In the stadium, the offense and defense changed after Miyagi Ryota scored.
The Kanagawa Prefecture team uses a standard zone defense. Uozumi and Takenori Akagi guard both sides of the paint area on the bottom line, while Hanagata and Takasago Kazuma are positioned on both sides of the paint area on the free throw line. As for Miyagi Ryota is not assigned a specific location. On the defensive end, coach Taoka gave Miyagi enough freedom.
Shimane's defender advanced with the ball, and after entering the frontcourt, he observed the Kanagawa Prefecture team's defense. He felt that Kanagawa's defense on the outside was relatively weak and realized that this might be an opportunity to attack.
After entering the frontcourt, Shimane's defender immediately passed the ball to the side and gave it to his small forward. The latter caught the ball from the mid-to-long distance on the side of the court. After receiving the ball, he did not hesitate and immediately shot. However, when he was shooting, Hua Xing not far away took a few steps toward him and raised his hand to interfere.
Although it was impossible to cover Shimane's players in Hanagata's position, the tall Hanagata suddenly rushed forward, which really shocked the opponent, and his shooting posture was deformed.
"Cang~" a clear sound of iron sounded. The next second, Jun Uozumi and Takenori Akagi under the basket instantly blocked Shimane's inside line behind them. In the end, the rebound was easily collected by Takenori Akagi. middle.
The offensive rebound was lost, and Shimane's players began to retreat quickly. Takenori Akagi, who had won the rebound, was not in a hurry to pass the ball. He waited until Shimane and others retreated to the midfield position before giving the ball to Miyagi. hands.
"Senior Akagi, what a good guy!"
"Start the attack!"
After receiving the basketball, Miyagi Ryota shouted, controlled the ball and landed at the back of the field. After waiting for his teammates to enter the frontcourt, Miyagi Ryota slowly took the ball across the center line.
The unhurried and unhurried posture of controlling the ball made Coach Tianoka on the sidelines look slightly brighter, and his expression was finally not as serious and scary as before.
"Although the attack at the opening kick was a bit unintelligent, the rhythm of the game was still under control!"
"It's not in vain..."
Coach Taoka whispered in his heart, but at this moment, Miyagi dribbled close to the three-point line. After seeing his teammates complete their positions, he shot directly when he was still more than one meter away from the three-point line. . This sudden three-pointer made Coach Taoka look startled, and he suddenly stood up from his seat.
"What?!"
Miyagi's choice of shot was beyond everyone's expectations. Not only Coach Taoka who was sitting off the court, but also the opponents on the court were stunned. On the contrary, Uozumi and Takenori Akagi reacted quickly. The moment Miyagi took action, he squeezed in from two directions.
However, Miyagi's shots are always a bit hasty. Although Akagi and Uozumi's reactions are quick, they are not as good as Shimane's insiders in terms of position.
"Dang~" There was a soft sound, and the basketball hit the edge of the frame and fell towards the outside.
At this time, Hanagata and Takasago Kazuma had also entered the inside line. Shimane's two inside lines focused on Uozumi and Akagi, which allowed Hanagata and Takasago to easily cut to the basket.
For a moment, the four big men from Kanagawa Prefecture worked in pairs and easily clamped Shimane's two insiders. Not to mention grabbing rebounds, under the blocking of Uozumi and others, Shimane's inside Can't even take off. The rebound was easily collected by Hanaxing.
Hanagata, who grabbed the rebound, didn't even dribble the ball. He directly forced a hook layup and easily put the ball into the basket.
"ohhhhh!!! Flower shape! Flower shape!"
As Hanagata succeeded in his second attack, the local audience in Kanagawa Prefecture cheered.
"Well done, Hanagata!" Jun Uozumi and Hanagata high-fived in celebration and praised in a muffled voice. Akagi and Takasago on the side also fist-bumped with Hanagata in celebration, and they showed quite a tacit understanding.
"Sure enough, our inside strength is much better than that of our opponents!" Miyagi Ryota had already begun to retreat at this time. After several rounds of offense and defense, Miyagi Ryota had realized that his team's inside strength far exceeded that of his opponents, and he was already planning to let go of his shooting. .
However, at this moment, Coach Taoka walked to the sidelines and shouted to Miyagi Ryota:
"Miyagi! What are you hitting?! Defender, should it be hit like you?!"
"What on earth are you thinking in your mind? I let you play. If I want you to attack, why don't I let Shinomiya and others play?!"
"Please figure it out for me, what you should do on the court!"
Coach Tianoka's roar was quite loud, and his voice even overwhelmed the cheers of the audience. Miyagi Ryota, who was returning to defense, unconsciously slowed down when he heard Coach Taoka's roar.
After entering high school for so long, this was the first time he heard the coach's roar on the court. When he was playing in Shohoku, Coach Anzai would not yell directly from the sidelines like Coach Taoka. Although he was a little surprised that Coach Taoka would yell from the sidelines, after hearing these words, Miyagi Ryota still used his brain to think about his handling of these goals.
The problem is obvious and easy to find. The key is whether Miyagi himself will reflect on it and whether he can listen to the coach's words.
On the court, Miyagi Ryota did not respond to Coach Taoka's words, but his pace of returning to defense sped up a few points after Coach Taoka sat back in the rest area. At the same time, Shimane's players also quickly reached the frontcourt, and after using a high-position pick-and-roll, Shimane chose a high-position shot.
This time, Shimane's players performed steadily and hit accurate mid-range attacks.
Between offense and defense, the basketball once again came into Miyagi Ryota's hands. When Miyagi crossed the midline with the ball, coach Taoka stood up from his seat again, walked to the sidelines, and stared at Miyagi Ryota on the court.
Entering the frontcourt, Miyagi Ryota did not shoot blindly this time. After approaching the three-point line, he made a pick-and-roll gesture for Hanagata nearby. After Hanagata approached, he immediately started a breakthrough.
Although Miyagi Ryota is short in height, he is quite fast. With a flower-shaped pick and roll, the short and agile Miyagi Ryota broke through the defense line in an instant, and then rushed inside.
His appearance instantly attracted the attention of Shimane's insiders, but just as they moved to prepare for defense, Miyagi made a back pass and sent the ball behind him. In the middle distance not far behind Miyagi, Toru Hanagata caught the ball in an open position, took a second to adjust his posture, and then shot.
"Whoa!" With a soft sound, the basketball hit the net.
Kanagawa Prefecture scored consecutively. Seeing this scene, Coach Taoka silently returned to his seat and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Coach, Miyagi Ryota has performed well during training sessions, and his shooting has also improved greatly."
"Combined with his breakthrough speed, it doesn't matter if he plays offensively against a team like Shimane."
"The result of the game will not change."
"Why restrict him?"
After Coach Taoka sat back on his seat, Shinomiya Tanodō suddenly asked.
Shinomiya knows very well that Coach Taoka is definitely not the kind of person to suppress players from other teams. If he wants to suppress players, Miyagi will not be allowed to play at all. In this game, whether Sendō is in charge or Fujima is in charge, it is absolutely impossible for anyone else to have any objections.
And Shinomiya can also understand the intention of Coach Taoka. He asked this just to prevent other players from having any suspicion and misunderstanding Coach Taoka.
Hisashi Mitsui, who was sitting not far away, was looking at Coach Taoka with stern eyes. Unlike Shinomiya, he really felt that it would be good for Miyagi to practice his offense in this game. On the contrary, Jinguji Martial Arts seemed to have not heard the exchanges between several people, sitting in his seat and dozing off with his chin in his hands.
"snort!"
"Stupid question!"
"What do you think short players rely on to stand on the court?"
"With that half-baked pull-up jump shot? Or that flashy three-pointer?"
"I'm telling you, I'm telling you all, if short players want to gain a foothold on the court, they need speed! It's awareness! It's vision! It's passing!"
"Of course you can attack, but the opportunity to attack must be good!"
"Tackling tough situations is never what a point guard needs to do!"
"An excellent point guard does not need to score many points on the court, but he must allow his teammates to give full play to their strengths."
"A point guard who can expand the advantage of his teammates is a good point guard. If I want him to attack, why should I not let Amu play and let him play?"
Coach Tianoka's coaching ideas are in line with the basketball concepts of this era, and everyone can understand when they hear what he says. Miyagi Ryota's height is less than 170cm. Even as a defender, even in the high school basketball arena, this height is considered short.
If Miyagi Ryota cannot amplify his strengths and find his position on the court, not to mention college basketball, high school basketball will be the pinnacle of Miyagi Ryota. Coach Taoka has admired Miyagi Ryota very much since his junior high school days. He does not want Miyagi Ryota to end his basketball career early because of the positioning of the court.
As everyone was chatting off the field, the situation in the stadium had begun to become clear. Kanagawa Prefecture's inside advantage was too great, and their defensive strategy also focused on the inside. Due to Kanagawa Prefecture's defensive pressure, Shimane basically relies on outside shooting on the offensive end.
Once someone breaks through and enters the inside, he will immediately be surrounded by four big men. Let alone shooting, even passing the ball will become extremely difficult after entering the inside.
After Miyagi Ryota was yelled at by Coach Taoka, he decisively changed his playing style and began to focus on ball control, support, and passing the ball to break up the defense.
Although he occasionally takes shots, most of the time he only chooses to take shots when he is open, and his style of play has become quite stable.
Psychologically, Ryota Miyagi really hopes that he can play like Jinguji Martial Arts, but he also knows very well that he is not Jinguji Martial Arts. Blind imitation will only make him completely lose the possibility of gaining a foothold on the football field.
In the game where he cooperated with four insiders including Uozumi and Akagi, Miyagi Ryota was able to clearly grasp the team's strengths and weaknesses. In such a team, Miyagi Ryota could easily find his own position. , and make your own changes.
The team Kanagawa played was very bulky. Miyagi Ryota not only had to suppress his own rhythm to adapt to other players, but also needed to use his own breakthroughs to help his teammates get into a suitable attacking position.
The Miyagi at this time was the Miyagi that the team needed, not Miyagi Ryota himself. His transformation was also seen by everyone in Shobei.
When he was in Shohoku before, Miyagi Ryota could not find his own position on the court. For Shohoku, Miyagi's role was only to "control the ball." "Ball control" is more superficial than the literal meaning. His biggest role on the court is to carry the ball from the backcourt to the frontcourt.
In the stadium, as the game progressed, the point difference between the Kanagawa Prefecture team and the Shimane team began to slowly widen. In order to deal with this situation, Shimane's coach also tried to make some changes on the defensive end, dispatching Two players went to double-team Miyagi Ryota who was holding the ball.
But at this time, Miyagi gave full play to his speed advantage and became slippery, giving his opponent no chance to double-team.
After all, he is the second-generation captain who can break through the full-court press of Sanno Industries in the future. In the post-Shohoku era, Miyagi has already begun to use his talents in his first year of high school.
At the end of the first half, the Kanagawa Prefecture team already led its opponents by 15 points, and in the second half, this advantage became bigger and bigger. In the end, the Kanagawa Prefecture team defeated Shimane with an overwhelming advantage of 103:62 and advanced to the second round.
The next day, Saturday, Sunday, the Kanagawa Prefecture team faced the Shiga Prefecture team at the same stadium.
Shiga, an inland county in the central part of Honshu Island, has been ranked in the middle of the third round in the autumn national sports competitions over the years. If the IH team is used as a benchmark, it is at the bottom of the top eight.
In this day's game, Coach Taoka was still planning to train. The lineup on the field had a huge change from the previous day. Coach Taoka took into account the distribution of the players' physical fitness. The big centers in the team, Jun Uozumi and Akagi, took turns to rest. , in the inside position, coach Taoka arranged Hainan's Maekawa Daiki, Hanagata and Takasago.
On the outside, the duo of Fujima and Makoto Shinichi were deployed.
The Shiga representative team's team attributes are that of a small and quick style of play, and there is no traditional "big center" in the team. The game was just as Coach Taoka expected at the beginning, relying on the inside advantage, Kanagawa Prefecture had an absolute advantage in the first half of the game.
The internal and external connection between Makichi Shinichi and Fujima, coupled with Hanagata's stable mid-range shooting and Maekawa Daiki and Takasago Kazuma under the basket, Kanagawa Prefecture blossomed more on the offensive end and was simply unstoppable. At the end of the first half At that time, Kanagawa had an absolute advantage with 54:36.
However, in the second half, several of Shiga's outside players broke out and once narrowed the difference between the two teams to 10 points, but they were immediately suppressed by Makoto Shinichi. No one in Xiao Kuailing's team could withstand Mu Shenyi's strong breakthrough. With Mu Shenyi's performance, the point difference between the two teams was once again widened.
At the end of the game, the score between the two teams reached 112:71. In this 40-minute, half-half game format, the Kanagawa Prefecture team showed absolute dominance on the offensive end.
After the second round, the Kanagawa Prefecture team will also meet its first worthy opponent, Aichi Prefecture, in the third round, a 16-to-8 match.
"Ho~~Our Kanagawa Prefecture team is really strong!"
"Today's game was won easily again, even the team's aces didn't even play!"
"Yes! For two days in a row, Shinomiya Tōno and Jinguji Budō were watching from the sidelines, and even the genius Sendō didn't play."
"Tomorrow's game will be against Aichi Prefecture. I feel sorry for them. They actually met our Kanagawa prefectural team."
After the game between Shohoku and Shiga, some local fans from Kanagawa Prefecture left the field. In the aisle, several people talked loudly, for fear that others would not know that they were locals from Kanagawa Prefecture.
Not far away from where these people were passing by, a group of young people wearing pink and white sportswear were sitting on the seats, listening to the discussions of those people with gloomy expressions.
"Damn it! How dare you underestimate our Aichi Prefecture!"
"Zhuxing, tomorrow, you must show some color to those people."
There was a team member from Aichi Prefecture. After the talking audience had gone away, he said to Morohoshi in the team.
"..." Zhu Xingda said nothing when he heard this. His face, like his teammates, was very ugly.
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