"You better do your best."
"Don't wait until I make a move and you guys, Xiangbei, fall down. That would be meaningless."
Fujima's performance made Shigong Tianye very happy, and he couldn't help but say to Jinguji Budou. His teammates' outstanding performance relieved a considerable part of his offensive pressure. Shigong Tianye now doesn't care about the ball possession. What he wants is to be able to defeat Xiangbei High School.
Excellent teammates are the puzzle piece for Ryonan High School's victory. Shigong Tianye has now seen clearly that in basketball games, the team's victory or defeat is everything! This was taught to him by Jinguji Budo.
"It's too early to say that now. I won't surrender." Jinguji Takeshi turned his head to look at Miyagi Ryouta who was going to the baseline to receive the ball, and ignored Shinomiya Tano.
"It's me... not us..."
"hehe."
Upon hearing this, Shimoya lowered his eyelids slightly, a meaningless smile appeared on his face, and then he turned around and started to defend.
The basketball was sent from the bottom line by Akagi Takenori to the hands of Miyagi Ryouta. The previous rounds of attack were easily broken by Ryonan High School. Miyagi Ryouta wanted to slow down the attack rhythm and give the players time to adjust their defensive positions.
Therefore, when advancing with the ball, the speed is very slow and time is limited before crossing the center line.
Jinguji Budou did not urge Miyagi Ryouta, because he also noticed that the defensive loopholes on the Xiangbei side were becoming more and more obvious. While Miyagi was advancing with the ball, Budou found Chiba Daishi and told him:
"When Huaxing goes to the high pick-and-roll, don't stick too closely. If it's a high shot near the three-point line, just let them go."
"Just defend the mid-range shots near the free throw line and beware of Fujima's breakthroughs. Miyagi will be able to keep up and interfere with the shots."
"Easy down, Chiba. Your body is a little tense."
Chiba Daishi seemed a little nervous in the performance on the court today. Although this guy has always been like a transparent man in Xiangbei and hardly participated in the offense, his defensive ability is indispensable to Xiangbei High School.
Chiba's physical condition is pretty good in today's high school basketball world, but facing Hanagata, who is around 195cm tall and has comprehensive skills, he seems a little inferior. Budo can see that Chiba Oishi is under great pressure, but at this time, this guy can't fall down, otherwise, Xiangbei will collapse.
Akagi Takenori in the interior is just enough to deal with Jun Uozumi, and the two can still fight for rebounds on equal terms. However, if Chiba collapses, Akagi alone will not be able to deal with Hanagata and Uozumi together.
There is no qualified backup power forward on the bench of Xiangbei High School. They can't send Kadota to fight against Hanagata, right? Although Kadota never lost in the big game, it was just a joke.
"Yes!" Chiba Daishi was obviously one grade higher than Jinguji Budou, and the two of them were actually very casual when they were together in private, but after hearing Budou's words, Chiba actually straightened his body and responded heavily. Budou was also stunned when he saw this scene, and then patted the other's back and quickly approached Ryonan's three-point line.
Chiba Daishi was really nervous, and Wudao didn't know how much the other party could hear.
"Budou!" Without giving Budou time to think, Miyagi Ryouta dribbled the ball across the center line, and then quickly passed the ball to Jinguji Budou before Fujima came up.
Jinguji Budo, who had the ball, did not rush to attack this time. Instead, after receiving the basketball, he held the basketball in one hand, made a gesture to Chiba Daishi in the inside, and called out his name: "Chiba!"
Chiba, who was about to take a position inside, was obviously stunned when he saw Jinguji Budou's action, and then ran up excitedly to cover Jinguji Budou. However, Xiangbei's intention was too obvious. Shigong Tianye adjusted his position early, started one step ahead before the pick-and-roll was set, and got stuck in the middle of Chiba and Jinguji Budou, not giving Chiba a chance to pick and roll.
However, Chiba's presence did affect Shinomiya Tano's center of gravity. While the opponent was adjusting his position, Wudao quickly dropped the ball and broke through in the direction of Chiba Oishi's pick-and-roll, easily creating a distance of about one meter between himself and Shinomiya Tano.
If it were an ordinary person, this short distance would be enough for Shimonoya to pursue and defend, but the person he was facing was Jinguji Budou.
Jinguji Takeshi took advantage of Chiba Daishi's defense and quickly crossed the three-point line. He then took the ball and jumped one step inside the three-point line, shooting arrows on horseback.
A high-position shot made everyone in Ryonan unable to react, and they saw Jinguji Budou successfully throw the ball out. Shigong Tianye, who was following behind Jinguji Budou, was also a little surprised to see Budou shoot in this posture, and quickly turned his head to look at the basket.
“Bang!”
“Swish!”
After the sound of a basketball hitting the backboard was heard, the sound of a basketball entering the net followed.
Jinguji Budou made another shot, attracting the attention of all the Ryonan players. Fujima Kenji looked at Jinguji Budou in surprise, with a look of surprise on his handsome face.
"I've always known that this freshman from Xiangbei is very strong, but I used to think that he relied on his excellent physique and mismatch with his opponents to achieve such a high shooting percentage."
"But what I didn't expect was that Jinguji Budo still had such a terrifying hit rate under the defensive pressure of Tian Ye."
"How on earth did this guy get trained?!"
Not only Fujima Kenji was surprised, Hanagata Toru even stared at Budo for a long time without moving his eyes away. Fujima Kenji might simply think that Jinguji Budo is strong, but Hanagata thinks that Jinguji Budo is abnormally terrifying!
Hanagata is different from Fujima. Fujima is a guard player who is less than 180cm tall. Fujima has no idea what problems he will encounter if his height reaches that of Hanagata.
Being tall doesn't just have advantages. Being tall means having a higher center of gravity, which means decreased coordination.
Hanagata thinks that his skills are quite comprehensive, but he can still only play power forward and center. The main problem is that he is too tall. His center of gravity is high when he dribbles, making it easy for him to be stolen. His ability to connect with the ball is average. He has no problem with simple dribbling movements, but it is easy to make mistakes with more complex ones.
But Takeshi Jinguji is completely different. With such a height, his ability to combine with the ball is still very good. Hanagata feels that he can also do horseback archery after a breakthrough, but he definitely does not have the speed of Takeshi Jinguji, nor does he have the terrifying shooting accuracy of Takeshi.
Shooting from a high position is not an easy task in itself, and shooting after a change of rhythm like starting and stopping is even more difficult to control. Jinguji Budo's consecutive goals made Hanagata envious, but also felt deeply afraid.
"Good blocking, Chiba."
"Be more aggressive on defense, you'll be fine!"
Although Chiba Daishi's pick-and-roll was terrible, Jinguji Budou still patted Chiba Daishi on the back and praised him when he returned to defense. Chiba Daishi didn't even bother to tell whether Budou was telling the truth or not. He was very happy to be involved in this round of offense, and his nervousness eased a little.
"Um!"
Chiba Daishi nodded, and then quickly moved to the middle distance. Mitsui Shou saw all the changes of Chiba Daishi, and finally looked at Wudao with some relief.
Although Takeshi still did not pass the ball to his teammates in this round of attack, Mitsui knew that Takeshi Jinguji was not a lone wolf player. He is now more willing to believe that Takeshi's previous performance was due to let-downs.
Mitsui understood, but the players of Ryonan would not think so. They only knew that Jinguji Budou scored the goal again with his personal ability. Of course, they saw Chiba Daishi's pick-and-roll, but the players of Ryonan would not think that Jinguji Budou was able to score because of that poor pick-and-roll.
Coach Tanaka, who had been calm off the court, was now a little annoyed. Although he did not think that Takeshi Jinguji could lead Shohoku to defeat Ryonan on his own, his consecutive scores greatly embarrassed Shigeka Tanaka.
He even imagined the reporters' report after the game: "Jinguji Budo had everything he wanted in front of the powerful Ryonan!"
Coach Tanaka was furious just thinking about this kind of report.
"What are you doing?! How many points do you want that first-year to get?!"
"You bastards can't even handle a first-year?! Stop him!"
"Tian Ye, stop slacking off, you bastard! Fight hard and put the pressure on us!"
Coach Tiangang stood on the sidelines and shouted at the Ryonan players who were organizing the attack. His voice was so loud that it even drowned out the cheers of the audience in the stands. The audience looked towards Coach Tiangang following the voice and talked a lot for a while.
"Wow...Ryonan's coach is so fierce! Their players have a hard time playing under such a coach. Xiangbei's coach is so quiet, he looks friendly and not fierce at all, and Xiangbei is also a strong team."
"Yeah, I don't know why they are shouting so loudly... Isn't Shinomiya Tianye a good fighter?"
"Oh, you guys are just going to stop moving. Your voice is still too quiet. Do you still want to be a coach when your voice is so quiet?"
There was a lot of discussion in the stands. The Ryonan players in the rest area were stunned when they saw this scene. Yueyue Hongming even murmured when he saw the angry coach: "We can't keep our temper. After all, we are young people. How can a middle-aged coach keep his temper?"
On the court, Fujima Kenji, who was holding the ball, couldn't help but look at Coach Takeo, and then looked at Sendoh, Shinomiya Tano and others, and there was a hint of helplessness in their eyes.
Although he has joined Ryonan for a short time, he still has a certain understanding of Coach Takeka.
Although Coach Tiangang is strict in his coaching and likes to scold people, but... he is a good coach.
"Tian Ye, the coach seems very angry, do you need to work harder?"
Fujima said as he crossed the center line with the ball. His eyes were on Shinomiya Tano, and he didn't take Miyagi Ryouta who was approaching him seriously at all.
“Maybe you can’t see it, but I’ve actually tried very hard!”
There was a faint smile on Shinomiya Tano's face, but his words made Fujima Kenji's face change slightly. Although Shinomiya Tano said it with a smile, Fujima did not hear the feeling of a joke from the other party's tone.
"That guy is not just a lone wolf, he is a fierce tiger!"
As Shigong Tianye said this, he trotted in front of Jinguji Wudao and suddenly said to Wudao: "Sure enough, it's still fun to play with a guy like you!"
Wu Dao was a little confused when he heard this, but he didn't have time to think too much. The basketball had already flown out of Fujima Kenji's hands and was handed to Shigong Tianye. As soon as the latter got the ball, Wu Dao immediately lowered his center of gravity to guard against Shigong Tianye's breakthrough, but as soon as he made a move, Shigong Tianye directly took the ball and jumped, and shot a three-pointer two steps outside the three-point line.
Shigong Tianye's choice was beyond Wudao's expectations, and he was several beats late before he reached out to interfere. But at this moment, the basketball was already in the air.
After shooting a super long three-pointer, Shigong Tianye seemed to have some feeling. He smacked his lips and sighed: "Super long three-pointers are really difficult!"
"Ding~" The next second, a crisp sound of hitting the iron was heard, and the basketball hit the rim and bounced out.
Under the basket, Akagi Takenori, Uozumi Jun and others had already huddled together. The strength of Akagi and Uozumi was almost the same, with Akagi just slightly inferior, or even less than half. Relying on the defensive position advantage, Akagi held on to Yuzumi and occupied a better rebounding position in the interior.
But Shohoku's other inside player, Chiba Daishi, was in a miserable situation. His physique was no match for Hanagata Toru. From the time Shinomiya Tano shot to the time the basketball flew out, which was less than two seconds, Chiba Daishi had been squeezed out of the basket by Hanagata and was almost two meters away from the basket.
“Bang!”
The basketball fell, and the direction of its fall was exactly where Hanagata was blocking. Hanagata was not in a hurry to jump up to grab the rebound, but just held on to Chiba. When the basketball hit the ground and bounced back, Hanagata easily took a step and caught the ball in his hand. At this time, Akagi Takenori had already come in front of Hanagata and wanted to double-team him.
Huaxing, who had the ball, had no intention of attacking on his own. He casually hooked the ball towards the basket and did not give Akagi any chance to defend him.
"It won't go in!" Akagi Takenori thought to himself when he saw Hanagata's casual shooting attitude, but when he turned his head, a huge blue shadow came into view.
“Roar, roar, roar!
!”
Yuzumi Jun caught the ball in the air with both hands and dunked it into the basket. The powerful force pulled the entire basketball hoop downward. The rest area of Ryonan High School was already filled with jubilation.
When Shinomiya Tano saw Hanagata and Uozumi cooperate in an alley-oop slam dunk and score the ball, he grinned at Jinguji Budou and turned around and started to defend without saying anything.
Wudao looked at Jun Yuzumi in the hanging frame, then looked at Jun Yuzumi who was standing in front of Akagi, and frowned slightly.
"The disadvantage in the interior is quite big. Even if Xiao San has time to perform, it is still hard to say who will win if there is no advantage in the interior."
"That guy Shigong Tianye also gave me a reminder."
"First... get this guy off the field!"
Jinguji Budo was thinking in his mind, his frown relaxed, and he grinned in the direction of Yuzumi.
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