Chapter Forty-Nine: The Second Battle of the Round-robin Tournament, Xiangyang (8)
In the wave after wave of cheers, the whole team of Xiangyang became more and more courageous, and even Nagano, who has always been regarded as a role player, suddenly came to a second pass that shocked the four players. He didn't seem to want the opposing Rukawa to be in front, and after receiving Fujima's pass, he suddenly changed his style of play, breaking through, stopping suddenly, breaking again, and feigning to project, but finally stopped and sent a second pass without looking at the person's back.
Under his series of actions, Rukawa was exhausted, and finally had no defense against his passes, but his teammates were all smart and ran with him.
Mitsui Shou suddenly took a step back, just in time to receive Nagano's return pass, and then glanced slightly, and raised his hand to shoot three points.
Sakuragi followed very closely at first, but Mitsui retreated without warning, and he couldn't follow him out at the first time, and when he was about to jump forward to block the block, a person suddenly inserted in front of him, Fujima!
The basketball rises to the height of the top half of the rebound, and then gradually falls.
Mitsui's shot point is very high, his three-point arc is relatively flat, but the speed is fast, once he crosses the first line of defense in front of him, he is basically unable to defend. Even if the people in the back row are tall enough to cover the basketball in flight, it is useless, even if the first block interferes with the ball, even if it is biased, they can score. In last year's national competition, Narita Chuka, who was a tall player, suffered enough from Mitsui's outside three-point shooting.
However, in the final analysis, the most terrifying thing about Mitsui's three-point shooting technique is not the height, speed and arc of the shot, but his accuracy!
Once the rhythm is thrown, Mitsui's will turn into a scoring machine, completely extinguishing the opponent's fighting spirit with a wave of stormy slashes.
Suzuki chuckled in his heart, and secretly said that it was not good. That's what he's most afraid of, so he's been asking Sakuragi to keep a close eye on Mitsui before, and it's best to prevent him from even having a chance to make a move, but the seal was finally broken!
In the next round, Rukawa made a layup and was stopped by Hanagata with a foul.
Rukawa rubbed his wrist, and for the first penalty, the basketball jumped around and barely threw it.
On the second penalty, he pushed too hard and missed the ball.
Akagi rose to the sky, grabbed the basketball before Hanagata, and was about to stuff it into the hoop, when a hand came up from below and poked the basketball out. Akagi was dumbfounded, and saw that it was Nagano.
Sakuragi saw that Akagi couldn't control the ball, so he stepped forward to scramble together, but was gently pulled by Mitsui, took a step slower, and was slapped out of the restricted area by Takano.
Fuji Zhen received the ball and turned around, rushed to the northern half of Xiangbei at high speed, just came to the middle circle, he felt someone behind him approaching, he changed hands and dribbled, slightly changed direction, and someone came to a lunge in front of him, No. 11, it was the Liuchuan who had just missed the ball.
Fujima counted Rukawa's footsteps, took a step horizontally, and raised his left hand slightly, as if preparing to shoot.
Rukawa didn't dare to slack off, and he exerted his strength again under his feet, kicked the ground violently, threw his body over, and first prevented Fuji Zhen's possible shot.
Fujima immediately withdrew his hand, dribbled on the spot, and waited for Rukawa to pounce on his head, and then continued to move forward, but after such a delay, Sakuragi caught up with him again and ran shoulder to shoulder with him.
Up to now, Fuji Zhen has a very high evaluation of the strength of the twin stars in Xiangbei, which is not inferior to him and Mitsui's talented players, and over time, the achievements may still be above them.
Rukawa is better, his physique has not fully grown, and his experience and consciousness are a little lacking, but Sakuragi is different, this kid is a complete monster!
In just the first year, Sakuragi's level has reached the highest level of college students, and this level, looking at the whole country, there are only a few people!
In the fierce running, Fujima's mind is still very calm, and he knows that if this ball is still done by himself, even if he has a starting advantage, the probability of defeating Sakuragi one-on-one is only sixty percent.
Now it is Xiangyang who is lagging behind, and every attack they have to succeed in, and sixty percent of them can take risks in normal times, but it is not enough now!
So, how can we pull the probability of success of this attack to more than ninety percent?
Fujima's mind spun quickly, but his hands were not slow at all, and he quickly dodged Sakuragi's first copy.
Rukawa stood firm, turned around and pulled the ball, Fuji Shinichi pulled, changed hands continuously, and the three of them stumbled into the free throw line together.
Suddenly, after the figure flashed, the basketball stayed behind the three and bounced out of the three-point line.
Rukawa shouted, "He's a pass!" I didn't touch it! ”
Sakuragi turned his head at the same time and said sharply, "Look at Mitsui!" ”
I saw Xiangyang Ace keep up with the ball, step sideways, avoid the water field that pounced, and at the same time jumped out of the three-point line, and then jumped up again, raising his hand to shoot a three-point shot!
110-113。
was chased by Shoyang with a three-pointer in a row, Rukawa was a little anxious, and reached out to Sakuragi to ask for the ball. However, the two defenders of Xiangbei were quite calm, remembered the instructions of the two, slowed down the pace of the attack, and it was not until Hotta ran out of position that Mizuno passed the ball to the low post at once.
Hotta made a pass to Akagi, which immediately caused Hanagata and Takano to be nervous, and instead he made his own mid-range jumper.
If it is facing Maori, Takano will definitely come forward to block, Maori's fancy mid-range shooting is also a little famous in the county, but now it is Hotta who takes the ball, and he subconsciously thinks that Hotta is definitely going to pass the ball, and Akagi is the person who needs to focus on guarding.
Who knew that Hotta voted for it himself. Before that, Hotta had only scored a total of 4 points, and those two balls were shot under the basket. This mid-shot is the first time Hotta has shown his true range of attacks!
After his success, Hotta shook his fist excitedly.
Mitsui looked at Hotta with an indescribable look, his former teammate who he had always called "a coolie player with little ability", and really felt Hotta's progress in the past three years, and then clenched his fists fiercely, and then he shouted: "Hotta, Mizuno, you are all very good, and it is not a burying of you in Xiangbei." You've all gotten stronger. But you can't stop me. Xiangyang will not lose! ”
Mitsui isn't just talking about it, he's really capable.
In the next round, he stood up to Sakuragi's defense and threw a step-back jumper.
Sakuragi struggled to climb high and barely rubbed the basketball with his middle finger, but that didn't change the outcome. The basketball spun around the hoop and landed in the hole in the center.
Counting Fuji Zhen's three-pointer, four consecutive rounds, Xiangyang used a three-pointer to narrow the difference to 2 points.
Suzuki had to call a timeout again.
At this crucial point, Suzuki did not make substitutions, but chose to believe in these five people standing on the field.
The purpose of shouting a pause is just to interrupt Mitsui's already hot touch.