Jinguji Budo who suddenly appeared under the basket and dunked the ball into the net really surprised everyone.
The people from Sannoh who were standing under the basket and failed to grab the rebound all turned their heads to look at Jinguji Budo with a look of surprise on their faces.
Wu Dao smiled at the members of the Sanwang team and said softly:
"I heard the sound of you moving the beads on the abacus."
After saying that, Jinguji Budo turned around and quickly returned to defense.
Did Jinguji Budou overhear Goro Domoto's plan? Of course not. Budou just noticed that Kazunari Fukatsu was standing deep during the attack, so he judged that Miyagi Ryouta would most likely choose to shoot, so he entered the basket early to help grab the rebound.
He didn't know what Sanno Industries' plan was. Wudao only knew what he had to do to maximize his profits under such circumstances.
At this point in the game, Wudao no longer had any intention of wasting time with Sanno Industrial. He wanted to secure victory as soon as possible.
"Prepare to attack!"
"It was just a tip-in. Given his ability, it's not surprising that he can do this occasionally."
"Play to our own rhythm!"
In the backcourt of Sanno, Kazunari Fukatsu received the serve from his teammate and shouted to the players. In fact, the players of Sanno would not lose their fighting spirit because of Budo's tip-in. At this time, Fukatsu's words boosted the morale of Sanno again.
All the players quickly entered the Shohoku half, and after taking a look at Matsumoto Minoru's position, Kazunari Fukatsu quickly accelerated and broke through.
Then Fukatsu Kazunari's continuous rhythm changes and left and right changes of direction made it difficult for the defending Miyagi Ryouta to respond. When Fukatsu Kazunari passed the ball, Miyagi Ryouta couldn't even make a move to block it. He could only watch the basketball fly past him and steadily into the hands of Matsumoto Minoru on the side.
At this time, Matsumoto Minoru was just about to accelerate. As soon as he got the basketball, after a blast, Matsumoto Minoru directly passed the defense of Katsume Ichiro and rushed towards the inside.
“Here it comes!”
Sakuragi Hanamichi saw Matsumoto breaking through and quickly moved up to defend. As soon as he moved, Minamigo on the other side of the basket immediately stood between the two Kawata brothers, guarding against both of them.
Nango Koichirō's defensive position seemed reasonable, but he seemed to be too confident in his defensive ability. Not to mention guarding against two people at the same time, even if he faced one alone, Nango Koichirō might not be able to defend against his opponent!
His seemingly reasonable and perfect defense was actually full of loopholes.
Matsumoto Minoru saw this!
Sure enough, Matsumoto Minoru, who broke through into the mid-range, saw a gap under the basket. He raised his head slightly and looked towards the basket, but the basketball in his hand was passed directly, and he was ready to pass the ball to Kawata Masashi behind Sakuragi.
His pass was sudden, and he even had a fake move to look at the basket before passing the ball.
However, at this moment, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who had originally raised his hands high, suddenly lowered his center of gravity, and quickly lowered his raised right arm to block, and actually accurately blocked Matsumoto Minoru's pass.
Holding the ball firmly in his arms for less than a second, Sakuragi Hanamichi threw the ball directly to the front court, shouting:
"Don't underestimate this genius, you bastard Mountain King!"
Sakuragi's steal made the expressions of the Sanno players change suddenly. Goro Domoto on the sidelines couldn't help but stand up from his seat with his fists clenched.
At the same time, Jinguji Budou had already rushed to Sanno's half, caught the basketball steadily at the center line, and began to accelerate.
Behind him, Masashi Kawata and Eiji Sawakita, one on the left and one on the right, were approaching Jinguji Budo quickly.
But to everyone's surprise, the distance between Zebei and Kawata Masashi, who were running without the ball, and Jinguji Budou was closing very slowly.
Their speed of running without the ball was only slightly faster than Jinguji Budou who was dribbling the ball.
With such a pursuit speed, it was impossible to stop Jinguji Budo before he got to the basket.
Kawata realized that he couldn't catch up, so he started to slow down when he ran to the three-point line, intending to consume less energy, and gave up the pursuit. Zebei Rongzhi was not like Kawata Masashi, he felt that he had a chance!
Hearing the hurried footsteps behind him, Wudao turned his head slightly while dribbling the ball, and saw the figure of Zebei Rongji chasing him. The corners of his mouth curled up slightly, and Jinguji Wudao suddenly slowed down.
The moment he crossed the free throw line with the ball, Zebei Rongji had already come behind Wudao, his eyes full of joy.
"I've caught up with you! I must stop you!" Zebei Rongzhi shouted in his heart, holding his breath, and concentrating on watching Wudao's next move.
When he crossed the free throw line with the ball, Jinguji Budou's speed was not fast. He gathered the ball, gathered his strength, and took two steps to get to the basket. Seeing Zebei Rongzhi catching up to him, Budou grabbed the ball with his right hand, raised it above his head, and then jumped lightly, ready to dunk.
Sure enough, the moment Wudao jumped, Zebei Rongzhi also jumped up hurriedly, aimed at the position of the basketball, and blocked the basketball in Wudao's hand with both hands.
"Zebei! Don't!"
"Don't go, Zebei! Stop now."
Seeing Sawakita Eiji jumping up with all his might and trying to block Jinguji Budo, Kawata Masashi and Domoto Goro in the audience shouted together, trying to stop Sawakita Eiji, but... it was too late.
With a smile in the corner of his eyes, Takeshi Jinguji dodged to the right with his right hand that was holding the ball, easily avoiding the blockade of Eiji Zebei. The next moment, Takeshi's body hit Eiji Zebei, knocking his opponent away.
Jinguji Takeshi, who reached the highest point, grabbed the ball and dunked it directly into the basket. Zebei Rongzhi's hand inevitably hit Jinguji Takeshi's forearm.
"Bang!" The basketball was poured into the basket by Jinguji Budou.
However, Zebei Rongzhi, who landed rapidly, was unable to stand steadily. He staggered, fell to the floor, and slid towards the baseline.
Jinguji Budou grabbed the basket with one hand, glanced at Zebei, and looked at the referee. To his surprise, the referee met Jinguji Budou's gaze head-on, but the next second he turned his head away and looked at Zebei Rongzhi on the ground.
Wu Dao, who fell back to the ground, raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised.
No whistle! Zebei wasn't called for a foul on this shot? !
Wudao stared at the referee for a long time, but the referee ignored him. Seeing this, Wudao knew that he had failed to induce Zebei to commit a foul. The referee seemed to be more strict again. Even after Wudao scored a dunk, he did not give Wudao an additional free throw opportunity.
This will give Zebei and Shanwang a chance to breathe a sigh of relief.
If the decision was 2+1 at this moment, the morale that Sanno Industrial had finally gathered would probably dissipate at this moment.
The referee didn't give a penalty, and Budo had no choice but to shrug at Zebei Rongzhi on the ground and turn around to defend.
At this time, Kawata Masashi also quickly ran to the basket, stretched out his hand to help Zebei up, and asked with concern:
"Zebei, how are you? Are you okay?"
"There's actually no need to defend against this kind of ball. He was clearly trying to trick you into committing a foul."
"Fortunately, the referee didn't make a call, otherwise, this ball would have been a two-plus-one."
Masashi Kawata said earnestly that he saw clearly that Zebei had actually fallen into Jinguji Budo's trap, he was just lucky and the referee did not make the call.
But if Zebei continues to defend like he is now, Sanwang may not be able to climb out of the pit!
"Feel sorry."
Zebei whispered an apology, rubbed his arm, went to the baseline, passed the ball to Kawata, and then ran towards the frontcourt without saying a word.
Masashi Kawata looked at Zebei's departing back with a serious expression. After dribbling the ball for a while, he passed the ball to Kazunari Fukatsu, and then quickly ran towards the frontcourt of Shohoku.
Masashi Kawata felt that Sendoh Eiji's mentality seemed to be unbalanced, and he became impatient when playing.
Masashi Kawata probably has no way of understanding Zebei Rongji's feelings at all now. On the offensive end, he seems to be an outsider. Under the defense of Jinguji Budou, he can't join the team's offensive operation at all. Standing on the court, Zebei feels like he is in prison.
On the defensive end, he and Masashi Kawata defended against Takeshi Jinguji, which created a huge defensive gap for the team, but they were unable to block Takeshi Jinguji's offense.
This feeling of powerlessness made Zebei Rongji begin to doubt the meaning of his existence on the court.
Attacking, we can’t break through; defending, we can’t stop.
Even a foul couldn't stop the opponent from scoring a dunk. It was only luck that the referee didn't blow the whistle, otherwise, Jinguji Budo would have been given a 2+1.
This cruel reality made Zebei Rongzhi feel like he was in hell.
Shrouded in the shadow of Jinguji's martial arts, Zebei Rongzhi really couldn't raise his fighting spirit. He really couldn't think of any way to stop the opponent's attack, and couldn't think of any way to score points from the opponent.
Just as Zebei Rongzhi was in self-doubt, Sanwang Industrial had already completed this round of attack. After several passes, the basketball was passed to Kawata Mikio, who took the ball and shot a small hook shot.
However, just as he shot, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was originally defending Kawata Masashi, suddenly jumped out from the side of Kawata Mikio, jumped high and pressed the ball on the backboard with both hands.
A slam dunk blocked Mikio Kawata's attack.
“Hahahahahahaha!”
"really!"
"Meatball Man, you have to pay attention to other people when you shoot! Hahahahaha!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi laughed and passed the ball to the front court. At the same time, a red figure quickly passed by Zebei Rongji.
“Defense!
Hurry back to defense!"
"Zebei, stop him, stop him quickly!"
Takeshi Jinguji cooperated with Sakuragi's pass and rushed towards the frontcourt quickly. Amid the shouts of Goro Domoto on the sidelines, Eiji Sawakita finally came to his senses and hurriedly chased after Takeshi Jinguji.
However, Jinguji Budo's speed was very fast, and Zebei had no way to close the distance quickly. The distance between the two of them was shrinking extremely slowly.
However, when Takeshi Jinguji approached the three-point line, he suddenly slowed down and stopped at the three-point line. He turned his head and looked at Eiji Zebei who was approaching quickly, and hooked his finger.
"Hey, I'll give you a chance, defend me!"
"You must, grasp it!"
Jinguji Takeshi's confident and frivolous words directly made Zebei furious. This was the first time he encountered such irony. Zebei Rongzhi quickly came to Jinguji Takeshi and leaned his chest against Takeshi's body with a considerable range of motion.
"Oh! Very nice, very impressive!"
"But, Zebei, this won't stop me!"
Wudao's hand protecting the ball rests on Zebei's waist, and he will actively exert force when the opponent defends, but Wudao doesn't care about it. When he was in the United States, those people's playing movements were much larger than Zebei's.
From a martial arts perspective, Zebei was still somewhat reserved. Although he was clearly furious, he still had a rational mind.
“Bang!”
Takeshi dropped the ball and made a strong breakthrough, relying on his body to push Sendo Eiji across the three-point line. The next second, Takeshi Jinguji, who was rushing forward, made an abrupt stop, changed direction and pulled back, raising the ball to look at the basket.
He maintained his position in front of Zebei Rongzhi, and when he saw Jinguji Budou preparing to shoot, he pounced on him without thinking too much.
There was no way. There was a huge height difference between him and Takeshi Jinguji. If he hesitated, it would be impossible to defend against Takeshi Jinguji's shot.
However, just as Zebei flew to grab the ball, Jinguji Budou quickly caught the ball, lowered his body and rushed directly under Zebei's armpit. He took a step forward and passed Zebei, while throwing the basketball in his hand towards the backboard.
“Bang!”
The basketball hit the backboard at a high speed and bounced back. At this moment, Jinguji Budou had already rushed into the basket and jumped high. He accurately grabbed the basketball in mid-air and dunked the ball into the basket.
The imaginative dunk caused the audience to burst into amazing cheers.
In the eyes of the audience, Jinguji Budo's series of dunks seemed to be a joke to Zebei's honor. As cheers poured into the court, some people mocked the young Zebei:
"Hey, Sanno, what are you doing? The ball is gone, and you're still diving forward?!"
"He's already dunked the ball, but you're still standing there like an idiot. What are you doing?!"
"Defend, Sanwang! If you don't defend now, you won't have a chance~"
Wu Dao also heard the taunts from some of the spectators. When he turned around and ran back to defend, he glanced at Ze Bei Rong Zhi, whose eyes were lifeless, and thought to himself:
"Sorry! Zebei."
"Please, you and your mountain king, go home!"
...
Under the continuous attacks of Jinguji Budo, Sawakita Eiji finally lost his fighting spirit completely.
17 minutes into the second half, Sanno Industrial replaced Zebei, who was like a walking corpse, with Masahiro Nobe.
At the same time, Sanno Industries also changed its defensive strategy against Jinguji Budou, from double-teaming him at the beginning to sending only Masashi Kawata to defend Jinguji Budou.
Since we can't defend against Jinguji Martial Arts, then let's just stop wasting time!
There were still 3 minutes left in the game and the difference between the two teams was more than ten points. After Masahiro Nobe came on the court, Sanno Industrial stabilized in terms of rebounding and offense. Sakuragi was good at rebounding, but Nobe did not compete with Sakuragi for rebounds at all, but focused on positioning.
The task of grabbing the rebound was given to Mikio Kawata.
The 210cm tall Mikio Kawata might be at a disadvantage against Sakuragi because his jumping burst is far inferior to that of Sakuragi Hanamichi. But the situation is different when facing Koichiro Minamigo. Minamigo has to try his best just to block Mikio Kawata's blocking and he can't even jump.
It was precisely because Sannoh stabilized the inside that the gap between the two teams did not widen further.
Yes, all Sannoh can do is to prevent the score gap from widening further.
In the final stage of the game, Jinguji Budou finally opened fire with mid-range shots, three-pointers, and slam dunks. He used everything he could to support the offense of Shohoku High School on his own.
Under his fierce attack, all Sanwang could do was to hold on to the score and avoid losing too badly.
“Beep—”
As the final whistle sounded, Xiangbei High School won the game with a score of 103:89, defeating Sannoh by 14 points, successfully seizing a place in the top 16 in the country and advancing to the third round of the national competition.
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