"The Immortal Path is very strong, but it is only valuable if it can protect a guy like you!"
Faced with the pressure from Xiandao, even Wudao became a little nervous at this time, but this nervousness would not affect Wudao's movements. On the contrary, such emotions would allow Wudao's body to automatically adjust to a better competitive state.
"Twenty seconds left." Mitsui watched Sendoh dribbling the ball into the frontcourt from afar, glanced at the timer on the sidelines, silently left his previous position, and came to a place not far behind Takeshi.
If Sendoh could break through Martial Arts, the first thing he would have to face would be Mitsui Hisashi's defense.
Although Mitsui Shou just told Wudao that he would give Wudao the No. 13 of the pink team, Mitsui Shou would not put all his hopes of defending the opponent on Wudao alone. The previous words were just to encourage Wudao. It would be a good thing if Wudao could defend against the opponent's attack this time. If not, he would be the one to clean up the mess.
Throughout the entire half, there was a rather strange scene of positioning.
As the offensive team, all five players of Akizuki High School stayed outside the three-point line, including Sendoh who had the ball. The other players of Akizuki High School had no intention of penetrating into the inside, and they were not even active in running. They all stood outside the three-point line, looking at Takeshi and Sendoh, and had no intention of going up to help Sendoh with pick-and-roll.
It seemed as if this game had nothing to do with these players.
As for Takeishi Junior High School, only Takeshi remained outside the three-point line. The rest of the players retreated to the inside and had no direction to defend, so that all the players from Akizuki Junior High School outside, except Sendoh, were in open positions.
But even in such an open space, Sendoh did not pass the ball to any of them.
At this time, Xiandao was standing straight, looking down at Wudao who was calm, looking for an opportunity to break through.
Suddenly, Xiandao lowered his center of gravity and took a step to break through to the left side of Wudao. Xiandao had already noticed in the previous attacks that Wudao's lateral movement speed to the left was not as fast as that to the right side, and Wudao's left side, which was Xiandao's right side just now, was the most comfortable breakthrough direction for Xiandao.
As soon as Xiandao started, Wudao in front of him quickly took action, lagging behind Xiandao by half a body length, and directly blocked in front of him. In order to affect Xiandao's feel, Wudao moved sideways and directly stuck to Xiandao, suppressing Xiandao's offensive space.
Sendoh protected the ball with his left hand, which was placed on Takeshi's waist, and tried hard to keep a certain amount of space for dribbling. However, how could the strength of one arm possibly stop Takeshi's invasion? The next second after Takeshi came up, the space for a breakthrough had been compressed by Takeshi.
Sendao, who noticed this, stopped immediately, picked up the basketball with his right hand, and turned quickly close to Wudao's body. However, just as Sendao started to turn around, Wudao had already quickly stepped back half a step, leaving a distance of nearly 30 centimeters between him and Sendao, making Sendao's turn look like he was turning on the spot.
And when Sendoh faced Budou again, Budou once again stuck to Sendoh and started to steal the ball.
This is the best time to steal the ball. Generally speaking, if the offensive player fails to break through the defensive player after turning around, the subconscious action is to dribble the ball with left and right hands in front of the body to adjust the rhythm for the next wave of attack.
The immortal way also has such a custom.
"Nice defensive move!" Off the court, Anxi Zhengyi watched Wudao stick to it and retreat again and again, successfully restricting Sendo, and his eyes lit up. Although the previous confrontation between Wudao and Sendo was fierce, Anxi Zhengyi off the court did not feel much.
However, ever since Sendoh broke into the defensive circle and scored four goals in a row to become two plus one, Anzai Zhengyi had a new assessment of Sendoh's attack power. It was precisely because of the improved assessment of Sendoh that he paid more attention to Jinguji Takeshi, who had defended Sendoh many times before.
The stronger the opponent, the more the value of the defensive players can be reflected.
Wudao's shot was very fast and accurate, hitting the basketball directly. The basketball rolled out of Sendoh's hand, but when Wudao was about to rush up to grab the ball, Sendoh turned sideways and caught Wudao behind him, and at the same time quickly ran two steps and regained control of the ball.
Although Wudao succeeded in stealing the ball this time, his position was not good and he failed to make a successful steal.
“Huh~”
“That was a close call.”
After the basketball was in hand, Sendoh smiled with relief and said lightly. At this moment, there were only 16 seconds left before the end of the game, and Sendoh had held the ball for a full 8 seconds.
"Sendoh has been holding the ball for too long!" Katori Shingo, who was off the court, had realized that Sendoh had been holding the ball for too long. He frowned slightly, clenched his hands into fists unconsciously, and looked at Takeishi's other players nervously.
But what reassured him was that none of Takeishi's players had any intention of double-teaming him, and each of them stayed in their own position.
"You can't beat me. You don't have what it takes!"
Jinguji Takeshi calmed down, put one hand in front of Sendoh's face, and spoke in a low voice.
"Yeah, if no one defending me could fight as hard as you do, I think it would be really hard for me to play."
"But how long can you maintain a defense like yours?"
"Your stamina shouldn't be that high. At first I thought it was unnecessary for you not to participate in the attack, but later I realized that you didn't participate in the attack in order to conserve your stamina, right?"
"You're deliberately conserving your strength to limit me, hiding your strength?"
"But I can also sense that your movements are no longer as agile as they were at the beginning."
Sendoh patted the ball without any hurry. While he was talking, another three seconds passed.
"So what if you noticed? You should be thankful that if I had taken action, the score would not be like this now."
Wudao was lying with his eyes open. He would not tell Sendoh that he did not participate in the attack because he did not have the ability to attack the basket. It would still be helpful to trick Sendoh and make him nervous.
Wudao was on guard against Sendo while chatting with him.
Time passed by minute by minute during the conversation between the two. No one knew how long it had been, but Xiandao, who was chatting with Wudao, suddenly changed his expression and became serious.
However, at this moment, Sendoh suddenly straightened up and made a shooting gesture about one meter outside the three-point line.
As soon as Sendoh made a move, the group of people from Qiuyue High School seemed to have pressed the start switch. They were originally standing outside the three-point line, but now they rushed directly to the inside.
"Three points? Impossible!" Wudao just wanted to interfere, but he realized something was wrong in an instant. He thought that Sendoh was faking it, so he didn't dare to raise his center of gravity. However, he raised his left hand to cover Sendoh's face, trying to influence him as much as possible.
However, Sendoh's action was beyond Takeshi's expectations. Sendoh took the ball and jumped outside the three-point line. The basketball was thrown out from above his head. It was indeed a three-pointer!
Wudao looked back in surprise at the basketball thrown by Sendoh. His face darkened as he watched the arc in the air. At the same time, the whistle for the end of the first half sounded.
“Swish!”
The next second after the whistle sounded, the basketball fell accurately into the basket. When the basketball landed, the net flipped up slightly. All this told Wudao that Sendoh had just scored a goal!
"Beat the... buzzer!?"
Wu Dao was a little dazed, and he glanced at the timer and found that the time had turned to 0. Before, he was chatting with Sendo while guarding against Sendo's breakthrough, and actually ignored the attack time.
If he knew that time was running out, he would never have adopted that defensive method just now, nor would he have guessed whether Sendoh was faking it.
The whole person had already pounced on him.
"OK!!"
After Sendoh made the three-pointer, the students of Akizuki Middle School burst into cheers, while the students of Takeishi Middle School were silent for a long time, and then sighed.
"Don't worry, you just did a good job on defense."
"It's not your fault that you failed to defend it. It's just that the other party was lucky."
"We're still ahead, don't worry about it."
Mitsui Shou came to Wudao's side and patted him on the shoulder. Seeing that Wudao was a little dazed at this time, he came over to comfort him.
At 24:28, Sendoh's buzzer-beater narrowed the score to 4 points.
Wudao looked at the scoreboard, then saw Sendoh returning to the rest area with his companions, and breathed a sigh of relief.
"It wasn't luck. When he first started chatting with me, he was already planning to shoot a buzzer-beating three-pointer."
"I ignored the time. It was my mistake."
"Let's go and have some rest."
Wudao, who had not played in a game for a long time, had lost his sensitivity to time. Sendo's goal could be considered a reminder to him.
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