Chapter 17 The Child named Wish
Chester High School’s altitude advantage allowed them to dominate the three-second zone, but it was not unsolvable.
Even though there are two people over two meters long, Raulmerion High School has countermeasures. First of all, these two big men are not talented, and high is indeed a talent that cannot be taught. However, in addition to tallness, there are many equally important talents on the basketball court. If you can dominate the game just by growing tall, the Chinese team has long become a world powerhouse.
Wei Xia played in the first quarter and scored not many points. He grabbed more rebounds and sent 4 assists.
Entering the second quarter, Chester High School still led by 4 points.
Greg Donner turned around and let Weisha's good buddy Dick Long appear.
It sounds like a very bad idea to let Da Long, who is 185 cm tall in shoes, beating the power forward and facing two giants from Chester High School.
"The inside of the Ace is already short enough, and Coach Donner waved his hand and decided to make them shorter."
It is difficult for the commentator of the Park Stadium to use his cognition to interpret Donner's approach.
Eric Snow looked at Dalong from a distance and found that the child was a little short, but his figure was extremely thick, and the dimensions of upper and lower limbs seemed to be completely different from what high school players should have.
Compare the two elders from Chester High School, whose lower limbs are as thin as bamboo poles.
The game started over, Dalong's offense was not good, his defensive skills were rough, his awareness and tactical qualities, and his tacit understanding with Wei Xia were very good, but it was not enough to smooth out the talent gap between him and his opponent.
Chester High School hit the ball inside again.
"You can't win without Kobe!" Swan Pierce shouted at Weisha, "Call Kobe and let him come back to play for you. I don't want you to lose your love for basketball!"
At this time, the 10th-grade power forward of Chester High School, Steve Thompson, who was two meters tall, was preparing to fight Dalong with his back.
Wei Xia first leaned against Pierce and firmly occupied the position in front. Seeing that he not only had no intention of helping, but also acted like waiting for the defense to successfully fight back, Pierce laughed. He thought Wei Xia was crazy. Just as everyone else thought, how could a 201 cm big man hit a 185 cm short inside line without success?
As a result, the moment when Thompson pushed towards Dalong with all his might, the scene of the latter's defense capsized like an avalanche did not happen as expected.
What happened? Thompson didn't even take a step back.
"Hard Steve!"
"continue!"
"Turn over with all your strength!"
"You're two meters tall, man!"
Student players are often fragile in their psychology, and the noisy audience will cause them to collapse in minutes. Thompson has not yet reached the point of collapse. He just feels that he can't beat Da Long on his back and will lose all his face, so he loses his normal heart and makes a fierce and forceful blow, using the terrifying expression that everyone will appear whenever Dwight Howard makes a big hook - oh, he hasn't entered the league yet, so he uses a different metaphor to use Mutombo to turn over and jump shot.
That expression often appears on the faces of his supporters.
Bang!
Thompson missed the game, Raul Merion protected the rebound with four people, and Wei Xia made a fast break.
The momentum of the game changed from that moment.
Wei Xia did not provide too much help to his teammates on the defensive end, he just used his athletic ability to improve the rhythm as much as possible.
The two insiders at Chester High School are both low-grade players, with good basic skills, weak ability to fight, poor physical strength, thin lower limbs, and they will not lose any of the shortcomings of big men.
The opening game was able to teach Raulmerion a lesson with a high advantage. As the game progressed, Raulmerion, who adopted the correct strategy, began to take control of the overall situation.
Halfway through the second quarter, Wei Xia ran wildly, causing Pierce to frequently lose his position.
11 seconds before the end of the first half, Wei Xia, who played the full half, held the ball from the outside. Pierce in front of him was as tired as a dog who couldn't drink water. He didn't spit out his tongue and excrete heat.
"With your level, you still want to challenge the legend of our school?" Wei Xia took the ball and spewed out the only trash words today, "Kobe has no time to pay attention to you."
After saying that, Wei Xia had been holding the ball for a long time and rose up.
Everything he learned from Havlicek in the old days now came to his effect on him.
Haflicek of the same period is a perpetual motion machine that can run the whole game and basically does not hold the ball.
Wei Xia is a point guard and he will hold the ball properly. However, influenced by Havlicek, he inevitably became a ball-free attacker who is good at roaming and running. Holding the ball has become a skill for him at critical moments, rather than a conventional method.
Pierce was so angry that he was so upset that he almost fainted when he heard the trash talk. He was about to gather the last strength to come to defend, but Wei Xiasheng rushed through the defense with a quick step.
“Wish looks like the game has just begun!”
Wei Xia broke through the first pass on the outside and rushed into the inside. Two seniors from Chester High School teamed up to set up a defensive tower, but he used a retro-style two-hand throwing shot that was not part of the 1990s and went to cricket.
Just in the buzzer.
The moment the ball entered, Wei Xia's teammate rushed over.
That ball helped Raul Merion lead 11 points.
Although there is still the entire second half, it is only a matter of time before we can win the City Championship as long as we maintain our current style of play.
"That kid named Wish should become a very good player in the future." After the commentator on the scene said, he suddenly thought that he had evaluated a kid named Kobe with the same words six years ago.
In the second half, Raulmerion High School was full of fighting spirit, and Wei Xia continued to run. He continued to play the first half.
Until the last round of the fourth quarter, he was still running, even though his breathing frequency was already disordered.
He is not an iron man who won’t feel tired. He just repeatedly reminds himself not to stop when he is tired. Once he stops, he may no longer be able to concentrate.
Swan Pierce had already collapsed. Chester High School changed three people to guard him, and even the ninth-grade substitutes were on the bench later.
He showed no mercy at all. When he saw the opponent being on the bench, he directly went to the body to fight.
The game lasted until the end, Wei Xia played the game, scoring a game-high 24 points, 11 rebounds and 6 assists, leading the Ace to dominate Philadelphia for two consecutive years, winning Philadelphia's only ticket to the Pennsylvania 4a Basketball Championship.
At the end of the game, they poured mineral water on each other and held the trophy together. The breath of youth and the joy of winning the championship ripples in the park gymnasium. Of course, this joy does not belong to Chester High School.
They tasted the bitter fruit of failure and understood from then on that, height does not represent everything.
Chapter completed!