basketball behind the spotlight

Chapter 174 Xiaozhi Desperately Defending

At the start of the game, the Grizzlies won the ball, and the Wolves immediately launched a counter-grab.

Brad smiled contemptuously, "Think that the full-court press is useful? I want to see how long you can use it."

Facing the deafening shouts at the scene and Lin Sen's flailing defense, Li did not panic. He calmly protected the ball, called his teammates to pick and roll, and successfully avoided Lin Sen through the pick and roll.

But after two steps, Han Bin came back in time.

Li's speed is average and his breakthrough ability is average. He can only ensure that the ball is not lost, and then wait for his teammates to come to pick and roll.

But the five players on the Wolves team are all very mobile players. No matter how the opponent picks and rolls, they can switch defenses infinitely.

It became extremely difficult for the Grizzlies to break through and pass the ball. When the ball was finally handed over to the inside, 15 seconds had already been consumed.

Markkinson took the ball, relied on his height and weight, leaned on Luo Mang, and began to slash with his back.

Luo Mang only felt that the opponent's body was like a tank, and its strength was beyond his imagination.

Even though he lowered his body and pressed against the opponent's waist with all his strength, he still couldn't stand the opponent.

"You have come to defend me even with your small body, your coach is trying to harm you."

Luo Mang didn't expect that the other party, who looked like a clumsy and stupid guy, would actually talk trash.

But who was the Wolves afraid of talking trash? "Our coach said, you are a big elephant, there is nothing to worry about."

"Really? Then let you see the power of our inside twin towers." Hua Luo suddenly received the ball, raised his hands and easily passed the ball to Andre, who was in a better position.

It was Xiao Zhi who defended Andre, he couldn't handle it at all, but he didn't even think about defending him, he just thought about not scoring for the opponent.

So as soon as Andre got the ball, he immediately made a move and hit the opponent's wrist hard.

"Damn." Andre felt the pain, let go of his hand, and the ball slipped out.

The referee's whistle sounded in time, and Xiaozhi was sentenced to a defensive foul.

But Xiaozhi was unmoved, fouled and fouled, I had six chances, and this is the first time, what are you afraid of?
The Grizzlies didn't need to consider any running position at all, and directly chose to hang the ball to the inside twin towers.

Markkinson got the ball again, and just about to choose to play back, Xiaozhi suddenly rushed from the side to pinch.

Markkinson was taken aback and hurriedly collected the ball.

Just as he was about to raise his hands to pass to his teammate, Xiaozhi made a sudden move, stabbing the ball in his hand as fast as lightning, neatly.

"Run!" Luo Mang shouted, his body rose into the air, and he slapped the ball to Xiao Zhi who had already started.

Xiaozhi received the ball without stopping, and immediately passed the ball to Lin Sen.

Lin Sen received the ball, turned around, accelerated, and rushed across the half court in one go.

Luo Peng and Han Bin fired both arrows, flying along the two sidelines towards the opponent's restricted area.

The Grizzlies were too late to chase and defend, so they could only watch Lin Sen and Han Bin perform a chic alley-oop slam dunk.

The audience was boiling.

The DJ yelled: "Good shot!"

The two commentators also shouted excitedly: "Beautiful."

The five Wolves laughed and clapped each other in celebration.

After the high-five, Luo Mang patted Xiaozhi's head lightly, "Nice job."

Xiaozhi smiled shyly.

"Xiaozhi's defensive awareness is getting better and better." George couldn't help but admire.

Lu Ziqiu nodded. Among so many rookies, only Xiao Zhi is the real gainer. The others have not yet shown a side that he values.

Xia Kexin said: "It's a pity that Xiaozhi's offensive ability is too poor, otherwise he will be a very good candidate to succeed Lu Wei in the future."

Lu Ziqiu smiled bitterly: "Don't think too much about it. As long as Xiaozhi can improve his spot-up shooting ability, he is already a very good role player. As for finding a player to succeed Lu Wei, it is not so easy."

Xia Kexin also understands this, but Lu Wei will basically retire after the next season. Without Lu Wei, the strength of the team will be greatly reduced.

The Grizzlies served, and the Wolves players continued to defend with high pressure, forcing them to almost make mistakes.

After halftime, he finally passed the ball to Markkinson inside, but Xiaozhi, who switched defenses, did not give him a chance to make a move again, and once again destroyed the opponent's offense at the cost of a foul.

"Boy, do you only know how to foul?" Markinson didn't have such a good temper as Andre.

Luo Mang snorted, stepped forward to protect Xiaozhi behind him, and stared at Markkinson coldly, "You'd better think it through before you speak, because we are forced to get angry."

Lin Sen and the others also surrounded him.

The referee blew his whistle again and again, and finally persuaded the Wolves players to leave.

The referee warned them: "You better be honest."

Xiaozhi hurriedly stopped Luo Mang and others behind him, raised his hands to show the referee that he knew, and would not commit another crime.

Lin Sen curled his lips and said, "What, dare to yell, Xiao Zhi, if you hadn't stopped me, I would have spit on him."

Xiaozhi knew how bad-tempered these big brothers were, so he hurriedly persuaded him: "Today is the first game of the coach's return. If we make trouble, the coach will come out for us at that time. He has just lifted the ban." .”

Only then did they wake up, and after looking at each other, they all laughed awkwardly.

Seeing Xiaozhi like this, George liked him even more in his heart, "This kid is really good."

Lu Ziqiu also couldn't help nodding his head. Xiaozhi is usually shy and obedient, and he executes tactics very resolutely during games. He is indeed a very likable player.

In the situation just now, if it was replaced by other substitute players to persuade them, they would have to be scolded by Lin Sen and the others.

The Grizzlies serve, and then they hold high and hit Markkinson directly to the inside.

He learned how to behave this time. As soon as he got the ball, he turned around immediately and easily hit the board into the basket, tying the score for the Grizzlies.

The Wolves served the ball and went full steam ahead again.

The speed of the five of them is too fast, and the two tall centers of the Grizzlies have tried their best to return to the defense, but even so, they are still slow.

In the short five-on-three situation in the frontcourt, Luo Peng received the ball from the outside and easily hit a three-pointer with an open jumper.

After scoring, they immediately started defending on the spot again.

The Grizzlies got the ball into Deron's hands. His ball control was very general and it was difficult for him to break through Han Bin's defense.

Seeing that the violation was about to occur, he had to jump up and pass the ball to Green who had just passed halftime.

Unexpectedly, Xiaozhi suddenly flew sideways, broke the ball in the air and fell heavily to the ground at the same time, but he turned over and immediately got up again.

"Good shot." Han Bin applauded loudly.

Before Deron could react, he suddenly accelerated, easily broke through Deron, and went straight to the basket.

At this moment, he only had the basket in his eyes. Even if Andre got back to the defense, he still roared and took three steps directly.

"Looking for death." Andre stood firmly with his feet outside the three-second line, raised his hands, and waited for the opponent to hit him.

"Damn it." Han Bin was furious, rushing up like this would definitely make an offensive foul.

In desperation, he caught a glimpse of Lin Sen in the bottom corner out of the corner of his eye, so he turned around and avoided with all his strength, and passed the ball to Lin Sen at the bottom line before his body lost his balance.

Lin Sen received the ball, looked at the three-point line under his feet, adjusted and easily hit the three-pointer.

The scene boiled again.

After scoring the goal, he looked at Li, who had just defended, shrugged and said, "Scoring is so easy, how can it be as hard as you?"

(End of this chapter)