As soon as people get busy, the days slip through their fingers like flowing water.

In the blink of an eye, no one is talking about the wonderful scenes and outstanding performances in the warm-up match with Red Leaves and Dabei, and everyone in Xiangbei is already looking forward to the game with Lihai Affiliated Countries.

Although it is a middle-level team, no one in Xiangbei dares to take it lightly, Lihai's ace Sakuragi has been training with everyone, and everyone knows very well how much he has ability.

To put it bluntly, even if he comes directly to the college basketball world, Sakuragi Hanamichi is one of the few people who can win the MVP, and as long as the team's results are passable, he can even be said to be the most promising.

From Maki to Yanagisawa to Ishii and Endo, the more they intersect with Sakuragi, the more they understand Sakuragi's horror on the basketball court. This is a dangerous element who can penetrate the entire defense line of northern Hunan with the strength of one person, just like the great river of the past.

"No matter how good Sakuragi is, he is only one person, he can solve it by himself offensively, but on defense he can't seal the basket with one person. We pick up the tempo, use fast offense against Lihai, and use offense to settle the game! We have to avoid Sakuragi, pass the ball more, shoot more, and don't be afraid of low hit percentage. Today we are playing the number of rounds! Maki waved his arms and arranged tactics with a rare tirade. Although his tactics may sound a little weak, everyone understands his approach. No one thinks that the tactic of avoiding the real and avoiding the virtual is not a kind of strength, and it is necessary to naively defeat the opponent one-on-one to be considered a victory.

Suzuki sat on the sidelines and didn't get involved. He had already stated in advance that he would not personally command the game, and the team's tactical arrangements and adjustments were all handled by Maki and others.

The last time I heard Sakuragi recommend Maori, Suzuki didn't say anything at the time, but he was very willing.

The third grade of junior high school will be close to 1.9 meters tall, and by this time next year, it will definitely be more than 1.9 meters.

Although Maki has already graduated by then, and there are still Akagi, Ishii and others in Xiangbei, it is a great thing to have one more potential insider.

The only thing that made Suzuki a little suspicious was that he didn't know the character of Mori yet. The current Xiangbei team is full of honest children, but unlike the team in the original world line, which is full of thorns, Suzuki doesn't want to kill more brain cells for the second middle school teenagers.

However, after asking Yukimura about it these days, Maori is not a person who likes to cause trouble. It's just that he has a strong sense of self-esteem, a little impulsive personality, and is very persistent in winning, which adds up to make him have no friends and seem a little withdrawn.

For this, Suzuki doesn't care, with Sakuragi, Maori should be able to integrate into Xiangbei relatively smoothly. Now it's just a matter of confirming his strength. If the strength is not bad, Suzuki does not mind recruiting him to Xiangbei in advance after the summer competition is over. The basketball game for junior high school students is mostly a county competition in the summer, but there are no tricks such as the national competition and the winter cup, and after the county competition in the third grade, you have to retire, because even if you don't quit the department, there is no game to play.

In Suzuki's anticipation, the people of Lihai arrived on time under the leadership of Sakuragi. In fact, it doesn't matter if Sakuragi doesn't lead the way, Coach Yukimura was still the manager of this basketball stadium three years ago!

After the warm-up, the game begins. The referee is Sakai, and the recorder is Takasu. Although these two people did not enter the main selection, they both knew that it was because of their own lack of strength, and they did not make any emotions, so Suzuki gave them the task of staff, which can be regarded as keeping them from being alienated from the team.

The starters arranged by Maki are himself, Ishii, Shakura, Endo and Kuroda. The reason why Yanagisawa was kept off the field was not only because no one could prevent Sakuragi, but also because Yanagisawa was allowed to act as a coach in the bystander position. Today's tactics set by Maki are very physically demanding, and those who are substitutes will also have plenty of playing time.

Under the leadership of Yukimura, the scale of Lihai University is not small, and the regular selection positions of twelve people are also full, in addition to the team managers and ordinary basketball team members, there are also nearly twenty people.

On the Xiangbei side, Momoi and Suzuki sat together to watch the game, and handed over the task of manager to Shintaro Mizuno's sister Ami. Xiao Mizuno brought in two of his friends to strengthen his courage.

Suzuki looked at one of the double ponytails with a little familiarity, and waited until the girl came to say hello, only to recognize it as the daughter of his friend Kenyuki Tsukino.

Suzuki had long known that Tsukino had the idea of going to Tokyo to develop, and after asking a little more, he realized that the family was going to move to Tokyo after the summer. He laughed to himself, asked Tsukino to talk to his father, find a time to drink, and waved the little girl back to spend time with her friends.

The game begins.

It was Mori Shouzaburo who jumped the ball in the circle with Maki.

Despite being 6 centimeters shorter than Maki and the difference in arm span is actually even worse, Mori showed a good bounce, keeping pace with Maki in the height of the jump ball, and then took advantage of Maki's shock and contempt to give him a shout and slap the basketball at Sakuragi.

Sakuragi started when Maori spoke, and before he landed, he had already come to the point where the ball landed, slapped forward, and continued to accelerate!

Shacang knew that Sakuragi was not easy to defend, so he had already left a hundred and twenty hearts on him, but even so, he still couldn't keep up with Sakuragi's terrifying explosive power, and he only ran two steps before he was thrown out of a position.

Endo's speed was no worse than his brother's, and when he saw that Shakura couldn't stop Sakuragi, he immediately strode sideways, trying to make up for it.

How do you know that Sakuragi looked at the six roads, watched his center of gravity move, directly changed direction in front of his body, changed hands and dribbled towards Endo's original position.

Endo couldn't hold his feet, and almost collided with Shakura, and both of them lost their role in holding Sakuragi.

Sakuragi easily made a three-step layup, flicked his wrist, and won the first ball.

Shakura quickly returned to the baseline and sent the ball to Endo, who then made a long pass and hoisted the ball to Maki, who was still in the opponent's half.

When Sakuragi rushed forward with the ball just now, the whole team of Lihai pressed forward, while Xiangbei only had three people back to defend, and the two inside lines did not come back at all.

At this time, Ishii blocked Maori's way, and Maki faced Lihai's other inner line who was only one meter and eight, just stretched out his hand, and easily controlled the basketball, and then leaned on the other party, forcibly turned around, and stopped the opponent behind him while facing the basket, and then dribbled forward with two steps, strode to the free throw area, jumped slightly, and shot in the middle to equalize the score.

At this time, Sakuragi, who had just returned to the midfield, narrowed his eyes, revealing a palpitating look.