Chapter 32: The Rising Star
"You guys played a great day, Akagi, this victory is yours!"
"Your strength just hasn't been brought into play, Mu Dui, train hard, and you'll get better!"
"Got it, you too, Sakuragi and others have really made great progress, I believe the team will get better and better!"
After the game, Akagi and Mu Du hugged each other together, they were-for-tat opponents on the court, and they were brothers and sisters off the court.
"Sakuragi Hanamichi, you've really grown a lot, I can't let you do whatever you want next time!"
"Hmph, next time, I'll win you by 40 points next time!"
Fujima and Sakuragi also chatted after the game, and Fujima was not disappointed by the loss, but was amused by Sakuragi's big words.
"Brother glasses!!Hahaha, I'm not in the state today!!"
"Sakuragi, your shooting isn't very consistent!!"
Mu Du and his old teammates joked with each other, and the atmosphere was quite harmonious.
In terms of statistics, Jaguar's starting five Tigers all scored double-doubles, Rukawa Kaede still scored a team-high 26 points, and Sakuragi also contributed 12 points, 12 rebounds, and 4 blocks in the second game of his career, and scored a double-double in two consecutive games! Although he scored a game-high 36 points, Fujima still struggled to lead the team to victory.
'The Jaguars played really well today and taught us a lesson, but it's good that the season has just started and it's good that the team is showing its faults, so we'll go back and take stock and try to get back into our rhythm. ”
As Ripples head coach Moriyama said after the game, losing a game is not terrible, and being able to adjust in time, find out and solve problems is the most important thing.
And just like that, what was supposed to be a pretty tight race ended with a big victory for Jaguar! Sakuragi got the first victory of his career!
Jaguar also has a 4-1 record, which should be Jaguar's best start in recent years, and the team's summer regrouping looks like it has paid off, and Jaguar is likely to be the dark horse of the season. ”
The commentator of the TV station commented that it seems that with the addition of Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi, this new Jaguar, the old Xiangbei, has gradually completed its transformation from a fish belly team.
"Look, everyone, the game on the Rover's side has reached overtime!!"
In Jaguar's dressing room, when everyone was still immersed in the joy of winning, a sentence from Miyagi attracted everyone's attention.
The two teams played very close throughout the game, alternating leads, and with the final lavender guard Nakahara Qujiang's jump shot missed, the two teams tied at 90 in regular time and went into overtime. “
Following the broadcast of the live commentators, we came to another match of this round, the match that Miyagi was watching in the locker room, the Sendai Rovers played Hokkaido Lavender at home.
As the on-site commentator said, the two teams never led each other by more than 5 points in this game, and the stalemate lasted until the end, Lavender had the opportunity to kill the opponent, but the defender Zhongyuan Qujiang's shot did not enter, allowing the rover to escape, and the 5-minute overtime began immediately.
"Extra time requires fewer mistakes and more efficiency, so it's ,,,,,,, like this"
The head coach of the Sendai Rover, Shoji Nishitsu, is not like other coaches, who talks about tactics with all his might, but after saying a few words very calmly, like a teacher writing a blackboard in class, he draws the tactical board, and the players are also very attentive to watch.
Shoji Nishitsu, the head coach of the Sendai Wanderers, from his thick hair to his beard with sideburns, is already as silver and white as a centenarian, while the actual coach Shoji is only in his early 50s.
Occasionally, he smiles slightly, like an old man fishing by the river. From a distance, there is really some shadow of Uncle KFC.
The tall body represents that Shoji Xidi was also a basketball player in the past, and it is true that Coach Shoji and Coach Oki of Jaguar are contemporaries, but Shoji Xidi played for the most glorious team in JBA history at that time. Tokyo Tower, so not including the championship won by Shoji Nishitsu when he was a coach, just as a player, Shoji Nishitsui already has 5 JBA championship rings, plus the 3 obtained after becoming a coach, Shoji Nishitsui already has 8 championship rings, which can be regarded as a veritable Lord of the Rings!
After talking about the coach, let's talk about the team.
I also briefly introduced the Sendai Wanderers before, the champion team of last season, encountered a lot of trouble this season, the most important thing is that the center Maruyama Kojiro, whose status in the team was even higher than that of Xiandao last season, left the team, which greatly reduced the strength of the Rover, although the potential rookie was selected, and it was also Sakuragi's sworn friend, Mito Yohei, but the team was still difficult to reach the height of last season, and the journey to defend the title was extremely difficult.
On the other side is the Hokkaido Lavender Team.
Hokkaido is rich in lavender, so the team is named after lavender, and the lavender team also has a glorious history, in the 1991~1992 season, 1992~1993 season, won the JBA championship for two consecutive years, established the Hokkaido dynasty, and then the team also had the experience of reaching the finals, but never touched the highest honor again!
In recent years, the team's performance has not been very good, and the team's top management wants to rebuild a stadium to replace the old stadium, but the Hokkaido government's parliamentarians think that this will cost people and money, so it has been delayed, and recently it has been revealed that the team owner and senior management have decided that if the lawmakers still can't agree to build a new stadium, then the team is likely to move out of Hokkaido!
But there is no shortage of bright newcomers in the team, and as the game unfolds, we slowly get to know each other.
As he spoke, the players from both sides returned to the field again, and extra time was on the verge of breaking out.
Xiandao and the team's big forward, who is also Xiandao's high school teammate Ah Fu, are still communicating something, it seems that the game has reached this point, and no one wants to lose.
Lavender serves, and overtime begins.
The attack was organized by the point guard Zhongyuan Qujiang, who had missed the final shot before, and the Lavender side used the most confident way to score, that is, to use the whole game of blocking and dismantling tactics.
After a while, Lavender center Miyake Ginger mentioned that the line was ready to do a block and dismantle with the Central Plains, the rover's center Senri Watanabe, who is also the younger brother of Kagoshima antlers center Watanabe Takasato, although he has a height of 2.15 meters, but limited by the problem of speed and footsteps, every time Lavender's block and dismantle, Chisato can't keep up with the delay, so every time the lavender's block and tear is completed, it becomes the rover point guard Shunta Otake is one person to defend two people, this time too, Otake wants to bypass from behind Miyake, but Miyake's huge back is like a mountain, and Otake has never been able to overcome。
Nakahara saw that Dazhu didn't follow, so he directly chose a jump shot within one step of the three-point line.
"Brush!" hollow into the net.
"Okay, Nakahara, let the teams that didn't pick you in the draft regret it!!"
The Lavender head coach shouted from the sidelines, encouraging his players.
"Beautiful!Nakahara!!"
It seems that the shouts of the head coach have played a role, the rover serves the bottom line, Mito Yohei saw that Sendo was already about to fall, and wanted to make a sneak attack, but unfortunately the passing force was not enough, and he was stopped halfway by Nakahara.
"Brush!"
Nakahara took advantage of the chaos to break through the speed again and hit a throw, and Nakahara scored 4 points in a row.
"Okay, Nakahara!!That's it!! kill them"
Coach Lavender cheered up the players with that exaggerated body movement.
Central Plains Qujiang, this year's unsuccessful rookie, the biggest feature is one word: fast!
It was once rumored that Nakahara's 100-meter time reached 11 seconds, but Nakahara's problem was that there were too many injuries, especially ankles, so many teams were reluctant to take this risk, which led to Nakahara's failure in this year's draft. But Lavender gave the older rookie a chance to sign a veteran base salary contract, and after the first four games of the season, Nakahara's performance surprised many connoisseurs.
This rookie with clear eyebrows, permed little curly hair, a thin body, and a mole on the side of his mouth, as the Lavender manager said, is making those teams who didn't choose themselves regret!
"Those teams didn't pick you, that's because they don't know you, they only know how many ankle surgeries you've had, but they don't know how tenacious you come back to the court every time, they only know that you went to college for three years to participate in the draft, but they don't know how many 100-meter records you broke in those three years! Maybe you are not the best in the league now, but in the future, you will definitely become the leader of lavender, you are the star of tomorrow!"
Seeing such a performance in the Central Plains, the Lavender head coach was excited, excited, and even more convinced of his thoughts.