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

Chapter 163 Xiangbei’s chances of winning?

At the same time, the basketball hall of Xiangbei University.

Tomorrow's game against Luoan is not a problem. Coach Anxi has taken everyone to watch some Luoan game videos, focusing on understanding the characteristics of Luoan's players in each position. This is enough for Xiangbei.

He didn't mean to deliberately underestimate his opponent. Coach Anxi had already watched Luo An's performance during the quarter-finals. He knew very well that there was a gulf-like absolute strength gap between the two teams, so it would be good for the players to have a little understanding.

In contrast, the game against Xiangyang the day after tomorrow is the top priority for Xiangbei that should start preparing early.

But instead of videotaping, a small blackboard became the tactical board for Coach Anxi to explain tactics. The core of his explanation mainly focused on two aspects.

The first is of course the tactical arrangements of both sides. With the existing personnel structure of Xiangbei, there are only a few so-called tactical arrangements, and they are all familiar things before.

Therefore, in addition to this, it is more important to adjust some things in everyone's mentality in the name of tactics.

Although after winning against Sanno Industries, Shohoku as a whole felt reborn, Sakuragi and others also began to scream that they must compete with Lin Dong in the finals, and seemed to be in high spirits.

But Coach Anzai can still clearly feel that Xiangbei's "linophobia" has not really disappeared from his bones.

Before switching to coaching, Coach Anxi had obtained a first-level psychological counselor certificate. He was very aware of the current high morale of the entire Xiangbei team.

Nowadays, Sakuragi and the others are only as powerful as winning the Mountain Queen. The overwhelming praise from the whole country has wrapped the fear of Lin Dong among all members of Shobei into a thick cocoon, allowing them to seal off the huge bomb in their hearts. That’s all.

If the competition goes well, this layer of 'cocoon' may become thicker and thicker, even become horny, and eventually become indestructible.

But the problem is...

Coach Anzai couldn't help but think of the 77 Asian Championships. After losing to the newly debuted Dragon Kingdom in 75, everyone in the Japanese basketball community had a heart for revenge. The media reported it every day, and even politicians were frequently on TV. To cheer up the team, it also brought together all the best players in Japan. At that time, Japan believed that the 77 Asian Championship was a must-win, and the whole country paid attention to it. As a result... the result after that year was that he retired.

...As long as Xiangyang has Lin Dong, let alone Xiangbei, it is impossible for any team to play smoothly against Xiangyang, including Lanphier High School, which had previously trained with Sanno!

None of the external analysis of the pros and cons of the two teams really got to the point. They didn't understand Xiangyang, and they didn't have the ability to truly see through Xiangyang's performance in the preliminaries.

Perhaps only I, who once served as Xiangyang coach, saw Lin Dong train at the Lloyd training base, and even knows the current Xiangyang head coach Kitano Shoichi, can truly understand their strength.

If we play like this, Xiangbei's winning rate may not exceed 10%!

Lin Dong is still the same Lin Dong. If we talk about Lin Dong in the summer league, Coach Anxi feels that he can barely see the opponent's upper and lower limits. Then after several meetings at the Lloyd training base, Lin Dong gave Anxi The coach's feeling is already completely invisible.

He really doesn't know what level Lin Dong has reached now. Perhaps he has surpassed the constraints of his age and has become a real Asian Jordan. The Japanese media and football commentators cannot see this, just because so far there is no It's just that no one can force him to show his true strength... There is nothing that such a player can't do in the high school league.

With Xiangbei's current high morale and confidence, once the game begins to go into a headwind and the team begins to get into trouble, those psychological defenses formed through external packages will quickly shatter.

By then, the inner demons inside that have not been released or even "have not seen the light of day for a long time" will suddenly become a hundred times or even a thousand times bigger and come out, and become the biggest weapon to destroy Xiangbei.

By then, losing the finals of this winter selection will be nothing more than a trivial matter. Coach Anzai is afraid that it will completely destroy the self-confidence of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede, two true geniuses.

Therefore, when Xiangyang defeated the Mountain King, or Xiangbei defeated the Mountain King, Coach Anxi mainly used praise and chicken soup to adjust everyone's mentality.

But Xiangbei must not do that when attacking Xiangyang.

You have to press, you have to press hard!

The entire Shohoku team abandoned their unrealistic fantasies, forgot all the flashy praises from the outside world, and adopted a true mentality of death and defeat. They realized that they were in an absolute desperate situation, and only then could they withstand the adversity. The blow!

And then relying on them to break through themselves in such a desperate situation will have the possibility of real success!

Of course, if you sink out of despair, then to be honest... Xiangbei is not qualified to win!

"... Xiangyang's tactics are probably the Princeton system. Of course, they have not used this strategy in official games, but after getting familiar with this style of play, Hanagata-san and others subconsciously used it in several preliminaries. Positioning, movement and offensive ideas will always reveal some clues."

As a former college classmate who later became Tarzan Hokuto among Japanese basketball coaches, Coach Anzai is very familiar with the coaching style of his old friend Shoichi Kitano.

"If you guessed correctly, Kitano should have taught them a set of high-post serving tactics. This is not just for running and gunning, but to check and balance the opponent's powerful inside line. Probably Kitano's main goal when he taught this tactic was , it was probably a very smart tactic to target Sanno’s Mori Shigehiro-san, and now it’s equally effective against us in Shohoku.”

Coach Anzai said with a smile: "Let Hanagata, who is the tallest and has mid-range and certain outside ability, go to the high position to organize the offense. This is to pull the opponent's center to the outside. If the opponent's center does not follow, then he will With Hanagata-san’s height of 197 centimeters and his shooting ability, he can create a mismatch effect when hitting anyone else, and his jump shot shooting percentage will also be terrifyingly high.”

"But if Akagi-san follows and defends, not only will Shohoku's inner line lose a defensive gate, but more importantly, it will drag Akagi to a battlefield that he is not familiar with. In this way, Akagi-san's attack on Hanagata-san will be The advantages are almost gone, and there may even be small disadvantages.”

Takenori Akagi felt a slight shiver in his heart.

He has always felt that he has an advantage against Toru Hanagata, but his skills are mainly around the basket. If Toru Hanagata does what the coach said, he stretches to the mid-range or even outside, then either Shohoku will be misplaced by the opponent. Or he would have to be pulled out and enter a field that he is not good at to fight Hanagata Toru... Then the disadvantage might really be him! "At the same time, Fujima-san is also a difficult point to deal with. After going through the summer national competition, Fujima-san's playing style has obviously matured a lot. It has a transformation effect on him. After returning from training in the United States, Fukatsu Kazunari My classmates and today’s Fujima-san, I think they are brothers. They are both the top point guards in Japan today. Miyagi-san, you still seem to be a little far away from the two of them.”

Miyagi Ryota was speechless.

This can actually be seen in the battle with Sanwang. Although he still contributes to the team and is even an indispensable member of the dual point guard system, he has undoubtedly become Sanwang's team on both offense and defense. Breakthrough, this is an undoubted fact.

Does Fujima Kenji really have the strength of Fukatsu Kazunari after special training?

He was muttering in his heart, and a question mark popped up in his mind.

"Besides these two scoring points, Xiangyang's biggest scoring point is Lin Dong."

Coach Anzai looked at Hanamichi Sakuragi and Kaede Rukawa and asked with a smile: "How are you doing? Are you confident that you can guard him alone?"

Defend against Lin Dong alone?

Rukawa Kaede didn't say a word, and even Sakuragi Hanamichi, who had been the proudest in the past two days, was a little timid and cautiously replied: "Shall I try it first?"

Coach Anzai laughed: "No need to try, I can tell you clearly, Sakuragi-san, right now you don't have the strength to defend Lin Dong-san alone, and the same goes for Rukawa-san. You guys can only double-team him."

Both of them pursed their lips subconsciously. This was something they had expected from the beginning, but what Coach Anxi said next was...

"But even with a double team, I think you two still can't guard him."

Both of them were startled.

Although they still dislike each other, whether it's Sakuragi versus Rukawa or Rukawa versus Sakuragi, they both recognize each other's strength from the bottom of their hearts.

But just like this, the second defense and the first defense are still unstoppable? What else could be done? Sakuragi and Rukawa already account for half of the power in Shohoku now. If they can't even guard against Lin Dong, and Akagi and Miyagi both suffer losses against Hanagata and Fujima, then wouldn't this game have already been lost? deal?

The room was a little quiet for a while, and when he was surprised, he saw that Coach Anxi did not continue talking, but turned to look outside the door.

The door was not closed, and several uninvited guests appeared at the door.

Goro Domoto, Shigehiro Mori, and Jun Tsuchiya.

I saw Goro Domoto holding a small bag in his hand and standing at the door. Ayako should have led him over.

"Senior Anxi."

Goro Domoto bowed inside and said with a smile: "It's a wonderful analysis, especially for Lin Dong. Although I think Sakuragi and Rukawa are already very strong, I'm afraid they still can't restrict Lin Dong."

"Hehehehe." Coach Anxi paused the conversation, stood up and came over: "Coach Domoto, welcome, welcome! You came here suddenly, what's the matter?"

The generals in northern Hunan were also a little surprised. What were the people of the Mountain King doing here?

"I got you some things, some things that may be effective against Lin Dong during defense." Domoto Goro walked in and put the small bag in his hand on the desk. It looked heavy, but he didn't know how to pretend. What is it.

"This is Xiangyang's game video, or in other words, Lin Dong's game video."

"In the past few months, the Basketball Association has gathered a group of experts and even hired special analysts from the NBA to conduct a comprehensive analysis of Xiangyang Lindong, down to every detail of his movements and habits. It serves as the tactical and theoretical support for our victory over Xiangyang and our defense against Lin Dong...and all the details and annotations are already marked on the videotape."

Domoto Goro smiled slightly: "Now these things are of no use to the Sanwang, but I think they may be of some use to you."

"Detailed habits?" Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes widened. He had been to the Lloyd training base. He knew that these are the things that trainers focus on. He also knew that some detailed habits in playing can really be greatly improved if their opponents studied them thoroughly. Improve your opponent's defensive efficiency against you.

After Goro Domoto put down his bag, he walked back to the door while talking.

"Senior Anzai, we were hailed as the future of Japanese basketball before, but now, the future of Japanese basketball lies with you." Goro Domoto turned around and said with a smile: "The game the day after tomorrow means more than just the world of Japanese basketball. It means a game, but it also means a monument and a mountain, and it also means that the Japanese basketball world has always been afraid of the Dragon Kingdom... If we can get over it, I think it will have a profound impact on the future of the Japanese basketball world, and you will too. Will become a hero in Japanese basketball."

"Xiangyang is very strong, but Xiangbei... will definitely have a chance! I hope you can become a real national champion in the end."

With that said, Goro Domoto, as well as Shigehiro Mori and Jun Tsuchiya behind him, all bowed to the end and said in unison: "Please!"

(End of this chapter)