Three minutes into the second half of the game between Ryonan High School and Shohoku High School, the score between the two teams was 63:58, and the difference widened to five points.
From the current score, it can be seen that Xiangbei High School's defensive strategy against Ryonan High School has been completely defeated.
Since Shohoku High School changed its offensive strategy and established Rukawa Kaede as the main attacker, Shohoku's scoring efficiency has obviously been left behind by Ryonan High School.
Seeing that the gap between the two teams had been widened to five points by the opponent, Jinguji Budo also knew that the team absolutely could not continue to play as Coach Anzai said.
Ryonan High School is different from all the opponents that Shohoku has encountered before. Facing such a strong enemy, if they are not careful, the opponent will seize the opportunity.
If facing an ordinary team, Xiangbei can let Rukawa play freely for seven, eight or ten minutes without worrying about the team losing.
But Ryonan is different.
During the three minutes when Rukawa led the offense, Ryonan had already gained a considerable advantage. If Rukawa continued to play like this, there would be no way that Shohoku would be able to overtake.
During the transition between offense and defense, Jinguji Budou's expression was different from before. When Rukawa received the pass from Akagi and advanced to the front court, Jinguji Budou trotted to Rukawa's side and said to him:
"Rukawa Kaede, although during the halftime break, Coach Anzai did say that he would let you lead the offense."
"But the current situation of our Xiangbei team does not allow you to play freely and unrestrainedly."
"Don't choose reckless moments to attack anymore. You need to be more than 80% sure of every attack you execute before you attack."
As he spoke, Jinguji Budo quickened his pace and quickly passed Rukawa Kaede.
Rukawa's body obviously stiffened after hearing what Jinguji Budou said, but when he dropped the ball and moved forward again, he had recovered.
After taking a look at Jinguji Budo who quickly entered the front court, Rukawa turned his head and looked at the scoreboard on the sidelines.
After quickly glancing at the score on the scoreboard, Rukawa quickened his pace, quickly crossed the center line and came to the front court.
Kenji Fujima quickly moved into position when Rukawa Kaede was moving forward with the ball.
Just like his previous defensive method, Fujima intends to have sufficient defensive depth through such close defense.
The position where he was defending Rukawa was almost three meters away from Ryonan's three-point line.
In this position, even if Rukawa breaks through Fujima, Fujima can make up for it before Rukawa enters the three-point line. Although Rukawa has the ability to shoot three-pointers, even if he breaks through Fujima's defense, he still has no way to shoot outside the three-point line.
Because the other two outside players of Ryonan High School will fill in the position as soon as Rukawa breaks through.
"First year, are you going to change your style of play?!"
"Did Jinguji Takeshi tell you something?"
"In fact, we anticipated your Xiangbei plan from the beginning of the second half."
"It's just that we thought the main attacker would be Mitsui Shou, but we didn't expect it to be a first-year like you."
"But... it's fortunate that you're a first-year, otherwise, we in Ryonan would really be in some trouble."
While Fujima Kenji was speaking, he leaned directly on Rukawa, with his hands raised horizontally, interfering with Rukawa's dribbling movements.
Fujima Kenji, who has always been known as a "flower boy", was unusually gentle when he was trash-talking. However, this calmness and gentleness were equally lethal to Rukawa Kaede.
After all, he is a first-year young man. Although Rukawa Kaede is not as single-celled as Sakuragi Hanamichi, Rukawa Kaede's pride makes him often choose to prove his ability with practical actions when facing provocations!
"Change your fighting style?! Why should I change my fighting style?!"
"Don't act like you know me so well!"
Rukawa spoke softly, and while speaking, he made a quick change of direction between his hips, and then used his right hand as a ball protector to directly press against Fujima, quickly accelerating to break through.
Rukawa has a very good physique, especially when facing Fujima, his advantages are fully demonstrated.
After quickly breaking through Kenji Fujima's defense, Rukawa also quickly approached the three-point line.
Seeing this scene, Mitsui's expression immediately froze, and without caring about Rukawa, he sank directly to the bottom corner on the left side of the court.
After seeing Mitsui's movements, Sendoh Akira did not choose to replace Fujima at the first time. Instead, he followed Mitsui to the bottom corner.
However, after Sendoh left, he gave a wink to Hanagata Toru in the interior. After receiving Sendoh's signal, Hanagata immediately moved to the free throw line, ready to deal with Rukawa Kaede who might directly attack the basket.
Shinomiya Tano, who was at the right corner of the three-point line, did not react in any way when he saw Rukawa breaking through. He just took a step forward and stood in front of Jinguji Budou.
Due to Hanagata's positioning, the two players on the outside of Ryonan chose to let Rukawa Kaede enter the inside at the same time.
"It was a pocket that Ryonan deliberately placed there."
"Ryukawa Kaede, don't rush in recklessly!" Jinguji Budou immediately understood the other party's intention when he saw the position of Ryonan High School.
After taking two steps back, Jinguji Budou tried to create some space between himself and Shinomiya Tano so that he could catch the ball more easily. However, he did not expect Shinomiya Tano to be unwilling to relax even for a moment and came up directly with his back foot.
Helplessly, Jinguji Budo could only start quickly, sinking to the bottom corner, and after successfully leading Shinomiya Tano to run, he ran in the opposite direction to prepare to receive the ball outside the three-point line.
At the same time, after breaking through Kenji Fujima's defense, Rukawa quickly dribbled the ball towards the three-point line. When Kenji Fujima's defense came back, Rukawa changed direction under his legs and passed the ball to the side with his backhand back to the hands of Takeshi Jinguji outside the three-point line.
"Um?!"
"Sure enough, the style of play has changed!"
Kenji Fujima let out a light exclamation in his heart and quickly turned his head to look at Jinguji Budo.
At this moment, Rukawa had already quickly passed Fujima and cut into the inside. Rukawa's movement naturally attracted Hanagata Toru's attention, and Hanagata, who was standing in the middle distance, quickly chased after Rukawa with Fujima.
Takeshi Jinguji received the ball on the outside, looked up at Koichiro Nango who was in an open position in the inside, slightly tilted his body, took the ball with both hands and was about to pass the ball to the inside.
When Shinomiya Tano saw Jinguji Takeshi's moves, he immediately moved sideways and stood in front of Takeshi, guarding against Jinguji Takeshi's attack.
However, the next second after Shimono made his move, Jinguji Takeshi immediately got the ball, moved sideways, and made a jump shot 30 centimeters away from the three-point line.
"Fake move!"
By the time Shimonoya reacted, it was already a little late. Takeshi Jinguji's height, arm span, and jumping ability were all quite outstanding. If he didn't follow up immediately when defending Takeshi Jinguji, he would basically be unable to defend against Takeshi Jinguji's shooting.
“Swish!”
The basketball flew across half of the court and fell directly into the net.
The crisp sound of the basketball entering the net caused the audience in the stands to burst into amazing cheers.
With Takeshi Jinguji's three-pointer, the score came to 63:61, and the difference was narrowed to 2 points.
At the sidelines, when Hikoichi Aida saw Takeshi Jinguji's three-pointer go into his mouth, he shouted "unbelievable~~~". The exaggerated tongue-twisting made Coach Tagora frown.
I couldn't help but yelled, "Yan Yi, shut up!"
"That's our enemy!"
After being yelled at by Coach Tanaoka, Hikoichi Aida calmed down a bit, but he still had a look of shock on his face. He flipped through the notebook in his hand and exclaimed, "I really can't believe it. Jinguji Budou scored again!"
"He's made six three-pointers from the first half till now."
"Coach, Jinguji Budo's hit rate... is 100%!
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Coach Tanaoka's expression changed slightly after hearing what Hikoichi Aida said. He quickly turned his head to look at Hikoichi Aida, snatched the booklet from Hikoichi Aida's hand, and was slightly stunned when he saw the data recorded by Hikoichi Aida.
“Actually… ..”
Coach Takeo had never paid attention to Takeshi Jinguji's real-time hit rate, because in his impression, Takeshi Jinguji's offensive efficiency has always been very high, but he had no idea that Takeshi Jinguji's performance on the court today would be so good.
You know, the opponent that Jinguji Budou faces is not just some random guy, but the strongest player of Ryonan!
While Coach Takeo and Hikoichi Aida were communicating, the Ryonan players on the court had already quickly launched a counterattack.
The players of Ryonan also felt that Jinguji Budo seemed to be preparing to exert his strength, so they attacked more cautiously.
After Fujima dribbled the ball into the frontcourt, he signaled Shinomiya Tano to come forward for screen. With the help of his teammates' screen, Fujima quickly dropped the ball and broke through, but after being chased by Rukawa Kaede, Fujima quickly passed the ball back to Shinomiya Tano.
On the Shohoku side, the defensive strategy also changed. Takeshi Jinguji and Koichiro Nango, who were originally guarding the inside line, swapped defensive positions. Nango returned to his familiar power forward position, and Takeshi became the player responsible for matching up against Shinomiya Tano.
Just after Shinomiya got the basketball, Fujima and Sendoh next to him tacitly moved towards Jinguji Takeshi and actually made a two-way pick-and-roll for Shinomiya.
With the help of his teammates, Shimoyasu Tadano quickly broke through and directly crossed the three-point line to invade the basket.
When facing the backup defense of Koichirō Nango, Shinomiya Tano did not dodge at all. He jumped up more than one meter away from the basket and slid towards the basket with the ball in one hand.
In mid-air, Shinomiya Tano's body collided with Nango Koichirō's body, but Shinomiya Tano remained unchanged. He pulled the basketball in his hand downward, easily avoided Nango's defense, and directly smashed the ball into the basket.
The amazing pull-up slam dunk silenced the originally noisy venue. After a few seconds of silence, warm cheers broke out in the stadium.
After being dunked on, Nango Koichirō looked at Shinomiya Tano stupidly, his mind in a mess.
He didn't even realize what was happening. Did Shinomiya Tano just dunk the ball into the basket after physically confronting him? !
Shaking his head, Nango Koichiro wanted to expel such an outrageous idea from his mind, but as his mind gradually cleared, he realized that what had just happened was real...
"Is Shinomiya Tano... such a scary guy?"
"Once he enters the paint, is it really possible to defend him..."
During the time when Nango Koichiro was standing there in a daze, the basketball had already been sent out from the baseline and was in the hands of Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa Kaede quickly ran towards the front court with the ball. After seeing Rukawa Kaede moving with the ball, Nango Koichiro finally put his attention back on the court and raised his feet to run towards the front court.
After dribbling the ball into the frontcourt, Rukawa waited for a while for his teammates to enter the frontcourt, then quickly passed the ball to Jinguji Budou, and then quickly cut to the inside.
This time, Rukawa's running still successfully attracted Hanagata's attention, and he ran towards Rukawa.
Ryonan High School has also realized one thing, that is, when Rukawa enters the three-point line, Fujima Kenji has no way to defend Rukawa, and they need to make corresponding changes based on Rukawa's running position.
Jinguji Takeshi, who was holding the ball on the outside, looked at Nango Koichiro who was in the open position, grabbed the ball with both hands and was about to pass it to Nango.
But this time, Shimono Yamada did not choose to move sideways to intercept, as he was afraid that this was another fake move by Jinguji Budo.
But this time, Jinguji Budou really passed the ball. The basketball flew out quickly and was directly given to Nango Koichiro under the basket. The latter received the ball, turned sideways and made a layup, and steadily sent the ball into the basket.
When Jun Yuzumi on the other side of the basket saw Nanxiang receiving the ball, he wanted to go up to defend, but his movement was a little slow and he was a step late. By the time he got in front of Nanxiang, the basketball had already fallen into the net.
"Didn't this guy attack himself?"
Shinomiya Tano turned around and saw the first-year student from Xiangbei put the ball into the net. He raised his eyebrows and turned back to look at Jinguji Budou.
At this time, Jinguji Budo had already begun to defend.
In the following game, Jinguji Budo naturally took over the team's main attacking task, although Coach Anzai said during the halftime break that he wanted Rukawa Kaede to play the main attacking role.
But on the court, Jinguji Budou took the ball imperceptibly.
However, he was different from Rukawa Kaede before. In the second half, Jinguji Budo reduced his shots and most of the time he just passed the ball.
However, it was Jinguji Budo's seemingly ordinary transmission that easily tore through Ryonan High School's defense.
Rukawa's cutting into the air caused considerable problems for Ryonan High School's defense, and Ryonan High School had no way to stop Rukawa who cut into the mid-range in a short period of time, and had no way to make up for the loopholes in their own team.
The scores of the two teams rose rapidly as the two teams went back and forth, but the difference was always maintained within 5 points.
The game became extremely stalemate.
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