Chapter 53: The Sixteenth
In mid-May, the opponent in the third round of the Xiangbei County Competition was Wuyuan High School.
In the original book, he lost to the Hainan High School led by Mu Shenyi, and stopped in the quarterfinals of the county competition, and the core player was Oda Ryumasa, a junior high school classmate of Sakuragi Hanamichi.
However, this summer, Wuyuan High School, which did not have Oda Ryumasa, was only a team in the top 16 of Kanagawa Prefecture, and its strength was not much stronger than the previous round opponent in Xiangbei, Kurido Industry.
There were more people in the arena than last week, especially the student group from Wuyuan, which was extremely large.
It was especially surprising to see such a large number of people watching his school's basketball team play. In particular, these students, both male and female, wore uniforms and carried empty bottles or other items for support, and when the players of Wuyuan appeared, they immediately let out a boiling cry.
"There are so many students in Wuyuan." Miyagi looked at the huge group in the audience and couldn't help but sigh, "After two rounds of competition, this is the largest number of supporters!" ”
Fuji nodded: "Yes, Wuyuan High School's grades in recent years are obviously similar to those of Kurido Industry, but there are so many people who pay attention to them!" There are also quite a few girls. ”
As for the reason for the large number of spectators, Fuji somewhat ignored that with the gradual progress of the county competition, some weak teams were eliminated one by one in the first two rounds, and the remaining teams were almost on the average line in strength, so the excitement of the game will be higher than in the previous two weeks, and the number of viewers watching the game will naturally increase.
It's just that Xiangbei is an exception, and Lingnan will fight hard in the first week, otherwise Lingnan will be the top four this year. After defeating Lingnan, teams like Kurido Industry and Wuyuan, even if the level is on the average line, will not give Xiangbei too much difficulty, and therefore give the feeling that the strength of the two opponents is getting lower and lower.
Miyagi squinted, tapped his finger, then pointed in a direction, and said meaningfully, "Now, you look over there." ”
"See what?" Fuji looked in the direction he pointed to, and there were a small number of girls, dressed in Xiangbei school uniforms, and holding a small banner with the words "Fuji Life" written on it.
The word life often appears in Japanese fan culture, and the meaning of xx life is roughly the meaning of loving xx as if you love your own life. But these three words make Fuji look quite embarrassed, and there is a taste of the Rukawa maple brain remnant powder group.
Finding Fuji's gaze, these girls immediately behaved uncontrollably, and at the same time let out a decibel-high scream.
Fuji immediately turned his head over and muttered, "It's not good to write these three words." ”
Several people in the team who also noticed this scene ran up one after another, envious and jealous of Fuji, but they only got the unkind gaze and the word "boring".
On the other side of Wuyuan, there are several faces who have had a relationship with each other in the original book, like Dai Ming of No. 7, Wuyuan's point guard, and also the captain of Wuyuan a year later.
The altitude of Wuyuan is not bad, and the starting players can generally reach 180 cm and above, and none of them are thin, giving people a very strong sense of face-to-face.
The game in Xiangbei went smoothly from beginning to end.
The current lineup of Xiangbei tends to be stable, resulting in the gradual formation of tactical means, and now Xiangbei has three key points, the stable and powerful center player Akagi Gangxian, the gorgeous skills and dexterity of Miyagi Ryota, and the outside scoring is stable Fuji Shinya, these three people are now the most important offensive end in Xiangbei, especially Miyagi Ryota, he plays a tandem role for the entire team is particularly important.
In terms of defense and offense, there are veterans Yukimura Tsuryo and Takao Yuta. Xiangbei's current team style is quite similar to Hainan High School a year later, with Amu's super breakthrough and Ashen's marksman, while Xiangbei is Miyagi as the core of the series, the power No. 1 position under the Akagi basket, and the only one with a stable mid-range pitcher. If you have to give a definition, it can be regarded as a combination of breakthrough and marksman in the middle match.
After all, speaking separately, Akagi and Miyagi have obvious shortcomings compared to Ah Mu, and their breakthrough ability is weaker than the latter, and Ah Shen is a sharpshooter who maintains a three-point shooting rate of ninety percent from any angle, which is not at all comparable to the current stable mid-range shooting and three-point life.
As for Takeshien, Fuji originally thought that although Oda Ryumasa was not there, he was still in the third grade this year, and it might not be much worse, but the game was only ten minutes, and Fuji found that there was no actual ace player in the team of Takeshien, or there were no top players like Rukawa Kaede and Sendo.
The process was quite smooth, although compared to last week's match with Kurito Industries, Fuji's performance was much worse, and it felt a little stealthy. But just with the breakthrough combination of Miyagi and Akagi, Wuyuan was completely crushed, in terms of personal ability, Wuyuan had no one to compete with Miyagi and Akagi, the former's passing and the danger of the latter's basket were the key to Xiangbei's crushing of Wuyuan in the whole game.
Maybe it's because Haruko isn't there, Fuji's motivation is a little less, but the main reason is that he has a poor feel today, so he has fewer shots. Rao is like this, at the end of a game, when the scores of each player are counted, Fuji can still have 17 points in the account.
Xiangbei finally defeated Wuyuan 78-61 and successfully advanced to the top 16, once again creating the history of Xiangbei High School basketball team. However, in the internal discussion in Xiangbei, the school sports meeting the next day is the focus, because the next afternoon, there will be a class competition led by Fuji and Miyagi.
Compared with today's game, tomorrow's weekend's first-grade basketball meeting is the highlight, Fuji and Miyagi, and now the first-grade heroes of the Xiangbei basketball team are either passively or actively labeled as "strong rivals". Who is stronger and better able to lead the team to win is a topic of different opinions on the basketball team and the students who pay attention to the basketball game in the whole school.
The only pity is that Fuji's match with Miyagi was not the final of the basketball event of the school games, but the semi-finals. But it was precisely this semi-final, which was not a final, but a final, that attracted unprecedented attention. Fuji and Miyagi also worked hard for this game.
In the eyes of the two of them, the title of the first place in the school games is far less meaningful than deciding which of the two of them is stronger, in disguise, this is a game to determine who is the first in the first grade, and it may even affect the ownership of the captain of the Xiangbei basketball team two years later.
Fast on, it was the day of the weekend game, and about this much-watched game, it was played in the basketball team's arena.