First in scoring

Chapter 61 61. Fourth in the league!

Johnson once again raised his season expectations. Now that he is in the top eight, he will not leave! Keep the top eight and fight for the top four!

When the team members heard the new goal, they were very excited and gathered together shouting “Top four, top four, top four”.

Zhang Yang looked at the scene in front of him and wanted to ask Thomas - didn’t you say that our team is not like this?
Was it infected by the football team next door? Humph, Compton Zhangsan wouldn't be so stupid... Well, I couldn't help but yell along. It really felt exciting to yell like this.

Today the venue is full of classmates, which makes Zhang Yang feel very accomplished.

He remembered that in the first warm-up match, the venue was basically full, but the number of students who came to watch the second game was halved. After several months of hard work, he finally got his classmates to fill the audience seats again!

Next we have to strive for the top four, or to be more precise the fourth place, which is difficult and depends on luck.

In this season of the Southern California League, the strength gap between the top two teams and the teams behind them is particularly large. The second-placed St. Bernardus High School has only lost one game, to the first-placed team, while the first-placed Seaside Middle School has not lost a single game so far. The strength of the top two teams is far ahead.

The record gap between third and ninth is very small. Compton High School Preparatory Team is currently ranked seventh with 10 wins and 7 losses. Millikan High School, which was just defeated by them, dropped from third to fourth with a record of 11 wins and 6 losses. The two teams are ranked three places apart and only one win apart, but there are only three games left.

They have to win all the next games, and the fourth to sixth teams have to lose at least one game.

In the evening, after dinner and training, Zhang Yang went to Thomas' study and borrowed a computer to search the school forum for posts related to Millikan High School's schedule... He didn't find anything, so he tried another way and searched for the schedule of the last three rounds of the Southern California League. He found it, and netizens knew a lot about it.

The fifth and sixth teams that are not in the top eight have three games left, which is a bit troublesome.

But Millikan High School has three games left, including one almost impossible-to-win opponent, St. Beren's High School.

After checking the schedules of his competitors, Zhang Yang no longer took the three competitors to heart. He focused on doing his own thing first, winning the remaining three games, doing his best, and leaving the rest to fate.

Before going to bed, Zhang Yang opened the "Door of Experience" and looked at the ability value assessment.

His passing and controlling score has reached 68 (high school), with 'control' accounting for the majority of the evaluation value of 68. His ball control has improved greatly compared to before Christmas. He has no problem serving as the second ball holder, whether it is a fast break or a positional battle. As for passing, he did not practice it specifically, mainly because he did not have the time. He only practiced it during team training, plus practicing passing during games and team scrimmages.

My shooting score reached 71 (in high school), mainly mid-range shots and layups. I didn’t practice three-pointers much, which lowered my overall score.

Rebounds and second-chance scoring have also improved significantly. The effect of "improved continuous jumping ability" is currently reflected in these two aspects.

The biggest improvement after the second training was in his practical ability. His understanding of the game and tactics made great progress, and he became more adept at utilizing his physical condition. For him at this stage, the improvement in this aspect has a greater impact on actual combat than shooting and technique.

In the current game, he can handle it with his physical strength + game reading ability + tactical command ability, and with the existing technology, he can play well. He can be more patient to hone his skills without worrying about his performance on the court.

After nearly two months of hard work, Zhang Yang has mastered the pick-and-roll, dribbling, shooting after the pick-and-roll, and the European step. He has reached the stage where he can perform technical moves as soon as his brain sends out signals without deliberately controlling his movements. The next goal is to improve the stability of his shots when performing technical moves.

His defense has improved the fastest. He has the experience and awareness. He just needs to get his body used to the defensive movements and develop muscle memory.

After returning from training, he had a lot of things to train and a lot of basic skills to build. He had less shooting training time than before, and his shooting points were accumulated much slower. He only accumulated 12 shooting points on the 40th of the day before yesterday. It took him more than 1 days to complete the previous task, which increased his physical talent by 1 point. The new task has been opened. Accumulate shooting points. The reward this time is a random shooting talent +.
He still planned to train normally. This plug-in did not require him to worry about how to complete the task, he just had to shoot the ball.

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A week later, on Sunday, February 2, the Compton High School Preparatory Team defeated Barstow High School, ranked 22th in the league, 98-91.

This game was quite difficult. DeRozan did not play well in the first half. Zhang Yang and Tatum held up the score in the early stage. The former scored 20 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 steals and 1 block, and the latter scored 13 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 steals. In the second half, DeRozan finally started shooting and scored 18 points in the half. The Compton High School Preparatory Team finally completed the comeback.

At the same time as they reversed the situation and won, the fifth and sixth teams were both upset. They refused to be upset and jumped to fifth place!
On February 2, the Compton High School Prep team defeated ninth-ranked Palmdale Forest Academy 28-115 on the road.

The game was tense throughout, with neither side able to defend against the other, and the fight lasted until the very last moment.

As the first scoring point next to DeRozan and Tatum, Zhang Yang took a lot of shots and made a lot of shots, scoring 33 points, 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 steals and 3 blocks, once again setting a new personal scoring record.

DeRozan had 27 points and 7 assists, Tatum had 15 points and 9 assists, and the three of them led the team to a narrow victory.

It is Saturday, March 3th, and the Compton High School prep team's game is tomorrow, but the players are very concerned about today's game.

There is definitely no possibility of live broadcasts of the games in their league, and even CIF Division I leagues rarely have live broadcasts.

But the mountain people had their own clever plan. Tatum and Miller listened to the advice of a certain No. 3 player, went to the computer classroom, and kept an eye on the campus forum of Millikan High School. Sure enough, not long after the game was supposed to end, they saw the result of Millikan High School's last game - St. Beren's High School beat Millikan High School 119 to 88!
The next day, Compton High School Preparatory Team faced the challenge of Bluebell Middle School, ranked 18th in the league, at home.

Led by Zhang Yang, Compton High School played very hard and focused tonight. If they were upset and lost out to the top four at this point, it would feel like having the fifth enemy escape after a 4-kill victory. It would be painful to think about it even after years.

Even though they were leading by 17 points at halftime, Zhang Yang and his team were still worried. They had experienced chasing a deficit of more than ten points in the first half, and they were afraid of being upset, so they continued to work hard in the second half.

The players of Bellflower Middle School were all numb, they didn't want to work hard, and they didn't have any motivation to achieve good results... Zhang Yang said, "No, you do have the desire, you just want to."

So, Compton High School won by 24 points in the second half...

Today, Zhang Yang was responsible for command, defense, and counterattack scoring, DeRozan was responsible for the main attack, Miller and Abuya were responsible for receiving, and Tatum organized the offense...he played the performance that coaches Johnson and Burke had hoped for.

张杨16分12板3助攻3抢断2盖帽、德罗赞41分、米勒20分、塔图姆11分5板10助攻2抢断、阿布亚11分7板3盖帽……康普敦高中以114比73狂屠风铃草中学41分。

After 4 consecutive wins to end the league, the Compton High School Preparatory Team finally won the fourth place in the Southern California League with a record of 13 wins and 7 losses!
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I had a terrible diarrhea last night. I dared not sleep. I even had to squat to fart. I went to the hospital in the early morning. I just came back. Fortunately, I have a few chapters saved. I came back to correct the typos and posted them. I will continue to write~
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