Chapter 497: Tiandao adjusted Haizaki to the shooting guard position, and the effect was even more pronounced; Kirisaki Daiichi lost

Kirisaki Daiichi lost by a total of 17 points in the first half.

However, there was one benefit: once the first half of the match passed, the skills of the Shutoku players had been plundered by Haizaki by seven or eight tenths.

"Coach, if this continues, it will be very bad." Satsuki had already sensed the crisis.

How could Hara Sawa not know? Aside from Aomine, the shooting packages of the other team members had almost all been stolen.

Ordinary layups and the like were not enough to crush Kirisaki Daiichi's defense; they could only rely on Aomine to score alone.

If Tiandao went on in the third quarter and did nothing but stare at Aomine on defense, a 17-point lead would not be safe.

In fact.

That was exactly what Tiandao did; after entering the game in the third quarter, he focused exclusively on Aomine, leaving the offensive tasks to Haizaki.

Aomine's scoring efficiency immediately dropped from 4.1 to only 4.

Conversely, Haizaki, without Aomine's man-to-man defense and under the needle-threading guidance of Hanamiya Makoto, scored 19 points on 8-of-10 shooting in the quarter.

Kirisaki Daiichi frantically chased down 16 points in the quarter.

"So easy. When we played against Too in the National Tournament, was it this easy?"

During the quarter break, Hara Kazuya and the others were all sighing; there were too many tough guys at Teikou.

Haizaki wasn't even at the level of the Generation of Miracles—he was half a step behind—yet he had brought a huge improvement to Kirisaki Daiichi.

"Hmph!" Haizaki let out a cold snort, but inside he was smug; these guys had finally seen his value.

"Don't be careless; this is, after all, a practice match." Tiandao took a sip of water and said, "When the tournament arrives, Aomine will be playing for his life."

However, Kirisaki Daiichi's improvement was still obvious.

Facing Too, they could win even playing only half a game; one could imagine how monstrous the current Kirisaki Daiichi lineup was.