Chapter Forty-Seven: The Second Battle of the Round-robin Tournament, Xiangyang (6)
For Fuji Zhen's performance, Xiangyang's strong performance, Suzuki was prepared in his heart, and he also warned the generals when he made a substitution before. It's just that his words didn't do much.
Although he had tried very hard to defend, he still couldn't stop Xiangyang's infiltration like mercury.
After narrowing the score to single digits, Xiangyang's offense took to a new level. They changed their style of play, and when the ball reached the front court, they focused on passing and running, and no one kept the ball in their hands for a long time except for the last two steps of the layup!
Not only between Mitsui and Fujima, but also between Hanagata, including Takano and Nagano, the tacit understanding between the five Shoyo third-year students is breathtaking.
It's like they've practiced thousands of times, and most of the time they don't even need to respond, just relying on their eyes and few gestures, they can play a continuous transmission of three or four people.
During this period, there was only the sound of orderly footsteps on the field, and the sound of violent friction between the soles of shoes and the floor during the sudden stop and turn.
For the most part, the ball flies in mid-air, occasionally hitting the ground, and it is also caused by a deliberate bouncing pass.
No one dribbles, only runs without the ball, stop, is to catch the ball and then pass, at most a small turn in the middle to connect.
When that style of play came up a second time, Suzuki jumped up from his chair in shock, unable to keep his composure.
When attacking, five people take a ball, and the people who can hold the ball and control the ball for a long time are generally only point guards and small forwards, and others can't be the offensive core or the core of the organization, so they can only run, respond and cover.
Playing without the ball is nothing new, let alone a secret weapon.
However, the whole team of five people played without the ball together, and no one controlled the ball, this kind of play was the first time Suzuki had seen this kind of play.
This style of play is too demanding for the whole team.
First of all, all five people can pass the ball, they all want to pass the ball, and they all have the means to finish.
Secondly, there must be a high degree of tacit understanding between the five people.
Finally, I am also very particular about the running route. Generally, the team's movement is always circled in one direction. The basketball court is so big, and the offense and defense are squeezed into the same half, unless there is a deliberate blocking, and running heavy will only get in the way.
However, the running of the five people in Xiangyang now makes people completely clueless. It seems that the five people are running around, because they are random, so suddenly, like butterflies wearing flowers, they are dazzling to see.
Suzuki on the field couldn't see what was going on, and the Akagi people on the field were even more confused. can only focus on one person and do their best.
Syllable! Hotta and Hanagata collided together, and Takano dunked in the air, 2 points.
Brush! Hanagata was one meter in front of the basket, and he leaned back slightly in the face of Rukawa, who was filling the position, and threw the ball and shot for 2 points.
Syllable! Nagano squeezed Mizuno, stretched out his long arms, picked up the basket, and scored another 2 points.
Syllable! Takano slammed it again.
Brush! Fuji Zhen bypassed Mizuno, raised his hands, and just received a return pass from Mitsui in front of him, and threw it directly with his low hand, which was another 2 points!
Syllable! Takano received a cross in the shape of a flower, got up under the basket and dunked with both hands for the third time.
Nagano lays up, Hotta struggles to block, he has made a meritorious service!
The basketball was rubbed by Hotta's fingertips, slightly off target, rolled out of the hoop, and landed on the other side.
Sakuragi arrived, overpowered Takano, grabbed the rebound, and finally interrupted Shoyang's stormy offense.
In a round of rapid attack, although Xiangyang only scored two points and two points, their speed was too fast and the success rate was too high, and they chased the score to 99 at once.
At the same time, Xiangbei's counterattack was repeatedly blocked, relying on the offensive rebounds of Akagi and Hotta, it finally played most of it, but it was still chased by Xiangyang to close the point difference.
Sakuragi, pressed by Mitsui and Nagano, took the ball out of the encirclement and made a long pass to Rukawa.
Rukawa faced the flower shape, shook continuously, the flower shape did not move, Rukawa gritted his teeth, came hard, rushed to the flower shape and turned around, forced the shot, the basketball broke through the blockade, passed between the arms of the flower shape, hit the board, and landed outside the basket.
"Give me back!" Sakuragi burst into a loud shout, and at some point he had rushed to this side from the other end of the court, reaching out between Nagano's hands and picking it up again.
Hanagata hurriedly turned around, staring at the basketball with both eyes, and while jamming Rukawa, she was calculating the timing of the jump. Then he gave up the intention of fighting. Akagi has come, he has already jumped.
Boom!
Akagi catches the ball with both hands and dunks it into Xiangyang's basket. After falling, he raised his head to the sky and roared, venting the depression in his chest, but he didn't know that his roar shocked the audience in Taiban, thinking that the beasts from the zoo had escaped out.
99-108。
It's still a 9-point gap!
Suzuki called a timeout again.
Suzuki didn't want to call this pause.
Fujima came on the field, Shoyang did not have a coach, and the tactics were all adjusted by the players on the field, but now they were able to discuss and make one or two plans to deal with Suzuki's possible substitution adjustments.
But Suzuki had to call this timeout.
He sensed danger. The 9-point lead did not give him any sense of security.
Suzuki glanced at the timer's display and said succinctly, "With less than four minutes to go, we have a big advantage, so we have to be conservative in order to secure victory." The rhythm you just had was driven by each other, too fast, and it had to be lowered. Akagi, Hotta, Rukawa, the three of you hold the basket while defending, don't run after each other, don't repeat the situation just now. ”
The three of them nodded.
It's no wonder that Suzuki criticized by name, they did play poorly just now.
Akagi was repeatedly taken out of the restricted zone, and Hotta and Rukawa often interfered with the embarrassed, overlapping and interfering with each other's running positions in the trio, and once bumped into each other, giving Takano a completely unmarked dunk opportunity.
Akagi asked, "Standing in a dead position, will it give them a lot of opportunities to shoot on the periphery?" ”
Suzuki replied, "I had to give it." If we don't mess up ourselves, at least we won't let the opponent grab too much on the rebounds. Although they have several interior shots, only the offense under the basket is the most stable. We are ahead, it is they who are anxious, waiting for them to make mistakes. If it's a flower shape to pull to the outside line, you don't want to follow Akagi, Rukawa and Hotta, the two of you go up to wrap up, even if you let go of Takano Nagano, you don't hesitate! The flower shape is their core, and the ball passes through his hand a lot. For him, let him play abnormally first! ”
The timeout was very short, Suzuki only had time to adjust the deployment of the inside line, taking advantage of the brief gap when the referee called the players back to the court, Suzuki seized the last time to explain to Sakuragi: "Sakuragi, be careful of Mitsui." He had been silent for several minutes, presumably preparing for the final outburst. He's a guy who won't give up until the last minute, be careful! ”
Sakuragi raised his hand with his back to Suzuki to indicate that he had heard.
The two sides stood still, Xiangyang served at the end line, and the game was restarted.