Sakuragi Hanamichi's activity slightly eased the originally depressing atmosphere on the court.
As soon as Mu Shen saw Sakuragi Hanamichi scoring goals one after another, a smile appeared on his face, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
If Sakuragi Hanamichi's offense doesn't go well, Maki Shinichi can already imagine what kind of conflicts will arise in the team in the future. By then, I'm afraid Sakuragi Hanamichi and Morishigehiro will bite each other.
After several more attacks and defenses, the game also entered the intermission time.
Jinguji Budo called the shots at halftime and removed himself from the ball, putting Mike Okita on the field.
As soon as Mu Shen, who played point guard, saw that Jinguji Budo was off the field, he quickly suggested that he should also be off the field and let substitute Miyagi Ryota come on.
Although Budao wanted Mu Shenyi to continue playing with Hanamichi Sakuragi and the others, seeing how insistent Mu Shenyi was, he did not raise any objections and allowed Mu Shenyi to arrange things.
In this game, Jinguji Budo has forgotten the outcome of the team. What he wants to see more now is who has greater potential between Sakuragi Hanamichi and Morishigehiro.
The Aoi team has also made some personnel adjustments. Shinomiya feels that he is not interesting on the court. Jinguji Budo does not attack with the ball. He spends most of his time following Jinguji Budo. Run back and forth.
On the offensive end, Rukawa Kaede now relies heavily on inside offense. Shinomiya Tano does not object to Rukawa Kaede's decision. Uozumi has more opportunities to attack at the basket, and Shinomiya Tano is also happy to see it.
Because when he was at Lingnan High School, Uozumi had very few opportunities to attack with the ball under the basket. It was rare for anyone to think highly of Uozumi. Shinomiya also wanted to give Uozumi a good taste of the "core center".
The person who replaced Shinomiya Tōru was Hanagata Toru, who had been standing on the sidelines watching the game.
Hanagata is not an inside man in the traditional sense. As a power forward, he is very good in mid-range offense. He is very good in both shooting and footwork.
And with such a height, it is not easy to suppress Hanagata with the staffing of the white team.
After a short break, under the instruction of Coach Tianoka, the players from both sides returned to the court.
At the end of the first half, the score between the two teams reached 44:41, with the white team leading by three points. And this lead was smoothly carried into the second half of the game.
As the players from both sides completed their positions in the center circle, the temporary referee returned to the court with the ball. The coaches looked startled when they saw that Jinguji Budo and Shinomiya Tanos did not play.
Before they could think about it, the whistle sounded for the game and then again.
The opening kick of the second half was turned back into their own half by Uozumi. Uozumi has much more experience in competitions than Mori Shigehiro, and his control of the timing of the jump ball is far better than Mori Shigehiro. The failure of the previous jump ball was just because Uozumi did not expect Mori Shigehiro to be so explosive.
Even if you lose the opportunity, you can still click on the basketball before you can shoot it.
Therefore, this time, Uozumi also learned a lesson. Instead of using the shooting method, he also used the point method, and then successfully won the jump ball.
The basketball flew directly into the backcourt and was firmly held by Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa Kaede, who successfully got the basketball, began to dribble the ball towards the frontcourt. Not long after he crossed the center line, Miyagi Ryota, who was in charge of defense, quickly followed up. Come up.
Miyagi Ryota's height and weight are not as good as Rukawa Kaede. If Rukawa Kaede waits until Rukawa Kaede gets close to the three-point line and reaches the offensive range before stepping forward to defend, he will inevitably be shot by Rukawa Kaede.
But if he goes to intercept in advance, Rukawa Kaede will only be able to break through by dropping the ball in addition to passing the ball when facing the defense. As long as Rukawa Kaede breaks through with the ball, Miyagi Ryota is confident that he can affect Rukawa Kaede's rhythm through his defense.
For players, in fact, whether a shot goes in or not depends not only on the moment when they stand up for a jump shot, but also on whether their posture is correct. Before taking a shot, it is also critical whether the player's rhythm when dribbling and moving is smooth.
Often beautiful shots were previously very smooth marches or breakthrough movements.
Movements with chaotic rhythm will actually affect the accuracy of subsequent shooting.
Miyagi Ryota understood this after making countless consecutive shots. Therefore, when he is now defending, he will not blindly pursue steals or so-called "successful interceptions". He will try his best to prevent his opponents from shooting. comfortable.
Being able to do this is enough!
As Miyagi Ryota's defense approached, Rukawa Kaede quickly lowered his center of gravity and began to accelerate the breakthrough. However, as soon as his body moved, Miyagi Ryota directly pressed forward without hesitation. Although his strength was not as good as Rukawa Kaede, Miyagi's strong defense The confrontation also happened when Rukawa Kaede couldn't help but her steps were messed up.
Forced to slow down his pace, Rukawa Kaede made a slight adjustment and accelerated his advance. The moment Miyagi came up in pursuit, Rukawa Kaede quickly reversed his luck and changed direction to break through. Miyagi Ryota did not stop facing Rukawa Kaede's change of direction, raising one hand high, although it seemed that he was being pushed across the three-point line by Rukawa Kaede.
But only Rukawa Kaede himself knew that he was very uncomfortable being guarded by Miyagi Ryota.
With an emergency stop, Rukawa Kaede quickly stopped, and then shot directly with a fadeaway jumper.
Facing Rukawa Kaede's jump shot, Miyagi Ryota really had no choice but to do nothing but jump hard.
The basketball quickly drew an arc in the air. Halfway through, Sakuragi Hanamichi under the basket excitedly roared, "The backboard is mine!" and then stuck Akagi behind him.
Today's Sakuragi Hanamichi is only less than 5cm shorter than Akagi. In terms of strength, Sakuragi Hanamichi has also completely grown up. Although his arm strength is not as good as Akagi, who has been masturbating for several more years than Sakuragi, his waist and abdominal strength and leg strength are still there. Although his strength is stronger than Akagi.
Facing Sakuragi's blocking position, Takenori Akagi simply couldn't resist the opponent with his brute force.
After a tentative squeeze, Akagi Takenori quickly turned around, wanting to go around Sakuragi, but unexpectedly, Sakuragi Hanamichi relied solely on the feeling from his back to predict Akagi Takenori's movements and adjusted it. His body position blocked Akagi behind him again.
The excellent positioning skills made Akagi's eyes shine.
"This kid!" I sighed softly in my heart. The basketball had already hit the basket and fell outward.
Sakuragi Hanamichi in front of Akagi jumped up, took the ball into his arms, and quickly fell back to the ground. Akagi saw Sakuragi grabbing the ball with both hands, quickly came to Sakuragi's side, and stabbed the basketball from bottom to top.
"Bang!"
However, something unexpected happened to Akagi. Sakuragi's arms grabbing the ball were very strong. Apart from slightly deflecting the basketball, he was unable to poke the ball out of Sakuragi's hands.
In addition to her strong talent, Sakuragi Hanamichi also has a solid foundation!
"The gorilla actually attacked this genius?"
"If this genius were so easily attacked by you, would he still be a genius?!"
Sakuragi sneered, laughed and rolled his eyes at Takenori Akagi beside him, and then quickly passed the ball to Miyagi Ryota, who took the ball and quickly advanced with the ball.
But before he could cross the center line, Xiandao, Rukawa Kaede and others had already returned to their own half before him. Seeing this scene, Miyagi simply slowed down and prepared to take position.
But the positional battle was actually exactly what Team Cai and the others wanted.
With the flower-shaped single-ring Shinomiya field, the Cai team’s positional battle was limited on the defensive end.
Because the white team's current outsiders are Miyagi Ryota, Mike Okita and Fujima Kenji. Among them, Miyagi and Fujima are not very tall. The opponents they have to face are Rukawa Kaede and Sendao respectively. One-on-one, it is impossible to have an advantage.
The only outside ball-handling player that the white team can rely on is actually Mike Okita.
It is not easy for Mike to attack the basket guarded by Takenori Akagi and Jun Uozumi.
Soon, Sendō, Rukawa Kaede and others completed their positions. Miyagi Ryota slowly approached the three-point line with the ball. He glanced at Sakuragi Hanamichi and Morishigehiro who wanted the ball. Miyagi Ryota's mouth twitched slightly and quickly The moment the ball changed direction, he flicked the ball to his side and gave it directly to Mike Okita.
Shohoku High School and Midori High School have played practice matches, and Miyagi Ryota also has some understanding of Mike Okita's personal abilities. He also has considerable trust in this blond, blue-eyed, mixed-race player.
Therefore, after the ball was released, he gave Mike a thumbs up and at the same time gave Mike a look to hit the basket.
After getting the basketball, Mike Okita also received Miyagi Ryota's quickness. He raised his head and glanced at Hanagata Tohru who was blocking him, and Mike also had a faint smile on his face.
A power forward running to the three-point line to guard him?
Are you looking down on him, Mike Okita?
After dropping the ball and dragging the opponent's center of gravity, Mike Okita's body "twitched" and then accelerated directly from his right side. In just one step, Hanagata Toru was left behind by him, and just when Hanagata adjusted his posture to pursue, Mike Okita pulled his crotch back, and his body was beaten again.
After dribbling in a suspended position, he quickly changed direction in front of the body, deceiving the center of gravity of the flower shape, and at the same time passed by the flower shape again and went to the inside.
Mike Okita, who hit the basket, instantly attracted Takenori Akagi's cover. After leaping high to trick Akagi up, Mike Okita quickly collected the ball in mid-air, and then headed towards Hanamichi Sakuragi, who was open not far away. Passed on.
A beautiful sudden score gave Sakuragi an open shot.
The basketball started, and Sakuragi Hanamichi made a jump shot near the basket. As the basketball entered the net, there was a soft sound, and the eyes of the coaches on the sidelines focused on Mike Okita.
Excellent, very outstanding.
This mixed-race player is very outstanding. His offensive ability in this single round alone is better than that of Mu Shen.
Mike Okita is definitely one of the players in the T1 echelon of Kanagawa Prefecture.
In the previous bullfighting assessment, Mike Okita also showed good singles ability, but on the court, Mike Okita also showed his vision and golf intelligence.
This made all the coaches couldn't help but look at Mike Okita.
Between the alternation of offense and defense, Rukawa Kaede has already brought the ball into the frontcourt.
Forced by Miyagi Ryota's defense, Rukawa Kaede did not have the idea of proving his offensive ability in his mind, but chose the most efficient style of play.
The ball was given to Sendō who was facing off against Fujima.
The latter took the ball, made a simple test step, then dropped the ball directly and changed direction to break through. After quickly passing Fujima, Sendō dribbled the ball with one hand, using his assistant hand to block Fujima who was chasing behind him, and quickly entered the basket.
The breakthrough of immortality also attracted Sakuragi Hanamichi's attention.
Facing front and rear double teams, Sendō directly copied Mike Okita's previous action, pulling a lever in the air and passing the ball to the open Takenori Akagi.
After getting the basketball, Takenori Akagi dribbled directly to the basket, dunked the ball into the basket with both hands.
The white team had just scored with the front foot, and Sendō had already responded with the back foot.
The second half of the game has just begun, and the stadium is already full of excitement.
"This Mike Okita is very capable!"
"This boy Xiandao is already motivated."
At this time, under the stadium, Shinomiya, who was not playing, did not sit in his team's rest area, but came to the rest area on Budo's side and sat with Budo.
It's a practice match anyway, so this kind of thing doesn't matter. Shinomiya also has someone to chat with, so it won't be boring.
"Well, Mike Okita has a background in the United States, and there is no doubt about his personal ability."
"In terms of physical talent, he is better than the average yellow player, but he cannot be called outstanding talent."
"Compared with Immortal Dao, it's really hard to say who is stronger and who is weaker."
Wu Dao nodded upon hearing this and was also very concerned about the development of the situation on the field.
I don't have to play, there is no pressure to win or lose, and it feels good to watch other players perform. And he can feel that Mike Okita's mentality has obviously changed since Sendō returned a goal.
I'm a little more motivated to win.
In the court, Miyagi Ryota also felt the change in Mike Okita's mentality, so after dribbling the ball into the frontcourt, he quickly gave the ball to Mike Okita.
There is no doubt that at this time, Mike Okita definitely hopes to attack with the ball.
Sure enough, after taking possession of the basketball, Mike Okita did not hesitate at all and directly dropped the ball to accelerate. However, this time the ball did not fall on the right hand, but on the left side.
The direction of the breakthrough is also towards the left.
Hanagata Toru's steps can't keep up with Mike Okita's sudden advance. Although his height is not as good as martial arts, Hanagata's physical talent determines that his pace cannot be compared with martial arts.
He was immediately left behind by Mike Okita's breakthrough. Mike Okita, who crossed the flower shape, approached the free throw line, then paused and threw the ball directly.
Before Takenori Akagi and Uozumi could make any defensive moves, the basketball had already flown over their heads and landed firmly in the net.
After Mike Okita scored, the white team began to retreat quickly.
I thought that Team Cai's attack this time would still be a defensive one, but unexpectedly, Rukawa Kaede, who had the ball in the backcourt, directly chased after him. The basketball went directly across half of the court and into the hands of Xiandao who entered the frontcourt early.
Sendō, who was holding the ball, relied on his body to push Fujima to the free throw line. Then he paused, quickly combined the ball, and threw the ball towards the basket with a small throw.
"Uh-huh!"
Sendō perfectly replicated Mike Okita's movements and successfully sent the ball into the net.
And as Sendō scored the ball, Mike Okita's realization also focused on Sendō.
Xiandao also looked at Mike with a smile on his face, and the players around him felt the strong fighting spirit emanating from these two people.
Similar height, similar build, similar skills.
Sendō and Mike Okita are more like competitors at the same position!
