Chapter 261: The Favorite

When the national semi-finals were announced, everyone who paid attention was surprised, because in addition to the mountain king, the other three in the top four were all Kanagawa teams. In other words, none of the Kanagawa teams participating in the national tournament have been eliminated so far.

This is also a precedent for a national competition, and usually only two teams from the same county have reached the semi-finals, and this is in the past two years, Lingnan and Hainan. I never thought that there would be three of them this year, and it was like hell.

In particular, Xiangbei unexpectedly defeated the defending champion Bodo, you must know that the most stable performance in the country is affiliated with Hakata Business University, although their style of play is not good, but the strength is extremely strong, but it is also the defending champion to participate in this year's national competition, in the "Basketball Weekly" favorites are second only to Lingnan and the existence of the King of the Mountain.

The question arises, Xiangbei is only the third place in Kanagawa Prefecture this year, or is it the second place in the national competition with Akita Prefecture. But this is how Xiangbei defeated the defending champion, which undoubtedly reflects the strength of Lingnan and Hainan from the side.

It is also because of this that Kanagawa Prefecture has completely established the title of the strongest county in basketball in the country, and its status is above that of other strong counties.

At the same time as the semi-finals were released, "Basketball Weekly" also carried out a supplement overnight, releasing the current ranking of favorites to win the championship, from high to low, Lingnan, Shanwang, Hainan and Xiangbei.

For Lingnan University, "Basketball Weekly" only used one sentence to describe Lingnan at its peak that it will be unstoppable, and the following is a detailed summary of the entire Lingnan team, including players and coaches.

Among them, the evaluation of Ikegami is very high, and he does his best to express all the honors that Ikegami has won before, and emphasizes that this year's Ikegami is in its last year. Everyone knows that Ikegami, who has never won a national victory, is bound to win this year's championship.

The second is the mountain king industry, which is the old national hegemon, and it is also the first time in recent years that it has fallen to the second favorite, but this is not the strength of the mountain king industry, you must know that this year's mountain king is also at the peak level in recent years, and the overall strength and Lingnan are in the middle of the middle, and the loss is lost on the trump card.

Zebei is very strong, and is known as the second high school student in the country by the good deeds. But even so, compared with the first Ikegami in history, the evaluation is much worse, as long as you are a basketball practitioner, you can see the essential difference between the first and the second. Zebei is among the top players, while Ikegami is faintly at a higher level.

Next, we will go to Hainan, which is the old national top four and has won the prefectural championship in Kanagawa Prefecture for 15 consecutive years. However, when it comes to the national top four level, it is another matter, if Minoru Matsumoto does not join Hainan this year, "Basketball Weekly" is afraid that it will be tied with Xiangbei, and will not be ranked third alone. However, compared with the first two, Hainan's strength is undoubtedly weaker.

In the end, it was unexpectedly defeated the Xiangbei University affiliated to Hakata Business University, and "Basketball Weekly" naturally watched the video of Xiangbei's game, and analyzed the strength of Xiangbei with their professional eyes, whether it was a player or a coach.

The coaching level of the top four teams is about the same, but Coach Anzai and Coach Gaotou are undoubtedly better, Coach Tagang is second, and the young Coach Domoto is again. However, the coaching factor is not big, and the important thing is still the players, which can basically be ignored.

This year's Xiangbei is very strong, with Kanagawa Prefecture's top center Akagi Tsuyoken, top striker Swing Ryukawa Kaede, Xiangbei ace Mitsui Shou who does not have a two-year vacancy period, Kanagawa Prefecture's high-quality point guard Miyagi Ryota who is known as an electric flint, and problem child Sakuragi Hanamichi.

"I'm obviously the king of rebounds, Sakuragi Hanamichi, how did I become a problem child Sakuragi Hanamichi in this magazine, it's so unfair!"

Sakuragi held the "Basketball Weekly" magazine, with a broken look on his face.

I'm afraid I don't know yet, the reports about Xiangbei were all written by Aida Yayoi, and Sakuragi Hanamichi was undoubtedly not good in Aida Yayoi's perception, so there was a report in front of me.

"Dare to put our Xiangbei last!" Miyagi Ryota looked unwilling, and his hands were clenched.

"It's going to be a game in a while, how are you recovering?" Akagi Goken, who was the captain, did not answer, but looked at his teammates with expectant eyes.

Although yesterday's game defeated the Hakata Business University Affiliate, the situation in Xiangbei was not good, and after the game, some players were out of strength, and the rest of the starters except Sakuragi were also exhausted.

Akagi felt it and found that he was not in good shape today, and his physical strength had not fully recovered, so he had to look at his other teammates with expectant eyes.

"My physical strength has only recovered fifty percent!" said Mitsui Shou

"Seventy!" said Ryota Miyagi

"Haha, of course it's ten percent today!" Sakuragi Hanami said

Rukawa Kaede didn't speak, because he was the player who had lost his strength, and his face was a little pale at this time, and his physical strength was only thirty percent of his peak at most. As for how much strength he can exert, even he doesn't know, he only knows that his state is quite bad, and his steps are even heavier and abnormal.

After listening to everyone's answers, don't say it's anyone else, even Sakuragi has noticed it, can such a Xiangbei really win Hainan?

No one thought about the answer, because they couldn't accept it.

"Friendship first, competition second! You have won the defending champions, and you have reached the semi-finals of the national competition for the first time, which can be regarded as overfulfilling the task. Let's enjoy this game and don't think too much about it!"

Coach Anzai, as a person who has come over, naturally knows the thoughts of the Xiangbei players, and in order to avoid the Xiangbei players from blaming themselves for losing the game, he has to use words to resolve their knots. Even Coach Anxi himself didn't expect that Xiangbei, which entered the national competition for the first time, won the semi-finals, or stepped on the corpse of the defending champion to take the position, which is even more amazing than Lingnan, which also won the national semi-finals two years ago.

"There is still a little time before the game, everyone try to recover, I'll go and watch the match between Lingnan and the Mountain King!" Mitsui Shou stood up and left the locker room with his head down, their game in second place.

"I'll go too, and it's time to repay the favor from yesterday!" Akagi also stood up and left with Mitsui, followed by Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede, Miyagi, and Ki Twilight.

"Go, go, watch this game, this may be the best matchup of the year!"

Coach Anzay could feel the gaze of the other players and had to approve of letting them watch the game. For Coach Anzai, this year's Xiangbei has come to an end.