Perhaps it was this scoring that boosted Hotta's confidence, and in the next round, he carried Vulcan without allowing his opponent to cut past him.

Vulcan took the initiative, and when this road didn't work, he found another one, waved the ball to Muji on the outside, and then Muji turned the ball to Hinata's hand.

Hinata jumped sideways to avoid Twilight and confidently shot again, and just as he thought he could still get three points back for the team, a hand reached out next to him and flew the basketball he had just thrown.

And it was only at this time that Hinata heard Kiyoshi's warning.

It was Sakuragi who crossed Kiyoshi, flew over, and rewarded Hinata, who had a smooth throw and reduced vigilance, with a block.

The incident happened suddenly, Hinata didn't notice it, Mu Ji didn't react, and the rest of Sei-rin didn't take precautions, even on the side of Xiangbei, Mu Du was in mid-air, and Hotta and Akagi were under the basket, and they couldn't react immediately.

However, there was still one person in the field who kept up with Sakuragi's rhythm. Rukawa stepped out of the crowd, picked up the ball that Sakuragi had slapped, and sprinted towards Seirin's halfcourt.

Bang!

Rukawa went to the basket and scored 2 points with one hand, only to find that none of Seirin's players chased into the three-point line.

Muji switched to the point guard position, which was a street better than when Izuki was there, but there was one thing he couldn't do as well as Izuki, and that was the speed of turning and chasing back.

No matter how good the physical fitness is, a tall man who is close to two meters tall cannot be compared with a small defender who is less than one meter eight. Therefore, after Hinata was covered, Makorin's half was empty, and there was no protection at all.

Suzuki looked at the predicament that Seirin encountered, and thought in his heart.

The similarity of the configuration of the two teams is quite high, in fact, there is also this problem here in Xiangbei.

Sakuragi's explosiveness, speed and agility are far above Kiyoshi, and they are not far behind Takumi Ogawa back then, but his high height in the guard position will make him very difficult to face some extremely fast small men, and he will be eliminated if he is not careful.

This kind of guard Xiangbei has not been encountered in Tokyo, but there is such a person in Kanagawa, and now the main point guard of the top four in the prefecture, Miyagi Ryota, and he is also Sakuragi's former teammate in the country, and he is very familiar with Sakuragi.

If Miyagi makes a fuss about Sakuragi's turn, he may drag this strong point in northern Hunan to the situation of mutual explosion.

Although it was a warm-up match in front of him, Suzuki's mind had already turned back to Kanagawa and remembered the prefectural tournament after that.

The four seeded teams in this year's Kanagawa tournament are Xiangyang, Hainan, Lingnan and Xiangbei.

If nothing else, these four teams will eventually enter the round-robin tournament and compete for a place in the national competition.

Judging from the information collected so far, there are not a few strong teams in Kanagawa Prefecture that are qualified to challenge the top four, but there is still no one who can really knock out the top four.

The number of qualifying places in the summer has increased from two to three, which has made the competition in Kanagawa Prefecture fiercer than ever.

When Suzuki first coached Xiangbei, the top four-level team generally had two ace-level (B grade and above) players in the team, and even Xiangyang was only three at that time.

But now, the three aces have become the standard, there is no iron triangle, and even the edge of the top four cannot be touched, even if it is complete, it is better than the quality of the trump card.

Replacing Xiangyang's position is the long-cherished wish of countless teams in the county, but in the past two years, more and more teams have been powerless.

Hainan, Lingnan, including Xiangbei this year, these second-level teams have almost swept up all the good seedlings in the county, even the neighboring prefectures and counties.

Teams at the top 16 and even the top 8 have struggled to attract star players from the country.

The strong are getting stronger and the weak are getting weaker, which is a general trend.

There are no examples of people like Arakawa and Hayama who chose to join a mid-stream team and expected to lead the team to the national arena as the core.

If you want to make results, you must hold a group, which is not only the rhetoric of the coaches of various colleges and universities when they recruit good seedlings, but also the consensus of the middle school graduates who expect to continue playing basketball in colleges and universities.

With the popularization and younger age of basketball, potential young players are emerging earlier and earlier, and their understanding of the campus basketball community in the county is far beyond that of their predecessors three or four years ago.

Suzuki must be glad that he caught up with the good times, and he qualified from the IH County Competition twice in a few years, and played the signboard of the Xiangbei secondary powerhouse, otherwise, Xiangbei will be more miserable than the original world line.

Not only will Miyagi and Mitsui be poached, but even Akagi and Rukawa will not be able to keep them, so they can only rely on the support of Sakuragi Shincho.

In addition, you can only pull out the tall one among the short ones, and make do with it.

It's not that there are no good seedlings after being combed and ploughed by various famous schools.

Middle school and high school are the peak period of young people's growth, and there are many people who jump in height in high school; When I was in middle school, I chose other sports, and there were not a few people who switched to basketball in high school.

But none of these people can become instant combat power, and most of them are basically unable to surpass the group of people who have already emerged in the middle stage of the country at the limit of three years.

If you don't have a strong teammate, no matter how powerful Sakuragi is, I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve the level of Yota Sugiyama!

Kanagawa is not Okinawa after all.

Mr., Supervisor, Coach......

A series of calls brought Suzuki back to his senses, and he realized that the first half was over.

Looking at the score, 48-52, Xiangbei still maintained the lead, Suzuki nodded with satisfaction, and asked Akagi to rest first, and then called Inoue, to pass the game statistics.

On the side of Xiangbei, Akagi, Rukawa, Sakuragi, and Mu Du scored double-doubles, scoring 16, 11, 12, and 11 points respectively, which is relatively average.

On the other side, Seirin's score was concentrated on Vulcan and Hinata, with Vulcan scoring 16 points equal to Akagi, while Hinata scored 20 points on 6 three-point shots.

In the final stage of the first half, Vulcan and Hinata, under the instigation of Kiyoshi, launched a crazy counterattack, and each round was played quickly, leaving the onlookers breathless.

However, the generals in Xiangbei are very familiar with the style of play, even if they involuntarily speed up the rhythm together, they are not led to play abnormally, and the mistakes increase.

Kiyoshi scored just six points in the first half, and this was because he focused on playing against Sakuragi in the first half, taking only three shots. With the doom of the car still in front of him, Izuki played very cautiously, focusing on passing, and only shooting himself when he was completely sure.

Retreating from center to point guard, Muji didn't feel uncomfortable at all, handing over a report card of 9 assists. This statistic is comparable to Sakuragi's score in the first half.

Muji's stable performance was the main reason why Cheng Rin was able to keep up with Xiangbei in the first half and never fell behind.