Lihai and Xiangbei have fought to this point, which cannot be completely attributed to the activity of Sakuragi alone, and the efforts of the other four cannot be ignored.

One of the most important things is that they haven't completely lost their grip on rebounding.

Keisuke Mineta is similar in size to Ishii, but there is a significant gap compared to the opposing Maki, but his style of play is quite right, seeing the position of the ball, standing still on the ground, just stuck in position, and let Maori, who has better height and bounce, compete with opponents for rebounds.

However, this set of tactics is also Xiangbei's master, and after discovering that the opponent is also playing this set of Tianji horse racing, Maki beckoned Ishii to return the other way to the other. The consequence of this is that the four generals on the inside line all focus on wrestling with each other, and after the projection misses, the basketball falls, and no one jumps, and it all depends on which side occupies the place where the basketball falls to decide whether it is a secondary attack or a counterattack.

However, after the inner line fell into the quagmire, in the end it was Xiangbei that had the upper hand. The gap in experience and physique determines that Xiangbei's interior combination is more likely to get rebounds.

Sakuragi saw that the situation was not good, and once rushed into the interior to grab a rebound, and scored a second attack, but Xiangbei's counterattack speed far exceeded his return defense speed.

The basketball court is much smaller than the football field, just a long pass can be played from one side of the basket to the other side of the basket, the rhythm can be very fast, there is no concept of disconnection at all, here you three hit me two, it doesn't take more than 5 seconds, that side will become me three hit you two, as long as the physical strength can keep up, playing a round will not be longer than drinking a glass of water.

In particular, the height of Lihai's defenders is completely inferior to that of Xiangbei, and there is nothing he can do about long-distance long passes, the ball is all over his head, and he can only stare dryly.

It's just that Xiangbei's rapid counterattack is not able to hit one by one.

Endo has a lot of experience, and after winning the ball, he is not afraid of Miyagi's theft, but his speed advantage does not exist in front of Miyagi, and he can't break through, so he can only pass the ball. At this time, he felt that if he had the advantage of winning the investment. An opponent like Miyagi made it clear that he could only prevent sudden bursts and could not prevent shooting, but as a point guard, he didn't have a shot, so he had to cancel each other out.

At this time, Kuroda hated himself for not practicing three points, and he was not good at times. Yasuda, who is in the opposite position, is a very stable player, basically does not eat feints, and Kuroda is not good at breaking through, so he is forced to gamble on his luck on the outside frequently. Fortunately, his three points have indeed improved, five shots, two in, not too bad.

Kuroda misses the ball, and it depends on Shakura to grab the rebound. Although with Endo's assistance, the two of them together can't snatch Sakuragi alone.

Sakuragi's bounce is so good that even if he is in a bad position, he can rely on his bounce to snatch the rebound from the head of the sand warehouse and stop Xiangbei's attack.

The defense on both sides is better than the offense, so the game looks very lively, coming and going like a tide of offense, but the real score, but it is not much, and when both sides feel the physical strength to the critical point, slow down the rhythm, the first half of the time has been left, the final score is fixed at 33-29, Xiangbei only 4 points ahead.

For this result, Xiangbei is naturally very dissatisfied, and it is a shame to face the middle school team and just play like this, but if you think about it carefully, this Xiangbei team is indeed Na Lihai There is no good way.

The small forward is the center of the inside and outside connection, a position that can be inside or out, is very flexible, and is usually the heart of a team.

Sakuragi's crushing advantage in this position, advancing can help the inside attack, and retreating can help the outside defense, which has a great impact on the tactical operation of Xiangbei.

Although Xiangbei tried to use speed to limit Sakuragi to one side of the attack and defense, and exclude his role on the other side, but after one or two times, Sakuragi saw through this tactic and maintained his position well, which greatly hindered the offensive and defensive operation of Xiangbei.

In the first half of the game, Sakuragi didn't score much, only 8 points, which was not as good as Maori, but he also got 7 assists, 2 interceptions and 2 blocks, and the effect was very obvious.

Despite his best efforts, Sakura's Shakura pales in comparison to him. At the end of the day, Shakura has only just transitioned into a full-time defender, he is only 1 year older than Sakuragi, and he doesn't play basketball as much time as Sakuragi.

Shacang was the most tired player in the first half of the game. Maki and Ishii stayed in their own half most of the time, and only he ran wildly with the athletic Sakuragi from start to finish, without stopping for a moment.

Suzuki has already stated that he will not interfere in the command of this warm-up game, and the adjustment of the midfield depends on the players themselves.

Although Maki didn't feel it difficult, he still took the starters to rest according to the agreement, leaving the second half to Yanagisawa and others.

In the second half, the players who came on the court in Xiangbei were replaced by a combination of center Akagi, power forward Hotta, small forward Yanagisawa, point guard Mizuno and scoring guard Wu Dai.

The physical fitness of junior high school students is definitely not as good as that of high school students, but in the Lihai Array, there are a few physical maniacs, so they only change two positions.

Center Mineda went off the field and replaced him with big forward Shibasaki, letting Mori play center; Scoring guard Yasuda went off the court and replaced Yokoyama.

The tactics of the two teams have not changed much compared to the first half, but after the personnel adjustments, there are still some new contents.

First of all, the center became Maori against Akagi.

Akagi's strength, in the current opinion, is naturally far inferior to the captain Maki, but he is already stronger than Maki in one thing, and that is his strength.

Under the brute force squeeze of Akagi, it became difficult for Maori to gain a foothold in the restricted area, whether it was an empty cut layup or a card position battle, it was very difficult, and it became difficult to even score for a while.

The strength of the new Shibasaki Tetsuya is only average, compared to another basketball player named Tetsuya, he only has some advantages in height, and naturally he is also inferior in front of Hotta.

There are many fewer competitions in junior high school than in high school, and Hotta, who followed Mitsui all the way through the prefectural competition, is still much stronger than Shibasaki, who is one year younger than him, despite his limited talent.

The inner line attack was blocked, but Lihai's outside line was somewhat opened.

Mizuno's strength lies in his passing arrangements, and his skills are more well-rounded, but his pace is not top-notch, giving Miyagi much more space to sprint than in the first half. At the same time, the presence of a large number of first-year students in Xiangbei also made their joint defense and rotation unfamiliar and sluggish, which gave Miyagi a large number of opportunities to rush into the inner line.

Akagi is very bad at facing such a fast outside player, and he is still very reckless, which gives Miyagi the opportunity to foul. Thankfully, Miyagi is not a big river after all, and his lethal effect on the inside line is limited. Akagi's two fouls didn't make him 2+1, and 4 free throws, Miyagi only scored 2 free throws, and on the whole, Xiangbei did not suffer.

Another new outside player, Atsushi Yokoyama, is slightly stronger than Yasuda in offense, and has a hand in the middle shot, but he and Miyagi are not as tacit as Yasuda in terms of cooperation, and they are easily penetrated by Mizuno and Wuyo when defending, and their overall role is not as good as Yasuda.

The reason why Xiangbei gradually opened the score came from the play of Yanagisawa who played small forward, and he far surpassed Shacang in terms of experience with super players, which also made his role on the court much greater than Shacang.