basketball behind the spotlight

Chapter 227

Chapter 227

In a blink of an eye, the first home game of the new season arrived.

Although Augustine and Xia Yuan failed to enter the squad, they were still arranged by George to watch the game from the bench.

Agni entered the arena, and Lu Ziqiu walked towards Martin with a smile, "Coach, you can't run after tonight's game." He checked the schedule of Agni, and they will have two days of rest before the game. Such a good opportunity, Lu Ziqiu Impossible to let go.

Martin laughed and nodded, "You brat, you don't drink alcohol, what do you want me to do?" To be honest, he also really wanted to sit down with Lu Ziqiu to catch up on the old days. But they couldn't really get together, this time, they had to have a long talk all night.

"If you want to drink, of course I will risk my life to accompany the gentleman."

"Good boy, okay, you can pick me up after the game."

Since there was still a reunion after the game, the two simply communicated a few words, hugged each other and then went back to their respective venues.

Winning or losing this game is not important, but in order to let Augustine and Xia Yuan see how the old players play the game, Lu Ziqiu still arranged a full-court pressing tactic, even if this tactic is not very effective for Agni.

The starting lineups of the two sides have not changed, and the fire is still: center Chuck Hayes, power forward Bai Qijun, small forward Cao Nan, shooting guard Yang Tian, ​​point guard Anthony Jones.

It is worth mentioning that Wei Meng, who was not won by Lu Ziqiu at the beginning, joined Agni this season. Coupled with the continuous improvement of young players, this season's Agni is more competitive than last season.

In the finals of last season, although they lost to Huaxia in six games, the scores in each game were very close. The reason why they lost was because no one on the team could limit Jordan.

In the commentary seat, it was still the old pair of Luo Chen and Kaiser.

Luo Chen asked: "Caesar, do you think the team can win the Fire tonight?" A wave of three consecutive victories allowed him to see the team's great progress.

Caesar nodded, "The team is in full swing now, and the opponent is in the second back-to-back game. We have the advantage in terms of physical fitness. If we play well, we should still have hope."

Luo Chen reminded: "But they turned the game into garbage time early in the last game, so the physical condition should not be a problem."

Caesar smiled and replied simply: "They are exhausted, but we are waiting for work."

"Yes, so to speak, we do have some advantages in terms of physical fitness."

Between the two of them, the arena became hot.

The game starts with a scrimmage in midfield.

The fire got the ball, and the Wolves immediately launched a pressing defense on the spot.

"Here we go again." Anthony Jones looked at the aggressive Lin Sen dumbfoundedly, "Your pressing defense is useless to us, so why waste energy?"

Lin Sen grinned and said, "We like it, how about you blow it?"

Anthony Jones choked, shook his head and began to dribble. Although Lin Sen's defense was tight, it was only a delay.

Cao Nan got the ball after using the cover. Facing Lu Qian's defense, he failed to shake Lu Qian away with two shakes. He couldn't help being a little surprised, "Your defense has improved a lot."

"My buddy doesn't like defense at all, so you can play whatever you want." Lu Qian replied casually, because he knew that he couldn't prevent the opponent's breakthrough at all. He had no choice but to attack if he couldn't keep up. If it is, he is fully sure that he can hit Cao Nan with his back to doubt his life.

"If that's the case, then I'm not being polite." Cao Nan observed the running positions of his teammates on the court, and found that there was no good point of attack, so he simply gritted his teeth and chose to force the ball.

Lu Qian judged the direction correctly, but he couldn't keep up, but he knew that Luo Mang would make up for it in time, so he just turned around and ran to the inside to defend against Bai Qijun.

Luo Mang did make up for it, but Cao Nan suddenly slowed down, took a step back and made a jump shot, hitting two points steadily.

"I'm already familiar with your defense, so it's hard for you to limit me." After the hit, Cao Nan didn't rush to retreat.

"Really? Then congratulations." Luo Mang replied blankly, turned around and walked towards Lu Qian, and whispered a few words to Lu Qian.

Lu Qian nodded briskly. He can't defend the fast small forwards, but he has no problem defending the big forwards. After all, he has weight, and he can use his weight to push Bai Qijun out of the three-second zone.

The Wolves attacked, Lu Qian asked for the ball from the free throw line, and Cao Nan defended in time.

"You can't guard against me." Lu Qian was full of confidence, and he directly chose to slash with his back.

"So much strength?" Cao Nan couldn't help being surprised when he was pushed away immediately. Although it was also difficult to defend Lu Qian's back cut before, it was far less laborious than it is now.

Yang Tian saw that Cao Nan was struggling to defend, so he abandoned Han Bin to help defend. Unexpectedly, Lu Qian suddenly used force and pushed Cao Nan back to turn over and shoot a jumper. Unfortunately, the ball bounced out of the frame and was confiscated by Chuck Hayes before his hand was warm.

But Lan Feng and Luo Mang suddenly stepped forward to attack, and they didn't give him a chance to play the ball easily. Chuck Hayes was completely caught in the basketball due to his carelessness.

In desperation, he had no choice but to take the ball and hit Luo Mang's leg. Unexpectedly, after the ball bounced back, it hit his leg and slipped out of the baseline, the Wolves' frontcourt ball.

Chuck Hayes tapped his palm in frustration.

Martin on the sidelines couldn't help turning his head to look at Lu Ziqiu, "Stinky boy, you played like this at the beginning of the game, do you think you can beat me by increasing the rotation?"

Lu Ziqiu looked back at him as if he had sensed it, and smiled.

Martin shook his head wryly.

Serving in the frontcourt, Han Bin received the ball through a screen. Facing Yang Tian's defense, he first leaned his back against Yang Tian, ​​and turned over at will for a jumper.

Yang Tian tried his best to jump up to interfere, but the target was getting farther and farther away from him, and there was no way to recover.

When he was about to hit the ground, Han Bin took the shot and hit the basket steadily, tying the score. After practicing hard for a long time, the fadeaway jumper finally showed its glory at this moment.

After scoring the goal, Han Bin defended on the spot without changing his face.

Yang Tian was a little uncomfortable being posted by him, so he couldn't help smiling bitterly and said, "You haven't served the ball yet, why are you so nervous?"

"Don't look at you, what if you slip away later?" Han Bin rolled his eyes.

Yang Tian was almost choked to death, "You can do whatever you want, but that fadeaway jumper you just had was pretty cool, I just don't know if it was luck."

"Do you really want to know?"

"That's not true, but it's really embarrassing for you to be so close to me and not talk."

"Don't worry, there's no problem buddy." Not only did Han Bin not retreat, but he stuck even harder.

Luo Mang also posted Cao Nan, but Cao Nan was also speechless, "Haven't served yet, bro."

"Are you feeling bad?"

"Won't you feel uncomfortable if I stick to you like this?"

Luo Mang replied with a smile: "I don't care, as long as you like it."

"Damn." Hua Luo suddenly pushed Luo Mang, and quickly ran over to catch the throw-in. The ball went into his hands, but he didn't dare to stop holding the ball, and quickly accelerated towards the frontcourt. That's all. The other party will not stick to him all the time.

(End of this chapter)