Slam Dunk: I'm the Glasses Brother

At nine o'clock the next day, Kanagawa players arrived at the scene to watch the match between Akita and Okinawa. Akita wore white jerseys, while Kawata and Zebei did not appear on the court. The starting lineup was: center No. 15 Kawata Mikio, power forward No. 10 player, small forward No. 13 Ono Tadayoshi, shooting guard No. 8 Ichinokura Satoshi, point guard No. 6 Matsumoto Minoru. None of the three giants started, but with the country's top offensive and defensive masters in the backcourt, Akita's paper strength was still stronger than its opponent.

Ogata competed for the ball with the opponent's center. Although Ogata's huge weight affected his jumping ability, he was nearly 20 centimeters taller than the opponent's center. Using his height advantage, he still grabbed the ball. "Good job, Mikio." Matsumoto got the ball, dribbled the ball, and strode towards the Okinawa team's three-point line. Okinawa's No. 5 point guard saw that Matsumoto seemed to have not seen him. He was already in front of him and the whole person was moving forward. He quickly stepped back half a step to prevent him from breaking through, and at the same time signaled the power forward to come up and defend.

But while Matsumoto was standing on the three-point line, he suddenly stepped back and took a standard step-back jump shot.

"Three-pointers!"

Okinawa No. 5 rushed back, but it was too late, Matsumoto had already shot the ball.

Oops!

No. 5 looked up and watched the ball fly over his head. The arc was pretty good and he felt it would go in.

"Bah!"

But the sound of the three-pointer going into the basket seemed much louder than he had imagined. He looked back in surprise and saw a figure number 10 landing and running to high-five Matsumoto.

"It was an alley-oop!"

"Everyone focused their attention on Matsumoto and ignored the other players of the Akita team. However, the guy who was being watched by everyone noticed the excellent position of his teammate. He pretended to break through first to attract the opponent's power forward to defend, and then pretended to take a three-point shot to buy the last bit of time for his own power forward to get into position!"

2:0, Akita takes the lead

"Matsumoto passed the ball well," "Maeda scored well," the Akita players off the field applauded

"I didn't expect Akita to do this, but Matsumoto's pass was really good. The power forward was also good. He looks about the same height as Fukuda and can complete an alley-oop."

"His name is Maeda Hirohiko, he's 188cm tall. He's a sophomore at Sannoh. He actually played in the national tournament, but he broke his right arm during a fast break dunk in the last game of the group stage, so he said goodbye to the national tournament. If we only look at his offensive ability, he's stronger than Nobe, but his ability to fight is average. He's easily at a disadvantage when playing in the paint, and his dribbling is not that good when playing as a striker. But his shooting and footwork under the basket are good." "Intelligence chief" Hikoichi Aida (because of his excellent investigative ability, Tanaoka applied to have Hikoichi Aida join Kanagawa to be responsible for collecting intelligence.) introduced this person to everyone in Kanagawa

"It looks like the Mountain King has a successor. This is going to be interesting."

Although Akita came up to them and lobbed them, Okinawa played very relaxed in front of the former champion. They knew that reaching the top 4 was a great achievement, and as long as they played to their level, winning or losing didn't matter. This mentality made Okinawa play to its full potential. Their captain, No. 2, played as a shooting guard. Facing Ichinokura's defense, he used his height advantage to shoot and score in front of Ichinokura! 2:

Akita's offensive choice was also very simple. Koheda was in position inside, Matsumoto passed the ball to Koheda, and Koheda scored a single shot to make it 4:2

Okinawa used the cooperation to score another goal. 4::4

In the next round, the ball was in Kogata's hands again. Although the Okinawa players knew that Kogata only had that one trick, knowing it was one thing, but no one in the interior could withstand Kogata's meat mountain, and Kogata scored again 6:4

Okinawa's attack was intended to tie the score again, but Ichinokura saw through it and successfully stole the ball. Ono counterattacked and scored 8:4

In the following game, although Okinawa was full of fighting spirit and was not afraid of tigers, it was still far behind in strength and the rhythm was firmly controlled by Akita. Before we knew it, the first half ended with Akita leading by 42 points at 30:12.

"It's pretty good that Okinawa played like this in the first half."

"Everyone has played against Sannoh before, and they know that they always test their opponents in the first half, and they will show their fangs in the second half," said Amu.

"Amu is right. The real competition will be in the early second half, but I won't watch it. Akagi, how about we go to XX Stadium to watch the game in Shizuoka?" Mugure suggested

"You really don't want to watch the second half of the game?!" Amu asked

"Sannoh just uses full-court press. Ryonan has cracked it before, and we at Shohoku have cracked it before. What's so strange about that?"

"You are really confident, but you are right. Are we afraid of Sanwang's pressure?" Amu nodded.

"Okay, let's go watch the match between Shizuoka and Chiba." After saying that, several players from Xiangbei left the gymnasium.

XX Stadium is only 15 minutes away from Sanno Stadium by taxi. When Mugure and others arrived at the stadium, the second half had just started for 3 minutes. The score was 43:40, and Shizuoka was leading by three points.

In this round, Shizuoka's shot missed. Chiba's center grabbed the rebound, passed the ball to the point guard, and rushed towards Chang Cheng's half without stopping, intending to make a fast break while they were still unstable. The others all rushed over.

"Back to defense!" Mikoshiba yelled, calling on his teammates to defend.

Matsuoka Sueshita was the fastest to return to defense due to his position, but Chiba's captain had already responded and easily shot the ball into the basket without anyone interfering inside the three-point line. 43:42!

Shizuoka attacked, Mikoshiba's right hand holding the ball shook, he made a quick stop and slid, pretended to rush to the left, the ball quickly came to his left hand, and his body slid to the left. The opponent's power forward hurriedly retreated to the right, Mikoshiba's body suddenly paused, and he suddenly exerted force with his left foot, the ball rolled to his right hand, he shifted his feet, instantly shook off his opponent, put his feet together, jumped up quickly, held the ball steadily in the air, and gently flicked his right hand, the basketball drew a beautiful curve and flew towards the basket.

"Shua" score 45:42

The two sides exchanged blows, and with 7 minutes left in the game, Shizuoka led by 63 points 59:4

In this round, Chiba's captain broke through and made a layup. The ball rolled twice around the basket and fell into the net, 63:61

"Go back to defense!" Captain Chiba gasped and directed his teammates to go back to defense.

"Shizuoka has a greater chance of winning this game. Now I understand why Mikoshiba and Yufune were kept in the bench in the second half of the last game of the group stage. It was for today's game. Now Mikoshiba and Yufune still have plenty of energy," Murasakibara saw the clue.

After Shizuoka served the ball, Matsuoka Sueshita controlled the ball and organized the game. He raised his hands high on the left three-point line and pretended to shoot, while center Taga Akira moved to the right side of the free throw line.

Matsuoka Sueshita turned his wrist and passed the ball to Taga Akira. At the same time, Mikoshiba, who was outside the three-point line on the right, suddenly started and rushed straight to the inside. Taga Akira made an over-the-top pass and threw the ball behind him. The moving Mikoshiba happened to appear in the flight path of the ball and made a layup!

What a beautiful cooperation, the passing line is clear, and Mikoshiba's movement is accurate and timely. 65:61

Chiba's shot missed, Shizuoka counterattacked, Matsuoka hit the floor ball and passed it to Taga Akira in the interior. Facing the defense of Chiba's center, Taga Akira attacked head-on, jumped high and shot, but with the interference of Chiba's center, the basketball fell on the basket frame, bounced a few times, and finally bounced out of the basket frame.

rebound!

Several pairs of big hands suddenly stretched out from under the backboard and grabbed the basketball. Among the many figures, a figure quickly jumped up and grabbed the ball in his hands.

"Tang Chuan, catch it." Mikoshiba, who grabbed the rebound, passed the ball to the outside line. Tang Chuan received the ball, made a fake move to shake off the defense, and shot a three-pointer, which hit the target! 68:61

Chiba's captain attacked the basket and scored the ball 68:63. However, although the ball was scored, Chiba's captain was already holding his knees and gasping for breath.

Mikoshiba personally took the ball to attack, changed direction twice to shake Chiba's power forward, cut into Chiba's inside line, raised his hand to shoot the ball, turned his wrist, and at the same time the ball went in, he also drew a foul from Chiba's center. After scoring, Mikoshiba roared to the sky

The free throw was easily made. 71:63!

In the following game, Shizuoka used its physical advantage to firmly control the game situation. In the end, Shizuoka eliminated the host Chiba team 81:73 and entered the quarterfinals. Mikoshiba scored 29 points and 11 rebounds, and Tangchuan scored 8 points with 5 of 17 three-pointers.