Melbourne United’s Yudai Baba makes his Australian league debut and suddenly scores 10 goals and works well as a Sixth Man-Basketball Count |

Defend against dunks and fully demonstrate their characteristics

Australian basketball league, NBL opens. Melbourne United, to which Yudai Baba belongs, played against Adelaide 36ERS.

Baba was sent to the court with five minutes remaining in the first quarter and made his NBL debut. In defense, which is one of the characteristics, he does not lose to strong overseas players, and he does not lose in speed. He thoroughly boxed out and showed a stable play without allowing a goal with a defensive defense.

In the second quarter, he pushed a spilled ball of haste and recorded a memorable first score. After that, he showed stable play from beginning to end in the defense, but in the offense he raised both hands and demanded the ball, but the pass did not come around and it was difficult to get involved in the offense.

Still, Baba continued to demand the ball. In the second half, that positiveness comes to fruition. Baba, who ran at the beginning of the haste, responded to the lob pass from his allies and tried to tap in the air as it was. This was unfortunately blocked by the opponent’s block, but he kept the possession and received the ball with no mark, and succeeded in the middle shot.

After that, he pushed the ball from the defensive rebound, got on the top speed and brought it to the shoot as it was. He triggered a foul and succeeded in both free throws, expanding the point difference to double digits. In addition, Baba assisted his ally Alley-oop from haste at the end of the third quarter.

In the final quarter, he made a successful dunk, which is synonymous with Baba, and fully demonstrated his characteristics.With the success of Baba, he overwhelmed the latter half with 52-26.
United won the opening round.

Baba recorded 10 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal in the 17th minute. The number representing the goal difference at the time of play was +20, which was the second in the team, which greatly contributed to the victory of the team. It was a debut match with high expectations for future performances.