NBA: This flower path is a bit strong

At this moment, Rukawa wiped the sweat from his forehead and stared at the scorer with a calm look. There were still 5 minutes left and 8 points left.

The timeout ended and all the players of Fuqiu Middle School came on the court, but none of the teammates dared to get close to Rukawa. At this time, Rukawa exuded a strong momentum, cold and indifferent.

This sudden momentum frightened Oda Ryuzheng who was dribbling the ball, and he even felt that he was frozen at that moment.

Oda Ryuzheng was secretly surprised: "Maybe what Hanamichi said is true, that guy still has strength."

At the moment when Oda was stunned, Rukawa suddenly made a steal, and Oda didn't react at all. On the contrary, after the timeout, Hanamichi, who was in high spirits, gave up his opponent after discovering that Rukawa had made a steal, and quickly ran towards his own basket. He was ahead of Rukawa and was one step outside his own half of the restricted area, near the free throw line, ready to defend Rukawa who was holding the ball.

At this time, Rukawa stared at the basket with his eyes full of determination and confidence, and seemed to completely ignore the powerful defender Hanamichi who was 189cm tall standing in front of him.

He dribbled forward skillfully and smoothly, and the speed of the fast break was astonishing! Obviously, Rukawa did not give up this excellent fast break opportunity because of Hanamichi's timely defense.

"Don't look down on me, you stinky fox!" Sakuragi Hanamichi stood firmly near the free throw line, posing a standard defensive move, and exuded an amazing defensive momentum.

"Right here, I'll interrupt your momentum."

The on-site commentator, Shigeichi Tanaka, didn't expect that he would be so excited just to watch a junior high school game. This was the second time that Shigeichi Tanaka slammed the table in this game.

He just said loudly: "This is really an amazing offensive and defensive duel!"

But just when Coach Tanaka and all the audience were looking forward to who would win or lose in this offensive and defensive duel, no one expected that Rukawa Kaede's next fast break was a quick stop jump shot outside the three-point line, shooting his first three-pointer of the day. The basketball drew a beautiful parabola in the air and went into the net with the eyes of all the audience.

Although the audience was a little surprised by Rukawa Kaede's offensive choice, he still scored, and got 3 points at once, so the atmosphere at this time was also one wave higher than another. After all, what they pursued was just to look good.

"Wow! You can shoot a three-pointer like this."

"Catch-up three-pointer."

"We got back three points in one go, and now we're only five points behind."

"Come on, Rukawa..."

As a professional coach, Shigekazu Tanaoka showed a bit of confusion:

"Generally speaking, when you're on a fast break, you'll choose a more stable 2-point layup or slam dunk. If the fast break is disrupted, you should reorganize the offense. If you take the risk of shooting a three-pointer and your teammates don't keep up, if you don't score, the opponent might take the opportunity to score one. This choice~hmm~seems a bit arbitrary and unwise..."

Coach Anxi frowned slightly when he heard this, as if it brought back some bad memories. After a long while, he stabilized his hand holding the teacup, and then looked at Hanamichi, who was in great momentum on the court, and Rukawa, who quickly returned to defense halfway, and said with a relaxed brow:

"Now it's time to compete in hard power. No matter who wins or loses this game, neither of them will lose! Tanaka, such a seedling can't be delayed~ Oh ho ho ho!"

Tanaka Shigeichi, who mistakenly thought it was Coach Anzai's "good intention" reminder, hurriedly said: "Coach Anzai, don't worry! We are in Kanagawa Prefecture, and our two teams often play practice games. You know my training method, and I will definitely not delay them!"

Coach Anzai: "... Just be happy!"

On the court, Hanamichi clenched his fists and thought secretly:

"I don't want to lose, I must find a way to score and widen the gap."

He knew that he might not have the confidence to stop Rukawa Kaede who was firing on all cylinders at this time, so Hanamichi decided to fight after a little thought.

Hanamichi asked Oda for the ball. He clearly felt that the other players of Fuqiu Middle School were not as flexible as in the first half after the second half, especially the center No. 11 who was defending him. His footsteps were much slower.

After receiving the ball, Sakuragi turned his back to the basket and slightly turned to the left. The center No. 11 of Fuqiu Middle School was alert after seeing Hanamichi get the ball, fearing that he would be fooled by his fake moves again.

But the more you fear something, the more it will happen.At this time, the No. 11 center saw Hanamichi turn left, so he quickly followed and shifted his body weight to the left, acting as a defender. After Hanamichi saw that he had tricked the No. 11 center's weight to the left, he slowly turned to the right, creating the impression that he was going to break through from the right, and that it was all fake moves before, and he slowed down his pace, giving the center of Fuqiu Junior High School a feeling that he could catch up.

As expected, this continuous left and right turning movement made the No. 11 player of Fuqiu Junior High School change his body weight back and forth, and just when he just adjusted his weight to the right, Hanamichi passed the No. 11 player from the left at a very fast speed, and after breaking through, he used his left hand to cover him behind him, quickly jumped up, raised his right hand to the sky, and made a dunk like a splitting Huashan Mountain, ending this round of offense and defense cleanly. The score widened to 7 points again.

There was a cheer at the scene. In the late 1990s, there were few such beautiful inside footsteps in Japan. At that time, the NBA was the era of Jordan, and Hakeem Olajuwon had not won the first championship in his career. For footsteps, people generally did not have an objective and overall level of attention. It was not until Olajuwon won the championship for the first time in 1994 that the name of "Dream Footsteps" gradually spread overseas, and people knew that inside footsteps could be played like this!

So at this time, Hanamichi used inside footsteps to play tricks on the opposing center, which brought everyone a bright and indescribable surprise! It turns out that basketball can be "cheated and sneaked" like this.

Seeing this, Rukawa Kaede walked past Hanamichi in a mysterious way: "Sure enough, he is a red-haired monkey who loves to deceive people..."

It only takes one sentence to wake up Hanamichi who was enjoying the surprised cheers of the audience. He is worthy of it.

Rukawa Kaede did not blame his own center who was actively defending, but signaled him to stand at the baseline to serve. After getting the ball, Rukawa ignored his teammates' running positions and rushed directly to the opponent's half.

It seemed that the offensive ghost was in a hot hand at this time. He did not want to play steadily and slow down the offensive rhythm, but wanted to use time to quickly catch up.

"Hurry, do a good job of defense," Oda shouted to Hanamichi, and then appeared at the side of Rukawa, ready to double-team at any time.

But Rukawa was not blocked by the defense of Wako Junior High School. He was flexible and determined. He did not find a good opportunity at the corner. Instead, he dribbled the ball back and forth from his crotch and pulled himself back one step. With this distance, he finally got a chance to shoot outside of Hanamichi's tight defense and Oda who tried to double-team him.

"Swish!"

The basketball went into the net. This was a long two-pointer. Oda on the side could only sigh. For such a scoring method, even if he was ready to double-team, it felt that the effect was not great. He could not pinch Rukawa's scoring point.

The difference between the two teams returned to 5 points.

Sawada Sanji of Wako Junior High School served the ball and passed it to Oda. Unexpectedly, Rukawa rushed out from the side, intercepted the passing route with one hand, then jumped up easily, stretched his right arm, and slammed the ball into the basket with a one-handed dunk. The score difference was only 3 points, but only one and a half minutes had passed since the timeout.

In order to interrupt Rukawa's offensive rhythm, Oda Ryumasa signaled the team leader to call a timeout when the ball was dead, but it did not have the expected effect.

After the timeout, the ball fell into Rukawa's hands again, and this time it was his teammates who stole the ball. Hanamichi looked at Rukawa with the ball and listened to the cheers from the scene. The "magic sound" made Hanamichi upset.

At this time, Rukawa's movements were much slower than at the beginning of the game. The sweat on his cheeks and the wet jersey showed that his physical consumption was much more severe than expected. Although his shooting accuracy was extremely high, the price was just as Hanamichi had expected, with a serious loss of physical strength.

Rukawa suddenly lowered his center of gravity to dribble the ball, and at the same time led to the defensive running of Hanamichi and Oda. He quickly rushed in from the middle while the two had not yet joined to form a double-team, but he did not completely get rid of it. Hanamichi reacted very quickly and followed quickly from the side.

Without choosing to pass the ball, Rukawa withstood the defensive pressure of Hanamichi who was chasing him, his eyes were extremely firm, he made a quick stop jump shot, and also leaned back a little. Under the huge defensive pressure, the ball went in!

In a hurry, Sakuragi Hanamichi thought of the "eye-covering method" of Sean Battier in the future, and in a hurry, he also covered Rukawa's eyes with his palm, and the whole big palm was almost on his face. But not only did it not work, but because of this dangerous action, the referee blew a blocking foul and was given a "2+1" by Rukawa.

With the sound of the free throw goal, the stadium erupted with roaring cheers.Cheers and applause.

"Rukawa! Rukawa! L-O-V-E! Rukawa..."

Cheers resounded throughout the venue, but Hanamichi, who was listening carefully, seemed to feel that something strange and familiar had been mixed in...

Coach Tanaoka suddenly stood up, it was "three moments of clapping the table"! At this moment, the coach's slightly trembling hands on the table showed his excitement at this moment.

This was the most exciting moment for him since he poached Sendoh in Tokyo at the beginning of this year.

"No mistake, Rukawa is the most perfect puzzle for us to defeat Hainan next year and enter the national competition! I must study it carefully and recruit him in advance, hehehe", as if thinking of the famous scene of defeating Takato at that time, Coach Tanaoka laughed sinisterly, "hehe" as if no one was around.