While the coaches watching the game were worrying about how their team would deal with Jinguji Budo, the Shoyo players had quickly adjusted their mentality.
After all, they were a strong team that had made it into the national league. They just lost a goal after the opening, so it didn't have that big of an impact on them.
Fujima received the serve from his teammate in the backcourt and quickly moved the ball forward.
Before the game, Miyagi Ryouta had learned about Fujima's offensive habits and characteristics. He knew that Fujima had a very long shooting range, was very good at three-pointers and mid-range shots, and had an extremely fast breakthrough speed. Therefore, Miyagi did not want to give Fujima a chance to speed up, and immediately stuck to him when Fujima just crossed half court.
Miyagi Ryouta's active defensive attitude was obviously beyond Fujima's expectations. When he was advancing, his teammates had already moved to the inside position and no one set up screens for him.
However, although Fujima was surprised by Miyagi's active defense, it does not mean that Fujima will be afraid of Miyagi's defense.
As soon as Fujima crossed the center line with the ball, he immediately changed his dribbling posture, lowered his center of gravity, and continued to dribble between his legs while slowly moving forward. The pressure he felt while dribbling was quite strong. Miyagi Ryouta was also very wary of Fujima, so he lowered his center of gravity and carefully retreated little by little, maintaining a defensive distance of about 40cm.
Suddenly, Fujima changed his rhythm, put his left hand directly on Miyagi Ryouta's waist, and broke through with his body close to Miyagi. His breakthrough was very sudden and the starting speed was also quite fast. When he broke through, Fujima intentionally compressed the defensive distance reserved by Miyagi, leaving Miyagi no chance to react. In a blink of an eye, Fujima directly passed Miyagi Ryouta and approached the three-point line.
At this time, Jinguji Takeshi was standing under the basket defending Hanagata. Their starting lineup was not as tall as Shoyo's. The first-year Kakuta Satoru was only about 180cm even with shoes, while Shoyo's repeater Koizumi Shinji and Hanagata were both tall, around 195cm. In front of these two people, Kakuta Satoru could not play the defensive role of a power forward at all.
Chiba Daishi was much shorter than his opponent and could only play the role of center. In order to prevent the inside line from collapsing, Wudao naturally took over the task of guarding the inside line on the defensive end.
At this time, Fujima broke through. With his speed, Miyagi, who was broken through, had no chance to chase and defend him. Yasuda and Kakuta in the distance had no way to defend Fujima. Budo, who noticed this, silently left the paint area and moved to the side of the free throw line, guarding against Fujima.
"Have you made up for the defense? This guy moves so fast. He was already in position just as I broke through."
"And the positioning is also very tricky, implicitly cutting off the passing line between me and Hanagata!"
After breaking through, Fujima saw Takeshi's figure appear not far away. Looking inside, Fujima found that Takeshi was standing between him and Hanagata. If he wanted to pass the ball to Hanagata, it would be a considerable risk.
Noticing this, Fujima quickly turned his head to look at his teammates outside the three-point line on the other side, and quickly passed the ball.
But surprisingly, although Fujima was looking at his teammates outside the three-point line, the ball he passed was directly toward Shinji Koizumi inside. Shinji Koizumi's position was in the opposite direction of Hanagata, and Budo had no way to effectively intercept Fujima's pass.
Chiba Daiishi, who was defending Koizumi, was also deceived by Fujima. When Koizumi Shinji received the basketball, he was looking at the Shoyo player standing outside the three-point line.
Shinji Koizumi received the ball and made a quick turn, then made a small lob shot, shooting the basketball directly from close range.
“Pah.”
“Swish!”
After a crisp sound of hitting the backboard, the sound of the basketball going into the net was heard. Wudao turned his head and saw the scene of the basketball going into the net. At this time, Chiba Daishi didn't even move. He was completely fooled by Fujima and Koizumi Shinji and didn't resist at all.
"Good pass, Fujima!"
After Koizumi scored, Shinji quickly returned to defense. When he passed by Fujima, he smiled and praised Fujima. As the captain, Fujima smiled gently and said modestly: "It was you who made the shot, Koizumi-senpai."
Shoyo had a bad start, which was somewhat of a blow to the players. However, with this goal scored by Shinji Koizumi, those adverse effects instantly disappeared. The Shoyo players encouraged each other and started to return to defense, and soon retreated to their own half.
"Sorry, Budo." Chiba Daishi said apologetically, and then silently walked to the baseline to serve.
"Don't worry about it, just guard against it next time."
Wu Dao comforted him, and then jogged towards the front court. Miyagi Ryouta silently came to the back court to receive the ball, and then followed behind Wu Dao, advancing towards the front court with the ball.
As Miyagi advanced, his eyes were fixed on Fujima, as if fire could emerge from them.
When Miyagi got close to the three-point line, Fujima slowly approached him, lowered his center of gravity and came in front of Miyagi. Looking at Miyagi's eyes, Fujima smiled and asked, "From your eyes, it seems that you want to challenge me?!"
When Fujima said this, he naturally used the word "challenge". In his opinion, he was stronger than Miyagi, and a strong sense of pride was inadvertently revealed in his words.
Miyagi didn't say anything, nor did he have any intention of challenging Fujima's defensive ability on the offensive end. After seeing Takeshi raise his hand to ask for help again with his back against Hanagata in the mid-range, he simply lobbed the ball out.
The parabola of Miyagi's pass was quite high, so Fujima could not intercept it. However, precisely because of the high parabola, the intention of the pass became particularly obvious, and it gave Hanagata time to grab the position.
Although Miyagi's basketball was passed, the Shoyo player who was defending Kadota quickly moved towards Budou, and Shinji Koizumi in the inside also turned around and looked at Budou.
After seeing the pass, Hanagata Toru tried to get in front of Wudao and grab the basketball.
However, Huaxing's efforts were in vain in front of Wudao. Although Wudao had his back to Huaxing, when Huaxing moved, he cleverly changed his position and firmly trapped Huaxing behind him.
The basketball fell, and Wu Dao rushed forward and grabbed the ball. Because of the rush to catch the ball, Wu Dao was only about two meters away from the three-point line.
Although Hanagata failed to steal the ball, his efforts still bought some time. At this time, two defensive players, Hanagata and Shoyo No. 7, had gathered on Budo's side. The two stood behind Budo, one on the left and one on the right, one in front and one behind, tacitly forming a joint defense.
Hanagata's chest was pressed against Takeshi's back, defending at close range, while Shoyo's No. 7 was about half a meter away from the two of them. Once Takeshi broke through, he would provide backup defense and slow down Takeshi's breakthrough speed. At that time, he and Hanagata would form a perfect double-team, one from the front and one from the back.
Wudao's back was in the shape of a flower, with one hand holding the basketball horizontally. He turned his head slightly and glanced at Xiangyang's defensive layout with his peripheral vision. Then he gathered the ball to his chest, quickly turned around with the ball, and broke through with his body low.
The movements in martial arts are extremely fast, and the center of gravity is kept very low when breaking through.
"Here he comes!" Hua Xing was shocked when he saw Wudao's breakthrough, and he quickly lowered his center of gravity to catch up. The Xiangyang team member not far behind him also quickly took action, changing his position and trying to block Wudao's path.
However, the martial art of low-stepping breakthrough actually does not mean a strong breakthrough at all. It is just a step forward for dribbling, and then directly grabbing the ball and shooting. The breakthrough is fake, and the sudden stop and pull-up is the real thing.
"?!" Hua Xing was visibly stunned when he saw Wudao suddenly stop and pull up, but it was too late to stop him.
In order to keep up with Wudao's breakthrough speed, Hanagata lowered his center of gravity when defending. Facing Wudao's pull-up shot, he could not interfere at all and could only watch the basketball fly towards the basket.
"Swish!" With a slight sound, the basketball fell directly into the net.
"ohhhhh!"
“What a beautiful shot!”
“That’s amazing!”
As the basketball went into the net, cheers broke out from the audience.
Budo's offensive moves were neat and tidy, and the time he spent in the air when shooting was long, giving people a sense of elegance and grace. Although both were goals, Budo's goals were much more entertaining than Shoyo's.
Moreover, Wudao's long shot really boosted the team's morale, and there was a burst of joy on the Xiangbei bench.
"Come on, defend against Shoyo's attack!"
Jinguji Budo clapped his hands and shouted to his teammates while quickly retreating.
After the attack and defense changed, Fujima encouraged Hanagata briefly and then quickly pushed the ball forward. This time, his speed was even faster than before, and Shoyo was already aware of Miyagi's defensive strategy, so when Fujima pushed forward, someone was nearby to support him.
When Fujima passed the three-point line, Miyagi was caught by a pick-and-roll by Shoyo when he wanted to defend. Fujima used this pick-and-roll to get a chance to play against a smaller opponent, facing Yasuda Yasuharu's defense.
But how could Yasuda Yasuharu possibly stop Fujima's breakthrough
Fujima simply changed direction in front of his body and passed Yasuda cleanly, then he shot directly from the three-point line.
Open three-pointer.
Fujima's shooting was already quite stable, and the game had just started when Fujima still had plenty of energy. Such an open three-pointer was not difficult for Fujima at all, and the basketball fell directly into the net.
4:5. Although Xiangbei took the initiative at the beginning of the game, they were lagging behind at this moment.
Xiangyang's attack in this round was quite easy. Wudao frowned slightly when he saw this scene and ran towards the front court silently.
No one blames Yasuda. Isn't it difficult for the fledgling Yasuharu Yasuda to defend the star defender of Kanagawa Prefecture
What Xiangbei needs to do now is to catch up.
Everyone was aware of this, so Miyagi subconsciously quickened his pace. Seeing that he was behind in the score despite having the advantage at the start, Miyagi became obviously a little impatient.
Once you get impatient, you will make mistakes. Miyagi only wanted to quickly bring the ball to the front court and pass it to Budou. This mentality was seized by Fujima, who completed the steal.
Fujima's steal was near the midline, and at this time, Budo had already entered the Shoyo three-point line, so there was no possibility of pursuit. Miyagi's pursuit could only keep up with Fujima's speed and could not defend Fujima's layup at all. Fujima's slight height advantage turned into an absolute advantage during fast break layups.
4:7, just a few minutes into the game, Xiangbei was three points behind.
"Miyagi, don't be impatient. Just take your time. We still have plenty of time."
Xiangbei served again, and after Miyagi made a mistake, Wudao couldn't help but remind him. The latter nodded silently and slowed down his pace.
Yasuda Yasuharu and Kakuda Satoru also cooperated with Miyagi's advance and began to surround Miyagi to escort him. Xiangbei's cover training has been done for a long time. Kakuda and Yasuda practiced every day and they were not the kind of novices who knew nothing.
When Miyagi was advancing with the ball, the two of them worked in a tacit understanding to do pick-and-roll, which reduced the pressure on Miyagi a lot.
And Wu Dao no longer stood in the middle distance waiting for the ball, but went to receive the ball outside the three-point line, which reduced the pressure on Miyagi to pass the ball.
All of a sudden, Xiangbei's basketball operation was completely restored.
However, when Wu Dao was attacking with the ball, he was already quite far away from the basket!
“Bang!”
Takeshi Jinguji ran to the three-point line and received the pass from Miyagi, and then he faced the basket directly.
Although Hanagata is the forward of Shoyo, he also chased Budou to the three-point line at this time. There was no other way. Judging from Budou's offensive habits in the previous two goals, Budou was good at shooting and had a long range, so Hanagata had to defend.
Hanagata analyzed the situation before making this decision, and remembered the offensive methods used by Hasegawa in Budo Junior High School, so he chased to the three-point line. Even at this position, Hanagata did not relax at all, because according to Hasegawa's information, the tall guy in front of him holding a basketball has the ability to shoot three-pointers!
At this time, Xiangbei was just behind by three points, and Hanagata felt that Budou would most likely use a three-pointer to quickly tie the score.
"Are you planning to shoot a three-pointer?!" Hua Xing straightened his back slightly, guarding against Wu Dao's sudden pull-up shot, and said suddenly.
"Oh, did you guess it?!" Wudao smiled and replied.
"You won't get..." Hanagata was about to speak when he saw Jinguji Takeshi suddenly raise the ball and try to shoot. He swallowed back the words and quickly stepped forward.
However, as soon as Hanagata moved, Budou quickly collected the ball and stood still. After Hanagata stood still, he looked at Hanagata's nervous face and said with a smile: "I was kidding you."
Hanagata didn't respond, but his expression was full of vigilance and his center of gravity sank slightly.
Wu Dao noticed that Hua Xing lowered his center of gravity, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly. After slowly exploding the ball, he quickly broke through.
"Sure enough!" Hua Xing was secretly delighted when he saw the breakthrough in martial arts. He had already predicted that martial arts would have a breakthrough, so he deliberately lowered his center of gravity and was on guard.
Therefore, at the first moment of Wudao's breakthrough, although Huaxing was a little behind, he still followed Wudao closely and did not lose his position.
However, this time, Wu Dao still only took one step forward.
At the moment when Hanagata's center of gravity was shaken, Jinguji Budou quickly gathered the ball and took a step back to the three-point line. Hanagata wanted to brake and turn around, but although his brain reacted, his body could not react. Because he wanted to change direction in a hurry to defend Budou, his left foot hooked on his right foot and he fell to the floor, even sliding a short distance.
Standing outside the three-point line, Jinguji Budo silently lowered his head to look at Hanagata. After two or three seconds, he slowly adjusted his posture, looked at the basket, and shot.
"You guessed I was going to shoot a three-pointer, so what?!"
Wu Dao muttered, turned around, and jogged back to his own half of the court. Less than a second after he turned around, the basketball fell steadily into the net, making a crisp sound.
The screams of the audience and the cheers of his teammates all remained behind Jinguji Budo.
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