Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Arrival of Miuradai

After easily defeating the visiting Fujimura, the whole Xiangbei team conducted a recovery training in the afternoon, waiting for the arrival of the Miuradai High School basketball team.

Miuratai is a strong team in Kanagawa Prefecture, ranking in the top 16 all year round, and last summer, they replaced Minowa and stood in front of Hainan.

It's just that in the face of the re-emergence of Hainan, they became the stepping stone for Akaji to become famous and were eliminated.

This match and the battle between Xiangbei and Wuyuan were different and contemporary, and Suzuki did not see it in person, but after the incident, he got the game video from Yayoi Aida and rewatched the game through the perspective of TV.

Suzuki asked Aida for the videotape, originally to investigate Hainan's strength, but because he lost to Wuyuan and Xiangbei missed the final of the county competition, his preparation did not come in handy, but the name Miuratai made Suzuki remember it in his heart.

From Suzuki's point of view, Miuratai is not weak, and if it is met in Xiangbei, it will also end in defeat like against Shangwuyuan.

It's a pity that most of the college basketball games in the island country are a decisive victory, and if you are unlucky to meet a strong team, you will go home in advance, during which I don't know how many masters have been buried, obviously there is a national strength, but even a county is not well-known.

The master Suzuki found in Miuradai, named Fujiwara Takuya, is a point guard, and his true level is still above Akaji, who has just entered high school. Unfortunately, Fujiwara's injuries dragged him down, and his teammates around him were not as good as Hainan's, so he couldn't play his best, and finally said goodbye to his beloved basketball court.

Fujiwara has graduated this year and is not in Miuradai, otherwise, Suzuki may not have invited Miuradai to play this warm-up match. What the current Xiangbei team needs is the confidence of winning consecutive battles, and Suzuki does not plan to encounter a strong team above his own side before the start of the county competition.

However, the main players of the Miuratai county competition last year, there are still three people in the team, namely the third-year small forward Oda, the quarterback Saeki, and the second-year big forward Kuwata. However, I don't know what was delayed, and Sakuragi didn't show up until the warm-up game began.

Seeing the five generals who started Miuradai, in addition to the three main players last year, the remaining two positions were all substitutes in the past, Suzuki felt a lot more relieved, and sent Akagi, Ishii, Yanagisawa, Mizuno and Kuroda to play, and let the captain Maki take the back.

Miuradai's center Nanzan was still a substitute last year, and his height was only about the same as Ishii's, which is also an important reason why Suzuki was relieved to let Akagi start.

Sure enough, Akagi defeated Nanshan with an absolute advantage in the jump ball and sent the ball to Yanagisawa.

Yanagisawa's skills are the best in the Xiangbei team, and he can play all positions on the outside, and even the point guard can make a temporary cameo. He saw that Ishii was already rushing up, so he passed the ball directly forward to Ishii, instead of handing it over to point guard Mizuno to organize slowly.

Ishii is tall and strong, although his speed is slow, but his momentum is quite amazing, and Isamu Kuwata, who is opposite him, misestimated his strength, and was knocked out of the way by Ishii at once, staggering to the side, not only was he unable to continue to defend, but also blocked Oda's route back to defense.

Ishii rushed to the basket, directly slammed both hands, and won the first ball of the game with momentum.

Seeing this scene, Sang Tian's face was completely bloody, remembering that last summer, they were beaten by Gao Yuan and Liang Chuan in this way, and they were so tired that the captain Fujiwara was injured.

Miuratai was attacked by Saeki with the ball, and his original quarterback position was given to Shimoda, the original substitute.

In the afternoon, Mizuno listened to Suzuki's explanation of the situation in Miuradai, and learned that Saeki was a shooting guard, and now that he saw that the pace of his shooting was a little slow, he had the idea of taking the risk of breaking the ball.

Mizuno just leaned over to reach out, but Saeki accelerated suddenly, came to a crotch dribble, switched to a left-handed dribble, and then took a step forward and handed the ball to Nanshan on the inside.

Nanshan leaned against Akagi, only to feel that he had hit a stone wall, and knew that it was impossible to turn around, so he immediately passed the ball into the air.

Yanagisawa felt Oda behind him start, screamed badly, and at the same time started to rush to the position of Nanzan to pass the ball, but it was too late, Oda cut in and jumped sideways, avoiding Akagi's defense, and reached out to throw the ball into the basket.

Yanagisawa stretched out his hand to signal that it was his fault, apologized to his teammates, and then took Mizuno's pass and shook his upper body continuously, trying to kill Oda one-on-one and fight back.

Oda, who is experienced and didn't make a rash move, knew that he was not easy to deal with, so he returned the ball to Mizuno and continued to look for opportunities.

Mizuno found that Ishii and Akagi squeezed an excellent position on the inside, a high throw, hoisted the ball above Akagi's head, Akagi jumped up to catch the ball, found that Nanshan reached out to block the angle of the shot, and passed to the other side of the basket, Ishii rose up, caught the ball with one palm and split into the frame. Kuwata was once again eaten to death by Ishii's power, and his jump height was less than Ishii's shoulder.

Mizuno suffered a loss on Saeki and didn't dare to make another mistake, but Saeki couldn't find a chance, so he poured the ball to Shimoda.

After receiving the ball, Shimoda pretended to shoot, causing Kuroda to jump up and block, but in fact he only stood on tiptoe and did not leave the ground, and then he broke through Kuroda with a lunge, attracting Yanagisawa to step forward to make up for the defense, and passed the ball to Oda behind Yanagisawa with a ground-hitting pass.

Mizuno had seen Oda's explosiveness before, and hurriedly slid over to prevent him from breaking into the direction of the inside line, but he didn't want Oda to smile and pass the backhand to Saeki.

Saeki received the ball in the open space, and this time he no longer organized, but chose to shoot himself to equalize for Miuradai again.

Ishii stepped forward to comfort Mizuno and said, "Next time I make it up, you stare at Saeki and don't relax." ”

Ishii played calmly on the inside line today, not only Kuwata, but even the opponent's center Nanshan, who was also between Bozhong, and with Akagi on the side, Nanshan didn't dare to easily give up Akagi to help Kuwata, which made Ishii win Sangtian again alone.

However, when defending, Ishii also suffered from Saeki.

Yanagisawa alone couldn't defend Oda, and this time Kuroda came over to assist in the defense, and Oda immediately gave the ball to Shimoda, causing Mizuno to turn over to make up for the defense.

Shimoda didn't seem to have much confidence in his shooting skills, and immediately handed the ball to Saeki.

Saeki had already Ishii come up to block the way, but Ishiki didn't expect Saeki's ball control level to be quite unusual, and he was twisted like a snake by his body, and he drilled under his left armpit.

After Ishii, Saeki's body straightened, and after two steps, he flew up, split the buckle with one hand, and saw that he was about to score, and a giant palm crossed the side, and he fanned it with the ball with his hand, but it was across Nanshan on the side, and he still made a defensive move.

Saeki rubbed his hands, walked to the free throw line, and dropped both free throws into the basket.

In the first two minutes of the game, Xiangbei and Miuratai played an equal match, on par.