Chapter 22 Reese vs. Raven (Part 2)
Reese decisively followed, standing beside Raven, and was about to intercept his ball, but Raven seemed to have predicted Reese's movement, took two steps back and then accelerated forward again!
Nie Chuan sincerely felt that this Riven's control over inertia was totally inhuman!
...Although he once commented on Reese in the same way.
Riven's second breakthrough was even more fierce than the first!
Nie Chuan clenched his fist subconsciously. He saw Riven constantly forcing Reese, while Reese kept retreating while trying to stabilize his position.
Something that Nie Chuan could not have expected happened. Raven actually jumped up and made a pitching gesture.
His jumping ability was amazing. When Nie Chuan thought that no one could stop his shot, Reese's legs brewed a powerful force and he suddenly soared into the air, reaching a height similar to Raven in a shorter time than Raven!
Raven just pulled up the corners of his lips and smiled, took the ball back, and the moment he landed, he turned sideways and was about to dribble past Reese, but he didn't expect that Reese had already seen through him. Reese followed closely, and Raven flew towards the basket, and at a certain moment, he jumped up again to shoot.
No preparation! No warning!
Nie Chuan opened his mouth wide, this ball was too reckless!
This is simply like an act of suicide after being pushed to the limit by Reese!
But the ball fell right into the basket without even touching the rim.
"Hey!" Raven turned sideways, raised his thumb in the direction of Nie Chuan, and pointed at himself.
Nie Chuan quickly said: "Two to two!"
In the subsequent duel, every ball made Nie Chuan extremely nervous. Nie Chuan thought Reese was strong enough, but he didn't expect that Raven could be on par with him.
Whenever Reese scored a goal, Raven would follow closely behind.
Both of them displayed their explosiveness and skills to the fullest.
Nie Chuan couldn't help but think, maybe the NBA is just like this?
They fought back and forth for nearly an hour, and the score remained 52 to 52, with neither giving in.
Each round stimulated Nie Chuan's brain nerves. He had never paid attention to this extent before. He greedily watched the figures of the two men, wanting to imprint all their dribbling movements, every shot, and even how their body muscles were tensed and how they released their strength into his mind.
"Hey! Reese!" Raven shouted to Reese, "This is our last round! I have to get on the train!"
"Yeah." Reese nodded, lifted the collar of his sports jacket and wiped the sweat that had flowed down his cheeks.
This is more than an hour of high intensity and nerve-wracking exercise! Nie Chuan dares to say that the amount of exercise here is probably not less than a complete basketball game!
Clearly, Reese had been practicing with Nie Chuan for the entire morning, and Nie Chuan was so tired that he could fall asleep wherever he sat, but Reese was still able to complete such a wonderful duel with Raven.
Nie Chuan suddenly realized that this entire morning might just be a warm-up for Reese, or just a way to get himself into the right state.
Thinking of this, Nie Chuan deeply realized that the gap between him and Reese was not only in speed, explosive power and various basketball skills, but also in physical fitness.
At this moment, Raven was just dribbling the ball while staring at Reese. Reese was like a mountain that was bent and motionless.
Will this mountain stop Riven, or will Riven leap over it like a giant? Nie Chuan's back was soaked with sweat without him noticing.
At a moment when even their breathing froze, the two of them accelerated at the same time, and Nie Chuan subconsciously took a step forward and stepped on the sideline.
Raven rushed to Reese's side with the ball, and the two started an offensive and defensive battle that was impossible to follow.
The moment before, they were still fighting in front of Nie Chuan, but two or three seconds later, they had turned around and chased to the other side.
The various steps, probing methods, and even the degree of shoulder shaking were beyond Nie Chuan's expectations.
The fighting spirit between them seemed to be a matter of either you or I.
At one point, Raven was about to dribble completely past Reese, his gliding step perfect, like a flying fish!
Once he breaks away from Reese, with his speed and explosive power, he will probably run and dunk immediately, and the slightest time difference will make it impossible for Reese to catch up with him!
Just then a reversal moment happened. Reese actually turned his back and caught up with Raven. The moment his hand reached out to Raven was like an illusion. Only a slight "pop" was heard, and the ball had been taken away by Reese!
Nie Chuan opened his eyes wide and followed Reese's figure. His steps were very big, as if he was about to take off at any time.
He stretched out his arms, and it was an extremely elegant and smooth layup posture! But Raven had already come to his side and was about to give Reese a powerful block!
Nie Chuan's nerves were stretched to the point where his brain felt like it was about to burst, and all his blood stopped flowing.
Will Reese be covered in hot pot by Raven?
Will this goal fail?
Reese took the ball back at that moment! His arms went from stretched to bent, as if he was doing a pull-up in the air!
And Raven's block was completely in vain!
Reese's body seemed to be still in the air, and at the moment when time boiled again, he suddenly sent the ball into the basket!
With a "bang", Nie Chuan's countless nerves finally broke apart.
He couldn't think of anything and only remembered the moment when Reese paused in the air!
It was elegant and freehand, without any thought, breaking through all the stereotypes, and crashing into Nie Chuan's sight with great shock.
The two landed almost at the same time.
Raven stared at Reese for two seconds, and Reese just shook his wrist.
"Damn it - you actually used a pull-up layup on me?" Raven shouted in dissatisfaction, but his eyes showed deep admiration for Reese.
"You can use it too." Reese's words completely left Raven speechless.
Then he looked in Nie Chuan's direction and said coldly, "Score."
"Oh... fifty-four to fifty-two!"
Nie Chuan was still immersed in the exquisiteness of that goal!
It turns out that is the legendary “pull-up layup”!
Nie Chuan had seen it in an NBA game video. It can be very beautiful, gorgeous and very ornamental, but not every NBA star can do it.
But Reese did it.
Seeing the pull-up layup from such a close distance, the posture was not distorted at all, and Reese didn't even frown, as if this was a very common thing for him.
But for Nie Chuan, his sight was burned.
Raven came to the side of the court, opened the bottle of mineral water, took a few gulps, and wiped the sweat off his body.
"I came all the way here, only to lose to you! I'm going to feel more and more frustrated the more I think about it on my way back!"
"I hope you can avenge your defeat in the league."
"That's inevitable. But you DK have to hold on until we meet in the league."
"So Raven, don't get eliminated."
Raven glared at Reese fiercely, then looked at Nie Chuan who was standing beside him: "Hey! Man, how can you stand this guy? Every word he says is like poking someone in the spine!"
Nie Chuan wanted to nod, but he didn't dare.
"You should hurry to the train station," Reese reminded.
"I know. Can't you give me a ride?" Raven put on his bag and walked towards the warehouse door.
"No, I should send Nie Chuan home." Reese's answer was obviously serious.
"Okay... okay! I hope someone will give you a hard time in the regional competition!"
Raven gave Reese a fierce middle finger, then Raven seemed to have thought of something, and walked back to Reese's side, put an arm around Reese's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "Hey, you're a little unusual today!"
"I am the same today as I was the last time you saw me."
Raven shook his head. "You are particularly motivated today, and more focused than ever before. I like you like this."
"You should like yourself more."
"Of course, because you were focused enough, I became more focused than before. I wasn't upset when I lost to you because I tried my best. But Reese, you are weird."
"Did you notice that I have one more leg than before?"
Raven rolled his eyes. "Of course not. You are more eager to show off than before. In the past, you just played basketball, how to block the opponent and how to score, but today you have to make every point you get interesting. Especially the last ball, the layup? My God, why didn't you use it before? If you used it, you must have been harassed by those NBA teams now, right?"
"You really will miss the train." Reese turned his head and smiled.
Raven received the warning, shut up and left.
Nie Chuan stood where he was, his fingers trembling slightly, as if this movement could make his stopped blood flow to his fingertips.
Reese came over and threw a bar of chocolate into Nie Chuan's arms.
The moment he was hit, Nie Chuan seemed to have finally woken up from the absolute domain drawn by Reese.
"Thanks……"
"Let's go, I'll take you home."
Nie Chuan followed behind Reese, whose back was taller and farther away than before.
After getting in the car, Nie Chuan was still thinking about that pull-up layup, and he forgot to swallow the chocolate in his mouth.
"Seat belts." Reese reminded again.
"Ah? Oh oh!" Nie Chuan quickly lowered his head to look for the seat belt.
The other person turned sideways, leaning towards Nie Chuan, raised his arm, pulled the safety belt on Nie Chuan's side, and buckled it firmly.