Slam Dunk: I'm the Glasses Brother

Chapter 73 Warm-up match opponent, Tsukuba Takeshi (Part )

"Good job, Kemei!" Mitsui applauded and encouraged his juniors

Tsukutake quickly threw the ball out of bounds, and they started to run skillfully. This time, Sanada ran to the high post to receive the ball, and Akagi did not follow. Sanada received the ball, adjusted it, and made a high jump shot, which hit the target! Tsukutake continued to maintain the lead.

Iida controlled the ball through the front court, and Akagi signaled for the ball in the paint. Sanada made a shot, and Akagi had to fight back. Iida also handed the ball to Akagi without hesitation. Akagi back-to-back, once, twice. Yamaguchi came over to double-team Akagi, and Akagi pretended to pass the ball to Kusao Takeshi. Yamaguchi fell into the trap and hurried back to defend. Akagi collected the ball, jumped directly, and shot under the basket. Sanada had no way to stop Akagi from jumping up, and could only pray that the basketball would not go in. However, at such a close distance, the possibility of Akagi missing the shot was too low, and Akagi succeeded in a single shot.

"Watch out for their quick serve." After Akagi succeeded in attacking, he immediately directed his teammates to return to defense. This time, Sanada came out to cover for Natsume. Natsume used the screen to accelerate through the gap between Akagi and Iida, rushed to the inside, and faced the backup defense of Kusao Takeshi, and passed the ball to Yamaguchi, who scored at the basket.

"Akagi, you stay under the basket. If Sanada goes out, I will go out to defend." Kusao Takeshi made arrangements

The two sides switched offense and defense. Iida passed the ball to Akagi again, but Tsukutake was prepared for this ball. Wudai suddenly appeared on the ball's path, intercepted the ball, and made a long pass. Natsume Hirotomo had already started quickly and received the ball and scored a layup.

"Iida, don't just give the ball to Akagi, the opponent is on guard." Kusao Takeshi came over to remind Iida again, and Iida nodded. This time, the ball was handed to Katsumi, who took a three-point shot and missed, but Akagi had already taken a favorable position under the basket and made a tip-in in the air and hit it!

Tsukutake attacks, Sanada comes to the high post again, catches the ball and shoots, but this time Akagi follows him, "Pop!" A big block, the ball flies away, Iida gets the ball, but as soon as he gets the ball, it is intercepted by Natsume. Natsume passes to Wushiro, Wushiro hits a three-pointer! Next, Natsume steals Iida's dribble again and makes a fast break layup, but Hasegawa returns to defense in time and blocks the ball out of the baseline

"Height is Shohoku's weapon. Although No. 10 (Hasegawa) is tall, he is quite agile," Kawasaki commented off the court.

Encouraged by Hasegawa's block, Xiangbei defended Cheng Jinjiu for 30 seconds.

"Don't just wait for the ball, move more and provide more screens," Kawasaki reminded his players loudly.

The game continued, Xiangbei became the attacking side, Hasegawa kicked off the ball to Iida from the baseline. Iida dribbled the ball to the midfield, and Natsume Hirotomo tried to steal the ball many times. Fortunately, Iida was more cautious, kept the ball, and passed the ball in time. Not far away, Kusao Takeshi made a fake shot to trick Yamaguchi, broke through Yamaguchi and made a layup. Sanada made a false defense but was fooled. Kusao Takeshi passed the ball to Akagi behind Sanada in mid-air. How could Akagi miss such a good opportunity? He scored with a gorilla dunk.

Tsukutake took advantage of multiple screens and Tanaka got an open space and made a three-pointer.

In the following time, although Xiangbei had the advantage in the interior, Tsukuba's outside shooting was terrifyingly accurate. At the end of the first half, Xiangbei was four points behind 32:36.

"Everyone is doing well, keep it up. In the second half, pay attention, Shohoku's Murasaki and Mitsui may appear." Coach Kawasaki praised his players while also reminding them

"Second half lineup, center: Nakajima-san, power forward: Horita-san, small forward: Mitsui-san, shooting guard: Katsumi-san, point guard: Murasakibara-san." Coach Anzai also made arrangements. "Finally, we can go on the court." Murasakibara and Mitsui moved their joints

"Oh, Akagi and No. 10 didn't play? Now our offensive pressure is much less." Sanada glanced at the players of Xiangbei. In the first half, Hasegawa's appearance put a lot of pressure on Tsukutake on the defensive end. He contributed 2 steals and 2 blocks.

In the second half, Sanada won the jump ball, and Natsume Hirotoshi got the ball. "Natsume" Wudai had already run to the three-point line to signal for the ball. Natsume understood and immediately passed the ball. "What?" Natsume was suddenly stunned. It turned out that Murasakibara had jumped up and reached out to steal the ball. "Mitsui" Murasakibara got the ball, "You can't pass the ball" Natsume jumped up. "Hmm, that's not right, isn't Mitsui behind Murasakibara?" As soon as he jumped up, Natsume found something wrong

"See? But it's too late." Murasaki received the ball and broke through Natsume's defense, and made a single fast break. "You can't score." Sanada had already retreated to the basket. Murasaki stepped into the restricted area with both hands holding the ball, and raised the ball up without stopping, "Shooting? It's not that easy." Sanada jumped up. But Murasaki did not stop, he received the ball, passed Sanada in one step, turned around and made an easy layup.

"Full-court press!" Murasakibara shouted, and the Shohoku players were stunned. Murasakibara had already entangled Natsume. Everyone reacted and quickly entangled their own players. The Tsukutake players were planning to attack. There were only Sanada and Natsume in the backcourt. Horita stood in front of Sanada and kept waving his arms. Natsume of Miuradai was tightly entangled by Murasakibara and had no chance to catch the ball. He didn't pass the ball for 5 seconds.

"Go back and meet the ball!" Kawasaki shouted to remind his disciples. Wu Dai got the hint and ran back, but Mitsui followed closely behind Wu Dai and Wu Dai had no chance to catch the ball.

"Beep! Serving violation!" Xiangbei successfully prevented Tsukuba from making a serving violation

"Don't worry, everyone defend this ball"

Xiangbei sideline ball, Mugu received the pass from Nakajima, without stopping to squeeze past Natsume and go straight to the basket, Tsukutake's people quickly retreated to the restricted area, they knew that Mugu's height and attack power were much stronger than Iida in the first half, they couldn't let Mugu easily break through and score. However, Mugu didn't force the ball, he threw the ball to the bottom corner. Mitsui Shou was already waiting in the bottom corner, Tsukutake's reaction was not slow, Tanaka immediately made up for the defense, Mitsui Shou was not in a hurry, he sent the ball to 45 degrees, and Katsumi also appeared in the open space, Katsumi received the pass, adjusted it, and hit a three-pointer steadily.

"Well, very good, that's how we play it." Coach Anxi nodded with satisfaction.

Tsukutake learned from the lesson this time, and all the players came back to support, to avoid being pressed by Xiangbei and making mistakes again. Natsume successfully received the ball this time, but just after half court, Murasakibara kept entangled with Natsume, constantly squeezing Natsume with his body, "What a strong defense. I don't know how much stronger than the guard in the first half," Natsume secretly complained. Seeing this, Tanaka immediately ran to support, and just when Natsume was about to pass the ball, Murasakibara saw the opportunity, stretched out his arm, and knocked the basketball out of Natsume's hand. "Mitsui" Mitsui had already run to the front to support, and Mitsui easily scored a layup after getting the ball. At the beginning of the second half, Xiangbei beat Tsukutake 7:0 and overtook the score.

"Tsukutake requests a timeout" Kawasaki saw Shohoku gaining momentum and immediately called a timeout