Chapter Seventy-Six: Three Battles Mountain Kings (6)
The game on the court will not wait for Domoto, you will continue to fight round by round.
The king of the mountains has always had no way to combine the attack of northern Hunan with internal and external attacks.
Although Kogawada relied on his height and broadness, he made Akagi's attacks several times fruitless, but more often, he was also too large and not as agile as Akagi, and Sora had the absolute height of the whole court, but he repeatedly lost his defensive position and was defeated by Akagi in the center one-on-one.
For example, an attack at 12 minutes. Akagi received the ball with his back in the low post on the left side of the basket, and took the first step to make a layup from the inside with a low hand, but Kawada hurriedly moved sideways to block. Akagi then turned around and walked to the other side, and Kokawada's center of gravity shifted, taking advantage of his height and arm length, and continued to interfere. After a two-two-three, when Akagi turned around in succession and returned the attack to the direction of the first one, Kogawada finally couldn't keep up, so he had to watch Akagi rise up in front of him, dunking with both hands and detonating the whole court.
Seeing that his brother couldn't deal with Akagi alone, Okawada got close and wanted to clamp the defense, but Mori took the opportunity to pull to the outside and wait for the pass. On the Maori side, the teammate who is likely to make up for the mountain king is Ichinokura, who is only 1.7 meters tall, and no matter how good the single defense technology is, it is useless.
Maori's first ball was not scored under the interference of Okawada's timely defense, and the rebound was won by Zebei to fight back. This made Kawada feel more at ease to go and grab Akagi. But Okawada didn't expect that Maori made three consecutive moves in the back, each time it was hollow into the frame, and the third time was even thrown into his face. Okawada screamed in his heart, knowing that the relaxation just now made Maori throw his hand, and he didn't dare to let him go easily.
Xiangbei's two interior scores gradually rose, and the two guards were not idle, and they made a long-distance projection from the periphery.
Sakuragi made another three-point shot, but unfortunately it didn't go in, but the other two 2-pointers that were slightly closer went in.
Mizuno had a higher shooting percentage, hitting a three-pointer and a mid-range shot without missing a single shot.
In the Xiangbei team, the only thing that is a little lost is the small forward Liuchuan. His performance in the first half was the worst of the five.
It's not that Rukawa doesn't work hard, but the opponent he is facing is really a grade above him.
Rukawa's score in the entire first half of the field is not small, 10 points, and he has already reached a double, but these 10 points are basically obtained by cooperating with teammates and using the cover of teammates. And his favorite way to score is to score one-on-one after beating his opponent one-on-one like a samurai duel in positional battles, but he has never succeeded once.
In the first half, Rukawa and Zebei went head-to-head, and three times they were directly cut off by the opponent, and the other times they were forced to give the ball to their teammates, and one of them was cut off by Okawada.
It can be said that Rukawa was completely defeated in the confrontation with Zebei.
Zebei and Okawada were the two best players in the first half.
Rukawa didn't play the first game, and then in the game against Chang Cheng, he scored 41 points alone, full of firepower, shocking the audience. If it weren't for the fact that in another division at the same time, Lingnan's Xiandao Akira and Mingpeng's Mori Shigekuan scored 46 and 40 respectively in the competition, and performed equally well, he might have become famous all over the country at that time.
In the subsequent match against Daiei, who is known for his excellent defense, Rukawa was still in great shape. Under the opponent's tight defense, although the number of shots was not much, Rukawa still scored 30 points in a little more than half time, showing his superb basketball skills and diverse scoring skills while showing a strong desire to attack.
There have been many coaches of teams who have commented that Rukawa Kaede is the next Eiji Zekita.
However, the next one means that he can't catch up with Zebei yet.
Although the two are already on par in terms of offensive performance, Rukawa's defense still has a lot to improve.
This is well known not only to various commentators and coaches, but also to Rukawa himself.
However, what people didn't expect was that in the direct confrontation with Zebei, Liuchuan would lose so badly!
Zebei defended at least half of Rukawa's attack, but Rukawa was powerless against Zebei's attack.
Against the backdrop of Liuchuan, heroes from all walks of life suddenly found that Zebei not only improved his offensive ability, which can be regarded as the pinnacle, but also made great progress in his defensive ability compared to the first grade.
Many star players who didn't play couldn't help but change their faces after seeing Rukawa's repeated defeats.
Jun Tsuchiya, the main general of Daei, who had just been eliminated by Xiangbei, looked at Zebei and sighed: "In the current college team, I'm afraid I can't find a small forward who can compete with Zebei!" If we encounter the King of the Mountains first instead of Xiangbei, Zebei alone will be enough to eliminate us! However, Liuchuan is really pitiful, their coach has always let him go to Fang Zebei alone, is this really appropriate? ”
If Tsuchiya's words are heard by Zebei, Zebei will definitely tell Tsuchiya that Coach Xiangbei's arrangement is absolutely right! This Rukawa Kaede on the other side is definitely a pervert!
Zebei has never seen a player who has improved so quickly. From the beginning, only fifty percent of the strength was needed to easily break through from Liuchuan's side, and now it takes eighty or ninety percent of the strength to do it, and Liuchuan only took twenty minutes!
This kid learns so fast! Zebei suddenly had a feeling of fighting himself. Not only defensive actions and intentions, but even offensively, he is also advancing by leaps and bounds! The three breaks, Zebei was more difficult than the other, and the last time Rukawa was forced to pass and the ball was intercepted by Okawa, it was not entirely Rukawa's problem.
Mizuno leaned on the ball under the entanglement of Ichikura, but as soon as he touched the ball, Kawada suddenly burst out and broke the ball. The slow speed of the ball was one reason for this mistake, and the negligence of Mizuno and other balls was another.
The reason why Rukawa is now on the field and his performance is still inferior to Zebei's first line is not that he doesn't learn well, but that he learns too well and learns too fast! Liuchuan copied a set of things from Zebei in the past, imitating eight or nine without leaving ten, but he still lacked his own in-depth comprehension and was a little stiff.
Zebei had a feeling that if this game was interrupted and played again in two days, giving Rukawa some time to digest what he had learned from him, maybe Rukawa would be able to go toe-to-toe with him in the second half.
Just through fighting, I learned all the moves I had worked so hard to practice. The qualifications of this cold-faced kid are really jealous! Zebei thought to himself.
However, in general, in the position of Zebei, he is still suppressing Liuchuan at present. This was evident from Zebei's score in the first half.
Of the 40 points scored by the King of the Mountain, 24 points were scored by Zebei, accounting for as much as 60% of the total score!