Chapter 19: Buri and Seirin

Hearing the news that Mitsui Shou was injured, Sakuragi shook off his hand and said, "It's no wonder. Mitsui's shooting is very good, and he is still the type who can explode with extraordinary strength the more difficult he gets. As long as the other Xiangyang players are not below the average level, it is very difficult to win them. However, now it seems that Mitsui's injury has caused the rest of the Xiangyang players to lose their backbone and play abnormally. ”

Suzuki nodded and said, "That's right, I think so too." ”

Sakuragi then said: "Lingnan and Xiangyang both lost to this Chengrin, so who did they lose to in the one they failed?" Is it a major subsidiary of Hainan? ”

Suzuki laughed, "You guessed wrong this time. Not Hainan, but Buri. ”

"Buri?" Sakuragi cried out in a lost voice, "How could it be them!" ”

Suzuki said, "You don't know yet. The runner-up of last year's prefectural junior high school competition, the main force in the Yokota national middle school team, was almost absorbed by Buri. ”

Sakuragi let out an "ah" and said, "Speaking of which, I'm a little impressed. Although the strength of Yokota's gang is not the best, its attitude is not inferior to anyone. The dedication to defending at all times was really impressive. Their center, along with two defenders, are good players. ”

Suzuki said: "The three people you mentioned, center Kohori, point guard Kasamatsu, and division Moriyama, are currently in Buri, and they have all won the seats in the Buri team. A third-grader leads four first-graders, and it seems that Burri is determined to tear down and rebuild this year. ”

Sakuragi said: "How do you know this game so clearly? Didn't you go to further study this morning? ”

Without waiting for Suzuki to answer, Sakuragi smashed his left palm with his right fist, and he had already found the answer, and said, "No wonder I didn't see Sister Momoi this morning, it turned out that I was helping you reconnoiter the enemy." ”

Suzuki took out the cold milk from the kitchen, divided it into two cups, handed one to Sakuragi, sat down and picked up the other cup, took a sip, put it on the table, and continued: "After the national finals, I saw that Mitsui Shou was unlikely to recruit Xiangbei, so I tried to contact the runner-up Yokota Kunichu players, but I didn't expect that they had already been packed away by Buri. So I started to pay attention to Buri again, and I heard that there were their warm-up matches, so I asked Momoi to take a look, and by the way, to observe the strength of our opponents. Unexpectedly, this time she was worth the trip! You see, here's their stats for this game. ”

Sakuragi picked up the cup, tilted his neck and took a sip of the whole cup of milk, which was still a little hot, then wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, took a stack of paper from Suzuki's hand, spread it out and looked at it, and first said strangely: "They are not the ones who scored the most points in Buri!" ”

The "they" in Sakuragi's mouth are naturally players from Yokota Kunichu, and he asked, "What is the origin of this Imamura?" ”

Suzuki spread his hands and said, "Don't ask me, I'm not a jack of all trades, every great player knows me." Since you don't have an impression either, it should be a player specially recruited by Buri from other counties. ”

Sakuragi replied with an "um", continued to look at the game record, and said, "This Kasamatsu should be the trump card of Buri in the past few years." As a point guard, second only to small forward Imamura in scoring, it seems that he was given free fire. ”

Suzuki continued to drink milk and listened to Sakuragi's analysis. In his opinion, this is a good way to develop Sakuragi's tactical mind. After all, even if Sakuragi is allowed to play as a playmaker in high school, when he goes to play in the United States, he will probably only be able to play guard there. If Sakuragi is trained to become a blue-collar power forward like the original world line, I am afraid it will be difficult to play in the NBA. No matter how strong your jumping ability is, you can't stand people who are also able to jump and be 10 to 20 centimeters taller than you!

Sakuragi, however, put aside the data of Bururi players and began to look at the data of Seirin's players.

Statistics are indeed a good thing, from the very beginning, he grasped the characteristics of Cheng Rin's team, saying: "I didn't expect Cheng Rin's tactical core to be their center. They're playing Inside-Out tactics! ”

The corners of Suzuki's mouth turned up slightly, and he asked, "How do you see it?" ”

Sakuragi smiled: "Do you still need to ask?" In addition to this tactic, what other tactic can a center get so many assists? Muji Tieping, this center is not simple. 24 points, 11 assists, 15 rebounds, 6 blocks and 3 steals in the whole game, even if it is me, I can't play every game. ”

Suzuki laughed and said, "Don't brag about yourself here." If nothing else, can you easily get those 15 rebounds? ”

Sakuragi said unconvinced: "15 rebounds are a bit difficult, but 10 double-doubles, there are still some fights." ”

Suzuki smiled when he heard this, and asked, "Speaking of which, has your kid grown taller again in the past few months?" Is there 1.8 meters now? ”

Sakuragi said proudly: "I just measured it yesterday, and it's already 181 centimeters." In the middle of the country, I play center, and now there are few people who can compare to me! ”

Seeing that he was too proud, Suzuki struck a blow and said, "Then can you still hit the stat of Muji when facing Buri?" It's playing center! ”

Sakuragi froze suddenly, looked at Buri's information and muttered, "How is this possible!" Buri's inner line is not a soft persimmon either. The captain Midorikawa is 1.9 meters, and the center Kobori is also about 1.9 meters, if it weren't for a powerful center like Muji, who would be able to please them in front of them? ”

Suzuki continued to take the test Sakuragi and asked, "Tomorrow afternoon, we will have a warm-up match with Chengrin in Xiangbei." If it were you, how would you arrange the personnel and how would you restrict Muji? ”

Sakuragi shook his head and said, "It's hard to do. Today's Buri pair of inside combinations are actually similar to our Xiangbei, at most the two positions are a little shorter than us. They failed to restrain Muji, and I guess the combination of Captain Maki and Akagi may not be able to do it. However, if you just want to win, then you just need to copy Buri's tactics in the second half today. Cheng Rin seems to score a lot of points under the organization of two passing points, one inside and one outside, the center and the point guard, but in fact, when it comes to the critical moment, it still depends on their three-point shooter Hinnata to solve it. The other two didn't shoot well and relied heavily on Muji and another inside rebound. If we only have to defend rebounds, we have a bigger height advantage. ”

Suzuki put down the cup, looked at Sakuragi with interest and said, "And then?" ”

Sakuragi replied: "Just let Wu Dai, Shakura, or whichever one go to prevent Hinata, just redeem it directly." Anyway, I can attack and organize, and the other defender is Kuroda-senpai or Yanagisawa-senpai, and it will be enough to ensure a point that can score. ”

Suzuki applauded, "Okay." Maybe I can consider fighting like you said tomorrow. ”

Sakuragi and Suzuki have lived under the same roof for so long, and they knew that he always liked to do something nasty, so he rolled his eyes and said, "Come on! Hearing you say that, tomorrow will definitely make it more difficult for me again. ”

Suzuki laughed and said, "It's good to know, why don't you hurry up and wash and sleep." ”