NBA: This flower path is a bit strong.

The Hainan team suddenly increased the intensity of its defense, causing great discomfort to all the Xiangbei players.

But there is one exception, and that is the talented and physically fit (Sakuragi) Hanamichi.

He was seen with his back to Takasago, right hand raised high, calling out to Brother Glasses for the ball.

Seeing that there was no other way, Murasaki passed the ball to Hanamichi. Unexpectedly, Maki, who had already noticed it, saw through it and jumped in mid-air to steal the ball.

"Fast break!" This time it was Hainan team's fast break.

When Amu dribbles the ball in a straight line, his offensive speed is not slower than when he runs without the ball.

In just three seconds, he ran from his own half to the three-point line in the Xiangbei team's half.

The only one who followed to defend was Hanamichi.

Seeing that Maki Shinichi still had no intention of slowing down, Hanamichi concluded that he was going to force a layup, so he stood in the penalty area in front of him, ready to intercept.

Unexpectedly, at this time, Maki Shenyi passed the ball without looking behind anyone's head and sent the ball outside the three-point line at 45 degrees on the hypotenuse.

There, the three-point shooter Kazuo Kamiso was already standing, and his defender Mitsui was blocked by Takasago outside the three-point line. He had no time to stop him and could only watch Kazuo Kamiso shoot the three-pointer in an open position.

12:10, the score was suddenly narrowed to just 2 points.

On the Xiangbei side, after Miyagi served the ball to Mitsui, he wanted to launch a fast break while the players of the Hainan team had not returned to defense.

Mitsui dribbled the ball to avoid A Shen's steal and passed the ball to Rukawa in front of him near the center line.

Rukawa didn't know what was going on. In today's game, he didn't stick to the ball at all. He just threw the ball high under Hainan's basket.

There, Takasago and Hanamichi were running towards that location.

"It's too high! There's no way he can catch it."

Takasago looked at the basketball passing over his head and had a rough idea of ​​the height of the ball.

Rukawa wiped the sweat off his cheeks and muttered softly:

"How can there be so many impossibilities!"

As if in response to Rukawa's words, Hanamichi jumped up behind Takasago and received the pass.

Then he lightly hooked the ball under the basket and scored, completely ignoring Takasago's defense.

The two sides then started a tug of war. Whenever the Hainan team narrowed the score to just 2 or 3 points, the Xiangbei team would widen the score to 4 or 5 points, and the two sides continued to fight.

However, Hainan's main attack was based on Shinichi Maki's breakthrough passes, supplemented by Takasago's pick-and-rolls, which drove the offensive firepower of A Shen and Kiyota Nobunaga.

On the other hand, Xiangbei continued to score with Hanamichi's inside attack as the core, assisted by Mitsui and Rukawa's jump shots.

At this time, the first half was just over and the score was 26:24.

If the scoring trend continued on the field, the game would have a good chance of exceeding 100 points, but at this moment an accident occurred on the field.

When the Hainan team had the ball, Muto Masaru turned around and broke through Murasakibara with a very handsome and cool move, but his shot under the basket missed!

Hanamichi rushed up to grab the rebound, then passed it to Miyagi to initiate a fast break.

But Miyagi was surrounded by Amu's close defense at this time, which gave him no chance to speed up. If he was not careful, this fast break opportunity would be interrupted by Amu.

Seeing this, Mitsui came over to respond and shouted, "Pass it over."

Miyagi didn't care about what he said and threw the ball in Mitsui's direction.

Fortunately, after Mitsui caught the ball steadily, he used his extraordinary ball sense to dribble directly towards Hainan's half without any adjustment.

Seeing this, Rukawa and Hanamichi also sprinted to Hainan's half in advance, but one landed at the 45-degree corner position and the other directly into the penalty area. Both were ready to receive the ball and attack.

And Mitsui barely managed to throw the ball into the basket before A Shen could steal the ball!

"Is it a three-pointer?"

"It's too forced. This posture is wrong."

"It's not a shot, it's a pass!"

It turned out that Mitsui had no intention of forcing a three-pointer against the tight defense of Ichiro Kamiso from the beginning.

The latter is 5cm taller than him. The most important thing is that as both are three-point shooters, Ashen knows very well how to disrupt the rhythm of a three-point shooter.

Instead of taking risks in shooting, it would be better to pass the ball to Hanamichi in the inside. From the beginning to now, he has proved many times that Kazuma Takasago is no match for him. At this time, he can steadily score 2 points and maintain the score advantage until the second half. When Akagi comes back, the game will be over.

This is Mitsui's basketball IQ. This pass was still a bit high, but it just flew over Takasago and passed into Hanamichi's hands. After receiving the ball, Hanamichi smashed it into the basket and succeeded in dunking!

In order to prevent Hainan from taking advantage of the opportunity to launch a fast break counterattack, Hanamichi slightly buffered the force under the basket and then landed directly.

But at this time, there was another person under the basket besides Hanamichi, that was Takasago. He watched Hanamichi fall and did not take any other action.

As luck would have it, Hanamichi's foot landed right on Takasago's instep!

Then Huadao staggered and fell to the ground holding his heels.

Because someone fell to the ground and couldn't get up, the referee blew the whistle to signal the game to be suspended.

Hanamichi never dreamed that he would suffer the same fate as the "gorilla" in the original novel. He knew very well that Takasago did not trip him on purpose, but Takasago did not withdraw his foot after he landed.

Mitsui also noticed it on the court, and pointed at Takasago and said:

"you do this delibrately!"

But Takasago didn't say anything, and the referee did not call a foul on Takasago after making a decision.

After all, it all came down to Hanamichi not paying attention when he was falling, and Takasago just didn't have "enough time" to withdraw his feet or he didn't realize he had to withdraw his feet at all!

Fujima, who was outside the court, looked at Hanamichi who had fallen to the ground, touched the spot where his right eye had been injured, and murmured:

"This is the second lesson that Hainan taught Xiangbei. It is not so easy to dominate the country."

Seeing this, Coach Anzai stood up and called a long timeout, then replaced Hanamichi with Akagi temporarily returning to the court.

Ayako, Haruko and the Sakuragi Army rushed to the infirmary to check on Hanamichi's injuries.

The injury results came out, there was no bone injury, but there was a swelling on the ankle.

While feeling thankful, Hanamichi insisted on shouting that he wanted to return to the court. He ignored Ayako's dissuasion, simply fixed the injured area with a bandage, and then walked back to the basketball court with firm steps.

Hanamichi's return caused the audience to exclaim.

When Huamichi returned to the court, he looked at the timer and saw that the score was 28:30. There were still 8 minutes left in the first half. It seemed that Hainan had completely reversed the score in the 2 minutes when he was absent.

At this time, Coach Anxi applied for a substitution after obtaining Hanamichi's opinion.

But he did not replace Akagi, who had two fouls, but replaced him with Murasakibara.

So Xiangbei's lineup became the complete lineup at the beginning.

It’s not that Akagi doesn’t need to be protected, but because Coach Anzai hopes that Akagi can share some of the defensive pressure in the interior.

As long as he is not the core of the team, scoring too much and holding the ball, I believe he will not be fouled by Hainan again.

As for the next offensive core on the court, he looked at another freshman on the Xiangbei half, his glasses lit up, and asked Ayako:

"Is it time, Ayako?"

Caizi pinched the stopwatch in her hand, looked up and smiled:

"Just right!"

"Oh, Hanamichi-san, please do your best to defend the interior with Akagi when you go up there. As for offense, just tell Rukawa-san to say something!"

"A word?"

Hanamichi was puzzled, but after Coach Anxi whispered some instructions, he suddenly realized what was going on and walked onto the court.

He walked over to Rukawa and whispered in his ear, and then everyone in Shohoku saw that Rukawa's aura had changed. The "offensive ghost" with infinite desire to attack was back. Akagi and others were curious about what Hanamichi had said to Rukawa, but Hanamichi just smiled and remained mysterious.