Rekindling the dream of becoming a star

Chapter 90 Future Star (4)

"He should double-team the opponent instead of delaying the person who wants to respond." Zhang Ruihua suddenly said while watching the game on the court.

"Because the ball handler can't see the receiver from his perspective, double-teaming is the right choice at this time."

Chen Fang nodded and sat on the sidelines, listening to the coach's explanation. He felt that he had learned a lot in the past two days.

"Want to fight?" Zhang Ruihua asked.

Chen Fang shook his head.

On the first day, we beat Nankai Middle School. On the second day, we narrowly defeated Taiyuan No. 18 Middle School. Today we face Shanxi U.

The situation was evenly matched, and the starting lineup, led by the U18 quartet, did not suffer any loss. The two sides exchanged blows and the scores rose alternately.

Judging from Chen Fang, he was stronger today than yesterday, and made progress in both coordination and defense.

This is easy to understand. If they are not given exercise, there will be someone tall enough to hold the sky up when it falls, and the rest of the people will naturally have poor ability to withstand pressure.

If Chen is always on the court, everyone's progress will not be that fast.

This is also the coach's intention of not allowing Chen Fang to play.

There are more people watching today, and many eyes are looking over here. Chen Fang knows that it is the first day that has attracted attention.

At the end of the first half, Zhang Ruihua stood up and began to teach all his teammates, pointing out everyone's problems, emphasizing the offensive and defensive strategies for the second half, and specifically drawing on the tactical board how to curb the opponent's scorers' defensive tactics.

"Don't defend head-on. I say again, don't defend head-on." Zhang Ruihua said seriously.

"In the whole game, even if you are defending in position, you can't face it head-on. Always remember that defense relies on the side. Physical contact is the most important. Block one side, let go of one side, suppress the weak side hand, and give confrontation throughout the game."

"Open a hole for him to get in. If you don't let the ball handler in, how can you defend it?"

"Remember, never expect one person to defend the other team's core scorer alone. Put him on one side and let him cover from behind. Even if he is a god, he can't score every time."

After the explanation was almost over, the whistle for the second half sounded. After sitting back down, Zhang Ruihua said to Chen Fang, "I'm talking to you too."

"Your defense is very poor because you don't have a strong body. You don't like confrontation, including in offense, you always float outside and play." Zhang Ruihua pointed out Chen Fang's problems without any hesitation.

"Just because you can fight like this now doesn't mean you have to do it this way in the future."

"Coach, I'm actually worried..."

"Are you worried about getting hurt? Okay, I allow it." Zhang Ruihua's answer surprised Chen Fang.

"Many players start to suffer continuous injuries in their prime years. To put it bluntly, these are hidden dangers caused by injuries they suffered before they reached adulthood."

"Your situation is a bit special. You developed later than others. At your age, you need at least half a year to build strength. Your body is still developing. Your bones and muscles are very fragile. I have found a strength trainer for you. He will help you build a good physical foundation."

"Thank you, coach." Chen Fang was very grateful. Thinking back to the beginning, these were the things that worried him the most when he was reborn. Now, all they were solved with just a few words from the coach.

"But I want to point out to you that you should not make it a habit. To put it bluntly, when playing basketball, you still have to go in, break through, and layup. These are always the most effective weapons in basketball."

"If you keep floating on the outside, you can't become the core."

"I remember it." Chen Fang answered sincerely.

On the court, Shanxi had a small climax and scored consecutively, and Zhang Ruihua immediately called a timeout.

"Play 221 full-court press and push the opposing No. 8 to the side. Su Quan, you double-team him in the center line, and once No. 8 goes to the sideline, you double-team him. Yang Zhang, don't let No. 4 support No. 8 in the backcourt." Zhang Ruihua said as he drew a diagram on the tactical board.

"Play two rounds. If it breaks, immediately switch back to the 131 defense."

Chen Fang listened carefully. Compared with Sun Lexian, Zhang Ruihua had much more experience, so he immediately took countermeasures.

Sure enough, after the start, Shanxi U18 immediately couldn't adapt and was forced to take an 8-second shot.

On the mountain side, Su Quan broke through and recovered two points.

Immediately afterwards, facing the full-court double-team, Shanxi still had no countermeasure, and No. 8 made a return-court mistake directly at the midfield line.

The opposing coach immediately called a timeout.

Zhang Ruihua and other players left the court and immediately arranged new tactics.

"Shanxi will definitely have to play with three guards, which will cause problems in the interior. Song Xuan will screen Zeng Peng and let him play on one side, giving him the ball to play one-on-one."

"On defense, we will lead the defense throughout the court, expand the defense, and play 14 half-court man-to-man defense. Guo Tianzhen, you go to guard No. 8, and the other four will all be put on the line, let them receive the ball inside, and all forwards and guards must interfere and are not allowed to take the ball."

"Keep playing until the opponent finds a way to go back to the 23 zone defense."

As Chen Fang listened, he had a random thought: if Coach Zhang were to coach Dongsheng, the competition would probably be much easier.

The game went just as Zhang Ruihua had predicted. Shanxi put on three defenders in an attempt to break the full-court press, but unfortunately Shanxi had already changed its formation. At this time, they could not make substitutions unless the ball was dead. Shanxi watched Zeng Peng take the ball and score.

On defense, the high-post defense in the first half prevented Shanxi from being able to receive the ball. In the end, the center got the ball, but he didn't dare to dribble it and waited to pass it to the guard, but the guard was entangled again and a 24-second violation occurred.

At this moment, the rhythm has been the same. Zhang Ruihua has been changing the formation. The opposing coach is overwhelmed and is being played around with.

It was obvious that both sides were similar, but they just couldn't get an advantage, and the mountain gradually accumulated points advantage.

In the last two minutes, when leading by 6 points, Zhang Ruihua directly set up a 32-man zone defense and refused to give Shanxi any chance of a three-pointer. In this way, they wore Shanxi down.

After one game, Chen Fang saw what a serious professional coach was. His mind was full of on-the-spot tactics and various ideas for breaking the game, which immediately developed his imagination.

You can't learn these things on the Internet at all. It is truly a one-on-one transmission.

Chen Fang suddenly understood why a lot of big-name coaches were willing to be assistant coaches. They wanted to steal some good things from others during the timeouts.

Compared with players, training an excellent coach is more difficult.

After returning to the hotel room, Lu Yun became worried after taking a shower, because they were in the second match in the morning, so now they were facing the situation of having nothing to do for the whole day.

"Let's have a cup of coffee first." Chen Fang gave an idea.

"Okay." Lu Yun agreed.

The two came to the coffee shop again, and it seemed that the girl was not seen. Lu Yun breathed a sigh of relief, and Chen Fang did not say anything.

After getting the coffee, I didn’t sit there, but went directly to the reconstruction building.

There is a charge for reconstruction, which is not reasonable. It can only be said that it is impossible for them to do it voluntarily.

So except for the first day when it was crowded, there are not many people today.

Chen Fang didn't play in the game and didn't want to waste money, even though Lu Yun was very generous and he had been the one to pay for meals since they entered the base.

So Lu Yun chatted with Chen Fang while receiving massage from the therapist.

Suddenly Chen Fang stopped talking. Lu Yun was still wondering, and soon he heard a voice that left a deep impression on him.

"Oh my, it's fate." Shan Caiyun sat there with her legs spread out, shocking Lu Yun so much that he sat up straight away.

"Don't be afraid, you didn't provoke me today."

Lu Yun's face darkened, but he couldn't find any words to refute, so he lay back down.

"Hey, are you from the Shandong Sports Bureau?" Shan Caiyun saw Chen Fang's clothes. Last time, they took a shower and changed into casual clothes, but today, Chen Fang was still wearing his uniform jacket.

Lu Yun suddenly remembered: "Are you from BJ No. 4 Middle School?"

"Of course." Shan Caiyun was very proud.

The two glanced at each other. BJ No. 4 Middle School is also considered a veteran and strong team.

So Lu Yun started to ask questions, pretending to be surprised: "Why, there is a women's basketball game?"

"What women's basketball? I'm a boxer."

"Then why are you here?" Lu Yun asked immediately.

"Guess!" Shan Caiyun raised her chin, a posture that looked very much like a martial arts pose.

Suddenly, Chen Fang had an idea. He remembered that when he was looking at the information yesterday, he remembered that the coach of BJ No. 4 Middle School seemed to be named Shan.

"You are Coach Shan's daughter." Chen Fang said in an affirmative tone.

Shan Caiyun looked at Chen Fang in shock, her face turning cold: "You're investigating me?"

"The coach of No. 4 Middle School is named Shan, so it is possible to make such a simple inference." Chen Fang said calmly.

"You are very smart." Shan Caiyun showed a hint of vigilance in her eyes.

"There are 32 teams, in theory, and the other 31 are all. No. High School is a long-established high school powerhouse, and I'm looking forward to the opportunity to play against them," Chen Fang replied.

Shan Caiyun was speechless. Suddenly her eyes lit up and she stood up and waved: "Here, here."

A very tall young man walked over. Chen Fang took a look and felt that he was at least 210cm tall.

"Caiyun, why are you here?" the young man asked, then looked at Chen Fangluyun and asked, "Who are they?"

"Brother Yu, they are from Shandong. They are so arrogant. They said they want to fight us."

The young man didn't take it seriously, and instead excused Chen Fang and the other man: "This is normal. Basketball is a competitive sport, just like your boxing. As long as you show up, you are an opponent."

"What's wrong?" A black man came over, his body muscles clearly visible. Chen Fang took a look and thought, isn't this the future leading Zhu 3D in China?
"It's okay, I met an acquaintance." The young man might have been worried that Caiyun would get into trouble, so he pulled the black man away and invited Shan Caiyun to go along.

"No. 4 Middle School!" Lu Yun gritted his teeth and said, not knowing whether it was because of the massage from the therapist or something else. Chen Fang retracted his gaze. BJ No. 4 Middle School, what a strong high school.

Sports is only a part of it. This high school, known as the best in Beijing, is strong in all aspects, especially in humanities. The people trained here all have good character.

In my memory, after Zhu left, Master Qi took over. For the next three years, Master Qi was known as the number one high school student in the country.

It would be really great if we could play a game against a team like this.

"Chen Fang." Lu Yun's words brought him back from his distraction.

"If you run into No. 4 Middle School, you must avenge me."

"Ah."

"Don't be scared, speak up." Lu Yun was serious.

"Okay, I'll avenge you." As the saying goes, one should be grateful to the person who gave him the favor. There was nothing he could do about it. Lu Yun gave him too much.

"I feel relieved when you say that. You are the best among the 32 teams, no doubt about it."

Seeing that the rehabilitation therapist was stunned, Chen Fang quickly stopped him and said, "Please don't flatter me and make me hate you."

"Why are you keeping a low profile? You're going to show up in these few days. You can't hide anymore."

"Will you not fight against Tsinghua High School?" Lu Yun asked back.

"Tsinghua High School is better than BJ No. 4 High School."

Chen Fang smiled and didn't answer.

For him, the campus is not his destination. Maybe if he was noticed after his rebirth, he might be excited, but now he already has the capital and new heights.

Those well-known domestic old-brand high schools are very good and powerful, but Chen Fang knows that he is no longer suitable for them.

The reason why he wants to continue fighting with Dongsheng is to fulfill a dream, not only for him, but also for everyone.

But my heart has already reached a higher level.

To tell you the truth, which may offend people, these high schools have not produced any leaders who can make the final decision for Chinese basketball over the years, and the best ones are still on the edge of the national team's rotation.

Whether in terms of resources, teaching materials, or the level of competition provided, he couldn't get much help.

And Chen Fang wants more, and only American high schools and the NCAA can help him improve and assist him to reach the level of strength to pursue that goal.

Everything we do now is to accumulate strength and climb step by step.

Apart from his body, Chen Fang was certain that he was now stronger than he was in his previous life.

Although it was very strange, Chen Fang had this feeling, because he was now terribly accurate. In his previous life, he was not so accurate.

Especially in the opening stage, when he was not out of breath and his hands and feet were not numb, he had 100% confidence to get points and get them at will.

The reason why it was not shown was because of fear.

I'm a little scared myself. I wonder if I'll be treated as a monster if I fight like this.

During this period, Chen Fang vaguely guessed about rebirth, but he didn't dare to think too much about it because it was a guess without an answer.

Now, he just has to wait for his body to reach the height of his previous life. At that time, he will be qualified to set foot on the other side of the ocean and climb higher mountains.

"Oh, it feels good." Lu Yun finally finished. He climbed up and stretched his arms and legs.

"Where to now?" he asked.

"Let's go eat first, then watch the game."

"Good advice."

"What if we watch the game for a whole day?" Chen Fang asked.

"Don't worry, I'll fall asleep in the stands." Lu Yun begged.

Unfortunately, this idea did not succeed. Just after lunch, the assistant called Chen Fang away.

When they arrived at the stadium, Zhang Ruihua waved for him to come over.

When Chen Fang walked over, he found that several people next to the coach were staring at him with sharp eyes. When he saw one of them clearly, Chen Fang was shocked.

"This is Coach Fan and Coach Wang from the National Youth Team." Zhang Ruihua introduced with a calm expression.

"Lao Zhang, don't I need it? You're looking down on me because I'm a high school coach, right?" A middle-aged man next to him was unhappy.

"The single coach of BJ No. 4 Middle School." Zhang Ruihua had no choice but to speak again.

"Look at this skeleton and the arm span." Shan Shaoxiong started touching it directly, talking as he touched it, and he was almost drooling.

"Are you interested in studying at our BJ No. 4 Middle School? I'll take care of your transfer. How about that? You don't have to play many games, just play at the crucial moment!"

"Big Bear, that's too much!" Zhang Ruihua pulled Chen Fang over and escaped from Shan Shaoxiong's clutches.

"It's not too much. Good things should be enjoyed by all. If it's inconvenient for you, I'll call Shaohong. It won't be a problem. What was the relationship between Shaohong and I back then? We were just gun lovers!"

"Hey, hey, shut up! You're not even looking anywhere." Wang Xuezeng, nicknamed Wang Datou, interrupted quickly.

Shan Shaoxiong said angrily: "I am serious. I am usually at your Shandong Sports Bureau. It won't take me long, just a few days."

"Everyone knows your little trick. Isn't it just to defeat Song Bing from Tsinghua High School?" Zhang Ruihua snorted coldly.

"If you can't win, just look for the reasons in yourself instead of thinking about foreign aid. This crooked approach is meaningless." Wang Xuezeng smiled and stabbed him in the back.

"Hey, if I don't tell you, you're just feeling unbalanced. I'm just being treated as a worker now. At most, I can treat you all to a good meal at noon."

"Well, you can have this. I'm almost sick of eating the base buffet every day."

"I still have some Maotai, can you give me some?"

"Shut up, everyone, and get down to business." Zhang Ruihua stopped the topic and added, "We'll talk about dinner later."

Looking at Chen Fang, Zhang Ruihua asked solemnly: "Do you want to go to the U16 or U18 national youth team?"

Chen Fang was shocked. How could he have any say in this?

"Don't be surprised. You're lucky. Both coaches want you, but they can't win over you, so they let you come." Zhang Ruihua said.

Chen Fang felt the boss's gaze and beads of sweat began to appear.

How could I be so worthy to receive such treatment?

Seeing Chen Fang didn't say anything, the two national youth leaders exchanged glances. Master Fan coughed and said, "To be honest, I don't have many quotas. I just won the Asian Youth Championship this year, but this batch of players will go to clubs. Some core players have their own personal plans. So for next year's World Youth Championship, my focus will still be on strengthening the inside line. There is basically no place for the outside line."

"However, Lao Zhang strongly recommended you. I also watched the video of your first game. You really use your brain when playing and you are very accurate in three-point shooting. The team is also in need of a guard like you, so I am willing to give you a chance to try out."

After saying that, he looked at Wang Xuezeng.

Wang Xuezeng said, "I have a position here, no tryout required. I just need a good shooting guard, but your age is a bit too young, so you will take up an over-age spot in the U16 Asian Championship next year."

"I haven't seen your level, but I know one thing, if Lao Zhang and Lao Fan like it, it must be a good thing, I will just grab it without thinking."

Chen Fang looked at Zhang Ruihua for help, but the latter ignored him.

"Boss, can you let me think about it? Or can we wait until after this cup game?" Chen Fang was used to procrastinating when he had no idea.

"no problem."

"Okay." They both agreed at almost the same time.

Chen Fang is not at the point where they have to lower themselves to compete. There are many good players, just like leeks, and a large number of them can be discovered every year.

But since Lao Zhang has saved his face, they have to give him this face.

After the story was told, the three people looked at Shan Shaoxiong who was watching the show.

"What?" He was puzzled.

"Eat, you said, are you suffering from Alzheimer's disease?" Wang Xuezeng asked sharply.

"Now?" Shan Shaoxiong was playing dumb.

"It's already half past twelve, aren't you hungry?" Master Fan couldn't help but speak.

"Okay." Shan Shaoxiong stood up with a frown on his face, but he did not forget to warmly invite Chen Fang: "Come to our No. 4 Middle School when you have time. The girls in our No. 4 Middle School are of very high quality."

"Oh my! Let's go! We haven't even started drinking yet and this is it!" Several people were so overwhelmed by the moral integrity of this old bear that they quickly worked together to carry this shameless man and walked out.

Along the way, everyone greeted us proactively.

Chen Fang was left alone, standing there stupidly.

It feels like a dream.

Am I going to join the national youth team now?

(End of this chapter)