Chapter Thirty-Six: Cold Water
Rukawa Kaede took the ball, didn't look at Mitsui, and passed directly to Tsunoda on the inside, and it seemed that the desire to attack was not strong. When Tsunoda received the ball, he was a little excited. With the exit of the third grade, he is now confident that he will be the main player, and even if Sakuragi returns, he can partner Sakuragi inside.
Sakuragi didn't look at Tsunoda, who was holding the ball, but glared at Rukawa Kaede viciously. What is this? Is it a contempt for yourself? Let Tsunoda come and fight himself, Rukawa Kaede, the bastard, Sakuragi can't help but go over to PK with Rukawa Kaede's lineup.
"Sakuragi, I'm here!" Seeing that Sakuragi was a little distracted, Tsunoda politely reminded him first. While Sakuragi's murderous eyes looked at him, Tsunoda made a shooting motion, and then suddenly started to shoot sideways with the ball to the basket. Sakuragi has little interest in Kakuda, and he doesn't have much interest, just a symbolic follow-up. Ready to use a big hat to make Tsunoda understand that he is not enough to be his opponent.
Tsunoda dribbled twice horizontally and jumped in three direct steps, ready to attack from the other side of the basket. Sakuragi jumped up to block and the two of them made physical contact in the air before Tsunoda threw the ball out of the basket with his low hand. After the goal, Tsunoda was even more excited, and he actually scored two points under Sakuragi's defense. But seeing Sakuragi's very unhappy appearance, Tsunoda didn't dare to show too much, and happily ran back to defend.
Sakuragi didn't care much about Kanoda's goal, and sent the ball to Yasuda, and Sakuragi's eyes stared at Rukawa Kaede. He clearly saw the damn look in Kaede's eyes after Tsunoda scored the goal. Do you sympathize with yourself? Do you look down on yourself? Rukawa Kaede, you wait for me.
Yasuda dribbled the ball and looked up at the basket from time to time, which made Miyagi dare not relax, and his whole body was tense and paid attention to Yasuda's every move. For what? Because during Miyagi and Rukawa Kaede's participation in the joint training camp and competition, Yasuda didn't know what kind of bribe Lu Dao used and worshiped under Mitsui's door. Now Yasuda has a great level of glasses in COSCO Investment's attainments, and it may not be possible to fill the vacancy left by Mitsui over time.
Mitsui came over to help Yasuda block and dismantle, but Rukawa Kaede did not choose to change defenses. Yasuda took advantage of the short open opportunity after acceleration and shot a three-pointer with a standard posture. "Sakuragi ....... rebound!" However, Yasuda knew that he was going to play a good piece of iron, and reminded Sakuragi under the basket loudly.
Sakuragi was blocked behind Kakuda, and he shook to the left, and Kakurata was still too tender compared to Sakuragi. Sakuragi took advantage of the shaking of Tsunoda to go around to the front of Tsunoda from the right, and immediately took advantage of the strength of the force to lean against Tsunoda. Bang bang ~ the ball bounced up. Tsunoda tried to regain his position, but Sakuragi didn't give him any chance.
The ball began to fall, and Tsunoda tried to squeeze past Sakuragi's left hand, but Sakuragi's outstretched arms made all his efforts in vain. Sakuragi jumped high, Tsunoda also gave up struggling, and the position was not good, and Tsunoda didn't even jump. Seeing that Sakuragi was about to accept the rebound, one hand came from behind Sakuragi, and before Sakuragi's hands could get the ball, he took the basketball over.
No way! As soon as Sakuragi landed, he turned around incredibly, Tsunoda's hands were empty, and it was Rukawa Kaede who was holding the ball behind him.
"Sakuragi, what are you doing?" Mitsui reprimanded unceremoniously that he was successfully robbed by Rukawa Kaede, which made Mitsui very dissatisfied.
"I know the way!" Sakuragi's face was ugly to death, and he replied loudly, but his eyes were always staring at Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa Kaede ignored Sakuragi, whose muscles on his face were twitching, and carefully held the ball, not giving the opponent any chance to steal the ball.
"Didn't you just shoot without anyone defending? At the end of the training session, you stay, shoot 200 and then go home. Mitsui, who saw that Sakuragi was already angry, did not reprimand Sakuragi again, but instead poured his anger on Yasuda's body.
"Oh!" Yasuda was very calm and obediently agreed. "Sakuragi is okay, go back to defense." Yasuda retreated while beckoning Sakuragi, who was facing Rukawa Kaede.
"Sakuragi just came back, don't be so serious, right?" Miyagi took the ball from Rukawa Kaede's hand and muttered quietly, Rukawa Kaede pretended not to hear it and ran to the frontcourt.
Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was standing under the basket and defending, was clenched with his fists, full of murderous energy, and Tsunoda didn't dare to go over to ask for a position. Just after halftime, Rukawa Kaede took the initiative to ask for the ball, and Miyagi passed the ball to Rukawa Kaede and took the initiative to pull it to the other side.
"That guy has a strong self-esteem, and you don't know how to do it......... Mitsui defended Rukawa Kaede, and reminded Rukawa Kaede in a low voice, but he didn't finish speaking, Rukawa Kaede was gone.
Rukawa Kaede, who broke through Mitsui, was empty in front of him, and Tsunoda had already pulled to the other side. Facing Rukawa Kaede who rushed over, Sakuragi carried a murderous momentum, jumped up at the same time as Rukawa Kaede, and the hand that blocked it hit him headlessly.
Two people collided with the Earth as if Mars had collided with each other, and there was a violent collision in the air. Sakuragi's palm didn't hit the ball and hit Rukawa Kaede's arm hard, but that didn't stop Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk. As Sakuragi slammed to the ground, the arena became deadly silent.
Even Takanomiya Wang, who had been waiting to see Sakuragi Hana's ugliness, were so stunned that they didn't even dare to come out. Before Sakuragi could get up, all the team members rushed over. Mitsui directly pushed Rukawa Kaede away, and the others hugged the furious Sakuragi Hanamichi.
"Sakuragi ......" Haruko, like everyone else, saw the scene just now. Sakuragi was separated by Rukawa Kaede, and the two of them jumped up at the same time, but Sakuragi was obviously shorter than Rukawa Kaede. Haruko, who was at a loss, looked at Yohoi and others.
"Let go of me, I'm going to kill this bastard!" When Sakuragi shouted these words, Mito Yohei also rushed over to stop Sakuragi, and the scene became extremely chaotic, which was a huge contrast with Rukawa Kaede's indifferent expression.
"Enough! Sakuragi: We are teammates, not enemies. Rukawa Kaede, Sakuragi just came back, do you need to be so serious? Miyagi, as the captain, shouted to quell the riot, and he chose to play eighty boards each.
"Sakuragi, I want to talk to you!" The more he looked at Coach Anzai, who looked more solemn, finally stood up and walked over, and as he appeared and spoke, the players let go of the hand holding Sakuragi Hanamichi.
Sakuragi Hanamichi's shoulders trembled because of his tightly clenched fists. In addition to staring at Rukawa Kaede and constantly asking how this could happen, Sakuragi's mind went blank.
After a moment of silence, Sakuragi took a step, which made everyone around him nervous. But Sakuragi did not go to Rukawa Kaede, but to the gate of the arena. I didn't look at Coach Anzai, I didn't look at Haruko, and I walked with dull eyes.