"Oh, here it is." While Yu and Misawa were arguing, the woman named Nana looked at the side of the wire gate and shouted to a man who was walking by, "We're going to compete with them." ”

"It's so troublesome, why do I have to accompany you." Hearing Nana's words, the visitor did not look at You and the others, but complained to himself about why he wanted to play with these two junior high school students. This boy's outfit is quite individual.

And when the man opened his eyes and looked at them, he showed a somewhat surprised expression, not only him, but also Hasegawa Pleiades, who was looking at him. It seems that these two people know each other.

"Ryuichi Suga."

"Are you Hasegawa Pleiades. It's been a long time, and I heard that your basketball club is closed, it's really miserable. With a gloating expression, Ryuichi Suga unceremoniously mocked Hasegawa.

Well, the conversation between the two also really proves that the two of them know each other. In the face of Suga Ryuichi's ridicule, Hasegawa Pleiades also showed a somewhat unhappy look.

"I'm about to become an official player, and I'm also an ace at Itoda Commercial High School, which is the strongest in the prefecture." A second wave of taunts struck by Ryuichi Suga.

"Congratulations on that." This time, Hasegawa finally fought back, congratulating others in a tone that didn't look like he was congratulating someone else at all.

"Hah! Is that all. Being responded to by Hasegawa like this, Suga Ryu didn't show any irritation, but his expression and tone became a little dissatisfied. It seems that Ryuichi Suga was not satisfied with Hasegawa's answer.

With his hands on his hips, looking at Hasegawa Pleiades who was not talking, the cold Suga Ryuichi cut this guy, walked to the junior high school duo, snatched the basketball from the pock-faced girl named Mako, patted it, and said to Nana: "Nana, you are happy, I changed my mind." ”

It seems that Ryuichi Suga wants to have a fight with Hasegawa.

"What?" However, the girl didn't seem to be able to understand what Suga Ryuichi was talking about for a while.

"Show me your basketball skills after a long absence." Ryuichi Suga, who was muttering to himself, suddenly turned to face Hasegawa Pleiades and accurately passed the ball to Hasegawa Pleiades with one hand.

Steadily catching the ball passed by Ryuichi Suga, Hasegawa frowned slightly.

Without much hesitation, Hasegawa accepted Ryuichi Suga's challenge.

They want to play 3V3, and the two protagonists of Suga Ryuichi and Hasegawa Pleiades are naturally not the same, because there are two girls who partner with Suga Ryuichi, so Hasegawa Pleiades also finds two girls to partner with him, and his choice is the two strongest in the women's basketball club, Minato Chika and Kashii Ellie.

Judging from the people selected by Hasegawa, it can be seen that he wants to win against Ryuichi Suka.

"I'm sorry to get you two involved." Saying these things at this time, Hasegawa seems a little hypocritical.

"No, if only I could help."

"Is I okay?"

"It's because it's Ellie, the one called the real bow, probably the center position. Please help me. ”

"Yes, I'll do my best."

However, the two girls are subject to this set. Especially Kashii Ellie, after hearing that Hasegawa needed her help, she quickly nodded, saying that she would do her best.

"That, Brother Pleiades." As soon as Hasegawa Pleiades finished talking with Kashii Ellie, Minato Chika immediately asked Hasegawa Pleiades, "Is that the one that Brother Pleiades must not lose to?" ”

Hearing this, Hasegawa subconsciously looked at Ryuichi Suga, who was doing warm-up exercises with his back to him, and nodded lightly.

"I don't want to lose to him in basketball."

"I see. I'll do my best! Looking at Hasegawa's eyes looking at Ryuichi Suga, Minato Chika nodded and said with a serious expression.

Looking at Hasegawa's appearance, you can probably guess the relationship between Hasegawa and Suga Ryuichi, is it the so-called opponent

However, no matter what the relationship between the two is, the game is about to start anyway.

First of all, Hasegawa Pleiades kicked off. With the ball in hand, he faced Ryuichi Suga head-on, and after several attempts, he couldn't get past Ryuichi Suga. At this moment, Minato's active running ran out of a gap. Stretched out his hand and shouted to Hasegawa, "Brother Pleiades, this way!" ”

As soon as Minato's words fell, the ball passed by Hasegawa's Pleiades had already reached Minato's face, but because of the speed of Hasegawa's pass and a slight error in the judgment of Minato's speed, Minato Chika did not receive the ball.

The ball went out of bounds, and Minato Zhihua looked at her hand a little stunned. It seems to be wondering why he can't catch up with this ball.

"I'm sorry." Finding that Hasegawa and the others were looking at him, Minato Chihua hurriedly turned around and said to Hasegawa.

"No, it's me who doesn't wear well for passing, I'm really sorry." However, Hasegawa didn't think it was Minato's fault, more because his prediction as a point guard was not accurate enough.

"I'll definitely catch it next time."

But although Minato Chika said that she would definitely catch it next time, but, ah, Minato didn't catch the ball many times in the next few times.

"It's strange to talk wisely." Regarding Minato's performance on the court, Hinata Hakamata who was off the court made such a judgment.

Strange, that's right, it's just strange, the performance of Minato Chika on the field now is not at all like usual, or rather, it is a little too positive, plus he and Hasegawa do not have too much experience as a partner together, so it has caused the situation of continuous passing errors now.

"yes, that's not how Zhihua usually plays."

"It's not just Zhihua-chan who is in bad shape."

Everyone also saw that in the game of this trio, Hasegawa Pleiades in addition to Hasegawa's performance is relatively normal, the two girls are not very natural, if Minato Zhihua is too positive and lacks tacit understanding, then the other, Kashii Ellie is because of the first encounter with a center who is particularly tough and positive and about the same height as himself under the basket and retreated a little, and was even squeezed down by the real bow for a while.

"That real bow is very oppressive, and it's the worst with the current Ellie-chan."

For Ogiyama Wasabi's judgment, You agrees very much, the current Kashii Ellie because of her personality weaknesses, so under the negotiation of You and Hasegawa Pleiades, Kashii Ellie is developing towards the position of a flexible center, although this is not the best development direction for Kashii Ellie in You's opinion, but considering Kashii Ellie's basketball career in the future, You still decided not to force Kashii Ellie too much, sometimes, a person's style of play is determined by personal character traits.

With a strong personality, people like Yu will always seek physical contact and go to the basket as much as possible to attack.

People who have a softer personality and want to be Ellie will avoid physical contact, open up space as much as possible, and float outside to shoot.

And it is always known that; A general rule in basketball is that the closer an player is to the frame, the higher the percentage of shots.

Of course, personality is not the decisive factor in determining a person's final style, because people can grow, progress, and change. And as the person responsible for training Kashii Ellie, You is also working hard to make Kashii Ellie slowly change, both offensively and defensively. Offensively, You can give a lot of Koshii Ellie, but on defense, You doesn't have a very good way, because men and women are different, so when teaching Kashii Ellie to defend, You must be careful to attack, otherwise if you lean on your back, it will definitely be Kashii Ellie's chest

Fortunately, this problem has been solved since Ogiyama Wasabi came to be the coach of the fifth-grade women's basketball club, but looking at the current situation of Kashii Ellie's defense of the real bow, it seems that there is still a long way to go. And because of the defensive faux pas, Kashii Ellie seems to think that the opponent is strong, and she has become sluggish in attack.

It's really bad, today's Kashii Ellie and Minato Chihua, such a performance is not the two aces of the women's basketball club.

"Come on, everyone!!" Seeing the performance of the two girls, Misawa Maho couldn't help but cheer for them loudly, but although the intention was there, it had no effect. No matter how softly Hasegawa told them not to care, to relax.

In the last three-three game, Hasegawa's side lost miserably to Ryuichi Suga's team with a score of 2:20.

"Yes, I'm sorry!! I, I" In response, Minato Chihana and Kashii Ellie hurriedly bowed and apologized to Hasegawa Pleiades, looking like they were about to cry.

The two of them are also very dissatisfied with their performance today at this time. It's bad enough. After watching this game, I especially feel that it is necessary to exercise their mental quality, if the change on the court is the three members of the women's basketball club outside the court, this kind of problem will definitely not occur.

"It's not your fault, don't worry."

Hasegawa's words of comfort to the two of them were unconvincing.

"What, it's not very powerful." And in the face of such an ending, the winning side, a girl named Nana, made such a summary.

Yes, they are too weak today. If it weren't for the fact that he knew their strength, but only came into contact with Minato Chihua and them today, Yu, would even think that they didn't know how to play basketball at all.

"Hasegawa, the aftershow is almost over. Let's start the main event, a one-on-one competition. oneandone。 And the other winner, Ryuichi Suga, didn't care at all about the result of the three-v-three, but once again declared war on Hasegawa Pleiades.

Listening to him, it seems that he just sees this three-V-three as a warm-up exercise. Well, if it were You, he would also treat such an extremely low-quality game as a recreational game to move his muscles.

Faced with Ryuichi Suga's heads-up invitation, Hasegawa accepted it again.

And in the end, it was Hasegawa who lost.

Hasegawa Pleiades couldn't see through Suka's foot movements at all, which is called spy footwork. On offense, Hasegawa Pleiades was defended by Suga Ryuichi to the death.

The strength of the two of them was divided into high and low at once.

"Looks like I'm looking down on you, Hasegawa Pleiades. Because of the finals in the prefecture, I still have some expectations for you, but now it seems that "Ryuichi Suga showed a very look in the eyes of the people in the women's basketball club.

"You only deserve to be my foil."

"You know that you can only be a foil, so you go to a weak school that needs a trump card, and it turns out that this is how you go to a low-level place and only lowers your level. There is no point in playing games that you can't win. ”

After the taunt was finished, Ryuichi Suga didn't care how ugly Hasegawa's face was at this time, turned around and left. Seeing this, the two junior high school students also left with them.

Only Hasegawa Pleiades, who was like a lost dog, were left, and everyone in the silent women's basketball club was left.