Sakuragi's road to NBA superstardom

Chapter 106 Garbage Time
For this unexpected situation, Sakuragi made the most instinctive reaction. He turned around in the air and hit the ball that bounced towards Duncan with his left hand.

A light touch caused the ball to change greatly. Duncan directly dunked the air, and knocked Sakuragi out of the baseline by the way.

Road to Superstar System: Destroy your opponent's lobs!The spiritual attribute buff effect lasts!
In less than ten seconds, Sakuragi fell to the ground in embarrassment twice, but he didn't care about the pain. He got up as fast as he could and joined the attack.

Sakuragi's dazzling performance full of passion finally made his teammates realize that if they don't pass the ball to Sakuragi who is open outside the three-point line, they will be condemned by their own conscience.

Sakuragi received the ball outside the three-point line at a 45-degree angle on the right, raised his hand and shot!
The artificial rainfall skill is triggered!Hollow hits!

Sakuragi scored five points in a row!

The teammates watching off the field cheered for the red-haired Asian rookie.

The freshman team has already started, and the experienced Duncan team certainly knows how to deal with it.

Alan Miller of the Duncan team directed his teammates to pull away. In order to prevent Sakuragi's goalkeeper steal, Alan Miller lobbed the ball to Duncan.

This is why Alan Miller can sit firmly at the main point guard position, because he knows that when he gets the ball at a critical moment, he should not throw it himself, but give the ball to the person the coach trusts most.

Duncan turned back seemingly unremarkably, and easily blocked the inside players of the freshman team behind him.

Duncan's playing style in college was extremely explosive, and he would never layup if he could dunk!

The big three steps directly kill the basket and take off for a dunk!

At this time, a relatively very thin figure came up, and Sakuragi tried his best to block the shot!
Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

Duncan's methods are extremely cruel!
The face-to-face buckle directly sent Sakuragi out, and Sakuragi who landed knocked down one of his teammates...

Sakuragi's spiritual attribute gain effect ended at this point.

Looking down at Master Sakuragi who was knocked over by him, Duncan stared apologetically.

Although the contact time is not long, Sakuragi can already distinguish various emotions from Duncan's daily stare.

Others see Duncan's stare as just a stare, but Sakuragi can see emotions from Duncan's stare.

After Duncan stretched out his hand to grab Sakuragi, he reached out to touch his head to express his apology, along with consecration-like blessings.

Sakuragi grabbed Duncan's wrist.

Sakuragi: "Tim, please don't dilute my mana."

Duncan remembered Sakuragi's taboo, and stared in embarrassment.

The 10-minute training match ended with a disastrous defeat for the freshman team, but Sakuragi's flash of inspiration still left a deep impression on Coach Odom.

Day after day of training, Sakuragi has improved blindly. Coach Odom also feels that at this speed, Sakuragi still has a chance to catch the last train on the roster.

As the start of the regular season of the ACC League approached, Coach Odom also found a suitable opponent for the team, the Alaska Huskies of the NCAA Division II League.

In the words of coach Odom, this team is a team that hardly plays basketball.

When he arrived in Ancholoch, Alaska, it was already snowing. This was the first time Tim Duncan had seen snow.

Seeing Duncan's curious staring eyes, Sakuragi sitting beside him was even more curious about Duncan's feelings.

Sakuragi: "Young man from the island, what do you think of the snow scene here?"

Duncan: "Wild snow, it looks soft."

Sakuragi: "Does the Virgin Islands have domesticated snow?"

Duncan: "The snow in the freezer is hard."

Sakuragi: "Alaska is already cold enough, so please stop telling bad jokes..."

Sakuragi felt more and more that Duncan was actually cold on the outside and hot on the inside, very sullen.

Seeing the snow, most of the team members were in a very good mood.

But the game against the University of Alaska Huskies put everyone in a good mood.

Tim Duncan, who had high hopes and was invincible in training, completely lost himself in the first official warm-up match.

When the game was completely reduced to garbage time and Duncan was replaced, he scored zero and only grabbed three rebounds.

(0 points and 3 rebounds in Duncan University's debut, from the speech of Duncan's retirement ceremony, Wake Forest University Devil Deacon coach, Dave Odom's speech)
This situation was unexpected by everyone, including Coach Odom.

It seems that it will take some time for the talented Tim Duncan to adapt to the rhythm of college games.

With 3 points behind in 25 minutes, coach Odom was afraid of important players being injured in garbage time, so he sent Sakuragi and four other marginal players.

Those four players couldn't get any energy to play at this moment, they just wanted to go through the motions and make a fuss.

Because they believe that appearing at this moment is equivalent to being sentenced to death in the future of this team.

But Sakuragi doesn't think so, he feels that he can't give up the opportunity to show himself at any time.

When Sakuragi came on the stage, the Huskies held a huge lead and were not in a hurry to attack. They guided the ball leisurely.

And Sakuragi's teammates on the field also seemed to be very cooperative in killing time, but Sakuragi didn't want to give up, Sakuragi kept double-teaming the ball holder.

The tireless sliding made the Huskies play with Sakuragi endlessly.

However, Sakuragi's relentless fight still got a chance. A member of the Husky team wanted to wait for Sakuragi to approach before transferring the ball.

Sakuragi sees the right moment and directly steals it!
Sakuragi, who had a single-line fast break with full horsepower, but his speed was not outstanding, was quickly caught up by the opponent's defender.

Now Sakuragi has not triggered the spiritual attribute gain effect. If he chooses to lay up, then he has a high probability of being blocked?
And the opponent is chasing too tightly!

Sakuragi once said to coach Odom that he has the ability to make the right choice at the right time.

When Sakuragi dribbled the ball to the three-point line at the top of the arc, he took off directly. The opponent behind him was unprepared and hit Sakuragi's back firmly.

Suffering from the impact, Sakuragi had no center of gravity, and he threw the ball directly to the backboard.

I don't know whether it is a miracle with great efforts, or God rewards those who work hard, hitting the cricket head-on and hitting the net!

The referee signaled that the three-pointer counted, and an additional penalty kick was added.

Sakuragi's magical shot did not awaken the enthusiasm of his teammates for the game, and the teammates off the court were also stagnant.

Because of the goal in garbage time, it can't change the reality of the big score and fiasco.

But Sakuragi didn't care about these things. He had to show everyone that he had a strong will to play and an absolute ability to play well.

Sakuragi stood up by himself, walked to the free throw line, and made a steady hit!
(End of this chapter)