Rukawa Kaede's gorgeous offensive performance earned him cheers from countless spectators. At the same time, his performance also made Sakuragi Hanamichi jealous, and he was filled with jealousy, holding it in his chest.
On the court, offense and defense switch. Miuradai, whose defense had just been breached, began to organize an attack. The point difference between the two teams has now reached 16 points, but Miuradai's players are still quite calm and are not impatient when organizing attacks. The basketball is fully transmitted among the players and they quietly wait for offensive opportunities to appear.
It has to be said that although the strength of Miuradai's players is average, the mentality of these players is pretty good. Putting aside the small moves on the court, overall, Miuradai can barely be considered an excellent team.
Xiangbei High School adopts a zone defense tactic. The main purpose is to strengthen the defensive power inside and in the mid-range.
Miuradai's outside offensive ability is not strong, and Shohoku's shrinking defensive line play has a very obvious effect on Miuradai's offensive containment.
In the court, Sakuragi Hanamichi stood on the edge of the paint area near the free throw line. While observing the Miuradai defender holding the ball at the top of the arc, he looked at the black No. 4 player walking towards him with his peripheral vision, and took the initiative to leave. He stood at his original position and greeted him.
"Red-haired brat!" Miuradai's captain is third-year Kengo Murasame, who is 186cm tall and about the same height as Sakuragi Hanamichi.
However, in the previous series of offenses and defenses, Kengo Murasame suffered a big loss at the hands of Sakuragi.
Sakuragi Hanamichi's height and physical fitness are no worse than Murasame Kengo, and are even stronger than him. Moreover, Sakuragi has very good defensive vision, quick steps, and fairly rich experience in single defense, which greatly limits Kengo Murasame's performance.
In order to get rid of Sakuragi Hanamichi's defense, Murasame Kengo couldn't help but start making some small moves.
Only with the help of this little cleverness, Kengo Murasame helped the team barely gain a foothold. It was obvious that the strength of the two teams was very different, but the point difference was still not widened by more than 20 points.
However, the situation is still not optimistic for Miuradai. Murasame Kengo knows that he must do something more, otherwise, Miuradai will not be able to force out the main force of Shohoku High School.
That's right, when the game reaches this level, Kengo Murasame doesn't even expect the team to win.
He could only think about defeating Xianghoku High School when the game just started.
But now, this idea no longer exists in his mind. As long as they can force Jinguji Budo and Mitsui Hisashi and others to go down, it will be a great victory for their Miura Tai.
But Kengo Murasame knew that if he didn't do something now, it would be impossible to force Shohoku's main force off the field.
The red-haired first grader in front of me is an obstacle that must be cleared!
"Peng!" With a muffled sound, Murasame Kengo took the initiative to lean on Sakuragi Hanamichi's chest and raised his hand for the ball.
The next second, the basketball was lobbed and fell into Murasame Kengo's hands. Murasame Kengo quickly collected the ball, glanced slightly sideways at Sakuragi Hanamichi's position, dropped the ball directly and hit it with his back, leaning hard on his back. On Sakuragi Hanamichi's body.
"Peng!" There was another muffled sound. Murasame Kengo's back strike was very powerful, but Sakuragi Hanamichi on the defensive side was well prepared. His feet were rooted to the ground. He did not retreat at all under Murasame Kengo's back strike. Even one step.
Moreover, Sakuragi's defensive movements were quite clean, with his arms raised high, without any signs of active force.
"whispering sound!"
"This red-haired brat!" Murasame Kengo secretly gritted his teeth, no longer taking any chances. Although this was not his first confrontation with Sakuragi, he still wanted to try to see if he could rely on his own strength to break through Sakuragi Hanamichi's defense. Unfortunately, the power he was most proud of was not enough to shake Sakuragi Hanamichi. defense.
Kengo Murasame, who no longer took any chances, decisively turned around with the ball. As he turned around, the ball protector's elbow directly hit Sakuragi Hanamichi's waist.
This time, Murasame Kengo exerted 99% of his power, directly stopping Sakuragi Hanamichi's breathing and body.
However, because Kengo Murasame elbowed quickly and used his body to block the referee's sight when breaking through, this elbow was not seen by the referee at all.
The audience in the stands could no longer see such obscure actions.
"Hey!" Kengo Murasame easily broke through Sakuragi Hanamichi's defense and invaded the paint area. Nanxiang, who was located on both sides of the baseline paint area, was unable to defend in time, so he could only stand under the basket and raise his hands to barely interfere.
Kengo Murasame, who was close to the basket, forced the ball to the basket, and the basketball hit the board from the front of the basket and into the net.
"Well done Captain!"
"Nice shot, captain." When the Miuradai players saw Kengo Murasame scoring a goal, they all gathered around and praised.
Murasame Kengo was also very impressed by the compliments from the team members. He nodded with a smile, and at the same time put on the airs of a captain and said to the team members: "Don't give up! We still have a chance!" surrounded by the team members. , Murasame Kengo, who started to return to defense, did not notice at all that at this time, Sakuragi Hanamichi came silently behind him with a dark face.
"What... what is this kid doing?!" Sakuragi Hanamichi's abnormal behavior instantly attracted the attention of the referee and the audience in the stands, and everyone focused their attention on Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Kengo Murasame seemed to feel the slightest chill coming from his back, slowly slowed down and turned his head.
"Ah!" Murasame Kengo turned around and saw Sakuragi's gloomy face. He was startled and couldn't help but exclaimed. When he came to his senses, he immediately cursed with a guilty conscience: "Asshole! What are you going to do?!" Murasame Kengo was startled by Sakuragi's state, but when other Miuradai members gathered around, Murasame Kengo gained confidence and mocked: "Hey, hey, hey, what do you want to do?!"
"Hit me?!"
"Come on, do it! Do you know what kind of consequences it will have if you hit someone on the court?!"
"Whoosh, I guess, you are a member of Shobei! Your Jinguji Martial Arts in Shobei knows this very well."
"At that time, he... was suspended for hitting someone in a junior high school game. He only returned to the court in high school."
"Red-haired brat, do you want to imitate him?!"
"Come on, do it, do it!" Kengo Murasame said as he put Lian in front of Sakuragi.
Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was already angry, suddenly raised his head, and his scarlet eyes scared Murasame Kengo to take a step back.
Seeing that a conflict might break out, the referee on the sidelines rushed over immediately. Kiyota Nobunaga and others also noticed that something was wrong with Sakuragi Hanamichi's state, and they all came to Sakuragi's side.
Kiyota Nobunaga and Nango Koichiro, who had always quarreled with Sakuragi the most, grabbed Sakuragi's arms on the left and right for fear that Sakuragi Hanamichi would do something irrational.
Rukawa Kaede had no intention of stopping Sakuragi. He just stood beside his teammates and looked at the Miuradai players with cold eyes, looking ready to go.
"Sakuragi, don't be impulsive!" Oda Ryumasa, although he and Sakuragi can't play together, but they are teammates on the same team after all, he also comforted him at this moment.
"Xiangbei! Disperse quickly!"
"Keep playing!"
"Otherwise, I will give you a technical foul." The referee shouted anxiously at this moment. The referees on duty today are all experienced referees. They know very well that if conflicts between young players are not handled well, there will be consequences. Could cause big trouble.
"..." Unlike the tense court, Coach Anxi was not anxious at all when he saw this scene. He took a sip of tea and looked at the court from a distance.
Jinguji Budo and Mitsui Hisashi were just sitting on the bench, not in a hurry at all. The rest of the Xiangbei substitutes wanted to rush into the court, but seeing the state of Coach Anzai, Budao and others, they did not dare to act rashly.
"Coach Anxi, don't you need to worry about this?!" Caiko was a little worried and asked Coach Anxi, who was still there.
"Hoo ho ho."
"Don't worry, Ayako."
"Sakuragi... is already a mature player." Coach Anzai chuckled, his words full of confidence in Sakuragi.
"Huh..." The originally tense atmosphere in the stadium eased somewhat after Sakuragi Hanamichi breathed a heavy sigh of relief.
Sakuragi closed his eyes and was silent for a long time before opening them again. He looked doubtfully at Qingtian and Nanxiang, who were grabbing his arms from left to right, and asked in confusion: "What are you two doing here?! "
"Why don't you serve quickly?" Sakuragi's words made Kiyota Nobunaga and Nango stunned and looked at Sakuragi Hanamichi suspiciously.
When Kengo Murasame, who was standing opposite Sakuragi, saw this, he also
"Haha" laughed a few times, and quickly ran towards the backcourt without leaving Yingmu.
"Um?!"
"Referee, what are you doing?!" Sakuragi Hanamichi scratched his head, looked at the nervous referee suspiciously, and asked without knowing why.
When several referees saw Sakuragi looking like this, they looked at each other, and then the referee reminded: "Play the game well and don't have other ideas." Then he walked off the court with the other two referees. .
Seeing that the conflict did not seem to have happened, Qingtian and Nanxiang breathed a sigh of relief and went to the baseline to serve.
After everyone left, Sakuragi Hanamichi's expression became cold again. Looking at Murasame Kengo's leaving figure, he murmured: "Kill you!" The audience looked at the game in confusion as the game resumed. , don’t know what happened.
But for the audience, it doesn't matter what happened on the field. What matters is that the game continues.
In the backcourt, Nobunaga Kiyota quickly dribbled the ball across the center line. After approaching the top of the arc with the ball, Kiyota began to observe the positions of the players.
However, at this moment, he suddenly discovered that Sakuragi Hanamichi was actually standing in the middle distance, holding the basket and taking position.
Originally, Kiyota Nobunaga would definitely ignore Sakuragi Hanamichi who wanted the ball, but now... After what happened just now, Kiyota Nobunaga also knew that Sakuragi had a lot of anger accumulated in his heart. If he was not allowed to vent, , I’m afraid it will explode by then.
Therefore, Kiyota no longer thought too much and chose to hang the ball to Sakuragi Hanamichi.
"Very good!" As the basketball came into his hands, Sakuragi Hanamichi's expression brightened slightly and he quickly turned around to face the frame. As he expected, the one guarding him was Kengo Murasame of Miuradai.
"Nisuchi!" Sakuragi's eyes flashed fiercely as he took the ball. After a fake shot, he quickly broke through with the ball. However, Sakuragi's breakthrough was completely different from before.
As Sakuragi broke through, he took the initiative to exert force on his shoulders and pushed hard against Murasame Kengo's chest. With his speed, he could easily bypass Amamura's defense, but this time, Sakuragi took the initiative to seek confrontation.
A huge pressure came from his chest, Murasame Kengo's breath was stagnant, his eyes were wide-eyed, as if he couldn't believe that Sakuragi was so blatant.
After taking several steps back, Kengo Murasame regained his footing, but the pain in his chest still made him feel a little short of breath.
After Sakuragi broke through Murasame Kengo, he quickly rushed towards the basket, ignored the Miuradai players who were defending, and dunked the ball directly into the net.
The Miuradai player who tried to block his dunk was also knocked to the ground by Sakuragi's impact and came into close contact with the floor.
"Well..." Sakuragi Hanamichi's dunk with the ball shocked the audience, and then they burst into amazing cheers.
The referee looked at Kengo Murasame and the Miuradai player lying on the ground, but did not blow the whistle. Although Sakuragi Hanamichi's breakthrough movements were not clean, the series of movements from breakthrough to slam dunk were very smooth. The shoulder-sinking movement was not obvious. Although the referee saw it, it still fell into the category of being able to call or not call.
As for Sakuragi's dunk, not to mention it was very clean and a beautiful slam dunk. Sakuragi Hanamichi, who successfully scored with a dunk, fell back to the ground, glanced coldly at Kengo Murasame, and started to return to defense. His stern appearance stunned Nobunaga Kiyota who was about to come up to give him a high-five to celebrate.
"Red-haired monkey...what's wrong?!" Kiyota Nobunaga felt strange. According to his judgment of Sakuragi, Sakuragi's not blowing a kiss to the audience after scoring the goal was considered reserved. Unexpectedly, Sakuragi didn't say anything and just started to return?
Nanxiang was also very surprised. After looking at each other with Kiyota Nobunaga, he silently followed Sakuragi and started to return to defense.
Although they didn't know what happened to Sakuragi Hanamichi, they knew that Sakuragi Hanamichi seemed to be focusing on the game.
This is good news for them!
"Hoo ho ho ho!" Coach Anxi looked at Sakuragi Hanamichi's performance on the field and laughed happily. Although he looked calm on the surface, in fact, coach Anzai was really worried about Sakuragi in his heart.
"Really...mature."
"Well done, Sakuragi!" Budao looked at Sakuragi Hanamichi on the field and praised him secretly in his heart. He stretched out and adjusted to a comfortable position to watch the next game.
After Sakuragi regained his form, Miuradai completely lost hope of victory. Sakuragi Hanamichi, who focuses on the game, has shown unparalleled rebounding talent. His jumping, speed, and intuition for where the basketball will land are much better than others.
Sakuragi alone protected the sky in northern Hunan. On the offensive end, Sakuragi Hanamichi moved a lot and received two more fouls as the game progressed. However, Sakuragi also understood the referee's penalty scale. In the second half of the game, there was no offensive foul at all.
On the contrary, Murasame Kengo, who was defending him, was turned into a sieve by Sakuragi. Sakuragi's breakthrough method is somewhat similar to Shinomiya's breakthrough method. At the same time, he is accustomed to using the digging steps learned from martial arts. Sakuragi combines his strength and speed very well, making every breakthrough of his change. Too hard to resist.
Under Sakuragi Hanamichi's venting attack, Miuradai collapsed completely. As the game came to an end, Shohoku High School crushed Miuradai with 121:57 and successfully advanced to the top four.
Kaede Rukawa scored a terrifying 48 points in a single game in her high school debut today, while Hanamichi Sakuragi scored 26 points, which was second on the team.
The rest of the players also scored in double figures. In the eight-to-four competition, this group of first-year students from Xiangbei High School showed strength that shocked everyone.
“In the first game, I played pretty well.”
"We guys finally have...qualified substitutes!"........................ ...........
