The score difference came to 5 points, and the ball returned to the hands of Shohoku High School.
At this moment, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Xiangbei's playing style has changed dramatically compared to the past. Although Shohoku is currently lagging behind, no one feels that there is a problem with Shohoku High School.
On the contrary, everyone's first feeling when they saw Xiangbei playing like this was that Xiangbei's style of play finally started to make sense.
Although Jinguji Budo realized that Rukawa Kaede was weakening his ball rights, Budo did not stop Rukawa Kaede, nor did he try to use his own strength to correct Rukawa Kaede.
In Budo's view, it is a good thing for him that Rukawa Kaede is playing like this now. It shows that the lone wolf in this junior high school era has truly begun to integrate into the team. This also means that Rukawa Kaede is adapting to the role of point guard.
As for whether the reduction in ball rights has any impact on martial arts? Of course there is no such thing. The status of Jinguji Martial Arts in Shohoku High School cannot change just because of a game.
Moreover, it is actually very easy for Shohoku to abandon Rukawa Kaede's style of play. All they need to do is replace Ryota Miyagi on the court, and Shohoku will naturally return to the star basketball it was before.
The triangle offense that Coach Anzai arranged before the game obviously had no effect at this time, and the Shohoku players on the field did not play the game according to the triangle offense.
Not long after, Rukawa Kaede dribbled into the frontcourt. Rukawa Kaede, who was approaching the top of the arc with the ball, did not choose to release the ball immediately. After briefly observing the Sanno Industrial defensive formation, Rukawa Kaede played a pick-and-roll towards the inside player. gesture.
Seeing Rukawa Kaede calling for a pick-and-roll, Sakuragi Hanamichi lifted him up to cover Rukawa Kaede.
Although Sakuragi Hanamichi disliked Rukawa Kaede very much in his heart, his body was still very honest. The reason why he will cover Rukawa Kaede is also very simple, that is, sometimes Rukawa Kaede will pass the ball back to Sakuragi Hanamichi after breaking through with the ball.
Let Sakuragi Hanamichi have an open shot.
Rather than waiting for rebounds to appear at the basket, Sakuragi Hanamichi still hopes that he can participate in the team's offense. Compared with defense, Sakuragi Hanamichi is more eager to score and attack.
Although Rukawa Kaede may only pass the ball to Sakuragi once in three breakthroughs, Sakuragi Hanamichi will try to fight for it whenever possible.
And Rukawa Kaede obviously caught Sakuragi Hanamichi's psychological weakness and always called pick-and-rolls as a matter of course. Sometimes when Akagi sees Rukawa Kaede calling for cover, Sakuragi actively rushes forward before he even starts to move.
"These two people can actually work together harmoniously."
"It really opened my eyes."
Jinguji Budo watched Rukawa Kaede use Sakuragi Hanamichi's pick and roll to quickly drop the ball and rush forward, while Fukatsu Kazunari was half behind Rukawa Kaede when he bypassed Sakuragi's pick and roll. However, Nobe Masahiro, who was originally defending Sakuragi Hanamichi, immediately chose to get closer when Rukawa Kaede broke through.
The high position Sakuragi Hanamichi was shorted.
Although the opportunity to attack the basket was not very good, Rukawa Kaede still started to speed up and quickly approached the basket. Kawada Masashi under the basket didn't move when he saw Rukawa Kaede attacking the basket. He just looked at Rukawa Kaede coldly. He believed in the abilities of Nobe and Fukatsu. His teammates could block Rukawa Kaede's attack without him taking action!
Sure enough, when Rukawa Kaede's ball took off, Fukatsu Kazunari had successfully arrived at his side, stretched out his hand to hit the basketball in Rukawa Kaede's hand, and Nobe Masahiro also jumped with Rukawa Kaede's ball, and suddenly He jumped up and locked his hands in front of Rukawa Kaede, trying to block Rukawa Kaede's layup.
Rukawa Kaede, who was in mid-air, turned his head and quickly looked at Hisashi Mitsui in the bottom corner, but with both hands, he grabbed the ball and passed it behind him.
Passing the ball without looking at anyone, he accurately delivered the ball to Hanamichi Sakuragi, who was open at this time.
"I'm coming!"
"This genius is just waiting for this opportunity!"
Taking possession of the basketball, Sakuragi Hanamichi roared excitedly, bent his knees slightly, and then threw the ball directly.
"Dang~~" The basketball flying toward the basket hit the edge of the front frame, bounced back along the way, and fell back into Sakuragi Hanamichi's hands.
"..."
The basketball bounced into his hand, Sakuragi Hanamichi swiped angrily, but his face turned blue and purple, and he didn't look very happy.
With a slight sigh of relief, Sakuragi raised the ball to shoot again.
"feels good!"
Sakuragi murmured softly, and his face became more serious, but the moment the basketball was released, Masashi Kawada's defense was in place. He jumped up and slapped the basketball, blocking the ball.
"Ahhhh!" The basketball was covered by Masashi Kawada. Sakuragi looked at the basketball flying out of his ear and shouted in annoyance.
"I will definitely score this goal!"
"Damn ape-man, how dare you interfere with me!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi turned around and ran towards the basketball, muttering incessantly and cursing Kawada Masashi.
However, when Sakuragi ran to the basketball, he suddenly found that someone had caught the basketball. He raised his head slightly and happened to see the face of Jinguji Budo.
"..." Sakuragi opened his mouth, said nothing more, and hurriedly cut to the inside, muttering: "What bad luck, the martial arts brother actually picked up the ball."
"I still had a chance to attack."
Budo ignored Sakuragi who cut inside. After picking up the basketball, he took the ball and wandered to the three-point line, not in a hurry to attack.
The score difference between the two teams came to 5 points. Although Rukawa Kaede's sudden score was very reasonable, Shohoku's overall offensive efficiency was very low.
Although Sakuragi Hanamichi today has certain offensive capabilities, it is still a bit reluctant for him to shoot high mid-range shots. Sakuragi's shooting percentage in the high position is probably only 30%. It can only be said that he has the ability to shoot, but it is too early to use it as a conventional weapon.
Akagi under the basket was also able to receive Rukawa Kaede's pass, but under Masashi Kawada's defense, Akagi's basketball shooting percentage was only 50%.
On this court, apart from Jinguji Martial Arts, the most efficient player is not Rukawa Kaede, but Mitsui Hisashi who is facing off against Matsumoto Minoru. It's just that Matsumoto himself seems to realize that he is no match for Hisashi Mitsui in a head-on confrontation, so he doesn't control his physical consumption when defending, and uses death entanglement to reduce Hisashi Mitsui's chances of catching the ball.
This also led to Rukawa Kaede often not choosing Mitsui Hisashi who was the most guarded when he suddenly broke out.
As for martial arts, the situation is similar to Hisashi Mitsui. Zebita Eiji didn't dare to leave Jinguji Budo's side for a moment. He didn't even think about using sudden points to attract the opponent's attention and then passing the ball to Budo.
The only way to successfully give the ball to Martial Arts is when he has just entered the frontcourt with the ball.
"The point difference cannot continue to widen."
"Five points is already a lot."
Budao glanced at the scoreboard with his peripheral vision and thought to himself. And the rhythm of his dribbling also began to change. His body was slightly shorter, and he dribbled with his hips. The basketball was switched to his left hand, and his right hand guard directly pressed against Eiji Sawabita's body. After a blast of the ball, Martial Arts Directly accelerate the breakthrough.
The power of Jinguji Budo is very strong, far surpassing that of Eiji Zebei. His right hand guard is pressed against Zebei's body, making it impossible for Zebei to get too close to him.
When approaching the free throw line, Jinguji Budo still did not change his posture, but after dribbling, he directly grabbed the basketball with his left hand and combined the ball with one hand.
After two steps, Jinguji Budo went directly to the basket and jumped up. The terrifying bounce made Jinguji Budo's left hand catch the ball several times higher than Kawada Masashi who jumped on the spot. Ten centimeters away, in front of Kawada Masashi, Jinguji Budo picked the ball and sent it directly into the basket.
The easy layup directly added two points to the scoreboard of Shohoku High School.
The audience on the sidelines burst into amazing cheers as Jinguji Budo scored the ball.
Rukawa Kaede was standing on the side of the basket, looking solemnly at Jinguji Budo who was about to return to defense, without saying a word.
It was too easy for Jinguji Martial Arts to score in front of Sanno. This made Rukawa Kaede begin to doubt whether his playing style was helpful to Shohoku.
Maybe....just giving the ball to Jinguji Budo in singles will make the game a lot easier? !
Reasonable handling of the ball may not be more effective than the star's style of play? At the beginning of the first half, Shohoku relied on Jinguji Budo's personal strength to lead the opponent by 6 points. However, when Rukawa Kaede handled the ball reasonably, this advantage was quickly wiped out. Now Sanno is leading by 3 points. point.
If the opponent's blocked ball hadn't happened to be picked up by Jinguji Budo, the score difference would have become 7 points at this moment.
With this thought in his mind, Rukawa Kaede lowered his head and remained silent. His mood seemed a little low, and he followed the footsteps of Jinguji Martial Arts' departure and began to return to defense.
After completing the positioning, Budao was keenly aware of Rukawa Kaede's mood. After all, Rukawa Kaede's dejected look was too conspicuous.
Before the mountain king's attack came, he couldn't help but remind him:
"Rukawa, what's wrong? Are you confused?"
"You feel like I'm scoring too easily? Are you thinking about giving me the ball and letting me play in singles?"
"Don't."
"You played very well. You are actually very talented at the point guard position."
"You can't play with me forever, just do what you think is right."
"Reasonable or not, as long as we can win, it doesn't matter!"
"How do you think you can win, just play like this."
Martial Arts smiled and enlightened, saying that he actually approved of these attempts made by Rukawa Kaede. Although it seems that the effect is not that good at the moment, it is just because Budo feels good today. If Budo feels bad and Rukawa Kaede only knows how to pass the ball to the ace, then Shohoku's loss is really certain.
Rukawa Kaede's attempts have more advantages than disadvantages for the team and himself.
Wu Dao's words made Rukawa Kaede firm up. He himself was not the kind of weak-willed person. Wu Dao's words only accelerated his determination to firm up his thoughts.
Sanno Industrial's attack came, the morale of the Shohoku side was high, and every player on the field was very active in defense. After Kazunari Fukatsu tried a one-on-one breakthrough, he gave up decisively and lobbed the ball to Masashi Kawada inside.
Masashi Kawada, who received the ball inside, was immediately double-teamed by Hisashi Mitsui and Takenori Akagi. Masashi Kawada, who had no shot, could only pass the ball to Minoru Matsumoto.
The latter took a mid-range shot near the baseline. Shooting from a 0-degree angle is not easy. Even though it was open, Minoru Matsumoto still failed to seize this open opportunity.
The basketball fell out of the basket, and Sakuragi Hanamichi grabbed the rebound. His explosive power is much stronger than Masahiro Nobe's, and Sakuragi on the defensive side was in a better position than Nobe from the beginning, so it was natural to get defensive rebounds.
"Stay calm, don't play fast break!"
After Sakuragi got the rebound, he wanted to throw the ball forward, but at this moment, the Shohoku players off the court shouted.
Sakuragi's movements froze and he held the ball in his arms. After the Sanno players left and returned to defense, he passed the ball to Rukawa Kaede who came up to respond.
At this time, Jinguji Budo had already reached Sanno's half, and he was the one who just planned to make a fast break...
Although Sanno's Zebei and Fukatsu noticed the martial arts in advance and caught up with the martial arts, the martial arts was absolutely one-on-two in the frontcourt, and he had a huge advantage.
Unexpectedly, Rukawa Kaede's reasonable playing style had affected the other Shohoku players and stopped Sakuragi from passing the ball.
Seeing that Shohoku did not pass the ball to Jinguji Budō, Kazunari Fukatsu and Eiji Sawabita, who were standing in front of Budō, both breathed a sigh of relief. Fukatsu also walked away from Budo and walked towards Rukawa Kaede who entered the frontcourt with the ball.
"Shobei, you missed the opportunity to counterattack! Jinguji Temple martial arts are already in place."
"....What a bullshit opportunity, didn't you see that two of Sanwang's men have already returned to the defense?"
"What are you talking about?! It's not easy to defeat those two people with Jinguji martial arts?!"
"Easy? What's easy?! Isn't it easier to stabilize your position than to go one versus two in the frontcourt?"
Shohoku High School's handling of the offensive end in this round got the audience talking in the stands. Many spectators of today's game are Shohoku fans, and most of the fans who like Shohoku High School know Jinguji Martial Arts and have watched Jinguji Martial Arts matches.
One against two in the frontcourt, if that one is Jinguji Martial Arts, it is really an advantage... Many viewers who are familiar with Jinguji Martial Arts already have a consensus on this.
But for another part of the audience, this is not the case. They only know that one against two is risky, so they must slow down the rhythm and make the position more stable.
The Shohoku players on the field had no time to listen to the comments from the audience in the stands. Everyone's attention was now on Rukawa Kaede.
This kid is very good at passing the ball. If his teammates don't pay attention, they may miss Rukawa Kaede's pass.
Jinguji Budo was still standing in the corner, with his back to Zebei and reaching out for the ball. While Zebei pressed his arm against Budo's back, he kept glancing in the direction of Rukawa Kaede with his peripheral vision, ready to make a move.
"This kid will most likely not pass the ball to Jinguji Budo. He should call a pick-and-roll breakout."
"When the time comes, I'll double-team you and I should be able to steal easily!"
"They shouldn't have imagined that I would dare to let go of Jinguji Martial Arts!"
Zebei was planning in his mind, but suddenly a red light appeared in his peripheral vision, and the basketball fell directly into the hands of Jinguji Budo. Jinguji Budo, who had his back to Eiji Sawabita a second ago, quickly turned around and swept the ball the moment he got the ball. Without waiting for Eiji Sawabita to react, he directly raised his hand and shot a three-pointer.
"!
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Zebei was shocked and turned to look at the basket. He happened to see the basketball falling steadily into the net with a crisp sound.
36:36.
Sanno Industrial only made one mistake, and the 5-point difference was instantly wiped out by Shohoku High School.
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