Sending away the four merchants of Hojo, Xiangbei ushered in the second opponent Chang Cheng non-stop.

Chang Cheng, like Fengyu, is a frequent visitor to the quarterfinals of the national competition, but they did not enter the quarterfinals the year before last, so the strength evaluation is one level lower than Fengyu and Xiangbei, and it is also a B grade.

After yesterday's game in Xiangbei, Suzuki first took the players to the hotel, waited until the afternoon, and then returned to the gymnasium with Dahe, Momoi, Akagi, and Sakuragi to watch Changcheng's game.

In the face of Harakou Commercial, which only has a C file evaluation, Chang Cheng won very easily, although the score of 79-34 was not as ferocious as Xiangbei's, but the two-fold score difference also made the overlord of Yamaguchi County lose face, and fully realized the gap between himself and the national team.

Although Chang Cheng's captain Yu Zichai only played half the game and went down to rest, only from Chang Cheng's solid defense in the first half, everyone in Xiangbei could see their style of play and style.

It's a team that plays on the inside.

Although on the guard line, No. 8 Tang Chuan's three-point shot is more accurate, Chang Cheng's more offense still has to be completed by the inside.

Captain Miko Chai is their ace player, his position is a power forward, can dunk, but rarely go deep into the basket, more often near the restricted area of throwing, jumpers.

What is commendable is that as the team's trump card, Mikochai's defense is also very active, and the arrival rate is very high. It was his performance that drove his teammates to be motivated defensively, so that the team did not slack off when they were ahead, and played a not very good-looking but very solid game.

Offense wins the spectators, defense wins the game.

This old adage is not flattering, but it is always fulfilled again and again.

Suzuki watched half of the game and muttered to Oga, "This Miko Chai is quite good, and Maori can't seem to guard him." ”

Taiga nodded and said, "Well, Maori has an advantage in height, but Miko Chai's defense is very good, I suggest that in tomorrow's game, let him feint when attacking, and put the main direction of the attack on Akagi's side." Chang Cheng's center is some distance away from Akagi, so he shouldn't be able to guard against him. On the outside line, I suggest going to Shacang, although the No. 8 doesn't shoot much, but we have to pay attention to it first. I'd rather overestimate him than give him a chance to play. ”

Suzuki smiled, "Good, that's what I thought." What do you think about letting Sakuragi take a break tomorrow? Tsuneko's point guard looks average, and I think Mizuno is enough to keep him in check. ”

Dahe nodded, "I'm okay with that." What do you mean, is it that if Maori can't stand it, let Sakuragi defend Zichai? ”

Suzuki replied, "Not bad. That's what I thought. ”

The discussion between the two did not avoid Sakuragi, and Sakuragi listened to it and did not object. He saw the performance of Chang Cheng's point guard Watanabe, and he was really not interested in Kanagawa, that is, Yonekawa in Lingnan and Yasuda in Xiangbei.

What Suzuki and Taiga didn't expect was that in the next day's game, the best person in the Xiangbei team was not the offensive core Akagi, but Rukawa, who didn't get a minute out of the first game.

Rukawa is a good knife, sharp and pressing, and no one can stop it. But his knife is actually a double-edged sword that opens on both sides, lacks awareness, does not cooperate enough, and always leaks people in defense, which makes Suzuki love and hate.

This one started Rukawa in order to offset the opponent's height at the small forward position. Chang Cheng's style of play is mainly based on internal attack, and the style of play of the ace Yu Zichai is quite similar to that of Cheng Rin's Vulcan. In order to increase his competitiveness in rebounding, Chang Cheng's coach Xiyuanji specially arranged for the second grade, and Kobayashi, who is 1.9 meters tall, played as a small forward.

However, what Xiyuan Temple didn't expect was that Kobayashi was completely blown up by Rukawa, who was one grade below him.

After crossing the Sendo in the opposite position, Rukawa learned a lot, and his progress was beyond Suzuki's imagination. The last more formal game was against Mingpeng, but Mingpeng's small forward was too weak, and although Rukawa played a good performance on the court, it did not make Suzuki pay attention to his progress.

And in this game against Chang Cheng, Liuchuan, who held back the whole game, completely exploded his strength. Breakthroughs, jump shots, passes, every action is extremely confident, every choice is unusually decisive, handsome appearance, chic style of play, suddenly made him the focus of attention on the court.

And as Rukawa hit the three-man bag, tossing and turning, smoothly distributing the ball to Mizuno, and then highlighting the encirclement, and turning and backing in front of the opponent's center after receiving Mizuno's return pass, the audience was boiling.

The names of "Rukawa Kaede" and "Rukawa Kaede" also spread throughout the venue from the mouths of several girls with bowls tied to their heads.

Suzuki's focus was not on Rukawa's final dunk, he turned his head and said to Taiga movingly: "Rukawa, this kid is really enlightened!" In the past, he was surrounded by people, and he had to dribble the ball himself until he couldn't protect it, so he would reluctantly shoot or distribute the ball. said that he couldn't correct it countless times, and often had to relapse into his old ways. This time he split the ball as soon as he was surrounded, and the timing and running route were just right. If he can continue to perform like this, our hopes of winning this year's competition will be a little bigger! ”

Seeing Dahe's calm smile, Suzuki suddenly felt that Rukawa's changes might be related to him, so he asked, "I remember that in the last two days before coming to Hiroshima, you specially called Rukawa and a few other outside players aside for special training, did you have some advice and finally let him listen?" ”

Taiga laughed, gave Suzuki a thumbs up, and replied: "It's worthy of Suzuki's supervision, I really can't hide it from you, and you will see through it the first time I use it." I designed a few simple tactical routines for Rukawa to let him know what to do in what position. Rukawa is a very smart little guy, in fact, as long as he makes it clear to him, under what circumstances his playing style will lead to a dead end, let him know the result, and he will correct it himself. I just gave him some setbacks in advance and then helped him point the way out. In fact, even if I don't do this, sooner or later he will have to meet an opponent who can't get past alone, and he will have to fix his immature style of play. ”

Suzuki became interested and asked, "How exactly did you do that?" ”

Dahe smiled a little: "Since this kid is a personality who doesn't hit the south wall and doesn't look back, then I naturally have the right medicine." First, let him know the defensive intensity of the college-level ace, and then let him feel that he can't do anything alone under the college-level joint defense package, and can only rely on his teammates. Of course, what I told him was that the defensive intensity was just similar to that of the Mountain King we met in our first national tournament that year. In the end, I showed him a path and made him feel that sometimes using the strength of his teammates can help him to perform. Compared with the two, he finally knew what was good. ”