Chapter 42: The Opponent Who Must Be Trodden: Lingnan (1)
With such an extremely thrilling score to end the game with Buri, Xiangbei all have palpitations, and the big dream is almost coming to an end at the beginning.
However, fighting such a bad battle is not completely unbeneficial, in addition to regaining the sense of cooperation among the senior players who have not played together for a long time, it also makes the Lingnan team who came to watch the game have a wrong assessment of Xiangbei's strength.
In recent years, the continuous participation in national competitions and good results have greatly improved the self-confidence of Lingnan players, and gradually have some arrogance, only staring at Xiangyang in Kanagawa Prefecture, and even Hainan is not in their eyes.
Of course, only on the surface of the cards, Lingnan does have the strength to suppress Hainan and challenge Xiangyang's hegemony.
Lingnan has the big three Baoke, Wakamatsu and Kadomatsu, but the three star players of the Hainan team are all last year's rookies Akaji, Liang Chuan and Damen, and the latter two are both inside, and the configuration is not as balanced as Lingnan.
As for Xiangyang, Honglin's height is almost the highest in the island country, and only Hakata's Nikaido can overwhelm him, looking at the county, although it is not as good as Atsushi Shihara back then, it is still an invincible existence in the center position. In addition, the swing man is also very strong.
Although there are only two top players, but the tiger is still there, and most of Xiangyang's role players can still get a main position or even the core in the general team, and Lingnan does not dare to underestimate Xiangyang. (Lingnan still doesn't know about the transfer of Luo'an's ace Hiiragi Yoshisei)
However, although the players are a little above the top, Coach Taoka is a person who can look down, for the two second-rate teams in the county, Xiangbei and Bururi, he still sent all the team's main candidates to directly observe the players and tactics of the two teams, so as to know themselves and each other.
In the eyes of the Lingnan players, whether it is Xiangbei or Buri, they have not been able to show eye-catching strength, but Coach Taoka has an order first, and they dare not leave the field in advance, and a few of them are impatient, sitting in the gymnasium can be described as impetuous, and living like a year.
When the game was over and the two teams parted after saluting, Maki and the others heard someone in the stands deliberately say loudly: "An incompetent team like this, we can easily win on the bench, and it's a waste of time to come and watch their game!" ”
Everyone followed the prestige, and it was Yano, the big forward of Lingnan, who spoke.
This was obviously said to Xiangbei, but the implication was that he looked down on Buri, who was defeated by Xiangbei with difficulty, so the players in Buri were also enraged.
After losing the game today and bidding farewell to his high school basketball career, the captain of Buri Midori was already in a low mood, and he was even more angry at this time, but he still remembered the identity of his captain, and he raised his head and glared at Lingnan's seat with a strong anger, and asked loudly: "Wakamatsu, what do you mean by this?" ”
Wakamatsu Kosuke obviously didn't expect Yano to provoke, but when he went out, he always had to defend his teammates, stretched out his hand to stop Yano, who wanted to continue to offend people, and defended: "Don't think about it, we don't mean anything else, we just think your game just now is not very exciting." ”
Wakamatsu is usually clumsy in words, and it is better not to say this sentence, although the meaning of contempt in his words is much lighter, but it still slightly provokes the emotions of the players on the field.
Maki also had to stand up and question Wakamatsu.
Wakamatsu realized that he had said the wrong thing again, but he couldn't think of any other words to deal with it, and Yano also found out that he was angry, but for the sake of face, he refused to come forward to apologize.
At this time, it was Lingnan Ace Baoke who saw that the situation was not right, and forced himself out and said, "Haha, don't be angry." We're just kidding. Next week's game is a life-and-death battle for everyone, and we can't take it lightly. If it's really all on the bench, it's too cheap for you. ”
After this interruption of Baoke, the two teams of Xiangbei and Buri lowered their anger slightly, and under the persuasion of the tournament organizers, they left the stadium to make room for the next game.
Wakamatsu and Baoke and others in the stands didn't want to have another incident, so they quickly left the gymnasium, anyway, the purpose of observing the opponent had been achieved, and it was not beneficial to stay here longer.
After receiving feedback that Xiangbei was not enough to threaten Lingnan, Coach Tianoka relieved himself and focused his targeted training on Hainan and Xiangyang.
In the fourth round of the game a week later, Xiangbei still did not expose the tactics he really trained during this period of time.
It's just that the strength of Shida High School, the opponent in this round, is not as good as Buri. After Xiangbei played the small half of the senior team and gained a 15-point lead, he replaced five first-year students to increase their game experience.
Although Shida felt humiliated and fought back desperately, the strength of Akagi and the others was still above them, and Xiangbei still had the advantage on the scene.
After discovering that the score difference was still Yola Yue, Shida gave up the game and also replaced him as a substitute to train for the coming year.
In the end, Xiangbei won the opponent with a score of 102-55 and walked in front of Lingnan.
The next day, Lingnan came to the Kamakura City Gymnasium, which is equivalent to the home stadium, and when he played the first game of this year's prefectural competition, he was a little surprised to find that the lineup of Xiangbei had almost completely subverted from what they had observed before.
"Who are these two people?" Coach Tian Gang pointed to Xiangbei after the warm-up, but did not put on the coat again, among the five starters, two somewhat unfamiliar faces asked.
"In the match against Buri, I didn't see these two guys playing." Power forward Matsumoto thought about it for a moment and replied.
"Hmm. Neither of these is even a substitute. Backup point guard Kusano confirmed.
"Maybe Xiangbei already knows that he can't win against us, and is ready to give up the game!" Baoko, the ace of the team who was put on the bench by Ooka and acted as a backhand, laughed optimistically.
"Yaga!" Tian Oka punched this trump card who was always a little nervous, always liked to joke about the occasion, and let himself love and hate, put his mouth into his ear and yelled, "Are you an idiot? Is Xiangbei a team that will give up the game easily? ”
"It hurts! Pain! Bao Ke held his head and continued to play with treasure, saying, "Maybe the coach in Xiangbei is stupid?" ”
"Bastard!" Tian Oka waved his hand and wanted to continue to dig the door of Baoke's head, but he waved it in the air and was dodged by Baoke, he didn't continue to shoot, but said angrily, "If the Suzuki superintendent in Xiangbei is as stupid as you, I will be much more worried!" It's definitely his ruse! Baoke, you are ready for me, ready to play at any time! Today's game is not as good as I imagined! ”
But it is said that the lineup of Xiangbei in this battle is: center Akagi, big forward Maki, small forward Yanagisawa, point guard Endo and scoring guard Mu Dusk!