Chapter 80: Xiangyang's Weakness
"Xiangyang's starters are taller than you, which will increase the difficulty of our interior attack, so in the beginning we play fast break and use speed to drag them down." Xiangyang's set of starters is prepared for the blockade of Mu Shenyi, but it is not very suitable for Xiangbei, Xiangbei has Akagi and Sakuragi, which can limit their interior attack, and Miyagi, Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi, who are suitable for fast attack, and Xiangbei also used fast attack to catch up with the score in the original book.
At the beginning of the game, because he had defeated Lingnan, who was also in the top four, Xiangbei was not as afraid of Xiangyang as in the original book, plus the four starters did not play the whole game before, and they had already held back a lot of strength.
Akagi got the coach's advice, and focused on offense from the beginning, adapting to Hanagata's offensive style after two shots and scoring, and sending blocks one after another with Sakuragi Hanamichi; Xiangbei quickly led 10-4.
Fujima couldn't sit still a little, and Hanagata used his gaze to stop Fujima from playing, trying to use the advantage of the four elders to grab a rebound and get a second chance to attack.
"I'm coming!" Nagano misses a shot, Takano blocks Akagi, and Hanagata tries to grab a frontcourt rebound to make up for a dunk.
"This is mine!" However, seeing that Hanagata's fingertips were about to touch the basketball, he was jumped from behind by Sakuragi Hanamichi, swept the ball away above his head, and then jumped a second time before Hasegawa, held the rebound firmly in his hand, and quickly passed it to Miyagi, "Komiya, catch!" ”
"Attack!" Miyagi held the ball and advanced quickly, and Ito desperately slowed down Miyagi's speed so that Hanagata and others could settle down, and put on a 1-3-1 joint defensive formation in the penalty area to lock the penalty area.
The penalty area was locked, but Mitsui Shou on the outside leaked, Miyagi faked to pass the ball to Akagi under the basket, deceived Ito to jump, and took the opportunity to pass the ball to Mitsui Shou, Mitsui received the ball and shot in an empty position, hit it easily, and the difference widened to 13-4.
It was Shoyo's turn to attack, Hanagata pulled Akagi out of the box to shoot, Takano blocked Sakuragi, Nagano grabbed the rebound and shot, this time the tactic was achieved, and Fujima seemed to see hope to sit back down.
Looking back, Rukawa Kaede couldn't score singlely, Xiangyang got another opportunity to attack, and Hanagaku still pulled Akagi away, but this time Rukawa Kaede entered the penalty area and helped stop Nagano, only Takano and Hasegawa couldn't stop Sakuragi at all, "The rebounding king Sakuragi is here!" ”
Hanamichi won the rebound again, Hanagata's plan went bankrupt, and Shen Long was relieved to see this scene, and Rukawa Kaede's team spirit was gradually revealed.
"Fujima must play!" Seeing that the score was stretched to double digits, Shen Long said, "This is Xiangyang's second weakness, now there is only one point of holding the ball on the court, once the flower shape is restricted by Akagi, there is no second person who can attack with the ball, and the rebound is controlled by Sakuragi Hanamichi, and their offense has been locked by us." ”
Xiangyang's four elders are better defensively than offense, except for the flower shape, and lack the ability to hold the ball and attack like Fukuda Jizhao; Hainan has three scoring points: Amu, Qingtian, and Ashen, Lingnan has Xiandao, Yuzhu and Futian, and Xiangbei has Chimu, Mitsui, and Rukawa Kaede, and Xiangyang has the worst scoring ability among the four strong teams in Kanagawa.
Five minutes into the game, the score on the field was 18-6, Fuji Zhen called a timeout, replaced Ito on the debut, Shen Long made corresponding adjustments, "Xiangyang's defense focuses on the penalty area, and then we focus on the outside, Mitsui, you have to take on the responsibility of scoring, Akagi, help Sakuragi block people when attacking, Hanamichi, and the frontcourt rebound depends on you." ”
Fujima's appearance gave Shoyang an extra point of attack with the ball, and he quickly helped Shoyang recover two points with a breakaway drift shot, and then cut off the ball from his hand after Sakuragi Hanamichi won the rebound to assist Hanagata to score.
However, Xiangbei did not panic, Mitsui Shou slipped the bottom line under the basket and got rid of Hasegawa with Akagi's blocking, and received Miyagi's pass to the bottom right corner to hit a three-point shot again, Rukawa Kaede looked at Mitsui Shou's running position thoughtfully.
"Change guards, Takano, you will follow after Mitsui Shou gets rid of Hasegawa in a while." Fujima immediately came up with a countermeasure and tried his best to shoot in front of Miyagi to get back the three points.
Mitsui Shou ran again, and Takano followed closely, leaving him with no chance to shoot, so he could only pass the ball to Akagi, who was blocked from attacking and Fujima launched a fast attack to the next one.
Xiangbei substitution, Mu Du appeared to replace Rukawa Kaede, "Rukawa Kaede, you take a little rest, you still need to score and attack in a while." ”
Mu Dui debuted, Xiangbei's rebounds weakened, but Mitsui Shou entered the restricted area at the right time to help Sakuragi block people, slightly making up for one or two, and when attacking, Xiangbei had Mitsui Shou and Mu Dusk two three-point points, so that Xiangyang's joint defense became an ornament, and Fuji Zhen had to draw another person from under the basket to mark Mu Dui.
But in this way, the defense under the basket was weakened, Miyagi passed the ball to Mitsui, Mitsui feint to shoot Hasegawa pass to the inside, and Akagi scored with a flower-shaped dunk.
"It's worthy of Coach Anzai, Fuji Zhen is too tender compared to him!" Tian Oka in the stands sighed that every change in Xiangyang was restricted by Xiangbei, and Fuji Zhen had to lead the attack and ponder tactics on the field, and his physical strength was very high, "If it goes on like this, Fuji Zhen can't hold on to the whole game." ”
At the beginning of the second half, Fuji Zhen used the halftime break to think of a strategy against Mu Dui, he noticed that Mu Dui's athleticism was not outstanding, and planned to hold on to the inside line first, and then go up to defend when Mu Du received the ball, but unfortunately Shen Long did not let Mu Du come up in the second half, but replaced with Rukawa Kaede, whose strength had recovered.
Rukawa Kaede's breakthrough and shooting made a mess of Xiangyang's inner line, and defensively, Miyagi adopted a strategy of preventing shots and not preventing breakouts against Fujima, and Fujima had to break through into the inside line again and again, consuming a lot of physical strength, and halfway through the second half, Fujima was tired and out of breath.
"Xiangyang is over! Their defense is okay, but the offense is too poor, and there is no way to beat Xiangbei to death with only Fujima and Hanagata. Mu Shen looked at Fuji Zhen's eyes complicated, this year's joint finals, this opponent who has been fighting with him for two years is going to be absent.
Waiting for the score to open to fifteen points, Shen Long began to rotate again, so that the substitutes came on to feel the high-intensity game, Xiangyang slowly approached the score, but time was not enough, and finally Xiangbei won with an eight-point advantage.
Although the score is not large, the rhythm of the whole game is firmly in the hands of Xiangbei, and it is worth mentioning that Sakuragi Hanamichi played the whole game this time and was not sent off.
"Coach, we're in the joint finals!" The players in Xiangbei burst into tears with excitement.