Suzuki gave the starters plenty of trust and time to adjust themselves, and Maki and others lived up to his trust, gradually stabilized the situation, and in the fast offensive and defensive rounds, with the advantage of offensive rebounds, the score was opened little by little.

The reason why I only talk about offensive rebounds is because Takenaka's play is quite good.

Maki is already a rare type of center forward with good running ability, but Takenaka is better than him in this regard.

Oda Kiri is extremely fast in the attack, often passing half court in two or three seconds, and will shoot when he finds an open space in the reverse pass.

At this time, Maki returned to defense at full speed, and basically ran back to his own half at most, but Takenaka had already arrived in the restricted area of northern Hunan at this time to make waves. His height is not comparable to Maki, but he is much taller than Hotta and Shakura, and there is no pressure to compete for rebounds on both of them.

And he himself has the ability to shoot in the middle, and after grabbing the rebound, it is very difficult to defend, the defender jumps up and blocks, he either dribbles and dodges the gap to shoot himself, or passes directly to the open space, which can form a huge threat.

It's just that Oda Kiri's secondary attack hit rate is about forty percent, which is really not high, and if you miss it again, Maki will come back, and Takenaka will not be able to.

In order to run and bomb, everyone in Oda Kiri's people will shoot with one hand, Tanaka and Yamaguchi are stronger, and the other few are slightly inferior, but limited to their own conditions, none of them can be called marksmen.

Suzuki didn't make his first adjustment until 15 minutes later.

At this time, Xiangbei had a 36-28 lead of almost 10 points.

The first batch to be substituted was Maki and Kuroda, who made great contributions to the lead of Xiangbei.

Kuroda played very solidly today, hitting 6 of 8 shots and making a foul, scoring a total of 14 points, and in terms of contribution, he was not inferior to captain Maki.

However, Suzuki was not satisfied with Kuroda's performance, and when he got off the court, he said to him seriously: "Kuroda, you have to develop three-point shooting ability." Now it's Odakiri, who is more offensive and weak defensively, which gives you so many opportunities to shoot from mid-range, and it's hard to say if you change to another team. ”

Kuroda was still a little complacent when he got off the court, thinking that he had performed well today, and his face sank after hearing this, but he didn't refute it, and after agreeing "hi", he honestly sat on the bench.

He was a little unconvinced at first, thinking that Suzuki was targeting him, and wanted to squeeze him out of the basketball team after he had a newcomer. However, the prestige that Suzuki has accumulated over the past few years has left Kuroda without the courage to refute, but is quietly depressed alone. When the mood calmed down and Kuroda's IQ came back online, he had to admit that Suzuki's words were not wrong.

In the summer and winter of last year, although the opponents of Xiangbei were not the same, one was Wuyuan and the other was Sunrise West, but Kuroda's performance after playing was exactly the same.

Whether he came off the bench to face Wu Yuan, or played as the main force in Sunrise West, his performance can be said to be lackluster.

The reason for this, Kuroda himself knows, is that the lack of three-point shooting makes it difficult for him to move forward in high-level games.

Shooting within the three-point line means that in addition to the opposing shooting guard, the opponent's forward line will also interfere with his own shots. And what these two teams have in common is that they have a small forward position, which can be regarded as the ace of first-class players in the entire Kanagawa Prefecture.

Takeen's is Hayama Kotaro, while Sunrise West is Arakawa Shigeru.

It was their activity that restrained the two generations of small forwards Imai and Yanagisawa in Xiangbei, allowing them to take care of themselves, and rarely pulled out to cover the quarterback, or in other words, they pulled out to cover, and the opponent's ability was still able to give enough interference to the Xiangbei quarterback.

The results of one win and one loss in the two games prove this point.

In the summer, although Imai was no match for Arakawa, Mizuhashi was able to use his long-range three-pointers to ensure Shohoku's scoring. In the winter, Yanagisawa had the same result against Kamiarakawa as Imai, but Kuroda's own gap to Mizuhashi was a key point in the race's lead.

Mr. Suzuki's words are not wrong, but I am wrong, if I had trained hard from the beginning and mastered the three-point shot, maybe I wouldn't have lost those games.

Kuroda lowered his head, buried his face in his palms, and fell into deep self-blame.

Suzuki didn't notice the change in Kuroda and focused all his attention on the two players who came on the pitch. For him, there is nothing to observe as a third-year player, and he is only put on the field to bring rhythm to the newcomers, not to make them the newcomers' dependence.

At present, only Endo, a sophomore on the field, is considered a veteran, and the other four are newcomers who only joined this year, they are Akagi, Hotta, Shakura and Takeyo.

The time for the observation of the key points is only now on.

The appearance of Akagi and Takeyo immediately showed the gap between them and their predecessors.

Offensively, Akagi's success rate in the inside singles is much lower than that of Maki. Even if Akagi is still slightly above the real wood in terms of strength, there is still a big gap between the two in the choice of the timing of the shot. Akagi's back shot after turning around did not completely avoid Takenaka's defense, and he was actually blocked.

Moreover, Akagi is not as good as Maki in the judgment of the card position, although he still has an advantage in rebounds by virtue of his height, but Takenaka has been able to grab one or two defensive rebounds.

In this way, it shows another skill of Takenaka, who has a good grasp of the line of the ball, and can launch a fast attack without going through Okamura or Nakai.

Tanaka borrowed his light and ran as if he were flying, and he threw off the sand warehouse several meters away twice in a row, and his face was happy as if it were blooming.

Wu Dai's problem is the same as Kuroda's, there is no long throw, and he is in the first grade at the same time as Shakura, so he is embarrassed to shout at him, and the cooperation between the two is much less than when Kuroda is present, so the accuracy of the mid-shot is also a little lower than when Kuroda is there.

After some adjustments, Xiangbei, which lacked two strong points, immediately fell into passivity, attacking hard, defending hard, and the first year of the two starters began to show fatigue, busy panting without the ball, and not active in defense.

It's not only the players in Xiangbei who feel fatigue, but the crowd of Oda Kiri's people is also very consumed.

It's just that they have the initiative in their hands, slowing down the pace of their offense from time to time, plus they are well-trained, and their physical strength is still at a level that does not affect their combat effectiveness, until Nagashima stopped the game.

The first half was played.

The score was 44-42.

Oda almost tied the difference.