NCCnovel Chapter 272: Xiangbei vs. Hori (Part )
Chapter 272: Xiangbei vs. Hori (Part )
"Well done, Akagi!" The Xiangbei players applauded their captain for his heroic performance.
"Akagi Takenori is such an outstanding center. No wonder you lost to Shohoku last year," said Aiwa head coach Ishii to Moroboshi while watching the game in the stands.
"Akagi is stronger than last year, Hiro. You must be careful with him," Moroboshi reminded the rookie
"What a great opponent! I can't wait any longer." Mori Shigehiro was eager to fight.
"Very good, A-Kuan, that's the fighting spirit."
Back on the court, "Akagi is too strong, it's hard to limit him" Hori's inside players looked distressed
"Now Xiangbei has concentrated its offensive focus on Akagi. To deal with Akagi, you can't stand too rigidly in either position. You go down the tree to push Akagi, and Kobayashi interferes with his dribbling from the side. You, Ueno, can also quietly steal the ball from one side. Even if you can't steal it, you can disrupt his offensive rhythm. Once his rhythm is disrupted, the probability of scoring a goal will be much smaller." Yokobayashi said his countermeasures on the court
Hori attacked, and Ishida confronted Kogure head-on, but after several seconds he still couldn't get rid of the latter.
Compared with Ishida, Murasakibara's height and physical fitness are not inferior. Facing Murasakibara, who is superior to him in all aspects, it is difficult for Ishida to break through. However, as a point guard in the top eight in the country, Ishida still has a way. If he can't get rid of Murasakibara, he will move to the wing to attract Katsumi on the wing to defend.
Seeing that he was walking into a dead end, Katsume was really anxious and rushed over. But the moment he came over, Ishida made a quick ground pass, and the ball went from Katsume's crotch to behind him. Ueno took the ball, took a step forward, and quickly shot.
2-pointer! 8:6
"Good boy, that's interesting," Mugure dribbled slowly towards Ishida Takeshi, then suddenly broke through. Ishida tried to grab Mugure with both hands, but he blocked him with his left hand. Mugure took two big steps and passed half of his body, then took another step forward, then stopped at the free throw line and shot. "Shua!" The ball fell steadily into the net. 10:6
In the next round, Ishida repeated his old trick, "No one come over, I can handle it alone," Muguru reminded his teammates. After Muguru's reminder, no one from Xiangbei came forward to help defend, and Ishida's plan failed. Facing Muguru's defense, I had no choice but to put my elbow in front of me and dribble the ball with my left hand at high speed to prevent Muguru from stealing the ball. Because Muguru's eyes were always shooting out sharp eyes, staring at the basketball, Ishida was a little flustered, fearing that if he was not careful, the ball would be stolen and the players would be stunned!
A strange thing happened. Mugure did not press for the steal, but kept waving his hands to prevent Ishida from going high inside.
Ishida suddenly saw Xiashu running towards him from the corner of his eye. "Xiashu, catch the ball!" Ishida yelled, and moved his left hand slightly towards Xiashu. After making a fake move to pass the ball, he suddenly pressed his wrist and lowered his head to rush towards Muguro! Muguro was attracted by his voice and was about to steal his pass. He was fooled! Ishida smiled triumphantly and rushed over to the left side of Muguro's body!
"Snapped!"
As soon as Ishida's body rushed through Mumu's defense, the smile on his face disappeared, because there was nothing in his hand! The ball was gone! It was intercepted by Mumu! !
Damn it, hurry back to defense! "Ishida Takeshi yelled and immediately turned to the backcourt. I have to say that Ishida is really fast and quickly caught up with Mumu
"Then come and defend me!!!" Murasakibara yelled and dribbled towards Ishida Takeshi who was standing on the three-point line.
Ishida Takeshi opened his eyes wide and locked his eyes on Murasakibara, fearing that Murasakibara would find a gap and pass through him if he was not careful!
With the ball in his right hand, Mugu rushed to Ishida Takeshi, shook his body to the left, and then suddenly pulled to the right, and instantly rushed to the free throw line from Ishida Takeshi's right side! Ishida Takeshi stood there in a daze, with a look of disbelief on his face. Such a fast speed and such a skillful technique. He couldn't tell at all which side Mugu was going to break through! Mugu easily scored a layup after the breakthrough 12:6
"What a beautiful left-right change of direction!" Moroboshi in the stands couldn't help but applaud, but the team's point guard Suzuki looked pale and said, "Can I defend against Mumu?"
Ishida Takeshi was unable to break through Mugure's defense this time, so he had to pass it to Yokobayashi. As soon as he got the ball, Yokobayashi broke through to the right. Hasegawa, who was defending him, tried to slide to defend, but ran into a wall of flesh. It turned out to be Kobayashi in the inside. Kobayashi weighed 5 kg more than Xiashu, but he became a power forward just because of his lack of height. Kobayashi's pick-and-roll allowed Yokobayashi to successfully break through, and he made a stretched emergency stop and jump.
"You want to shoot, but don't expect it to come true." Akagi had already rushed over. If Yokobayashi shot at this moment, he would be blocked. However, Yokobayashi was prepared. He changed his shot in the air to pass the ball to Xiashu, who shot and scored 12:8.
"Akagi, catch it." Mumu passed the ball to Akagi. As soon as Akagi got the ball and got down from the tree, Kobayashi, Ueno and the other two came from three directions.
"Three-man double team?! Haha, Hori's trick won't work." Murasaki didn't care. Sure enough, when the three formed a circle, the ball in Akagi's hand disappeared.
"Where's the ball?" Just as the three looked around in confusion, "Great pass, Captain Akagi!" Katsumi from the outside got the ball and shot a three-pointer, but unfortunately the ball missed. Kobayashi grabbed the rebound, Hori launched a counterattack, and finally Kobayashi forced Nakajima to score 2 points, 12:10
"Akagi" Akagi was about to serve the ball when he saw Murasakibara running across the half court. He immediately raised his hand and threw the ball forward. Murasakibara ran while watching the basketball approaching quickly. When the basketball got close, he jumped up and caught the basketball. He paused in the air for a moment and then threw the basketball in a non-standard posture. Ishida, who was following Murasakibara, originally thought that Murasakibara would land first after receiving the basketball, but he never thought that he would shoot directly. When he wanted to stop him, it was too late. Murasakibara succeeded in a sneak attack 14:10
Yokobayashi got the ball, he took a step, dribbled with his hand, turned around and got rid of the defense, but this time Hasegawa did not lose his position, he slightly shifted his body and continued to stick close, and Katsumi also followed the formation and blocked the route tightly. Yokobayashi saw that there was no chance, so he had to choose to pass the ball and threw the ball to Ueno, but just as Ueno was on the route to receive the ball, a hand suddenly jumped out, it was Nakajima! Nakajima stretched out his hand to steal the pass, "Senior Kogure" Nakajima stole the ball and passed it to Kogure, Kogure launched a fast break counterattack, and made a wonderful pass on the move, the ball reached Katsumi who was outside the three-point line, Katsumi took a three-point shot, this time he made it 15:10
Ishida took advantage of Kobayashi's pick-and-roll, broke into the paint, faced Akagi, and used the change in rhythm to shake off Akagi and score a layup. 15:12
Although Akagi was scored by his opponent in the previous round, he fought back in the next round and scored two points with a strong attack under the basket 17;12
Yokobayashi tried to catch up, but Hasegawa already understood Yokobayashi's attacking style and blocked Yokobayashi's shot, making Hori's attack ineffective.
Before we knew it, the first half ended at 44:36, and Xiangbei led by 8 points into the second half.
"Haha, everyone performed very well. We all know Hori's strength. In the second half, we will change our formation and use quick counterattacks to break down the opponent." Anzai made tactical adjustments.
At the beginning of the second half, Xiangbei's lineup: Center Sakuragi, Power Forward Fukuda, Small Forward Mitsui, Point Guard Kiyota, Point Guard Mito Yohei
"Akagi and Kogure are out. Although Mitsui is on the field, there are three first-year students on the field. It's a chance to overtake." Hori's players felt that their chance had come, but reality soon slapped them in the face. Sakuragi won the ball, Mitsui got the ball and passed it to Mito Yohei. "Come on, first-year boy." Ishida Takeshi was full of confidence and thought that he could easily deal with Mito Yohei. However, his eyes suddenly blurred and Mito Yohei had broken through his defense.
"This freshman is really fast!" Yokobayashi rushed to assist in defense, but the next second, the ball in Mito Yohei's hand had disappeared. Yokobayashi looked in the direction of the ball and said, "Oh no, it's Mitsui!" Mitsui got the ball and shot steadily, scoring 47:36.
Ishida Takeshi dribbled across half court, trying to use his speed to get rid of Mito Yohei, but he was surprised to find that he couldn't get rid of Mito Yohei at all. "This first-year student can actually keep up with my speed." He had to use a pick-and-roll to get rid of Yohei and shoot a mid-range shot.
"Snap" Kiyota assisted in defense in time and gave Ishida a big hat, "Good block, wild monkey" Sakuragi got the ball, "Next, Yohei" The next second Sakuragi passed the ball to Mito Yohei, Mito Yohei dribbled forward
"First-year boy, don't even think about starting a fast break." Ishida was also very fast and caught up with Mito Yohei. However, Mito Yohei passed the ball back.
"Great, a genius slam dunk!" Sakuragi followed behind and slam-dunked! 49:36
In the next round, Hori planned to let Yokobayashi fight back, but he was facing Mitsui. In the second half of the first half, Hasegawa's defense had greatly reduced Yokobayashi's offensive efficiency. In the second half, under Mitsui's tough defense, Yokobayashi had no chance. Although Yokobayashi later passed Mitsui's defense with the help of Kobayashi's pick-and-roll, Fukuda appeared in front of him the next second. Yokobayashi hesitated for a moment, and the ball was intercepted by Mitsui from behind. Xiangbei made another fast break, and Kiyota completed a dunk with 51:36, and the score difference reached 15 points.
In the following game, although Hori called a timeout and the game improved, Shohoku's overwhelming offensive made Hori unable to cope. With 5 minutes left in the game, the score difference reached 25 points. Seeing that the defeat was inevitable, Hori replaced the main players and announced his defeat. Coach Anzai also replaced Horita and Yugoku, leaving Kiyota, Fukuda and Yohei. The two sides played the last 5 minutes smoothly. In the end, Shohoku eliminated Hori with a 86-point advantage of 66: and entered the semi-finals!