NBA: This flower path is a bit strong

"Beep!" The timeout ended and the players from both teams came on the court.

When Kogure Konobu came back on the court, he was surprised to find that the player who replaced No. 8 Uekusa on the Ryonan team was No. 14, a tall stranger who looked like a freshman!

"Who is he?"

"Oda? Is it really you, Oda?"

"Haha, Hanamichi, long time no see! Thanks to you, I came to Ryonan! I really didn't expect that you and Rukawa Kaede and I would compete in the same game again! The difference is that this time you and Rukawa Kaede are teammates, haha, it's really interesting."

"Let me make it clear in advance! I won't let you go, you Xiangbei must prepare for defeat in advance."

Haamichi also smiled and retorted:

"What nonsense are you talking about? I am a genius. It should be you, Ryonan, who should be prepared for defeat!"

After saying that, Hanamichi didn't give Oda Ryumasa a chance to refute and ran to his own penalty area.

At this time, there were only 5 minutes left before the end of the game. The score between the two sides was 38:39. The home team was ahead and the away team was behind. Xiangbei team led by one point.

Next, the Ryonan team started a complete one-on-one man-to-man tactics:

Sendoh controlled the ball, and Ikegami defended the outside shooting of Mugure Konobu! Yugoku defended Yasuda, Oda Ryumasa defended Kakuda (the Great Emperor), and Yuzumi defended Akagi.

The changes after Oda came on the court were visible to the naked eye. On the defensive end, he restricted the performance of Xiangbei's second-year Kakuda (the Great Emperor) very well, and assisted the captain Yuzumi to block Hanamichi, and limited his secondary rebounding ability by squeezing Hanamichi's basket space.

The most terrifying thing was the offensive end. Kakuda couldn't stop Oda Ryumasa's breakthrough and shooting.

Facing Hanamichi's occasional backup defense, Oda, who secretly observed most of the game off the court, was well prepared. Basically, he was able to pass the ball under Hanamichi's backup defense, either to the unattended captain Yuzumi, or with his own genius Sendoh on the side to support.

Even so, Oda was blocked by Hanamichi once and interfered several times.

Because there was no specific personnel adjustment on the Xiangbei team, and Coach Anzai did not make tactical adjustments through timeouts, the Xiangbei team gradually fell into a disadvantage.

But Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede still did not give up, but played the most physically demanding battle with the Ryonan team.

It should be said that the iconic temperament of star players is: even if the situation is over, they must fight to the last moment and lead the demoralized players to launch bursts of charges.

This momentum ignited Akagi Takenori who was sitting on the sidelines. He stood up and walked to Coach Anzai to apply for playing again!

Akagi's movement attracted the attention of everyone on the court. The players on the Ryonan team were also slightly stunned, and then returned to normal and focused their attention on the game on the court.

But at this interval, Rukawa took advantage of the distraction of the Ryonan team and quickly broke through. He came to the basket and pulled the lever to avoid Yuzumi's block, and successfully made a layup, recovering 2 points for the team.

After scoring, Rukawa quickly returned to defense, as if he was not disturbed by off-court factors at all.

And Kakuta, Yasuda and others from the Xiangbei team happily looked at Akagi off the court, waiting for Coach Anzai to issue the order for substitutions.

Seeing this, Hanamichi didn't care about the hierarchy and shouted:

"What are you doing? Pay attention. You are the ones playing on the court at this time. Giving up the game means the game is over early!"

This roar woke up Kakuta, Yasuda and others like a morning bell and evening drum. The two quickly returned to defense. Even Mugure, the vice-captain of the team and a good man, was afraid that Hanamichi's behavior would cause dissatisfaction with the two, and laughed and said:

"Hanachi is right. We can't let Akagi laugh at us. Let's fight together next!"

What Mugure didn't say was:

"This should be my responsibility as the vice-captain. I didn't expect that Hanamichi would remind me! I, the vice-captain, am really derelict in my duty."

When Tian Gang, the coach of the Ryonan basketball team, saw this, he frowned. eyebrows, he was not worried that Coach Anxi would send Akagi at this time, but if they met Xiangbei in the county competition, then...

"If Akagi plays at this time, then we will not have any advantage in the current confrontation with Xiangbei. It seems that we should let that person come back to strengthen the outside attack firepower of our Ryonan team!"

Sure enough, in the face of Akagi's request, Coach Anxi just asked gently:

"Akagi, you sit down and observe carefully. If... If you can't figure out the reason for Yuzumi's change, then I think even if you play now, you will not be Yuzumi's opponent!"

This sentence shocked Akagi. Although his performance in the first half was indeed not as good as Yuzumi, he did not think that his personal strength would lose to the one who was shut out by him last year.4 big man.

But Coach Anxi told him bluntly that if he didn't understand Yuzumi's changes as soon as possible, he would be left behind by Yuzumi Jun!

So Akagi had to continue sitting in the rest area, staring at Yuzumi's every move!

The game passed by minute by minute, and even with Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede's desperate pursuit, the Xiangbei team could not narrow the score gap.

When they chased the score back to 4 points, the Ryonan team would open the score to 6 points.

Neither side could defend the other, and they moved forward alternately.

"Beep! The game is over, the score is 64:60, the Ryonan basketball team won! The players of both sides shook hands and greeted each other."

At this time, Hanamichi had just completed a layup against Yuzumi, but unfortunately these 2 points did not count!

The Ryonan team bench cheered, while the Xiangbei team fell into silence!

Akagi Haruko looked at the tall man on the bench, covered her face and sighed softly:

"Brother!"

The Sakuragi Army felt a pity:

"How could this happen! It was just a little bit short."

Mito Yohei worried: "Hanamichi..."

But Hanamichi knew that Sendoh in the original work did not fully exert his strength, and Uozumi's performance in the original work was even worse than Akagi's. Even so, Ryonan still won by 2 points in the end.

What's more, Sendoh is now fully fired as a point guard; Uozumi also awakened the "side dish philosophy" and suppressed Akagi in the first half; and with the addition of Oda Ryumasa, Ikegami, Yuyue, and Uekusa, these strong players.

It can be said that Ryonan's strength at this time is not inferior to that of the match against Hainan, and it is even better.

Facing such a super-level Ryonan team, Xiangbei only lost by 4 points in the end, thanks to Rukawa's physical improvement and the addition of the enhanced version of Hanamichi, which is already very good, not to mention that Akagi basically did not play after being injured in the second half.

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In this way, Hanamichi and Rukawa's first official game in high school was lost by 4 points under the "conspiracy" of the two coaches!

It was time for both sides to say goodbye.

Yuzumi shook hands with Akagi and said:

"Akagi, we didn't win this time. The next time will be the county tournament. Don't lose to other teams before you meet our Ryonan!"

Akagi didn't lose the battle, but replied with a tough attitude:

"Hmph! I should say this."

Sendoh's handshake with Rukawa was also patted by him, and Hanamichi didn't pinch Sendoh's palm swollen in revenge like in the original book, but shook hands with Sendoh formally and said:

"Sendoh-san, thank you this time!"

"(Sakuragi) Hanamichi, you are really amazing."

As for coaches Tian Gang and Anzai, they were satisfied with their own results and greeted each other affectionately. I don't know what they were talking about!

Then, with Coach Anzai's "Oh ho ho ho" laughter, the Xiangbei basketball team embarked on the return journey.

That night, some of the main players of the Xiangbei basketball team were completely sleepless.

Akagi kept thinking about what exactly was the "change in Uozumi" that Coach Anzai mentioned?

Kogure Konobu was regretting the result of the game, after all, they were almost able to win.

Even with Akagi off the court, they only lost to Ryonan by 4 points! Compared to the one-sided slaughter last year, it was much better. It seemed that Xiangbei was really stronger!

Rukawa Kaede... um... slept more soundly than anyone else!

Hanamichi stared at his basketball data panel (intermediate) all night...