Chapter 173: Leave with your head held high
After Hanamichi Sakuragi and Totoshi Mitsui announced their withdrawal from the semifinals due to injury, the game between Jaguar and the Rovers always seemed a little sad.
The Rovers did not show any negligence on their part because of the remnants of the Jaguar team.
Especially the fairy way.
After the start of the first game between the two sides, Sendo started on the defensive end first, not only almost blocking Rukawa Kaede's shot. It directly cut off Miyagi's pass.
The ferocious defensive attitude made it difficult for the Jaguar team to organize an effective attack.
In addition to the fairy road, the other teammates are also very powerful, and the combat effectiveness displayed by the rover makes it difficult for the Jaguar team to parry for a while.
Yohei Mito shot another three-pointer ~~
"Bell, bell, brush~~!!"
The ball goes into the net!!
After the rover opened, the players felt hot, made all three shots, and played a wave of 8:0 offensive!!
"Compared to the immortal road that kills all directions, the immortal road that defends hard, and the immortal path that connects teammates is the most terrifying~~ If you let Rukawa Kaede directly defend the immortal road, it may be better, but then Rukawa Kaede's physical strength is not enough to dominate the attack!!!Eh~~ They're here, it's good!!"
Coach Oki said as he looked at Mitsui and Sakuragi at the end of the bench.
At this time, Mitsui and Sakuragi no longer had the relaxed smiles they had before the game, but became very dignified, because their teams were in a stalemate after the game began.
"Damn!!damn injury, I really want to change into a jersey and play~~!!!ah~~ I'm going crazy!!!Actually, I was mentally prepared before, but I didn't expect that after being there, it was still so uncomfortable!!"
Sakuragi sat on the bench, clenched his fists, and looked very nervous, this feeling of not being able to exert his strength was indeed very uncomfortable.
The Rovers' suffocating defense made it difficult for the Jaguars' offense, scoring just 15 points in the first quarter.
At 32:15, the rover already led by 17 points in the first quarter.
As expected before the game, the Jaguar team, which lacks two main players, will indeed find it difficult to compete with the strong Rovers!!
112:85。
The Rover won by 27 points against the Kobe Jaguars.
Judging from the course of the first game, the chances of the Jaguar team wanting to win against the rover are really slim.
And after the first game of the Jaguar team, the consumption of the main players is quite large!!
Akagi Goken 37 minutes, Rukawa Kaede 40 minutes, Miyagi Ryota 38 minutes, this is still the time when there is garbage time for most of the last quarter. There are only three days left before the next game, and there are only three days left for the Jaguar team to recover.
Before the start of the second battle, Mitsui and Sakuragi left Sendai one after another, and the plan for surgery had been decided, and the two were about to start their respective recovery plans.
In the second battle, Xiandao ushered in a big explosion, and he scored 43 points in the whole game, and defeated the Jaguar team alone, although Rukawa Kaede also scored 31 points, but the rover is more flowering.
After the next game, the rover was already 2-0 ahead and got the match point.
The Rover almost locked up a spot in the Grand Finals.
Although it is said that the game is less than the last second, the outcome is unpredictable, but the reality is cruel, and sometimes it is really sad to look at the remnants of the Jaguar team.
Just imagine, if the Jaguar team were all in the game, who would win the game?!
After the Jaguar team returned to their home stadium, it can be said that they fought for honor!!
In the third game, the Jaguar team was three military life, and with a high shooting rate on the outside, they tightly bit the score.
But the physical problems of the Jaguar team that people were worried about before were finally exposed.
Especially Akagi, after a major injury, Akagi has basically recovered his previous state this season, but Sakuragi's absence has made Akagi have to stay on the field for a long time.
The intensity of the inside confrontation is something that outsiders can't feel, and even iron men are tired sometimes!!
As soon as Akagi gets off the court, the Jaguar team's inside line is a little sheep that can be slaughtered, and even Yohei, who is not very good at breaking through, can stage a breakthrough slam dunk.
The Jaguar team has worked hard, but the team's hard power is indeed inferior to the rover, even if Rukawa Kaede scores 30+ points again, the Jaguar team can't resist the rover's indiscriminate bombardment.
107:98。
The Rover won the third game, swept the Jaguar team, and advanced to the finals again.
The third game was the smallest margin of the series.
Perhaps when Sakuragi and Mitsui announced that they would undergo surgery and miss the semi-finals, the winner of this series would have been produced, and the Jaguar team had done their best, and every member of the team had dedicated themselves to this team without reservation.
"Bang Bang Bang~~"
After the game, the fans at the Pump Center were reluctant to leave for a long time, they were still applauding this team, because the fans knew that they were still young, they still had a lot of opportunities, they still had a future!!
After all, Coach Ohki still failed to achieve the goal of "hitting the championship" at the beginning of the season, and this goal, at the very least, should be to enter the finals.
But as Coach Ohki himself said, I could have let Sakuragi and Mitsui persist despite injuries, but between the present and the future, I chose the future without hesitation.
It wasn't all gloomy news for the Jaguar team and Kobe as a whole, as Mitsui and Sakuragi had surgery to remove blood from their brain stasis and inject active hormone into their tail vertebrae at their local hospital.
If they recover well, the two will return to full blood next season, and the strongest Jaguar team is just around tomorrow.
In the other group of semi-finals, the Hokkaido Lavender, who created the Black Eight Miracle, challenged the big dark horse of the season - Osaka Iron Horse.
Both teams are dark horses, and it will be a historic moment for anyone to make the playoffs.
Compared with the Iron Horse team, Lavender's height is at a significant disadvantage, except for the point of center Miyake Ginger, who has some advantages, the other positions are more than half a head shorter.
Although height does not play a dominant advantage in the game, the Iron Horse team seized the point of height and completely locked the Lavender team's outside line Guan Gu Xiaobei, Zhongyuan Qujiang and others.
Without a crosshair on the outside, the Lavender team is half as threatening.
Coupled with some refereeing factors in the second game, the Lavender team's Black Eight journey still stopped in the semifinals after all.
Osaka Iron Horse eliminated Hokkaido Lavender with a total score of 3:1, and reached the finals again after many years.
If two teams were nominated at the start of the season to reach the finals, few would have thought of the Osaka Iron Horse, a team that does have enough talent - Nakalevan, Kyle Simmons, and Slyer Kento are all tridents of the Iron Horse forward in their prime.
These three people cooperate tacitly in the front court, the chemistry is very good, and the three of them have no specific positions, they are all forwards, you can replace me, I can replace you, this kind of three-front lineup is also very nerve-wracking for other teams, I don't know if the Iron Horse team will lead the trend of a three-front lineup like this.
Some media believe that the current Iron Horse team is the best Iron Horse team after the Iron Horse Team that has Coach Damu and finally won the first championship in team history and the only champion.
This iron horse will continue its journey and attack the team's second championship!!
However, for the Rovers, this Finals is also the best time to regain the championship, in the playoffs in recent years, the Rovers have always fallen short, either suppressed by the Antlers, or Xiandao did not have a good helper, these two points have also been criticized by the media. (To be continued.) )