Chapter 30: The Most Familiar Counterpoint
At the end of the first quarter of the game between Jaguar and Feilang, Jaguar unexpectedly led by 8 points at 32:24.
"Yay!!!"
With the screams of the fans, Fujima once again used his personal ability to score 2 points at the beginning of the second quarter. Since he was leading a lot, Da Mu was not in a hurry to replace the starters, rest more, and recover more physically.
Here the Jaguar didn't score, and Fujima took the rebound.
Fujima dribbled to the front court and found that the Jaguar players had not yet stabilized, like headless flies, looking for their defenders, Fujima saw this and dribbled to the three-point line and shot directly at three!
"Yay~~~!!"
With the fans cheering again, Fujima shot another three points, and scored five points in a row at the beginning of the second quarter.
"Sakuragi, Miyagi, Mitsui!" Oki saw that the team's substitutes were a little difficult to parry, and the score had already caught up, so he made a decisive substitution, and the physical strength of the three should have almost recovered!
"Hahaha, great, it's finally the turn of the day to play again, this time the vixen is not on the field, I have to play well!!Maybe Haruko is still looking at me!!" Sakuragi finally waited until there was no Rukawa Kaede on the field, but ,,,,
"Sakuragi, you still have to start with defense first, Akagi is not on the court on the offensive end, and we have lost the advantage on the inside. You have to create more offensive opportunities for other people, and remember not to stick to the ball!"
Judging from Coach Oki's final instructions, Sakuragi is indeed thinking too much.
"Damn,,, obviously that stinky fox is not there, and even let me do dirty work, as soon as the stinky fox and gorilla come back, I won't have a chance!!No, I can't listen to the coach anymore this time, anyway, we are still ahead, and we have to carry the team's offensive banner today!!"
Sakuragi ostensibly obeyed the coach's arrangement, but in his heart he was ready to charge.
"Defend! Defend! Defend!"
Seeing that the team's chasing points was gaining momentum, the audience at the scene also shouted in unison to defend and boost the morale of the team.
Jaguar Attack.
"Miyagi!!Pass, I'm going to blow this guy up!"
Sakuragi really took action, and as soon as he came up, he desperately stuck in the inside line to ask for the ball.
"How did this Sakuragi do it, obviously he didn't arrange his offensive tactics, and he was still there to ask for the ball!!"
Seeing that Sakuragi had been yelling for the ball, Miyagi was also a little overwhelmed.
"Here!"
Just when Miyagi hesitated to hand the ball to Sakuragi, Mitsui ran over.
Seeing that Mitsui was already unguarded at the top arc of the three-point line, Miyagi passed it directly, and Mitsui received the ball and threw it!
"Damn, Miyagi! I didn't pass the ball for a long time, but passed it to Mitsui!!"
Sakuragi had a big opinion on this pass from Miyagi.
"Bell!"
Maybe sitting on the court for a long time, three points to hit the iron!
"I'll have to rob it myself!"
Since it was a long rebound, Sakuragi jumped high to grab it.
After landing, Sakuragi did not pass it to Miyagi to reorganize, and Sakuragi himself should know in his heart that the ball passed out was like water that was spilled and could not come back. So Sakuragi cherishes such an offensive opportunity, and after standing firm, he is ready to defend Sakuragi's flying wave foreign aid alone, Swift.
"Hello!"
Sakuragi yelled and made a shot.
Swift didn't know much about Sakuragi, and was a little confused by Sakuragi's voice, and jumped up unconsciously.
"Haha, you've been fooled!"
Sakuragi really made a shooting feint, and seeing that Swift had been shaken, Sakuragi dribbled the ball and killed inside.
"Look at my one-arm slam dunk !!!"
Sakuragi dribbles the ball, after increasing the speed, it is really unstoppable, three steps and two steps, after holding the ball with one hand, he struggles to get up, his body is pulled like a bow and arrow, and the right hand is heavily poured into the ball!
The whole set of movements is very stretching, the height of the bounce and the control of power are just right, it is like a slam dunk contest!!
After missing the previous two mid-range shots, Sakuragi finally got the first point of the game, and this first point was quite thirst-quenching, fully demonstrating Sakuragi's explosive physical fitness.
"Oh ~~~~~" The audience saw Sakuragi's powerful slam dunk, and from time to time they made exclamatory sounds, indeed, Sakuragi's one-arm wheel buckle was quite shocking!
"Haha, look at it, this is my Sakuragi slam dunk!! Jaguar is more than Rukawa Kaede!!"
Sakuragi finally seized the opportunity and showed himself again.
"Well done, Sakuragi!!"
Miyagi also encouraged Sakuragi when he was back in defense.
"Cut!Miyagi, you didn't pass it to me just now, I can remember it!!"
Although Sakuragi scored the goal in the end, he still did not forget Miyagi's previous decision.
"I'm also playing according to the coach's tactical arrangement, let's go back to defense, Sakuragi! Pass it to you next time, next time!!"
Miyagi was afraid that Sakuragi would play with emotions, so he took the initiative to comfort him.
While speaking, Fujima had already killed Forte and was about to use the roller coaster again, but this time the defense of Fujima became Miyagi, and Miyagi's defensive center of gravity was much lower than that of Rukawa Kaede, so Fuji Zhen's roller coaster did not completely pass Miyagi.
"I won't let you succeed again!" Miyagi was on guard, interfering with Fujima.
Fuji Mami didn't have a good chance, so he decisively passed it to Fujiwara on the outside. Fujiwara stands at the three-point line, and the defender in front of him has also been attracted away by Fujima, completely empty, but Fujiwara is not a forward who is good at outside shooting, the middle distance is okay, and the three-point shot is indeed a little difficult for him, after a pause, Fujiwara still chooses to gamble and shoot three-pointers!
"Bell!" Sure enough, the iron was struck, and the outer line of the flying waves seemed to be infected, and the iron was repeatedly struck from the wooden twilight road Fujiwara.
In fact, Fuji Zhen didn't see who his teammate standing at the three-point line was before, he just felt that it must be his teammate with his peripheral vision, so he passed it out, if he knew that Fujiwara was standing there, maybe Fuji Zhen might attack the basket directly.
The rebound was again taken by Sakuragi. Pass it to Miyagi.
After coming to the half-time battle, Sakuragi was still fighting with Swift on the inside.
"Come on, Miyagi!!"
Sakuragi seems to have been stuck.
This time Miyagi did not hesitate and hung it directly to Sakuragi.
"What a familiar counterpoint!!"
After Sakuragi took the ball, he turned around again, facing the basket and looking at Swift who was defending in front of him. The two once again ushered in a one-on-one show near the bottom line.
"What??" Swift was a little puzzled by what Sakuragi was saying.
Sakuragi didn't have time to explain to Swift, and after saying that, he directly started to rush along the baseline to the inside, and Swift was very focused this time, and the fast back blocked Sakuragi's offensive line.
"Bye-bye!!"
Sakuragi said it very confidently, and then leaned on Swift's body, and came to a very smooth counterclockwise turn, passing Swift cleanly! But this time the flying wave could not let Sakuragi perform a slam dunk performance, and Kuboto was quite clever to make up for it.
But Sakuragi had already taken the lead, but seeing Kuboto's hard blocking, Sakuragi chose a more ingenious way - playing board throwing!
"Da, brush!!" the ball hits the board accurately and rolls into the basket!
"Hahahaha, see it, this genius will not only slam dunk, but also delicate shooting, haha!"
Sakuragi was proud after scoring this goal.
"Even Sakuragi has played confidently, is it that I underestimate this Jaguar team too much? This game is really not good, every player of Jaguar has found their own rhythm, the team is smooth, Fuji really finally chased back the score, and even killed a Sakuragi flower road, and now I can only pray that the players' hands are warmer!"
Seeing Sakuragi play like this, Coach Moriyama was worried about the team again.
"Sakuragi, you have improved a lot, I still remember you back then, you would make mistakes as soon as you played, always make some fame, always feel that you are still a layman, but now it is different, after three years of rehabilitation in the United States, your body has recovered, and you definitely did not waste time, now you are completely the same as back then, Sakuragi! You really have the level of playing in the professional league now, maybe, you can get better!!"
Looking at Sakuragi, who was heroic on the field, Mu Twilight, who was sitting on the sidelines to rest, sighed.
"I didn't expect this kid Sakuragi to be so "disobedient", obviously asked him to make wedding dresses for others, but he performed himself, it's not that I don't believe in your strength, Sakuragi, there will be too many opponents in the future, and showing the hole cards too early is a little disadvantageous to us, but who made him Sakuragi, haha. Just let him go!"
Coach Oki was both excited and worried to see Sakuragi's performance like this, but Sakuragi was only excited.
"Come on, I, Sakuragi, am going to show my strength today and take back all the things I lost in the last game!"
Swift didn't have the leisure to listen to Sakuragi's declaration, and after being beaten twice by Sakuragi, as a foreign aid, he was really embarrassed, so he received Fuji Zhen's breakthrough and went directly to the basket, ready to have a hard time with Sakuragi.
"It's too revealing!"
Before Swift could jump, Sakuragi cut off the ball in his hand!
Because Swift only focused on preparing for the confrontation, he ignored the position of the ball, and the ball was almost placed in front of Sakuragi. How could Sakuragi not accept such a big gift.
"You're so much weaker than the guys in the U.S.!!"
Sakuragi went from offense to defense and almost completed the suppression of Swift.
"That's right, Sakuragi is in contact with this kind of black athlete in the United States, so he is very familiar with Swift's alignment, and it seems that we also have an advantage today, and there is a great hope of winning!!"
Hearing Sakuragi say this, Mitsui immediately thought about it, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, it seems that Mitsui is determined to win this game!
"Toot! Jaguar substitution!"
With three minutes left in the first half, Jaguar's starting five were back in place.