Throughout the game, Sakuragi Hanamichi was unable to get the ball a few times. He spent most of the time on the court running back and forth with the players, and then he struggled with Takenori Akagi under the basket for rebounds.
In this game, the absolute focus of their white team is the first-year center Shigehiro Mori.
And Sakuragi Hanamichi, a young first-year student who had shown his worth in the national competition, was reduced to Mori Shigehiro's foil.
Watching Morishigehiro shine inside, he caught the attention of the coaching staff.
Sakuragi Hanamichi, a player with a strong self-esteem, also held an unknown fire in his chest. He tried hard to control his emotions and try his best to focus on the game, so that the practice match could be played smoothly until now.
But now, not only does Shigehiro Mori, a bastard, not understand his willingness to sacrifice for the team as a "star player", but he actually mocks him? !
Sakuragi Hanamichi couldn't bear this kind of thing no matter what.
"You bastard! What did you say?!"
"You, a rookie, have wasted so many good opportunities on the court, haven't you even counted them!?"
"A guy who hasn't even entered the national competition dares to preach to this genius?"
"Look in the mirror, are you qualified!?"
Sakuragi Hanamichi walked angrily in front of Morishigehiro, completely ignoring Sendō and others who had launched a fast attack at this time, grabbed Morishigehiro's collar, looked at Morishigehiro, and said angrily.
Just when the conflict broke out between the two, Sendō Akira, who had crossed the midline, had already received Uozumi's pass, and then moved quickly towards the white team's half. Budō, Fujima, and Maki Shenichi all quickly returned to defense. Kenji Fujima, who was assigned to guard Sendō, came to Sendō's side and started to steal shortly after Sendō crossed the center line.
The advancing Sendō made a dexterous move and easily passed Fujima's defense, accelerating towards the basket.
Jinguji Martial Arts, who planned to defend against Immortal Path, had just approached Immortal Path when he heard the roar of Sakuragi Hanamichi. The marching movements were also stopped subconsciously, and he couldn't help but turn his head to look in the direction of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Morishigehiro.
And Sendō also caught the moment when Jinguji Budo was distracted, quickly crossed the free throw line, took off with one hand to put the ball together, glided and dunked the ball into the basket.
The huge force shook the entire basketball stand violently.
The moment he fell back to the ground, a gust of sea breeze blew. Sendao breathed a sigh of relief. He glanced at Jinguji Martial Arts beside him with a somewhat thankful smile, and then turned his head to look at Sakuragi Hanamichi and Morishige who were in conflict. The two of them smiled and said:
"It seems that adjusting to the new team is not that easy!"
"The first year is really a headache, martial arts."
When Xiandao spoke, the conflict was already showing signs of escalation.
Morishige's collar was grabbed by Sakuragi Hanamichi, and he had no intention of resisting immediately. He inserted his hands into his trouser pockets, raised his head slightly, looked down at Sakuragi Hanamichi in front of him with lowered eyebrows, and said provocatively:
"You've played in the national competition, so what?"
"Am I the one who can't hold the ball? Or you?"
"Now that the game is going on, I think I have scored 12 points. I also got 4 rebounds and 0 turnovers."
"And you?"
"Aren't you the one who needs to look in the mirror?"
Morishigehiro looked indifferent, looking at the angry Sakuragi Hanamichi in front of him. Morishigehiro was not afraid at all. Even when Sakuragi Hanamichi grabbed him by the collar, he was still unusually calm, looking at Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes. , it’s not like watching an angry peer at all.
It's like looking at a monkey.
Morishigehiro did not take Sakuragi Hanamichi into consideration.
"What did you say!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi said word by word, his eyes full of anger, and he was about to punch the opponent to show his power, but something suddenly occurred to his mind, and his movements stopped abruptly.
At the same time, Takenori Akagi and Jun Uozumi quickly walked up to the two of them. One stood beside Sakuragi and the other stood beside Morishigehiro, for fear that the two would fight.
Akagi saw Sakuragi Hanamichi raising his fists to hit, but before he could step forward to stop him, Sakuragi Hanamichi stopped his punching action.
"This bastard is right. Even if I use my fists to show him the power of my genius, this guy will still disapprove."
"If I don't prove on the court that I am better than him, everything is meaningless."
"But."
"That middle-aged man and this bastard are on the same team. This genius has no chance to prove himself."
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In the end, Sakuragi Hanamichi just cursed angrily, and then pushed Morishigehiro away.
"asshole!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi glanced at Maki Shinichi with a gloomy face, then glanced at the players on the court at this time, silently left the basket, stood on the side of the mid-range paint area, and then looked at his own half .
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"Sakura, what are you doing?"
Seeing that Sakuragi Hanamichi seemed to have successfully controlled his emotions, Takenori Akagi sighed in confusion. However, he did not completely feel relieved, but silently walked to Sakuragi Hanamichi's side.
On the one hand, he was wary of Sakuragi doing something outrageous again, and on the other hand, he was able to guard against Sakuragi as soon as the game continued.
In the backcourt of the white team, Budo saw that the conflict seemed to be stopped by Takenori Akagi and Jun Uozumi. He walked to the sidelines, picked up the basketball, and threw the ball to Shinichi Maki.
After getting the basketball, Mu Shinichi glanced at Hanamichi Sakuragi and Shigehiro Mori, hesitated, and asked Budo:
"Should we stagger the two players Sakuragi and Hiro?"
"Or let Mike Okita come up and play power forward for a while? Let Sakuragi play center for a while."
"I see that Kuan is obviously tired. Take this opportunity to let him off the field and rest for a while?"
"If it's all on the court, conflicts may still happen."
Although Mu Shinichi had just been involved in the defense and investigation, he had heard more or less part of the conversation between Sakuragi Hanamichi and Mori Shigehiro.
Relying on the small part he heard, Mu Shenyi was able to roughly restore the truth of the matter. It was judged that the quarrel between the two players was mostly caused by Hanamichi Sakuragi feeling that the distribution of the ball was uneven.
Mu Shen originally thought that Jinguji Martial Arts, the super ace, would have no objections and there would be no problem with his distribution of ball rights. Unexpectedly, Hanamichi Sakuragi, who has always played a blue-collar role in Shohoku, is also a person with strong self-esteem and a desire for the ball.
Mu Shenyi took care of Martial Arts's emotions, but failed to take care of Sakuragi Hanamichi's.
In the final analysis, the conflict between Sakuragi and Shigehiro Mori was caused by the improper handling of the guard, Shinichi Mu.
Seeing that a conflict had broken out in the team, Mu Shenyi wanted to make up for it. At this time, of course, it was impossible to suggest that Sakuragi Hanamichi should be given a rest.
This is equivalent to a quarrel between your own children and other children. As a parent, most of the time, you will be slightly partial to other children.
The same is true now. Mu Shenyi tried to let Mori Shigehiro take a rest to ease the conflicts within the team.
Faced with Mu Shenyi's inquiry, Jinguji Martial Arts shook his head disapprovingly and said without paying much attention: "Let's continue like this."
"On the road of player growth, you will meet all kinds of players."
"People will always get along with people they don't like, and it's the same with basketball."
"You're always going to play with teammates who don't always play together."
"If emotions are stirred up so easily, it will be difficult to go down the road in the future."
"Whether it's Sakuragi or Morishigehiro, it's the same."
"Amu, there is no need to change the style of play in the first half."
"If players want to gain respect from others, it is useless to rely on incompetence and rage."
"There is only one way to gain respect from others!"
"Talk to the ball!"
As he spoke, Jinguji Martial Arts was already trotting towards the front court. Mu Shen glanced at Martial Arts' back and couldn't help but smile and sigh: "He is really a strict captain!"
With that said, Mu Shen slowly dribbled the ball towards the front court.
Although Budo said so, Mu Shinichi could not do what Budo said. Jinguji Budo was the captain of Shohoku and a senior of Sakuragi Hanamichi's team. Of course, he would not care about Sakuragi Hanamichi no matter what. It doesn't matter.
After all, Jinguji martial arts has great prestige in Sakuragi's mind.
But as someone from a foreign school, Mu Shenyi had to worry about the players' emotions.
After Makoto Sakuragi got close to the three-point line, he started to break through on his own. After creating some distance between him and Rukawa Kaede, Makoto Shinichi chose to pass the ball to Sakuragi Hanamichi who was in the middle distance at this time.
"Snapped!"
After receiving the basketball, Sakuragi's face showed a look of surprise, and then he immediately became excited.
"well!"
After a low roar, Sakuragi Hanamichi quickly swept the ball frame. Takenori Akagi saw Sakuragi Hanamichi holding the ball, but there was no one there and he didn't mean to let go. He immediately moved up and covered Sakuragi's head with his hands.
After a simple feint of raising the ball, Sakuragi Hanamichi dropped the ball from the right side, and then started digging directly. After a quick translation, Sakuragi Hanamichi actually made an emergency stop jumper from the mid-range.
Although Takenori Akagi's defense caught up in time, his lateral movement speed was not as fast as Sakuragi's. He couldn't stop Sakuragi's shot with his raised hand. He watched the basketball pass over his head and towards him. Flying towards the basket.
"Uh-huh!"
With a soft sound, Sakuragi Hanamichi shook his arms and roared excitedly, then glared at Morishigehiro inside, quickly turned around and ran towards his backcourt.
Shinomiya Tōno, Sendō and others also looked at Sakuragi at this moment and said with a smile: "This first grader from Shohoku is getting more and more mature."
"The pull-up jump shot is very stable."
When Sendō was praising Sakuragi, Rukawa Kaede had just received a pass from his teammate in the backcourt and started dribbling the ball towards the frontcourt. When he came behind Sendō and Shinomiya Tano, he heard Sendō's words.
He curled his lips with some disdain and snorted softly: "Bah."
Sendao and Shinomiya Tano looked at each other, smiled, then quickened their pace and ran towards the front court.
Sakuragi Hanamichi's activity seemed to stimulate Rukawa Kaede. He had been playing ball for Uozumi and Takenori Akagi in the inside. At this moment, he stopped passing the ball to his teammates and started his own offensive performance.
Under Mu Shinichi's defense, Rukawa Kaede made quick-paced and continuous changes of direction. Without being able to deceive Mu Shinichi, Rukawa Kaede directly connected the ball with the three-point line and threw the ball.
Rukawa Kaede's pull-up jumper is very stable, but Mu Shenyi is not a vegetarian. He is similar in height to Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa Kaede was not able to completely get rid of him. He was able to follow up the defense in time with this pull-up.
Although he failed to block the ball, he was able to interfere with Rukawa Kaede's shooting easily.
"clang!"
The basketball hit the edge of the frame and popped out directly. Sakuragi Hanamichi was stuck behind Takenori Akagi, and Rukawa Kaede's ball made the ball bounce farther away. Instead, it was Sakura who was farther away from the basket. Konohanamichi took advantage and grabbed the ball in his hands.
"good!"
After receiving the basketball, Sakuragi roared excitedly, and then without passing the ball to Mu Shenyi, he quickly charged towards the frontcourt with the ball.
Seeing this, Rukawa Kaede ignored Mu Shenichi, who was already running towards his backcourt. Instead, he moved toward Sakuragi Hanamichi when Sakuragi crossed the three-point line.
"Asshole, stinky fox, get out of here!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi dribbled toward the frontcourt. He had just crossed the three-point line in his own half, and before he even approached the midline, Rukawa Kaede came over.
Unable to help but curse, Sakuragi Hanamichi slowed down under Rukawa Kaede's interception.
Sakuragi Hanamichi's dribbling ability is more or less good, but his dribbling offense is limited to the half-court area. Sakuragi's breakthrough ability is only available near the basket, such as leading Something like the ball passing halfway.
Sakuragi is really not very good at it.
Half-court breakthrough and full-court dribbling require completely different levels of ability!
Soon, under the pressure of Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi Hanamichi was forced to stop the ball. At this time, Sakuragi had not even passed halftime.
Fortunately, Jinguji Budo saw Sakuragi's embarrassment and immediately came back to help, giving Sakuragi Hanamichi a target to pass the ball to.
After getting the basketball, Jinguji Budo quickly approached the three-point line with the ball. After a shuffle step, he quickly changed direction and rushed forward. Under the pursuit of Shinomiya Tanano, he stopped suddenly and stepped back to shoot a high shot.
Perhaps because he hadn't touched the ball for a long time, Wu Dao's shot was also inaccurate, and the basketball fell out of the basket.
Under the basket, under the double-team of Takenori Akagi and Jun Uozumi, Shigehiro Mori still had no possibility of grabbing the rebound. As the basketball popped out, Takenori Akagi jumped lightly as if he was holding the ball. in hand.
However, at this moment, Hanamichi Sakuragi's figure rose rapidly from behind Takenori Akagi, and directly hit the basketball before Takenori Akagi could get it.
"Huh?!" After a light ooh, Takenori Akagi fell back to the ground, looked at the basketball still in the air, and immediately jumped up, trying to get the ball in his hands.
Without waiting for him to take off, Sakuragi Hanamichi took off for the second time and directly took the ball in his hands.
Akagi noticed Sakuragi Hanamichi behind him and turned around quickly. He happened to see Sakuragi Hanamichi falling back to the ground with both hands holding the ball and preparing to shoot. He rushed towards him without thinking.
However, the moment Akagi took action, Sakuragi actually dwarfed and dropped the ball directly to break through. He passed Takenori Akagi and rushed directly into the basket, and then made a powerful two-handed dunk.
Excellent athletic ability, powerful jumping, and beautiful fake moves.
With just one ball, Sakuragi Hanamichi fully demonstrated his talent!
"This genius will never lose to anyone!"
"Asshole, just wait for me!"
(End of chapter)
