There was a full minute left before the end of the game, and the team was three points behind its opponent.
If the basketball was in your hands at this time, how would you choose to attack?
Does it cost two points to play steadily? Or risk your life to shoot a three-pointer?
On the court at this time, Fujima Kenji of Lingnan High School was thinking about this problem. Jun Uozumi had already picked up the basketball and headed to the baseline, leaving Fujima only a few seconds to think. When the basketball fell into Fujima's hands, Fujima needed to make a decision.
"Fujima! Give me the ball!"
The role of the ace is the person who makes decisions on the court when the team faces a choice.
Just as Kenji Fujima was in a dilemma, Shinomiya's voice came from behind Fujima. Without looking back at Shinomiya, when the basketball came out of Uozumi Jun's hand, Fujima already knew what he should do.
Kenji Fujima received the serve in the backcourt without any pause at all. After getting the basketball, he quickly passed the ball to Shinomiya Tanano who was jogging towards the midline.
At this point in the game, Shinomiya no longer needs his teammates to help him bring the ball into the frontcourt. At this time, Shinomiya only believes in his own ability!
Starting with the basketball, Shinomiya dropped the ball quickly and accelerated, and in the blink of an eye he was in front of Jinguji Budo.
Shinomiya Tanano paused outside the three-point line, shuffled and feinted with the ball, his eyes fixed on the position at Jinguji Martial Arts' feet, and when he moved sideways to mobilize Jinguji Martial Arts' defense, Shinomiya Tanos caught it There is a gap for Martial Arts to adjust its steps.
Directly accelerating the falling ball to break through, at the same time, Shinomiya's ball protector also pressed against Budō's lower abdomen. The huge force pushed Jinguji Budō away from the place, allowing Jinguji who was already in the process of adjusting his steps. Martial Arts was instantly off balance, and he stumbled back a few steps before regaining his balance.
Shinomiya Tanano, who quickly passed Jinguji Martial Arts, did not let down his guard. He knew that such a breakthrough movement would never be able to completely pass Jinguji Martial Arts.
The result was indeed as Shinomiya expected. Jinguji Budo quickly regained his footing, then turned around and quickly caught up with the attacking Shinomiya. At this time, Shinomiya had just crossed the three-point line. Just over one meter away.
When Budo caught up with the advancing Shinomiya, the Lingnan players on the sidelines couldn't help but exclaimed. The impatient Aida Hikoichi even shouted loudly at this moment, reminding Shinomiya that he was coming from behind. Threat: "Senior Shinomiya, behind you!"
"Catching up!"
Shinomiya, who was rushing forward, had no interest in looking back at all. After quickly attacking the basket, Shinomiya grabbed the ball with both hands, paused, looked at the basket and bent his knees slightly. His movement instantly attracted the attention of Takenori Akagi and Takenori Akagi who were on defense. They both jumped up and sealed the top of Shinomiya's head.
And the moment after Takenori Akagi took off, Shinomiya, who was stuck in the rhythm of the ball, jumped up, his body directly pressed against Takenori Akagi's body, and he grabbed the ball with both arms and actively moved towards Takenori Akagi's body. He leaned on his arm.
"Akagi, don't foul!"
Jinguji Budo noticed Shinomiya's intention and quickly reminded Akagi, and the hand that hit the basketball in Shinomiya's hand quickly stopped.
At this time, even martial arts would not dare to bet on whether his attack would be able to block Shinomiya's attack or result in a foul.
And Takenori Akagi has suffered such a loss a long time ago. When Shinomiya attacked the basket, he tried hard to suppress the action of pressing his wrist to block the shot.
After hitting Takenori Akagi in mid-air, Shinomiya seemed to have lost his balance. His body quickly fell sideways and fell to the ground. However, the basketball in his hand fell directly from Takenori Akagi's armpit in this posture. Hooked toward the basket.
"Snapped!"
The basketball rotated from bottom to top and rubbed against the backboard. The next second, the basketball spun directly upward. In the blink of an eye, it was directly above the basket, and then fell steadily into the net.
The basketball entered the net, and Shinomiya Tano also fell back to the ground. However, he seemed to be unbalanced in the air. He did not stand firm after landing. He took a step sideways and fell directly to the ground, making a muffled "bang" sound.
At this time, none of the Xiangbei players looked at the basketball falling from the net. They all turned to look at the referee at the bottom line.
The referee shouted the whistle and signaled that the goal was valid, but the whistle was not blown.
This also made all the team members in Xiangbei breathe a sigh of relief.
"Full-court press!"
"Go up and double-team, don't let Jinguji Budo get the basketball."
Just when Takenori Akagi picked up the basketball and walked to the baseline with great joy, coach Taoka on the sidelines immediately jumped up from his seat and shouted towards the court.
Shinomiya Tōdō, who failed in the "Porcelain Touch", also quickly climbed up from the floor, without any help at all, and went directly towards Jinguji Martial Arts.
"You guys, are you going to stop pretending?"
"Why don't you lie down on the ground for a while?"
Budo tried to break away from Shinomiya's defense while running around, while taunting the opponent.
"If the referee blows it, I don't mind lying down a little longer."
At this point in the game, Shinomiya's mentality was also very relaxed. Faced with Jinguji Budo's ridicule, he was not angry. He just pressed his hands against Budo's chest and followed closely when Budo moved, not giving him any chance. excess gaps.
"It's very sticky and won't come off easily."
Martial Arts' heart sank. Seeing Takenori Akagi grabbing the ball with both hands and looking at a loss, he immediately shouted to Akagi:
"Pass to Rukawa Kaede, lob!"
While Budo was speaking, Takenori Akagi had already thrown the ball away.
There was no problem with Wu Dao's judgment. Lingnan High School's full-court press was not as effective as expected for Xiangbei High School.
The height difference between the point guards will be the key to Xiangbei breaking the game.
The basketball flew out of Akagi's hands and was thrown towards the direction where Rukawa Kaede and Fujima Kenji were. Rukawa Kaede looked up at the falling basketball, easily caught Fujima Kenji with one hand, and then jumped lightly and directly threw the ball. Into the hand.
The moment he grabbed the ball and landed on the ground, Kenji Fujima came directly in front of Rukawa Kaede, reached out and slapped the basketball in Rukawa Kaede's hand from bottom to top.
Players are often the most relaxed when they have the ball.
But that's for rookies, and Rukawa Kaede is not that kind of rookie.
Quickly raising the ball over his head, Rukawa Kaede avoided Fujima's steal, quickly dropped the ball sideways, accelerated the breakthrough, and instantly passed Fujima.
"Quick attack!"
"No need to press time!"
"Fight if you get the chance!"
When Mitsui Hisashi saw Rukawa Kaede successfully passing Fujima Kenji and breaking through, he hurriedly ran to the frontcourt and shouted loudly at the same time.
After being reminded by Hisashi Mitsui, Rukawa Kaede, who was advancing quickly with the ball, also quickly looked at the direction of Hisashi Mitsui and threw the ball directly.
Sendō Akira saw Rukawa Kaede passing the ball towards this side. He just wanted to speed up and pass Mitsui Hisashi but was blocked by Mitsui Hisashi. He lost his speed and saw the basketball being held by Mitsui Hisashi.
Although Hisashi Mitsui's physical fitness is somewhat worse than Sendō's, his competition experience is enough to make up for such physical deficiencies.
Mitsui Hisashi took the ball and quickly entered the frontcourt. When he approached the three-point line, Jinguji Budo and Shinomiya Tanano had already entered the Lingnan basket one after another.
Budo had no intention of stopping to catch the ball from the outside. He pointed directly to the basket with his right hand, signaling Mitsui Hisashi to pass the ball.
Seeing this scene, Hisashi Mitsui did not hesitate and threw the ball directly towards the basket. The basketball instantly reached the sky above Budo and Shinomiya.
"Do you want to decide the winner with me at this time?!"
"Jinguji martial arts, aerial combat, I will never lose to anyone!"
Shinomiya looked at the basketball in the sky, and all the muscles in his body began to tighten. Soon, Jinguji Budō, who was approaching the basket, jumped up, grabbed the basketball with his right hand, and followed closely behind Budō Shinomiya Tano also took off at almost the same time, without catching the ball, and directly planned to press the ball.
The reason is not to give Jinguji Budo a chance to dunk in the air.
Jinguji Budo was also obviously aware of Shinomiya's movements. After grabbing the ball with one hand, he quickly put the ball in his arms and dropped it back to the ground. At this time, he was less than one meter away from the basket.
Jinguji Budo, who landed the ball, raised the ball with both hands and feinted, and then directly pushed his body against Shinomiya's body. While fighting with his body, Jinguji Budo also quickly threw the ball with a small hook.
The basketball hit the board directly into the net and made a crisp sound.
At 102:99, the score difference was still three points, and there were only 38 seconds left.
Between the alternation of offense and defense, Kenji Fujima received a pass from his teammate in the backcourt and quickly advanced toward the frontcourt.
Shohoku High School does not use the full-court press defense method like Lingnan High School. For Shohoku, what they have to do is to be stable.
As long as they maintain their advantage, the victory of the game will definitely belong to them in the end!
Shohoku returned to the field early under the leadership of Jinguji Budo. Kenji Fujima was observing Shohoku's defense when he was dribbling the ball towards the frontcourt. Seeing that there were no obvious loopholes, Fujima immediately passed the ball to To the Shinomiya field.
For Lingnan, every attack is very crucial. There are three people in Lingnan who are capable of handling such key balls, but relatively speaking, Shinomiya Tano is actually the most stable one.
After receiving the basketball, Shinomiya glanced at the attack time and saw that there were 32 seconds left. He no longer hesitated and directly dropped the ball to accelerate the breakthrough.
As Jinguji Budo follows up, Shinomiya pauses, drags his feet to adjust his posture, and after continuous changes of direction, drops the ball again to accelerate the breakthrough. But this time, when Budo follows up again, Shinomiya immediately loses his luck. The moment the change of direction was completed, Shinomiya quickly put his hands together with the ball and threw the ball quickly with a throw.
The sharp and smooth offensive movements made Jinguji Budo unable to defend, and he could only watch the basketball fly towards the basket.
"Uh-huh!"
As a soft sound rang out, the audience in the stands also burst into amazing cheers, but the cheers lasted only a few seconds and ended abruptly when Takenori Akagi took the ball and walked outside the baseline.
29 seconds.
The score was one point away, and Shohoku still had the ball. For Lingnan High School, it was far from time to relax.
"Defend! Defend! Defend!"
The Lingnan substitutes off the court shouted loudly for defense, and coach Tian Gang also yelled for the players to actively run and defend.
However, in the face of the absolute physical advantage, Lingnan High School's full-court pressing tactics were very ineffective.
The basketball flew out of Takenori Akagi's hands and quickly fell into Rukawa Kaede's hands.
After getting the basketball, Rukawa Kaede hurriedly glanced at the game time and carried the ball in a leisurely manner. Fujima defended actively and tried to steal many times. However, with Rukawa Kaede's combination of fast and slow breakthrough skills, Fujima was easily intercepted. resolve.
Realizing that Fujima alone was unable to complete the steal, Hanagata decisively gave up on Sakuragi Hanamichi and hurriedly double-teamed Rukawa Kaede.
At this moment, Rukawa Kaede didn't dare to make a big move. Faced with a double team, he quickly shot the ball. The target of the ball was none other than Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Seeing Kaede Rukawa's basketball shot, Hanagata left quickly and ran towards Sakuragi.
Sakuragi Hanamichi was not as decisive as Rukawa Kaede in playing the ball. After Hanagata came up, Sakuragi saw that his teammates were all being stared at by the people from Lingnan, and at this moment he did not dare to play the ball easily.
The pause in basketball passing also allowed Lingnan to smell an opportunity.
Jun Uozumi ignored Takenori Akagi and decisively double-teamed Hanamichi Sakuragi.
At this time, Xiangbei's ball had not yet passed the half court and was about to violate the rules.
Two sturdy men, Toru Hanagata and Jun Uozumi, directly sandwiched Sakuragi in the middle. Hanamichi Sakuragi, who rarely faced such situations, panicked for a moment. The basketball in his hand was caught by the fish at some point. Pure took it out.
Uozumi was excited after receiving the basketball. After two dribbles, he quickly entered the Shohoku basket, grabbed the ball with one hand, and directly planned to pour the ball into the net.
However, at this moment, Takenori Akagi, who had been ignored by him, had already arrived in front of Uozumi, jumped up high and put his hand on the basketball, preventing Uozumi from making any progress!
"Lingnan!"
“It’s us in Xiangbei who win!”
Amid Akagi's roar, the basketball was directly blocked by Takenori Akagi.
The basketball fell to the floor and bounced into the hands of Mitsui Hisashi who came over. With the ball in both hands, Hisashi Mitsui looked excited. He glanced at the timer on the sidelines and quickly dribbled the ball towards the frontcourt.
19 seconds.
As soon as Mitsui Shou dropped the ball, the figure of Sendao quickly stopped in front of Mitsui Shou, blocking Mitsui Shou's sight with one hand. Just when Mitsui Shou was about to attack Sendao alone, a figure quickly jumped out from behind Mitsui Shou, directly He slapped the basketball with one hand.
Successfully intercepted the ball.
Sendō got the ball and immediately accelerated and broke through Mitsui Hisashi. Mitsui Hisashi intended to pursue, but was blocked by Fujima Kenji.
Akira Sendō, who quickly dribbled the ball to the basket, jumped up directly in front of Takenori Akagi, grabbed the ball with one hand and poured the ball directly into the basket.
16 seconds.
The score reached 102:103. Lingnan High School successfully completed the overtake, leading Xiangbei by one point.
As Lingnan completed the overtake, the audience in the stands also burst into amazing cheers.
Everyone in Xiangbei in the stadium also looked at each other, and seemed to be a little panicked for a moment.
"Akagi, serve!"
Some members of the Xiangbei team were confused, but others were unusually sober at this time.
Jinguji Martial Arts' heart was beating fiercely, and at this moment, a bright smile actually appeared on his face.
After hearing the martial arts call, Takenori Akagi hurried to the outside line and prepared to serve. Shinomiya was immediately attached to Jinguji Budo, and this time, Budo ran directly towards the bottom line where Akagi was, intending to catch the ball at the near side.
Akagi watched Martial Arts running towards him and quickly hit the ground.
After taking possession of the basketball, Jinguji Budo turned his back to Shinomiya Tanoh and dropped the ball with his left hand. However, he quickly turned around and completed the pass of the ball in an instant. Shinomiya Tanoh was directly left behind.
Amidst the anxious shouts of everyone in Lingnan, Jinguji Martial Arts quickly moved towards the frontcourt, passing many Lingnan players in the blink of an eye.
At 13 seconds, Jinguji Budo crossed the midline.
Shinomiya Tōno, who was following behind, realized that he might not be able to stop Jinguji Budō, so he directly put his hand on Budō's arm, pulling Budō off balance.
At the same time, the referee's whistle also sounded.
(End of chapter)
