Chapter 36: Xiangbei vs. Sunrise in the West (Part )
Chapter 36: Xiangbei vs. Sunrise in the West (Part )
Hiji West was attacking, and Abe was signaling for the ball in the paint. Lai Sheng passed the ball to Abe without hesitation.
Abe made a motion to start dribbling to the right.
Akagi immediately bent down and slid to the left, quickly blocking in front of him.
But this was just a fake move by Abe. After Akagi moved, he immediately turned to the left and dribbled to the basket. When he was one meter away from the basket, he shot.
"Do you think you can score like this?" Akagi had already rushed back and jumped up to block the shot. But Akagi was shocked to find that the opponent was just faking it. Abe waited for Akagi to fall, then took off and shot the ball, which went in and caused Akagi to foul.
"You are too naive, first-grader," Abe took the ball from the referee and made the free throw.
"Don't mind, Akagi, be patient. There's still a long time to play." Mugure ran over to comfort Akagi. Akagi was silent for a moment, then he let out a long sigh, "I'm fine, Mugure"
"Well done, Murasakibara," Coach Anzai nodded with satisfaction off the court.
Xiangbei counterattacks, Mumu directly passes the ball to Akagi. His friend was defeated on the defensive end just now, so he has to let his friend save face. Akagi takes the ball
"Come on, first grader"
Akagi played with his back to the basket, and Abe suddenly felt a surge of power. "What a strong body, is he really a freshman?" Abe took a step back, allowing Akagi to take a favorable position to shoot. Abe also had his own dignity, and tried his best to block the shot. Akagi's shot missed. But at the same time, the referee whistled, "Green No. 5, blocking foul, 2 free throws"
"Abe is considered a pretty good center forward in the county, but I didn't expect him to lose to Akagi. Akagi, I'm really looking forward to playing against you next time." The captain of Hainan appeared in the stands
Akagi made two free throws, one of which was successful. Akagi still needs to practice his free throws. However, Akagi made the second free throw, and Sunrise West was unable to launch a quick counterattack.
This time, the attack was handed over to Abe. Abe failed to play alone this time, so he had to pass the ball to the outside. Laisheng couldn't break through Muguru's defense. Seeing this, Abe ran out to screen. Laisheng took the opportunity to get rid of Muguru's entanglement, faced Akagi, and passed the ball to Abe. Akagi ignored him. Abe adjusted himself. He shot the ball, which bounced twice on the basket and rolled into the net.
"I didn't expect this guy to be able to shoot from mid-range."
"Captain, if the opponent's center wants to shoot, let Kusao-senpai defend him. If he rushes to the basket, Akagi will take care of him. I don't believe he can kill us with his shooting." Mugure suggested. Daimon nodded, "Kusao, just follow Mugure's suggestion."
Mumu moved to the front court, stopped, looked at the position of his teammates, and suddenly accelerated. Laisheng was confused by Mumu's previous actions. Mumu's speed caught him off guard. He was directly left behind by Mumu. Mumu rushed all the way to the basket, jumped, and made a layup
"It seems you want to find the hat too." Abe jumped up with a grin. But he was surprised to find that the ball in Mumu's hand was gone.
"Where's the ball?" Just as Abe was wondering, a voice behind him said "good shot" and then a "boom". Akagi dunked the ball.
"Tsk, it's actually a pass"
Hinode West's attack, Akagi scored continuously, Abe wanted to hit back a ball. But Akagi's power under the basket made it difficult for him to move. So he repeated the same trick. After receiving the ball again with a pick-and-roll, he found that Kusao Takeshi appeared in front of him. Abe didn't care and shot directly, but Kusao Takeshi jumped up to block the shot. This ball missed. Akagi took the rebound. It was handed to Mugure
"Good rebound, Mitsui" Muguru praised Akagi in the first sentence, and then signaled Mitsui to hurry up. Mitsui understood. Muguru made a long pass. Mitsui got the ball. However, Hirisai's reaction was not slow. Guidou had already chased back. At the three-point line, Mitsui pretended to shoot a three-pointer
"A fake move, and then you want to break through me, you are too naive." Guidao did not jump, "What?" He found out. Mitsui jumped and shot a three-pointer directly! Guidao hurriedly turned around and "Swish!" The ball went into the net
"This is the return for the opening goal you scored," Mitsui said to Kidou after scoring.
This time, Guidao took advantage of the screen and made a mid-range shot for two points.
"Who can't score?" Guidao didn't forget to fight back
The first half was a back-and-forth game, and at the end of the half, the score was 37:34, with Xiangbei leading by three points.
"Abe and Kidou are quite capable. They scored 24 points together," vice-captain Qingwu made a statistic on the bench (let's just assume that Xiangbei doesn't have a manager in the first year of high school).
"Oh, our Akagi and Mitsui are not inferior. But even though you two are evenly matched, I don't want to see such a result. Mugure, it's your turn in the second half. That Rei is no match for you. Didn't you say you wanted to freeze him?" A light flashed across Coach Anzai's glasses.
"It's not a big deal, just leave it to me."
"In the second half, Hasegawa-san, you will replace Daimon-san, and Horita-san, you will replace Kusao-san." Coach Anzai made adjustments.
Second half begins
"Huh? All the players in Xiangbei are freshmen?" A careful audience noticed the difference by looking at the numbers on the back of the players.
"How dare you! Even with Mitsui and Akagi we are only ahead of us temporarily, yet you still dare to replace the senior students. Xiangbei, don't look down on us, watch us open up the score in five minutes." Guidao was secretly unhappy when he saw Xiangbei's lineup.
Jump ball, this time Akagi lost to Abe, Laisheng controlled the ball. He found that the opponent in front of him was obviously different from before.
"Do you remember the opening?" Mu Mu put pressure on Lai Sheng. Lai Sheng suddenly felt a wave of pressure coming, and couldn't help but think of the two goals at the beginning, and hurriedly looked to see if Mitsui was in front of him.
"Still distracted" Mu Mu directly steals the ball and makes a layup
Hinode West served the ball from the baseline, and Murasakibara directly intercepted Lai Sheng in the backcourt of Hinode West.
"Laisheng, pass the ball quickly." Seeing that things were not going well, Guidao rushed over to respond. But when Guidao got the ball, Mitsui had already rushed in front of him.
"Tojo" felt the pressure and quickly passed it to his teammates
"Bang" the ball was intercepted by Hasegawa who had just come on the court, and Xiangbei counterattacked and scored two points again!
The Sunrise West coach saw that the situation was not right and called a timeout.
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