Chapter 109: Sakuragi Hanamichi's Determination to Win (4)
The match between the Kobe Jaguar team and the Tokyo Great White Sharks came to the second quarter, and the Jaguar team still continued to play with the main force, but an unfortunate scene still happened!!
In the process of a layup, when Akagi landed, he accidentally stepped on Mikami's foot, and it was Akagi's right ankle that had been injured before, and after a while, Akagi still stood up, but Akagi still couldn't hold on to the game, returned to the locker room, and basically withdrew from the game.
This is undoubtedly bad news for the Jaguar team, because the team's interior players are already stretched, and injuring such an inside pillar as Akagi has greatly damaged the team's playing style and tactical arrangement!!
In a hurry, the Jaguar team had no choice but to let Sakuragi take the position of Akagi's center, although there had been Akagi's sudden injury and departure, Sakuragi's experience of replacing the center, but now it is a professional league field, facing a tall center, I don't know if Sakuragi can stage a counterattack.
While speaking, Sakuragi took the initiative to ask for the ball and got the opportunity to play three on the inside singles.
"Are you okay??Short man!!"
"It's a waste of height for you!!"
Sakuragi shot back.
"What!!You guy, don't look down on people!!"
Sakuragi didn't talk nonsense with Mikami, although Sakuragi's height was at a complete disadvantage, but Sakuragi's strength could really fight with Mikami.
Sure enough, Sakuragi quickly squeezed into a favorable position on the inside line with the advantage of a low center of gravity and a stable lower plate.
"Don't think about !!"
Seeing Sakuragi turn around and want to make a layup, Miyori jumped up.
"Sure enough, it's a stupid big guy!!"
Mikami was deceived by Sakuragi's false feints and jumped high, while Sakuragi held the ball steadily, ready to jump again.
"Then you don't want to !!"
Seeing this, Mikami immediately waved his right hand and slashed at Sakuragi while his body was descending, and it seemed that Mikami wanted to stop Sakuragi's attack with a vicious foul!!
"Ahh!!!h
Sakuragi saw that Mitsuki was up and down, and jumped up like a rocket, even though Mikami's right arm had been pressed against Sakuragi's arm and dragged down hard, but it didn't seem to have any effect on Sakuragi's jump!!
"This goal is made up for Akagi!!"
Sakuragi's body is almost rising with Mikami's arms hanging from it, and it is imposing!!
“Duang!!!!“
Sakuragi completed a gravity slam dunk with both hands!! if you don't look at your face, you really think it's Akagi slam dunk, the power and domineering of this slam dunk really have the style of a gorilla slam dunk!!
"Foul on the hitter, valid goal, two free throws !!"
Not only scored, but also caused an additional penalty, and the downward pressure on the three really didn't play any role at all!!
"Well done!! Sakuragi!! that's how it !!!"
The teammates ran forward to high-five each other, but Sakuragi seemed very calm!!
"Akagi, look at it, I'm no longer the stupid guy who only caused trouble back then, even if the team doesn't have you, I'll make the Jaguar team's inside line a no-fly zone, and leave your work to me!!I'll definitely lead the team to win!!I will definitely !! it"
Sakuragi's inner will is very firm, and Akagi's departure makes Sakuragi, who had been determined to win before, even more determined!!
"Bang!Bang!Brush!!"
Sakuragi's free throw goes in the air.
"Defend !! defend !!!"
Sakuragi, who returned to the defense, shouted and reminded his teammates, like the boss of the team!!
"This guy, Akagi's departure has inspired more fighting spirit!!"
Looking at Sakuragi like this, Mitsui also thought to himself.
The Great White Sharks' offense was a little single, and Miura made another three-point shot by blocking and dismantling, and the hasty shot went straight to the rebound.
“bang!!”
The ball didn't even touch the basket, and after hitting the rebound, it bounced directly into Sakuragi's hands.
"Damn!!"
Mikami, who was stuck by Sakuragi in the rebounding position, was very angry, and thought that after Akagi got off the court, he would turn the clouds and rain on the inside, but he didn't expect Sakuragi's performance to be not inferior to Akagi at all, and Sakuragi's physical characteristics also seem to be more restrained than Mikami's big bamboo pole type player!!
"This is the weakness of the Great White Shark - lack of sufficient tactical literacy, at first glance the Great White Shark's lineup is not bad, and the individual abilities of the players are okay, but the team has never had a sound team system, which is very deadly, even if you have a good player, but you don't have a system, then these five people can only play their own way, and in the end they can only become pathetic lone heroes, even if your players are strong in personal ability, if you have five Michael Jordan, then I didn't say it, but Jordan is only one!! So, the number one factor for any team to succeed is the team system!!"
Coach Oki on the sidelines analyzed it, and it seems that Coach Oki didn't become anxious because of Akagi's fate, maybe it was because he discovered the weakness of the Great White Shark!!
As he spoke, the Jaguars attacked again!!Except for Sakuragi on the inside, the other four were all standing on the three-point line, and they were smoothly transmitting the ball.
"That's it!!, our Jaguar team's system is the combination of internal and external transmission ball system, before there was Rukawa Kaede, he was the key to this system, he is the key to the combination of inside and outside, now there is no Rukawa Kaede, Akagi is the key, the combination of inside and outside, in the end, is to hope to create an excellent offensive space for Akagi, but now that Akagi is gone, it is really difficult to maintain this system, it depends on how much Sakuragi can make up for it on the inside!!"
Coach Oki looked at the situation on the field and analyzed it.
"Mitsui!!, despite !! casting, I !!"
Looking at Mitsui, who was a little hesitant after receiving the ball, Sakuragi was fighting on the inside while playing the card position!!
But you must know that Sakuragi is not only fighting against Mikami on the inside, Forney and Yamashiro are just returning to the inside line at any time to assist in defense, so Sakuragi is fighting against the three Great White Sharks!!
"I'm not afraid of a few people!!"
Sakuragi was still struggling when he was caught by three Great White Shark players, and at this time, Mitsui also threw the ball in his hand!!
"Bang!!"
Mitsui's state in this game is also a little average, and this three-point shot also ended with iron!!
But the scramble for rebounds is still in fierce competition, although Sakuragi was sandwiched by three Great White Shark players, but with Sakuragi's amazing upper body strength, he jumped up and jumped at the same time with Mikami to compete for this rebound when he was pulled and dragged again!!
"Ahhh!!!h
"What!!"
Seeing that he was about to reach the ball, Sakuragi actually killed him, and Mikami was also a little distracted, perhaps shocked by Sakuragi's momentum.
In short, this rebound was picked up by Sakuragi!!
Sakuragi, who was surrounded by three people, almost had no place to stay, and Sakuragi seemed to notice this when he fell, and once the ball landed, he would definitely be coaxed like a mad dog by the other party, maybe Sakuragi, who was only in the air for a moment, didn't think so much, and when the body was just about to fall, he threw the ball directly in the direction of the basket!!
"Bell!!"
Sakuragi's direct basket in the air still didn't go in.
"This time the rebound is mine!!"
Mikami jumped up again to grab the rebound, and this time Mikami seemed full of confidence!!
"How could it be!!"
Just when Mikami was unhurriedly waiting in the air for the ball to fall into his hands, a pair of big hands climbed rapidly again, rushing towards the ball, and Mikami glanced at it, Sakuragi again!!
"The rebounds are all mine!!"
It may be that Sakuragi felt something wrong the moment he threw the ball, so the process of Sakuragi's fall was like a spring in energy storage, and as soon as it landed, it was really like a spring, and it jumped up directly!
Sakuragi grabbed the rebound in Mikami's hands for the second time!
This time, Sakuragi replaced it with a layup after landing, but Sakuragi was still facing the encirclement of the three Great White Sharks, and Sakuragi was almost the fastest to throw the ball out of the board!!