Chapter 17: Rhythm Matters
Sakuragi Hanamichi's super slam dunk jumped from the free throw line, and finally successfully slammed the dunk in the shocked and inexplicable gaze of the audience.
The eyes of the audience were all focused on the Xiangbei basketball team, and even Lingnan and Xiangyang, who had just stepped into the arena, were all determined to win.
"How is that possible?"
"Is he still a high school student?"
"No, you should ask if he's still human?"
"This kind of slam dunk, I'm afraid few people in the country of basketball can do it, the No. 10 in Xiangbei can actually ・・・・・・"
"If someone tells me now that Xiangbei can sweep all colleges and universities in the United States, I believe it!"
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Sakuragi's slam dunk was too high, and at the beginning of the second half of Lingnan vs Xiangyang, not many people turned their attention to the game.
Nanyeol's status in Shoyang is second only to Kenji Fujima as the captain, and now Fujima has gone down to rest, "Attention! The second half is here, and it's up to you to hold the Itakura point guard for a while!"
The knots in Itakura's heart were soothed by Sakuragi's ball, "Yes!" It turned out that Itakura was still very concerned about losing to Xiangbei, but now that he found that Xiangbei's hard power was there, Itakura finally had a trace of unsatisfactory thoughts in his heart. If Xiangyang and Xiangbei meet in the finals of the national competition, Itakura does not think that Xiangyang's chances of winning will be very great.
"Bang Bang!" Xian Dao applauded to attract everyone's attention, "Don't think about Xiangbei anymore, they are our next opponent, and we still have time to prepare for the battle." Now, we must defeat Xiangyang, only by winning Xiangyang, it will make sense to fight with Xiangbei; if we lose to Xiangyang, there is no point in winning or losing the battle of Xiangbei!"
"Xiandao, you're right. Win Xiangyang and enter the national competition!!"
Entering the national competition is the unanimous dream of Lingnan.
"Whew!-"
All 10 players on the pitch took a deep breath and resisted the pressure to prepare for the second half.
Lingnan Yuzhu jumped the ball to win over the flower shape. Lingnan attacked for the first time, and the immortal road pressed Nanlie forward. Fukuda, who has a keen sense of offense, turned and wiped under the basket before Kishimoto could adjust to the rhythm of the game. When the ball arrived, as soon as Futian entered the Xiangyang penalty area, he received a wonderful pass from Xiandao in his hand. The flower shape made up for the defense, and Fukuda hurriedly divided the ball to Yuzhu, and Yuzhu dunked vigorously.
"Roar!"
Yuzhu won the first point of the second half, and he was very uplifted. Sakuragi's influence on that ball has been reduced a bit. But before the fish stopped shouting, Xiangyang had already hit halfway.
"Wow, it's so fast!" Xiandao found that Lingnan's side hadn't returned yet, and Xiangyang had already attacked with his front foot. Don't say that the fish is lived, most of the players in Lingnan have not completely returned to defense. Only Xiandao came back in time. At this time, there are some Kanagawa Prefecture teams who miss last autumn's national body. If it were a team made up of the best of the county, it would not be a problem to keep up with this kind of attack speed.
Now, it is Xiangyang's frontcourt that is three to one, and Xiandao needs one defense and three to stop Xiangyang's fast attack.
"Grab three points!" Nanlie instructed Itakura and Kishimoto.
"Okay!" Itakura dribbled to the top of the arc, and before Sendo pounced, he pulled up and threw it.
"Bang!" the basketball hit the iron wide, but fortunately the rebound was grabbed by Kishimoto. Xiandao quickly made up for Kishimoto, and Kishimoto came out with the ball for Nam Yeol.
"Bang!" Nam Yeol's three-point shot was also iron.
This time, the rebound Xiandao didn't let go, put Kishimoto card behind him, grabbed the rebound with difficulty, and successfully defended three.
Lingnan counterattack.
"Slow! Let's play position!!" As a point guard, Xiandao is really getting more and more competent.
"Xian! Dao!" Coach Kitano didn't care much about Xiandao, but Fuji Zhen was different, after all, he had been teammates with Xiandao, "I was just a powerful newcomer last year, I didn't expect to grow into such a terrible opponent this year!" Fuji Zhen had a faint premonition about the prospect of this game.
"Coach, I'm afraid our original plan will be difficult to achieve. Fujima began to discuss with Coach Kitano about the best way to win.
"You mean Lingnan's No. 7 player?" Coach Kitano didn't know enough about Sendo after all, "He's a good point guard, but that's about it." ”
"No, Coach" Fujima knew that if Coach Kitano did not accurately estimate the strength of Sendo, he would not be able to formulate a strategy to effectively contain Lingnan, "The scary thing about Sendo is not his organizational ability, but his offensive ability. If his offensive firepower is fully fired, only two people in the entire Kanagawa Prefecture will be able to stop him!"
"Two people?" As soon as Coach Kitano heard the number, he thought of the chief player tied with Kanagawa, "Emperor Wu and Emperor Mu?"
Fujima nodded solemnly, "Yes." ”
Coach Kitano's face finally showed a trace of solemnity: "So strong." ”
Xiangyang is almost out of the hole cards, if Lingnan still has the ace of Xiandao left unplayed, Xiangyang will be suspended. Thinking of this, Coach Kitano has a lot of grievances against Xiangbei, Xiangbei without Coach Anzai at the helm is like a wild horse that has taken off the leash, how can he use such fierce tactics to make Xiangyang now, obviously the strength in his heyday is enough to suppress the dark horse of Lingnan, but now because of physical strength, mentality and other reasons, Xiangyang can not play its due strength.
Coach Kitano looked at the court, the three people who were the most accurate in shooting at this rhythm of quick attack, Nan Lie, Kishimoto, and Itakura, are now not as good as Hasegawa, who has not strengthened his training and running. How to get it!
However, the positional battle in Lingnan was fought vigorously, and Xiandao always firmly controlled the rhythm in his own hands. Seeing that time was getting less and less, Coach Kitano finally made up his mind: "Fujima, we can only fight hard." It's up to you to compete with Xiandao for rhythm, we will attack in an all-round way and give up defense, and the original seven-point offensive and three-point defense will now be changed to a ten-point offense, how about it?"
"No, coach" Fuji Zhen has his own unique opinion, "I think we still play defensive counterattack, the rhythm of offensive and defensive conversion looks at the whole Kanagawa, I'm afraid only Xiangbei can match us, Lingnan is definitely not our opponent." Moreover, our main lineup is not necessarily worse than Lingnan, we can win by fighting defense, there are still 10 minutes before the end, and there is still plenty of time!"
"Defending and counterattacking・・・・・・ good!" Coach Kitano requested a substitution