Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Final Battle of the Round-robin Tournament, Lingnan (5)
It only took two rounds for Suzuki to see what Taoka's idea was, and when Sakuragi scored and everyone was back defended, he came to the sidelines and shouted "Mizuno", and when he turned his head to look over, he pointed at Katsumi.
Mizuno understood, and leaned in the direction of Kami.
The people of Lingnan also noticed Suzuki's instructions, and Miyagi turned his head to look at Taoka, who made a gesture of continuation covertly. He can't help it, compared to the fish on the inside, or the outside line Kemei is easy to pull out of the gap. Besides, Kemei has no physical strength, and there is off-road to replace, and Yuzhu is indispensable. Only Yuzumi can stop Akagi.
Miyagi stopped at the top of the arc to shoot the ball, and when he saw that Ikegami and Katsumi's running routes were about to converge, he held the ball in both hands and sent it there.
Mizuno immediately slid and made an interception move.
Miyagi immediately reacted instinctively, dribbled in reverse, accelerated with the momentum, and broke through Mizuno.
Xiao Kan came to answer, Miyagi stuck to Xiao Kan's side, and Xiao Kan then crossed his body and intercepted Mizuno who was following the defense.
Dribbling one step further, Miyagi looked up, and Mori and Akagi blocked the way like door gods.
Miyagi dribbled into the gap between the two.
Akagi and Mori knew that Miyagi had a fast pace and a flexible turn, and they didn't dare to make casual moves for fear of being late to block the foul, so they just turned around and let him go.
Coming to the other side of the basket, Miyagi still didn't have a good way to get the ball.
Uzumi is in a good position, but if he wants to score with the ball, he will have to meet the two of Akagi and Mori, and it will be difficult to deal with them.
And the two teammates on this side were also entangled. The defender was temporarily changed from Sakuragi to Shakura, and it made no difference to Kami.
Mizuno followed in a half-circle, first raising his hand to cover the line of his return pass, still in a posture of letting go of the sudden throw and not passing it.
Miyagi felt his anger surging up, and said hatefully: "Don't underestimate people! There was really no one to pass on, so he had to shoot his own jumper.
Seeing that he really made a move on his own, Mizuno jumped over to block it, but failed to stop it.
But the ball didn't go in.
Miyagi is a very traditional point guard with little to no mid-range shooting ability. It also has to do with his height. The short point guard's shot point is low, the risk of mid-to-long range shooting is high, and in case it is blocked, the ball falls behind him, and the opponent picks it up and counterattacks, which is basically a dozen and one accurate.
Therefore, in Miyagi's training program, the proportion of medium investment is not large.
Uozi is pessimistic about Miyagi's mid-range shooting ability, and the moment Miyagi makes a move, he has already chosen a position to compete for rebounds.
Akagi couldn't fight for the well-prepared Uozumi, but he judged that Uozumi would make up the basket by himself, jumped continuously, and sure enough, he beat Uzumi's second attack back.
Mizuno catches the ball, turns around and makes a long pass, and the basketball flies high, leaping over most of the basketball court, and heading directly towards the opposite end line.
Sakuragi started at high speed, and when the basketball was about to go out of bounds, he stopped it in the court with one palm, but he couldn't stop and rushed over the end line.
Everyone thought the ball would go out and stopped, but the ball bounced twice, and while it was still in bounds, Sakuragi turned around from the sidelines and got the ball.
Ikegami let out a shout and rushed towards Sakuragi, but there was still no time.
Sakuragi dribbled to the basket and threw his hand to score another 2 points.
It was only a round that failed to score, and Ling Nan's efforts to chase points in the second half became a useless struggle, and the difference was still 5 points.
Taoka suddenly discovered that the problem encountered by Lingnan was actually far more than just physical strength. Defensively, at least, they always didn't do enough.
But this is another reality that there is no choice but to do.
The height of the defenders in Lingnan is the shortest among the strong teams in the county.
Yonegawa, Cross-country, Uekusa, Miyagi and Aida are all less than 1.75 meters, and Kemei is more than 1.8 meters, which is also an important factor for Kami to play the main force in the first grade.
But in front of Sakuragi, Kami's height is still not enough.
Today, if Xiangbei's offense can't be hit on the inside, it can still be transferred to the outside line, but Lingnan doesn't have such a good configuration.
At both ends of the offense and defense, Lingnan fell behind.
Sendo was still resting with his head covered with a towel, and he seemed indifferent to the progress of the game, but every time Yonekawa and Cross Country sighed, Sendo clenched his fists.
Fukuda couldn't hold it back, walked up to Taoka and said, "Coach, let me play." At least you can't let Xiangbei wantonly pack the jacket to the United States. ”
Tian Oka stretched out his hand to stop Fukuda and sighed, "Bear with me, it's not time yet." ”
On the court, Kemei forced a shot under Shakura's defense, and the ball rubbed Shakura's fingertips, deviated from the crosshairs, and only hit the basket.
The rebounding point was not in the control of the two centers, Akagi and Uoju, Maori leaned Kosuga behind him, competed for the rebound, and just passed to Sakuragi's side, Kosuga suddenly slapped the ball away.
The ball landed on the ground and Miyagi got it first, and when he looked up, he found that Mizuno was still standing on the side to defend his pass.
This time, Miyagi glanced at Uoju, who squeezed Akagi and let Miyagi enter the basket.
Miyagi jumped up and went to the basket, Akagi wanted to block the other person, but he couldn't reach for his hand when he was caught by the fish, and finally let Miyagi score the 2 points.
Miyagi is under the basket, and no one in Lingnan can stop the fast attack of Xiangbei.
Akagi served quickly under the basket, and the ball went to the hand of Mizuno on the side, Mizuno passed forward to Shakura, and Shakura passed horizontally to Sakuragi's hand.
Ikegami followed Sakuragi, but Sakuragi returned the ball to Shakura.
Shacang Ape had a light arm, and under the interference of Kemei, he made a three-point shot.
The ball didn't go in, but it didn't matter.
Although Ikegami is a forward, he is far inferior to Sakuragi in terms of rebounding.
Sakuragi catches the ball in mid-air and stuffs it directly into the basket.
Xiangbei's very targeted defense forced Miyagi to make some changes. In the next round, Miyagi gave up the idea of passing the ball directly to Katsumi and handed the ball to Kosuge instead.
Kan turned around and couldn't wipe Maori, but the gap of half a body was enough for him to pass the ball into Yuzumi's hand.
Yuzhu toughened up, half-turned around and squeezed Akagi away, and threw a small throw.
The basketball board fell, and it circled around the hoop and continued to fall towards the center.
Uoju's goal seemed to infuriate Akagi, who was a bit more aggressive over the next two rounds, returning the favor with an assist and a slam dunk.
Falling to the ground, Akagi and Uozi looked at each other and asked him, "What are you waiting for?" ”
Yuzhu looked at the score that had been stretched to 7 points because of Kami and Ikegami's consecutive misses, pursed his lips and did not respond, and ran through the half court to continue the attack.
Akagi saw that Yuzumi's fighting spirit had risen, and he thought that he would continue to use strong hits to continue to score points for Lingnan, but in this round, after receiving Miyagi's pass, Yuzhu directly pushed the ball back to the other side.
Kami ran out of position, and Ikegami also blocked Sakuragi, but Sakuragi still jumped up and blocked Kammi's shot out of the sideline across Ikegami.
Fukuda urged again on the sidelines, shouting: "Coach, it's been 5 minutes, let me go." ”