Chapter 153: Fighting for Gold (7)
Suzuki and Taiga discussed that in the second half, he would loosen up on the defensive end to save energy, so when Taiga was defending on his own side, he did not take the initiative to cross the half court and force Zeden like in the first half, but waited outside the free throw line on his own side.
The main defensive tactic in Xiangbei is man-to-man.
On Oga's side, Imai was positioned slightly forward, staring at Kamakura, Kanayama's only third-year player. In the back, Rutsuki changed positions and haunted behind Oga, playing at the small forward position, which was defended by Aoki at this time, while Yoshino and Kitazawa wrestled for a favorable position near the restricted area. The high school forward Kenmusashi pulled away to the bottom line at this time, but Maki didn't dare to give up the basket to follow.
Zeden immediately felt Dahe's relaxation, but he didn't mean to entangle Dahe in reverse, found a line, and passed the ball over.
Ruyue relied on her height, strode sideways, received the ball in the air, and then turned around, leaned Aoki behind her, and then jumped up more than one step away from the three-point line, stretched her hands forward, and threw the ball.
"Suffer!" When Maki saw Ruyue receiving the ball and turning around, he immediately stepped forward to intercept it. Rutsuki's style of play is exactly the same as Suzuki's requirements for him at the small forward position, and he immediately senses danger.
Maki's decisiveness made Ruyue's shooting fall short, and the basketball grazed Maki's fingertips, jumped up, deviated from the basket, grazed on the rebound, and fell to the other side.
After the real wood fingertips touched the ball, I was happy, and when I looked back after hitting the ground, it was as if I had been splashed with cold water.
Ken Musashi overwhelmed Yoshino and still made a successful basket.
Oga squeezed his eyes at Imai and asked him to try his feel on the next ball.
Imai was aware of it, as if moving aimlessly on the right side, and suddenly an acceleration tore open a line of space, and Taiga's pass arrived from the gap between Kitazawa and Zeden at the right time.
The ball was so comfortable that Imai didn't need to adjust and jumped straight out of the shot.
Kamakura was half a step slower, and with a palm in the air, he saw the basketball accurately hollow into the basket.
60-62。
Xiangbei is only 2 points behind.
Zeden dribbled the ball alternately in Dahe, and was not in a hurry to attack for a while, so he asked in a good time: "In the second half, your defense was not so tight, and your offense was mainly assisted, did you not have the physical strength to keep up?" ”
Dahe said coldly: "What do you say? ”
Zeden replied, "I said, of course it's the best. But if you want to win, you can't always expect your opponent to have problems! ”
Before the words fell, Zeden raised his hand and threw the ball high to the bottom line on the right.
Over there, the sword pulls a step outward, catches the ball, faces Maki, and forces a shot.
The real wood step point was not accurate, it was too late to jump, and although the hand was raised, it did not work.
Swish!
Jin Shan's center used a three-pointer in the bottom corner to open the difference again.
With a calm face, Taiga passed back and forth with Imai, and before Kitazawa pressed up, he started with his strength, and hit the three-point line of Kanayama, and then stopped abruptly.
But when Zeden was not allowed to make a move, he took the first step to block the breakthrough direction of Dahe, intending to create a foul on Dahe.
Taiga immediately raised his hand to pass the ball, not giving Kitazawa a chance to wrap it up at all.
Yoshino sprints over and takes it into place. Instead of attacking on his own, he turned and sent the ball behind his back.
Behind Yoshino, Taiga shook off Kitazawa and Zeden, came over to regain control of the ball, and then took advantage of Yoshino's cover to jump directly and shoot.
Kisaragi was blocked by Yoshino, and when he reacted, Oga's ball had already passed.
The hoop shuddered, and Dahe's shot landed on the left inside of the hoop, spun half a circle, and fell from the right.
Zeden continued to play the point of long passes.
This time, Maki posted it, but the sword still forced a three-point shot.
Interfered with by Maki, the ball went a little harder, went over the middle of the hoop, smashed on the outside of the left hoop, and then continued to bounce to the left.
On that side, Kiratsu had the upper hand in the battle with Aoki.
Despite Aoki's speed and better positioning, Kirizuki's 10-centimeter height allowed him to take the rebound off Aoki's head.
After Rutsuki took the ball, he passed a backhand to Kamakura's hand on the outside.
Kamakura leaned into Imai and then threw a three-pointer.
"Rebound!" Imai turned around and grabbed Kamakura to prevent him from entering the inner line, shouting at the same time. He felt that under that violent physical contact, Kamakura's three points were basically impossible to score.
However, the basketball was under Imai's gaze, getting closer to the basket little by little, and then went straight to the center of the net.
"How can this be?" Imai couldn't believe it.
is also a three-point shooter, and the reason why Imai's accuracy rises and falls is because he shoots quite quickly and does not have enough time to aim in order to avoid interference, so he relies heavily on his own feel. When he gets the right rhythm, he can score several at once, but once the rhythm is out of order, he may not be able to score any of them.
Imai didn't know that Kamakura's three-point shot was still somewhat famous nationwide, and was called the "unyielding three-pointer".
Ordinary shooters avoid confrontation and try to run to the open space to shoot to increase their long-range shooting percentage.
Kamakura's approach, however, is different. He relied on his physical advantage to actively look for confrontations, control the defensive movements of opposing defenders to a certain extent, and then wait for the shot when no one is defending. Kamakura trained his hands very steadily, and other shooters could not even shoot the ball on the rebound under this level of confrontation, but he was able to hit it accurately.
Kamakura's style of play works quite well, but it's not without its pitfalls.
Throwing three points under confrontation undoubtedly gives up part of the protection of the body and increases the risk of injury.
Moreover, opponents tend to compete with Kamakura with higher intensity after they have adapted to the intensity of their confrontations.
Over the past few years, Kamakura's injuries have been intermittent, and it is difficult to guarantee an appearance rate.
And this affected Kamakura's growth, so he never developed any new means otherwise.
Kamakura lost his main position in this year's national competition, on the one hand, because Coach Aikawa of Kanayama shortened his playing time in order to protect him, and on the other hand, because of Honda, he began to focus on training new talents.
Kamakura and Honda, one is in the third grade, and basically will retire after playing this year, and the other is the first grade, and there are more than two years to use, under the premise of the same type and close strength, how to choose, I believe that most people will choose Honda like Coach Aikawa.
By the way, Coach Aikawa's name is Akihiko Aikawa, and he is Kazuhiko Aikawa's brother. It is precisely such a relationship that the whole team of Jinshan did not have the slightest psychological fluctuation in the situation where the ace played smoothly but was replaced. If you change a team and the coach is so messy, the players at the bottom will have long since quit.