After being taught several balls in succession by Jinguji Martial Arts, Sakuragi Hanamichi became quieter and more focused on the court.
After Budo scored the ball, Miyagi Ryota also led the team to quickly launch a counterattack. The final goal was executed by Rukawa Kaede. With the pick-and-roll after Miyagi Ryota's quick pass, Rukawa Kaede quickly got an open shot with the help of Miyagi.
After quickly moving sideways outside the three-point line, he shot a three-pointer directly.
Rukawa Kaede seemed a little unhurried when he shot a three-pointer when there was a screen. He didn't shoot the basketball in his hand until he completely adjusted his posture.
The basketball crossed half the court and fell into the net smoothly.
Between the alternation of offense and defense, as the basketball was passed to Jinguji Budo who entered the frontcourt several times, all the defensive players in Shohoku became a little nervous.
Among these people, the calmest ones were Sakuragi Hanamichi, who faced Jinguji martial arts directly, and Rukawa Kaede, who had better emotional control.
"Snapped!"
Jinguji Budo caught the ball with his back in the mid-range position. As the basketball was handed over, Sakuragi Hanamichi immediately raised his center of gravity and stuck closely behind Jinguji Budo.
At the same time, Sakuragi Hanamichi gently held Jinguji Budou's back with his left hand, and raised his right hand slightly, as if he was ready to steal at any time, or raise his hand to block a shot.
The defensive posture is more standard and excellent than when the game just started.
"Sakuragi, your movements are finally in good shape."
Sakuragi Hanamichi's defensive ability is pretty good, but Sakuragi is young and is always attracted by the "gorgeous offense". When he usually plays, he just pays attention to guarding rebounds.
On the defensive end, he never realized his potential.
Perhaps only after repeated provocations from Jinguji Martial Arts, Sakuragi Hanamichi became completely focused and tried his best to defend Jinguji Martial Arts.
"." Faced with the praise of Jinguji Martial Arts, Sakuragi Hanamichi remained silent. He focused all his attention on Jinguji Martial Arts' body, paying attention to every move of Martial Arts.
I noticed Sakuragi's focused look behind him.
With a smile on his face, Budo turned around quickly after blasting the ball. At the moment when Budo turned around, Sakuragi Hanamichi moved sideways and blocked the way in front of Budo. The hand that was originally pressed against Budo's back quickly dropped to intercept, and pointed towards Basketball in the hands of martial arts.
"Nice defensive move!"
"See through Martial Arts' offensive intentions!"
Near the three-point line, Miyagi Ryota has been paying attention to the matchup between Sakuragi Hanamichi and Jinguji Budo. Seeing Sakuragi Hanamichi's defensive actions, Miyagi Ryota's eyes lit up and he was secretly excited.
But he didn't wait for a second to be happy. After Jinguji Budo noticed Sakuragi's movements, he quickly grabbed the ball with both hands and quickly turned his back. Not only did he avoid Sakuragi's steal, but he also posed a threat to the basket.
That's right, in the eyes of Sakuragi Hanamichi and others, Jinguji Budo has already begun to pose a threat to the basket in this mid-range situation, as long as it is in a back-up state.
Everyone knows that after Jinguji Martial Arts combines the ball, he will definitely find a way to shoot.
Sure enough, Jinguji, who turned around quickly, quickly shouldered the cover, and then turned around at high speed against Sakuragi Hanamichi's body, then passed Sakuragi, and lightly jumped towards the basket, which was still several meters away. distance, but Wu Dao holds the ball with his left hand.
Send towards the basket.
A throw from the underhand position, the basketball quickly flew out of Budao's hands and fell towards the basket.
"Uh-huh!"
After a soft sound, the basketball fell into the net.
Budo glanced at the basketball that hit the net, and when he turned to defend, he encouraged Hanamichi Sakuragi: "Compared to the beginning, there has been some progress."
"Sakuragi, keep up the good work."
Budo said, quickly running past Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes. Looking at Jinguji Budou leaving, Sakuragi Hanamichi just took a breath, with neither anger nor any other expression on his face.
Concentration, extreme concentration.
The current Sakuragi Hanamichi seems to be no longer the Sakuragi Hanamichi he knew from Jinguji Martial Arts.
There was no frivolity, no anger, or even nervousness in him.
All members of the Shohoku team felt the difference in Sakuragi Hanamichi, and couldn't help but look at Sakuragi Hanamichi a few more times.
But at this time, Sakuragi didn't pay attention to the eyes of his teammates at all, and started running towards the frontcourt.
"That guy Sakuragi seems to be a little different?"
Miyagi Ryota was keenly aware of the difference in Sakuragi Hanamichi. Sakuragi now made him feel very solid.
Even though Sakuragi Hanamichi has never successfully stopped Jinguji Budo from even one goal, looking at Sakuragi Hanamichi on the court, Miyagi Ryota can feel an inexplicable sense of security.
This was brought to Miyagi by the aura emanating from Sakuragi.
Soon, Miyagi Ryota dribbled the ball into the frontcourt, and at this time, Sakuragi actually imitated the Jinguji Martial Arts look just now, leaning against Jinguji Martial Arts, reaching out to ask for the ball from Miyagi Ryota.
Looking stunned, Miyagi Ryota chose to pass the ball to Sakuragi Hanamichi after continuous dribbling at the hip. After a mismatch with Makino, Miyagi Ryota quickly hit the ball and passed it to Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Starting with the basketball, Sakuragi Hanamichi exploded the ball and quickly dropped the ball to break through. Seeing Sakuragi's action, Sakuragi raised his eyebrows slightly and chose to lower his center of gravity to intercept.
However, at the moment when Budo's body had just shortened, Sakuragi Hanamichi put the ball together with both hands, quickly turned around with the ball, and quickly opened up a distance of almost one body from Budo.
"Um?!"
The sudden turning movement made Budo couldn't help but let out a light sigh. Then under Budo's gaze, Sakuragi Hanamichi actually shot a jump shot directly on the spot. At the moment of shooting, Sakuragi Hanamichi's upper body even turned slightly to the side. slide.
"Did you shoot?"
Budo did not jump to block him. After Sakuragi shot, he quickly turned his head and looked at the basket.
"Dang~"
Sakuragi's shot was inaccurate, and the basketball hit the side edge of the basket and flew outward.
Seeing Hanamichi Sakuragi miss the shot, for some reason, everyone in Shohoku let out a sigh of relief when they saw this scene.
I don’t know what kind of mentality this comes from.
Are you afraid that your brother will suffer, but you are also afraid that your brother will drive a Land Rover?
Seeing this situation, Wu Dao sighed slightly and ran quickly towards the front court.
Under the basket, Takenori Akagi and Shigehiro Mori struggled with each other, both trying to occupy the most advantageous position, and the rebound was ultimately taken by Shigehiro Mori, who was in a better position.
After taking possession of the basketball, Shigehiro Mori threw the ball directly toward the frontcourt.
Jinguji Budo successfully received the ball in the frontcourt, accelerated directly across the center line, and quickly advanced towards the three-point line. There were three players chasing behind him. Rukawa Kaede, Miyagi Ryota and Sakuragi Hanamichi all tried their best to follow Budo's footsteps. .
Under the pursuit of the three men, Jinguji Budo didn't stop for a moment, quickly reached the inside, grabbed the ball with one hand, glided and dunked the ball into the net.
Although the three people following him were close to each other, they had no choice but to watch the basketball being dunked into the basket by Jinguji Budo.
The three of them were not frustrated because they were unable to block the martial arts attack. In today's venue, no one can guarantee that Jinguji Budo's fast break, whether on or off the court, can block the martial arts attack. .
Several people quickly adjusted their mentality and moved forward quickly.
It only took a few seconds from the time Budo scored to Miyagi Ryota entering the frontcourt with the ball.
Xiangbei plays very fast.
After entering the frontcourt, Miyagi Ryota thought about giving the ball to Rukawa Kaede and letting Rukawa Kaede attack with the ball. However, at this moment, Miyagi Ryota saw from the corner of his eye that Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was in the middle distance, was back-to-back again. Follow the martial arts of Jinguji Temple and wait for the ball.
Miyagi Ryota looked at Rukawa Kaede, and looked at Sakuragi out of the corner of his eye. By some strange coincidence, Miyagi Ryota hooked his wrist, and the basketball in his hand was passed towards Sakuragi Hanamichi's position.
"?!"
Makoto originally predicted that Miyagi Ryota was going to pass the ball to Rukawa Kaede, and he had already rushed towards Rukawa Kaede. However, unexpectedly, Miyagi Ryota actually chose to pass the ball to Sakuragi, and the basketball came directly from Mu Shenyi flew out from his side and flew towards Sakuragi Hanamichi.
"Did you give the ball to Sakuragi Hanamichi again?"
"What is Miyagi Ryota thinking? He doesn't think Sakuragi Hanamichi can score against Jinguji Martial Arts, right?"
Mu Shenyi was secretly shocked and raised his eyes to look at Sakuragi Hanamichi.
At this time, Sakuragi Hanamichi caught the ball with both hands behind the basket. He turned his head slightly and glanced at the position of Jinguji Budou behind him. After a ball blast, Sakuragi Hanamichi's back was pressed against Budou's body. With huge power, he followed Following Sakuragi Hanamichi's movements, it was transmitted to Martial Arts.
"Strengthened?"
"Are you overconfident in your own strength?"
Martial arts secretly thought in his heart, his center of gravity dropped slightly, and he directly used his strength to forcefully block Sakuragi Hanamichi's invasion. Jinguji Budo is over two meters tall, and although his body looks quite well-proportioned, his strength is not small at all.
Even compared to Uozumi's traditional centers, the current Jinguji Martial Arts will not fall behind at all. On the contrary, they have explosive support. Jinguji Martial Arts' attacking threat to the basket will only be greater than that of Uozumi.
If Sakuragi planned to use strength to fight martial arts, it can only be said that he chose the wrong opponent.
However, the center of gravity on the martial arts side had just dropped when Sakuragi Hanamichi in front of him suddenly held the ball in both hands and turned around to face the frame. He raised his hands and wanted to shoot.
Seeing this scene, Budo's hand quickly closed on Sakuragi Hanamichi's head.
This level of attack is simply not enough to break through the martial arts defense.
However, at the moment when Jinguji Budou raised his hand to block the shot, Sakuragi Hanamichi made a pivot with one foot, quickly turned around and carried the basket, with the pivot foot slightly on the ground. Sakuragi jumped in the opposite direction to the basket, with his body in mid-air. At that time, he quickly moved towards the basket, raised the ball above his head with both hands, and assumed a shooting posture.
A very beautiful footwork connection. If Budo could not clearly see Sakuragi Hanamichi's red hair, he would really doubt who the person playing in front of him was!
Sakuragi Hanamichi maintained his upper body posture quite well in mid-air. When he reached the highest point, Sakuragi Hanamichi threw the basketball directly from his hand.
The basketball flew over Wu Dao's head and fell towards the basket.
"Uh-huh!"
As a crisp sound of the net was heard, something unexpected happened to everyone. Sakuragi Hanamichi's turnaround and fadeaway shot actually successfully sent the ball into the basket.
In front of Jinguji Martial Arts, Sakuragi Hanamichi actually completed the score!
"How is this possible?!"
The most surprising thing was not Jinguji Budo who defended Sakuragi, but Nobunaga Kiyota who was on the same team as Sakuragi. Seeing Sakuragi score, Kiyota Nobunaga opened his mouth in shock with a look of disbelief.
Nango Koichiro, who was on the side of the court, had a face full of astonishment at this moment, and couldn't believe his eyes at all.
It's okay if such a difficult shot can be scored, but Sakuragi Hanamichi actually scored it under the defense of Jinguji Budo.
As the ace of Shohoku High School, Jinguji Budo is an offensive and defensive player. Being able to score in front of Jinguji Budo means that Sakuragi Hanamichi can score against the defense of any high school student.
The defensive quality of Jinguji Martial Arts is so exaggerated!
"In, Sakuragi scored!"
After a brief moment of astonishment, Miyagi Ryota immediately raised his arms and cheered.
Akagi, who was under the basket, saw Sakuragi scoring the ball, and couldn't help but walk to Budao and asked Budao: "BuDao, you."
"You're not letting Sakuragi go, are you?"
Although Sakuragi's footwork performance just now was very good, Akagi did not think that such an attack could break through the defense of martial arts. Believing in Sakuragi's strength, Akagi still believed that martial arts was letting loose.
"Sakuragi's actions exceeded my expectations."
"Strictly speaking, I didn't let it go."
"I just have Sakuragi's strength and use corresponding defense."
"He can score goals, which means he has surpassed the Sakuragi Hanamichi in my mind!"
"You've become stronger. This kid Sakuragi has really become stronger!"
Wu Dao sighed softly, clapped his hands, smiled and praised:
"Sakuragi, you have really become stronger!"
but
Faced with Jinguji's praise of martial arts, Sakuragi Hanamichi looked blank. He glanced at the basketball falling from the net, lowered his head and looked at his own hands. Sakuragi Hanamichi suddenly clenched his fists, and his face finally There was a hint of excitement.
Without responding to Martial Arts, Sakuragi turned around and quickly returned to defense.
Seeing Sakuragi's actions, Budo and Takenori Akagi couldn't help but look at each other. Sakuragi's behavior was beyond their expectations.
Shouldn't the original Sakuragi, with his hands on his hips, laugh wildly with pride after scoring a score against the martial artist? Who is this calm expression for? !
"What's wrong with this guy?"
Akagi scratched his hair and asked doubtfully.
Martial Arts also shook his head in confusion and couldn't help complaining:
"Maybe this kid Sakuragi suddenly grew a brain."
"Transgender?"
"This was too sudden, and I was a little unprepared."
Budo didn't know that what happened to Sakuragi at this time was called enlightenment.
Some people, when doing something, have been doing it for several years or even more than ten years, but they can't do it well. But one day, this person's mind becomes clear and he suddenly figures out the joints. No matter what he does after that, he can't do it well. , can be done easily.
This is called enlightenment!
Among high school students, there are not many people like this. Maybe you have had someone like this before. When you were in junior high school, your studies were like shit. But when you got to high school, you suddenly understood how to study from one day onwards. , the performance jumped directly.
It's just that those people are focused on studying, while Sakuragi is focused on basketball.
"I suddenly felt that no matter what kind of action it was, I could do it!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was returning to defense, lowered his head and looked at his hands. His dull eyes suddenly showed a strong confidence. He felt that he was capable of anything now. This feeling was very satisfying!
(End of chapter)
