Chapter Thirty-Nine: A Fiery Opening
After a short break, the Jaguar team regrouped and prepared to face their next opponent, Team Sado Radiance.
In the conference room, Coach Oki finished talking about the main players of the Radiance team and began to use the game video of the Radiance team to explain the main tactics of the Radiance team.
The players listened very attentively, because Coach Oki had never introduced the main players of a team in such detail, so the players did not dare to be careless, even though the Radiant team only had 2 wins and 3 losses now.
"Okay, we're almost done analyzing the opponent, it's time to analyze ourselves, everyone wait for me on the field, and we'll analyze the problems that arose in the last game. ”
After Coach Oki finished speaking, the players also left the conference room one after another.
"It's a pity that today's training can't be open to the media, everyone don't watch anymore, we're going to close the door!"
In the Jaguar training hall, the staff is persuading reporters to leave the venue, and it seems that the Jaguar team is preparing to come to a closed training session this time.
This was the case for three days of training, and the reporters were unable to get any valuable information, and only the Jaguar players themselves knew what they had done during the three days.
“Are.you.ready!!!”
Following the passionate shouts of DJ, we came to the home stadium of Jaguar, and the match against Sado Island Radiance Team is about to start!
"Everyone should be almost ready, cheer up, show the determination to win, and !!"
Before going on the field, Coach Oki encouraged the players in the locker room.
"3, 2, 1, Jaguar!"
As is customary, they shouted slogans and left the locker room to get ready to enter. "There is no change in the starting line-up on Jaguar's side, they lost to Kagoshima Antlers in their last home game, and Jaguar is aiming for their second home win of the season in this game!"
"It's the same as I predicted!" said Coach Ohki, looking at the Radiant starters.
The starting point of the Korn Radiant team is the five main players that Coach Ohki talked about earlier.
Akagi jumps the ball with Radiant center Kotoshi Shirai.
Akagi's height of 210cm and Shirai's jump ball are not in much suspense, and the ball was directly hit by Akagi into Miyagi's hands, and the first attack of the game was started by Jaguar.
"Okay, first goal, try to score him!!" Miyagi dribbled unhurriedly to the front.
Generally, the first few offenses at the beginning are mainly stable, and everyone plays according to the routine, so that they will enter the rhythm of the game faster.
Defending Miyagi is the long-arm guard Miura Fei that Coach Ohki said, Miura is indeed due to the relationship between the long arms, and Miyagi's defense pressure is quite large, Miyagi does not dare to expose the ball too obviously, and can only use the posture of playing to protect the ball while observing.
"Here!!"
Rukawa Kaede saw that Miyagi was a little passive, and took the initiative to ask for the ball, and Miyagi also passed the ball over at the first time.
Defending Kaede Rukawa was Tatsune Abe, and it was another matchup between the two after the college game.
"It seems like I'm back in college, Rukawa Kaede, let's let the horse come!!" Abe's eyes were very determined, and he spoke with confidence.
Rukawa Kaede has never responded to this kind of provocation, he only uses practical actions to shut up the defenders, but this time Rukawa Kaede responded: "Why did you change to this hairstyle, I don't know how to wash it for so long......"
"This is killing Matt!!"
Indeed, as Abe said, Abe's hairstyle is a typical Japanese killer Matt hairstyle.
As soon as he finished speaking, Rukawa Kaede shrugged his shoulders to the right, and his body also leaned to the right, as if he was about to break through to the right.
"Stinky fox, pass it over!!It's going to die again!!"
Sakuragi saw that Rukawa Kaede didn't move after taking the ball, so he was very anxious and took the initiative to run forward to ask for the ball.
"Suddenly!!" Abe saw that Rukawa Kaede was not a feint and was indeed about to break through to the right, so he immediately shifted his body and followed closely.
"Oh~~~" Just as Abe stepped back and followed closely in front of Rukawa Kaede, a miserable scream came out. Fell to the ground.
"What,,," Abe felt like he had hit a wall as he walked backwards, and his whole body ached.
When Abe came back to his senses, he saw that the scene had already sounded like an explosion! ! It seems that the Jaguar team has scored.
"Really, I didn't expect the two of them to be able to block the demolition, is it a coincidence??"
Jiro Toyama, the head coach of Radiance who witnessed the scene just now, asked such a question.
It turned out that it was Sakuragi who stepped forward to ask for the ball, and his position just hit Abe, who was retreating to prevent Rukawa Kaede, and indirectly completed a block, and he didn't expect that someone would block him behind Abe and hit Sakuragi's body solidly.
Rukawa Kaede used Sakuragi's inadvertent blocking and dismantling to kill directly to the basket, and the big forward Kyosan Eguchi, who made up the defense, although the ball style was strong, but when he saw that Rukawa Kaede had already started, he gave up the defense to avoid becoming the background emperor, and saw Rukawa Kaede complete a one-handed powerful split!!
"You're blind!!Kill Matt!!Hit me!!!" Sakuragi knocked someone down and didn't let go.
"Stupid, I don't have eyes in the back!!" Abe retorted.
"You must defend him next time, but you can't steal and force him to pass!!" Sakuragi said to Abe like a tactic.
"Ah???" Abe was also very puzzled after hearing this, and couldn't believe that this was what his opponent said.
"Big idiot!!Go guard against your own people!!!" Just talking, Sakuragi unknowingly stood with Abe. Rukawa Kaede reminded Sakuragi when he saw this.
"What a strange team,,," Abe was already confused by the way Sakuragi and Rukawa Kaede spoke.
It was because of Sakuragi's distraction that Akagi defended two under the basket, point guard Miura saw the opportunity and passed the ball directly to the inside, and Akagi had no choice but to foul and pull Eguchi's slam dunk down.
"Defend No. 4, batter fouls, Attacker No. 14, free throws twice. ”
"Stupid, don't get distracted!" Akagi was dissatisfied with Sakuragi's performance.
"Damn stinky fox, use me when attacking, and the defense attracts me to distract, it's too despicable!!" Sakuragi secretly still resents Rukawa Kaede, but in fact, it is indeed Sakuragi who has a serious leakage.
"Akagi's premature foul is not a good thing for us, Akagi has contributed a lot to the team on the defensive end, and with only one Sakuragi, our interior line is very unsafe. Coach Ohki was worried about Akagi.
Both free throws were hit, and both sides scored on the first offensive attack of the opening game, 2-2.
Jaguar Attack.
This time, Miura did not cling to Miyagi, but left a certain space, which made Miyagi's choice richer!
Sure enough, Miyagi had already moved one step within the three-point line, and Miura still didn't cling close.
"Underestimate guy!!"
Miyagi directly hit the shot when he spoke!
"Brush!!" hollow into the net.
"The changed defensive strategy this time should be to test Miyagi's shooting stability, but Miyagi will not waste this opportunity!" "Coach Oki, who witnesses Miyagi practicing shooting every day, knows very well that Miyagi is already a point guard with a steady outside shot.
Glorious offense.
"I won't let you get the ball easily this time!!" Sakuragi said, leaning against Eguchi.
Eguchi ignored Sakuragi and ran to the outside to block with Abe, who was holding the ball.
There may be a subconscious deep in Sakuragi's heart that he can't let Eguchi get the ball, so when Rukawa Kaede, who was blocked by Eguchi, lost the position of defending Abe, Sakuragi still did not step forward to make up for the defense, and was still entangled with Eguchi in place, which led to a big vacancy in Abe, and after stabilizing, Abe made a three-point shot.
If the goal goes in, Sakuragi makes another mistake on the defensive end.
"Sakuragi!!What do you think, make up for the defense!!" Akagi saw that Sakuragi's opening defense was a little careless, and he was very anxious.
"You can't kill Matt!!Don't worry!!" Sakuragi didn't seem to think it was dangerous to do so.
Jaguar attacked very quickly, and before the Radiance players could gain a foothold, the ball was running, and after Mitsui got the ball at the three-point line, he saw that Kuroki Tianming, who was defending himself, was defending himself very forward, so he made a shooting feint and handed it to Sakuragi, who wanted to stay on the inside.
"Haha, it's still the junior who will pass the ball, let you see the strength of the genius!!" Sakuragi touched the ball for the first time in this game and was excited.
In terms of height alone, Sakuragi is 205cm, while the opponent Eguchi is only 199cm, so Sakuragi occupies an absolute height advantage, and it is perfect to use the back to fight. In terms of the effect of the back hit, Sakuragi also has a slight advantage in strength, but Eguchi does have a fairly stable body, which makes Sakuragi unable to get any further closer to the basket.
"Cut!I won't be entangled with you!!"
After Sakuragi finished speaking, he directly lowered his center of gravity, as if he was accumulating strength, his body turned half a body to the right, and jumped directly backwards!!
"What !!" Radiance head coach Jiro Toyama couldn't believe the move made by Sakuragi!!
Sakuragi, who jumped high backwards, did not lose his center of gravity, but straightened his body in the air, smoothly lifted the ball over his head and threw it.
Eguchi didn't expect Sakuragi to make such a move at all, and watched Sakuragi throw the ball. It is possible that Sakuragi was analyzed at the preparatory meeting before the light, and there was no analysis that Sakuragi would still act like this.
"Brush!" is another hollow slap into the net.
"Beautiful!!!Sakuragi Hanamichi completed a wonderful turnaround and backward jumper in front of Eguchi!! although Sakuragi occasionally wandered on the defensive end after the opening, but this offense made us see a different Sakuragi!!"
The on-site commentary is also full of praise for Sakuragi.
"Hahaha, see the strength of this genius, this genius is not only the rebounding king, but also the scoring king!!" Sakuragi bragged to Rukawa Kaede and seemed quite relieved.
"Big idiot, you're embarrassed again!" Rukawa Kaede's words made Sakuragi run away directly.
It seems that the Jaguar team's three-day closed training has been very effective, and the momentum of the game is like a rainbow at the beginning, and even Sakuragi has made a rare turnaround and backward jumper!