxia Youth Training Team habitually put up a man-marking stance.Fatty Zhang and Li Yifan are still in charge of the inside line.

JJ on the outside line failed to hit twice in a row, and this time he chose to pass the ball. After repeated fiddling, the ball was passed to Cole on the inside line. ——The US team has three players with a height of 190 centimeters or more!

In the inside competition, Li Yifan was firmly blocked by Pascalje and Goring.Cole took off and was about to shoot!Fatty Zhang followed suit.

"Don't foul!" With a flash of inspiration in his heart, Li Yifan shouted at Fatty Zhang.

"Flute!" The referee's whistle has already sounded.

Already a foul!
Fatty Zhang raised his hands blankly, "Li Yifan didn't do anything!"

Li Yifan quickly gestured to Dongxue who was on the bench, and Dongxue took the opportunity to call a timeout.

Damn it, I still gave it to the US team.Nasty American team old man.

Fatty Zhang lowered his head, peeking at Li Yifan from time to time.Li Yifan leaned on the chair, without saying a word, thinking about the sudden uneasiness just now: at that moment just now, Cole obviously lured Fatty Zhang to foul.What is the US team going to do with Fatty Zhang who has fouled four times?Break down our interior defense?Even if Fatty Zhang is gone, we can still use Zhang Shaolong to enrich our inside line. The inside line composed of Li Yifan and Zhang Shaolong may not necessarily give the US team an advantage!But why does Li Yifan always feel uneasy?

"Zhang Shaolong, how many times have you fouled?"

"Three times." Zhang Shaolong replied.

"Has it been three times? Try to avoid fouls for the rest of the time. Now you and I are defending the inside, and your opponent is Pascalje. Wang Siyang, have you rested?"

"no problem!"

"Get ready to play." Li Yifan took the notebook handed over by Jiang Dongyu, looked down, "Be careful!"

"understood!"

Li Yifan nodded: "Get ready to play!" Although there is always a feeling of uneasiness in his heart, as a coach, Li Yifan naturally cannot express it at this time.Come on, the game will be over soon.

What is the problem?

There was no time to think about it. After receiving the pass from Long Xun, Li Yifan calmly faced the two opponents.Hey, this time the opponents have changed, this time the opponents for the flanking are JJ and Green - the two who flanked Long Xun just now.What about Goering and Cole?Cole is sticking to the penalty area, and Goering is also wandering outside the penalty area, facing Dongxue far away.

What is the idea of ​​the US team? We added an outside shooter outside, but they put a lot of troops inside?Haven't they seen our three-pointers?What is the conspiracy here?
Not being able to control that much anymore, Li Yifan instructed Dongxue to go to the bottom line. After two consecutive fakes, he passed the ball to Dongxue. Is there no one to defend?Goering is rushing out!

Damn, what does this mean?After catching the ball, Dongxue quickly jumped up and was about to shoot a three-pointer. Goering quickly jumped up to block it. To Li Yifan's surprise, Goring jumped so high that he almost blocked Dongxue's shot. , but almost, the ball was shot out.

Will you win?No, the shot was too high, and Donghak was obviously affected by Goering's blocking.

Grab the rebound!
Li Yifan rushed to the inside, and Cole and Pascaljie relied on their physical advantages to firmly block Zhang Shaolong from the outside.And Jiang Dongyu didn't seem to have this awareness yet, and was at a loss outside the restricted area.

Oops, Li Yifan actually forgot, Zhang Shaolong is the only insider in the youth training team now!The coach of the American team is indeed treacherous. Once Li Yifan, who is in possession of the ball from the outside, fails to make a pass, the American team, which has an absolute advantage inside, will easily grab the rebound.

He must have seen through Long Xun's lack of scoring ability on the outside to be so confident, damn it!

Li Yifan rushed over desperately, but the ball still hadn't landed.Cole is really tall, like a wall firmly blocking Li Yifan outside, he opened his hands, completely blocking the arrival of cutting into the penalty area.

The ball hit the basket and bounced high, but Li Yifan still couldn't get inside.

Bow down, move your steps, cut in from the left?Relying on his body's induction, Cole moved to the left first.Li Yifan turned quickly close to Cole's body, passed under Cole's armpit, barely blocking Cole's body.

"Damn it!" Cole yelled angrily.

The ball fell, and with good timing, the four under the basket jumped up.There is no doubt about the genius's jumping ability. Li Yifan caught the basketball first.

Li Yifan got it!

"Damn it!" Cole roared, and grabbed the basketball in Li Yifan's hand in the air.A brute force hit Li Yifan's wrist, and Li Yifan lost his balance all of a sudden.Li Yifan who was in the air was sent flying horizontally.

"Bang!" Li Yifan fell heavily to the ground.What a bull, just when this idea appeared in Li Yifan's mind, there was a sharp pain in the fingers of his right foot - Pascalje, who couldn't hold back, stepped on Li Yifan's fingers.A piercing pain swept over Li Yifan's brain nerves in an instant, and Li Yifan couldn't help crying out "Ah!" in pain.

When Pascalj moved his foot away, Li Yifan hugged his wrist and curled up on the ground in great pain, his fingers connected to his heart, his fingers connected to his heart, it really hurt!

Is Li Yifan's finger broken, is Li Yifan's finger broken!It hurts so much, why is it so painful, it hurts so much, Li Yifan curled up on the ground and couldn't move.

The referee's whistle seemed to ring in my ears, and there seemed to be an uproar in the audience.Just why is the sound so low?

Huge pain occupied Li Yifan's entire body, and painful cries came out of Li Yifan's mouth involuntarily.It really hurts!

Li Yifan quickly raised his hand, only then did he realize that he was seriously injured.

Jiang Dongyu entered the field quickly and took Li Yifan off. When he returned to the field, the youth training team was already behind by 6 points.There is 1 minute left at this time.

"Block the injection!"

Li Yifan will not admit defeat.

So he rushed out after the block shot, first a three-pointer, then a two-plus-one, endured the severe pain and sent off the basketball, and dragged the game into overtime at the last moment.

During the overtime break, Li Yifan asked Jiang Dongyu to administer anesthesia. While directing, he thought about how to fight later.

He knew that if he couldn't win this overtime game, he would lose.

……

Li Yifan received the ball from Jiang Dongyu and looked coldly at the defensive player in front of him who was nervously paying attention to his movements. He is now annoyed by the opponent in front of him. His defense is too fierce and there are many small moves. He wanted to question the referee many times why he was so Obvious fouls are not blown.Under the opponent's dead defense and double-teaming, Li Yifan couldn't move his feet at all and could only barely pass the ball to Long Xun in the bottom corner.Long Xun finally hit the ball. After the shot, Long Xun also wiped off his cold sweat. Today, his three-point shooting percentage was [-] of [-] under the opponent's dead defense.

In the first half of overtime, the audience saw the US team's defense like jellybeans, as well as the two sides falling to the ground, grabbing rebounds and making mistakes in hand-to-hand combat.Most of the audience was drowsy, only a small part of the audience was weakly shouting: "Come on, Huaxia Youth Team", "Come on, Huaxia Youth Team", "Come on, Li Yifan"

The opponent's point guard dribbled the ball to attack Li Yifan, and he didn't rush the ball, but let him dribble across the half court calmly and easily.

Before the opposing point guard reached the top of the arc, Li Yifan had more than one step to go.He saw that Li Yifan didn't press forward, he just opened his hands and looked at him and immediately chose a jump shot. When his hands were raised above his head, his mind flashed through his poor performance of [-] of [-] shots today, and he felt depressed when he shot the ball. He retracted his movements, leaped over Li Yifan who was rushing forward, and walked to the inside.His basic skills are fairly solid. Although such a sudden change is a bit passive, it seems very smooth.

When he took the second step, he suddenly felt that the light ball in his hand was gone. His reaction was very quick and he turned around and leaned towards Li Yifan.It was Li Yifan who stole the ball from him just now.

Li Yifan is already very familiar with his movements like this, but he didn't lose his center of gravity completely. As soon as he broke through, Li Yifan leaned against him and retreated, and at the moment when he was most relaxed in his stride, he shot his ball and knocked him down. .

After Li Yifan received the ball that bounced back from the ground, he appeared in front of him and was stopped by the opponent's defender who reacted quickly. He calmly passed the ball from behind to Jiang Dongyu who was running past him. Push forward and fast break.

The American team's defensive skills are also reflected. They quickly return to defense and one person keeps interfering with the other Long Xun and Jiang Dongyu who are closely following the two wings on Jiang Dongyu's forward route.This time the fast break could not be played. The fast break that the Huaxia Youth Training Team is proud of did not succeed even once today.

When Jiang Dongyu saw that he had no chance, he didn't let the ball stay in his hand for half a second and passed it directly to Li Yifan who was following behind. Ignoring the ball he just reached out and received without pulling back, he directly rubbed a parabola with his fingers and hung it to the inside.

Jiang Dongyu had already pulled out to help Li Yifan in a pick-and-roll, but he saw something out of the corner of Li Yifan's eyes when he was halfway running, he immediately turned around and almost ran to the inside when Li Yifan shot the ball, and the opposing center who followed him was caught off guard I can only watch helplessly as he rushed in, used his momentum, jumped up with a loud shout, and received the ball high before the ball fell.

He jumped so high that his head almost touched the rim and his feet were so high that the cheerleaders and cameramen behind the rim screamed.

Li Yifan muttered behind him: This kid is playing handsome again.

Before the ball fell at the highest point, he rushed to catch the ball and threw it into the basket with all his strength.

From the audience's point of view, Jiang Dongyu's goal must be scored. They all stood up and cheered for Jiang Dongyu, and the applause was very intense. They thanked Jiang Dongyu for bringing them a bright spot in the dull first half.

But like Jiang Dongyu, they obviously underestimated the determination of the American team's defense. Just when Jiang Dongyu was about to smash the ball into the basket, a pair of hands emerged from under his body and bravely reached out to the powerful basketball.

Li Yifan has already walked back to the backcourt. In his opinion, the opponent must want the ball, but seeing the opponent's center trying so hard to block Jiang Dongyu, he was surprised: Didn't the opponent's center think he could block Jiang Dongyu's dunk? get out!

The opponent's center jumped up vigorously and stretched his hands as high as he could, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't jump. Jiang Dongyu's outstretched hand just touched Jiang Dongyu's wrist. At this moment, his hand suddenly changed into a grasping hand. Holding Jiang Dongyu's hands and wrists, he pushed them in opposite directions.

Jiang Dongyu yelled, raised his waist and abdomen, and pushed his chest. The opponent's center felt an irresistible force and smashed him to the basket with his hands. He was shocked and could only fight against Jiang Dongyu with all his strength.

The audience saw this scene: the moment the opponent's center grabbed Jiang Dongyu's hand, it seemed that the bodies of the two people paused in the air for half a second, and then they rushed towards the basket like a stunt in a movie. ... Amidst the exclamation and noise of the audience, there was a loud noise from the basket.The audience who accidentally blinked just now can only see Jiang Dongyu let go of the pitiful hoop, jumped down, stood erect under the hoop, and looked coldly at the opposing center who fell to the ground.

Did the ball go in?If you don't see it, you can only ask your friends around you.

Li Yifan was very surprised, he was surprised that the opponent's defense could prevent Jiang Dongyu from dunking the ball just now, although Jiang Dongyu dribbled the ball to the ground, but due to the interference from the opponent's center, his ball was just The general dunked on the hoop and bounced high before falling to the ground.The U.S. team’s defensive enthusiasm is really not because they blocked the ball and switched to another team. Others must have given up on defense long ago, but the opponent’s center knew they would foul and charged forward. This is not an impulse but an instinct, a habit. It is left over from long-term playing. From this, we can see the strong style of this team.

Long Xun rushed in front of Jiang Dongyu, he was afraid that Jiang Dongyu would lose control of his emotions and fight.But Jiang Dongyu pushed him away, he looked at Li Yifan with a look of help, Li Yifan stood far away and just shook his head.He knew that Jiang Dongyu Jiang Dongyu was not someone who would blame his opponent for such a trivial matter.

Jiang Dongyu ignored the nervousness of the opponent players around him, bent down and stretched out his hand under the gaze of everyone: "Come on."

The opponent's center was stunned for a moment, stretched out his hand reflexively, Jiang Dongyu pulled him up with a smile on his face and praised: "He is a man who is easy to raise."

The opposing center was confused about the situation and didn't know what Jiang Dongyu was doing, and just stayed there stupidly.

At this moment, the referee found that the skin on his elbow was broken and bleeding.Hurry up and tell him to go off and clean up.

Standing on the free throw line, Jiang Dongyu's face was ashen, muttering something, he didn't know what to say, and finally, when everyone was waiting impatiently, he smashed the ball out.

There was a loud noise on the rebound, and it was so embarrassing that he didn't even hit the basket.

Li Yifan also shook his head in the backcourt. Jiang Dongyu's free throw is really too bad.

The second free throw still missed, but this time the better shot hit the basket and bounced to the side.Team USA picked up the rebound.

The center forward, who was being cleaned by the team doctor on the sidelines, happily yelled "ho ho" when he saw that Jiang Dongyu didn't even make a free throw. His efforts were not in vain.

Next, the U.S. team's offense was in vain, and Jiang Dongyu easily took off this rebound. In this kind of game, there are so many rebounds. Before the end of the first half, Jiang Dongyu had already grabbed [-] rebounds. Even Li Yifan Also accidentally picked up five rebounds.

Li Yifan attacked with the ball, he could only keep patting at the top of the arc, and his teammates were all guarded to death, no matter how he ran, he couldn't get out of the receiving route.He shouted: "Jiang Dongyu."

Hearing this, Jiang Dongyu took a big step and leaned on the U.S. team's backup center to ask for a position at the basket. Since there was no dead ball just now, the center couldn't come up, so he could only stare off the court and watch his teammates being squeezed to the basket by the thick Jiang Dongyu. retreat.When the ball in Li Yifan's hand fell lightly to the inside.Jiang Dongyu has already squeezed the opponent's backup center under the basket, but Li Yifan's pass seems a bit big and high. Jiang Dongyu has to jump up to catch the ball, but he is now struggling with the opponent's center to turn around.

Butch frowned: Do they want to use that trick?It's really nonsense, how can I make a move if I'm still immature.

Jiang Dongyu jumped up from the basket. He faced the basket and caught the ball.

Something unexpected happened to him and to the audience.

When Jiang Dongyu received the ball in the air, he didn't land on the ground as people imagined and turned around before hitting him. He just took the ball and hit it on the back of his head. What was he going to do?
The audience stood up and watched his performance again. He didn't turn around and hold the ball in the air with both hands before kicking back.

Although it is difficult to kick back, many people can do it. Jiang Dongyu's kick is difficult because he is doing alley-oop with others.This requires the strength of the passer to grasp the ball well.And Jiang Dongyu felt better in the air after jumping up and had a good grasp of the position of the basket.This thing is said to be light and difficult to do, it is four and a half stars.

No, Jiang Dongyu screwed up. When he jumped up, he jumped forward slightly, so his ball hit the rim, bounced high, smashed the top bar of the backboard and flew out of the baseline.

The audience felt a burst of regret. Originally, they thought Jiang Dongyu could bring them some surprises.However, they still selflessly offered their own applause for Jiang Dongyu's wonderful performance.

Li Yifan also feels sorry for this ball. You know, the two of them practiced for this move for two months. The inspiration came from Jiang Dongyu's dunk in the basketball hall when they met for the first time this semester. That dunk was the same as this time. .

He patted Jiang Dongyu, who passed by him dejectedly, and comforted him: "It doesn't matter, there will be another time as long as we get more proficient and see who else can guard against it."

Jiang Dongyu smiled at him confidently and returned to his face again.

"Well, this year's invitational tournament is our brother's world."

The first half ended quickly, the two sides fought fiercely in the last few minutes, but they didn't even score a point.

But the members of the Huaxia Youth Training Team were a little embarrassed when they saw the score.

Li Yifan was in the locker room, not speaking, looking at everyone thinking.

There are still a few minutes left, and there is not much time after overtime. If you can't grasp it, you will lose.

He is the core of the team's offense. In addition to assisting him, another magic weapon is non-stop and uninterrupted scoring.Only
"Today our task is not just to win. What we need to see is the defensive record of the US team. They have never allowed the opponent to score more than [-] points. From the first half, they definitely have this quality. The tactics they used are Mature zone defense. These are very few teams in our invitational tournament. But what we have to do today is to break their record and prove to the world that our team is the most offensive team."

(End of this chapter)