“It will be a plus for the team to be able to win more consecutive games by escaping from the losing streak.”
In the second round of Niigata Albirex BB vs Ibaraki Robots, Niigata, who rebuilt the game from the middle of the second quarter, won 87-79 and achieved the first consecutive win of the same card this season.
Niigata won the first round and ended the 26-game losing streak, but in the first minute and a half, Kobe Paras got into foul trouble with two personal fouls and went down to the bench.
On the other hand, Ibaraki set up a strong defense from the start, and was addicted to traps in the back court team of Niigata, showing that he took 6 turnovers only in the first quarter. Even in the offense, Atsunobu Hirao leads with Marc Trasolini’s high-low and Keita Tsurumaki’s 3-point shot. However, he couldn’t stop the ball push from Zen Endo’s three-point shot and Rosco Allen’s defensive rebound, and couldn’t completely push him out.
The second quarter was greeted with a 4-point lead of 22-18 and Ibaraki. Ibaraki will further increase the strength of the defense. Everyone did not move their feet into the paint area and took the initiative in the transition basketball from the defensive rebound, setting the start 4 minutes to 12-0 and reaching the official time-out at 34-22.
However, Niigata will rebuild from here. In the first half of the second quarter, the legs other than the ballman stopped and there was no place to pass, but after the official time-out, turning the ball creates a shot chance. In addition, everyone goes to get a defensive rebound and develops a running basket. Yuhito Nami’s 3-point shot was also decided in the two-men game of Allen and Jeff Ayres, and the behind, which was 16 points at one time, was reduced to 5 points to finish the first half.
The second half, which was greeted by the development that Niigata chased with 33-38. In the first half, Pallas, who had been on the bench due to a foul trouble, showed aggressive play. When Markman is removed in a one dribble and a jump shot is decided, a foul is stolen even in a drive to give momentum to the team. In addition, Yuhito Nami continued to shoot three points in a row, and Niigata reversed to 43-40 with 6 minutes remaining. After that, the time to repeat the lead change continued, but again, Nami and Pallas sank a 3-point shot, and Niigata took the lead. In addition, Endo’s haste jumped into Allen’s basket count, and Niigata overwhelmed the third quarter with 27-16.
Then, he defended the lead to the end and won 87-79 without giving Ibaraki a chance to shoot with a hard defense that was as close as the 4th and 3rd quarters in Niigata’s 60-54. .. In Niigata, Allen contributed to the victory with 22 points, 7 rebounds, 7 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and Nami scored 20 points, 4 assists and 3 steals, including 4 successful 3-point shots.
“I want to concentrate on the whole team so that I can extend the winning streak as much as I can.”
After the match, head coach Fujitaka Hiraoka of Niigata said, “I tried to challenge the match with a stronger feeling than yesterday so that the win of yesterday’s consecutive defeats would not be wasted.”
In the first half, I couldn’t make the basket I wanted, so I carried a 16-point behind, but I look back on the factors that made it possible to rebuild the game from there. “Since the end of the first half, the strength of the defense has been increasing, and I felt that the flow was gradually coming to ourselves. He was very positive and I was able to get a good rhythm in the third quarter without loosening the strength of the defense. “
Although he won, “I had a lot of remorse,” said coach Hiraoka, but “it is a plus for the team to be able to win more consecutive games by escaping the losing streak,” he was pleased with the first consecutive win of the same card this season.
Nami, who contributed to the team’s victory, says, “In the first half, we had a lot of time when we couldn’t play basketball at our own pace, but we were able to make a solid comeback.” “We were talking about trying not to collapse from the defense, and even at the offense, we tried to finish off with our own shots, and I think that the result of persistently fighting to the end led to the victory.”
And about the first consecutive win of the season, “I’m glad I was able to win consecutively at home because I had to win today to make yesterday’s win meaningful because yesterday’s consecutive defeat stopped,” he said. I was enthusiastic about this. “I think that if you play basketball with a good image regardless of the game development without interruption, you will definitely have a chance to win. I want to concentrate on the whole team so that I can extend the winning streak as much as possible. “