When the river was still there, Sunrise West and Xiangbei had a fight.

At that time, Sunrise West was a strong team, with Kanagawa second only to Atsushi Shihara's high school striker Okamoto. At that time, Shigeru Arakawa joined the team as the MVP of the junior high school, but he could only occupy the quarterback to play the swingman, which shows the heyday of Sunrise Western talents at that time.

However, it was this sunrise west, bad luck, first in the warm-up game to meet the peak of the river, first folded the sharpness, and then in the county competition hit the swept across the country Xiangyang, even the county finals did not enter.

After the summer competition, the third grade retired from the department, and Xiangbei and Sunrise West met again in the Winter Cup.

Both sides have lost their cores, but there is a barren river on top of the west at sunrise, and no one in Xiangbei can replace the big river, and the strength of Xiangbei has declined even more.

However, under Suzuki's dispatch, Xiangbei Shengsheng used an outside three-point shot to kill Sunrise West, making the ambitious Arakawa fail again.

The third time the two teams met was in last year's Winter Cup.

This time, Xiangbei, which was declining, could no longer withstand Arakawa's offensive, and tried its best, and did not see any hope of winning in the whole game.

The reason for last year's loss was that Arakawa was unbeatable in the small forward position, and their center Nakajima matured and firmly contained the core of Xiangbei.

Last year's defeat was due to the collapse of the inner line, and this year's victory of Xiangbei was due to the reinforcement of the inner line.

The addition of Akagi and Hotta, and the growth of Ishii, allowed Shobei's inner line to regain the balance of power against Sunrise West, thus exposing their disadvantages on the outside line, and turning Arakawa back into a lone wolf without the support of his teammates.

What's more, Suzuki put another rope on this group of lone wolves. He put captain Maki in the small forward position to play against Arakawa, and this move immediately sealed Arakawa's strongest scoring method - the jump shot in this area outside the restricted area inside the three-point line.

Although Maki is inferior to Arakawa in pace and speed, his long-term interior training gives him an advantage in strength and position, and this time, Maki doesn't have to worry about Arakawa occasionally passing him and causing damage in his back immediately.

Akagi and Ishii both have good frontal defense, plus Nakajima and Ono are crowded inside, and the basket is overcrowded, and it is not a paradise where small forwards can be like fish in water.

In addition, on the bench, the 183cm Hotta and the 182cm Kawabe are also eyeing each other and ready to play at any time.

Although on the Xiangbei side, when attacking, the inner line was also abolished, but the Xiangbei outer line played its usual advantage over them, completely suppressed the combination of Kaneno and Morikawa, and firmly controlled the trend of the game.

Endo and Mizuno each played a good half. The former dished out 10 assists and scored eight points of his own, narrowly missing a double-double. The latter took advantage of Kaneno's declining physical strength and poor marking, and in less than 20 minutes, he even brushed up 13 assists.

Driven by the two point guards, Xiangbei's quarterbacks took turns to play, and they all performed very well.

Kuroda made 3 of 5 two-pointers and 1 of 3 three-pointers to score nine points.

Yanagisawa made 2 of 4 two-pointers and 1 of 2 three-pointers to score six points.

Woody made 3-of-5 two-pointers and 2-of-2 free throws to score eight points.

Mu Du shot 2-of-3 from two-pointers and 2-of-4 from three-pointers to score 10 points.

Among these four people, Kuroda and Takedai have always played point guards, but Kuroda has been practicing three-point shooting hard recently, and the range is a little longer than Udei, and one of the two likes to shoot on the left side, and the other likes to shoot in the bottom corner, and the style of play is not the same. Yanagisawa and Mu Du used to play small forwards, but one was a temporary cameo, a swingman's style of play, and he could pass suddenly, but he couldn't find a way to shoot, while the other was in the process of transforming into a pitcher, and everything was a little bit of a sudden pass shot.

These four people go down and I go up, and they change back and forth, but Morikawa, who is on the opposite side, suffers enough, and actually cramps in the warm-up game, and was replaced by the sixth man Suzumura more than halfway through the second half.

Kaneno and Morikawa are not strong, but they are also selected by the shorties in the Sunrise West team, and their substitutes are even weaker, and they can't even play a basic role after being replaced.

Coach Tanaka of Sunrise West is still in good spirits, directing the players on the field with his loud voice. Seeing that the guard line really couldn't prevent the outside attack of Xiangbei, he had to tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and sent two new students with good height, Fukuyama and Miki, who were both over 1.8 meters, to the inner line, and left the outside line to Arakawa alone.

This change of formation immediately made Mizuno and Mu Dusk, who were still a little immature, not know how to deal with it, Arakawa's top athleticism and abundant physical strength made the two of them scramble and make mistakes one after another.

How could Suzuki defeat this strange all-inside formation, seeing that Mizuno and the two couldn't adjust themselves, he waved his big hand to let Endo return to the game, control the ball, and then replace Mu Twilight with Hotta, enter the inside defense, and then let Maki still follow Arakawa.

This change completely cut off Sunrise Nishi's chances of winning, and Arakawa was only two knives in offensive organization, not as good as Endo, and away from the basket, it also made Sunrise Nishi's scoring ability weaker and weaker.

Although Xiangbei's scoring ability has also weakened a lot due to this change, there is a genuine point guard, and the scoring efficiency is still higher than that of Sunrise West.

In the end, Xiangbei avenged the defeat in last year's Winter Cup with a score of 58-50.

Because the game in Kunaka County was about to start, the Lihai Junior High School basketball team began to practice some tactics, so Sakuragi Hanamichi did not appear on the sidelines in this game. The same was true for the match against Fujimura the next morning.

The Fujimura basketball team is unknown in Kanagawa, and they were invited only because the school was relatively close.

Xiangbei's main lineup only played five minutes before turning the game into a slaughter, leading by 20 points.

Seeing that this could not play a role in training the team, Suzuki immediately removed all the main players, replaced some players who did not play often, or asked some players to change positions for inspection.

Ishii played center, Takeyo became point guard, power forward was Kawabe, small forward was Ino, and scoring guard went Sakai.

However, it was such a lineup of "leftovers" in the first and second grades, but it still had the upper hand in the game with Fujimura.

Suzuki watched Ishii Nu in the inner line majestic, Wu Daiyuwa always couldn't help but shoot by himself, and successively replaced the two of them, replaced with Hotta center, and Mu Du served as the point guard, which made the game no longer one-sided, and there was a little bit of highlights.

In the current Xiangbei team, there are 15 people who can often play, and a basketball team generally only has 12 people, which means that there must be three people who will be excluded from the main selection.

Therefore, these substitute players, in order to squeeze into the main selection list, played very hard, obviously their physical fitness was not as good as the opponent, but they gradually suppressed the opponent, until they finally won this game without suspense.