Insufficient balance

  The basketball hoop was pulled hard by one hand and made a loud noise. Yang Tianxiao slowly jumped down to the ground after releasing his grip on the basket. After high-fiving with his teammate who assisted him, Yang Tianxiao slowly ran back to his team's half court.

  Sitting on the sidelines, Lin Xiaoyu watched her good friend and former teammate score such a beautiful goal and couldn't help but secretly cheer in her heart. However, as Yang Tianxiao's opponent on the field at this time, Lin Xiaoyu also couldn't help but feel a little worried for her own team.

  Yang Tianxiao has already jumped down from the basket for the second time before the first quarter is over. Shiyan Middle School really can't defend against the huge physical advantage of the First Middle School, and is always scored by their opponents under the basket. But this is not surprising, because the opponent has a very obvious advantage in height. Except for the organizer guard wearing No. 8 jersey, the other four players are all over 1.88 meters tall, and the tallest center is nearly 2 meters tall, which makes it difficult for the Shiyan Middle School players on the field to defend against such a height advantage.

  The score was 17-6. The scoreboard made Bian Guohui a bit pessimistic about the team's situation. Although the players on the court were still fighting hard, the gap in strength had already appeared at the beginning of the game. Xiao Haifeng, who was good at breaking through, couldn't get past the opponent's intentional defense; outside shooter Zhang Jialin was tightly guarded by Chen Yongzhi, whom Bian Guohui had coached before, and could hardly find a chance to shoot, with two forced shots barely hitting the rim. This made Zhang Jialin, the team's outside scoring point, go silent on the court. Center Han Dali wasn't good at scoring anyway, and now facing a nearly 2-meter-tall center, he was already struggling on defense, let alone offense. Another scoring guard, Zhang Tao, had height but his thin body made him vulnerable in confrontations, and his offense wasn't ideal either. On defense, he disappointed Bian Guohui, allowing the opponent's number 13 to dunk twice under the basket in just the first quarter, leaving Bian Guohui helpless.

  The team captain Su Hao was still able to hold the fort on the court, relying on his three three-pointers and a jump shot to get Experimental Middle School off the embarrassing "0" score. However, relying solely on Su Hao is not enough to win the game. With Su Hao being closely guarded by the opponent, he has failed to score in his last two attempts, making it difficult to overcome the solid defense of First Middle School.

  Ban Guohui couldn't help but glance at Lin Xiaoyu sitting on the player's bench. Ban Guohui really wanted to substitute Lin Xiaoyu in now, but he knew it wasn't the right time yet. Ban Guohui hadn't let Lin Xiaoyu start this game precisely so that she could be a secret weapon to disrupt the opponent's tactical deployment. So Ban Guohui didn't ask for a substitution and could only silently pray that his team wouldn't fall too far behind in the first quarter.

  The whistle for the end of the first quarter sounded. The players from Experimental Middle School all had a hint of fatigue on their faces, as if they had just finished the entire game, not just the first quarter. Indeed, competing against First Middle School, a team with top-notch physical and technical abilities, was a high-intensity battle that consumed a lot of energy. As a result, the players who came off the court were all panting desperately. However, the performance of Experimental Middle School's players at the end of the first quarter still satisfied Bian Guohui. With their tenacious spirit, they managed to keep the score at 24-12 by the end of the first quarter. Bian Guohui let the players sit down and began to arrange tactics for the second quarter with a writing board...

  The suspension rest ended, Lin Xiaoyu followed her teammates onto the court. As she walked towards the court, Lin Xiaoyu constantly moved her hand and foot joints, because she had been sitting on the bench for a quarter of an hour, so Lin Xiaoyu had to seize the time to warm up slightly.

  "Hey, you little guy can finally get on the court. Work hard and play well, I won't go easy on you." Good friend Yang Tianxiao said with a smile as he greeted Lin Xiaoyu walking onto the court.

  "Alright, once I'm on the court, you won't have the chance to dunk like that again." Lin Xiaoyu and Yang Tianxiao always liked to exchange a few jabs like this.

  "Then try it. I still have to buckle up the basket, let's see how you can handle me." Yang Tianxiao never lost in a war of words with Lin Xiaoyu.

  "Hehe, alright then. Whoever loses this match will treat the other to KFC, how's that?" Lin Xiaoyu said with a deliberately provocative gaze at Yang Tianxiao.

  "Alright, no problem." Yang Tianxiao and Lin Xiaoyu gave each other a high-five before running back to their own half of the court to prepare for the second quarter.

  Bin Guohui watched Lin Xiaoyu dribble the ball across half court, and he really didn't know how much of the tactical intent he had just instilled in him would be put into play. Bin Guohui had instructed Lin Xiaoyu when he came on the field to first not assist his teammates, but to single-handedly attack, and only after attracting the opponent's defensive attention could he pass the ball to his teammates for a counterattack. Bin Guohui believed in Lin Xiaoyu's scoring ability and knew that Lin Xiaoyu had ample physical strength, so Bin Guohui set such tactics for Lin Xiaoyu, but Bin Guohui didn't know if Lin Xiaoyu could open up the situation under the opponent's tight defense, and he wasn't confident about this either.

  Now defending Lin Xiaoyu is Chen Yongzhi, the opponent who injured Lin Xiaoyu in a match during middle school and has now become even taller and stronger. He defended Lin Xiaoyu with extra seriousness and effort, from his eyes that had some bloodshot we can see that Chen Yongzhi still holds a grudge against being defeated by Lin Xiaoyu in the past, this match is an opportunity for Chen Yongzhi to prove himself, so when he saw Lin Xiaoyu preparing to enter the court, he took the initiative to ask the coach to defend Lin Xiaoyu.

  Lin Xiaoyu's current figure is no longer the thin and small controlling defender of the past. Although not as sturdy as Chen Yongzhi, Lin Xiaoyu has basically caught up with Chen Yongzhi in height. Lin Xiaoyu still remembers the opponent who injured her in that game, but although the foul was intentional, Lin Xiaoyu doesn't hold a grudge against him. Lin Xiaoyu thinks it's just a game, and such things are inevitable. So Lin Xiaoyu doesn't take it to heart either.

  Lin Xiaoyu brought the ball to the top of the three-point arc and habitually looked for teammates with space, but after remembering Coach Bian Guohui's words, Lin Xiaoyu could only follow the coach's intention and go solo. Lin Xiaoyu also saw that his current teammates were all tightly marked by their opponents, making it difficult for him to pass the ball to them for scoring opportunities. Therefore, Lin Xiaoyu felt that going solo to score was also a good way to improve the situation on the court.

  "Left? Right? Or left again?" Chen Yongzhi was quickly judging in his heart that Lin Xiaoyu was about to break through to his side, but he still couldn't tell the direction of Lin Xiaoyu's breakthrough from the basketball and body that were constantly switching between left and right.

  Just as Chen Yongzhi hesitated for a moment, Lin Xiaoyu had already started, flashing past Chen Yongzhi's left side like lightning. When Chen Yongzhi turned around to chase after him, Lin Xiaoyu had already dribbled the ball to the basket in several steps and scored with a high-arcing shot over the nearly two-meter-tall center of First Middle School.

  It's too fast, too fast... Chen Yongzhi sighed. Chen Yongzhi was very clear that at the moment Lin Xiaoyu started, he didn't have any time to react at all, and even couldn't commit a foul in time. Lin Xiaoyu's breakthrough made Chen Yongzhi feel a sense of powerlessness in his heart. However, Chen Yongzhi quickly dispelled these thoughts from his mind and picked up his strong determination to defeat Lin Xiaoyu again.

  Chen Yongzhi, who was on the offense, found that Lin Xiaoyu did not come to defend himself, which made Chen Yongzhi's idea of returning a goal to Lin Xiaoyu fall through. With the ball in hand, Chen Yongzhi easily scored two points with a backhand hook shot after turning around Zhang Jialin, who was unable to withstand his strength.

  "Let's defend together later." Lin Xiaoyu said softly to Zhang Jialin after he served the ball from the baseline.

  Zhang Jialin nodded, Zhang Jialin knew that he was unable to withstand the physically strong No. 14 alone and that only a joint defense could effectively contain the opponent's great strength on the inside line.

  Chen Yongzhi continued to block in front of Lin Xiaoyu, Chen Yongzhi bent his waist and stared motionlessly at the basketball that was constantly changing positions between Lin Xiaoyu's left and right hands. This time, Chen Yongzhi took a side defensive stance to prevent Lin Xiaoyu from making another lightning-fast breakthrough like last time. By taking a side defensive stance, Chen Yongzhi slightly shifted his body to block Lin Xiaoyu's breakthrough route on one side, leaving only one side of the breakthrough space for Lin Xiaoyu. Although this left a gap for Lin Xiaoyu to break through, his teammate standing behind the gap would come to make up for the defense when Lin Xiaoyu broke through, killing off Lin Xiaoyu's breakthrough...

  Suddenly, Chen Yongzhi blocked the breakthrough route on his left side, but left a gap on the right side for himself to break through. Lin Xiaoyu directly dribbled towards this empty space on the right and broke through. When Chen Yongzhi saw Lin Xiaoyu breaking through the gap on his right side, he didn't feel as anxious as when he was broken through by Lin Xiaoyu earlier, because Chen Yongzhi knew that in the moment Lin Xiaoyu broke through towards the inside, the tall center with a blue jersey would make Lin Xiaoyu taste bitterness...

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