In the opening three minutes, the two sides have already dunked four baskets, which can be regarded as setting the tone for the factory game. At the same time, this also explains the reason for the high success rate of the two teams' offense - of course, the dunk shooting rate is high.

In the next few rounds, Tanaka Jun went further and further on the road of finding heads-up, turning into an iron maniac, with a terrible low hit rate, and insisted on not passing. This also caused the other players of Uchimura No. 2 High School to not get the ball in the positional attack, and everyone dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, only James was indifferent. Because his own offensive ability with the ball is not strong, compared with receiving the ball, he feels that it is still comfortable to grab the rebound in the front court and then hit the opponent with an unstable foothold, so he does not expect Tanaka Jun to pass the ball to him.

However, the Lingnan team has gradually taken precautions against James, and Xiandao and Fukuda have also joined in the protection of backcourt rebounds, which increases the difficulty for James to rush to grab frontcourt rebounds, and even if he grabs it, he will face the three-man package of Yuzhu, Fukuda, and Xiandao. The Lingnan team gradually stabilized their position on the defensive end, and Uchimura's second attack came to a stalemate.

And there is another problem with James's offensive way of rushing to grab rebounds in the front court - it affects the speed of retreat!

Once James fails to rush to grab the rebound in the front court, the Lingnan team can play a conversion offense when he gets the ball, so chasing Uchimura's second ass will have a high success rate.

"Tick——!! Uchimura second request for a pause! ”

With 8 minutes and 37 seconds left in the first half, as Fukuda hit another layup in the fast break, the score of the two teams came to 35:24, and the Lingnan team stretched the advantage to double digits, and the coach of Uchimura No. 2 High School called the first timeout of the game!

"What are you guys fighting! Won't it take so long to adjust?! If you don't want to play well, get back to me now! "Before the Uchimura No. 2 players could get off the pitch, their coach's roar came from the bench, and it seemed that they were very angry.

Like Lingnan High School, Uchimura No. 2 High School is also a private high school. This year, they cooperated with a high school in the United States for exchange students, and they sent several students here, but only one came from the United States, and he was James.

People sometimes suddenly become fascinated by something, and this is the case with James, who suddenly became interested in Japanese culture as a child, and continued to be interested in it, insisting on teaching himself Japanese. This time, there was an exchange student quota in the school, and no one was very interested in going to Japan, so he was the only one who signed up.

As a result, as soon as he arrived, James was caught up in the favor of the coach of Uchimura No. 2 High School. This is a middle-aged man in his 40s, who is more blessed than Coach Ansi. After seeing James's amazing physical fitness, he felt that this was a providence, an opportunity for Uchimura No. 2 - God wanted Uchimura No. 2 High School basketball team to be a blockbuster this year!

When James was at his alma mater in the United States, he was also a sports student, but not basketball, but sprinting. Later, due to his height and some other reasons, he gradually gave up the sprinting program.

When he came to Japan, he didn't expect to be pestered by the coach of the basketball team, even if he said that he had never played basketball before, the coach said, "Don't worry, you can come." In desperation, James finally joined the basketball team.

But James wasn't lying to the coach, he didn't even know what basketball was like Sakuragi Hanamichi, but he really never played.

Originally, he was apprehensive, but after going to the basketball team, he was relieved - after watching the basketball team's training, he realized that high school basketball here does not seem to be the same sport as high school basketball in his hometown!

So James accepted to join the basketball team and began to settle down and learn the basketball skills seriously. Due to time problems, the county competition was imminent, and in order to form combat effectiveness, he only learned some simple inside techniques. Uchimura's second-place finish in the prefectural tournament proved that the coach was indeed the right choice, and James defeated almost all his opponents effortlessly with his excellent physical fitness.

However, in the process of advancing all the way, a new problem was exposed in Uchimura No. 2 - Jun Tanaka.

Some people have no hope of getting ahead on their own, and they will have strange thoughts when they see others succeed.

As the original core of the team, he has limited strength and cannot lead the team to good results, which is also very common, and it is the fate of most teams. But when someone suddenly came to the team and was able to change the situation and lead the team forward, Tanaka's mentality gradually changed.

Why not me, why can he do it!

So it's not the first time that Tanaka Jun has fought alone like this today, but the opponent was not strong before, and the victory covered up a lot of problems.

Facing Lingnan today, this problem is exposed, and it is definitely impossible to win if it is not solved.

"Jun Tanaka! I didn't say you before, forget it, you are still so willful in such an important game today, do you want to let the team be ruined in your hands! You ······" The coach of Uchimura No. 2 High School stood in front of Tanaka Jun and scolded loudly, pointing at Tanaka Jun with one hand, his fat stomach shook non-stop, and spat splashed out.

Toshishi Tanaka sat on the bench, covered his head with a towel, and stared blankly at the floor.

Will the team lose here because of me?

Is it all because I'm useless?

In the past, it was because I didn't have enough strength to lead the team to go further, but now the team has a chance to win, but will it lose because of me·····

No, I don't want that······

Tanaka's two hands on his lap were tightly squeezed.

"What's the use of you staying on the field like this, it's better to stay on the bench honestly!" scolded Tanaka Jun for a pause, and seeing that the time was almost up, the fat coach stopped. It seems that he doesn't plan to let Tanaka Jun continue to play.

"Coach! I know it's wrong, give me another chance! Hearing this, Tanaka had to stand up, he didn't want to end up.

"What's the use of you on the field!" The fat coach is obviously still angry.

"Please, Coach! I want to contribute to the team again······" Speaking of this, Jun Tanaka also lowered his confidence.

He didn't know what else he was for.

“······” The coach turned away.

"Please! Instructor! ”

“······”

“······ Instructor! ”

"If you're still like that, I'll call a timeout and replace you right away!" The coach still compromised, and there was really no one to use on the bench.

Back on the court, Uchimura's second team serves.

This time, Jun Tanaka didn't come directly to ask for the ball, and walked silently to the front court with his head down.

How can I help the team······

Nobu Watanabe glanced at Toshishi Tanaka and saw that he didn't come, so he dared to catch the ball. He dribbled past half the court, and Hikoichi followed.

Uchimura No. 2 High School finally began to run and cooperate, but Tanaka Jun was like an outsider, standing outside the 45-degree three-point line in a daze.

What else can I do······

Finally, Hoshino Akisui bypassed Yoshida and ran out of the empty seat!

Nobu Watanabe passed the ball, and Hoshino Akisui didn't dare to hesitate after receiving the ball, and directly pulled up the jump shot!

"Huh!" This goal was scored, 35:26, and the score difference came to single digits again!

Well? Finally changed the way you attack? Hikochi thought about it and glanced at Tanaka Jun, but he didn't expect the latter to also happen to look over.

“？？” Look at what I'm doing. Hikoichi withdrew his gaze.

“······” Is that all there is to it······

Jun Tanaka looked at Hikoichi as if he was making a decision.

The Lingnan team served, Hikoichi dribbled past half court, and Tanaka Jun was waiting for Hikoichi on the backcourt three-point line.

Tanaka Jun defends Hikoichi, which has been played many times in this match, and everyone is used to this matchup, although Tanaka Jun has not successfully defended.

I'm going to help the team······ It's all for the team······ Tanaka Jun bent down to look at Hikoichi who was gradually coming in, his eyes were a little dazed.

Hikoichi didn't care about this, he looked at the inside line, and suddenly he accelerated and rushed to the right!

Well? Didn't keep up?

Hikoichi always paid attention to the situation on the court, and when he saw that Tanaka Jun was left behind, he pulled up the jump shot directly after taking a step!

"Huh!" The ball crosses a simple arc hollow into the net!

"Ahh The Lingnan team was about to celebrate, but suddenly heard a scream!!

？？？ Everyone looked.

"Hikoichi !!" Hikoichi fell to the ground!