15 minutes into the second half, Sanno Industrial could no longer withstand the tremendous pressure from Shohoku High School and called their last timeout of the game.
The players from both teams returned to their respective rest areas amid the cheers of the audience. As soon as Jinguji Budou came off the field, he was surrounded by the players. Mitsui Shou happily handed Jinguji Budou a towel and a water bottle, praising him:
"Budo, you're doing great, keep it up!"
"Sanno Industries is about to collapse. Even with so many people defending you, you still managed to break through and score."
"It won't be long before their own morale is broken."
Mitsui's judgment of the situation was very accurate. In fact, at this point in the game, Sanwang Industrial only had one string left to hold. This timeout was their last chance to adjust.
If Sanno Industrial fails to play its tactics effectively and stabilize the game situation after returning from the timeout, they will face a complete collapse.
"Well, I don't plan to give them another chance."
"I have lost interest in them. I thought Sanwang would have some unexpected fighting style, but I didn't expect that it would be just this level."
Wu Dao opened the bottle cap, took a sip of water, rinsed his mouth, and then spit into the trash can.
He turned his head and looked at the Sanwang rest area not far away, a smile appeared on his face.
During the timeout, Coach Anxi did not make any tactical arrangements. He simply encouraged Sakuragi and others, and then sat in his seat calmly, not worrying about the next game at all.
Seeing that they had such a big lead, the Xiangbei players all seemed very relaxed, and the atmosphere in the entire Xiangbei rest area was cheerful.
On the other hand, in the Sanno Industries rest area, the team members all gathered around Goro Domoto in silence, and the atmosphere was solemn.
Goro Domoto was holding a tactical board in his hand, quickly arranging Sanno's offensive and defensive tactics.
"On offense, we have been playing well. Although the red-haired guy from Xiangbei occasionally blocked a few of our attacks, overall, there is no problem with our tactics."
"Avoid Jinguji Budo's defense on the outside and attack around Kawata Masashi and Kawata Mikio on the inside."
"Shohoku High School cannot possibly stop our attack."
"On this basis, Matsumoto, you have to take on some offensive tasks. Simply relying on inside offense is too monotonous. You have to have some singles with the ball to enrich the team's offense."
"That freshman from Xiangbei shouldn't be giving you that much pressure! Why are you playing so passively?!"
Domoto Goro glared at Matsumoto Minoru as he spoke, and then continued to speak to the team members:
"The biggest problem now is our defense."
"Jinguji Budo's personal strength is very strong, very strong!"
"I think you have all experienced this firsthand."
"We need to change our defensive strategy a little bit. Double-teaming with two or three people may not be able to stop him when he has the ball."
"Zebei, Kawata Masashi, the two of you must guard Jinguji Budou the entire time, no matter if he is in the front or back court, no matter if he has the ball or not, don't worry about anyone else!"
"Pay attention, it's best to prevent him from getting the ball. Once he gets the ball, he may break through your defense."
Goro Domoto spoke very quickly, and the Sanno team members around him listened carefully and nodded continuously. At this point, Goro Domoto's eyes fell on Kazunari Fukatsu and continued:
"Fukatsu, you need to make some adjustments to your defense. When defending Miyagi Ryouta, you need to deliberately let him go when appropriate."
"Don't defend too tightly. Let him have some space to break through. What you need to do is to give him space to shoot after he breaks through, and then go up to interfere when he shoots."
"With defense like yours, Miyagi Ryouta himself won't even shoot. If he doesn't shoot, he will try to pass the ball to an open player or Jinguji Budou, which may not be a good thing for us Sanno!"
"Find a way to make him shoot, just put some pressure on him when he shoots!"
"Our chance to counterattack depends on him!"
When Goro Domoto made the plan, he set his target on Miyagi Ryouta, hoping to use Miyagi Ryouta as a breakthrough point and find a possibility for Sanno Industry to win.
Moreover, Domoto's plan was very tricky. He did not let the players use pick-and-roll to create singles opportunities when Sanwang was attacking and catch Miyagi's defense to break through. Instead, he wanted to take advantage of Miyagi's unstable shooting weakness and deliberately create some strong shooting opportunities for Miyagi Ryouta.
The Sanno players were also stunned when they heard Domoto Goro's plan. This was the first time they had heard of such a style of play. Deliberately letting the defense go? Letting the defense go? !
Other teams are afraid that their players will make mistakes in defense, but Goro Domoto instead lets his players deliberately make some mistakes to give the other team opportunities.
However, the members of Sannoh were not fools and they quickly understood what Goro Domoto meant.
Letting Miyagi Ryouta, whose shooting is unstable, shoot more, on the other hand, wouldn't that weaken the offense of Shohoku High School? !
"If our plan goes well, there will be a lot of rebounding opportunities."
"Mikio Kawata, Matsumoto, you two should pay more attention to rebounding."
"When Xiangbei is attacking, Jinguji Budou will find ways to pull Kawata and Zebei out of the inside even if he doesn't have the chance to hold the ball, not giving them a chance to support the inside."
"At this time, the job of guarding the rebounds is up to you!"
"And, Fukatsu, the same goes for you. You will also have the opportunity to support the inside and help your teammates control the rebounds!"
At this point, Goro Domoto's plan was fully revealed. In Goro Domoto's assumption, if his plan worked, it would only take 10 rounds of attack and defense at most for the situation to change dramatically. Within 3 minutes, they, Sanwang, could complete the reversal.
"Cheer up, the game is far from over!"
"Don't give up hope of winning, we still have a chance."
Thinking of this, Goro Domoto raised his voice and spoke loudly to the team members.
"oh!
"Although Domoto's plan was not very thorough, all the Sanno players felt that it was very feasible.
The team members just made a brief deduction in their minds, and they all became excited. The momentum of Sanno Industry became high.
The pause passed very quickly.
Goro Domoto had just arranged his tactics when the referee blew the whistle.
Players from both teams returned to the court and continued the game.
There was no substitution on the Xiangbei side, and the players who appeared in the second half were still there. After entering the court, they quickly took their positions in the Xiangbei half, waiting for Sanno Industrial's attack.
The basketball was sent out from the backcourt of Sanno and came into the hands of Kazunari Fukatsu. With the ball, Kazunari Fukatsu slowly dribbled the ball towards the frontcourt. Before he entered the Shohoku half, other players of Sanno passed him and entered the Shohoku half in advance to complete their positions.
Masashi Kawata and Mikio Kawata stood on both sides outside the paint area under the basket.
Minoru Matsumoto and Eiji Sawakita stood at the corners of the three-point line respectively. After Fukatsu crossed the center line with the ball, he approached the top of the arc.
Kazunari Fukatsu glanced at Jinguji Budou who was defending Sawakita Eiji at the corner, then turned his head to look at Sakuragi Hanamichi and Nango Koichiro who were alert in the inside, and then looked at Katsume Ichiro who was defending Matsumoto Minoru.
That's right... Kazutsu Fukatsu almost forgot that the person defending Matsumoto Minoru was no longer Mitsui Hisashi from Shohoku High School, but an unknown first-year rookie.
All along, he tried every means to pass the ball to the inside and Zebei, and accidentally ignored Matsumoto Minoru.
In fact, Matsumoto Minoru of Sanno Industrial is also an excellent offensive player, but he was silenced by Mitsui Hisashi in the first half, and Kawata Masashi, Sawakita Eiji, and Kawata Mikio were too conspicuous on Sanno's side, so that Fukatsu ignored Matsumoto's existence.
In addition, Matsumoto Minoru himself has a dull personality, so he was ignored until the second half.
It was not until Domoto Goro reminded him that Fukatsu Kazunari remembered that there was such a scorer in their team. Matsumoto Minoru was also an excellent player who could hold the ball and play singles, and could take on the responsibility of breaking through!
Kazunari Fukatsu suddenly realized something, and after a series of dribbles between his legs, he pushed the ball with his left hand and suddenly passed the ball to Minoru Matsumoto at the left corner.
Matsumoto got the ball, and Ichiro Katsumi quickly followed him, trying to put some defensive pressure on the opponent. If Matsumoto faced his defense before, his first choice would definitely be to pass the ball to Masashi Kawata in the inside, but this time, Matsumoto Minoru did not choose to pass the ball at the first time.
"My opponent has changed..."
"I had forgotten that my opponent had changed..."
Matsumoto Minoru looked determined. The moment Katsumi Ichiro came up to defend, he dribbled the ball between his legs, changed his right hand to protect the ball, and directly pressed against Katsumi Ichiro. At the same time, he accelerated with the ball, dropped the ball with his left hand, and rushed to his left side.
"!"
Matsumoto Minoru's sudden breakthrough surprised Katsume Ichiro a little, but he did not hesitate at all and quickly caught up with Matsumoto, stretched out one hand and covered Matsumoto Minoru's face.
When Matsumoto broke through to the middle distance, his body suddenly paused, and he quickly turned back and broke through in an instant. This time, Katsumi Ichiro, who needed to readjust his defensive position, was thrown away and watched Matsumoto break through to the inside.
Without slowing down and changing direction, Matsumoto Minoru's body coordination ability is also quite strong!
Sakuragi and Nanxiang under the basket didn't expect that Matsumoto Minoru, who was like an invisible man on the offensive end, would actually force a breakthrough with the ball. There was no time to make up for the defense, and they watched Matsumoto score a layup.
As the basketball went into the net, the Sanno Industries scoreboard jumped, adding two points.
"Well done! Matsumoto!"
"Well done, Matsumoto-senpai!"
When the Sanwang substitutes on the sidelines saw their players score a goal, they immediately cheered loudly.
Sakuragi and Nango under the basket looked at each other and blamed each other at the same time.
"Bleached Monkey, are you blind? Didn't you notice the opponent's breakthrough? Why didn't you go up to defend!"
"Ah??? Red-haired monkey, what nonsense are you talking about? Aren't you closer?"
"Humph, I have to defend against that ape man, how can I leave the inside line so easily!"
"Ah? What nonsense are you talking about? If you go to fill in the position, I will naturally fill your position."
"No... You can't beat that ape man. It will take you half a day!"
The two of them were bickering with each other, and even after Nanxiang sent the ball out, when he went to the front court with Sakuragi, the two of them were still blaming each other. When he passed by Ichiro Kusanagi, he didn't even look at him, as if this matter had nothing to do with Kusanagi.
Although neither Sakuragi nor Nango blamed Katsume Ichiro, this attitude of ignoring was the most annoying.
Ichiro Katsume ran to the front court and stared at Matsumoto Minoru. If looks could kill, then Matsumoto Minoru would have died countless times by now.
"Don't worry, we'll play it safe and get the first goal!"
While dribbling the ball forward, Miyagi Ryouta observed Sanno's defense.
Miyagi noticed that there were two people guarding Jinguji Takeshi, and Jinguji Takeshi did not continue to stand there waiting for the ball, but started running. However, for a while, Jinguji Takeshi did not have a good opportunity to receive the ball.
Miyagi's eyes moved to Sakuragi, who was once again standing in the middle distance, in an open position. Just as Miyagi was about to pass the ball, he found that Kazunari Fukatsu was defending very far inside.
There was a distance of about half a meter between the two of them. When Fukatsu was defending, his eyes kept glancing at Sakuragi not far behind him, and his intention to provide backup defense was very obvious!
"Sanwang, are you looking down on me?!"
"Me too, I have the ability to score!"
Miyagi Ryouta was close to the three-point line, suddenly held the ball and looked at the basket, paused slightly, made a slight adjustment, and then shot.
At the moment Miyagi shot, Fukatsu Kazunari suddenly dived forward. Although Fukatsu knew that it was impossible to block the shot with his own jumping ability, he was still very imposing at this moment.
When Miyagi Ryouta shot, he was inevitably affected by the opponent's fierce defensive posture, and the strength of his shot was somewhat deviated.
"Ding~" Miyagi's three-point shot was interfered by Fukatsu and hit the rim directly.
"Rebound!" Miyagi shouted in a low voice, reminding. At this moment, Kazunari Fukatsu had already rushed into the inside line. Although he couldn't squeeze into the basket, Fukatsu's arrival still attracted Sakuragi's attention, and he gave priority to Fukatsu when positioning himself.
The basketball began to fall, but unfortunately, it landed right where Kawata Mikio was. Nango Koichiro saw where the basketball landed, but no matter how hard he pushed Kawata Mikio, he couldn't move him, and could only watch Kawata Mikio take the ball in his arms.
“Hehehehe!”
“Success!”
Kawata Mikio threw the ball to Fukatsu with a smile, intending for Fukatsu to organize a counterattack. However, at this moment, something strange happened, and a tall figure suddenly jumped out from Fukatsu Kazunari's side and intercepted the basketball with one hand.
The next second, Kazunari Fukatsu only saw a red figure dribbling the ball once and then rising rapidly into the air. He grabbed the ball with one hand in mid-air and dunked the ball into the basket with a loud bang.
Looking up, Kazunari Fukatsu saw that familiar figure:
“Jinguji Budo?!
!”
"Why is he here?!"
At this time, Jinguji Budou grabbed the basket with one hand, and his body swayed slightly. After his body stabilized a little, Budou fell back to the ground, looking at the astonished Fukatsu Kazunari, and grinned:
"Why am I here?"
"Of course it's for rebounding!"
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