Chapter 94: The Final Battle (6)
Looking at Xiangyang's personnel adjustment, Dahe said to Suzuki with admiration: "Sir, you guessed right, the flower shape has been rotated." ”
After discussing the rotation of his own side just now, Dahe is suffering from gains and losses again, and he is afraid that the main force of Xiangyang will continue to take Xiangbei away with him.
Suzuki told him that the probability of this happening was very low, and there was an eighty percent chance that Coach Anzai would put the extremely active Hanagata in the first half down to rest.
Suzuki listened to Oga's compliment, and his face was not happy, but sighed, "I'd rather Coach Anzai leave Hanagata on the field." ”
Taiga asked, "Why do you say that?" ”
Suzuki waved his arm and replied, "The tactical role of Hanagata in Xiangyang is no less than that of Mitsui Shou. We can compare them to two fists, when they are both swinged, although they are very powerful, but when one is withdrawn, it is the most dangerous time. ”
Dahe realized something and fell into deep thought.
Suzuki watched the game intently, and although he said that it didn't matter if he gave up the inside line for the time being, he was still worried about whether Hotta would be able to withstand it.
Akagi and Hanagata are both off the court, and it is Takano's turn to be in charge of jumping the ball on Xiangyang's side, while on the Xiangbei side, Sakuragi looked at Hotta and Mori, who were not confident, and stepped forward to make his debut: "This time the jumping ball will be replaced by me." ”
Hotta and Mori such as Bongron sound, let to the outside.
The basketball flew to the top, and Sakuragi and Takano were almost at the same time, their legs straight, each reaching out to point directly at the basketball.
This jump immediately shows that Sakuragi is different.
When standing, the height of the two of them cannot be distinguished, but when they jump, Sakuragi is a head taller than Takano.
Sakuragi's speed and height left Takano far behind.
Seeing Mizuno's position, Sakuragi smoothly shifted the ball, but it wasn't until he landed on the ground that Mizuno was able to advance to the three-point line. Under Fujima's interference, he didn't find a good passing route.
Hotta and Mori both plunged headlong into Shoyo's basket, but even though Takano was not there, they still struggled to move under the basket. Hotta confronted Kikuchi, while Mori was personally cared for by Shoyo's ace Mitsui.
Xiangbei replaced Akagi and Rukawa, while Xiangyang also rotated these two positions.
This is actually a very natural thing, under the man-to-man defense, the opposing players are not much different in terms of physical consumption.
What really surprised Suzuki was that Xiangyang, like Xiangbei, had the position of the team's ace player on the premise, and the person who replaced him was Xiangyang's second-year three-point shooter Enomoto.
Even if Hanagata is off, Shoyang has no shortage of long-range firepower on the field, so Suzuki did not count Enomoto to play. In Suzuki's expectations, Kikuchi, who is not counted as an insider, whether it is the first-year swing man Suizenji, or Anzai's grandson, former Tokyo MVP Yoshiki Anzai, is more likely to appear than Enomoto.
Mr. Anzai, are you going to carry out the three-point tactics to the end?
Suzuki glanced at Shoyo's bench and came back to see Mizuno's play, and saw that Mizuno gave the ball to Sakuragi very simply, and then ran himself.
Then Sakuragi began to perform.
He dribbled the ball forward, and Mitsui, who had just blocked up, was not paying attention, and he flashed over, and then he saw Sakuragi disappearing into the back of Maori who came out to pick him up together.
Mori waited for Sakuragi to pass by, turned towards the basket, and gradually pulled away and walked along the right side of the restricted area.
As soon as Sakuragi came in, Shoyang immediately sounded the alarm, except for Enomoto and Fujima, who were wandering on the other side, among the other three, Kikuchi was in the front, Takano was from the flank, and Mitsui surrounded Sakuragi from the rear.
Hotta was behind Kikuchi, Shakura was behind Enomoto, Mori was behind Takano, and the positions of the three were not good, and Mizuno was still behind Sakuragi at this time, and he didn't keep up with the speed of Sakuragi's assault at all.
A good Sakuragi, suddenly a sudden stop, raised his hands over his head, and made a gesture to jump shot.
Takano and Kikuchi were nervous, Sakuragi's shooting skills were obvious to all, even if it didn't seem to have any angle, they raised their hands high, afraid that Sakuragi would throw a high parabolic shot, while Mitsui quietly put his hand to the back of Sakuragi's head, judging that Sakuragi would choose to lean back sharply in order to avoid Takano Kikuchi's block.
Watching Sakuragi's center of gravity gradually move back, a smile escaped from the corner of Mitsui's mouth, who was ambushed in place, but his smile froze immediately.
Sakuragi did a ninety percent of the foreplay for the step-back jumper, but the ball didn't fly to the basket. It wasn't Mitsui who touched the ball, but Sakuragi took the initiative to pass the ball to the right side of the court.
Because both hands were raised, Gao Ye couldn't stop the pass that he should have intercepted, and turned his head to look back in shock, but saw Maori receiving the ball and coming to the basket, jumping slightly, pushing with both hands, and easily winning Xiangbei's first attack in the second half.
Xiangyang counterattacked, and sure enough, he shot three points of attention.
Sakuragi can only follow Mitsui alone, and there is nothing he can do about Enomoto. Shakura was blocked by Kikuchi's pick-and-roll and watched as Enomoto retreated to the left side of the three-point line for a jumper.
Maori tried to make up for it, but it was a little late.
At 51-52, Xiangyang narrowed the difference to 1 point.
Outside the three-point line on the right side of Sakuragi Stadium, he wanted to draw a gourd to fight back, but Mitsui defended it tightly and didn't give him a chance to shoot.
Sakuragi immediately changed his strategy and wiped it to the middle lane, wanting to break through Mitsui. Mitsui's explosiveness was slightly inferior, and despite the advantage of being inside, it was almost broken through.
The reason why it was almost was because Fujima suddenly gave up Mizuno and reflexively strode over and blocked Sakuragi's forward path.
The ball in Sakuragi's hand was almost taken away by Fujima, and he had no choice but to stop and change hands. Fuji Shin saw that Mitsui had already made up for it, and reflexively went to prevent Mizuno from taking the opportunity to walk inward along the left.
Sakuragi saw Fuji Zhen turn his back and make a gesture to return to the right side to break through, Mitsui hurriedly stopped, but he stopped and gave Sakuragi a chance.
Sakuragi's back dribble changed hands again, and he violently broke through the gap left behind Fujima.
Fujima heard the sound of dribbling and footsteps behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Sakuragi rumbling into the restricted area on the shoyang side like a tank.
Kikuchi, who was standing under the basket on this side, was about to start guarding Maori, who had just slipped to the bottom corner of the left, when he was shocked to see this, and turned around and closed the door.
Mitsui didn't completely lose his defensive position, only half a body slower, he watched Kikuchi's movements, turned sideways to respond, and covered Sakuragi with his left hand in front of him, preventing Sakuragi from potentially low-handed layups.
What Mitsui and Kikuchi didn't expect was that Sakuragi actually jumped directly, as if he had wings, and slid to the basket in the air.
The basketball wipes the board into the basket.
When Mitsui Sakuragi threw himself out in one step, he already knew that he couldn't cover Sakuragi's ball, but he didn't want Sakuragi to score 3 points, so he reached out to grab Sakuragi's hand, but he didn't expect Sakuragi to still guard against his hand, and he came to change hands and layups, so he could only reluctantly take his hand back.
Sakuragi's confrontation ability Mitsui has a full experience, since he can't catch the hand that shoots, then don't foul, so as not to lose the ball in addition to the penalty.
In front of everyone's eyes, Sakuragi Ape stretched his arms lightly and threw in the penalty.
Mitsui withdrew, but Kikuchi's previous blocking foul was still blown by the referee.