This year's IH finals were held in Hyogo Prefecture.

This prefecture is in Kansai, relatively close to Osaka, where Suzuki went to university. In order to avoid the situation of adapting to the water and soil, Suzuki ended the training camp three days in advance and led the team to Kobe to adapt to the local weather and diet, and cheered for the Hainan team playing in the play-offs by the way.

In the county, everyone is an opponent, and out of the county, they are comrades-in-arms.

The same goes for Xiangyang.

With the support of the two teams, Hainan defeated the second place Qingling School in Akita Prefecture and entered the main competition of the national competition. Liang Chuan, Ohara and Akaji all went to the bench to rest after only half the game, and the physical wear and tear was not large, which was very helpful for their next journey.

Because of the huge score difference, there was no suspense in the game, and there were many people walking around the venue. Before the end of the game, Suzuki went to Xiangyang's seat to meet Mr. Anzai, and at the same time said hello to Minami Tara, who had just arrived.

After the greetings, Minami Tara said to Suzuki: "If this game is lost, if the results of the Sanno this year are not good, I am afraid that Akita will lose this play-off place next year." ”

Suzuki smiled, "In the past three years since the play-offs were introduced, Akita has not won against our Kanagawa once!" ”

Nan Taliang nodded and said: "The year before last was your Xiangbei, last year it was Lingnan, and this year it was Hainan, and our Kanagawa Prefecture has had three teams appear in the main competition for three consecutive years, and this treatment was only available to Tokyo before." ”

Suzuki laughs, "I feel very honored to be a member of Kanagawa. I didn't expect to be treated like the Tokyo team. ”

The Tokyo team is very strong, but it is rare to attract local talent, and there are some other reasons besides the fact that newcomers are not easy to emerge. For example, other counties with few qualifying places are particularly energetic every time they play the Tokyo team, so that the teams in the capital always do not get good results in the national arena.

Minami Tara glanced at Suzuki and said, "You can see it." Then you must be prepared in your heart, Xiangbei's schedule this year is very difficult to play, you should do your best. ”

Suzuki said hatefully: "It's true that when we are soft persimmons in Xiangbei, we can pinch them as much as we want, and we are not afraid of eating them in our mouths and numbing our mouths!" ”

As in previous years, information such as the format description, organizational regulations, participating teams, and schedule of the national competition were published in the official cooperation with the official magazine "Basketball Weekly", and were sent to the participating teams in advance.

As the second place in Kanagawa Prefecture, Xiangbei's rating this year is a grade higher than the year before last, which is B, but Suzuki asked himself, today's Xiangbei may surpass the one two years ago in terms of potential, but it is still a little inferior in terms of strength.

In the Xiangbei team of the year, the captain Dahe was naturally the undoubted S-file player, and he was also the strongest S+ in the S-file, in addition, Mizuhashi, one of the best three-point shooters in Kanagawa, even if he couldn't be rated in the A file, he was the top in the B file.

With this pair of powerful backcourt combinations, supplemented by powerful role players Miyagawa, Yoshino and others, it is the confidence of Xiangbei to repel the king of the mountain and merge the mountain with fire.

Time has passed, and now in Xiangbei, even if the external strength is in the county, it can only be regarded as average, but the internal line has become a strong point.

Don't look at the combination of Akagi and Maki, they don't play much in the county competition, but at the national level, they are a big killer. Like Kaneo Kanagawa, there are only a few teams that have twin towers on the inside. On the one hand, the tactical trend of the island nation is biased towards offensive power forwards. On the other hand, playing twin towers with two inside lines of more than 1.9 meters is a very luxurious configuration for most teams, and they may not want to do it, but they can't do it.

The magazine wrote about Xiangbei like this:

After two years, Xiangbei, who had blocked the mountain king from the main competition, returned to this arena as the second place in Kanagawa Prefecture. There are no particularly outstanding players in Xiangbei, but the overall strength is very good. In the three county finals, 11 of the 12-man team have been given the opportunity to play. However, no matter what tactics are played, captain Hiroyuki Maki is an indispensable member. He is the heart of the team and one of the top five players in Kanagawa this year. The year before last, he played a national tournament for the first time, and he had a good performance, and this time he made a comeback, and I believe it can still make us shine. Let's wait and see how far Xiangbei can go this time.

The top five players in the county are generally produced from the qualifying teams, but Kotaro Hayama won the honor of a top five player with his invincible personal strength and an average of 52 points per game.

In the last game against Xiangyang, Yeshan's performance that has no hope of qualifying can be described as crazy. (Even if Wuyuan wins Xiangyang, the result is 1 win and 2 losses, the same as Hainan, which defeated them)

In this game, Hayama set a new personal scoring high, scoring a full 60 points!

On the other hand, Yoshinari Hiiragi, who was opposite him, had 31 points and 12 assists. Elsewhere, this is already an MVP-level performance, comparable to Hayama, but dwarfed.

In this game, he was arranged by Coach Anzai to defend Hayama's high-level, and was beaten to 5 fouls and left the game, and Mitsui, who came on the bench, also carried 3 fouls. In addition, Honglin committed 2 crimes, Tsuchihashi 4 crimes, Hanagata 3 crimes, Fuji Zhen 1 crime, and the Xiangyang generals can be said to have suffered enough from Hayama. No matter how vigilant you are, you can't prevent Hayama's feints from making fouls in a state of chicken blood.

The convention for county tournament MVPs is to be selected from the championship team.

However, to select an MVP among the three giants of Xiangyang this year is a headache for the organizing committee of the competition.

As the team's main scorer, Hiiragi should be the best player, but his cooperation with his teammates still seems a little rusty. In front of the twin tower configuration of the two teams in Xiangbei and Hainan, Honglin no longer has the majesty that swept the county in the previous two years. The upper tier lost points in the last game.

These three people have contributed about the same amount to the team, and in the end, it is the data that speaks, and Hiiragi who scores the most points is elected.

But in this way, the position of the top five players is not easy to arrange. To have both the scoring champion and the most valuable player, both small forwards must be selected.

The organizing committee thought about it, and in the end, it still won the high-level Tono, and lined up Hayama and Hiiragi.

After a painstaking game, the five best Kanagawa Prefectures of the year were released, namely: center Shoichiro Monobayashi, power forward Hiroyuki Maki, small forward Kotaro Hayama, small forward Yoshinari Hiiragi and point guard Seishiro Akaji.

Exactly the captains of four teams plus MVP of the year.

Although the lineup is not complete, it is reasonable.