Chapter 193 Green Wind Victory
Chapter 193 Green Wind Victory
"That's a good goal. I'll make a counterattack." Fujima dribbled the ball and prepared to play against Mike. He suddenly accelerated to the right with the ball and prepared to break through, but Mike immediately blocked him. "Your defense is indeed good, worthy of returning from the United States, but your height will limit your lateral speed." Fujima dribbled the ball and turned around continuously. Mike moved with Fujima's body. Suddenly Mike found that Fujima did not turn around, but suddenly pulled back halfway through the turn and stood up to shoot.
"Take this shot." As the ball was shot, a confident smile appeared in front of Fujima, but suddenly, his smile froze, and a hand appeared in his field of vision.
"Oh no! Rebound!" Fujima noticed that the trajectory of the ball had changed and immediately shouted a warning.
"My" Takano grabbed the rebound and made a second attack
"Bang!" "How can you run wild under the Green Wind basket?" Ming Gao yelled after blocking the shot. However, the ball was caught by Hanagata in the air. Hanagata tried to shoot, but Rukawa rushed over and grabbed the ball. Rukawa got the basketball, "Huh?" Rukawa noticed that Totsuka had started, and immediately passed the ball to Totsuka, who scored a layup.
In this attack by Xiangyang, Fujima's attack was blocked by Mike and Minggao. Green Wind counterattacked quickly again, and Pinggu Taichi hit a three-pointer.
Lishan realized something was wrong and called another timeout.
After the timeout, Fujima brought the ball to the scene. Ito from the outside suddenly started, and Totsuka on the opposite side chased him closely, but bumped into Takano who came out to cover. Ito got the ball, took a three-point shot, and made it!
Green Wind scored a goal with Rukawa Kaede's personal ability.
Shoyo attacks, this time Takano comes out to cover for Rinai, Rinai gets an open space and takes a three-point shot, which also goes in!
"Use screens to attack from the outside?" Mike gathered the Green Wind players together and gave them some instructions when serving the ball from the baseline. This time, Totsuka's shot was blocked by Takano, and Shoyo counterattacked. The same trick was repeated. Ito found an opening and shot a three-pointer, but Rukawa rushed from the side to block the ball. Totsuka got the ball, and Green Wind counterattacked to score two points.
This time Fujima didn't pass the ball to the outside, but to Takano. However, Totsuka stuck to Takano and didn't give him a chance to break through. Takano played with his back to the basket, but his dribbling skills were really... Totsuka stole the ball directly. Midori scored on the counterattack, and the point difference that Shoyo had recovered with a three-pointer was wiped out by Midori.
"I didn't expect Green Wind to react so quickly. Mike is indeed a native of America. He has good adaptability," the Xiangbei players praised.
Xiangyang's attack came to a standstill again.
"Nagano, you replace Kono." Seeing this, Tateyama replaced him with Nagano who had a medium-range shooting range.
"Nagano has the ability to shoot from mid-range, Rukawa," Coach Ofuna called out to Rukawa and pointed at Nagano, and Rukawa understood what he meant.
After Nagano finished the screen, Rinne passed the ball to Nagano. Nagano got the ball, and Rukawa was already in position. Nagano made a mid-range shot. Although Rukawa was 4 cm shorter than Nagano, his excellent physical fitness made up for the lack of height. Nagano's mid-range shot was blocked by Rukawa, and Minggao took the rebound.
Although Green Wind's attack failed, in the next round, Nagano was intercepted by Rukawa Kaede when he was playing against him alone, and this time Green Wind's counterattack was successful.
The continuous changes in formation did not have the desired effect. The three words "What should I do" appeared in the minds of Xiangyang coaches and players. Although Xiangyang has encountered this situation before, it only occurred in the national competition or against Hainan. If they lose this game, Xiangyang will miss the national competition. Last year, Xiangyang was in the top eight of the national competition. The huge gap is unacceptable to Xiangyang players. Although their hearts are filled with the thought of "We must not lose", the huge pressure prevents them from playing to their full potential, while Green Wind is playing better and better, and the score difference has reached 15 points in a blink of an eye.
This time, Nagano missed all three shots from Rukawa. Hanagata was in a favorable position but didn't jump up to get the ball. Minggao passed the ball to Mike, who went through alone. No one from Shoyo's team even went back to defend and they watched Mike dunk and score!
"The top eight in the country, nothing special," Mike said arrogantly after scoring the goal.
"What did you say?!" The Xiangyang players glared at him.
"Why, you're not convinced? Look at how many points you lost. With this level, you're still the strongest team in the country. Japanese basketball is nothing special."
"Mike, shut up." Fujisawa Eri heard what Mike said. Although Fujisawa agreed with the first sentence Mike said, the last sentence was too...
"Ok, ok." Mike realized he had said something wrong and shrugged and left.
"This guy" Fujima looked at Mike's back. A feeling of humiliation surged in his heart. He turned back to look at the bewildered Shoyo players and said loudly, "You all heard it, right? The opponent is despising us. Why do they despise us so much? It's because we have lost our fighting spirit. Don't forget our Shoyo slogan, fighting spirit!! We can't go on like this, we have to keep fighting"
"Yes!" Mike's words made Shoyo's players angry, but Fujima's words rekindled the fighting spirit of Shoyo's players.
In this attack, Hua Xing got the ball and back-attacked Ming Gao. Ming Gao did not expect Hua Xing to be so strong this time and was pushed back by Hua Xing. Hua Xing took the opportunity to hook the ball, but because of excessive force, the ball hit the back edge of the basket and missed. However, Hua Xing grabbed the offensive rebound, got up again, and dunked the ball through Ming Gao! After scoring, Hua Xing was out of character and roared to the sky.
“Well done, Hanakata”
Green Wind attacks, Mike passes the ball to Rukawa, but it is intercepted by Nagano in the air halfway, Shoyo counterattacks, and Shohoku's fast break!
"Stop them!" Ofuna yelled from the sidelines. Rukawa chased back very quickly and got back to defense before Fujima reached the three-point line. "Good defense!" Mike also got back to defense. Fujima suddenly threw the ball into the air. Mike followed the direction of the ball and said "oh shit!" A white figure grabbed the basketball in the air and stuffed it into the basket.
"Boom!" It was Hanagata. Hanagata and Fujima completed the aerial relay!
"We still have time, come on everyone" After Huaxing scored a goal, he did not celebrate but went back to defense
Green Wind missed the shot this time, Hanagata grabbed the rebound and counterattacked. Fujima used Hanagata to make a pick and roll and ran past Mike. Minggao came to defend, and Fujima took the opportunity to pass to Hanagata who came down after the pick and roll. After Totsuka came to defend, Hanagata passed the ball to Ito. Ito lightly jumped up and shot a three-pointer. "Let's hold on to one more ball and narrow the gap." Fujima once again encouraged the morale.
"It seems we really can't relax." The contemptuous look on Mike's face disappeared, and he became serious. This time, Mike used his physical advantage to break through Fujima's defense. After entering the penalty area, he faced Hanagata's block and forced the ball into the basket, and Hanagata was fouled. 2+1, Mike's attack not only stabilized the Green Wind team's somewhat anxious mentality, but also suppressed the Shoyo team's counterattack momentum.
"Don't mind, we'll attack back" Fujima clapped his hands
Shoyo team was attacking, Fujima made a breakthrough in front of Mike, and just when Mike thought he was going to break through, Fujima suddenly stepped back and made a three-point jump shot. "What a fast shot!" Mike was shocked. He didn't have time to block the shot, so he could only hope that Fujima's touch was not good. But the opposite happened, Fujima's shot went in.
Green Wind's attack failed. Fujima passed the ball to Hanagata, who cut into the penalty area. Hanagata passed the ball back. Fujima got the ball and made a layup to avoid Minggao's defense. But a hand appeared in the air and pressed the ball on the backboard! It was Mike who was chasing back! Mike jumped again and got the ball. Green Wind counterattacked and Mike made a long pass to Totsuka.
"Snap" Just when Totsuka was about to get the ball, Fujima rushed back and stole the ball. Pass the ball to Hanagata, "Hanagata Senior" It turns out that Ito used Nagano's screen to find an open space. Hanagata passed the ball to the outside line, Ito got the ball and shot a three-pointer. But Rukawa appeared and blocked the ball. The ball fell back to Ito, "Give it to me", at this time Fujima had already cut into the restricted area of the Green Wind Team, and after receiving the ball, he directly made a layup and scored!
"Damn, these guys are really tenacious." Mike wiped his sweat. "Huh?" He noticed that Rukawa wanted the ball, so he passed the ball to Rukawa. Rukawa faced Nagano and dribbled past him. Nagano took a sideways step, and Rukawa suddenly took a step back and made a three-pointer. Nagano was unable to block the three-pointer and it went in!
In the following game, although Shoyo fought back, Green Wind was able to hold on to the victory thanks to the performance of Mike and Rukawa Kaede. Green Wind defeated Shoyo 84:79 and stepped into the national competition, while Shoyo unfortunately lost.
"Fujima and Hanagata, what a pity!" Looking at Fujima crying on the field, he still said to the Green Wind players in a very graceful manner, "Thank you for your guidance." Mu Mu said regretfully that although the number of places in Kanagawa has increased, the competition has become more brutal. Don't forget that the schedule of the original Xiangbei National Competition is even more brutal. There is no way, this is competitive sports.
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