basketball craftsman

Chapter 27 V.31: Inspirational Youth (1)

In the pleasant afternoon, Ling Lan sat on the big rock next to the small basketball court in the shade of green bamboos and watched Meng Xiaodong concentrate on shooting from a distance. One shot was made to the extreme, one after another, without exception, they were sent into the rusty basket.

"Thirty!" Ling Lan counted while shaking her feet, "If you can score five more shots, you will be allowed to start the next game."

"Ah?" Meng Xiaodong turned his head in a daze, and the thrown ball wobbled and hit the backboard and bounced out, "What's the starter?"

Ling Lan's face darkened as if she had slapped herself in the face, stood up, walked up to him, stretched out her hand and poked Meng Xiaodong's shoulder, and said, "Every time I praise you, reward you, care about you, and expect you, you are tough!" Show me how messed up you are, we are destined to be incompatible, understand?"

Meng Xiaodong scratched his head in a ignorant expression, not understanding what Ling Lan meant. Ling Lan picked up the basketball and clapped it in his hand a few times before saying, "Idiot, do you know why we were able to beat the Xichengling Middle School basketball team that day?"

Meng Xiaodong thought about it for a while and still didn't know how to ask: "Why?"

"Because of trust." Ling Lan stretched out her hand and handed the basketball in front of Meng Xiaodong, "Because we trust each other, cooperate with each other, and win the game together... If this is on the field, if someone passes you the ball, you face Throwing the ball at your opponent ... is the noblest reward for giving trust."

Meng Xiaodong took the basketball from Ling Lan's hands half-comprehensively, and shifted her gaze to the basket. Ling Lan walked up to him and stretched out her hands to stop him, saying, "Now I am your opponent, to prevent you from failing to shoot. If the ball falls because of this, If you go down the mountain... you go pick it up."

When Meng Xiaodong heard this, he immediately withdrew his hands to protect the ball and did not shoot the ball as easily as before. He has never been so afraid of Lily of the Valley in front of him as he is now.

After a week of joint training, Chen Chaohai gradually integrated into the basketball team. There are still 5 days left before the first game of the winter league. Everyone began to strengthen the training content non-stop, from the initial pass coordination to various offensive and defensive strategies. , Every day after school, there are many students who come to watch the training in the basketball gymnasium.Lily Lan took the basketball to the middle of the court to indicate assembly, then took out a tactical drawing board and sat on the ground and said, "Guys, everyone has done a good job in the past few weeks of repeated pick-and-roll coordination, and I am also very satisfied."

Others also sat on the floor and formed a semi-circle. Lily Lan took out an A4 sheet of game statistics and said: "The last match against Xichengling Middle School, the final score was 70:82, the highest scorer in our basketball team. It was Lan Lie who scored 25 points, Li Ying 16 points, senior Ye Fan 15 points, senior Yang Hao 8 points, Yu Chen 12 points, and senior Cheng Wu 6 points."

"Lan Lie is amazing!" Yang Hao praised, "He is simply our ace player!"

Faced with everyone's praise, Lan Lie calmed down and didn't react too much; Ling Lan continued: "You may not have noticed that more than half of our total points were obtained by relying on pick-and-roll cooperation, which is why we were able to defeat Xichengling. s reason."

"Yes." Chen Chaohai, who was sitting on the side, said, "In terms of strength alone, it was very difficult for Xiangshan Middle School to win the last match... Your pick-and-roll tactics are really good."

"Having said that," Ling Lan continued, "The weakness of our basketball team was exposed in the last game, and that is defense... There is not much time before the start of the winter league. Next, in addition to continuing to train pick-and-rolls to cooperate with offense, defense Training must also come first.”

After a brief game summary, the players started targeted training. Seeing Zhu Chengshao sitting alone on the sidelines, Ling Lan felt a little disappointed, so she walked over and stood behind him and asked, "Why doesn't Xiao Zhu go to training?"

"I didn't get the score..." Zhu Chengshao said silently with his head down, "The defense is also the worst..."

As soon as Ling Lan heard this, her eyes rolled and she took out the statistical A4 paper from her coat pocket, pretending to be surprised, and said, "Student Zhu, I was so focused on announcing the score that I forgot!"

Zhu Chengshao immediately turned his head when he heard it, and Ling Lan bent over and whispered in his ear: "Although you didn't score, but... when you are on the court, our team's scoring efficiency and defensive efficiency are the highest Yes, it's the core of the team! I didn't say it just now because I was afraid that Lan Lie and Li Ying would be jealous of you."

"Really!" Zhu Chengshao's decadent eyes immediately changed when he heard that, Ling Lan nodded with a smile on his face, Zhu Chengshao quickly stood up and looked at Ling Lan intently and said, "Okay, I will definitely Do better!"

"Ah, really?" Ling Lan asked pretending to be shocked, "But Xiao Zhu, if you don't train..."

Before Ling Lan finished speaking, Zhu Chengshao ran to continue the training in good spirits. Ling Lan crumpled up the statistics paper in her hand with a chuckle, and threw it into the trash can together with the unrealistic content she said.

Time passed day by day, and the last five days of training ended in a blink of an eye. After school in the afternoon of the last Friday in September, all the players gathered in the basketball hall, preparing for the Phoenix Winter Basketball that will kick off tomorrow Saturday. The first round of the league.Ye Fan, Chen Chaohai, Yang Hao, Li Ying, Lan Lie, Ouyang Yuchen, Cheng Wu, Zhu Chengshao and Meng Xiaodong, a total of nine Xiangshan Middle School new basketball team members sat on the floor, and Lily Lan introduced the winter league games in detail After the location and related details, he said: "Everyone, our Xiangshan Middle School basketball team has been training hard for a month since it was newly established. Tomorrow is the first official game of our basketball team. It is very normal that we are not used to the unfamiliar court and the rhythm of the game is not right. things, so don’t mess around.”

"It's on my rookie king!" Li Ying sat on the ground and raised her hand high, Ling Lan smiled and stretched out her thumb and said, "I'll see how you, a super salty fish, will perform tomorrow!"

After Ling Lan finished speaking, Ye Fan stood up and walked in front of the crowd and said, "This year's Winter League is the last time for me and Hai to participate. Even if we fail and miss next year's Summer National League, please don't be discouraged. It's just a new starting point... ...you all worked really hard and I have full confidence in that."

Everyone sitting applauded, and then Chen Chaohai stood up and walked forward and said: "Fan is right, this year is the last time he and I compete in the game, no matter whether we win or lose, it is a chance given to us by the basketball team...Because of the previous My own mistakes have caused a lot of trouble to everyone sitting here, and I have to apologize here."

After Chen Chaohai finished speaking, he bowed to everyone, and Ling Lan couldn't help applauding seeing that a tall and sophisticated person like him could let go of his arrogance, Yang Hao then said: "This is the first time for our Xiangshan Middle School new basketball team Participating in the Winter League, I think I will have no regrets if I can play to my heart's content."

"That..." Meng Xiaodong, who was sitting beside him, scratched his head in confusion and said, "Tomorrow is a game...but I don't know how to play basketball..."

Lily Lan stepped forward and knocked Meng Xiaodong on the head and said solemnly: "You two, you must play tomorrow, the frog can only jump high by throwing it into the boiling water!"

"Haha..." Everyone laughed happily. There was no training content today, but sitting around the floor and talking about each other's stories. Unknowingly, you and I, who originally only cooperated in basketball, seemed to have found another difference. Belief and emotion among teammates.

(End of this chapter)