The game between Lingnan High School and Luoan started with just a round of offense and defense. Izumi Asio was carried out of the stadium under the watchful eyes of the audience and players.
This sudden change caught everyone off guard.
Shinomiya originally thought that the opponent would only be carried off the court for a while. Unexpectedly, the opponent was actually carried out of the court directly. It seemed that he was about to be sent to the hospital urgently.
The culprit who caused all this, Shinomiya Tanano, also had dull eyes. He really couldn't figure out how the opponent could be so fragile and fell down with just a collision. Moreover, he was immediately carried out of the stadium after this fall.
"Hey, Ye Tianye, this move of yours has directly helped our Lingnan win!"
Akira Sendō also stared blankly at Izumi Aho, who was being carried out of the arena surrounded by people, and couldn't help but said angrily to Shinomiya Tōno next to him.
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"This is too brittle, I didn't use any force at all!"
"It's just a layup. This level of physical confrontation is nothing at all, right?"
Shinomiya Tano withdrew his gaze and said helplessly. His attack was just a normal layup. He didn't even mean to collide with his opponent intentionally, and the opponent took the initiative to meet him. In this way, he was injured and left the game. Shinomiya Tanano was also unexpected.
Izumi Aso's retirement from injury was indeed beyond everyone's expectations. Seeing their teammates being carried off the court, Luoan's players all stared at Shinomiya Tanano angrily. Shinomiya noticed the Luoan player's gaze and looked embarrassed.
After the referee confirmed that Asao Izumi could no longer play, he urged Luo An's coach to send substitutes. At the same time, the timer on the sidelines also entered a one-minute countdown, giving Luo An only one minute to arrange a substitute. players.
The one-minute countdown passed quickly, and not long after, the players from both sides returned to the court.
The substitute center Luo An replaced is only 190cm tall. Although in the high school basketball arena, a center with such a height can already crush center players from many schools.
But this is the third round of the national competition after all, and a center of this height is not very eye-catching among the many advancing teams.
And compared with Roan High School's starting center Izumi Aho, who is 212cm, the center who is 190cm tall is really a bit weak.
At the end of the injury time, Luoan served from the backcourt.
Luo'an's defender caught the ball in the backcourt and slowly advanced towards the frontcourt. At the same time, other Luoan players also quickly entered the frontcourt and quickly took up positions in the Lingnan half.
Luoan's substitute center quickly entered the basket as his teammates advanced, stood in front of Uozumi, and settled down in the middle position behind the basket. Uozumi lowered his head slightly, glanced at the center in front of him who was more than ten centimeters shorter than him, and had lost a lot of weight, and shook his head slightly.
too weak!
Uozumi just leaned towards Luo An's substitute center. In just a few breaths, Uozumi used huge power to directly push his opponent away from the basket. Luo An, the substitute center, is not at the same level as Uozumi in terms of strength.
"hateful!"
Luo An's team seems to have long been accustomed to playing tactics around the big center. The tactical system these players know seems to be executed around the center.
At this time, Asami Izumi retired from injury, and the substitute center was unable to occupy a good position in the interior. It seemed that Luoan's players no longer knew how to play.
Luo'an's defender, who entered the frontcourt with the ball, saw that the "big center" was squeezed out of the inside line. He immediately lost his mind and dribbled the ball, but failed to pass the ball out, causing Luo'an's offense to lag.
Tomoyuki Uekusa saw that his opponent's stick to the ball was a little long, so he immediately stuck to it. Not far away, Sendō also made a move at this moment. He quickly rushed towards Luo An's point guard and immediately formed a double team with Tomoyuki Uekusa.
Under the defensive pressure of Sendō Akira and Uekusa Tomoyuki, Luoan's point guard hurriedly passed the ball, and such a pass allowed Lingnan's players to seize the opportunity.
Shinomiya simply stretched out his hand to intercept the opponent's pass, and then quickly rushed towards Luo An's basket with the ball.
The muscular Shinomiya's speed with the ball is also quite terrifying. In the blink of an eye, he has already dribbled the ball past many Roan players on the field.
The pass was intercepted, and Luoan's players quickly ran back to stop Shinomiya's fast break. However, their pursuit speed was not enough in front of Shinomiya.
"Bang!"
The people in Luoan, who were returning to defense, had just reached the three-point line when Shinomiya had already dribbled the ball into the basket, took off with the ball, and poured the ball into the basket with one hand.
The terrifying force caused the entire basketball stand to tremble violently.
The Luoan team members who were chasing Shinomiya Tōdō were also looking blankly at Shinomiya Tōdō who was grabbing the basket with one hand. None of them expected that the muscular Shinomiya could be so terrifyingly fast. Their pursuit was obviously very timely, but they were still pulled away by several meters by Shinomiya.
This kind of terrifying athletic ability was unexpected by the Luoan players.
Amid the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, Shinomiya released his right hand grabbing the basket and fell steadily back to the ground. The basketball stand was still shaking until he landed.
Shinomiya raised his eyes and glanced at the Luoan players not far away, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that your center would be injured."
"I didn't mean it. My hands and feet are actually very clean when I play."
"You don't have to worry about anything, just focus on the game and go all out to defend."
After saying that, Shinomiya raised his feet and ran slowly towards the frontcourt. He thought that the opponent did not chase him because the opponent was concerned about his strength and did not dare to defend.
However, the fact is that the speed of several of Luo An's team members simply cannot keep up with him.
Shinomiya Tanano has long been accustomed to facing tough opponents, but these players in Luo An are not on the same level as him at all.
This fast break from Lingnan High School also officially explained to the audience the gap in hard power between Luoan High School and Lingnan High School. Luo An, a single fast attack player like Shinomiya Tōno, could not even keep up, let alone resist.
When this disparity in individual strength is put into the game, it quickly becomes a disparity in strength between teams.
This difference in strength was quickly reflected in the score.
At the end of the first half, the score difference between the two teams reached 55:16, and the score difference reached a terrifying 39 points.
After the first half, coach Taoka replaced Shinomiya Tano and Sendō as well as Uozumi Jun in the post, and replaced them with a number of substitutes.
When the second half started, Reinan's players were second-year center Sugahira, second-year guard Tomoyuki Uekusa, third-year power forward Ryoji Ikegami, second-year small forward Yoshihiro Fukuda and point guard Fujima. Kenji.
Coach Tagoka did not take off all the ace-level players. After replacing the two scorers Shinomiya and Sendō, he replaced Fujima and Fukuda.
After Lingnan High School replaced the two scoring giants Shinomiya Tōno and Sendō, the offensive offensive in the second half was not much weaker, but Lingnan High School's defense was much weaker than in the first half.
And this kind of defensive intensity also made Luoan's players really relieved.
In the second half, Lingnan and Luoan also played back and forth. Compared with the crushing situation in the first half, the game in the second half was more exciting.
However, the advantage established by Lingnan led by Shinomiya in the first half was too huge. Even if Luoan's players worked hard in the second half, it was impossible to make up for such a disparity.
At the end of the game, Lingnan High School won the game 98:60, with a point difference of 38 points.
In the stands, Xiangbei High School did not stay in the arena to watch other teams' games after watching Lingnan High School's game.
For Shohoku, the team they need to pay most attention to in this national competition is Lingnan, who is also from Kanagawa Prefecture. The strength of other teams is meaningless to Shohoku.
The Shohoku team members who returned to the hotel early were not idle. They took out the video of the previous Urayasu business competition. After analyzing the opponents of the next game, they collectively watched the video of several games of Lingnan High School in this national competition. .
Although the Xiangbei players all watched the Lingnan game, there is still a difference between watching the game live and analyzing the game video.
But despite saying that, Lingnan High School has not fully demonstrated their full strength until now on the stage of the national competition. These game videos are really of little use to Xiangbei.
In the evening, the Xiangbei players who had dinner studied the competition route for a while, and then took an early rest.
Adequate rest and sleep can allow the Xiangbei players to quickly recover. They attach great importance to tomorrow's 8-to-4 game!
The next day.
In the Hiroshima Arena.
The Shohoku players who arrived at the venue early in the morning began to enter the arena to warm up, and their opponent was Urayasu Commercial.
One is the favorite to win the national competition, and the other is an A-level team that is struggling to qualify.
Normally, this would be a game without any suspense. After all, the gap between the two teams is really too big. However, Xiangbei's lineup for today's game included a group of immature first-year players.
This made the originally unsuspicious game start to become interesting.
Among Shohoku's first-year players, the leading scorer is undoubtedly Kaede Rukawa, and Shohoku's own players all think so.
But when the actual game started, Nobunaga Kiyota, as the point guard, did not pass the ball to Rukawa Kaede at all. Either he breaks through on his own and forces a layup, or he attracts a double-team and passes to the open Katsumi Ichiro.
More often than not, he regards this game as a stage for his own performance, making various breakthrough shots.
Kiyota Nobunaga's offensive efficiency is not very high, and he misses a lot of shots. This also gives Sakuragi Hanamichi and Nango Koichiro a chance to shine.
For a time, all four players on the Shohoku side performed well. On the contrary, as a small forward, Rukawa Kaede often took a long time to touch the basketball, and no one passed the ball to him at all.
"It's really a beating."
Shohoku High School's offense was unstructured, and the offensive tactics such as splitting, horn attack, etc. that the first graders had learned were not used at all in this game.
Some only have singles or singles.
Mitsui Hisashi watched the first-year students play like crazy, and his head was full of black lines.
However, the situation of the game did not lose control due to the random fighting of Xiangbei High School.
Although the players of Urayasu Commercial Co., Ltd. cooperated tacitly and the defensive rotation was quite timely, facing Shohoku's group of talented players, Urayasu Commercial Co., Ltd. could not stop Shohoku's attack at all.
At the same time, although Hanamichi Sakuragi and others are competing for performance on the offensive end, they fight for themselves.
But when it comes to defense, these five people have a very tacit understanding. There is no need for verbal communication at all in defensive rotations. Often, with a look, each other knows the other's intentions and switches defenses.
To a certain extent, the five of them, Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede, can be considered to have a tacit understanding.
Shohoku's first-year students dominated both offense and defense, and the balance of victory tilted towards Shohoku High School.
When the final whistle sounded, Xiangbei won the game 83:66.
The first-year students who won the victory also cheered loudly and proudly. They relied on their own efforts to "lead" Xiangbei to the semi-finals!
"Hahaha, I am indeed a genius. Under the leadership of this genius, Xiangbei has created the best results in history!"
"Thanks to my performance, we in Xiangbei can win. I am the biggest contributor to the victory!"
"Hey, wild monkey, what nonsense are you talking about?! The credit goes to this genius!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi and Kiyota Nobunaga were arguing and asking for credit. Budao looked at these noisy guys and covered his head with a headache.
So far, Xiangbei High School has successfully won the first place in Group A, secured a seat in the semi-finals, and advanced to the semi-finals!
In the match against Urayasu, the Shohoku players played very easily. Everyone will be in the best condition for tomorrow's match!
After the game between Shohoku and Urayasu Commerce, the next one is the game between Lingnan High School and Hoguan High School. The winning side will become the first in Group B and get a seat in the top four. At that time, the winning side will face the No. 1 in Group A. Shohoku High School.
Houguan High School is not very strong. They are just a B-level team that received group bonuses. In the game against Lingnan High School, less than half of the game was played and he had already surrendered.
Lingnan, who easily defeated Hou Guan, also advanced to the semi-finals, and their players were not too exhausted. It is foreseeable that after a day's rest, Lingnan's players can also return to their prime.
After the morning game, both Xiangbei and Lingnan knew who their opponents would be in the next game. They did not go to the afternoon game and returned to the hotel early.
In the afternoon when Lingnan and Shohoku were absent, Hakata Shoda Affiliated High School in Group C and Aiwa Academy in Group D won the final victory of their respective groups and successfully advanced to the semi-finals.
Tomorrow's games will be between Group A's Shohoku and Group B's Lingnan; Group C's Hakata Shona University Affiliated vs. Group D's Aiwa Academy.
The national competition has officially entered the most intense stage.
Early this morning.
Media from all over the country arrived at the venue early, set up their machines, and were ready to witness the next semi-finals and finals.
There were crowds of people in the stands. The spectators took their seats early and looked towards the stadium excitedly. There were even blond and blue-eyed foreign friends who walked to the front row. After briefly looking around the venue, they looked towards the player tunnel and muttered to themselves:
"I don't know how Wu's team is doing."
"If I don't play well at Oak Hill College, what's the point of coming to a place like this to play in the high school league?"
"Today I want to see if Neon has any opponents worthy of Wu's attention."
(End of chapter)
