Chapter 121: Individual Awards
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After watching the final semi-finals, Lingnan still did not leave Tokyo, but stayed in Tokyo for another day at the request of the organizing committee, because the next day will not only produce the champion and runner-up, but also present individual or collective awards.
Whether it is an individual or a collective award, the semi-finals are the threshold, and other teams can't get in even if they want to.
For the empty and blank Lingnan team, the honor of the top four in the national competition can be said to be the top priority, which not only fills the gap in honor, but also makes Lingnan University show its face and win a wider reputation for the school. For private schools, fame is undoubtedly the most important thing if they want to recruit new students.
This also directly led to the leaders of Lingnan University coming to Tokyo in person, expressing the importance of the school to the team, and at the same time the decision to increase investment in basketball. And in addition to these, there are also various bonus rewards.
Naturally, this bonus is also divided into several grades, only Coach Takaka, Ikegami and Yusaku Ozawa as the captain are included in the first tier, the second tier is the rest of the starters, the sixth and basketball managers, and the last are the substitute players and the so-called water cooler keepers.
For Chishang, in addition to the expensive bonus, the school also attaches more importance to the school's increased investment in the basketball department, as long as the school purchases more efficient training equipment, then it will be of better help to improve the strength of the individual.
School leaders will also spend a day in Tokyo to participate in the collective awards that will be given tomorrow.
The next morning, at the National Indoor Stadium in Tokyo, the national tournament finally came to an end, and the two teams were Sanno and Hakata.
In recent years, the national championships have been won by these two traditional powerhouses, and this year is no different.
Both teams have long regarded each other as their biggest rivals and have an unusual understanding of each other. At the beginning of the game, the two teams did not try, but directly bayonet.
It was the last game again, and the two sides did not hold back, and there was a fierce competition. There is no way, the national competition is too tight every day, and in order to maintain enough physical fitness in the next game, these national giants often choose to stay.
In other words, in the match between Lingnan and the King of the Mountain, the King of the Mountain did not exert his strength, but kept his spare strength to cope with the final finals.
Time passed slowly, the game was in full swing on the field, the scores of the two sides were staggered, and it was surprising that before the end of the first half, the score leader was actually affiliated with Hakata Shangda, not the king of the mountain, although the score difference was very small, but it was enough to show the strength of Hakado.
The Hakata players cooperate too tacitly, and the ace field is much more rational than last year, and of course, there is also Hakata's rotation defense. Even if the Sanno player succeeds in breaking through, the team will immediately get up and running, using other players to help defend, while the rest of the players use running to cut off the ball carrier's passing route as much as possible, and it is also a bit of a tight defense.
Rotation defense embodies a kind of continuity, which makes the shooting rate of the opponent's ball-handler decrease, after all, the shooting percentage of no one defending is not the same as that of someone defending.
In the second half, the King of the Mountains immediately launched their killer tactic - the whole court pressed! And one tight press was not the usual five minutes, but a full ten minutes!
Although Hakata is quite skilled in teamwork, the constraints caused by the tight defense to Hakata are relatively limited, but in the end there are many more mistakes than in the first half.
It was in this situation that the king of the mountains not only narrowed the difference, but also overtook the score, and in these ten minutes, the difference was closer to double digits.
After the press was over, the two teams played in a similar way to the first half, only more intensely.
Due to the large consumption of physical strength, the shooting rate is naturally not as good as the first half, and both sides are more tacit to devote their energy to defense, and the offense is often handed over to their respective ace players.
The strength of the mountain king's Kaede frost is amazing, and Hakata's Nobisuke is not far behind, the strength of the two is basically at the same level, but the experience of Kashima Kaede frost who is serious is more mature.
Maybe it was the madness of Ikegami yesterday, the starting point guard of the Mountain King, Kazunari Fukatsu, had a significant drop in physical strength in the second half, and he couldn't play his full strength at all, resulting in the game slowly coming to an end, and the difference between the two teams was slowly narrowing, although it was slow, but it also gave Hakata the hope of victory.
However, the final winner of the game was the mountain king, and in spite of the consequences, the mountain king continued to press and defend in the last two minutes, and finally defeated Hakata by four points and won the national championship for the second consecutive year.
Although the process was a bit tortuous, the result of the game did not surprise Ikegami, and it was still the king of the mountains who won. In SD, the King of the Mountains won for three consecutive years before he was defeated by the outbreak of Xiangbei.
After the game, Lingnan and Hainan players also entered the field under the leadership of their respective coaches, and the four teams lined up in four lines on the field, focusing on a temporary high platform, where several members of the National Competition Organizing Committee were sitting there, looking at the four teams condescendingly, occasionally talking to each other, and not knowing what was being discussed.
In the stands, most of the spectators did not leave, but sat in the audience one by one, looking at this side, but many people who were familiar with the process will focus on the previous electronic scoreboard, presumably the final result will be produced after a while.
The members of the organizing committee just explained some of the rules and procedures, thanked the teams for their participation and support, and there was not much nonsense, and it took a few minutes to get straight to the point and announce the collective and individual awards.
Among them, the collective awards are the champions, runners-up and semi-finals, of which only the champion is awarded a trophy, and the other three teams are medals, and of course, there is a certificate of honor, which is stamped with the official seal of the organizing committee of the national competition.
After the collective honors are awarded, the next step is the individual honors, which are somewhat similar to the NBA, divided into the best player (MVP), best rookie, best defensive player, best first team, second team, and third team!
Due to the large number of bonus points for the championship and the fact that Kashima Kaede is not much worse than Ikegami in terms of data, the MVP finally awarded Kaede to Kaede Island, which is well deserved, and the best rookie was won by Ikegami.
The first lineup is Kentaro Sakurai, Nobisuke, Kaede Kaede, Takamiya Motou and Ikegami, of which Ikegami is also the only first-year.
As for the best defensive player, it was unanimously discussed by the organizing committee, but it was finally awarded to Chishang, which surprised everyone in Lingnan. However, after being surprised, I took it for granted, don't look at Chishang, he didn't focus too much on defense, but his single defense and co-defense ability are good enough, which can be seen from his average of 4.8 steals and 2.6 blocks in the national game.
In the individual awards, Yusaku Ozawa of Lingnan is located in the third formation, and the rest, including Yuzumi, are not listed.
As for Hainan, Mu Shen won the second team, and the center Ikeda and Guangli pressed Yuzhu to win the center spot in the third team, which can be regarded as their own success.
After the collective and individual awards were awarded, it also entered the final stage, but the organizing committee announced an announcement at the end, which made Lingnan and Hainan happy that this announcement was related to Kanagawa Prefecture. (The novel "Slam Dunk Pool on Liang II" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner "Add Friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up!)