The Aisin Sea Horses have inarguably been the team to beat in the JBL in recent years, but they aren¡¯t about to rest on their laurels.
The Aichi Prefecture-based club finished atop the regular season standings, going 34-8, for the sixth straight season, but head coach Kimikazu Suzuki emphasized during a Tuesday news conference at Yoyogi National Gymnasium No. 2 that the postseason is a completely different story.
¡°We were able to have the best record thanks to the fact that we won so many close games,¡± Suzuki said of his team, which was 9-1 in five-point games in the season. ¡°But the playoffs are completely different from the regular season, and we need to start all over, playing good defense and turning it into good offense. We¡¯re going to have to play one game at a time very carefully.¡±
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