PFC Chapter 275: The Top Four
Chapter 275: The Top Four
As the game ended, Yu Zhu roared to the sky. In this game, Yu Zhu played for 31 minutes and scored 29 points, 14 rebounds, 4 blocks and 4 assists. He was the first contributor to the victory of the Ryonan team.
"Very good, Yuzhu, you performed very well." Coach Tanaka, who was usually very strict with Yuzhu, smiled with satisfaction, walked up to hug his beloved student, turned his back, and quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes. Since coaching Ryonan High School, in order to revive Ryonan's former glory (when he was a student, Tanaka Shigeichi once led Ryonan to the national competition, and it was also mentioned in the original book that Tanaka's name was also quite famous in the country. After Tanaka graduated, Ryonan's record plummeted), Tanaka Shigeichi spent a lot of effort. He looked for excellent players everywhere to train. Yuzhu was just a big guy who was useless except for his height in junior high school. After three years of his training, he finally became the mainstay of the team and a first-class center in the country. And Sendoh was also an ace player he dug from Tokyo through many connections. Under his training, Miyagi Ryouta's strength is not inferior to the original. Wushiro Tomokazu and Nango Kouichiro were originally Tsukutake's teammates in the original novel, but they became the best reinforcements for Ryonan after his lobbying. Reaching the semifinals is the best reward for Tanaka's years of hard work.
"Yes, Yu Zhu will also be a good inside supplement after entering university." The scouts of Kanagawa University were also very satisfied with Yu Zhu's performance. By reaching the semi-finals, Yu Zhu also exceeded the goals required of him by Kanagawa University.
The two Kanagawa teams that entered the quarterfinals continued their previous excellent performance and both entered the semi-finals. The next two games will be between Aiwa Gakuin (Aichi) vs. Akizuki (Tokyo) and Sanno Industry (Akita) vs. Daiei Gakuin (Osaka).
Back to the arena where Xiangbei is, the match between Aiwa Academy and Akizuki has begun
"Although Akizuki has made it to the quarterfinals, there is still a big gap between his strength and that of Aiwa Academy." After only watching for three minutes. The Xiangbei players who returned to the audience to watch the game have sentenced Akizuki to "death". There is no other way. Aiwa is too strong. No one in Akizuki's interior can limit the giant Mori Shigehiro, and Aiwa's captain Moroboshi Dai is a nationally renowned super shooting guard. Akizuki was unable to contain Moroboshi's offense. At this time, the score was 14:4. Aiwa Academy was already leading by 10 points. Mori Shigehiro scored 8 points and Moroboshi also scored 6 points. Akizuki only relied on the team's point guard to break through and shoot, and scored 4 points
"Kumure, what do you think of the strength of Aiwa Academy?" Mitsui asked
"He is indeed very strong, but we in Xiangbei are stronger." Akagi, do you think you will lose to that first-year center?" Mumu turned his head and asked
"I can't say I can stop him, but I won't let him perform like this." Akagi thought for a moment and replied.
"What about you, Mitsui? Do you think you will lose to Moroboshi?"
“I won’t lose to him.”
"There is no doubt that the center and shooting guard of Aiwa Academy are at the national level. But the strength of other positions is really average. We, Shohoku, are strong in every position. Their power forward has good skills, but is still far behind Sakuragi. The small forward has good defensive ability, but average offensive ability. As for the point guard, I can shut him out. So, basketball is a sport for five people, and the final winner will definitely be us, Shohoku," said Murasakibara confidently.
"You're so arrogant, but I agree with your last sentence. Victory will definitely belong to us, Xiangbei." Akagi and Mitsui nodded at the same time
In Mu Mu's eyes, the current lineup of Aiwa Academy can be compared to the Lakers in 2003 or the Rockets after 2004, both of which have a super center and a shooting guard with outstanding scoring ability. However, due to the shortcomings of players in other positions, they ultimately missed the championship.
The final score was 95:60. Aiwa Academy defeated its opponent by 35 points. This was based on the fact that Moroboshi and Mori Shigehiro both left the court with 7 minutes left in the game. Akizuki took the opportunity to recover some points. Otherwise, Akizuki would have lost more.
"Mori Shigehiro" Akagi and Sakuragi's eyes were fixed on Aiwa No. 35 who scored 15 points, 5 rebounds and 15 blocks
Mitsui "Moroboshi" focused on captain Aiwa who scored 31 points
The camera returns to the stadium where Ryonan is playing
"This No. 4's playing style is really similar to Sendoh's." After watching for 5 minutes, Tian Gang came to the conclusion
The score was 12:8 at this time. Although Sanwang was leading by 4 points, it was Daiei who was attacking in this round. The point guard brought the ball across the front court and chose to pass the ball to Jun Tsuchiya. The opponent in front of Tsuchiya was not Zebei, but Matsumoto. Facing the defense of Sanwang No. 6, he suddenly lowered his body and accelerated without any signs. He broke through Matsumoto's defense with a big step. He was 190 cm tall and took two long legs. He rushed directly to the basket of the Sanwang team. Nobe met him. Kawata was vigilantly paying attention to Daiei's inside players. In the previous game, Tsuchiya had used himself to attract Sanwang's defense twice and assisted his teammates to score.
However, facing the 198cm tall strong forward Nobe, Tsuchiya chose to shoot directly this time. He made a standard jump shot and the ball went into the net at 12:10.
"Tsuchiya, well done!" Teammates came over and high-fived Tsuchiya
However, on the Sanno side, Kawata used his body to force Daiei's center and successfully responded to the opponent, 14:10
Tsuchiya scored directly in front of Matsumoto this time, 14:12, Daiei continued to close the score
"Coach, why doesn't Sanwang use Zebei to defend Tsuchiya? Although No. 6 is very strong, he is still a little worse than Tsuchiya," asked Yan Yi
"Hikoichi, since you can see that Sannoh's No. 6 is very strong, then this No. 6 player will not let Tsuchiya continue to attack so easily. You may not know Sannoh well enough. The No. 6 player is Matsumoto. His strength is enough to be the ace player in other top eight teams." Tanaoka Shigeichi explained. Sure enough, in the next round, Matsumoto used his personal skills to break through the opponent (Tsuchiya's opponent was Zebei) and directly scored 2+1, 17:12
In this round, Tsuchiya faced Matsumoto. He took a step forward, dribbled the ball with his hand, turned around and broke away from the defense. But this time Matsumoto Minoru did not lose his position. He slightly shifted his body and continued to stick close to him, while Zebei beside him also contracted the formation and blocked Tsuchiya's route.
Seeing that there was no chance, Tsuchiya had no choice but to pass the ball to the center inside. Unexpectedly, Ohkawada suddenly went around and jumped up to cut off the passing route. Fukatsu took the opportunity to grab the ball, then launched a fast break counterattack and made a wonderful pass to Zebei for a layup 19;12
At this time, Tsuchiya used the screen to break through and layup, and at the same time caused Nobe to foul, returning a 2+1, 19:15
Before they knew it, the first half was over, and Sannoh led 40:33 into the second half. In the second half, Sannoh used their signature full-court press, forcing Daiei's point guard to dribble the ball, and Zebei successfully stole the ball and scored a layup. 42:33. In the next round, Tsuchiya felt that things were not going well, so he held the ball and called his teammates to cover, and passed the ball to his center who was in a high position, hoping to find a better passing opportunity by using the height. He chose to run without the ball, and he and the point guard simultaneously penetrated the basket in a two-pronged approach.
Center Daiei immediately passed the ball, but unexpectedly, Nobe Masahiro also suddenly moved up and used his height and long arms to intercept the basketball in the air, once again making Daiei's attack futile.
Daiei's adjustments were quick, but Sanwang seemed to have seen through the opportunity long ago and continued to defend successfully.
The same was true for this goal. Sannoh used quick ball guidance and movement in a positional battle to score a three-pointer from Fukatsu.
After this period of full-court pressing, Dayong's tactical offensive was quickly broken and they began to lose the ball continuously. Even if they did not make any mistakes, they still missed shots one after another.
Sanwang took this opportunity to extend the score to 15 points. The sudden blow made Daiei feel a bit defeated. They have tried their best to make adjustments and actively run and cover, but still can't achieve effective results. Sanwang's tight defense is too tight and airtight, making people feel breathless. The coach hurriedly called a timeout to ease the situation and arrange tactics in a targeted manner. Although he has watched many videos and come up with many targeted strategies, the overall strength is too different from that of the opponent. This time, the details of the arrangement of the timeout are similar to the previous ones. There is no big difference. The key is to see the individual performance of the players, otherwise there are many lessons from the past. This is not the first time their team has encountered this, but all the strong teams that have played against Sanwang have died under this move of Sanwang. The score difference continued to widen. After Sanno opened the gap to 25 points, it ended the full-court press. Daiei wanted to use the opportunity of the full-court press to recover the lost points, but Sanno's defense level was completely different from the first half. Moreover, this time it was Zebei who played against Tsuchiya. Under Zebei's blockade, Tsuchiya's power was greatly weakened. In the end, the game ended with a score of 94:68. Sanno won by 26 points and entered the semi-finals. The semi-finals will be held on the second afternoon. At 14:00, Xiangbei vs. Aiwa Academy, and at 16:00, Ryonan vs. Sanno Industrial