In the eyes of everyone, Xiandao is more like the challenger who stirs up trouble.
After the start of the second half, Mike Okita just scored a goal, and after the offense and defense switched, Sendoh scored the ball in the same way.
Sendoh's behavior seemed to be telling everyone that what you, Mike Okita, could do, he, Sendoh Akira, could do as well.
And Sendoh's behavior really aroused Mike Okita's desire to win. The more Sendoh did this, the more he wanted to prove to everyone that what he could do, Sendoh couldn't!
However, in fact, no one knew that Sendoh did that only because he wanted to do so under the circumstances. As for challenging Mike Okita, it was just a matter of convenience after arousing Mike Okita's fighting spirit.
"That guy Xiandao really showed off his talent!"
On the side of the court, Maki couldn't help but sigh when he saw the scene on the court. However, hearing his sigh, Shigong Tianye shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Sendoh, he didn't mean it."
"It just happened."
Shimoyama understands Sendoh's mentality quite well. He doesn't think Sendoh would use this method to carry out the so-called "challenge".
However, at this moment in the court, Mike Okita was already excited. When he was in Green Wind High School, Mike Okita had never met a player like Sendoh who challenged him in this way.
When competing with others, Mike Okita usually just wants to win the game. As for the competition between players? He actually never cares.
However, under the current conditions of the national sports selection in autumn, Mike Okita had already fought one-on-one with others in the afternoon. His desire to win had been stimulated as the assessment progressed.
Now Sendoh is using this "returning the tables" method to attack and score, which has completely aroused Mike's desire to win.
Until now, the beast called "desire" that had been buried in Mike Okita's heart was completely released.
To win!
The team's win or loss is not important, but he, Mike Okita, must definitely surpass Sendoh.
Must win!
During the transition between offense and defense, Miyagi Ryouta had already entered the frontcourt with the ball. As soon as Hang entered the frontcourt with the ball, Mike Okita immediately put his back against Hanagata Toru and reached out for the ball.
Without any hesitation, after entering the frontcourt, Miyagi Ryouta immediately passed the ball to Mike Okita.
Mike Okita got the ball and quickly swept the ball to the basket. After a fake move of a drop ball breakthrough to the right, Mike Okita dropped the ball directly on the left side, and then quickly stepped forward with his right foot to his left, and it was stuck directly behind the calf of Huaxing's right leg.
"Bang!" The sound of the ball exploding rang in Huaxing's ears. The next second, Mike Okita's figure flashed past him. Mike Okita deliberately used his feet to block Huaxing's position when he broke through.
Although Hanagata had realized the need to turn around and chase, he had no way to increase his speed instantly. When he adjusted his position and wanted to chase, Mike Okita had already opened up a distance of more than one meter between him and him.
After breaking through Hanagata's defense, Mike Okita quickly rushed towards the basket. Akagi Takenori and Uozumi Jun, who were guarding the basket, looked at each other quickly. Uozumi, who was closer, stepped forward quickly and blocked Mike Okita's path directly, raising his arms, waiting for Mike Okita to hit him and stall.
However, Mike Okita, who was moving fast, had no intention of slowing down after getting close to Yuzumi. He turned around and stuck to Yuzumi, and Mike Okita had already sent the basketball in his hand towards the basket.
Mike Okita's low-hand throw after a turn was clean and neat. Although he was moving at high speed, he still used a very unstable throwing method.
When shooting, players can control the arc of the basketball by pressing their wrists, but when shooting a floater, it is quite difficult to control the arc.
When shooting while moving, the basketball will carry the potential energy of the player's movement. If it is not well controlled, the basketball will most likely hit the backboard and bounce back.
This kind of shooting method is quite difficult.
However, the basketball flying towards the basket quickly spun violently in the air and slowed down. When the basketball rose above the basket, the forward force just disappeared, and the basketball fell straight down and landed steadily in the basket with a crisp sound.
"Swish!" Hearing this sound, Yuzumi Jun turned his head quickly in surprise and looked at the basket. He saw the basketball falling from the net and his eyes shrank slightly.
"This guy... is so strong!"
"I've never heard of such a player in Kanagawa Prefecture before."
"Who on earth is this guy?"
Yuzumi Jun looked at Mike Okita solemnly and sighed in his heart.
After seeing the basketball go into the net, Mike Okita did not stay in the frontcourt for long. He completely ignored Jun Yuzumi and trotted towards his own backcourt.
When passing by Sendoh, Mike Okita looked up at Sendoh's face, and seeing that he looked calm, he curled the corners of his mouth and smiled.
Opponent! That's how it should be!
Only in this way can it be worth defeating!
"Ryukawa, pass the ball to me."
Sendoh gave an instruction to Rukawa who was going to the baseline to get the ball, and then quickly ran to the front court. After receiving Sendoh's instruction, Rukawa just shrugged his shoulders and agreed.
After receiving the serve from his teammate, Rukawa began to advance with the ball.
Rukawa Kaede could obviously empathize with Sendoh at this moment. After dribbling into the frontcourt, he did not stick to the ball and quickly passed the ball to Sendoh.
The latter took the ball, raised it high sideways, looked down at Fujima, and then quickly adjusted the position of his left foot, which was different from Mike Okita's breakthrough.
Sendoh dropped the ball quickly at the same time as he took a step forward, and he took a step forward with his left foot.
Sendoh's left foot stepped directly onto Fujima's left heel, making the same breakthrough move, except that the direction was different from Mike Okita's just now.
Sendoh's figure flashed before Fujima's eyes.
Although Fujima's pace is much faster than Hanagata's, he is not as tall as Sendoh. Although there is only less than half a meter between him and Sendoh, Fujima knows that this half meter is an insurmountable gap for him.
He can no longer affect Sendo's attack!
Facing Sendoh's advance, the White team also adopted a defensive method of advancing to provide backup defense, and the player who advanced to provide backup defense was Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Sakuragi Hanamichi believes that his footwork is very fast and he can cover a wider defensive area, so when defending, Sakuragi Hanamichi is much more active than Mori Shigehiro.
And this is indeed the case. Although Mori Shigehiro is not bulky, he is still far behind Sakuragi Hanamichi in agility.
The radiation of the defensive area is indeed much wider than that of Sakuragi Hanamichi.
When Sakuragi was on the court, his intuition was sometimes extremely sharp, and he had already sensed the strange atmosphere of struggle between Sendoh and Mike Okita.
When defending against Sendoh's advance, he did not stand there stupidly like Yuzumi, but after standing still, he lowered his center of gravity to the height that was most convenient for turning around and chasing.
He felt that Sendoh might continue to replicate Mike Okita's offensive style!
Sure enough, the moment Sendoh got close to Sakuragi Hanamichi's body, he immediately turned around and quickly got behind Sakuragi, and the basketball in Sendoh's hand was already in his hand.
"Ha ha ha ha!
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"It's completely within the expectations of this genius!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi laughed loudly, turned around quickly and chased after him, with his big hand quickly slapping the basketball in Sendoh's hand.
He guessed right! Sendoh was indeed the type of person who refused to admit defeat, and he planned to replicate Mike Okita's attack just now!
However, just when Sakuragi Hanamichi's defense was sure to make Sendoh taste the pain of being blocked, Sendoh, who had already turned his back, paused, and quickly turned back without moving his pivot foot, directly creating a distance of half a meter between him and Sakuragi Hanamichi who was sliding to defend.
At this time, Sendoh straightened his body and made an easy jump shot, sending the basketball in his hand out.
"What?!
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"It's actually shooting?!"
When Sakuragi Hanamichi saw Sendoh shooting, he let out a low cry and quickly turned his head to look at the basket.
The basketball fell into the basket without any surprise, making a crisp sound.
Seeing the basketball go into the net, Sakuragi Hanamichi quickly turned around and looked at Sendoh, and said angrily: "Hey, Sendoh, how can you shoot?!"
"If you shoot the ball, won't that mean you've given up?"
"Why don't you use that foreigner's throw?"
I don't know when, Sakuragi Hanamichi had already given Mike Okita a friendly "nickname".
"Foreigner?"
Sendoh was a little surprised when he heard this, and then he looked at Mike Okita, and a smile immediately appeared on his face. Sakuragi, this kid, always gave him something interesting.
Retracting his gaze, Sendoh shook his finger at Sakuragi Hanamichi, smacked his lips, and said:
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, that's not right, Sakuragi-san."
"He got two points, and I also got two points. How can you say I lost?"
"But... I won't lose so easily!"
Sendoh had a rare passion for competing with others, and his words fell into the ears of Mike Okita and all the other players.
When Shigong Tianye, who was outside the field, heard Sendoh say this, he immediately stood up from his seat, clapped his hands, and shouted to Sendoh: "Come on! Sendoh!"
"Don't embarrass us, Ryonan! Even if you are going to lose, you must show some courage! Hahahaha!"
Shinomiya Tano is completely a bad friend of Sendo. His encouragement really has no encouraging effect on Sendo.
"Hehe." Xiandao turned his head, chuckled, and then quickly returned to defense.
"Hey! Foreigner!"
"I support you!"
"You are on the same team with Ban Tiancai, you must not lose to him!"
Sakuragi Hanamichi saw that Sendoh actually had teammates encouraging him, while Mike Okita was all alone. People in his own team like Miyagi Ryouta and Mori Shigehiro just looked at Mike Okita and did not encourage him, which made Sakuragi feel that Mike was a little "lonely".
He walked to Mike Okita's side, nudged Mike Okita's arm with his elbow, and encouraged him.
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"Ah! Of course!"
Mike obviously didn't expect Sakuragi Hanamichi to give him verbal support at this time. Although with his mentality, it didn't matter whether he had encouragement from his teammates at this time. But when Sakuragi said this to him, Mike still felt warm.
Really... Inspiring!
Between offense and defense, the white team also launched an attack.
Miyagi Ryouta had no intention of disturbing the other players' duel on the court, and after entering the front court, he quickly passed the ball to Mike. However, this time, the opponent in front of Mike Okita had changed.
It is no longer Hanagata Toru, but has become Sento!
"Come on, let the horses come over."
"Mike."
Sendoh obviously remembered Mike Okita's name. He hooked his finger at Mike Okita and said with a smile.
Facing Sendoh's defense, Mike Okita's expression became much more serious. He dribbled the ball with his left and right hands in front of his body at a slow pace, looking for an opportunity to break through.
Suddenly, Mike Okita's dribbling rhythm changed. After a blast, his center of gravity dropped sharply and his posture was quickly adjusted. The basketball bounced back, and Mike Okita grabbed the ball with his right hand and dribbled in suspension, seemingly preparing to break through to the right, and his left foot was also placed in front of his right side.
However, the next second, the basketball actually fell under Mike's crotch. After quickly changing direction, Mike Okita had already rushed quickly to his left side.
A beautiful fake dribble and a change of direction gave Mike Okita an advantage in the matchup with Sendoh. He got half a body length ahead and quickly passed Sendoh and rushed towards the basket.
but...
Sendoh's defensive ability is not comparable to that of Hanagata Toru. When Mike Okita rushed forward, Sendoh's figure quickly stuck to Mike's side, and the constant physical confrontation made Mike's breakthrough extremely uncomfortable.
But Mike ignored him and just went to the basket and then went straight up against Sendoh's defense, ready to make a layup.
"What?! This kid is actually planning to do a layup like this. He really underestimates Sendoh!"
"It will be blocked!"
Mu Shen said with some surprise when he saw Mike's actions.
When Shigong Tianye saw that Mike was actually planning to attack Sendoh's defense in this way, he couldn't help but shook his head, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
I was thinking it would be a good show, but I didn’t expect it to end so soon!
Just when everyone thought that Mike was going to take Sendoh's block, Mike Okita slightly turned sideways in mid-air and actually hit the basket with his back.
Seeing this scene, Shinomiya Tano seemed to have thought of something and turned to look at Jinguji Budo.
Wu Dao raised his eyebrows when he saw this. Mike's posture... He looks so familiar!
Mike Okita quickly turned his back to the basket in the air and sent the basketball in his arms towards the basket behind him. Since there were dozens of centimeters between his shooting position and Sendoh's block, Mike's back-to-the-basket shot without looking at the basket could not be affected by Sendoh at all.
Looking up, Sendoh stared at the basketball in the air, watching it hit the backboard and then bounce back into the basket.
"Ohhh?!"
“This guy!”
“So sharp!”
When the coaches on the sidelines saw Mike's goal, they all roared. After looking at Mike, everyone's eyes were focused on Jinguji Takeshi on the sidelines.
Mike Okita's shot... is a replica of Jinguji Budo's move in a one-on-one bullfight!
Moreover, he replicated it on a five-on-five court, which was more difficult...in fact, more difficult than martial arts.
Excellent ball skills!
Mike Okita, a guy who has never been famous in Kanagawa Prefecture, left a deep impression on everyone!
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