Toyotama, who originally thought of chasing points by improving his rhythm, seemed to be hastening his death.
Toyotama's coach Nayama Muramasa saw that the players on the field did not slow down the attack speed because the score difference was slowly widening, and he was extremely anxious. However, at this time, he still did not choose to call a timeout, but watched quietly. The players were struggling on the court.
Toyotama's team members are so arrogant. Even if they face a team like Shohoku, even if they are nearly 20 points behind, their players are still full of fighting spirit and their attack speed has not slowed down at all. Nayama Muramasa knew very well that if a timeout was called at this time, Toyotama's team members would be frustrated.
With the current state of the players, even if a timeout is called, these players will not listen to him properly after returning to the rest area. They might even blame him, the coach, for interrupting their "counterattack" by calling a timeout at this time.
As for whether Toyotama can really fight back, that's not important. What's important is that Toyotama's team members themselves feel that they are fighting back!
Toyotama had the ball, and on the court, Nanretsu successfully got a chance to shoot with the help of Minori Kishimoto's high pick-and-roll. Jinguji Budo was slightly blocked by Kishimoto. He did not catch up immediately and could only watch Nanretsu. Lie shot from a high position.
"Whoa!" With a soft sound, Nan Lie made a shot. Nam Yeol, who successfully scored the ball, quickly called on the players to start returning to defense.
Jinguji Martial Arts didn’t care about the gain or loss of a goal. As for playing ball, even martial arts couldn’t beat Nan Lie to a point. After all, this kid was quite smart and didn’t have the head to attack the martial arts defense line. After conceding two goals at the beginning and knowing the gap between the two, Nan Lie knew how to call for help from his teammates.
"Come on, hit this ball back!"
Miyagi Ryota controlled the ball and slowly advanced toward the frontcourt, shouting to his teammates as he walked. Miyagi Ryota, who had been focusing on the court, did not realize that he was almost about to be replaced by coach Anzai. At this time, in the Xiangbei rest area, Mumu Gongting, who had just finished warming up, had already sat back on the bench.
Coach Anxi has no intention of replacing him.
Xiangbei's attack speed began to be consciously controlled under the reminder of martial arts. It took Miyagi Ryota six or seven seconds to bring the ball across the half court, and then he chose to pass the ball sideways to Hisashi Mitsui.
Hisashi Mitsui was not in a hurry when he got the ball, and waited for the gap in the attack with the ball in the clouds. Seeing that Mitsui Hisashi had no intention of releasing the ball, Budo ran to his side and helped set up a pick-and-roll.
With Budo's pick-and-roll, Mitsui Hisashi was no longer in a hurry to break through. With the help of Budo's cover, he followed the three-point arc to the top of the arc. Seeing that the opponent failed to pursue the defense immediately, he shot directly from outside the three-point line after reaching the top of the arc.
Toyotama's defense is actually a bit broken in the eyes of Budo and others. Their defense adopts a standard 23 zone defense, with only two defenders on the outside. But the offensive players on the outside in Shohoku are Jinguji Budo and Hisashi Mitsui. No matter who they are, they can defeat their opponents in a one-on-one confrontation.
Now the two are even covering each other, which gives the offensive player with the ball enough time to adjust his shooting posture. Mitsui Hisami Toyotama concentrates his defensive power on the inside, so he has no idea of rushing to the basket. Choose long-range shooting as the finishing method.
"Whoa!" With a soft sound, the basketball flew across half of the court and fell into the net.
After Mitsui Hisahi scored, Budo smiled and high-fived the opponent, and then began to retreat quickly.
"If the game continues like this, it will be easy to win."
"Xiao San has already shot away, and Nan Lie has suffered losses at my hands before, so he won't let me go to defend against Xiao San."
"As long as you continue to use this style of play, Mitsui Hisashi's offensive power will be completely released."
"His firepower is enough to support Xiangbei!"
Wu Dao thought in his mind and began to direct his teammates' positions. Fengyu, who had no chance for a fast break, still dribbled the ball non-stop through half the court, and then the basketball was given to Nanyeol's hands.
As soon as Nan Lie caught the basketball, Jinguji Budo had already appeared in front of him, covering Nan Lie's sight with one hand and raising the other hand in a defensive posture.
"Damn...this bastard!"
Faced with Wu Dao's defense, Nan Lie was somewhat agitated. Although he also scored a few goals with the help of his teammates, so far in the game, he has not scored a few points in front of Martial Arts. When he played in the prefectural competition in Osaka, he averaged 36 points per game, but today's game has been played for more than ten minutes, and he only scored 5 points in total.
To say that he is a marginal role player, scoring these five points is very good, but he is not a role player. He is the main scorer of Toyotama High School. He is the team's ace with the most ball rights. Get 5 points, what does that count?
And at this point in the game, Nan Lie already knew clearly that if he couldn't rely on his own strength to score in front of Jinguji Martial Arts, it would be a matter of time before their Toyotama High School lost. He would never allow such a thing to happen. !
He also wanted to use run-and-gun tactics to lead Toyotama to win the national championship and rectify Coach Kitano's name. He would never allow Toyotama to fall here, in the second round of the national competition.
"If you're brave enough, just try to defend me!"
Nan Lie felt furious and quickly dropped the ball to break through. At the same time, his breakthrough movements became much larger. He dropped the ball with his right hand and made a less obvious elbow raising movement with his left hand. If the referee hadn't stood too far away, his movement would definitely be blocked. A foul was called, but unfortunately, the referee stood a little far away and did not notice Nan Lie's little move.
Nan Lie's original intention was to use such an action to force Martial Arts not to pursue the defense immediately, but as soon as he dropped the ball and broke through, the figure of Jinguji Martial Arts quickly appeared in front of him.
"boom!"
With a muffled sound, Wu Dao, who was calm and centered, was immediately pressed into the chest by Nan Lie's elbow. The moment huge power poured into Wu Dao's chest, the powerful counterattack was also transmitted to Nan Lie.
Nan Lie's dribbling rhythm was affected, and Budo stepped forward to try to steal it, but the alert Nan Lie held the ball in his arms, stood firm, and quickly passed the ball.
"This guy... was clearly hit by my elbow just now! How can he still keep up?" Nan Lie looked at the dark and plain martial arts of Jingu Temple in front of him, and his heart was shaking.
He originally just wanted to scare Wu Dao, hoping that the opponent would not follow up immediately, but what he didn't expect was that Wu Dao didn't seem to notice him raising his elbow. Not only did he rush forward without any scruples, but he almost completed the steal. This was something Nanlie never expected.
"Iron basketball... I have already experienced it when I was in junior high school."
"And you are so childish at this level, Nan Lie!"
Budo seemed to have noticed Nanlie's surprise. While looking at Kishimoto Minori who was cooperating with his team members to attack in the distance, he stood in front of Nanlie to prevent him from getting another chance to catch the ball.
He is not a thin young man like Tengzhen. If the person defending Nanlie now was Tengzhen, he might have been hit in the head by this elbow or lost his chin. But Wu Dao was much taller than Nan Lie, so his hidden elbow strikes could only hit his chest at most.
And to be honest, the elbow strike just now was already very strong in Nan Lie's opinion, but when it actually hit Martial Arts, it was not even as powerful as Shinomiya Tano's standard back blow.
That guy's beating was really terrifying. If we talk about strength alone, every back attack from the opponent was far more powerful than Nan Lie's elbow attack. That bastard Shinomiya Tano could only resist the martial arts but couldn't make the martial arts afraid of physical confrontation. Nan Lie wanted him to flinch with such a level of elbow attack? How can this be!
Nan Lie did not answer, glanced at Martial Arts, remained silent and did not speak, standing aside to watch the team members attack.
"Cang!" As Toyotama's center resisted Akagi's defense and missed the shot, the rebound was collected by Chiba. Shohoku left and began to counterattack.
During the counterattack, Xiangbei no longer suppressed the speed of the attack. The group of people rushed to the frontcourt without much effort. The basketball was transmitted from Miyagi to Budao's hands. Budao received the ball and ignored the pursuit of Nanlie and others and cut into the basket. Scored an easy layup.
His jumping and height are much higher than Nan Lie's. Even if Nan Lie completes his defense immediately, he will not be able to have any impact on the martial arts who have already combined the ball.
As the basketball hit the net, the audience erupted in cheers.
Nan Lie glanced at the scoreboard, which was dark and gloomy.
The offense and defense transitioned, and Toyotama High School started to attack again.
As they entered the frontcourt, the basketball came into Nanlie's hands again. This time, there was no hesitation on Nan Lie's face. What Jinguji Martial Arts just said not only angered him, but also made him completely lose his scruples.
"Bang!" As the basketball fell, Nan Lie stood up to break through. His ball protector no longer had irregular movements, but blatantly raised his elbow and aimed hard at Jinguji Martial Arts. Face greeting.
However, what surprised him was that the sudden elbow strike during his breakthrough did not hit Wu Dao. It was obvious that he was about to hit the opponent's face, but Wu Dao's head suddenly tilted back and he easily dodged his elbow blow. .
Although the elbow attack was unsuccessful, Nan Lie also naturally got a breakthrough gap and took the ball towards the inside. Before he could get close to the inside, he couldn't wait to shoot.
However, the basketball in Nan Lie's hand had just been raised above his head when the figure of Jinguji Martial Arts suddenly appeared in front of him. He jumped up and grabbed the basketball with his palm. The martial arts figure in the air suddenly lowered his eyes slightly and looked towards He caught Nan Lie, and the basketball he could easily grab was shot out by him.
The place where the basketball landed was Nan Lie who had just thrown the basketball!
"Bang!" Nan Lie was caught off guard and was hit on the head by a basketball. The huge force made his proud head lower.
After landing, Jinguji Budo ignored Nan Lie and directly jumped over the opponent. He picked up the basketball that fell far away and ran towards the front court. Wu Dao, who had completely sped up, seemed to be in a no-man's land. He ignored the people in Toyotama who were chasing him, dunked the ball in front of him, and poured out his anger on Toyotama's basket.
The faces of Fengyu and everyone who once again watched Budo score a goal finally showed a hint of defeat. Obviously they have worked very hard, but instead of narrowing the point difference, it has been widened by Xiangbei.
Nan Lie, whose elbow failed and was hit in the head by a basketball, also stood there in a daze.
Somewhat confused.
"why why?!"
Nan Lie shouted in his heart, his face gloomy and a little twisted.
"Beep!" As a long whistle sounded, the referee's voice sounded in the field.
"Toyota High School, please suspend!"
Everyone in Toyama heard their coach call a timeout and all looked towards Mingshan Muramasa. At this time, the Mingshan coach had a serious face. He noticed that Toyotama's morale had been shaken by Jinguji Martial Arts' repeated blows.
He also knew that the time to pause had finally arrived, but this time came too late!
Nanlie seemed not to have heard the news of his coach's request for a timeout. At this moment, he was staring at Jinguji Martial Arts in the distance, with thick flames bursting out of his eyes. If eyes could kill, I'm afraid Jinguji Martial Arts at this time He has been killed by Nan Lie hundreds of times.
After Wu Dao heard the timeout, he walked towards the court. He felt the eyes behind him, turned his head and saw Nan Lie staring at him with a smile on his face.
"Although I don't hate bad boys, malicious elbows and little moves are still the same."
"Going to defend and going to hurt people have different starting points."
"Nan Lie, if Coach Kitano is watching your game, I'm afraid he will be very disappointed!"
Wu Dao looked at Nan Lie from afar, thought to himself, and then returned to the rest area with his teammates.
Over there, Nan Lie was also pulled back to the rest area by his teammates. Toyotama's famous coach Muramasa looked around at the dejected players and couldn't help but sigh softly.
His current mood is somewhat complicated. Before the timeout, he was also reviewing his behavior. Could this timeout be called earlier? The current score difference is already so far behind. They, Fengyu, really have a chance to win. Is it possible to come back? If he forces a timeout regardless of the possibility that the players will scold him, will these players listen to some advice?
"Now, there is no point in thinking about these things."
"Hitting every ball well is what we need to do next!"
When Toyotama's players walked back to the leisure area, Toyotama's Mingshan coach suppressed his guilty conscience and stopped thinking about it.
However, the team members had just returned to the rest area, and the words they blurted out really made the Mingshan coach feel a little guilty.
"Hey! Why did you call a timeout all of a sudden?!"
"Don't you see we are working hard to chase points?"
"You're calling a timeout now. Don't you think we're a little behind and want to teach us a lesson?!"
"Tell you, you are not qualified!"
Although Miri Kishimoto was only a second-year student, she was not polite at all when facing the famous coach and shouted directly at the coach.
These words that came out of his mouth made the famous mountain coach frown, full of displeasure.
"Boy, if you still want to win, just shut up!"
"You brat, it's because of your temper that Toyota High School can't get any closer!"
"Unknown trash fish like Xiangbei have put us in trouble."
"Even now, you still don't have any reflection?!"
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