ACultivator'sCampusLife

Chapter 43 The Last-minute Smash

After all, Tang Fa was once a professional basketball player, and he had been through many situations. With his mind wandering for a while, he immediately adjusted himself and began to prepare for the next attack.

Having learned the lesson, Tang Fa got himself psyched up when taking the initiative to launch the attack this time. So after Tang Fa was not able to push Lu Yao away twice, he began to use techniques to attack Lu Yao.

Tang Fa comforted himself that maybe Lu Yao was much stronger than before because he hadn't seen him for a while. But, in any case, Lu Yao lacked too much experience in playing basketball, which required teamwork and skills.

After several attempts, Lu Yao also knew the capabilities of Tang Fa. Although his skills were excellent, he couldn't win the game because Lu Yao had unusual perception and judgment. And in terms of strength, Lu Yao could easily defeat Tang Fa. So Lu Yao slowly began to take the initiative to look for physical confrontation and Tang Fa's mistakes. Only by defeating him in the area he was the proudest of could Lu Yao foil the scheme of Tang Fa and Chu Minghui, who was sitting in the stand.

As the game went on slowly, Tang Fa felt more and more difficult to defend against Lu Yao's attacks. If he hadn't passed the ball decisively, he would have been cut off by Lu Yao several times. Therefore, Tang Fa had to keep widening the range of his movement against Lu Yao.

Tang Fa had big movements and so did Lu Yao. Tang Fa waved out his elbow several times, but Lu Yao didn't step back but he directly took the strike with his elbow. Had it not been for Lu Yao's conscious control, Tang Fa would have been hurt badly.

But even so, after several times, Tang Fa's entire elbows and arms still was bruised blue owing to Lu Yao's hit, and a burst of heart-wrenching pain almost drove Tang Fa to give up. If it had not been in the competition field, and Chu Tianyang and Chu Minghui had not been there, Tang Fa would have quit.

Tang Fa was also slowly changing his playing methods. Obviously, he had realized that he could no longer trick Lu Yao by using his physical strength, so he could only play tricks on Lu Yao in other ways.

Except for Han Dong, people on the team of Class One of the Senior Grade, including Lu Yao, could hardly earn a score. So Tang Fa wanted to repeat his old trick and hurt Han Dong, who was their only point-winning player, through some small "accidents". Therefore, without Han Dong, Lu Yao alone would not be able to win the game.

When Lu Yao was blocked by two of Tang Fa's teammates who played the pick-and-roll trick, Tang Fa suddenly knocked Han Dong to the ground in the face of Han Dong's single defense and then stepped on Han Dong's ankle covertly, trying to completely kick Han Dong out of the playing field.

But fortunately, after Han Dong was stepped on by Tang Fa, he pulled his foot back immediately and wasn't as seriously injured as Yu Fei who was carried away and couldn't play the game anymore. However, his ankle was still a little swollen, and he tried several times before he stood up.

"Han Dong, how do you feel?" asked Lu Yao who immediately ran over and patted Han Dong on his shoulder.

"Lu Yao, my ankle is swollen, and I can't fully use my strength." Han Dong endured severe pain and said, "It seems that you have to work with our other teammates to fight now. I hope our score won't fall far behind!"

"Don't worry! I understand. We have no bench player to substitute you, so you only need to hang in there till we finish the game. And I will take care of all other things. I will try to attack the basket or shoot as soon as I get the chance." Lu Yao comforted Han Dong.

"But..."

"You can rest assured and trust me!"

...

Although there was still a large gap in the score between the two teams, through the efforts players made before, it had been narrowed down to about 15 points without growing.

Next, something happened on the court, which many people couldn't forget for a long time and would talk about repeatedly and enthusiastically in the future.

Lu Yao acted totally differently, running crazily on the court and flashing in front of Tang Fa and others. In short, he sabotaged the opponents' attack many times.

In addition, he also could quickly pass the ball to others and run to the frontcourt. He would catch the basketball passed by his teammates before the three-point line, jumped and shot after a few simple dribbles.

No matter who the defender was in front of him, Lu Yao could always jump a little higher than him. No matter how hard the defenders tried, they couldn't snatch the basketball in Lu Yao's hand.

What was more, Lu Yao could easily hit and score no matter whether he was under the basket or within the three-point line.

Tang Fa saw the scores of the two teams slowly approaching, and he began to panic. Therefore, he made some unnecessary mistakes while Lu Yao could always accurately spot his mistakes and quickly take advantage of them to win points.

In the last two minutes, the score changed to 55:50, and the scoring gap was down to about five points for the first time during the game.

"Guys, we're going to use delaying tactics to pass the ball quickly. If we're certain to win points, we can catch the chance to shoot. Otherwise, we'll take every attack until we run out of 24 seconds. Do you understand?" Although Tang Fa was good, how could he defeat Lu Yao, who had practiced Mixed Spirit King Kong Skills? So when his team retreated after scoring a shoot, Tang Fa arranged the next tactics for his teammates.

After all, Tang Fa was a player who had played in many professional competitions. His strategy worked a bit. The scoring gap had been increased to 10 points again, and there was only one minute left.

They got ten points ahead, and there was only one minute left. If this were in the NBA, no one could say for sure which team would win. But in the average high school basketball league, it was impossible to change the result of the game at the last minute.

However, Lu Yao's performance completely contradicted this argument, and it turned something impossible into something possible.

Whether it was his own team or the other team that served the ball, he could always appear like a ghost in the most appropriate position and choose to do a three-pointer that he had never tried before.

"Swoosh!"

"Swoosh!"

"Swoosh!"

As Lu Yao successfully had three three-pointers, his team was only one point behind. At this time, Tang Fa had to call a time-out and began to rearrange the tactics.

Chu Minghui in the stand clenched his hands now, and his fingernails were almost pinched into his own flesh. But he seemed not to notice that at all. He just stared viciously at Lu Yao on the court and scolded in his heart, "D*mn it. When did this sickly man become so strong?"

Those who were originally flattering him in the stand did not dare to claim credit in front of Chu Tianyang anymore because everyone could see that Chu Tianyang's face clouded at this time.

But Headmaster Hu, who sat not far from him, showed a faint smile on his face.

Because only he knew best about what was going on in this graduation commemorative basketball game and what happened to the student named Tang Fa.

A few days ago, he repeatedly received phone calls from the secretary of Chu Tianyang. He was told that to respond to the municipal Party committee's call for "national fitness", the Education Bureau hoped that the No. 1 High School in Shuangta City, namely the best high school in the city, could hold a basketball match on the occasion of graduation. By doing this, it could set a leading and exemplary example for other fraternal schools.

Originally, it didn't matter. But later, when Headmaster Hu saw that some people in the Education Bureau arranged Tang Fa to this school through under-the-table tricks, he understood what they wanted to do through his years of working experience.

Later, some classes had somehow lost games. When Class One of the Senior Grade entered the final against Class Sixteen of the Senior Grade, in which Tang Fa was, Headmaster Hu was fully aware of the sinister intentions of Chu Tianyang and his son.

It was obvious that they wanted to take advantage of Tang Fa, who had a professional basketball background, to humiliate Lu Yao and get back at him for the last bet between Chu Minghui and Lu Yao.

However, Headmaster Hu did not dare to speak out because Chu Tianyang was in a high position in the Education Bureau. When Headmaster Hu saw Lu Yao, a top student who was favored by himself, almost beat Tang Fa, Headmaster Hu couldn't help but cheer up a bit.

On the court, Tang Fa's team served the ball. When Tang Fa got the ball passed by his teammate, he immediately used several solid pick-and-rolls and left Lu Yao behind. He then looked at Han Dong in front of him, sneered, and was ready to make a jump dunk.

"Bang!"

"Oh, my God! How did this happen?"

"Is he just a high school student? He's as good as a professional player!"

"D*mn it, Tang Fa! You fool! Why don't you check on people in the back?" Many people in the stand were stunned by the scene. Chu Minghui couldn't control his mood. He suddenly stood up, cursed, and looked at Tang Fa, who was lying on the ground.

After all, Chu Tianyang was good at disguising his own emotions. Although he cursed Lu Yao many times in his heart, his facial expression remained almost the same. Except for his assistant Li and Headmaster Hu, who were the closest to him, everyone else was attracted by the situation on the court.

Just now, in a flash, Tang Fa was prepared to make a shocking split dunk across Han Dong. Because of Han Dong's ankle injury, he wasn't able to jump high, which made him unable to form an effective intercept. When Han Dong could do nothing to intercept Tang Fa's jump dunk, Lu Yao suddenly jumped high from behind Tang Fa. His jump was fully several centimeters higher than Tang Fa's. Lu Yao pressed the ball in Tang Fa's hands heavily on the backboard.

Tang Fa could not react for a second and fell heavily to the ground. He didn't realize what happened until his teammates came to pull him, and his eyes turned red. He stared viciously at Lu Yao's back.

"Lu Yao, well done!" Han Dong and others gathered around Lu Yao and said excitedly.

"Keep working hard! There are still 30 seconds left, and we are still one point behind. As long as this attack works, we can basically win this game." Lu Yao blocked Tang Fa and also the basketball hit Tang Fa's body and jumped out of bounds. So the right to serve the ball was naturally in the hands of Class One of the Senior Grade.

Lu Yao's perception and observation were excellent, and his strength was strong. His defensive ability and shooting cleverness were also fine, but his dribbling skills were far worse. After all, dribbling required the player to practice a lot and become familiar with the basketball.

So this time, the baseline ball still needed to be organized and launched by Han Dong. There was still a band-aid on his face, and he still had a bit of ankle injury, so he didn't move forward fast

Because of Lu Yao's excellent performance, Tang Fa and others didn't dare to be careless at this time. They focused on defending against Lu Yao's attacks. It was not until Han Dong passed the half-court that someone jumped towards him to prepare for the defense.

At this time, only Lu Yao was the most confident one to win the game, but he was unable to get out of the two-man defense of the other team. Although there was a slightly larger space for the others on Lu Yao's team to run around, Han Dong did not dare to pass the ball at will in the face of the rapidly changing formation of the joint defense of the opposing team. Finally, it was time. Helplessly, Han Dong chose to shoot on his own.

"Bang!"

Because of Han Dong's ankle injury, his legs were lack of strength. So the basketball jumped out of the basket after rotating around on it.

When Tang Fa jumped high and was ready to grab the ball steadily, the tragedy staged again.

Lu Yao forced his way through players taking up the rebounding position, jumped high, and once again pressed the ball into the basket across Tang Fa. This time Tang Fa was pressed firmly under Lu Yao's body from behind while Lu Yao made a slam dunk successfully.

After landing, Lu Yao did not even glance at Tang Fa, who was lying on the ground in a daze. Instead, he stepped over his body in a very domineering way.

"Beep! Beep!"

The whistle that put an end to the game followed, and Class One of the Senior Grade beat Class Sixteen of the Senior Grade, which had Tang Fa on their team, by a slight advantage of one point.

In the whole stand, everyone was completely stunned except for the students of Class One of the Senior Grade, who were cheering and shouting there. They did not expect that a high school student could be so great.

Those who did not know Lu Yao were rather dumbfounded when they learned from students close to them that Lu Yao was also the third place in the provincial placement exam for high school juniors in Xinlu Province.

There should be such an amazing person in this world!