Chapter 88: Three Points and Rebounds (1)
After reading this profile from Basketball Weekly, Suzuki kept shaking his head. The reason for shaking his head is not that the magazine is wrong, but because what is written in the magazine is true, and the details of Xiangbei are completely exposed.
In addition, the magazine deliberately put Xiangbei and the King of the Mountain together, which made Xiangbei Club attract much attention.
The teams of the same county are divided into groups.
As the champion of last summer, Xiangyang is the seeded team in the first division. Hainan came up through the play-offs and was naturally the last team in the fourth division.
Xiangbei, as the second place in Kanagawa Prefecture this year, was divided into the second division along with the second seed Sanno, and the two teams will meet in the second round.
Last summer, Sanno made it to the finals, including Hainan and Lingnan from Kanagawa. If they hadn't narrowly lost to Shoyang in the final, they would have been called Kanagawa killers.
Originally, one of the two teams of Shanwang and Xiangbei was the champion of last year's Winter Cup, and the other was only a newcomer who participated in the national competition for the second time.
However, as soon as this text comes out, when the king of the mountains meets Xiangbei, he will definitely go all out and never die.
For this incident, Aida Yayoi called Suzuki to apologize afterwards. She explained that during that time, she happened to go on a business trip to the United States, and she was not on the job, and she was the person who replaced her for the sake of gimmicks.
Suzuki felt that the wood was already in the boat, and it was useless to say more, so he forgave them. After all, many times, it is he and Xiangbei who need to rely on the help of the magazine.
For example, Suzuki now has two videotapes of his future opponents.
One set is Sanno's match against Kiyoreung at this year's Akita Prefecture Tournament, while the other set is a match between two teams in Tokyo, Seirin and Hidetoku.
This Xiude is exactly the opponent that Xiangbei met in the first round.
According to the information sent by Aida with the videotape, Hidetoku is definitely the top existence among the top in Tokyo.
Cheng Rin and Xiangbei played a warm-up match, although Xiangbei won easily, but even Suzuki has to admit that Cheng Rin is a team with great potential, and they have more than one strong player in their team.
Cheng Rin in the video is more mature than when he played with Xiangbei. But that's it, they still lost to Xiude with a score difference of 20 points.
Makorin's two defenders, Izuki and Hinata, were suppressed by the opposing players, Takao and Midorima, which made their offense unorganized.
Later, it was Muji who took on the responsibility of organizing and scoring alone, so that the game did not become an exhibition match for Xiude.
But Muji's opponent Daping is not simple, this is another player with a height of nearly 2 meters. Although his skills are far less comprehensive than Muji's, his dunk when he approaches the basket is full of momentum and is difficult to resist.
Otsubo, Takao and Midorima, plus two forwards Kimura and Miyaji, are the main lineup of Hidetoku.
Just at a rough glance, this is a team that is not easy to mess with, with an average height of nearly 1.9 meters, which still includes the point guard Takao who is dragging his feet.
Needless to say, in terms of rebounding, Xiangbei will encounter a huge challenge.
With rebounding guaranteed, Suzuki's first reaction was that this team should be very good at long-range shooting.
However, judging from the video, there is only one three-point shooter in Hidetoku's main lineup, and that is their scoring guard Midorima, who is actually a tall man with a height of 195cm.
The island nation is not the mecca of basketball, and talent abounds. Usually players who are more than 180cm tall will be placed to play inside.
And the reason why this Midorima was not placed on the inside line is precisely because he has a three-point shot that is accurate.
It can be said that as long as half time passes, any position is the scoring range of the green room. As long as no one interferes, his vacancy hit rate is 70%!
Midorima's height of 195cm basically means that he can ignore the defense of the opposing player when he shoots, which is equivalent to an empty position.
After all, most school point guards are only about 1.6 meters tall or 1.7 meters tall, and even if they jump, they can't touch the ball held by Midorima.
Trouble!
Suzuki sighed.
Obviously, the only person who can defend Midorima in the team is the captain Maki.
It's just that once Maki leaves the power forward position, it will be difficult for Xiangbei to gain the upper hand in all other positions. There is no strong point in one-on-one singles, and it is undoubtedly very unfavorable for Xiangbei to create opportunities to score just by cooperating.
What to do?
Suzuki finally made a decision before the start of the game, or to keep Maki in the power forward position to ensure Shobei's offense, and let the 178cm tall Shakura make a cameo as a scoring guard to try to interfere with Midorima.
The starting lineup for the first game of Xiangbei's reappearance in the national arena were: center Akagi, power forward Maki, small forward Yanagisawa, point guard Mizuno and scoring guard Shakura.
And Xiude still sacrificed their usual main lineup.
With a whistle, the basketball flew into the air, and two big men jumped high from the center of the crowd and stretched out their long arms to slap the basketball.
Otsubo's height is superior, but Akagi has a faster bounce and shoots the basketball before him.
Mizuno received the ball, and instead of rushing to pass it out again to play a fast attack, he looked at Yanagisawa's running position and passed a broken line to bounce the earth past.
Before the match, Suzuki made a detailed analysis of Hidetoku's main lineup against the video.
Mizuno knew that Hidetoku point guard Takao was a dangerous man who was very good at breaking the ball, so he was extra careful when passing.
Yanagisawa received the ball, and a short body drilled through the armpit of Miyaji in the opposite position to form a breakthrough, and then passed the ball to Shakura before Midorima could make up for it.
Suzuki analyzed Miyaji, a 1.9-meter-thin bamboo pole small forward, in fact, he is not very experienced in the game, and his skills are only average, and he is a defensive weakness with only height, so he taught Yanagisawa, Maki and Mizuno and others to find him to break through.
Sure enough, Yanagisawa tried it in the game and immediately created a killing machine.
Shakura feinted to shoot and got close to the green room before turning and distributing the ball to the wing.
Yanagisawa arrived at the ball, and immediately raised his hand to jump after receiving the ball. Miyachi went to fight the sand warehouse, and at this time, he just turned around and saw Yanagisawa running to an empty seat.
It's a three-pointer.
The basketball makes a beautiful arc and falls straight into the center of the hoop.
3-0。
Xiangbei used a three-point shot to declare war on Xiude, who is known for his three-point shots!
Yanagisawa laughed and high-fived Shakura and Maki in celebration.
After a month of intensive training during the interval between competitions, the state of everyone in Xiangbei has been adjusted to a very high position. There are quite a few players, especially a few in the first year, who feel like they have been reborn. And several senior players, after digesting the experience brought by the high-intensity competition of the county competition, have also improved.
Now, it's time for them to show the results of their training.