Chapter 60: Minowa, Leading

When the players on both sides stood on the field face to face, the uneasiness of several people in Xiangbei and Yugao was magnified to the extreme. In particular, Akagi, who overlooks the whole stadium from a height, also appeared in the starting lineup of Xiangbei, plus the shadow that Fuji and Miyagi had given.

"Akagi! I forgot about this guy, Akagi and those two guys, Xiangbei is not as easy to deal with as I imagined! Yugao's Koike frowned and said in a low voice.

The moment you walk on the court, it means the beginning of the war, no matter how nervous you were before, at this time it is nothing more than the only choice to bite the bullet. Besides, today is not 3V3, it is 5V5, Yugao has no star players this year, but they are confident that they may not lose to others when it comes to team cooperation.

The invisible morale and morale of the army are being shaken, but the immovable figure and resolute expression of the five opponents in Xiangbei also faintly expound their beliefs.

At the beginning of the game, Akagi's vacant figure, Fuji's shooting and Miyagi's fancy passing, one by one, took out their signature skills, and there were bursts of exclamations from the spectators.

……

In the corner of the viewing seat, there is also a group of people, uniformly dressed in white and purple sportswear, and these people also have two kanji written on their chests - Minowa.

"It's a person from Minowa High School! Everybody's so tall! ”

"Oh really, I didn't expect them to come and watch this game."

The appearance of Minowa can immediately trigger a regional repercussion, and as a long-established basketball team in Kanagawa Prefecture, its popularity is bound to be extraordinary.

This high school basketball team, anyone who has read the original book must have heard of it, in the original book, the shoe store manager who was robbed of a pair of Jordan shoes worth 20,000 yen by Sakuragi Hanamichi for 30 yen in disguise, played for this basketball team more than ten years ago. In the glory days, it was the No. 1 team in the prefecture. Later, the rise of Hainan High School, Minowa was pulled off the throne, and for a period of time, Minowa was second only to Hainan High School.

Later, teams such as Xiangyang also emerged one by one, and the latecomers came first, except for the king Hainan who could not be beaten, Minowa has been stormy in recent years, but fortunately, it has always maintained the seat of a strong team. In this year's summer prefectural tournament, Minowa, as the seeded team in the top four, will not play until the fifth round.

Now they are just waiting for the emergence of a challenger, and this challenger will be one of the two teams that are currently playing.

Xiangbei or Yugao?

Before the game, as is customary, the Minowa players made predictions.

"Jade!"

"Jade!"

"Jade!"

With an almost overwhelming selection advantage, last year's quarter-finalist team Yugao was seen by the players as the opponent they would face.

Jade, very strong, last year it was also because of Xiangyang that he stopped in the quarterfinals, and the score has been biting Xiangyang. If you want to talk about the advantage of jade this year, that is, inherit the team basketball that has its own school in the past, and if you want to say that the disadvantage of jade this year, it is probably the departure of the main star player in the third grade! And Xiangyang, this year's star Teng Zhencai is in the second grade, just like Hainan's Amu.

As for Xiangbei, it is indeed a team that most people will not feel familiar with, because this team has fallen to the beginning of the county competition, and many people will think that Jade has an overwhelming advantage when they watch the game, even if Jade has no star players this year.

But Kaoru Kaga doesn't see it that way.

Kaoru Kaga, who is already the captain of Minowa this year, has been the core player of the Minowa high school basketball team since his second year last year, and he has been playing since his first year, and he has a wealth of experience, superb ball skills and delicate eyesight. Inheriting the dreams of all the previous captains, he was determined to revive the glory of the King of Minowa and defeat Hainan to restore the Minowa Dynasty.

On the way to achieve this goal, countless predecessors have fallen, and this year, Kaoru Kaga is once again walking on this road with a big banner held high.

Kaoru Kaga has analyzed Xiangbei's games in the past month, and he feels that Xiangbei is not a simple team, or that this year's Xiangbei has shown a reborn performance compared to the past. This change essentially comes from the change in their team lineup.

After Xiangbei added high-quality first-year players this year, they found their own style of play, and they are becoming more and more mature after several competitions. Therefore, Kaoru Kaga felt that it was possible for anyone to win in this game, but after the players expressed their optimism about Jade, he spoke:

"Xiangbei!"

"Captain?" The players around me were very surprised. The only different answer came from the mouth of their most respected captain, and it was incredible for a while. "Although Akagi Gangxian in Xiangbei is very strong, but just relying on one Akagi Gangxian can't win against Yugao."

Kawaga Kaoru didn't explain too much, and a soft smile rose at the corner of his mouth: "In this game, in addition to Akagi in Xiangbei, you can pay more attention to No. 13 and No. 15 in Xiangbei." ”

"13 and 15?" With mixed curiosity and doubts, the Minowa players began to change the target of their observation, and for the first time, they projected their eyes on the Xiangbei players.

……

The bright red color is like a football jersey turned into a football after the fire magic burns, and the Xiangbei giant Akagi Gangxian wearing the battle suit suddenly turned into a war god, soared into the air, held the ball in his right hand and leaned back obliquely, and hit his right hand straight behind him, smashing the ball violently into the basket in mid-air, completely detonating the carnival-like atmosphere of the scene.

The time is only nearly half of the first half, the score is 29-24, in the early stage of this game, Xiangbei and Yu's stalemate bite points, from this moment on, Xiangbei began to guide the trend of the game with a leading attitude.

However, in a moment, Xiao Yue of the Jade Team took the initiative to attack when facing Miyagi, stepped over the defense line that Miyagi deliberately gave way to him, and then laxly handed over the gap behind him, allowing Miyagi to snatch the ball from his hand with a hook. Miyagi, who won the ball, galloped all the way, and the players of the jade team rushed to catch up.

Miyagi's eyes rolled, and he glanced around, and immediately saw that the three opposing players on the front and back sides were chasing after him, waiting for an opportunity.

Just when Miyagi broke into the three-point line with the ball, and the three players who were about to form a siege net, the ball was shot, not high, and thrown straight behind him, without even looking back at that position, but Fuji was already waiting there.

Smoothly like the machinery of an assembly line, the two catches, take-offs, dribbles and projections, all the movements are natural and coherent, and the ball also draws a rounded parabola and goes straight into the net, without touching the border a little, and finally croaks to the ground.

More than 20 seconds later, this time the jade who was on guard against Miyagi finally scored a goal and two points with difficulty, but it didn't take long to be happy, and he was pierced by the cooperation of Miyagi and Akagi, and I don't know how many times I saw Akagi vigorously smash the opponent's basket.

33:26!

Xiangbei's lead is slowly expanding.