Chapter 117 The Three Giants of Lingnan
The tactics arranged by coach Shinmura began to work. Whenever Tiano attacked with the ball, he often faced the double-teams of Hinata and Hashiki. Before the double-teams were formed, the defensive area of these two people was enough to cover half a court. With the defense of his teammates, the defense area of Xiangyang could cover almost the entire area within the three-point line.
The double-teamed Tianye could only send out passes frequently and find ways to help his teammates attack, but Kenichi's shooting ability was not good. Sendo was very defensive by Hasegawa, who was very defensive. As Yuzuru, who was in the inside line, could not find a good angle to pass in. Yuzuru, who had a short range, only had lethality when he was close to the basket.
Ringnan High School's offense once stagnated, and Shoyang also seized this opportunity to score several goals in a row to shorten the gap in the score. Realizing that something was wrong, Tian Ye began to consciously stop asking for the ball. He wanted Sendo to play Hasegawa alone to re-establish the offensive system.
In order to create a good breakthrough space for Sendo, Tian Ye specially brought a defender to the outside line during the attack. In order to maintain the distance to repair the defense, Haki had to run out a little.
Xiandao passed the ball to Tianye several times and found that the basketball was immediately passed back to him. At that time, Xiandao knew what he should do. In Lingnan's attack, Xiandao no longer took the initiative to look for Tianye's figure, and his first goal became his own scoring. When the first half was 15 minutes, Xiandao no longer stings with physical strength and began to explode with all his strength!
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"Quick pass!" On the court, Sendo passed the ball to Xilin Jianichi on the side, and at the same time, he quickly crossed Hasegawa and asked Jianichi for the ball. Jianichi, who received the message, did not hesitate and passed it directly to Sendo. Fujima could not block it, and the basketball fell into Sendo's hands.
Sendo's unball breakout has already led Hasegawa one position. He didn't look at Hasegawa who was left behind. Sendo jumped against the flower-shaped repair defense.
"Boy! You are too arrogant!" Huaying straightened her arm, trying to block Xiandao. Xiandao's arrogant layup angered him.
Xiandao was slightly hunched over, and there was no obvious layup trend in the basketball in his hand. Huashi could not take care of him, so he could only try to straighten his arms to block the layup path in front of Xiandao. Facing Huashi's defense, Xiandao did not choose to make a layup by himself, but instead passed the ball from Huashi's body to Yuzhu Jun in the inside.
Although Xiandao's vision was blocked, he had roughly seen Yuzukuchun's position before. The basketball was accurately delivered to Yuzuku's hand. Yuzuku did not hesitate to catch the ball, and he jumped with all his strength while holding the basketball high.
“duang!”
"Squeak!"
Yu Zhu's double-handed dunk made the entire basketball stand shaking violently, and his power was one of the best in the high school basketball world.
"roar!"
The dunk successfully landed on the ground and let out a roar. His goal drove the offensive momentum of Lingnan High School. But soon, Xiangyang immediately returned with the cooperation of Fujima and Huashi. The players of Lingnan High School have not been able to crack Xiangyang's offensive tactics yet.
Huashi's long shot ability is very outstanding. What's terrible is that he can actually make a backward jump shot, which has increased Yuzhu's defense difficulty by several levels at once.
Moreover, Yuzhu cannot leave the inside line easily. Hinata and Hashiki on both sides of the bottom line are waiting for an opportunity to attack. Hinata is better, and was seen by Tianye to death. But no one cares about Hashiki. Xilin Jianichi couldn't stop the empty cut of Hashiki, and Hideichi couldn't block the Hashiki.
After several rounds of confrontation, Xiangyang's offensive round was once again. Lingnan tried hard to maintain the score advantage with Xiandao and Yuzhu's performance, but with Xiandao's mistakes in the mid-range shots, Xiangyang seized the opportunity to counterattack for a few goals, the score was already very close.
"What should I do?" Xilin Jianyi guarded Haki Kakadong. He knew that he could not prevent Haki and tried to figure out a solution.
At the top of the three-point line, Fujima once again used the flower shape of the high pick-and-roll to break into the three-point line. Only Yuzhu and Xiuichi were ahead, but these two people were far behind him. Xiuichi saw Fujima breaking through and rushed up to make up for defense.
Hashiki on the sideline smelled the opportunity and ran over the guards quickly.
"It's been misled!" Jianyi was crossed by someone and turned his head to look at Hashiki's back.
Hashiki received the ball at the middle distance, and a mid-range play of the open ball successfully hit the ball.
"Yoxi!!!" Hashiki, who scored the goal, raised his hands and shouted to celebrate. He hit Fujima and then began to return to defense.
The score on the scoreboard reached 47:43, and Lingnan High School only led by 4 points. There were 38 seconds left before the end of the first half. The narrowing score gap made Xiangyang's players see hope of winning back the score.
"Score one goal first!" Sendo, who got the bottom line, slowed down the offensive rhythm and said to the Lingnan players on the court with one finger. At the same time, his eyes also looked at the location of Tianye. Tianye was the biggest pillar of Lingnan. If Tianye still couldn't stand up, then Lingnan would be overtaken. Tianye led Hinata to run to the bottom line again. In this game, Tianye was very uncomfortable. Although he now had a better room to catch the ball, his breakthrough space was compressed to death.
The double-team tactic arranged by the Xincun coach is very effective. Tian Ye does not have the ability to make a long three-pointer, and he cannot break through the double-team without teammates' help. Although the Xincun coach does not know whether Lingnan High School's usual running contacts have practiced for double-teams, judging from the current performance of Lingnan's players, it is obvious that he has never practiced.
It was different when he coached Yokota. When Tanye had just entered Yokota Middle School that year, he discovered Tianye's strength and talent. He specially asked Hinata and Hachiki to practice double pick-and-roll to help Tanye. They were defensive vanguards carefully trained by Shinmura coach.
After Tano joined the team, because he was very interested in the surnames of Hatano and Hinaga, he liked to find two people to communicate with each other while practicing. After a while, he became familiar with each other. Tano also learned about the defensive talents of the two people and began to teach them more modern defensive knowledge and skills.
Haki and Hinata did not disappoint the expectations of Shinmura coaches and Tiano, and grew up to be an indispensable player of Yokota Middle School. Their defensive skills made great contributions when Yokota Middle School competed in the national competition. Yokota Middle School was able to win the championship in the end, which was inseparable from their hard work.
When he was in the third grade of junior high school, Tano decided to join Ryunan High School. For the sake of Ryunan's future and for the sake of the two of them, Tano asked Coach Taoka to invite Hinata and Hachiki. The two agreed to Tiano at first, but were moved by the generous conditions of Coach Shinmura and joined Shoyang High School.
Although Tian Ye said that it was not for them, after all, they all had their own ambitions, but in fact, this matter still left a knot in Tian Ye's heart, which made him feel betrayed. Today, the two of them had caused great trouble to Tian Ye and made Tian Ye even more angry.
Chapter completed!