Chapter Seventy-Four: The Battle of Hainan (5)
Ash Qi chuckled, "Gao Tou, this despicable guy, will definitely not be able to sit still." ”
Hearing Ash Saki call Hainan's coach so unceremoniously, Nakamura and Arima were not surprised.
In the match between the Xiangyang team and the Hainan team last year, Ziyuan left the court with an injury, but Ashizaki fell into the trap of the high head, was hot-headed, ate two technical fouls in a row, and left the game early in the key battle, almost making a big mistake.
Fortunately, Okazakihama, a rookie who was still a first-year at the time, stepped up and exploded with Bushi Bu at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, so that the small forward position did not become Shoyang's weakness. Coupled with the hard work of Osamu Igarashi and the other three third-grade seniors, Xiangyang finally narrowly defeated Hainan by 2 points in the absence of two absolute main forces.
After the game, what kind of punishment did Ashizaki suffer in the Shoyang team, the entire basketball team has been secretive, and outsiders have no way of knowing, but from then on, every time he talks about high power, he will add adjectives such as despicable and shameless, and after a long time, the whole Kanagawa knows.
The people who know you best are often not friends, but your opponents.
Ashizaki's judgment of Takatou was not in the slightest, and after each side played another round, Takatou called a timeout.
What the hell would you do?
Suzuki looked at his head and thought for himself.
Hainan's current problem, on the bright side, is the lack of outside attack points, especially the three points.
According to this line of thinking, the most straightforward countermeasure should be to replace Mitsuru Ohara, a scoring guard who has been doing nothing on the court, and replace it with a guard with three-point ability.
The Hainan team is a traditional hero, with a wide range of materials and good training conditions, and there is no reason why there will be a lack of three-point shooters.
However, considering that the current point guard Honko Jiro has quite good three-point ability, Suzuki does not rule out that the opponent will replace another point guard and release Honko to focus on scoring guards.
If the opponent does this, Suzuki is ready to replace Mizuhashi first from the break and replace Yoshino to strengthen the outside defense.
However, if the head is just a shooting guard, Suzuki will be a little disappointed.
Another problem of the Hainan team, in fact, has already appeared in the round just now.
As Ashizaki said before, Shiki's physical strength has been severely reduced, and it has begun to affect the feel.
This is still a problem in Hainan's offensive. Their offense in the first half relied too much on Bu Shibu, who played big forward, and the real traditional scoring points, the three positions of center, small forward and scoring guard, were inactive and lackluster in the confrontation with Xiangbei.
In the center, Hainan has no way.
Gao Yuan is already the first height of the Hainan team except for charity, but the gap in experience and body makes it completely impossible for him to score points from Miyagawa's defense, but in the competition for rebounds, he still plays an equal game with Miyagawa.
The problem with shooting guard Mitsuru Ohara, as I have said before, is that he does not have three-point ability.
And Kazuo Yanagimoto, who plays as a small forward, is a complete outside defensive leader.
In the use of Yanagimoto, the tall head is strong and solid as Suzuki.
The small forward position has always been the weakest point in Xiangbei, and this problem has become more prominent after Aoki's injury.
However, in the rounds of the knockout rounds, because the opponents were all weak teams, this problem in Xiangbei was not revealed, but good data was obtained.
Especially in the last game against Buri, Lantau Lantau, who was a small forward at the time, got a lot of shots, and the shooting percentage was extremely amazing.
There is a gap of about two weeks between the end of the knockout round round and the start of the round-robin. During this time, Suzuki carefully studied the match between Hainan and Minowa.
On the other hand, Gao Touli naturally carefully studied Xiangbei's game this year, especially Xiangbei vs. Buri, which is the most valuable one.
Gao Tou attaches great importance to Lantau, a new attack point for small forwards, and specially arranges Liu Ben, who has no offensive ability but excellent defensive ability, to lock Lantau Island.
It can be said that Yanagimoto's performance in the first half was outstanding, he successfully blocked Lantau scoring ability, but this was not useful, Xiangbei actually did not need the small forward position to have offensive ability.
Suzuki uses Lantau not so much with his offensive prowess as with his versatility and fluidity with Taiga.
It doesn't matter whether Lantau can score or not, it is enough to assist Taiga to organize the attack, and with his not excellent defensive ability, the opponent's small forward Yanagimoto does not score, this result makes Suzuki not too satisfied.
What Suzuki is worried about now is that the other party finds that Lantau is actually not strong in offensive ability, so he replaces Yanagimoto with an offensive master, and strengthens the attack with the idea that everyone is a big deal to explode each other.
In this way, even if both sides can't prevent the other party's attack, but because of the extra scoring points, Bu Shibu has a chance to breathe, and Xiangbei's next game will be much more difficult.
What the hell would you do?
Suzuki waited for 1 minute and saw the change of formation from the high head.
He actually replaced the Bu Shi Bu!
Whatever you think, now don't blame me for being unkind!
Suzuki made a quick decision, and after the next dead ball, he also called a timeout, and then replaced Lantau and Yoshino with Imai and Maki to strengthen the attack!
Such an almost all-pitcher lineup is something that Hainan can't resist.
In the remaining 4 minutes of the first half, Gao Yuan only grabbed 1 defensive rebound, and the rest was obtained by Xiangbei and converted into a second offensive opportunity, either to make up for the basket, or to return to the outside to continue projecting.
In just 4 minutes, Xiangbei set off a 15-4 attack wave, and by halftime, Xiangbei's lead expanded to 25 points.
The score was 29-54.
The audience of the Hainan team on the sidelines collectively lost their voices, while the supporters of Xiangbei were elated, as if they were celebrating the New Year.
"Hainan, is this going to lose?" Keiko Honmi had tears in her eyes, covering her face with her hands, and she couldn't bear to see Honko Jiro alone on the field, and was counterattacked by Taiga's successive broken balls.
"Is Xiangbei already so strong? Even the Hainan team is so far behind. Aida Yayoi was dumbfounded and asked Sugiura, a newly acquainted magazine reporter around him, but for this question, senior reporter Sugiura couldn't answer her, but looked at the giant Hainan with a shocked face.
"Tall, you bastard! It's just a little bit behind, are you giving up? The middle-aged man next to Keiko opened his neckline, leaned down and yelled at Hainan's bench.
"No, Hainan hasn't given up yet! Their eyes are very determined! Nakamura crossed his hands over his chest and said to Shishizaki and Arima beside him.
Ashizaki still sneered: "The tall bastard wants to fight for the second half?" ”
Youma held on to the railing in front of him, looked at the bench in Xiangbei, and thought in his heart: Dahe-kun, Superintendent Suzuki, do you see Hainan's plan? Don't think that the game is just won, celebrate in advance!