The Road to Stardom: Start as a Slam Dunk Master.

Chapter 152 Evenly matched

The enemy is in darkness and we are in the clear. The qualifying matches and the first two knockout rounds in Shobei are obviously just deliberately hiding his strength. Coach Anxi is well prepared, and he is here for the Mountain King!

The mountain king still wants to win by a big score?

Frankly speaking, even at this moment, Goro Domoto still felt that Sanno was stronger than Shohoku.

But a sudden sense of crisis has hit Goro Domoto's heart, and Coach Anzai's successive actions made him feel a little suffocated.

The mountain king is in danger!

This situation in Xiangbei was obviously unexpected, and many things had to be adjusted on the spot.

I am not as well prepared as Coach Anxi, so I have to take it easy first.

... Mori Shigehiro was really unlucky. He clearly felt that he had scored the first ball, but the basketball spun on the rim at least four or five times, stood on the edge of the rim for another two seconds, and finally slipped out. .

Not to mention the second ball, it was just a little bit wide and almost missed again.

The rebound was caught by Sakuragi Hanamichi who was stuck on the left side. He turned around for a fast break, the basketball bounced out of the frame, and Sanno got the ball.

Shhh!

"The Mountain King requests a timeout."

wow...

There was an uproar.

But the opponent was just a team that was regarded as weak before the game. The second place in Kanagawa was Shohoku, which was beaten by Shoyang by 104 points.

But the Sanwang actually took the lead in calling a timeout when they were only 3 points behind.

At this time, the Kanagawa fans in the arena were very enthusiastic, while those from out of town were chattering non-stop.

"Haha! Tsunoda, good job!" Sakuragi Hanamichi laughed loudly and patted Tsunoda Satoru on the shoulder: "You are also the substitute center who killed Japan's number one center!"

"Not bad Tsunoda!" Hisashi Mitsui put his arm around his shoulder: "Let's do it like this! You'll trade your five fouls for ten points for that stupid big guy. It's so worth it!"

Tsunoda Satoru grinned. It was hard to imagine that a player like him could play a key role in a game of this level.

"Don't be in a hurry to be happy. The game has just begun, and it's far from a win or loss." Coach Anzai said with a smile: "Goro Domoto is known as a computer coach in today's high school basketball world. He is meticulous and calm. Characteristics, there is no depth to our tactics, he will find a way to deal with it."

"And what we have to do is to stay one step ahead of them before they respond accordingly!"

"As expected of you, Dad, you finally showed off your power!" Sakuragi Hanamichi was in excitement. He laughed loudly and hooked his arms around Coach Anzai's neck and pinched his chin: "If you are here, you must be ahead of them!"

"Sakuragi!" Takenori Akagi was startled and quickly stopped him.

"Hahaha!" Coach Anxi didn't care, and just continued with a smile: "Tangben's possible strategy next is... we do this, this, this, this..."

Shhh!

The two sides returned to the court again.

Sanno's deployment did not seem to have an immediate effect. After a round of offensive and defensive transitions, no points were scored, and Xiangbei had the ball.

With Shohoku's successive momentum just now, Domoto's pause clearly shows that he has made targeted adjustments on the defensive end.

Tsunoda Satoru does have a surprise effect on the defensive end of Shohoku. He can use his height to interfere with Kazunari Fukatsu's outside three-pointers, and he can also rely on the mismatch under the basket led by Takenori Akagi to beat Mori Shigehiro. Using Tsunoda Satoru is absolutely useless. The foul of an important role player was exchanged for Mori Shigehiro's score and Shohoku's pursuit of victory!

But everything has advantages and disadvantages. On the offensive end of Shohoku, Satorori Tsunoda is an inevitable weakness of Shohoku.

Fukatsu Kazunari, who was responsible for opposing Tsunoda Satoru, obviously did not focus on him in defense. Instead, he and Tsuchiya Jun used double-teaming to assist Rukawa Kaede, while Tsunoda Satoru used the strategy of giving up defense.

Two against one!

Rukawa Feng suddenly felt the pressure doubled.

Although in the past few months at the Lloyd training base, his foundation has actually made great progress, the two months of practice at Mount Fuji has brought his state of mind to a new level, and even combined what he had learned at the training base. Everything will be integrated and taken a step further.

But after all, there is still a long way to go from Lin Dong.

Facing the double-teaming of Tsuchiya Jun and Fukatsu Kazunari, it was already difficult to break through. With the help of Fukatsu Kazunari, Tsuchiya Jun's defensive pressure was greatly reduced, and his defensive focus also shifted to Mitsui Hisashi to a certain extent. The defensive line shifted, cutting off the passing route between him and Rukawa Kaede.

He couldn't break through, he had no chance to shoot, and even the connection with Mitsui was cut off.

But obviously this is all under the instructions of coach Anxi.

Rukawa Kaede's eyes swept over the entire audience.

A back transfer ball and a fake breakthrough, the ball was passed to Tsunoda Satoru. With a wide open mid-range opportunity, Tsunoda Satoru made a pull-up jumper.

Coach Anxi means to let him try to hit one or two first, and he must shoot it cleanly, giving Sanwang a feeling of "I have the mid-range". If he can score, then the passive one will be Sanwang, who will directly break through. If you follow his trick, you won't dare to double-team so unscrupulously.

It's a pity that Tsunoda's mid-range shot is really not that good, and he is under tremendous psychological pressure at this time. He knows that if he fails to make the shot, it will expose his flaws and Shohoku's loopholes in front of Sanno.

The more nervous he became, the more inaccurate his shot became. With a little tip of the hat, he actually made a three-point shot from mid-range.

Goro Domoto on the sidelines clenched his fist fiercely. As long as he could stifle Shohoku's offense, he would be much more relaxed on the defensive end.

The four players inside the basket were huddled together. Relying on Mori Shigehiro's strong restraint, Matsumoto Minoru got the rebound, but Shohoku's quick retreat made Sanno's counterattack fast break impossible.

This Xiangbei team retreated too quickly.

Kazunari Fukatsu held the ball to a high position and forced a breakthrough against Tsunoda Satoru's defense.

Akagi Takenori misplaced the defense and came up, and Tsunoda Satoru went straight towards Morishigehiro.

The situation seemed to be back to the previous round.

But the next second, Kazunari Fukatsu jumped high and passed the ball to Morishigehiro. When Tsunoda Satoru hung on him, Morishigehiro did not take off or make any shooting action.

The referee's whistle sounded, it was just an ordinary foul, Sanwang's side kick.

Coach Anzai understood it, and it was similar to what he had guessed. This was consuming the number of fouls in Shohoku. If it was just like this, it would be fine. After all, if there are more than 4 fouls in a game, then ordinary fouls will result in free throws, even if Tsunoda is used Satoru's 5 fouls can only bring Sanno's momentum in the first quarter, which is worth it.

But the real trouble is...

The sideline ball came out again, and Sanwang once again hit the basket.

The meaningless foul just now made Tsunoda Satoru a little nervous, so that when Fukatsu passed the ball to Morishigehiro this time, he hesitated for a moment, because he was afraid that the opponent would make another fake move and wait for him to foul.

And during this hesitation, Mori Shigehiro had already jumped up on the spot.

"Kakuda!" Sakuragi and others shouted anxiously. Tsunoda Satoru no longer hesitated, and stretched out his hand to pull Morishigehiro's arm. Unexpectedly, Morishigehiro had already taken off and gained momentum. Tsunoda Satoru's tug unexpectedly failed to catch Morishigehiro. On the contrary, the force of his upward thrust was enough to lift his toes off the ground, and he actually managed to jump thirty or forty centimeters even though there was a person hanging on him!

Everyone on the sidelines was stunned, even Sakuragi, Akagi and others on the court were stunned.

What kind of brute force is this?

Tsunoda Satoru weighs a full 81 kilograms. Even when he tried his best to pull Morishigehiro's arm, the guy could still jump!

It was impossible to slam dunk, after all, there was a strong man hanging on his body, but in this position, at this height, Morishigehiro, who only had eyes for the basket, was simply unstoppable.

——Rhythm, that substitute can't replace Takenori Akagi, use some moves to disrupt his rhythm, he can't stop you from scoring!

Swish!

He gently picked up the basketball. Although he was not good at free throws, he was still able to pick up the basket under the basket.

The ball was scored, and the Sanwang regained the score, 17:18, accompanied by the referee's whistle.

"The No. 9 thug from Xiangbei fouled and received an extra penalty."

Perhaps the shot just now brought Morishigehiro some good luck, and he actually made the free throw this time.

Tied at 18:18.

With the anxious score, support for both teams was rising one after another in the stands.

Coach Anxi pursed his lips slightly.

Domoto Goro's punch hit the seven inches of Xiangbei...

Frankly speaking, this tactic of killing Shigehiro Mori seems to be impeccable, but it has two most fatal problems.

One is that Akagi cannot commit too many fouls, and the other is that other substitutes in Shohoku cannot really use fouls to replace Akagi's role. After all, Mori Shigehiro's ability exceeds too much... Unless he is at Akagi's level, he can be guaranteed to use it. The foul prevented the opponent, but even if other Shohoku substitutes were hanging on Mori Shigehiro, that guy would still be able to score.

As long as Domoto Goro can see this, as long as Mori Shigehiro is not afraid of this and is not disturbed by his own poor free throws, then Shohoku's foul tactics can be broken.

And now it seems that Goro Domoto's pause just now was obviously to provide Mori Shigehiro with psychological guidance in this regard.

As expected of a computer coach...the response is very quick, so...

Coach Anzai gave a four-finger instruction to Rukawa Kaede.

Shohoku's possession of the ball.

Sanno is still double-teaming Rukawa Kaede. Just now, Tsunoda Satoru's mid-range performance has allowed them to see clearly the true strength of this Shohoku substitute. If they let him go, let him go.

However, even if Tsunoda is really useless, he still knows how to pick and roll.

With the help of Tsunoda's pick-and-roll, the pressure on Rukawa Kaede from being double-teamed by the two men suddenly eased a bit, and Sanno's blockade on him and Hisashi Mitsui opened up a little more space.

At the same time, Mitsui Hisunori, who had already run to the no-man's land on the left with Morohoshida, made an emergency stop and turned around.

get rid of!

One of the skills I practiced most at the Lloyd training base this summer.

As a pitcher, if you can't even shake off the defender to catch the ball in a one-on-one situation, then what's the point of being a pitcher?

400 million is not in vain... It may be impossible for Hisashi Mitsui to control the ball to get rid of or break through Morohoshi, but without the ball, those dreamy steps taught by Stephen are accurate.

Morohoshi's center of gravity was moving forward rapidly with him. The sudden emergency stop made his defensive response half a beat full, and Hisashi Mitsui's just-in-time turn successfully got him into the passing lane.

Rukawa Kaede's ball was also passed directly at this time.

Snapped!

Hisashi Mitsui holds the ball and feints forward very naturally. With his current position advantage, Morohoshi can only rely on speed to stride forward if he wants to regain the defensive position.

But as soon as Morohoshi started to take off, Hisashi Mitsui made another step-back shot.

This empty space made him pull hard, and there was no one in front of him. Zhu Xingda was moved at least half a meter away, and with his center of gravity adjusted, there was no chance to pounce back.

Swish!

A mid-range goal, 18:20!

Goro Domoto, who had just breathed a sigh of relief on the sidelines, suddenly frowned again.

Mitsui Touhou had just eaten Zhu Hoshida forcefully, but this... the firepower of Rukawa Kaede was enough to give people a headache. If Mitsui Touhou was added to it, it would be a headache.

Sanno had the ball, but Mori Shigehiro was still unstoppable under the basket, and this time it was a strong charge. When he still jumped up and smashed the ball into the basket with Tsunoda Satoru hanging on his back, Coach Anzai understood. Xiangbei's foul tactics were completely broken by the opponent.

Missed a free throw, 20:20.

Shohoku made a substitution, Tsunoda Satoshi came on, and Miyagi Ryota appeared again.

It's not yet time to use all your trump cards and decide the outcome with the bayonet of the Mountain King.

Since Mori Shigehiro can't be guarded for the time being, let's attack!

Miyagi's running position can create more space for Rukawa Kaede on the offensive end, and he also has a certain scoring ability, which prevents Sanno from being too open. This can make the connection between Rukawa Kaede and Mitsui Hisashi smoother.

Sure enough, Miyagi came on the field, and the two-to-one double-teaming tactic was forced to stop. Rukawa Kaede singled out Jun Tsuchiya and scored a 3-pointer with a step-back.

20: 23.

Xiangbei gave up foul tactics, and Sanno also changed its offensive formation.

At this point, Goro Domoto already understood that it would be difficult to use Shigehiro Mori to end the game quickly. Now he had to let the other Sanno players step up and score, which would not only allow the whole team to open up their hands, but also give full play to their overall advantages. come out.

Kazunari Fukatsu scored a 3-pointer against Miyagi Ryota's "almost useless" defense.

23: 23.

On the Shobei side, Mitsui Hisunori immediately returned a 3-pointer at 23:26.

Sanno turned back and made a fast break to the basket. Hiroshi Morishige scored 2 points from Akagi, 25:26.

On the Shobei side, Rukawa Kaede counterattacked with a mid-range shot, 25:28...

The scores of both sides were rising alternately, and the battle caused the audience on the sidelines to cheer happily!

Until the end of the first quarter, at 28:31, Xiangbei led by 3 points!

　Sorry, I have to take a leave of absence from everyone.

　　I originally thought that this period of time would be very busy, but when I got up in the morning and was typing, I received a call from my hometown. My grandmother passed away. I was raised by her... I booked a high-speed rail ticket for 6:15, and brought me The child went back to see the old man for the last time before his cremation. I kept praying and it will end today. After I get home, I will find time to write another chapter and update. There should only be two updates today, and the update time is uncertain. It may be in the afternoon or evening, but There must be another update.

　　

　

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