Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Old Ball Ruffian
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Since Sakuragi's return, there are two more people on campus in Xiangbei who exercise in the morning. One is Sakuragi Hanamichi, who has developed a habit, and the other is Kakuda, who took the initiative to ask Sakuragi to be a sparring partner. The one-on-one with Sakuragi taught Tsunoda a lot, and it was race day in the blink of an eye.
Xiangbei's first opponent is Jiang Chuangong, the so-called enemy road is narrow, and the two teams also met in the winter selection preliminaries. In the winter, Mitsui was bent on trying to win university recommendations, so he took the substitute to fight against Egawa Ko. Now Miyagi and Rukawa Kaede are still watching from the wall, and Coach Anzai has the heart to hone Sakuragi, and by the way, accumulate some game experience for the substitutes, and when it comes to the national competition, the depth of the bench has a great impact on how far the team can go.
Jiang Chuan Gong, who has always been unknown in Kanagawa, was very helpless about the first round of encounters in northern Xiangbei. The winter selection preliminaries were brutally abused by Xiangbei led by Mitsui, which left a big shadow on them psychologically. As soon as the two sides entered the playing field, the players of Egawa Gong began to look for Mitsui in the crowd in northern Xiangbei. After looking for a long time, they didn't find Mitsui, so they all breathed a sigh of relief.
"Coach, Mitsui didn't come." The team members couldn't hide their joy and said, although there is no Mitsui can not change the fate of defeat, but it will not be too ugly to lose, it is always worth their joy......
"Stupid, Mitsui has already graduated, how could he come?" Coach Egawa scolded the player who had just spoken, "Okay, don't think about Mitsui anymore." We didn't have any pressure in this game, we were expected to lose, but we had to play at our level and you have to take responsibility for the sweat you put in. After the coach finished the pre-game arrangement, he looked at Xiangbei with jealousy. In the past, Xiangbei and Jiangchuan workers were also between them, and after getting a few young talents, now they are very different, why don't you have this kind of life......
After Anthy arranged the lineup, he didn't say anything~ just simply told the players to pay attention to cooperation~ pass the ball more! Rukawa Kaede and Miyagi were happy, one was sleepy-eyed, and the other was proud.
"Coach, why don't you leave Sakuragi until you play Hainan ~ Lingnan? Maybe the effect is even greater. Ayako has full confidence in Sakuragi, and the return of Sakuragi impresses everyone.
"Sakuragi is no longer a secret weapon, but a regular killer. There are many things that he needs to learn in the official competition, and this arrangement is more beneficial than surprising Hainan ~ Lingnan. Coach Anzai looked very relaxed and answered Ayako's questions carefully. After half a year of special training, Coach Anxi's physical condition has also been greatly improved.
Shohoku's on-court lineup was interesting, with the tallest Sakuragi Hanamichi being placed at the power forward position and Tsunoda serving as the team's center. The two people on the inside line of Jiang Chuangong looked at the coach in unison, and after the coach didn't say anything, the two of them discussed it themselves. In the eyes of outsiders, the attacks of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Tsunoda are quite bad. According to the law of Tian Ji horse racing, Jiang Chuangong's inner line chose to maintain the status quo.
Tsunoda failed to jump the ball, and Egawa won the first offensive possession. Egawa Gong's center is not as tall as Sakuragi, but he has an advantage over Tsunoda, and the players are decisively pulling away and handing the ball to the inside.
Their idea is very simple, there is a cheap ~ do not occupy the white, in the winter ~ if there is no rut, they will play the center to the kakuda, and the effect is barely passable. Egawa's center holds the ball and faces the basket, and after a dumble, he dribbles and forcibly cuts into the basket. He still knows a lot about Kakuda, and in a nutshell, it's a scale, with a low chassis ~ developed lower limbs. Leaning on Tsunoda to cut to the basket, a small hook in the middle of the march took the lead in scoring two points.
Changing the Xiangbei offense, Yasuda handed the ball to Sakuragi after half time, and now there is no one to defend Sakuragi in the team's training, and Coach Anzai always separates Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi together. The Egawa workers who defend Sakuragi are slightly shorter than Tsunoda, and this year is a third year, and Sakuragi sticks to the ball as soon as he gets it.
Sakuragi stood up straight and lifted the ball with one hand, and the opponent couldn't reach the ball, so the height difference was too big. The players in Xiangbei are very confident and feel that it is easy for Sakuragi to score two points. Sakuragi didn't move his supporting feet, and his body turned backwards~ and immediately turned back, but the other party was still very dead.
Jiang Chuangong defended Sakuragi, a veteran player, with a lot of experience, and there was so much difference in height, he decisively used the dog skin plaster tactic, which is a toad lying on the foot ~ not biting people. Sakuragi doesn't give any space in front of him, you have to say I'm foul, I really haven't touched you, but I'm just lying on top of you.
Sakuragi doesn't dare to dribble easily, height is an advantage and a disadvantage, this height gap ~ the ball is likely to be poked off when it lands. After turning backwards to no effect, Sakuragi chose to probe forward, Sakuragi just wanted to use his body to push the opponent, as long as he gave himself space to shoot, the opponent had no hope of blocking at all.
At the same time that Sakuragi is holding the ball with both hands and turning from above to the left, while the right foot is forward ~ the body is in contact. This member of the team of Jiang Chuangong, like an electric shock, flew backwards, and after landing, he also slid backwards for a while. The referee blew the whistle decisively, and Xiangbei No. 10 committed an offensive foul and exchanged the ball.
Sakuragi looked at the defenders on the ground speechlessly, threw the ball to the referee and ran back to defend. It's so good! Sakuragi knew that he was being put on a show by the other party, but he didn't say anything. If it had been estimated that Sakuragi would have picked him up and thrown him directly into the stands. The strength of his own forward movement is not large at all, let alone a man, even if he changes to a girl, he will not fall. He actually flew so far out of the air, and Sakuragi admired him.
"Referee, isn't this fake fall a bit too fake?" As soon as the whistle blew, Miyagi bounced off his chair as if he had a spring on his back, and walked directly to the sidelines to protest with the referee.
The referee glanced at Miyagi, didn't say anything but gave Miyagi a smile, and then ran to the front court to enforce the law. If the referee said something, Miyagi could still reason with him, but this smile was too weird, Miyagi didn't know how to react at the time, and walked back to his seat still thinking about the referee's smile.
Scoring a goal and defending the next goal boosted Egawa's morale, and after the second offensive cover, he found a gap and scored two points again in the middle shot. The situation seems to be very unfavorable to Xiangbei, but the players off the field in Xiangbei are still so leisurely, and the faces of the players on the field are still so confident, and there is no worry at all.
Attacking again, Sakuragi stood directly in a deeper position, and Yasuda passed the ball to Sakuragi again. Sakuragi turned his back to the defenders, turned his head and glanced at it, and said in his heart, aren't you good at acting? If I don't give you a chance to act, it's okay. Sakuragi took a small step forward with his right foot, turned over and made a jumper, and did not press back~ You can't find your head if you fake a fall.