Chapter 262: The Final
Wow!
As soon as the people in Xiangbei stood on the edge of the arena, the audience shouted enthusiastically.
"I didn't expect us to be so popular!" Sakuragi Hanamichi looked satisfied and waved his arms vigorously at the audience.
"Stupid! They are cheering for Sanno Industries, don't be ashamed!" Sakuragi only felt a pain in his head, but it was Akagi who used his iron fist.
Turning his head, Sakuragi was stunned to find that the audience was not cheering for their Xiangbei players, but cheering for the Mountain King players who had just come out of the players' tunnel. Although Xiangbei won the subordinate of Hakata Commercial University, its popularity is still far inferior to the traditional and powerful Shanwang Industry, and the two cannot be generalized.
It didn't take long for the cheers of the audience to rise a step again, and the atmosphere in the entire stadium reached its peak.
Among them, when Ikegami left the players' tunnel, the atmosphere reached a real high/climax. Among these spectators who entered the gymnasium, Chishang's Yonglei was undoubtedly the most, not even one.
"That kid is so popular, his ears are about to be deaf!" In the audience, Matsushita Xujian touched his ears, his face full of helplessness.
"That's, don't look at who he is, he's our absolute NO1 in Lingnan!" Sasaki Oribe looked proud, and his face was a little more proud.
"This year's Lingnan has reached the real peak, and it is also the year with the most hope of winning the championship! Everyone is here for this, although everyone has gone to college and can no longer help the team, but even the meager strength is a heart! Let's cheer for Lingnan together!"
In this noisy environment, Yusaku Ozawa shouted loudly, this year's Lingnan is very close to winning the championship, and these Lingnan players who have graduated are also here for this, and they all want to see their alma mater win the national championship.
In addition to them, there are also many Lingnan students who came to Nagasaki at their own expense to do their part for the team.
On the other hand, this game is more eye-catching than the finals, after all, the two sides of the game are the first and second favorites, and they have really reached the peak level.
"Look, Ozawa-senpai, they're there!" Uozumi had already heard the wind and began to observe the audience from the moment he left the players' tunnel. After discovering the figure of Yusaku Ozawa and others, he immediately called out to the surrounding Lingnan players.
The new Lingnan players who joined this year may not know each other, but they can only be said to be a little familiar, they have all seen them from the photos, but they have not seen me.
After seeing Yusaku Ozawa and the others, Ikegami couldn't help but wave his hand over there. When he first joined Lingnan, these seniors had helped him to a greater or lesser extent.
The rest of the Lingnan players did the same, not because they didn't want to shout, but the scene was too noisy, and their shouts were completely drowned out and couldn't stir up a single wave.
In addition to Lingnan, players who have graduated from Sanno Industries in recent years also came to the scene, led by Kashima Kaede, to cheer for Sanno.
"Let's go warm up first, and then we'll talk about it after the game is over!" Coach Tian Gang stood up, this game was too important to fail.
Once Ikegami graduates from high school, then Lingnan's strength will definitely decline, and it will undoubtedly be more difficult to win the national championship at that time, after all, Lingnan is not as strong as Sanno Industries, Hakata and other national giants in terms of team background.
Players from both sides came on the pitch and began to warm up. No one provoked the other during the warm-up, because teams of their caliber did not bother to make those moves.
When the game began, the atmosphere in the stadium was at its peak again, and the audience shouted and cheered for their favorite team, even if they were dumb. This kind of competition atmosphere is definitely the highest in the history of the national competition.
There was no surprise, and both sides fielded their strongest starting lineups.
Lingnan: Uozumi, Naito, Guanping, Sendo and Ikegami.
Sanno: Owada, Nobe Shohiro, Sawakita Eiji, Ichinokura Satoshi and Fukatsu Kazunari.
Due to the departure of Minoru Matsumoto, although this year's Sanno is more mature, his strength has not increased much compared to last year. As for Owada, who just joined this year, no matter how stupid Coach Domoto is, it is impossible to use it to train newcomers in a competition of this level.
The two sides began to enter the jumping ball session, and the jumping ball was Naito of Lingnan and Owada of the Mountain King.
As the referee tossed the basketball into the air, the two jumped almost in unison the moment the basketball began to fall.
The bouncing was between the two, but Naito's height and arm length had the advantage, and he took the basketball forward first.
Before the jump ball started, the Sanno players had self-knowledge in their hearts, knowing that Owada was likely to be unable to compete with Naito on the jump ball, so they were all cowering in their own half to avoid Lingnan from playing a fast attack.
Xiandao took the lead in receiving the basketball, and then with the advantage of his vision, he ignored Satoshi Ichikura, who was known as unable to run, and threw it with one hand, and the basketball instantly fell into the hands of the pool that had been activated.
When Ikegami was about to get close to the three-point line, Fukatsu immediately caught up. There was no superfluous movement, and Ikegami, who was moving forward, made a change of direction and broke through to the right.
Fukatsu hurriedly blocked in front of Ikegami, but Ikegami's right foot did not exert any force at all, pulled the basketball, turned around and dribbled easily past Fukatsu, and continued to run wildly with the ball, aiming directly at the basket.
Zebei threw Guan Ping away, but some of his thoughts were still on Guan Ping, because he knew that Chi Shang might pass back to Guan Ping in the vacant position before he assisted in defense.
Zebei's move is very simple, that is, when he passes the ball in the pool, he can return to defend Guan Ping faster. But he is facing Ikegami, an existence that must not be distracted during the game.
Once you are distracted, it means failure.
Although Zebei's move was slight, it was seen by Chi Kan. There is no passing in Zebei's imagination, just a breakthrough with the ball in hand.
Zebei hurriedly wanted to intercept, but was stuck by Chi Shang, and the shoulders of the two instantly touched.
Zebei only felt a strong force coming from his shoulder, and he couldn't help but stumble, but by the time he stood firm, Ikegami was already hanging high on the basket.
Preemptively, in this game, Chishang did not stay strong from the beginning, wanting to take the lead and let Lingnan sit on the advantage of momentum.
When it was the turn of the Mountain King to attack, Fukatsu was still dribbling the basketball steadily, and he and Chigami had been fighting for two years, although they were blown up again and again, but they also roughly figured out the characteristics of the other party.
Facing Ikegami, Fukatsu knew that he could not take any risks, otherwise he could be greeted with a mistake, and in such an extremely important game, any mistake could be fatal.