Chapter 16 We are the Champions

With this somewhat complicated mood, the championship battle between the Firefoxes and the Lightning Pair officially kicked off.

When the whistle blew at the end of halftime, the Firefoxes were still 6 points behind the other team, and although the game was only halfway through, Lin Mingyang's stamina had already been depleted by half. He was the key target of the opposing team, often he just dribbled across the half-court, the opposing team's two defenders clamped up, and the guy wearing the No. 6 jersey was even more like a ghost, following Lin Mingyang closely, not relaxing for a moment.

The two main players on both sides of the energy on defense, each other's offense is very cautious, the score has not been too big gap. Jefferson, of course, also found his own flaws in the tactical arrangement, Lin Mingyang attracted too much attention from the opposing team's defenders, there must be other players to help him block. It's not too late to make adjustments, the only thing that worries him is Lin Mingyang's stamina.

Dragging his tired body back to the rest area, Lin Ming Yang's first words when he saw Jefferson were, "Sir, I need to come off the court and rest for a while, or else I definitely won't be able to last in the fourth quarter!"

Lin Mingyang's physical strength could usually last the entire game, and the fact that he said such words was enough to show how great his physical exertion on the court just now was. But it was just such a request that hit Jefferson's concern. "Where's that number 6 from the other side?"

"Unless that guy is a pervert, he's being dragged down by me too!" Lin Mingyang's reply finally allowed Jefferson to find a bit of stamina, both he and the opposing manager were playing the card of consuming each other's core players' stamina, while they both lacked sufficient estimation of their own players' stamina consumption.

"Third quarter you rest for ten minutes, then insist on playing the whole game!" Jefferson quickly made a decision.

Lin Mingyang covered his head with a sweat towel and leaned on the back of his chair, while the other players were called aside by Jefferson to re-distribute tactics. With the game played to this extent, Lin Mingyang's mind was already blank, and he tried to stabilize his breathing as much as possible in order to recover his stamina faster. If there were insiders on the sidelines, they would have realized that Lin Ming Yang was applying a very common method of exhaling and breathing in qigong.

Lin Mingyang was soon immersed in this wonderful realm of luck, and the influence of the noisy sounds around him had been minimized. Consciousness was awake, but it felt as if he was asleep. I don't know how long this state lasted, but I knew that a loud clamor broke that delicate balance between Lin Ming Yang's body and the outside world. He rubbed his eyes as if he had just woken up, yes, what he had just heard was a loud cheer, the voices of the people around him talking had become clear by now, accompanied by a burst of dynamic music.

The other players were still gathered around Jefferson's side, and it was obvious that Lin Ming Yang had only been lying down for a short while, but he realized that his breathing, which had been disturbed due to excessive exercise, had become much smoother, and even the vague sense of emptiness in his body had been reduced by quite a bit. It was too late to be surprised by this marvelous change that happened to his body, Lin Ming Yang's gaze was already firmly tethered to the dancing red figure on the field, and he could no longer move away.

He finally realized where the loud cheers had just come from, Megan had promised herself that she would come, so she had appeared in front of him in this most special way, was this an unexpected surprise?

This time the dress code of the Moss Middle School cheerleading girls was quite bold, the upper half of their body was only a small fire-red navel-exposing tank top with a short white skirt, which showed off the perfect body of all the girls. Megan Fox standing in the front of the performance team is the dress sexy to play to the extreme, sexy undershirt will be her perfect shoulders and back lines exposed in the public line of sight, hot dance is to make this sexy flavor elegant perfect show.

The eyes of the whole audience were attracted by the dynamic dance of the girls on the court overflowing with youthfulness, and Megan became the focus of everyone's attention, even Kenny Ortega sitting on the bleachers is also a different color in his eyes, he is a momentary whim to plan to come over to watch this ball game, because the "Song and Dance Youth" has a similar game plot, so Kenny -Ortega wanted to come to the scene to feel the atmosphere, maybe even be able to trigger some good inspiration from it.

The intense ball game did not disappoint the enthusiastic shouting spectators in the stands, and since leaving school, Kenny Ortega had not experienced this kind of sizzling youthfulness in his face for a long time. He hadn't expected a high school game to have such a hot atmosphere on the field, and it seemed that some of his shooting ideas would have to be reconceptualized.

During the halftime break he took out the notebook he carried with him, ready to record the points he had just thought of, but the rhythmic dance music of the halftime show had just started, and the stadium once again erupted in a burst of enthusiastic cheers. Kenny Ortega hadn't seen the boys around him get so excited when the Fire Foxes scored, and this was just because of a cheerleading show?

Kenny Ortega quickly found the answer, the general sports event breaks, there will be cheerleaders out of the show, according to this level of performance is difficult to attract Kenny Ortega such a big director's attention, but the stadium is leading the dance of the girl succeeded in doing this.

The young boys around them were looking at the dancing figure on the field with an almost obsessive look, and Kenny Ortega apologized for interrupting one of the boys and got some information from him about the girl.

"Megan Fox?" Kenny Ortega closed his notebook with satisfaction after solemnly writing down the girl's name, at this moment, he really had a feeling that he had made a worthwhile trip. It seemed that Lin Mingyang was really his lucky star, every time he met with him, there were always constant surprises.

In the warm applause and whistles of the audience, the cheerleading girls retired after the performance, Megan who was walking at the back glanced back towards the rest area of the Firefoxes, Lin Ming Yang who was sitting alone on the bench smiled and shrugged his shoulders, although it was just a simple eye contact, both sides had already read each other's thoughts.

Inwardly filled with a great joy, Lin Ming Yang's brain became more and more calm. Megan was using this unique way of meeting to hint to Lin Ming Yang that without a perfect victory, their engagement would be incomplete. So after the cheerleaders retired, Lin Ming Yang closed his eyes without a moment's delay and rediscovered that marvelous breathing state.

Feeling the hustle and bustle around him slowly recede, Lin Ming Yang quickly entered into that marvelous state of forgetting things, and the stamina that he had lost before was rapidly recovering in this state, until the person next to him pushed him awake, he had already recovered most of his stamina.

At this time in the end of the third quarter there is less than 5 minutes of time, the other side using the Firefox several errors, has pulled the score gap to 10 points. In this situation, Jefferson could no longer sit still, he looked at Lin Mingyang, felt that this guy's face has returned to normal, it seems that the rest is about the same. "Need to warm up?"

"No need!" Lin Ming Yang moved his limbs, he felt that his body had regained its strength, "Let me on!"

Jefferson nodded and immediately made a substitution gesture to the referee, Lin Ming Yang reappeared. The Firefoxes' morale, which had already been low, blazed back up after his surprise steal in the opponent's half-court and then a beautiful drifting three-point field goal on a quick move.

The opposing team's second offense is not good, the Firefoxes took the rebound, the ball once again came to the hands of Lin Mingyang, transported to the left three-point line periphery, the opposing team a defender up, next to the side of the teammates side for him to block a little bit, Lin Mingyang did not hesitate to shoot, the basketball slipped out of the air in a beautiful arc, the hollow into the basket!

Now even the off-court audience, also can see that just on the court Lin Mingyang now hand is very hot, the opposing coach at this time made a serious mistake, he is not enough to estimate the recovery of physical strength of Lin Mingyang, he can see that this kind of high-speed counterattack of Lin Mingyang will consume a lot of physical strength, despite the opponent even six points, but he is not ready to use up a timeout at this time.

Once again, the bottom line of the Lightning team, dribbling just past the mid-court, the attack was destroyed by the Firefox team of the full line of tight, the Firefox's small forward used the speed to break into the opponent's penalty area, the layup did not complete, and then he grabbed back the rebound, but fell into the Lightning back into the surroundings of the players, and finally he had to ask for the pass out of the three-point line, Lin Mingyang jumped directly, the basketball should be sound into the net!

The cheers for Lin Mingyang's goal almost toppled the roof of the Moss High School gymnasium, and in less than two minutes, the Lightning's lead was down to one point. The head coach of the opposing team had to call a timeout and replaced No. 6, who had been guarding Lin Mingyang.

And Jefferson's side also made adjustments accordingly, he replaced Thomas, who had been off the bench since the second quarter, and the Firefoxes' strongest lineup was once again together. At the beginning of the game, the opponent's No. 6 was tightly attached, from the other side has not yet completely smooth breathing, Lin Mingyang felt that the other side's physical recovery is slower than he imagined, which makes his mind immediately drew up a plan, since he can not get rid of it, he is going to take advantage of the few minutes remaining in the third quarter, to the other side completely dragged down!

He made a fast break gesture to Thomas, and the Firefoxes began to press all the way up, Lin Mingyang interspersing back and forth between them, and the opponent's No. 6 following him to death despite the physical exertion. Temporarily without the opportunity to take a shot, Lin Mingyang from the point guard position back to the midfield control of the ball, in the course of the attack he more pass the ball to Thomas, attracting the opposing defenders, for him to create more scoring opportunities.

At the end of the third quarter, both sides of the score is still stalemate, Lin Mingyang just some slight shortness of breath, but the opponent's No. 6 has been completely unable to run.

In the fourth quarter, without the opponent's No. 6, Lin Mingyang's role became more and more flexible in the conversion between ball control and scoring, and the rhythm of the field was gradually controlled by the Firefoxes. After nearly an hour of hard fighting, the Lightning's defense was finally torn open, and after that, no matter how the opposing coach adjusted, the Lightning could no longer withstand the Firefox's ferocious wave after wave of offense. Jefferson, who had been sweating, finally smiled, and in his opinion the game was over!

When the final whistle blew, the Firefoxes were seven points ahead of their opponents. Ribbons fluttered, and the Moss Middle School gymnasium instantly turned into a sea of joy, as Lin Mingyang was lifted up by his onrushing teammates and thrown high into the air again and again by his excited teammates. All the people in the stands were celebrating this hard-won victory in their own way.

Lin Mingyang, who was rescued by his coach from the "clutches" of his teammates, walked up to the podium a little dazed, but as he held up the coveted trophy on behalf of Moss Middle School and the Firefoxes, the whole stadium once again erupted into a warm and long-lasting round of applause.

And in the crowd, a girl looked at the radiant boy in the center of the stadium with fascination, her face flushed with a blush that even she herself hadn't noticed!