Chapter 20: The Green Wind's Invitation

What made the hot minds of the Xiangbei players completely calm down was another warm-up game later.

As a seeded team, Xiangbei only needs to play the last game in the knockout stage, so it will be put into the game half a month later than the average team.

During this period, the team usually takes advantage of this precious free time to step up training. The problems exposed in the previous stage need to be solved, and the opponents that will be encountered in the next stage need to be observed.

Suzuki also has a lot of teaching tasks to complete, so he doesn't try to contact other teams to continue to fine-tune the lineup and tactics.

Besides, the brutal county competition knockout round has begun, except for the top four, other teams have game tasks, lest playing more games will mess up the state, or lose confidence, which is willing to make a difference?

The teams that have been eliminated, have no game tasks, and have free time to compete in Xiangbei are weak and have no training value.

But I didn't expect that at the end of the four rounds of the competition, when the most critical fifth round and the final round of eliminations were about to be ushered in, Xiangbei received an invitation to go to other schools to play warm-up matches.

The invitation was sent out by a new school called Greenwind.

Although it is not well-known, this school has already achieved good results in the first county competition this year, and it has not been eliminated so far. In the fourth round two days ago, they defeated Tsuhisa, who has been in the quarterfinals and the top 16 all year round, and seized the opportunity to challenge Lingnan, the seeded team in the third division.

The day that Green Wind came to invite was Fire Day, and there were four days left until the next match, so it would not affect physical strength.

The players who had been idle for more than ten days and could only play intra-team matches were quite interested in the opponent they had found, and Akagi, who was in charge of the training, agreed to the invitation.

Akagi himself was moved, so he called Suzuki, who was not there.

Tuesday's training was spontaneous, with Suzuki not having to be there and not forcing all the players to be there. Therefore, the basketball team is not neat at this time.

Suzuki is indispensable.,Asked about the location of the Green Wind Academy.,And the mode of transportation.,Said he didn't object.,Let Akagi decide for himself.。

Green Wind arranged a bus to pick up and drop off, and the car had stopped at the gate of Xiangbei.

Akagi counted the people in the gymnasium at this time, the first grade was in class, but most of the second and third grades were there, and he felt that the lineup was quite neat, so he asked Inoue to stay behind, and he took a dozen or so people to Green Wind.

The players and members of the team who went to Midori Wind include Ki Twilight, Takeyo, Mizuno, Ino, Hotta, Mori, Yamada, Yasuda, Tsunoda, Nishimura, and the managers Mizuno and Tsukino, which is a decent team.

The one who came to talk to Midori was their manager, Eri Fujisawa, a girl with short hair and a tie. She acted in a hurry, like a brat, but the delicacy of women was not completely lost, and she inquired about the composition of Xiangbei before she came. Seeing that there were no red-haired Sakuragi and cold-faced Rukawa in the team, the two genius newcomers, I specially asked why I didn't see them.

Akagi said that a few of them couldn't get out of their studies, and Fujisawa also understood, but his regretful expression was overflowing, but he said that his team's ace had a lot of expectations for Sakuragi Rukawa.

Akagi didn't care.

However, in the game, Green Wind's trump card, Mike Okita, made Xiangbei suffer a lot and reaped the first defeat of the year.

From the time when the game had not yet begun, Xiangbei up and down, including Akagi, were somewhat underestimated.

The situation of Xiangyang, Hainan, Lingnan, and Xiangbei standing side by side has been maintained in Kanagawa Prefecture for several years. During this period, only Wu Yuan under the leadership of Hayama Kotaro had an impact on the last position of the top four, either replacing Xiangbei or Lingnan, but with Hayama's promotion, Wuyuan returned to the level of ordinary strong teams in the county, and the overall situation remained the same.

In the eyes of Akagi and others, no matter how overestimated Green Wind is, at best it is the level of Miuradai, and it is a threat to the bottom two of the top four, but it still can't set off waves.

So in the arrangement of the starters in the warm-up game, Akagi himself did not play and gave up the position of center forward to Hotta. The taller Maori plays as a power forward, which can be regarded as providing strong support for Hotta on the inside.

Sakuragi didn't come, and Shakura wasn't there, and the small forward position should have been taken by swingman Twilight Ki. However, after seeing that Midorifu's small forward was a blonde, blue-eyed, tall and strong mixed-race, Akagi was worried that Kiki's thin body would suffer, so he asked second-year alternate Tadashi Yamada to start.

Yamada is about the same height as Kidu, but he originally played as a center forward, and his physique is much stronger than Kidu. And Yamada's strength is still above Hotta, but this year's Xiangbei inner line talent is really at its peak, so he didn't get the position of the main choice. When it comes to the Winter Cup of Akagi's group of retirements, if Maori plays the center, the power forward position is not surprisingly Yamada's, and Danan's strength is not comparable to him.

The two defenders, Akagi, arranged Mizuno and Takeyo, hoping that these two old guys, who were able to play in the first grade like him, could use their vast experience to hold the line.

Akagi's arrangement, whether it is the vice-captain Mu Twilight, who sits on the bench with him, or the manager Mizuno, there is no objection.

In all fairness, the strength of this lineup is not bad, and it should be more than enough to play those teams in the top eight and top 16 in the county.

However, reality gave Akagi a head start.

Green Wind's onslaught after the opening made Xiangbei almost unable to follow.

Maori lost to Green Wind center on the jump ball, allowing Green Wind to attack first.

Mizuno blocked Eima, fought and retreated, and waited until all the members of his side were in position before trying to save the ball.

Ebina dribbled very steadily, and did not break through the flaws deliberately exposed by Mizuno, but passed the ball to the hands of his ace Mike Okita.

Mike Okita doesn't look like an islander, and his personality is the same, he motioned to his teammates on the inside to open up space for him, and he opened up a stance to play Yamada alone.

Maori was worried that Yamada would not be able to defend Mike, so instead of running with Mamoru Fujisawa in the opposite position, he stayed under the basket and asked Hotta to switch positions to follow Captain Green Wind, who was carrying No. 4.

Next to him is the famous highlight who jumps the ball better than himself, in front of him is Mike Okita, who is half a head taller than Yamada, plus a big forward and scoring guard who are also around 1.9 meters tall, Maori feels a lot of pressure. He looked at Akagi frequently, meaning that the opponent has an advantage in height, boss, come up and help, brother, I can't stand it.

Just when Maori was frightened and absent-minded before the battle, Mike took a step and broke through Yamada with explosive power and hit the basket.

Maori shouted and stepped forward to block, and Mike jumped up and feinted to dunk, causing Maori to jump, but he flicked his wrist and passed the basketball to the side and back.

Akagi and Mu Du saw it clearly from the audience, and said in unison: "It's not good! ”

saw a long arm intercept the basketball, and then the person bent his knees, jumped up, and jumped outside the three-point line.

Brush!

The green wind is the first to strike.

3-0!