Chapter 80 Xiangyang's Weakness
"Shoka Yang's starting lineup is taller than you, which will increase the difficulty of our inside attack, so at the beginning we play fast attack and use speed to drag them down." Xiangyang's starting lineup was prepared to blockade Maki Shinchi, but it is not very suitable for Xiangbei. Xiangbei has Akagi and Sakuragi, which can limit their inside attacks. There are also speed experts such as Miyagi, Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi who are suitable for fast attacks. In the original work, Xiangbei also used the fast attack to catch up with the score.
At the beginning of the game, because she had defeated Ryunan, who was also in the semi-finals, Xiangbei was not as afraid of Xiangyang as in the original work. In addition, the four players did not play the whole game before, so she had already held up a lot of energy. As soon as she got up, Miyagi's steal caused Rukawa Kaede to score a fast break dunk.
Akagi received a coach's advice and focused on the offense from the beginning. After scoring two shots in Hanamichi, he adapted to his offensive style and sent blocks one after another with Sakuragi Hanado; Shokube quickly led 10-4.
Fujima couldn't sit still anymore. Huashi stopped Fujima from appearing with her eyes, trying to use the advantages of the four big players to grab a rebound and get a second offensive chance to score.
"I'll do it!" Nagano missed the shot, Takano blocked Akagi, and Hanashi tried to grab the frontcourt rebound and scored a point.
"This is mine!" However, as she saw her flower-shaped fingertips were about to touch the basketball, she was jumped from behind by Hanamichi Sakuragi, and drove the ball away from him, then jumped for the second time before Hasegawa, holding the rebound firmly in his hand, and quickly passed it to Miyagi, "Komyeon, catch it!"
"Occurrence!" Miyagi took the ball and advanced quickly. Ito tried hard to delay Miyagi's speed, allowing Hanashi and others to take the position, and set up a 1-3-1 joint defense formation in the penalty area, locking the penalty area.
The penalty area was locked, but Mitsui Shou, who was on the outside, missed it. Miyagi made a fake move to pass the ball to Akagi at the basket, tricking Ito into jumping up and taking the opportunity to pass the ball to Mitsui Shou. Mitsui received the ball and shot the ball easily, hitting the ball, widening the score difference to 13-4.
It was Shoyo's turn to attack, Hanashi pulled Akagi out of the penalty area and made a shot. Takano blocked Sakuragi, Nagano grabbed the rebound and made a shot. This time the tactic was achieved, and Fujima seemed to see hope and sit down again.
Looking back, Rukawa Kaede failed to make a single shot, Shoyo got another chance to attack, and Huashi still pulled Akagi away. However, this time Rukawa Kaede entered the penalty area and helped stop Nagano. Only Takano and Hasegawa could not stop Sakuragi at all, "Backboard King Sakuragi is here!"
Hanamichi won the rebound again, and Huashi's plan went bankrupt. Seeing this scene, Shen Long was relieved, and Rukawa Kaede's team spirit was gradually revealed.
"Fujima must play!" Seeing that the score was widened to double digits, Shen Long said, "This is Xiangyang's second weakness. Now there is only one ball-holding point on the court. Once the flower shape is limited by Akagi, there is no second person who can take the ball and attack. The rebound is controlled by Sakuragi Hanado, and their offense has been locked by us."
In addition to Huashi, the four big players of Shoyo are all better at defense than offense, and lack the ability to hold the ball like Fukuda Yoshio; Hainan has three scoring points, Amu, Kiyota, and Ajin, Ryunan has Sendo, Yuzuru and Fukuda, Shokito has Akagi, Mitsui, Rukawa Kaeda, and Kanagawa, among the four strong teams, Shoyo, Shoko's scoring ability is the worst.
Five minutes into the game, the score on the court was 18-6. Fujima called a timeout and replaced Ito to appear. Chen Teng made corresponding adjustments. "Shoyo's defense focuses on the penalty area. Next, we will focus on the outside, Mitsui, you have to take on the heavy responsibility of scoring. Akagi, help Sakuragi block people during the attack, Hanada, and the frontcourt rebound depends on you."
Fujima's appearance gave Shoyang an extra point of attack with the ball. He quickly used a breakthrough drift shot to help Shoyang recover two points, and then interrupted the ball from him after Hanamichi Sakuragi took the rebound and assisted the Huashi score.
However, Xiangbei was not panicked. Mitsui Shou slipped into the bottom line and escaped Hasegawa under the basket with Akagi's block. He went to the right corner to receive a pass from Miyagi to make another three-pointer. Rukawa Kaede looked at Mitsui Shou's running position and thoughtful.
"Switch defense, Takano, after Mitsui Shou gets rid of Hasegawa, you can follow." Fujima immediately came up with a countermeasure and tried his best to shoot a three-pointer in front of Miyagi.
Mitsui Shou ran again, Takano followed closely, leaving him with no chance to shoot, so he could only pass the ball to Akagi. Akagi's strong attack was blocked, and Fujima launched a fast attack and won another goal.
Xiangbei substitution, Ki Mu appears to replace Rukawa Kaede, "Rukawa Kaede, you can rest for a while, and you will need to score points and attack later."
When Mu Mu appeared on the court, Xiangbei's rebound was weakened, but Mitsui Shou entered the penalty area at the right time to help Sakuragi block the people, making up for one or two. During the attack, Xiangbei had two three-pointers, Mitsui Shou and Mu Mu, making Xiangyang's joint defense a decoration. Fujima had to draw another person from the basket to guard against Mu Mu.
But in this way, the defense at the basket was weakened. Miyagi passed the ball to Mitsui. Mitsui made a fake shot and clicked Hasegawa to pass the ball to the inside, and Akagi topped the flower-shaped dunk to score.
"It's worthy of being coach Anxi, Fujima is too tender compared to him!" Taoka in the stands sighed. Every change in Shoyo was restricted by Shokito, and Fujima had to lead the offense and think about tactics on the court, and his physical strength was consumed a lot. "If this continues, Fujima can't hold on to the whole game."
At the beginning of the second half, Fujima used the half-time break to figure out a strategy against Mu Mu. He realized that Mu Mu's athletic ability was not outstanding, so he planned to defend the inside first and wait for Mu Mu to catch the ball before going up to defend. Unfortunately, Chen Long did not let Mu Mu come up in the second half, but instead replaced Rukawa Kaede, whose physical strength had recovered.
Rukawa Kaede's breakthrough and shooting made Shoyang's inside line mess. In defense, Miyagi adopted a strategy of preventing shots but not preventing breakthroughs against Fujima. Fujima had to break through again and again and again to enter the inside line, consuming a lot of physical strength. Half of the second half, Fujima was so exhausted that she was out of breath.
"Xiangyang is over! Their defense is pretty good, but the offense is too bad. You can't beat Xiangbei to death by relying on Fujima and Huashi." Mushen looked at Fujima with complex eyes. In this year's joint final, this opponent who had fought with him for two years was about to miss.
After the score was widened to fifteen points, Chen Long started to rotate again, allowing the substitute to come on the bench to experience the high-intensity game. Xiangyang slowly scored the score, but there was no time left, and Xiangbei finally won by eight points.
Although the score was not big, the rhythm of the whole game was firmly in the hands of Xiangbei. It is worth mentioning that Sakuragi Hanamichi played the whole game this time and was not sent off.
"Coach, we have reached the joint final!" The Xiangbei players were filled with tears in their eyes with excitement.
Chapter completed!