Chapter 187: Shohoku vs. Shoyo: Mugure's New Technique
Chapter 187: Shohoku vs. Shoyo: Mugure's New Technique
"Ito, you defend Mito Yohei, and I will deal with Mitsui. We must not let Mitsui make a three-point shot." Fujima made arrangements
"Yes, Senior Fujima," the team leader said, and Ito had no choice but to obey, not to mention that he really couldn't defend against Mitsui. . .
Fujima organized the attack and gave the ball to Hanagata. This time Hanagata held the ball steadily with his back against Akagi. Akagi came up to him and raised his hands high to prevent the opponent from shooting.
Takano suddenly ran past Hanagata, and Hanagata stretched out his hand and made a passing gesture. Akagi noticed out of the corner of his eye that Fukuda had followed Takano and ignored Hanagata's pass.
Hanagata saw that Akagi was not fooled, so he swayed to the right, turned his body quickly to the left, and tried to hook with his right hand.
"It's not that easy." A big hand appeared in front of Hanagata. Hanagata was startled and raised the arc of the ball to avoid Akagi's block.
"Rebound" Huaxing felt that he was not sure about this ball, and Akagi also felt that he had successfully interfered with this ball. The two reminded their players to grab the rebound at the same time. The ball hit the basket and bounced into the air. Several big men watched the basketball and waited for it to fall before grabbing the rebound. But no one succeeded. The ball bounced high but fell straight into the net.
"That was close!" Huaxing breathed a sigh of relief
"He is so lucky." Akagi shook his head. He thought that his defense was already very good. He could only say that Hanagata was just too lucky.
"Oh? Someone changed!" Yohei noticed that the person in front of him was no longer Shoyo's ace, but Ito
"Yohei, attack him!" Murasaki shouted from the sidelines. In the original novel, Ito could not defend against Miyagi's cutting in, but now Yohei's speed is not inferior to Miyagi in the plot year, so there is no reason why he cannot break through Ito's defense.
"First-year boy, don't even think about me." Ito also heard Mu Mu's voice, with a look of disdain on his face.
Yohei's body weight was leaning to the left, and Ito immediately stepped to the right to steal the ball. But in the next step, Yohei dribbled behind his back, avoiding Ito's steal and cutting into the penalty area.
"Come on," Nagano added.
"Hasegawa Senior" Yohei passed the ball, and Nagano hurriedly stretched out his hand to block the passing line, but Nagano found that he had grabbed a handful of air. . . Yohei faked a forward pass, fooling Nagano's defense, Akagi and Fukuda blocked their opponents, and Yohei scored a layup.
"Ito, don't underestimate him just because he's a freshman. This kid is quite capable," Fujima came over to remind him.
"Yes, Fujima-senpai." Ito put away his contempt for Fujima-senpai, who he respected, when he heard him say "he's quite capable".
This time Fujima controlled the ball to the front court and passed it to Hanagata again. Hanagata received the ball and back-hit it. He bumped back a few times. Akagi behind him didn't move at all. Instead, he was pushed out by Akagi. Hanagata didn't rush. He first swayed left and right, took a step back and jumped up to shoot. The familiar rhythm told him "I got the ball!" Hanagata smiled. But soon, his smile froze on his face, and a big hand appeared in front of him!
"Do you have good luck every time?" Akagi yelled, jumped up, and rewarded Hanagata with a spicy hot pot!
"Akagi-senpai's fly swatter appeared" the Shohoku bench cheered.
But before the players of Xiangbei could get excited, the ball was caught by Takano, who shot the ball directly, and Fukuda jumped up to block it. But Fukuda was not Sakuragi, so he failed to block the ball, and Takano scored!
Xiangbei quickly served the ball and came to Xiangyang's half, starting to attack. Yohei dribbled the ball and watched the situation on the court. When he saw Akagi asking for the ball, he gave it to Akagi without hesitation.
Akagi received the pass and started to attack. Hanagata tried to use the "remove the bench" trick again, but Akagi was prepared. He did not use his full strength, and at the same time, he took advantage of Hanagata's retreat to jump and dunk. Because Hanagata retreated, he lost the opportunity to block the shot and could only watch Akagi complete the dunk.
"Hmph, being too clever may backfire." After Akagi scored a goal, he rarely said a piece of trash talk.
"Damn it!" Hanagata clenched his fists.
"Calm down, Hanagata. Little tricks can only be used temporarily, not forever. Akagi is indeed very strong, but I believe that after a year of hard training, your strength is not weak either. You can't underestimate Akagi, but you must also believe in yourself." Fujima patted Hanagata.
"I understand, Fujima." Hanagata took a deep breath and regained his firm expression. Fujima nodded with satisfaction.
Fujima continuously changed direction to break through Mito Yohei's defense, rushed into the inside and made a fake shot. Akagi gave up Hanagata to come over to defend, but Fujima passed the ball to Hanagata and scored. After completing the dunk, Hanagata roared to the sky and relieved the anger in his heart.
Hanagata scored a dunk in his own territory and roared. Akagi couldn't stand it, so he went to Shoyo's penalty area and signaled for the ball. Mito Yohei passed the ball, and Ito jumped high to prepare for a steal, but Mito Yohei had already anticipated that his height did not have an advantage, and if he passed a high ball, he might be stolen. He made a fake high pass to deceive Ito, and then hit the ball to Akagi. After Akagi got the ball, he did not adjust, but turned around swiftly. Hanagata did not expect Akagi's speed to be so fast. At the same time, when Akagi turned around, he increased the confrontation with Hanagata. Hanagata was immediately stuck behind Akagi and could not block Akagi. Akagi hit the rebound under the basket!
Fujima dribbled to the three-point line and suddenly shot a three-pointer. Mito Yohei was caught off guard and had no time to block it, so Fujima made the three-pointer!
Outside the three-point line, Mitsui got the ball, and with a realistic fake shot, he shook Fujima off. Mitsui dribbled into the restricted area, with Hanagata waiting in front of him and Fujima chasing him from behind. Mitsui did not slow down, as if he did not see Fukuda who was unguarded (Takano had already gone to defend Akagi), and jumped up to receive the ball towards Hanagata.
"Don't even think about it!" Hua Xing shouted, raised his hands high, jumped up directly, and placed his hands firmly on Mitsui's head.
There was no expression on Mitsui's face while he was in the air. When he was about to hit Huaxing, he suddenly curled up, lowered his head and passed by Huaxing's left side. After passing Huaxing, Mitsui was almost under the basket and was about to fly out of the baseline, but Mitsui did not panic. He turned his body slightly to face the basket, exerted force on his waist and abdomen, opened his body suddenly, and dunked the ball into the basket behind him with both hands.
The moment Mitsui passed by him, Hanagata's heart skipped a beat: "Not good!" Hanagata was a great player. After all, he was one of the four centers in the county and a well-known player in the county. He did not give up in this situation. He tried to adjust his body shape while his body was still falling, and swept his left arm backwards. Although Mitsui passed Hanagata in the air, with Hanagata's height and arm length, if Mitsui chose to layup, he would definitely be blocked by Hanagata in this small space, but unfortunately he did not, so...
"Oh!"
"Snapped!"
"Beep! White number five fouled, the goal counts, one penalty" the referee blew the whistle
"Damn it!" Hanagata raised his right hand unwillingly. In the end, he was a little slow, and not only did he fail to block the basketball, but he also hit Mitsui's hand.
"Awesome, Mitsui!" Mitsui's wonderful slam dunk also caused cheers from the audience.
Mitsui made an extra free throw... but missed. It seems that Hanagata's foul was quite fierce and affected Mitsui's touch. Takano got the rebound. "Takano" Fujima saw Takano grab the rebound and immediately ran to the backcourt of Xiangbei. Takano made a long pass and Fujima got the ball. He just dribbled one step.
"Don't even think about breaking through." Mito Yohei has blocked Fujima's path forward.
"Well done Yohei"
"Nice defense, but..." Fujima praised, but the next second, the basketball in his hand disappeared. In another corner, a white figure got the ball outside the three-point line, took a three-point shot, and hit it!
"Good goal, Ito!" Fujima showed the audience his excellent vision as a national-level defender!
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