basketball craftsman

Chapter 97 T.124: Newcomer

After the Southern District finals, some were happy and some were sad, and one of them seemed particularly anxious: Zhou Caisheng from Wancai Investment Company.

"Damn it!" Zhou Caisheng stomped his feet angrily as he paced around the office alone, "A bunch of trash! I lost 1000 million yuan!!!"

Due to the agreement with Montblanc in advance, Zhou Caisheng spent 1000 million to buy the low odds of winning the championship of Fenghuang Municipal University High School, while Montblanc bought the high odds of Xiangshan Middle School with 200 million; Whoever wins the championship, Xiangshan Middle School or Municipal High School Affiliated High School, will make a lot of money after a tie, but Zhou Caisheng watched the news that Xiangshan Middle School defeated the Municipal University Affiliated High School and felt very uncomfortable: Now his only chance to make money is Down the reputation of Montblanc.

On Friday, there was still a week before the finals of the Winter League, when the players of Xiangshan Middle School were preparing for the battle in an orderly manner, an unexpected thing happened.

"Have you not come yet?"

Ling Lan glanced at her watch and it has been 10 minutes since school ended, but there was one missing person in the basketball court as usual, Lan Hour apologized very guilty and said: "I'm sorry, Miss Ling Lan... Brother must have something to do so he didn't come of……"

"It's probably like this." Ye Fan looked at the time and said, "Since Lan Lie didn't come, let's start training first...the Winter League finals will be in a week."

Ling Lan looked at the iron gate of the basketball gymnasium with doubts in her heart: Lan Lie is usually the first person to go to the basketball court to participate in training, and there must be something wrong if he didn't come today... Already communicating with the team members, Suzuran could only temporarily put it aside and then stepped forward and said, "Assemble! Line up!"

After the team members gathered in the middle of the basketball court, Ling Lan walked up to Zhang Wenjun and said, "I think everyone already knows... Well, Zhang Wenjun has transferred to our Xiangshan Middle School, and I... and he are old classmates for three years in junior high school. Well, I won’t say too many polite words, please introduce yourself.”

Zhang Wenjun was in a good mood, stepped forward to look at the basketball players present and said, "Hello, everyone. I am Zhang Wenjun. I used to be the small forward of the basketball team of Baihua High School. I am 182 cm tall and weigh 69 kg. I am in Class 5 ([-]) of Xiangshan Middle School. Please teach me a lot.”

The team members present all applauded and welcomed him. After witnessing the experience of Ling Lan and him only seeing each other and calming down, they had a certain understanding of this cheerful and active classmate in front of him. Ling Lan then stepped forward and said: "He is An excellent small forward... I remember you playing point guard in junior high school, right?"

"Yes." Zhang Wenjun nodded and replied, "I can also take the No. 1 position."

"Tsk..." Li Ying crossed her hands and said squintingly, "Isn't that conflicting with the role of the leading brother? It's not halal..."

"Yes!" Yang Hao raised his hand and said, "Coach, our team actually lacks a center forward, let him play C!"

"Okay!" Chen Chaohai immediately stopped clapping, and Zhang Wenjun quickly shook his head as a gesture of euphemism and said, "I'm afraid it's not suitable for me to be the center... sorry..."

"Nonsense!" Lily put her hands on her waist and said with a white look at the others, "You guys are just wearing small shoes for new classmates, and you don't talk much!" The few people standing on the side burst into laughter, and Ye Fan looked at Zhang Wenjun Then he said: "In this case, if Lan Lie is not there, classmate Zhang Wenjun will play instead. This will also help him integrate into our tactical system as soon as possible."

"That's right." Ling Lan nodded, then took out the tactical drawing board and said, "Then sit down first."

"Sit down?" Zhang Wenjun didn't quite understand what Linglan said, until everyone else came over and sat on the floor in the white circle in the middle of the basketball court. Zhang Wenjun also sat on the floor with his legs bent and said in surprise: " It turns out that our basketball team still has such a meeting method...it’s really novel.”

Zhang Wenjun's "rookie" performance made the team members laugh for a while. After the team members sat down, Ling Lan threw the tactical drawing board on the ground and drew a few red circles in different positions with a marker pen. I don’t know if you have noticed in our scattered training in the past two days, there is one thing I haven’t trained before but you have all done it, and that is the off-ball screen.”

The team members looked at each other to confirm, Ling Lan pointed to different areas on the tactical drawing board and said: "The off-ball screen is like everyone actively cooperating. Runs or second pick-and-rolls to create offense for teammates are off-ball screens."

Ouyang Yuchen touched his chin and asked in thought: "That's what I said, but our cover is just a simple block now, and it is often a subconscious action."

"En." Ling Lan nodded and said, "Yuchen is right. Today's focus is on off-ball screens... Before we talk about the specific content, we need to change our understanding of the structure of the court."

"Structure?" The people sitting there looked puzzled at Suzuran's words, Suzuran took out a marker and drew a few horizontal and vertical lines on the tactical drawing board and said: "If we want to talk about off-ball screens, we must first know the so-called weak side... As the name suggests, the weak side refers to the area with few defenders, usually on both sides of the three-second zone on the court, that is, the position of the center forward is usually unguarded, which is called the weak side.”

Suzuran continued: "On the court, the weak side is the easiest area to launch offensive tactics, and the purpose of the off-ball screen is very clear: to send the basketball to the open players on the weak side at the right time."

"That's right!" Yang Hao said after clapping his hands, "If we get the ball in this position and no one is defending, we can score every minute! Come on and practice!"

"Don't worry." Suzuran continued calmly, "I already know the purpose of the off-ball screen, and the second is how to do it... The method of the off-ball screen is similar to the pick-and-roll. The player who screens first must get stuck first." , Tighten your shoulders and stand firm to block the opposing player; be careful not to block or pull directly, or you will be called a foul by the referee.”

The team members in a circle nodded. Zhang Wenjun was very novel listening to Ling Lan's narration. It was the first time for him as a player to hear such detailed basketball tactics from Ling Lan himself.Then Ling Lan stood up and walked to the bottom of the basketball hoop to direct the players to stand. Li Ying defended him from the outside with Zhu Chengshao, Ouyang Yuchen and Yang Hao were on the bottom line, and Chen Chaohai and Cheng Wu were under the basket.

"Off-ball training starts!" Ling Lan said after throwing the basketball to Li Ying, "Xianyu holds the ball from outside, Yuchen, you try to get rid of Yang Hao's defense to catch the ball, use your brain." Ouyang Yuchen's mouth twitched Ben understood what Linglan meant, Li Ying held the ball from the outside to avoid confrontation with Zhu Chengshao, at this time Ouyang Yuchen made a false step, changed direction and ran, Yang Hao followed closely, Ouyang Yuchen tactfully bypassed Chen Chaohai and stepped forward out!

"Blocking people!" Chen Chaohai blocked Yang Hao's pursuit. Ouyang Yuchen took the opportunity to catch the ball, stood on the left side of the free throw line and scored the ball with a jumper!
"Good shot!" The players on the field applauded together, Ling Lan signaled to come again, then went to Ouyang Yuchen and whispered something in his ear, the training continued, Li Ying held the ball outside and confronted Zhu Chengshao, quickly changed Xiang Shi did the same thing: Ouyang Yuchen bypassed Chen Chaohai and went forward to catch the ball. Yang Hao and Cheng Wu immediately followed up. With both hands down, he passed the ball through the middle of the two...

(End of this chapter)