Slam Dunk: I'm the Glasses Brother

Chapter 207: The Final Battle of Hainan: Sakuragi's Secret Skills

"Ade, that was a great shot." Mitsui went over and high-fived Horida. As his junior high school teammate, Mitsui also witnessed Horida's growth. At first, Mitsui described Horida as a laborer with no skills. After entering high school, Horida's development speed has been left behind by Akagi, Murasaki, and himself. Even Hasegawa is ahead of Horida and is at least a semi-main player, while Horida does not have many opportunities to play. But Horida did not give up on himself and still worked hard to practice. Although he was mostly a sparring partner, he did not give up on offensive practice. This ball was the best reward for him.

"Horita-senpai has made great progress," the substitute players of Xiangbei also cheered.

"Am I not as good as Horita?"

"Sakuragi, you need to learn from Horita," Coach Anzai suddenly said.

"I want to learn from him? He is no match for me in practice."

"I'm not asking you to learn his skills, but to learn his mind, Sakuragi, you're too impatient."

"It was that fake gorilla who cheated," Sakuragi was a little unconvinced

"Well, then why did he cheat?" Sakuragi's attitude made Coach Anxi feel helpless, so he asked in a different way.

“Because he’s bad”

"Oh, no, it's not because he's bad, it's because he's afraid of you, Sakuragi-san."

"Afraid of me? Why?" Sakuragi became interested

"Sakuragi-san's rebounding and defense caused a lot of trouble for Hainan."

"Of course, I'm a genius!" Sakuragi was so happy when he heard the coach praise him.

"That's why he provoked you. He had no good way to deal with you, so he could only use this method, but you fell for it." Coach Anxi continued to counsel Sakuragi. Hearing this, Sakuragi fell into thought. After a moment

"Dad, you mean that he can't beat me, so he is provoking me with words to make me lose my composure?"

"Oh hehe. Sakuragi-san is right." Anzai nodded.

"Dad, I understand. I fell for his trick. I should stay calm and respond with actual performance." Different from the original, Sakuragi at this time has experienced many games and his thinking has changed a lot. Although he is still arrogant sometimes, most of the time he still looks at things with a normal mindset.

"Haha, that's right"

Just as Sakuragi was reflecting on himself off the court, Hainan had a classic pick-and-roll between Amu and A Shen, and A Shen got the ball from the outside and shot. But this time Mitsui was prepared and successfully interfered with A Shen, and A Shen's three-pointer missed. Fortunately, the ball bounced far away, and Muto got the rebound and made a mid-range shot.

After Mumu passed the ball to Akagi, he cut into the air, received the return pass from Akagi, and suddenly threw the ball out. Katsumi was in an open position and took a three-point shot, which went in! 19:14

Although Takasago missed the singles shot against Horita, he caused Horita to foul and made one of two free throws, 19;15

Katsumi's second three-pointer missed, Takasago grabbed the rebound, and Kainan counterattacked. However, Amu's layup was blocked by Mugure and Akagi. Although Takasago grabbed the rebound, the ball was hit by Horita as soon as it was exposed. Kainan served the ball from the baseline, and Naito's strong shot was blocked by Akagi. However, Amu rushed to grab the rebound and made a tip-in, 19:17

"Shohoku requested a substitution!" The referee shouted, "What? ? Shohoku actually replaced three players in one go. Three first-year players." The audience was stunned by Shohoku's substitution.

Xiangbei replaced No. 10 Akagi, No. 11 Mitsui, and No. 12 Katsumi with No. 4 Sakuragi, No. 6 Kiyota, and No. 9 Mito Yohei. After coming on the court, Mito Yohei conveyed the coach's intention: "I'm responsible for Muto, Senior Horida continues to watch No. 5, Kiyota watches A Shen and is careful of his three-pointers, Sakuragi, Naito is yours, Senior Kogure, you continue to match up with Amu!"

"Coach Anzai, isn't it a little early to make the substitution this time? After all, the game hasn't been going on for very long." Nakamura was a little confused

"I don't understand it either. Normally, they start making substitutions after seven or eight minutes of play, and they do it one by one. Such a large-scale substitution is really rare. Even if it's to train new players, there can't be such a large-scale rotation." Yayoi Aida was also full of question marks.

After Yohei passed the ball across half court, he immediately passed it to Mugure. Sakuragi went up to the line to screen Mugure. Amu immediately took a step back, preparing to bypass Sakuragi, but Mugure did the opposite and broke through from the opposite direction. Amu was caught off guard and was thrown away by Mugure. Muto, who was guarding Kiyota, filled in. Kiyota took the opportunity to go down. Mugure had already noticed Kiyota and made a straight pass to Kiyota. Kiyota got the ball and stood up to dunk. Although Takasago had jumped up to block it, Kiyota was still one step faster and completed the dunk through Takasago. 21:17

Hainan attacked, and he cut in like lightning. But Murasaki reacted quickly and moved sideways quickly, but at this moment he collided with a teammate. It turned out that Naito came out to screen for Amu. Amu used Naito's screen to shake Murasaki off, and then took the ball and flew directly to the basket. Sakuragi and Horita jumped up to defend together. However, Amu flicked his wrist and the ball passed through the gap between the two. After receiving the ball, Takasago dunked and scored 21:19

Xiangbei's attack failed this time. Kainan grabbed the rebound and counterattacked. After several quick passes, the ball was in Naito's hands again. Naito dribbled the ball at high speed, but just after taking one step, a player appeared in front of him. Naito couldn't stop his feet and collided with the player. The referee whistled: "White No. 8 committed an offensive foul, the ball is in the red team's hand."

"Well done, Horita." Murasaki pulled Horita up.

"This Naito!" Gao Touli held his forehead and sighed. Although after several months of special training, Naito's basic skills are more proficient, but some small habits still cannot be completely corrected, and the problem of rushing forward with the ball still occurs from time to time.

Facing Amu, Mumu suddenly smiled, dribbled sideways, raised his left hand, and made a gesture. Amu's eyebrows jumped, but he couldn't figure out what the other party was going to do for a while. Soon he got the answer. Sakuragi, who was originally entangled with Naito under the basket, used Horita's screen to run from the inside and received Mumu's pass.

At 45 degrees to the right, about 4 meters away from the basket, Sakuragi stood sideways with the ball. Facing Takasago who was defending, he raised his hands high and threw the ball out with a very high shooting point and a very flat arc.

"This ball won't go in, Naito, Takasago rebounds." The Hainan players on the court looked at Sakuragi's shooting posture and thought that the shot of No. 10 of Xiangbei was too uncoordinated. How could such a shot go in?

"Oh no, this ball is going to go in." Oda, who was sitting on the Hainan bench, suddenly thought of something.

"Will this ball go in?!" Gao Touli was skeptical when he heard his disciple's words, but the next moment he got the answer.

...Snap! Swish!

The basketball hit the backboard and went cleanly through the net. 23;19

"This can also go in, what kind of shooting posture is this!" Hainan's players were stunned

"Hahaha, this is a genius' one-of-a-kind attack. How would you, a bunch of frogs in the well, know it?" Seeing the surprised looks on Hainan's faces, Sakuragi became complacent.

"Oda, you and Sakuragi were teammates in junior high school. Isn't Sakuragi's goal this time a coincidence?" Gao Touli turned his head and asked his disciple

"Coach, when we were in junior high school, Sakuragi once played one-on-one against me, and he used this shooting method at that time. According to Sakuragi, this was taught to him by Murasaki. But in junior high school, Sakuragi rarely scored in this way. If I hadn't seen Sakuragi's shot this time, I would have forgotten that Sakuragi had this trick."

Oda explained to the coach

"Taught by Muguro? This is such a formidable opponent."