During the match between Shohoku and Chang Cheng, Takenori Akagi showed an unprecedented desire to win. Budo has handed over almost all the ball rights in this game. Hisashi Mitsui, who was supposed to take over the offensive task, noticed Akagi's state and figured out how to mobilize Akagi.
On the court, as Mizashiba's shot from a negative angle went out of bounds, Shohoku High School began a new round of offense.
Miyagi Ryota, who was holding the ball, seemed to be regarded as a breakthrough by Chang Cheng. When he advanced with the ball, Chang Cheng briefly gave up on pursuing martial arts and double-teamed Miyagi.
Miyagi Ryota, who was about to be double-teamed, subconsciously lobbed the ball to Jinguji Budo who was advancing towards the frontcourt.
The basketball fell, but Wu Dao just looked up and had no intention of catching the ball. When the basketball reached his head, he stretched out his right hand and slapped it directly on the basketball.
The basketball in the air suddenly changed shape and flew over Mitsui Shou's head. Hisashi Mitsui jumped to catch the ball. After landing, he faced the defense with a simple feint. Then he quickly dropped the ball and broke through. In the blink of an eye, he directly broke through the defender and rushed towards the inside.
Chang Cheng occupied the inside position and Mizashiba immediately chose to defend Mitsui Hisashi, but he also consciously guarded against Mitsui Hisashi passing the ball to Akagi.
Hisashi Mitsui's cutting speed was very fast, and he was already at the basket in the blink of an eye. However, he seemed to have no intention of making a layup. After two steps, he actually looked at Takenori Akagi. His hand was already There was a motion of passing the ball.
Seeing this scene, Mikoshiba didn't even think about it. He ducked in front of Takenori Akagi in an instant and blocked Mitsui Hisashi's passing route. But at the same time, there was no obstacle in front of Mitsui Hisashi.
But just as he made a move, Hisashi Mitsui quickly collected the ball, and then made a light layup and sent the ball into the basket.
"Nice, mistress." Jinguji Budo clapped his hands and shouted when he saw Mitsui Hisashi passing for a layup.
Off the court, the Xiangbei substitutes were already cheering. It was just a goal, but these substitutes were quite excited.
The quality of the students of the Xiangbei basketball team is actually very average. None of the players on the bench at this time have experienced a national competition.
At this time, seeing their teammates scoring goals on stadiums across the country, they were also very excited. It was difficult for others to understand that kind of proud mood.
"Hmph!" Mitsui Shou snorted, with a confident look on his face.
"Cheer up, everyone!"
"This is our first competition in the national competition in northern Hunan. We absolutely cannot fail!"
"Today, we will beat Chang Cheng by more than 20 points!" Hisashi Mitsui shouted loudly to the players on the way back to defense.
His words can indeed give the players a lot of encouragement, especially after Mitsui Hisashi scored.
"Okay!" Chiba, Miyagi, and Akagi subconsciously responded. Even Jinguji Martial Arts shouted at the top of their lungs, and then accelerated their pace to return to defense.
Mitsui Hisashi's words inspired everyone in Shobei, but also angered Chang Cheng's team members. Although Chang Cheng was also rated as a B-level team, the difference between them and Shobei is that as representatives of Shizuoka Prefecture, This is not the first time that they have entered the national competition.
Facing a rookie team in a national competition like Xiangbei, they cannot accept that they will be at a disadvantage and may even lose the game!
"This group of guys must not lose to them!"
"Haizang, if you organize the team, you must not let them continue to be arrogant!" Captain Chang Cheng, wearing the No. 4 jersey, came to the No. 5 player after serving and told him.
"Yes, captain!" Hai Zang nodded and replied. As he spoke, the basketball had been passed into his hands.
After receiving the ball, he looked at Jinguji Budo in the frontcourt with a firm gaze.
"Oh? This man's eyes have changed!" Kaizo entered the frontcourt with the ball. Jinguji Budo immediately defended him. He blocked the opponent's position about one meter in front of the three-point line. Because he didn't know what kind of player the opponent was, Wu Dao pushed the defense line to this position when defending.
In the high school arena, there are not many players with ultra-long three-pointers, and Martial Arts does not push the defense further outward.
Having just arrived in front of Haizang, Martial Arts immediately noticed the change in the opponent's eyes. Martial Arts is also very experienced in guessing the opponent's mentality.
"Are you serious? Are you planning to break through from my side?!" Wu Dao looked at the other party's firm eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled up unconsciously.
"What is this guy laughing at?!"
"Are you looking down on me?!" Hai Zang, who was standing in front of Wu Dao, saw the inexplicable smile on Wu Dao's face, and an unknown anger suddenly emerged in his heart.
He didn't know why he suddenly felt like this, but when he saw Wu Dao smiling, he felt that he was being laughed at.
"Bang!" The basketball fell, and Haizang quickly dropped the ball to break through. He is good at breaking through from his right side, because this is his strong side hand.
However, just as he made a move, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him. Jinguji Budo did not shy away from the physical collision between the two. Kaizo was caught off guard and directly bumped into Budo, disrupting the rhythm of ball control.
The next moment, Jinguji Budo's hand had already slapped on the basketball. After the steal and confrontation, Wu Dao made the steal extremely smoothly, and the basketball was directly shot away by Wu Dao.
Jinguji Budo didn't hesitate at all, he started directly and crossed Kaizo, picked up the basketball on the ground, and quickly advanced towards the frontcourt.
At the moment the steal occurred, the audience in the stands let out bursts of low cheers. Wu Dao's action was so neat. The instant completion of the steal also made many people aware of the gap in strength between Wu Dao and the opponent's players.
"The movement is so fast. He is so tall, so he needs to put his focus very low to complete the steal of Chang Cheng No. 5."
"But after completing the steal, he can still pick up speed instantly, and the burst of speed is far beyond what his opponents can match."
"This Jinguji Martial Arts is really strong!" A layman looks at the excitement, while an expert looks at the door. Some spectators are just attracted by the clean and neat tackles of Jinguji Martial Arts, but what attracts them is just the graceful movements of the martial arts.
But Aiwa Academy coach Akiyama Muramasa, who was also watching the game in the stands, noticed something unusual about martial arts.
"Oh~ The movements are really clean. Coach, is this the opponent you and Morohoshi told us to pay attention to in the next games?" All the players of Aiwa Academy in today's Xiangbei game were watching at the scene. Masakazu Akamamura Both Morohoshi had gone to Kanagawa Prefecture to watch the competition in Shohoku and had some understanding of the abilities of Jinguji Martial Arts.
Therefore, when they return, they will inevitably mention martial arts to their team members. But how players play is not as intuitive as listening to other people's opinions. At this time, Jinguji Budo's performance on the court immediately attracted their attention.
"Yes! Jinguji Martial Arts, one of the so-called twin stars of Kanagawa."
"Even if we are Aihe, only Morohoshi can deal with him!" Mingshan Muramasa said to the team members beside him, but Morohoshi, who had high hopes for him, was not as confident as him. He looked at the fast-breaking martial artist holding the ball on the court. , looking grim.
Stealing to speed up the attack is obviously an excellent scoring opportunity, but Wu Dao failed to do it himself. He deliberately slowed down his pace so that Takenori Akagi could follow up. After crossing the three-point mark, Budo looked back at Akagi's position, lightly tossed the basketball upwards in his hand, and then quickly turned around to clear the position under the basket.
Behind Budao, there was not only Akagi who was following up to get into the basket, but also Chang Cheng who was chasing after him.
Mikoshiba was originally chasing Budo, and he was already prepared to block the shot, but Budo's sudden throw caught him off guard.
Akagi, who was behind, saw the position of the basketball and jumped up, grabbed the ball with both hands in the air and poured the ball into the basket.
Mizishai couldn't dodge and was directly hit by Akagi's huge body. He stumbled and sat on the ground.
"Roar!!" The referee on the sidelines showed no sign of Mikoshiba falling to the ground. After dunking, Akagi roared, venting his emotions.
"It actually passed the ball. This guy didn't do it himself."
"It seems that we are planning to let others from Shohoku play? We will help the players score to nourish the confidence of the players." Aiwa's coach Akiyama Muramasa was a little surprised that Budo actually gave up the opportunity to perform, but it was precisely because of this. His expression became more serious.
In his impression, Jinguji Budo is a lone wolf ace, and sharing the ball should not happen to Budo.
Passing the ball to his teammates in a wide gap was inconsistent with the character of Jinguji Budo in his impression.
"Good job, Akagi."
"My assist was not wrong." Budo smiled and fist-bumped with Takenori Akagi in celebration. After the slam dunk, Akagi was obviously very happy. After nodding heavily, he returned to defense with unusual determination.
The other Shohoku players were also inspired by Akagi's dunk, and their momentum was high for a while. Haizang, who was intercepted, lowered his head and apologized to his team members, but Chang Cheng's team members did not blame him. Their captain just asked him to be more cautious and serious.
But in basketball, no matter how cautious or serious you are, on the court, your attitude can only make up for part of the gap in strength.
The strength gap between Jinguji Budo and Kaizo obviously cannot be made up by caution and seriousness!
As the game progressed, Kaizo tried to break through Jinguji Budo's defense with the encouragement of his teammates, but what greeted him was the cruel reality.
Kaizo tried to hit three balls, one of which was intercepted cleanly by Wu Dao. The second ball was about to play a quick stop in front of Wu Dao, but the result was a huge hit.
On the third goal, Kaizo, who was halfway through the breakthrough, found that Budo was not out of position at all, and his energy was gone. He directly chose to pass the ball and did not continue to try to break through.
However, the quality of his passing was also very poor under the influence of martial arts, and Miyagi Ryota seized the opportunity to steal the ball through the horizontal transmission.
Continuous mistakes caused Chang Cheng to lose several offensive opportunities. On the contrary, Xiangbei seized the scoring opportunity every time.
Takenori Akagi's slam dunk, Hisashi Mitsui's fast break three-pointer after picking up Budo's blocked ball, and Miyagi's solo layup later.
For a time, the score difference between the two teams quickly widened. When Chang Cheng realized that Haizang couldn't perform at this point, he decisively changed his offensive method. The basketball began to pass frequently into the inside, and Mizishai completed the finish.
Takenori Akagi works very hard on the defensive end. Although Mikoshiba's offensive ability is good, under Akagi's defense, the offensive efficiency can only be said to be average. The probability of success of the inside attack is only about 60%. If it is from the outside For shooting, this kind of scoring rate is very strong, but for the inside, it is just routine.
The few times the offense failed, the rebounds were also controlled by Shohoku High School. Shohoku's offensive efficiency is much higher. After Mitsui Hisashi missed an open three-pointer at the beginning, he decisively changed his style of play and turned into a scoring method that focuses on sudden points.
The Kaijuku players who were guarding him were no match for him. Mitsui Hisashi had an extremely easy time beating him. Mitsui Hisashi who broke into the inside sometimes passed the ball and sometimes faked faxes, completely arranging Ozu Shiba and another Chang Cheng player.
With the assist of Hisashi Mitsui, Chiba and Akagi also performed well and scored frequently. As the game progressed, the score between Chang Cheng and Xiangbei not only showed no tendency to get closer, but instead became wider and wider.
Fifteen minutes into the first half, the score difference between the two teams has reached 13 points. When the score difference was less than 10 points, Kaijo had already called a timeout and sent the defensive players who were supposed to defend the martial arts to help defend Mitsui. Longevity.
After the timeout, Hai Chang's scoring rate slowed down, but it only slowed down, and the point difference was still slowly widening.
In the court, Jinguji Budo received Miyagi's pass at the top of the arc. His foot was already on the three-point line, but the defender in front of him was still about two meters away from him.
The opponent's defensive attention was not on Budo at all, but instead on Hisashi Mitsui who was running not far away trying to cut into the inside.
It was obviously a great opportunity, but Budo had no intention of shooting. Instead, he gave it to Takenori Akagi in the inside position.
The martial arts practices made some members of the Aihe Academy puzzled, and they asked the coach next to them: "Coach, does this Jinguji martial arts have no long-range shooting ability?"
"I didn't take action even if I had such a good opportunity. This has happened not once or twice. Is this guy really as powerful as you say?" Hearing the doubts of the team members, Mingshan Muramasa shook his head and said, "That Jinguji Martial Arts Although he didn’t participate much in scoring, Xiangbei has slowly begun to widen the point difference, and he has contributed a lot to this!”
"Just because he doesn't attack doesn't mean he can't attack. I guess Xiangbei wants other players to perform well today."
"Although Shohoku is not a team that plays with ace players in the traditional sense, during the previous county competition, Shohoku relied heavily on the performance of ace players."
"What Xiangbei did today was for the purpose of training troops."
"This also means that, like Chang Cheng, Xiangbei, who is rated B, feels he has the ability to crush his opponents."
"Their confidence comes from Jinguji Martial Arts!"
"Didn't you notice the condition of Chang Cheng, the No. 5 player playing against Jinguji Martial Arts?" As Mingshan Muramasa finished speaking, the players from Aiwa Academy looked toward the court.
The game only lasted 15 minutes. As a defensive martial arts player who was not very offensive, Kaizo was in quite poor condition at this time.
His eyelids were drooped. It was obviously cool today, but Kaizo's jersey was already soaked with sweat and clinging to his skin.
The exhaustion on his face is like that of a 175cm, 200kg 'strong man' who has run a thousand meters.
"Looks so tired... How could this be? On the Jinguji Martial Arts side, you're not even sweating?" Aihe's players noticed the abnormality and whispered one after another.
"Although Jinguji Budo didn't attack, Kaitsune's No. 5 was desperately trying to get out of the way!"
"Didn't you realize that No. 5 has been completely blocked by Jinguji Martial Arts?" In the stadium, Kaizo was breathing heavily, his eyes were watching the martial arts while observing Mitsui with his peripheral vision. tho' position.
He was very tired now. If possible, he really wanted to lie down on the ground and rest. He had a hard time in today's game. He felt like a pair of big hands were holding his body tightly. No matter how he acted, Jinguji Martial Arts on the opposite side would always appear in front of him at the right time.
Not only when attacking, but even when defending, he can feel his own powerlessness. It is too easy for Jinguji Budo to hit the ball in front of him!
"Hugh!" Just as Haizang was thinking wildly, the basketball turned into a red light and flew past his ear, directly passing into the hands of Akagi on the inside.
Mikoshiba, who was defending Akagi, obviously didn't expect Budo to pass the ball inside so easily. The rapid vertical pass caught him off guard, and he could only watch Akagi half-turn and score a layup.
Seeing Shohoku score another point, coach Anzai finally smiled and clapped gently.
"Although Shohoku's rating is B, if we really treat Shohoku as a B-level team, I'm afraid we will suffer a big loss!" Goro Domoto of Senko Industrial held his hands in front of his chest and muttered.
Around him, a group of Sanno Industrial players were sitting on the bench in different postures, watching the game.
"That's it, we just didn't meet our mountain king." Eiji Sawabei leaned on his seat, raised his head slightly, looked down at the players on the field, and gave his evaluation.
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