Chapter 248: The Third Round, the Darkest Hour in Aichi Prefecture!
In the stadium, after Miyagi Ryota's goal, the attack and defense changed.
The Kanagawa Prefecture team used a standard joint defense, with Uozi and Akagi Goken guarding both sides of the paint area of the baseline, while Hanagata and Takasago Kazuma were on both sides of the paint area of the free throw line, and Miyagi Ryota was not assigned a specific position. On the defensive end, Coach Taoka gave Miyagi plenty of freedom.
Shimane's defender advanced with the ball, and when he entered the frontcourt, he observed the defense of the Kanagawa Prefecture team. He sensed that Kanagawa's defense on the outside was weak and realized that this could be an opportunity to attack.
After entering the frontcourt, Shimane's guard immediately passed the ball to the side and gave it to his small forward, who received the ball from mid-to-long distance on the side of the court, and after taking the ball, he did not hesitate to shoot immediately. However, when he was shooting, the flower shape not far away took a few steps towards him and raised his hand to interfere.
Although it is impossible for Hanagata to cover Shimane's player in that position, Hanagata, who is tall and tall, suddenly rushes up to the opponent, which really startles the opponent, and the shooting posture is deformed.
"Bell~" A clear iron sound sounded, and in the next second, Yuzumi Jun and Akagi Gangken under the basket instantly stuck Shimane's inside line behind him left and right, and finally the rebound was easily taken into Akagi's arms.
The rebounds in the front court were lost, and Shimane's players began to retreat quickly, and Akagi Goken, who won the rebound, was not in a hurry to pass the ball, and waited until Shimane and others retreated to the midfield position before giving the ball to Miyagi's hands.
"Akagi-senpai, good board!"
"Start attacking!"
Miyagi Ryota shouted after receiving the basketball, controlled the ball and fell to the back of the retirement, waiting for his teammates to enter the front court, Miyagi Ryota slowly crossed the halfway line with the ball.
The unhurried attitude of controlling the ball made Coach Taoka on the sidelines look a little dark, and his expression was finally not as serious and terrifying as just now.
"Although the attack of the opening ball was a little unstrategic, but the rhythm of the game was still under control!"
"It's not in vain for me ....."
Coach Taoka whispered in his heart, but at this moment, Miyagi in the middle of the court dribbled close to the three-point line, and after seeing his teammates finish landing, he shot directly when he was still more than a meter away from the three-point line. This sudden three-point shot made Coach Taoka look stunned, and he stood up from his seat suddenly.
"What?!"
Miyagi's choice of shot was beyond everyone's expectations, not only Coach Taoka who was sitting on the field, but even the opponents on the field were stunned, but it was Uozi and Akagi Goken who reacted quickly, and squeezed towards the inside line from both directions at the moment of Miyagi's shot.
However, Miyagi's shot was always a little hurried, and although Akagi and Uozumi reacted quickly, they were not as good as Shimane's inside line in terms of position.
"Bell~" There was a soft sound, and the basketball smashed on the edge of the frame and fell to the outside.
At this time, Hanagata and Takasago Kazuma have also entered the inside line, and Shimane's two inside lines are focused on Uozumi and Akagi, which makes Hanagata and Takasago easily cut under the basket.
For a while, the four big men in Kanagawa Prefecture were in groups of twos and twos, and easily caught Shimane's two inside lines, not to mention grabbing rebounds, under the card position of Yuzhu and others, Shimane's inside line couldn't even jump. And the rebounding ball was also easily taken into the arms of the flower shape.
The flower shape who grabbed the rebound didn't even dribble the ball, and directly made a strong hook hand to the basket, and easily added the ball into the basket.
“ohhhhh!!! Flower shape! Flower shape! ”
With the success of Hanagata's second attack, the local audience in Kanagawa Prefecture cheered.
"Well done, Hanagata!" Yuzumi Jun and Hanagaku high-fived in celebration and praised in a muffled voice. Akagi and Takasago on the side also celebrated with flower-shaped boxing successively, and several people showed quite tacit understanding.
"Sure enough, the strength of our inside line is much better than that of our opponents!" Miyagi Ryota has begun to retreat at this time, and after several rounds of attack and defense, Miyagi Ryota has realized that his team's internal strength is far superior to that of his opponent, and he is already planning to let go of his throw.
However, at this moment, Coach Taoka walked to the sidelines and shouted at Miyagi Ryota:
"Miyagi! What are you hitting?! Defender, should you be playing like you?! ”
"What the hell is going on in your head, I'll let you play, if it's for you to attack, why don't I let Shinomiya Tianye play them?!"
"You figure it out for me what you're supposed to do on the pitch!"
Coach Taoka's roar was quite loud, and the sound even drowned out the cheers of the audience. Ryota Miyagi, who was returning to defense, listened to Coach Taoka's roar, and his footsteps slowed down unconsciously.
It's been so long since he entered high school, and it's the first time he has listened to the roar of his coach on the court. Although there were some surprises that Coach Ooka would yell on the sidelines, after hearing these words, Miyagi Ryota still used his brain to recall his handling of these balls.
The problem, obviously, is also easy to find, the key is whether Miyagi himself will reflect on it, whether he can listen to the coach.
Ryota Miyagi on the court did not respond to Coach Taoka's words, but the pace of the defense accelerated a few points after Coach Taoka sat back in the rest area. At the same time, the Shimane players also quickly arrived in the frontcourt, and after taking advantage of a high block, Shimane chose to shoot in the high post again.
This time, Shimane's players played steadily, hitting the mid-range attack with precision.
Between the transition between offense and defense, basketball once again came to the hands of Ryota Miyagi. When Miyagi crossed the halfway line with the ball, Coach Kooka got up from his seat again, walked to the sidelines, and looked at Ryota Miyagi on the field.
Ryota Miyagi, who entered the frontcourt, did not shoot blindly this time, and after approaching the three-point line, he made a blocking gesture to the nearby Hanagata, and immediately started the breakthrough after the Hanagata approached.
Although Miyagi Ryota's height is short, his speed is quite fast, with a flower-shaped block, the short and agile Miyagi Ryota broke through the defense line in an instant, and then rushed into the inner line.
His appearance instantly attracted the attention of Shimane's inner line, but as soon as they moved their feet to make up for the defense, Miyagi made a back pass, but it was sent to the back. In the middle distance not far behind Miyagi, Hanagata received the ball through the vacancy, took a second to adjust his posture, and then shot.
"Huh!" With a soft sound, the basketball hollows into the net.
Kanagawa Prefecture scored consecutive points, and seeing this scene, Coach Taoka silently returned to his seat and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Coach, Ryota Miyagi has performed well during this training camp, and his shooting has also improved considerably."
"Combined with his breakthrough speed, against a team like Shimane, it doesn't matter if he plays offense."
"The outcome of the game is not going to change."
"Why restrain him?"
After Coach Tian Oka sat back in his seat, Shinomiya Tian on the side suddenly asked.
Shinomiya Tano knows very well that Coach Taoka is definitely not the kind of person who suppresses players from other teams, and if he wants to suppress it, he will not let Miyagi play at all. In this ball, whether it is to let Xiandao go to the main control or let Fuji Zhen take the main control, it is absolutely impossible for others to have an opinion.
And Shinomiya Tano was also able to understand Coach Taoka's intentions, and he asked this just to prevent other players from having a misunderstanding of Coach Taoka.
Mitsui Shou, who was sitting not far away, was looking at Coach Taoka with burning eyes at this time, he was different from Shinomiya Tianye, he really felt that it was good for Miyagi to practice his offense in this game. On the contrary, it was Jinguji Martial Arts, as if he hadn't heard the communication of several people, sitting on the seat with his cheeks and dozing off.
"Humph!"
"Stupid question!"
"What do you think is the reason for the short players to stand on the court?"
"With that half-baked pull-up jumper? Or the bells and whistles of the ultra-long three-point? ”
"I'm telling you, tell all of you, if a short player wants to get on the pitch, he needs speed! It's consciousness! It's the vision! It's a pass! ”
"Of course you can attack, but you have to have a good chance of attacking!"
"Attacking is never something a point guard needs to do!"
"A good point guard doesn't need to score a lot of points on the court, but he has to make sure his teammates can play to their full strength."
"A point guard who can expand the advantages of his teammates is a good point guard, if I am trying to let him attack, why don't I let Ah Mu play, let him play?"
Coach Taoka's coaching ideas are in line with the basketball concept of this era, and everyone can understand when they hear him say this. Miyagi Ryota is less than 170cm tall, even as a guard, even in high school basketball, this height is short.
If Miyagi Ryota can't magnify his advantages and find his position on the court, let alone college basketball, high school basketball will be the apex of Miyagi Ryota . Coach Taoka has admired each other very much since his junior high school days, and he doesn't want Miyagi Ryota to lose his basketball path early because of the positioning of the court.
While everyone was chatting off the court, the game in the stadium had begun to become clear, Kanagawa Prefecture's interior advantage was too great, and their defensive strategy was also focused on the interior, forced by Kanagawa Prefecture's defensive pressure, Shimane basically relied on outside projection on the offensive end.
Once someone breaks through and enters the inside line, they will immediately be surrounded by four big men, let alone shooting, and even passing the ball will become extremely difficult after entering the inside line.
After Miyagi Ryota was yelled at by Coach Taoka, he decisively changed his style of play and began to focus on ball control, strategy, and passing to split the defense line after breaking through with the ball.
Although he occasionally shoots, most of the time he only chooses to shoot when he is open, and his style of play has become quite solid.
Miyagi Ryota actually hopes that he can play like Jinguji Martial Arts psychologically, but he himself knows very well that he is not Jinguji Martial Arts, and blind imitation will only make him completely lose the possibility of gaining a foothold on the court.
In the game with the four interior lines such as Uozumi and Akagi, Miyagi Ryota was able to clearly grasp the strengths of the team and the shortcomings of the team, and in such a team, Miyagi Ryota was easily able to find his own position and make his own changes for it.
Kanagawa's team was bulky, and Miyagi not only had to suppress his rhythm to adapt to the rest of the team, but also used his breakthroughs to help his teammates get into the right attacking position.
At this time, Miyagi is the Miyagi that the team needs, not his Miyagi Ryota itself, and his transformation is also seen by everyone in Xiangbei.
When he was in Xiangbei before, Miyagi Ryota didn't say that he found his position on the court, for Xiangbei, Miyagi's role was just "ball control". "Possession" in a more superficial sense than the literal sense, his biggest role on the court is to carry the ball from the back to the front.
In the middle of the court, as the game progressed, the difference between the Kanagawa Prefecture team and the Shimane team began to slowly widen, and in order to cope with this situation, Shimane's coach also tried to make some changes on the defensive end, sending two players to cover Miyagi Ryota, who was holding the ball.
But at this time, Miyagi gave full play to his speed advantage, became slippery, and would not give his opponent a chance to complete the bag at all.
After all, he is the second-generation captain who can break through the pressure of Sanno Industry in the future, and the post-Xiangbei era, Miyagi is in the first year of high school and has begun to show his talents.
At the end of the first half, the Kanagawa Prefecture team had a 15-point lead over their opponents, and by the second half, the advantage was getting bigger and bigger. In the end, the Kanagawa Prefecture team defeated Shimane by an overwhelming margin of 103:62 and advanced to the second round.
The next day, Saturday, Toyo Day, the Kanagawa Prefecture team faced the Shiga Prefecture team at the same stadium.
Shiga, a landlocked prefecture in the middle of the neon island of Honshu, has been in the middle of the third round of the Autumn Championship in the past year, and if you use IH teams to benchmark, it belongs to the level of the bottom of the top 8.
Coach Ooka is still playing the abacus of training in this day's game, and the lineup on the field has changed dramatically from the day before, Coach Kooka takes into account the distribution of the players' physical fitness, and the big center in the team, Jun Yuzumi and Akagi, take turns resting, and in the inside position, Coach Taoka arranged for Hainan's Maekawa Daiki and Hanagata and Takasago three.
And on the outside, the duo of Fujima and Makikochi was sent.
The Shiga team is a small and fast style of play, and there is no traditional "big center" in the team, and the game is as Coach Taoka expected at the beginning, with the advantage of the inside line, Kanagawa Prefecture has an absolute advantage in the first half of the game.
The inside and outside connection of Makishiichi and Fujima, combined with Hanagata's stable mid-range shot and Daiki Maekawa and Kazuma Takasago under the basket, Kanagawa Prefecture blossomed more on the offensive end, which was unstoppable at all, and at the end of the first half, Kanagawa had an absolute advantage of 54:36.
However, in the second half, several outside players from Shiga broke out in unison, narrowing the gap between the two teams to 10 points at one point, but then they were strongly suppressed by Makishiichi. Xiao Kuailing's team, no one can withstand Mu Shenyi's strong outburst, and under Mu Shenyi's play, the score difference between the two teams was opened again.
By the end of the game, the score was 112:71, and in this 40-minute, two-half format, the Kanagawa Prefecture team showed absolute dominance on the offensive end.
After the second round, the Kanagawa Prefecture team will also meet the first worthy opponent in the third round, 16-8 match, Aichi Prefecture.
"ho~~ Our Kanagawa Prefecture team is really strong!"
"Today's game was won comfortably again, and even the aces of the team didn't play!"
"Yes! In the two consecutive days of competition, Shinomiya Tianye and Jinguji Martial Arts were all watching from the sidelines, and even the genius Sendo did not play. ”
"Tomorrow's game is with Aichi Prefecture, I really feel sorry for them, I actually met our Kanagawa prefectural team."
After the match between Shohoku and Shiga, some local fans from Kanagawa Prefecture left the stadium, and in the aisle, several people talked loudly, for fear that others would not know that they were natives of Kanagawa Prefecture.
Not far from these people, a group of young people in pink and white sportswear were sitting on their seats, listening to their discussions with gloomy expressions.
"Damn! How dare you underestimate our Aichi Prefecture! ”
"Tomorrow, stars, you must give those people some color to see."
One of the members of the Aichi Prefecture team, after waiting for the audience to go away, said to the stars in the group.
"........" Zhuxing heard this, but did not speak, his face, like his teammates, was very ugly.
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