Chapter 127 Hainan vs. Fuqiu
Chapter 127 Hainan vs. Fuqiu
"Congratulations, Sakuragi and Yohei. Keep working hard in the next games." Kazuhiko won the first game, and Murasaki and others went up to congratulate Sakuragi and Yohei.
“Hahaha, Yohei and I’s goal is to win the championship, so other teams are no problem either.” This Sakuragi...
"Alright, Sakuragi, let's watch the next game. Fugaoka and Kainan Junior High School are also very strong. Fugaoka's Rukawa Kaede and Kainan's Kiyota Nobunaga are also star players in the county's junior high school."
"Ryukawa Kaede, Kiyota Nobunaga" Sakuragi kept repeating these two names. Obviously, Sakuragi was very isolated from the news and had no idea about the players of other teams.
"They are the No. 4 players of the two teams," Coach Sanmao pointed at the players off the court and introduced them to Sakuragi.
"So he is Rukawa Kaede, who looks like a fox." Sakuragi was the first to comment on Rukawa Kaede, who was wearing a purple No. 4 jersey. Unexpectedly, the nickname "Fox" still fell on Rukawa Kaede's head. "He is indeed quite capable." After watching Rukawa Kaede's warm-up for a while, Sakuragi's expression became much more serious. After all, the current Sakuragi is different from the original Xiaobai, and his knowledge is much broader.
"What a show-off! I'm the top junior high school student in Kanagawa, Kiyota Nobunaga." Hainan No. 4 saw Rukawa Kaede's dunk causing a group of girls to scream, and curled his lips in dissatisfaction. He took a basketball and suddenly accelerated to the basket of Fuqiu, and directly dunked with one hand! His action caught the Fuqiu players off guard, and they had no idea what he was going to do.
"This No. 4 has good qualities too." Sakuragi also noticed this. Hainan's No. 4 may not be tall, but he can complete a dunk, so his physical qualities cannot be underestimated.
"Hmph, Rukawa, let's use this game to decide who is the best rookie." After Kiyota finished the dunk, he walked in front of Rukawa and said arrogantly.
"Idiot" Rukawa ignored him and turned away.
"Ryukawa, who are you calling an idiot? Stop right there!" Kiyota shouted in dissatisfaction.
"Come back, Kiyota!" The coach of Hainan Junior High School couldn't stand it anymore and called Kiyota back to the team.
"Hmph, let's compete with you again in the game." Qingtian returned to the Hainan player area
After the coaches of both sides explained the tactics, the match between Fuqiu and Hainan officially began!
The jump ball players for both teams were Rukawa Kaede and Kiyota Nobunaga! The referee threw the ball into the air.
"Look at me!" Kiyota Nobunaga jumped high. But... there was still a certain gap between his height and Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa Kaede took the ball away with a knuckle advantage. After landing, Rukawa Kaede glanced at Kiyota Nobunaga. Although he didn't say anything, Kiyota Nobunaga's quality must have impressed him deeply. The ball fell into the hands of Fuqiu's guard, who dribbled directly to the basket for a layup. This is also Fuqiu's common opening tactic. Rukawa Kaede directly hit the ball to the guard, and the guard completed the opening shot.
"Too naive!" Just when Fuqiu's defender thought the ball was going to go in, Kiyota Nobunaga suddenly rushed over, jumped high, and blocked the shot.
"When did he come here?" Fuqiu's defender was dumbfounded
"Don't think you can get it easily..." Kiyota Nobunaga, who had blocked the shot, was about to say "points", but he noticed that a tall figure had arrived and caught the ball that Kiyota had shot.
"Good pass." The man got the ball and made a layup. Kiyota was unable to block it, and the person who scored the goal was none other than Rukawa!
"Damn it," Qingtian whispered to his defender, "Give me this ball." Hainan's defender nodded.
After the Hainan defender carried the ball to the front court, he passed the ball to Kiyota. At this time, the defender of Fuqiu was not Rukawa, who was still defending in the interior. Rukawa was also the tallest in the Fuqiu team. Kiyota Nobunaga made a fake move and then changed direction, breaking through the defense of the Fuqiu players in one go.
"What a fast speed!" Rukawa Kaede was also surprised.
"xx (name of Hainan's center)" Kiyota saw Rukawa assisting in defense and immediately called out the name of his team's center. Rukawa hesitated for a moment and said, "Should we pass the ball to the basket?" Kiyota Nobunaga took advantage of the moment when Rukawa hesitated and accelerated directly, breaking through Rukawa's defense. "Oops," Rukawa cried out inwardly and hurried back to help defend, but Kiyota's dribbling speed was not to be underestimated. Rukawa was unable to catch up. He could only watch Kiyota dunk and score.
"Give me this ball." Rukawa got the ball, and his opponent was Kiyota Nobunaga. Rukawa got the ball and shot directly.
"Not a fake?" Qingtian was also stunned, and hurriedly jumped up to block the shot, but the height disadvantage prevented Rukawa from being disturbed. "Swish!" The ball went into the net.
Hainan attacked, and Kiyota again held the ball and passed Fuqiu's defender again. This time facing Rukawa Kaede's defense, Kiyota chose to pass the ball and Hainan's center scored at the basket.
Facing Kiyota's defense, Rukawa broke through and made a layup. Kiyota tried his best to block the shot, but his height disadvantage still prevented Rukawa from succeeding. However, Kiyota quickly fought back. Rukawa rushed to the basket, and the center of Hainan blocked Rukawa, making it impossible for Rukawa to assist in defense. Kiyota scored a jump shot under the basket.
Rukawa once again forced a jump shot under Kiyota's defense. The ball bounced twice on the rim and finally rolled into the net.
Hainan attacked and the ball was passed to Kiyota. This time, Fuqiu's defensive player was replaced by Rukawa!
"Finally you're willing to defend me?" Kiyota smiled and suddenly prepared to shoot. Rukawa was startled and jumped up to block the shot, but Kiyota took the ball, broke through Rukawa's defense, dribbled the ball to the basket, and dunked it directly.
"Hainan is a very capable kid. Even though he is not tall, he is very skilled in dribbling, has excellent jumping ability, and his fake moves are very realistic," Mitsui commented.
Rukawa's attack is still the same routine, that is, using his height and long arms to force a breakthrough. "Don't underestimate me, Rukawa!" Kiyota made a strong leap this time. Although he failed to block the shot, he greatly interfered with Rukawa, and Rukawa's attack failed.
"This Rukawa Kaede, seeing him is like seeing Sendoh, he plays too independently, there is clearly a wide open space under the basket for the No. 9 player, but he just doesn't pass the ball" Mitsui continued to comment
Kiyota attacked and tried to break through Rukawa, but Rukawa's defense was just as good. Kiyota was unable to break through Rukawa's defense and had to pass the ball, but his teammates' shots missed.
Rukawa's attack was again blocked by Kiyota. Hainan counterattacked, Kiyota attacked with the ball, but still couldn't break through Rukawa. He made another shot, but this time Rukawa ignored him. Kiyota made a hasty shot and missed.
"Oh? This guy seems to be bad at shooting." Rukawa seemed to sense something.
Fuqiu continued to attack, this time Rukawa did not choose to break through Kiyota. Instead, he asked for the ball under the basket, using his height advantage to single out Kiyota. The closer to the basket, the higher the score, Rukawa knew this very well, and his height advantage made it easy for Rukawa to score. After Hainan switched to a center to defend Rukawa under the basket, Rukawa changed to face-to-face attack. Hainan had no one to defend Rukawa's attack.
Although Kiyota was still able to score, his efficiency dropped a lot in the face of Rukawa's defense. After Hainan found that no one could defend Rukawa alone, they used two people to double-team. At this time, Fuqiu's No. 9 took over. He took advantage of Hainan's gaps to score. Hainan did not have a second stable scoring point to share Kiyota's pressure. In the end, Fuqiu defeated Kainan Junior High School 70:61 and won the first game.
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