Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Decisive Battle of Lingnan (4)
What can be done offensively?
This is a headache for Suzuki.
Up front, Miyagawa, Maki and Yoshino face Mitsuhashi, Asakawa and Hoshina, both of two experienced third-year players and a standout first-year player.
However, in serious comparison, although Suzuki is optimistic about Maki's future achievements, he does not think that he has the ability to match Hoke.
This can be seen from the formation at the beginning of the game.
Yoshino's most accustomed position is power forward, and Maki can also play the small forward position, and the reason why the two of them are swapped now is because he foresees that Maki may be blown up by Hoko in the small forward position.
On the guard line, Dahe has tried his best to win more than half of the points of the Xiangbei team in this game so far, and the remaining 5 points, of which 3 points are scored by Shuiqiao.
In this way, the burden of scoring in Xiangbei has been pressed on the two defenders.
Suzuki took a look at the game record in Momoi's hand, in fact, the situation was similar on the Lingnan side.
Although Hoko's score is the same as that of Taiga, both of which are the highest on the team, the two guards of Lingnan, Imayoshi and Kuroko, have a combined score of 8 points.
It can be said that Lingnan's score is also based on the outside line.
Suzuki had a realization in his heart that today's game with Lingnan mainly depends on the performance of the two teams on the outside.
The interior players of the two teams competed for position under the Ryonan basket, and Yoshino ran outside and took the initiative to cover Taiga.
Taiga didn't waste his teammates' efforts, and in the brief gap where Imyoshi was blocked, he raised his hand to shoot a three-pointer.
Kuroko had already made up for the defense, but he was not tall enough to block the shot.
However, Dahe, who usually shoots nine out of ten, also turned into a blacksmith this time, and the basketball bounced back and fell into the hands of the shortest Kuroko in the court.
Kuroko, who often can't get a rebound in a game, is not at a loss after brushing a statistic, and when the situation behind him is unclear, he does not rush to turn around, but first returns the ball to Asakawa in front of him, and then pulls it into the diagonal line.
After the ball bounced back, Taiga defended Kuroko nearby and prepared to break the ball, but in vain, he let go of Imyoshi instead.
Asakawa made a long pass to find Imakishi, and Imakishi moved forward with a broken step dribble, making a momentum to break through, so that the water bridge in front of him moved the center of gravity, and then jumped and shot a step away from the three-point line!
Both Hoshina and Yoshino had already run to the basket, but Imakishi didn't give them a chance to rebound.
On the side of northern Xiangbei, the big river made a comeback, and Shengsheng used his physical advantage to run over Jinji, and then changed direction after an emergency stop to start and break through the sunspot. He wanted to make persistent efforts and pass the third defender, Baoko, but suddenly felt a little heartbeat and panting, a little powerless, and hurriedly distributed the ball to Yoshino.
Yoshino burst into the basket, faced his old friend Asakawa, and made a gesture to make a layup himself, but passed the ball to Miyagawa.
Mitsuhashi wanted to defend Miyagawa, but he ran headlong into Maki and failed to defend it.
Gonghe was unguarded, a slam dunk, while scoring 2 points, also boosted the morale of Xiangbei a little.
The situation that Lingnan is facing today is that it must win a big victory, how can it allow northern Hunan to rise to the ground?
Imakishi and others also concentrated in their own half, and immediately called Mitsuhashi to counterattack.
Dahe noticed this and immediately posted it.
Imayoshi made a pass to Kuroko, Taiga squinted and saw his right side, Mizuhashi was stopped behind Kuroko, and the unguarded Hoko was already running past half the court!
Not good!
Taiga didn't notice that as soon as the ball passed, Mizuhashi couldn't stop Kuroko from assisting Baoke, but found that Imakishi actually took the ball and turned to the left! He hurriedly turned to the right, turned his center of gravity, and went to chase Imayoshi. Taiga is confident in his explosiveness and speed, and even if he is a position or two slower, he is sure to interfere with Imakishi's layup, or even cover the ball from behind.
But when Taiga turned his face to Imayoshi, he suddenly found that there was no ball in his arms!
Where is the ball?
"Kuroko!" On the sidelines, Yanagisawa and Kuroda stood anxiously on the sidelines and shouted.
In fact, almost everyone knows where the ball is, but only Dahe doesn't know!
While!
Baoke jumped up, took out the basketball from his arms, and slammed it into the net!
Taiga was stunned on the spot, wondering when the ball had passed and why his teammates on the sidelines were shouting Kuroko's name again.
"Why doesn't he go to defense?" Toru Koizumi said.
"What is he looking for?" Takayo Nagashima asked.
"He's in a daze!" Nakahara said.
Many in the crowd were puzzled by Dahe's actions.
"Dahe, he doesn't know where the ball is, right?" Arima seems to see the reason.
Kazuya Sato and Eisaku Uchikai, the two point guards, glanced at each other, nodded, and finally Utsumi explained to everyone: "Imayoshi plays this ball very demonically. The first move he did was to pass Kuroko, and if it did, it would be a very beautiful transfer. However, he didn't do this, but took advantage of the center of gravity of the river to move there, and chose to break through himself. ”
With a look of jealousy in Utsumi's eyes, he continued, "Imayoshi has really studied the river very thoroughly. If I were to face this ball, there would be an 80 percent chance that I would have turned around and followed the side of Imaiyoshi's breakthrough, so that I might not be able to catch up with him, but I could see how he passed the ball. But Imaki Guitar is expected to turn around in the opposite direction, so that the impact on the starting speed will be minimized, but there will be a moment of less than 1 second, and Taiga will not be able to detect any of Imaji's movements. ”
Utsumi said a long list, and there was some sweat on his head, but he didn't know if it was a cold sweat scared by Imayoshi's scheming, or a hot sweat from talking too much. He told the mystery of Imayoshi's ball: "In this short second, Imayoshi used a small movement to accurately pass the ball to Kuroko Tetsuya's hands in a high-speed run!" The degree of control of this body is really terrifying! The timing of this action was just right, when Dahe took his eyes off Kuroko, the ball just fell from his head and landed in front of Kuroko, this whole trajectory, Dahe can't see it at all! ”
Sato added: "Kuroko's assists are also beautiful. In the face of the incoming ball, he directly stretched out his hand and flicked the ball in front of Baoke. So when Taiga came back to see him, he didn't notice that he had passed the ball. ”
Shinji Oishi asked his captain, "He can't see that Taihe, is the ball in Hoko?" ”
Utsumi replied affirmatively, "I can't see it either!" When Dahe's gaze skimmed over Baoke, the basketball happened to be blocked by Baoke's back. I can't see it at all! ”
After listening to this analysis, the young people of several teams took a breath of cool air in unison, and had a deep understanding of this "fox" who even dared to play with a "tiger".