In the backcourt of Dongda Affiliated No. 1 Middle School, the newly replaced Banjian took the basketball from the referee and quickly passed the ball to Shigong Tianye. He deliberately added some spin to the basketball when passing the ball.
Shigong Tianye was unaware and reached out to catch the ball as usual, but the next second after the basketball was in his hand, the spinning force suddenly exploded, and the basketball slipped out of his hand and rolled toward the sideline. Shigong Tianye's expression froze, and he quickly ran a few steps, caught up with the basketball, slapped the basketball hard, controlled the rebounding basketball in his hand, glanced at the teammate who served the ball, and silently walked towards the front court with the ball.
"Hehe, Shinomiya-san, are you tired? You don't have enough strength to catch the ball."
"How about we attack?"
Itama trotted over to Shinomiya Tano and said with a smile.
Seeing this, Shigong Tianye narrowed his eyes slightly, turned his head to look at the scoreboard, sighed heavily, and the unwilling look in his eyes was fleeting. He said casually:
"Come on." Shimoya threw the ball in front of the boards and slowed down his pace, turning his original jog into a walk.
He gave up. Shinomiya Tano no longer cared about winning this game.
"It's so despairing!" Shimonoya sighed in his heart. After entering the frontcourt, he walked to the sidelines and then stopped pushing forward. He gave up.
As Banjian advanced with the ball, everyone at Takeishi Middle School was on high alert, thinking that the opponent was planning to use some tactics. Wudao trotted to Shigong Tianye, still on high alert, without any slackness.
Shigong Tianye looked at the serious Wudao in front of him and said faintly: "Don't guard against me. I won't participate in the attack next time."
"I really envy you for having a group of teammates who fully trust you. Even if you lose a lot of points in front of me, your teammates never blame you even a word."
"Although Dongda Affiliated No. 1 Middle School lost this game, I did not lose."
When Takeshi Jinguji heard this, he looked at Shinomiya Tano in surprise. He didn't know why the other party suddenly said this. Although Takeshi successfully blocked several balls from Shinomiya Tano, it was still too early to win. In Takeshi's opinion, Tokyo University Affiliated No. 1 Middle School only needed to make a slight adjustment, and Takeshi's attack would be in trouble again.
It is not difficult to break the pick-and-roll. All it takes is for the defensive players to have a little understanding and know when to switch defense.
"What happened?" Wu Dao straightened his back slightly, guarding Shinomiya Tano without changing his position, and asked while watching the man who broke through with the ball.
Shigong Tianye did not answer Wudao's question, but silently watched the attacking Banjian without saying anything. In the meantime, Banjian of Dongda Affiliated No. 1 Middle School had successfully attracted Wu Shi's defense by breaking through, and then quickly passed the ball to an open teammate in the bottom corner. The latter received the ball and shot it directly from outside the three-point line.
The basketball hit the rim under the gaze of everyone, and the rebound was grabbed by Mitsui Hisashi from Takeishi Junior High School. The basketball flew a long distance, and Mitsui Hisashi happened to be relatively close to the basketball.
Mitsui Shou, who got the basketball, started a fast break directly. When Wudao saw that Mitsui Shou got the basketball, he ignored Shinomiya Tianye and directly joined the fast break team.
Although Shimono did not attack, he was still active in defense. However, his teammates were not very fast in returning to defense, so Shimono could only watch Takeishi's fast break players find open space after several passes and shoot to score.
The scoreboard changed again, the score came to 35:30, and Takeishi expanded his lead to 5 points.
Although several players from the No. 1 Affiliated Middle School of the University of Tokyo failed in their attacks and were successfully counterattacked by Takeishi, those teammates were all smiling and encouraging each other as they returned to the court to prepare for serving. The atmosphere was quite harmonious and they did not care about losing points at all.
However, Shimotsuna did not join his teammates. He ran to the front court alone, seeming out of tune with his teammates.
"Hey, Takeshi, the atmosphere at the Tokyo University Affiliated High School is a bit weird, what's going on?" Mitsui and Takeshi were returning to defense side by side. Mitsui also noticed the weird atmosphere at the Tokyo University Affiliated High School and asked Takeshi.
"Shinomiya Tano seems to be isolated." Wudao narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the players of the Tokyo University Affiliated First Middle School who were actively communicating and preparing for the attack, and then looked at the Tokyo University coach with a gloomy expression under the court, and replied.
"Isolation? Isolation is the team's trump card? Are they out of their minds? Don't they want to win the game?"
Mitsui Shou was quite surprised. He couldn't understand the other party's train of thought.
"Haha, who knows."
“Perhaps they were already the champions before Shinomiya Tano joined the First Middle School affiliated to the University of Tokyo.”
"I didn't expect to see the new and old forces fighting for the right to speak in junior high school."
"It's a good thing for us. We can solve them in one fell swoop while their conflicts are still going on."
"Those players affiliated with the University of Tokyo are much easier to deal with than Shinomiya Tano."
Martial arts is not so naive as to show pity for the opponent and hold back during a competition. The attitude towards competition is to kill the opponent while he is weak.
In the short time left in the first half, Shigong Tianye did not take the initiative to attack again. Wudao was still vigilant against Shigong Tianye and kept guarding him. However, Wu Shi and Dongda Affiliated No. 1 Middle School played four against four, and Wu Shi had an absolute advantage.
There were no more timeouts for the No. 1 Middle School affiliated to Dongda University. Their coach could only scream on the sidelines, but he could not change anything. He could only watch the score between the two teams widen little by little.
The people from Dongda High School who were laughing and joking at first finally stopped laughing as the score got wider and wider. Itama also wanted to let Shinomiya Tano to attack, and tried to pass the ball to the opponent, but Shinomiya Tano passed it directly after receiving the basketball, as if the basketball was too hot.
As the game progressed, the audience's cheers died down, and many even left the venue, not wanting to watch such a boring game anymore.
Finally, the referee blew the whistle and the first half of the game came to an end.
Takeishi Junior High School ended the first half of the game with a score of 44:32, a difference of 12 points.
During the half-time break, a heated argument broke out in the locker room of the First Affiliated Middle School of the University of Tokyo. Shortly after the argument ended, Shinomiya Tano walked out of the locker room with a bag on his back and left the venue without looking back.
Shinomiya Tano did not return until the start of the second half.
On the court, the players of Takeishi Junior High School finished their positions and prepared for the jump ball. Wu Dao looked down at the No. 10 player of Todai Junior High School who was defending him, and looked around curiously, but did not see Shinomiya Tano.
In the second half of the game, the opponent did not seem to play. There were some coaches from other junior high schools watching the game in the audience. After discovering that Shigong Tianye did not play, they immediately realized what happened. Many coaches had no interest in watching the next game and hurriedly left the venue, not knowing what to do.
Without the huge threat of Shinomiya Tano, Takeishi Junior High School completely opened up in the second half, and the result of the game was decided less than ten minutes into the second half.
In the end, Takeishi Junior High School won the first game with a score of 87:48. Jinguji Budo was still a little confused until the end of the game. Shinomiya Tano's strength made them breathless, but the victory of the game came so easily that Budo felt a little unreal.
It was not just Wudao who had this feeling, Mitsui Shou and others also had this feeling, but these feelings were ultimately drowned out by the cheers of their teammates.
Takeishi Junior High School won the victory and advanced to the second round of the national competition.
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