Chapter Eighty-Eight: Picking Off Xiude (4)

In yesterday's game, Midorima was not the only one who fought to exhaustion, and several other starters of Xiudeok, along with the sixth person Hongcun and the seventh person Zhi Ayu, were also greatly damaged.

Midorima's performance was abnormal before, and in order to catch up with the score, Yuki and Matsumoto both spared no effort.

Hotta is no match for Yuuki, but he is not a general. In order to get points from Hotta, Yuuki's physical exertion is huge, and he just relies on a strong breath to support himself.

When the pace is not slow, and the height is still excessive, the pressure on Yuki suddenly doubles, and it is much more difficult to fight.

After two consecutive quick stops and turns, he failed to get rid of it as he wished, Yuuki gritted his teeth and exerted his strength three times, and finally shook off Maori half a step and lifted the ball to jump.

However, something happened that made Yuuki's heart palpitate.

Although Maori lost his defensive position, he still raised his arms with his back and made a blocking move.

What's even worse is that Maori has long arms, and at the last moment, his fingertips even rubbed against the basketball.

Yuuki knew in his heart that although Maori was right, in normal times, his remedial action was meaningless, and he would not even be able to touch the skin. The main reason why the ball was touched was that his physical strength decreased and his movements were deformed. The distance to the side is shorter, the height of the jump shot is lower, and the speed of the shot is a little slower.

If one of these three areas is still at his usual level, Maori will not be able to touch the ball.

However, it is useless to regret it now. Yuuki only shouted to Magami, "Grab the rebound!" ”

Yuuki's jumper was not strong enough, and he didn't bounce off much after hitting the iron, and the landing point was under the basket.

Ma Shang and Yuuki were introduced by Hidetoku from Linxian together, but not only by virtue of the tacit understanding with Yuki on the court, he is still very good at competing for rebounds. It's just that in the first half, he was in opposition with Akagi and couldn't play.

In the second half, the opponent was replaced by Maori, and Magami immediately showed his value. In terms of offense, he is not as soft as Maori's hand, and his range can be pulled out beyond the three-second zone. In terms of defense, he is just average, he is fine when he is under the basket, and once Maori retreats, he can't defend it. However, only in terms of rebounding, Maori is not as good as him. In the second half, Midorima's hand rebounded, but under Sakuragi's pressing, he couldn't hit every shot. However, Ma Shang used his hard work to grab most of the rebounds on the gross profit head that was as tall as him, giving his teammates ample opportunities to attack, and their hands gradually warmed up.

Now that the opponent has changed from Maori to Hotta, Ma sees the route of the ball, predicts the landing point after the rebound, first gets stuck in the position, and then jumps up and reaches for the ball.

This style of play has been successful many times on Maori, but this time, it failed to start at the beginning.

As soon as he tried to move his steps, Ma Shang felt like he had hit a wall, and he couldn't move forward half a step.

Hotta plays center, short is a little short, but he is also a good hand at rebounding, and he also sees where the basketball lands, first blocking Ma Shang behind him, and then trying to get the ball.

Asagami couldn't squeeze Hotta, so he immediately changed his tactics and pressed Hotta's back covertly, then jumped up and fished for the ball across people.

When Hotta felt a loosening of his back, he knew that he was going to jump, but he was pressed for a while, and by the time he jumped again, it was too late.

Ma Shang touched the ball first. He knew that Hotta would not be slowed down for much time, and instead of trying to control the ball, he flicked directly in the direction of his teammates.

Matsumoto sprints in one step, receives a pass from Asakami, and throws it with his hand raised, not giving Ki Twilight a chance to interfere at all.

63-55。

Hide-deok chased the score to 8 points.

Xiudeok's supporters seemed to see the dawn of equalization and clamor wildly. After being suppressed for a long time, a burst of momentum overwhelmed the northern Hunan side for a while.

However, it was the smallest margin between the two teams in the second half.

In the next round, Sakuragi dribbled the ball on the right side of the center circle, looking for holes in Hidetoku's defense.

The gross profit retreated, pulled to the outside line, and Hotta walked to the left along the end line, running the gap to respond. The basket suddenly became empty, and at this moment, Mu Dusk, who was jogging, suddenly started and rushed into it at high speed.

Matsumoto's physical strength declined, he couldn't concentrate, and he couldn't keep up in time, and the opportunity for Xiangbei appeared.

Sakuragi raises his hand to make a passing pose.

Midorima was facing the basket sideways at this time, and when he glanced at it, he found that Matsumoto had failed to follow up, and his heart was not good, so he slid to block Suzuki's passing route.

But Midorima didn't expect that Sakuragi was about to shoot the ball, and he could pull it back again, change direction with a body in front of him, turn to the front of the basket, and shoot three points.

Takao found out about Sakuragi's intentions and rushed over desperately to make up for it, but it was useless. He was only 1.8 meters old, and in a hurry, his hand reached out in front of Sakuragi at most to cover his vision.

This trick is very useful to ordinary people, and it can be used on Sakuragi, and even Takao himself does not believe that it can work.

Sure enough, when Takao landed and looked back at his own basket, he happened to see the scene of the net flying.

Takao looked at Midorima again, and this ball was undoubtedly Midorima's responsibility. In Takao's impression, Midorima shouldn't be so easy to get rid of.

Xiangbei uses cherry wood to prevent the green room, and Xiude does not use the green room to prevent the green room, which is the first scoring point of Xiangbei's previous games.

Although Midorima has been known for his signature long-distance three-pointers since entering high school, Midorima is not only able to shoot three-pointers, but also the skills required for the No. 1 to No. 4 positions, Midorima is a first-class level, even if he plays point guard and big and small forwards, it is enough to gain a foothold in the national arena.

In the first half, Midorima was in poor condition and didn't score a point, which was a big surprise, but few people noticed that Sakuragi in Xiangbei scored very little, and he also failed to get a double.

When it comes to defence, the state of the game is secondary, and the attitude of the game comes first. For Midorima, who believes in the destiny of God, the most important thing he lacks is his seriousness about the game itself.

When Takao saw what Midorima was doing, he suddenly understood why Midorima failed to prevent Sakuragi.

Midorima was holding her knees and panting. This team member, who has always paid attention to appearance, has lost his demeanor completely, and he doesn't care to wipe a lock of sweat-soaked hair on his forehead casually.

Takao had never seen a Midorima like this.

Midorima is the hardest training team Takao has ever seen, and although he looks good, his physical fitness is no worse than that of the muscular animals of all stripes. Even if he encounters a strong team like Shoyang in the spring Kanto Tournament, he will inevitably lose until the last minute of overtime, and Takao has never seen Midorima tired like this.

It is precisely because of his lack of physical strength that Midorima chooses a gambling defense, because he knows that if he drags on, he will not be able to keep up with Sakuragi's rhythm changes.

It's a pity that in front of Sakuragi, who is also the top player in the country, Midorima's gamble failed for the first time.

66-55。

The score difference has widened to double digits again, and the physical strength of most of Xiude's main forces is close to collapse.

Matsumoto didn't run past Kiwi, but the offensive time was running out, and he had no choice but to shoot an outside jumper before he opened the gap.

The ball didn't go in, and Ma Shang grabbed the rebound for Yuuki, but Yuuki still didn't score in the second attack.

The ball bounced straight back, and Yuki took the rebound himself and continued to shoot, finally closing the score closer.

Xiude's attack was very difficult, but the counterattack on Xiangbei's side was extremely sharp.

Maori launched a fast attack with a long pass under the basket, Sakuragi received the ball, divided to the side, and Shakura led Takao to step forward and return the ball to Sakuragi, who burst into the basket and dunked it.

In the process, Midorima only interfered a little when Sakuragi first caught the ball, and failed to keep up the rest of the time.

Not only Midorima, but Matsumoto, Yuuki and Agami also failed to make it back to their own half, and they couldn't play.

After another two minutes, seeing that there was no hope of victory, Coach Nakatani had no choice but to replace several main players who were physically exhausted and replaced them with substitutes.

Suzuki didn't want to kill them all, and Takashuri, Takeyo, Mizuno and Yasuda took the stage one after another, accompanying Shakura to show his face in front of the national audience.

The score of this game was finally fixed at 88-73.

The Xiangbei soldiers were bloodless and advanced to the finals.