Chapter 88: The Role of the Point Guard

The next day, the basketball weekly gave a rough introduction to the winning teams, and focused on Lingnan, Fengyu, Darong College, Changcheng University and Mingpeng Industry.

Among them, in addition to Lingnan's small score victory, the other four teams easily defeated their opponents with large scores and advanced to the second round. Of course, the most important reason is that all four teams qualified in the quarter-finals of last year's national competition.

In the first round of matches, last year's top four teams had byes, and naturally it was these four top eight teams that attracted the most attention, and they were also the target of most of the audience. Among them, it is really said that the most popular among the audience is naturally Fengyu, who has the best bombardment tactics, and his flowing and fast attack is very popular with the audience, and naturally has won a lot of attention.

As for Lingnan, the reason why it can be highlighted by Basketball Weekly, in addition to its results in Kanagawa Prefecture, another reason is that Lingnan Ace did not play. And this is the kind of Lingnan, still defeated the opponent, it can be seen that if Chishang is out of the horse, the strength of the Lingnan team will be on a higher level, a qualified point guard can play the whole team, but the top point guard can sublimate the whole team. The editors of Basketball Weekly speculated that such Lingnan would have the strength to squeeze into the top four, enough to threaten other strong teams.

In addition to receiving attention, due to the first round of the game, other strong teams have more or less appeared some new stars and even super newcomers, they are Lingnan's Uozide Jun, Daiei Academy's Tsuchiya Jun, Changcheng High School's Miko Chai, and Fengyu's Nanlie and Kishimoto.

Although these people are all first-year newcomers, their own strength is good, and they all have the strength to become the starter or even the core of a team. Among them, Jun Tsuchiya of Daiei Academy is the most prominent, and he has become the core of the Daiei basketball team at a young age. For Daiei Academy, which is already strong, the addition of Jun Tsuchiya has made Daiei Academy have the possibility of becoming the top four, but it is a pity that the seeded team of their group is Sanno Industries.

And Feng Yu also belongs to the focus, Feng Yu, who was originally in the quarterfinals last year, directly came to two strong first-year freshmen this year, and both showed superb potential, if the whole team is bursting, the second group of seeds Ai and the academy can maintain enough threat.

Of course, Ikegami is also a newcomer, but because he has not played in the first round of the national competition, he is not known to other viewers except for some viewers who have watched the recent issues of Basketball Weekly.

In the eyes of other audiences, judging from Lingnan's performance in the first round, he could only enter the third round at most, but he didn't know that Lingnan's trump card didn't play at all.

This can be said to be arrogant, but it can also be said to be strength! Just like Hainan VS Wuyuan two years later, Mu Shen didn't play at all, and Hainan sent only two starters plus a substitute lineup.

At ten o'clock in the morning, the Tokyo National Gymnasium was holding the second match of Lingnan, and this time the opponent was Ma Gongxi.

In the original book, Ma Gongxi struggled to advance to the second round, and the opponent of this team at that time was the Hainan team, the group seeded team!

In the Hainan VS Ma Gongxi battle, Hainan played its main role in the first half, and all the substitutes were made in the second half. The final score was 104:49, which shows the difference between the two teams.

Such a score and process are similar to the score of Hainan vs. Buri two years later, and the score difference is even greater than that of Buri. Of course, this does not mean that Bururi's strength is slightly better than Ma Gongxi, but in the national knockout round, Hainan is bound to make a force on Ma Gongxi at the beginning, and the lion fights the rabbit also do its best, not to mention that there is no weak team in the team that can enter the national competition, among which there may be a dark horse similar to Xiangbei, and Hainan cannot be allowed to despise the rest of the teams in the national competition.

Looking at it this way, Ma Gongxi and Buri two years later may be better than half of the team in terms of strength, and two years later, although Buri is declining, it is still the top four team in Kanagawa, and the strength of the Lingnan team, which is not the trump card, is also in the middle of the best.

In the duel between the two teams, the Lingnan team mainly relied on Yusaku Ozawa and Yuzumi to score, while the more balanced Ma Gongxi relied on tacit cooperation to blossom more points, and the scores were staggered, and no one had to get the other party for a while, resulting in a tie between the two sides at the end of the first half.

Until the second half, the situation changed, in order to maintain the state when facing Fengyu tomorrow, and in order to let the rest of the main team have more rest, all the starters on the field under the instructions of Coach Tian Gang went off the field, and the ones who came on the field were Chishang plus a bunch of Lingnan substitutes.

Although the strength of the substitutes of the Lingnan team is not as good as the main force, due to the strict requirements of Coach Tian Gang, the basic skills are also solid, at least much better than the substitutes in Xiangbei two years later, and the overall strength is not much worse than that of Mu Dugong Yan in Xiangbei.

After all, it is a fact that the substitutes are not as good as the main force, except for the point of Ikegami, the rest of the substitutes are naturally inferior to Ma Gongxi in terms of personal strength. It's just that even so, the substitutes of the Lingnan team are still full of confidence when they play, because they are led by the ace of the miracle team - Ikegami!

This kind of five-up-and-five-down situation made the Ma Gongxi players feel inexplicable, and at the same time, there was some uneasiness and anger in their hearts. Before this game, Ma Gongxi's team naturally studied the first round of Lingnan's game, and they also knew the main lineup of the Lingnan team, but looking at the current play, it turned out to be all 'substitutes'!

Ikegami was shot for no reason this time, and became a substitute player in the eyes of Ma Gongxi's team.

It's just that after the game restarts, in addition to Ikegami controlling the ball, the remaining four substitutes spontaneously run and block and pick, often as long as they run out of the open space, the basketball will be passed to that person's hands in the next moment, and the shooting rate can be imagined.

It didn't take long for Ma Gongxi's players to be surprised to find that they were suppressed by the substitutes of the Lingnan team, which was beyond their expectations, and at the same time allowed them to discover the role and strength of Chishang.

In order to block Chishang, Ma Gongxi resolutely implemented an all-round package on Chishang, but what shocked them was that even in the face of two or even three people, Chishang was still like a leisurely stroll, and he could easily pass the ball to the empty Lingnan substitute!

"It's so strong, although it's just to show passing, but this level of organization and passing skills are probably the top existence in the national competition, no wonder the basketball weekly gave him a top rating on the organization evaluation!"

In the stands of the gymnasium, Toyotama's coach Kitano was standing in the stands, and after seeing the change in the situation on the field, his eyes kept falling on Ikegami, and his eyes were full of appreciation.

For Feng Yu, who plays run and bomb, if he has a point guard with top-level passing skills, he can fully play the essence of run and bomb tactics, and the offensive fluency of the whole team can be imagined.

Although the freshmen Nam Lie and Kishimoto recruited by Toyotama this year are very good, their position is not a point guard after all, which is also a regret for Coach Kitano, he believes that if Toyotama has a point guard like Ikegami, then it will be very likely to defeat the seeded team Aiwa Academy and advance to the Final Four!

Coach Kitano sighed for a while, looked at the one-sided game on the field, and turned to leave. After watching the game of the Lingnan team, he began to pay enough attention to this Kanagawa runner-up team, and planned to collect the information of the Lingnan team as much as possible after going back, analyze and summarize, just because tomorrow will be the match between Fengyu and Lingnan.