Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk pushed the atmosphere of the entire venue to a climax. Over the years, the number of slam dunks that can be seen in junior high school games is really only a handful.
This is not the United States. There are not so many talented people. Being able to dunk in junior high school is quite rare here.
At the same time, many high school coaches who were watching the game in the stands were shocked and speechless when they saw this scene. The coach of Lingnan High School, Shigeichi Taoka, is one of them.
"I can't believe there are players of this caliber in junior high school!"
"Rukawa Kaede, the talent he showed on the court before was not as outstanding as it is now."
"But as I grow older, my talents begin to show up."
"If he can join our Lingnan next year, he will definitely be able to assist Zuo Tianye and Xiandao and help Lingnan shine in the national competition."
"You have to fight hard for this player."
In just the warm-up period, Coach Taoka was already very optimistic about Rukawa Kaede's ability, and he also quite recognized Rukawa Kaede's talent. At the same time, coach Tian Gang has also secretly made up his mind to invite Rukawa Kaede to Lingnan to build the dynasty team in his mind.
The presence of Rukawa Kaede put considerable pressure on their opponents. It can be seen that since Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk, Takeishi Middle School's opponents began to make some low-level mistakes during the warm-up.
A simple warm-up activity of passing the ball and making a layup, but many players made mistakes when executing it.
If this happens to only one or two players, it is just an accidental phenomenon, but this situation occurs on a large scale, and it suddenly attracts the coach's attention.
The team, which had just started warming up, was called back to the rest area by the coach for psychological counseling.
Akagi Haruko watched Takeshi's opponents being called back by their coach because of their nervousness. She couldn't help but get excited. She grabbed Takenori Akagi's arm and said happily:
"Brother, brother, look, Takeshi's opponents are all panicking because of Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk!"
"Rukawa Kaede's ability is outstanding, right?!"
Akagi Haruko was obviously very satisfied with Rukawa Kaede's performance, and said to Takenori Akagi as if she was taking credit. It was as if she was the one dunking on the court instead of Rukawa Kaede.
"..." Seeing his sister's appearance, Akagi Takenori could only nod perfunctorily. However, his eyes were directed at Jinguji Budo, who was holding the fence and watching the ball.
Rukawa Kaede's physical talent is indeed quite outstanding. It is indeed rare to be able to dunk at this stage of junior high school. But for Yo Akagi, this alone is not enough, not to mention that he himself was able to complete a slam dunk when he was in the third grade of junior high school.
In Jinguji Martial Arts alone, I could easily dunk him in the practice match when I entered Shohoku in high school. In terms of physical talent, Rukawa Kaede is indeed top-notch, but compared to Jinguji Martial Arts, he is still far behind. of.
The pre-match warm-up time passed quickly. As the referee's whistle sounded, Takeishi's players began to take their positions in the center circle under the leadership of Rukawa Kaede. The player Takeishi stood in the middle circle was the tallest player in their team, Rukawa Kaede.
As for Takeishi Middle School's opponent, Prefectural No. 2 Middle School, the player standing in the center circle is just a player who is about 180cm tall. He is 3~4cm shorter than Rukawa Kaede.
The referee walked to the center circle with the basketball, blew the whistle, and threw the ball into the air.
Rukawa Kaede's explosive power is quite outstanding. Relying on his excellent explosive power and height, he jumped up and hit the basketball with one hand. As Takeishi Middle School took control of the ball, Akagi Haruko cheered excitedly, completely ignoring Takenori Akagi, who was already a bit dark-faced next to her.
"Pass the ball!" Rukawa Kaede, who was suppressing his opponent and getting the jump ball, was traveling very fast. Not long after his teammates got the basketball, Rukawa Kaede had already entered the frontcourt and was close to the three-point line.
Following Rukawa Kaede's reminder, the basketball was quickly passed out and successfully reached Rukawa Kaede's hands. At this time, the players of the No. 2 Middle School also completed their positions. In a typical zone defense, all the players of the No. 2 Middle School looked at Rukawa Kaede who was holding the ball.
Rukawa Kaede, who was holding the ball, raised his eyes and looked at the defensive players. With a simple test step, he successfully mobilized the defensive players to move to Rukawa Kaede's right side, and an obvious flaw appeared.
As the opponent's defensive position shifted, Rukawa Kaede dropped the ball with his left hand, and the ball protector with his right hand directly touched the opponent's waist, quickly dribbling the ball to break through. As soon as Rukawa Kaede moved, not only did no one of the other defensive players in the No. 2 Middle School step up to cover the defense, but they quickly shrank the inside defense line. From the looks of it, they wanted to defend the inside line.
After Rukawa Kaede broke through, he also noticed that his opponent had shrunk his defense, and instead of going deeper, he took two steps inside the three-point line and made a sudden stop for a jumper.
Rukawa Kaede's shooting posture was quite stretched, and the feeling of his shot was quite soft. With a soft sound, the basketball hit the net.
Rukawa Kaede, who successfully scored the first goal, quickly returned to defense without even glancing at his opponents.
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter! Don't worry about this kind of goal. Be careful not to let him break through so easily next time you defend."
"We are all junior high school students, so it's impossible to score a goal."
"Don't worry, organize the attack and attack steadily!"
The coach of No. 2 Middle School stood on the sidelines and shouted, reminding the players. With his comfort, No. 2 Middle School began to organize an attack.
However, when the defender of the No. 2 Middle School entered the frontcourt with the ball, Rukawa Kaede saw through his intention of passing the ball. The ball was originally intended to be passed to a teammate on the side, but was directly intercepted by Rukawa Kaede.
The next second, Rukawa Kaede ran directly towards the frontcourt with the ball. At the same time, among the Takeishi Middle School team, Mizusawa Ichiro closely followed Rukawa Kaede's offensive pace. As for the other players, the one who saw the fast break was Neither of these two people thought about running to help. Instead, they stood on their own side of the court, hands on their hips, watching the fast break of Rukawa Kaede and Mizusawa Ichiro from a distance.
It was 2 on 0 in the frontcourt, and the defense of the second center could not keep up with Rukawa Kaede's fast break. Rukawa Kaede reached the basket, combined the ball and dunk, and a beautiful dunk ignited the atmosphere of the court again. Unlike the warm-up, this time, the audience cheered even more enthusiastically.
After all, it is an actual slam dunk, which gives people a completely different look.
Looking at it, Akagi Haruko was already fascinated by Rukawa Kaede's grace. She clasped her hands and stared at Rukawa Kaede who started to defend with her beautiful eyes.
When Akagi and others saw Rukawa Kaede successfully dunking again, everyone's eyes turned to Rukawa Kaede.
Rukawa Kaede in the field seemed to be aware of the gazes of several people, and subconsciously raised his head to look towards the auditorium on the sidelines. I met Jinguji Budo, Mitsui Hisashi and others.
"That's...Mitsui-senpai and the martial arts guy."
"Are they coming to see my game?"
Rukawa Kaede was a little surprised when he saw Jinguji Martial Arts and Mitsui Hisashi, and murmured in his heart.
Martial Arts also noticed Rukawa Kaede's gaze, smiled and waved at Rukawa Kaede. Mitsui Hisunori stood up from his seat and shouted loudly: "Takeshi Middle School, come on!"
Of course, Hisashi Mitsui's cheers were drowned in the cheers of the audience, but there was still a senior Takeshi player who heard this familiar voice and turned to look at the audience to find Hisashi Mitsui.
Seeing the seniors in the stands, Wu Shi's team members were encouraged and their momentum was high.
I don’t know if it’s because No. 2 Middle School’s level of intelligence collection is insufficient. The defensive strategy they adopted was to stick to the inside, but Takeishi Middle School's offense was often initiated from the outside by Rukawa Kaede.
There are no outstanding star players in the second middle school, and no one can limit Rukawa Kaede's breakthrough in single defense. Whenever Rukawa Kaede breaks through, the strategy adopted by the other defensive players in the No. 2 Middle School is often not to make up for the defense, but to tighten the defense inside.
This defensive method did not give Kaede Rukawa the opportunity to break into the inside for a layup, but after passing the pass, Kaede Rukawa could easily shoot without anyone defending him.
Although they were medium and long-range shots, Rukawa Kaede's shooting accuracy was quite high, not at the level of a junior high school student. Takeshi Middle School's attack surrounding Rukawa Kaede could not be blocked by the players of No. 2 Middle School.
At the same time, Rukawa Kaede's defensive awareness is also quite good. There were several passes in the middle of the attack, but Rukawa Kaede saw through and completed the steal.
Moreover, the average height of Takeishi Middle School is higher than that of No. 2 Middle School, and the pressure on them during defense is also great, which directly disrupts the offensive rhythm of the entire team of No. 2 Middle School.
In this situation of ebb and flow, Takeishi Middle School quickly took the lead and slowly expanded this advantage.
Thirteen minutes into the game, Takeishi Middle School took a huge lead at 32:17. As Rukawa Kaede rushed into the paint and tied the score with two plus one, the coach of No. 2 Middle School could no longer hold back and called a timeout.
The coach of No. 2 Middle School stabilized the mentality of the players. It can be seen that the players from No. 2 Middle School who returned to play have more confidence and less frustration on their faces.
After a stumbling attack in No. 2 Middle School succeeded, the offense and defense switched. The defender of Takeishi Middle School brought the ball to the frontcourt, and then quickly gave it to Rukawa Kaede.
After returning from the timeout, the defensive strategy of No. 2 Middle School was adjusted, and the number of players specifically marking Rukawa Kaede increased from one to two. The remaining three people build a zone defense on the inside.
"Look, the defensive formation of No. 2 Middle School has changed. They are going to target Rukawa Kaede!" Haruko saw No. 2 Middle School's defensive intention and said excitedly, pulling on Akagi's clothes. Without waiting for Akagi to reply, Haruko continued:
"Rukawa Kaede is indeed very strong. He alone has affected the defensive strength of No. 2 Middle School."
Takenori Akagi glanced at his sister and said in a deep voice: "Only now can we see some signs of whether Rukawa Kaede is strong or not."
"The previous goals were not valuable enough."
While Takenori Akagi was speaking, Rukawa Kaede had already made a move.
Rukawa Kaede, who was holding the ball, seemed not to notice the change in No. 2 Middle School's defensive strategy. He relied on his speed to initiate a breakthrough. When he passed the first defender and broke into the three-point line, he met the defender.
Facing the defensive player Rukawa Kaede, he didn't need anything at all. He faced the opponent's defense and shot a jump shot. At the moment when he was shooting, the defender's hands had already covered Rukawa Kaede's face. Unfortunately, due to his height and bounce, After all, the defensive players had no way to block Rukawa Kaede.
"This guy's timing is too bad to take action!"
"Playing ball is really..."
Takenori Akagi whispered, and just as the words of criticism came to his lips, he saw the basketball thrown by Kaede Rukawa hit the board and make a soft sound.
"Well....."
"It actually scored, which is not bad."
Akagi was a little surprised that Rukawa Kaede was able to score a goal under such circumstances. He swallowed back his criticism and could only praise him without salt.
"This kid hasn't made any progress!"
Mitsui Hisashi looked at Rukawa Kaede's goal and shook his head, seemingly extremely disappointed.
But Budo, who had been smiling while watching the game, frowned slightly after seeing Rukawa Kaede's goal.
Although the ball was scored, Rukawa Kaede's handling of the ball was not pretty. Some people may think that Rukawa Kaede was confident enough to score the ball against the defense, but in Budo's view, Rukawa Kaede had too many choices.
Such a strong investment is simply not necessary.
The change in No. 2 Middle School's defensive method did not have much impact on Takeishi Middle School. Rukawa Kaede's offense was still unstoppable. Under the defensive pressure of No. 2 Middle School, Rukawa Kaede's shooting percentage dropped slightly, but it did not affect the overall situation.
But Rukawa Kaede exposed a big problem in this game, that is, his offensive choices were really poor.
In the end, Takeishi Middle School won the game. Rukawa Kaede scored 37 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 steals. The data is quite gorgeous and unique in the entire junior high school arena.
"This kid needs to practice hard after coming to Xiangbei. If you play like this, you will hit a wall whenever you meet a player with good talent."
After the game, Budo took a deep look at Rukawa Kaede before leaving the stadium, and then left the stadium with Takako and others.
Mitsui Hisashi, Akagi Takenori and others obviously also discovered the problem with Rukawa Kaede's playing, so no matter how Haruko tried to improve Rukawa Kaede's ability, Akagi just dealt with it indifferently.
In Akagi's view, Rukawa Kaede can only be said to be a good seedling, that is, his combat power is still far behind Jinguji Martial Arts and Mitsui Hisashi.
Watching a junior high school game is just a way of relaxing during the county competition for Budao and others.
The next day, Shohoku High School ushered in their second game of this year's prefectural competition trials, against Matsubara High School.
Songyuan High School is not a strong team in the traditional sense, and the team composition is also very young. Although it is also a team that won the first game and entered the second game, its hard power is still far behind Shohoku.
Facing Matsubara, Coach Anzai still sent the first-year team headed by Jinguji Budo at the beginning. Halfway through the first half, Jinguji Budo posted terrifying statistics of 19 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 blocks.
The score of the two teams also reached a big lead of 26:11.
In this game, Budo still played the center position. In the low post area, as if he was in a deserted area, Matsubara's defense was useless in front of Budo.
Although the martial arts game went smoothly, coach Anzai still did not leave martial arts on the court for too long. He only changed martial arts and put Takenori Akagi on the court.
When Akagi was watching the game off the court, he still felt that fighting in martial arts was easy because his opponent was so incompetent.
But when Akagi came on the field, replaced Budo as the main center, and took on the offensive task, Akagi realized that he had been wrong.
Matsubara's group was frustrated in martial arts and wanted to get it back. After Takenori Akagi came on the court, whenever he received a basketball in the paint, he was immediately surrounded by four people.
Unlike Budo, Akagi has superb inside footwork. After receiving the ball, in addition to holding the basketball stupidly to prevent being stolen, he also wants to find the target of the pass. His intention is very obvious. Facing a double team, Akagi has to stop dribbling. Even passing the ball has become quite difficult.
At this time, the Matsubara players suddenly discovered that Takenori Akagi, who was also about 195cm tall with a mature face and seemed difficult to deal with, was actually much easier to deal with than the pretty boy No. 15 just now!
Akagi was surrounded, Miyagi's shooting touch from outside was average, and the rest of the players could only barely overcome their nervousness in the second game. For a while, Shohoku's offense fell into a sluggish state.
As the game progresses, Shohoku's leading score is being chased by Matsubara little by little.
At this time, the Shohoku High School team on the court seemed to have turned into the one-man team of Akagi in the martial arts memory. Even when facing a team like Matsubara, there was no way to gain an advantage.
"A team supported by Akagi alone can only achieve this level."
"From this point of view, the ability of this guy Akagi is not even a little bit worse than that of the martial arts guy!"
Mitsui Hisashi looked at Takenori Akagi who was fighting hard in the field, and then turned to look at Jinguji Budo who was drinking ginseng and wolfberry tea, and secretly sighed in his heart. Sometimes the difference is revealed by inadvertent comparison.
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