Chapter 130: The Eve of the Tournament
For Xiangbei, which is only a public school, the basketball club that participated in the national competition for the first time this year is undoubtedly an unexpected surprise.
Funding for public schools has always been skewed towards traditional national sports clubs, such as baseball, judo, and soccer that sprung up because of the popularity of "Soccer Player."
In basketball, which is still a relatively niche sport, to be honest, Suzuki was a little surprised to have an independent basketball hall for club use.
Fortunately, with the results, it is easy to say anything. Even if the play-offs on the mat court are not considered to enter the official national competition, the school has also allocated a special fund to cover the cost of room and board for the basketball club.
According to Principal Gao's words: The play-offs are good, and they show their faces more than going directly to the main competition!
Suzuki thought about it, playing in front of 59 other teams across the country, which was a better treatment than the final. You must know that although the IH conference only lasts for a week, there are still many teams who will go home early after being eliminated due to financial constraints, and will not stay to see the final results.
Regardless of whether the result of the game is a win or a loss, Xiangbei will definitely be famous this time.
For a few nights, Suzuki lay in bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, so he thought about it. He speculated privately, saying that Nan Dora was working behind his back to arrange the play-offs before the main match, what did he mean?
It is obvious that blocking the King of the Mountains, so that they will be unable to continue under the continuous battle, and they will collapse in advance, so that the points of Akita Prefecture will fall, and they will not be able to catch up with Kanagawa.
Through this arrangement, showing his abilities, connections, and skills, using multiple scheming, and foiling and frustrating Akita's small means, is another place that Suzuki deduced that Minami Tara benefited.
After that, Gao Chang mentioned Suzuki, this arrangement also made a name for Xiangbei, which was regarded as a reward for Xiangbei's efforts, which was another seemingly convenient but indispensable arrangement in this move.
If you want the horse to run, you must first give the horse grass. Minami Tara is well versed in the three flavors.
Similarly, in full view of everyone, Xiangbei is not allowed to do his best to stalk the king of the mountain, which ensures that the king of the mountain consumes a lot in the play-offs, and he will almost not be able to break through the first round of the main competition.
Thinking about it a little deeper, the king of the mountain has been reduced to playing the play-offs, and he knows that there is a cat in it, and Minami Tara is going to roast the main event of the tournament in Akita Prefecture on the fire!
Moreover, although it is a promotion play-off, this play-off is not two games like football, but only one, and it is no different from the main game!
The meaning of this game is different for the King of the Mountain and Xiangbei.
Xiangbei can play this part, it is completely enough, it is a plain and extra game, winning or losing is actually not important, to be able to stand on the stage of the national competition, Xiangbei has already proved itself, it has been regarded as a goal.
On the other hand, the King of the Mountains, as the champion of last year's Winter Cup, with little change in personnel, it is a shame to break through the play-offs and the first round, and their goal is the semi-finals, which is the final! Therefore, in the play-offs, the pressure on the King of the Mountains will be very great, not only to win, but also not to be excessively consumed, the two teams in terms of mentality, there is a world of difference.
For Nan Taliang's methods, the more Suzuki thought about it, the more frightened he became, fortunately, he was a person who could let go, and as soon as there were many things, he left these miscellaneous thoughts behind, but subconsciously firmly remembered that Nan Duoliang can only be a friend, not an enemy, otherwise he doesn't know how he will die.
Basketball Weekly's Aida reporter came to Xiangbei twice, once because Suzuki promised an interview to let her return with a full load, and now again, to bring the latest magazine with all the teams and schedules.
When Suzuki was greeting Aida in the conference room, the magazine had already been picked up by Lantau who welcomed her into the school, brought to the side of the training ground, and turned to a page describing Xiangbei in the hands of everyone.
The Xiangbei team, which landed in the national competition for the first time, should be the lowest grade C in its comprehensive evaluation. In view of last year's semi-finals, Hainan University failed to qualify from Kanagawa in the Winter Cup, so Xiangbei's only victory in the county competition was not valued.
There is only one sentence about the description of Xiangbei: No. 4 captain Dahe is the core of the team and the best point guard in Kanagawa Prefecture.
The text that deliberately emphasizes that Taiga is playing point guard was specially asked by Suzuki to write it by Aita, in order to cover up the tactics with Endo as the main control specially formulated by them for the mountain king in the past two months, and induce the mountain king to shift the focus of defense to Taiga.
After two months of training, Xiangbei's tactics have been fully trained, and Suzuki believes that he will definitely be able to make the king of the mountains drink a good pot at that time.
After reading the brief introduction of Xiangbei, the first thing everyone looked at was naturally the page of Xiangyang.
About the introduction of Xiangyang, in the middle of the entire magazine, the whole two pages, the five main forces are equipped with avatars and large paragraphs of text, far from being comparable to the shabby dried tofu in Xiangbei.
Xiangyang's comprehensive evaluation is also the only one among the 61 teams, with 3 A's, which makes everyone in Xiangbei both hot and convinced.
In the county competition, Xiangyang, the main force, just played casually, and led Xiangbei by 15 points, such a huge gap, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is 4 grades.
However, what makes everyone in Xiangbei unconvinced is that the old enemy Lingnan is actually rated as an A-file. You must know that at the end of the first half, the gap between Lingnan and Xiangyang was much larger than that of Xiangbei against Xiangyang.
When the two teams of Xiangbei and Lingnan faced each other directly in the county competition, Lingnan didn't win many points, and these young men in Xiangbei were the ones who refused to admit defeat, and they admitted that the Lingnan team was slightly stronger, and the B file was acceptable, and the A file was a bit outrageous.
Suzuki sent off Aida, who was on an interview mission, and when he returned to the basketball hall, he saw a scene of chaotic arguments.
Seeing Suzuki come in, the two sharp-eyed people around him, squinted his eyes and signaled to the few who were still screaming loudly, like the basketball hall of the Celestial Empire vegetable market, the noise was reduced almost instantly, and only one person was still laughing unscrupulously over there, celebrating that the opponent was dumbfounded by himself.
Suzuki stepped forward and unceremoniously gave him a brain breakdown.
The "oops" screamed, and immediately turned around aggressively to seek revenge on the provocateur, but as soon as he saw Suzuki, he froze, rubbed his head, and made an expression that didn't look very aggrieved: "Sir, I'll be stupid like this." ”
Suzuki replied earnestly, "Believe me, even gods can't make you stupider, Aoki." ”