Three minutes into the second half of the match between Lingnan High School and Xianghoku High School, the score between the two teams reached 63:58, and the point difference expanded to five points.
Xiangbei High School's defensive strategy against Lingnan High School can be seen from the current score. It can be declared a complete failure.
Since Shohoku High School changed its offensive strategy and established Rukawa Kaede's main offensive position, Shohoku's scoring efficiency has obviously been left behind by Lingnan High School.
Seeing that the point difference between the two teams had been widened to five points by the opponent, Jinguji Budo also knew that the team could never continue to play as coach Anzai said.
Lingnan High School is different from the opponents they have encountered in the past in northern Hunan. Facing such a strong enemy, if you are not careful, the opponent will seize the opportunity.
If they were facing an ordinary team, Shohoku could let Rukawa Kaede play for seven, eight or ten minutes without worrying about the team losing.
But Lingnan is different.
The three minutes that Rukawa Kaede led the attack had already given Lingnan a considerable advantage. If Rukawa Kaede were allowed to continue fighting like this, it would be impossible for them, Xiangbei, to complete the overtake.
During the transition between offense and defense, Jinguji Budo's expression was already different from before. When Rukawa Kaede received Akagi's pass and advanced towards the frontcourt, Jinguji Budo trotted to Rukawa Kaede's side and headed towards Rukawa Kaede said:
"Rukawa Kaede, although during the halftime break, Coach Anzai did say that you should lead the offense."
"But our current situation in Xiangbei no longer allows you to play freely."
"Stop choosing unintended moments to attack. Every attack you want to execute must be more than eight points certain before you attack."
Saying that, Jinguji Budo quickened his pace and quickly passed Rukawa Kaede.
Rukawa Kaede's body visibly froze after hearing Jinguji Budo's words, but when he dropped the ball again and moved forward, he had already recovered.
After glancing at Jinguji Budo who quickly entered the frontcourt, Rukawa Kaede turned his head and looked at the scoreboard on the sidelines.
After a quick glance at the score on the scoreboard, Rukawa Kaede accelerated his pace and quickly crossed the center line and came to the frontcourt.
Kenji Fujima had already quickly moved up when Rukawa Kaede came forward with the ball.
Like the previous defensive method, Fujima planned to use this kind of close defense to give himself sufficient defensive depth.
His position against Rukawa Kaede was almost three meters away from Lingnan's three-point line.
In this position, even if Rukawa Kaede breaks through Fujima, Fujima can make up for it before Rukawa Kaede enters the three-point line. Although Rukawa Kaede has the ability to shoot three-pointers, even if he breaks through Fujima's defense, he still has no way to shoot offense from outside the three-point line.
Because the other two outside players from Lingnan High School will take over immediately when Rukawa Kaede breaks through.
"First grade, are you going to change your style of play?!"
"Did he, Jinguji Martial Arts, say anything to you?"
"Actually, we have anticipated your Xiangbei plan from the beginning of the second half."
"It's just that we thought the main attacker would be Mitsui Hisashi, but we didn't expect that it would be you, a first-year student."
"But it's a good thing you are a first-year student. Otherwise, we in Lingnan would really be in trouble."
When Kenji Fujima spoke, his body leaned directly on Rukawa Kaede, raising his hands flat to interfere with Rukawa Kaede's dribbling movements.
Kenji Fujima, who has always been known as a "pretty boy", has an unusually gentle tone when talking trash. However, this kind of calmness and gentleness are equally lethal to Rukawa Kaede.
After all, he is a first-year young man. Although Rukawa Kaede is not a single-celled person like Sakuragi Hanamichi, Rukawa Kaede's pride also makes him often choose to use practical actions to prove his abilities when faced with provocations!
"Change your style of play?! Why should I change my style of play?!"
"Don't act like you know me well!"
Rukawa Kaede whispered softly, and while speaking, he quickly changed the direction of his hips, and then used his right hand as a ball protector to directly hit Fujima's body, quickly accelerating the breakthrough.
Rukawa Kaede's physique is quite good, especially when facing Fujima, his advantages are fully demonstrated.
After quickly passing through Fujima Kenji's defense, Rukawa Kaede also quickly approached the three-point line.
Seeing this scene, Mitsui Hisashi's expression immediately condensed. He ignored Rukawa Kaede and sank directly towards the bottom corner on the left side of the court.
After seeing Mitsui Hisashi's movements, Sendō Akira did not immediately choose to fill Fujima's position. Instead, he followed Mitsui Hisashi and sank to the bottom corner.
However, after Sendō left, Sendō gave Hanagata a wink on the inside. After receiving Sendō's signal, Hanagata immediately moved to the free throw line, preparing to deal with Rukawa Kaede who might directly hit the basket.
On the other hand, Shinomiya Tano, who was on the right side of the three-point line, saw Rukawa Kaede's breakthrough and didn't make any reaction. He just took a slight step forward and stuck in front of Jinguji Budo.
Due to Hanagata's promotion, the two players on Lingnan's outside line simultaneously chose to let Chuan Feng enter the inside line.
"It's the pocket that Lingnan deliberately put out."
"Rukawa Kaede, don't rush in without a plan!" Jinguji Budo immediately understood the opponent's intention when he saw the position of Lingnan High School.
After taking two steps back, Jinguji Budo tried to create a gap between Shinomiya and Tanoh so that he could catch the ball. Unexpectedly, Shinomiya refused to relax even for a moment and directly touched the ball with his back foot.
Helpless, Jinguji Budo could only start quickly and sink towards the bottom corner. After successfully driving Shinomiya's running, he ran in the opposite direction and prepared to catch the ball outside the three-point line.
At the same time, Rukawa Kaede quickly dribbled the ball close to the three-point line after breaking through Fujima Kenji's defense. When Fujima Kenji's defense came around again, Rukawa Kaede changed direction after stepping down and passed the ball with his backhand. It turned sideways and returned to the hands of Jinguji Budo outside the three-point line.
"Um?!"
"Sure enough, the style of play has changed!"
Fujima Kenji let out a sigh in his heart and quickly turned his head to look at Jinguji Martial Arts.
At this moment, Rukawa Kaede had already quickly passed through Fujima and cut into the inside. Rukawa Kaede's movements naturally attracted Hanagata Toru's attention. Hanagata, who was standing in the middle distance, quickly chased Rukawa Kaede with Fujima.
Jinguji Budo caught the ball on the outside, looked up at Nango Koichiro who was in the open position inside, turned slightly to one side, took the ball with both hands and was about to pass the ball inside.
And Shinomiya Tanano, who saw Jinguji's martial arts moves, immediately turned sideways and blocked the martial arts, guarding against Jinguji's martial arts Denkora.
However, the next second after Shinomiya took action, Jinguji Budo immediately dropped the ball, took a step laterally, and made a pull-up jumper thirty centimeters away from the three-point line.
"Fake action!"
Shinomiya was already a little late when he reacted. Jinguji Martial Arts' height, wingspan, and jumping are quite outstanding. When defending Jinguji Martial Arts, if he didn't follow up immediately, he would basically be defensive. The projection of the martial arts of Jinguji Temple cannot be lived.
"Uh-huh!"
The basketball flew directly over half of the court and fell directly into the net.
The clear squeaking sound of the basketball hitting the net caused the audience in the stands to burst into amazing cheers.
As Jinguji Budo made a three-pointer into the net, the score reached 63:61, and the point difference narrowed to 2 points.
On the sidelines of the court, Aida Hiko shouted "unbelievable~~~" when he saw Jinguji Budo's three-pointer. That exaggerated tongue snap made Coach Tagoka frown.
He couldn't help but scolded: "Yan Yi, shut up!"
"That's our enemy!"
After being yelled by Coach Tagoka, Aida Hikoichi became quieter, but his face still looked shocked. At the same time, he turned over the notebook in his hand and exclaimed: "I really can't believe it. Jinguji Martial Arts actually scored another goal!"
"He's had six three-pointers from the first half to now."
"Coach, the hit rate of Jinguji Martial Arts is 100%!!"
Aida Hikoichi's words caused Coach Tagoka's expression to change slightly. He quickly turned his head to look at Aida Hikoichi. He snatched the booklet from Aida Hikoichi's hand. When he saw the data recorded by Aida Hikoichi, his expression also changed slightly. Startled.
"As expected."
Coach Taoka has never paid attention to the real-time hit rate of Jinguji Martial Arts, because in his impression, Jinguji Martial Arts’ offensive efficiency has always been very high, but he has no idea that today, Jinguji Martial Arts His performance on the field was actually so good.
You know, the opponent that Jinguji Martial Arts faces is not just a cat or a dog, but the strongest player in Lingnan!
Just as Coach Taoka and Aida Hikoichi were communicating, the Lingnan players on the court had quickly launched a counterattack.
Lingnan's team members also felt that Jinguji Martial Arts seemed to be preparing to use force, so they were more cautious in this attack.
After Fujima dribbled the ball into the frontcourt, he signaled Shinomiya to step forward to pick and roll. With the help of his teammates' pick and roll, Fujima quickly dropped the ball to break through. However, after encountering Rukawa Kaede's pursuit, Fujima also quickly passed the ball back. To the Shinomiya field.
On Shohoku's side, the defensive strategy has also changed. Jinguji Budou and Nango Koichiro, who were originally guarding the inside, switched their defensive positions. Nango returned to his familiar power forward position, responsible for facing Shinomiya's players. It became martial arts.
And just after Shinomiya Tano got the basketball, Fujima and Sendō on the side moved towards Jinguji Budo in a tacit understanding, and actually created a two-way pick-and-roll for Shinomiya Tōno.
With the help of his teammates, Shinomiya broke through quickly and directly crossed the three-point line and invaded the basket.
When faced with Nango Koichiro's defense, Shinomiya did not dodge at all. He jumped up more than one meter away from the basket and slid toward the basket with the ball in one hand.
In mid-air, Shinomiya's body collided with Nango's body, but Shinomiya's body remained unchanged. He lowered the basketball in his hand and easily avoided Nango's defense. He smashed the ball directly into the basket.
The astonishing lever dunk silenced the originally noisy venue. After a few seconds of silence, warm cheers erupted in the arena.
After being buckled, Nango Koichiro looked at Shinomiya Fields stupidly, his mind in a state of confusion.
He didn't even realize what happened. Did Shinomiya just pull the lever and dunk the ball into the basket after a physical confrontation with him? !
Shaking his head, Nango Koichiro wanted to expel such outrageous thoughts from his mind. However, as his mind gradually became clearer, he realized that what just happened was true.
"Is Shinomiya Tōno such a scary guy?"
"After he enters the paint area, is it really possible to guard him?"
At the moment when Nango Koichiro stood in a daze, the basketball was sent from the bottom line and into the hands of Rukawa Kaede. After receiving the ball, Rukawa Kaede quickly ran towards the frontcourt. After seeing Rukawa Kaede walking with the ball, Nango Koichiro finally returned his attention to the court, raised his steps and headed forward. Run away.
After dribbling the ball into the frontcourt, Rukawa Kaede waited for his teammates to enter the frontcourt, quickly passed the ball to Jinguji Budo, and then quickly cut through and ran to the inside.
This time, Rukawa Kaede's running still successfully attracted Hanagata's attention, and he ran towards Rukawa Kaede.
Lingnan High School has also realized one thing, that is, when Rukawa Kaede enters the position within the three-point line, Fujima Kenji has no way to guard Rukawa Kaede. They need to make corresponding actions based on Rukawa Kaede's movement. Change.
Jinguji Budo, who was holding the ball on the outside, looked at Nango Koichiro who was in the open position, grabbed the ball with both hands and was about to pass the ball towards Nango.
But this time, Shinomiya Tano did not choose to move laterally to intercept. He was afraid that this was another fake move by Jinguji martial arts.
But this time, Jinguji Budo really passed the ball. The basketball flew out quickly and was directly passed to Nango Koichiro under the basket. The latter received the ball, turned sideways and shot directly for a layup. The ball went into the basket.
Jun Uozumi on the other side of the basket wanted to defend when he saw Nango receiving the ball, but his movement speed was a bit slow and he was a step too late. By the time he reached Nango, the basketball had already fallen into the net. Got it.
"Didn't this guy attack by himself?"
Shinomiya turned his head and saw the first-year student from Shohoku sending the ball into the net. He raised his eyebrows and looked back at Miyadera Budo.
At this time, Jinguji Martial Arts had already begun to return to defense.
In the next game, Jinguji Budo naturally took over the team's main offensive task. Although coach Anxi said during the halftime break that Rukawa Kaede should be the main attacker.
But on the court, Jinguji Budo subtly took over the ball.
However, he is different from Rukawa Kaede before. In the second half, Jinguji Budo reduced his shots, and most of the time he just conducted them.
But the seemingly ordinary conduct of Jinguji Martial Arts easily tore through the defense line of Lingnan High School.
Rukawa Kaede's air cut caused Lingnan High School's defense to have a lot of problems. Moreover, Lingnan High School was unable to contain Rukawa Kaede who cut into the middle distance in a short period of time, and there was no way to make up for the loopholes in its own team.
The scores of the two teams rose rapidly as the two teams went back and forth, but the point difference remained within 5 points.
The game became extremely close.
(End of chapter)
