Slam Dunk Fox Rukawa

The one-minute timeout ended and the two sides returned to the playing field. With 8 minutes left in the first half, Xiangyang led Xiangbei 46:32.

Xiangyang kicked off from the bottom line of the backcourt. After Fujima passed Hasegawa's pass, he dribbled the ball to the frontcourt. Rukawa was already standing outside the three-point line waiting for him.

Fujima carefully dribbled the ball while observing the situation on the field, and suddenly passed the ball to Takano on the left. Then he ran in front of Takano and took the basketball. At the same time, he used Takano's body to cover Rukawa, and along the way

The left baseline went inside under the defense of De Nan, who was changing defense.

Fujima dribbled the ball directly from the left side of the baseline to the right without finding a breakthrough. Shohoku's defense change gradually improved after several games of practice. Fujima had no choice but to pass the ball from the right baseline again.

The pass was passed to Hasegawa outside the three-point line, and then Fujima ran around Nagano, and after getting rid of Rukawa who was chasing him, he received the basketball from Hasegawa near the 30-degree three-point line on the right side.

But as soon as Fujima caught the ball, Rukawa followed. Fujima seemed very patient. Before Rukawa came over, he passed the ball to Hanagata inside, and then used Hasegawa's screen again to kill Rukawa.

Within the three-point line, the arc of the front free throw area reaches the basketball and makes a mid-range shot.

Amu watched Fujima run a full circle around the basketball court. The basketball passed 5 times, and Fujima used a three-man pick-and-roll to score a goal with great difficulty. The fear of Shohoku became even deeper in his heart. You know

In 4 games in 2 years, with Fujima's strength, he has never played so hard against Hainan. Is it possible that Shohoku's defensive ability will surpass Hainan?

Shohoku's offense was even simpler. Rukawa used his own personal ability to beat Fujima, and then after attracting the defense, he passed the ball to Mitsui who ran out of the space. After Mitsui got the basketball in the left corner, he shot a three-pointer

hit.

The score became 48 to 35.

In Shoyo's next attack, Takano once again used an off-ball screen to avoid Tokuo's defense, and scored 2 points with a mid-range shot from the left baseline.

However, in less than 5 seconds in Shohoku, Rukawa once again ignored Fujima's defense and hit a super-long three-pointer 1 meter outside the three-point line.

The score became 50:38.

Xiangyang once again patiently waited until the 30-second attack time was almost over before Nagano scored 2 points with a mid-range shot from the right baseline.

However, Rukawa Kaede immediately broke into the paint and scored a slam dunk while also causing a flower-shaped foul, successfully playing 2+1.

The score became 52:40 again.

In this way, Xiangyang continued to patiently look for this opportunity, taking advantage of their skillful cooperation. Xiangbei didn't stay together long enough and didn't have enough tacit understanding with each other, but they used Rukawa's outside shots and internal attacks to disrupt Xiangyang.

After the defense, he constantly scored in the open space.

At the end of the first half of the long game with 1 minute left, Xiangyang and Xiangbei were tied at 78:78.

Fujima was panting and looked at the back of Rukawa who was assisting Tokuo inside to score again. He couldn't help but feel a little helpless. You must know that he had been running with Rukawa who was 13 centimeters taller than him for almost 10 minutes. Even in training.

The well-trained Fujima also felt a little tired.

But when he saw Hasegawa, who had been running closely with Mitsui for nearly 20 minutes, still gritting his teeth and persisting, Fuji Shinichi gritted his teeth and shouted to Hanagata and others who were frustrated because the score was equalized: "What's wrong with you?

Do you want to admit defeat? This is just a tie. We will fight Xiangbei as Hainan. When facing Hainan, will you lose your fighting spirit because the score is the same or behind?"

"No!!" Hanagata and the others, under Fujima's subtle influence, succeeded in treating Shohoku as their mortal enemy, the Hainan University Affiliated High School Boys Basketball Team, and their combat effectiveness immediately increased.

Rukawa looked at Fujima on the opposite side encouraging the Xiangyang players, and he couldn't help but have a new understanding of player-coaches. It seems that player-coaches are good. They don't need to call timeout to arrange tactics and motivate players. They can go directly to the court.

Just set it up.

In Xiangyang's attack, Fujima passed the ball to Hanagata. Hanagata passed it back to Fujima, who used a ball-free screen to kill Rukawa. Fujima took a step forward and shot to attract Sakuragi's defense, and then passed the ball to Nagano.

, Nagano faked another shot, attracting Rukawa who was defending, and then passed it back to Fujima again.

However, this time Sakuragi, who was supposed to be guarding Fujima, still pounced on Nagano, his original defensive target, so Fujima made an easy mid-range open shot and hit 2 points, surpassing the score again.

Rukawa looked at Sakuragi who was out of position just now. In the first half, Xiangyang basically took advantage of Shohoku's lack of coordination and the speed of defense changes to launch attacks. Now there is no other good way to think of, except to compete with each other's firepower.

Okay. Defensive matters cannot be solved in a day or two, especially the cultivation of tacit understanding.

As soon as Rukawa dribbled the ball past the three-point line, Fujima came over. You must know that in these 10 minutes, Rukawa has taken 4 shots from about 2 meters outside the three-point line, and hit a total of 3 times. This kind of super high shooting rate

, so that Fujima, who was defending Rukawa, did not dare to be careless at all.

Rukawa leaned against Fujima, dribbling while observing the situation on the court. In less than 3 seconds, Rukawa made a decision, directly resisted Fujima with his body and ran towards the lower right corner, and then used Sakuragi

He made two pick-and-rolls under the cover of Sakuragi's body, making Fujima and Nagano unable to judge his intention to break through.

Then Rukawa quickly bypassed Sakuragi and ran from the right side along the baseline toward the backboard. Fujima and Nagano lost the opportunity, and the smaller Fujima had to spot Sakuragi on the outside, and Nagano chased Rukawa.

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When Rukawa ran under the backboard, he jumped up for a layup. Seeing this, Hanagata quickly jumped up to defend. Rukawa took the basketball back in the air, and then did not pass it to Akagi, because Takano, who was guarding Tokuo on the left, had already taken his turn.

He transitioned to defend the basket, but he did not avoid Rukawa, who was always looking at him from all directions.

Rukawa handed the ball to Tokuo, who was unguarded. After landing, he ran towards Tokuo, passed by Tokuo and got the basketball at the same time. Then in the left corner, using Tokuo's screen, he ran a very

With a big gap, Rukawa calmed down his breathing that was disturbed by the strenuous exercise before taking a three-pointer.

"Shua" as the basketball hit again, it also marked that after Xiangbei took a 2:0 lead in the opening, after nearly 20 minutes of fierce battle, it finally led by 1 point again at 81:80.

Fujima looked at the score and then paid attention to the game time. There were 18 seconds left in the first half. Fujima was not encouraging the players. There was no time, so he directly signaled Hasegawa to send a baseline kick.

After receiving the basketball, Fujima dribbled the ball quickly through the center line. There were still 15 seconds left. After struggling with Rukawa for about 2 seconds, Fujima suddenly changed his direction and broke through to the left. While Rukawa was chasing the defense, he was pulled out

Hanagata, who was covering, was very strong. As Fujima’s old partner, Hanagata

They were much better at blocking people than Takano and the others. Not only did they stand in a very good position, but they were also facing Rukawa. When Rukawa bumped into him, his hands crossed in a flower shape on his abdomen and close to his body, and he grabbed them hard and quietly without leaving a trace.

A twitch of Rukawa's clothes hindered Rukawa's immediate change of direction.

Rukawa didn't have time to care about Hanagata's small movements. He struggled hard, got rid of Hanagata's entanglement, and rushed to the inside.

But it was too late. Rukawa watched Fujima use simulated fake moves to deceive Akagi's center of gravity, and then backhand the basketball from the left.

Xiangyang once again led by 1 point at 82:81 with 2 seconds left in the first half.

What can you do in 2 seconds? A standard basketball court is 28 meters long. A comrade who only takes 10 seconds to run 100 meters can only run 20 meters in 2 seconds.

So the players from Xiangyang gathered around Fujima and ran back in celebration. Although they hadn't finished the game yet, there was nothing to worry about. Unless Rukawa wore rocket boots, Rukawa would never be able to run over.

Rukawa told everyone in the stadium, what can be done in 2 seconds? He signaled Mitsui to throw the baseline ball to him.

After receiving the basketball, Rukawa took two steps forward, put the ball in his abdomen with both hands, and used a hand pattern similar to the turtle style in Dragon Ball to eject the basketball from his chest and hit the opponent at least 20 meters away.

Xiangyang's hoop is wide open.

When the basketball left the fingertips of Rukawa's hands, there were still 0.2 seconds left in the first half.

"Beep" Although the referee blew the whistle to signal the end of the first half, the whistle was still in his mouth. The referee's eyes were still following the basketball thrown by Rukawa from a long distance.

At this time, the entire audience, including Xiangyang's players, also discovered Rukawa's ultra-long-distance basketball shot in the last 0.2 seconds. Everyone held their breath and looked at the orange-red ball soaring in the sky.

The soldiers of Xiangyang looked at the ball flying towards the hoop step by step. They felt very regretful, but they did not dare to jump up and knock down the basketball. First of all, the height was too high. Even if you knocked down the basketball near the hoop, you would still be injured.

A ball interference penalty was awarded because the basketball was in a falling state.

There was silence in the entire stadium, except for the vague sound of basketballs flying in the sky cutting through the airflow.

Close... Because the distance was too far and the surroundings were silent, it felt like the basketball had been flying for a century, but finally he was close to the hoop.

Closer...closer, the orange-red basketball looked at the red hoop and the yellow-and-white blue net and plunged down.

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