In three minutes, two timeouts were on the field, but the mood of the players of the two teams was completely different.

Last time, Xiangbei still had a 9-point lead, even if the next round was the opponent's attack, it was still very optimistic about the result of the victory.

And this time, the difference has narrowed to only 2 points, even if the ball is on its own, it is inevitable to feel that the situation is dangerous, like a boat in the torrent, which makes people panic.

Fortunately, Rukawa, who was indifferent and silent, passed Mitsui, Fujima and Hanagata's dunks in this round, which boosted everyone's morale and stabilized the nervous mood a little.

Hanagata lifted her glasses, feeling annoyed that she hadn't been able to stop Rukawa just now.

Mitsui and Fuji Zhen glanced at each other, and said with some doubts: "Is this kid's hand getting faster?" ”

Fujima nodded and said, "I feel this way too." According to his previous action rate, my second interception just now could have broken the ball. He's getting faster. ”

Mitsui grinned and said, "Good boy, it turns out that he still has a hand at this time!" Nagano has to be careful. ”

At the same time, Inoue, who was cheering for Rukawa's wonderful performance, felt a little dry in his mouth, and turned around to get the kettle, but unexpectedly touched something else.

"Huh?" Inoue put the thing in his hand in front of him, and when he looked at it, it was a bracer. It's just that the heavy feeling in his hand tells Inoue that this bracer is unusual.

Inoue recognized from the pattern that it was Rukawa's thing, and he had been wearing it on his wrist every day, even when he wasn't playing basketball.

Looking back, there was another bracer lying on the folding chair, indicating that Rukawa took the initiative to take it down, rather than forgetting to put it on after taking it off.

Suzuki noticed Inoue's daze, his eyes swept away, knowing what was going on, and said softly, "Don't be quiet, this is his secret weapon for training." ”

Inoue watched Rukawa on the field running quickly, with the wrists of both hands bare, and muttered, "Secret ......"

Then she covered her mouth with her free left hand and asked Suzuki in a somewhat startled tone, "Is he always wearing this in training and competing?" ”

Suzuki nodded.

Inoue remembered that there was another person in the team who also had the habit of wearing bracers for a long time, pointed at Sakuragi, and asked, "Is he too?" ”

Suzuki nodded again.

Inoue stared at Sakuragi's wrist, took a breath, and asked, "Could it be that at this time, he still has reservations?" ”

Suzuki smiled and continued to nod.

Inoue put the bracer back in his chair, patted his chest, breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "Then I'll be relieved." We can't lose this game. ”

Suzuki no longer responded to her, instead focusing on watching the best matchup between the two teams.

Hanagata was deceived by Rukawa's change of hand before the ball was deceived, beckoning Fujima to ask for the ball, and after receiving the ball, he forcibly turned around, fighting with a ruthless force, breaking through the sandwich between Hotta and Rukawa, facing Akagi, and making a gesture to make a three-step layup.

Akagi didn't move, because Rukawa was not thrown away, and with his excellent arm span, although his body was still chasing behind Hanagata, his hand had already taken out Hanagata's arms.

Huaxing's heart shook slightly, and the secret path was not good, but he saw a green shadow flashing in the corner of his eye, and immediately shook his wrist and sent the ball over.

It was Nagano who received the ball, who stopped and held the ball with both hands, tucked it in his arms, and prepared to shoot a half-volley.

As soon as Nagano's toes left the ground, he found that Akagi was actually just a big stride, and he stepped in front of him, and his arms were raised high, completely sealing the angle of the shot.

Nagano immediately switched to a pass, and the basketball passed between Akagi, Hanagata, and Rukawa to the other side of the restricted area.

Over there, Takano and Hotta collided violently, and the two of them bounced off, and Takano leaned back and threw the basketball towards the basket.

This toss has no crosshairs, sees the height and does not see the distance, and falls before reaching the basket.

Hanagata leaned on Rukawa, took the rebound, and returned the ball to Takano.

Takano took a second shot and finally hit.

Taking advantage of the fact that Xiangyang's three interior lines were in their own half, Akagi quickly retreated to the end line after getting the basketball and chose to serve quickly, allowing the two guards to solve the problem 2-on-2.

Mizuno received the ball and made a gesture to hang it to Sakuragi, who had already started, and Fujima immediately forced up to steal and stop Xiangbei's fast attack.

Unexpectedly, Mizuno's passing action was just a disguise, and after he sensed the movement of Fujima behind him through physical contact, he turned around in reverse and broke forward.

Fujima was caught off guard and was suddenly rushed by Mizuno, but he reacted quickly, and immediately after turning around, he threw his body out with an unconventional move, a side jump, and reached a little on the basketball, destroying Mizuno's dribble.

Mizuno's second reaction was also very fast, and he immediately turned and got the ball back, although the dribbling rhythm was slightly disrupted by Fujima, but because Fujima fell to the ground and didn't have time to get up, a two-on-one situation was formed in the front court.

Mitsui has both physical strength and human strength, but to this extent, it has also reached the point of running out of oil and lamps, he adjusted his broken steps to retreat, and spread out a pair of long arms, trying to obstruct Mizuno's passing line.

Mizuno pressed outside the three-point line, suddenly stopped, and raised the ball with both hands.

Mitsui screamed badly and abandoned the basket and came out, but he couldn't jump anymore.

The basketball flew high and went straight to the net bag.

Xiangbei stretched the score to 5 points, which is a relatively safe score.

However, as soon as the supporters of Xiangbei breathed a sigh of relief, Mitsui's unreasonable three-point shot once again hung their hearts in their throats.

Or a step-back jumper.

For the current Mitsui, only a backward jumper can avoid Sakuragi's blocking.

After throwing the ball, Mitsui failed to stand firm, but pushed the mountain of gold and fell heavily to the floor. He was lying in a large shape, not looking at the landing point of the basketball, only his chest rising and falling violently.

Everyone, including the referee, gathered around.

The referee looked at Mitsui's extremely tired appearance and asked, "Do you want to make a substitution?" ”

Mitsui shook his head with difficulty.

The referee said ruthlessly: "Then hurry up." "Mitsui, a national-level star player, although he inevitably has some privileges on the field, but it is too obvious preferential treatment, and the referee does not dare to indulge.

Hanagata reached out and pulled Mitsui up.

The stadium burst into thunderous applause.

Mitsui whispered to Hanagata: "55 seconds, 2 points away." We have to hold on to this ball to have hope. ”

Xiangyang's whole team retreated to their own half of the defense, although the outermost Mitsui was useless, but the remaining four people squeezed out the little physical strength they had left, and shared Mitsui's responsibilities.

In this round, Xiangbei didn't get a chance to shoot until 20 seconds later.

Tearing repeatedly, so that there was finally a gap in Xiangyang's defense line.

Akagi waited for a long time under the basket, finally got the ball, roared excitedly, jumped on the spot, and dunked his hands violently.