“Bang!”
Two big hands pressed on both sides of the basketball almost at the same time.
Akagi Takenori and Uozumi Jun are of similar height. Although Akagi's height and wingspan are slightly worse than Uozumi's, Akagi Takenori's explosive power is slightly better than Uozumi's. The slight difference in height between the two was eliminated, and the key to winning the jump ball became a contest of strength.
"Hah!" Akagi and Uozumi shouted together. The basketball was hit by the two of them and did not fly to any half of the court. Instead, it flew to the side along the center line.
"Sendoh!" Yuzumi looked in the direction the basketball flew out and saw Sendoh appear in front of the basketball, holding the ball in his arms. Seeing his teammate take the ball, Yuzumi couldn't help but shout happily, then looked back at Akagi and raised his eyebrows.
"hateful!"
"Return to defense!"
When Akagi Takenori saw that the basketball was in the hands of the Ryonan players, he was unwilling to accept it. He glared at Yuzumi fiercely and there was some anger in his heart when he shouted to return to defense.
Xiangbei High School's defense was very fast. When Sendoh had just crossed the half court with the ball, the five Xiangbei players had already entered the three-point line to defend. When Sendoh Akira approached the three-point line with the ball, Mugure Konobu stepped up.
Xiangbei High School adopted man-to-man defense, and the person who defended Sendoh was Murasakibara. The sophomore Murasakibara was about 175cm tall, while the freshman Sendoh Akira was 188cm tall. Standing in front of Murasakibara, he was half a head taller than Murasakibara.
Facing Murasakibara's defense, Sendoh Akira dribbled the ball with his body half sideways, with his hand protecting the ball in front of him. However, his eyes were not on Murasakibara Konobu in front of him. Instead, he was scanning the entire court, looking for an opportunity to pass the ball.
"Kumure, be careful of his breakthrough!" Mitsui Hisashi stood in front of Shinomiya Tano. He saw the group of opponents led by Kuumure Konobu out of the corner of his eye and couldn't help but speak out a reminder.
But just as he was speaking, Shinomiya Tano, who was standing outside the three-point line and looking at Sendoh, suddenly moved. In the blink of an eye, he passed the distracted Mitsui Hisashi and rushed towards the inside.
Sendoh obviously noticed Shinomiya's movements. He made a feint to deceive Murasakibara's position and quickly passed the ball to Shinomiya's hands.
Shinomiya Tano received the ball in the middle distance and just dribbled the basketball. Then he ignored Akagi Takenori and Chiba Daiishi who were guarding the basket and directly passed the ball to the basket.
The position where Shinomiya Tano jumped with the ball was four or five meters away from the basket. Akagi and Chiba Daiishi, who were standing under the basket, also stepped forward to block the shot, but before they could get to Shinomiya Tano, Shinomiya Tano made a lob layup and the basketball flew out of his hands and towards the basket.
"What is this?" Akagi Takenori looked at Shigong Tianye's action and his face froze. He had seen the layup attack many times, but it was the first time he saw a layup from such a long distance like Shigong Tianye's. It would be more appropriate to describe Shigong Tianye's shooting method as a lob shot rather than a layup.
But his lob shot was made with a lob-shot posture.
"Swish!" The weird offensive method was quite efficient. The basketball fell from a high place and went directly into the net.
Just ten seconds into the game, Ryonan High School scored the first goal and took the lead.
"That guy is so fast and has a great ability to seize opportunities. I was only distracted for a moment, and he actually took advantage of that opportunity."
Mitsui Hisashi frowned slightly as he looked at Shinomiya Tano who was high-fiving Sendoh Akira in celebration.
"It doesn't matter, prepare to attack!"
Kogure Mitsunobu clapped his hands, shouted an encouragement, then trotted to the basket, picked up the basketball, and passed it to Miyagi Ryouta. He then walked over to Akagi and Chiba, patted them on the back, and trotted towards the front court.
The Xiangbei team came to their senses and began to organize an attack.
The one in control of the ball was Miyagi Ryouta. Ryouta had just crossed half court with the ball when Ryonan High School's Nishibayashi Kenichi came up to him.
Kenichi Nishibayashi is the starting point guard for Ryonan High School in his third year. He is 180cm tall, a rare "tall" point guard in high school games.
That's right, a tall point guard.
Miyagi Ryouta, who is only a little over 160cm tall, looks a little thin standing in front of Nishibayashi Kenichi.
Inside Ryonan's three-point line, Uozumi Jun's defensive attention was not on Akagi, and he was chatting with Shinomiya Tano who was standing not far away with an unhappy tone:
"Tian Ye, what happened to that goal you just scored? With your ability, it shouldn't be a problem for you to rush into the paint and dunk, right?"
"What's the point of such a soft attack?"
While Yuzumi was speaking, he did not forget to glance at Akagi. Although he did not mention Akagi Takenori in every sentence, he mentioned him in every sentence.
"Um?"
"There's no need for that. The main force of Xiangbei hasn't arrived yet. Save some energy."
Shinomiya Tianye replied casually, hinting at something. Mitsui Shou in front of him looked serious, turned his head to glance at Shinomiya Tianye, and then quickly ran to the outside line, while waving to Miyagi for the ball.
The opponent said this in front of Mitsui Shou, which was a naked mockery! How could the proud Mitsui Shou not want to teach the opponent a lesson? And scoring a goal was the best response to the opponent!
When Shinomiya Tano saw that Mitsui Shou had made a move, he stopped talking to Yuzumi and hurriedly followed Mitsui Shou to run outside the three-point line. However, his speed was not fast, he simply followed behind Mitsui Shou.
Miyagi Ryouta at the top of the arc lobbed the ball to Mitsui Hisashi, and then quickly approached Mitsui Hisashi.
Mitsui received the ball about one or two meters outside the three-point line. When passing the ball, Miyagi was concerned about Shinomiya Tano who was following behind Mitsui, so he gave the ball a little more lead time in front of Mitsui.
The player who received the ball turned around and saw Shinomiya Tano who had already run in front of him. Shinomiya Tano, a freshman, was 191cm tall, much taller than Mitsui. At this time, Shinomiya Tano raised his right hand high, blocking Mitsui's shooting route, completely blocking Mitsui's shooting route.
At this time, Miyagi Ryouta approached and stuck to the side of Shinomiya Tano, trying to set a screen for Mitsui Hisashi.
Mitsui bent his knees and prepared to break through in the direction of Miyagi Ryouta's pick-and-roll. His movement was instantly noticed by Shinomiya Tano, who quickly turned around and broke away from Miyagi Ryouta's pick-and-roll, ready to defend against Mitsui's breakthrough.
But unexpectedly, Mitsui Shou had no intention of breaking through in the direction of Miyagi's pick-and-roll. From the beginning, Mitsui Shou knew that Miyagi's pick-and-roll would not work, and the breakthrough just now was just a fake move.
Mitsui Shou changed direction in front of his body, took a step in the opposite direction of Shigong Tianye's defense, and then raised the ball and shot. Mitsui Shou's control of the empty position was extremely good, and his feet were almost close to the three-point line when shooting.
The rhythm of the entire shooting was quite compact and smooth, and Oion's shooting speed was also quite fast. Sinomiya Tano, who misjudged the direction, had no chance to make up for it and could only watch the basketball fly towards the basket.
"Swish!" A crisp sound of the ball hitting the net resounded throughout the stadium, and the players sitting on the Xiangbei bench immediately cheered.
Mitsui Hisaya, who scored the goal, clenched his fist towards Shinomiya Tanaka, responding to Shinomiya Tanaka's words just now that "the real leader of Xiangbei has not arrived yet."
"Hey, Tian Ye, be on guard!"
"What kind of defense is that! Press forward and put pressure on them!"
Although Mitsui Hisashi only scored one goal, Coach Tanaoka in the stadium jumped up. He was not as calm as before and shouted loudly.
Mitsui glanced at Coach Tiangang indifferently, curled his lips, and murmured: "Can you defend me well? Are you kidding me?"
When Mitsui Shou said this, he did not avoid Shigong Tianye at all, and this word fell directly into Shigong Tianye's ears. However, the young man was not angry, but grinned at Mitsui Shou.
It’s just that his smile isn’t that “kind”.
Attack and defense changed, the ball came to Ryonan High School, and it was Nishibayashi Kenichi who held the ball. The other players of Ryonan High School entered the Xiangbei half early, waiting for their own defender to bring the ball into the front court.
Just when Ryonan High School was organizing an attack, two people walked in at the door of the basketball hall without anyone noticing.
"Wow, that's great. I didn't expect a high school in Japan to have such a decent basketball stadium. It's better than the public schools in China."
A young man in his thirties followed Jinguji Takeshi into the basketball hall. After entering the hall, he looked around and then expressed his feelings to Takeshi in Chinese.
“There are indeed some advantages in hardware.”
"Brother Jun, please watch the game from the sidelines for a while. After I finish this practice match, I will take you to find your companions."
Wu Dao explained to the young man, and then looked at the court. At this time, it was the late Jinguji Wu Dao who entered the stadium, but not only himself, he also brought a young man named Zhang Yongjun.
"Oh! Okay, okay, it's okay, just go ahead and do your thing."
"It's okay for me to wait a little longer. It's Neon High School's basketball game. I might as well watch it."
Zhang Yongjun smiled and shook his hand, indicating that Wu Dao was free to do whatever he wanted. Then he looked around the court, found an empty seat on the sidelines, sat down and watched the game.
Seeing that Zhang Yongjun didn't mind, Wudao immediately went to the Xiangbei rest area.
Coach Anxi, I'm sorry, I'm late!" Wu Dao greeted Coach Anxi as soon as he arrived at the rest area, looking a little embarrassed.
Caizi, who was standing by, saw Jinguji Budou coming to the rest area and said in surprise: "Ah! Jinguji, you are finally here. Fortunately, the game has just started."
"Where have you been? Why are you late?"
Ayako's words just expressed everyone's doubts. The substitutes' attention was no longer on the court at this time, and they all looked at Jinguji Budo.
"I was delayed by some things. When I came back, I met a Chinese who got lost while traveling with his companions. I happened to know some Chinese, so I thought I could help him."
"But I'm still thinking about the practice match. So I brought the lost guy to the gym. After the match, I'll take him to find his companions."
Wu Dao pointed at Zhang Yongjun who was sitting opposite the court and said.
"Chinese tourists?"
“You are so enthusiastic!”
Caizi scratched her head and said with some amusement. Coach Anxi looked at Zhang Yongjun, pushed his glasses, and seemed a little surprised.
Coach Anxi has seen this young man brought back by Wu Dao!
"Chinese? Zhang Yongjun? Isn't that guy a member of the Chinese men's basketball team?!"
Coach Anxi was secretly surprised, but he hid his surprise instantly. He turned his head to look at Wu Dao and said calmly, "Jinguji, I won't give you time to warm up. You will be on the court soon."
"When you get on the court and the activities start, then show your strengths."
While Coach Anzai was talking to Jinguji Budo, a loud noise was heard in the stadium, and the Ryonan High School bench next door also erupted in amazing cheers.
Just now, Ryonan High School's Sendoh Akira broke through and made a wonderful pass to Shimonoseki, who then completed an alley-oop slam dunk over the head of Akagi Takenori.
Shinomiya's strong physical fitness is even stronger than Akagi's. With a dunk, Akagi couldn't stop the soaring Shinomiya. Not only that, Akagi also hit Shinomiya's hand while defending. This was a two plus one.
"rnm! Is this how Japanese high school students play basketball?!"
"What the hell is this?!"
Zhang Yongjun on the other side of the court stood up from his seat suddenly, stared blankly at Sigong Tianye hanging in the frame, and blurted out a Chinese curse.
It's no wonder that he was so surprised, because the performance of the men's basketball team of this country was really too bad. Zhang Yongjun had also met the Japanese men's basketball team in major competitions and played against them. He dared to say that with that shot just now, not to mention high school students, even the current Japanese men's basketball team, few people could do it.
Shinomiya Tano's alley-oop slam dunk attracted everyone's attention to the court. Mitsuyoshi Anzai pushed his glasses and walked silently to the referee's seat. While Shinomiya Tano was shooting free throws, he requested a substitution.
“Beep!”
"Shohoku High School, requesting a substitution!"
Jinguji Budou quickly changed his jersey and trotted into the court, replacing Kogure Konobu. Kogure Konobu was not angry at all, but instead breathed a sigh of relief.
I'm afraid only he can understand his mood at this moment. Although the player he defended, Sendoh Akira, did not take the initiative to attack, but seeing Sendoh passing the ball easily in front of him, Mugure Konobu couldn't help but feel disappointed. Shinomiya Tano was able to dunk over Akagi's head, and he couldn't put pressure on Sendoh to pass the ball, which was also related to the fact that he couldn't put pressure on Sendoh to pass the ball.
Shinomiya Tano easily scored the free throw without any distractions. After scoring the goal, he smiled and looked at Jinguji Budou who was standing outside the three-point line when he returned to defense, and greeted him:
"You are late. I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Wu Dao looked at Shigong Tianye intently. After a long time, he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I didn't expect you to still be in Kanagawa and even join Ryonan High School."
"That really surprised me!"
Shigong Tianye smiled and replied: "I knew you would continue to play. Why would I go anywhere else before I completely defeat you?"
"After leaving Kanagawa, I'm afraid I won't be able to meet you in the national competition."
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