Since the final and biggest opponent in the knockout stage was Lingnan, Suzuki naturally started targeted training in Xiangbei, and at the same time, he also called Reiko Aida to ask for the details of the battle between Seirin and Lingnan.

What Suzuki didn't expect was that for that insignificant warm-up game, Seigrin actually took a videotape, and a few days later, along with Burri, it was sent over through Yayoi Aida.

Having seen Lingnan's defeat in this game with his own eyes, Suzuki confirmed that Lingnan did not give his all.

The starting point guard was Katsumi Kusano, and then he was replaced by Ryo Yonekawa, and Tsukahara, the main point guard in last year's Winter Cup, sat on the cold bench and did not play.

And the performance of Kusano and Yonekawa can hardly be called a qualified point guard. Kusano has no speed, Yonekawa has no height, these are very obvious defects. What's even more speechless is that the passes of the two are not threatening, and they choose very safe routes, relying on their receiving teammates to use their own abilities to resist the opponent to score.

Chengrin's point guard Yiyue didn't play much in the game with Xiangbei, but he was like a fish in water in this game. Intercepted passes from Xialingnan point guards to Baoke and Kadomatsu on several occasions, and had four direct stops from their hands!

Seongrin's strong points are center and quarterback, while Lingnan is these two positions plus small forward.

Yuito Boke is much stronger than when he first saw him the year before, and he is no longer afraid of confrontation on the inside, and his defense is much better than before. However, when he first debuted, his best air cut buckle is rarely seen now. It's not that he's getting less physical because of an injury, it's that his teammates around him can't pass that kind of good ball anymore.

Rao is like this, Baoke is still the sharpest knife in the Lingnan formation.

His explosiveness is extremely strong, even if he is trapped, he can flash a gap in an instant, and the hit rate is quite high.

Even if he focuses on scoring, Boko is not a lone wolf who can only shoot when the ball is in hand. Perhaps due to a few setbacks in the National Championship and the Winter Cup, he was not hesitant to pass and assist when his teammates were in good scoring positions.

Suzuki was thinking, maybe it was because of his selfless mentality, the change to the all-powerful development of technology, and the sharing of the responsibilities of the point guard, so that the point guard of Lingnan has not been able to be trained, and in the future, it has developed to the point of letting Xiandao take on the responsibility of the organization.

However, how to limit such a Baoke?

Suzuki started to have a headache.

Subsequently, Yanagisawa, Shakura, and Ki Twilight all fell into dire straits.

As soon as Sakuragi was free, Suzuki asked him to imitate Hoko's style of play and come one-on-one with Yanagisawa and the three.

Sakuragi is naturally happy about this, he is full of energy, and his physical strength is so much that he has nowhere to vent, and almost every day he puts all three of Yanagisawa down tired.

In the past few days, Yanagisawa and others' single defense ability has been significantly improved, but the price is that during five-on-five training, it is difficult for several small forwards to cooperate with the whole team in the same tone.

However, Suzuki doesn't care about that. In his vision, the game against Lingnan did not put the small forward into the overall tactics at all. Whether it is offensive or defensive, he wants the team to implement BOX-1, cut Baoke out of the whole, and abolish the tactical role of his own small forward, and he is also unswerving!

Xiangbei, which is in the stage of tactical adjustment, did not show the momentum of swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger at the beginning of this year's county competition.

Although they lost the first game last summer, Xiangbei is still considered to be the top eight teams in the county and enjoys byes in the first round.

In the first game of the second round, facing Momiji, a team that had no outstanding players after losing Yakushi Mararu, Xiangbei only won by more than ten points 62-48.

Whether it is Endo or Mizuno, after deliberately bypassing the passing line of their own small forward, the error rate has increased a lot, and Suzuki has also pressed the playing time of second- and third-year players to a relatively low position, allowing first-year players to play as many games as possible and accumulate a little more experience.

Xiangbei, who played with this attitude, was almost overturned by Buri in the third round.

In order to cover up the team's twin tower tactics, Suzuki deliberately let Maki and Akagi take turns as centers, accompanied by Ishii, Hotta and others to partner on the inside.

Xiangbei's strongest inside line couldn't open the situation, and the scoring guard Kuroda was treated the same as Seirin's Hinata, and was strangled by the opposing Moriyama, and for a while, the entire team's scoring was in trouble.

In the first half alone, Xiangbei fell behind by 6 points.

At halftime, Suzuki made an adjustment, replacing Mizuno, who is known for his passing threats, and put Endo, who was good at breaking through with the ball, on the court.

This substitution had an immediate effect, and Endo cooperated with Maki and Ishii to turn the Buri line upside down, and the score was overtaken to 42-38 in one fell swoop.

Just when everyone in Xiangbei thought that the game could be won like this, Coach Takeuchi of Buri also used his back hand and replaced it with a pair of twin brothers, who played brilliantly in the first half, and small forward Imamura and scoring guard Moriyama were replaced.

After reading the registration form, this pair knew that it was the second-grade brothers Inoue Hideki and Shigeki, and they immediately rushed Xiangbei's defensive system full of loopholes.

The two brothers look very similar, even the hairstyles and clothes are very similar, and they are all swing people, which makes the two players in Xiangbei's position, Shacang and Kuroda very painful, and they were successively beaten through the defensive position by their passing and cutting cooperation, and under the internal and external throwing, they reversed the situation again, and by the halfway point of the second half, they once again led Xiangbei by as many as 6 points.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Suzuki replaced the small forward with the experienced Yanagisawa, and replaced Hotta at the power forward position and went up to Ishii Nu, so that the lineup changed to the main lineup of last year's Winter Cup, and the overall cooperation was able to stabilize the situation.

However, the difference between the score and Buri has always oscillated between 4 points and 6 points, which is difficult to fill.

Time passed minute by minute, and Xiangbei began to be impatient. The county competitions at this stage are all knockout rounds, and if you lose to Buri, you won't even be able to see Lingnan, let alone qualify from the finals of the county competitions and go to the whole country.

Just as Suzuki was considering whether to expose the twin towers in advance and use the absolute advantage of the inside line to win the game first, Kuroda and Yanagisawa broke out.

First of all, Kuroda, who has always been sluggish, risked injury and forced a long-range three-pointer from his back to narrow the score to 3 points. After throwing this three-pointer, Kuroda fell hard, and at the same time, his physical strength was exhausted, and he could barely get up, and was subsequently replaced by Wu Dai.

At the end of the game, Kuroda burst into tears, applauding the time he had wasted in the past and the moment he received.

Immediately afterwards, Yanagisawa took advantage of Kasamatsu's fatigue and inexperience, took a risk to pounce, completed a break, and killed Buri to the basket.

Kasamatsu was shocked and tried desperately to get back to defense, but made another mistake, not only failed to block Yanagisawa's layup, but also took a foul.

Yanagisawa used this penalty to fill the difference instantly.

Being tied twice in a row made the freshman Buri mentally unstable, and his performance fluctuated in the final stages of the match, and he eventually lost this crucial match.

When the timer blew, the score was 70-68 and the two teams were separated by only 2 points!