In the second half of the game between Kanagawa Prefecture and Kyoto, the Shohoku players completely abandoned their most familiar style of play. The team's shooting rights were distributed from Jinguji Takeshi and Mitsui Hisashi to Miyagi Ryouta, Akagi, and Maki Shinichi who played with them.
At the beginning, Shinichi Maki did not realize Jinguji Takeshi's idea. After receiving the pass from Ryouta Miyagi, he would often choose to pass the ball to Jinguji Takeshi, allowing Jinguji Takeshi to lead the attack.
Although he is also a ball-holding core, when he played with Jinguji Budou, Maki Shinichi was the first to find his position and put himself in the supporting position.
Takeshi Jinguji's opponent is a striker who is about 185cm tall. Although he is a striker, he is more than ten centimeters shorter than Takeshi Jinguji.
In Maki Shinichi's opinion, as long as the basketball is in Jinguji Budou's hands, he will be no different from an open position when facing an opponent of that level. In this regard, Maki Shinichi has great confidence in Jinguji Budou's strength.
But the strange thing is that every time he passed the ball to Jinguji Budo and let the opponent take the lead in the attack, the latter would immediately pass the ball back, giving people the feeling that the ball was too hot.
Moreover, as the game progressed, Miyagi Ryouta's outside shots became quite frequent, and many times, the person who passed the ball to him was Jinguji Budo who went to the basket to grab the rebound.
After a few times, Maki Shinichi guessed that Jinguji Budou wanted to take advantage of today's opportunity to let Miyagi Ryouta practice his outside offensive ability. After taking a look at the scoreboard on the sidelines, Maki Shinichi felt that the game was a sure win, so he started to cooperate. After several offensive and defensive rotations, Maki Shinichi's main passing target became Miyagi Ryouta.
All of a sudden, Miyagi Ryouta became very powerful.
With unlimited shooting rights, he made crazy three-pointers with the help of others. Ten minutes into the second half, his personal score reached 16 points, and his three-point shooting rate reached an astonishing... ... 31%... ...
The score between the two teams has changed from 54:23 at the beginning to 78:55 today. Thanks to the efforts of Miyagi Ryouta, the difference between the two teams has changed from 31 points at the beginning to 23 points.
Even though there was still a 23-point gap between the two teams, Kyoto had already scored 32 points on the Kanagawa Prefecture team only ten minutes into the second half. The team only scored a pitiful 23 points in the entire first half, which lasted more than 20 minutes.
By making this comparison, we can see how bad Kanagawa Prefecture's offense and defense were in the second half.
However, Jinguji Budo was very happy about this. He only played for ten minutes in the second half, but he already had 11 rebounds. He was confident that he could get 20 rebounds before the end of the game to make up for his shortcomings in statistics.
Moreover, according to the current situation of the game, Kyoto will lose by a maximum of ten points by the end of the game. This will not only save Kyoto's face, but also successfully meet the requirements of Coach Tanaka.
At the same time, the fans did not curse after watching Kanagawa Prefecture's second half of the game. They all felt that Kanagawa was training its players, and it was normal for them to play a little ugly.
At the same time, the fans also admired Coach Takeoka very much. In the Autumn National Sports Tournament quarter-finals, Coach Takeoka actually gave so many shooting opportunities to a first-year player in such an occasion. The audience also recognized this player, who was from Shohoku High School, not Ryonan High School.
Coach Tian Gang gave the first-year students from other schools this kind of training opportunity in such a big competition and in such a crucial match. He really... ... is very good at training young players.
If Xiao Zeng played for this team, he probably wouldn't have to raise his hand every day but not get the ball.
The situation of the game was developing in the direction that Jinguji Budou expected, and Miyagi Ryouta, who suddenly got so many opportunities to attack, was also excited.
The three-point long-range shooting from horseback archery was brought to the court. As luck would have it, he actually made the shot. This immediately gave Miyagi a burst of confidence, and his shooting timing became more and more outrageous. There were several times when the defender's hand was about to poke his face, but even so, Miyagi still forced the shot.
Fortunately, Jinguji Budou, Akagi and Maki Shinichi were there to support Miyagi under the basket, so they were able to control most of the rebounds, but some of them bounced far away and the three of them had no way to deal with them.
Those people from Kyoto seemed to have calculated that Miyagi's shooting percentage was not very good. In the second half, except for one player who kept staring at Miyagi, everyone else squeezed into the inside and tried to grab rebounds.
However, Kyoto's strength under the basket was really average. Four people entering the basket could not compete with the three people from Kanagawa Prefecture. Wudao relied on his height and jumping advantages to repeatedly score goals over the opponents' heads.
With more than two minutes left in the game, Jinguji Budo finally got 20 rebounds. Having achieved his small goal, he just gave up. He didn't even go to the basket on offense, and he didn't even think about going to Miyagi to receive the ball while standing on the outside. He didn't help Miyagi with pick-and-rolls. He just watched the big guys under the basket fighting for territory.
By the end of the game, the score between the two teams was 98:84. Kanagawa Prefecture won the game with a "slight advantage" of 15 points. Miyagi Ryouta also set the highest scoring record in his high school basketball career today, scoring 31 points in the first half. This terrifying scoring data would probably surprise anyone if told.
“Hehehe!”
"Well done, everyone, great performance!"
After the game, Coach Takeo stood on the sidelines and greeted the players who returned to the rest area with a smile on his face. He was very satisfied with Kanagawa Prefecture's poor performance in the second half.
He even patted Miyagi Ryouta on the shoulder and gave him a few words of encouragement. Miyagi Ryouta was deeply moved by the affirmation from Coach Tanaoka and believed that today's game was an opportunity given to him by Coach Tanaoka to perform.
Through this game, Miyagi Ryouta realized that his shooting ability is far from enough, and he made up his mind to intensify his shooting practice and never waste so many opportunities next time.
After one game, a win-win situation was achieved.
Kyoto saved face, and Coach Tanaoka not only earned a small amount of fame, but also received a favor from Coach Kyoto. Budo grabbed a wave of rebounds without consuming much physical energy, and Miyagi, seeing his own shortcomings, shot more freely and his self-confidence increased a lot.
After the game, Kanagawa Prefecture successfully secured a place in the semi-finals. The next day, they held the semi-finals in this stadium against another semi-final team in the same group, Miyagi Prefecture.
Miyagi Prefecture is a traditionally strong prefecture, and its best style is also small, fast and agile. In this era, teams that like to play small, fast and agile systems are often the ones that lack a strong inside player.
This year, Kanagawa Prefecture is strong in all positions, and the players in the interior are all future stars. Facing Miyagi Prefecture, they have an absolute advantage in the interior.
In the match against Miyagi Prefecture, Coach Tanaoka used the same trick again, sending five players from Ryonan as starters in the first half. Under the leadership of Shinomiya Tano, the team played with overwhelming force in the first half, breaking down Miyagi Prefecture's psychological defense in less than ten minutes. At the end of the first half, the difference between the two teams reached 24 points.
In the second half, Coach Takeo sent out four players from Shohoku and Kazuma Takasago. Today, Takeshi himself played for a few minutes in order to maintain his competitive state, but he was not paying attention and widened the gap between the two teams to 40 points.
Realizing that he had gone too far, Wu Dao immediately restrained himself and focused his attack on Akagi Takenori and Takasago Kazuma in the interior.
I thought the offensive ability of these two would give Miyagi some chances to catch up, but facing Miyagi's inside line, Akagi and Takasago teamed up = invincible... ..
At the end of the game, Kanagawa Prefecture won the game with an overwhelming advantage of 101:52 and successfully advanced to the finals.
After the match between Kanagawa Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture, the next match was between Akita Prefecture and Niigata (xì). Niigata's team was very strong, with high levels of offense and defense, and the match with Akita Prefecture was also very intense.
At the end of the first half, Akita Prefecture was leading its opponent by five points with 34:29. In the entire Autumn National Games, Niigata was the first team that could play against Akita Prefecture to this level.
But in the second half, Niigata's main players exhausted all their energy and had to bring in several substitutes. Akita Prefecture also brought in substitutes in order to preserve the main players' energy for the final.
However, as soon as the two teams' second lineups came on the stage, the difference in foundation immediately became apparent.
Not long into the second half, Akita Prefecture widened the gap to 11 points. Niigata's coach realized something was wrong, but with all the strength of the prefecture, he couldn't find a player who could deal with Akita, so he had to hastily adjust his tactics.
However, if the team members lack the hard power, no matter how fancy the tactics are, they will be useless.
In the end, Akita Prefecture won the game with a score of 84:60, with a difference of 24 points, and secured its qualification for the final.
At this point, the two teams that will eventually participate in the finals of the Autumn National Games have been officially determined, namely Akita Prefecture and Kanagawa Prefecture.
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Wednesday, Wednesday.
“Boom!!”
A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and a few seconds later, rumbling thunder reached my ears.
In the sky, raindrops fell, hit the ground, and splashed small flowers.
Autumn rain often gives people a feeling of loneliness, solitude and sadness.
But in the Kanagawa Prefectural Gymnasium, people had no time to enjoy the peace brought by the autumn rain.
In the morning, heavy rain poured down from the gray sky. The streets were sparsely populated with few pedestrians. However, at this time, the Kanagawa Prefectural Gymnasium was bustling with people.
"Kanagawa! Kanagawa! Kanagawa!"
“Ah↑↑↑↑Fujima! Fujima!”
The huge stadium was filled with the shouts of the audience. The stands that could accommodate a thousand people were completely packed. Even the outermost aisles of the stands were filled with spectators. The bustle in the stadium and the coldness outside seemed like two different worlds.
In the stadium, the players of the Kanagawa Prefecture team walked through the player tunnel and entered the stadium one after another. As the people from Kanagawa Prefecture entered the stadium, the cheers in the stands became several decibels higher.
“Coach Domoto, you people from Akita Prefecture, please go easy on us! Hahahaha!”
When the players from Kanagawa Prefecture entered the stadium, the players from Akita Prefecture were already changing clothes in the rest area. When Coach Tanaoka went to the referee's booth to register for entry, he happened to run into Coach Domoto from Akita Prefecture. Seeing this young opponent, Coach Tanaoka smiled and greeted him.
"Coach Tiangang, please stop joking."
"The Ryonan High School you lead is the IH champion. You are also leading the main players of Ryonan to participate in the autumn national games."
"I should be the one asking you to show some mercy."
Goro Domoto smiled and took the initiative to extend his hand and shake hands with Coach Tagora.
"Haha, you're over-praised. I was just luckier when I was in IH!"
"but... ... "
"I think my luck will be just as good, Autumn National Body!"
Coach Takaoka was quite modest one second ago, but he suddenly showed his edge the next second. When Domoto Goro heard this, the smile on his face faded a little, he let go of his hand, and replied indifferently:
"I am different from you, Coach Tiangang. We rely on our real strength in every game of Sannoh!"
Coach Tanaoka smiled when he heard this, turned around and walked towards his own half, but his voice reached the ears of Goro Domoto.
"Hehehe, do you really have the strength to fight me?!"
...
By the time Coach Tanaoka returned to his rest area, the players from Kanagawa Prefecture had already changed their clothes. While the players were still warming up, Coach Tanaoka clapped his hands, motioning for the players to gather around him, and then announced to them:
"Today is the final of the Autumn National Games!"
"I have made up my mind. I will use all my strength to completely defeat Akita Prefecture!"
"Listen carefully, it's all my strength!"
Coach Tiangang looked very serious when he said this. The players also felt that Coach Tiangang's state today was a little different from the previous few days. They all became much more serious.
"Akagi Takenori, Hanagata Toru, Amaru, Mitsui Hisashi, and... Sendoh, the five of you will start the game!"
"On the offensive end, focus on the breakthroughs of Amu and Sendoh. If there is an opportunity on Mitsui Shou's side, pass it. If there is no opportunity, you two will be responsible for the breakthrough!"
"My request to you is very simple. Within ten minutes, don't let the score be widened."
After Coach Tiangang finished speaking, Sendoh interrupted and said, "Coach, what about ten minutes later?"
Coach Tiangang was interrupted and couldn't help but roll his eyes at Sendoh before continuing:
"In ten minutes, these two will take over the game!"
"Shinomiya Tano, Jinguji Budo, I know that with your physical strength, even if I let you fight for 40 minutes, it will definitely not be a problem."
"But thirty minutes is the time you two can both give your best."
"Be prepared. After you two go on stage, I want the people of Akita Prefecture to completely lose their confidence in competing for the championship!"
"Before that, you five, keep up the good work!"
Coach Tian Gang held Jinguji Takeshi and Shinomiya Tano with his left and right hands respectively, and gave instructions in a deep voice. Then, he looked at Akagi Mitsui and others with a serious expression.
"Just to hold the score back... How is that enough?"
"We'll establish an advantage before either of you even get on the field!"
"Right, Amu!"
The proud Mitsui Hisashi did not think that Coach Tiangang's words were a compliment to them. Instead, he felt insulted. Looking at Coach Tiangang's serious expression, he immediately said.
"Hahahaha! It's no wonder that I'm optimistic about Mitsui!"
"If you can do it, do it!"
Coach Tanaoka saw Mitsui's confident look and laughed, patted Mitsui's shoulder and said.
After completing these arrangements, people from Kanagawa Prefecture also began to enter the venue to warm up.
"I never thought that there would be a day when I could team up with you to play a game."
"I thought that the two of us would not appear on the court at the same time."
"Hey, Budo, do you want to compete?"
Shimonoya dribbled the ball into the court and suddenly spoke to Wudou beside him.
"Competition? What competition?" Jinguji Budo was stunned when he heard this and asked in confusion.
"Here~"
"The little bald guy from Akita Prefecture, number 13, Sawakita Eiji."
"That guy is the type who likes to challenge. He will challenge whoever is stronger."
"Our game is also very simple. It all depends on who this guy will focus on defending at the end of the game!"
"If it's me, it means I'm better than you. If it's you... Haha, that won't happen!"
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