Chapter 882: All Gave Up
16 teams, different countries and regions, the highest level of basketball clubs in Asia, after the group stage matchup, the top two teams in each group advanced to the quarterfinals. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
After the knockout round, the quarterfinals reached the semifinals, and the strongest teams in Asia launched a desperate battle home and away.
Although there are also "runaway teams" such as the Mito Electronics Team, in general, the competition in the knockout stage is indeed the highest level of competition in Asian basketball at present~~
In the end, after the semi-finals, the "host" Manila Victory and the only remaining JBA team, the Tokyo Rising Suns, met in the finals.
They will compete for the inaugural AFC Champions League in Manila, the home of the victorious team.
Before the game, the organizing committee slowly pushed the AFC Champions League championship trophy, which symbolizes the highest level of Asian clubs - the top of Asia, accompanied by a small cart.
I saw that the shape of this trophy is very novel.
Although the base is just an ordinary square appearance, this is an elongated "A" shape of pure gold body inlaid on the base, and a small basketball is inlaid on the main body.
I believe that this "A" should be the meaning of "Asia", put a basketball on top of "Asia", and the meaning of "top of Asia" will appear completely.
The shape of the whole trophy is very novel, although it is very simple, but it looks very exquisite, and the texture of pure gold is also very gorgeous.
Whether this first "Top of Asia" will stay in Manila or be brought back to Tokyo by the "King Bomb Combination~~!?? will soon find out~~
Back on the field, on the bench of the victory team, the head coach made the final admonition.
Although all the circumstances are favorable to the "host", the first final of the AFC Champions League, the host won the final championship, which seems to be a more perfect script.
But is that really the case~??!!
The Rising Sun team, who are quietly waiting for the game, really has no chance at all~??
Will the first final journey of the "Wang Bang Combination" break everyone's will to snatch the first championship of the AFC Champions League, or drown in the echo of this "Victory~!!", "Victory~!!", "Victory~!!", "Victory~!!??!!
Only the moment the jump ball starts, can the puzzle be truly solved.
"Come on~!!!"
Kawada roared, jumped high, jumped to the ball, and the game officially began.
Zebei got the ball and started his first attack.
It can be read from Zebei's eyes when he dribbles, it is a kind of eyes eager to win, that is a kind of nirvana, a kind of eyes that must win~!!
"Yay~!!!!!"
However, it seems that this determination to win is only possessed by Zebei, and no one else possesses.
Just as Zebei was about to organize the first attack, when he passed the ball to the big forward Hirano Sorashima to transition, Hirano's return pass was decisively judged by the striker of the winning team, and Hirano's weak return pass was directly broken.
That's why there was the previous burst of cheers.
“Duang~!!!”
The forward player quickly completed a big slam dunk to chase down~~
Steal ~ Counter Attack ~ Violent Deduction ~ ~ Score.
This may be the start that the winning team really dreamed of.
"Hey, steady~!!Everyone, steady~!!The game has just begun~!!"
Zebei made a gesture of pressing down with both hands towards Hirano and other teammates, prompting his teammates.
"Huh~~~Huh~~~"
However, Hirano still seemed to be very nervous, and after just one round, he was already sweating all over, and the frequency of panting was very rapid.
Perhaps the entire Rising Sun team, except for the "King Bomb Combination", others are indeed too lacking in the experience of the competition, especially the experience of this kind of final.
Because often the final game, and this kind of "tie-break" is a decisive game, not only tests the technical and tactical level of the players, but also tests the psychological quality of the players.
Obviously, compared with the Manila Victory team, which is composed of half of the Philippine national team, the Rising Suns team, which also has rookies in the lineup, is indeed a few streets behind the victory team in terms of experience in "key battles".
This gap slowly showed itself in the following games.
On the Rising Sun's side, only Eiji Sawakita can barely rely on his individual ability to score, and the other players can play at a normal level as long as they don't make mistakes.
Even Masashi Kawada couldn't give full play to his height advantage and flexibility on the inside, and he looked very "clumsy" under the bag of many players on the side of the victory team.
"Brush~!!"
"Brush~!!"
"Brush~!!"
On the winning side, the victory team blossomed inside and outside, taking advantage of the home advantage, and quickly opened the score.
29:17。
In the first quarter of the game, the Rising Sun team dug a 12-point hole for themselves.
"The opponent has panicked, they have never seen such a big scene, we have to continue to press, don't leave any mercy, win as much as you can, as long as you lock the opposite number nine, they basically don't have any ability to score, and that number nine has played the first quarter, if you keep playing, physical strength must be a big problem, the offensive end consumes him more, stay aggressive, everyone work hard~~!!!!"
During the intermission, it can be heard from the arrangement of the foreigner head coach on the side of the victory team that the "last straw" of the Rising Sun team, Eiji Zebei, will also be taken care of by the opponent.
It seems that the outlook for the Rising Suns is very unpromising.
In order to maintain the team's offensive firepower, in order not to widen the point difference, as soon as the second quarter came up, Zebei continued to stay on the court, and there seemed to be no reason for Zebei to rest ~~
"Brush~!!"
"Brush~!!"
"Brush~!!"
However, the offensive firepower of the winning team is indeed too fierce, how to shoot the American small guard, although Zebei can also make foul goals, but this does not prevent the point difference from continuing to widen.
"Brush~!!"
"Toot ~~~~"
After another unreasonable three-point shot from the Victorious side, the Suns were able to call a timeout to ease the crisis.
The game had come to the middle of the second quarter, 48:26.
The margin has widened to 22 points.
Judging from the state of Kawada and the others returning to the bench with their heads down, they are already full of fighting spirit, and it seems that they have all given up~~
By half-time, they had fallen behind by more than 20 points, and it seemed that the difference was going to continue to widen, which made the players sure to suffer a deeper blow to their already fragile psychological qualities.
"I have long said that we can't give up the domestic league for the AFC Champions League, although we were 0:2 behind, but there is still a chance to complete the turnaround, as long as we find the state, there is no opponent in the country, now it's good, something like this happened, I really don't know how to say it's good, I don't know where you got the confidence, you will definitely win what AFC Champions League championship ~ !!!"
The bench, not long after he sat down, only took a sip of water, and Masashi Kawada, who was smooth, shouted openly.
Falling behind on the field, and the possibility of "infighting" off the field, this makes the Rising Sun team even worse.