NBA: This flower path is a bit strong

The players of both sides were ready, and it was still Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi Hanamichi who jumped the ball.

"Beep!" With a whistle, the two jumped high and hit the basketball that was thrown to the highest point. This time, both sides hit the ball at the same time, but Hanamichi was stronger and hit the ball in the direction of Oda Ryumasa.

Hanamichi knew very well that Rukawa Kaede's strength was not reduced, but because of physical reasons, his strength was gradually weakened. In addition to the jump ball, the best evidence to prove this was the return defense after the jump ball.

After Oda Ryumasa received the basketball from Hanamichi, he immediately went on a fast break, and Hanamichi also ran to the opponent's basket immediately after landing.

Rukawa Kaede was the same, and the two started running at almost the same time. At the beginning, Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede's speed was still comparable, and the two kept pace.

But after running two-thirds of the half court, Hanamichi was half a body ahead. Although it was only a slight difference, it was enough to explain something in the eyes of insiders.

"It seems that Rukawa's physical strength is not enough to support him to play a full game with high intensity! This is no wonder. First, he had to defend the captain of Wako Junior High School, Oda Ryumasa, throughout the first half, and he had to assist in rebounding from time to time; on offense, he had to face Oda, and there was more defensive pressure from the red-haired (Sakuragi) Hanamichi.

It seems that the situation in the second half will change! It seems that the first thing to solve in high school is Rukawa's physical strength problem!"

Coach Tiangang still remembered what happened after Rukawa joined the Ryonan basketball team while analyzing the situation.

Next, as Coach Tiangang analyzed, the situation on the court changed dramatically.

After Wako Junior High School scored the first goal in the second half, the score between the two teams widened to 4 points.

When Rukawa dribbled the ball, everyone suddenly realized that the one defending Rukawa was the red-haired (Sakuragi) Hanamichi.

"You are a lost dog, a lost fox, this genius has found your weakness! Hehe, is your physical strength not enough?"

After saying that, Hanamichi moved back and forth on the left and right sides of Rukawa Kaede like offering a treasure, and his straight arms were constantly waving, blocking Rukawa Kaede's passing vision. The frequency of his movements was simply different from that of ordinary people.

"Oh! The red-haired guy is very energetic!" The audience only felt that Hanamichi was extremely excited and full of energy.

But as a professional basketball coach, Coach Tiangang, who was also a basketball player, knew very well what such a Hanamichi meant!

"The game is halfway through, but (Sakuragi) Hanamichi's movements are just like the beginning. His unfathomable physical strength is exactly what our Ryonan team needs!" Coach Tian Gang did not forget to recruit him while explaining.

"I am a genius," Hanamichi was very happy to hear Coach Tian Gang's loud praise. After all, it was recognized by the famous coach in Slam Dunk!

But just when Hanamichi was enjoying himself and feeling proud, he was dribbled past Rukawa Kaede from the side. Just outside the three-point line, he passed the ball and jumped up. It looked like he was going to shoot!

At this moment, Hanamichi, as if by reflex, took two steps at a time and quickly rushed back to the three-point line. He ran in front of Rukawa Kaede, jumped up and slapped Rukawa Kaede's shot. It was a very clean and neat block.

"What?"

"So fast!"

"Sakuragi Hanamichi's exercise is really amazing!"

This block ignited the enthusiasm of all the audience at the scene. From the beginning of the second half, the cheers far exceeded those of the first half. The cheerleaders of Wako Junior High School and the Sakuragi Army were so happy that their eyes were wide open. For a moment, the cheers for Hanamichi and Wako Junior High School resounded throughout the venue.

The cheerleaders of Fuqiu Junior High School were silent. As far as they could remember, this was the first time that their captain's shot was blocked in a game!

The basketball players of Fuqiu Junior High School could not accept that the strongest captain in the history of their team was blocked by a person who looked like a "bad boy".

Coach Tian Gang was also dumbfounded, because this block was not in the script he had calculated before the game. At this time, he was deeply surprised by Hanamichi's amazing amount of exercise.

The form of the game also began to change from Hanamichi's block.

Hanamichi on the court was walking briskly, and he shuttled back and forth in the penalty areas on both sides with a spring breeze, and he was more excited and energetic than in the first half.

At the same time, on the side of Wako Junior High School, because Hanamichi replaced Oda Ryumasa to defend Rukawa Kaede, Oda Ryumasa's offensive firepower was completely liberated, so he could shoot at will, and occasionally rush into the inside to fight for free throws.

On the other hand, Fuqiu Junior High School has always relied on Rukawa Kaede's personal score to catch up with the score, and because Rukawa Kaede was closely guarded by Hanamichi, although his true hit rate is still very high, it has dropped slightly compared to the first half, and it seems that as time and physical strength pass, the hit rate will get lower and lower!

In the first half, Rukawa Kaede's shots were basically nine out of ten, but five minutes had passed in the second half, and Rukawa Kaede scored a total of 10 points including free throws, but it took 7 shots, and other players scored 4 points.

Although the overall score of Fuqiu Junior High School has risen to 38 points, Wako Junior High School has already scored 46 points, and it seems that there are signs of further widening.

"Something is wrong, this is really wrong, this is not like him at all!"

In Hanamichi's memory, even in junior high school games, Rukawa Kaede should not be so "weak"! That's right, Rukawa Kaede at this time showed "weakness".

With the score gradually falling behind, Rukawa Kaede did not rush to chase back like in the first half, but "let" the score difference slowly widen to 8 points, "There must be something wrong with this."

In the eyes of others, Rukawa made 4 of 7 shots in the second half, plus two free throws, which was undoubtedly Rukawa's best performance, but in Hanamichi's opinion, it was very problematic. It was impossible for the offensive ghost Rukawa to be so "low standard".

"There must be a problem here!" Hanamichi focused his attention, fearing that he would miss something for a while.

In the original work, when Xiangbei was 11 points behind in the last 2 minutes of the first half of the game with Hainan, and his captain Akagi was off the court, Rukawa was still able to fight back and recover 15 points in 2 minutes (scored two goals during Hainan), and also had 2 steals and 1 block. It can be seen that it is quite easy for Rukawa to catch up if he wants to, unless he is too tired to leave the court.

But from the beginning of the second half, Rukawa was still playing "normally" as usual, like in the first half, and did not learn to race against time like in the Hainan battle, which was very problematic.

Some people say that when playing against the basketball team of the affiliated high school of Hainan University, Rukawa had already entered high school, and after a period of training, he had made great progress, which was incomparable with the junior high school!

What about the practice match against Ryonan? It was also after Akagi left the court that Rukawa caught up. At that time, he had just been promoted to high school for a month. In the words of Sendoh: He was too young, as young as a junior high school student.

But even if he was as young as in junior high school, he was still a young "offensive ghost", but his current performance was just like this?

Hanamichi had always felt something was wrong in his heart, and suddenly a flash of inspiration came to him, and he remembered a sentence said by Aida Hikoichi's sister, Basketball Weekly reporter Aida Yayoi, that is, "Rukawa's skills have surpassed the realm of being unique"!

So regardless of whether it was during the game, he shouted at Rukawa: "What are you doing? This is not like you at all!"

Rukawa still had a blank expression on his face and said nothing.

Taking advantage of a dead ball, Fuqiu Junior High School called the last long timeout. At the 15th minute of the second half, Fuqiu Junior High School had used up two long timeouts and one short timeout. The members of the Wako Junior High School basketball team were optimistic about Fuqiu Junior High School's continuous timeouts. Judging from the performance after each timeout, Fuqiu Junior High School basically couldn't come up with a decent countermeasure, and the score was still developing in their favor.

"Great! If we win, we can enter the finals." Teammate A said.

"Stupid, we have the captain and Hanamichi here, we will win anyway," this is the opinion of team member B.

...

"A bunch of idiots," Hanamichi said angrily, and the voice even reached the rest area of ​​the Fuqiu Junior High School basketball team.

"Don't be careless, he's not the kind of man who gives up easily."

Oda also felt that Hanamichi was too sensitive and cautious at this time, so in order to ease the awkward situation, he tried to smooth things over and said:

"Hanachi, Rukawa is very good, but there are only 5 minutes left before the end of the game, and Fugaoka Junior High School can't come up with any good countermeasures, and we are still leading by 8 points..."

Hanachi walked towards the court without looking back, saying as he walked, "The stinky fox himself is the best countermeasure."